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00:00:00Legendary weapons, reborn in high-tech arsenals, and mythical technologies rediscovered through cutting-edge science.
00:00:11For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe exploring towering megalithic structures,
00:00:20mysterious artifacts, and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth
00:00:28of our extraterrestrial origins.
00:00:32We're reinventing technology today that existed in the ancient world.
00:00:36Now, we take a look back through the ancient aliens' archives to the show's very origins
00:00:43to examine the evidence that we are not alone.
00:00:47We have never been alone.
00:00:50As an ancient astronaut theorist, I find it fascinating how many ancient stories of devices
00:01:04sound eerily similar to modern-day technology.
00:01:09Yeah, you can find detailed descriptions of flying machines, energy beam weapons, and even
00:01:14acoustic levitation technology.
00:01:16Yeah, so you have to ask, are the technologies that we're developing today reinventions of
00:01:21what existed on our planet thousands of years ago?
00:01:24We talked about this in a season two episode of Ancient Aliens called Alien Tech.
00:01:30In the early morning hours of November 5th, 2005, the luxury cruise ship, the Seaborn Spirit,
00:01:39found itself under attack by pirates in the waters off the coast of Somalia.
00:01:44But the Somali bandits were successfully repelled by a relatively new and formidable defensive
00:01:53weapon, a long-range acoustic device, or LRAD.
00:01:59Manufactured by the LRAD Corporation, this sonic device can, when focused on a target, produce
00:02:07a piercing sound that can exceed 150 decibels, enough to cause temporary blindness, nausea,
00:02:16and permanent hearing loss.
00:02:18The U.S. Army used sonic weapons in Iraq.
00:02:22They're used in crowd control.
00:02:24There are certain types of low rumbles and signals that will affect a person.
00:02:29They make you feel sick.
00:02:32The LRAD is currently used by law enforcement, the military, and private security, and is
00:02:40considered the ultimate in sonic weaponry.
00:02:45But is the LRAD really a 21st century invention?
00:02:49Or is there evidence that similar audio weapons existed in ancient times?
00:02:54Approximately 17 miles northeast of Jerusalem, lies the ancient ruins of the city of Jericho.
00:03:06Here, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of settlements dating back to 9,000 B.C.
00:03:13According to the Hebrew Bible, Jericho is believed to be where God spoke to Joshua, the successor to Moses,
00:03:22and instructed him to march around the walled city once every six days,
00:03:27with seven priests carrying ram's horns, and followed by the Ark of the Covenant,
00:03:33the golden chest containing the Ten Commandments.
00:03:36Then, on the seventh day, under orders by God, Joshua and the Israelites marched around the perimeter of the city
00:03:46one last time.
00:03:49But this time, they blew the ram's horns.
00:03:54The walls of Jericho fell.
00:03:58And the city was sacked.
00:04:00In the Old Testament, you see very clear descriptions in Joshua 6 about the shofar,
00:04:13which is described as a trumpet that was used in the Battle of Jericho
00:04:16to actually bring the walls down.
00:04:22To religious scholars, the collapse of Jericho's walls was a miracle.
00:04:26To most modern-day scientists and historians,
00:04:31the destruction was most probably caused by an earthquake.
00:04:35But could it have been something else?
00:04:39Could the Israelites have possessed advanced sound wave technology?
00:04:44If so, where did it come from?
00:04:47In the scriptures, we have a fascinating story about the fall of the walls of Jericho.
00:04:52The armies were told to circle the wall repeatedly and then finally blow their horns,
00:04:57and down came the walls.
00:04:59And we know there was a powerful presence, the Ark of the Covenant.
00:05:03This mysterious, sacred item was with them at all times,
00:05:07which, of course, was part of the event and part of the fall of the walls of Jericho.
00:05:11The idea that some kind of sonic weapon was used to destroy these huge, thick, ancient walls
00:05:23to allow the Israelites to basically take over that city is a fascinating one.
00:05:29So what kind of technology were they using?
00:05:31It sounds utterly fantastic to us that they could have had some kind of advanced alien technology.
00:05:39It's clearly what they're describing.
00:05:43There is little doubt that the Ark of the Covenant was a weapon.
00:05:48It was described as a weapon famously when the Israelites crossed over into Canaan.
00:05:56They had to pass by Jericho.
00:06:00And it could be that there was some technology.
00:06:03We do not know what that technology was,
00:06:07but there was clearly an association between the Ark and the falling down of the walls,
00:06:13and that's the reason that the Ark was sent around the periphery of the city.
00:06:18According to many ancient astronaut theorists,
00:06:27Moses and the Israelites acquired a supernatural source of energy at Mount Sinai.
00:06:33This powerful energy source was later contained in the Ark of the Covenant
00:06:38and would have provided the kind of power necessary to amplify Joshua's horns
00:06:43and make them into a powerful sonic weapon.
00:06:48What's interesting about the Battle of Jericho
00:06:51is that this particular use of the shofar
00:06:53clearly seems to be the same thing that we're seeing with particle beam technology,
00:06:59death ray technology, thunderbolt technology.
00:07:02It very clearly seems that once again we have an extraterrestrial technology
00:07:07that the ancient people had at the ready
00:07:10that they could use when needed for military campaigns.
00:07:16But even if the Israelites possessed some sort of advanced extraterrestrial technology,
00:07:23could the amplified sound of ram's horns really bring down stone walls?
00:07:28According to scientist and former astronaut Professor Taylor Wang,
00:07:35recent research into the field of physical acoustics
00:07:38suggests it is a distinct possibility.
00:07:42Jericho wall breaking apart, if you said it has happened,
00:07:47caused by acoustic, caused by sound.
00:07:52Well, the possibility has to be somehow a resonance built in that wall.
00:07:57It may not be the whole wall, maybe some of the structural material.
00:08:00When the resonance happens, amplitude gets large enough,
00:08:04yes, it could destroy almost anything
00:08:06because what the resonance does is store enormous amount of energy.
00:08:11So you keep on feeding it, eventually it shatters everything.
00:08:18When you want to know how powerful sound is,
00:08:20you have to realize that the basic thing that sound is is a pressure wave.
00:08:24And it will come down to the amount of energy you put into your sound wave.
00:08:27And whether or not that particular pressure wave you generate
00:08:31will couple or impact the thing you're trying to destroy.
00:08:38You can make it quite powerful because you can make a very high amplitude,
00:08:41very large pressures in the sound.
00:08:43It might be at a frequency or amplitude where we no longer hear it as sound,
00:08:46but from a physics point of view, it is still sound
00:08:49because it's a pressure wave in the air.
00:08:50So it can get quite destructive if you put enough energy into it.
00:08:57You could also think of it as a particle weapon because you're moving air around
00:09:01and you would just need something to focus the sound, which we know how to do.
00:09:04And so that would give you a directed energy beam with sound.
00:09:07But if, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,
00:09:12early civilizations had been able to harness the power of sound for destructive purposes,
00:09:18could there be evidence that such technology might also have been used for a more constructive purpose?
00:09:26Might it help to explain the existence of mammoth stone structures
00:09:32whose construction has baffled modern scientists for centuries?
00:09:37Mycenae.
00:09:46In the second millennium B.C.,
00:09:49this ancient fortress city dominated much of southern Greece.
00:09:56Here, fortifications were built in a style known as Cyclopean masonry,
00:10:01where huge limestone boulders were fitted tightly together without the use of mortar.
00:10:07The term Cyclopean refers to the fact that according to ancient myths,
00:10:16these Mycenaean fortifications were thought to be the work of a strong one-eyed race of giants
00:10:22known as the Cyclops.
00:10:27When you look at Mycenaean Greece, you're confronted with an anomalous civilization, really.
00:10:32It is a city which people who looked at it said only the Cyclops could have built it.
00:10:38The Cyclops is, perhaps not by coincidence, a mythical creature.
00:10:43So we really are confronted with the fact that people are saying
00:10:48mankind could not have built this.
00:10:50It has to have been something above or other than man who has constructed these walls.
00:10:55And when you look at the fact that tons and tons and tons of stones have been used
00:11:00in a way that really defies almost gravity.
00:11:03And I think that's why we have to say that Mycenae is definitely beyond the human capability
00:11:09of that specific time and that specific period in Greek history.
00:11:13In Mycenae, Greece, there is what's called the treasury of Atreyu.
00:11:22And right in there, there is one stone that has been hoisted over the entrance of that treasury
00:11:29and it weighs an estimated 250 tons.
00:11:35It is perfect, just unbelievable.
00:11:39Now, we would have difficulties today moving that stuff around.
00:11:45Now, I'm not saying that we today cannot do it.
00:11:49I'm not saying that.
00:11:50But if we're struggling with our modern technology, is it really logical to suggest that our ancestors
00:12:00did this with pivots and with little ropes and with wooden rollers?
00:12:05You look at all these ancient structures all over the world, Mayan structures, pyramids, Greek temples,
00:12:15you see all of these blocks that are not only enormous, it would be impossible to move them around
00:12:20with anything but even our best technology today.
00:12:25One of the great enigmas of the megalithic buildings around the world is that in many cases,
00:12:30they're built with such large and heavy granite or basalt stones, even giant cranes would barely be useful
00:12:39to lift some of these really large stones, such as the stones at Baalbek in Lebanon,
00:12:46where you have just mind-bogglingly huge stones that weigh, in some cases, over 1,000 tons.
00:12:55But just how could ancient man have built such colossal structures?
00:13:03Were the stones really moved by beings with superhuman strength?
00:13:10Or might the builders have had access to an advanced, perhaps, alien technology?
00:13:17For ancient astronaut theorists, the key might be found not by studying the laws of physics,
00:13:24but by exploring the interdisciplinary science of acoustics, and the principle of acoustic levitation.
00:13:33Acoustic levitation is another way that alien civilizations may have influenced our history.
00:13:40And there is some evidence for that, especially when you look at some of the research that's been done
00:13:46in acoustic levitation here in laboratories.
00:13:54This system is an acoustic positioning device.
00:14:01And what happens inside, we create an acoustic force field.
00:14:06The force field is pushing everything toward the center.
00:14:10And the force field can rotate.
00:14:12The force field can oscillate.
00:14:14This ball is fairly light material.
00:14:15It's about 10 grams, no more.
00:14:19It's meant to be light.
00:14:20But if you want to move the very heavy object, a large object,
00:14:24which you really have to develop in conjunction with the acoustic positioning device,
00:14:29it's anti-gravity device.
00:14:31Because acoustic positioning device really meant a fine-tuning of the force field.
00:14:36But the system must be force-free, otherwise it won't be budged.
00:14:42But is it possible that early builders had access to the kind of acoustic technology
00:14:50that would allow for the transportation and careful placement of megaton boulders and stone blocks?
00:14:59Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found in the myths and tales of magic handed down throughout time.
00:15:07There are many ancient legends which suggest that some of the monuments were built with the help of acoustic levitation.
00:15:16What the local legend of Stonehenge talks about is that those big stones were transported by way of levitation
00:15:28by none other than Merlin the wizard.
00:15:31And he had a magical rod with which he pointed at the stones and they would levitate and position into place.
00:15:41It's a very fascinating story because we know that some of these stones have been transported there
00:15:47from as far away as 200 miles.
00:15:50And ancient legends are a bridge to finding what truly happened in our past.
00:16:03There are lots of stories of stones being levitated, all using the power of sound.
00:16:09It's interesting as you read these stories of magic that you see that they have to use the chanting.
00:16:14They have to chant certain spells, certain words, certain vibrational frequencies seem to create certain effects in the physical realm.
00:16:24To me, it makes complete sense that the use of a technology, say a magic wand of some kind, would be some sort of amplifier.
00:16:30I mean, there's no way that human beings, even 100,000 of them, could pull these things.
00:16:41They've done experiments by putting hands around blocks.
00:16:46You can't get enough hands in there.
00:16:48You can't get 200,000 hands to lift a block.
00:16:52And once you roll it with all these people, how do you move it?
00:16:56I think the technology had to do with some kind of sound, and they were able to just come up with some anti-gravity and just move them into place.
00:17:08But did ancient aliens using anti-gravity and sonic levitation technology help early humans build the ancient wonders of the world?
00:17:17Well, everything's possible.
00:17:20We have no way to rule in or rule out aliens, because human technology is very primitive at this stage.
00:17:28And you look at Earth, it has only survived 4 billion years.
00:17:32But there are planets billions and billions of years ahead of us.
00:17:36Their technology and their knowledge can be so far ahead of us that we can't even imagine.
00:17:41If early civilizations did possess the ability to levitate large, solid objects, might they also have had access to other incredible technologies?
00:17:56Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest the evidence can be found by examining a towering megalithic structure built with extraordinary precision,
00:18:08the Great Pyramid of Giza.
00:18:11The megalithic structures of the ancient world are astounding feats of engineering.
00:18:19And many, like the Pyramids of Giza, are not just enormous, but they're built with incredible precision.
00:18:25Oh, absolutely.
00:18:25And when you're talking about moving five-ton stone blocks and stacking them hundreds of feet in the air,
00:18:32that doesn't just require engineering, but also technology.
00:18:36Yeah, and some researchers have suggested that the Pyramids themselves are technological devices.
00:18:42We talked about this in the very first episode of Ancient Aliens.
00:18:45Of all the ancient structures located around the world, perhaps none is more mysterious or as enduring as the Great Pyramid at Giza.
00:18:57At a height of 471 feet, the Great Pyramid stood as the tallest structure in the world until the completion of the Eiffel Tower in 1889.
00:19:10But while other pyramids and temples contain walls filled with hieroglyphics describing their purpose, the Great Pyramid lacks even a single marking.
00:19:20What was its function?
00:19:21What was its function?
00:19:22Why was it built?
00:19:24And what secrets remain hidden inside?
00:19:27Nobody has been able to explain the interior design of this pyramid.
00:19:31It simply doesn't make sense according to our logic.
00:19:34You have narrow tunnels that you have to crouch.
00:19:37You emerge in grand galleries that are nine meters high.
00:19:41You have chambers that are made of granite where granite doesn't come from in the air.
00:19:47You have to ship the granite by barges 600 miles away.
00:19:51It's an anonymous site.
00:19:54Not a single inscription.
00:19:56Not a single hieroglyph.
00:19:58Not a single anything.
00:20:00It's just there.
00:20:03Some people speculated that it was a temple and an initiation chamber where people would go to the king's chamber and become enlightened.
00:20:15There are anecdotal reports about people who have been inside the pyramid and have come out absolutely shaken because it was haunted.
00:20:24Egyptologists believe that the pyramids were built to bury the dead pharaoh.
00:20:34The problem with the accepted view is the fact that not a single dead pharaoh's body has been found inside a pyramid.
00:20:41Even when the pyramid was completely sealed, i.e. not a single grave robber could have entered it.
00:20:47The Egyptologists say it's to conceal the body.
00:20:51Well, why advertise it?
00:20:54I mean, there's nothing more visible than a pyramid for miles.
00:21:00And to this day, you would have thought, in this modern age, with all the knowledge we have, we should be able to explain this pyramid.
00:21:07We cannot explain this pyramid.
00:21:11Engineering expert Christopher Dunn has been on a personal quest to unlock the secrets of the Great Pyramid since the late 1970s.
00:21:20According to him, there are specific clues in the design and construction of this mega monument that can help answer exactly why it was built.
00:21:29When you look at the Great Pyramid and look at the culture that built it, there are brilliant, brilliant engineers.
00:21:37In fact, a lot of engineers say we couldn't build the Great Pyramid today.
00:21:40And it was built, supposedly, 4500 years ago.
00:21:43And it was built to the precision of a machine.
00:21:46When I started to do the research and I examined the Great Pyramid, with the eye of a functionality, it was built like a machine, perhaps it functioned like a machine.
00:22:00The interior design of the Great Pyramid features four inclined air shafts emanating from the King's Chamber and the Lower Queen's Chamber.
00:22:12Like the Great Pyramid itself, their presence and purpose cannot be easily explained.
00:22:18The difficulty of building those shafts is incredible.
00:22:21It's a bit like building a chimney at an incline across a house.
00:22:25I mean, as a construction engineer, it's a nightmare.
00:22:27In 2002, a team of engineers and Egyptologists sent a small robot into one of the air shafts connected to the Queen's Chamber.
00:22:38After 65 meters, a stone door blocked its path.
00:22:42A hole was then drilled through it.
00:22:45On the other side was a small room with yet another door leading further up the shaft.
00:22:52Since the discovery of the door, we've had every university, archaeologists, anthropologists, every engineer you can think of, nobody has been able to explain the purpose of these shafts.
00:23:04But were these shafts ever open?
00:23:07And if they were, what might they have been used for?
00:23:11The early explorers that went into the Queen's Chamber found that the walls were coated with a layer of salt.
00:23:18That kind of gelled with a theory that I had developed.
00:23:24You had a dilute hydrochloric acid solution coming down one shaft and hydrated zinc coming down the other shaft.
00:23:34And when they combined in the Queen's Chamber, they created hydrogen.
00:23:38Hydrogen. It is one of the most powerful energy sources in the universe.
00:23:44In the mid-19th century, it was hydrogen gas that helped lift some of mankind's first airships, called Zeppelins, into the sky.
00:23:53Today, it is used as a fuel to launch rockets into space.
00:23:59And if, thousands of years ago, the Great Pyramid was actually producing hydrogen, that would make it one of the earliest power plants known to man.
00:24:11The Giza power plant theory is essentially the drawing of energy from the Earth through the Great Pyramid.
00:24:20And converting that energy into microwave energy.
00:24:25So, the chemicals actually come in through the shafts into the Queen's Chamber.
00:24:30And then they combine and mix and hydrogen boils off.
00:24:34The hydrogen is then lighter than air and it will flow into all the upper chambers.
00:24:39The energy from the Earth is then vibrating the whole pyramid.
00:24:45The vibrations are picked up in the Grand Gallery.
00:24:49So, I proposed the Grand Gallery as a resonator hall.
00:24:54And there are 27 pairs of slots that actually go up the length of the gallery.
00:25:00And then the resonators were mounted in there vertically.
00:25:03Christopher Dunn is theorizing that with resonating galleries, the pyramid shot a microwave out of one of the shafts.
00:25:14And once you started up this power plant, it would have gone on for years, decades, even hundreds of years without stopping and creating the microwave.
00:25:24And that was a usable energy that could be captured.
00:25:28Now, we can speculate where it goes from there.
00:25:31It could be collected in the immediate vicinity or it could keep traveling off into space.
00:25:37We don't know. That's the mystery.
00:25:39But if the Great Pyramid was actually a power plant producing energy, was it doing it alone?
00:25:49Or was it part of a larger network?
00:25:52And are there any clues that could tell us what all of that energy was being used for?
00:25:58Perhaps the 20th century's most influential inventor was a Serbian-American named Nikola Tesla.
00:26:17His patents on alternating electrical currents and distribution helped establish the commercial electricity industry.
00:26:25He also made contributions to robotics, radar, and computer science.
00:26:35But while Tesla can be credited for many scientific advances, one idea that fell short was his attempt to create a wireless electrical grid.
00:26:44Tesla's project was to have these towers around the United States and around the world.
00:26:51And they would broadcast electricity like a television station.
00:26:57Instead of having to string power lines all over the place, you just transmit the energy through the air or through the ground.
00:27:09There were a number of demonstrations of this device for wireless power transmission during Tesla's lifetime.
00:27:20So we know the device worked.
00:27:22It appears that he was using the conductivity of the ground or the air to carry the electric current.
00:27:33Basically, in the air, if you put enough voltage on it, you'll get an arc across it.
00:27:40And you see that all the time in a fluorescent light bulb.
00:27:44In the ground, you have water, minerals, salts that can also carry the ions along, and therefore carry the electric current.
00:27:52But while Tesla's power towers proved popular in theory, the project ended in financial failure.
00:28:01But could Tesla's idea of wireless electricity have been a rediscovery of an ancient technology?
00:28:09I believe that what Tesla was doing was trying to recreate what was an ancient power system that was used around the world.
00:28:27And the way they did this was the use of obelisks.
00:28:31Obelisks as monolithic granite towers, which are one solid piece of crystal.
00:28:46And the obelisks themselves were cut to special sizes and tuned like a tuning fork.
00:28:53Could these ancient broadcast towers really have sent electricity up into the atmosphere?
00:29:01And if so, how was the electricity generated?
00:29:05Each of these obelisks would have required some kind of generating power station similar to what we have today.
00:29:14Electricity is created by rotating magnetic fields.
00:29:18So rotating magnetic fields generate AC power.
00:29:22The very first power station was built by Nikola Tesla at Niagara Falls.
00:29:28You've got to have some sort of power that's spinning the rotating fields.
00:29:34And in this case would be water.
00:29:37So every obelisk would have had to have had a power station similar to like the one at Niagara Falls.
00:29:43It's generating power, but the obelisk itself is putting the power into the atmosphere, making it usable.
00:29:50And this is similar to Christopher Dunn's theory of the Giza power plant,
00:29:55because he believes that the Great Pyramid was actually sending a microwave beam to a satellite that was in orbit around the planet.
00:30:06That satellite then could have been taking microwave power, and then it could transmit it again, in theory, to some other location on the Earth,
00:30:18such as, say, a remote island like Easter Island or something like that.
00:30:22From some of the descriptions of ancient flying machines, it's possible that some form of power beaming might have been used.
00:30:32And in fact, for a lot of the schemes that you see, it actually would make a lot of sense,
00:30:40because you could put the power beaming station on a mothership in orbit.
00:30:45You're just beaming energy to the vehicle, where it's absorbed and turned into propulsion thrust.
00:30:53It actually makes a lot of sense, because you're taking the energy system, the power system, off of the vehicle and locating it remotely.
00:31:03Were our ancestors capable of these incredible achievements?
00:31:11Or might they have come from another source, one much more out of this world?
00:31:20Civilizations were much more advanced than we give them credit, and literally as advanced as we are today.
00:31:27In my view, we need to take this seriously, simply because of the scale of the work.
00:31:35We're looking at monuments that took, perhaps, essentially to build.
00:31:39Even today, we have difficulty in considering such a project.
00:31:43Just boggles the mind.
00:31:45And really, to look at those artifacts, and to go back in time and say, how did they do it?
00:31:51We are kind of cracking the lid open a little bit, and looking inside to try and see just what happened in our history.
00:32:00It's a question which is a scientific question, and you constantly have to ask it.
00:32:04And the possible answer of, have aliens visited in the past, could be a potential yes.
00:32:10We can look at these ancient monuments and finally recognize that all of this stuff was built as a message for us to see that our past is way different than what we're being taught in school.
00:32:29Could it really be that our remote past was powered, not by primitive tools, but by electricity?
00:32:40And if so, are pyramids and obelisks what remain of this forgotten technology?
00:32:47As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a resounding yes.
00:32:54And they suggest there is evidence that our ancestors had access not only to wireless power, but even nuclear energy.
00:33:08It's a fascinating thought that ancient people were able to generate massive amounts of energy, and it's not just in Egypt where we find evidence of this.
00:33:16Right. In ancient India, for example, you have these mysterious stone sculptures known as Shiva lingams.
00:33:22And some Hindu scholars have proposed that based on ancient Vedic traditions, that these might represent some type of nuclear power.
00:33:31Right. And there are thousands of these Shiva lingam sculptures throughout not just India, but Asia as well.
00:33:37We talked about this in a 2016 episode called Shiva, the Destroyer.
00:33:41Sirsi India.
00:33:46Ten miles outside of this city in the southwestern state of Karnataka, within the river Sharmala, is one of the country's most popular pilgrimage sites, Sahasralingha.
00:34:02Hidden under these waters for most of the year, lie stone sculptures known as Shiva lingams.
00:34:08These sacred idols are representations of the god Shiva, and are visible to thousands of pilgrims once a year, at the festival of Mahasivaratri.
00:34:21Mahasivaratri is a festival where Shiva is worshipped for his great nature.
00:34:27Mahasivaratri is usually held in the end of February or beginning of March.
00:34:34During that month, the water level of the Salmala river drops down so that all the Shiva lingas are exposed.
00:34:44Shiva is depicted as the Shiva linga, as kind of a spherical column, the flaming pillar that is the cosmic axis of the universe.
00:34:57Every Shiva linga that's in worship is set into a yoni.
00:35:01This is a special base, and it actually serves kind of a utility of function.
00:35:07It's a spout so that when you pour offerings over the surface of the linga, they wash over the sacred body.
00:35:14Images of the Shiva lingam are found throughout Southeast Asia, even in parts of East Asia.
00:35:21Sometimes, images of Shiva as the lingam also made its way into China and into Japan.
00:35:29The Shiva lingam first appeared over 2,000 years ago, and there is still debate over what this shape was originally meant to symbolize.
00:35:44But ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the icon may represent an incredibly powerful technological device.
00:35:56Paris, France, 1900.
00:36:00At the Paris Congress of History of Religions, Swami Vivekananda, a scientist and monk credited with popularizing Hinduism in the West,
00:36:10gives a lecture addressing the meaning of the Shiva lingam.
00:36:15For centuries, Western scholars have assumed that the Shiva linga has purely a sexual connotation.
00:36:21The cylinder is the male phallic symbol, and the yoni is the complementary female symbol.
00:36:26Then in 1900, the Hindu scholar Swami Vivekananda came to Paris to deliver a major lecture about Hinduism and symbolism.
00:36:34During this lecture, he said that the Shiva lingam actually symbolizes the coming in or going out of the divine manifesting energy of Shiva.
00:36:43It stands for energy, and it has often been misrepresented in the West that it is simply a phallic symbol of Shiva, which is not the case.
00:36:55It is obviously a pillar because linga means a pillar.
00:36:59Modern Hindu scholars have theorized that the Shiva linga stone actually represents atomic energy.
00:37:07When we think about this idea of what atomic energy can do, how it can be used for good, but it can be extraordinarily destructive,
00:37:16this certainly pertains to the mythology of Shiva, who is chaotic energy, who is a force for incredible good, but also a force for incredible destruction.
00:37:25Is it possible that this symbol of Shiva's power actually represents atomic energy?
00:37:36Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest the proof can be found by examining this mysterious shape.
00:37:45The cylindrical structure of Shiva lingam is similar or almost identical to a modern day nuclear reactor.
00:37:56And the groove that surrounds the base represents the structures built to dispose off the polluted water.
00:38:05In ancient times and even today, Hindus pour water or milk on top of Shiva lingam as a ritual.
00:38:13Today we pour water over the top of nuclear reactor to cool it.
00:38:20And interestingly, most Shiva temples are always found near water bodies like rivers or lakes, just like nuclear power plants.
00:38:34So is it possible that Shiva linga actually represents an ancient nuclear power plant?
00:38:42In the story of Shiva and the Shiva linga, we're obviously dealing with some kind of a universal or cosmic power that we didn't fully understand until the 20th century,
00:38:56with the discovery of nuclear power and nuclear fission.
00:39:00These discoveries that predate modern man are completely changing our conception of the ancient past and connecting us to the true history of humanity.
00:39:14Does the Shiva lingam symbolize an extraterrestrial technology that once existed on Earth?
00:39:20If so, might modern science be less about invention and more about remembrance?
00:39:27Perhaps further evidence can be found by exploring the technological ambitions that have propelled us into space.
00:39:36If you want evidence that our modern technology is reinventing what existed on this planet thousands of years ago, just look at all the ancient accounts of flight.
00:39:50So many cultures describe flying machines that you have to believe our ancestors actually witnessed these things.
00:39:57Yeah, you have chariots of fire described in the Bible, the manas in ancient Hindu texts, and we have countless stories of fire breathing dragons.
00:40:07Right, and when I hear stories of fire breathing dragons, then my ears perk up.
00:40:12Because if you witness a rocket launch, or you see a jet streak across the sky, what do you see coming out of its back? Fire!
00:40:22Merritt Island, Florida. The Kennedy Space Center.
00:40:28Six Earth astronauts sit atop NASA's Endeavour space shuttle, headed for orbit.
00:40:35After countdown, three main engines, together with two solid rocket boosters, provide the thrust to lift the orbiter off the ground for its ascent.
00:40:47And liftoff of shuttle and debris.
00:40:55I urge everyone to be part one day of a rocket launch, because it is a life-altering moment.
00:41:01When you stand there, a few miles away, you can still feel the power as that rocket takes off into space.
00:41:11The grumbling in your stomach, the vibrations, and you can hear the noise.
00:41:16And it's a truly magnificent sight, and awe-inspiring.
00:41:20But are manned space flights really a recent phenomenon?
00:41:26Or could our ancient ancestors have witnessed similar events?
00:41:31There is no doubt that if we thoroughly investigate this planet, they will find that this planet may have already been to the moon way before we went to the moon with a man in 1969.
00:41:47The interesting thing is that we have the exact same descriptions in ancient texts and also in oral traditions, where whenever those quote unquote gods appeared, there was a lot of smoke, a lot of fire, a lot of noise, and the trembling of the ground.
00:42:09When rockets are taking off, it's best to stand back and get out of the way.
00:42:17And that's a lot of what the ancient legends are about, too.
00:42:20When the gods came and went, it may well have been just these rockets or other aerospace vehicles landing and taking off and making a lot of smoke and noise.
00:42:30But could early man really have had knowledge of rocket technology?
00:42:40To make their case, ancient astronaut theorists point to numerous and consistent descriptions of rockets found throughout many cultures of the ancient world.
00:42:50When you're dealing with this subject and you look at the ancient literature, you have to look at it through the lens of how was it being experienced by a civilization with no foundation for understanding the science, the technology.
00:43:04And so I think in ancient times, there were people who had encounters.
00:43:08However, I think the way they might have been reported would have been in metaphors in ways that would have made sense to them.
00:43:15In China, you have these stories of dragons flying through the air.
00:43:24They make a lot of noise and smoke comes out of them and fire, just like a rocket.
00:43:30The first emperor of China descended in a fiery dragon with smoke and fire.
00:43:40And whenever a dragon appeared, the earth was quaking and everyone was afraid and threw themselves to the ground.
00:43:49Now, of course, it wasn't a dragon in a biological nature, a living being.
00:43:55But it was a misinterpreted machine.
00:44:02If you look at the Greek gods, they were all described as flying in on chariots of fire.
00:44:08Well, chariot of fire to me seems very clearly like it's some sort of rocket probably burning its retros as it lands somewhere in ancient Greece.
00:44:18In the Old Testament, we can read about a glowing furnace that descended from the sky.
00:44:28And sometimes this glowing furnace is described as a chariot of fire or as the glory of the Lord.
00:44:36So there are all these different descriptions, which in the ancient astronaut opinion describe ancient rocketry.
00:44:48From 5000 to 2000 BC, southern Mesopotamia was home to the Sumerians, a highly advanced civilization considered to be among the first astronomers.
00:45:01Regarded as one of the oldest written stories in history, the Epic of Gilgamesh, told of a man's journey to the heavens to meet the god Anu.
00:45:13The Gilgamesh epic, which goes back to the Sumerian, that's a piece where the hero, Gilgamesh, flies over the earth.
00:45:23And he describes how the earth looks from above. Fascinating. An old story of the first flight.
00:45:28The most ancient civilization that we have on record, the Sumerian culture, has left us evidence of what's called a Shem.
00:45:36And this object looks very similar to a modern day space capsule that we place on top of a rocket.
00:45:43In this Shem is where priests would go into the Shem to interact with the gods or any time man was ascending or descending into heaven.
00:45:53So it's a very interesting term used from a culture dating back to 3800 BC and very clearly matches the descriptions of a modern day rocket.
00:46:02Could early man have actually possessed a surprisingly sophisticated understanding of what we now call rocket propulsion?
00:46:17In the first century AD, nearly 2000 years before the Industrial Revolution, a Greek mathematician and engineer named Hiro created a steam powered engine he called an eolipile.
00:46:32One of the great inventors of the ancient world was the famous Hiro of Alexandria.
00:46:38He invented all kinds of stuff. He actually invented what we would describe as a rocket type motor.
00:46:47And really something like this is the beginnings of rocket technology.
00:46:52And we don't know where Hiro got many of his ideas, but it may well have come from aliens.
00:46:57John Robert Tyndall, founder of Tyndall Vision Laboratories, demonstrates a small scale replica of Hiro's eolipile.
00:47:11A conventional steam engine that we think of has pistons that get its power, but eolipile uses these opposing jets.
00:47:21So it's creating thrust, and rather than thrust like a rocket would use it in a linear fashion, this is causing a rotational effect.
00:47:28And there's your steam turbine, really, working off a thrust.
00:47:33Now this is operating much as it did in the first century AD.
00:47:37This is generally considered to be the first working steam engine.
00:47:41It worked more like a turbine than a classic steam engine with pistons.
00:47:45But it's very significant, because it really is taking, whoa, a compressed gas, ha, and turning it into energy.
00:47:54Wow! That has a lot of energy. Steam!
00:48:01The name for Hiro's steam rocket engine, eolipile, translates to the ball of eolus.
00:48:08In Greek mythology, eolus was the god of the winds.
00:48:13Is it possible that Hiro drew inspiration for his invention from the stories of the gods, such as those found in Homer's The Odyssey?
00:48:24Or might he have had help from the gods themselves?
00:48:29Some have suggested that it was alien intervention that aliens taught him how to build this machine.
00:48:36However, I'm leaning more towards the idea that he looked at older texts from previous generations,
00:48:45and that the source of the idea of how to build this did come from extraterrestrials,
00:48:52but from way before he was alive, and he just came across those texts.
00:48:59But do the descriptions of rockets and otherworldly devices found in ancient texts and legends
00:49:07provide evidence of extraterrestrial encounters in the distant past?
00:49:12Perhaps the answer will be discovered in an unlikely place, in the hands of the U.S. military.
00:49:25Some of the most compelling pieces of evidence we can find of advanced ancient tech comes in the form of descriptions of weaponry,
00:49:32because some of the weapons that the so-called gods had in their possession sound eerily similar to the weapons that we are developing today.
00:49:43Yeah, just look at the Sanskrit texts of ancient India.
00:49:46They're talking about things like missiles that detect heat or motion, weapons of mass destruction, even energy beams.
00:49:53Right. And in ancient Greece, we have accounts of a giant mirror that acted like some sort of death ray,
00:50:00which sounds a lot like the technology that the U.S. military is developing today.
00:50:08May 2010, off the coast of California.
00:50:13A powerful new weapon shoots down unmanned aerial drones during secret testing carried out by the U.S. Navy.
00:50:20Firing from a warship at a distance of nearly two miles.
00:50:27A ray of intense laser energy burns through targets traveling at speeds of more than 300 miles per hour.
00:50:35But is it possible that such so-called death rays could have been used before, perhaps in ancient times?
00:50:44I'm quite convinced that there have been, in the past, advanced civilizations on Earth that did have such things as the so-called death ray.
00:50:54Whether it was used as a weapon or whether it was just observed being used is a very, very open question.
00:51:01In 214 BC, Greeks living in the Sicilian city of Syracuse, prepared for an attack by a fleet of Roman warships.
00:51:14Though outnumbered by a superior military force, ancient texts suggest that Syracuse was well defended by a mysterious and powerful new weapon.
00:51:24Probably the most famous ancient death ray was the one that was built by the Greek inventor Archimedes.
00:51:35He was able to create this giant mirror and parabolic disc and focus the sun's rays on the fleet and set these ships on fire.
00:51:46So here we have what would be a primitive kind of death ray that really worked.
00:51:58But how could Archimedes have conceived such a formidable weapon, one far in advance of any known at the time?
00:52:06Researchers suggest the inventor may have drawn inspiration from Greek myths written nearly 600 years before the Battle of Syracuse.
00:52:17Myths that told the stories of gods that brandished cosmic weapons of incredible destructive force.
00:52:24If you look in the Greek tradition, they have a very clear description of Zeus' thunderbolt, which he was able to point at people or at other things that he wanted to explode, hit the button, and what they described as lightning would come out and create a fierce and terrible explosion.
00:52:45When these ancient gods like Zeus were to come down from the sky in this flurry of thunder and lightning and then get out of their spacecraft, they were perceived as gods.
00:53:03These ancient aliens had fantastic technology available to them, a technology that would have seemed like magic to our primitive ancestors.
00:53:13So when these people came down from the sky and they had advanced energy weapons, they were like gods to our ancient ancestors.
00:53:23It doesn't matter where you go, but the gods were always able to create thunder, create lightning in a controlled way.
00:53:34In ancient India, we have the gods holding the doors sometimes like this, and it looks as if some type of a directed energy beam comes directly out of the front to vanquish the enemy, to destroy him, to incinerate him.
00:53:52But if death ray type weapons had been used in ancient times, might there be some sort of tangible proof?
00:54:02Perhaps there is.
00:54:05Here, scattered throughout the Scottish countryside, can be found numerous ancient ruins.
00:54:12Many appear to have been forts or other enclosures, dating back thousands of years.
00:54:18Remarkably, they also appear to have been subjected to fire and heat, so intense it practically turned the stone structures into glass.
00:54:28It's a process more scientifically known as vitrification.
00:54:33Here you have these stone buildings in which an analysis of the outside comes to the conclusion that they were heated to over a thousand degrees Celsius in temperature.
00:54:47Conventional fire could not have reached this heat.
00:54:50You needed a sustained burn at a thousand degrees Celsius for a long period of time.
00:54:56Why is it that it's only these forts that have this type of charring, where they're actually glazed like pottery on the outside?
00:55:05Why is it that you don't see it on the stones in the surrounding area?
00:55:08And even more interestingly, why is it that so many of them are concentrated into this one little area in northern Scotland?
00:55:15I believe this is very clear evidence of death rays being used.
00:55:19According to Celtic legend, there once was a god named Lou, also known as the Shining One, the Sun God, and the God of War.
00:55:33Like the Greek god Zeus, Lou was said to wield a mighty magic spear, not unlike the thunderbolts of his Greek counterpart.
00:55:46We have many stories of divinities who were powerful figures who had weapons that seem extraordinary for their time.
00:55:53One was the great Celtic divinity, Lou, who had a spear that could spit fire and lightning and do great damage.
00:56:00It was an extraordinary weapon. We don't have a great deal of detail about it, but it clearly could dominate any situation he got into.
00:56:06When battle was near, Lou would draw out his spear, and it roared, and then flashes of fire came out of it, and it tore through the ranks of the enemy, never tired of killing and slaying.
00:56:24It was one amazing weapon. I mean, how else can we explain all those numerous vitrified forts where the surface of the stone is as smooth as glass?
00:56:41And these spots can only be found in very concentrated areas through Northern Scotland.
00:56:50Is it possible that what the Celtic legends are describing as Lou is, in fact, an alien general or other kind of extraterrestrial leader in possession of a devastating weapon?
00:57:04All these descriptions of sophisticated weaponry sounds almost like science fiction.
00:57:11But is it really? Because we have those weapons today.
00:57:17And I think it is merely a reinvention of history, that all the stuff that we have today has been around before, and that our past is not science fiction, but science fact.
00:57:32We have those weapons today.
00:57:35Deadly laser beams, acoustic levitation, anti-gravity.
00:57:44Could these be technologies that were witnessed and even used by ancient civilizations?
00:57:51If so, were they conceived in the minds of early man?
00:57:57Or did they have other worldly origins?
00:58:01Perhaps further clues can be found by examining godlike powers that are now becoming our reality.
00:58:13One thing that's surprisingly widespread in ancient traditions is the idea of cloaking technology.
00:58:19And we have so many stories of gods or heroes having a device that makes them invisible.
00:58:25Yeah, like the ancient Greek story of Gygius. He comes upon this magic ring that makes him invisible, then he uses it to become king.
00:58:33Right. And this likely would have seemed like magic to our ancestors.
00:58:38But today we know it was likely some type of a tech device, because today we are developing the exact same cloaking mechanisms.
00:58:48In fact, we covered this in a season three episode of ancient aliens called Aliens, Gods and Heroes.
00:58:54Lydia, 716 BC.
00:58:58Gygius, a shepherd in the service of King Candalis, becomes the unlikely successor to the throne of this ancient kingdom in modern day Turkey.
00:59:12But the story of how this modest servant rose from a shepherd to a king is so fantastic that many scholars and historians have dismissed it as mere myth.
00:59:24Gygius is out in the field and there is a terrible earthquake.
00:59:34He sees a cave open, goes into that cave and sees a gold ring.
00:59:41He just kind of walks into like this chamber, which is like a tomb where he sees a dead body that's got some jewelry on it.
00:59:47So he grabs this ring off of it because he's a poor man.
00:59:50He puts the ring on and discovers that it gives him the power to be invisible.
00:59:54Here he has the kind of power a god would have.
00:59:57And does he use it? Well, well, actually, it's a little questionable how he uses it.
01:00:03He comes up with a plan.
01:00:04The next time he goes to visit the king, he brings that ring with him, turns himself invisible,
01:00:11seduces the queen,
01:00:15kills the king,
01:00:16takes over the palace.
01:00:18What we have here is really a multilayered legend.
01:00:23We have not only the story of the fact that somebody in the past had the cloak of invisibility,
01:00:29but actually that he did not invent this, but that this was a legacy from a race who had buried dead dead.
01:00:36And that alongside these dead were artifacts which were technological.
01:00:40What kind of a magical amulet or technology are we talking about here?
01:00:47Is this the ring of the gods that's described by the ancient Sumerians as the ring of cosmic sovereignty?
01:00:54When I read stories like Gyges of Lydia, who has found this ring which gave him the capability of becoming invisible,
01:01:05then there are two things that I think of.
01:01:07One, is it just fantasy?
01:01:10Or do we have another reference here that describes misunderstood technology?
01:01:17Because today researchers at Duke University are trying to develop an invisibility cloak.
01:01:24Duke University engineering professor David R. Smith is the director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics.
01:01:35For the past decade, Smith and his team have been working to create metamaterials or artificial materials that are not found in nature.
01:01:44Just as a piece of glass can control the way light bends, Smith has set out to prove that certain man-made materials can actually be constructed to render objects invisible.
01:01:57This is actually an example of a metamaterial.
01:02:01This is a bunch of pieces of circuit board, all cut out and assembled together.
01:02:06And on the circuit boards are little pieces of copper that are tiny circuits.
01:02:09And each circuit has a certain response to electromagnetic radiation.
01:02:14And the combination of these patterns plus the shape gives us something that we can call an invisibility cloak.
01:02:21The idea behind the cloak is that it renders something inside of it invisible and itself invisible as well.
01:02:27At present, the device only makes objects disappear at microwave frequencies.
01:02:32But Dr. Smith believes that soon this technology will also be able to make objects invisible to even the human eye.
01:02:43Just in the last year or two, there have actually been experiments showing certain of the cloaking ideas transitioning to the visible spectrum.
01:02:51Red, green, blue, those experiments are actually being done now.
01:02:55We will have invisibility cloaks at some point that we could wear as humans.
01:02:59I definitely think we're going to get there because science and speculative science go hand in hand.
01:03:05Science creates a base point.
01:03:07Speculative science pushes it farther into the future.
01:03:10And that's how technology advances.
01:03:12An actual cloak of invisibility.
01:03:17Though still in development, researchers in Japan have designed an optical camouflage system
01:03:23that makes special reflective material seemingly disappear, including the person wearing it.
01:03:31Thus, bringing us closer to achieving a fully functional invisibility cloak, like the one described in the story of Gyges.
01:03:39Could this mean that other seemingly far-fetched devices of fantasy, like flying carpets and magic wands, are also based on science?
01:03:55And if so, might they have been used in the ancient past, perhaps in the hands of extraterrestrial visitors?
01:04:03Just because we are working on these technologies today does not mean that we are the first.
01:04:13Because we find multiple references in ancient texts that describe devices with which you were able to go invisible.
01:04:26So much of our storytelling deals with the fact that what we deem to be magic can really be science at a different time.
01:04:37If legendary tales like the story of King Gyges could be proven to be real,
01:04:43what does it suggest about other fantastic stories of gods and titans?
01:04:48Hisserlich, Turkey.
01:04:56Within this archaeological site lie the ruins of Troy,
01:05:01a place once thought by mainstream scientists to be no more than myth,
01:05:07until Heinrich Schliemann unearthed its remains in 1871.
01:05:11Here, in the 12th century BC, the ancient Greek city was the center of the Trojan War,
01:05:20a Greek battle described in Homer's Iliad.
01:05:24According to the epic poem, the goddess Athena gives King Diomedes the power of divine vision during the war,
01:05:33so that he could see like the gods.
01:05:35Athena comes down and she wants to help the Greeks, so she finds Diomedes.
01:05:40She says, I'm going to help you out here.
01:05:42So what I'm going to do is strip away this mist that's over your eyes.
01:05:46You as a human being, you don't really know what's going on.
01:05:48You just see battle.
01:05:50But once I strip away this mist, you're going to be able to see what's really going on,
01:05:53which is that in addition to a battle going on, there are gods fighting.
01:05:55King Diomedes sees that Ares, the god of war, is fighting alongside his enemy Hector.
01:06:03And he was not to use this site to attack the gods, but that is exactly what he uses it for.
01:06:11The side aspect of this is this.
01:06:14It's a question, did the gods really have this?
01:06:17Were they superhuman, like we want to become?
01:06:20Or did they have technology which enabled them to do these kind of things?
01:06:23Diomedes and the gods power of super eyesight may seem like pure fantasy,
01:06:32but enhanced vision is also becoming a reality,
01:06:36thanks to advancements in spectrometer technology.
01:06:41Spectrometers are devices used to measure properties of light over a wider range of the electromagnetic spectrum
01:06:48than is visible with the human eye.
01:06:50And today, just as we are developing cloaking devices,
01:06:55we are also developing technology to see through those devices.
01:07:01Technology is driven by society's needs more than anything else.
01:07:07But myths have a way of inspiring us and they represent a part of the imagination
01:07:12which we need to even envision the next generation of technologies.
01:07:15If I dream I could go to another galaxy, I will sooner or later go to another galaxy.
01:07:26We are the offsprings of the gods and all these things are in our brains.
01:07:31We think we are very powerful. In practice, we are not.
01:07:35But we have technology to develop the power because we are the sons of the gods.
01:07:41Could it really be that the powers once attributed to the so-called gods were in fact misunderstood alien technology?
01:07:49Perhaps the answers can be found not in the past but in the present.
01:07:57As modern day advances in science and technology give us perhaps our greatest evidence that we have been here before.
01:08:07The ability to fly. To thrive underwater. And to travel through space and explore the universe.
01:08:24At one time, these were all believed to be impossible notions.
01:08:28Dismissed as mere science fiction or myth.
01:08:34But mankind's continued advances in technology have made the word impossible almost obsolete.
01:08:42In our modern world, steroids can help generate herculean muscles.
01:08:48Titanium joints can replace and even improve upon our own natural ones.
01:08:54And even prosthetic gills are being developed.
01:09:00So human beings can breathe underwater without the use of air tanks.
01:09:08Today, government contractors like Raytheon Sarkos and Lockheed Martin develop exoskeleton machines for the U.S. military.
01:09:17When worn, they can allow soldiers to walk, run, and lift hundreds of pounds with virtually no effort.
01:09:32What makes exoskeleton so cool is that it's an everyman thing.
01:09:36Anybody can put one on. Anybody can be the hero.
01:09:39You can take a person with any sort of physical weaknesses and make them greater than the person they're fighting.
01:09:44Exoskeletons would be a prime example of something coming out of comic books into mainstream reality.
01:09:53And in reality, exoskeletons are becoming very popular with the military.
01:09:59A soldier can wear the Raytheon exoskeleton, for example, and lift 200 pounds.
01:10:05While these modern-day supermen may be limited in their mobility, the development of exoskeletons represents an incredible evolution in the relationship between man and machine.
01:10:18But did such incredible technology exist before?
01:10:25Perhaps in mankind's ancient past.
01:10:29Now, is it possible that some type of exoskeleton technology was used in the remote past, for example, on the Giza Plateau?
01:10:36Imagine the operator of one of those exoskeleton machines coming out of that machine.
01:10:48That person has superpowers.
01:10:52Even though the person doesn't have any powers at all, the person is only operating sophisticated technology.
01:11:01One could argue that with all the advancements we are making today in science and all the other academic fields, we are becoming more godlike.
01:11:15We are not becoming gods.
01:11:18We are not turning into real superheroes.
01:11:21We are only becoming godlike because of our technology.
01:11:27I think we have an innate need to push our bodies and our minds to the utmost limits and strive for superintelligence, super strength and other superpowers.
01:11:41The reason is that people have long been fascinated with what could be stronger than humanity itself.
01:11:47And if it's not human, then it must come from somewhere else, either a god or an extraterrestrial.
01:11:58But with all of his scientific achievements, is mankind perhaps making himself more and more vulnerable to what could be terrible consequences?
01:12:07There are many tales of ordinary mortals ascending to become rulers, to become gods, various positions of enormous power.
01:12:20Often these characters then become corrupt.
01:12:23And the stories stick around and are retold over a long period of time, long after their sources have withered away, to teach us that power corrupts, to be careful what you wish for, and to be very cautious if ever holding great power because of its ability to harm.
01:12:44Almost 50% of our stories are about technology run amok or the dark side of technology.
01:12:51Because when you talk about superpowers, when you talk about all this transformation, everything comes at a price.
01:12:57And you always have to weigh whether or not price is worthy or necessary to make for the greater good, and sometimes it's not.
01:13:03Sometimes the price you pay is just too great when you lose your own self.
01:13:10Are all of mankind's scientific achievements really examples of emerging technology?
01:13:17Or are humans finally catching up to the abilities of beings who have been here before?
01:13:23Perhaps only time and further advancements in technology will tell.
01:13:35The ancient astronaut theory proposes that long ago, ETs modified the DNA of one of our pre-human ancestors to create humans.
01:13:45And so the question is, all these cases of modern-day genetic engineering, are they just examples of alien reinvention?
01:13:55It would seem so. And we're now talking about gene splicing technology to modify our bodies and make them better for space travel.
01:14:04And we're looking at merging our biology with technology, basically to turn ourselves into cyborgs.
01:14:09Maybe this was our alien ancestors' plan all along. One day we would evolve to jumpstart civilization on other planets ourselves.
01:14:20All right, you want to go to Mars?
01:14:22Sure, let's go to Mars.
01:14:24At the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, aerospace engineer Dr. Travis Taylor meets with Paul Vallee,
01:14:31the project manager for the Active Response Gravity Offload System, otherwise known as Argos.
01:14:37Travis is eager to experience firsthand how space colonists will be trained in order to survive in reduced-gravity environments.
01:14:47And now you are on Mars.
01:14:50So this is what Mars is like?
01:14:51Yep.
01:14:52I can jump.
01:14:54A lot higher.
01:14:56So if I were going to try and walk across Mars...
01:14:58The Argos Simulator is amazing in giving me some insight in realizing it's not easy to work on a planet that isn't the planet I came from.
01:15:08If I was on Mars or the Moon or anywhere else, I have to completely retrain my mind and body for working there.
01:15:15Yeah.
01:15:16Wow.
01:15:17Whoa, getting up is the hard part.
01:15:20So if any civilizations have done that, they would have had to do the same type of training, or when they got here they would be extremely clumsy.
01:15:28Yeah.
01:15:30That's almost impossible.
01:15:31Yeah, now imagine doing it...
01:15:32There we go.
01:15:34Now imagine doing it with a space suit, life support, all that.
01:15:37You don't realize how much you use gravity to do everything.
01:15:42Yeah, you don't realize until it's gone.
01:15:44Right.
01:15:47Although recent NASA footage of astronauts doing somersaults in midair and eating floating M&Ms paints a whimsical picture of what it's like to live in a low-gravity environment,
01:15:59the lack of gravity can, over time, have a devastating and profound impact on the human body.
01:16:08What we have to do when we decide to go to Mars is really study all aspects of human physiology,
01:16:15how we're going to operate in a gravity that's much less than the Earth.
01:16:21Our body will change because of that environment.
01:16:24We're doing research in many ways right now, studying the effects of being weightless and then coming back to the Earth.
01:16:30March 2nd, 2016.
01:16:35Kazakhstan.
01:16:37American astronaut Scott Kelly returns to Earth after a record-setting, 360-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
01:16:46The duration of the mission was intended to help researchers understand how prolonged periods of time in zero gravity can affect the human body.
01:16:57Scott's identical twin brother, Mark, also an astronaut, served as a control subject.
01:17:03Because of his twin's DNA, which is, in theory, identical to his, they could then determine what kind of DNA changes had happened to him.
01:17:15And what they discovered was that about 7% of his DNA had been altered.
01:17:20Extensive post-mission lab tests confirmed the astonishing changes that had taken place.
01:17:29Genes related to Scott Kelly's immune system, DNA repair, bone formation networks, his bloodstream, and numerous other systems have all been altered.
01:17:40The starting results prompt scientists around the world to ask, what are the implications for humans who leave Earth permanently?
01:17:54So, I did a lot of my early medical work and medical research on how the human body adopts to space as you go up into orbit.
01:18:02So, we are going to begin to speciate and form subspecies of humans as we head off towards the stars.
01:18:10Perhaps we should genetically modify ourselves to thrive in outer space.
01:18:16We're going to have to modify ourselves to adjust to different atmospheres, cosmic rays, radiation, you name it.
01:18:24We want to use gene editing technology to evolve ourselves and modify our DNA, modify our bodies to meet the needs of space as the human race is moving irreversibly off the planet.
01:18:37Once you have the technology to completely decode DNA and recode it, you also have the technology then to genetically alter any human being or any animal or plant.
01:18:55And so, therefore, you are able to genetically engineer humanoid species that will be better adapted to space travel, better adapted to life on a different planet.
01:19:09Extraterrestrials coming here in the ancient past could have easily have done exactly the same thing.
01:19:16Could extraterrestrials in possession of the same DNA altering knowledge have used it to aid their colonization efforts here on Earth thousands of years ago?
01:19:29An idea which once seemed absurd now seems remarkably and eerily plausible.
01:19:35Could you go back in time and look at something like the pre-human creatures and genetically modify them and create what has become Homo sapiens?
01:19:47With our technology today, we could pick a near-senient creature and start doing genetic modifications on it and create a new senient race.
01:19:58In addition to genetically modifying the human body in order to make it better suited for space travel and colonization, many experts propose that there will also need to be a merging of man and machine.
01:20:14Genetically modified space colonists, they argue, will have to be fitted with biomechatronic parts in order to create a human that is smarter, faster, stronger and more durable.
01:20:29I've been talking with some scientists and they say the next thing that's going to be coming is the cyborg evolution of humanity for those that are going to go into space.
01:20:41We have this Hollywood image that the aliens are going to land and they're going to come out looking someone like us and they'll say, take us to your leader, Earth man.
01:20:53But I think it could be quite different. They could be part robotic. Realize that they could be thousands of years more advanced than us.
01:21:00If there is a culture out there that's more advanced than us, they've already built these robotic bodies. Why wait for them to come to us? We have to become a huge spacefaring culture, a civilization to go out and answer these questions for ourselves instead of just sitting on our hands and waiting for them to give us the answer someday.
01:21:21In finding ways to modify the human body, is mankind really going where no one has gone before? Or are we simply fulfilling our destiny, one that stretches back to the very beginnings of human life here on Earth?
01:21:40As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the more humans venture into space, the closer they will be to discovering their true origins. Not on Earth, but on an alien world far, far away.
01:21:57I think that one of the most important contributions of ancient astronaut theory is the realization that we're reinventing technology today that existed in the ancient world.
01:22:10You know, King Solomon once said, there's nothing new under the sun. And it's like everything that we are inventing today existed in ancient times.
01:22:20Right. And if the visitors from back then would be able to see what we've accomplished today, I think they would be mightily proud because that is exactly what they wanted for us to achieve a high level of technology to one day leave this planet to go out there to explore outer space.
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