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00:00:00civilizations, teachers who came from light years away, and powerful entities revered as sky gods

00:00:09and star beings. For nearly two decades, ancient aliens has traveled the globe exploring towering

00:00:20megalithic structures, mysterious artifacts, and stories of otherworldly beings in a quest for

00:00:28evidence that might reveal the truth of our extraterrestrial origins. According to the

00:00:34ancient astronaut theory, these visitors from the sky have been interacting with our ancestors for

00:00:41thousands of years. Now we take a look back through the ancient aliens archives to the show's

00:00:48very origins to examine the evidence that we are not alone. We have never been alone.

00:00:58It's truly incredible to look back at well over a decade's worth of ancient aliens episodes and see

00:01:10everything that the show's covered. Megalithic sites, mysterious artifacts, strange artwork, and of

00:01:17course the stories of our ancestors. Yeah, and those stories are critically important because in

00:01:24culture after culture, our ancestors tell us that visitors from the sky descended to impart knowledge.

00:01:34I mean, they essentially helped jumpstart civilization. Yeah, along with all those amazing stories are also

00:01:40those depictions of ancient rock art and ancient rock carvings, which clearly show what we would

00:01:46consider aliens today. Right, and so we'll be looking at a lot of this ancient evidence. We'll begin

00:01:52with the second episode of Ancient Aliens called The Visitors. It begins with the Roswell Incident,

00:01:58but as we all know, star beings were here long before that.

00:02:03Roswell, New Mexico. This sleepy town in America's southwest was once best known for its large military airbase, but that changed in 1947 when a local rancher reported

00:02:33that a spaceship crashed on its property. Several weeks later, the U.S. Army issued a press release confirming the existence of an alien craft.

00:02:45The next day, the military changed its story and announced that what they had found was a weather balloon.

00:02:52These conflicting reports sent shockwaves around the world, and the name Roswell became a pop culture code word that forever links extraterrestrial visitation with enduring mystery.

00:03:07Speculation about why the Roswell crash would be covered up is difficult to pin down. Some people talk about this in terms of information that would be shattering to our world view.

00:03:24Almost everyone's heard about the so-called Roswell event, and one of the real implications of disclosure is that some of our most cherished myths about the origins of the human race and our history and archaeology would fall apart.

00:03:44Each step that we take makes us a little bit less special. We used to think that we were the center of the universe as humans, and then we realized, oh, all right, well, that's not true.

00:03:56But we're the center of the galaxy, and like, well, all right, so we're like two-thirds of the way out in a spiral arm.

00:04:01And then, well, at least our sun, you know, the sun is actually in the middle and the earth goes around it, so earth isn't even the center of that system.

00:04:10And so the more that we learn, we sort of, you know, it's a very humbling science.

00:04:18When man first landed on the moon, our perspective on the universe changed forever.

00:04:25Listen, the angle has landed.

00:04:27We aliens who happened to go down the ladder on July 20th, 1969, we aliens were certainly part of a magnificent race.

00:04:49I just don't think people have a grasp for what energy it takes to go from one star to another.

00:05:04This historic event raised the question, if humans can successfully navigate in space and explore other worlds,

00:05:13why couldn't beings from other parts of the universe have done the same?

00:05:17And might they have already come to earth, hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago?

00:05:26I think human past is more fantastic than we all believe.

00:05:32I have come to the idea that maybe extraterrestrials were on this planet.

00:05:43Coahuachi, Peru.

00:05:47Two thousand years ago, this ancient settlement served as the religious and cultural capital of the Nazca people.

00:05:57But sometime around 500 A.D., the Nazca mysteriously disappeared, leaving Coahuachi to fall into disarray.

00:06:06Fourteen hundred years later, in 1910, anthropologist Ola Shirlichka came to Coahuachi to study the ancient Nazca civilization.

00:06:20During a dig, he unearthed some of the most surprising and shocking artifacts he had ever seen.

00:06:26They were skulls with enormous, elongated craniums.

00:06:40Where did they come from?

00:06:42How did they get there?

00:06:44And were they human?

00:06:46In Peru, we find these weird, elongated skulls.

00:06:54And they're bizarre looking.

00:06:57I mean, and these people look like aliens.

00:07:00One may say, okay, aliens.

00:07:08But another aspect that we have to consider is that skull and cranial deformation, forming elongated heads,

00:07:17is a practice that's known throughout much of the ancient world.

00:07:21In 1870, the process of skull deformation was well chronicled by a German botanist and explorer named George Schweinfurth.

00:07:32While exploring the African Congo, he came in contact with a tribe called the Monk Betu.

00:07:39They routinely performed a ritual of cranial binding that allowed them to physically alter the shape of human skulls.

00:07:47They took infants' skulls and compressed them and bound them.

00:07:57And they forced the cranium out and elongated.

00:08:02And in many cases, they doubled the size.

00:08:08And a big question is, why was this being done?

00:08:11It may have been a way to distinguish the elite, perhaps, from the everyday people.

00:08:20It may have been a social stratification type of issue.

00:08:24Something that also appeals to me is that it may have been a way to express physically,

00:08:31and maybe try to achieve physically, greater levels of consciousness or higher levels of mental ability.

00:08:40In my opinion, they did this in order to mimic the gods.

00:08:48And those gods were physical beings, because if they were just a figment of our ancestors' imagination,

00:08:57I don't think that's a compelling enough reason to expose your children to such a ritual to achieve that type of look.

00:09:07And in my opinion, these people were misinterpreted flesh and blood space travelers.

00:09:16Whatever the explanation may be for these rituals, they are not just found in Peru and the African Congo.

00:09:24Skull deformation is a global phenomenon.

00:09:27What's really strange is that this is found all over the world.

00:09:36And this is something that archaeologists cannot easily explain.

00:09:39Because for people on remote islands, for people in South America or Malta or in Africa,

00:09:47to suddenly independently do this cranial deformation like this seems incredible.

00:09:55Is it possible that individual societies around the world were influenced by similar events?

00:10:05And were they imitating real beings who visited from other planets?

00:10:10Some of the most compelling images of an elongated cranium can be traced to ancient Egypt

00:10:16and the depictions of one of its most controversial pharaohs.

00:10:20Could it be that he, too, was mimicking the look of extraterrestrials?

00:10:26Or is there an even more outrageous explanation?

00:10:31Could he have been one of them?

00:10:33Egypt, long before the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, or even settled along the Nile River.

00:10:52They spoke of an era called Tep-Zepi, or the beginning of time.

00:10:57According to legends, Tep-Zepi was when sky gods descended from the stars to Earth on flying boats,

00:11:06and then turned mud and water into a new kingdom.

00:11:12The word god, according to the ancient Egyptians, is netheru.

00:11:17It means a being that came from the cosmos.

00:11:22They're very adamant about the fact that their gods had descended from the stars.

00:11:27They tell us that the god Osiris, who ruled with his consort and sister, the goddess Isis,

00:11:33they were star gods, and in fact, they identified them very clearly.

00:11:37Osiris was identified with the constellation of Orion.

00:11:41Isis was identified with the god to the star Sirius, the brightest star in the sky.

00:11:47There's an interesting point about this, is that within the constellation of Orion

00:11:51is the so-called nursery of stars.

00:11:53The stars in our galaxy literally were born in that zone.

00:12:01And it's very peculiar that the ancient Egyptians insist that the birth of star gods are in this constellation.

00:12:08They truly believed, they were very adamant about this, that their origins is in the sky.

00:12:13Something that we see around the world with ancient civilizations is that they had

00:12:25incredible knowledge of the stars, of the planets, of the heavenly motions.

00:12:31The average person in the ancient world had way more knowledge of what's going on in the skies

00:12:38than a lot of well-educated people today.

00:12:42As ancient Egypt grew into a great civilization, its citizens believed their pharaohs were sons

00:12:53of Osiris, and thus, living gods.

00:12:57Artwork and wall carvings depicted them as perfect humans.

00:13:01And while the people worshipped many different gods, the pharaoh stood above them all.

00:13:07This basic Egyptian religious belief remained in force for nearly a thousand years,

00:13:13until one pharaoh changed everything.

00:13:18Who was this heretic?

00:13:22His name was Akhenaten, and in every surviving depiction he is shown with an elongated skull.

00:13:30Who was he?

00:13:31According to Egyptian mythology, he too was descended from the gods, who arrived on earth at the time

00:13:39of Tebsepi.

00:13:41But why do so many still believe he actually came from the stars?

00:13:47In 1352 BC, Akhenaten ascended to the throne as the 10th pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

00:13:54Almost immediately, he instituted a series of radical religious changes, including a ban

00:14:02on references to multiple gods.

00:14:07It's a rather strange thing that he would want to do that in one sweep, but he ordered

00:14:12all the iconography of previous gods to be removed.

00:14:16He only allowed one emblem, which was the sun emblem, literally a sun disk, with curious

00:14:21arms or rays pouring down.

00:14:23Why did he do this?

00:14:27Because according to his writings and his poems that were written about him later on, he was

00:14:35visited by one of those beings that descended from the sky, who told Akhenaten, this is the

00:14:44way, I am your god.

00:14:48This sun god was known as Atan.

00:14:50Akhenaten claimed to be a direct descendant of Aden.

00:14:56Akhenaten, like any other pharaoh, regarded himself to be divine.

00:15:03He was a god.

00:15:04Not only himself believed himself to be god, but the whole nation saw him as a god.

00:15:08Now, the definition of god is that he was a descendant from these celestial beings.

00:15:20During his fourth year as pharaoh, Akhenaten ordered the construction of a new capital city.

00:15:26He called it Amarna and dedicated it to the sun.

00:15:33Akhenaten would spend the next ten years here, during which time he instituted changes in

00:15:39both art and culture, including how he himself would be publicly depicted.

00:15:44In Egyptian iconography, the Egyptian pharaohs are depicted as these triangular-shaped beings,

00:15:52these broad, strong shoulders and these very skinny waists.

00:15:56Now, we look at leaders today and we know that most leaders don't have broad shoulders and

00:16:00skinny waists.

00:16:01But it was important to depict the Egyptian kings as having broad shoulders and skinny waists,

00:16:07very, you know, the epitome of what a king ought to look like.

00:16:14That's exactly the opposite with Akhenaten.

00:16:16He shows himself perhaps as he really is, a rather strange look.

00:16:22He has a very mystical look.

00:16:23If we take Akhenaten's statues, for instance, literally, he was a very strange-looking character.

00:16:36Sort of combined, some people would say, feminine aspects with masculine aspects,

00:16:44may have had an elongated skull.

00:16:48The change in royal iconography of Akhenaten showed him,

00:16:52as he probably really was, with a misshapen head, with a potbelly, with a sunken chest,

00:16:58as opposed to the idealized iconography of traditional Egyptian artists

00:17:06that showed this big, strong pharaoh.

00:17:14Akhenaten's wife, Queen Nefertiti, and their children

00:17:17were also depicted as having elongated skulls.

00:17:22So why were Akhenaten's and Nefertiti's heads deformed?

00:17:26Did they suffer from a genetic abnormality?

00:17:29Or did they deliberately alter their shape?

00:17:33Some believe there could be yet another explanation

00:17:36behind their strange, otherworldly appearance.

00:17:39They look like they're different than other human beings.

00:17:50Is it possible that Akhenaten might have been an extraterrestrial hybrid?

00:17:57I mean, he's got a very narrow, pointy face, high cheekbones,

00:18:03and a very elongated cranium.

00:18:06The idea that they were either looking like extraterrestrials

00:18:11or perhaps had extraterrestrial DNA in them

00:18:15is a credible idea.

00:18:21Akhenaten ruled for 17 years.

00:18:25After his reign, Amarna was abandoned

00:18:27and temples to the sun were destroyed.

00:18:31Images of Akhenaten were deliberately defaced.

00:18:35Ancient Egypt swiftly returned to its old ways,

00:18:38worshipping many gods.

00:18:41Was this a rejection of Akhenaten's radical religious belief system

00:18:45or a cover-up of his alien identity?

00:18:52There's been a lot of theories about why.

00:18:56If, if, I mean, the most extreme

00:18:58is that he somehow had some sort of extraterrestrial connection.

00:19:01If one accepts that conclusion,

00:19:05then it would explain

00:19:06why he was literally put off the reign

00:19:09and some say put to death.

00:19:13Today, much of Akhenaten's life

00:19:16still remains a mystery.

00:19:18Did he really change Egypt's entire belief system

00:19:22because, as some suggest,

00:19:24he was a celestial being?

00:19:27If that's true,

00:19:29might there be evidence

00:19:30of similar entities coming to Earth?

00:19:33Perhaps more clues can be found

00:19:35thousands of miles away

00:19:37on the other side of the African continent.

00:19:45When we talk about ancient Egypt,

00:19:47evidence for extraterrestrial visitation

00:19:49is everywhere you look.

00:19:52But what I find so fascinating

00:19:53is that every ancient culture

00:19:56essentially documented

00:19:57a physical interaction

00:19:59with so-called star deities.

00:20:03Yeah, and especially if you look at, like,

00:20:04the Dogon of Africa,

00:20:05they still exist today,

00:20:07and they mention visitors from outer space,

00:20:09but they also give the specific star

00:20:11from which they came from.

00:20:12Yes.

00:20:13And, of course,

00:20:13the most amazing part of that

00:20:15is they identified a star

00:20:17that cannot be seen with the naked eye.

00:20:19Right.

00:20:19And the Dogon had known about this star

00:20:21for hundreds of years.

00:20:26Mali, in northwest Africa.

00:20:30Deep in a remote valley

00:20:31live the Dogon people,

00:20:33who are the descendants

00:20:34of a nomadic tribe

00:20:35that settled here

00:20:36around 1,000 A.D.

00:20:38Just like Akhenaten's followers,

00:20:42the Dogon had been forced to leave Egypt

00:20:44because of religious persecution.

00:20:49The Dogon is a very long

00:20:51and ancient tradition,

00:20:53and, in my opinion,

00:20:54maintain some of the ancient Egyptian

00:20:58traditions and myths

00:21:00that have been carried on

00:21:01right into the present age.

00:21:03Parts of ancient Egypt

00:21:07may not have died.

00:21:08They were carried on

00:21:10to this day

00:21:11among the Dogon.

00:21:16But what exactly

00:21:17are their beliefs?

00:21:19Dogon mythology holds

00:21:21that the sky god Amma

00:21:23created the first living creature

00:21:25known as Namo.

00:21:27The legend also says

00:21:29that shortly after his creation,

00:21:31Namo multiplied into several parts,

00:21:35one of which rebelled

00:21:36against Amma.

00:21:38Amma responded

00:21:39by destroying him

00:21:40and scattering his ashes

00:21:42throughout the world.

00:21:46According to the Dogon myths,

00:21:49a god gave them this knowledge.

00:21:51He descended from the sky

00:21:53in an ark surfing on fire

00:21:55and landed in the storm.

00:22:01Still today,

00:22:03Dogon celebrates

00:22:05a festival

00:22:06in the honor of Namo

00:22:08and that visitation

00:22:10that occurred

00:22:11in the remote past.

00:22:14How do we know this?

00:22:16For this festival,

00:22:18they have wooden masks

00:22:20that date back

00:22:22to a very long time ago

00:22:25when this festival began.

00:22:28Their knowledge

00:22:33is centuries old

00:22:34and their priests

00:22:35have been sharing it

00:22:36with chosen individuals only.

00:22:40In the 1920s,

00:22:43French anthropologist

00:22:44Griel

00:22:44and ethnologist

00:22:46Dieterlen

00:22:46visited the tribe

00:22:48and were invited

00:22:48to share their secrets.

00:22:49But one secret stood out.

00:22:57The Dogon claimed

00:22:58that their god Amma

00:22:59came from a specific star

00:23:01in the Sirius constellation,

00:23:03the same place

00:23:05where the ancient Egyptians

00:23:06believed their god Osiris

00:23:08was born.

00:23:10This star,

00:23:12which modern astronomers

00:23:13refer to as Sirius B,

00:23:15the Dogon called Hotolo.

00:23:17But what baffles experts

00:23:20is that the star

00:23:21is so far from Earth

00:23:22it's impossible to see

00:23:24with the naked eye.

00:23:28I was very intrigued

00:23:29by this, by the way.

00:23:30I mean,

00:23:30the Dogons

00:23:31should not have known

00:23:33about the existence

00:23:33of this star.

00:23:35Sirius is the second

00:23:36nearest star

00:23:37from our solar system.

00:23:39It's eight light years away.

00:23:41In fact,

00:23:41it's not even visible

00:23:42with standard telescopes.

00:23:44It was first seen,

00:23:46literally seen,

00:23:47and photographed

00:23:47in the 1970s.

00:23:50Modern science

00:23:51has corroborated

00:23:53that Sirius B

00:23:54does indeed exist.

00:23:57Problem is,

00:23:58the Dogon knew about this

00:24:00before modern science

00:24:03corroborated it.

00:24:05I mean,

00:24:05that's spooky.

00:24:10Measurements taken

00:24:11with the Hubble telescope

00:24:12in 2003

00:24:13have confirmed

00:24:15that Sirius B

00:24:16is what's known

00:24:17as a white dwarf.

00:24:19We're a partially burnt-out star

00:24:21with extremely dense mass.

00:24:24Although it is smaller

00:24:26in size than Earth,

00:24:28it's estimated to weigh

00:24:29eight times as much

00:24:30as our sun.

00:24:32But how did the Dogon

00:24:34acquire this ancient knowledge

00:24:36of astronomy

00:24:36that seems to be

00:24:38centuries more advanced

00:24:39than that of modern science?

00:24:41The mystery is,

00:24:44how did this story

00:24:46get passed on

00:24:47down generations?

00:24:48If the story came

00:24:49from a time

00:24:50before astronomers knew

00:24:51there was a companion star

00:24:52to Sirius,

00:24:53which can't be seen

00:24:54with the human eye.

00:24:56This is the Dogon symbol

00:24:58for Sirius.

00:25:00When you move it around,

00:25:01you can see an orbit

00:25:02around the center

00:25:03marked by Sirius A.

00:25:06Sirius B circles around it,

00:25:08so it is a circular system.

00:25:10This sign is practically

00:25:11an astronomical model

00:25:13that the Dogon

00:25:14could not have invented

00:25:15because only Sirius A

00:25:17is visible.

00:25:19Sirius B and C

00:25:20are invisible.

00:25:22However,

00:25:23their description

00:25:23of the orbit

00:25:24is correct.

00:25:26One assumption

00:25:27is that this god,

00:25:29Namo,

00:25:29who brought them

00:25:30this knowledge,

00:25:31could have been

00:25:32an extraterrestrial

00:25:33intelligence.

00:25:34Either they inherited

00:25:36that knowledge,

00:25:37and the question

00:25:37is from where?

00:25:38From a previous

00:25:39civilization,

00:25:40or from some sort

00:25:41of extraterrestrial

00:25:42civilization,

00:25:43or it's a coincidence.

00:25:44In my view,

00:25:45it is not a coincidence.

00:25:48If the Dogon people

00:25:50really possessed

00:25:51this advanced

00:25:52astronomical knowledge,

00:25:54were their legends

00:25:55based on real events?

00:25:56The ancient Egyptians

00:26:00and Dogon

00:26:01were far from alone

00:26:02in their belief

00:26:03in gods

00:26:03or mystical beings

00:26:05that came from the sky.

00:26:09Is there an explanation

00:26:11for similar myths

00:26:12shared by ancient cultures

00:26:14all around the world?

00:26:16And what does that reveal

00:26:18as to who these visitors

00:26:19may be?

00:26:21Perhaps the answer

00:26:22can be found

00:26:23not in northern Africa,

00:26:25but here.

00:26:26in the rocks

00:26:28and canyons

00:26:29of the American Southwest.

00:26:4130 miles south

00:26:42of Gallup, New Mexico

00:26:43lies the Pueblo of Zuni.

00:26:51Sheltered from

00:26:52the desolate high plains,

00:26:53this adobe city

00:26:54is home to the Zuni Indians.

00:26:56one of the oldest

00:26:57indigenous tribes

00:26:58in North America.

00:27:01They have inhabited

00:27:02this land

00:27:03for almost 2,000 years

00:27:05and have protected

00:27:06their secrets

00:27:07even longer.

00:27:12The Zuni

00:27:12are a very interesting

00:27:14culture in that

00:27:14they're one of the few

00:27:15cultures that really

00:27:16have not opened up

00:27:17to the rest of the world

00:27:19about their

00:27:20star knowledge traditions.

00:27:21most of this type

00:27:22of information

00:27:23is very closely held

00:27:24by the natives.

00:27:26And I really find it

00:27:28very intriguing

00:27:30that this is the time

00:27:31period in history

00:27:32where now we're starting

00:27:33to learn more and more

00:27:34about their star knowledge.

00:27:40Much of the Zuni

00:27:42people's history

00:27:42is etched in the rocks

00:27:44in the New Mexico desert.

00:27:45Tribal elder

00:27:54Clifford Mahouti

00:27:55and archaeologist

00:27:56Dan Simplicio

00:27:57have studied the Zuni's

00:27:59secret history

00:28:00firsthand.

00:28:02They've collected stories

00:28:03passed down

00:28:04through generations

00:28:05that are rooted

00:28:06in the belief

00:28:07that the tribe's

00:28:08creators and protectors

00:28:09are supernatural beings

00:28:11from the sky.

00:28:12This one's kind

00:28:14of interesting here.

00:28:16I would imagine

00:28:17it was created

00:28:18in the last century

00:28:19but on this design

00:28:21you can see

00:28:22the star figure.

00:28:24Celestial images

00:28:26oftentimes are depicted

00:28:27in a lot of our

00:28:28cultural petroglyphs

00:28:29and this is one of them

00:28:31where it depicts

00:28:31the star.

00:28:33It could be

00:28:34the supernova

00:28:35of the crab nebula.

00:28:39Our Zuni mythology

00:28:41in the prayer

00:28:42system

00:28:42and the ritualistic

00:28:44protocols

00:28:45talk about

00:28:46these people

00:28:47that came over here

00:28:48and told us

00:28:49how to actually

00:28:50live our lives

00:28:51as being

00:28:52sky people.

00:28:57If you listen

00:28:58to a lot of

00:28:59religious chants

00:29:01and songs

00:29:01and prayers

00:29:02that's all

00:29:02they talk about.

00:29:03They're talking

00:29:04about space

00:29:05they're talking

00:29:06about out there

00:29:06in the universe

00:29:07where they came from

00:29:08so they depicted

00:29:10on a rock wall

00:29:11here but the actual

00:29:12meaning of it

00:29:13is somewhere

00:29:13more profound

00:29:15and more complex

00:29:16than that.

00:29:19These drawings

00:29:20are thought to have

00:29:21been created

00:29:22around 1200 B.C.

00:29:24yet they appear

00:29:25to depict

00:29:25modern space travelers

00:29:26and their vehicles.

00:29:32If you move back

00:29:33a little bit

00:29:34you can see

00:29:34another figure

00:29:36here.

00:29:37It has a dome

00:29:38as eyes

00:29:40there's something

00:29:42coming down

00:29:43like a nose

00:29:45through the nose

00:29:45but it kind of

00:29:46flirts out.

00:29:47I think it was

00:29:48something to do

00:29:49with the ancient ones

00:29:50when they saw

00:29:51something.

00:29:52They took as much

00:29:53description of it

00:29:54to put it on there.

00:29:55Of course it's not

00:29:56going to be exactly

00:29:57what they saw

00:29:57but that's as best

00:29:59as they can do

00:30:00for something

00:30:00that they saw.

00:30:03With all petroglyphs

00:30:04and things like that

00:30:06I mean they're

00:30:06up to interpretation

00:30:07sometimes they're

00:30:09just doodlings

00:30:10of people

00:30:11but other times

00:30:12they may well be

00:30:13actual descriptions

00:30:15and depictions

00:30:16of some kind

00:30:18of god

00:30:19from outer space

00:30:20some ancient astronaut

00:30:22and when you go

00:30:23around say

00:30:24like the Zuni

00:30:24Pueblo

00:30:25I mean that's

00:30:26what they'll tell you

00:30:27those petroglyphs

00:30:28aren't.

00:30:29Even the Zunis

00:30:30themselves

00:30:31call them

00:30:32the spacemen.

00:30:34This one seems

00:30:35to have

00:30:36two legs

00:30:37coming out

00:30:37like that

00:30:38and it has

00:30:38a broad

00:30:40diamond shaped

00:30:41body

00:30:42there probably

00:30:44was a bitter

00:30:44head that

00:30:45chipped off

00:30:45here

00:30:46that's

00:30:47very different

00:30:49looking than

00:30:49humans are.

00:30:51Now usually

00:30:52they're called

00:30:53UFOs

00:30:54but in the Zuni

00:30:55way

00:30:56we've always been

00:30:57taught that

00:30:58they're the keepers

00:30:59of the upper

00:31:00world

00:31:00which means

00:31:01space

00:31:01now they're

00:31:02sky people

00:31:03beings that are

00:31:05of the

00:31:05extraterrestrial

00:31:06origin

00:31:07and this is

00:31:09still within

00:31:09our mythology

00:31:10and our

00:31:11religious practices

00:31:12today.

00:31:18Like most

00:31:19Indian tribes

00:31:20the Zunis

00:31:21call these sky

00:31:22people

00:31:23Kachinas

00:31:23according to

00:31:25the Zunis

00:31:26creation story

00:31:27the Kachina

00:31:28gods

00:31:28came down

00:31:29from the heavens

00:31:30to lead the Zunis

00:31:31to earth

00:31:32through a special

00:31:32portal.

00:31:37The Zipapu

00:31:38that's the entrance

00:31:39to the fourth world

00:31:40or the underworld

00:31:42and that's a

00:31:43representation

00:31:44of where the Kachinas

00:31:46come and go

00:31:47and so

00:31:48according to

00:31:49the mythologies

00:31:50the Zunis

00:31:51were brought forth

00:31:53into the world

00:31:54of light

00:31:54which is

00:31:55where we are

00:31:56at today

00:31:56by what I would

00:31:58interpret as

00:31:58extraterrestrial beings

00:32:00from the universe.

00:32:08Every year

00:32:09the Zunis

00:32:10participate

00:32:10in a ceremony

00:32:11known as

00:32:12the Shilako

00:32:12festival.

00:32:14Dressed in

00:32:14traditional costumes

00:32:15to represent

00:32:16the Kachinas

00:32:17the Indians

00:32:18celebrate the

00:32:19arrival of

00:32:19the gods

00:32:20on earth.

00:32:24This is a

00:32:25figurine

00:32:26of Kachina

00:32:27gods

00:32:27and these

00:32:29guys are

00:32:29some gods

00:32:30from the sky

00:32:31who came down

00:32:32they wear

00:32:32weird helmets

00:32:34This one

00:32:35has a helmet

00:32:37as a head

00:32:38and if you look

00:32:39at the whole

00:32:41body of it

00:32:42it's as if

00:32:44it wears

00:32:44some type

00:32:45of a suit

00:32:46This one

00:32:47here also

00:32:48has the helmet

00:32:50and the visor

00:32:51for the Pueblo

00:32:53Indians

00:32:53like the Zunis

00:32:54these are

00:32:55their sky

00:32:56gods

00:32:56that every

00:32:57year

00:32:57they have

00:32:58special

00:32:58ceremonies

00:32:58people put

00:32:59on these

00:33:00special costumes

00:33:01and masks

00:33:01to reenact

00:33:02the coming

00:33:03of the gods

00:33:03They really

00:33:06look like

00:33:07ancient

00:33:07astronauts

00:33:08If you look

00:33:16at the poetry

00:33:17and the legends

00:33:18and the stories

00:33:19from American

00:33:20Indian tribes

00:33:21in the southwest

00:33:23they have the

00:33:24legend of the

00:33:25star people

00:33:26The star people

00:33:28came to earth

00:33:28and seeded

00:33:29planet earth

00:33:30and they came

00:33:31on flying ships

00:33:32If you speak

00:33:34to the elders

00:33:35they will tell you

00:33:36that a lot of us

00:33:37believe in the existence

00:33:38of extraterrestrials

00:33:39The Zunis

00:33:42don't have

00:33:43a written language

00:33:44The storyteller

00:33:46comes and he

00:33:46tells the young

00:33:47children how

00:33:48it all happened

00:33:48All of their

00:33:49songs that they

00:33:51do in their

00:33:51ceremonies

00:33:52tell the story

00:33:53over and over

00:33:54and that's how

00:33:56they pass down

00:33:57traditions

00:33:57customs

00:33:58beliefs

00:33:59They tell it

00:34:00in the Indian way

00:34:01They use things

00:34:02they understand

00:34:03to explain things

00:34:05that they don't

00:34:05understand

00:34:06I remember

00:34:07my grandparents

00:34:08talking about

00:34:09a craft

00:34:10that flew

00:34:11and had

00:34:12actually

00:34:12crash-landed

00:34:13on one of the

00:34:14mesas

00:34:15east of here

00:34:16There's no

00:34:19interpretation

00:34:20of what

00:34:21an aircraft

00:34:21is

00:34:22so

00:34:22the closest

00:34:23thing

00:34:24that they

00:34:24could

00:34:24interpret

00:34:25as anything

00:34:26capable

00:34:27of flight

00:34:27is a bird

00:34:28or our

00:34:29mass

00:34:29kachina

00:34:30dancers

00:34:30We're very

00:34:33very superstitious

00:34:35people

00:34:35It's always been

00:34:37in the history

00:34:37of Zuni

00:34:38that they've always

00:34:39been here

00:34:40even right here

00:34:42where we're sitting

00:34:42right now

00:34:43but you just don't see

00:34:44them

00:34:44they're in a different

00:34:45frequency

00:34:46and those are

00:34:47very very sacred

00:34:48and those are

00:34:49very very secret

00:34:50they're out there

00:34:51somewhere

00:34:52For those who believe

00:34:59that ancient astronauts

00:35:00came to earth

00:35:01thousands of years ago

00:35:03prehistoric artwork

00:35:05provides more clues

00:35:06than what they claim

00:35:07is a growing body

00:35:08of evidence

00:35:09from wall carvings

00:35:11and statues

00:35:12in ancient Egypt

00:35:13to tribal traditions

00:35:15and exotic masks

00:35:17in West Africa

00:35:18to petroglyphs

00:35:20in the American

00:35:21Southwest

00:35:22all thousands

00:35:24of years old

00:35:25they seem to recount

00:35:27similar stories

00:35:28of visitors

00:35:28from the skies

00:35:30Could the legends

00:35:32of alien beings

00:35:33visiting earth

00:35:34thousands of years ago

00:35:36have inspired

00:35:38more traditional

00:35:39beliefs

00:35:40Ancient petroglyphs

00:35:44are some of the

00:35:44best evidence

00:35:45that we have

00:35:45for the ancient

00:35:46astronaut theory

00:35:47I always found it

00:35:48intriguing to see

00:35:49that some of these

00:35:49carvings very clearly

00:35:51depict extraterrestrials

00:35:52Well for me

00:35:53equally compelling

00:35:54are ancient objects

00:35:56that have been found

00:35:57revealing a knowledge

00:35:58of aerodynamics

00:35:59like the Saqqara bird

00:36:00of Egypt

00:36:01or Giorgio's pen

00:36:02Yeah I wear this

00:36:03gold flyer pin

00:36:04all the time

00:36:05In fact I should be known

00:36:07as the guy

00:36:08with the pen

00:36:08Come on Giorgio

00:36:10you can't be the guy

00:36:11with the pen

00:36:12you're the guy

00:36:12with the hair

00:36:13All right

00:36:14No listen

00:36:15the reason why

00:36:16I wear this pen

00:36:17is because

00:36:17it's a replica

00:36:19of 17 artifacts

00:36:21that were found

00:36:22in pre-Columbian

00:36:24tomb sites

00:36:25and what's so interesting

00:36:26is that they have

00:36:28aerodynamic features

00:36:30in fact

00:36:31they fly

00:36:32We've covered this

00:36:33in season one

00:36:35of Ancient Aliens

00:36:36When backing up

00:36:40their claims

00:36:40of extraterrestrial

00:36:41visitation

00:36:42ancient alien theorists

00:36:44draw upon

00:36:45two kinds of examples

00:36:47There's the evidence

00:36:49you can read

00:36:50such as that

00:36:51found in ancient texts

00:36:52and then there's

00:36:54the evidence

00:36:54you can actually see

00:36:56Among the earliest types

00:36:59of physical specimens

00:37:01numerous cave

00:37:02and rock drawings

00:37:03and stone sculptures

00:37:04found all over the globe

00:37:06You know pictures

00:37:07are worth a thousand words

00:37:08Absolutely

00:37:09When you see pictures

00:37:11depicted

00:37:12for example

00:37:12on a cave in Italy

00:37:14that show two astronauts

00:37:16with helmets on

00:37:17I mean what the heck

00:37:18could it be?

00:37:19What could it be?

00:37:20Each of these ancient

00:37:22illustrations or statues

00:37:23depict figures dressed

00:37:25in strange attire

00:37:26for the times

00:37:27and sporting

00:37:28unusual headgear

00:37:30But could they really

00:37:31be representations

00:37:32of alien astronauts

00:37:34visitors from other worlds

00:37:36who touched down

00:37:37upon the earth

00:37:38thousands of years ago?

00:37:41All over the world

00:37:42we have statues

00:37:44and sculptures

00:37:45and paintings

00:37:46and depictions

00:37:47of these extraterrestrial beings

00:37:50even in the United States

00:37:51at Sago Canyon, Utah

00:37:53we have petroglyphs

00:37:55of very weird looking creatures

00:37:58that have antennae

00:38:00on their heads

00:38:00helmets

00:38:01and halfway around the world

00:38:03in Kimberley, Australia

00:38:05for example

00:38:05we have the exact same depictions

00:38:08of these helmeted beings

00:38:10with a halo around their heads

00:38:12and the question I have is

00:38:14what did our ancestors see

00:38:16that compelled them

00:38:17to put this

00:38:19on their cave walls?

00:38:21On yet another continent

00:38:23in Guatemala City

00:38:25we have a sculpture

00:38:26that looks eerily reminiscent

00:38:28of a modern day astronaut

00:38:30I mean that thing

00:38:32is wearing a helmet

00:38:33there's some type

00:38:34of a mouthpiece

00:38:35and on his chest

00:38:37are some type of controls

00:38:39or a breathing apparatus

00:38:41how is this possible?

00:38:431500 years ago

00:38:44and in Colombia

00:38:47there were thousands

00:38:49of tomb artifacts

00:38:51that look like

00:38:52modern day airplanes

00:38:54it has fixed wings

00:38:56it has a fuselage

00:38:58and it has an upright tail fin

00:39:01which is not intrinsic

00:39:04to nature

00:39:05but it is intrinsic

00:39:07to modern day aerodynamics

00:39:09did our ancestors

00:39:11see something similar

00:39:13flying in the air?

00:39:15absolutely

00:39:15another compelling artifact

00:39:18that was found

00:39:19was at the Istanbul Museum

00:39:20where you have

00:39:22this headless spaceman

00:39:23sitting inside

00:39:25some type of a space vehicle

00:39:27you can see his hands

00:39:29and you can see tubing

00:39:31that go to some sort of devices

00:39:33he's wearing a suit

00:39:34his legs are crammed in there

00:39:36I mean even to the untrained eye

00:39:39this looks very aerodynamic

00:39:41and it looks something

00:39:43that you know

00:39:44came from outer space

00:39:46these people witnessed something

00:39:50they were told something

00:39:52and they tried to depict it

00:39:54the best way they could

00:39:55with the kind of technology

00:39:57they had at the time

00:39:58and that was simple tools

00:39:59and simple artwork

00:40:00many of these ancient civilizations

00:40:03were widely separated

00:40:06in space and time

00:40:07they weren't in communication

00:40:09with each other

00:40:10but still

00:40:11they have the same

00:40:13kinds of accounts

00:40:14I think it's because

00:40:15they all experienced

00:40:17these things

00:40:18and they all

00:40:19have the idea

00:40:21that we're part

00:40:21of a cosmic hierarchy

00:40:23of beings

00:40:23so

00:40:24I think we can't explain

00:40:26things away

00:40:27so easily

00:40:28but for Eric Von Daniken

00:40:32and other proponents

00:40:33of his ancient astronaut theories

00:40:35perhaps the most significant

00:40:37illustration

00:40:38can be found

00:40:39in Mexico

00:40:40the Mayan archaeological site

00:40:44of Palenque

00:40:44had been abandoned

00:40:46for centuries

00:40:46before it was stumbled upon

00:40:48by Spanish explorers

00:40:49so to get to the top

00:40:53of this

00:40:53and suddenly

00:40:54here are

00:40:56the great pyramids

00:40:58of Palenque

00:40:58here

00:41:01deep within

00:41:02a secret tomb

00:41:03under one of the

00:41:04age old temples

00:41:05lies the seven ton sarcophagus

00:41:08of Palenque's

00:41:097th century ruler

00:41:10Pakal the Great

00:41:11Lord Pakal

00:41:13apparently died

00:41:15here at Palenque

00:41:16he was apparently

00:41:18this mysterious

00:41:19Mayan leader

00:41:21he was a giant

00:41:227 or 8 feet tall

00:41:24actually

00:41:25and then

00:41:26they built

00:41:27this pyramid

00:41:28around his tomb

00:41:30the Mayans

00:41:31literally worshipped him

00:41:32as some kind

00:41:33of a god

00:41:34King Pakal's

00:41:36sarcophagus

00:41:37is adorned

00:41:38with a carving

00:41:39that has become

00:41:40a famous example

00:41:41of classic Mayan art

00:41:42most believe

00:41:44the illustration

00:41:45shows Pakal

00:41:46descending

00:41:47into the Mayan

00:41:48underworld

00:41:48but ancient

00:41:50astronaut theorists

00:41:51interpret the carving

00:41:53a vastly different way

00:41:54on this lap

00:41:55an incredible

00:41:57in chiseling

00:41:57you see a man

00:41:59and he's sitting

00:42:00in a sort of capsule

00:42:01he has some sort

00:42:03of mask on his nose

00:42:04and you see

00:42:05his upper hand

00:42:05he's manipulating

00:42:06some controls

00:42:07from the lower hand

00:42:08he's turning something on

00:42:10the heel of his left foot

00:42:12is on a kind of pedal

00:42:13and outside of the capsule

00:42:14you see a linking flam

00:42:16this is incredible

00:42:18this is absolutely

00:42:19a proof for extraterrestrials

00:42:203, 2, 1, 0

00:42:26liftoff

00:42:27if we look at the

00:42:28similarities of what

00:42:29our astronauts look like

00:42:31when they are

00:42:31in a rocket ship

00:42:32or in the space shuttle

00:42:33and have gear

00:42:34attached to them

00:42:35there are similarities

00:42:36being shown

00:42:37so one just has to

00:42:38ask the question of

00:42:39you know

00:42:39is this just an artifact

00:42:41symbolically showing something

00:42:43or are they trying

00:42:43to depict

00:42:44with their own

00:42:45limited understanding

00:42:46of the time

00:42:46what was taking place

00:42:48was lord pakal

00:42:50just some mayan king

00:42:52that everyone liked

00:42:53was he some important

00:42:55visitor from

00:42:56some far off land

00:42:58or was he even possibly

00:43:00some extraterrestrial

00:43:02from another planet

00:43:03although most scientists

00:43:08and archaeologists

00:43:09discredit bondaniken's

00:43:11interpretation

00:43:11of the palenque carvings

00:43:13visitors to the site

00:43:15are often treated

00:43:16to stories

00:43:17and offered souvenirs

00:43:18that support his claim

00:43:20this is eric bondaniken's

00:43:22theory

00:43:22the chariots of the gods

00:43:24you know

00:43:24you see pakal is supposed

00:43:26to be driving

00:43:27the rocket

00:43:28holding the controls

00:43:30the pedals

00:43:31the engine

00:43:34and the fire of the rocket

00:43:36this will be the cabin

00:43:37and this is the oxygen

00:43:40mainstream archaeologists

00:43:43claim that it's really

00:43:44a depiction of lord pakal

00:43:46and his journey

00:43:47to the underworld

00:43:48he's going under the ground

00:43:50rather than out into space

00:43:51both are interesting theories

00:43:55and either could be right

00:43:57in my mind

00:43:57in recent years

00:44:00pakal's tomb

00:44:01has been closed

00:44:02to tourists

00:44:02and casual visitors

00:44:04although the sarcophagus

00:44:06is off limits

00:44:07ancient astronaut theorists

00:44:09can still find

00:44:10a wealth of evidence

00:44:11in the carvings

00:44:12along the walls

00:44:12of palenque

00:44:13this is very similar

00:44:14to what's on

00:44:15the lid of lord pakal

00:44:17of his tomb

00:44:18the way he's got

00:44:20his left hand

00:44:21right here

00:44:22in like an odd position

00:44:24and his wrist

00:44:25also some kind of

00:44:26rocket exhaust

00:44:27or something

00:44:28is coming out of him

00:44:29but lord pakal

00:44:32may not have been

00:44:34the only alien

00:44:35who once walked

00:44:36the palenque ruins

00:44:37chicago

00:44:43illinois

00:44:44housed here

00:44:46in the newberry library

00:44:48is the mayan manuscript

00:44:50known

00:44:50as the popovu

00:44:52literally translated

00:44:54as the book of the people

00:44:55it is a collection

00:44:57of maya oral histories

00:44:59passed on

00:45:00through the ages

00:45:01written in the mid-16th century

00:45:04this incredible book

00:45:06encompasses

00:45:06a range of subjects

00:45:08including

00:45:09those involving

00:45:10mayan creation myths

00:45:12the popovu talks about

00:45:16the creation

00:45:16of the universe

00:45:17it talks about

00:45:19the fact that

00:45:19in the beginning

00:45:20all was darkness

00:45:21there was a primordial sea

00:45:23and then these creators

00:45:25male and female

00:45:27spoke the word

00:45:28and with the word

00:45:29the earth was created

00:45:30and animals were created

00:45:32it's sort of like

00:45:36the combination

00:45:36of the book of genesis

00:45:37and the book of chronicles

00:45:38in the bible

00:45:39it's a story of battles

00:45:41between the gods

00:45:42and then it connects

00:45:44the creation of the world

00:45:45with the present day

00:45:47through the kings

00:45:48of the kiche

00:45:48it's really the only

00:45:50complete maya creation myth

00:45:52that we have

00:45:53what they were saying

00:45:55was that a framework

00:45:56was created

00:45:57that certain deities

00:45:59manifested themselves

00:46:00physically

00:46:01and made decisions

00:46:02as to what was

00:46:03going to happen

00:46:04in the case of the mayans

00:46:06this was a choice

00:46:07as to where the mayans

00:46:08were going to live

00:46:09as well as the selection

00:46:10of certain sacred sites

00:46:11throughout the ancient world

00:46:16there have been

00:46:16numerous similar myths

00:46:18of otherworldly beings

00:46:19coming to earth

00:46:20and interacting

00:46:21with some of the

00:46:22earliest humans

00:46:23most mainstream historians

00:46:26believe these stories

00:46:27represent only religious

00:46:29and spiritual beliefs

00:46:31but is it possible

00:46:34as ancient astronaut

00:46:36theorists believe

00:46:36that the Popol Vuh

00:46:38as well as other

00:46:39ancient creation tales

00:46:41represents actual evidence

00:46:43of contact

00:46:44with extraterrestrials

00:46:45in the distant past

00:46:47according to the

00:46:50translations of hieroglyphs

00:46:51found at numerous

00:46:53ancient mayan cities

00:46:54kukulkan

00:46:56or the great feathered serpent

00:46:58was the god

00:46:59who brought knowledge

00:47:00to the maya

00:47:01when we talk about

00:47:02the mayan gods

00:47:03we know that the most

00:47:04important god to them

00:47:05was the plumed serpent

00:47:06or kukulkan

00:47:08we see his image

00:47:10all across the mayan world

00:47:11we see it on

00:47:12great carved images

00:47:13on stone

00:47:14kukulkan

00:47:16is often depicted

00:47:17as a plumed serpent

00:47:19some would say

00:47:20a dragon

00:47:20or a snake

00:47:22with wings

00:47:22that leads some

00:47:24to believe

00:47:24that kukulkan

00:47:26may have descended

00:47:27from the sky

00:47:29now the maya

00:47:31were living in the jungle

00:47:32the maya knew

00:47:34that the snake

00:47:35could not fly

00:47:36but this snake

00:47:37this serpent

00:47:38could fly

00:47:39the oldest

00:47:41maya histories

00:47:42tell that kukulkan

00:47:44was the teacher

00:47:45of young maya

00:47:46he had chosen

00:47:48eight boys

00:47:49in the age

00:47:50between seven

00:47:51and twelve

00:47:51and he teached

00:47:53these eight boys

00:47:54in mathematics

00:47:55in astronomy

00:47:56in all kind

00:47:57of science

00:47:58and later

00:48:00kukulkan

00:48:01disappeared

00:48:02with the promise

00:48:03that he will return

00:48:04in the faraway future

00:48:06these boys

00:48:08had become

00:48:08the first

00:48:09priest

00:48:10and the first

00:48:11teachers

00:48:11again

00:48:12for the maya

00:48:13some of the legends

00:48:16state

00:48:16that he appeared

00:48:17along the gulf coast

00:48:18on a raft

00:48:19of serpents

00:48:20and he spread

00:48:21his high knowledge

00:48:22through that part

00:48:22of the country

00:48:23even today

00:48:25in some of the mayan

00:48:26cultures

00:48:26he's revered

00:48:27as his great god

00:48:28that brought

00:48:28all these teachings

00:48:29and civilization

00:48:30to their part

00:48:31of the world

00:48:32and yet no one

00:48:33knows who he was

00:48:34or where he came from

00:48:35strangely

00:48:38depictions

00:48:39of a winged serpent god

00:48:41can be found

00:48:42all around

00:48:43the ancient world

00:48:44in india

00:48:47the epic text

00:48:48the mahabharata

00:48:49details the ancient

00:48:51account of sky beings

00:48:52known as nagas

00:48:54dating as far back

00:48:57as 2500 bc

00:48:58the half-human

00:49:00and half-serpent

00:49:01entities

00:49:01look nearly identical

00:49:03to the mayan

00:49:04kukulkan

00:49:05and ancient chinese

00:49:08mythology

00:49:08from the fifth

00:49:09millennium bc

00:49:10described flying dragons

00:49:12that are eerily similar

00:49:14to the serpent god

00:49:15depicted

00:49:15in mesoamerica

00:49:17to the peoples

00:49:20that preceded

00:49:22the inca

00:49:23in peru

00:49:24similar ideas

00:49:25were put upon

00:49:26characters like

00:49:27quatsicoatil

00:49:28the feathered serpent

00:49:30who was this wisdom

00:49:31bringer

00:49:32sometimes said

00:49:34to have

00:49:34come down

00:49:35from the sky world

00:49:37and once again

00:49:38bring in the rudiments

00:49:40of civilization

00:49:40to the peoples

00:49:42of central america

00:49:43there is a common

00:49:47threat among many

00:49:48ancient cultures

00:49:49of the americas

00:49:49when it comes

00:49:50to whom serpent god

00:49:52the cherokee

00:49:53for example

00:49:54believe that time

00:49:55their calendar

00:49:56is based upon

00:49:57a rattlesnake

00:49:58that they can see

00:49:59in the night sky

00:50:00or perhaps

00:50:01a constellation

00:50:01so the idea

00:50:03of a serpent

00:50:04or a snake

00:50:05or a dragon

00:50:06is common

00:50:07among many

00:50:08ancient cultures

00:50:09and not just

00:50:10the maya

00:50:10or the mesoamericans

00:50:12the snake

00:50:15is the giver

00:50:16of wisdom

00:50:16in so many

00:50:17cultures

00:50:18and it gives

00:50:20the tools

00:50:20of civilization

00:50:21working with metals

00:50:22working with

00:50:23other instruments

00:50:24certain knowledge

00:50:25certain aspects

00:50:27of life

00:50:27and that it really

00:50:29gives this

00:50:30knowledge

00:50:31to certain people

00:50:32and that he places

00:50:33these people

00:50:34in a position

00:50:35whereby

00:50:36from their social position

00:50:37they are able

00:50:38to give this

00:50:38to the rest

00:50:39of their culture

00:50:39all these cultures

00:50:42were far apart

00:50:44from each other

00:50:45sometimes by

00:50:46thousands and

00:50:47thousands of miles

00:50:48so how is it

00:50:50possible that

00:50:51all these societies

00:50:52came up with

00:50:53not similar

00:50:54but identical stories

00:50:56was it really

00:50:57flying snakes

00:50:58or gods

00:51:00that were snakes

00:51:01of course not

00:51:02it was misunderstood

00:51:04technology

00:51:05some types

00:51:07of vehicles

00:51:08were witnessed

00:51:09at the center

00:51:09from the sky

00:51:10out of which

00:51:11people came

00:51:12astronauts

00:51:13that instructed

00:51:15people

00:51:16of different cultures

00:51:17in different societies

00:51:18in certain

00:51:20scientific disciplines

00:51:21this is not

00:51:23coincidence

00:51:24this is evidence

00:51:26for ancient

00:51:27alien encounters

00:51:28in the remote past

00:51:30there is

00:51:31no other way

00:51:33can the ancient

00:51:34creation myths

00:51:35and legends

00:51:36of flying serpent gods

00:51:38really be interpreted

00:51:39as factual accounts

00:51:41of extraterrestrial

00:51:43visitors

00:51:43as ancient

00:51:44astronaut theorists

00:51:45contend

00:51:46and if so

00:51:47might such

00:51:49celestial travelers

00:51:50have given the Maya

00:51:51both the tools

00:51:53and the knowledge

00:51:54to help advance

00:51:55their civilization

00:51:56perhaps further evidence

00:51:59can be found

00:52:00halfway around the world

00:52:02within

00:52:03the extraordinary accounts

00:52:05of the Greek gods

00:52:07one of the things

00:52:11I love

00:52:11when watching

00:52:12some of the earliest

00:52:13episodes of ancient aliens

00:52:15is that they feature

00:52:16our good friend

00:52:17and colleague

00:52:18and one of my

00:52:19closest friends

00:52:20Philip Coppens

00:52:21who unfortunately

00:52:22passed away

00:52:23in 2012

00:52:24but he was an

00:52:26invaluable contributor

00:52:27to the series

00:52:28because not only

00:52:30was he a prolific author

00:52:32but he was also

00:52:33an impeccable researcher

00:52:34and the broad knowledge

00:52:37that he had

00:52:38of the topic

00:52:39I mean

00:52:39we were really lucky

00:52:41to have him

00:52:42with us

00:52:43on ancient aliens

00:52:44absolutely

00:52:45Giorgio

00:52:45I mean it's really great

00:52:46to see him

00:52:46in these early episodes

00:52:47it really is

00:52:48yes

00:52:49now you know

00:52:50as someone whose area

00:52:51of expertise

00:52:52is the modern UFO phenomenon

00:52:54it's been fascinating

00:52:55for me to be involved

00:52:56with ancient aliens

00:52:57and to hear these stories

00:52:58from hundreds

00:52:59or even thousands

00:53:00of years ago

00:53:01describing encounters

00:53:03that sound very similar

00:53:04to today's UFO sightings

00:53:06you're right Nick

00:53:08in fact as you know

00:53:09my dad is Greek

00:53:10so I grew up

00:53:11reading and hearing

00:53:12a lot

00:53:13about ancient Greek mythology

00:53:15and in those accounts

00:53:16you have countless examples

00:53:18of the Greeks

00:53:19interacting with

00:53:20the so-called gods

00:53:21and those gods

00:53:23not only imparted wisdom

00:53:25but also shared

00:53:27their incredible technology

00:53:29when I hear you say

00:53:30technology of the gods

00:53:32what I think

00:53:32I also really hear you saying

00:53:33is technology

00:53:35from extraterrestrials

00:53:36right

00:53:37Greece

00:53:44the island of Crete

00:53:45on the Lassithi plateau

00:53:48over half a mile

00:53:50above sea level

00:53:51lies the Dictyon cave

00:53:53this sprawling complex

00:53:57of caverns

00:53:58stretches nearly

00:53:58one and a half square miles

00:54:00and archaeological finds

00:54:03have shown

00:54:04a human presence

00:54:05dating as far back

00:54:06as 6,000 years ago

00:54:08historians believe

00:54:12the first inhabitants

00:54:13of the area

00:54:14actually lived

00:54:15inside the cave

00:54:16and according to legend

00:54:18its many chambers

00:54:20were once home

00:54:21to an otherworldly being

00:54:23Zeus

00:54:25the Greek god

00:54:27of thunder

00:54:28in Greek mythology

00:54:33Zeus

00:54:34is the son

00:54:35of Cronus

00:54:36the king

00:54:37of the first generation

00:54:38of gods

00:54:39known as the Titans

00:54:41Zeus' father Cronus

00:54:45is not particularly

00:54:46excited about

00:54:47giving birth to a child

00:54:48because he's heard

00:54:49a prophecy

00:54:49that one of his

00:54:50children is going

00:54:51to overthrow him

00:54:52so just as soon

00:54:54as his children

00:54:54are born

00:54:54he just swallows

00:54:55them all down

00:54:56now his mother

00:55:00Rhea

00:55:00who is Cronus' wife

00:55:02is distraught

00:55:02about this

00:55:03so what she does

00:55:03is substitute

00:55:04a rock

00:55:05that she's wrapped up

00:55:06in swaddling clothes

00:55:07gives it to Cronus

00:55:07which he swallows down

00:55:08and what she does

00:55:09is hide Zeus away

00:55:11in a cave

00:55:12so he grows up there

00:55:13in Theogony

00:55:15the 8th century

00:55:17B.C. poet

00:55:17Hesion

00:55:18describes the cave

00:55:20Zeus was hidden in

00:55:21as lying

00:55:22in these very mountains

00:55:23and specifically

00:55:25near the city

00:55:26of Lictos

00:55:27the location

00:55:29of the Diktion cave

00:55:31but the similarities

00:55:32between this cave

00:55:34and the cave

00:55:35of Zeus

00:55:35described

00:55:36in Greek mythology

00:55:37go much further

00:55:39the ancients say

00:55:41that when they are

00:55:42talking about mythology

00:55:43it is about

00:55:44unrecorded events

00:55:45of their past

00:55:47according to the Greek myths

00:55:50the child Zeus

00:55:51was nourished on

00:55:53a mixture of honey

00:55:54and milk

00:55:55at the udder of the goat

00:55:56now around 1900 AD

00:55:58a chamber in the Diktion cave

00:56:01was identified by locals

00:56:02as the birthplace

00:56:03of Zeus

00:56:04and when archaeologists

00:56:06went in there

00:56:07they discovered an altar

00:56:08with remains

00:56:09of numerous religious offerings

00:56:10amongst them

00:56:11honey and goat milk

00:56:13these remains

00:56:15date back

00:56:154,000 years

00:56:16to the exact period

00:56:17in which the ancient

00:56:18Greek stories

00:56:19took place

00:56:19the question is

00:56:21is this once again

00:56:22a coincidence

00:56:22that modern excavations

00:56:24find remains

00:56:25in this cave

00:56:25that match up

00:56:26with what's written

00:56:26in Greek mythology

00:56:27also found

00:56:30in the Diktion cave

00:56:32were numerous artifacts

00:56:33dating back

00:56:34to what would have been

00:56:35the time

00:56:36of Zeus's childhood

00:56:37according to the Greek stories

00:56:39among them

00:56:41was a fragmentary inscription

00:56:43bearing a hymn

00:56:45a hymn

00:56:46dedicated specifically

00:56:48to Zeus

00:56:49could the Diktion cave

00:56:52really be the cave

00:56:54described in Theogony

00:56:55and if actual locations

00:56:58from Greek mythology

00:56:59really do exist

00:57:01could legendary characters

00:57:03characters and events

00:57:04also be based

00:57:05on historical fact

00:57:07we think of mythology

00:57:09as something

00:57:10which has been invented

00:57:11but really when we look

00:57:15at the ancient Greeks

00:57:16they believed

00:57:17that the war of the Titans

00:57:18physically happened

00:57:20that this was a war

00:57:21which was fought in heavens

00:57:22by the deities

00:57:24in Greek mythology

00:57:29the war of the Titans

00:57:31is a celestial battle

00:57:33waged by Zeus

00:57:34and his siblings

00:57:35known as the Olympians

00:57:37against their father

00:57:38Cronus

00:57:39and the Titans

00:57:40the Olympians

00:57:43who are the victors

00:57:44in this battle

00:57:45were the gods worshipped

00:57:47by the ancient Greeks

00:57:48but according to

00:57:51ancient astronaut theorists

00:57:52these human-like beings

00:57:54may have been

00:57:55something other

00:57:56than divine

00:57:56and this mythical war

00:57:58may have been

00:57:59an actual

00:58:01historical event

00:58:02to support this claim

00:58:07they point to the existence

00:58:08of similar myths

00:58:10and stories

00:58:11told by different cultures

00:58:12throughout the world

00:58:14when it comes to

00:58:16warring parties of gods

00:58:17Greece is not a stand-alone issue

00:58:19we have the same thing

00:58:21in Ragnornak

00:58:22in Norwegian mythology

00:58:23we have this idea

00:58:25that the gods

00:58:25fought amongst themselves

00:58:27as well

00:58:27we also have stories

00:58:31from Sumerian

00:58:31Babylonian

00:58:32Hittite accounts

00:58:33where it says

00:58:34that the wars

00:58:35were fought

00:58:36between gods

00:58:37we see the same story

00:58:42of Titans

00:58:43being overthrown

00:58:44by a new set of gods

00:58:46in the Sumerian epics

00:58:47of the Anunnaki

00:58:48coming here

00:58:49as the original culture

00:58:50in ancient Iraq

00:58:51so these similarities

00:58:53tell of a warring

00:58:54race of beings

00:58:55that squabbled

00:58:56amongst themselves

00:58:57about the rights

00:58:58of various areas

00:58:59on the earth

00:59:00what can explain

00:59:04the similarities

00:59:05of these ancient war stories

00:59:07that emerged

00:59:08from all over the world

00:59:09could they all be describing

00:59:11the same historical events

00:59:13and if there is

00:59:15an historical basis

00:59:16for the legends

00:59:17and stories

00:59:18what does that suggest

00:59:19about the incredible powers

00:59:21and weaponry

00:59:22supposedly possessed

00:59:24by the gods

00:59:25it's very possible

00:59:27that the clash

00:59:28of the titans

00:59:28known from the Greek times

00:59:30is actually speaking

00:59:31of a much earlier epoch

00:59:33of extraterrestrials

00:59:34having a type of battle

00:59:36the ancient Greek gods

00:59:39had helmets

00:59:40that made them invisible

00:59:41they had breastplates

00:59:43that made them

00:59:44impervious

00:59:45to their enemy's weapons

00:59:46they had tridents

00:59:48that shot thunderbolts

00:59:49they had winged sandals

00:59:52that gave them

00:59:53the power of flight

00:59:54these are all

00:59:56profound examples

00:59:57of an ancient alien technology

00:59:59that the Greek gods possessed

01:00:01if mythical gods

01:00:03and monsters

01:00:04really did exist

01:00:05were they

01:00:07as ancient astronaut

01:00:08theorists believe

01:00:09extraterrestrial beings

01:00:12now you know

01:00:15in addition

01:00:16to the stories

01:00:17of the Greeks

01:00:18that we've covered

01:00:19you find stories

01:00:20of humans

01:00:21living alongside

01:00:21technologically advanced

01:00:23extraterrestrials

01:00:24all around the world

01:00:25you see it for example

01:00:26in ancient Hindu texts

01:00:28I mean most definitely

01:00:29there's roughly still

01:00:30a billion Hindus

01:00:31in the world today

01:00:32that study and read

01:00:33these ancient Sanskrit texts

01:00:34and to them

01:00:35they're not just stories

01:00:36it's their actual history

01:00:38right

01:00:38India

01:00:42covering over

01:00:441.2 million square miles

01:00:47it is the world's

01:00:49seventh largest country

01:00:50and with 1.3 billion people

01:00:54it is the second

01:00:55most populated

01:00:56roughly 80%

01:01:00of the Indian population

01:01:02practices Hinduism

01:01:04the world's oldest

01:01:05surviving religion

01:01:07that dates back

01:01:08to at least

01:01:092000 BC

01:01:10and for the Hindu faithful

01:01:13their gods

01:01:15are not mythological

01:01:16but are real beings

01:01:18that have at times

01:01:20been present

01:01:21here on earth

01:01:22these many gods and goddesses

01:01:28have different stories

01:01:30and different energies

01:01:31and different principles

01:01:32that they represent

01:01:33for many of the Hindu faithful

01:01:37the gods are absolutely real

01:01:39they exist physically

01:01:41although they may not always

01:01:43be visible

01:01:44in general

01:01:45compared to western belief systems

01:01:47the tangible reality

01:01:49of the gods

01:01:50is much stronger

01:01:51in India

01:01:52I've grown up as a Hindu

01:01:54in a strict Hindu family

01:01:55so I know

01:01:56all the Vedas

01:01:58and epics

01:01:58and I've read them

01:01:59hundreds of times

01:02:00Hindus believe

01:02:02that the gods

01:02:03came down from the sky

01:02:05Hindus believe

01:02:07that these stories

01:02:09are not simply myth

01:02:11they are historical records

01:02:13because they are actually

01:02:15called itihasa

01:02:17itihasa meaning history

01:02:19thousands of depictions

01:02:24of the Hindu gods

01:02:26can be found

01:02:27throughout India

01:02:28carved into temples

01:02:30painted on ancient rock walls

01:02:33and in the form

01:02:35of giant statues

01:02:36that dominate the landscape

01:02:38and even greater

01:02:41is the sheer number

01:02:42of these sky gods

01:02:43that make up

01:02:45the Hindu pantheon

01:02:46there are

01:02:47333 million gods

01:02:51in Hinduism

01:02:52they are divided

01:02:53into two realms

01:02:54a higher realm

01:02:56and then the lower realm

01:02:58and the devas

01:03:00are not immortal beings

01:03:02you obviously have

01:03:04a lot of power

01:03:04more power

01:03:05than ordinary human beings

01:03:07while in the Judeo-Christian tradition

01:03:12God is depicted

01:03:14as an all-powerful being

01:03:16in the Vedic texts

01:03:18Hindu gods

01:03:19often rely

01:03:20on the use

01:03:21of technology

01:03:22this has led

01:03:24ancient astronaut theorists

01:03:26to pose the question

01:03:27is it possible

01:03:29that these religious texts

01:03:31describe not only

01:03:33encounters with the divine

01:03:34but also

01:03:35with extraterrestrial beings

01:03:38the western mindset

01:03:41is different

01:03:42from that of India

01:03:43where they accept

01:03:44the idea

01:03:44of extraterrestrial beings

01:03:46the Hindu story

01:03:48of the Mahabharata

01:03:49is loaded

01:03:50with references

01:03:51to what seems

01:03:53to be extraterrestrial technology

01:03:55you've got flying vehicles

01:03:58you've got weapons

01:04:00that are voice activated

01:04:01and you have destructions

01:04:03of civilizations

01:04:04by what seems like

01:04:06nuclear detonation

01:04:07in the Mahabharata

01:04:10there

01:04:11they write

01:04:13that one day

01:04:14gigantic cities

01:04:16surrounded the earth

01:04:18they did not have

01:04:19a word for spaceship

01:04:20at that time

01:04:21they say cities

01:04:22and they make

01:04:23clear difference

01:04:25that these cities

01:04:26were in the firmament

01:04:27not in heaven

01:04:28and small vehicles

01:04:31came down

01:04:32from these cities

01:04:33on the firmament

01:04:34the old Indians

01:04:35called these vehicles

01:04:36Vimanas

01:04:37and out of the Vimanas

01:04:39the teachers

01:04:40came out

01:04:41no doubt

01:04:43we were

01:04:44visited

01:04:45by extraterrestrials

01:04:47is the Hindu tradition

01:04:49a story

01:04:50of extraterrestrial visitation

01:04:53ancient astronaut theorists

01:04:55say yes

01:04:56and suggest

01:04:57that this was orchestrated

01:04:59by an otherworldly being

01:05:01known in Hinduism

01:05:02as Lord Shiva

01:05:04Shiva

01:05:06is a member

01:05:07of the Hindu trinity

01:05:09of major gods

01:05:10Brahma

01:05:11Vishnu

01:05:12Maheshwara

01:05:14Maheshwara

01:05:15is another name

01:05:16for Shiva

01:05:17Shiva

01:05:18is also called

01:05:20Mahadeva

01:05:21means

01:05:22great god

01:05:23so he is

01:05:25god of gods

01:05:26he is the head

01:05:28of all gods

01:05:28and he is also

01:05:30the most powerful god

01:05:31Shiva has a dual function

01:05:34one of his functions

01:05:36is destruction

01:05:37the other one

01:05:38is creation

01:05:39without destruction

01:05:41there is no creation

01:05:42depictions of Shiva

01:05:45embody this idea

01:05:47of destruction

01:05:47and creation

01:05:49Shiva

01:05:50is most often shown

01:05:52holding a drum

01:05:53called a damaru

01:05:54which he used

01:05:55to create the universe

01:05:57around his neck

01:05:59is a cobra

01:06:00poised to strike

01:06:01in one hand

01:06:04Shiva holds

01:06:05a powerful

01:06:06trident-like weapon

01:06:07of destruction

01:06:08called the trishala

01:06:10and in the center

01:06:11of his forehead

01:06:12he has a third eye

01:06:14Shiva is the only god

01:06:17that has depicted

01:06:19with third eye

01:06:20his third eye

01:06:23opens

01:06:23very powerful light

01:06:25fire

01:06:26emits from his third eye

01:06:28and anything that it sees

01:06:30it destroys totally

01:06:32usually when you talk

01:06:35about the third eye

01:06:36it's about enlightenment

01:06:38and then there's

01:06:39this other third eye

01:06:40this third eye

01:06:41that was able to

01:06:42annihilate things

01:06:44I don't think

01:06:45they're the same thing

01:06:46so the question is

01:06:49what was it

01:06:50and what was Shiva

01:06:52Shiva appeared

01:06:56at a very crucial time

01:06:57when two gods

01:06:59Brahma is the creator

01:07:01and Vishnu the preserver

01:07:02were debating

01:07:04who is greater

01:07:05all of a sudden

01:07:07this blinding light

01:07:08a shaft of light

01:07:10appeared

01:07:10that has no end

01:07:12or beginning

01:07:13and then

01:07:14voice came out

01:07:15of this light

01:07:16said that

01:07:17I am the greatest

01:07:19I am the greatest

01:07:20god there is

01:07:21Shiva

01:07:23is almost always

01:07:24surrounded by

01:07:25some type of

01:07:25a circular structure

01:07:27with flames

01:07:28now what did

01:07:29our human ancestor

01:07:30artists

01:07:31try to depict here

01:07:32was he perhaps

01:07:35inside some type

01:07:36of a fiery craft

01:07:37it is possible

01:07:40that Shiva

01:07:41is the same

01:07:43extraterrestrial

01:07:44that other cultures

01:07:45call by different names

01:07:47Enki

01:07:48Odin

01:07:49Zeus

01:07:49Viracocha

01:07:50Quetzalcoatl

01:07:51Kukulkan

01:07:52the earliest

01:07:55Vedic texts

01:07:56were first written

01:07:57roughly 4,000 years ago

01:08:00but Hindus claim

01:08:01that the stories

01:08:02originated

01:08:03hundreds

01:08:04and perhaps

01:08:05even thousands

01:08:06of years earlier

01:08:07existing as part

01:08:09of an oral tradition

01:08:11passed down

01:08:12from one generation

01:08:13to the next

01:08:14might the gods

01:08:16found in these accounts

01:08:17be the same beings

01:08:19described by

01:08:20other cultures

01:08:21perhaps further evidence

01:08:24can be found

01:08:25by examining

01:08:26the ancient

01:08:27cuneiform tablets

01:08:28of the world's

01:08:29first known

01:08:30civilization

01:08:31we've been talking

01:08:35about gods

01:08:36and extraterrestrials

01:08:37but some of the

01:08:38very earliest accounts

01:08:39of celestial visitors

01:08:40come from the first

01:08:41civilization on earth

01:08:42the Sumerians

01:08:43I mean to me

01:08:44it's mind-blowing

01:08:45that 5,000 years ago

01:08:46they referenced

01:08:47these Anunnaki

01:08:48coming down from the sky

01:08:49Right

01:08:50and Anunnaki means

01:08:52those who from

01:08:53the heavens came

01:08:54so the Sumerians

01:08:56actually told us

01:08:57that somebody

01:08:58descended from the sky

01:09:00to impart knowledge

01:09:02and in our opinion

01:09:03those were

01:09:04physical beings

01:09:05and if you really

01:09:06think about it

01:09:07they had

01:09:07human flaws

01:09:09in fact

01:09:10they fought

01:09:11with each other

01:09:12just like humans

01:09:13and they had

01:09:15a technology

01:09:16Northern Iraq

01:09:22Along the east bank

01:09:24of the Tigris River

01:09:26opposite the city

01:09:27of Mosul

01:09:28lie the ruins

01:09:29of the ancient city

01:09:30of Nineveh

01:09:31a place

01:09:33originally inhabited

01:09:34by the Sumerians

01:09:35of Mesopotamia

01:09:36Here

01:09:40in 1842

01:09:42British archaeologist

01:09:44Austin Henry Layard

01:09:46unearthed the ruins

01:09:47of the Great Library

01:09:48of Azurbanipal

01:09:50a royal archive

01:09:52containing thousands

01:09:53of clay tablets

01:09:54with cuneiform inscriptions

01:09:56dating to 3000 BC

01:09:59the messages

01:10:01carved into stone

01:10:02are considered

01:10:03to be the world's

01:10:04first written accounts

01:10:05Sumerian tablets

01:10:07are probably

01:10:08one of the oldest

01:10:09form of a written

01:10:10record that we have

01:10:11They've been translated

01:10:14and they tell

01:10:15exciting stories

01:10:16about how gods

01:10:17intermingled

01:10:17with human beings

01:10:18and actually had a hand

01:10:19in the creation

01:10:20of human beings

01:10:21Whether or not

01:10:22it's just mythology

01:10:23or if it's fact

01:10:25no one really knows

01:10:26According to

01:10:29interpretations

01:10:30of the Sumerian tablets

01:10:31the gods were called

01:10:33the Anunnaki

01:10:34What we're looking at here

01:10:36is a Sumerian tablet

01:10:38that actually shows

01:10:39the tree of life

01:10:40flanked by divine beings

01:10:42You can see here

01:10:43the Anunnaki

01:10:43on each side

01:10:44We also see

01:10:45the winged disc

01:10:46a symbolic reference

01:10:48that the Anunnaki

01:10:49had the power of flight

01:10:50They actually had necklaces

01:10:52with astronomical references

01:10:55a moon

01:10:55a star

01:10:56various symbols

01:10:57which even could be

01:10:58symbolized as a wristwatch

01:11:00technology being used

01:11:026,000 years ago

01:11:03The written accounts

01:11:06etched into stone

01:11:07suggest the Anunnaki

01:11:09were giant beings

01:11:10standing 8 feet tall

01:11:12who came to earth

01:11:13in search of gold

01:11:15for their home planet

01:11:16When the Sumerian gods

01:11:19the Anunnaki

01:11:20realized the toll

01:11:21it was taking

01:11:22to mine the gold

01:11:23themselves

01:11:23they decided

01:11:24to fashion

01:11:25a worker being

01:11:26a slave

01:11:27to mine the gold

01:11:28for them

01:11:28And they explain

01:11:31in the Sumerian creation tales

01:11:32that this was

01:11:33an arduous process

01:11:34So it's very possible

01:11:36that our genetic evolution

01:11:38was a process

01:11:39done by the Anunnaki

01:11:41to create us

01:11:42in their image

01:11:42and after their likeness

01:11:43They created man

01:11:46according to the Sumerian text

01:11:49They created Adam and Eve

01:11:52How interesting

01:11:54that the Bible

01:11:55will echo the story

01:11:56but talk about it

01:11:58in terms of God

01:11:59It's almost like

01:12:05these highly advanced creatures

01:12:06were acting as teachers

01:12:07And certainly

01:12:10Sumerian culture

01:12:12and mythology

01:12:12is full of stories

01:12:14of receiving visitations

01:12:16from these mysterious

01:12:17higher entities

01:12:18that bestowed wisdom

01:12:20and fantastic ideas

01:12:22and concepts

01:12:22And you have to wonder

01:12:24is this just down to myth

01:12:25or was somebody

01:12:26coming down

01:12:27and really trying

01:12:27to give us a push

01:12:28if you like

01:12:29Ancient chronicles

01:12:34of sky beings

01:12:35creating human life

01:12:36are common

01:12:37in early cultures

01:12:38found all over the world

01:12:40But while mainstream scholars

01:12:43often dismiss this evidence

01:12:44Might such tangible

01:12:46historical accounts

01:12:48provide proof

01:12:49of alien intervention

01:12:50in man's evolution

01:12:52as ancient astronaut

01:12:54theorists believe

01:12:55The Sumerians

01:12:56are not the only culture

01:12:59that talks about this

01:13:01Also in the Quran

01:13:02it says

01:13:03that language

01:13:05was given to us

01:13:06by Allah

01:13:07or God

01:13:09The Maya Popol Vuh

01:13:11says that language

01:13:12was given to us

01:13:14by the gods

01:13:15The ancient Egyptian texts

01:13:18are saying

01:13:19the exact same thing

01:13:21It doesn't matter

01:13:24what ancient culture

01:13:25we look at

01:13:26They all say the same

01:13:28that language

01:13:30was a gift

01:13:31from the gods

01:13:33We should finally

01:13:36come to grips

01:13:37with the idea

01:13:38that extraterrestrials

01:13:40had something to do

01:13:41with our development

01:13:43Prior to the use

01:13:48of early systems

01:13:49of writing

01:13:50ancient people

01:13:51carve symbolic communication

01:13:53into stone

01:13:54called petroglyphs

01:13:56the oldest

01:13:57date to about

01:13:5710 to 12.000 years ago

01:14:00According to ancient

01:14:03astronaut theorists

01:14:04petroglyphs

01:14:06located in the

01:14:07American Southwest

01:14:08linked the prehistoric

01:14:10ancestors of the

01:14:11Zuni and Hopi tribes

01:14:13with star beings

01:14:14petroglyphs

01:14:16The first graphic

01:14:21expressions by humans

01:14:22were petroglyphs

01:14:23That means symbols

01:14:25or figures

01:14:25scratched into stone

01:14:27The Hopi Indians

01:14:29for example

01:14:29scratched petroglyphs

01:14:31into their rock faces

01:14:32that show people

01:14:33with radiating reeds

01:14:35gods that descend

01:14:36from the sky

01:14:37The Hopi Indians

01:14:40say that these beings

01:14:41are Kachinas

01:14:41beings from space

01:14:44who came to earth

01:14:45in aircraft

01:14:46who are not gods

01:14:47but who brought them

01:14:48knowledge from another planet

01:14:50We have the same phenomenon

01:14:54in Europe

01:14:54in Valcomonica

01:14:56We have it in Asia

01:14:58We have it in Brazil

01:15:00When we look at the fact

01:15:04that all around the world

01:15:05we hear similar legends

01:15:07of people from the stars

01:15:09coming down

01:15:10and having a profound impact

01:15:11on the people of this country

01:15:13or that particular culture

01:15:14all in broadly

01:15:15similar time frames

01:15:16you know

01:15:17we're seeing a pattern

01:15:18developing

01:15:18and it's difficult

01:15:19to dismiss

01:15:20that that pattern

01:15:21is suggestive

01:15:22in our ancient past

01:15:23creatures came down

01:15:24interacted with us

01:15:25and maybe manipulated us

01:15:27to become the people

01:15:28we are today

01:15:29Why are so many

01:15:35past civilizations

01:15:36all saying

01:15:38similar things?

01:15:40I think the simple answer is

01:15:41is that

01:15:42the same thing happened

01:15:45and they know the story

01:15:47and the story is

01:15:48that extraterrestrials

01:15:50came to this planet

01:15:52genetically made

01:15:54and manipulated

01:15:55whatever creatures

01:15:56were here at the time

01:15:57and helped jumpstart society

01:15:59The bottom line is

01:16:05every civilization

01:16:07talks about the existence

01:16:09of man

01:16:09through the eyes of a god

01:16:11and if you think

01:16:13of the eyes of the god

01:16:14as ETs

01:16:15it all makes sense

01:16:17Back then

01:16:19this was the way

01:16:19they communicated

01:16:21events that were

01:16:22significant to them

01:16:23and so

01:16:25when we have

01:16:25this imagery

01:16:26of the so-called

01:16:27star people

01:16:28and petroglyphs

01:16:28and things like that

01:16:29they're clearly

01:16:30chronicling something

01:16:32real

01:16:33to my mind at least

01:16:34that occurred

01:16:34in their history

01:16:35the big question

01:16:36is what?

01:16:41After nearly

01:16:42300 episodes

01:16:43of the series

01:16:44ancient aliens

01:16:44and all the evidence

01:16:45that's been presented

01:16:46I feel like people

01:16:47are finally becoming

01:16:48convinced

01:16:49that extraterrestrials

01:16:50have been visiting

01:16:51Earth for thousands

01:16:52of years

01:16:53but then the question

01:16:54I'm often asked

01:16:55is why?

01:16:56Well that's the big

01:16:57question isn't it

01:16:58now we can only

01:16:59speculate

01:17:00but it seems to me

01:17:01that if extraterrestrials

01:17:03meant us any harm

01:17:04they could have wiped

01:17:05us out long ago

01:17:07Oh absolutely

01:17:08and you know

01:17:09according to the

01:17:10ancient astronaut theory

01:17:11these star gods

01:17:13or visitors

01:17:14from the sky

01:17:15have been interacting

01:17:16with our ancestors

01:17:17for thousands

01:17:18of years

01:17:19and deliberately

01:17:21which means

01:17:22they want us

01:17:24to succeed

01:17:24in fact

01:17:25we've covered this

01:17:26ages ago

01:17:27in episode 3

01:17:28of Ancient Aliens

01:17:29called The Mission

01:17:30According to the

01:17:35ancient astronaut theory

01:17:37aliens may have

01:17:38come to Earth

01:17:39for many reasons

01:17:40to excavate

01:17:41to breed

01:17:42to conquer

01:17:43or simply

01:17:44to explore

01:17:45Certainly we want

01:17:48to go out

01:17:48and find out

01:17:49about things

01:17:50we don't know about

01:17:50we see the moon

01:17:52we want to go up

01:17:52to the moon

01:17:53and find out

01:17:53more things about it

01:17:54we see Mars

01:17:54we want to go there

01:17:55we want to go to Jupiter

01:17:56we send out our probes

01:17:57so if aliens

01:17:59are something like us

01:18:01then perhaps

01:18:01they have that same

01:18:02kind of motivation

01:18:03they just want to go learn

01:18:04Just like we

01:18:07exhibit curiosity

01:18:09there are other species

01:18:10out there

01:18:11that have the same

01:18:14trait

01:18:14It would be very

01:18:18egotistical

01:18:18to think

01:18:19that we're the only

01:18:20explorers

01:18:20in this galaxy

01:18:22I mean that would be

01:18:24a very sad statement

01:18:25to suggest

01:18:27we're the only ones

01:18:28with a brain

01:18:29and want to go out

01:18:30there and explore

01:18:31But while our own

01:18:35journeys into space

01:18:37have been brief

01:18:37and largely exploratory

01:18:39could other beings

01:18:40traveling millions

01:18:42of miles to Earth

01:18:43have stayed

01:18:44and if so

01:18:45might they still

01:18:47be among us

01:18:48Many ancient astronaut

01:18:51theorists think

01:18:52this all happened

01:18:52in the past

01:18:53and the extraterrestrials

01:18:55came here

01:18:55did this

01:18:56and did that

01:18:56and then they

01:18:57took off

01:18:58back to their own planet

01:18:59But there's a lot of evidence

01:19:01to show that

01:19:02extraterrestrials

01:19:03who might have come here

01:19:04in the past

01:19:05they've never left

01:19:06They have bases

01:19:10somewhere on the planet

01:19:12underneath the oceans

01:19:13inside mountains

01:19:15In South America

01:19:18there is

01:19:19very strong beliefs

01:19:21that many UFOs

01:19:23come out of lakes

01:19:24and underwater

01:19:26and that

01:19:27Lake Titicaca

01:19:29and other lakes

01:19:30in Peru

01:19:31and Bolivia

01:19:32and other areas

01:19:32of South America

01:19:33have some kind of

01:19:35underground

01:19:37underwater

01:19:38alien base

01:19:39associated with them

01:19:41And today

01:19:46we are living still

01:19:48as if we are alone

01:19:50in the universe

01:19:50while

01:19:51hundreds and thousands

01:19:53of people

01:19:54are seeing unusual craft

01:19:56in the skies

01:19:56as they did

01:19:575,000 years ago

01:19:58and so in a way

01:20:02the idea

01:20:03that the ancient aliens

01:20:05would finally

01:20:07be coming around

01:20:09full circle

01:20:10all the way

01:20:11into the 21st century

01:20:12as trying to push open

01:20:15a truth

01:20:17that governments

01:20:17have suppressed

01:20:18in the 20th century

01:20:20is really very ironic

01:20:22There are many diverse

01:20:28and conflicting theories

01:20:29concerning the idea

01:20:30that alien astronauts

01:20:32have been visiting

01:20:33the Earth

01:20:33for centuries

01:20:34but perhaps the proof

01:20:36lies in the most obvious

01:20:38place of all

01:20:39right within ourselves

01:20:42Somewhere in our genes

01:20:45it is coded

01:20:47that extraterrestrials

01:20:49were here

01:20:50thousands of years ago

01:20:51and it takes

01:20:52a certain time

01:20:54before this message

01:20:55is open to us

01:20:57maybe in the brain

01:20:58I don't believe

01:21:00extraterrestrials

01:21:01ETs

01:21:02ancient astronauts

01:21:03are the missing link

01:21:04I think what they

01:21:06very well could be

01:21:07they may be

01:21:08the beginning

01:21:09of the link

01:21:09the link

01:21:10that helped

01:21:10genetically alter

01:21:11human beings

01:21:12the link

01:21:13that jumpstarted

01:21:14our civilization

01:21:15the way we are today

01:21:17it's very possible

01:21:19they came down here

01:21:20and saw some creature

01:21:22and they said

01:21:23you know what

01:21:24we're going to

01:21:24jumpstart this

01:21:25it may take another

01:21:2710 million years

01:21:29for this thing

01:21:30to become smart

01:21:31and intelligent

01:21:32so they created us

01:21:34and we're smart

01:21:35and intelligent now

01:21:36aren't we

01:21:36if they've been coming

01:21:42here in the past

01:21:43for thousands of years

01:21:44where are they now

01:21:46it makes me wonder

01:21:47what types of interactions

01:21:48we're going to be having

01:21:49in the future

01:21:50right and you know

01:21:50what's so fascinating

01:21:52is the fact

01:21:53that in the great majority

01:21:55of ancient accounts

01:21:57of these gods

01:21:58they all promised

01:21:59that they would return

01:22:01I think there are two ways

01:22:02to look at it

01:22:03either a literal return

01:22:05that they came

01:22:07they left

01:22:07they're coming back

01:22:08or the idea

01:22:10that they never really left

01:22:12so the return

01:22:13then means something else

01:22:14it probably means

01:22:15a sort of open display

01:22:18here we are

01:22:19right

01:22:21let's face it

01:22:22they could be so advanced

01:22:24that they could be sitting

01:22:25right here

01:22:26and they're invisible to us

01:22:27whether it's a different vibration

01:22:29different dimension

01:22:30or something like that

01:22:31and that is exactly

01:22:33why some people

01:22:34might even argue

01:22:35that they've never left

01:22:37you

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