The Visitors @ Ancient Aliens 远古外星人

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"If ancient aliens visited Earth, who were they, and where did they come from? Possible historic evidence and beliefs are examined around the world. The Dogon people possess knowledge of a galaxy they claim was given to them by a star god named Amma. The Hopi and Zuni people celebrate Kachinas, gods from the sky, whose headdresses and costumes appear to resemble modern helmets and protective clothing. Halfway around the world, Chinese legends tell of the Han leader, Huangdi, arriving on Earth on a flying, yellow dragon. Was this dragon more likely a spacecraft? Ancient astronaut theorists believe that these are far from chance encounters and that extraterrestrials not only interacted with us, but changed the course of human history."  节目核心内容 :-- 本集探讨了如果古代外星人曾造访地球，他们究竟是谁、来自哪里。节目通过全球各地的古老传说、神话故事和历史记载，寻找外星生命曾与人类互动的线索： • 马里的多贡人（Dogon）： 拥有关于天狼星系的惊人天文学知识，他们声称这些知识是由一位名叫“阿玛”（Amma）的星际之神传授的。 • 北美霍皮族（Hopi）与祖尼族（Zuni）： 崇拜被称为“卡奇纳”（Kachina）的天空之神，其仪式上的面具、服饰和头饰在外星宇航员理论家看来，极像现代的太空头盔和防护服。 • 中国古代传说： 讲述了华夏先祖黄帝乘着“飞黄”或“飞龙”从天而降的事迹，理论家们认为这描述的可能是一艘飞船。 • 嘉宾与学者： 包括前英国国防部官员尼克·波普（Nick Pope）、埃里希·冯·丹尼肯（Erich von Däniken）以及乔治·A·茨卡洛斯（Giorgio A. Tsoukalos）等人在内的研究者，共同剖析这些跨文化传说中的共同点。

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00:00:08Reports of UFO sightings come from all corners of the globe.

00:00:13I was taken on board a 200-foot diameter spacecraft in the Mojave Desert and given...

00:00:18I saw two great big road bright lights hanging up in the air.

00:00:24Most believe these alien encounters are a modern phenomenon.

00:00:30But the fact is, they have been reported for thousands of years.

00:00:34Practically every human civilization have been in touch with extraterrestrial beings.

00:00:41In India, Israel, the Mayans and the Aztecs.

00:00:47The idea that there was one or more non-human groups inspiring this is the truth.

00:00:56Millions of people around the world believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

00:01:04But what if it were true?

00:01:06Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

00:01:10And if so, where did they come from?

00:01:14And just who were the visitors?

00:01:23The End

00:01:24The End

00:01:59Roswell, New Mexico.

00:02:02This sleepy town in America's southwest was once best known for its large military airbase.

00:02:09But that changed in 1947, when a local rancher reported that a spaceship crashed on his property.

00:02:20Several weeks later, the U.S. Army issued a press release confirming the existence of an alien craft.

00:02:27The next day, the military changed its story and announced that what they had found was a weather balloon.

00:02:35These conflicting reports sent shockwaves around the world.

00:02:40And the name Roswell became a pop culture code word that forever links extraterrestrial visitation with enduring mystery.

00:02:53Speculation about why the Roswell crash would be covered up is difficult to pin down.

00:03:00Some people talk about this in terms of information that would be shattering to our world view.

00:03:08Almost everyone's heard about the so-called Roswell event.

00:03:11And one of the real implications of disclosure is that some of our most cherished myths about the origins of

00:03:22the human race and our history and archaeology would fall apart.

00:03:28Something happened at Roswell, New Mexico, a long time ago.

00:03:32People want the truth.

00:03:33I think there's something in the human being itself that is striving, that is hungry for this knowledge in order

00:03:40to answer questions about our own existence.

00:03:44Today, public opinion polls indicate more than half the world's population believes aliens have either come here in the past

00:03:52or aren't coming here now.

00:03:55But what is it exactly that makes so many people believe?

00:04:03I do think looking upward makes sense.

00:04:06The universe is large.

00:04:08There are things out there we do not understand.

00:04:10There is probably intelligent life somewhere.

00:04:13People tend to forget that we're on a planet that's four and a half billion years old.

00:04:20The presence of our civilization in that vast scale of time, I mean, if I click my finger, it wouldn't

00:04:27even be fast enough to say this is the time of our civilization.

00:04:31And to think that we're the only ones in this vast period of time, to me, is absurd.

00:04:39Our galaxy, the Milky Way, has over 100 billion stars.

00:04:44And in our universe, we think there are more than 100 billion galaxies.

00:04:49So if every star had a planet with intelligent life, how many alien civilizations would we have?

00:04:56If you take us as the crown of creation or the top of evolution, we look at ourselves as the

00:05:03greatest, the biggest.

00:05:05We say how incredible, unique we are in the whole universe.

00:05:10We forgot to learn modesty.

00:05:14Each step that we take makes us a little bit less special.

00:05:18We used to think that we were the center of the universe as humans.

00:05:21And then we realized, oh, all right, well, that's not true.

00:05:24But we're the center of the galaxy.

00:05:25And like, well, all right, so we're like two-thirds of the way out in a spiral arm.

00:05:29And then, well, at least our sun, you know, with us now, the sun is actually in the middle and

00:05:35the earth goes around it.

00:05:36So earth isn't even the center of that system.

00:05:38And so the more that we learn, we sort of, you know, it's a very humbling science.

00:05:47When man first landed on the moon, our perspective on the universe changed forever.

00:05:53Listen, the eagle has landed.

00:05:59We aliens who happened to go down the ladder on July 20th, 1969, we aliens were certainly part of a

00:06:16magnificent race.

00:06:22I just don't think people have a grasp for what energy it takes to go from one star to another.

00:06:33This historic event raised the question, if humans can successfully navigate in space and explore other worlds,

00:06:41why couldn't beings from other parts of the universe have done the same?

00:06:46And might they have already come to earth?

00:06:49Hundreds or perhaps thousands of years ago?

00:06:55I think human past is more fantastic than we all believe.

00:07:00I have come to the idea that maybe extraterrestrials were on this planet.

00:07:11Kuwachi, Peru.

00:07:152,000 years ago, this ancient settlement served as the religious and cultural capital of the Nazca people.

00:07:25But sometime around 500 A.D., the Nazca mysteriously disappeared, leaving Kuwachi to fall into disarray.

00:07:371,400 years later, in 1910, anthropologist Aleš Hrlicka came to Kuwachi to study the ancient Nazca civilization.

00:07:48During a dig, he unearthed some of the most surprising and shocking artifacts he had ever seen.

00:08:00They were skulls with enormous, elongated craniums.

00:08:08Where did they come from?

00:08:10How did they get there?

00:08:12And were they human?

00:08:17In Peru, we find these weird, elongated skulls.

00:08:23And they're bizarre looking.

00:08:25I mean, and these people look like aliens.

00:08:34One may say, okay, aliens.

00:08:36But another aspect that we have to consider is that skull and cranial deformation,

00:08:44forming elongated heads, is a practice that's known throughout much of the ancient world.

00:08:51In 1870, the process of skull deformation was well chronicled by a German botanist and explorer,

00:08:58named George Schweinfurth.

00:09:01While exploring the African Congo, he came in contact with a tribe called the Monk Bitu.

00:09:07They routinely performed a ritual of cranial binding that allowed them to physically alter the shape of human skulls.

00:09:19They took infants' skulls and compressed them and bound them.

00:09:26And they forced the cranium out and elongated.

00:09:31And in many cases, they doubled the size.

00:09:36And a big question is, why was this being done?

00:09:41It may have been a way to distinguish the elite, perhaps, from the everyday people.

00:09:48It may have been a social stratification type of issue.

00:09:53Something that also appeals to me is that it may have been a way to express physically,

00:09:59and maybe try to achieve physically, greater levels of consciousness or higher levels of mental ability.

00:10:08In my opinion, they did this in order to mimic the gods.

00:10:16And those gods were physical beings, because if they were just a figment of our ancestors' imagination,

00:10:25I don't think that's a compelling enough reason to expose your children to such a ritual to achieve that type

00:10:35of look.

00:10:35And in my opinion, these people were misinterpreted flesh-and-blood space travelers.

00:10:42Some people have suggested aliens have elongated skulls,

00:10:46and apparently ancient peoples are mimicking those skulls.

00:10:51The old saying is that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

00:10:57Although there have been many images that attempt to depict what aliens might actually look like,

00:11:02one in particular has come to dominate the public perception.

00:11:07It, too, features an elongated cranium,

00:11:10and is associated with an extraterrestrial race that many refer to as the greys.

00:11:20In terms of entities, one very common description are the so-called greys.

00:11:26Three and a half, four feet tall, essentially humanoid,

00:11:30but very spindly with disproportionately large heads and huge black almond-shaped eyes.

00:11:37But would someone in a primitive society really want to replicate this look and deform their skull?

00:11:44Some archaeologists have a different perspective.

00:11:49They point to artistic self-expression as an explanation of these customs.

00:11:56There are all kinds of people that either worship the body or use the body as art,

00:12:02be it a tattoo or a piercing of some sort,

00:12:05or tribes that put things in their ears or in their lips to try to grow parts of their body.

00:12:12Some societies, we know, practice binding parts of the body,

00:12:16feet or heads, and try to make certain shapes.

00:12:18And this was done for whatever reason.

00:12:20We know today that this isn't usually the most healthy thing to do,

00:12:23but it doesn't mean people don't do it.

00:12:25People are always trying to change their body to make it look a certain way.

00:12:31Whatever the explanation may be for these rituals,

00:12:35they are not just found in Peru and the African Congo.

00:12:39Skull deformation is a global phenomenon.

00:12:44What's really strange is that this is found all over the world.

00:12:50And this is something that archaeologists cannot easily explain.

00:12:55Because for people on remote islands,

00:12:58for people in South America or Malta or in Africa,

00:13:02to suddenly independently do this cranial deformation like this seems incredible.

00:13:11I mean, this is something that had to be learned,

00:13:16something that was taught to them.

00:13:21We seem to have basic similarities,

00:13:25as if there was one civilization or at least one type of culture

00:13:30that was influencing people around the world.

00:13:36I find it more and more difficult to believe what I was taught as an undergraduate,

00:13:42that all these different cultures just coincidentally

00:13:46came up with the same concepts independently of each other.

00:13:55Is it possible that individual societies around the world

00:13:59were influenced by similar events?

00:14:02And were they imitating real beings who visited from other planets?

00:14:08Some of the most compelling images of an elongated cranium

00:14:11can be traced to ancient Egypt

00:14:14and the depictions of one of its most controversial pharaohs.

00:14:19Could it be that he, too, was mimicking the look of extraterrestrials?

00:14:24Or is there an even more outrageous explanation?

00:14:29Could he have been one of them?

00:14:41Egypt.

00:14:43Long before the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids

00:14:46or even settled along the Nile River.

00:14:50They spoke of an era called Tep-Zepi,

00:14:53or the beginning of time.

00:14:56According to legends,

00:14:58Tep-Zepi was when sky gods descended from the stars to Earth

00:15:02on flying boats

00:15:04and then turned mud and water into a new kingdom.

00:15:10The word god, according to the ancient Egyptian,

00:15:13is netheru.

00:15:15It means a being that came from the cosmos.

00:15:19They're very adamant about the fact

00:15:21that their gods had descended from the stars.

00:15:25They tell us that the god Osiris,

00:15:28who ruled with his consort and sister, the goddess Isis,

00:15:31they were star gods,

00:15:32and in fact they identified them very clearly.

00:15:35Osiris was identified as the constellation of Orion.

00:15:39Isis was identified as the god to the star Sirius,

00:15:42the brightest star in the sky.

00:15:45There's an interesting point about this,

00:15:47is that within the constellation of Orion

00:15:48is the so-called nursery of stars.

00:15:53The stars in our galaxy literally were born in that zone.

00:15:58And it's very peculiar that the ancient Egyptians insist

00:16:01that the birth of star gods are in this constellation.

00:16:06They truly believed,

00:16:07they were very adamant about this,

00:16:09that their origins is in the sky.

00:16:17Something that we see around the world

00:16:20with ancient civilizations

00:16:21is that they had incredible knowledge

00:16:24of the stars, of the planets,

00:16:27of the heavenly motions.

00:16:29The average person in the ancient world

00:16:31had way more knowledge

00:16:33of what's going on in the skies

00:16:35than a lot of well-educated people today.

00:16:44As ancient Egypt grew into a great civilization,

00:16:48its citizens believed their pharaohs

00:16:50were sons of Osiris,

00:16:52and thus, living gods.

00:16:55Artwork and wall carvings depicted them

00:16:57as perfect humans.

00:16:59And while the people worshipped many different gods,

00:17:02the pharaoh stood above them all.

00:17:05This basic Egyptian religious belief

00:17:08remained in force for nearly a thousand years

00:17:11until one pharaoh changed everything.

00:17:15Who was this heretic?

00:17:19His name was Akhenaten,

00:17:22and in every surviving depiction,

00:17:24he is shown with an elongated skull.

00:17:28Who was he?

00:17:30According to Egyptian mythology,

00:17:32he too was descended from the gods

00:17:35who arrived on earth at the time of Tempsepi.

00:17:38But why do so many still believe

00:17:41he actually came from the stars?

00:17:45In 1352 BC,

00:17:48Akhenaten ascended to the throne

00:17:50as the 10th pharaoh of the 18th dynasty.

00:17:53Almost immediately,

00:17:55he instituted a series of radical religious changes,

00:17:59including a ban on references to multiple gods.

00:18:05It's a rather strange thing

00:18:06that he would want to do that in one sweep,

00:18:09but he ordered all the iconography

00:18:11of previous gods to be removed.

00:18:13He only allowed one emblem,

00:18:15which was the sun emblem,

00:18:17literally a sun disk,

00:18:18with curious arms or rays pouring down.

00:18:22Why did he do this?

00:18:24Because according to his writings

00:18:27and his poems that were written about him later on,

00:18:31he was visited by one of those beings

00:18:36that descended from the sky

00:18:38who told Akhenaten,

00:18:40this is the way,

00:18:43I am your god.

00:18:45This sun god was known as Aten.

00:18:49Akhenaten claimed to be a direct descendant of Aten.

00:18:54Akhenaten, like any other pharaoh,

00:18:57regarded himself to be divine.

00:19:01He was a god.

00:19:02Not only himself believed himself to be a god,

00:19:04but the whole nation saw him as a god.

00:19:06Now, the definition of god

00:19:09is that he was a descendant

00:19:12from these celestial beings.

00:19:17During his fourth year as pharaoh,

00:19:20Akhenaten ordered the construction

00:19:22of a new capital city.

00:19:23He called it Amarna

00:19:25and dedicated it to the sun.

00:19:30Akhenaten would spend the next ten years here,

00:19:33during which time,

00:19:35he instituted changes

00:19:36in both art and culture,

00:19:38including how he himself

00:19:40would be publicly depicted.

00:19:44In the Egyptian iconography,

00:19:46the Egyptian pharaohs

00:19:47are depicted

00:19:48as these triangular-shaped beings,

00:19:50these broad, strong shoulders

00:19:52and these very skinny waists.

00:19:53Now, we look at leaders today

00:19:55and we know that most leaders

00:19:57don't have broad shoulders

00:19:58and skinny waists.

00:19:59But it was important

00:20:01to depict the Egyptian kings

00:20:02as having broad shoulders

00:20:04and skinny waists,

00:20:05very, you know,

00:20:06the epitome

00:20:06of what a king

00:20:08ought to look like.

00:20:11That's exactly the opposite

00:20:12of Akhenaten.

00:20:13He shows himself,

00:20:14perhaps, as he really is,

00:20:17a rather strange look.

00:20:19He has a very mystical look.

00:20:27If we take Akhenaten's statues,

00:20:30for instance,

00:20:31literally,

00:20:31he was a very strange-looking character.

00:20:34sort of combined,

00:20:36some people would say,

00:20:37feminine aspects

00:20:39with masculine aspects,

00:20:41may have had

00:20:42an elongated skull.

00:20:45The change in royal iconography

00:20:48of Akhenaten

00:20:48showed him

00:20:49as he probably really was,

00:20:51with a misshapen head,

00:20:53with a potbelly,

00:20:54with a sunken chest,

00:20:57as opposed to the

00:20:58idealized iconography

00:21:00of traditional Egyptian artists

00:21:03that show this big,

00:21:05strong pharaoh.

00:21:12Akhenaten's wife,

00:21:13Queen Nefertiti,

00:21:14and their children

00:21:15were also depicted

00:21:17as having elongated skulls.

00:21:19So why were Akhenaten's

00:21:21and Nefertiti's heads deformed?

00:21:24Did they suffer

00:21:25from a genetic abnormality,

00:21:27or did they deliberately

00:21:29alter their shape?

00:21:30Some believe

00:21:32there could be yet

00:21:32another explanation

00:21:34behind their strange,

00:21:35otherworldly appearance.

00:21:40They look like

00:21:42they're different

00:21:44than other human beings.

00:21:48Is it possible

00:21:49that Akhenaten

00:21:51might have been

00:21:52an extraterrestrial hybrid?

00:21:59Ancient alien enthusiasts

00:22:01look at pharaoh Akhenaten

00:22:03of Egypt

00:22:03and say,

00:22:04ah, look at that long head.

00:22:06That looks like

00:22:07an alien gray.

00:22:08That looks like

00:22:08some kind of something

00:22:09that's non-human

00:22:10or some hybrid

00:22:11between something else

00:22:12and something human.

00:22:13Must be evidence

00:22:14of alien interference,

00:22:16alien reproduction

00:22:17with humans,

00:22:18something like that.

00:22:19I've been to Egypt

00:22:20and one of the most

00:22:22stunning things

00:22:23is about seeing

00:22:23the archaeological remains

00:22:25of ancient Egypt

00:22:26is that one unique pharaoh,

00:22:29Akhenaten.

00:22:30I mean,

00:22:31he's got a very narrow,

00:22:33pointy face,

00:22:34high cheekbones,

00:22:35and a very elongated cranium.

00:22:39The idea

00:22:40that they were either

00:22:41looking like extraterrestrials

00:22:44or perhaps

00:22:44had extraterrestrial DNA

00:22:47in them

00:22:48is a credible idea.

00:22:53Akhenaten ruled

00:22:55for 17 years.

00:22:57After his reign,

00:22:59Amarna was abandoned

00:23:00and temples to the sun

00:23:01were destroyed.

00:23:03Images of Akhenaten

00:23:05were deliberately defaced.

00:23:08Ancient Egypt

00:23:09swiftly returned

00:23:09to its old ways,

00:23:11worshipping many gods.

00:23:13Was this a rejection

00:23:15of Akhenaten's radical

00:23:16religious belief system

00:23:18or a cover-up

00:23:19of his alien identity?

00:23:25There's been a lot of theories

00:23:26about why.

00:23:29If, if,

00:23:30I mean,

00:23:30the most extreme

00:23:31is that he somehow

00:23:32had some sort of

00:23:32extraterrestrial connection.

00:23:34If one accepts

00:23:36that conclusion,

00:23:37then it would explain

00:23:39why he was literally

00:23:40put off the reign

00:23:42and some say

00:23:43put to death.

00:23:47Some Egyptologists believe

00:23:49Akhenaten was forced

00:23:50to abdicate

00:23:51and flee from Egypt

00:23:53with a group

00:23:53of his loyal followers.

00:23:56In 1907,

00:23:58the actual body

00:23:59of Akhenaten

00:24:00was discovered

00:24:01in Egypt's

00:24:02Valley of the Kings

00:24:03by a British archaeologist

00:24:05named Edward Ayrton.

00:24:08After unearthing

00:24:09Akhenaten's mummified remains,

00:24:11he was able to confirm

00:24:13that indeed

00:24:14the ancient pharaoh's skull

00:24:15was misshapen

00:24:17and elongated.

00:24:21Some scholars argue

00:24:22that he suffered

00:24:22from some kind

00:24:23of physical abnormality.

00:24:24He suffered

00:24:25from a disorder

00:24:26that caused his face

00:24:27to appear to be long,

00:24:28or his head

00:24:29actually was longer.

00:24:30I think with Akhenaten

00:24:31we're dealing

00:24:32with a physical deformation

00:24:33that wasn't corrected

00:24:34by the royal artist.

00:24:36They just depicted him

00:24:37as he was,

00:24:38pot belly,

00:24:38sunken chest,

00:24:39long head.

00:24:42Akhenaten was succeeded

00:24:43by his son,

00:24:44Tutankhamen,

00:24:45who became the most

00:24:46renowned pharaoh

00:24:47of all time.

00:24:49When his tomb

00:24:50was discovered

00:24:51in 1922

00:24:52by Howard Carter,

00:24:54Tutankhamen

00:24:55was also found

00:24:56to have

00:24:56an elongated skull.

00:24:59Could he have inherited

00:25:00alien genes

00:25:01from his father?

00:25:07Today,

00:25:08much of Akhenaten's life

00:25:09still remains

00:25:10a mystery.

00:25:12Did he really change

00:25:14Egypt's entire belief system

00:25:16because,

00:25:16as some suggest,

00:25:18he was a celestial being?

00:25:20If that's true,

00:25:22might there be evidence

00:25:23of similar entities

00:25:25coming to Earth?

00:25:27Perhaps more clues

00:25:28can be found

00:25:29thousands of miles away,

00:25:31on the other side

00:25:33of the African continent.

00:25:41Mali,

00:25:42in northwest Africa.

00:25:44Deep in a remote valley

00:25:46live the Dogon people,

00:25:48who are the descendants

00:25:49of a nomadic tribe

00:25:50that settled here

00:25:51around 1000 A.D.

00:25:54Just like Akhenaten's followers,

00:25:57the Dogon

00:25:58had been forced

00:25:58to leave Egypt

00:25:59because of religious persecution.

00:26:03The Dogon claim

00:26:05a very long

00:26:06and ancient tradition

00:26:07and,

00:26:08in my opinion,

00:26:09maintain

00:26:10some of the

00:26:11ancient Egyptian

00:26:12traditions

00:26:14and myths

00:26:15that have been carried on

00:26:16right into the present age.

00:26:20Parts of ancient Egypt

00:26:22may not have died.

00:26:23They were carried on

00:26:25to this day

00:26:26among the Dogon.

00:26:30But what exactly

00:26:32are their beliefs?

00:26:34Dogon mythology

00:26:35holds

00:26:36that the sky god

00:26:37Amma

00:26:38created the first

00:26:39living creature

00:26:40known as Namo.

00:26:42The legend also says

00:26:44that shortly

00:26:45after his creation,

00:26:46Namo

00:26:47multiplied

00:26:48into several parts,

00:26:49one of which

00:26:50rebelled

00:26:51against Amma.

00:26:53Amma responded

00:26:54by destroying him

00:26:55and scattering his ashes

00:26:57throughout the world.

00:27:01According to the Dogon myths,

00:27:04a god gave them

00:27:05this knowledge.

00:27:06He descended

00:27:07from the sky

00:27:08in an ark

00:27:09surfing on fire

00:27:10and landed

00:27:11in a storm.

00:27:16Still today,

00:27:18Dogon celebrates

00:27:19a festival

00:27:21in the honor

00:27:22of Namo

00:27:23and that

00:27:24visitation

00:27:25that occurred

00:27:26in the remote past.

00:27:28How do we know this?

00:27:31For this festival,

00:27:33they have

00:27:33wooden masks

00:27:35that date back

00:27:37to a very

00:27:38long time ago

00:27:40when this festival

00:27:42began.

00:27:49Dogon masks

00:27:50tell the mystic stories

00:27:51of their ancestors.

00:27:53This is a sculpture

00:27:54of the creator.

00:27:55They call him Amma.

00:27:58He's embracing

00:27:59the universe.

00:28:01This is how

00:28:02they pass on

00:28:03information

00:28:03from generation

00:28:04to generation

00:28:05by stories

00:28:06carved in masks.

00:28:17But could

00:28:18Namo

00:28:19have been

00:28:19a real person?

00:28:21Some see

00:28:22eerie similarities

00:28:23between the

00:28:24Dogon's legend

00:28:25and the story

00:28:26of the mysterious

00:28:27pharaoh Akhenaten.

00:28:30Akhenaten

00:28:31believed he was

00:28:31directly descended

00:28:32from the sun god

00:28:33Aten.

00:28:35Namo

00:28:35was said to have

00:28:36been created

00:28:37by the sky

00:28:37deity

00:28:38Amma.

00:28:39Is it a coincidence

00:28:41that both cultures,

00:28:43although thousands

00:28:44of miles apart,

00:28:46shared mythical tales

00:28:47of beings

00:28:47coming from the skies?

00:28:49And both Namo

00:28:51and Akhenaten

00:28:52were depicted

00:28:53with elongated heads?

00:28:55Is it possible

00:28:57that these legends

00:28:58were based

00:28:58on real events?

00:29:05The Dogon

00:29:06dwell in the

00:29:06central plateau

00:29:07region

00:29:07of Banyagara.

00:29:10Their knowledge

00:29:11is centuries old

00:29:12and their priests

00:29:13have been sharing

00:29:13it with chosen

00:29:14individuals only.

00:29:19In the 1920s,

00:29:20French anthropologist

00:29:22Griel

00:29:22and ethnologist

00:29:24Dieterlen

00:29:24visited the tribe

00:29:26and were invited

00:29:26to share their secrets.

00:29:31But one secret

00:29:33stood out.

00:29:34The Dogon

00:29:35claimed that

00:29:36their god

00:29:37Amma

00:29:37came from

00:29:38a specific star

00:29:39in the Sirius

00:29:40constellation,

00:29:41the same place

00:29:43where the ancient

00:29:44Egyptians believed

00:29:45their god

00:29:45Osiris was born.

00:29:48This star,

00:29:49which modern astronomers

00:29:51refer to as

00:29:51Sirius B,

00:29:53the Dogon

00:29:54called Potolo.

00:29:56But what baffles

00:29:57experts

00:29:57is that the star

00:29:59is so far from Earth

00:30:00it's impossible

00:30:01to see

00:30:02with the naked eye.

00:30:06I was very intrigued

00:30:07by this, by the way.

00:30:07I mean,

00:30:08the Dogons

00:30:10should not have known

00:30:11about the existence

00:30:11of this star.

00:30:13Sirius is the second

00:30:14nearest star

00:30:15from our solar system.

00:30:16It's eight light years

00:30:18away.

00:30:19In fact,

00:30:19it's not even visible

00:30:20with standard telescopes.

00:30:22It was first seen,

00:30:24literally seen,

00:30:25and photographed

00:30:25in the 1970s.

00:30:28Modern science

00:30:29has corroborated

00:30:31that Sirius B

00:30:32does indeed exist.

00:30:34problem is,

00:30:36the Dogon knew about this

00:30:38before modern science

00:30:41corroborated it.

00:30:42I mean,

00:30:43that's spooky.

00:30:48Measurements taken

00:30:49with the Hubble telescope

00:30:50in 2003

00:30:51have confirmed

00:30:53that Sirius B

00:30:54is what's known

00:30:55as a white dwarf,

00:30:57or a partially burnt-out star

00:30:59with extremely dense mass.

00:31:02Although it is smaller

00:31:04in size than Earth,

00:31:05it's estimated to weigh

00:31:07eight times as much

00:31:08as our sun.

00:31:10But how did the Dogon

00:31:12acquire this ancient

00:31:13knowledge of astronomy

00:31:14that seems to be

00:31:16centuries more advanced

00:31:17than that of modern science?

00:31:21The mystery is,

00:31:22how did this story

00:31:24get passed on

00:31:24down generations?

00:31:26If the story came

00:31:27from a time

00:31:28before astronomers knew

00:31:29there was a companion star

00:31:30to Sirius,

00:31:31which can't be seen

00:31:32with the human eye.

00:31:35This is the Dogon symbol

00:31:36for Sirius.

00:31:38When you move it around,

00:31:39you can see an orbit

00:31:40around the center

00:31:41marked by Sirius A.

00:31:44Sirius B circles around it,

00:31:46so it is a circular system.

00:31:48This sign is practically

00:31:49an astronomical model

00:31:51that the Dogon

00:31:52could not have invented

00:31:53because only Sirius A

00:31:55is visible.

00:31:57Sirius B and C

00:31:58are invisible.

00:32:00However,

00:32:01their description

00:32:01of the orbit

00:32:02is correct.

00:32:04One assumption

00:32:05is that this god,

00:32:06Namo,

00:32:07who brought them

00:32:08this knowledge,

00:32:09could have been

00:32:10an extraterrestrial

00:32:11intelligence.

00:32:14Since the early

00:32:1520th century,

00:32:17the tribe

00:32:17has been routinely

00:32:18studied and researched

00:32:20by anthropologists.

00:32:22This has led

00:32:23many modern historians

00:32:24to claim that the Dogon

00:32:26must have learned

00:32:27about astronomy

00:32:28from Westerners.

00:32:31The Dogon mythology

00:32:33is so fluid

00:32:33that when science

00:32:35confirmed something

00:32:36that they might have

00:32:38believed in antiquity,

00:32:39it might have just

00:32:40been sure coincidence,

00:32:41or it could have been

00:32:42a conflation.

00:32:43That is,

00:32:44they heard,

00:32:44because it's an oral culture

00:32:45and because the mythology

00:32:47is so fluid,

00:32:48they heard something

00:32:49that someone said

00:32:50about this star

00:32:51in relation to another star,

00:32:52and they just grafted that

00:32:54into their mythology.

00:32:55They grafted that

00:32:56into their religion.

00:32:57And then when some reporter,

00:32:58some subsequent reporter,

00:32:59comes along and says,

00:33:00what do you believe?

00:33:01They say,

00:33:02well, we've thought this

00:33:03for millions of years.

00:33:04When critics suggest

00:33:06that this knowledge

00:33:07was given to them

00:33:08by modern ethnologists,

00:33:10that's simply incorrect,

00:33:11because we know

00:33:12that this story

00:33:14goes back

00:33:15hundreds of years

00:33:17earlier

00:33:19than any modern ethnologist

00:33:21ever went there.

00:33:24If it were ever proven

00:33:26that all this information

00:33:27is exactly correct,

00:33:29including the parts

00:33:30that are still being studied

00:33:31by astronomers,

00:33:32this would mean

00:33:33that the Earth

00:33:33had visitors

00:33:34from outer space

00:33:35in prehistoric times.

00:33:39Either they inherited

00:33:40that knowledge,

00:33:41and the question is

00:33:42from where?

00:33:42From a previous civilization,

00:33:44or from some sort

00:33:45of extraterrestrial civilization,

00:33:47or it's a coincidence.

00:33:48In my view,

00:33:49it is not a coincidence.

00:33:52If the Dogon people

00:33:54really possessed

00:33:55this advanced

00:33:56astronomical knowledge,

00:33:58were there legends

00:33:59based on real events?

00:34:02The ancient Egyptians

00:34:04and Dogon

00:34:05were far from alone

00:34:06in their belief

00:34:07in gods

00:34:07or mystical beings

00:34:09that came from the sky.

00:34:13Is there an explanation

00:34:15for similar myths

00:34:16shared by ancient cultures

00:34:18all around the world?

00:34:20And what does that reveal

00:34:22as to who these visitors

00:34:23may be?

00:34:25Perhaps the answer

00:34:26can be found

00:34:27not in northern Africa,

00:34:29but here,

00:34:30in the rocks and canyons

00:34:33of the American Southwest.

00:34:4530 miles south

00:34:46of Gallup, New Mexico

00:34:48lies the Pueblo

00:34:49of Zuni.

00:34:55Sheltered from

00:34:55the desolate

00:34:56high plains,

00:34:57this adobe city

00:34:58is home

00:34:59to the Zuni Indians,

00:35:00one of the oldest

00:35:01indigenous tribes

00:35:02in North America.

00:35:05They have inhabited

00:35:06this land

00:35:07for almost 2,000 years

00:35:09and have protected

00:35:10their secrets

00:35:11even longer.

00:35:15The Zuni

00:35:16are a very interesting

00:35:17culture in that

00:35:18they're one of the

00:35:19few cultures

00:35:19that really have not

00:35:20opened up

00:35:21to the rest of the world

00:35:22about their

00:35:23star knowledge traditions.

00:35:25Most of this type

00:35:26of information

00:35:27is very closely held

00:35:28by the natives.

00:35:30And I really find

00:35:32it very interesting

00:35:33intriguing that

00:35:34this is the time

00:35:35period in history

00:35:36where now we're

00:35:37starting to learn

00:35:37more and more

00:35:38about their star

00:35:39knowledge.

00:35:44Much of the

00:35:45Zuni people's

00:35:46history is etched

00:35:47in the rocks

00:35:48in the New Mexico

00:35:49desert.

00:35:56tribal elder Clifford

00:35:58Mahouti and

00:35:59archaeologist Dan

00:36:00Simplicio have

00:36:02studied the Zuni's

00:36:03secret history

00:36:04first hand.

00:36:05They've collected

00:36:06stories passed down

00:36:07through generations

00:36:08that are rooted in

00:36:10the belief that the

00:36:11tribe's creators and

00:36:12protectors are

00:36:14supernatural beings

00:36:15from the sky.

00:36:17This one's kind of

00:36:18interesting here.

00:36:19I would imagine

00:36:20it was created

00:36:22in the last century

00:36:23but on this design

00:36:25you can see

00:36:26the star figure.

00:36:28Celestial images

00:36:29oftentimes are depicted

00:36:31in a lot of our

00:36:32cultural petroglyphs

00:36:33and this is one of them

00:36:35where it depicts

00:36:35the star.

00:36:36It could be

00:36:37the supernova

00:36:39of the crab nebula.

00:36:42Our Zuni mythology

00:36:44in the prayer system

00:36:46and the ritualistic

00:36:49protocols talk about

00:36:50these people that

00:36:51came over here

00:36:52and told us how to

00:36:53actually live our lives

00:36:55as being sky people.

00:37:01If you listen to a lot

00:37:03of religious chants

00:37:04and songs and prayers

00:37:06that's all they talk

00:37:07about.

00:37:07They're talking about

00:37:08space, they're talking

00:37:09about out there

00:37:10in the universe

00:37:11where they came from

00:37:12so they depicted

00:37:13on that rock wall

00:37:14here but the actual

00:37:16meaning of it

00:37:17is somewhere

00:37:17more profound

00:37:18and more complex

00:37:20than that.

00:37:23These drawings

00:37:24are thought to have

00:37:25been created

00:37:26around 1200 B.C.

00:37:28Yet they appear

00:37:29to depict

00:37:29modern space travelers

00:37:30and their vehicles.

00:37:35If you move back

00:37:37a little bit

00:37:37you can see

00:37:38another figure here

00:37:41it has a dome

00:37:42as eyes

00:37:45there's something

00:37:46coming down

00:37:47like a nose

00:37:48through the nose

00:37:49but it kind of

00:37:50flares out.

00:37:51I think it was

00:37:52something to do

00:37:52with the ancient ones

00:37:53when they saw something

00:37:56they took as much

00:37:57description of it

00:37:58to put it on there.

00:37:59Of course it's not

00:38:00going to be exactly

00:38:00what they saw

00:38:01but that's as best

00:38:03as they can do

00:38:04for something

00:38:04that they saw.

00:38:06With all petroglyphs

00:38:08and things like that

00:38:09I mean they're

00:38:10up to interpretation

00:38:11sometimes they're

00:38:13just doodlings

00:38:14of people

00:38:15but other times

00:38:16they may well be

00:38:17actual descriptions

00:38:19and depictions

00:38:20of some kind of

00:38:22god from outer space

00:38:24some ancient astronaut

00:38:26and when you go around

00:38:27say like the Zuni

00:38:28Pueblo

00:38:29I mean that's

00:38:30what they'll tell you

00:38:30those petroglyphs

00:38:31aren't.

00:38:32Even the Zunis

00:38:34themselves

00:38:34call them

00:38:35the spacemen.

00:38:38This one seems to have

00:38:40two legs

00:38:41coming out

00:38:41like that

00:38:42and it has

00:38:42a broad

00:38:44diamond-shaped body

00:38:46there probably

00:38:47was a bitter head

00:38:48that chipped off

00:38:49here

00:38:50that's

00:38:51very different

00:38:52looking than

00:38:53humans are.

00:38:55Now usually

00:38:56they're called

00:38:56UFOs

00:38:57but in the Zuni

00:38:59way

00:38:59we've always been

00:39:01taught that

00:39:01they're the keepers

00:39:02of the upper world

00:39:04which means

00:39:04space

00:39:05now they're sky people

00:39:07beings that are

00:39:08of the extraterrestrial

00:39:10origin

00:39:11and this is still

00:39:13within our mythology

00:39:14and our religious

00:39:15practices today.

00:39:22Like most Indian

00:39:23tribes

00:39:24the Zunis

00:39:25call these sky people

00:39:26Kachinas

00:39:28according to the

00:39:29Zunis creation story

00:39:30the Kachina gods

00:39:32came down from

00:39:33the heavens

00:39:34to lead the Zunis

00:39:35to earth

00:39:35through a special

00:39:36portal.

00:39:40The Zipa

00:39:41Poo

00:39:42that's the entrance

00:39:43to the fourth world

00:39:44or the underworld

00:39:46and that's a

00:39:47representation

00:39:48of where the

00:39:49Kachinas

00:39:49come and go

00:39:51and so

00:39:52according to

00:39:53the mythologies

00:39:54the Zunis

00:39:55were brought

00:39:56forth into

00:39:57the world

00:39:58of light

00:39:58which is

00:39:59where we are

00:40:00at today

00:40:00by what I would

00:40:01interpret as

00:40:02extraterrestrial beings

00:40:04from the universe.

00:40:11Every year

00:40:13the Zunis

00:40:13participate in a

00:40:14ceremony known as

00:40:15the Shilako festival.

00:40:17Dressed in

00:40:18traditional costumes

00:40:19to represent

00:40:20the Kachinas

00:40:21the Indians

00:40:22celebrate the

00:40:23arrival of the

00:40:23gods on earth.

00:40:28This is a figurine

00:40:30of Kachina gods

00:40:31and these guys

00:40:33are some gods

00:40:34from the sky

00:40:34who came down

00:40:35they wear

00:40:36weird helmets.

00:40:38This one has

00:40:39a helmet

00:40:41as a head

00:40:42and if you look

00:40:43at the whole

00:40:44body of it

00:40:46it's as if

00:40:48it wears

00:40:48some type

00:40:49of a suit.

00:40:50This one here

00:40:51also has

00:40:53the helmet

00:40:53and the visor.

00:40:55For the Pueblo

00:40:56Indians

00:40:57like the Zunis

00:40:58these are

00:40:59their sky gods

00:41:00that every year

00:41:01they have

00:41:01special ceremonies

00:41:02people put on

00:41:03these special

00:41:04costumes and masks

00:41:05to reenact

00:41:06the coming

00:41:07of the gods.

00:41:08They really look

00:41:10like ancient

00:41:11astronauts.

00:41:19If you look

00:41:20at the poetry

00:41:21and the legends

00:41:22and the stories

00:41:22from American

00:41:24Indian tribes

00:41:25in the southwest

00:41:26they have the

00:41:28legend of the

00:41:29star people.

00:41:30The star people

00:41:31came to earth

00:41:32and seeded

00:41:33planet earth

00:41:34and they came

00:41:35on flying ships.

00:41:37If you speak

00:41:38to the elders

00:41:39they will tell you

00:41:40that a lot of us

00:41:41believe in the

00:41:41existence of

00:41:42extraterrestrials.

00:41:43These are

00:41:44timeless traditions

00:41:45that have been

00:41:46passed on

00:41:46through the

00:41:47centuries from

00:41:48clan to clan

00:41:49from family to

00:41:50family from

00:41:51family member

00:41:52to family member

00:41:53and it is an

00:41:54oral tradition.

00:41:55Native peoples

00:41:56did not have

00:41:58the written word

00:41:59they had the

00:41:59spoken word

00:42:00and culturally

00:42:01the spoken word

00:42:02is still a

00:42:03significant component

00:42:04of their daily

00:42:05lives and the

00:42:06ability to

00:42:07pass down

00:42:08the truth.

00:42:10I remember

00:42:11my grandparents

00:42:12talking about

00:42:13a craft

00:42:14that flew

00:42:15and had

00:42:16actually crash

00:42:17landed on

00:42:17one of the

00:42:18mesas east of

00:42:20here.

00:42:22There's no

00:42:23interpretation of

00:42:24what an aircraft

00:42:25is so the

00:42:27closest thing

00:42:27that they could

00:42:28interpret as

00:42:29anything capable

00:42:31of flight is a

00:42:31bird or our

00:42:33mass kachina

00:42:34dancers.

00:42:36we're very

00:42:37very superstitious

00:42:38people.

00:42:39It's always been

00:42:40in the history

00:42:41of Zuni

00:42:42that they have

00:42:43always been here

00:42:44even right here

00:42:45where we're

00:42:46sitting right now

00:42:47but you just

00:42:48don't see them

00:42:48they're in a

00:42:49different frequency

00:42:49and those are

00:42:51very very sacred

00:42:52and those are

00:42:53very very secret

00:42:54they're out there

00:42:55somewhere.

00:43:01for those who

00:43:03believe that

00:43:03ancient astronauts

00:43:04came to earth

00:43:05thousands of

00:43:06years ago

00:43:07prehistoric artwork

00:43:08provides more

00:43:09clues in what

00:43:10they claim is a

00:43:11growing body of

00:43:12evidence

00:43:13from wall carvings

00:43:15and statues

00:43:16in ancient

00:43:17Egypt

00:43:17to tribal

00:43:19traditions and

00:43:20exotic masks

00:43:21in West Africa

00:43:22to petroglyphs

00:43:24in the American

00:43:25Southwest

00:43:25all thousands

00:43:28of years old

00:43:29they seem to

00:43:30recount similar

00:43:31stories of

00:43:32visitors from

00:43:33the skies.

00:43:34Could the

00:43:35legends of

00:43:36alien beings

00:43:37visiting earth

00:43:38thousands of

00:43:39years ago

00:43:40have inspired

00:43:41more traditional

00:43:43beliefs?

00:43:52celestial beings

00:43:53coming down

00:43:54to earth

00:43:56gods

00:43:57descending

00:43:58from the sky

00:43:59can these

00:44:00events only

00:44:01be found

00:44:02in the ancient

00:44:02legends of

00:44:03the Zuni?

00:44:04Do similar

00:44:05accounts exist

00:44:06in other

00:44:06cultures

00:44:07and other

00:44:08religions

00:44:08across the

00:44:09world?

00:44:10And if so

00:44:11what is the

00:44:13explanation?

00:44:15We have to

00:44:16remind ourselves

00:44:16that our

00:44:17ancestors

00:44:18were highly

00:44:19intelligent

00:44:20however

00:44:21their technological

00:44:22frame of

00:44:23reference

00:44:24was different

00:44:25than our

00:44:26technological

00:44:27frame of

00:44:27reference

00:44:28so they

00:44:29didn't have

00:44:30the vocabulary

00:44:31with which

00:44:32to describe

00:44:33or with

00:44:34which to

00:44:34name

00:44:35certain

00:44:36things that

00:44:37they saw

00:44:37so what

00:44:38did they do?

00:44:39They used

00:44:40words

00:44:41that they

00:44:42were familiar

00:44:43with in

00:44:44their time

00:44:44and so

00:44:45they tried

00:44:46to describe

00:44:47whatever they

00:44:48witnessed

00:44:49to the best

00:44:50of their

00:44:50abilities

00:44:51with their

00:44:52vocabulary

00:44:58Ancient

00:44:59China

00:44:59also shared

00:45:01some of the

00:45:01same beliefs

00:45:02that can be

00:45:02found in

00:45:03Egyptian,

00:45:04Native American

00:45:05and Dogon

00:45:06legends

00:45:06that deities

00:45:08arrived from

00:45:09the stars

00:45:10According to

00:45:12Chinese mythology

00:45:13dating back

00:45:13to 3000

00:45:14BC

00:45:15when the

00:45:16god named

00:45:17Wang Di

00:45:17was born

00:45:18there was

00:45:19a radiance

00:45:20from the

00:45:20great star

00:45:21Qi

00:45:25Wang Di

00:45:26would later

00:45:27emerge from

00:45:27the belly

00:45:28of a fire

00:45:28breathing dragon

00:45:29to become

00:45:30China's

00:45:31first emperor

00:45:32the origins

00:45:34of the Han

00:45:34Chinese people

00:45:35start with

00:45:36a story

00:45:36of a great

00:45:37god

00:45:37looking down

00:45:39with empathy

00:45:40here were

00:45:42people in

00:45:42poverty

00:45:43in a beautiful

00:45:44rich country

00:45:46the landscape

00:45:47profound

00:45:47but the people

00:45:48were suffering

00:45:50he took pity

00:45:51and decided

00:45:52to come down

00:45:59Wang Di

00:46:00arrived

00:46:01on planet

00:46:02earth

00:46:03in a

00:46:04flying

00:46:04dragon

00:46:06he had

00:46:08the power

00:46:08of flight

00:46:09Wang Di

00:46:10could be

00:46:11anywhere

00:46:12within

00:46:13minutes

00:46:14and he

00:46:15usually

00:46:15accomplished

00:46:16this by

00:46:16hopping on

00:46:18his dragon

00:46:19and flying

00:46:20somewhere

00:46:24now this

00:46:25divine

00:46:26energy

00:46:27becomes human

00:46:27and is a

00:46:29great leader

00:46:29the yellow

00:46:30emperor

00:46:30who rules

00:46:32and unites

00:46:32the people

00:46:33and there is

00:46:34a period

00:46:34of great

00:46:34prosperity

00:46:35until his

00:46:36work is done

00:46:37Wang Di

00:46:38brought order

00:46:39to the chaos

00:46:40creating

00:46:41China's

00:46:42first empire

00:46:43he is seen

00:46:45as a cultural

00:46:45hero

00:46:46and is credited

00:46:47with the invention

00:46:48of the compass

00:46:50acupuncture

00:46:51and the

00:46:52standardization

00:46:52of Chinese

00:46:53writing

00:46:55one of his

00:46:55greatest legacies

00:46:56is the great

00:46:57wall of China

00:46:59when the land

00:47:01is prosperous

00:47:01he decides

00:47:02it's time

00:47:03to go

00:47:03and the great

00:47:05yellow dragon

00:47:05comes back

00:47:06and he gets

00:47:07back into the

00:47:07belly of the

00:47:08dragon and flies

00:47:09off forever

00:47:12now

00:47:13were these dragons

00:47:16truly dragons

00:47:18in a

00:47:19biological nature

00:47:23or

00:47:24were they

00:47:25misinterpreted

00:47:27types of

00:47:28machines

00:47:28because as we

00:47:30all know

00:47:30dragons are

00:47:32always correlated

00:47:33with spewing

00:47:35fire

00:47:35and a lot

00:47:36of smoke

00:47:38whenever we

00:47:39see a modern

00:47:40rocket take

00:47:40off

00:47:41there's all

00:47:41this smoke

00:47:42and sometimes

00:47:43the smoke

00:47:44is yellow

00:47:44and sometimes

00:47:45it's red

00:47:46so it's very

00:47:47bizarre how

00:47:48we have

00:47:48these correlations

00:47:50between the

00:47:51ancient times

00:47:51and modern

00:47:53times today

00:47:54mythology

00:47:55is the effort

00:47:56to grasp

00:47:57what we

00:47:58can't grasp

00:47:58to understand

00:47:59what is beyond

00:48:00us

00:48:00in the eastern

00:48:01teachings

00:48:02the dragons

00:48:02very often

00:48:03carry

00:48:04people

00:48:04sometimes

00:48:05on their

00:48:06back

00:48:06sometimes

00:48:07inside

00:48:07their bellies

00:48:08so if we

00:48:09think of them

00:48:09as a poet's

00:48:10effort to explain

00:48:11a vehicle

00:48:12that was strange

00:48:13to them

00:48:13well those

00:48:14sound like

00:48:15flying saucers

00:48:16so it might

00:48:17just be a

00:48:17problem of

00:48:18translation

00:48:18because after

00:48:19all it's just

00:48:19a word

00:48:20it's trying to

00:48:20describe something

00:48:21that's very

00:48:21difficult to

00:48:22grasp

00:48:274,000 miles

00:48:29west of

00:48:29China

00:48:30another tale

00:48:31of celestial

00:48:32beings

00:48:32influencing

00:48:33civilization

00:48:34can be

00:48:34found

00:48:35this time

00:48:36in what

00:48:37is now

00:48:37modern day

00:48:38Iraq

00:48:40the Babylonian

00:48:41legend

00:48:42of Enuma

00:48:42Alish

00:48:43dates back

00:48:44to the

00:48:447th century

00:48:45BC

00:48:45the text

00:48:47was first

00:48:48discovered

00:48:48in 1849

00:48:50by British

00:48:51archaeologist

00:48:52Sir Austin Henry

00:48:53Layard

00:48:53while searching

00:48:54the ruins

00:48:55of the library

00:48:56of Ashurbanipal

00:48:57in Nineveh

00:48:58the story

00:48:59tells of how

00:49:00the first

00:49:01humans were

00:49:01created

00:49:02by an

00:49:02extraterrestrial

00:49:03race

00:49:04known as

00:49:05the Anunnaki

00:49:13in the ancient

00:49:14texts

00:49:15of Sumeria

00:49:16we have

00:49:18descriptions

00:49:19of these

00:49:21beings

00:49:22descending

00:49:23from the sky

00:49:24called

00:49:25the Anunnaki

00:49:26the term

00:49:27Anunnaki

00:49:28means

00:49:29those

00:49:30who from

00:49:30the heavens

00:49:31came

00:49:32it says

00:49:33word for word

00:49:35that these

00:49:36beings

00:49:36descended

00:49:37in flying

00:49:38vehicles

00:49:39from the sky

00:49:40and

00:49:42we can find

00:49:43not only

00:49:43descriptions

00:49:44of the Anunnaki

00:49:45but also

00:49:46depictions

00:49:47and we

00:49:48can see

00:49:48them

00:49:48in statues

00:49:49in carvings

00:49:51so it's

00:49:52all

00:49:52very

00:49:53interesting

00:49:53to see

00:49:54that

00:49:55those

00:49:55beings

00:49:56looked like

00:49:57modern day

00:49:58space travelers

00:49:59with weird

00:49:59suits

00:50:00some of

00:50:01them wore

00:50:01wrist watches

00:50:02they had

00:50:03boots on

00:50:04and helmets

00:50:05and above

00:50:07all

00:50:07wings

00:50:08and they

00:50:09were always

00:50:09described

00:50:10or depicted

00:50:11in floating

00:50:13above

00:50:13some

00:50:14quote unquote

00:50:15regular people

00:50:18so

00:50:19the question

00:50:20is

00:50:20who were

00:50:21the Anunnaki

00:50:22and according

00:50:23to the ancient

00:50:24astronaut hypothesis

00:50:25they were

00:50:26space travelers

00:50:27who visited

00:50:28earth

00:50:29in the remote

00:50:30past

00:50:38similar themes

00:50:39can be found

00:50:40in the legends

00:50:41of Greek

00:50:41and Roman

00:50:42gods

00:50:42which also

00:50:43describe events

00:50:44that some

00:50:45interpret

00:50:45as extraterrestrial

00:50:47contact

00:50:48both cultures

00:50:49believed in

00:50:50powerful gods

00:50:51who lived

00:50:52in the heavens

00:50:52and often

00:50:53came down

00:50:54to earth

00:50:55to interact

00:50:55with humans

00:50:59a well-known

00:51:00example

00:51:01is Zeus

00:51:02and the Greek

00:51:03gods

00:51:03and they've

00:51:04come down

00:51:05from the sky

00:51:05and Mount Olympus

00:51:07where they live

00:51:08in some mountain

00:51:09and they're bringing

00:51:10really civilization

00:51:11and sciences

00:51:13to mankind

00:51:14but they have

00:51:15many human

00:51:16attributes too

00:51:17where yeah

00:51:18they're attracted

00:51:19to human women

00:51:21they want to have

00:51:22sex and children

00:51:22with as many of them

00:51:23as they can

00:51:24and then they

00:51:25go back

00:51:26into the sky

00:51:28these ideas

00:51:29of gods mating

00:51:30with humans

00:51:31are very commonplace

00:51:32like Zeus

00:51:33in Greek mythology

00:51:35was always coming down

00:51:36and mating

00:51:37with mortals

00:51:37and producing

00:51:39demigods

00:51:40like Hercules

00:51:40or Helen of Troy

00:51:42who were

00:51:43you know

00:51:44exceptionally beautiful

00:51:45exceptionally powerful

00:51:49unusually gifted

00:51:50in every way

00:51:51so in other words

00:51:53you were

00:51:53creating a better race

00:51:55in this sense

00:51:57in this sense

00:51:58in the ancient

00:51:58Aslan opinion

00:51:59the whole pantheon

00:52:01of gods

00:52:01that we have

00:52:03in ancient Greece

00:52:04consists of nothing else

00:52:07but flesh and blood

00:52:09extraterrestrials

00:52:11who were

00:52:11misinterpreted

00:52:13as being

00:52:14these divine creatures

00:52:16by our ancestors

00:52:19there's a lot of evidence

00:52:21showing that we're not alone

00:52:23in the cosmos

00:52:24and that

00:52:25our human civilizations

00:52:27on earth

00:52:28have been interacting

00:52:29for long periods of time

00:52:31with extraterrestrial intelligences

00:52:34belief in celestial beings

00:52:38interacting with humans

00:52:39is a cornerstone

00:52:40in several major religions

00:52:42in fact

00:52:43according to the Bible's

00:52:45book of Genesis

00:52:46God created the first humans

00:52:48Adam and Eve

00:52:50the Bible also contains

00:52:52other passages

00:52:53that describe strange interactions

00:52:56between otherworldly beings

00:52:58and humans

00:53:00people believe

00:53:01messengers of some sort

00:53:03come down from the heavens

00:53:04you know

00:53:04they came down

00:53:05and they had sex with humans

00:53:06and this is where

00:53:07we produce giants

00:53:08people like Goliath

00:53:10so in a technical sense

00:53:12they are alien

00:53:13they're gods

00:53:14or they're angels

00:53:15or some kind of

00:53:16superhuman thing

00:53:19interpreting these Bible stories

00:53:21has also led

00:53:22to a certain amount

00:53:23of debate

00:53:23and controversy

00:53:25while most see

00:53:26a single god

00:53:27directing

00:53:28and influencing

00:53:29mankind's destiny

00:53:30others argue

00:53:32that it is really

00:53:33a number of gods

00:53:34that are responsible

00:53:37in the Old Testament

00:53:39it says very clearly

00:53:41let us make man

00:53:42in our image

00:53:44according to our likeness

00:53:46now

00:53:46grammatically speaking

00:53:48that sentence

00:53:49doesn't make sense

00:53:50because you have God

00:53:52and then you have

00:53:53our image

00:53:54well

00:53:55theologians suggest

00:53:56that by our

00:53:57what they meant

00:53:59is the Trinity

00:54:00the Holy Trinity

00:54:01so basically

00:54:03if you were to change

00:54:04the word God

00:54:05to gods

00:54:06then all of a sudden

00:54:07the sentence

00:54:08makes sense

00:54:10and then the gods

00:54:11created man

00:54:13in our own image

00:54:15so you have this reference

00:54:17let us create man

00:54:19in our image

00:54:20in several religious texts

00:54:22specifically the Hebrew Bible

00:54:23which Christians also accept

00:54:25and in the Quran

00:54:26which Muslims

00:54:27revere as holy

00:54:28you have the reference

00:54:31to God

00:54:31in the plural

00:54:32and it is incredibly interesting

00:54:36but do all these

00:54:38religious scriptures

00:54:39that tell similar stories

00:54:40really point to the possibility

00:54:42that aliens have visited

00:54:45earth throughout

00:54:45ancient history

00:54:48the fact is

00:54:50the story of creation

00:54:52in our own Bible

00:54:53is the story of creation

00:54:56in cultures

00:54:56around the world

00:54:58the story of the flood

00:55:00the evolution

00:55:01of the human species

00:55:02the development

00:55:03of language

00:55:04all of this

00:55:06points to

00:55:07in fact

00:55:08the Bible says so

00:55:09life on earth

00:55:11came

00:55:12from contact

00:55:13with an extraterrestrial

00:55:14life form

00:55:15that's in the Bible

00:55:17that's in ancient cultures

00:55:18around the world

00:55:19so I believe

00:55:20the theory of ancient astronauts

00:55:21is true

00:55:22and I believe

00:55:23there's solid evidence there

00:55:24and I believe

00:55:25the harder you try

00:55:26to refute that evidence

00:55:27the more you wind up

00:55:29against a brick wall

00:55:30that ancient astronauts

00:55:32visited us

00:55:33visited earth

00:55:34thousands upon

00:55:36thousands of years ago

00:55:37and seeded

00:55:38the very civilization

00:55:39we have today

00:55:43if the believers

00:55:45in the ancient astronaut theory

00:55:46are correct

00:55:47then just who were

00:55:49these visitors

00:55:50and might cutting edge

00:55:52astrophysics

00:55:53and biology

00:55:54help us to uncover

00:55:56their identity

00:56:02on March 18th

00:56:041965

00:56:05Russian cosmonaut

00:56:07Alexei Leonov

00:56:09stepped outside

00:56:10the Vashko 2

00:56:11and became

00:56:12the first human

00:56:13to walk

00:56:14in space

00:56:19he spent

00:56:2012 minutes

00:56:21and 8 seconds

00:56:22outside his ship

00:56:23before returning

00:56:26Leonov's survival

00:56:27depended upon

00:56:28a protective suit

00:56:29that could keep him alive

00:56:31where there was

00:56:31neither atmospheric pressure

00:56:33nor oxygen

00:56:36if we need

00:56:37space suits

00:56:38would aliens

00:56:39traveling to earth

00:56:40require the same

00:56:41protection

00:56:46is that what

00:56:47we're looking at

00:56:47in these ancient

00:56:48carvings

00:56:49and drawings

00:56:51when critics

00:56:53ask

00:56:54well why would

00:56:55ancient astronauts

00:56:56have to wear

00:56:58astronaut suits

00:57:00that we're familiar

00:57:01with today

00:57:02the answer is very simple

00:57:04can we go through space

00:57:06without wearing

00:57:08a type of suit

00:57:09of course not

00:57:10we would die

00:57:15because who says

00:57:17that whoever visited us

00:57:18in the remote past

00:57:20that they could breathe

00:57:22in the atmosphere

00:57:24of planet earth

00:57:29so it's not

00:57:31far-fetched

00:57:33to suggest

00:57:34that they

00:57:36did in fact

00:57:37wear some type

00:57:37of suit

00:57:44why might these images

00:57:45resemble modern astronauts

00:57:51if they are aliens

00:57:53is it possible

00:57:54they are similar

00:57:55to humans

00:57:57and could they

00:57:58have come from a planet

00:58:00just like earth

00:58:04at the turn

00:58:05of the 20th century

00:58:06a group of British

00:58:08and German scientists

00:58:09considered this possibility

00:58:12they embraced

00:58:13a theory put forth

00:58:14by early Greek philosophers

00:58:15that all life

00:58:17in the universe

00:58:18began in one

00:58:19specific place

00:58:22this theory

00:58:23is called

00:58:24panspermia

00:58:26panspermia

00:58:26panspermia is the theory

00:58:27that life formed

00:58:28in one place

00:58:29and then got spread around

00:58:30to other places

00:58:33in outer space

00:58:34in the medium

00:58:35between stars

00:58:36we see molecules

00:58:37that are the building blocks

00:58:38of life

00:58:40so it's easy

00:58:40to get the building blocks

00:58:41of life to another planet

00:58:43for example

00:58:44if life formed on Mars

00:58:45it could have come here

00:58:46to earth

00:58:48contaminated earth

00:58:49and then started life here

00:58:55roughly 3.6 billion years ago

00:58:58Mars was warm

00:59:00and wet

00:59:00much like the conditions

00:59:02on earth today

00:59:04biologists believe

00:59:05that because Mars

00:59:07cooled more quickly

00:59:08than other planets

00:59:09life may have developed

00:59:11there first

00:59:16Mars is a better candidate

00:59:17for life during the early part

00:59:19of the solar system

00:59:20Mars rocks are coming here

00:59:22all the time

00:59:22and these have been

00:59:23knocked off Mars

00:59:24by asteroid and comet impacts

00:59:27and we know that

00:59:28they could convey

00:59:30any Martian microorganisms

00:59:32to earth

00:59:36in August 1996

00:59:38a team of scientists

00:59:39made a stunning announcement

00:59:43a Martian meteorite

00:59:45found in Antarctica

00:59:46contained evidence

00:59:48of fossilized life

00:59:50the four pound rock

00:59:52designated ALH 84001

00:59:55showed the presence

00:59:57of carbonate globules

00:59:59excreted by microbes

01:00:00when they were alive

01:00:01on Mars

01:00:023.6 billion years ago

01:00:04earth was no longer alone

01:00:09life had existed

01:00:11elsewhere in the universe

01:00:14so this cross-contamination

01:00:16between Mars and Earth

01:00:17which 20 years ago

01:00:19was regarded

01:00:19as a rather wild conjecture

01:00:21is now pretty much accepted

01:00:23by the astrobiology community

01:00:30astrobiologists studying

01:00:32the origin and evolution

01:00:33of life in the universe

01:00:34embraced the possibility

01:00:36that life on earth

01:00:38began in outer space

01:00:44did modern day scientists

01:00:47finally prove

01:00:48what ancient cultures

01:00:49have believed

01:00:50for centuries

01:00:55the common myth

01:00:58or idea

01:00:59that the origins

01:01:01of humankind

01:01:01is from the stars

01:01:03is widespread

01:01:04ancient cultures had

01:01:06the ancient Egyptians

01:01:07the Mayans

01:01:08the Aztecs

01:01:08the Indians

01:01:10and so forth

01:01:11is intriguing

01:01:13and it's probably true

01:01:15and I mean it

01:01:16from an astrophysical

01:01:17point of view

01:01:18we do come

01:01:19from the stars

01:01:20it's a fact

01:01:20that life on earth

01:01:21has been seeded

01:01:22by the coming

01:01:23of a comet

01:01:23containing the life matter

01:01:29I personally suspect

01:01:31there is life out there

01:01:33in fact I believe

01:01:34that we have evidence

01:01:35if nothing else

01:01:36microbial evidence

01:01:38for life

01:01:40extraterrestrially

01:01:42but if life did land

01:01:44on earth

01:01:44from outer space

01:01:45was it by accident

01:01:47or might it have been

01:01:49sent here

01:01:50on purpose

01:01:56one mainstream scientist

01:01:58thought so

01:01:59British geneticist

01:02:02Francis Crick

01:02:02is best known

01:02:04for his collaboration

01:02:05with James Watson

01:02:06together

01:02:07they unraveled

01:02:08the structure

01:02:09of human DNA

01:02:10in 1953

01:02:15less than 10 years later

01:02:17they were awarded

01:02:18the Nobel Prize

01:02:19for their groundbreaking work

01:02:21in genetics

01:02:23in the 1960s

01:02:25Crick became a proponent

01:02:27of panspermia theory

01:02:28and took it

01:02:29to a whole new level

01:02:31with an idea

01:02:32he called

01:02:33directed panspermia

01:02:35Francis Crick

01:02:37hypothesized

01:02:38that somewhere

01:02:38perhaps on the other

01:02:39side of the galaxy

01:02:42there had been

01:02:43a civilization

01:02:45of advanced

01:02:46intelligent beings

01:02:47and they had found

01:02:48that their planet

01:02:49was going to be

01:02:50destroyed

01:02:51perhaps a supernova

01:02:52was going to go off

01:02:53in their vicinity

01:02:54and their planet

01:02:55would be sterilized

01:02:56of life

01:02:59and he asked himself

01:03:00what would an

01:03:01intelligent civilization

01:03:02do in that situation

01:03:04well first of all

01:03:05they tried to figure out

01:03:06if they could get out

01:03:07of there

01:03:08if they could actually

01:03:10preserve their lives

01:03:11and the lives

01:03:11of their descendants

01:03:12perhaps crowd

01:03:13into spaceships

01:03:14and fly across

01:03:15interstellar space

01:03:16until they found

01:03:16a suitable planet

01:03:17to colonize

01:03:24but could it actually

01:03:26be true

01:03:26could we really

01:03:28be the descendants

01:03:29of an alien race

01:03:30that traveled here

01:03:31from another world

01:03:38the ultimate implication

01:03:40of some exobiological theories

01:03:44is actually that we

01:03:46ourselves are extraterrestrials

01:03:48that life on earth

01:03:49arose because organic material

01:03:53was brought here

01:03:54from elsewhere

01:03:58what if we're the ones

01:04:00the descendants of those

01:04:01who came from another planet

01:04:03we weren't created

01:04:05we were brought here

01:04:08seeded planet earth

01:04:10as a colony

01:04:11from some other planet

01:04:12so we're colonists

01:04:15of another race

01:04:17and that's why

01:04:18the aliens look like us

01:04:23in my opinion

01:04:24it's not unscientific

01:04:26to consider

01:04:27the possibility

01:04:28of ancient astronauts

01:04:30alien intervention

01:04:31we live in a huge universe

01:04:37now bacteria

01:04:38versus humanoids

01:04:41one may say

01:04:43that's a big difference

01:04:44but in some ways

01:04:45it's not a big difference

01:04:46where you have life

01:04:47you have the ability

01:04:48for that life

01:04:49to develop

01:04:50into what we consider

01:04:52civilization

01:04:53or intelligent beings

01:04:59is it just a coincidence

01:05:01that modern science

01:05:02and ancient alien theory

01:05:04have come to the same conclusion

01:05:08that life on earth

01:05:09came from the stars

01:05:13and if it's possible

01:05:15that billions of years ago

01:05:17an extraterrestrial race

01:05:19spread out across space

01:05:20how would they survive

01:05:22in their new home

01:05:25could they really be

01:05:27our missing link

01:05:34for thousands of years

01:05:36mankind has tried

01:05:38to depict alien beings

01:05:39who they believe

01:05:40came from the skies

01:05:42many of those creatures

01:05:43seem to share characteristics

01:05:45with humans

01:05:47they often have two arms

01:05:49two legs

01:05:50fingers

01:05:51and a head

01:05:53just like we do

01:05:55biologists refer to this

01:05:57basic body shape

01:05:58as bilateral symmetry

01:06:00bilateral symmetry

01:06:02is very simply

01:06:03you divide something down the middle

01:06:05into two parts

01:06:05and lateral means up and down

01:06:08and the two sides

01:06:09are an exact reflection

01:06:10of each other

01:06:11if you fold the thing in half

01:06:13all the parts line up

01:06:16bilateral symmetry

01:06:17evolved relatively early

01:06:19in the evolution

01:06:20of animals

01:06:22several hundred million years ago

01:06:26being bilaterally symmetric

01:06:28allows you

01:06:29to be streamlined

01:06:30and to develop a head end

01:06:32so you become cephalized

01:06:34and that certainly happened

01:06:35in vertebrates

01:06:36virtually the mouth

01:06:37at the end of something

01:06:38and then you get

01:06:39progressive development

01:06:40and that seems to have

01:06:41led to many many advances

01:06:48so when you look at it closely

01:06:49you can see a lot of

01:06:50advantages coming in

01:06:52having the two arms

01:06:54and the two legs

01:06:54to work together

01:06:55really give you great

01:06:56mobility and balance

01:06:58and speed

01:07:06having eyes

01:07:07on two sides

01:07:07separated

01:07:08give really improved

01:07:09vision in various ways

01:07:11animals that are

01:07:12predominantly prey

01:07:12use their two eyes

01:07:13independently

01:07:14and get a huge field of view

01:07:15animals that are

01:07:16predominantly hunters

01:07:17have them more in the front

01:07:18and get really good

01:07:19depth perception

01:07:20which you need

01:07:20if you're going to land

01:07:21on the animal you're hunting

01:07:32if it is true

01:07:34that aliens resemble humans

01:07:36in their physical characteristics

01:07:37might there also be

01:07:39genetic similarities

01:07:43could we even be

01:07:44related

01:07:48in 2003

01:07:50the US government

01:07:51announced

01:07:52that the Human Genome Project

01:07:54had identified

01:07:55all of the nearly

01:07:5625,000 genes

01:07:57in the human body

01:07:59for the first time

01:08:01scientists had a road map

01:08:03to the genetic makeup

01:08:04of humans

01:08:06human genomes

01:08:08are the ones

01:08:08that are transmitted

01:08:09from parents

01:08:10to children

01:08:11each human genome

01:08:13that is the one

01:08:14that we get

01:08:14from our father

01:08:15or the one

01:08:15that we get

01:08:16from our mother

01:08:17has 3 billion letters

01:08:193 billion components

01:08:20everybody thought

01:08:22that would open

01:08:23lots of possibilities

01:08:25to study

01:08:25human heredity

01:08:26and perhaps

01:08:27for medicine

01:08:28and other applications

01:08:30in 2006

01:08:33genetic researchers

01:08:35at the University of California

01:08:36at Santa Cruz

01:08:37discovered an area

01:08:39of the genome

01:08:40they called

01:08:41HAR1

01:08:42that appears to be

01:08:44unique to humans

01:08:46scientists believe

01:08:47the HAR1 gene

01:08:49plays a critical role

01:08:51in the advanced development

01:08:52of the human brain

01:08:53and is a key element

01:08:55that sets us apart

01:08:57from other animals

01:08:58but where did it come from

01:09:00did humans develop

01:09:02this distinct gene

01:09:03naturally

01:09:04through evolution

01:09:05or did it land here

01:09:07from another planet

01:09:11Francis Crick

01:09:12the British scientist

01:09:14who helped discover

01:09:15the structure of DNA

01:09:16believed that human genes

01:09:19could not have evolved

01:09:20by chance

01:09:21Prick didn't feel

01:09:22in that period

01:09:23of roughly 600 million years

01:09:24from the formation

01:09:25of the planet

01:09:26down to the time

01:09:26when the planet

01:09:27could first support life

01:09:28there was enough time

01:09:29for DNA to evolve

01:09:30by accident

01:09:31it's an enormously

01:09:32complicated molecule

01:09:34Prick gave this analogy

01:09:36you would be

01:09:37more likely

01:09:38to assemble

01:09:39a fully functioning

01:09:40and flying

01:09:41jumbo jet

01:09:43by passing a hurricane

01:09:44through a junkyard

01:09:46than you would be

01:09:47to assemble

01:09:48the DNA molecule

01:09:49by chance

01:09:50in any kind

01:09:52of primeval soup

01:09:53in 500 or 600 million years

01:09:55it's just not possible

01:09:58but if this molecule

01:10:00could not have evolved

01:10:01accidentally

01:10:02how was it created

01:10:04was it

01:10:06as some believe

01:10:07put there

01:10:08on purpose

01:10:10the question

01:10:11should not be

01:10:12do the extraterrestrials

01:10:14look like us

01:10:15or what do the

01:10:15extraterrestrials

01:10:16look like

01:10:16but do we

01:10:18look like

01:10:19the extraterrestrials

01:10:20because according

01:10:21to the ancient

01:10:21astronaut theory

01:10:22a long long

01:10:24time ago

01:10:25extraterrestrials

01:10:27came here

01:10:27and through a

01:10:29targeted mutation

01:10:31of our genes

01:10:33we quote unquote

01:10:34became human

01:10:43possibly there's information

01:10:45in our DNA

01:10:45about whether human evolution

01:10:47was manipulated

01:10:48or not

01:10:52the DNA is almost

01:10:54deciphered

01:10:55yet we only understand

01:10:565% of the information

01:10:58it carries

01:10:58which information

01:11:00our seed

01:11:01carries

01:11:03geneticists have determined

01:11:04that it only takes

01:11:06about 5%

01:11:08to clone

01:11:09a human being

01:11:10and that 95%

01:11:12of that genetic material

01:11:14that we have

01:11:15in our bodies

01:11:16is nothing more

01:11:18than what they refer to

01:11:19as genetic junk

01:11:23why is everything there

01:11:24and there's probably

01:11:24parts of the DNA

01:11:25that don't have

01:11:26an obvious

01:11:27current function

01:11:28maybe they're left over

01:11:28from something

01:11:29that was used

01:11:29in the past

01:11:30kind of like

01:11:30our appendix

01:11:31is left over

01:11:33could this genetic junk

01:11:35hold the key

01:11:36to the evolution

01:11:37of humans

01:11:39some people suggest

01:11:40that decoding

01:11:41our DNA

01:11:42entirely

01:11:43will unlock

01:11:44startling information

01:11:45about our origins

01:11:47but could it even prove

01:11:49that aliens played

01:11:51a role in our development

01:11:52thousands of years ago

01:11:55if you hypothetically

01:11:57wanted to record

01:12:00an eternal message

01:12:01that could be decoded

01:12:03by a creature

01:12:04that had eventually

01:12:05evolved enough intelligence

01:12:07to decode it

01:12:08the place to put

01:12:09that message

01:12:09would not be on

01:12:10some monument

01:12:11or in some text

01:12:13which might be

01:12:15swept away

01:12:16but actually

01:12:17on the DNA

01:12:18of the creature

01:12:19itself

01:12:24it's recently

01:12:26been established

01:12:27that DNA

01:12:28is a recording

01:12:30medium

01:12:31of almost

01:12:32limitless power

01:12:33it would be

01:12:33technically possible

01:12:34to record

01:12:35the entire knowledge

01:12:37of a civilization

01:12:38on the DNA

01:12:39in our bodies

01:12:41all you'd need

01:12:42is a way

01:12:42to access

01:12:43that information

01:12:47I think

01:12:48we have something

01:12:49the whole

01:12:51humanity

01:12:52in our genes

01:12:53somewhere

01:12:54in our genes

01:12:56it is coded

01:12:57that extraterrestrials

01:12:59were here

01:13:00thousands of years ago

01:13:02but the questions

01:13:04persist

01:13:05if aliens

01:13:06visited Earth

01:13:07tens of thousands

01:13:08of years ago

01:13:11how did they get here

01:13:13when we look to the past

01:13:15for the answers

01:13:16are we looking

01:13:17in the wrong place

01:13:20should we actually

01:13:21look forward

01:13:23to our future

01:13:34scientists agree

01:13:36that the best chances

01:13:37of finding alien life

01:13:39will be on planets

01:13:40similar to ours

01:13:41and descriptions

01:13:43of extraterrestrials

01:13:44seem to resemble humans

01:13:46in many ways

01:13:47some ancient astronaut

01:13:50theorists

01:13:51draw a surprising conclusion

01:13:53from these facts

01:13:54suggesting

01:13:55that aliens

01:13:56might actually

01:13:57be human

01:13:59it is odd

01:14:00that many of the

01:14:03descriptions

01:14:04of aliens

01:14:05are effectively

01:14:06humanoid

01:14:07and this

01:14:08raises

01:14:09an interesting

01:14:10possibility

01:14:10one idea

01:14:11that's been put

01:14:12forward

01:14:13is that

01:14:13these are not

01:14:14extraterrestrials

01:14:15at all

01:14:15but they're time

01:14:16travelers

01:14:17from the future

01:14:19they could be us

01:14:20from a thousand

01:14:21two thousand

01:14:22ten thousand

01:14:23years from now

01:14:25let's assume

01:14:26for a moment

01:14:26that ten thousand

01:14:27years from now

01:14:28on this planet

01:14:28if we all survive

01:14:30that time travel

01:14:31was created

01:14:32they've invented it

01:14:33just like the time

01:14:34machine of H.G. Wells

01:14:35days

01:14:36they can go back

01:14:37or they can go forward

01:14:39so let's assume

01:14:40ten thousand years

01:14:41from now

01:14:42we decide to come back

01:14:44to see us

01:14:45maybe they have changed

01:14:47physically

01:14:48they look like

01:14:49the alien greys

01:14:50or whoever they may be

01:14:53it could well be

01:14:55that ancient

01:14:55astronauts

01:14:56might not be

01:14:57creatures from

01:14:57other planets

01:14:58at all

01:14:59but time travelers

01:15:00from 2720

01:15:02in a time machine

01:15:07time travel

01:15:08is an essential

01:15:09concept for

01:15:10science fiction

01:15:10but would it be

01:15:12possible

01:15:13for flesh and blood

01:15:14humans

01:15:14to find a way

01:15:15to transport

01:15:16themselves through

01:15:17time

01:15:17with current

01:15:18technology

01:15:20would this enable us

01:15:21to cover the vast

01:15:22distances of space

01:15:25if I could travel

01:15:26close to the speed

01:15:27of light

01:15:27I could reach

01:15:28the year 3000

01:15:29say

01:15:29in a couple of years

01:15:31have to get very close

01:15:32to the speed of light

01:15:33for that

01:15:33but it's doable

01:15:33and we know

01:15:34that this isn't

01:15:35a theory

01:15:36this is

01:15:36this is real physics

01:15:38we can demonstrate

01:15:38these time warping effects

01:15:42so you can reach

01:15:43the future

01:15:44quicker

01:15:44by traveling close

01:15:45to the speed of light

01:15:48the concept of time travel

01:15:50was first proposed

01:15:51by Albert Einstein

01:15:52in 1905

01:15:53when he published

01:15:55his theory

01:15:55of special relativity

01:15:58ancient astronaut theory

01:16:00says that astronauts

01:16:01visited us

01:16:01a long time ago

01:16:02from somewhere else

01:16:03the technology involved

01:16:05in doing that

01:16:05we would assume

01:16:06would be similar

01:16:06to what we understand now

01:16:07I mean we know

01:16:08special relativity

01:16:09is the law of physics

01:16:10it holds anywhere

01:16:11in the universe

01:16:13ancient astronauts

01:16:14would come all the way here

01:16:15and travel these large distances

01:16:17and not age that much

01:16:18relative to their home planet

01:16:19because if you're going

01:16:20close enough

01:16:21to the speed of light

01:16:22you will have slowed down

01:16:23time enough

01:16:24that when you get back

01:16:26hundreds, thousands

01:16:27or even millions of years

01:16:28could have passed

01:16:36one limitation

01:16:37to this method

01:16:38of travel

01:16:39is that because

01:16:40a spacecraft

01:16:41has mass

01:16:42it theoretically

01:16:43cannot reach

01:16:45the exact speed

01:16:45of light

01:16:46the resulting

01:16:48reduction

01:16:48in velocity

01:16:49would then

01:16:50dramatically increase

01:16:51the amount

01:16:52of time needed

01:16:53to cross

01:16:54the vast universe

01:16:56well there's definitely

01:16:58many theories

01:16:59about how

01:17:00extraterrestrials

01:17:01got here

01:17:02how their

01:17:03propulsion system

01:17:04got them to

01:17:05planet earth

01:17:05they're surely

01:17:06not coming here

01:17:07the way we go out

01:17:08in the space

01:17:09they'd never get here

01:17:10they are finding

01:17:12different ways

01:17:12they have either

01:17:13developed a new

01:17:14form of propulsion

01:17:15or they're able

01:17:16to travel through

01:17:17what I've always believed

01:17:19wormholes

01:17:20throughout the universe

01:17:21that would

01:17:22instantaneously

01:17:23put them here

01:17:27the idea

01:17:28of wormholes

01:17:29was first proposed

01:17:30in 1935

01:17:32by Albert Einstein

01:17:33and his long time

01:17:35collaborator

01:17:36Nathan Rosen

01:17:37they began to explore

01:17:39the possibility

01:17:40that space

01:17:41and time

01:17:42could literally

01:17:42be bent

01:17:43to create

01:17:44a time travel shortcut

01:17:48wormholes

01:17:49have not been detected

01:17:50they're a postulated

01:17:52structure

01:17:53in space

01:17:54that involve

01:17:55actually taking

01:17:56if you want to think

01:17:56of a sheet of paper

01:17:58bending it in half

01:17:59and connecting

01:18:00the two pieces

01:18:01that you get together

01:18:02a wormhole

01:18:03is thought to do

01:18:04something like that

01:18:04space gets warped

01:18:06and it connects

01:18:07between two different

01:18:08parts of space

01:18:09you know

01:18:09there's predictions

01:18:10about what they

01:18:10would look like

01:18:11there's theories

01:18:11about them

01:18:12but we haven't

01:18:12detected one yet

01:18:13you're not actually

01:18:14ever traveling

01:18:15faster than the speed

01:18:15of light

01:18:16you're just

01:18:17cutting corners

01:18:18you don't actually

01:18:20have to go

01:18:21light speed

01:18:21and travel

01:18:22for light years

01:18:23to some place

01:18:24you literally

01:18:25go there

01:18:25through a wormhole

01:18:26and through hyperspace

01:18:27and bang

01:18:28you're there

01:18:30if you can

01:18:31have a wormhole

01:18:31in space

01:18:32then it can be

01:18:33turned in principle

01:18:33into a time machine

01:18:35and so

01:18:36travel

01:18:37back in time

01:18:39as well as

01:18:39forward in time

01:18:40would then be possible

01:18:41the problem is

01:18:42where do you get

01:18:43your wormhole

01:18:44it's not inconceivable

01:18:46that wormholes

01:18:47were made in the

01:18:48big bang

01:18:48coughed out

01:18:49along with everything

01:18:50else

01:18:50there might be

01:18:51one out there

01:18:51in the universe

01:18:52we could harvest

01:18:53and adapt

01:18:54to form a time machine

01:18:57if you end up

01:18:57discovering that

01:18:58you could make wormholes

01:18:59then that increases

01:19:00the range that you

01:19:01can explore in space

01:19:02and that increases

01:19:03the likelihood

01:19:04of having two

01:19:04civilizations at the

01:19:05same time

01:19:06with the right

01:19:07technology to

01:19:08communicate with each

01:19:09other

01:19:12while theoretically

01:19:13possible

01:19:13traveling through

01:19:15wormholes

01:19:15or at the speed

01:19:16of light

01:19:16is currently

01:19:18impossible for us

01:19:19here on earth

01:19:25using modern

01:19:26propulsion methods

01:19:28it would take

01:19:2970,000 years

01:19:30to reach the

01:19:31nearest star

01:19:33fastest rockets

01:19:34are totally puny

01:19:35it's really pathetic

01:19:36so we're talking

01:19:37about 0.01%

01:19:40of the speed

01:19:41of light

01:19:41if you're lucky

01:19:42any object

01:19:43that we could fire

01:19:44out of the solar

01:19:45system

01:19:46is going to take

01:19:46tens of thousands

01:19:47of years

01:19:48to reach the

01:19:49nearest star

01:19:53believe it or not

01:19:54at 4.6 billion

01:19:56years old

01:19:57our solar system

01:19:59is one of the

01:20:00youngest in the

01:20:00universe

01:20:02but if civilizations

01:20:03exist in other

01:20:04galaxies

01:20:05is it possible

01:20:07that they are more

01:20:08advanced than those

01:20:08on earth

01:20:09and if so

01:20:11could they be ahead

01:20:12of us

01:20:12in their ability

01:20:13to travel through

01:20:14space and time

01:20:18for extraterrestrials

01:20:19to come here

01:20:20through the vast

01:20:21reaches of space

01:20:22to our planet

01:20:23they clearly have to

01:20:24have technology

01:20:25that's way in advance

01:20:27of what we have

01:20:28today

01:20:29to go from

01:20:30solar system

01:20:31to solar system

01:20:32rather than going

01:20:33warp speed

01:20:33like in star trek

01:20:34you're really going

01:20:36to travel

01:20:37as they do

01:20:37in star wars

01:20:38where you're

01:20:40jumping through

01:20:41hyperspace

01:20:41going from

01:20:42solar system

01:20:43to solar system

01:20:44is no time at all

01:20:50just because we

01:20:51can't travel

01:20:52from star to star

01:20:53does not mean

01:20:54another more

01:20:56advanced society

01:20:57can't do it either

01:20:58I think that's

01:21:00the height

01:21:01of human arrogance

01:21:01to say

01:21:03just because

01:21:03we can't do it

01:21:05another more

01:21:06advanced civilization

01:21:07can't do it either

01:21:08so you know

01:21:10we have to stop

01:21:11looking at us

01:21:11that we are

01:21:12the pinnacle

01:21:13of creation

01:21:13because we're not

01:21:18celestial beings

01:21:22visitors

01:21:22from the skies

01:21:26deities

01:21:26descending

01:21:27from the heavens

01:21:28to interact

01:21:28with man

01:21:29could these

01:21:31worldwide stories

01:21:32be the foundation

01:21:33for the prevailing

01:21:35belief

01:21:35that something

01:21:36greater than

01:21:37ourselves

01:21:37from beyond

01:21:39our world

01:21:40created the universe

01:21:41as we know it

01:21:55almost all

01:21:56of the great

01:21:56world faiths

01:21:57are based on stories

01:21:59of celestial beings

01:22:00who visit earth

01:22:02many millions of people

01:22:04accept these legends

01:22:05as part of their core beliefs

01:22:13and from the earliest cave drawings

01:22:15to images at Roswell

01:22:18we see artists'

01:22:21interpretations

01:22:21of extraterrestrials

01:22:23or gods

01:22:24coming to our planet

01:22:28in many traditions

01:22:29there is something coming from above

01:22:33there's a stairway to heaven

01:22:34or there's a whirlwind

01:22:36or angel descends

01:22:39sometimes the encounter

01:22:40is quite dangerous

01:22:44as would be appropriate

01:22:46to something awesome

01:22:47and larger

01:22:47and more powerful

01:22:48than we are

01:22:48usually it is memorable

01:22:57many of the myths

01:22:58are much more specific

01:23:00and they really talk about

01:23:02gods physically coming to earth

01:23:06landing

01:23:07doing miracles

01:23:08and showing the people

01:23:10how to live

01:23:15if visitors did come from the stars

01:23:18is it possible

01:23:19that they actually

01:23:20changed the way

01:23:21ancient people thought

01:23:24did they provide

01:23:26an intellectual spark

01:23:27to prehistoric civilizations

01:23:30could that be the reason

01:23:32why so many different cultures

01:23:34could build such large

01:23:36and lasting monuments

01:23:41it's almost as if

01:23:42primitive man

01:23:42woke up one morning

01:23:44and went

01:23:44hey I've got this knowledge

01:23:46and I know how to make tools

01:23:47and I'm going to go

01:23:48and build all these things

01:23:50nah

01:23:51I don't think it happened that way

01:23:52I think others

01:23:54came down to this planet

01:23:55and started teaching

01:23:56other people

01:23:57that were beginning to evolve

01:24:01but the one thing

01:24:03I truly do not believe

01:24:05is that

01:24:06modern cavemen

01:24:07at the time

01:24:08basically created

01:24:10all this knowledge

01:24:11out of thin air

01:24:16all around the world

01:24:18we have concise descriptions

01:24:20in ancient texts

01:24:22which say

01:24:24word for word

01:24:25that some beings

01:24:28came from the sky

01:24:31so it's as if

01:24:33this intellectual

01:24:35big bang

01:24:36or this

01:24:37big bang

01:24:38of knowledge

01:24:39occurred

01:24:40in various

01:24:41periods of time

01:24:43and those

01:24:44various periods

01:24:45of time

01:24:45most concisely

01:24:47always correlate

01:24:49with some type

01:24:50of description

01:24:52of gods

01:24:54descending

01:24:55from the sky

01:25:03I do think of that

01:25:04as a very significant

01:25:06before and after

01:25:07moment in the human story

01:25:08and it is not a moment

01:25:10that is linked

01:25:11to physical evolution

01:25:12we've already got the hardware

01:25:14it's as though

01:25:15something happened

01:25:16to our software

01:25:16around about that time

01:25:18and I think it's a very

01:25:19intriguing moment

01:25:20in the human story

01:25:25for supporters

01:25:27of ancient alien theory

01:25:28the verdict

01:25:29is already in

01:25:31they believe

01:25:32that aliens

01:25:33visited many of

01:25:34Earth's earliest cultures

01:25:36thousands of years ago

01:25:39but is it possible

01:25:40are extraterrestrials

01:25:43responsible for the

01:25:44sacred creation myths

01:25:45of the first

01:25:46human civilizations

01:25:48might they have

01:25:49tampered

01:25:50with our DNA

01:25:52are humans

01:25:53themselves

01:25:53aliens

01:25:54from another planet

01:25:55in the heavens

01:25:56or even

01:25:57from another time

01:25:59while man

01:26:00continues to search

01:26:01for these answers

01:26:02the questions

01:26:04remain

01:26:04if they came here

01:26:07what

01:26:07was their mission

01:26:09we call

01:26:10Earth home

01:26:11but with perfect

01:26:13conditions for life

01:26:14could it be

01:26:15a beacon

01:26:16calling out to

01:26:18other intelligent

01:26:19civilizations

01:26:19that may exist

01:26:21in the universe

01:26:26I think there is

01:26:27life

01:26:27simple life

01:26:28bacterial life

01:26:29microbial life

01:26:30on other planets

01:26:31I think we're

01:26:32going to find that

01:26:33and who knows

01:26:34maybe one day

01:26:35we'll find

01:26:36some other planet

01:26:37that's capable

01:26:38of sustaining life

01:26:39that has evolved

01:26:41people

01:26:41over a long

01:26:42period of time

01:26:43that are also

01:26:44looking up at the stars

01:26:45wondering

01:26:45is there anybody

01:26:47else out there

01:26:47are we the only ones

01:26:49what bigger question

01:26:50could we ask

01:26:51about ourselves

01:26:52and our place

01:26:53in the universe

01:26:53you know

01:26:54is there life

01:26:55elsewhere in the universe

01:26:56or are we it

01:26:57I mean

01:26:58I think it's one of the

01:26:59most fascinating questions

01:27:00and we're fortunate

01:27:01enough to live

01:27:02in a time

01:27:02when we can

01:27:03address this question

01:27:04scientifically

01:27:05and really try

01:27:06and get it some answers

01:27:09you can then come up

01:27:10with a conclusion

01:27:11that something

01:27:12one very strange

01:27:13is happening

01:27:13on this planet

01:27:15and two

01:27:16if it's coming

01:27:17from outside

01:27:18of this system

01:27:20then we're being

01:27:21visited by something

01:27:22that has some

01:27:23intelligence behind it

01:27:26in the end

01:27:27the truth

01:27:28wins

01:27:29and we've seen

01:27:31this in history

01:27:32where

01:27:34scientific theories

01:27:36or ideas

01:27:37that have been

01:27:38deemed

01:27:39impossible

01:27:40turned out

01:27:41to be

01:27:42true

01:27:42and so

01:27:44it is my firm

01:27:46conviction

01:27:47that the same

01:27:48will count

01:27:49for the ancient

01:27:50alien theory

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