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NARRATOR: Winged creatures
carrying messages

from the heavens.

Unearthly guardians entrusted
to both observe and protect.

Powerful warriors
bringing about everything

from plague to peace.

But are angels merely
the product of mankind's

imagination, or do
they really exist?

If so, where do they come from?

(VOICEOVER): When
angels appear, they

begin to do things that
defy our laws of physics.

(VOICEOVER): I don't think
they actually have wings.

It was ancient
man's way of saying

they had the power of flight.

NARRATOR: Are angels
really supernatural

beings from heaven,
or something more?

(VOICEOVER): It's essentially a
misinterpreted flesh and blood

extraterrestrial who visited
earth a long, long time ago.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been
visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

If so, might angels
really be travelers

visiting the earth
from distant planets?

[MUSIC]

NARRATOR: Angels.

According to a Neilsen survey
taken in 2010, nearly 70%

of Americans believe
in their existence.

But what are they?

Winged visitors from God,
as depicted in the Bible?

Smiling cherubs who peer down
at us from billowing clouds?

Or something much, much more?

FR.

WILLIAM J. FULCO: The
concept of of angels

is obviously very, uh,
widespread, certainly

in American culture.

And you find in Latin
culture, Greek culture,

Babylonian culture.

PHILIP COPPENS: When
we think of angels,

we immediately
think to the Bible,

but when you go onto the
internet, when you read books,

you will find that
people have visitations

of angels every single day.

NARRATOR: In the Hebrew
Bible's Book of Genesis,

angels first appear
as divine beings,

sent to earth as
messengers of God.

FR.

WILLIAM J. FULCO,
PHD: They wanted

to have God interacting
with human beings,

but it seemed somewhat
undignified to have

God directly operating,
and so he set messengers.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The word
"angel" is a mistranslation.

In Hebrew, the word for
"angel" is [HEBREW].

However, the correct translation
is not "angel" at all,

but it is in fact, "messenger."

In Greek, the word
[GREEK] is not "angel."

It is "intermediary,"
"middle man."

And so what do we
have in these stories?

We have these intermediaries--
these messengers--

bringing information from
quote unquote, "God."

BILL BIRNES: By definition,
angels are otherworldly.

Angels are extraterrestrial.

They're not from this planet.

So really, by definition,
ETs and angels are the same.

Now, our modern conception
of ETs has changed.

But go back thousands
and thousands

of years when angels lived
among our biblical ancestors.

They didn't call them ETs.

They called them
angels, but they

knew they were not of this
world, not of this planet.

NARRATOR: But could some of
these so-called messengers

of God have served
another function, one

not so benevolent or benign?

According to the Book of Enoch--
the so-called lost Biblical

text that was rediscovered
among the Dead Sea

Scrolls in the late 1940s-- the
first angels to arrive on earth

were the fallen angels.

BILL BIRNES: It
was on Mount Herman

that angels came down from
the heavens-- fallen angels

to inhabit earth.

They were trying to assume
power, and, because of that,

they were cast out from
heaven and cast down to earth.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Now to me, this

sounds more of a mutiny story--
where extraterrestrials arrive

here, and there
was a type of rift,

and so they split into
two different fractions.

And the faction
that split off is

what today is referred
to as the fallen angels.

GEORGE NOORY: Enoch
was a believer

in angels, fallen
angels, visitations.

But everything he
put in his scriptures

seemed to imply, to me,
extraterrestrial visitation,

from craft that he
saw, to mountainsides

that they would land, to
them taking him around,

to telling him things.

NARRATOR: Both in
the Book of Enoch

and in the Hebrew
Bible, the fallen angels

act in direct
opposition to God's

will by interbreeding
with humans.

-In, uh, Genesis XI,
it talks about the,

the Sons of Gods--
Gods, plural-- mating

with the daughters of men.

And there was a certain
evil connotation to it.

-How can angels have sex?

Enoch describes of it.

Some of the extraterrestrials
stood on earth.

They had sex with
some of our girls.

That is what is
written down in Enoch.

It's not my invention.

Enoch never calls them gods.

He calls them guardians
of the skies, or watchmen.

NARRATOR: According to ancient
texts, the fallen angels

not only physically mated
with the women of earth,

they produced
offspring-- the Nephilim,

a race of giants similar
to those portrayed

in the story of
David and Goliath.

But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the use of the term
giants is misleading.

They theorize that the term
refers not to the Nephilim's

physical size, but to their
almost superhuman ability.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Were they giants,

or is that the wrong
word, and the correct word

should be extraterrestrial?

Because then, in my opinion,
it makes more sense.

Because, so far, I have
not seen an original fossil

of a giant bone.

NARRATOR: But if, as
many ancient astronaut

theorists believe,
fallen angels were really

extraterrestrials that first
arrived in the Middle East,

wouldn't they also have
appeared elsewhere in the world?

For proof, researchers point
to thousands of carvings

and other depictions of winged
guardians, strange creatures,

and other half-man
and half-beasts

that commonly appear on
ancient walls and artifacts.

-There is such an enormous
amount of evidence

to suggest that angels are not
something which Christianity

invented, but that
they were somehow

physically present
in all civilizations.

REV. MICHAEL J.S.
CARTER: Ancient cultures

that depicted the gods
as winged creatures are

the Sumerians, the Babylonians,
certainly the Egyptians.

All of these
civilizations had symbols

where there may have
been a winged disc,

or they may have been what
we would call today probably

a UFO.

I believe they were just letting
us know that these things flew.

-In the Middle
East in particular,

there were depictions of
supernatural beings with wings.

The demons of
Mesopotamia, Pazuzu,

which had the head of a lion,
and the body of a human,

and the wings of a locust.

-They were primarily
soldiers of the higher

gods, servants of
the higher gods.

The higher gods depended
on these messengers.

They would run back and
forth and gather information.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Bible may be
the most thoroughly documented

account of
extraterrestrial contact

ever in written
history here on earth.

We just simply have not
learned how to interpret,

and how to identify, the
clear and obvious evidence

that the Seraphim, the Kerubin,
the archangels, the angels--

all of these different
hierarchies of beings

described in the Old and the
New Testament-- literally do

refer to visitors who come here.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Use the
word "extraterrestrial"

instead of the word of "angel."

Use the word of, uh, "leader
of extraterrestrials"

instead of "archangel."

If you change a few words in
the old texts, a few key words,

you change the sense
of the old texts.

It's all not coincidence.

It was our purpose.

It's time to wake up to see
these things with modern eyes.

NARRATOR: But if, as ancient
astronaut theorists maintain,

angels are not ethereal
winged beings but actually

flesh and blood creatures
visiting us from other planets,

why are they here?

And if they are messengers,
just who, or what,

do they represent?

Mount Sodom, Israel.

A pillar of rock salt
known as Lot's wife

overlooks the southwestern
part of the Dead Sea,

near the presumed location
of the biblical cities

of Sodom and Gomorrah.

In both the Hebrew Book of
Genesis and the Islamic Quran,

angels travel to the spot to
warn Abraham's nephew, Lot,

that God was about to unleash
terror upon the world.

-And the angel
finally says to Lot,

if you don't come now
with your family--

two girls and the wife--
I cannot help you anymore.

It looks as if a countdown
was working which could not be

stopped anymore, if even
the angel cannot stop it.

[THUNDER AND LIGHTNING]

(VOICEOVER): And sure
enough, they walk away,

and there's this
mayhem and destruction.

His wife turns around and she
turns into a pillar of salt.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Since
the ancient astronaut theory

proposes that angels were
nothing else but misinterpreted

flesh and blood
extraterrestrials,

this means that
extraterrestrials

did side with certain people.

Were angels or
extraterrestrials interfering

with human development?

NARRATOR: But if angels
save Lot and his family

from the wrath of
God, is this proof

that angels are more than
just otherworldly messengers?

Might they be more
actively engaged

in helping their human
counterparts, Even

to the extent that
they might still

be affecting the outcome
of human history?

Once again, ancient
astronaut theorists

look to the Book of
Enoch for their answer,

and claim to have found
evidence in its references

to race of fallen angels
known as watchers.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
There is much debate

amongst the religious scholars
about the fallen angels.

[RELIGIOUS MUSIC]

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Some
say they were deliberately

sent here to watch over man.

And in the Book of
Enoch specifically, we

have 20 watchers
which are sort of

in charge of all the
other angels that

are in Enoch's presence.

So, you have the commanders,
and the officers,

and the lieutenants And
those twenty deliberately

teach Enoch in
various disciplines,

such as meteorology, astronomy,
how to make better swords.

Now, would something
like this really happen

in the kingdom of God?

I think the answer is clear.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:

What do they want?

And if we're dealing with
one or more intelligences,

that, maybe they have
different agendas.

But maybe there is
something out there

that has been an ally
to evolving hominids.

And we're the latest model.

NARRATOR: In the Bible,
angels often appear

to humans as physical
entities that can be seen,

heard, and even touched.

But today, many people
believe angels are present,

whether they can
see them or not.

According to a 2008 survey by
Baylor University's Institute

for Studies of Religion,
55% of all American adults

believe a guardian
angel protects them.

THOMAS E. BULLARD:
The popularity

of guardian angels in the
modern culture, I think,

has to do with the
idea that we want

some kind of
supernatural protection

in a world where we don't really
feel very safe oftentimes.

NARRATOR: The Islamic faith
teaches that every human being

has, not one, but two guardian
angels-- one for each shoulder.

These celestial
beings are called

"writing angels" because they
write down the good deeds

and the bad deeds
each person's life.

The first so-called
guardian angel to appear

in Judeo-Christian texts
is the angel Raphael,

who was featured in the Book
of Tobit, written sometime

between the eighth and
second century B.C.

FR.

WILLIAM J. FULCO: Tobid is off
on a very difficult mission.

He is going to go to
Persia to find a wife,

and he runs into all sorts
of problems on the way.

So, God sends the angel
Raphael, and now we

have the angel not just
as a messenger from God,

he becomes a guardian angel.

He becomes a special protector.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: The
idea of guardian angel--

is it just because we wish it?

We believe it-- that
somebody is protecting us.

Or, does it come
from the past, having

to do, maybe, something
with extraterrestrial?

In the sense that
some extraterrestrial,

sent to some human,
will protect you.

Don't be afraid.

L.A. MARZULLI: What is the
guardian angel guarding us

from?

Why is that guardian
angel protecting us?

And is there more than one?

Short answer to that
is absolutely, yes.

He's guarding us for what?

The fallen angels.

THOMAS E. BULLARD:
Judeo-Christian and Islamic

tradition, there is
as an idea that there

will be some kind
of a final warfare

when God defeats Satan
once and for all.

That's been interpreted,
by some people,

to say that the
aliens will come back.

They'll fight it out
again, one final time.

NARRATOR: Both the Book of
Enoch and the New Testament Book

of Revelation refers to
a final cosmic battle

of good versus evil.

NARRATOR: Other
Biblical stories include

accounts of angels wielding
extraordinary powers--

angels who are not
just guardians,

but intervene in human affairs.

But who are these
celestial warriors?

The New Testament's
Acts of the Apostles

tells the story of
Saint Peter, who

was imprisoned in Jerusalem
by King Herod in 44 A.D.

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: Peter
is asleep between two soldiers.

So the angel walks
through the wall.

He's a physical being
because he touches

Peter, tells Peter to
wake up, come with me.

He unshackles Peter, and he
says to Peter, follow me.

L.A. MARZLLI: The
prison cell opens.

Peter walks out.

And, the first thing he notices
is all the guards are asleep.

They get out to the courtyard.

This huge prison gate opens
by itself, and Peter walks out

and he's free.

The angel walks with
him a little bit longer,

[SNAPS] is gone.

NARRATOR: Is the freeing of
Saint Peter an alien encounter

story?

Or, is it a true story
of heavenly angels

commanding otherworldly powers?

REV MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: A lot
of the times, modern contact,

he's saying, well, these beings
have come to me in my dreams.

They can come
through my walls, uh,

my, all my doors are
locked, my windows are shut,

and all of a sudden
I open my eyes

and there is a being there.

MICHAEL CREMO: Some might say
these accounts of visitations

by angels are result of
imagination or projection.

But, I take them as actual
historical accounts,

because they're
presented that way.

[BELL TOLLS]

DAVID WILCOCK: We look
at the case of religion.

We can see clear evidence of
extraterrestrial human visitors

who have come here
and have tried

to help improve conditions
in our civilization.

And they have been consistently
trying to help the earth along,

which may, in
fact, be leading up

to a galactic family reunion.

Where, after a certain
point, when we're ready,

they no longer
have to follow the,

"prime directive,"
if you will, and can

again show themselves to us.

NARRATOR: But whether angels
are, in fact, supernatural

or extraterrestrial
beings, artists

have nearly always
depicted them as having

large, almost bird-like wings.

But where does this notion come?

From ancient texts, or from
a more mysterious source--

a source, not from
the heavens, but

from a place thousands
of light years away?

Rome, Italy.

Stored in the treasury of Saint
Peter's Basilica in the Vatican

is the sarcophagus
of Junius Bassus.

Constructed in 359
A.D., the sarcophagus

features what some believe to
be the earliest known depiction

of winged angels and
all of Christianity.

In the centuries that
followed, angels almost always

depicted as having wings.

But why?

Especially since
the actual Biblical

texts rarely describe angels
as having bird-like appendages.

REV. MICHAEL J.S.
CARTER: The vast majority

of the stories in the
Old Testament-- angels

aren't described as
having wings at all.

And some of them,
they look human.

When the angel comes
to visit Abraham,

this angel does not have wings.

He looks like a man.

Abraham bows to him,
which is interesting.

How did Abraham know?

If he looks like a
human being, what

was it that gave
Abraham the clue

to run over and bow down to him?

And so, there's a
supernatural quality.

There's a superhuman quality
that they acknowledged.

That this was a person who
was a little more than human.

(VOICEOVER): The concept
of the angel, as such,

comes directly out of the
Greco-Roman tradition-- stories

of Hermes and Iris
kind of coming

down and giving messages.

RICHARD RADER: Envisioning them
as beings-- like human beings--

kind of looking like human
beings and being benevolent.

There are plenty of
other beings which

have these beautiful wings,
these kind of forms and shapes,

but all of these beings,
however they are conceived of,

are a way of telling us
that we have a hard time

understanding what it
is that separates us

from them-- from the gods.

They have to be these kind
of weird beings, have wings.

JASON MARTELL: Angels show up in
various cultures as, probably,

misidentified technology.

If they saw someone, a
human being or a humanoid,

flying in the
skies, they can only

give it a natural
review-- giving it wings.

I don't think they
actually had wings.

It was ancient
man's way of saying

they had the power of flight.

REV. MICHAEL J.S.
CARTER: The angels

that have wings that we're
used to seeing-- depicted

in pictures of the Bible and
what have you-- basically

the wings say, these
beings can fly.

So, we believe in angels.

And the Native Americans
talk about the Star People.

The Egyptians talk
about the gods

coming to and from the earth.

So, I believe this
is the basis--

this is the template-- for the
civilizations of the earth's

religious practices.

I, I believe that.

NARRATOR: For centuries,
religious tradition

has perpetuated the
notion of bird-like wings

to explain angel's
mode of travel.

But is such a concept even
scientifically plausible?

In 2009, a study at
University College London

compared classic
depictions of winged angels

with actual bird physiology.

MICHAEL DENNIN: You have to be
able to flap down and flap up.

And, you really need a separate
muscle to do each of these.

On the way down, you're
generating the lift.

And you actually have to rotate
the wings slightly and get

a different angle
as you come up.

And then, they actually
generate their thrust.

Otherwise-- if you
just went up and down

in the same straight pattern--
you'd be making lift one way,

but when you went
back the other way,

you'd just put
yourself back down.

So, when you look at the
classic pictures of angels,

the wings are centered on their
back, very close together.

Whereas the birds with
the wings on the side

can have longer
muscles with uh, great,

strength that go into
moving them up and down.

With the wings on
the back, they're

going to look like they're
going to flap more like this

than up and down.

NARRATOR: Researchers
also concluded

that angels, given their
humanoid interpretation,

would be simply too
heavy for flight.

MICHAEL DENNIN: We're not
designed aerodynamically.

And, we're quite heavy.

Um, I mean, we're solid
bones solid muscle.

So, those two features
you have to overcome.

NARRATOR: But if
angels could not

have possessed actual
wings, how would they

have managed to travel
to and from the heavens?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:

described to fly
around like Superman.

But they sort of had a
vertical ascent into the sky

or, when they descended,
it was a vertical descent.

How was that possible?

NARRATOR: In 1953,
Bell Aerosystems

developed the Rocket
Belt, the precursor

to today's workable jet pack.

Designed to lift individuals
vertically into the air

and glide them across the
skies, today's jet packs

can reach altitudes
of over 8,000 feet

and travel at speeds of
up to 60 miles per hour.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: If you
look at a modern jet pack,

humans are ascending
and descending

in a vertical position.

Now, imagine if that picture
was shown to our ancestors.

How would they react?

Obviously they will say, wow.

This creature must be divine.

This creature must
be some type of god

because they've got the
capability of fight.

They're like birds.

Not even they sky is
the limit to them.

NARRATOR: But could a device
similar to modern-day jet packs

really explain of
how Biblical angels

were capable of ascending
bodily into the heavens?

Could they have had other
methods of flight unfamiliar

to our ancient ancestors?

REV. MICHAEL J.S.
CARTER: Ezekiel talks

about a flying chariot.

Ancient Hebrews talk about
the pillar of cloud by day

and the pillar of fire by night.

So clearly, these
are physical machines

that the angels are using.

The story of Jacob and
the angel in Genesis 28

is a classic UFO, uh, scenario.

Jacob falls asleep,
and in this dream,

he dreams that there's angels
going up and down a ladder,

and this latter
comes from heaven.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: If you
look at, lets say, a spaceship.

And it opens its door, and
there's a ramp coming out.

I mean, that almost
looks like ah, a ladder.

So, it is possible
that what is described

there is nothing else but
a technological event that

was described as a ladder.

NARRATOR: Did our
ancestors tried

to explain an ancient alien
technology by suggesting

that extraterrestrial
visitors were

heavenly visitors with
bird-like like wings?

If the answer is
yes, the implications

are both profound and
potentially disturbing.

For if angels are actual
visitors from other worlds,

then what is their mission?

Are they simply watching us?

Or is there, perhaps, a
more sinister purpose?

Temple Mount, Old
City, Jerusalem.

It was here that many Biblical
stories reportedly occurred,

including the binding of
Isaac from Genesis 22.

In this story, God asks
Abraham to sacrifice

his son, Issac, on Mount Moriah.

Abraham sets out to
obey God's command,

but after binding his son and
preparing for the sacrifice,

he is stopped at the
last minute by an angel.

Conventional
interpretations of the story

usually conclude that God only
wanted to test Abraham's faith.

But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the tale has another
interpretation.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
In my opinion,

God God would never
ask such a question.

So, is it possible
that there was

a fallen angel-slash-alien
extraterrestrial who

posed as God?

RICHARD RADER: God never
demands human sacrifice--

human sacrifice is totally
an anathema to Christianity

and it's totally anathema
to God as a creator.

The French philosopher
Sartre very famously

wrote, "If an angel
were to tell me

I needed to sacrifice my
son, I'd ask for some ID."

PHILIP COPPENS: Maybe somebody
else impersonating a god--

and we then we have
somebody stepping in

to actually prevent
it from happening.

Are we, in fact,
maybe confronted

with two warring
civilizations trying

to control what is happening
in the stories of the Bible?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Just like there

are good people and bad
people here on earth,

there's good and bad
extraterrestrials out there.

Good and evil permeates
the entire universe.

Yin and yang--
there's a balance.

NARRATOR: Deep inside the
Middle Eastern country

of Oman, a mysterious
cavern lies

hidden far beneath the surface.

Called Majilis al Jinn, or
Meeting Place of the Djinn,

it stretches more than
14 acres underground,

and is one of the
world's 10 largest caves.

Many Omani still believe this
cavern, and others like it,

are actually inhabited
by supernatural creatures

of Islamic folklore called jinn,
or genies, mystical creatures

that are usually
invisible to man.

JONATHAN YOUNG: One
interesting aspect of the jinns

is an element of free will.

They're like angels, but we
think of angels, in the west,

as under the direct command
of the divine powers.

But the jinn can make some
decisions for themselves,

and some of them area a
little contrary or curious

in their way of being.

NARRATOR: to Islamic theology,
genes often reveal themselves

to humans with
messages which can

be either malevolent
or deceptive.

But is it possible that
genies actually exist?

If so, where did they come from?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
When we talk

about genies--
genie in a bottle--

it's very interesting,
because you rub the bottle

and then the genie comes out of
it and it fulfills your wishes.

Well, let's look at this from
a modern day prospective.

If you have a little container,
and you push a button,

and a hologram comes
out, then, could that

be a gene in a bottle?

And according to the
ancient astronaut theory,

that is exactly what happened
where extraterrestrials

used holograms in order
to relay messages.

That is essentially
a genie in a bottle.

NARRATOR: Like
angels, jinn are said

to be able to appear
and disappear at will,

and are sometimes only
heard as disembodied voices.

But while some ancient
astronaut theorists

believe this behavior resembles
that of extraterrestrials,

others claimed
that angels, jinn,

and other supernatural
creatures have

origins right here on earth.

They call these beings
ultraterrestrial.

JASON MARTELL: Ultraterrestrials
are possible beings

that travel, visit us,
us from other dimensions.

We know that we all vibrate
in the three-dimensional space

at a certain frequency.

It's very possible
that other beings

vibrate at a higher
frequency, and are

able to pass more easily
into other dimensions.

THOMAS E. BULLARD: The
ultraterrestrial theory

would also explain the
full-glory creatures,

the angelic creatures, any sort
of experience of a strange,

supernatural, or
alien beings that's

occurred throughout history.

NARRATOR: But could so-called
fallen angels, jinn,

and other mysterious
ultraterrestrial creatures

really help to explain more
recent stories of people

who claim they are directed
toward violent ends

by the word of God?

David Berkowitz, better
known as Son of Sam,

claimed a demon who took
possession of his neighbor's

dog commanded him to kill.

Herbert Mullin, who committed
13 murders in California

in the early 1970s,
claimed voices in his head

told him he had to make
human sacrifices in order

to prevent a
cataclysmic earthquake.

Marshall Applewhite, the
leader of the UFO cult known

as Heaven's Gate,
inspired a mass suicide

based on a vision that
led him to believe

he was related to Jesus.

RICHARD RADAR:

is full of characters who are
claiming that they have been

influenced by God's angels,
extraterrestrial beings, right?

Which is rather like, when
Charles Manson or the Son

of Sam, claims, say,
metaphysical reasons

or theological reasons for
what they're doing now.

So it's not a matter of
whether we believe them or not.

They very much believe it.

And that's what's important.

What matters is that, from the
ancient world to the modern,

there are mysterious forces--
whether they are fictions

or not-- and we don't
have the ultimate answers.

What matters is the similarity.

And those discourses
are, to a certain extent,

transhistorical.

NARRATOR: Angels and demons.

Good versus evil.

But if, as many ancient
astronaut proponents maintain,

extraterrestrials have been
masquerading as angels, jinn,

and otherworldly
creatures for thousands

of years, where they come from?

Why are they here?

And could they be all
around us in plain sight?

Mount Hermon, high
above the Holy Land.

At 9,230 feet, this
mysterious mountain

straddles the borders of
Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

Sitting above the Golan
Heights, Mount Hermon

has been contested ground
among Christian, Hebrew,

and Islamic faithful
for thousands of years.

According to the
Synoptic Gospels,

Mount Hermon is the location of
the Transfiguration of Jesus,

an event in which
Jesus was transformed

into a radiant, altered state,
and was seen to be conversing

with Moses and
the prophet Elijah

Mount Hermon is also the
site where the 200 fallen

angels descended to earth
in the Book of Enoch.

But why Mount Hermon?

Is there a geological
significance to that site?

BILL BIRNES: All across
the face of the earth,

there are particular hot spots.

And it could well be that
the reason the Middle East

is such a hot spot,
and the reason there

are legends that the
Middle East contains

stargates, portals
to other universes.

One theory says that
we were populated

from the stars in
the Middle East

at the beginning of, what
we call, our own time.

NARRATOR: In the occult
science of numerology,

the number 33 represents
the ultimate attainment

of consciousness.

Mount Hermon is located at
the 33rd parallel north, which

is a latitude 33 degrees
north of the earth's equator.

Tracing the 33rd parallel
to the exact opposite side

of the globe directly
points to the site

of the most famous
alleged UFO encounter

in modern history, in
Roswell, New Mexico.

L.A. MARZULLI: If you take
the geographic polar opposite

from Mount Herman, you wind
up in Roswell, New Mexico.

Now, that's not
an accident folks.

That's not an accident.

Fallen angels are
very big on where

they show up, do what
they do, how they do it.

That should send shivers
up and down your spine.

NARRATOR: But could
the global coordinates

of the Roswell crash site,
and those of Mount Herman,

have a special, perhaps
secret, significance?

BILL BIRNES: If aliens use the
33rd latitudinal line as a way

point, as a landing
point for planet earth,

what Biblical people saw,
thousands and thousands

of years ago on
Mount Herman, were

entities that came
down from the sky.

They called them angels.

We call them extraterrestrials.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: My idea
is, these extraterrestrials,

they landed at different points.

Why?

They knew that
thousands of years

in the far future,
the humans would

know the geometry of their land.

And all of a sudden, they
say, hey, what's that?

These are places
linked together.

It's not coincidence.

It was on purpose.

NARRATOR: Could
the angels descend

upon Mount Herman
thousands of years ago

and the aliens who were
reportedly seen over Roswell,

New Mexico in 1947, belong to
the same extraterrestrial race?

And if so, does this means
angels, or aliens, have

been among us all along?

Were they left
behind to monitor us,

or perhaps even guided
us into the future?

DAVID WILCOCK:
Probably the last time

that we had any regular
interaction with these ETs,

as a cultural level,
was during the time

the foundation of Islam.

For whatever reason,
these guys seem

to have followed a mutual
collective agreement

that they'd withdraw
from the earth

after the time of Islam, the
New Testament, the Bible, et

cetera, et cetera.

Stay away.

But in the meantime,
we develop technology,

we get all proud of
ourselves, and think oh, we're

the only game in town here.

Wake up.

They're all over the place.

Look at the angels in the Bible.

These are documented records.

The people that wrote these
books didn't think they

were myths.

They didn't think
they were fake.

They were writing down history.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:

want that, in a far
future of mankind,

we start to see these things.

We start to translate
these books.

We start to realize
that something on earth,

in geometry, is wrong.

And now we start
to ask question.

We start to ask, for example,
how can we explain that?

Have we maybe been visited
by extraterrestrials?

And I think it's important
to think in this way.

Because these extraterrestrials
have promised to return.

And when-- they,
they will return.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: If
we humans are now on,

we'll say, the cusp, of finally
having some truth laid out

to us about our relationship
to other intelligences

in the universe.

I just hope that we will be
looking at aliens-- past,

present and future-- as not our
killers and not our saviors,

but as another intelligence that
we will be able to shake hands

with and learned something
about the cosmos.

NARRATOR: But if, and perhaps
when, so-called angels revealed

themselves to us in the
form of extraterrestrials,

would we accept them?

Perhaps only when
we are ready to know

the truth about our own origins.

Will that day come?