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Narrator: Rockets capable of
destroying entire cities...
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fire that burns underwater...
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and fighter jets that
fly without pilots...
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Throughout history, advances
in technology have lead to the
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development of
powerful weapons...
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Each more deadly than the last.
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Giorgio Tsoukalos: We go from
attaching sharp stones to the
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ends of sticks, and then all of a
sudden, we have actual swords.
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Deepak Shimkada: In the
Mahabharata, 46 different
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types of weapon are described.
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Bill Birnes: They're using
air-to-ground missiles, powerful
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particle beam weapons.
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It's astounding to read about
events from centuries ago using
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weapons that are in use today.
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Narrator: But were
these lethal weapons
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the product of human innovation?
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Or were they
developed with help
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from another, more
otherworldly, source?
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David Childress:
Extraterrestrials may well
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have given man these weapons.
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They want us to be able to advance,
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and ultimately to be like them.
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Narrator: Millions of
people around the world
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believe we have been
visited in the past
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by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And might they have been
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responsible for the development
of mankind's deadliest weapons?
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Narrator: Earth.
4.5 billion years ago.
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Molten-hot magma spews
from beneath the ground.
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Lightning cracks down
in bursts from the sky.
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And rivers of lava
flow across the land.
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Ever since the dawn of time, our
planet has been changing...
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evolving... and ripped apart by
the awesome forces of nature.
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And it's the harnessing of that
nature that has offered mankind
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its most formidable challenge
and greatest accomplishment.
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David Southwell: Mankind
achieving the ability
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to manipulate fire,
is probably the most
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historical event
that ever happened.
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When we achieved the ability to
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master fire, everything
changed for mankind.
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Narrator: But how
did our ancestors
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learn to recreate and
harness this most volatile--
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and ultimately essential--
of the earth's elements?
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Was it simply a part of our
intellectual evolution?
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Or is it possible that the
knowledge came from another,
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more otherworldly, origin?
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Philip Coppens: When we look at
fire, we imagine this idea that
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somehow our ancestors are
rubbing some sticks together,
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but each culture always says that
fire is a gift from the gods.
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Southwell: In native American
traditions, quite often
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it's fire was stolen
from the world above.
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In Maori legends, again, we see
the theft of fire from the gods.
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In the Greek legends,
it's Prometheus
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stealing fire from the gods.
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Narrator: How is it that such
similar myths exist about fire
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being given to man by the gods?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, this eerie similarity
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may actually be
evidence that gods,
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or, perhaps, extraterrestrial
beings, really do exist.
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And, if so, it might also reveal
how mankind eventually used fire
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to create deadlier and more
sophisticated weapons.
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Southwell: If we are talking
about ancient aliens
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having an impact, where would
we expect to see that impact?
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I would expect to see
it in metal working.
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And do we actually see hard and
fast evidence of mankind making
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sudden huge leaps
in metal working?
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Yes, we do.
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Tsoukalos: We go from
attaching sharp stones to the
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ends of sticks, and then all of
a sudden, we have actual swords.
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According to archaeologists,
the first human
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work with metal weaponry
began in the bronze age,
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beginning around 3,300 BC
in the near east.
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Phil Imbrogno: Most of the swords were
at one time either copper or iron
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if you think about the ages
we start first with bronze,
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nickel, softer things
that easier to work with
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the reason we don't have
iron, is the first example
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is because is a much harder material
you have to get much hotter fire
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to be able to work with it, and it's
just a tougher material to work with.
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They were fighting, bashing
each other with these swords
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they were very tough swords, which
means it wasn't always very sharp
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Rafael Kosche: And these
people were fighting
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when they're hacking each
other's head and arms off,
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they were ripping each other's head
and arms off blood pieces of metal.
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Narrator: Approximately 1,000 years
after the development of iron
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came another, even
greater, breakthrough:
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The invention of steel.
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Imbrogno: No one really knows
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when people first started making steel.
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Some say it only dates 1000 B.C.
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To make a steel sword in ancient
times was not an easy task.
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You would have to get
high-quality iron.
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And most of the time they could
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not get that iron
mined from the earth.
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And meteorites were obtained,
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which were pure iron, which
made the best steel swords.
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And these were
considered magic swords.
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And they were usually a guarded
secret, and villages would have
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one or two steel swords.
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And there's tales about warlords
who had one purpose in mind:
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To find all the steel
swords that were made
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and take them for their army.
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There's no doubt that the
cultures that were able to
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obtain steel usually became
masters of the world.
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(Grunting and shouting)
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Narrator: But where the
forging of iron requires a
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relatively unsophisticated
knowledge of metallurgy,
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the creation of steel is a more
complex scientific process.
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So who, or what, was responsible
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for this incredible evolutionary innovation?
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Imbrogno: In the book of
Enoch, we see some type of
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interaction between celestial
beings and human beings.
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What did they give us?
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They gave us steel.
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And the legend goes-- not only
from the Bible and from Enoch,
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but it goes to sumerian times--
where the gods had steel.
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Jonathan Young: The making of
sword is a magical process
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back in the time before
modern metallurgy
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the ability to take natural material
and make a sword out of it
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it was considered the
work of a wizard
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Peter Fiebag (translated): They mustn't
look the village blacksmith's in the eyes
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because people are frightened
of being killed by his gaze.
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The blacksmith isn't allowed
to live in the village
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because of his magical powers.
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Narrator: The notion of metal
working being a dark and magical
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process was so prevalent in the
ancient world that in Greek
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mythology, even Zeus looked upon
his son Hephaestus, the god of
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metallurgy, with suspicion.
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Richard Rader: Hephaestus is responsible
for making armature for the gods.
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But the real miracle that he
does is for this shield for Achilles.
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And it's got the
whole universe on it.
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What's amazing about
this thing is that
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it's not just a static
shield, it's alive,
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this is not something
that a human being makes.
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This is terrifying, this is scary,
and this thing will kill you,
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just in its own kind
of metaphysical beauty.
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And so he has this weird ability
to kind of endow metal with a
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kind of life of its own.
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So Zeus is, in fact, very
suspicious of this guy and just
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tries to get rid of him.
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So Zeus picks him up and slings
him, and he just falls and falls
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and falls and falls and falls
until he crash-lands on the
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island of Lemnos.
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There is a little city on
the island of Lemnos called
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Hephaestia, so there's a place that is
named specifically after Hephaestus.
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Narrator: 3,000 years ago,
Hephaestia was one of the most
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important cities in Greece.
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And according to the ancient
stories, Hephaestus actually
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lived here among
the people of Lemnos.
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The greeks worshiped this
divine blacksmith and built
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monuments to him.
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But could this mythological being
have actually been present
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in ancient Greece?
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And if so, might he
have been not a God...
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but an ancient alien visitor?
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Rader: In Greek mythology, you
conceive of gods as kind of
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like human beings.
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And we have lots of literature
which deals with a whole range
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of interactions that human
beings can have with gods.
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Tsoukalos: It is very clearly
stated that the knowledge for
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making swords was given
directly by the gods.
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And those gods weren't figments
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of our ancestors' imagination,
but they were physical beings.
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Narrator: Is it really
possible that our ancestors'
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ability to forge metals and
make weapons was aided by
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extraterrestrial beings?
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And might stories of swords
imbued with magical powers be
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something more than
mere works of fiction?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
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half a world away--
in Japan.
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Japan,
700 A.D.
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Here, according to legend, the
swordsmith, Amakuni, and his
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son, Amakura, sealed themselves
away in their blacksmith shop in
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an effort to forge
the perfect weapon.
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For seven days and seven nights,
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they prayed to the Shinto
gods to guide them.
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31 days later, they emerged from
their isolation with a curved,
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single-edged sword resembling
no blade ever made before.
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Kosche: At that time,
the swords that they used
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were these double edged,
Chinese designed
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clunky, heavy,
unwieldy swords.
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And Amakuni started reestablishing
and learning everything
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that he knew about metallurgy
and after about a month,
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finally emerged from his forge,
and had this single edge blade
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with a curvature to it.
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Every swordsmith in the
area ridiculed him.
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Everybody laughed at him.
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They thought
he was ridiculous,
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that he didn't know
what he was doing.
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"That's not the way you do it."
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Well, the next time the emperor
went off into battle...
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When he came back, Amakuni
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stood on his front porch, and he
started counting the blades:
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Two, ten, 15, 20, 100, 200
blades-- none of them were broken.
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And the emperor
praised him and said,
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"you are the greatest
swordsmith ever."
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Ever since then, they have
followed that design.
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Narrator: But what was the
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secret behind Amakuni's
radical new design?
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And what-- or who-- inspired him
to deviate from the one that had
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been used for more
than 1,000 years?
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Was he simply ahead of his time?
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Or could he really have received
otherworldly guidance during the
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seven days and nights he and his
son prayed to the Shinto gods?
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(Swords clanging, men shouting)
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Kosche: The history of the
Japanese sword is a long and
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varied history all the way back
to mythological beliefs that
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Omikami, the sun goddess, gave
her grandson a sword when she
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sent him down to
rule over the earth.
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Narrator: According to the
beliefs of the samurai,
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higher beings called Kami
began human life.
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But in order for humans to
experience the divine nature of
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the Kami, they must undergo
purification rituals, which were
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always performed when
making a new blade.
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Kosche: Before you even begin,
you bathe yourself, and
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you put on clean clothes.
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All your assistants give
prayers, and they solicit
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the help from the gods.
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And, in fact, there are sword
smiths that will actually
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chant as they're hammering
on the blade...
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Because every hammer, as it
compacts the metal, is also
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including their chant into it.
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Narrator: Could the sword
maker, Amakuni, and his son,
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Amakura, have actually come
in contact with the Kami?
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And might these Buddhist gods
have come not from a spiritual
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realm, but from an
extraterrestrial one, as ancient
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astronaut theorists believe?
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Might alien beings have chosen
Amakuni, the greatest sword
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maker of his time, to hold the
knowledge of this new technology?
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Coppens: When you give certain
very powerful objects to
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people, you need to have
extremely intelligent people
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to use them.
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And so what we find everywhere
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is that even if the gods had given
the most extraordinary machine
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including fire or any
other kind of technology
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you would have to have
someone able to operate it
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a highly trained human being.
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Another example
of Amakuni's work--
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the Kogarasu Maru blade, the
most legendary sword in Japanese
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history-- resides in the
Japanese imperial collection.
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But modern scholars and
scientists have had difficulty
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in figuring out the secret
to its amazing strength.
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Dennin: The famous stories
are always, of course, the
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Japanese steel used for
the samurai blade.
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It's been very hard to reproduce
because some of these processes
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can be incredibly sensitive to
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the exact detail
of the temperature.
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Some of its features are just
its flexibility and the way
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they fold it over and over,
and its incredible strength
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and its resistance toxidation,
which is what you
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really need to keep
something sharp.
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Narrator: Could the fact that
modern sword makers have
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been unable to achieve the same
quality as Amakuni's blades be
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further evidence that he was
trained by a more advanced
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race of beings?
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And might these ancient swords
have held some technology we
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have yet to discover?
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Kosche: In Shingon buddhism, the
sword has a life of its own.
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It's not that the samurai
selects the blade.
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Is the samurai, more appropriately,
good enough for the blade?
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Does the blade choose him?
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Narrator: Is the philosophy
of Shingon buddhism--
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that the blade chooses its owner--
simply an example of early
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humans' tendency to project
spiritual consciousness onto
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inanimate objects?
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Or might ancient swordsmiths
like Amakuni really have
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possessed some
otherworldly knowledge?
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A knowledge that swords, like
other deadly weapons, come not
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from man, but from a divine or
extraterrestrial origin?
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According to legend one such
sword may have existed in
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15th-century France--
the sword of Joan of Arc.
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Kathleen McGowan: When Joan of
Arc was arrested and brought
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to what we now know of as
her condemnation trial,
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her inquisitors
were determined to
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get information
about her sword.
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Her inquisitors were obsessed
about finding out about her sword
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and that is because
Joan of Arc sword
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was reputed to have legendary
power, divine power.
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Joan claimed that her voices,
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her angelic voices,
led her to this sword.
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Coppens: She said to have
found it, as it was, hidden
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behind an altar dedicated to
Saint Catherine de Fierbois.
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It is said that the sword itself
was forged by the archangel
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Saint Michael... and that whoever
possessed it was invincible.
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McGowan: And that was certainly
true when Joan wielded
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this sword, carried it with her
into the battle of Orleans.
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Which was the decisive battle,
which allowed them to put King
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Charles VII on
the throne of France.
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Narrator: Could Joan of Arc
really have been given her
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invincible sword by
extraterrestrials who had an
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interest in the future of France?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
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believe such a thing is not
only possible, but likely.
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And they point to the legendary
story of King Arthur as evidence
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of their claim.
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Childress: King Arthur
had two swords.
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The sword in the stone, that
showed that he was to be king
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is one sword.
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Tsoukalos: When I hear a story
about this magnificent sword
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that's encasted in the stone with only
the handle sticking out
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and only King Arthur has the
capability to pull it out
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well, then I start thinking
of some type of biometric
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security system. Where
today we now have guns,
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that can only be
fired if the handle
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recognizes your fingerprint.
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Is it possible that the sword
in the stone was calibrated
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specifically to King
Arthur's biometrics?
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I think yes.
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I know it sounds crazy, but
we're merely saying that what
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today is being discovered is a
rediscovery of what already took
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place thousands of years ago.
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Narrator: According to the
stories of King Arthur, the
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sword that he is said to have
pulled from the stone was never
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used in battle.
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His weapon was the
legendary Excalibur.
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Childress: The Excalibur sword
came to him from the lady
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in the lake, where a hand came up
and handed him a magical sword.
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And according to the ancient
chronicles, this sword shone
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with the light of 30 suns
and blinded his enemies.
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Peter Fiebag: Sword of
King Arthur was said
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to have radiated lightning
and energy when he fought
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against monsters.
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So, we have swords as magical
objects that here also
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is the suspicion that a misunderstood
technology could exist.
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Narrator: Although historians
still debate whether the stories
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of King Arthur have a basis in
fact, in 1998, archeologists
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found a sixth-century piece of
slate inscribed with his name
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at his reputed birthplace--
Tintagel, England.
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But if King Arthur really
existed, might the legends of
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his incredible swords
also be true?
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And, if so, might that suggest
that extraterrestrial visitors
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did in fact provide humans with
weapons not of this world?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
in ancient Rome and by examining
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a legendary battle,
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one involving a much-witnessed
phenomenon in the sky.
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Narrator: Rome.
October 27, 312 A.D.
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At the Milvian bridge
north side of the city, deposed
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emperor Constantine prepares to
reclaim his throne from Maxentius.
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In the sky, he witnesses what he
will later describe as a cross
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hovering above him.
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He interprets this vision as a
sign from the Christian god.
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The next day Constantine and
his army bear the image of the
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Chi Rho on their
shields and flags,
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one of the earliest cruciform
symbols used by Christians.
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When they emerge victorious,
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christianity becomes the official
religion of the Roman empire,
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and the world is
changed forever.
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But was the cross-shaped object
Constantine claimed to have seen
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in the sky really
a sign from God?
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Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
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Bramley: It looked like they
are in a shape of a cross
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but a shape of a cross could have
been air plane type objects,
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because the fuselage and
the wings would look like
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a cross to somebody
who's looking up.
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Of course they had no concept
of these things back then.
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Chris Pittman: There were other
signs important that were seen
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around the same time,
they were described as
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a crucifix in the sky. If these
were to appear in the sky
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today, we would describe
them quite differently.
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Tsoukalos: Is it possible that
Constantine instead of actually
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having seen a cross
floating in the sky,
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actually saw a type of
an extraterrestrial craft?
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Is it possible that Constantine
won because the extraterrestrials
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were siding with Constantine
and thus altering
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mankind's history forever?
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But according to ancient
astronaut's theorists
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even stronger evidence exists
that emperor Constantine
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had a genuine alien encounter.
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Shortly after the battle
of Mulvian bridge,
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he was said to have acquired
a powerful new weapon
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known as Greek fire, it was the
most devastating weapon of the time
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and it was said to have been
given to Constantine by angels.
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Improgno: It was said to burn to
so violently and so hot,
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it was said that even in
the rainiest of rainstorms
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fire would not go out, and
when projected out to sea
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when it sunk into
the water which still
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burnt on the bottom
of the ocean.
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Fiebag: In one battle,
Byzantium was attacked
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by 1,800 Persian ships
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only 15 escaped.
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All the others were destroyed
by the so-called Greek fire.
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And prince Igor who attacked
Byzantium in the year 941 A.D.
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attacked with a fleet of 1,000 ships.
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Only ten ships made it home.
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Narrator: But perhaps
even more astounding
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than the incredible
power of Greek fire
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is the fact that scientists have
not been able to reproduce it
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even after 1,600 years.
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Coppens: Scientists have
been trying to identify
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what Greek fire is, for
decades, if not centuries.
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No one has come up
with a satisfying answer.
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The most logical answer is that it
might be somehow petroleum
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because it is known that petroleum
continues to burn when
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in contact with water.
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George Noory: It think it has
to do with phosphorous
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and magnesium, because when
they are mixed in with water
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they tend to explode.
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The formula for Greek fire
was not even known
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to most of those who
used the weapon,
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as the delivery system required
multiple people to operate it.
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Tsoukalos: What's interesting
about Greek fire is that it only
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worked when all the different
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components worked
together as one piece.
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Each component was operated
by a different person,
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so if somebody was captured,
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they couldn't give away the quote,
unquote secret of Greek fire.
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Narrator: But what was
this mysterious weapon?
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And, more importantly,
where did lt come from?
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Tsoukalos: One story goes
that Greek fire was given to
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Constantine by an angel.
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Now angels are supposed to be
these friendly creatures that
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instill peace and love-- and all
of a sudden, we have this one
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quote, unquote angel that gives
one of the most sophisticated
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weapons in mankind's history
to Constantine?
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Replace the word angel with
extraterrestrial and we have
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a very different story.
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Narrator: Could Greek fire
really have been a type of
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advanced alien technology given
to Constantine to ensure the
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success of the Roman empire?
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If so, wouldn't there be
evidence of extraterrestrial
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influence during other
earthly conflicts?
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Fiebag: Hannibal, who
crossed the Alps
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and attacked Rome, was said to
have had a chemical explosive.
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We don't know where the knowledge
came from in these cases,
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but there could definitely
be a connection to
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other weapons of the gods.
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The explosive weapon
Hannibal allegedly used
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against ancient Rome, in the
3rd century B.C., predated
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gunpowder by
over a thousand years.
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And some believe even gunpowder
itself may have been a discovery
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inspired by otherworldly beings
back in the 9th century.
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Ironically, this deadly
invention was discovered by
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Chinese alchemists attempting to
create an elixir of immortality.
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Laichen Sun: Alchemy
has a long history in China
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and this alchemy *** has been
seeking the elixir of immortality.
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It's a medicine, for example,
to live forever.
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So they were experimenting for
many centuries and mixed all
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kinds of things and it was not
until around 850 common era, and
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we have records to show the
disastrous impact of this mixing.
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Narrator: Though the Chinese
emperors never achieved this
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elixir for immortality, they
ended up with something almost
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as valuable-- a weapon more
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powerful than anything
that had come before.
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Sun: The Chinese
gunpowder technology
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led to this important
political and geographical
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changes in China, in Vietnam,
in southeast Asia.
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It led to the, even the rise and
the fall of the dynasties.
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Narrator: But where did such
an incendiary ability come from?
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Imbrogno: Was the formula given
to us by extraterrestrials?
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Or did someone discovered
it by accident?
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No one really knows.
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Gunpowder was
made of charcoal,
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which they burnt trees and
ground down the charcoal.
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Sulfur they would
get from volcanoes,
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and sodium or potassium
nitrate is not readily available.
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So how would they know to get
those nitrates and mix them
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all together in the
right proportions?
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Narrator: Could the
formula for gunpowder
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really have extraterrestrial origins?
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And if deadly technologies like
gunpowder and Greek fire really
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were handed down to humans
by an alien race-- why?
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Might they have been
trying to shape our future?
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And, if so, what other even more
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powerful weapons might they
have had in their arsenal?
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An unmanned areal vehicle
hurtles across the sky.
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It travels at supersonic speeds,
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spitting fire,
launching deadly missiles...
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programmed to
seek and destroy.
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The effect is devastating-- high-tech
warfare at its most lethal.
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But what could be a page stolen
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from a U.S. military black
project, is actually a
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description written down
over 2,500 years ago
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in the sacred Hindu text known
as the Mahabharata.
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Coppens: When it comes to the
ancient India in the accounts,
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they really eye-witness
testimony of the gods fighting.
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Childress: When you read
the ancient Hindu epics,
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they talk about horrific weapons,
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missiles,
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and atomic weapons.
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Massive laser weapons, they are
melting and devastating entire cities
483
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Tsoukalos: I refuse to think
that our ancestors,
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came up with these
stories out of thin air.
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When writing was first invented,
they wrote down their history
486
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the first things that were ever
written down were actual events.
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Narrator: How is it that some
of the earliest written accounts
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of warfare describe sophisticated
weaponry that humans wouldn't
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develop for thousands of years?
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For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point to
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numerous descriptions
of deadly weapons
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found throughout
the Mahabharata--
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many strikingly similar to those
used by the military today.
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One example are the incendiary
weapons wielded by Vishnu,
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which are specially equipped
to find their targets.
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Deepak Shimkada: Vishnu has a flying
guided missile, the Narayanastra
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and once it is launched it will
destroy everything that is moving.
498
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So according to the description,
it is a motion-detecting weapon,
499
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which is pretty much like
our modern weaponry.
500
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There is also a weapon
that is heat-seeking.
501
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Heat-seeking is a very effective
way of finding something
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you would fire a missile
from behind on your craft,
503
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Maj. Gen. Robert E. Dickman:
at an aircraft in front of you
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specifically targeted
towards the heat engine.
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And then you were able to move
off, from behind the airplane
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and the heat seeker would still
be able to find the target.
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Tsoukalos: I am aware that
there are forces of nature.
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You've got thunder,
lightning, earthquakes.
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But how would you go
from witnessing that
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to a description
of heat-seeking missiles?
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Narrator: In addition to guided
missiles, the Mahabharata
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is filled with accounts of other
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sophisticated weapons
wielded by the gods.
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Shimkada: In the Mahabharata,
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46 different types of
weapon are described,
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and each one has
a specific function.
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The Pashupatastra is a weapon
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that actually multiplies into
seven different arrows.
519
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So then it hits seven different
targets at the same time.
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Salva is an anti-God; he can
make his vehicle disappear.
521
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So we're talking about a flying
object that is stealth.
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He also can put
people into sleep.
523
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So we're perhaps
talking about nerve gas.
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Childress: They talk about
weapons that are so high-tech,
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that it could only be
from extraterrestrials.
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Narrator: But of all
the weapons described
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in the Mahabharata, perhaps the
most deadly was a device called
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the Brahmastra.
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A weapon that the texts
warned was never to be used.
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Shimkada: Brahmastra is described
as the ultimate weapon.
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Once it is launched, it will
simply burn everything,
532
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so it will incinerate
the entire universe.
533
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We are talking about
a nuclear blast 100-fold
534
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magnitude of the bomb that we have
seen or experienced in our own times.
535
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So it would never be used.
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And yet, someone was going to
make use of that Brahmastra.
537
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And so that's the dilemma that
538
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the books talks about
in the Mahabharata.
539
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India now has a rocket program,
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and one of their rockets is
called Shakti.
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Shakti means "goddess energy."
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This is also another divine weapon.
543
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Indians are now sort of going
back to their text or their
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mythology and they're reliving
it by their modern technology.
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Narrator: Is it possible that
alien beings visiting the
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earth thousands of years ago
dealt with the same issues of
547
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nuclear annihilation that
humans are dealing with today?
548
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And might the deadly weapons
currently being deployed by the
549
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world's military really be
recreations of weapons first
550
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used on earth by extraterrestrials
in the ancient past?
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Perhaps.
552
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But then it should also be
possible to predict mankind's
553
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military future by searching
through still more ancient texts.
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The Tonle Sap Lake,
Cambodia.
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This combined lake and river
system has a flow that changes
556
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direction twice a year, and the
portion that forms the lake
557
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expands and shrinks
dramatically with the seasons.
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But this unusual body of water
is unique for another reason--
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it is said to hold the mythical
sword of Preah Pisnokar.
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Shimkada: The swordsman in Cambodia
has a wonderful legend,
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a story within that
culture called Pisnokar.
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It is a wizard,
a master craftsman
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Narrator: In Cambodian
mythology, Preah Pisnokar is
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the son of a human man and
a woman who came from the sky.
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The stories say that he is
566
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brought to the sky world where
he is taught the technology
567
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of the gods, and some have credited
him as being the architect
568
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behind the world's largest
religious shrine, Angkor Wat,
569
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which sits just north of the
Tonle Sap lake.
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But in addition to magnificent
structures, Preah Pisnokar was
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also said to have fashioned a
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sword that made him
invincible in battle.
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Shimkada: In the
Cambodian legend,
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he's been credited crafting
a sword as thin as a feather.
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Fiebag: Preah Pisnokar had a
sword that could cut stone.
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And it's reported that he could
use this to cut a ceramic jug so
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finely down the
middle that the water
578
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only ran out when the
two halves fell apart.
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Narrator: According to legend,
Preah Pisnokar threw his
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mighty weapon into the Tonle Sap
lake when it grew too weak to
581
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be of use to him anymore,
582
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much like Excalibur
was given back
583
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to the lady of the lake
in the story of King Arthur.
584
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But how does a
sword grow weak?
585
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the blade had lost
586
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its power, and that blade was not
made of metal, but of light.
587
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Tsoukalos: Does a sword
of fire really exist?
588
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Well, it does if you think
of a type of light saber.
589
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Whenever he took it out to cut
590
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something with it, it was more
blinding than the sun.
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It was a very thin and
very bright, emitting light.
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From the description of it,
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it could be a kind of
laser type of beam.
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Dennin: Lasers-- what you
wanna just think about
595
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is a whole bunch of waves
all moving together in step.
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The light that comes
out of a light bulb
597
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is a bunch of random people
in a mob running crazy
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in all different directions, and
the laser is all the people
599
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marching in orderly fashion.
600
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Everything lines up and
basically makes the light that
601
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much more powerful and effective.
602
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Narrator: Could Preah
Pisnokar really have existed?
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And if so, might the amazing
sword he wielded have involved
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some type of laser technology?
605
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Is it possible that light sabers,
606
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a work of modern science fiction,
actually existed in the ancient past?
607
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Dennin: So there's two ways to think of
a light saber that you're trying to make.
608
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One is actually out of a laser
beam and that's very hard to
609
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imagine because it's hard to
610
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figure out how you
would get the endpoint,
611
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because light just
keeps traveling.
612
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And you would need a way
to bend it back on itself.
613
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They make much more
sense as a plasma beam.
614
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And a plasma beam is a bunch of
very, very energetically charged
615
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particles, um, that would glow
616
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so you'd get the effect
of the lightsaber.
617
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And they're much easier to
have an endpoint, because they
618
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respond to magnetic fields.
619
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The plasma beam really is
energetically charged particles
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with a lot of energy and pretty
much cut through anything.
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Narrator: For ancient
astronaut theorists,
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descriptions of laser-type technology
623
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can be found in numerous texts
throughout the ancient world.
624
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Fiebag (translated): In China,
it's called a yin yang mirror,
625
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which could kill opponents
with a beam of light.
626
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We have the Maori, whose god
627
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defeated rebels with a kind of
laser-lightning weapon.
628
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Childress: Stories come to us
from ancient India of Rama's arrow,
629
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which was some kind
of laser weapon.
630
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We have the famous
story of Archimedes,
631
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using some kind of magic mirror
632
00:00:00,734 --> 00:00:00,735
to create a laser
that set ships on fire.
633
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So it seems that ancient lasers
were being used, and that
634
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technology probably came
from extraterrestrials.
635
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Narrator: What if the futuristic
weapons we believe
636
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we have cultivated in our
modern day arsenals
637
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are really reinventions of
something that has come before?
638
00:00:00,741 --> 00:00:00,743
Could we subconsciously be
recreating our ancient past?
639
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Coppens: What we have is
people who are eye-witnesses
640
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and to some extend victims of a show
which is happening above their heads
641
00:00:00,745 --> 00:00:00,746
and they are trying to explain
to people something which was
642
00:00:00,746 --> 00:00:00,747
truly on a scale which they
couldn't comprehend.
643
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Tsoukalos: Here we are today
thinking that we are inventing
644
00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:00,749
all these wonderful things,
645
00:00:00,749 --> 00:00:00,750
which we are, but it's
been here before.
646
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Childress: Extraterrestrials may
well have given man these weapons.
647
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They want us to be able
to defend ourselves
648
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to advance, and ultimately
to be like them.
649
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Narrator: From flaming arrows
to heat-seeking missiles,
650
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could the evolution of mankind's
651
00:00:00,757 --> 00:00:00,758
deadly weaponry really be the
result of alien intervention?
652
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Could extraterrestrial beings
have given us technology as a
653
00:00:00,760 --> 00:00:00,761
way of accelerating
natural selection?
654
00:00:00,761 --> 00:00:00,762
Or might they have imparted
their knowledge with a
655
00:00:00,762 --> 00:00:00,763
specific-- and perhaps
insidious-- agenda in mind?
656
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Some say the answer
is right in front of us--
657
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or in yet another ancient text or
carving waiting to be discovered.
658
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But one thing is certain,
it is best we keep looking
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and be prepared
before they return.
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