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NARRATOR: An Irish legend.

HUGH NEWMAN: The supreme deity

lived inside Newgrange.

NARRATOR: Strange statues in Japan.

DAVID CHILDRESS: They are in what

literally look like space suits.

NARRATOR: And a mysterious African tribe.

BILL BIRNES: They didn't see themselves as earthlings.

They saw themselves as aliens.

NARRATOR: All connected by a single sound.

WILLIAM HENRY: We have this repeated story

of these beings that said they came from the stars

and they introduced themselves always with the same phonetics.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: You have Dogon,

you have dogu,

you have Dagda.

What's the commonality here?

Because we have not similar but identical stories.

NARRATOR: Could a simple syllable reveal

the identity of extraterrestrial visitors

from thousands of years ago?

JASON MARTELL: There's, across cultures,

a reference of some type of an amphibious creature

that they thought of as a god.

NARRATOR: And might they provide new clues

about mankind's very origins?

TSOUKALOS: All these cultures were visited

by the same people.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

♪ ♪

Mali, Africa.

1931.

French anthropologist Marcel Griaule

treks through the forbidding desert

in search of the mysterious Dogon tribe.

When he finds them,

he becomes fascinated by their culture and traditions.

As Griaule starts collecting Dogon legends,

he notices an eerie similarity

to ancient tales found across the globe,

tales of amphibious gods...

In this case, called Nommo,

who came from the sky,

lived in the sea,

and helped mankind.

They described these Nommos as being

very, like, mermaid- or mermen-like

but bequeathing lots of knowledge of astronomy,

math and science to this ancient race.

The Dogon would say that the Nommo

were these extraterrestrial gods.

But they needed a watery environment to live in,

though they could come on land.

NARRATOR: Griaule learns that their arrival is known

as the Day of the Fish.

The Dogon actually said,

"Well, this was our creator god, Nommo,"

"who descended from the sky"

"in a loud whirlwind of a storm"

"of thunder, smoke, and lightning."

NARRATOR: But what struck Griaule and shocked the world

weren't the Dogon legends themselves

but where they said their amphibious gods came from,

a star that no one on Earth knew existed until 1862,

long after the Dogon claimed they knew of its existence.

CHILDRESS: In the 1930s,

when French anthropologists were first discussing the Nommo

with these Dogon priests,

the Dogon priests said that the Nommo were coming

from the star system of Sirius.

Well, the French anthropologists were amazed at that

and were confused as well.

NARRATOR: According to the Dogon,

their gods didn't come from Sirius A,

a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky,

but from its tiny companion,

a dying star called Sirius B

that can only be seen with advanced,

high-powered telescopes.

Sirius A is the brightest star in the sky,

because it is very luminous

and it is also fairly close to the Earth.

In astronomy, it is a known fact

that there is a Sirius A and a Sirius B.

Sirius A can be seen.

And Sirius B, for us,

is invisible,

because it's just too small.

Now, the Dogon knew

about the invisible companion star to Sirius.

How did they know?

NARRATOR: For thousands of years,

Sirius A has played an outsized role

in the imagination of Greeks, Persians,

Hindus, Romans,

Polynesians and countless others.

The Egyptians even based their calendar on Sirius A,

and some believe they aligned the Giza pyramids

to Orion's Belt,

which points to Sirius A.

Villages along the Nile

and along the Euphrates,

ancient Mesopotamia,

they lined up their village dwellings

to mimic the constellation in which Sirius sat.

JOHN BRANDENBURG: Sirius is one

of the closest stars to us.

It's 8.6 light-years away.

Unlike the Sun,

which has a beautiful golden color,

Sirius is a bluish white color,

indicating it's much hotter than the surface of the Sun,

and that corresponds to it being more massive than the Sun

and burning hotter.

It'll have a shorter lifespan.

NARRATOR: But how could the Dogon

have known about the existence of Sirius B?

Could they have, at one time,

been in possession of advanced technology?

Or could there be another, even more profound explanation?

The Dogon had an amazing degree of knowledge

about the Sirius system.

They knew that the orbits of the two stars

were about 50 years' period

and that the invisible star was very dense

and past its prime.

They also knew that the brighter one

was a larger star than the Sun.

NARRATOR: The Dogon also knew

that Sirius B is about the size of Earth

and spins on its axis.

GEORGE NOORY: There is no logical explanation

for why the Dogon tribe knew

about the Sirius star system naturally.

We didn't have telescopes in those days.

How did they know this?

It's as if an ET came here

and just told 'em all about that.

It's an amazing story.

MICHIO KAKU: One theory is

maybe the aliens gave them this knowledge.

It can't be ruled out.

That's one possibility,

because they got it right on the dot.

NARRATOR: But if a race of amphibious Nommo came from Sirius B

and gave the Dogon such gifts of knowledge,

did they only visit this one desert tribe?

Or did they visit other peoples in other lands?

TSOUKALOS: It would be one thing if there's

only one legend of a fish-man worldwide,

but the Nommo is

one story of dozens

of amphibious bringers of knowledge

to our ancestors.

The ancient Hindus talk about this.

The ancient Greeks.

They all had these fish people that,

during the day, taught mankind,

and then, at night,

they wandered back into the ocean

to just emerge the next day.

NARRATOR: If the Nommo from Sirius B

visited numerous ancient cultures,

is it possible

that some physical evidence survived?

Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

(gunfire, explosions)

As civil war rages across the country,

rebels begin forcing villagers to mine

so-called blood diamonds.

But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure

they weren't expecting...

mysterious figures ranging from five to ten inches tall,

often with reptilian or amphibian features.

CHILDRESS: They're very strange statues.

Some are clay.

Some are of granite or limestone.

They are humans

and human figures with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists date the statues,

known as the Nomoli,

to around 500 years old,

when Europeans first came into contact

with the people of Sierra Leone.

But researchers point out that the statues were found buried

as much as 150 feet deep,

which would suggest they are extremely ancient.

Normally, the deeper you go,

the more ancient things are.

That indicates great antiquity.

BEN VONDERHEIDE: We know that Angelo Pitoni

was able to date the strata

to 17,000 years old.

We ask the chiefs

and they'll tell us they could be even older.

NARRATOR: 17,000 years old?

If true, it would make the Nomoli statues

among the oldest man-made artifacts ever found

and date them to 12,000 years

before the first known civilizations on Earth.

But for ancient astronaut theorists,

even more interesting is a strange similarity

between tales of the Nomoli

and the stories of the Dogon tribe

and their Nommo gods,

1,200 miles away in Mali,

a similarity that could reveal the identity

of mankind's extraterrestrial ancestors.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR In the early 1990s, mysterious figurines

were unearthed in Sierra Leone, Africa,

that were buried in a strata of the earth so deep,

it suggests they could be as much as 17,000 years old.

They are believed to represent gods called the Nomoli

that have been revered by the native people for centuries.

They are also similar to the stories

of the Dogon tribe of Mali who,

although located some 1,200 miles away,

worship gods called the Nommo,

who descended to the Earth in a whirlwind.

VONDERHEIDE: They were forced to come down here and live on Earth.

Their eyes were so bright that you could not look into them

because they shone like the Sun.

And their voices were so powerful that when they spoke

in one village, you could hear them in the next village.

MARTELL: They're actually here on Earth as guides helping humanity.

So this is a very interesting tale that we see across cultures

where they actually have some interaction with beings

that come down from the sky and teach them knowledge.

NARRATOR Like the Nommo, the Nomoli gods

are depicted as having amphibious traits,

and are often shown entwined with crocodiles.

BIRNES: The Nommo and the Nomoli, could it be

that the creatures that came to Earth

hundreds of thousands of years ago

were somehow aquatic creatures?

NOORY: It's very conceivable

that ET races that came here many, many, many years ago

looked like maybe an alligator standing upright.

Who knows?

It's very conceivable that's what they saw.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: Could the Nomoli and the Nommo

represent the same extraterrestrial visitors?

And could those visitors have come from Sirius B?

HENRY: Words are thought of as thought fossils.

They are a record into themselves,

and when we begin to compare words,

we find some very interesting things.

In Sierra Leone, we learn of statues called Nomoli.

Then we flip over to the Dogon,

and we find that they worshipped a god called Nommo.

Is there a linkage between these two cultures

that are supposed to be entirely separate?

Linguists would argue that there is.

NARRATOR: Perhaps the most enticing clue

as to the Nomoli's true origins

was discovered in the early 1990s,

when one of the mysterious Nomoli figurines

was found to contain a chromium sphere.

TSOUKALOS: Inside of it they found

a sphere made of chromium.

The fascinating thing about this is that chromium

was not isolated by us until 1797.

NARRATOR: But how is it possible

that this sphere was placed inside a statue

made 17,000 years before scientists isolated chromium?

VONDERHEIDE: There are two schools of thought.

One would be that there were ancient civilizations

which were far advanced in that area,

which have been absorbed back into the jungle.

And the second one is that there was an influence

from some extraterrestrial beings that came from the sky.

BRANDENBURG: This is absolutely inexplicable

in present paleontology.

You have to assume that there was a contact

with an advanced technology.

NARRATOR: But if this chromium sphere

was produced by extraterrestrial visitors to Earth,

what was the purpose of placing it inside a Nomoli statue?

Some believe the answer may lie

in a further examination of Sirius B.

MARTELL: We have to wonder if this isn't some type

of representation of Sirius B.

The Sirius system is always thought of

as one of the best possible places

for where we would find intelligent life.

Could Sirius B be one of the home places of gods

that came from that star system and brought ancient knowledge?

NARRATOR: Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a sacred syllable that ties the Dogon

to a civilization thousands of miles away.

Paris, France.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

that housed in the Louvre is an unlikely clue

to the mystery of the Dogon tribe of Mali.

It's a carved stone made of basalt

with a depiction of the Babylonian King Hammurabi

speaking with a divine being.

Below them, carved in cuneiform,

is perhaps the most significant legal text in the ancient world,

the Code of Hammurabi.

TSOUKALOS: King Hammurabi ruled ancient Babylon

in the 18th century BC,

and he devised the world's first known set of laws.

For example, this is where we get the idea

of an eye for an eye.

But what's fascinating to me

is that, according to King Hammurabi himself,

this was dictated to him by a being that came from the sky.

In my mind, King Hammurabi

was documenting exactly what happened:

He was advised by an extraterrestrial.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that not only

were the Babylonian gods extraterrestrials

who instructed King Hammurabi, but that one of them provides

an intriguing connection to the Dogon of Africa

and their amphibious visitors from Sirius B.

That god... the chief god of the Babylonians...

Was called Dagon.

CHILDRESS: They have a god named Dagon.

And, it, too, is an amphibious human god.

NARRATOR: The Babylonian god Dagon

sounds eerily similar to the Dogon tribe,

who claim they were visited by beings from Sirius B.

Is that because the Dogon named themselves after the same god?

The ancient Babylonians had a god...

Half-human, half-fish... Called Dagon.

Is there a relationship between the Dogon and the Dagon,

and the deity of the Babylonians

that brought civilization to Earth?

Absolutely there could be a relationship.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR: The Babylonians worshipped Dagon

in a temple called E-Mul, or the "House of the Star."

Could this be Sirius B?

Did inhabitants of this distant star visit both

the Dogon in Africa and the Babylonians in the Middle East

and leave their name... Perhaps Dag or Dog...

Embedded in both places?

TSOUKALOS: What if, when the extraterrestrials visited,

our ancestors listened to their language...

Words with dag, dog, something

that was the most prevalent term that they just heard?

So the idea that we have these cultures

where the root word is the same indicates to me

all these ancient cultures were visited by the same people.

NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists,

the extraterrestrials implanted evidence of their visitation

within the traditions of the cultures they encountered.

And further proof of this can be found

by examining another early civilization

on the opposite side of the planet.

NARRATOR: The Imperial Palace.

Tokyo, Japan.

New Year's Day, 2019.

Citing age and ill health,

Emperor Akihito abdicates before a crowd

of more than 90,000 well-wishers and family members,

including his eldest son Crown Prince Naruhito.

Four months later, Naruhito succeeds his father

and ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne,

carrying on a tradition of the oldest royal family on Earth,

stretching back over 2,500 years to 660 BC.

According to legend, the Japanese Imperial family

is descended from divine amphibious beings,

who, like the Babylonian god Dagon

and the Dogon gods of Mali,

came from the sky and lived in the sea.

The Japanese name for these beings is Doragun.

In English we call them dragons.

Emperor Jimmu, who is the founder

of the Japanese imperial line,

was supposedly a descendant of the Dragon King.

And the Dragon King lived in a underwater palace

that was massive and-and very prosperous.

And through successive marriages,

eventually his descendants became rulers of Japan.

CHILDRESS: Early myths indicated

that the dragon was also

an amphibious water-type animal.

Also, in some ways, a half-man, half-amphibious type.

He later morphed into a flying serpent, as we know.

NARRATOR: The Japanese language is unique to Japan,

and also isn't connected to any other language,

not even other Asian languages such as Korean and Chinese.

Yet the Japanese word for this creature is strikingly similar

to words embedded in languages all over the world.

Doragun in Japanese.

Dragon in English.

Dregan in India.

Dragoni in Swahili.

Drakontion in ancient Greek.

And Dragoi in the Basque language found in Europe,

which is also unconnected to any other language.

So once again we have that similar word:

Dogon. Dagon. Dragon.

So perhaps all of these words are indicating these half-human,

half-amphibious extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do these linguistic similarities suggest that the Japanese

were visited by the same beings from Sirius B

that were encountered by the Dogon in Mali,

the people of Sierra Leone, and the Babylonians?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that

actual physical evidence of the connection also exists

in the form of strange figurines found buried all over Japan.

Tokyo National Museum, Japan.

The country's oldest national museum is home to a collection

of mysterious clay statues that date as far back

as 10,000 years.

More than 18,000 of these figurines have been found

throughout the Japanese islands.

And again, their name is eerily familiar.

They are called the dog...

The dogu are small clay figurines

that are usually about 15 to 30 centimeters in height,

and they date from one of the earliest periods

of Japanese history, from about 14,000 BC

to 1000 BC.

NARRATOR: Much like the similarly-sized Nomoli figurines

in Sierra Leone, more than 8,000 miles away,

the dogu were also found buried deep in the earth.

STEAVU: When one buries something, one is expressing reverence for it.

So if you find something that's buried with a lot of care

and ritual preparation, it means it could be

some kind of sacred item.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the strangest thing about the dogu

is what they're wearing.

So, here we have a replica of a dogu statue,

which is life-size.

You have patterns that are represented here

that look almost technological in nature.

And if we focus on goggle features

of the dogu statues that have led many people to speculate

that this, in fact, might be some kind of helmet

that's part of a space suit.

You really have to wonder what's going on here because,

in the case of the dogu, if you look at this

from a modern-day perspective, in my opinion,

those are people in some type of space suits.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists, even more intriguing

than the appearance of these figurines is their name... dogu,

once again echoing divine names found across multiple cultures.

HENRY: Here we are talking about a civilization

on the island of Japan that is entirely separate,

far across the ocean, a vast distance

from Africa and Egypt and Mesopotamia,

yet they worship a deity with the very same name phonetically.

Is it the same being?

Common sense tell us we have to at least

consider that as a possibility.

NARRATOR: If uncanny cultural and linguistic similarities

found in different parts of the world are the result

of extraterrestrial visitation,

wouldn't there be physical evidence as well?

Some alien artifact left behind that could prove our ancestors

had contact with beings from another world?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is.

From the mysterious statues of Sierra Leone...

to the Dogon tribe of Mali...

and the Babylonian worship of Dagon...

to the Japanese stories of dragons

and the curious dogu figures...

according to ancient astronaut theorists,

there are eerie similarities between ancient cultures

that indicate they were all visited

by the same extraterrestrial beings...

from Sirius B.

If there were beings from the Sirius star system...

they may have come for a short period of time.

They may have been harvesting metals.

They may have been harvesting genetic material,

and then they go.

NARRATOR: But is there any physical evidence?

For some, the presence of a chromium sphere inside a statue

estimated to be 17,000 years old

and ancient figurines that appear to depict space suits

are proof enough.

But could there also be actual artifacts from another world?

NARRATOR: Among the people of Sierra Leone,

local legend has it that when their Nomoli gods

fell from heaven, part of the sky turned to stone

and rained down with them.

These strange blue stones, called sky stones,

have been found with the statues.

And at first archaeologists thought,

"Okay, it's just blue stones."

But when they analyzed it, they couldn't figure out

how these had been made, too.

Although the people in Sierra Leone felt that they were

actually pieces of the blue sky that fell with the Nomoli.

NARRATOR: If these mysterious blue stones are really connected

to the legend of the sky turning to stone and raining down

on the Earth with the arrival of the Nomoli, what could they be?

Some type of protective covering for an alien spacecraft?

Pieces of a heat shield, perhaps, like the tiles that

covered the bottom of the space shuttle?

And if so, might further scientific examination of them

support the idea that the Nomoli were actually

extraterrestrial visitors,

perhaps from the Sirius star system?

Seattle, Washington.

March 6, 2019.

In search of further evidence that the Nomoli statues

may have an extraterrestrial connection,

ancient astronaut theorist David Childress has arranged

to meet up with sky stone collector

- and researcher Jared Collins. - Okay, wow.

NARRATOR: Jared has in his possession

a number of the mysterious blue stones

that were found near the statues.

Jared has been collecting sky stones

since he first heard about them in 2013.

He became fascinated by their enigmatic nature,

betraying neither obvious mineral nor man-made origin.

So, how was it that these stones were actually discovered

in modern time?

This was actually discovered in 1991

by a man named David Leadbetter.

He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession,

looking for gold and diamonds.

And when he was having his crew dig,

occasionally these stones would appear.

And interestingly, David went to the village chief

to ask if he'd ever seen any of these stones before.

And the chief said that when these stones are found,

large amounts of gold and diamonds usually follow

shortly thereafter.

What do other geologists say about stones like this?

Are they able to identify them?

We've sent these now to 12 different labs.

There is not one piece of consensus in here.

Everybody has a different opinion.

We still don't know, actually,

if these are natural or man-made.

- So maybe it's from another planet. - I don't know.

I really wish I did, and I would love a chance

to actually be able to get this in front of somebody else

who could look at it again.

I've got some friends at the University of Washington,

and I think we can set this up

- and have another test done. - That would be fantastic.

I would love to get some consensus on this

to understand what this actually is.

NARRATOR: While tests conducted on the stones found

with the Nomoli statues have so far produced conflicting

and sometimes even confounding results,

David is eager to have them tested for himself.

At the University of Washington, David and Jared meet

with renowned geologist Professor Peter Ward.

Hi, I'm David Childress.

- David. - I talked to you on the phone.

It's good to meet you.

And this is Jared Collins.

Thank you so much for seeing us today.

Jared, both of you guys,

welcome to the University of Washington IsoLab.

So, what do we have in this beautiful box?

Well, we're sort of hoping that you can tell us.

Well, well, well, what are these beauties?

We have been through many tests on these,

and no one can identify them.

They cannot tell us whether these are natural or artificial,

what's causing the blue color, if this is ancient or modern.

So, they've been checked

for the common blue minerals, I take it.

One thing that we know for sure is that this is not turquoise,

this is not lapis, this is not erinite.

WARD: The fact that it's so unbelievably light

really suggests that there's an organic component to it.

Anything that goes blue, generally, is much heavier.

So this is... This is really a mystery.

I should mention also that this only comes

from one very specific part, from one very specific village.

It has never been found anywhere else in the world.

Well, let's do a test that removes any doubt

about them being partly organic.

So, Erin is gonna take this rock,

and she's gonna scrape it into these tiny little tin cups.

The tin cups themselves

we'll load into our mass spectrograph.

They will then be heated to 1,000 degrees centigrade.

Everything inside will combust and turn to gas.

And those individual gas molecules will then be sampled,

and we can examine if there are any truly organic molecules

in this rock.

Was there some life process that was involved in its formation?

NARRATOR: Will the tests performed on the so-called sky stones

reveal that they contain previously undiscovered

organic material, possibly from a different world?

And if so, could it mean that both the sky stones

and the Nomoli statues are evidence

of an extraterrestrial event

that occurred on Earth centuries ago?

NARRATOR: Sedona, Arizona, March 2019.

Two weeks after bringing the so-called sky stones

found in Sierra Leone

to the University of Washington for examination,

David Childress received an e-mail

from geologist Dr. Peter Ward.

In the e-mail, Dr. Ward wrote that the results

were so strange, they ran the tests three times,

thinking it was a machine error,

and added, "This gives me the creeps."

To learn more, Childress contacted Dr. Ward

through video chat.

Hi, Dr. Ward.

So I wanted to learn about the results.

Yeah, it's pretty cool. I mean, it was much stranger

than we thought.

There really seems to be some sort of organic aspect to this.

It's got element nitrogen in it in really high concentrations.

Having this high amount of nitrogen puts it into a, "Wow,

that's a very peculiar rock" category.

We were looking for a possible extraterrestrial origin.

Is it possibly a meteorite or even part

of a spaceship that exploded?

(laughs) Let's just say that there's a possibility

that it came from off the Earth.

As we scientists say, it's worth more study.

Thanks again for doing these tests

and letting us use your lab.

Yeah, no problem. See you later.

NARRATOR: Although the sky stones are still a mystery,

David and Jared have confirmed

that they are unlike any other stone ever examined.

Could they have arrived on Earth with the strange beings

that are depicted in the Nomoli statues?

Is this perhaps physical evidence

that the linguistic similarities found across the globe...

Dogon, Dagon, dragon, dogu...

Point to some sort of extraterrestrial intervention?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they claim that in yet another earthly location

may be found the most significant evidence of all,

a possible alien home base.

County Meath, Ireland.

Here in the Boyne River Valley,

a large circular mound rises out of the earth,

the Newgrange Passage Tomb, built around 3200 BC.

It was constructed with over 200,000 tons of stone

quarried 75 miles away, and contains one passageway

that leads to a centralized chamber.

NEWMAN: Newgrange is one of the most important sites

in all of Europe.

It was possibly a stone circle with 36 or 37 stones,

only 12 of these still remain, and after that,

a huge mound made of stone and earth

was built within the stone circle itself.

Within this, we have a huge chamber

which is a cruciform shape, or a cross.

It's got some beautiful carvings on the 97 curbstones

that go around the edge, as well as on the main entrance stone,

and within the chamber itself,

mainly zigzags and spirals and most notably a triple spiral

at the back of the main chamber within the actual site itself.

NARRATOR: Newgrange was designed to honor the winter solstice,

but according to a book published in 2012

called The Newgrange Sirius Mystery,

the entire mound was also built

to align with the star Sirius A in the night sky.

NEWMAN: The declination of Sirius is the same

as the winter solstice sunrise moving across the sky,

and through the lightbox, which is a rectangular area

just above the main entrance,

this is where you witness

not only the sunlight coming through

but also later in the day,

Sirius light coming through as well.

NARRATOR: The Dogon of Mali in West Africa claimed

that their gods came to Earth from the star Sirius B.

Ancient astronaut theorists connect these visitors

to gods with similar names all over the world.

But they also point out an intriguing connection

to Newgrange in Ireland.

In addition to being in line with the star Sirius,

legend says that this megalith was built by a Celtic god

with a name that sounds, by now, eerily familiar:

The god Dagda.

CHILDRESS: The main god that's associated with Newgrange

is called Dagda.

So here, once again, we have this same word

that appears to mean something about gods coming from Sirius.

HENRY: The dwellers of the British Isles

worshipped a god named Dagda.

That cannot be by coincidence.

NARRATOR: The god known as Dagda was said to be the leader of a group

of otherworldly beings called the Tuatha Dé Danann.

NEWMAN: The Tuatha Dé Danann were this renowned fairy race

that arrived mysteriously in Ireland

many thousands of years ago.

The supreme deity of the Tuatha Dé Danann was Dagda, Dagda Mul.

And he was a renowned god.

He was said to have built and lived inside Newgrange.

They had very advanced weaponry

and different types of what sounds like machinery.

But also they taught the high arts of civilization,

and they were said to be almost like the Shining Ones

of the biblical tradition.

It's almost like a science fiction movie

when you start looking at these ancient Irish myths.

(wind whooshing)

NARRATOR: Could Newgrange have once been an alien outpost on Earth?

Was Dagda the supreme leader of a race

of highly advanced extraterrestrials

that came to Earth and left a lasting influence

on our ancestors?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the Dog Star.

NARRATOR Across the world,

ancient people claimed they were visited by amphibious beings

from Sirius who gave the gift of knowledge and technology.

The Dogon of Mali.

Dagon of the Babylonians.

The dogu of Japan.

Dagda of Ireland.

And the dragon, whose name echoes in languages

all over the world.

You have to wonder, is it possible

that all the root words

come from the same visitors?

And my answer to that is a resounding yes.

NARRATOR: But what about the English language?

Is there any connection in English

between the ancient syllable Dog or Dag and the star Sirius?

Experts say the answer is hiding in plain sight.

KAKU: Sirius is the Dog Star.

Tonight, when you go outside,

look for the three stars that make up Orion,

and Orion's belt has an arrow that points right to Sirius.

So you can see Sirius, the Dog Star, tonight.

In fact, today,

the reason we talk about the dog days of summer

is that those are the days that Sirius is overhead.

It's very interesting that these beings said

they came from Sirius,

which we call the Dog Star, because when etymologists

try to trace the origins of the English word "dog,"

it's non-attributable, they can't find

the origin of that word.

NARRATOR: The word "dog" is one of the strangest

in the English language, because no one knows where it came from.

English is mostly derived from German, Latin, and French.

The German word for dog is "hund,"

the Latin word is "canis," and the French word is "chien."

So where do we get "dog"?

Is it possible that some being from the Dog Star

or from this system

gave that type of vocabulary of Dagon, Dogon, dogu,

and all of these similarities are speaking of one race

that visited ancient man?

I think in this particular case,

whatever came down here at the time,

or what group of extraterrestrials

came down here at the time, they were referred to as this,

and then other civilizations

just carried it and picked up on it.

We have to at least ask the question, is this, in fact,

the name of these god beings? I believe it is.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient statues unearthed in West Africa

represent the opening chapter in the story of humankind?

Do they depict advanced beings that traveled to our planet

from the Sirius star system to create the first humans

and ignite civilization on Earth?

And did these extraterrestrials leave behind evidence

of their visitation for future generations to find?

Perhaps these clues point not only to their home planet

but to where we must travel in order to reunite

with our alien ancestors.