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NARRATOR: Winged creatures carrying messages

from the heavens.

Unearthly guardians entrusted to both observe and protect.

Powerful warriors bringing about everything

from plague to peace.

But are angels merely the product of mankind's

imagination, or do they really exist?

If so, where do they come from?

(VOICEOVER): When angels appear, they

begin to do things that defy our laws of physics.

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

It was ancient man's way of saying

they had the power of flight.

NARRATOR: Are angels really supernatural

beings from heaven, or something more?

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

extraterrestrial who visited earth a long, long time ago.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

If so, might angels really be travelers

visiting the earth from distant planets?

[MUSIC]

NARRATOR: Angels.

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

of Americans believe in their existence.

But what are they?

Winged visitors from God, as depicted in the Bible?

Smiling cherubs who peer down at us from billowing clouds?

Or something much, much more?

FR.

WILLIAM J. FULCO: The concept of of angels

is obviously very, uh, widespread, certainly

in American culture.

And you find in Latin culture, Greek culture,

Babylonian culture.

PHILIP COPPENS: When we think of angels,

we immediately think to the Bible,

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

you will find that people have visitations

of angels every single day.

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

angels first appear as divine beings,

sent to earth as messengers of God.

FR.

WILLIAM J. FULCO, PHD: They wanted

to have God interacting with human beings,

but it seemed somewhat undignified to have

God directly operating, and so he set messengers.

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

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

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

but it is in fact, "messenger."

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

It is "intermediary," "middle man."

And so what do we have in these stories?

We have these intermediaries-- these messengers--

bringing information from quote unquote, "God."

BILL BIRNES: By definition, angels are otherworldly.

Angels are extraterrestrial.

They're not from this planet.

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

Now, our modern conception of ETs has changed.

But go back thousands and thousands

of years when angels lived among our biblical ancestors.

They didn't call them ETs.

They called them angels, but they

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

NARRATOR: But could some of these so-called messengers

of God have served another function, one

not so benevolent or benign?

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

text that was rediscovered among the Dead Sea

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

were the fallen angels.

BILL BIRNES: It was on Mount Herman

that angels came down from the heavens-- fallen angels

to inhabit earth.

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

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

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Now to me, this

sounds more of a mutiny story-- where extraterrestrials arrive

here, and there was a type of rift,

and so they split into two different fractions.

And the faction that split off is

what today is referred to as the fallen angels.

GEORGE NOORY: Enoch was a believer

in angels, fallen angels, visitations.

But everything he put in his scriptures

seemed to imply, to me, extraterrestrial visitation,

from craft that he saw, to mountainsides

that they would land, to them taking him around,

to telling him things.

NARRATOR: Both in the Book of Enoch

and in the Hebrew Bible, the fallen angels

act in direct opposition to God's

will by interbreeding with humans.

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

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

with the daughters of men.

And there was a certain evil connotation to it.

-How can angels have sex?

Enoch describes of it.

Some of the extraterrestrials stood on earth.

They had sex with some of our girls.

That is what is written down in Enoch.

It's not my invention.

Enoch never calls them gods.

He calls them guardians of the skies, or watchmen.

NARRATOR: According to ancient texts, the fallen angels

not only physically mated with the women of earth,

they produced offspring-- the Nephilim,

a race of giants similar to those portrayed

in the story of David and Goliath.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the use of the term giants is misleading.

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

physical size, but to their almost superhuman ability.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Were they giants,

or is that the wrong word, and the correct word

should be extraterrestrial?

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

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

of a giant bone.

NARRATOR: But if, as many ancient astronaut

theorists believe, fallen angels were really

extraterrestrials that first arrived in the Middle East,

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

For proof, researchers point to thousands of carvings

and other depictions of winged guardians, strange creatures,

and other half-man and half-beasts

that commonly appear on ancient walls and artifacts.

-There is such an enormous amount of evidence

to suggest that angels are not something which Christianity

invented, but that they were somehow

physically present in all civilizations.

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: Ancient cultures

that depicted the gods as winged creatures are

the Sumerians, the Babylonians, certainly the Egyptians.

All of these civilizations had symbols

where there may have been a winged disc,

or they may have been what we would call today probably

a UFO.

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

-In the Middle East in particular,

there were depictions of supernatural beings with wings.

The demons of Mesopotamia, Pazuzu,

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

and the wings of a locust.

-They were primarily soldiers of the higher

gods, servants of the higher gods.

The higher gods depended on these messengers.

They would run back and forth and gather information.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Bible may be the most thoroughly documented

account of extraterrestrial contact

ever in written history here on earth.

We just simply have not learned how to interpret,

and how to identify, the clear and obvious evidence

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

all of these different hierarchies of beings

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

refer to visitors who come here.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Use the word "extraterrestrial"

instead of the word of "angel."

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

instead of "archangel."

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

you change the sense of the old texts.

It's all not coincidence.

It was our purpose.

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

NARRATOR: But if, as ancient astronaut theorists maintain,

angels are not ethereal winged beings but actually

flesh and blood creatures visiting us from other planets,

why are they here?

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

do they represent?

Mount Sodom, Israel.

A pillar of rock salt known as Lot's wife

overlooks the southwestern part of the Dead Sea,

near the presumed location of the biblical cities

of Sodom and Gomorrah.

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

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

that God was about to unleash terror upon the world.

-And the angel finally says to Lot,

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

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

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

stopped anymore, if even the angel cannot stop it.

[THUNDER AND LIGHTNING]

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

and there's this mayhem and destruction.

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

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Since the ancient astronaut theory

proposes that angels were nothing else but misinterpreted

flesh and blood extraterrestrials,

this means that extraterrestrials

did side with certain people.

Were angels or extraterrestrials interfering

with human development?

NARRATOR: But if angels save Lot and his family

from the wrath of God, is this proof

that angels are more than just otherworldly messengers?

Might they be more actively engaged

in helping their human counterparts, Even

to the extent that they might still

be affecting the outcome of human history?

Once again, ancient astronaut theorists

look to the Book of Enoch for their answer,

and claim to have found evidence in its references

to race of fallen angels known as watchers.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: There is much debate

amongst the religious scholars about the fallen angels.

[RELIGIOUS MUSIC]

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Some say they were deliberately

sent here to watch over man.

And in the Book of Enoch specifically, we

have 20 watchers which are sort of

in charge of all the other angels that

are in Enoch's presence.

So, you have the commanders, and the officers,

and the lieutenants And those twenty deliberately

teach Enoch in various disciplines,

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

Now, would something like this really happen

in the kingdom of God?

I think the answer is clear.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:

What do they want?

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

that, maybe they have different agendas.

But maybe there is something out there

that has been an ally to evolving hominids.

And we're the latest model.

NARRATOR: In the Bible, angels often appear

to humans as physical entities that can be seen,

heard, and even touched.

But today, many people believe angels are present,

whether they can see them or not.

According to a 2008 survey by Baylor University's Institute

for Studies of Religion, 55% of all American adults

believe a guardian angel protects them.

THOMAS E. BULLARD: The popularity

of guardian angels in the modern culture, I think,

has to do with the idea that we want

some kind of supernatural protection

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

NARRATOR: The Islamic faith teaches that every human being

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

These celestial beings are called

"writing angels" because they write down the good deeds

and the bad deeds each person's life.

The first so-called guardian angel to appear

in Judeo-Christian texts is the angel Raphael,

who was featured in the Book of Tobit, written sometime

between the eighth and second century B.C.

FR.

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

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

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

So, God sends the angel Raphael, and now we

have the angel not just as a messenger from God,

he becomes a guardian angel.

He becomes a special protector.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: The idea of guardian angel--

is it just because we wish it?

We believe it-- that somebody is protecting us.

Or, does it come from the past, having

to do, maybe, something with extraterrestrial?

In the sense that some extraterrestrial,

sent to some human, will protect you.

Don't be afraid.

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

from?

Why is that guardian angel protecting us?

And is there more than one?

Short answer to that is absolutely, yes.

He's guarding us for what?

The fallen angels.

THOMAS E. BULLARD: Judeo-Christian and Islamic

tradition, there is as an idea that there

will be some kind of a final warfare

when God defeats Satan once and for all.

That's been interpreted, by some people,

to say that the aliens will come back.

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

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

of Revelation refers to a final cosmic battle

of good versus evil.

NARRATOR: Other Biblical stories include

accounts of angels wielding extraordinary powers--

angels who are not just guardians,

but intervene in human affairs.

But who are these celestial warriors?

The New Testament's Acts of the Apostles

tells the story of Saint Peter, who

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

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

So the angel walks through the wall.

He's a physical being because he touches

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

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

L.A. MARZLLI: The prison cell opens.

Peter walks out.

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

They get out to the courtyard.

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

and he's free.

The angel walks with him a little bit longer,

[SNAPS] is gone.

NARRATOR: Is the freeing of Saint Peter an alien encounter

story?

Or, is it a true story of heavenly angels

commanding otherworldly powers?

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

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

They can come through my walls, uh,

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

and all of a sudden I open my eyes

and there is a being there.

MICHAEL CREMO: Some might say these accounts of visitations

by angels are result of imagination or projection.

But, I take them as actual historical accounts,

because they're presented that way.

[BELL TOLLS]

DAVID WILCOCK: We look at the case of religion.

We can see clear evidence of extraterrestrial human visitors

who have come here and have tried

to help improve conditions in our civilization.

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

which may, in fact, be leading up

to a galactic family reunion.

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

they no longer have to follow the,

"prime directive," if you will, and can

again show themselves to us.

NARRATOR: But whether angels are, in fact, supernatural

or extraterrestrial beings, artists

have nearly always depicted them as having

large, almost bird-like wings.

But where does this notion come?

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

a source, not from the heavens, but

from a place thousands of light years away?

Rome, Italy.

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

is the sarcophagus of Junius Bassus.

Constructed in 359 A.D., the sarcophagus

features what some believe to be the earliest known depiction

of winged angels and all of Christianity.

In the centuries that followed, angels almost always

depicted as having wings.

But why?

Especially since the actual Biblical

texts rarely describe angels as having bird-like appendages.

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

of the stories in the Old Testament-- angels

aren't described as having wings at all.

And some of them, they look human.

When the angel comes to visit Abraham,

this angel does not have wings.

He looks like a man.

Abraham bows to him, which is interesting.

How did Abraham know?

If he looks like a human being, what

was it that gave Abraham the clue

to run over and bow down to him?

And so, there's a supernatural quality.

There's a superhuman quality that they acknowledged.

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

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

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

of Hermes and Iris kind of coming

down and giving messages.

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

kind of looking like human beings and being benevolent.

There are plenty of other beings which

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

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

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

understanding what it is that separates us

from them-- from the gods.

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

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

misidentified technology.

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

flying in the skies, they can only

give it a natural review-- giving it wings.

I don't think they actually had wings.

It was ancient man's way of saying

they had the power of flight.

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: The angels

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

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

the wings say, these beings can fly.

So, we believe in angels.

And the Native Americans talk about the Star People.

The Egyptians talk about the gods

coming to and from the earth.

So, I believe this is the basis--

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

religious practices.

I, I believe that.

NARRATOR: For centuries, religious tradition

has perpetuated the notion of bird-like wings

to explain angel's mode of travel.

But is such a concept even scientifically plausible?

In 2009, a study at University College London

compared classic depictions of winged angels

with actual bird physiology.

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

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

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

And you actually have to rotate the wings slightly and get

a different angle as you come up.

And then, they actually generate their thrust.

Otherwise-- if you just went up and down

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

but when you went back the other way,

you'd just put yourself back down.

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

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

Whereas the birds with the wings on the side

can have longer muscles with uh, great,

strength that go into moving them up and down.

With the wings on the back, they're

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

than up and down.

NARRATOR: Researchers also concluded

that angels, given their humanoid interpretation,

would be simply too heavy for flight.

MICHAEL DENNIN: We're not designed aerodynamically.

And, we're quite heavy.

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

So, those two features you have to overcome.

NARRATOR: But if angels could not

have possessed actual wings, how would they

have managed to travel to and from the heavens?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:

described to fly around like Superman.

But they sort of had a vertical ascent into the sky

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

How was that possible?

NARRATOR: In 1953, Bell Aerosystems

developed the Rocket Belt, the precursor

to today's workable jet pack.

Designed to lift individuals vertically into the air

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

can reach altitudes of over 8,000 feet

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

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

humans are ascending and descending

in a vertical position.

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

How would they react?

Obviously they will say, wow.

This creature must be divine.

This creature must be some type of god

because they've got the capability of fight.

They're like birds.

Not even they sky is the limit to them.

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

really explain of how Biblical angels

were capable of ascending bodily into the heavens?

Could they have had other methods of flight unfamiliar

to our ancient ancestors?

REV. MICHAEL J.S. CARTER: Ezekiel talks

about a flying chariot.

Ancient Hebrews talk about the pillar of cloud by day

and the pillar of fire by night.

So clearly, these are physical machines

that the angels are using.

The story of Jacob and the angel in Genesis 28

is a classic UFO, uh, scenario.

Jacob falls asleep, and in this dream,

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

and this latter comes from heaven.

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

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

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

So, it is possible that what is described

there is nothing else but a technological event that

was described as a ladder.

NARRATOR: Did our ancestors tried

to explain an ancient alien technology by suggesting

that extraterrestrial visitors were

heavenly visitors with bird-like like wings?

If the answer is yes, the implications

are both profound and potentially disturbing.

For if angels are actual visitors from other worlds,

then what is their mission?

Are they simply watching us?

Or is there, perhaps, a more sinister purpose?

Temple Mount, Old City, Jerusalem.

It was here that many Biblical stories reportedly occurred,

including the binding of Isaac from Genesis 22.

In this story, God asks Abraham to sacrifice

his son, Issac, on Mount Moriah.

Abraham sets out to obey God's command,

but after binding his son and preparing for the sacrifice,

he is stopped at the last minute by an angel.

Conventional interpretations of the story

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

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the tale has another interpretation.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: In my opinion,

God God would never ask such a question.

So, is it possible that there was

a fallen angel-slash-alien extraterrestrial who

posed as God?

RICHARD RADER: God never demands human sacrifice--

human sacrifice is totally an anathema to Christianity

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

The French philosopher Sartre very famously

wrote, "If an angel were to tell me

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

PHILIP COPPENS: Maybe somebody else impersonating a god--

and we then we have somebody stepping in

to actually prevent it from happening.

Are we, in fact, maybe confronted

with two warring civilizations trying

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

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Just like there

are good people and bad people here on earth,

there's good and bad extraterrestrials out there.

Good and evil permeates the entire universe.

Yin and yang-- there's a balance.

NARRATOR: Deep inside the Middle Eastern country

of Oman, a mysterious cavern lies

hidden far beneath the surface.

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

it stretches more than 14 acres underground,

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

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

are actually inhabited by supernatural creatures

of Islamic folklore called jinn, or genies, mystical creatures

that are usually invisible to man.

JONATHAN YOUNG: One interesting aspect of the jinns

is an element of free will.

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

as under the direct command of the divine powers.

But the jinn can make some decisions for themselves,

and some of them area a little contrary or curious

in their way of being.

NARRATOR: to Islamic theology, genes often reveal themselves

to humans with messages which can

be either malevolent or deceptive.

But is it possible that genies actually exist?

If so, where did they come from?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: When we talk

about genies-- genie in a bottle--

it's very interesting, because you rub the bottle

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

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

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

and a hologram comes out, then, could that

be a gene in a bottle?

And according to the ancient astronaut theory,

that is exactly what happened where extraterrestrials

used holograms in order to relay messages.

That is essentially a genie in a bottle.

NARRATOR: Like angels, jinn are said

to be able to appear and disappear at will,

and are sometimes only heard as disembodied voices.

But while some ancient astronaut theorists

believe this behavior resembles that of extraterrestrials,

others claimed that angels, jinn,

and other supernatural creatures have

origins right here on earth.

They call these beings ultraterrestrial.

JASON MARTELL: Ultraterrestrials are possible beings

that travel, visit us, us from other dimensions.

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

at a certain frequency.

It's very possible that other beings

vibrate at a higher frequency, and are

able to pass more easily into other dimensions.

THOMAS E. BULLARD: The ultraterrestrial theory

would also explain the full-glory creatures,

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

supernatural, or alien beings that's

occurred throughout history.

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

and other mysterious ultraterrestrial creatures

really help to explain more recent stories of people

who claim they are directed toward violent ends

by the word of God?

David Berkowitz, better known as Son of Sam,

claimed a demon who took possession of his neighbor's

dog commanded him to kill.

Herbert Mullin, who committed 13 murders in California

in the early 1970s, claimed voices in his head

told him he had to make human sacrifices in order

to prevent a cataclysmic earthquake.

Marshall Applewhite, the leader of the UFO cult known

as Heaven's Gate, inspired a mass suicide

based on a vision that led him to believe

he was related to Jesus.

RICHARD RADAR:

is full of characters who are claiming that they have been

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

Which is rather like, when Charles Manson or the Son

of Sam, claims, say, metaphysical reasons

or theological reasons for what they're doing now.

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

They very much believe it.

And that's what's important.

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

there are mysterious forces-- whether they are fictions

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

What matters is the similarity.

And those discourses are, to a certain extent,

transhistorical.

NARRATOR: Angels and demons.

Good versus evil.

But if, as many ancient astronaut proponents maintain,

extraterrestrials have been masquerading as angels, jinn,

and otherworldly creatures for thousands

of years, where they come from?

Why are they here?

And could they be all around us in plain sight?

Mount Hermon, high above the Holy Land.

At 9,230 feet, this mysterious mountain

straddles the borders of Lebanon, Syria, and Israel.

Sitting above the Golan Heights, Mount Hermon

has been contested ground among Christian, Hebrew,

and Islamic faithful for thousands of years.

According to the Synoptic Gospels,

Mount Hermon is the location of the Transfiguration of Jesus,

an event in which Jesus was transformed

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

with Moses and the prophet Elijah

Mount Hermon is also the site where the 200 fallen

angels descended to earth in the Book of Enoch.

But why Mount Hermon?

Is there a geological significance to that site?

BILL BIRNES: All across the face of the earth,

there are particular hot spots.

And it could well be that the reason the Middle East

is such a hot spot, and the reason there

are legends that the Middle East contains

stargates, portals to other universes.

One theory says that we were populated

from the stars in the Middle East

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

NARRATOR: In the occult science of numerology,

the number 33 represents the ultimate attainment

of consciousness.

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

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

Tracing the 33rd parallel to the exact opposite side

of the globe directly points to the site

of the most famous alleged UFO encounter

in modern history, in Roswell, New Mexico.

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

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

Now, that's not an accident folks.

That's not an accident.

Fallen angels are very big on where

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

That should send shivers up and down your spine.

NARRATOR: But could the global coordinates

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

have a special, perhaps secret, significance?

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

point, as a landing point for planet earth,

what Biblical people saw, thousands and thousands

of years ago on Mount Herman, were

entities that came down from the sky.

They called them angels.

We call them extraterrestrials.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: My idea is, these extraterrestrials,

they landed at different points.

Why?

They knew that thousands of years

in the far future, the humans would

know the geometry of their land.

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

These are places linked together.

It's not coincidence.

It was on purpose.

NARRATOR: Could the angels descend

upon Mount Herman thousands of years ago

and the aliens who were reportedly seen over Roswell,

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

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

been among us all along?

Were they left behind to monitor us,

or perhaps even guided us into the future?

DAVID WILCOCK: Probably the last time

that we had any regular interaction with these ETs,

as a cultural level, was during the time

the foundation of Islam.

For whatever reason, these guys seem

to have followed a mutual collective agreement

that they'd withdraw from the earth

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

cetera, et cetera.

Stay away.

But in the meantime, we develop technology,

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

the only game in town here.

Wake up.

They're all over the place.

Look at the angels in the Bible.

These are documented records.

The people that wrote these books didn't think they

were myths.

They didn't think they were fake.

They were writing down history.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:

want that, in a far future of mankind,

we start to see these things.

We start to translate these books.

We start to realize that something on earth,

in geometry, is wrong.

And now we start to ask question.

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

Have we maybe been visited by extraterrestrials?

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

Because these extraterrestrials have promised to return.

And when-- they, they will return.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: If we humans are now on,

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

to us about our relationship to other intelligences

in the universe.

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

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

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

with and learned something about the cosmos.

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

themselves to us in the form of extraterrestrials,

would we accept them?

Perhaps only when we are ready to know

the truth about our own origins.

Will that day come?