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of an otherworldly encounter.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is an eyewitness account.

He was taken up and sees
planet Earth underneath him.

WILLIAM HENRY:
He is given powerful

universal knowledge
by angelic beings.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
These angels were not
spiritual beings.

They were physical beings,

whose role it is
to direct the affairs

of humanity.

NARRATOR:
It is an account

that was strictly forbidden.

TSOUKALOS:
These texts were deemed
too dangerous.

NARRATOR:
And now, new technology

may reveal
even more shocking revelations.

We are recovering burned texts,
which, there it is.

TSOUKALOS:
Look at this.

This is sensational.

NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch

contain profound truths
about our extraterrestrial past?

And might it even hold the key
to humanity's future?

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
Enoch knew
that all these writings

would be found
in the far future.

And Enoch said,
"I will return to this planet."

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.

NARRATOR:
The Tigray highlands, Ethiopia.

Here, 7,000 feet above sea level

and clinging
to the side of a mountain

stands
the Abba Garima Monastery.

This church is home

to one of Christianity's
most ancient

and spectacular treasures:
the Garima Gospels.

Consisting of two beautifully
illustrated volumes,

it has been dated
to the 6th century AD--

making it one of the oldest and
most complete Bibles on Earth.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
There is the very earliest
Christian churches in Ethiopia.

So there is
this strong connection

to the ancient roots
of Western civilization,

Western religion in Ethiopia.

NARRATOR:
Ethiopia's biblical connections

date back nearly 3,000 years.

In the 10th century BC,
King Solomon,

the builder of
the First Temple in Jerusalem

and the keeper
of the Ark of the Covenant,

was visited by
Queen Makeda of Ethiopia,

also known as
the Queen of Sheba.

YOUNG:
The Queen of Sheba, it is said,

had a relationship with Solomon
and had a son.

When he came of age,
he wanted to meet his father.

And his mother
blessed this journey

up to Israel to meet Solomon.

And he stayed for some time.

And then some, uh,
leaders of the Jewish nation

went back with him to Ethiopia.

Because of this connection
between the Queen of Sheba

and Solomon, there's a large
Jewish population in Ethiopia.

There are many returnees
to the Holy Land,

to Israel from Ethiopia and
other nearby areas in Africa.

Ethiopia is
an unusually holy place.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, the Bible used by
the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

differs from that of
other Christian denominations.

Its version of the Old Testament

includes a controversial text
known as the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch,
a very, very interesting,

very ancient document,
which, uh, is only found

in the language of Ge'ez,

which is sort of
Ethiopian early language

and has over a hundred chapters
in the full form.

So in the Ethiopian church,

Enoch is considered a, uh,
canonical text.

In other Christian traditions
it is not.

NARRATOR:
The author of the book,
according to the text,

is the Jewish patriarch Enoch--
the great-grandfather of Noah.

Enoch is a biblical figure

mentioned in
the Book of Genesis, chapter 5.

What's interesting about Enoch
is a tradition arose

that he never died.

And this is because
in Genesis 5:24,

the text says that Enoch
walked with God,

and then was no more
because God took him.

NARRATOR:
But where the Hebrew Bible only
mentions Enoch briefly,

the Book of Enoch,
which consists

of more than 100 chapters,
greatly expands on his story.

In it is a curious passage

that details
Enoch's assent to heaven.

VON DANIKEN:
According to the Book of Enoch,

he says he was 12 years old.

The whole community
of his village wanted to sleep.

But then they hear the noise
in the sky.

[rumbling]

Two angels
came down from the sky.

One of the two beings said to
Enoch, "Don't be afraid, human."

Then they went up
to the so-called heaven.

HENRY: And in the Book of Enoch,
we learn

Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.

VON DANIKEN:
Enoch goes up
to the so-called sky

and there Enoch
sees something over the Earth,

which he cannot describe.

He has no word
like "spaceship" or something.

He says it looked like
houses of crystal.

TSOUKALOS:
It is described that he sees

planet Earth underneath him.

He actually describes
his arrival.

How he has to walk through
these different rooms,

where he sees jewels

and he see shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.

It is an eyewitness account.

It's "I, Enoch" did this,
"I, Enoch" saw that.

The Book of Enoch is one of
the first abduction accounts

written down
by a fellow human being.

NARRATOR:
Does the Book of Enoch

really describe
an actual abduction event,

one that took place
thousands of years ago?

And if so, might
this incredible close encounter

be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?

ROBERT CARGILL:
Enoch was said to be
at the right hand of God.

In fact, Enoch was said to be
God's scribe in later tradition.

So, God would decree things
and Enoch was the one

who recorded everything
that went on.

So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.

HENRY:
This is one the reasons

why the Book of Enoch
is so controversial.

He's taken up into the heavenly
realms, to the throne of God,

where he is given powerful
universal knowledge

by angelic beings,
or extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the Book of Enoch is
one of the most compelling texts

ever written documenting
extraterrestrial visitation.

But it is far from unique.

They say that similar encounters
were documented

by many other ancient cultures,
lending support to the notion

that Enoch's experiences
were genuine.

We can find ancient texts
that speak of people

ascending to heaven
and then coming back down.

For example, in ancient Greece,

you have the story of Ganymede

that was taken up
by Zeus's eagle.

Also in ancient China,
and in ancient Sumeria,

and also in ancient Egypt,
are there stories of people

having been visited
or having gone up to the sky

to visit with
the so-called gods, lowercase G.

NARRATOR:
While these other accounts tell
a similar story,

none contain
the incredible detail

found within the Book of Enoch.

And some researchers believe

that it was because
of this controversial content

that the text was omitted from
most versions of the Bible.

Not only do-do these texts
infer quite strongly,

uh, the possibility of
extraterrestrial life,

but they also show
a very different side of God.

This type of information,
these type of texts,

this could not be
put into the Bible.

TZADOK:
The sages of the time considered

the teachings of
the Book of Enoch,

if you will, too hot to handle.

And therefore,
it fell along by the wayside,

concealed and hidden.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
the teachings of Enoch reveal

that not all angelic encounters
were of a divine nature?

Is this the secret
that has been kept alive

in the Ethiopian version
of the Bible?

For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Book of Enoch

lies at the heart
of an extraterrestrial agenda

that has been shaping human
history for thousands of years.

And they suggest that nowhere
is this more evident

than in the book's descriptions
of beings called "the Watchers."

[thunder crashes]

KEN BOYDSTON:
What we're doing is just

To end a dispute
in the Anglican church,

King James the First
orders the creation

of a standardized English Bible.

Today, more than four centuries
after its creation,

the King James Version remains
the most famous Bible in history

and one of the most published
books of all time.

Interestingly,
while it contains 66 books,

the Catholic Bible has 73,

and the Ethiopian Orthodox
version is comprised of 81.

But why were so many texts,
including the Book of Enoch,

edited out?

There has always been
accepted literature,

which becomes
the foundation of orthodoxy,

and then
there's other literature

that the accepted orthodoxy
rejects.

Books that don't make it into
the collection of the Bible--

both the Hebrew Bible
and the New Testament--

are the Apocrypha.

JULYE BIDMEAD: The word
Apocrypha means hidden things,

and that's probably from

the ancients hiding these texts
away from the general public,

because they could be dangerous.

NARRATOR:
"Dangerous"?

Is it possible that
the Book of Enoch was omitted

because it exposed truths

about human history
that were considered

too risky
for the public to know?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest insight can be found

by examining a passage
in the Old Testament.

We know from the Book of Daniel
in chapter 4

that there is a group
of angelic entities,

whose job, whose role it is
as ordained by God

to direct the affairs
of humanity.

These angelic forces
look over our world

and control the direction
of civilization.

NARRATOR:
While this passage is brief,

these beings serve as
the primary focus

of the Book of Enoch,

where they are described
as divine overseers

known as "the Watchers."

VON DANIKEN:
Enoch calls them,
in the English version,

"guardians of the sky
or watchers of the sky."

In the German version,
they are called "angels."

No, it was simply another time.

Now we have a new time.

Now we must translate it
with new words.

Change the word of "angel."

Scratch it out
and write "extraterrestrial."

TZADOK:
These angels were not
spiritualbeings.

They were physicalbeings.

That is something very clear

about the identity
of biblical angels.

They're not of this world,

and, therefore,
they are not terrestrial.

And, therefore,
they are extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch,

a total of 200 Watchers
descended to Earth.

Enoch gives us
some of the names,

but we know they were
ruled by Samyaza

and Aza... Azazel.

Azazel was later
known as Lucifer.

HUGH NEWMAN:
The Watchers had
a very bright appearance

and one of their names was
"the Shining Ones."

And even Enoch, when he wrote
about them, he even said

he could barely look at them
because they were so bright.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the idea that the Watchers
were alien visitors

is most strongly corroborated

by the stories
of the prophet Elijah.

TZADOK:
Aside from Enoch,

there was one other
we know from the Bible,

who did ascend to heaven
in chariots of fire,

whatever that is meaning.

And this, of course,
is the famous prophet, Elijah.

Elijah was a powerful,
powerful prophet

who had abilities apparently far
beyond those of other prophets.

Elijah possessed
a power cloak or a garment

that gave him the-the ability
to heal the sick

and even to raise the dead.

And then one day he used
that power cloak or garment

to ascend upon a fiery chariot.

A chariot of the gods.

And when Elijah ascended,
there were 50 prophets

that witnessed his ascension.

TZADOK:
The Bible calls it
"chariot of fire."

Now, what is this chariot?

Was it some type of a...

technological
transportation device,

which in ancient times
would not have been understood

as anything else
but a chariot of fire?

NARRATOR:
Curiously, while the idea
of the soul ascending to heaven

is a key component
of Judeo-Christian traditions,

there are a number
of instances in the Bible

where it is said that
a person ascends bodily.

In addition to Enoch and Elijah,

this is also the case with both
Jesus and his mother Mary.

But why?

If heaven is a spiritual realm,

why is it written that certain
individuals ascended bodily?

Neither Enoch nor Elijah ever
claimed that they were prophets.

It was the biblical
writers later

who claimed
that they're prophets.

The reason why Enoch ended up
being called a prophet

is because of
the experiences he had.

He was taken up into space
by extraterrestrials,

and we have a similar story
with Elijah.

Enoch, Elijah...

It-It's all part of
the big concept

of misunderstood technology.

NARRATOR:
If the Watchers were,
in fact, extraterrestrials--

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest--

did they have an agenda
for humankind?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining another ancient
text attributed to Enoch

that was almost entirely
destroyed--

The Book of Giants.

What if there are references

20 miles east of Jerusalem,

at this ancient site
in the Judean Desert...

Bedouin shepherds stumble upon
an extraordinary discovery.

BIDMEAD:
The Dead Sea is surrounded
by caves.

And as young teenage boys
would do,

they threw a rock into the cave,

heard the sound
of breaking pots.

Came back the next day,
climbed into the cave,

and what did they find?

They found huge clay jars.

COLLINS: Inside these
storage jars were ancient texts,

which very quickly
they came to realize

that these were incredibly
important.

CARGILL:
In these scrolls,

we find biblical manuscripts--

copies of the Bible
that are a thousand years older

than any previously
known copy of the Bible.

As well as
a treasure trove of documents

that we had never seen before.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists were
surprised to find

that whoever collected
the Dead Sea Scrolls

considered The Book of Enoch
to be of vital importance,

preserving 11
different manuscripts,

including versions
never seen in modern times.

Also found were fragments

of another work
attributed to Enoch--

The Book of Giants.

Some parts of this text included
in the Dead Sea Scrolls

had been lost for centuries,

and many scholars believe
the stories contained

within The Book of Giants

were written
before even the Book of Genesis.

It expounds on Genesis 6:1-4,

when the story is-is begun

that the Watchers
descended upon Earth

and took wives from Earth
women-- from human women--

and their offspring
were giants.

COLLINS:
The Book of Giants
is about the Nephilim,

the sons of the Watchers.

It's about their lives,
uh, their conversations

and they realize
that they are evil.

NARRATOR:
According to The Book of Giants,

the Nephilim were guilty
of horrific crimes,

including slaughtering humans
and feasting on their flesh.

God ultimately decides
the Earth must be cleansed

and chooses one man
to restart humanity anew--

Noah, the great-grandson
of Enoch.

In the Bible, Noah-- the son
of a Shepherd named Lamech--

and his wife Betenos
was chosen by God

because of his blameless piety.

But when the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered,

religious scholars were shocked
to find a much different

and potentially older
version of the story of Noah.

The Lamech Scroll documents
that Noah became the chosen one

before he was born,

and his father was not Lamech.

TSOUKALOS:
When Noah was born,

the father, Lamech,
was gone at the time.

However, the wife of Lamech knew
immediately something was up

with Noah because he didn't look
like a normal human being.

CARTER:
He is described as having skin

so white it was radiant.

His hair was white like wool.

His father, Lamech, says,

"He has the ways of
the Watchers."

When he blinked, his eyes
lit up the whole house.

This does not sound
like a human being.

The boy looked
completely different

than Lamech's other children.

And Lamech said
to his wife Betenos,

"This can't be my son
because I was away too long."

You know, it doesn't fit
with the nine months.

And Lamech goes for advice
to his father

who was the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah goes to his father
which is Enoch.

Enoch says,
"The guardians of the sky

"have inseminated Betenos
without touching her sexually.

"He should accept
this boy as his own

"and should give him
the name of Noah

"because the guardians
of the sky have decided

Noah is the father
of the coming generation."

So in that case,
proven in the Dead Sea Scrolls,

we know for sure there was
an artificial insemination.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Dead Sea Scrolls

contain the true story of Noah?

Was he not a pious man
chosen by God,

but a genetically altered human,

created by extraterrestrials
to reboot life on Earth?

While further details
about Enoch and Noah

may have existed
in The Book of Giants,

only fragments
of the full text have survived.

But now, new technology
may bring to light

even more incredible
revelations.

Santa Barbara, California.

February 18, 2020.

Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
and Giorgio Tsoukalos

travel to MegaVision

to meet with imaging expert
Ken Boydston.

-Ken. Good to see you.
-BOYDSTON: Hey.

NARRATOR:
Ken recently invented
a revolutionary type of camera

that takes pictures
using a technology

called multispectral imaging.

Giorgio and Ariel are intrigued

by the implications
of this technology,

and they are eager to find out
just how far it can go

in retrieving lost passages
from the Book of Enoch.

TSOUKALOS:
Ken, can you explain to me

the multispectral imaging system
that you have invented?

BOYDSTON
Well, multispectral,

simply put, it's taking
a lot of pictures

under different colors of light.

-Mm-hmm.
-And we don't want to see
the light that's on the object.

We want to only see the light
that the object is producing

in response to that light
coming in.

What we're doing
is just listening

with light to the object.

"What story do you have
to tell us?"

The camera can see
what the human eye cannot see,

and therein lies the magic
and some of the mystery

and some
of the great excitement,

because we are able
to discover things

that have been hidden
for generations or ages.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Ken's camera

is able to retrieve script that
has become eroded with time,

script that was purposely
scrubbed from parchment

and written over,
and even script within scrolls

that cannot be opened because
they are too fragile to handle.

Many of these scrolls
might be thousands of years old,

and as you know, we can't just
open them up and read them

because they will deteriorate,

very similar like
the Dead Sea Scrolls.

TSOUKALOS:
Yes. So, can you

-show us how this works?
-BOYDSTON: Yeah.

Let's kind of go through
a little bit of stuff.

NARRATOR:
To demonstrate the power
of this technology,

Ken is going to apply
spectral imaging to a document

that has been burned so badly,

much of the text is completely
undetectable to the naked eye.

BOYDSTON:
During World War II, the Nazis

burned vast quantities
of documents...

Ah.

...so we are recovering
the partially burned texts.

-Amazing.
-And so, we're ready to do it.

TSOUKALOS:
Lights.

BOYDSTON:
Each time the light flashes,

the shutter clicks,
another picture is captured.

So, you're seeing a little
tiny bit of light right now,

but the camera
is seeing lots of light

because this is down
into the infrared.

All right.

So, out of the visible light
pictures that we just took,

those individual ones,
the computer put them together

and lo and behold,

there's a perfect color picture
of that object,

which would be just
what our eyes see.

-TSOUKALOS: Look at this.
-Which, there it is.

TSOUKALOS:
There you go.

-TZADOK: Wow.
-BOYDSTON: There it is.

All of that text right there.

And we can enhance that
a little bit.

We can, uh, we can push
the contrast up a little bit

-on that...
-That word says sÃmera.

-There we go.
-It means "today."

-BOYDSTON: So, um...
-Arius.

That's a little demonstration of
what-what the technology can do.

Uh, just, a very quick,
and, uh, compelling, really.

TSOUKALOS:
This is extraordinary, really.

-Wow.
-So, just imagine,

uh, if you have thousands
and thousands of these pages,

where, uh, no one
has been able to read them

since they were destroyed.

TSOUKALOS:
In front of our eyes,

long-lost knowledge
that has been thought

to have been completely
and utterly destroyed

has been resurrected
with the power of light.

An ancient prophecy said
that towards the coming

of what we will call disclosure,
all of these secrets,

these ancient secrets,
would be brought back to us.

We never understood how,

but now it's actually happening
in front of our eyes.

What if there are references

to extraterrestrials
that we've never seen before?

-There definitely are.
-So it's a corroboration

of what we're already doing.

I mean, this is sensational.

NARRATOR: In 2018,
the Israel Antiquities Authority

studying the Dead Sea Scrolls
announced

that multispectral analysis had
uncovered writings on a fragment

that points to a previously
unknown manuscript.

Once it's discovered, what will
this missing manuscript reveal?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

there could be numerous
lost texts of Enoch

that will come to light.

Texts that were hidden
in secure locations

so that they would survive

a devastating
global cataclysm...

...the Great Flood.

COLLINS:
The world was devastated

NARRATOR:
The Book of Genesis.

In chapters six through nine,

it is described that God
had become deeply troubled

by the wickedness
of the human race,

and decided to bring it
to an end

by sending a great flood
upon the Earth.

Only Noah and his family would
survive, and it was God himself

who gave Noah instructions
for building the Ark

that would save both them and
two of every earthly creature.

The Book of Enoch
tells the same story,

but with significant
differences.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
One of the differences
is that in the Book of Enoch,

the flood washes away
these rebellious angels.

And it washes away the Nephilim,
as opposed

to the traditional flood story,

which washes away people who
have been rebellious and sinful.

God is protecting us
in the Book of Enoch.

It is a very different God
than the spiteful, wrathful God

that we see
in the Genesis account.

NARRATOR:
Another key difference

in Enoch's account is that Noah
is not given instructions

to build the Ark by God,
but by the angel Uriel.

HENRY: The archangel Uriel
is the one who warned Noah

about the impending flood,
and who told him

about humanity's future and the
possibility of this cataclysm.

What we're witnessing here
is an extraordinary story

of an extraterrestrial being
having a tremendous--

in fact, incalculable influence
on human affairs.

NARRATOR:
Does Enoch's account
of the Great Flood reveal

that it is not a story of God
punishing humankind,

but of extraterrestrials

directing the course
of humanity?

As far as many religious
scholars are concerned,

both the biblical version

and the Enochian version
of the Great Flood

are simply allegorical tales.

But an increasing number
of archaeologists and historians

now believe that this global
cataclysm actually happened.

Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.

After years of research,

American explorer David
Allen Deal has become convinced

that the biblical story of Noah
is, in fact, historical,

and is on the hunt to find
the remnants of the Ark.

At an elevation of more than
7,000 feet, near Mount Ararat,

where the Bible says Noah's Ark
eventually landed,

he stumbles upon the ruins
of an ancient settlement.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
What he discovered

is what's known as the lost city
of-of Noah, or-or Naxuan.

And this is an area that's near
a strange geological formation

that some people think
is actually Noah's Ark.

NARRATOR:
The ancient Armenian historian
Moses of Chorene

identified Naxuan as the place
of Noah's first descent.

Could this be
the first settlement

in a post-flood world?

A recent archeological dig
reportedly uncovered

something remarkable:

the region may contain
millions of graves.

CHILDRESS:
Because Noah's tomb
is said to be here,

a huge cemetery has grown up
around this lost city of Noah.

And people from all over the
Middle East in ancient times,

uh, insisted on being buried
in this area.

NARRATOR:
Researchers suggest that Naxuan

is just one of many points
of evidence

that support the notion
of a historical great flood.

What we now know from
incredible amount of evidence

coming from every part
of the world,

is that around 10,800 BC,

the world was devastated
by some kind of impact event.

And this devastated
every part of the landscape,

what today we might refer to
as a nuclear winter

that blotted out the Sun,
the Moon and the stars.

There's something called
the Usselo horizon

that's been found
all over the world.

It's like a layer of black ash.

This suggests there
was a great conflagration

that took place,
great fires and burning,

and it left this layer
all around the world.

And it dates to between
11,000 and 13,000 years ago.

So this does suggest
something very serious

took place at this time.

NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash,

found roughly 50 feet deep
in the Earth's soil,

be evidence
of a devastating global event?

According to geologist
Dr. Robert Schoch,

a worldwide cataclysm,
and the resulting layer of ash,

was likely created
by a solar flare,

a sudden flash of increased
brightness on the Sun.

SCHOCH:
Based on my analysis
of the evidence

is that there was
a major, major solar outburst.

The Sun essentially erupted.

This caused, in a flash,

the glaciers to melt
virtually instantaneously.

It caused evaporation of water.

This not only led
to the rising sea levels,

flooding the coastal areas
and torrential rains.

We have physical evidence of
this in the geological record.

NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch

overturn everything we know

about the history of life
on our planet?

Did Enoch intend
to make a record

of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth

for future generations
of humans to discover?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
there are still chapters

we have yet to uncover.

Chapters that may be hidden

within the Great Pyramid.

TSOUKALOS:
The pyramids were built

Here on the Giza Plateau

stands the oldest

of the Seven Wonders
of the Ancient World:

the Great Pyramid.

But ancient astronaut theorists
suspect this awesome structure

is even older than Egyptologists
have proposed.

Mainstream archaeologists

date the Great Pyramid
to 2500 BC

and suggest
it was built as a tomb

for the pharaoh Khufu.

However, according
to a 14th century account

written by Islamic historian
Ibrahim al-Maqrizi,

the Pyramid of Giza was built
thousands of years earlier...

before the event described
in both the Hebrew Bible

and the Book of Enoch
as "the Great Flood."

VON DANIKEN:
Now what is very,
very astonishing,

there are many other
old historian books,

especially Arabian historians,

which nobody knows
in the Western world.

They say the Great Pyramid
was constructed

before the Great Flood,
by a pharaoh

with the name of Saurid.

And they precisely say
Saurid is the same figure,

which the Hebrew community
calls Enoch.

NARRATOR:
Enoch?

The builder
of the Great Pyramid?

Could such an incredible notion
be true?

The Islamic text
goes on to detail

the pyramid's construction,
which it says was made possible

by otherworldly beings.

TSOUKALOS:
According to al-Maqrizi,

the pyramids were built in order
to preserve knowledge

that was given to the Egyptians

by the so-called gods,
the so-called Watchers,

the guardians of the sky.

These blocks were
levitated and essentially

walked themselves into position.

NARRATOR:
Was the Great Pyramid

actually built by Enoch

using extraterrestrial
technology?

While it may sound far-fetched,

the notion that
the pharaoh Khufu was behind

the construction of the pyramid

has come under great scrutiny.

In 1837, a British colonel,
who became an archeologist

named Richard Howard-Vyse
used dynamite

to get up into the king's
chamber of the Great Pyramid.

This was something
that had not been entered

by other archeologists before.

When he got
into these upper chambers,

he then apparently
claimed that he found, uh,

some hieroglyphic cartouches

that mentioned
the pharaoh Khufu.

Egyptologists knew
when Khufu lived,

he lived 2500, roughly, BC.

And because of that,
by extension,

that became
the time line and the date

of the Great Pyramid's
construction,

according
to mainstream Egyptology.

NARRATOR:
Colonel Vyse's expedition

to the Great Pyramid
cost $1.3 million,

a figure equal
to $35 million today.

Due to the cost, Vyse was
under tremendous pressure

to make a major discovery--

like finding hard evidence
of who commissioned

the building of the pyramid.

But new evidence has been found
that some believe

puts Vyse's discovery
into question.

Recently it has been discovered

by going through, uh,
Vyse's journals

that he in his journals
actually says

that there were no hieroglyphs
within this chamber.

And so it is suspected
that Vyse did in fact

forge this cartouche
of the pharaoh Khufu.

NARRATOR:
Egyptologists have
also pointed out

that during the time of Khufu,

cartouches were
written vertically,

but the cartouche Colonel Vyse
claimed to have discovered

was written horizontally.

And no mummy was ever found
inside the Great Pyramid.

VON DANIKEN:
Especially in Egyptology,

many archeologists believe
that they know everything,

and that their knowledge is
a true base.

In reality, there are
thousands of open questions,

starting with the builder
of the Great Pyramid.

NARRATOR:
In March 2016,

the Great Pyramid of Giza

presented researchers
with yet another mystery.

Archeologists examining
the ancient structure

with a new technology
known as muography,

made a shocking discovery--

a mysterious chamber
inside the structure

that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.

CHILDRESS:
It's always exciting when

Egyptologists are
making new discoveries

inside of the Great Pyramid
or other pyramids.

And now they're saying
that there is

a 30-meter void
inside the pyramid.

So the whole idea
that these pyramids are

just simple tombs for a pharaoh,

Egyptologists now realize

that they're
far more complicated.

This new room is only
the beginning of it.

I'm sure within the next months,
or at least two years,

they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.

I personally think that
the Great Pyramid in Egypt

holds some sort of time capsule.

In my opinion, we will
find mummies in there.

Mummies of
before the Great Flood.

And we will find
writings in there.

Writings of Enoch,
who tell us how it all was.

Enoch knew
that all these writings

would be found
in the far future.

NARRATOR:
A time capsule hidden within
the Great Pyramid of Giza?

When the Great Pyramid of Egypt
is fully excavated,

could it be found to hold
undeniable proof

that the Book of Enoch documents

extraterrestrial intervention
on Earth?

And might it reveal
even more profound truths

about the history of humankind?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is a resounding yes.

And they say further
examination of the Bible

may indicate exactly
what information

is about to be discovered.

NARRATOR:
The Book of Enoch.

Chapter 91.

After journeying
through the heavenly realm

and returning to Earth,

Enoch is preparing
to be taken back up

into the heavens once again.

Before he leaves, Enoch gathers
together his family

and shares with them
a startling prophecy.

He assembles the whole family.

The oldest of his son
was Methuselah,

the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah asked his father,

"Enoch, will I see you again?"

And Enoch said, "The guardians
of the sky told me

"I will return to this planet,

"but thousands of years
will have passed.

So we will not see
each other again."

NARRATOR:
The concept of a divine figure
leaving and returning to Earth

is echoed across almost
every major religion.

HUSSAIN:
In the Jewish tradition,

there's the expectation
the prophet Elijah

will return before the Messiah
and bring in this age of peace

and righteousness that ushers in
the end of time.

In the Christian tradition,
the return of Jesus,

who for Christians
is the Messiah.

In the Islamic tradition, you
know, it's either the Al-Mahdi,

the divinely guided one, or
it's Muhammad who will return.

In a sense, this ushers in
a brand-new age,

a brand-new relationship
with God,

a brand-new way
of existing in the world.

LAYNE LITTLE: There's
a body of Hindu scriptures

known as the Puranas
and these tell

about the tenth
and final incarnation

of the god Vishnu

that comes at the end

of this present cycle of time.

These prophecies speak
of this Messianic figure

riding upon
the clouds of heaven,

accompanied
by the armies of heaven.

This suggests that we're talking

about some kind
of a vehicle or a craft.

TSOUKALOS:
This whole concept
of the return of the gods--

well, who are we waiting for?

It will not be any of these
ancient "saintly figures"

or-or holy figures, but it
will be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that

humankind's most sacred
religious texts

document
extraterrestrial intervention

on Earth?

And might the teachings of Enoch

have been meant
to prepare humanity

for the day when we will awaken
to a profound new reality?

Perhaps the Book of Enoch
has yet to be completed.

And when the final chapter
is written,

we will know that it is not
a story of angels...

but of our alien ancestors.

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