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President Thomas Jefferson...
Christopher Columbus...
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Crusaders in the Middle Ages...
What did they have in common?
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They either experienced or believed in
the possibility of alien encounters.
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And the fact is there have been
so many descriptions by various
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chroniclers talking about a strange
cloud in the sky that glowed red.
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Columbus, on his first voyage, he
noted in the log, a glowing object
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rise out of the water and
head off into the atmosphere.
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Could alien beings have been responsible
for biblical floods, medieval
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plagues, and even ancient
nuclear attacks?
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Visitations occurred since before
recorded history all the way to today.
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Millions of people around the world believe
we have been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And what if these visitations
didn't only occur thousands
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of years ago, but much more recently?
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Might there be evidence of
real-life close encounters?
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Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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White Sands Proving
Ground, July 16, 1945.
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Early in the morning, a number of U.
S. military officers and
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scientists gather to watch a
powerful new weapon being tested.
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Some believe the device will
be a complete failure, others
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think it might destroy the
entire state of New Mexico.
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As a precaution, viewing
stations are placed from ten
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to 20 miles away from the test site.
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At precisely 5:29 and 45 seconds,
the first atomic bomb is detonated.
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>> Three, two, one...
Fire!
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The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet
wide and produces an explosion equal
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to 20,000 tons of TNT.
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The mushroom cloud reaches over
reverberations can be felt
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nearly 100 miles away.
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The world had a new weapon;
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one so terrifying it left even its creator, Dr.
Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and
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shaken.
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A few people laughed.
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A few people cried.
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Most people were silent.
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For the first time in its history, the
Earth had been assaulted by a manmade
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weapon of incredible power.
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But what if it had
all happened before?
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What if an explosion of even greater
force and destructiveness had long ago
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shaped the Earth's history?
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Some people have suggested on the basis
of a number of lines of evidence
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that there may have been
atomic warfare, atomic bombs,
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atomic explosions, in
the very distant past.
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Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations
may sound like something out of a
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science fiction novel, but
descriptions of similar deadly
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occurrences can be found in the
very same text Dr. Oppenheimer
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quoted after the New
Mexico atomic test.
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I remembered the line from the Hindu
scripture, the Bhagavad Gita,
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"Now I am become death,
the destroyer of worlds."
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Part of an ancient Hindu scripture
known as The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad
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Gita was written sometime between
the fifth and second century B.C.
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This massive 100,000-verse text
contains stories about the
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ancient empire OJ Rama, which
it is said existed over 12,000
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years ago, or roughly 5,000 years before
the earliest recorded civilization
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in Mesopotamia.
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If you read the ancient Indian
epics, they read like modern-day
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science fiction.
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Yet they are thousands of
years old with references
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not only of flying chariots and
of these gods that had these
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incredible technological
capabilities, but incredible
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weapons that they used
in those epic battles.
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They had what was
called a Brahma weapon.
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There were many people that were
singed and burned and melted
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by the Brahma weapon.
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Brahma weapon was an early nuclear
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device because the descriptions
of its deadly aftereffects are
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eerily similar to the effects of
exposure to intense radiation.
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It is a theory largely discounted
by conventional science.
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There is no evidence that a nuclear
bomb was described in The Mahabharata,
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the Bhagavad Gita.
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It describes a battle.
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In battles there are
explosions, big explosions.
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It's one thing about suggesting that,
you know, battles have explosions, but
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that's not really what
we're looking at.
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You've got to look at
the whole picture.
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One reference that we have,
for example, speaks of these
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explosions that were brighter
than a thousand suns.
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And when these blasts occurred,
the suns were twirling in the
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air, trees went up in flames and there
was just this mass destruction.
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After those blasts, people who
survive start to lose their hair
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and nails start to fall out.
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I mean, right there, we have a
concise reference to radiation
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poisoning, nuclear fallout.
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And those texts are
thousands of years old.
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But if The Mahabharata is based
on fact, wouldn't archaeologists
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have uncovered physical
or radiological evidence?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they have.
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The Indus Valley, Southern Pakistan.
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In 1922, an officer with an
Indian archeological survey
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group discovered the ruins of an
ancient city known as Mohenjo-Daro.
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According to mainstream
archeologists, the city, whose
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name means "mound of the dead,"
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had flourished between
2600 and 1900 B.C.
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However, scientists in Pakistan have
suggested Mohenjo-Daro is much older.
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Mainstream archeologists
believe the city was abandoned
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as a result of climatic changes
or possibly a decrease in trade.
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But when the ruins of
Mohenjo-Daro were discovered in
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the 1920s, 44 skeletons were
found lying face down in the
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street, many holding hands.
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Their faces and body positioning
suggested they suffered
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a sudden, violent death.
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You have a culture of people who
literally were lying dead in the street.
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Archaeologists have found human
remains, and something big
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has happened to these people.
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What, in fact, did happen to
the people of Mohenjo-Daro?
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Why is there evidence that wild animals
avoided scavenging their remains?
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And why, even after thousands of
years, had their bones not decayed?
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In certain areas of that site, you
find increased levels of radiation.
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And radiation exists
all over the place.
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When, all of a sudden, you have
higher levels of radiation
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in certain areas of the world,
the question, arises, "Why?"
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Is it possible that Mohenjo-Daro was
one of the cities mentioned in the
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Bhagavad Gita-- a city that suffered the
equivalent of a sudden atomic attack?
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In his 1979 book, Atomic
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Destruction in 2000 B.C.,
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British researcher David
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Davenport claimed to have found
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a 50-yard-wide epicenter
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at Mohenjo-Daro where everything
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appeared to have been fused
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through a transformative process
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known as "vitrification."
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Vitrification is
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a process in which regular-type
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stone gets molten into a magma
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state and then it hardens again.
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But once the stone is hardened
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again, it feels like glass.
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At Mohenjo-Daro, we find
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evidence of vitrification, which
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could have only been achieved
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if the material was exposed to
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extreme heat by some type of
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a blast.
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When British
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and Indian and Pakistani
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archeologists began doing
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excavations in the Sian Desert,
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on the borders of India and
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Pakistan, in the late 1940s and
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early 1950s, what they found in
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these cities-- Mohenjo-Daro,
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Harrapa, Kot Diji-- was
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archeological evidence to show
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there were apparently atomic
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weapons.
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Only it happened in ancient
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times.
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There's other evidence in parts
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of Africa and the Middle East,
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where it would seem to be like
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some sort of atomic explosion
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had taken place there, and had
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turned the desert sand
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into glass.
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And that's exactly what happened
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at Alamogordo, in New Mexico,
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when they detonated the first
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atom bomb in the desert.
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Could the strange
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ruins found in the Indus Valley
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really contain evidence of an
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ancient atomic explosion?
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If so, where did these powerful
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weapons come from?
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Who was using them?
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And why?
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In the ancient
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Indian texts themselves it says,
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and I quote, "At one point,
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three giant cities were orbiting
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the Earth."
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And those giant cities were
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often described as being made
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of gleaming metal and iron.
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And at one point, those three
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cities went to war with each
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other.
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And it's described how the gods
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threw weapons at each other,
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destroying those cities,
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they all went up in flames
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and fire came raining down onto
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Earth.
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So, when you read those
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passages, the question I ask is:
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What is it that our ancestors
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tried to describe here?
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And I think that it was some
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type of a technology that was
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witnessed, yet our ancestors,
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while being highly intelligent,
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didn't understand the nuts and
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bolts aspects behind that
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technology.
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And so they created something
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divine out of it, something
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supernatural, yet it never was
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divine.
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It never was supernatural.
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If, in fact,
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The Mahabharata is describing
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historical events, might we
also find similar accounts
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in other ancient writings?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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we need look no further than in
the pages of the Holy Bible.
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According to one of the stories contained
in the book of Genesis, angels were
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sent by God to destroy the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
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because of the sins
of their inhabitants.
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Only a righteous man named Lot, along
with his family, was to be spared.
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But while making their escape,
Lot's wife ignores the angels'
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warning not to look back, and
upon gazing at the horror and
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devastation, is turned
into a pillar of salt.
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When you are at a nuclear testing range
and you witness a nuclear blast, you're
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told to look away and not to
look straight into the blast.
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And here we have a similar
description in ancient biblical
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text where instructions were
given, "Whatever you do, don't
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look back because you will die."
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And sure enough, it
happened to Lot's wife.
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Could it be that the story of Sodom and
Gomorrah is really a description of a
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nuclear explosion, similar to the one
described in the Hindus' Mahabharata?
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Do the stories of The Mahabharata and
the Bible represent actual historical
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events?
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For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a resounding "yes."
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And they believe the so-called
"angels" who brought forth the
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devastation were, in fact,
beings from another planet--
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alien visitors armed
with advanced weaponry.
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September, 2000.
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The Black Sea, Turkey.
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Marine archaeologist Robert
Ballard and his team of
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underwater scientists discover
what appears to be a farmhouse
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some 330 feet below the surface.
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Estimates suggest the submerged dwelling
to be approximately 7,500 years old.
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Ballard and other scholars
speculated that rising ocean
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levels could have caused the
Mediterranean Sea to burst
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through a natural dam, creating
a flood so great it drowned
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an estimated 58,000 square
miles under 500 feet of water.
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But more than finding the ruins
of an ancient dwelling, had
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Ballard actually discovered
proof that the biblical story
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of Noah and the great flood was true?
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Those villages, of course,
weren't built underwater.
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So Ballard concluded that the
Black Sea, as we know it, was
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only created some eight,
9,000 years ago.
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That is exactly what we're
talking about with Noah's Ark
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and the flood, the same area
where all that happened.
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And in fact, mainstream
archeologists know that in the
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Mediterranean there are over
200 known sunken cities.
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Those cities, too, were somehow
flooded the same time that the
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Black Sea was flooded.
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Also written in the book of Genesis, the
story of Noah tells how God "saw that
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the wickedness of man was great ," and
decided to destroy all of creation.
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Only Noah, his family, and the
animals aboard the ark were
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allowed to survive and
repopulate the planet.
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But is this the whole story?
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Was Noah selected only for his virtue?
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Or was there another reason he
was chosen to save the planet?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Bible doesn't tell the whole story.
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In the late 1940s and early
1950s, a series of ancient
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texts known as the Dead Sea
Scrolls were discovered in a
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cave located in what is
now Israel's West Bank.
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Among the ancient writings are
various stories not found in
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the traditional Hebrew Bible.
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One such story tells of Noah and
his strange, miraculous birth.
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One of the Dead Sea Scrolls is
called "The Lamech Scroll."
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What is Lamech?
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Lamech was a shepherd.
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And one day, Lamech, his
woman was pregnant.
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And he said to her,
"This is impossible.
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I was not here for months."
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But his woman with the name Bathenosh
swears, "No one touched me."
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But Lamech doesn't believe his
wife, Bathenosh, and he goes to
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his father, which was Methuselah.
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And Methuselah says to
Lamech, "I can't help you.
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I don't understand this.
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I believe your woman, Bathenosh, "that
nobody touched her, and I believe you.
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What shall I do?"
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So Methuselah goes to his father,
the grandfather now of Lamech.
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His name is Enoch.
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Now Enoch tells to Methuselah
that the guardians of the sky
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have made an artificial insemination
into the womb of Bathenosh, the wife.
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And he should accept this child,
because this child will be
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the father of a new human generation.
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And in the Bible, this is Noah.
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What if, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,
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the story of Lamech is true
and the guardians of the sky
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described in the story
are, in fact, aliens?
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Does this mean that Noah was
the product of an artificial
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insemination, a genetic experiment
performed by extraterrestrials?
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If so, what was the reason
for the great flood?
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Well, the reason for the flood,
and we need to understand this.
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What it tells us is that Noah was
pure in all of his generations.
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What does that mean?
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You know, why would the account,
you know, specify "pure in all
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his generations"?
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According to the Bible, God sent the
flood because of man's wickedness and
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corruption.
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But ancient astronaut theorists
believe the flood was actually
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a means of ridding the Earth
of biological imperfections.
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By using Noah and his family,
they could repopulate the
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planet with a genetically
superior species.
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Part of this human society is, again,
genetically backward, closer
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to the animal.
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What can we do?
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These humans were spread
out over the planet.
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So they said, "We have to mill
them all by a great flood, and
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then we have to restart again."
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Another familiar element in the story
of Noah involves the collection of
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animals brought aboard the ark.
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In the Bible, God commanded
Noah to collect two of every
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kind of living creature--
animal, bird and insect.
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But many biblical scholars and
theologians agree that such
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a task would have been both physically
and biologically impossible.
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Could there be another more
scientific explanation?
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The story of Noah's Ark is pretty
implausible, if you think about it.
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You have two animals of each
creature on planet Earth on a boat.
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Not only would the boat have to
be huge, but how are you going
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to collect every animal on the
planet and put it on that ship?
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So, could it be possible that
Noah's Ark was once again
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misunderstood technology, and
Noah's Ark was a DNA bank?
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Could it be a story?
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Could it be technology somehow
gathering up all living things
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as in a DNA bank of some kind?
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It fits together.
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Hard to imagine, uh, how that
would happen so far back, but
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if it did happen, it would need
to be told as a story, and the
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to be told as a story, and the
story of a boat works.
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Perhaps this is really an
extraterrestrial DNA bank as well.
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The extraterrestrials need plants and
animals and minerals on this planet, too.
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Just like when we go to Mars
or something, we'll be using
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what we can use on that planet.
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So, extraterrestrials coming here
would want to do that as well.
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And if they knew that some
cataclysm was coming, they, too,
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would want to preserve certain
kinds of animals and plant life,
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and create, you know, what
we think of as Noah's Ark.
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An alien DNA bank?
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Is there any evidence that
such a thing is even possible?
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In 2008, on the Arctic island
of Svalbard, a vault was built
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to store the seeds of hundreds
of thousands of plants in the
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event of a global catastrophe.
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Elsewhere, similar efforts are
reportedly underway to store
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animal and human DNA as well.
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Cutting-edge science or merely
history repeating itself?
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The Frozen Ark Project is a program that
was initiated by the London Natural
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History Museum.
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What they've done is they started to store
DNA of endangered species for future
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generations, for preservation.
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And, as of today, over a
thousand species have been
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preserved in small little vials.
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So, the question arises,
could it be possible that
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Noah's Ark wasn't necessarily a
boat made out of wood, but what
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if Noah's Ark was some type of a
DNA storage facility that was
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used in order to preserve all
the species on planet Earth?
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If each species can be held in
a tiny vile like this, then
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it all becomes very logical.
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And, once again, we have to look
at it from a perspective, "What
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did our ancestors try to describe?
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What did they witness?"
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Aliens artificially inseminating humans...
Ancient DNA banks...
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Could such ideas really help our
understanding of the Bible?
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And is it possible that extraterrestrials
have influenced the development of
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mankind?
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There are many who claim that
the proof can be found in some
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astonishing places.
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For those who believe that close
encounters with alien beings have helped
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shape Earth's history, it is
important to remember that it
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isn't only ancient history
that has been so influenced.
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There have been literally
hundreds of credible accounts
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of strange creatures, UFO
sightings and otherworldly
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phenomena that took place, even
in the so-called Dark Ages.
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There have been sightings all over the
world throughout the Middle Ages.
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There are stories going from Scotland
to England to Italy to the Crusades.
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Remember the Crusades took
place over hundreds of years.
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And at certain points in the
battle, in some cases over
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Turkey, in some cases over
Jerusalem, there are images
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captured in writing by various
chroniclers talking about
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"a strange cloud in the
sky that glowed red.
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A strange image coming out
of a cloud in the sky."
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Why would we say this is a UFO?
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Because, traditionally, UFOs
mask themselves by forming
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a cloud around themselves.
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And it's a cloud that's going
through the sky-- that's their
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invisibility cloak.
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In his 13th century historical
work titled Otto
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Imperialia, Gervase of Tilbury
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wrote about an aerial craft
over the city of Bristol,
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England, which caught an
anchor in a church steeple.
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He uses specifically
the term "anchor."
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Now, we don't know what
kind of anchor that is.
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But a creature, a man, climbs
out of this craft and tries
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to free the anchor from the steeple.
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And all the people in the
village start stoning him,
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thinking he's some sort of evil demon.
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But for ancient astronaut theorists,
evidence of an alien presence during the
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Middle Ages isn't only
found in literature.
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All throughout the Middle Ages, there
are some magnificent paintings...
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...and in certain areas of the painting,
there are what looks like to be UFOs.
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They're always floating up in
the sky-- usually above the
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Virgin Mary or above Jesus on
the crucifix-- or somewhere we
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have sceneries that Pict
what looks like UFOs.
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One very interesting painting
is where Jesus sits up in the
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clouds with quote, unquote "God
," and they're holding onto
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the antennae of what looks like
Sputnik; and theologians say
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what is depicted here is
nothing else but the Earth.
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But why would Earth have two
antennae sticking out of it?
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And why would it be round?
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Because the mainstream viewpoint at
the time was that the Earth was flat.
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Here are pictures of the crucifixion
dated around 1350 from Kosovo.
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Here are, presumably, vehicles
with people driving them in
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attendance at the crucifixion.
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Could this be a crude-- an
attempt on the part of the
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artist drawing on a tradition--
obviously, he wasn't there--
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drawing on a tradition?
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Could he be reflecting the folklore?
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Possibly.
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The people of the Middle Ages depicted
devils and angels frequently,
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in their art.
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They did not depict what we today
consider aliens, specifically.
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But angels are heavenly creatures
that come from outside
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of our sphere, aren't they?
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Did the medieval artists include strange
creatures and flying spacecraft
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in their paintings because they
had seen them in real life?
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Or were they trying to
communicate their belief that
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the miraculous events of the New
Testament had otherworldly origins?
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The most famous painting that
resolved any doubt in my mind
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depict a UFO with its laser
beam, was made by Crivelli in
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1486-- The Annunciation to Mary.
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In medieval art, in The
Annunciation, when Mary is
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told that she will have a child,
but she will still be a virgin,
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and the angels tell her this, over
Mary's head is a space capsule.
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But what's a UFO, or a space
capsule, doing over Mary?
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Maybe the artist saw it and he's
putting it in the painting to
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bring together his own vision of
a UFO, the annunciation from the
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Bible, and the mystery of salvation
that there could be a virgin birth.
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According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the UFO-shaped objects found in
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medieval paintings aren't the
only evidence of an alien
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presence during the era.
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In his book, The Gods of Eden,
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author William Bramley cites
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private journals and other
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publications throughout
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Europe which contain accounts
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of cigar-shaped flying objects
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emitting noxious mists.
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The first reports of this kind
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began during the mid-14th
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century, closely corresponding
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to the outbreak of the worst
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health epidemic in human
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history-- the Black Plague.
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The Black
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Plague, back in the 1300s, many
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have said was caused by a virus
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from a rodent-- bitten by fleas.
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This disease that wiped out
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75-plus million people on the
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planet at the time.
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But there's another theory by
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a fellow by the name of William
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Bramley who says that the Black
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Plague was created by ETs, that
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they wanted to eradicate human
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beings, for whatever horrible
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reason.
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We know that
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plague can be spread by rodents.
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But there weren't that many
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rodent infestations being
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reported back then, at least not
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enough to account for all of the
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breakouts that we had.
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So what you find in the
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literature from that time are
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numerous reports of bright
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lights moving through the sky,
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emitting gas, or what they call
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"mists."
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And we find them in China, you
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find them in Europe.
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There are similar reports
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from the Justinian plague from
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earlier in history, and even
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later plagues, the cholera
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epidemics.
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You find similar stories of
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mists that are the cause of the
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00:32:50,150 --> 00:32:51,350
Plague.
491
00:32:51,418 --> 00:32:53,686
We have weapons like that--
492
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:55,321
biological warfare.
493
00:32:55,355 --> 00:32:56,889
As for the motive as to why
494
00:32:56,923 --> 00:32:58,958
this happened, I can only kind
495
00:32:58,992 --> 00:33:00,693
of scratch my head, because in
496
00:33:00,761 --> 00:33:03,596
the UFO phenomena, we see
497
00:33:03,630 --> 00:33:05,398
certain consistent patterns, but
498
00:33:05,432 --> 00:33:06,599
we don't always understand the
499
00:33:06,667 --> 00:33:09,335
motive.
500
00:33:09,369 --> 00:33:10,870
Italian historian
501
00:33:10,904 --> 00:33:14,874
Matteo Villani, who both
chronicled the Black Death and
502
00:33:14,908 --> 00:33:19,345
died from it in the 14th
century, wrote of pestilential
503
00:33:19,379 --> 00:33:23,349
fogs reported by travelers from Asia.
504
00:33:23,383 --> 00:33:26,319
He even wrote that people were
convinced they could actually
505
00:33:26,353 --> 00:33:31,057
see the plague coming
through the streets.
506
00:33:31,124 --> 00:33:34,760
But what some ancient astronaut
believers find to be even
507
00:33:34,795 --> 00:33:40,800
stronger evidence of alien involvement,
are the numerous reports of mysterious
508
00:33:40,867 --> 00:33:43,936
black-cloaked creatures who
would appear on the outskirts
509
00:33:43,970 --> 00:33:48,040
of villages just before
plague broke out.
510
00:33:48,075 --> 00:33:51,777
Contemporary accounts describe
them as having "terrifying
511
00:33:51,812 --> 00:33:59,051
faces" and "waving long, scythe-like
objects dispensing noxious mists."
512
00:33:59,086 --> 00:34:05,691
It's the image we know
today as the Grim Reaper.
513
00:34:05,759 --> 00:34:09,762
These figures in black would appear
usually on the outskirts of a town.
514
00:34:09,796 --> 00:34:13,766
They were carrying these long
devices that looks like scythes.
515
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,502
These figures in black would
start sweeping in the fields as
516
00:34:16,570 --> 00:34:20,406
though they were cutting
down the wheat.
517
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:25,978
Then immediately there would
be an outbreak of the plague.
518
00:34:26,046 --> 00:34:30,950
Although ancient astronaut theorists
are divided on Bramley's proposal that
519
00:34:30,984 --> 00:34:34,453
aliens we behind the plague,
his research, like the artwork
520
00:34:34,488 --> 00:34:40,426
of the time, has led to
one important conclusion.
521
00:34:40,427 --> 00:34:46,732
What is evidenced is the fact that
visitations occurred since before recorded
522
00:34:46,767 --> 00:34:50,970
history all the way to today.
523
00:34:50,971 --> 00:34:54,573
It's not like ancient astronauts
only happened thousands of years
524
00:34:54,641 --> 00:34:59,378
ago, and then all of a
sudden we have Roswell.
525
00:34:59,446 --> 00:35:03,983
The fact alone, that these
visitations have been going on
526
00:35:04,017 --> 00:35:11,924
for all this time, thousands
of years, that's sensational.
527
00:35:11,992 --> 00:35:15,461
Flying cylinders spreading
plague from the sky?
528
00:35:15,495 --> 00:35:20,266
Black-clad aliens looking
to destroy humans?
529
00:35:20,300 --> 00:35:23,636
But even if possible, why?
530
00:35:23,670 --> 00:35:27,440
And, if true, wouldn't there
continue to be evidence of even
531
00:35:27,474 --> 00:35:35,548
more close encounters-- encounters that
would take place much closer to home?
532
00:35:38,410 --> 00:35:43,014
When Columbus and his men first set foot
in what to the Europeans was the "New
533
00:35:43,048 --> 00:35:48,553
World," the indigenous people had
never encountered anyone like them.
534
00:35:48,587 --> 00:35:50,655
Their skin was pale.
535
00:35:50,722 --> 00:35:55,359
They wore strange clothes made of
bright, often shiny materials.
536
00:35:55,394 --> 00:35:59,630
They arrived in massive ships
and had powerful weapons.
537
00:35:59,698 --> 00:36:05,803
To the natives, the visitors were truly
aliens from a strange, faraway world--
538
00:36:05,838 --> 00:36:13,144
powerful beings who might just as
well have been sent from the heavens.
539
00:36:13,178 --> 00:36:18,850
Columbus wrote in his journal that
the inhabitants eagerly came out
540
00:36:18,884 --> 00:36:23,488
to see their ships, and asked them
if they had come from the heavens.
541
00:36:23,489 --> 00:36:26,057
And despite the fact that
Columbus and his men indicated,
542
00:36:26,125 --> 00:36:29,327
"No, we didn't come from the
heavens," they called out to
543
00:36:29,428 --> 00:36:32,497
the people still on the shore,
"Come out and see the people
544
00:36:32,598 --> 00:36:34,132
who've come from the heavens."
545
00:36:34,133 --> 00:36:37,768
Certainly, it seems interesting
to wonder why it is that
546
00:36:37,803 --> 00:36:40,104
instead of thinking that
possibly they came from some
547
00:36:40,139 --> 00:36:44,242
other part of the sea, that
they'd come from the sky.
548
00:36:44,309 --> 00:36:47,011
But there is more to the story.
549
00:36:47,045 --> 00:36:51,482
Less well-known is that
Columbus had an alien encounter
550
00:36:51,517 --> 00:36:56,387
of his own, one reported in
his log just days before he
551
00:36:56,421 --> 00:37:01,893
reached the shores of the New World.
552
00:37:01,927 --> 00:37:09,600
p.m. on the 11th of October, 1492, the
anxious explorer was on the deck of the
553
00:37:09,635 --> 00:37:11,536
Santa Maria when he saw a
554
00:37:11,570 --> 00:37:15,540
"light glimmering at
a great distance."
555
00:37:15,607 --> 00:37:20,978
Columbus wrote, "The admiral, standing
on the quarterdeck saw a light.
556
00:37:21,046 --> 00:37:25,449
Calling to Pedro Gutierrez, he
told him he saw a light, and
557
00:37:25,517 --> 00:37:29,520
bid him look that way,
which he did and saw it.
558
00:37:29,555 --> 00:37:33,357
The admiral again perceived it
once or twice, appearing like
559
00:37:33,392 --> 00:37:37,361
the light of a wax candle
moving up and down."
560
00:37:37,429 --> 00:37:41,432
Summoning another member of the
crew, the two watched as the
561
00:37:41,533 --> 00:37:44,802
light vanished and
reappeared repeatedly.
562
00:37:44,803 --> 00:37:47,972
Seeing lights in the water
isn't really an anomaly.
563
00:37:48,040 --> 00:37:51,609
We all know that certain kinds of
underwater life give off lights.
564
00:37:51,710 --> 00:37:56,781
But this light actually
traveled along with the ship.
565
00:37:56,815 --> 00:38:04,055
Columbus noted in the log a glowing object
rise out of the water, and head off
566
00:38:04,089 --> 00:38:08,392
into the atmosphere.
567
00:38:08,393 --> 00:38:11,062
What did Columbus see?
568
00:38:11,096 --> 00:38:12,897
A phosphorescent sea creature?
569
00:38:12,965 --> 00:38:15,299
An hallucination?
570
00:38:15,334 --> 00:38:18,236
Or was it something more?
571
00:38:18,303 --> 00:38:21,339
Something from out of this world?
572
00:38:21,406 --> 00:38:22,974
What did Columbus'
573
00:38:23,008 --> 00:38:24,442
men see?
574
00:38:24,509 --> 00:38:30,014
What they saw was a luminous
object, that upon breaking
575
00:38:30,048 --> 00:38:35,386
the water's surface, became a UFO.
576
00:38:35,420 --> 00:38:38,289
To UFO researchers like
Bill Birnes, Columbus'
577
00:38:38,390 --> 00:38:45,563
sighting is significant, not only because
of when it occurred, but also because
578
00:38:45,597 --> 00:38:49,400
the object was spotted coming
out of the sea, ruling out the
579
00:38:49,468 --> 00:38:53,904
possibility that what he saw was
a comet or a shooting star.
580
00:38:53,939 --> 00:39:02,580
What's intriguing is that this was in
what we cal- today the Bermuda Triangle.
581
00:39:02,614 --> 00:39:06,117
The Bermuda Triangle, that
area, particularly off of
582
00:39:06,184 --> 00:39:11,222
Bimini, the Bahamas, may in
fact be-- and I'm way out on a
583
00:39:11,290 --> 00:39:15,826
limb here-- Colony
headquarters underneath that.
584
00:39:15,861 --> 00:39:23,100
Your UFO goes down into the water
and then into a subterranean.
585
00:39:23,168 --> 00:39:28,039
What better position would
be to monitor South America,
586
00:39:28,140 --> 00:39:32,576
Middle America, Egypt
than the Caribbean?
587
00:39:32,577 --> 00:39:35,680
Many people believe that
it's possible that UFOs
588
00:39:35,747 --> 00:39:39,050
could have established
bases on the seafloor.
589
00:39:39,084 --> 00:39:42,053
To some extent, it's true
that we know more about the
590
00:39:42,154 --> 00:39:45,523
Moon or some parts of outer
space than we do about the
591
00:39:45,590 --> 00:39:48,059
deepest parts of our own oceans.
592
00:39:48,093 --> 00:39:54,699
This event is extremely important
because it is the world's first
593
00:39:54,733 --> 00:40:00,504
recorded event that illustrate
the appearance of UFO as object
594
00:40:00,539 --> 00:40:04,075
emerging from the water.
595
00:40:04,076 --> 00:40:10,848
If Columbus sighting was so extraordinary,
why do we only find record of it
596
00:40:10,916 --> 00:40:12,450
in his log?
597
00:40:12,484 --> 00:40:17,355
Some believe another account
of this event exists in the
598
00:40:17,389 --> 00:40:21,025
official records of the
Spanish Inquisition.
599
00:40:21,093 --> 00:40:28,265
UFO researcher Maximillien De Lafayette
claims that Columbus' shipmate, Pedro
600
00:40:28,300 --> 00:40:31,435
Gutierrez, reported him to the
Inquisition after hearing
601
00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:38,275
Columbus describe the lights in the
sky as resembling the Jewish menorah.
602
00:40:38,343 --> 00:40:43,914
When they went back to Spain,
Gutierrez went directly to the
603
00:40:44,015 --> 00:40:45,716
infamous Inquisition.
604
00:40:45,751 --> 00:40:50,721
This is the Catholic organization
created by the Vatican to persecute and
605
00:40:50,789 --> 00:40:52,623
kill the infidels.
606
00:40:52,657 --> 00:41:02,366
The infidels means the Jews, the Muslims
and Christians who are not Catholic.
607
00:41:04,136 --> 00:41:07,638
The Inquisition called him
for explanation, deposition.
608
00:41:07,706 --> 00:41:10,908
"Did you say that you saw menorah?
609
00:41:10,976 --> 00:41:12,710
Why did you say menorah?
610
00:41:12,744 --> 00:41:14,378
Oh, so you are a Jew."
611
00:41:14,413 --> 00:41:17,281
He said, "I'm not a Jew."
612
00:41:17,315 --> 00:41:21,819
In the deposition, which is
lengthy, you find more details,
613
00:41:21,887 --> 00:41:27,625
meticulous details of what
Columbus saw above the water.
614
00:41:33,999 --> 00:41:38,102
The file of the Inquisition is
in the vault of the Vatican.
615
00:41:38,170 --> 00:41:41,439
And good luck if you can go
to the secret file of the
616
00:41:41,473 --> 00:41:46,644
Vatican and try to dig for
document as explosive as this one.
617
00:41:49,147 --> 00:41:52,983
Secret files of the
Spanish Inquisition?
618
00:41:53,018 --> 00:41:57,254
UFOs and alien sightings
in the time of Columbus?
619
00:41:57,289 --> 00:41:59,824
Farfetched, perhaps.
620
00:41:59,858 --> 00:42:02,827
But to proponents of ancient
astronaut theory, these
621
00:42:02,861 --> 00:42:08,365
precolonial close encounters are
considered commonplace events.
622
00:42:08,433 --> 00:42:15,005
For them, it offers additional
proof that we are not alone.
623
00:42:15,040 --> 00:42:19,343
They have several sightings of
what we would call UFOs today
624
00:42:19,377 --> 00:42:24,515
along the discovery of America,
during the conquest of America.
625
00:42:24,516 --> 00:42:25,983
Columbus was not the only one.
626
00:42:26,051 --> 00:42:28,786
Also on the trip of Magellan.
627
00:42:28,820 --> 00:42:32,523
Fernando De Magellan, the
discoverer of the Strait,
628
00:42:32,624 --> 00:42:36,994
who circumnavigate the
world after Columbus.
629
00:42:37,062 --> 00:42:41,999
He have also sightings.
630
00:42:42,067 --> 00:42:46,270
Seafarers often encounter strange
lights both in the sky and below the
631
00:42:46,338 --> 00:42:48,806
surface of the ocean.
632
00:42:48,874 --> 00:42:51,175
Skeptics argue that Columbus'
633
00:42:51,209 --> 00:42:56,714
sighting, like many others, was
simply a natural phenomenon.
634
00:42:58,083 --> 00:43:01,318
At night, there are all kinds
of things, for example bolides.
635
00:43:01,353 --> 00:43:05,456
Bolides are these very large
comets, and they're spectacular.
636
00:43:05,524 --> 00:43:08,225
It's just like this enormous
bright light with a trail that
637
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:10,261
just arcs through the sky.
638
00:43:10,262 --> 00:43:11,695
But we can tell the difference.
639
00:43:11,730 --> 00:43:16,066
When you have a meteor like that or a
bolide, the characteristics are very
640
00:43:16,101 --> 00:43:19,069
different than the
ones of genuine UFOs.
641
00:43:19,104 --> 00:43:23,207
As far back as the 19th century,
people have speculated about what that
642
00:43:23,241 --> 00:43:24,608
light could've been.
643
00:43:24,676 --> 00:43:27,878
Explanations have centered
around the possibility that it
644
00:43:27,946 --> 00:43:33,217
could've been a light or a torch being
carried by an island inhabitant.
645
00:43:33,251 --> 00:43:39,423
They were in fact more than
35 miles away from any land,
646
00:43:39,457 --> 00:43:42,793
which makes that impossible.
647
00:43:42,861 --> 00:43:47,331
The other possibility is that
it was a meteor traveling
648
00:43:47,399 --> 00:43:51,335
very close to the horizon, and that the
movement of the ship is actually what
649
00:43:51,403 --> 00:43:54,705
made the light appear to
be moving up and down.
650
00:43:54,739 --> 00:44:00,244
But what if conventional science
is wrong and the ancient astronaut
651
00:44:00,312 --> 00:44:02,413
theorists are correct?
652
00:44:02,447 --> 00:44:09,620
What if Columbus, Magellan and the early
explorers really did see evidence of
653
00:44:09,688 --> 00:44:13,424
extraterrestrial creatures
visiting our planet?
654
00:44:13,491 --> 00:44:17,328
What does this say about our past?
655
00:44:17,395 --> 00:44:19,663
Our history?
656
00:44:19,698 --> 00:44:21,765
And our future?
657
00:44:22,808 --> 00:44:23,341
Germany, April
658
00:44:24,410 --> 00:44:28,780
14, 1561.
659
00:44:28,881 --> 00:44:33,284
At dawn, the citizens of
Nuremberg awoke to what was
660
00:44:33,352 --> 00:44:39,190
described in a local news flier
as "a very frightful spectacle."
661
00:44:39,258 --> 00:44:44,028
Various strange objects
were spotted in the sky...
662
00:44:44,096 --> 00:44:49,100
engaged in what appeared
to be an aerial battle.
663
00:44:49,134 --> 00:44:53,805
Could they have been
witnessing a close encounter?
664
00:44:53,839 --> 00:44:58,276
They see this incredible sight
as the sun is coming up.
665
00:44:58,310 --> 00:45:02,914
They see what they describe as
cigar-shaped objects, circles
666
00:45:02,981 --> 00:45:05,817
in the air, and crosses;
667
00:45:05,884 --> 00:45:07,885
flying crosses.
668
00:45:07,886 --> 00:45:12,557
And suddenly, these shapes
begin emitting other shapes.
669
00:45:12,591 --> 00:45:17,628
The spheres and discs were seen for
a long time, as they apparently
670
00:45:17,663 --> 00:45:21,165
were fighting in some kind
of a battle over the city.
671
00:45:21,200 --> 00:45:24,569
In fact, the battle was so
evident that the people in
672
00:45:24,636 --> 00:45:28,106
Nuremberg were actually able to
perceive which side was winning.
673
00:45:28,107 --> 00:45:31,275
Some of the objects were seen
to crash into the ground
674
00:45:31,310 --> 00:45:34,912
and disappear in a cloud
of smoke or steam.
675
00:45:34,980 --> 00:45:40,685
Other objects were seen to fly off and
disappear in the direction of the sun.
676
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:45,690
This entire event becomes
memorialized in a broadsheet.
677
00:45:45,757 --> 00:45:51,262
Now a broadsheet in the 16th
century was literally a newspaper.
678
00:45:51,330 --> 00:45:55,766
And that broadsheet exists
today in Zurich, Switzerland.
679
00:45:55,801 --> 00:46:00,905
The Zurich Central Library to this day
retains a copy not only of the famous
680
00:46:00,939 --> 00:46:05,076
woodcut that shows the 1561
sighting over Nuremberg, but
681
00:46:05,110 --> 00:46:10,581
also a 1566 woodcut showing a
sighting from that year that
682
00:46:10,616 --> 00:46:12,583
was quite similar in
Basel, Switzerland.
683
00:46:12,618 --> 00:46:15,786
What's fascinating is it's
a very similar event.
684
00:46:15,854 --> 00:46:19,190
People saw a bunch of
circles in the air.
685
00:46:19,224 --> 00:46:22,293
In fact, a proliferation
of circles in the air.
686
00:46:22,327 --> 00:46:24,762
They didn't necessarily
interpret that as a battle in
687
00:46:24,796 --> 00:46:29,834
the air, but they did interpret
it as some kind of heavenly sign.
688
00:46:29,902 --> 00:46:34,939
The broadsheets that were distributed
both in Nuremberg and in Basel five
689
00:46:34,973 --> 00:46:39,010
years later, advised people to
"repent for their sins" and
690
00:46:39,044 --> 00:46:43,648
interpreted these extraordinary
events as signs from God.
691
00:46:43,649 --> 00:46:49,554
In old time, everything paranormal,
extra, extra-- hyphen--
692
00:46:49,621 --> 00:46:53,791
ordinary belongs the realm
of divinity, of Gods.
693
00:46:53,792 --> 00:46:54,659
"God's doing this!
694
00:46:54,693 --> 00:46:55,826
God is punishing us!
695
00:46:55,928 --> 00:46:56,827
God is blessing us!
696
00:46:56,862 --> 00:46:57,662
Go repent!
697
00:46:57,696 --> 00:46:58,563
Go to church!"
698
00:46:58,630 --> 00:47:03,401
It's interesting to read the Nuremberg
description because it is written with
699
00:47:03,435 --> 00:47:06,237
religious iconography in mind.
700
00:47:06,271 --> 00:47:10,174
They talk about crosses seen
in the sky on the previous day
701
00:47:10,242 --> 00:47:12,143
during that sighting.
702
00:47:12,177 --> 00:47:16,781
Now what we might think of as a
fuselage with wings, might've
703
00:47:16,815 --> 00:47:21,419
appeared as a cross to people
who saw religious symbolism
704
00:47:21,453 --> 00:47:23,087
constantly in their everyday life.
705
00:47:23,121 --> 00:47:27,158
It's difficult to imagine
how these things might have
706
00:47:27,192 --> 00:47:30,428
appeared, but it's certainly
possible that if these were to
707
00:47:30,495 --> 00:47:34,165
appear in the sky today, we would
describe them quite differently.
708
00:47:34,199 --> 00:47:39,170
Could the people of Nuremberg have
actually witnessed a battle between
709
00:47:39,204 --> 00:47:44,075
warring alien factions; an event
eerily similar to the one
710
00:47:44,142 --> 00:47:50,982
written about in the Bhagavad
Gita over 3,000 years earlier?
711
00:47:51,049 --> 00:47:55,052
And if not, what else would
explain the vivid accounts of
712
00:47:55,087 --> 00:48:01,325
luminous globes and blood-red
crosses appearing in the sky?
713
00:48:04,630 --> 00:48:08,666
Throughout the Middle Ages,
visions of strange happenings
714
00:48:08,700 --> 00:48:12,503
were often attributed to God
or to the supernatural.
715
00:48:12,537 --> 00:48:16,407
But moving into what is known
as the early modern period of
716
00:48:16,441 --> 00:48:20,978
the 17th century, people began
to look more and more toward
717
00:48:21,013 --> 00:48:24,882
science and the stars for answers.
718
00:48:24,983 --> 00:48:29,320
And with the invention of the
refracting telescope in 1608,
719
00:48:29,388 --> 00:48:33,691
there would be more eyes trained
on the stars than ever before.
720
00:48:33,759 --> 00:48:38,863
Ironically, the first report of
a UFO witnessed through this
721
00:48:38,897 --> 00:48:43,334
new device came from colonial
America's best-known Puritan
722
00:48:43,368 --> 00:48:46,203
minister, Cotton Mather.
723
00:48:46,238 --> 00:48:50,875
There was an incredible sighting that
the very famous New England preacher
724
00:48:50,909 --> 00:48:52,410
Cotton Mather had.
725
00:48:52,511 --> 00:48:55,946
Cotton Mather said that he was
looking through a telescope at
726
00:48:55,981 --> 00:49:01,786
the Moon, and in the telescope
he saw a flying light over the
727
00:49:01,887 --> 00:49:03,854
surface of the moon.
728
00:49:03,855 --> 00:49:05,690
Well, how did this get recorded?
729
00:49:05,757 --> 00:49:08,025
By none other than NASA.
730
00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:10,695
And people can find it themselves.
731
00:49:10,729 --> 00:49:15,232
Go to the NASA report on lunar
anomalies over 500 years,
732
00:49:15,300 --> 00:49:18,869
and they will find Cotton
Mather's sighting of a UFO
733
00:49:18,904 --> 00:49:22,873
over the surface of the Moon.
734
00:49:24,910 --> 00:49:32,149
There are a vast number of natural
atmospheric phenomena that can appear as
735
00:49:32,217 --> 00:49:34,385
bright lights in the night sky.
736
00:49:34,419 --> 00:49:38,689
Certainly, uh, meteors
are a possibility.
737
00:49:38,757 --> 00:49:43,427
Even certain kinds of terrestrial phenomena
do materialize as glowing balls of
738
00:49:43,495 --> 00:49:48,632
light that, seen from a distance,
may appear to be a star.
739
00:49:48,633 --> 00:49:52,336
And it's incredibly difficult
to judge the distance of a
740
00:49:52,404 --> 00:49:54,605
point source of light in the night.
741
00:49:54,639 --> 00:49:58,409
So he may have thought that it
was on the surface of the Moon,
742
00:49:58,443 --> 00:50:01,412
or-or hundreds of miles away,
when in reality, it could've
743
00:50:01,446 --> 00:50:03,748
been quite close to where he was.
744
00:50:03,782 --> 00:50:08,753
Though it is uncertain what Cotton
Mather saw, ancient astronaut theorists
745
00:50:08,787 --> 00:50:13,758
find it significant that a
prominent religious figure would
746
00:50:13,792 --> 00:50:19,597
report such a sighting not as a vision
from God, but as an astronomical event.
747
00:50:19,631 --> 00:50:24,769
They see it as a sign, not only
of the sighting's authenticity,
748
00:50:24,836 --> 00:50:28,005
but that views on the
possibility of extraterrestrial
749
00:50:28,039 --> 00:50:33,844
life were starting to shift, even
within the Christian church.
750
00:50:33,945 --> 00:50:37,114
Cotton Mather was known as a
fire and brimstone preacher.
751
00:50:37,149 --> 00:50:42,586
But there's a rational part
of Cotton Mather as well...
752
00:50:42,621 --> 00:50:47,491
because this was the very beginning;
the dawn of the industrial revolution.
753
00:50:47,526 --> 00:50:52,763
And in this context, people were
thinking about science, they
754
00:50:52,831 --> 00:50:57,501
were thinking about machines, and
really thinking about, could
755
00:50:57,536 --> 00:51:00,571
there be something in space?
756
00:51:00,639 --> 00:51:05,509
Although sightings like Cotton Mather's
were still rare in the 1700s, the
757
00:51:05,577 --> 00:51:09,780
increasing interest in
astronomy sparked a new debate
758
00:51:09,848 --> 00:51:13,384
over a centuries-old theory
called "the plurality of
759
00:51:13,485 --> 00:51:19,924
worlds;" the idea that life might exist
elsewhere throughout the universe.
760
00:51:19,925 --> 00:51:24,829
By the end of the 18th century, the
majority of people, at least of educated
761
00:51:24,863 --> 00:51:30,835
people, were convinced that all
throughout the solar system
762
00:51:33,238 --> 00:51:37,308
on Jupiter, on Mars, on Saturn.
763
00:51:37,309 --> 00:51:39,543
All of them had extraterrestrials.
764
00:51:39,578 --> 00:51:45,583
Very possibly the Moon would
have intelligent beings on it.
765
00:51:45,650 --> 00:51:49,019
I once did a tally of the
leading intellectuals in the
766
00:51:49,087 --> 00:51:54,225
18th century; over half
of them included ideas of
767
00:51:54,292 --> 00:51:59,163
extraterrestrial life
in their publications.
768
00:51:59,231 --> 00:52:04,535
The premier 18th- century astronomer
William Herschel also supported the
769
00:52:04,569 --> 00:52:07,838
theory that life existed
on other planets.
770
00:52:07,873 --> 00:52:11,742
So did Thomas Paine, one of
America's Founding Fathers,
771
00:52:11,810 --> 00:52:14,812
along with many religious
leaders of the time.
772
00:52:14,846 --> 00:52:20,284
Preachers were preaching about extraterrestrials
as a proof of God's goodness.
773
00:52:20,318 --> 00:52:25,022
That's the idea that if there
is a good and beneficent
774
00:52:25,056 --> 00:52:31,028
God, he would populate all
the planets, all the stars.
775
00:52:33,999 --> 00:52:36,934
Though there was open
debate about the existence
776
00:52:37,002 --> 00:52:41,205
of extraterrestrial life in the
1700s, the discussion did not
777
00:52:41,273 --> 00:52:46,176
often extend to the idea
of aliens visiting Earth.
778
00:52:46,211 --> 00:52:51,282
But in 1731, a series of
sightings occurred across
779
00:52:51,349 --> 00:52:58,556
Europe that were so compelling, the
possibility could no longer be ignored.
780
00:52:58,657 --> 00:53:02,660
In modern UFO sightings, the
communications about UFOs are instant;
781
00:53:02,727 --> 00:53:05,095
it's on the Internet, it's on YouTube.
782
00:53:05,163 --> 00:53:10,834
But what about some of these
18th-century or Renaissance sightings?
783
00:53:10,902 --> 00:53:12,703
Here's something incredible.
784
00:53:12,737 --> 00:53:15,906
In 1731 over Kilkenny, Ireland,
there was a sighting of
785
00:53:15,941 --> 00:53:19,343
a luminous object coming
out of a red cloud.
786
00:53:19,377 --> 00:53:25,983
That same sighting is reported in the
span of a week over the rest of Europe,
787
00:53:26,017 --> 00:53:29,587
particularly over Romania
in Eastern Europe.
788
00:53:29,621 --> 00:53:33,057
Now, here are two countries that are
not communicating with each other.
789
00:53:33,158 --> 00:53:36,060
Newspapers don't go back and
forth, they don't speak the
790
00:53:36,094 --> 00:53:40,164
same language, there's no radio
and there's no television.
791
00:53:40,198 --> 00:53:46,070
Yet a UFO was spotted traveling
from the Irish Sea, across
792
00:53:46,137 --> 00:53:50,240
Europe all the way to Eastern
Europe and towards Asia, and
793
00:53:50,342 --> 00:53:54,345
is spotted in different
places as it goes.
794
00:53:54,412 --> 00:53:58,248
Independent observations
that don't cross-pollinate.
795
00:54:00,118 --> 00:54:03,854
Could these nearly identical
reports of a strange
796
00:54:03,888 --> 00:54:08,425
object passing through the
sky be mere coincidence?
797
00:54:08,526 --> 00:54:13,397
And if it was an alien craft,
is it possible that earlier
798
00:54:13,431 --> 00:54:16,433
sightings simply weren't
reported because they were
799
00:54:16,501 --> 00:54:19,203
interpreted as signs from God?
800
00:54:19,237 --> 00:54:24,041
In colonial America, the idea
that aliens were visiting Earth
801
00:54:24,075 --> 00:54:25,876
was gaining ground.
802
00:54:25,910 --> 00:54:30,614
And in the 1800s, this
controversial theory would even
803
00:54:30,682 --> 00:54:34,318
make its way to the White House.
804
00:54:43,734 --> 00:54:47,838
The United States officially declared
its independence from Great Britain
805
00:54:47,905 --> 00:54:56,012
in 1776... and just 14 years
later, a report of the first UFO
806
00:54:56,047 --> 00:54:59,716
sighting in American history
appeared in the newly published
807
00:54:59,750 --> 00:55:06,389
journals of John Winthrop, the second
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
808
00:55:06,457 --> 00:55:10,360
His journals, which are now
known as "A History of New
809
00:55:10,394 --> 00:55:16,199
England, 1630-1649," are still
considered the preeminent record
810
00:55:16,267 --> 00:55:19,002
for that period in American history.
811
00:55:19,070 --> 00:55:23,907
When the journals were finally
published in 1790, over
812
00:55:23,975 --> 00:55:26,910
140 years after Winthrop's
death, they were found to
813
00:55:26,944 --> 00:55:31,882
contain an alarming account of a
possible close encounter over
814
00:55:31,916 --> 00:55:35,152
Boston's Muddy River.
815
00:55:40,224 --> 00:55:44,861
One night in March of 1639,
James Everall, who is
816
00:55:44,896 --> 00:55:47,697
described as being a "sober and
discreet man," and two of his
817
00:55:47,765 --> 00:55:53,703
companions, boarded a little boat
in the Muddy River of Boston.
818
00:55:55,773 --> 00:55:59,943
As they paddled along the river,
they saw a great bright
819
00:55:59,977 --> 00:56:02,045
light that hovered in the sky.
820
00:56:02,079 --> 00:56:05,615
As they watched, the light
flared up and then contracted
821
00:56:05,683 --> 00:56:09,252
into what they described
as the figure of a swine.
822
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:12,055
It's difficult to imagine
anybody seriously reporting a
823
00:56:12,123 --> 00:56:15,158
sighting of a glowing, flying pig.
824
00:56:15,193 --> 00:56:18,795
Looking at the sighting, one
can't help but wonder if they
825
00:56:18,829 --> 00:56:23,333
were struggling to describe an
oval-shaped fuselage and four
826
00:56:23,367 --> 00:56:26,970
short, what we might now call
landing struts or landing gear,
827
00:56:27,004 --> 00:56:31,474
in a way that made sense
in the 17th century.
828
00:56:31,509 --> 00:56:36,580
Winthrop's account states that the
object moved swift as an arrow, jetting
829
00:56:36,614 --> 00:56:42,219
back and forth as well as up and
down for two to three hours.
830
00:56:42,286 --> 00:56:46,957
And when it finally disappeared, the
three passengers in the boat, who had
831
00:56:46,991 --> 00:56:50,660
been drifting downstream the
entire time, were astonished to
832
00:56:50,695 --> 00:56:58,134
find themselves back at the point
where they began their trip.
833
00:56:58,169 --> 00:57:02,606
What Winthrop describes in his journal
is really difficult to explain.
834
00:57:02,673 --> 00:57:07,477
Certainly, it seems hard to
fathom that, for two or three
835
00:57:07,511 --> 00:57:11,514
hours, three men in a boat
watched a bright light moving
836
00:57:11,549 --> 00:57:14,150
around in the sky over
the city of Boston.
837
00:57:14,185 --> 00:57:19,656
And it seems almost inconceivable that
their boat could've been drawn back
838
00:57:19,690 --> 00:57:25,095
against the tide without
their noticing it.
839
00:57:25,129 --> 00:57:28,932
These type of strange and
inexplicable phenomenon are now
840
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:34,638
associated with the phenomena
that's called "alien abduction."
841
00:57:38,209 --> 00:57:43,480
As abduction cases evolved, you heard
people say all of a sudden everything
842
00:57:43,547 --> 00:57:47,817
around them was slowing way, way down.
843
00:57:50,521 --> 00:57:55,592
And they associate the slowing
way, way down with whatever
844
00:57:55,626 --> 00:57:59,396
this event is that we call the
"human abduction syndrome."
845
00:57:59,397 --> 00:58:03,967
Could this event at Muddy
River be not only North
846
00:58:04,001 --> 00:58:08,338
America's first documented UFO
sighting, but also the first
847
00:58:08,406 --> 00:58:13,343
account of an alien abduction?
848
00:58:13,377 --> 00:58:16,246
Those who believe the account!
849
00:58:16,314 --> 00:58:20,617
in Winthrop's journals was an
actual alien encounter point to
850
00:58:20,685 --> 00:58:25,255
the last line of his report
which states, "other credible
851
00:58:25,323 --> 00:58:29,959
persons saw the same light."
852
00:58:30,027 --> 00:58:34,431
By the time Winthrop's history
was published in 1790, the
853
00:58:34,498 --> 00:58:38,968
debate over the possibility of
extraterrestrial life was more
854
00:58:39,036 --> 00:58:41,504
heated than ever before.
855
00:58:41,572 --> 00:58:45,975
In fact, the question of
whether life existed on other
856
00:58:46,043 --> 00:58:50,480
planets had become so hotly
contested, it caused one of
857
00:58:50,514 --> 00:58:57,220
America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine,
to be unofficially exiled to Europe.
858
00:58:57,221 --> 00:59:03,526
Thomas Paine enters the extraterrestrial
life debate in a very dramatic way.
859
00:59:06,097 --> 00:59:10,166
He was an Englishman, but
famous American patriot.
860
00:59:10,234 --> 00:59:16,973
Thomas Paine publishes a book
called The Age of Reason.
861
00:59:17,007 --> 00:59:18,975
And in The Age of Reason, he
862
00:59:19,009 --> 00:59:24,614
makes one of the most vigorous
attacks on Christianity ever made.
863
00:59:24,682 --> 00:59:30,420
The bottom line on it is, he says, you
must believe in extraterrestrials if you
864
00:59:30,454 --> 00:59:33,323
know any modern astronomy.
865
00:59:33,357 --> 00:59:39,796
The idea of God made the entire universe
going from planet to planet redeeming
866
00:59:39,830 --> 00:59:43,032
people is just impossible to believe.
867
00:59:45,669 --> 00:59:47,971
That creates a sensation.
868
00:59:48,038 --> 00:59:51,708
Thousands of copies of
the book were sold.
869
00:59:51,776 --> 00:59:57,680
In December of 1793, Thomas Paine was
arrested in France as a result of
870
00:59:57,715 --> 01:00:01,851
supporting a political party
that was no longer in power.
871
01:00:01,886 --> 01:00:06,022
When the American ambassador
refused to speak on his behalf,
872
01:00:06,056 --> 01:00:10,994
Paine believed that George Washington had
abandoned him because of his writings
873
01:00:11,028 --> 01:00:15,765
supporting the idea of extraterrestrial
life and refuting traditional
874
01:00:15,833 --> 01:00:19,135
Christianity.
875
01:00:19,203 --> 01:00:24,107
In 1802, he was invited back to
America by the third president,
876
01:00:24,175 --> 01:00:26,743
Thomas Jefferson.
877
01:00:26,777 --> 01:00:31,214
Jefferson, an intellectual, was
considered a genius by many in
878
01:00:31,282 --> 01:00:38,121
his time, both for his skill as a
statesman and his scientific aptitude.
879
01:00:38,189 --> 01:00:41,224
And some believe he was
also a proponent, like his
880
01:00:41,292 --> 01:00:44,661
contemporaries Ben Franklin and
John Adams, in the concept of
881
01:00:44,728 --> 01:00:47,630
the plurality of worlds.
882
01:00:47,631 --> 01:00:53,269
The concept of a plurality of worlds was
a very widely accepted concept in the
883
01:00:53,304 --> 01:00:55,305
18th century.
884
01:00:55,306 --> 01:01:00,376
People like John Adams and Thomas Paine
didn't view extraterrestrial life as a
885
01:01:00,411 --> 01:01:06,216
possibility but rather as a matter of
fact that everybody knew to be true.
886
01:01:06,250 --> 01:01:10,119
The new rationality in
science changed the way that
887
01:01:10,154 --> 01:01:13,923
these Founding Fathers
talked about religion.
888
01:01:13,924 --> 01:01:20,129
1825: Thomas Jefferson is hiring faculty
for the University of Virginia.
889
01:01:20,130 --> 01:01:26,402
And John Adams writes to him and gives
him advice on how to do that hiring.
890
01:01:26,437 --> 01:01:29,606
He says, "Do not hire any
European professors.
891
01:01:29,640 --> 01:01:33,243
If you hire a European
professor, they are liable to
892
01:01:33,277 --> 01:01:37,614
believe in Christianity, and
that is a very dangerous
893
01:01:37,648 --> 01:01:42,819
doctrine that we should
stay far away from."
894
01:01:42,887 --> 01:01:47,690
Other Founding Fathers also agreed with
this view, which included a belief
895
01:01:47,725 --> 01:01:50,226
in the existence of
life on other planets.
896
01:01:50,261 --> 01:01:55,064
Benjamin Franklin wondered if
there were different gods for
897
01:01:55,132 --> 01:01:58,268
every sun that harbored
intelligent life.
898
01:01:58,335 --> 01:02:02,805
Many of them felt it was clear
that there were intelligent
899
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,508
beings conceivably through
the whole universe, and that
900
01:02:05,543 --> 01:02:09,946
the notion that God came
to this planet as a person
901
01:02:09,980 --> 01:02:14,417
who was spit on and persecuted,
simply was ridiculous.
902
01:02:14,451 --> 01:02:18,087
And they rejected that long-
held traditional belief, which
903
01:02:18,155 --> 01:02:22,425
was a very radical thing at the time.
904
01:02:22,459 --> 01:02:27,063
America's Founding Fathers defending
the concept of extraterrestrial life
905
01:02:27,131 --> 01:02:29,599
against Christianity?
906
01:02:29,633 --> 01:02:35,705
A revolutionary idea to be certain...
but perhaps not so
907
01:02:35,773 --> 01:02:39,309
revolutionary to the country's
Earlie inhabitants, who long
908
01:02:39,343 --> 01:02:43,746
before claimed to have met
visitors from the sky.
909
01:02:47,690 --> 01:02:53,595
In northwestern New Mexico lies a
vast concentration of ancient ruins
910
01:02:53,663 --> 01:02:57,499
known today as Chaco Canyon.
911
01:02:57,567 --> 01:03:02,137
Built from sandstone blocks and
timber between 900 and 1150
912
01:03:02,205 --> 01:03:07,643
A.D., the 15 major complexes
of Chaco Canyon contained
913
01:03:07,677 --> 01:03:11,914
four-story structures with
hundreds of rooms that required
914
01:03:11,948 --> 01:03:14,817
thousands of man-hours to construct.
915
01:03:14,818 --> 01:03:21,223
Until the 19th century, they were the
largest buildings in North America.
916
01:03:21,224 --> 01:03:25,761
Chaco Canyon was a center of activity
for a lot of different Indian
917
01:03:25,829 --> 01:03:27,930
tribes, Pueblo tribes.
918
01:03:27,931 --> 01:03:32,668
Archeologists, anthropologists have a
lot of theories about what that was.
919
01:03:32,769 --> 01:03:38,340
But what I have studied and
what I can tell by just some of
920
01:03:38,374 --> 01:03:41,910
the chants from our own tribe,
and other Pueblo tribes, is
921
01:03:41,945 --> 01:03:49,084
that this would've been a big center of
activity for technological-spiritual
922
01:03:49,118 --> 01:03:51,153
activities.
923
01:03:51,187 --> 01:03:59,461
There's a lot of places on there that has
direct bearings up into the universe.
924
01:03:59,529 --> 01:04:06,635
When archeologists first excavated these
ruins in 1896, they marveled at their
925
01:04:06,703 --> 01:04:09,071
architectural precision.
926
01:04:09,138 --> 01:04:13,442
But even more astonishing was
the fact that many of these
927
01:04:13,510 --> 01:04:18,413
ancient structures-- like those
found in Egypt, England and
928
01:04:18,448 --> 01:04:23,018
South America-- suggested the
inhabitants had a sophisticated
929
01:04:23,052 --> 01:04:25,053
knowledge of astronomy.
930
01:04:25,121 --> 01:04:30,926
A number of devices designed for
tracking solar events were found.
931
01:04:30,960 --> 01:04:35,664
And at Fajada Butte, which sits
at the entrance of the canyon,
932
01:04:35,765 --> 01:04:42,137
three giant slabs of rock are positioned
near two spiral petroglyphs etched on
933
01:04:42,171 --> 01:04:43,372
a cliff wall.
934
01:04:43,406 --> 01:04:47,676
During the solstice and the
equinox, these rocks catch the
935
01:04:47,710 --> 01:04:52,214
sun in such a way as to shine
daggers of light on different
936
01:04:52,282 --> 01:04:55,684
areas of the petroglyphs.
937
01:04:56,719 --> 01:05:00,856
But why would early Native
Americans spend so much time
938
01:05:00,957 --> 01:05:04,860
building the structures at Chaco
Canyon along such precise
939
01:05:04,961 --> 01:05:08,230
astronomical alignments?
940
01:05:08,298 --> 01:05:13,502
And why build them in such a
desolate area of the country?
941
01:05:13,503 --> 01:05:18,507
It is one of those sites which has been
posing so many questions, and which
942
01:05:18,541 --> 01:05:21,843
science is only slowly
beginning to explain.
943
01:05:21,878 --> 01:05:25,847
But really, there are more questions than
answers at this moment in time about
944
01:05:25,915 --> 01:05:29,751
Chaco Canyon.
945
01:05:29,752 --> 01:05:34,022
In his 2006 book
The Orion Zone,
946
01:05:34,090 --> 01:05:36,491
archaeo-astronomer Gary David
947
01:05:36,526 --> 01:05:38,760
proposed that the geographical
948
01:05:38,828 --> 01:05:40,495
layout of Hopi ruins in the
949
01:05:40,563 --> 01:05:43,031
American Southwest precisely
950
01:05:43,066 --> 01:05:44,733
mirrors the star patterns of a
951
01:05:44,767 --> 01:05:47,502
number of constellations.
952
01:05:47,570 --> 01:05:48,837
When you look at
953
01:05:48,871 --> 01:05:50,939
where the ancestral Pueblan
954
01:05:51,007 --> 01:05:53,275
major ceremonial sites are
955
01:05:53,309 --> 01:05:54,743
actually located, Gary David
956
01:05:54,777 --> 01:05:56,545
has identified that when you
957
01:05:56,579 --> 01:05:58,113
just map these, you actually
958
01:05:58,181 --> 01:06:00,048
find that they depict
959
01:06:00,116 --> 01:06:00,949
constellations, specifically,
960
01:06:01,017 --> 01:06:04,486
Orion is very important.
961
01:06:07,190 --> 01:06:08,857
Orion's Belt points
962
01:06:08,891 --> 01:06:10,392
to the brightest star in the
963
01:06:10,460 --> 01:06:13,462
sky-- Sirius.
964
01:06:13,496 --> 01:06:16,365
If one looks at the Hopi mesas
965
01:06:16,399 --> 01:06:19,034
as the stars of Orion's Belt,
966
01:06:19,102 --> 01:06:21,103
they also point to an important
967
01:06:21,137 --> 01:06:24,306
location-- Chaco Canyon.
968
01:06:24,374 --> 01:06:27,309
But why Orion?
969
01:06:27,377 --> 01:06:28,910
And could it be merely a
970
01:06:28,945 --> 01:06:30,746
coincidence that this
971
01:06:30,813 --> 01:06:32,114
constellation pattern has been
972
01:06:32,215 --> 01:06:34,282
found at other important sites
973
01:06:34,384 --> 01:06:36,018
around the world, and always
974
01:06:36,085 --> 01:06:38,654
with the belt pointing
975
01:06:38,721 --> 01:06:40,822
towards a place of significance?
976
01:06:40,857 --> 01:06:43,091
Ancient astronaut theorists
977
01:06:43,126 --> 01:06:43,925
have discovered the
978
01:06:43,960 --> 01:06:45,927
constellation of Orion lining
979
01:06:45,995 --> 01:06:47,763
up with the Mayan complexes
980
01:06:47,830 --> 01:06:49,564
along The Street of the Dead in
981
01:06:49,599 --> 01:06:50,932
Mexico City.
982
01:06:51,067 --> 01:06:53,135
And here, Orion's Belt points
983
01:06:53,202 --> 01:06:56,004
to Cholula, the largest pyramid
984
01:06:56,038 --> 01:06:58,406
in the world.
985
01:06:58,441 --> 01:07:00,375
They also find it at the Giza
986
01:07:00,409 --> 01:07:02,310
Pyramids in Egypt, with the
987
01:07:02,378 --> 01:07:04,546
belt pointing toward the city
988
01:07:04,580 --> 01:07:06,314
of Heliopolis; a place of
989
01:07:06,382 --> 01:07:08,383
worship for ancient Egyptians.
990
01:07:08,417 --> 01:07:09,651
The one thing we
991
01:07:09,685 --> 01:07:11,186
know about Orion's Belt is that
992
01:07:11,220 --> 01:07:12,387
this is a theme which is
993
01:07:12,455 --> 01:07:14,089
recurring in Mayan mythology.
994
01:07:14,123 --> 01:07:16,024
It's also actually a theme
995
01:07:16,092 --> 01:07:17,192
which is occurring in Egyptian
996
01:07:17,226 --> 01:07:18,026
mythology.
997
01:07:18,060 --> 01:07:19,561
Orion's Belt, and the stars
998
01:07:19,595 --> 01:07:21,029
around it, were seen as the
999
01:07:21,063 --> 01:07:23,765
heart of creation; it is where
1000
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:25,100
everything began.
1001
01:07:25,134 --> 01:07:26,768
And it's probably not
1002
01:07:26,836 --> 01:07:27,936
coincidental that the Hopis
1003
01:07:27,970 --> 01:07:29,471
see the place where they are
1004
01:07:29,505 --> 01:07:30,572
living as the heart of the
1005
01:07:30,640 --> 01:07:32,974
world.
1006
01:07:32,975 --> 01:07:34,309
These are ancient
1007
01:07:34,377 --> 01:07:35,210
people.
1008
01:07:35,278 --> 01:07:37,112
All they had to go by were the
1009
01:07:37,146 --> 01:07:38,947
stars.
1010
01:07:38,981 --> 01:07:40,382
And so, they believed-- as
1011
01:07:40,416 --> 01:07:42,284
astrologists believe today--
1012
01:07:42,318 --> 01:07:44,219
that the stars have certain
1013
01:07:44,253 --> 01:07:46,288
powers over what goes on on
1014
01:07:46,389 --> 01:07:48,990
planet Earth.
1015
01:07:49,025 --> 01:07:50,292
According to their
1016
01:07:50,326 --> 01:07:51,827
legends, the Hopi believe there
1017
01:07:51,861 --> 01:07:54,095
were three worlds that preceded
1018
01:07:54,130 --> 01:07:56,097
the one we are in today.
1019
01:07:56,132 --> 01:07:58,567
Each of those worlds was wiped
1020
01:07:58,601 --> 01:08:00,735
out when guardians of the sky
1021
01:08:00,770 --> 01:08:02,571
called to the Creator to tell
1022
01:08:02,605 --> 01:08:04,372
him that his finest creation,
1023
01:08:04,440 --> 01:08:06,641
humans, were no longer living
1024
01:08:06,676 --> 01:08:09,277
according to his plan.
1025
01:08:09,312 --> 01:08:11,346
And they called to him by
1026
01:08:11,380 --> 01:08:13,114
setting off a warning through
1027
01:08:13,149 --> 01:08:15,750
the Earth's axis, a vibration
1028
01:08:15,818 --> 01:08:17,485
strong enough to shift the
1029
01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:21,256
balance of the planet.
1030
01:08:21,290 --> 01:08:23,758
Is it possible the structures
1031
01:08:23,793 --> 01:08:26,094
at Chaco Canyon were built along
1032
01:08:26,128 --> 01:08:28,296
precise celestial alignments so
1033
01:08:28,331 --> 01:08:30,465
that the Hopi could predict the
1034
01:08:30,533 --> 01:08:33,468
periods of Earth's devastation
1035
01:08:33,502 --> 01:08:35,637
and renewal?
1036
01:08:35,671 --> 01:08:37,806
Could the guardians of the sky
1037
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:40,108
have led them here so they could
1038
01:08:40,176 --> 01:08:42,444
monitor the position of the sun?
1039
01:08:42,478 --> 01:08:43,812
Why in the
1040
01:08:43,846 --> 01:08:45,814
world people settled at that
1041
01:08:45,848 --> 01:08:47,349
location wasn't... wasn't
1042
01:08:47,383 --> 01:08:48,483
something that they did on their
1043
01:08:48,551 --> 01:08:49,351
own.
1044
01:08:49,385 --> 01:08:50,719
There's no running water there.
1045
01:08:50,753 --> 01:08:51,820
There was no reason to live
1046
01:08:51,888 --> 01:08:52,654
there.
1047
01:08:52,722 --> 01:08:53,822
There's no good soil.
1048
01:08:53,856 --> 01:08:55,290
They did that because their
1049
01:08:55,324 --> 01:08:56,191
guardian told them to live
1050
01:08:56,225 --> 01:08:58,226
there.
1051
01:08:58,227 --> 01:09:00,195
During the times of
1052
01:09:00,229 --> 01:09:02,163
the summer and winter solstices,
1053
01:09:02,198 --> 01:09:03,999
as well as the spring and fall
1054
01:09:04,066 --> 01:09:06,468
equinoxes, the people at Chaco
1055
01:09:06,535 --> 01:09:09,004
Canyon could gauge the Earth's
1056
01:09:09,071 --> 01:09:11,006
balance by watching the path of
1057
01:09:11,073 --> 01:09:13,475
the sun daggers at Fajada Butte.
1058
01:09:13,542 --> 01:09:16,077
If the daggers did not pierce
1059
01:09:16,112 --> 01:09:17,712
the petroglyphs at the same
1060
01:09:17,747 --> 01:09:19,748
points as the previous year,
1061
01:09:19,815 --> 01:09:21,449
they would know that the Earth
1062
01:09:21,484 --> 01:09:23,351
was out of balance.
1063
01:09:23,386 --> 01:09:25,553
And since the Earth fell out of
1064
01:09:25,588 --> 01:09:26,922
balance at the end of the
1065
01:09:26,989 --> 01:09:29,024
previous three worlds, this
1066
01:09:29,091 --> 01:09:31,526
could mean the end was coming
1067
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,062
once again.
1068
01:09:35,932 --> 01:09:37,632
Scientists from NASA determined
1069
01:09:37,700 --> 01:09:39,634
the earthquake that hit Chile
1070
01:09:39,702 --> 01:09:42,270
on February 27, 2010 shifted
1071
01:09:42,338 --> 01:09:44,205
the Earth's axis by three
1072
01:09:44,273 --> 01:09:45,840
inches.
1073
01:09:45,908 --> 01:09:47,842
Would the ancestral Pueblo
1074
01:09:47,910 --> 01:09:49,878
people have Se this as a sign
1075
01:09:49,979 --> 01:09:52,480
from the guardians above?
1076
01:09:52,515 --> 01:09:54,049
Well, do you think
1077
01:09:54,150 --> 01:09:55,250
that's going to show up at Chaco
1078
01:09:55,318 --> 01:09:56,584
Canyon on that dagger stick that
1079
01:09:56,619 --> 01:09:58,153
comes down at the time of the
1080
01:09:58,187 --> 01:09:59,154
solstice?
1081
01:09:59,188 --> 01:10:00,322
Do you think the Indians were
1082
01:10:00,389 --> 01:10:02,390
watching that?
1083
01:10:02,391 --> 01:10:03,892
It's what the
1084
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:05,894
Hopi call koyaanisqatsi.
1085
01:10:05,928 --> 01:10:08,396
We are living in koyaanisqatsi
1086
01:10:08,431 --> 01:10:09,864
right now.
1087
01:10:09,899 --> 01:10:11,433
We are living in a life that's
1088
01:10:11,500 --> 01:10:13,668
out of balance.
1089
01:10:13,669 --> 01:10:15,670
Could these Native
1090
01:10:15,705 --> 01:10:17,372
American legends be more than
1091
01:10:17,473 --> 01:10:19,207
just myth?
1092
01:10:19,241 --> 01:10:21,009
Is it possible that these
1093
01:10:21,043 --> 01:10:22,844
stories, along with the ancient
1094
01:10:22,912 --> 01:10:24,846
texts of India and the stories
1095
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,082
of the Bible, are all describing
1096
01:10:27,116 --> 01:10:29,084
alien visitations?
1097
01:10:29,118 --> 01:10:31,853
For ancient astronaut theorists,
1098
01:10:31,887 --> 01:10:34,389
the answer is yes, and the proof
1099
01:10:34,490 --> 01:10:37,359
may lie on a small, uninhabited
1100
01:10:37,393 --> 01:10:40,829
island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
1101
01:10:43,891 --> 01:10:51,831
In 1795, three Nova Scotia farm boys set
out to explore nearby Oak Island after
1102
01:10:51,899 --> 01:10:55,935
witnessing strange green lights
coming from its shore in the
1103
01:10:55,970 --> 01:10:58,204
middle of the night.
1104
01:10:58,205 --> 01:11:06,212
As they came to the island, they saw
that there was one little, you know, pit
1105
01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:10,383
that they thought, "Well, this
is very odd," so they started
1106
01:11:10,418 --> 01:11:13,153
to dig in that particular spot.
1107
01:11:13,154 --> 01:11:18,892
They came across different
platforms made out of wood,
1108
01:11:18,926 --> 01:11:23,730
especially out of oak, and the
deeper they dug, they also came
1109
01:11:23,764 --> 01:11:28,735
across a mat made of coconut
fiber, and they came across a
1110
01:11:28,769 --> 01:11:35,408
stone slab that had very
bizarre writing on it.
1111
01:11:37,912 --> 01:11:39,979
One thing is crystal clear:
1112
01:11:40,047 --> 01:11:44,350
Canada does not have any
coconut trees, so the mat made
1113
01:11:44,385 --> 01:11:47,887
of coconut fiber-- where
did it come from?
1114
01:11:47,922 --> 01:11:52,358
That's a very intriguing question-- how
all these different levels were made.
1115
01:11:52,426 --> 01:11:57,230
The initial excavation
stopped at a depth of feet.
1116
01:11:57,264 --> 01:12:01,868
But since that time, over a
dozen professional excavations
1117
01:12:01,936 --> 01:12:06,172
have been attempted and funded
by everyone from actors
1118
01:12:06,207 --> 01:12:11,010
John Wayne and Errol Flynn to Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
1119
01:12:11,078 --> 01:12:17,016
Mining and excavation companies have
dug multiple shafts surrounding the
1120
01:12:17,051 --> 01:12:21,921
whole Money Pit with the hopes
of achieving or reaching
1121
01:12:21,956 --> 01:12:24,090
whatever is buried down there.
1122
01:12:24,125 --> 01:12:30,163
They've even tried to dig in
sideways, and even that didn't work.
1123
01:12:30,197 --> 01:12:34,701
Based on the findings from numerous
excavations, the Money Pit
1124
01:12:34,735 --> 01:12:38,872
contains a series of oak
platforms starting at a depth of
1125
01:12:38,906 --> 01:12:46,713
ten feet and recurring every ten feet
thereafter, going at least 200 feet down.
1126
01:12:46,747 --> 01:12:51,417
In between these platforms
are slabs of flagstone-- not
1127
01:12:51,452 --> 01:12:55,688
indigenous to the island--
and layers of puddle clay.
1128
01:12:55,723 --> 01:12:59,526
Efforts to reach the bottom
of the pit have proven so
1129
01:12:59,560 --> 01:13:04,230
dangerous, six people
have died in the attempt.
1130
01:13:11,238 --> 01:13:15,141
Its underground is covered with
canals-- flooding canals that
1131
01:13:15,176 --> 01:13:18,278
lead seawater into the system.
1132
01:13:20,748 --> 01:13:24,717
Each time there seemed to be a
progress, underground floods in
1133
01:13:24,785 --> 01:13:28,188
the canals would make further
searches impossible.
1134
01:13:28,255 --> 01:13:32,725
So, this is what we know:
many centuries ago, someone
1135
01:13:32,760 --> 01:13:38,898
constructed a giant hydraulic
system under this island.
1136
01:13:38,966 --> 01:13:41,367
It couldn't have been pirates.
1137
01:13:41,435 --> 01:13:47,907
It had to be someone with great expertise
for architecture and hydraulics.
1138
01:13:49,543 --> 01:13:57,417
We still haven't been able to access
whatever is down there because of the
1139
01:13:57,451 --> 01:14:00,353
incredible flooding system.
1140
01:14:00,354 --> 01:14:05,692
These treasure hunters poured
red paint into one of these
1141
01:14:05,759 --> 01:14:10,930
shafts, and not only did it come
out on one side of the island,
1142
01:14:10,965 --> 01:14:13,566
but also on the other side.
1143
01:14:13,601 --> 01:14:18,137
Up to three shafts
have been discovered.
1144
01:14:18,205 --> 01:14:20,306
I mean, it's ingenious.
1145
01:14:20,341 --> 01:14:26,579
But who-- or what-- constructed
this elaborately booby-trapped pit?
1146
01:14:26,614 --> 01:14:33,386
And, perhaps more importantly, what-- if
anything-- lies hidden at the bottom?
1147
01:14:33,420 --> 01:14:37,090
Some have speculated that it
might be the crown jewels of
1148
01:14:37,124 --> 01:14:42,362
England, pirate treasure, Viking
hoards and even the original
1149
01:14:42,396 --> 01:14:44,764
manuscripts of Shakespeare.
1150
01:14:44,832 --> 01:14:49,235
But perhaps the most audacious
theory of all is that the Money
1151
01:14:49,303 --> 01:14:54,474
Pit is the hiding place for one of the
most sacred objects in the world.
1152
01:14:54,508 --> 01:15:01,281
There is a possibility that the Ark of
the Covenant, with its contents, has
1153
01:15:01,315 --> 01:15:04,684
been hidden on Oak Island.
1154
01:15:04,752 --> 01:15:08,321
The Ark of the Covenant?
1155
01:15:08,355 --> 01:15:13,660
The most sacred object in
all of Judeo-Christianity?
1156
01:15:13,727 --> 01:15:17,997
The gold chest that is supposed
to contain the tablets on which
1157
01:15:18,032 --> 01:15:21,367
the Hebrew God wrote
the Ten Commandments?
1158
01:15:21,402 --> 01:15:25,204
Why would this religious relic
be placed at the bottom of an
1159
01:15:25,272 --> 01:15:29,208
elaborately booby-trapped
pit in Northeastern Canada?
1160
01:15:29,276 --> 01:15:33,680
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the Ark may have been
1161
01:15:33,747 --> 01:15:39,719
hidden because of the powers it
held-- powers from out of this world.
1162
01:15:39,753 --> 01:15:45,858
According to the ancient astronaut
hypothesis, the Ark of the Covenant housed
1163
01:15:45,926 --> 01:15:50,630
an extraterrestrial device which
was given to the Israelites
1164
01:15:50,698 --> 01:15:57,637
during their 40-year wandering
through the desert.
1165
01:15:57,671 --> 01:16:03,976
When you go back to the biblical
descriptions, it becomes a weapon.
1166
01:16:04,044 --> 01:16:06,412
It rises up into the air.
1167
01:16:06,447 --> 01:16:10,883
It rushes towards the
enemies of Israel.
1168
01:16:12,353 --> 01:16:16,723
When the Philistines briefly
capture it, um, they make the
1169
01:16:16,757 --> 01:16:19,992
mistake of opening it
and filing past it.
1170
01:16:20,060 --> 01:16:22,528
Suddenly, thousands of
people start to die.
1171
01:16:22,563 --> 01:16:26,265
The biblical account states
quite clearly that the cause of
1172
01:16:26,300 --> 01:16:28,434
death was cancerous tumors.
1173
01:16:28,469 --> 01:16:31,170
This is a very mysterious
and puzzling thing.
1174
01:16:31,205 --> 01:16:34,040
What kind of object could
have these almost machinelike
1175
01:16:34,074 --> 01:16:40,246
attributes and cause deaths that
sound like radiation sickness?
1176
01:16:42,383 --> 01:16:49,021
What powers the Ark held is the subject
of wide speculation, but an even bigger
1177
01:16:49,056 --> 01:16:55,228
mystery is what happened to the Ark
and where it might be located today.
1178
01:16:57,731 --> 01:17:02,034
One legend says that it was
taken during the Crusades by an
1179
01:17:02,069 --> 01:17:07,306
elite band of monk-like warriors
known as the Knights Templar.
1180
01:17:07,374 --> 01:17:11,844
The cover story-- and it feels like a
cover story-- is that they were to
1181
01:17:11,879 --> 01:17:16,916
protect pilgrims on the route between the
coast and Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
1182
01:17:16,950 --> 01:17:20,019
But they don't ever seem
to have done any of that.
1183
01:17:20,053 --> 01:17:24,223
Um, right soon after they were
founded, they took possession
1184
01:17:24,291 --> 01:17:29,929
of the Temple Mount, uh, in Jerusalem.
1185
01:17:29,963 --> 01:17:35,134
And, uh, for the best part of
80 or 90 years, they devoted
1186
01:17:35,169 --> 01:17:38,037
themselves to what looked like
an archaeological expedition on
1187
01:17:38,105 --> 01:17:39,372
the Temple Mount.
1188
01:17:39,406 --> 01:17:44,110
And I'm pretty certain they were
looking for the Ark of the Covenant.
1189
01:17:44,178 --> 01:17:47,380
The legend tells of the
Knights taking the Ark to
1190
01:17:47,414 --> 01:17:52,084
Scotland, where they formed an alliance
with the powerful Sinclair family.
1191
01:17:52,119 --> 01:17:56,088
Some historians believe William
Sinclair may have taken the Ark
1192
01:17:56,123 --> 01:18:02,462
to Oak Island in Nova Scotia in the 1400s
to protect it from English invasion.
1193
01:18:02,496 --> 01:18:06,933
Here, Sinclair and his men could
have built what might be the
1194
01:18:06,967 --> 01:18:14,574
most impenetrable vault ever
made-- the notorious Money Pit.
1195
01:18:14,641 --> 01:18:19,512
But, if so, where is the evidence?
1196
01:18:22,282 --> 01:18:27,753
In the 1990s, some scientists were
able to send cameras down into one of
1197
01:18:27,821 --> 01:18:30,022
the shafts.
1198
01:18:30,023 --> 01:18:37,263
There, they discovered strange objects
that had a rounded, tubular shape.
1199
01:18:37,297 --> 01:18:41,834
Their C-14 values were diverse
and their radiometric age
1200
01:18:41,869 --> 01:18:46,672
ranged from very old to futuristic.
1201
01:18:46,740 --> 01:18:49,942
Now, that is basically impossible.
1202
01:18:50,010 --> 01:18:55,114
However, there is some chance that that
effect could be caused by some kind of
1203
01:18:55,182 --> 01:18:58,351
radioactivity.
1204
01:18:58,385 --> 01:19:01,988
That's why we suspect that a
nuclear reactor may have been
1205
01:19:02,022 --> 01:19:07,660
taken there and hidden inside this
ingenious hydraulic system...
1206
01:19:09,863 --> 01:19:12,832
...so that it would
be kept safe forever.
1207
01:19:15,502 --> 01:19:19,739
What would it mean if the Ark of the
Covenant really was discovered at the
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bottom of the Money Pit?
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Would it provide the proof of
alien intervention-- the very
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01:19:27,014 --> 01:19:31,384
proof that ancient astronaut
theorists have been waiting for?
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01:19:34,421 --> 01:19:43,563
If the Ark of the Covenant is found at
the bottom of the Money Pit, well...
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story's over.
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Perhaps.
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But an even greater
question persists: why?
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01:19:54,041 --> 01:19:57,176
Has mankind been helped by the
intervention of beings from
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other worlds, as ancient
astronaut proponents contend?
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Or was there a more ominous intention?
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Could the Ark, if discovered,
be a sort of Pandora's box
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that, once opened, would reveal
more about our origins than we
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01:20:16,263 --> 01:20:18,197
would ever want to know?
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01:20:21,672 --> 01:20:26,576
As the 20th century dawned, the
industrial revolution suggested that
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nothing conceived by man
could be impossible.
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We could now ride through the
countryside in horseless carriages...
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...sail the seas in huge ocean liners...
fly through the sky in airships.
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Even the idea of building
rockets and flying them to the
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Moon, Mars and beyond seemed
well within our grasp.
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It was the era of science
fiction writers like H.G. Wells
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and inventors like Einstein,
Tesla, Edison and Ford.
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In 1896, there were widespread
reports of strange airships
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hovering over various locations
in the American West.
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Coincidence or consequence?
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There were sightings throughout
history, and of course, there were a
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large number of sightings
in the 19th century.
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01:21:33,077 --> 01:21:39,716
But it wasn't until 1896 that
there were waves of sightings.
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Thousands of people in 1896 and
1897 in the United States saw
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01:21:45,156 --> 01:21:50,627
phantom airships, the origin
of which was never explained.
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These reports were catalogued,
discussed in newspapers.
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There were sightings
in 1896, 1897, 1898.
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And in fact, we kind of know,
from newspaper reports from the
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Southwest, that people were
seeing craft with wings.
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01:22:13,250 --> 01:22:18,088
And the Wright Brothers didn't
fly an airplane until 1903.
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01:22:18,155 --> 01:22:20,890
So what were these craft?
1243
01:22:20,958 --> 01:22:26,129
Well, on the one hand, people were
flying balloons in the 19th century.
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01:22:26,163 --> 01:22:28,865
So balloons were not high technology.
1245
01:22:28,899 --> 01:22:33,236
What was high technology back
then was affixing a gasoline
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01:22:33,270 --> 01:22:38,608
engine to the gondola of a balloon.
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01:22:38,676 --> 01:22:42,412
That whole airship mystery--
my guess is that some
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of those were just dirigibles
that people were flying around.
1249
01:22:45,316 --> 01:22:50,053
On the other hand, during that
time, we also find reports of
1250
01:22:50,087 --> 01:22:53,756
objects that moved really too
quickly to be dirigibles.
1251
01:22:53,757 --> 01:22:57,060
And some were maybe too shiny
really to be the types of
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01:22:57,094 --> 01:22:59,762
balloons that they were
making at that time.
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01:22:59,797 --> 01:23:04,067
The prevalence of these balloons powered
by gasoline engines flying around
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01:23:04,168 --> 01:23:07,504
in the late 1890s in the turn
of the century probably opened
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01:23:07,538 --> 01:23:11,241
up people's minds to the
possibility that there could be
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01:23:11,275 --> 01:23:14,878
literally unidentified flying objects.
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01:23:14,912 --> 01:23:19,249
People began, to put it
bluntly, looking up.
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01:23:21,252 --> 01:23:25,889
So it could be said that modern
UFO history began with these
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01:23:25,923 --> 01:23:29,692
mysterious airships of the 1890s.
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01:23:31,762 --> 01:23:36,599
It certainly seems possible, if we
believe that the airship sightings were
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sightings of extraterrestrial
spaceships, that perhaps the
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01:23:41,505 --> 01:23:45,608
aliens were interested in human
activity at the time because of
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01:23:45,643 --> 01:23:49,245
the rapid increases being
made in technology.
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01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:55,618
Some people have suggested that aliens
have been interfering with the lives of
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01:23:55,686 --> 01:23:58,521
human beings for thousands of years.
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01:23:58,589 --> 01:24:03,593
And because they were always
here at significant points in
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01:24:03,661 --> 01:24:08,231
human history, they introduced
various kinds of technologies
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01:24:08,299 --> 01:24:13,136
to spur development
along a certain line.
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Could the same alien presence that
some believe had been visiting the
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01:24:17,408 --> 01:24:22,512
Earth for centuries have been
responsible for inspiring our
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01:24:22,580 --> 01:24:26,516
great leap into the modern age?
1272
01:24:26,584 --> 01:24:30,220
Or could the increased close
encounters with UFOs-- which
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01:24:30,287 --> 01:24:34,324
would persist through the next
century-- be a sign that we
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01:24:34,425 --> 01:24:37,594
were in danger of going too far?
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01:24:37,595 --> 01:24:42,498
A very common idea that we have today
is that, as we develop technologically,
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01:24:42,566 --> 01:24:46,502
we're going to see an increase
in UFO phenomena-- that UFOs are
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01:24:46,604 --> 01:24:49,172
basically monitoring us.
1278
01:24:49,173 --> 01:24:54,010
Decades ago, we saw a lot of
UFO activity around air bases,
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01:24:54,044 --> 01:24:59,415
around atomic bases and also
UFOs following airplanes and
1280
01:24:59,483 --> 01:25:01,517
maybe following our aircraft.
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01:25:01,585 --> 01:25:04,787
I would say that certainly, as
we keep developing, we will
1282
01:25:04,822 --> 01:25:10,526
continue to see that
monitoring aspect to the UFOs.
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01:25:10,561 --> 01:25:13,429
Especially as we continue going
to space, we're going to
1284
01:25:13,464 --> 01:25:16,432
continue seeing more UFO activity.
1285
01:25:16,467 --> 01:25:20,703
Whether it's for our benefit
or not, that's hard to say.
1286
01:25:20,738 --> 01:25:24,907
Our history, the history of human
beings on planet Earth-- whether we
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01:25:24,975 --> 01:25:29,445
ourselves are the aliens seeded
from another planet or that
1288
01:25:29,480 --> 01:25:33,349
the aliens created us, as the
stories of the Anunnaki say--
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01:25:33,384 --> 01:25:36,986
regardless, it may be that human
beings are being directed
1290
01:25:37,021 --> 01:25:39,455
toward a certain end.
1291
01:25:42,860 --> 01:25:47,563
In the 20th century, the inhabitants
of planet Earth were capable of
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01:25:47,631 --> 01:25:51,634
blasting off and touching the stars.
1293
01:25:55,706 --> 01:26:02,445
We were also capable of
harnessing the atom... >> Fire.
1294
01:26:02,513 --> 01:26:08,017
...and using it to inflict the
deadliest of devastations.
1295
01:26:10,387 --> 01:26:17,627
We would send satellites into orbit,
land on the Moon and reach Mars.
1296
01:26:17,695 --> 01:26:20,196
But what would we find?
1297
01:26:20,230 --> 01:26:26,969
A barren, empty universe of
dead planets or something else?
1298
01:26:27,004 --> 01:26:31,874
In the 1960s, mainstream scientists
were already exploring the question
1299
01:26:31,909 --> 01:26:36,045
of whether or not we're
alone in the universe.
1300
01:26:36,046 --> 01:26:39,882
And there was only a handful
of scientists who actually
1301
01:26:39,917 --> 01:26:47,790
proposed the idea that, yes, there
are other civilizations out there.
1302
01:26:47,858 --> 01:26:50,493
Now fast-forward 50 years.
1303
01:26:50,527 --> 01:26:56,065
You'd be very hard-pressed to
find any scientist today saying
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01:26:56,133 --> 01:27:00,236
that we're alone in the universe.
1305
01:27:00,270 --> 01:27:03,406
What we're coming up to now,
in the 21st century, is
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01:27:03,474 --> 01:27:06,275
going to be a redefinition.
1307
01:27:06,276 --> 01:27:11,314
Our entire history may have to
be revised, in the context of
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01:27:11,382 --> 01:27:15,318
nonhuman intelligences
coming and going.
1309
01:27:15,386 --> 01:27:19,288
And what else is out there in
this incredible universe of
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01:27:19,323 --> 01:27:21,858
which we humans are a part?
1311
01:27:26,129 --> 01:27:32,902
Perhaps the dawn of the space age was a
signal to whatever or whoever was out
1312
01:27:32,969 --> 01:27:38,908
there that, after centuries of
writing on cave walls, building
1313
01:27:38,975 --> 01:27:46,248
temples and mapping the skies,
the inhabitants of planet Earth
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01:27:46,316 --> 01:27:51,316
were at last ready.
Ready for their return.
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01:27:51,317 --> 01:27:54,317
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