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Flying saucers.
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It's going 20,000 miles per hour
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and makes a right hand
turn without decelerating.
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That isn't possible.
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Magic carpets.
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There are traditions of King Solomon
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having an airship.
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And fiery wheels
descending from the heavens.
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What Ezekiel described
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in his eyewitness report...
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it was misunderstood technology.
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In ancient cultures throughout the world,
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there are stories of
strange sightings in the sky.
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Are they simply fiction?
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Or might they be accounts
of alien vehicles?
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You begin to have to ask yourself...
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is something going on here?
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Are we missing part of the story?
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And honestly, I think we are.
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Millions of people around the world
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believe we have been visited in
the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might we find evidence in ancient stories
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of alien transports?
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Saqqara, Egypt.
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Located roughly 20 miles south of Cairo,
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it is home to the world famous step pyramid
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of King Djoser.
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Dating back more than 4,000 years,
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it is the oldest of Egypt's 97 pyramids.
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Saqqara is also famous for being
one of Egypt's oldest burial grounds,
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earning it the nickname "city of the dead."
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It was here, in 1891,
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that French archeologists
unearthed an ancient tomb
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containing the burial
remains of Pa-di-Imen,
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an official from the third century B.C.
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Among the various items discovered
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was a small, wooden model
of what appeared to be a bird
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lying beside a papyrus bearing
the inscription, "I want to fly."
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The artifact was later
sent to the Cairo museum,
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where authorities placed it alongside
several other bird figurines.
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The model sat largely unnoticed
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until 1969,
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when Egyptologist Dr. Khalil Messiha
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was examining the bird collection
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and noticed that there was
something very different
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about the Saqqara Bird.
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It's, uh, interesting,
because on one hand, clearly,
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it should look like a
bird because it has eyes,
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and has a typical nose of a bird.
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Uh, on the other hand,
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the wings are clearly not bird wings.
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To the middle of the rump
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you'll see this wing a bit thicker.
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In this region,
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the lift up is the highest.
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The whole thing becomes thinner
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to the, um, end of the wings,
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and those wings are modeled down.
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And this is a very
modern aerodynamic design.
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Then the other point is
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birds have no rudders,
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because a bird does not need a rudder
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because of its aerodynamic architecture.
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And so there is the idea
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they are not representing birds,
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but flying machines, or aircraft.
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Could the ancient Egyptians have
possessed the power of flight?
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In 2006,
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aviation and aerodynamics
expert Simon Sanderson
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built a scale model of the Saqqara Bird...
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five times larger than the original...
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to test that possibility.
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We're running at a constant speed,
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slowly increasing the angle of attack
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and then measuring the
forces which it's producing,
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that way we can learn about
its flight characteristics.
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At ten degrees,
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- we're producing four times weight and lift.
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- So it actually would be flying now.
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That's good.
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Tests show the Saqqara Bird
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is a highly developed glider.
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And this is a design we use today.
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During the Sanderson tests,
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it was discovered that the only thing
preventing the Saqqara Bird from achieving flight
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was the lack of a rear stabilizing rudder
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or elevator needed to maintain balance.
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Is it possible that the Saqqara Bird
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ever possessed this critical component?
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What is missing is
something like an elevator.
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But if you look at this feature here,
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and we may interpret that
something like an elevator
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was connected here,
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but was lost during history.
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Computer models seem to confirm
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that the Saqqara Bird
is certainly airworthy.
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But there is another problem to consider:
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launching a glider.
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Modern methods require
the use of a tow plane
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that pulls the glider into the air,
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then releases it when a
proper altitude is reached.
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So how might the ancient Egyptians
have launched the Saqqara Bird?
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The Scientifics of Egyptology
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told us that such a bird could be
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powered off by catapults to fly.
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And we had high acceptance
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by Egyptian scientists.
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The idea of using a catapult
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does have a contemporary parallel.
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Many of today's glider enthusiasts
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employ a bungee cord system
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to launch their sail craft into the air.
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But if the Saqqara Bird
is capable of flight,
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where would ancient Egyptians
have acquired such technology?
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I think that people in ancient times
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were visited by beings
coming not from this earth
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and they gave us culture
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and scientific technologies
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to improve our life on Earth
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coming from the primitive to
a higher developped culture.
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It's a fact that our ancestors were
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more intelligent and had more
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technological superiority capabilities than
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our history books give them credit for.
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You begin to have to ask yourself,
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are we missing part of the story?
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And honestly, I think we are.
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I think there has been a
forgotten episode in human history
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and, uh, we're a species with amnesia.
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We don't really remember
who or what we are.
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I haven't been
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convinced that there is evidence
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that supports an ancient visitation.
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But there is no reason why not.
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And I think to shut
oneself to that possibility
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is a mistake. Mainly because
there are so many anomalies
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that we can't explain.
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Could the Saqqara Bird
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really be a model of an
ancient flying machine?
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And if so,
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might this be evidence that our ancestors
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witnessed alien technology?
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Perhaps further proof can be found
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by examining a century-old Mexican ritual
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called the Dance of the Flyers.
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Veracruz, Mexico.
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Five men in ceremonial dress
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ascend a 100-foot pole.
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Once at the top,
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one of the men performs a sacred dance
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while playing a flute
and drum atop a platform.
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The other four men launch themselves off.
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It is a ritual known as
la Danza de los Voladores,
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or "the Dance of the Flyers."
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The ritual has the leader
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stand on the top of the pole...
a tiny little platform...
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and the four flyers wrap
a cable around that pole
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and then branch out and fly
around in a pyramid shape
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in perfect synchronous order.
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It's a stunning and daring thing to do.
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And they are representing the birds,
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they are representing the
four cardinal directions,
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they are representing the elements,
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heavily symbolic and mythic,
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and it is a powerful ritual.
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The Totanac people who
practice this ceremony today
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claim it is a dance that
was invented 500 years ago
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as a plea to the gods
to end a severe drought.
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But could this ancient ritual
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have different perhaps
otherworldly... origins?
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What we have here
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with the Voladores is 100%
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living mythology.
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Something that describes and illustrates...
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in front of our living eye...
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the descent of the gods
from a long time ago.
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According to ancient astronaut theorists,
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the Voladores ritual
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is a reenactment of a close encounter
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with alien visitors in the distant past.
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They believe extraterrestrials
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descended upon the flat mountaintops
of the Palpa region in Peru
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around 500 A.D.,
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dropping from their aircraft
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and gliding down to earth
in spiraling circles.
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The Voladores ritual
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was very technological, as in,
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you know, these beings
descending from the sky
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and the circle signifying
arrival of the gods.
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Where does that flying or
descending gods motif originate?
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Our ancestors saw something.
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Because why would you hurl yourself
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from a 100-foot pole
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out of nothing to imitate a bird?
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Birds are not that important.
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Something very significant happened.
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Could an alien encounter
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really be the inspiration
for the Voladores ritual?
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And could the Totanac people
who created the ceremony
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really have been trying to mimic
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the ancient gods' power of flight?
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As further evidence that early humans
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may have encountered alien visitors
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equipped with the power of flight,
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ancient astronaut theorists
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point to various artifacts and statues
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depicting ancient gods.
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One such example is the Mayan god,
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Ah-Muzen-Cab, also known
as the flying Bee God.
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Another is the most prominent god
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of early Mesoamerican culture,
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the winged deity Quetzalcoatl.
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The Mesoamericans believed
in the plumed serpent,
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or Quetzalcoatl,
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which, ah, came from
the sky, bringing wisdom,
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uh, powered the wind
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and also influenced everything
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that happened in the
daily life of the Mayans.
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In fact, they looked to the
sky for all their answers,
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uh, from everything as simple as when
to plant corn to when to go to war.
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Uh, they believed all answers
in the universe came from the sky
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and trying to relate
that to their daily lives.
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The ancient record are loaded
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with fantastic examples
of the gods flying around.
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These are the ancient aliens,
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and humans are being shown
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the ultimate capability of these gods.
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In my eyes,
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because we are the sons of the gods,
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we are the offsprings of the gods,
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whatever humans can dream,
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whatever humans think,
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was once reality in the past
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or will be reality in the future.
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July 31, 2003.
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The English Channel.
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Felix Baumgartner
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becomes the first person to cross
this 22-mile wide body of water
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in freefall using a
specially made fiber wing.
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But the Austrian daredevil
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is just one of many
who have used wing suits
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to simulate flying by means of a free fall.
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A wing suit is basically a jumpsuit
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that you put on under your rig
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and it's designed to actually make you fly
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when you exit the plane.
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Uh, the material inflates
underneath your arms,
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in between your legs,
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and creates, basically, an airfoil
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that you glide on through the air.
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It's an amazing feeling
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because you're actually
the pilot and the plane.
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It is total freedom.
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You feel as though you're flying.
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Though you are falling,
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you're using the air to maneuver your body.
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And the wing suit helps
you cover a lot of ground
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as you're descending.
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Some people have been exceeding
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two-to-one
glide ratio.
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For example,
three-to-one would mean,
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for every foot
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you descend, you're
traveling three feet forward.
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We got these flying guys
that have these wings
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attached to their backs, and they
hurl themselves out of planes,
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and some even have rocket
engines attached to them.
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And so, they essentially
themselves become airplanes.
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Now imagine showing that
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to someone from 100 years ago.
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That person would be in complete
awe of what they're witnessing,
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not understanding that there is
technology involved with this.
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Just using our own body, we cannot fly.
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We have no wings. But, of
course, we have the fantasy,
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and we have the technology to develop
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wings that we can fly.
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The pursuit of flight
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has been one of the
most sought after quests
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in all of mankind's history. Why?
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Because, with flight,
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you could reach, conceivably,
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the realm of the gods.
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From the ancient Greek myth of Icarus
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fashioning wings of feathers and wax,
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to modern daredevils
like Felix Baumgartner,
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human beings have been fascinated with,
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and often frustrated by,
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their desire to fly.
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But have birds really served
as mankind's inspiration?
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Or were they inspired by something else?
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Perhaps something extraterrestrial?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say "yes",
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and claim further proof
can be found by examining
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Ancient China's mysterious
stories of dragons.
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Celestial beings coming down to earth.
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Gods descending from the sky.
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Do similar accounts exist in other cultures
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and other religions across the world?
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And if so,
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what is the explanation?
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We have to remind
ourselves that our ancestors
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were highly intelligent.
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However, their technological
frame of reference
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was different than our
technological frame of reference.
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So, they didn't have the vocabulary
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with which to describe,
or with which to name
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certain things that they saw.
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So, what did they do?
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They used words that they were
familiar with in their time.
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And so, they tried to describe
whatever they witnessed
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to the best of their abilities
with their vocabulary.
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Ancient China also shared
some of the same beliefs
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that can be found in Egyptian,
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Native American and Dogon legends...
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that deities arrived from the stars.
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According to Chinese mythology
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dating back to 3,000 B.C.,
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when the god named Huang Di was born,
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there was "a radiance
from the great star Chi."
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Huang Di would later emerge from
the belly of a fire-breathing dragon
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to become China's first emperor.
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The origins of the Han Chinese people
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start with a story of a great god
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looking down with empathy.
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Here were people in poverty,
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in a beautiful, rich country,
the landscape profound.
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But the people were suffering.
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He took pity, and decided to come down.
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Huang Di arrived
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on planet Earth in a flying dragon.
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He had the power of flight.
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Huang Di could be anywhere within minutes.
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And he usually accomplished this by
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hopping on his dragon and flying somewhere.
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Now this divine energy becomes human,
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and is a great leader, the yellow emperor
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who rules and unites the people,
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and there is a period of great
prosperity until his work is done.
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Huang Di brought order to the chaos,
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creating China's first empire.
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He is seen as a cultural hero,
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and is credited with the
invention of the compass,
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acupuncture and the
standardization of Chinese writing.
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One of his greatest legacies
is the Great Wall of China.
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When the land is prosperous,
he decides it's time to go,
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and the great yellow dragon comes back,
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and he gets back into the belly of
the dragon and flies off forever.
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Now,
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were these dragons
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truly dragons in a
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biological nature?
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Or were they misinterpreted
types of machines?
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Because, as we all know,
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dragons are always correlated with
spewing fire and a lot of smoke.
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Whenever we see a modern rocket
take off, there is all this smoke,
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and sometimes the smoke is yellow,
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and sometimes it's red.
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So, it's very bizarre how we have these
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correlations between the ancient times
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and modern times today.
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Mythology is the effort to grasp what
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we can't grasp, to
understand what is beyond us.
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In the Eastern teachings, the
dragons very often carry people,
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sometimes on their back,
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sometimes inside their bellies.
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So, if we think of them as a poet's effort
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to explain a vehicle
that was strange to them,
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well, those sound like flying saucers.
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So, it might just be a
problem of translation,
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because after all, it's just a word.
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It's trying to describe something
that's very difficult to grasp.
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Could Chine tales of dragons
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be based on ancient interpretations
of rocket ships descending to Earth?
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And, if so, could the
legends of Huang Di...
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like those of Quetzalcoatl
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and the Egyptian Saqqara
Bird... be evidence of
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be evidence of alien
visitations in the distant past?
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Perhaps the answer can be
found high on a mountaintop
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known as the "Throne of Solomon."
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In the 21st century,
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modern transportation
and communication methods
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have connected the world like never before.
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Products or ideas,
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no matter where in the world
they may have originated,
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can spread to even the
most remote countries.
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A hip-hop hit in Brooklyn
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might make it big in Tokyo
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before it's even heard in Manhattan.
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This cultural interconnection
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has transformed the globe,
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but is it new?
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Mainstream archaeologists believe
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ancient civilizations,
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such as those found in
the remote Pacific Islands,
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Asia, and South America,
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developed independently from each other.
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But ancient astronaut theorists contend
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that similarities in
building styles and beliefs
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found in these cultures suggest
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that a worldwide trade route
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may have connected them to each other.
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But just like we have airports today,
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around the world,
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in ancient times, with the Vimanas,
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there would have been
hangars for the craft,
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airports for them to land.
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And those airports would have been situated
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in strategic places around the world.
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And that's exactly what
we see in remote places.
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Legends of air travel
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are also found in ancient
Africa and the Middle East.
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According to The Kebra Nagast,
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a holy book of the Ethiopians,
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written sometime before
the second century A.D.,
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the Queen of Sheba
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was once given a gift of a flying carpet
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by King Solomon of Israel.
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The Kebra Nagast
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is one of the most important
texts you've never heard of.
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The Kebra Nagast means
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"The Book of Kings."
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And it is
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the most sacred book of the Ethiopians.
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In it, King Solomon,
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it's described... he had access
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to some type of a flying machine.
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And in that part of the world,
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the term "flying carpet"
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was always used very liberally.
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My question is,
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did they really mean actual flying carpets?
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Or was it another term
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with which to describe some
type of a flying machine?
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This was the original chariots of the gods
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that Erich von Daniken talked about,
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the flying magic carpets
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of the Arabian Nights stories.
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There are traditions in the Middle East
of King Solomon having this airship,
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and flying to different
places in the Middle East...
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certain mountains, which are
known as the Mountains of Solomon.
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These may have been certain
airports, or landing areas,
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for these Vimanas.
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Nicolas Roerich, famous
Russian-American explorer,
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who travelled all through
Central Asia and Tibet
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in the 1920s...
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he, too, claimed that
Tibetans had traditions
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of King Solomon flying
to Tibet in this aircraft.
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The Kebra Nagast also
describes how King Solomon
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used his flying airship
to make maps of the world.
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But could these have any
relation to other ancient maps
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some believe may have been
made by extraterrestrials?
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Some of these maps
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show the world, not as it looks today,
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but as it looked during the last Ice Age.
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And this is really hard to explain.
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Everybody's heard of the Piri Reis map,
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but they've, perhaps, not heard of the
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Orontius Finnaeus map,
or the Mercator maps,
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that show Antarctica
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in great detail, hundreds of years
before Antarctica was even discovered.
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One of the most referenced
stories of ancient aircraft
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is found in a surprising
place... the Bible.
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In the Book of Ezekiel,
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the prophet describes a flying chariot
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containing wheels within
wheels and powered by angels.
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Although Bible historians suggest
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Ezekiel was speaking symbolically
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about the terrifying enemies facing Israel,
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could this be another example
of an alien visitation,
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and proof that prehistoric
aircraft existed?
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In the story of Ezekiel's throne chariot...
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this flying vehicle that doesn't seem
to have any means of propulsion...
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if we thought of the word "angel"
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as representing something
like celestial energy,
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it sounds much more like a spacecraft then,
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because some of the angels
are going back and forth.
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Well, that sounds like flames.
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That sounds like propulsion.
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Some of them are wheel-like.
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Well, those sound like flying saucers.
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Our ancestors weren't idiots.
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Ezekiel saw something that
was so frightening to him,
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that he fell to his knees.
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Then, out of the glory of God,
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came this being in these bright
clothes that looked like metal,
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and told Ezekiel, "All right, man,
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we brought you here.
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We want you to measure this
monument, this building."
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And Ezekiel asks, "Well,
why should I do this?"
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And the being says, "That's
why we brought you here."
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And then, you have 40 pages,
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in the second part of the Book of Ezekiel,
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with measurement after
measurement after measurement
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of this gigantic building
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in which, by the way, the
glory of the Lord landed.
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In the early 1970s,
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NASA scientist Josef Blumrich
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set out to disprove the theory
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that what Ezekiel
witnessed was a spaceship.
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Josef Blumrich is your
proverbial rocket scientist.
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He worked on the moon project for NASA,
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and from the mind of a rocket engineer,
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started to look at what was
written in the first part
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of the Book of Ezekiel,
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and after many months of research,
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Josef Blumrich came to the conclusion
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that what Ezekiel described
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in his eyewitness report...
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it was indeed a type of spacecraft.
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Josef Blumrich would go on to
write The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
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Several years later,
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a German structural engineer
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named Hans Herbert Beier
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sketched out a blueprint of the
second section of the Book of Ezekiel,
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where Ezekiel is told to construct
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an open-topped building to
house the flying chariot.
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Ezekiel's spaceship
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fit exactly into the temple that
Hans Herbert Beier recreated.
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So what we have here is
a proof by indication.
523
00:28:52,419 --> 00:28:55,356
Here we have a NASA engineer
524
00:28:55,392 --> 00:28:57,322
and a structural engineer,
525
00:28:57,670 --> 00:29:00,286
they didn't know of each other's work
526
00:29:00,406 --> 00:29:04,136
and both pieces fit together like a puzzle.
527
00:29:04,163 --> 00:29:06,203
In any court of law,
528
00:29:06,323 --> 00:29:09,505
that's evidence that would hold up.
529
00:29:11,780 --> 00:29:13,601
I think that scientists feel uncomfortable
530
00:29:13,721 --> 00:29:16,160
with the notion of the lost civilization
531
00:29:16,250 --> 00:29:20,400
precisely because the evidence
for it is so ambiguous.
532
00:29:20,580 --> 00:29:23,860
It's not so in-your-face
that it's immediately obvious.
533
00:29:23,113 --> 00:29:27,731
Uh, and, you know, the result is that
science has not welcomed this idea.
534
00:29:28,970 --> 00:29:32,231
It'll take much more evidence
before it's widely accepted.
535
00:29:33,125 --> 00:29:35,490
The God that I believe in
536
00:29:35,490 --> 00:29:37,280
doesn't need a vehicle
537
00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:40,500
in which to move around
from point "A" to point "B."
538
00:29:41,268 --> 00:29:43,408
Whatever was described
539
00:29:43,454 --> 00:29:46,509
in the Old Testament wasn't God.
540
00:29:46,536 --> 00:29:48,786
It was a misunderstood
541
00:29:48,814 --> 00:29:51,329
flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrial
542
00:29:51,356 --> 00:29:56,250
whom our ancestors
misinterpreted as being divine
543
00:29:56,370 --> 00:29:59,340
and supernatural. And why?
544
00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:02,340
Because of misunderstood technology.
545
00:30:02,377 --> 00:30:05,304
And that is the underlying thread
546
00:30:05,322 --> 00:30:10,590
that applies to all of the
ancient astronaut theory.
547
00:30:11,176 --> 00:30:15,649
But while ancient texts provide
tantalizing clues to our past,
548
00:30:15,769 --> 00:30:19,242
physical evidence paints
an even clearer picture.
549
00:30:19,362 --> 00:30:24,584
But will modern science finally
prove the ancient astronaut theory?
550
00:30:24,620 --> 00:30:27,758
Did the ancient civilizations of Earth
551
00:30:27,781 --> 00:30:30,534
have access to advanced technology?
552
00:30:30,826 --> 00:30:34,714
Well, it seems like they
had something going on.
553
00:30:41,647 --> 00:30:45,159
Could ancient stories
depicting flying carpets,
554
00:30:45,193 --> 00:30:49,350
fiery chariots and even dragons
555
00:30:49,309 --> 00:30:53,187
really be evidence of an
otherworldly presence here on Earth
556
00:30:53,223 --> 00:30:55,620
in the distant past?
557
00:30:56,191 --> 00:30:59,360
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
558
00:30:59,396 --> 00:31:02,661
and claim that further proof of alien craft
559
00:31:02,689 --> 00:31:08,954
traversing our skies can be found with
the countless reports of flying saucers.
560
00:31:12,201 --> 00:31:14,826
Guatemala, Central America.
561
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:19,508
According to most mainstream
scholars and archaeologists,
562
00:31:19,516 --> 00:31:22,611
the earliest human
settlements in this region
563
00:31:22,647 --> 00:31:26,680
date back over 14,000 years.
564
00:31:26,370 --> 00:31:29,736
Here can be found
numerous ancient artifacts,
565
00:31:29,782 --> 00:31:32,727
and among them is this one,
566
00:31:32,746 --> 00:31:34,611
the figure of a man
567
00:31:34,630 --> 00:31:36,898
lying inside what appears to be
568
00:31:36,935 --> 00:31:39,470
the shell of a turtle.
569
00:31:39,660 --> 00:31:42,254
And when I asked the
local archaeologist there,
570
00:31:42,256 --> 00:31:44,372
"What is this?"
571
00:31:44,641 --> 00:31:47,202
They said without the flinching of an eye,
572
00:31:47,230 --> 00:31:50,312
"Well this is, according to legend,
573
00:31:51,620 --> 00:31:53,751
the giant flying turtles
574
00:31:53,871 --> 00:31:56,394
which flew around in Guatemala."
575
00:31:57,455 --> 00:32:01,864
The entire body is
aerodynamically fashioned.
576
00:32:02,111 --> 00:32:06,693
The extremities are pressed
in an aerodynamic fashion
577
00:32:06,730 --> 00:32:09,949
against the body of this turtle.
578
00:32:10,370 --> 00:32:12,574
And if you look closely,
579
00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:18,921
it's as if there's some modern day
fighter pilot glasses or goggles.
580
00:32:21,903 --> 00:32:23,586
This right here
581
00:32:23,706 --> 00:32:26,475
is from the same culture,
from the same region
582
00:32:26,475 --> 00:32:29,924
where they created the turtle in clay.
583
00:32:29,970 --> 00:32:33,103
So they knew exactly
what a turtle looked like.
584
00:32:33,223 --> 00:32:35,340
It looks like a snapping turtle.
585
00:32:35,619 --> 00:32:38,546
And what we have here,
586
00:32:38,666 --> 00:32:41,610
that is everything but a turtle.
587
00:32:41,610 --> 00:32:44,710
It's something else.
588
00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:46,989
In their frame of reference,
589
00:32:47,350 --> 00:32:49,367
they were able to use the turtle
590
00:32:49,406 --> 00:32:51,928
as the best example
591
00:32:51,974 --> 00:32:54,233
of what they might've seen
592
00:32:54,278 --> 00:32:57,983
that the gods used to fly around in.
593
00:33:00,361 --> 00:33:04,522
Halfway around the world, in 329 B.C.,
594
00:33:04,568 --> 00:33:07,640
the Greek ruler Alexander the Great
595
00:33:07,101 --> 00:33:09,415
planned the invasion of India.
596
00:33:09,793 --> 00:33:11,994
But according to ancient texts,
597
00:33:12,220 --> 00:33:14,455
his army was supposedly thwarted
598
00:33:14,482 --> 00:33:17,281
by a strange attack from the skies.
599
00:33:17,565 --> 00:33:20,675
As Alexander's army was getting ready
600
00:33:20,693 --> 00:33:22,925
to cross the Indus and invade India,
601
00:33:22,962 --> 00:33:24,782
suddenly in the sky
602
00:33:24,902 --> 00:33:27,836
appeared these flying discs.
603
00:33:28,376 --> 00:33:31,577
And they began dive-bombing
604
00:33:31,697 --> 00:33:33,917
at the war elephants
605
00:33:34,430 --> 00:33:37,910
that were part of Alexander's army.
606
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:40,900
And what these flying discs did
607
00:33:40,550 --> 00:33:42,589
was cause stampedes
608
00:33:42,589 --> 00:33:45,598
within Alexander's own war elephants,
609
00:33:45,908 --> 00:33:49,550
who then ran amok throughout his army, uh,
610
00:33:49,730 --> 00:33:51,300
tearing up the camps and everything.
611
00:33:51,259 --> 00:33:52,393
And after that,
612
00:33:52,430 --> 00:33:56,399
Alexander's generals met
with him and they said,
613
00:33:56,408 --> 00:34:00,771
"No, we're not going into
India. This... this is it.
614
00:34:00,978 --> 00:34:03,511
We're gonna turn back."
And that was the end
615
00:34:03,513 --> 00:34:05,217
of that war campaign.
616
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:09,370
But whether in ancient
times or much more recently,
617
00:34:09,490 --> 00:34:11,501
so-called flying saucers
618
00:34:11,529 --> 00:34:14,338
are often described as
being unaffected by gravity
619
00:34:14,458 --> 00:34:16,870
or the basic laws of physics.
620
00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:19,696
You know, I know that people
who have... who have seen,
621
00:34:19,816 --> 00:34:22,797
uh, extraterrestrial
vehicles in modern times
622
00:34:22,917 --> 00:34:25,682
have said, "How in the world
could it be doing that?"
623
00:34:26,750 --> 00:34:29,221
For example, it's moving through the sky
624
00:34:29,221 --> 00:34:31,946
and it's going 20,000 miles per hour
625
00:34:31,983 --> 00:34:34,635
and makes a right-hand
turn without decelerating.
626
00:34:34,690 --> 00:34:39,391
That isn't possible
using normal aerodynamics.
627
00:34:40,992 --> 00:34:45,327
When jets have been scrambled
after flying saucers,
628
00:34:45,354 --> 00:34:48,410
the saucers are described
as suddenly turning
629
00:34:48,446 --> 00:34:51,153
at right angles at super speeds and just
630
00:34:51,181 --> 00:34:56,694
zipping off in what seems like
impossible aerobatic maneuvers.
631
00:34:56,814 --> 00:35:00,701
And this can be explained as the kind of
632
00:35:00,747 --> 00:35:02,942
technology they're using, which is an...
633
00:35:02,988 --> 00:35:05,339
a gravity control.
634
00:35:06,189 --> 00:35:08,211
It's artificial gravity.
635
00:35:08,549 --> 00:35:12,345
So when you're inside of
a... a gravitational field
636
00:35:12,373 --> 00:35:15,684
that you're creating
yourself around your craft,
637
00:35:15,804 --> 00:35:20,486
the gravity of the Earth
doesn't have a force on you.
638
00:35:22,498 --> 00:35:27,290
But although aircraft propulsion
by means of gravity manipulation
639
00:35:27,318 --> 00:35:30,537
is beyond the limits of current technology,
640
00:35:30,657 --> 00:35:35,614
many scientists claim it
is theoretically possible.
641
00:35:38,696 --> 00:35:41,230
In Davis, California,
642
00:35:41,267 --> 00:35:43,516
inventor Dr. Paul Moller
643
00:35:43,636 --> 00:35:46,443
tests the boundaries of real-life science
644
00:35:46,470 --> 00:35:50,394
with a recreational flying
vehicle called the Neuera.
645
00:35:55,442 --> 00:35:59,640
The Neuera is a very simple device to fly.
646
00:36:00,957 --> 00:36:06,700
It has eight lifting ducted
fans, as we call them,
647
00:36:06,127 --> 00:36:09,354
each one moved by its own engine.
648
00:36:10,251 --> 00:36:14,239
One of the big advantages of...
of this kind of round shape
649
00:36:14,257 --> 00:36:15,922
is that you end up with the
650
00:36:16,420 --> 00:36:18,976
strength, and the skin
of the vehicle itself,
651
00:36:18,982 --> 00:36:20,982
much like the shell of a beetle.
652
00:36:20,984 --> 00:36:23,500
And that gets you a
very, very strong design.
653
00:36:23,503 --> 00:36:25,760
This airframes you see over
here next to this vehicle,
654
00:36:25,763 --> 00:36:27,208
which are similar to this,
655
00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:29,888
weigh only 75 pounds
apiece, which is incredible.
656
00:36:29,906 --> 00:36:31,599
You get a complete airframe
657
00:36:31,626 --> 00:36:34,230
that's capable of lifting 1,500 pounds
658
00:36:34,590 --> 00:36:36,446
with a 75-pound shell.
659
00:36:37,745 --> 00:36:40,490
But could the inherent design strength
660
00:36:40,500 --> 00:36:41,988
of a disc-shaped object
661
00:36:42,108 --> 00:36:45,473
be the key to overcoming
the forces of gravity?
662
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:50,266
And does the prevalence of
flying saucer sightings suggest
663
00:36:50,293 --> 00:36:53,742
a connection between antigravity technology
664
00:36:53,751 --> 00:36:56,834
and extraterrestrial visitations?
665
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,839
Gravity is one of the most
unknown forces in physics today.
666
00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:02,979
And when we do understand it,
667
00:37:03,990 --> 00:37:06,543
we'll be able to find out a
way to shield ourselves from it
668
00:37:06,663 --> 00:37:09,418
or to provide a device, a method,
669
00:37:09,538 --> 00:37:14,128
electromagnetically but with some much
greater knowledge than we have today,
670
00:37:14,156 --> 00:37:18,253
where we eliminate it within
the vehicle's operations.
671
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,738
Are flying saucers
672
00:37:21,747 --> 00:37:25,479
more than just the product
of overactive imaginations?
673
00:37:26,421 --> 00:37:30,500
Might ancient cultures that
wrote of fire-breathing dragons
674
00:37:30,518 --> 00:37:32,841
and angels descending from the heavens
675
00:37:32,860 --> 00:37:37,470
have been witnessing earlier
versions of these alien spacecraft?
676
00:37:37,590 --> 00:37:40,781
Or could there be another explanation?
677
00:37:41,830 --> 00:37:45,574
Perhaps the ultimate answer can
be found in the American Southwest
678
00:37:45,694 --> 00:37:49,415
with a mythological beast
called the thunderbird.
679
00:37:57,372 --> 00:38:00,848
Elizabeth Lake, Southern California.
680
00:38:00,968 --> 00:38:03,811
This high desert body of water
681
00:38:03,847 --> 00:38:07,369
sits at the junction of the
tectonic plates that form
682
00:38:07,378 --> 00:38:10,415
the powerful San Andreas Fault.
683
00:38:10,535 --> 00:38:14,549
The Mexicans who colonized
California in the 1700s
684
00:38:14,796 --> 00:38:19,260
called it Laguna del
Diablo, Lake of the Devil.
685
00:38:19,928 --> 00:38:23,680
And it was said that the Devil's own pet
686
00:38:23,830 --> 00:38:24,812
would come into this world
687
00:38:24,932 --> 00:38:27,611
through a portal at the bottom of the lake.
688
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:29,961
Local legend says
689
00:38:29,998 --> 00:38:33,602
that at the bottom is actually
an entrance to the underworld.
690
00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:35,220
They call it the Lake of the Devil.
691
00:38:35,340 --> 00:38:38,668
And it is said that in the
middle of the 18th century,
692
00:38:38,670 --> 00:38:41,721
from up until about 1880 onwards,
693
00:38:41,723 --> 00:38:45,222
something was happening
there which frightened locals.
694
00:38:46,411 --> 00:38:49,337
Some of the rich landowners
built ranches there.
695
00:38:49,347 --> 00:38:52,623
These ranchers claimed to have
been harassed and tormented
696
00:38:52,650 --> 00:38:54,950
by some sort of a monstrous beast
697
00:38:54,953 --> 00:38:56,986
that would come out of the water
698
00:38:57,106 --> 00:39:01,322
and steal cattle and menace the locals.
699
00:39:03,207 --> 00:39:06,180
The ranchers who claimed
to have witnessed this beast
700
00:39:06,198 --> 00:39:08,640
called it the thunderbird,
701
00:39:08,832 --> 00:39:10,652
and their description of it
702
00:39:10,772 --> 00:39:12,481
was nearly identical
703
00:39:12,527 --> 00:39:16,295
to that of the giant bird
witnessed by cowboys in Tombstone
704
00:39:16,322 --> 00:39:18,330
in 1890.
705
00:39:18,307 --> 00:39:20,795
Eventually, one of the landowners,
706
00:39:20,822 --> 00:39:24,298
uh, got it in his head that he was
going to hunt this creature down
707
00:39:24,418 --> 00:39:25,963
and sell it to the circus.
708
00:39:26,830 --> 00:39:27,510
So according to the story,
709
00:39:27,510 --> 00:39:31,937
this rancher was able to actually
fire a few shots at this creature,
710
00:39:31,964 --> 00:39:34,178
which seemed to be
bulletproof and metallic.
711
00:39:34,298 --> 00:39:36,858
The bullets bounced off, and after that,
712
00:39:36,867 --> 00:39:41,102
uh, encounter, the bird flew east
never to be seen again in California.
713
00:39:42,530 --> 00:39:44,797
Could this so-called thunderbird
714
00:39:44,917 --> 00:39:47,560
really have been the same creature
715
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,809
that cowboys shot at in Tombstone?
716
00:39:50,470 --> 00:39:52,571
And why was it referred to by locals
717
00:39:52,580 --> 00:39:54,171
as the Devil's pet?
718
00:39:54,291 --> 00:39:57,108
They didn't have the
vocabulary we have today,
719
00:39:57,228 --> 00:40:00,729
so when things happened
that they couldn't explain,
720
00:40:00,757 --> 00:40:03,136
it was called the Devil's Tower,
721
00:40:03,138 --> 00:40:05,156
it was called the Devil's Lake,
722
00:40:05,184 --> 00:40:09,910
it was called the Devil's
This or the Devil's That.
723
00:40:09,930 --> 00:40:10,647
Take it away from legend
724
00:40:10,648 --> 00:40:14,225
and you might find that this
was a portal to another dimension
725
00:40:14,233 --> 00:40:15,761
which the locals knew about
726
00:40:15,881 --> 00:40:17,755
and might have something
to do with the fact
727
00:40:17,782 --> 00:40:22,365
that this mysterious entity was
present at that very specific location.
728
00:40:26,756 --> 00:40:29,800
If a portal to another dimension
729
00:40:29,200 --> 00:40:31,137
or another part of the universe
730
00:40:31,257 --> 00:40:34,476
does lie at the bottom of Elizabeth Lake,
731
00:40:34,714 --> 00:40:36,625
might it also be possible
732
00:40:36,643 --> 00:40:40,730
that the thunderbird was
not really a creature at all
733
00:40:40,193 --> 00:40:43,730
but something even more incredible?
734
00:40:43,428 --> 00:40:45,186
A thunderbird was enormous.
735
00:40:45,306 --> 00:40:47,312
It made enormous noises.
736
00:40:47,432 --> 00:40:49,329
So the thunder part of it, uh,
737
00:40:49,351 --> 00:40:51,133
could sound like a jet engine.
738
00:40:51,135 --> 00:40:55,988
Its eyes were able to literally
pierce and emanate fire.
739
00:40:56,681 --> 00:40:59,681
We have this large flying winged creature
740
00:40:59,717 --> 00:41:02,260
which gives off a thunderous sound
741
00:41:02,269 --> 00:41:04,414
and lights fly from its eyes.
742
00:41:04,416 --> 00:41:05,507
That, to me, says, yes,
743
00:41:05,534 --> 00:41:08,416
we could be dealing
with some sort of craft.
744
00:41:13,127 --> 00:41:15,843
Native Indians in North America,
745
00:41:15,963 --> 00:41:18,395
they know, of course, the bird.
746
00:41:18,597 --> 00:41:21,349
But now something differently arrived,
747
00:41:21,469 --> 00:41:23,434
an object which could fly,
748
00:41:23,480 --> 00:41:25,429
which is bigger than the eagle
749
00:41:25,474 --> 00:41:28,605
but, at the same time,
makes tremendous noise.
750
00:41:28,607 --> 00:41:31,237
So you have the creation
of the thunderbird.
751
00:41:31,357 --> 00:41:33,432
Even when the airplanes
752
00:41:33,459 --> 00:41:37,405
first started going up in
the sky here in the Southwest,
753
00:41:37,525 --> 00:41:41,969
they referred them to as metal birds.
754
00:41:42,150 --> 00:41:43,519
As a matter of fact,
755
00:41:43,521 --> 00:41:47,180
when the first fixed-wing
craft landed in Zuni,
756
00:41:47,402 --> 00:41:50,988
the Indians over there actually
went out there and worshipped
757
00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:52,597
the airplane.
758
00:41:53,220 --> 00:41:56,961
It makes me think of a concept
called cultural tracking,
759
00:41:57,810 --> 00:42:00,106
which is the idea that UFOs can
760
00:42:00,317 --> 00:42:04,954
mask themselves to
appear as almost anything.
761
00:42:04,973 --> 00:42:08,266
You go back to ancient China and
they talk about the flying dragons.
762
00:42:08,386 --> 00:42:12,265
You go back to the ancient Egyptians,
they talk about flying boats.
763
00:42:12,267 --> 00:42:15,833
You go to the Roman times, and
they're talking about flying shields.
764
00:42:15,953 --> 00:42:18,796
Perhaps that was just their interpretation,
765
00:42:18,824 --> 00:42:22,980
or perhaps that's what they actually saw.
766
00:42:23,726 --> 00:42:25,794
Have alien spacecraft
767
00:42:25,803 --> 00:42:28,867
really been darting across our
skies for thousands of years?
768
00:42:30,825 --> 00:42:34,519
And could stories of thunderbirds, dragons
769
00:42:34,529 --> 00:42:36,148
and flying chariots
770
00:42:36,148 --> 00:42:37,886
be not mere legends
771
00:42:37,931 --> 00:42:40,547
but the proof we have been looking for?
772
00:42:40,667 --> 00:42:43,146
Perhaps when our own technology
773
00:42:43,148 --> 00:42:46,102
allows us to venture further into space
774
00:42:46,148 --> 00:42:48,682
will we be given the final answer,
775
00:42:48,728 --> 00:42:50,739
that aliens and mankind
776
00:42:50,748 --> 00:42:52,697
share a common origin
777
00:42:52,817 --> 00:42:56,346
and perhaps a common destiny.
778
00:42:56,466 --> 00:42:59,720
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