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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
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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
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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
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containing the burial
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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
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where authorities placed it alongside
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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,
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it should look like a
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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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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
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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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they are not representing birds,

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but flying machines, or aircraft.

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Could the ancient Egyptians have
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In 2006,

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aviation and aerodynamics
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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
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that way we can learn about
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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
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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
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But if you look at this feature here,

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and we may interpret that
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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
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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
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that pulls the glider into the air,

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then releases it when a
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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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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
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where would ancient Egyptians
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I think that people in ancient times

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were visited by beings
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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
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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
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and, uh, we're a species with amnesia.

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We don't really remember
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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
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is a mistake. Mainly because
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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
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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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one of the men performs a sacred dance

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while playing a flute
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The other four men launch themselves off.

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It is a ritual known as
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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
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and then branch out and fly
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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
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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
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claim it is a dance that
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as a plea to the gods
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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
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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
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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
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The Voladores ritual

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was very technological, as in,

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you know, these beings
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and the circle signifying
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Where does that flying or
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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
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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
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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
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or Quetzalcoatl,

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which, ah, came from
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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
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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
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and trying to relate
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The ancient record are loaded

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with fantastic examples
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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
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But the Austrian daredevil

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is just one of many
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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
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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
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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
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as you're descending.

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Some people have been exceeding

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two-to-one
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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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00:24:05,981 --> 00:24:09,228
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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00:24:34,334 --> 00:24:38,688
Nicolas Roerich, famous
Russian-American explorer,

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who travelled all through
Central Asia and Tibet

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00:24:43,024 --> 00:24:44,898
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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00:26:24,794 --> 00:26:26,541
That sounds like propulsion.

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Some of them are wheel-like.

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00:26:28,479 --> 00:26:30,958
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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00:27:34,691 --> 00:27:36,584
set out to disprove the theory

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00:27:36,621 --> 00:27:39,566
that what Ezekiel
witnessed was a spaceship.

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Josef Blumrich is your
proverbial rocket scientist.

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00:27:45,055 --> 00:27:48,475
He worked on the moon project for NASA,

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00:27:48,869 --> 00:27:52,500
and from the mind of a rocket engineer,

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00:27:52,756 --> 00:27:57,037
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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00:28:05,287 --> 00:28:09,221
that what Ezekiel described

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00:28:09,341 --> 00:28:12,669
in his eyewitness report...

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00:28:12,879 --> 00:28:16,474
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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00:28:27,687 --> 00:28:29,571
named Hans Herbert Beier

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00:28:29,590 --> 00:28:33,606
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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00:28:35,481 --> 00:28:39,303
an open-topped building to
house the flying chariot.

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00:28:39,423 --> 00:28:41,251
Ezekiel's spaceship

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00:28:41,288 --> 00:28:47,471
fit exactly into the temple that
Hans Herbert Beier recreated.

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00:28:48,577 --> 00:28:52,209
So what we have here is
a proof by indication.

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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
00:29:11,078 --> 00:29:13,601
I think that scientists feel uncomfortable

530
00:29:13,721 --> 00:29:16,016
with the notion of the lost civilization

531
00:29:16,025 --> 00:29:20,040
precisely because the evidence
for it is so ambiguous.

532
00:29:20,058 --> 00:29:23,086
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
00:29:28,097 --> 00:29:32,231
It'll take much more evidence
before it's widely accepted.

535
00:29:33,125 --> 00:29:35,049
The God that I believe in

536
00:29:35,049 --> 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 --> 00:30:49,035
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 --> 00:31:26,068
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 --> 00:31:39,047
the shell of a turtle.

569
00:31:39,066 --> 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
00:31:51,062 --> 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 --> 00:32:35,034
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 --> 00:32:44,071
It's something else.

588
00:32:44,729 --> 00:32:46,989
In their frame of reference,

589
00:32:47,035 --> 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 --> 00:33:07,064
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
00:33:12,022 --> 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 --> 00:33:37,091
that were part of Alexander's army.

606
00:33:37,119 --> 00:33:40,009
And what these flying discs did

607
00:33:40,055 --> 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 --> 00:33:49,055
who then ran amok throughout his army, uh,

610
00:33:49,073 --> 00:33:51,003
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
00:34:06,004 --> 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
00:34:26,075 --> 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 --> 00:35:59,064
The Neuera is a very simple device to fly.

646
00:36:00,957 --> 00:36:06,007
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
00:36:16,042 --> 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 --> 00:36:34,023
that's capable of lifting 1,500 pounds

658
00:36:34,059 --> 00:36:36,446
with a 75-pound shell.

659
00:36:37,745 --> 00:36:40,049
But could the inherent design strength

660
00:36:40,050 --> 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
00:36:46,076 --> 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
00:37:03,099 --> 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
00:37:20,092 --> 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
00:37:41,083 --> 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 --> 00:38:23,068
And it was said that the Devil's own pet

686
00:38:23,083 --> 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
00:38:28,004 --> 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 --> 00:39:18,033
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
00:39:26,083 --> 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
00:39:42,053 --> 00:39:44,797
Could this so-called thunderbird

714
00:39:44,917 --> 00:39:47,056
really have been the same creature

715
00:39:47,056 --> 00:39:49,809
that cowboys shot at in Tombstone?

716
00:39:50,047 --> 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 --> 00:40:09,091
it was called the Devil's
This or the Devil's That.

723
00:40:09,093 --> 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 --> 00:40:29,080
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 --> 00:40:40,073
that the thunderbird was
not really a creature at all

733
00:40:40,193 --> 00:40:43,073
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
00:41:42,015 --> 00:41:43,519
As a matter of fact,

755
00:41:43,521 --> 00:41:47,018
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
00:41:51,006 --> 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
00:41:57,081 --> 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 --> 00:42:22,098
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 --> 00:42:59,072
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