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Astonishing sea creatures.

Defy explanation.

It's like these creatures were brought here in their entirety and put into our

oceans. Ancient cultures worship fish like God. This is a common theme that we

find around the world. Humans that had aquatic features.

underwater life forms display mysterious behavior.

So they're totally alien forms of life that have never been found anywhere else

on the planet.

Scientists say we know more about the surface of Mars than we do about the

bottom of our own ocean. But is it an even more alien environment than anyone

could imagine?

This is an extraterrestrial amino acid. Really?

This is a revolutionary discovery.

This could just be the opening of the door into the realization that our

are in fact a great extraterrestrial laboratory.

There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything.

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

A video is anonymously posted on the Internet that appears to be underwater

footage of a large, shadowy sea creature.

While the footage is low quality, long arms and legs, or possibly a mermaid

-like fin, can be made out as the creature draws nearer to the camera. And

the video abruptly ends.

Information posted with the clip claims it shows the Ningen.

a legendary sea creature said to lurk off the coast of Antarctica.

While some suggest the footage was faked, other photos and videos of the

have surfaced in recent years.

And there are those who believe this disturbingly human -like sea monster is

real. Now, most people, when they saw the images of this Ningen, quickly

dismissed it as a hoax.

But things in the past, too, like the idea of a kraken, some large squid was

never even thought possible until it was discovered.

History books are filled with sensational encounters with terrifying

monsters. Many of these stories were derided as myth until evidence was found

centuries after to indicate there was some truth to them.

The sea is a primal force. It is deep, it is powerful, it is tempestuous, so it

frightens us.

So Mariner's tales of sea serpents, sea monsters, go back to the earliest times

of mythology and folklore.

They represent some of our deepest terrors.

The ocean is a good example of this.

fact meets fiction scenario.

You have stories like the Kratons and these giant sea monsters, and then the

science catches up, so to speak, and we find that, yes, there are these giant

squids down there. So that begs the question, what else might be down there?

frankly, we haven't got a clue.

As we venture deeper and deeper into the ocean, there's no telling what we're

going to find.

But one thing will be certain, it will be absolutely mind -blowing.

Could the Ningen, and other even more incredible creatures that we have yet to

encounter, be hiding out in the depths of Earth's oceans?

Incredibly, the world that we know and inhabit above water represents only 1 %

of the planet's livable space.

99 % belongs to the oceans.

And less than 10 % of that space has been explored.

The ocean does represent probably the last real unexplored area of the Earth.

The surface of the ocean floor is largely uncharacterized.

It's kind of strange when you think about it because we know more about the

surface. of the Moon and the surface of Mars than we know about the ocean

floors.

Up until 1875, the mainstream scientific viewpoint was that living organisms

could not exist more than 1 ,800 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.

But then, a scientific expedition discovered over 4 ,700 new types of sea

beneath that depth.

And an even more remarkable discovery would be made more than 100 years later.

February 1977,

250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands.

Scientists make a remarkable discovery more than 8 ,000 feet below the surface,

near a hydrothermal vent in the ocean floor where no life is thought to

exist.

To their astonishment, the area is teeming with creatures unlike anything

witnessed on Earth.

When they first came upon these deep -sea vents, they found giant tube worms,

riftia, that are amazing size and beautifully colored.

All sorts of shrimp and crabs and fish living around these vents. So they're

totally alien forms of life that have never been found anywhere else on the

planet.

Central to the underwater ecosystem is an unusual food source.

Bacteria exist at these vent sites.

In the absence of light, they do something that's analogous to

that we call chemosynthesis.

They actually take these sulfur -containing compounds to generate their

for their cells, essentially.

The discovery transforms the field of marine biology.

Considering the fact that these extraordinary creatures have been found,

also possible that so -called sea monsters presumed to be mythological,

the Ningen of Antarctica, could exist as well?

While no physical evidence of the Ningen has come to light yet, there is proof.

of an equally mystifying creature that lurks in the depths.

Turritopsis dorni, or the immortal jellyfish.

The immortal jellyfish, when conditions become adverse, maybe temperatures

become too high, salinity changes, these animals

revert to a juvenile stage from the adult stage and basically start life

all over again.

So it basically just keeps rewinding its development over and over again.

In the lab, there are some lines of immortal jellyfish that haven't

death yet. They've just been cycling through their developmental stages

repeatedly. A jellyfish that has the potential to live forever?

But how is it possible that a creature could exist on Earth that is so unlike

any other life form yet discovered, and that scientists still struggle to

explain?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest there could be a very simple answer,

the immortal jellyfish and perhaps other bizarre creatures of the deep are not

native to this planet, but arrived here from space.

On August 19, 2014, Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station

made an incredible discovery.

Clinging to the exterior of the windows was an organism commonly found

underwater.

Sea plankton.

The recent findings of sea plankton on the outside of the space station is

really very interesting. I personally have collaborated with the group of very

distinguished scientists who are involved in this, and we concluded

There's no way in which microbes can be lofted to 400 kilometers from the

surface. So they have to come from outside.

Has Dr.

Chandra Wickramasinghe, along with his colleagues, found irrefutable evidence

alien life that is able to survive the extreme conditions of outer space and

potentially travel to Earth?

And could the fact... that it was found to be plankton, indicate that life forms

coming from space are capable of surviving in Earth's oceans.

Here's what's so crazy. We've discovered new creatures and new species in places

where 20 years ago it was scientific fact that no life could exist in

those places.

We now have even found fish.

at the bottom of the deepest spots of the ocean, where even a submarine could

get crushed.

And there's living fish down there? How is that possible?

It shouldn't work on Earth, but it does.

So my question is, are some of those creatures directly imported from

else?

Immortal jellyfish.

Giant worms.

Possible humanoid sea monsters.

Might the many bizarre creatures found in Earth's oceans not be from Earth at

all?

And if alien life forms really do inhabit our seas, did they arrive here

accident? Or were they sent here deliberately as part of an

agenda?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining an object that recently crash

-landed on Earth, carrying cargo.

that has the potential to create life.

December 1974.

Cambridge University professor of astronomy, Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe,

publishes an article in Nature magazine that sets the scientific community

abuzz.

For decades, the mainstream viewpoint has been, that life on Earth

arose from a so -called primordial suit or organic compound in the planet's

primitive ocean.

But scientists are still uncertain as to just how life would have been able to

develop from inanimate matter.

Instead, Dr. Wickramasinghe suggests that life didn't start on Earth at all,

but was delivered to our planet on meteorites and comets.

The concept is known as panspermia.

Every single textbook on biology that we would have studied maybe 10, 20 years

ago starts with the story of the primordial soup.

There is no evidence for this at all. And so the alternative to the primordial

soup theory is that life did not start here on the earth, but came from

There are two types of panspermia. One, which is just panspermia, which suggests

that life was carried on the backs of comets throughout the universe.

So it's a natural seeding of the planet.

Now, the second term is what's called directed panspermia, and the definition

behind that is that an intelligent technological species on a distant

deliberately sent out building blocks of light to particular planets.

So the idea is that Earth, perhaps a long time ago, was seeded by

extraterrestrials.

For decades, mainstream scientists have dismissed the theory of panspermia on

the basis that life could not survive the extreme conditions of space.

But a recent discovery could prove that notion wrong and possibly provide

physical evidence that panspermia not only occurred, but continues to affect

life on Earth.

Milton Keynes, England, March 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos travels to the Open University

meet with planetary scientist Dr. Queenie Chan.

Dr. Chan.

Giorgio. Hello.

Great pleasure to meet you. Welcome here. Nice to meet you, too. Thank you

much for bringing me here.

Dr. Chan.

recently analyzed two meteorites recovered in 1998 and discovered

incredibly unexpected, a salt crystal containing liquid water.

Giorgio is eager to find out what the implications of this discovery could be,

and if it might provide further evidence that life on Earth was seeded by

extraterrestrials.

So, I'm here with Dr. Fox.

Full of heavy meteorites. Oh, wow.

Within a stony meteorite, we've got something called the chondrictic

They are interesting because they have organic materials in it.

The meteorite that I found extremely interesting, special, two meteorites,

actually, Zach and Monaghan's meteorite. They are both ordinary chondrites, but

they are not ordinary.

The foe fell to Earth in 1998.

And what's more interesting is both of these meteorites have salt crystals that

stunning blue coloration to them. More interesting is within the salt crystals,

we found water, liquid water inclusion within them.

I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. So you're telling me that you found

meteorites that... actually contain liquid water in them. What would you say

someone who would argue that maybe the water entered the meteorite after it

on Earth?

We were lucky because they both fell in a dry condition, and they will retreat

really quickly once we observe the fall. So it was not contaminated by the rain.

Okay.

Shall we have a look at it in the clean lab? Yes, please. That would be amazing.

Absolutely.

Before they can examine the meteorite sample, Giorgio and Dr. Chan change into

protective gear that will keep the laboratory sterile.

All right.

And so this is it. This is it. Can we have a look under the microscope?

Trying to move that in focus now.

There it is.

I'm going to enlarge it on my screen.

This is it. You're looking at a speck of water in a meteorite.

This is the first time that we've found amino acids with water.

This is extraordinary.

Amino acids?

These organic compounds are the building blocks of life, so finding them within

liquid water on a meteorite is extraordinary.

Could alien proteins like these have started life on Earth?

So one of the exciting things about the discovery of the blue salt crystals in

the asteroids that crashed to Earth is really the amino acids.

Amino acids are the building block of proteins.

And so it really shows that Earth isn't the only place where the right chemistry

exists for which you can get life.

The panspermia theory cannot be dismissed.

And one reason is as follows.

In the early Earth, we were hit by meteors and asteroids.

So our oceans probably boiled off many times in the past, making life

impossible.

But then when the solar system became quiet and we had oceans, boom, life gets

off the ground.

Scientists are finding more and more evidence.

that shows organic material arrived here from other worlds billions of years

ago. And some believe that process continues to this day.

What is this?

This is a nanosense. Okay.

It's capable of doing isotopic analysis.

In another laboratory, Dr.

Chan shows Giorgio the machine that analyzed the meteorite samples on a

nanometer scale.

The results are then displayed on a computer screen.

showing a comparison between amino acids found on Earth and those that arrived

here from space.

This is very interesting because, first of all, we're seeing a bunch of amino

acids that are common in terrestrial life, and over here we've got other

extraterrestrial amino acids. Really? This is a revolutionary discovery.

I immediately go to the idea of panspermia, that life has been brought

throughout the entire galaxy by means with which we can't even fathom how it

done. The building blocks of protein that we know to be necessary for life,

these very building blocks, the same amino acids that we found on Earth, is

ubiquitous in the universe.

It's everywhere. It's found on asteroids. It's found on comets, too.

estimation, what is the likelihood of life having begun elsewhere?

We've got so many different galaxies, and there are so many Earth -like

And we could have water elsewhere. We know that building blocks of life are

ubiquitous.

So I think it's totally possible.

Thank you so much for sharing this information with me. I think this has

one of the most enlightening conversations that I've ever had. Thank

much. So thank you for your time. Yes, it's a happy time. All right.

Are the seeds of life being sent to Earth inside meteorites and possibly

developing new alien species in the deepest parts of our oceans?

And if so, to what end?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining one of the most mysterious and

intelligent creatures in the sea, the octopus.

March 2018.

A scientific paper sparks a sensation in the press.

In it, a team of 33 scientists, including Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe,

that octopuses possess extraterrestrial DNA.

What we find in the octopus genome is just almost uncanny.

It has...

something like 50 ,000 genes.

Compare that with the human, which has something like 25 ,000 genes.

So the octopus, in many ways, appears to be more complex than the human.

Now, how does this complexity manifest itself?

There's ample evidence to suggest that he came from outside.

Scientists study octopi. They're amazed at what they're finding, and they're not

seeing a connection to some ancestor of the octopi. It's like these creatures

were brought here in their entirety and put into our oceans.

The octopus is a really fascinating organism.

The octopus's brain, instead of just being centered in its head like ours, is

actually distributed.

There are these brains in their arms as well as the central brain in their head.

An octopus can certainly manipulate its environment.

It builds its own homes by piling rocks and shells on top of it.

Octopuses are very adept at camouflaging themselves by changing their color to

that of their surroundings really, really quickly. I mean, it looks

instantaneous to us.

It can also manipulate its body into different shapes to imitate other

Some scientists have speculated that in the absence of humans, the animal best

suited to evolve into the dominant species on the planet is not another

but the octopus.

And there is one ability in particular that suggests the octopus could one day

rule the Earth.

It can edit its own genetic code.

DNA, the double helix, is like a zipper. The zipper can be

unzipped. And then another molecule is created called

RNA.

RNA transfers the information from DNA to proteins.

The octopus have the amazing ability to edit their RNA.

Thus, they can make new proteins.

Although this ability isn't fully understood, it suggests that the octopus

rapidly adapt to its environment far faster than other creatures.

What RNA editing does is essentially mediated by changes in the environment,

usually temperature, for example.

Camouflaging skin.

Tool use?

The ability to edit its own genetic code?

Is it possible that this extraordinary creature with three hearts and nine

brains is not from Earth?

Perhaps evidence can be found by examining mythological accounts from

ancient world.

Numerous cultures told stories of human -like beings coming out of the ocean.

and worshipped gods that resembled sea creatures.

Interestingly, a great many of these aquatic deities resemble the octopus.

All the way around the world there are traditions to do with a creator god in

the form of an octopus.

For instance, in ancient Crete there are numerous images and paintings

of an octopus with bizarre large eyes.

In Ecuador, at a place called Manta, were these bath relief carvings of this

bizarre octopus deity.

We have to ask ourselves, is it possible that the ancients were aware that the

octopus is truly alien to this planet?

Is it possible that the octopus is related to a race of extraterrestrials

visited Earth thousands of years ago?

Or did our ancestors encounter intelligent creatures that were the

alien experimentation?

Ancient astronaut theory proposes that in the distant past, the human race was

genetically modified by otherworldly beings.

If true, could they have altered other creatures as well?

In the ancient record in mythology, we find a very intriguing story, and that

the god...

when they were coming up with the human form.

They experimented with various types of creatures, half -human, half -dog

hybrids, half -human, half -horse hybrids, humans that had aquatic

They seemed to be experimenting and looking for just the right fit for

conditions of life on Earth.

And we think that stopped, but that may not be true.

Are extraterrestrials continuing to introduce new life forms to planet Earth

perhaps altering existing life forms to this day?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that just like we are conducting research on

other planets, otherworldly beings may be using our oceans as their own

laboratory.

St. George's, Bermuda, 1978.

Dr. Tom Iliff, a research scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station, begins

explore the dozens of underwater caves in the area.

Many of his colleagues tell him that he is wasting his time, that no meaningful

life can survive in the dense saltwater environments of these caves.

Caves where the sunlight does not reach.

But to his astonishment, he finds the cave teeming with life.

The blue holes are the underwater caves in the Bahamas. So they're called blue

holes because they're vertical shafts.

When you look at them, the water is a deep, dark blue in color. Crystal clear

water. There have been a number of people who've said there's nothing

interesting there.

Don't even bother to look.

But I took that as a challenge. I went ahead and tried to find out for myself

what was there, and amazingly, there's just over 350

new species of animals that I've found in my career.

We know of more animals in these caves than any other place in the world.

Not only has Dr.

Iliff discovered an amazing amount of life within the extreme environments of

the Blue Holes, But the life forms he has found are unlike any other creatures

on Earth.

There have been discovered an enormous variety of higher groups of animals

in these underwater caves.

One of the most interesting animals we worked on represents a new class of

crustacea. It's called the remipedes.

And they're unusual because they are the only crustacean with venom -injecting

fangs.

So they swim up to prey, maybe a small shrimp, and stick their fangs into it,

inject it with hydrolytic enzymes that paralyzes and begins digesting the

externally, and then literally have the ability to suck the juices out of their

prey.

If I were going to build a science fiction monster, I'd build it around a

remipede.

While scientists are fascinated by the incredible abilities of the octopus that

they still don't fully understand, it is only one of literally thousands of

extraordinary sea creatures that similarly defy explanation.

And one of them discovered in 2013 is the octopus's colossal cousin,

the giant squid.

Once thought to be a mythological creature, The giant squid can grow to

feet in length, weigh up to 600 pounds, and boasts the animal kingdom's largest

eyes, eyes capable of accommodating the lack of sunlight in the deep.

So Architeuthis dux, or the giant squid, is a really interesting creature in

that it's experiencing, like, deep -sea gigantism. So it can get really, really

large in the deep -sea environment.

The giant squid's tentacles are covered with suction cups that have little

teeth, and so that allows it to grab its prey in the dark and pull it to them.

Perhaps the strangest of all the sea creatures found in the past 20 years is

tenophore, or comb jelly.

It has two neurosystems, heals from any wound in under three hours with no

scarring, and can even regenerate its own brain.

Comb jellies are such a mystery to scientists, they have been dubbed aliens

the sea.

But as bizarre as all these creatures are, could there be even more incredible

life forms we have yet to discover?

Exploration of the deep ocean is very difficult and dangerous. In some

a space mission is easier.

The pressures crush most conventional submarines and submersibles.

There are only a handful of missions that have gone, say, to the very bottom

the deep parts of the ocean, like the Mariana Trench.

The deepest part of these oceans are about seven miles deep, and you need

special bathyspheres or submarines to go that deep. And when researchers do

make... these journeys, they're amazed to find that there's actually life at

these extreme depths, something they didn't expect.

So now we have to wonder, is it possible that at these extreme depths in our

oceans there are extraterrestrials and bases?

It's an incredible thought.

Could it be that humanity's inability to fully explore Earth's oceans

has prevented the discovery of a profound and potentially disturbing

That alien creatures from other worlds not only can and do exist, but they are

most likely thriving in our oceans.

Not only do many ancient astronaut theorists say yes, they also suggest

all alien life forms are of the silent, swimming variety.

They believe that the sea is vast enough and deep enough to hide entire colonies

of extraterrestrials, and some with technological capabilities far

our own.

Malibu, California, 2014.

Satellite imagery reveals a curious formation on the seabed.

six miles off the coast.

The satellite photos show what seems to be an oval, flat -topped structure

that's got legs coming down that are holding it up.

It's about 2 ,000 feet underwater.

In some ways, this would look a little bit like an oil platform.

In the very same area as the underwater structure, Locals have reported seeing

strange light emerging from the ocean.

There is this very strange 911 call from an observer near Point Doom off Malibu

saying he saw a light coming out of the water and calling it into the sheriff's

station.

In Point Doom, the whole area around there, USOs are phenomenally common.

A USO is an unidentified submersible object.

Is there an alien base in the very deep trench off the coast of Malibu?

And that's why there are so many sightings of USOs off that coast.

An underwater alien base?

Could such an incredible notion be true?

And if so, is this just one of many extraterrestrial installations hidden

beneath Earth's oceans?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and point to stories from all over the

world of U .S. arms.

Witnesses have seen UFOs busting out from the ocean floor and just taking

off into the atmosphere and gone into space.

You see them off the coast of California. You see them a lot in the

Mexico.

Spend some time on the Florida Gulf Coast, you will see a USO.

Sailors have seen lights following their ships underwater.

They're not submarines. They're something else. Something's going on.

Absolutely anything could be hiding down there.

If aliens...

were trying to direct seeds of life that the most obvious place that they would

hide them is within the oceans themselves and the depths of them could

vehicles could even hide bases for hundreds if not thousands of years we

not be aware of their presence alien craft hidden in our oceans

for thousands of years

While many dismiss the idea as little more than science fiction, ancient

astronaut theorists point to a recent innovation in marine warfare.

In May 2017,

the United Kingdom announced its newest submarine program, the Astute Class.

These nuclear attack subs can carry a crew of almost 100 sailors, descend more

than 1 ,000 feet, and remain submerged for up to 25 years.

The only reason they need to surface is to take on food and supplies.

But experts contend that the ocean is so rich in resources that advances in

technology may soon enable submarines to harvest all of the materials they need

underwater.

The oceans have everything that the crew of a ship would need to survive.

It's got plants and animals that can be harvested for food.

There's minerals and salt that can be taken from the water. You can actually

desalinate the water to make clean drinking water.

You can even separate the hydrogen from the oxygen in the water

to create fuels and air to breathe.

Everything that is necessary for life can be found in the oceans.

And it may be that if extraterrestrials are in our oceans, they're not just

hiding there. This may be their preferred environment.

Is it possible that extraterrestrials are not just hiding beneath the sea, but

view our oceans as their preferred territory?

Some scientists suggest that aquatic creatures are better suited than humans

space travel.

Because of the fact that we're terrestrial and we walk on the ground,

we're very tied to our 2D motions. That is, moving only left, right, and forward

and back.

Creatures that grow up in a fundamentally aquatic environment are

to all of the 3D motion that comes with being able to move up and down, as well

as forward and backward and left and right in the ocean.

Our muscle system needs the impact of gravity to remain healthy.

And so I think just the weightlessness is one of the biggest challenges to

humans living in a space condition.

So you can imagine that something adapted to an aqueous environment could

potentially be better in a low -gravity environment.

Considering the advantages that aquatic lifeforms have over terrestrial

lifeforms and the fact that more than 90 % of Earth's oceans remain unexamined,

Is it possible that there are creatures lurking beneath the water that are more

sophisticated than humans?

If so, could they have been sent here on meteors from distant planets?

And does our inability to explore the extreme depth of their world mean that

is only a matter of time before they emerge from the sea to take over ours?

St. Paul, Minnesota, 2008.

Arnold Launde, a retired heart and lung surgeon, announces he has patented a

revolutionary type of scuba suit that will allow humans to breathe liquid air.

Key to his invention is a special solution of highly oxygenated

perfluorocarbons, a type of liquid that can dissolve enormous quantities of gas.

And while the technology is still in development, if Launday succeeds, humans

will be able to dive to more extreme depths than ever before.

In these dark recesses of Earth's oceans, could we discover that humans

the Earth with much more intelligent and sophisticated life forms than anything

found on land?

Frankly, we have no idea what might be down there.

Exploration has been very limited.

There are vast parts of the ocean about which we know absolutely nothing.

As humans, we tend to believe that we have dominion over the Earth.

But in the vast oceans beneath us, there could be all kinds of advanced

civilizations, even ones that have been here for much longer than we've been on

this planet.

And they've come here from other solar systems and then came to our planet

they're now living underwater.

And it seems incredible to us, but we may be seeing their ships, these USOs,

coming out of the water.

And there may be some highly advanced civilization that's in these vast oceans

that we have yet to explore.

Anything could be down there.

Some people have proposed that the Earth served as some gigantic petri dish.

And so you have to wonder what else can emerge on Earth that we don't even know

about.

Could there be more sophisticated life forms than us, not just on distant

planets, but right here in our own oceans? Not aliens, but earthlings.

If extraterrestrials seeded the Earth and continued to use it as a genetic

laboratory, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, could further deep

exploration discover a species more advanced than humans?

Perhaps creatures resembling the amphibious gods depicted by our

And will we only have true dominion over the Earth once we are able to fully

explore and inhabit these depths as well?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the creatures of the deep may already

have plans for humanity.

Are there extraterrestrials in fact in our oceans that are experimenting with

different types of beings?

And are they looking ultimately to upgrade humanity with some of these

discoveries? Is that what's in our future? That there could be

beings that will come out of Earth's ocean that will deliver some kind of

revelation that says, hey guys, this isn't all there is. You can in fact

transform yourself into...

And that will be the future evolution of humanity.

Instead of looking for alien civilizations beyond our solar system,

find them in the darkest depths of our oceans?

Is it possible that there is already a species more advanced than humans hiding

out in places we can't reach, that have been there for thousands of years?

Perhaps we will make alien contact.

Not when they come down from the sky, but when they reemerge from the sea.