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NARRATOR: Legends of ant men.

SCIENTIST: They have antennae.

They have elongated skulls.

NARRATOR: Beetles buried with Egyptian mummies.

GENE KRITSKY: The scarab was critical for the Resurrection.

NARRATOR: And swarms of locusts targeting humans.

MIKE BARA: It's almost as if the locusts

themselves were programmed.

NARRATOR: In cultures throughout the world,

insects have been worshipped, feared,

and even thought of as gods.

But might these strange creatures

that have inhabited earth for hundreds of millions of years

provide a link to extraterrestrial beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: The idea that insect aliens are coming here

to this planet, interacting with humans,

may well be based on something real.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, is there a connection between aliens and insects?

The Nile Delta--

Egypt.

A small, centimeters-wide trail is cut in the desert floor

by the rolling cocoon of a dung beetle.

This strange looking 2 inch long insect, also called a scarab,

uses the dung as both a source of nourishment

and a place for storing its eggs.

It will roll the ball in a straight line,

despite all obstacles, and is the only insect on Earth

known to navigate by following the light

of the Milky Way galaxy.

Biologists just made this discovery in 2013.

But 5,000 years ago, with presumably no knowledge

of its unique connection to the stars,

the ancient Egyptians held the scarab as a sacred symbol

representing a link to the gods.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Interesting that a great civilization

could pay so much attention to a little bug.

But it appears constantly throughout the Egyptian temples

and the hieroglyphics as a very frequent image.

NARRATOR: At the temple of Karnak, overlooking

the sacred lake where the pharaohs received

their coronation, a giant scarab beetle

stands watch representing the Egyptian God Khepri.

GENE KRITSKY: The Egyptians saw the sun moving across the sky

during the day.

Also around the desert sands, you'd see

beetles moving balls of dung.

And so the Egyptians thought that the force that

moved the sun across the sky was a giant scarab beetle God

Khepri.

And they believe that the sun was

what is known as the eye of Ra, which was Ra's chariot

or his flying machine.

And the thing that moved it, they believe,

was this scarab-headed god, Khepri.

And the scarab represented Khepri--

the pilot, if you like, of Ra's sun ship or barge.

It was basically a pilot to the gods.

NARRATOR: But could there be another explanation

for why the Egyptians regarded Khepri as a pilot?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the representation

of Khepri as a scarab, and sometimes

as a human with a scarab head may have been inspired

by actual contact the Egyptians had with an otherworldly being.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder whether or not

these beings actually existed, because the ancient Egyptians

were incredibly proud in carving their history

into countless of walls.

And according to the ancient astronaut theory,

we all came about through a deliberate

mutation of our genes.

And so it is entirely possible, in my opinion,

that some of those creatures that we see depicted

in reliefs and in carvings might have

actually existed in the past.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the ancient Egyptians

could have encountered alien beings that

had an insect-like appearance?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and as further evidence, point to the fact

that the Egyptians' obsession with the scarab

also extended to their funerary rituals.

The Valley of the Kings, Egypt, November 1922.

Archeologist Howard Carter discovers

the tomb of King Tutankhamen.

Among the treasure trove of artifacts found inside

is the young pharaoh's breastplate, which features

a scarab as the centerpiece.

The scarab is made of a yellow silica glass stone procured

from the Sahara, originally formed

28 million years ago when the sand was

superheated by a comet strike.

But why would the ancient Egyptians place a scarab--

and one sculpted from material produced by a cosmic event--

at the center of their pharaoh's funerary breastplate?

Curiously, scarabs always played an integral role

in the Egyptians' mummification process,

often included during the wrapping of the body.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: In between those wrappings,

the Egyptians put a number of charms

which served not just a preservation function

but a magical function.

GENE KRITSKY: There was a heart scarab,

which was placed on the body.

We also find other scarabs sometimes knitted

into the linen of the deceased.

The scarab was thought to be critical for the Resurrection

because of its power and the necessity for it to be present

when the sun rose in the morning.

The idea was is that the soul or even the body of the person

that had departed was carried by scarab beetles

along the path to the next life, to the next dimension.

It's almost as if the scarab beetle

was some kind of device--

not an insect, but a device that actually allows

travel from one place to another.

Where did the Egyptians get the idea

of resurrection and this idea that we

could be reborn as star beings?

It seems as if they were given this idea by Khepri.

NARRATOR: Could the inclusion of scarab-shaped objects

in the mummification process have

been inspired by an actual encounter

with the scarab god Khepri?

To some ancient astronaut theorists,

it's not just the presence of scarabs that suggest

the Egyptians made a connection between insects

and the afterlife.

They say the mummification process also mimics

insect metamorphosis itself.

MIKE BARA: The similarities between mummification

and the cocooning process that a caterpillar

goes through before it becomes a moth

are really quite incredible.

I think what the Egyptians were trying to do is actually cocoon

the human being so that when he emerged into the next life

at the next level up, he would be transformed

into something greater, more powerful,

and epically more beautiful.

DAVID WILCOCK: This does mimic in nature what we would see

with a pupa or a chrysalis in which the caterpillar actually

creates a hard outer shell around itself

and the material of the caterpillar's body

actually turns into a broth before it

reconstitutes into what ultimately

emerges as a butterfly.

NARRATOR: While most people associate metamorphosis

with a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly,

beetles like the scarab undergo a complete metamorphosis,

as well.

The hatched larva inside the ball of dung

emerges fully developed and capable of flight.

To the ancient Egyptians, it seemed

the sacred scarab had miraculously

regenerated inside its cocoon.

The actual scarab beetle in ancient Egyptian

was called something that means, "he

that comes from nowhere," which is basically

what the name Khepri means.

He comes from nowhere.

He can make himself exist.

NARRATOR: Much like the scarab emerging from its cocoon,

the Egyptians believed a mummified body could

rise from its sarcophagus as a transformed beam

and live once again.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Part of the soul

was inexorably attached to the body.

So in order for that part of the soul

to live on in the afterlife, the body

had to be preserved as closely as possible to the way

that it had existed in life.

GENE KRITSKY: The idea of the Egyptian soul

is so alien from our own that it's

difficult to put parallels on.

For example, the Egyptians' concept of the soul

had five parts.

The [non-english] and the [non-english]

are two in particular.

And part of their mythology was that the [non-english] must

return to the body, enter the body, so that the body

can rise and live again.

It's possible that the mummification process

was some kind of replication of this process

that the extraterrestrials went through,

and even the possibility that the mummies themselves

were going into some kind of larval stage

and suspended animation where they would emerge

eventually into some kind of new body

like the extraterrestrials did.

NARRATOR: While the scarab dominates Egyptian symbolism,

another beetle common to this part of the world,

the buprestid beetle, has a direct tie to the Egyptians'

most important God--

Osiris.

GENE KRITSKY: Buprestid beetles, when bothered by a predator,

actually tuck their legs up and lie perfectly still.

And the way they hold their limbs is very

similar to the way Osiris would be represented

in some tomb paintings.

Well, it turns out the buprestid beetle

is found in the tamarisk wood.

And that is the wood that comes from a tree that

was part of the Osiris legend.

It actually becomes the Djed Pillar.

And when Isis split this pillar, she found Osiris inside.

And it's a beautiful beetle inside.

And so it's quite possible that this beetle

may have a relationship to the mummification process.

NARRATOR: But does the ancient Egyptian worship of a beetle

really suggest an encounter with insect-like extraterrestrials?

Could they be mimicking misunderstood technology?

Or might there be another explanation?

Perhaps further clues can be found

in the numerous ancient stories of ant people.

Cambridge University, England, 2013--

using a high speed camera with intense magnification,

scientists from the Department of Zoology

record the movement of a plant-hopping insect

called issus.

Examining the footage, they make a shocking discovery.

The movement of the issus is powered by mechanical gears.

It is the world's first evidence of mechanical gearing

in a biological structure.

This natural cog mechanism allows the issus

to make powerful jumps with the gear teeth

on the opposing hind legs locking together like those

in the gearbox of a car, ensuring almost complete

synchronicity of leg movement.

But how did a biological entity develop

mechanisms that appear manmade?

GENE KRITSKY: Insects are essentially

evolution's tinkertoy set.

Insects were the first animal group to evolve the ability

to fly on their own power.

Insects have an exoskeleton which

is almost like a living armor.

NARRATOR: In terms of sheer numbers,

insects are by far the most dominant life form on Earth.

And with over 1 million different species,

they also remain the most mysterious.

GENE KRITSKY: Insects appeared on the Earth

over 400 million years before humans appeared on the Earth.

They were incredibly successful well

before the age of the dinosaurs and a long time before humans.

IAN RECCHIO: About half of the living creatures on the planet

belong to the group of insects.

They've really found ways to inhabit just

about every ecological niche in nature.

They have compound eyes, which in some cases,

they can see into the ranges that humans cannot,

like ultraviolet.

GENE KRITSKY: They have a very sophisticated

sensory system that makes them different from what

we can perceive.

For example, insects taste, smell, and feel with the hairs

on their body.

When they land on you, they're smelling you.

They're tasting you.

They're feeling you.

There are upwards of a million species

of insects involved so far.

So we may think of ourselves as being special,

but in reality, insects are the most successful animal

group that's ever evolved.

NARRATOR: In the more than 400 million years that insects

are believed to have existed, no bug

has thrived more than the ant.

GENE KRITSKY: Ants are among the most successful animal groups

that we see on the face of the Earth.

One out of every four individual animals on the face

of the earth is an ant.

Ants are incredible insects.

And they're highly evolved.

NARRATOR: In size and appearance,

ants and humans could not be more different.

But interestingly, in many ways, these tiny bugs

are more like us than any other creature in the animal kingdom.

GENE KRITSKY: Ants have a social system where

they have a division of labor.

You have a reproductive queen.

You have males that will mate with the queen.

You have sub reproductives that can leave the colony

and start new colonies.

Then you've got a series of workers.

And then there are specialized workers.

They're soldiers that can actually protect the colony

if they're under attack.

So they're rather intriguing with regard to their behavior.

NARRATOR: But how is it that the behavior of ants

mirrors that of humans in so many ways?

Is it simply coincidence, or could ants and humans be more

closely related than we think?

Ancient Greece.

In both Homer's "Iliad" and Ovid's "Metamorphosis,"

there was a group of warriors known as the Myrmidon, who

are born of mysterious origins.

According to the "Ovid," King Aeacus

of Aegina pleads with the god Zeus to repopulate

his plague-ravaged country.

That night, he dreams that ants fall from the branch of a tree

and turn into men.

He awakes the next morning to find his dream has come true.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The story of the Myrmidons

is that they were ants made into warriors.

They were said to have fought with Achilles at Troy.

And they were very effective.

MIKE BARA: The descriptions of the ant people

are very, very accurate in terms of the behavior

of the insect the ant itself.

They were very loyal.

They moved together as one, almost at a hive mentality.

GENE KRITSKY: The Myrmidons were thought

to be the first to develop ships and to sail

under their own power.

This ability to be organized like an army

comes from the ants marching in a nice, linear fashion.

The idea about being the first to sail

comes from the ants' ability to raft.

Ants will get on the surface tension of water and lock legs.

Other ants will climb on top.

And this little mound of ants will float

around on the surface of water.

In the case of the Myrmidons, these were fierce warriors.

They were well-trained.

They were organized, just like ants.

MIKE BARA: These descriptions are so vivid and so accurate

in terms of the ants' behavior that what Zeus seems to have

done is actually some sort of genetic crossbreeding

between humans and insects in order to create

this army of ant people.

You're dealing with an extremely advanced technology

that really, really understands how to use genetic manipulation

to create new species.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Myrmidons depicted

in the ancient Greek stories were actually

some type of ant and human hybrid

manufactured by an alien being?

Ancient astronaut theorists claim

further evidence that ants may have

a connection to extraterrestrials

can be found in stories throughout numerous cultures.

In the Muslim holy book, the Quran,

there is a story of ants speaking like humans.

In parts of Africa, ants are considered to be

the messengers of the gods.

And Native American tribes like the Hopi and Zuni

tell stories of the ant people who

emerge from beneath the earth.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: The ant people

is a very interesting subject when it comes to looking

at the Hopi belief system.

The ant people, number one, are caretakers of the Earth.

NARRATOR: Unlike the Myrmidons of Greek mythology,

the ant people of the Native American stories

don't just behave like ants.

They resemble them, as well.

GARY DAVID: They have spindly arms.

They have antenna.

They have elongated skulls.

These are clearly a merging of the human and the insect.

They are not simply a fable or a parable.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: If one explores

the question of insectoid alien life, then my question is,

why not?

Because if life is pervasive throughout the entire universe,

then that life comes in all shape, size, and color.

So the idea that insectoid aliens might exist

is very possible to me.

However, I think the idea came from our ancestors

witnessing physical features that made them look like ants

or could be best described as ants.

DAVID WILCOCK: You look at the face of an ant,

we look at the head of an ant, we

see large, buggy eyes widely spaced

on the face and a large head.

So this could be an illustration of people seeing beings

like what we now call the greys and associating it

with something that's familiar to them.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the ant people that appear

in both Greek and Native American mythology

were really gray aliens?

Or might they even be human insect hybrids engineered

by otherworldly beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the accounts

of those who claim to have been victims of alien abductions.

The Kalahari Desert--

South Africa.

The indigenous people of this area

called the San represent one of the oldest existing populations

on Earth with a culture that dates back

approximately 80,000 years.

According to the origin story of this ancient society,

the first humans were created not by traditional gods,

but by insects.

According to the San people, the origin of humans

lies with the praying mantis.

There once was a bee who was asked by a praying mantis

to carry him across a raging river.

And the bee did so.

He carried the praying mantis across the river

and deposited him on a leaf.

But before leaving, the exhausted bee left an egg

inside the praying mantis.

And that egg is the source of all human beings.

NARRATOR: But where did the San people

get the idea that humans were created by a praying mantis?

Curiously, the San tradition also

holds that a praying mantis gave early humans

the gifts of language and fire.

And one of their most important gods,

IKaggen, the creator of the world,

often took the form of a mantis.

These San people of South Africa

had a fascinating theology.

Their God was known as IKaggen. And

IKaggen was a trickster God.

He could shape shift and appear in a number of different forms,

but was very fond of appearing as a praying mantis.

MIKE BARA: IKaggen had a lot of struggles on the planet Earth.

There were many wars that were fought.

And eventually, he left the Earth by means

of going up into the sky.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Another interesting thing about IKaggen

is that it's said that he created the moon.

And the San people do their planting

because of phases of the moon.

So you've got to wonder, is this praying mantis extraterrestrial

God just some mythical figure?

Or is he really a representation of some kind

of real praying mantis insectoid alien that's come to Earth?

NARRATOR: Could the prominence of the praying mantis in San

mythology suggest that their ancestors

actually encountered such beings in the distant past?

Although most anthropologists regard these stories as fables,

some ancient astronaut theorists find

it curious that the praying mantis

is also a recurring image in reports of alien abduction?

Covina, California-- 1963.

In this small farming town on the outskirts of Los Angeles,

17-year-old Linda Porter awakens to find

herself aboard a strange craft.

From what she is able to recall later under hypnosis,

a small creature that appeared to be a grey alien led her

towards a light-filled room where she encountered another

type of being, one much taller and with the features

of a praying mantis.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: A very standalone, very odd case.

The fact that this occurred in 1963

is very intriguing because it's before the abduction

phenomenon became popularized.

JASON MARTELL: There have been depictions

throughout various abduction scenarios

that include the gray aliens and this larger,

tall, insectisoid being--

very praying-mantis-like.

NARRATOR: Linda Porter claims that throughout her teens

and 20s, she experienced numerous other encounters

with these alien beings.

But it wasn't until the age of 45

that she finally reached out to investigative journalist Linda

Moulton Howe to tell her story.

I received a letter carefully written from Linda Porter.

This led up to her sending me a whole lot of drawings.

NARRATOR: These drawings appear in Linda Moulton Howe's book,

"Glimpses of Other Realities."

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: One of the drawings

was of a praying mantis about eight feet tall in a room

that was very odd, had a cylindrical object

and sparkles of light.

AUTHOR: There have been quite a number

of different types of aliens seen, allegedly by contactees.

But the ones that are really peculiar and very rare

are these very scary, skinny, large, basically

intelligent insects that have been reported.

People have drawn parallels between the aliens

that are reported on board UFOs and insects, particularly bees.

The grays, for instance, could be equated in some way

to the drone or the worker bee.

The so-called praying mantis type could be

seen perhaps as the queen bee--

larger than the others, more intelligent.

They're taller than a person--

eight or even nine feet tall.

And the gray aliens may handle the person

who's being abducted.

But in the background, there's this praying mantis type that

seems to be calling the shots.

NARRATOR: According to Porter, she

is part of a larger experiment, one in which

these aliens appear concerned with her soul.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: She said, whatever we humans are,

we have an animus, a soul, that is mysterious to them.

And they are trying to find out, where does the soul spirit go

at the moment of death?

And that the non-humans were studying

the recycling of the souls in and out of containers.

NICK REDFERN: She talked about being shown three cylinders.

Contained in each cylinder was a human being

in kind of like a state of suspended animation.

NARRATOR: Numerous alleged alien abduction

victims have reported seeing these cocoon-like containers.

But if these accounts are real, might

there be another explanation behind this technology?

Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists contend,

that aliens are performing genetic experimentation?

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Linda Porter came away from her two or three

decades of interaction with these non-humans,

including the at first terrifying praying mantis,

that these are extraterrestrial biological entities that have

taken a deep interest in the evolution of life forms

here, that they have manipulated DNA

in already-evolving primates, that they

have created a whole series of different models.

Might the numerous accounts of mantis-like beings

reported by alleged alien abduction victims

along with the ancient San story of a praying mantis

God, the evidence that an otherworldly race of insectoids

really does exist.

And if so, could they be conducting

genetic experiments with humans to make us more like them?

Ancient astronaut theorists say further clues revealing

the connection between insects and aliens

can be found in the Holy Bible.

Pi-Ramesses Egypt-- the 15th century BC.

Most archeologists believe this ancient city

to be the site of the 10 plagues as described

in the Bible's Book of Exodus.

According to the scripture, God brought these plagues

upon Egypt when the Pharaoh refused to release

the Israelites from slavery.

Three of them involved insects.

The third was a plague of gnats, which came up from the ground

and infested both man and animal.

The fourth was flies that attacked only the Egyptians,

sparing the Israelites.

And the eighth was a plague of locusts.

Locusts are grasshoppers that have had an unusual change

in their biology and behavior.

Start to move in the same direction.

They will land, eat.

Other locusts flying over, they will land and eat

and so on and so on, wiping out all the vegetation in a given

area and destroying all the crops

that people might have planted.

And for every one million locusts,

they can eat a ton of food.

NARRATOR: But an even more incredible story of locusts

can be found in the Bible's New Testament book of Revelation.

Rising from deep pits within the Earth,

these locusts form waves of scorpion-tailed warhorses

protected by iron breastplates.

And unlike the locusts from the Book of Exodus,

the target isn't the crops.

The locusts themselves actually didn't eat any crops.

They didn't clear any fields.

They only attacked people.

And they only ate up and devoured and damaged people.

It's almost as if the locusts themselves were programmed.

JASON MARTELL: The locusts that appear out of the smoke

have some type of ability to sting people

with a scorpion-like sting.

Now, locusts are known not to have any type

of way of harming people.

So these locusts were special in origin.

WILLIAM HENRY: These locusts only

sought out humans who did not have the seal of God

on their foreheads.

And it makes you wonder if these locusts are, in fact, some kind

of an advanced extraterrestrial technology that was sent

to seek specific human beings.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that what

is described in the book of Revelation

is not the plant eating locusts we have today

but some type of advanced weaponry

wielded by an extraterrestrial being?

Now, if an extraterrestrial was fighting a war,

a weapon that you could use would be mechanical devices

that basically were like little nanotechnology that

would attack certain very specific targets.

There are, in fact, such weapons in use today.

NARRATOR: DARPA headquarters, Arlington, Virginia.

This is the military's visionary toy

shop where the blueprints for the weaponry of tomorrow

are drawn.

Here stealth technology and GPS were conceived.

Now according to sources, a new arms race is underway--

one focused not on the biggest weapons, but the smallest.

Insects are one of the most amazingly designed creatures

that exist on planet Earth.

I mean, they're extraordinary.

It's no surprise that the United States military

is interested in insects.

It's absolutely logical.

Why not send a small insect or a crawling beetle

into a war zone or into a place to gather intelligence?

That's exactly what we see happening now.

NARRATOR: At DARPA, scientists have been experimenting

with electronically modifying beetles

so they can actually manipulate their flight.

Threading thin wires into the base of the beetles'

optic lobes, they can control the region

of the brain that makes the beetle start and stop flying.

With another pair of wires in the wing muscles,

they can also make the beetle veer to the right

or to the left by remote control.

And scientists working with nanotechnology

are not only looking for ways to control insects,

but to actually recreate them.

Thomas Vaneck at Physical Sciences, Inc

is currently developing flying robots based on insects.

THOMAS VANECK: Instant Eye is a very small aerial robot

about the size of a pie plate.

It's relatively simple, yet it can do amazing things.

Just about any insect you can imagine

is being studied by somebody.

NARRATOR: Hornets, dragonflies, mosquitoes--

all are said to be potential models for the next generation

of biomimetic weapons--

robots that could one day be indistinguishable

from actual insects.

Right now, probably the smallest insect-inspired robot

that we can make is about the size

of a hummingbird from the technologies

that are available to us today.

The driving force there is energy storage,

because we just don't have a battery

that stores enough energy.

We're going to figure it out.

I can easily envision that you're going to have a robot

the size of a fruit fly.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: And if it landed on the wall

in some terrorist's house, he probably wouldn't know.

And were able to fit so much into such a small space now.

Keep the weight down.

We can give it wings and the average person

would just try to swat it away.

In the not-too-distant future, you're going

to sit there and go, wow.

What a beautiful insect.

Maybe it's not an insect at all.

NARRATOR: But if we can produce insect drones today,

is it possible that the biblical stories of locusts sent by God

are really accounts of alien technology in the ancient past?

And could this be the reason why insects are feared

by humans even to this day?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe

such an incredible notion is possible,

and for proof, point to a mysterious area in Nevada

simply known as Area 51.

Kingman, Arizona-- May 1953.

At the height of the Cold War an unidentified object reportedly

crashed in the desert sands.

What remained was allegedly sent to America's

most top secret facility--

Area 51.

But it wasn't until 45 years later in 1998

that a retired military engineer named Bill Uhouse came forward

to make a stunning claim.

The military didn't just have the

extraterrestrial technology.

They had an actual living alien.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Uhouse claimed that he worked

at a secret laboratory, supposedly

in the Papoose mountains of Area 51 in Nevada

and that since 1953, the American government

had an insectoid alien that was working with them.

His name was J-Rod.

J-Rod supposedly assisted the military in understanding

and duplicating the incredible power systems and futuristic

technology that was combined and created for the Kingman craft.

NARRATOR: Shortly after Bill Uhouse broke the story,

microbiologist Dan Burisch came forward to confirm his claim.

But according to Dan Burisch, J-Rod claimed

that he was not an alien.

What he revealed was something even more shocking.

This insectoid alien J-Rod said that he had actually come

from our future and that at some time

in the near future to us, there is

a catastrophe on this planet.

And much of mankind is destroyed,

and that mankind splits into two different species.

And one of these species goes and lives underground.

And while underground, they develop these insectoid traits,

which is exactly what the Hopi and Zuni and even Navajo

legends say, that during the transition period

between the third and the fourth worlds,

this above world of today was not habitable

and they had to go underground and live

for some time with what they called the Ant People.

And you have to wonder if perhaps

J-Rod is actually an insectoid human being

from our own future.

NARRATOR: Could the accounts of J-Rod

confirm that the Hopi stories of ant people

were more than just mythology?

And if the so-called insectoids really do exist,

is it possible that they are not aliens

but humans from the future?

Aliens appear to be a part of our human evolution

over thousands of years.

A lot of it has to do with our reproductive systems.

Maybe they're actually trying to create a new race,

possibly that will be able to withstand atmospheric changes

here on Earth or potentially lead us to a point

where we have to leave the planet?

NARRATOR: But if humans are someday forced underground

by a cataclysmic event, does it even make

scientific sense that we would evolve to have

insect-like characteristics?

According to some scientists, we are part insect already.

GENE KRITSKY: The work of the human genome

has indicated that possibly up to half of our DNA

may be the result of transposons.

That's a fancy word for jumping genes, genes that can jump

from one species to another.

Recently it was shown that Rhodnius--

this is the sucking insect that spreads Chagas disease--

not only can spread the trypanosoma, the disease

causing agent, from organism to organism,

it also can spread its own genes to those organisms.

Humans get Chagas disease.

So far they've not tested humans for this insect DNA.

Odds are, we do have some of these insect genes

in our system.

We know some of these transposon probably

came from diseases we caught when our ancestors were

bitten by insects.

NARRATOR: Could the studies on horizontal gene

transfer one day prove that we really do have insect DNA

in our genetic makeup?

And if so, might it be not by chance but by

some extraterrestrial design?

DAVID WILCOCK: Is it possible that evolution is being

guided by some sort of greater galactic

or universal intelligence?

Could it be possible that certain circumstances, insects

could be the dominant species that

ultimately become sentient and develops

hominid characteristics.

The contact reports are consistent.

Some people are seeing beings like this communicating

with them intelligently and for a benevolent purpose.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The whole idea of mixing these life

forms together is fascinating, making hybrids of the two

of them.

Throughout history, people have honored and even worshipped

insects, built temples to them.

It's quite possible that there is an insectoid type

life on other planets that can actually have

intelligence beyond our own.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that there really is a connection

between insects and aliens?

Are they related to beings from beyond our world,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might they have a secret purpose

we have yet to discover?

Perhaps one day we'll find that alien beings don't only inhabit

the furthest reaches of space but that there are,

in fact billions here on Earth, and most of them

right under our feet.