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For centuries, Native Americans have kept alive some of the oldest traditions

Earth. Through oral history and sacred sites, the story is told to

indigenous people for thousands of years.

Their incredible history is carved into the landscape.

This is sensational. Look at that guy right there. They represent those gods

that came to Earth.

And their sacred rituals display a reverence for the land and for the

from the stars.

They're the keepers of the upper world, which means space.

We don't use the word gods. We use the word creator.

Do the stories of America's indigenous people reveal a long

history? of contact with other worldly visitors.

All Native American tribes have oral histories that people came from the

to visit them. I know they're out there.

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.

Collinsville, Illinois.

15 miles east of St.

Louis.

Towering over the flat local terrain is Monk's Mound, the remains of a massive

earthen pyramid.

Built more than 1 ,000 years ago, it was the centerpiece of the ancient Native

American city of Cahokia.

Monk's Mound is the largest building of the ancient North America,

north of Mexico.

It was called that because Trappist French monks lived nearby it.

It stands 100 feet tall today. It was probably taller in its heyday.

It comprises of about 22 million cubic feet of dirt,

which was millions and millions of buckets of dirt, one at a time.

Its circumference on the bottom is larger than the Temple of the Sun, just

of Mexico City.

Monks Mount and other ancient ruins across the Americas offer clues about

Native people once lived in vast, thriving communities.

Yet very little is known about the inhabitants of Cahokia and many Native

cultures, since most of their history and traditions were passed down orally

rather than through written records.

The Native Americans traditionally use an oral tradition.

Everything is spoken.

The oral traditions actually go back thousands of years. It's just the way it

was, and we've maintained that tradition even to this day.

It is unknown what the Native Americans who inhabited Cahokia called themselves.

Anthropologists refer to them as the Mississippians.

a name used to describe a wide variety of native peoples that lived east of the

Mississippi in North America.

And although much about Cahokia remains a mystery, what is known is that it

thrived centuries before Europeans ever stepped foot in the Americas, as did

countless other cities.

Around 1050, the city swells to a population of 15 ,000

and including the satellite communities around it, almost 30 ,000. There were a

number of these cities all around the eastern part of what's now the United

States.

The general picture of...

Native America before European contact is that it's some sort of just nomadic

life, that they were living in small bands and camps.

The truth is that there were thousands of people living in the same place, very

much the way the Europeans were.

Across North America, vast differences existed between the Native peoples in

terms of language, customs, and cultural practices.

Yet many tribes shared the tradition of worshipping a powerful being known as

the Birdman.

When excavations were performed at Cahokia in the 20th century, this motif

found to be abundant.

The most remarkable example was connected to the burial of a man

have been an early Cahokian ruler.

His body had been placed on an elevated platform, covered by a bed of more than

20 ,000 marine shell disc beads, arranged in the shape of a falcon, with

bird's head appearing beneath and beside the man's head, and its wings and tail

beneath his arms and legs.

The Birdman of Cahokia is a burial that was found under a mound in the center of

the city.

And it's called the Birdman because there's this arrangement of shells that

appear to be in the shape of a bird.

And it makes sense because we know that the Mississippians had a supernatural

being who may or may not be a god, but he's a very powerful creature that

lives up in the sky.

We see depictions on also stone tablets.

Native people believed in the power deity called the bird man.

There are a number of depictions in the remains of these cultures of this

powerful creature who could fly and could move among the different realms

was essentially the ruling god of this reality.

Various descriptions of the Birdman can be found from one tradition to the next.

And some also feature a similar celestial being called the Thunderbird.

The Thunderbird in Zuni is described as a being that came

from the sky that could create lightning.

It could create a lot of noise.

And it was...

represented as a being with wings made out of knives.

Now, the Thunderbird could have been a vehicle, but way back then, the

Indians had no other reference, so they just said, well, it is a bird.

One could argue that this is a representation of misunderstood

could illustrate some type of a flying craft.

Because if you don't have the terminology for a plane, well, of course

going to call it a bird.

I mean, pilots even today call their planes birds.

The mountain builders, I believe, were those Indian tribes that had contact.

with the extraterrestrials, the teachers.

The star ancestors taught the American Indians about where they came from,

different star systems, constellations, and how they're supposed to carry out

their rituals by referring to their star systems, whether it be Pleiades,

whether it be the Milky Way, whether it be the Big Beeper.

Ancestors were in the cosmos.

We don't use the word gods.

We use the word creator.

He who has no name and has all the names, he's the eye that

oversees everybody.

The creation story, if you understand it correctly, we are all from the cosmos.

Our ancestors were extraterrestrial.

The story is told to indigenous people for thousands of years through

oral history and through the petroglyphs and pictographs and the

sacred sites that continue to be part of our native cultural tradition.

In talking about star people,

All Native American tribes have these traditional oral histories that people

came from the stars to visit them. And it's universal all across the United

States that these gods, as we call them today, came to Earth and visited to

provide knowledge.

Cherokee talked about the star seeds and the people coming from the sky.

Zoonies and the Hopis talk about the star people coming, and the Mississippi

Mound people had the Birdman culture.

So here we have these cultures, and their legends and lores are about star

ancestors coming down, giving them information, showing them science and

medicine.

Native American people have been very clear when they speak of celestial

that imparted knowledge.

And if you compare that to the ancient astronaut theory, that's exactly what it

talks about, that the knowledge was imparted by beings who visited us.

provide an oral history of alien visitation among early Native American

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and propose that while the indigenous

communities kept no written records, a historical account of exactly what they

encountered can be found carved into the landscape at an ancient petroglyph site

in Arizona.

In the American Southwest is a region known as the Four Corners, where the

boundaries of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah meet.

Most of this region belongs to semi -autonomous Native American nations,

including the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni,

Ute, and dozens of other Native American peoples.

They are all thought to be descendants of people frequently called the

Pueblo, or Anasazi.

The Anasazi are the old ones, as we like to refer to them. We're here in the

Four Corners region for thousands of years, and they suddenly, around 1070 A

.D., just up and disappear.

Their cities are abandoned, their structures, everything, pottery is left.

They don't know what happened to them.

Archaeological evidence shows that between 1275 and 1300 A .D., the Pueblo

people stopped building entirely, and the land was left empty.

They were people that inhabited this Four Corners region for thousands of

It's still a mystery today, and it's one of the big mysteries in the American

Southwest.

Similar to the Mississippian tribes to the east, the Pueblo nations also

described contact with visitors from the stars and performed rituals to connect

with sky beings called the Kachina.

There were objects, we call them dolls, but they were sacred objects that would

be similar to the costumes worn by the dancers and imagined to be the

of the celestial beings.

If you look at the Kachina, there are so many different types, different

headdresses, different feathers on them, different ways of painting them to

distinguish them one from another. And that tells me that there were a lot of

different types of beings that were interacting with early natives, much

than we even think.

The Kachinas were their first teachers, the ones that imparted the knowledge.

The Hopi are very clear in suggesting that the Kachinas were physical beings.

The Kachina is a representation of the actual gods that used to come

into the villages eons ago.

Some of them were warriors.

Most of them are priesthood -type kachinas, and they come from different

in my opinion, different parts of the universe. But they actually have certain

places on this planet that they call at home.

Ours is west of here, and of course a lot of other pueblos have their own

specific place.

And even to this day, some of them are here.

The story of strange humanoid beings assisting native peoples has been

for centuries among the Pueblo nations.

Not only is it a central part of their oral traditions, these encounters were

significant they were carved in stone.

I believe that these visitations have been documented in pictographs and

petroglyphs. They're not art, actually, for art's sake.

The petroglyphs have been done this way for basically thousands of years.

Do petroglyphs found throughout North America tell a story of ancient

extraterrestrial contact?

In July 2021,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos and William Henry traveled to

Art Ranch in Winslow, Arizona.

to investigate one of North America's most extensive collections of

Joining them is esteemed Navajo tribal ranger, John Dover. It's so great to

you because 31 years you've been a tribal Navajo ranger, is that correct?

Yes, I started in 1980 to 2011 and worked

most of the reservation up there, 27 ,000 square miles. Wow. This ranch

is very unique because there is so much archaeology here.

Well, we're sure excited to be here to get eyes on it with you. Okay, well,

let's go take a look. All right.

Rock Art Ranch's 5 ,000 acres.

are home to nearly 3 ,000 ancient petroglyphs. And on nearly every panel

figures that the Navajo identify as star people.

This is sensational.

Look at that guy right there. They call that the birthing mother, right?

That's right.

Very fascinating because I'm looking at that and immediately my mind goes around

the world. Absolutely. This is a depiction of a mother goddess. Yep.

It's like those big, giant statues that were found over in Europe. Right. It

also reminds me of Dogu statues of Japan.

Yeah. And also the Wanginas. Right. Very similar.

In the northwest Kimberley region of Australia, ancient cave art depicts

called the Wangina, the sky heroes of one of Australia's indigenous clans.

The stories behind the Wanjinas goes that they descended from the sky and

knowledge and jumpstart civilization in Australia thousands and thousands of

years ago. And the Wanjinas are incredible because they have these

heads and these long bodies and these arms.

It seems as if they're inside some sort of...

a pressurized suit.

There are similar figures all around the world. Big bulbous heads, big bodies

floating up in the sky.

In Japan, we have the same things.

In Africa, in Europe, in North and South America.

So my suggestion is...

that the extraterrestrials that came to Earth thousands and thousands of years

ago didn't just visit Australia.

They visited each and every continent on Earth, and that is why we have the

similar motifs.

Look at the concentric rings up there. That's the portal symbol. There's two of

them, and there's guys around the portal.

Interesting, yeah.

Tell me, John,

Petroglyphs are regarded as picture books that tell a story all at once.

That's right. And also enmeshed in all this are religious symbols, things

that tell you something about how they worshipped, pictures of gods.

And when you say gods, in your culture, what does that mean?

It could be anything from somebody coming.

to them and meeting with them and imparting knowledge.

And in the case of the Navajo, that's what the Yebeche represent.

In the case of the Hopis, the Kachinas represent those gods that came to Earth

to give them knowledge.

And could one make the argument that these may have been visitations by flesh

and blood extraterrestrials in ancient times?

Oh, definitely.

From what we understand, there's many different races of alien that are coming

to this world.

That's amazing. In the case of some tribes down in southern Arizona, you

have a mountain range called the Estrella Mountains.

In the language of the people in that area, Estrella means stargate.

Absolutely, Estrella, star people.

Am I correct to assume that this is only the tip of the iceberg and that there

are so many more panels like this that the world doesn't even know about?

On the Navajo Reservation alone, there are 300 ,000 sites that are recorded.

I mean, we're talking at least 4 ,000 BC, right? That's right.

Well, this is great, but I'm just looking on the other side, and there is

I mean, there's more everywhere. So let's go check out the other ones as

Sure thing.

July 2021.

Giorgio Tsoukalos and William Henry have been granted special access to Rock Art

Ranch in Winslow, Arizona.

where Navajo tribal elder John Dover is guiding them through the ancient

petroglyph panels.

Wow. Look at that.

I mean, look at the hollow body with the star inside.

One hand pointing to the sky, the other down to Earth.

And just beneath that, look at... That is a gray alien. That triangular head.

Very strange.

That is. You have... All kinds of different types of figures, different

representations of God. Right. I mean, what we have to fill in with our

imagination is that these beings off the wall, 3D, walking amongst the people.

They're interacting with these beings.

Right. We don't know if it's the same time or could be different times.

That's mind -blowing.

I'm so intrigued by that double helix up there, too, beside the trapezoidal

figure. Mm -hmm. I mean... As if to indicate, because of the creature on the

left, DNA, you know, had something to do with this. That's right.

Giorgio, when you see the guy with the trapezoidal body, and you see the curvy

lines on the body, that always symbolizes, like, vibration.

Okay. The Anunnaki wore cloaks that had those kind of curvy lines all over.

Right. And so here we have a clear, clear symbolic connection with the

on this figure.

The Anunnaki were powerful deities worshipped more than 5 ,000 years ago by

ancient Sumerians who inhabited Mesopotamia, an area that is now modern

Iraq.

According to the Sumerian writings, the Anunnaki descended upon a mountain,

shining like the sun, and shared profound wisdom with the human race.

Look at all the different types of beings here.

And then all the way across there, you've still got even more variety.

I mean, this is almost like a meeting place of all these different worlds and

different beings.

So, you know, you have giants, you have little people. And the giants and the

little people are talked about in the other world that they came from before

they came to this world. And this is the same with Sago Canyon up in Utah.

You have these massive, massive carvings and petroglyphs.

So the fact that we have these virtually identical motifs to me suggests they

were all taught by the same teachers.

And the guy here with the horns, which could be rays, right next to the gray

alien, he's got horns or rays coming off of his head. You see that at

Valcamonica in Italy.

Yes, you do. All kinds of different places.

pointing to the idea that these could be luminous or radiant beings that they're

portraying. And seeing creatures here having, for example, three fingers, you

know, as far as I know, except for a couple of reptiles, there aren't any

-fingered creatures, you know, and especially nothing humanoid. So, again,

ancestors had impeccable powers of observation.

That's all they did all day. They observed.

And so your estimation then, too, is that this was not a bunch of kids, you

know, on a Saturday night not knowing what to do.

Absolutely not. These were people that came here with a purpose.

And the purpose was to put their history on the wall, showing where they came

from, where they were going.

John, this is incredible. And what I love the most is...

the access i mean i've never been face to face like this there's a lot of

nobody's allowed to go except for archaeologists medicine men and rangers

spectacular it's one thing to see images in a book or on online but to come face

to face with that feel the energy see it spectacular i came away with this deep

sense that this is meant for

us to discover throughout the ages that it was super important to the ancients

to record this information to tell us that these beings were here they had a

hand in our evolution and they're probably still visiting us today what i

is important in this whole thing is that john said these are our stories of the

star people and when first nation cultures say that someone visited

from the sky and imparted knowledge, I think it's time that we start to listen.

Do the petroglyphs at Rock Art Ranch provide an historical record of

extraterrestrial visitation in North America?

And if so, why does there seem to be such a strong connection between Native

Americans and other worldly beings?

Perhaps further clues can be found within oral traditions that describe

beings known as the Ant -Men.

Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

In the desolate high desert of the American Southwest stand the ruins of

most important ceremonial site of the ancient Pueblo people, constructed

900 A .D.

The central feature of this vast complex is the Great Kiva.

A Kiva is basically a Native American version of a

church. It is a circular structure.

Chaco Canyon has an absolutely giant one that's located there.

When you enter one, you're literally entering another world to commune with

gods from before.

In ancient Pueblo culture, every place you went had a small kiva of some kind.

But they would get together, maybe eight or nine different kivas, small ones,

into a larger great kiva.

And the great kivas were huge.

When the Spanish came in, in the 1600s, they took their church and interposed it

on top of the kiva.

So everywhere in these Hopi villages, in the Pueblo villages, that you see a

Catholic church, it's usually on the high point of land where the kiva was

destroyed and the church was built over the top of it.

Every kiva includes a feature called a sipapu.

In some kivas, the sipapu is a small hole in the subterranean wall.

In kivas that are enclosed, it is often represented by a hole in the roof.

In both cases, it is the most important part of the structure, symbolizing the

entrance to a subterranean world.

All of the pueblos share a story in which humankind began under the

earth, and we slowly over generations crawled up and out of a hole called

Cipapu.

And the kivas have this little hole in it symbolizing that.

The descendants of the ancestral Pueblo share the belief that Earth was

populated three separate times before the era of modern humans, with each

previous age ending in a devastating cataclysm.

The Pueblo Indians believed that there in fact were three worlds or epochs

before Earth, and they were all destroyed.

First by fire, the second by ice, and the third by water.

In each instance, they tell us that it was due to mistreatment of the earth,

so that tells us that there could have been previous examples of humanity that

were destroyed who knows how long ago.

We're living now in the fourth world.

And the Zunis and Hopis believe our fourth world will also end in a

Their prophecy says that there would be a gourd of ashes that would come from

the sky. That's interpreted as nuclear warfare.

The Hopi suggest that there were previous worlds or civilizations before.

And this is interesting because...

There are other cultures, ancient cultures around the world, who speak of

similar stories.

The Kabbalah teaches that there were previous advanced human civilizations, a

number of them.

The Hindus teach about the yugas, where civilization advances to a very high

place and then descends and then reascends.

It too is divided into four different ages.

So all of these traditions correspond directly with what the Native American

tradition is teaching.

Could the Native American tradition describing previous ages of humankind be

true?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that these stories also contain

evidence of extraterrestrial intervention.

The Hopis of northern Arizona have a very curious myth of surviving the

third of the cataclysm by going underground and living with what they

ant men.

The stories the Hopi tell us that the ant people rescued them from cataclysm

taking them underground, literally, and helping the Hopi to survive underground.

And then once it was safe to return to the surface of the earth, The Hopi were

taken up through the Sapapu by the ant people and repopulated the Earth.

But in all instances, the ant people are described as having a special

relationship with the Hopi and also of having a connection with the star

Despite their name, ant men are described not as insects, but rather as

humanoid figures.

The reason they call these creatures ant men is that they lived under the Earth.

And they would emerge much like ants crawling out of a hive. So they called

ant men. But what they were were extraterrestrials. They were entering

through the portal.

The ant men were underground dwellers who had a high technology and looked

similar, apparently, to what we would call gray aliens.

So this is something of a mystery of who these ant men were.

Many Hopis and the Zunis have similar belief that, yes, the Antmen were

extraterrestrials.

There were beings that are of the extraterrestrial origin that were part

whole emergence mythology, the entrance to the fourth world.

Could it be that the story of the Antmen is a genuine account of

extraterrestrials helping humanity survive a global cataclysm.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further clues can be found by

comparing the Native American traditions to accounts of a legendary lost

continent called Atlantis.

In his famous dialogues, Timaeus and Critias, the Greek philosopher Plato

about a lost continent that existed 9 ,000 years before his time and was home

a highly advanced civilization.

Called Atlantis, it was founded by the Greek god Poseidon and the inhabitants

possessed sophisticated technology.

But Atlantis was ultimately destroyed by a terrible cataclysm.

And according to some researchers, the story of its destruction is strikingly

similar to Native American traditions detailing the end of the third world.

The Hopi and other Pueblo Indians tell us that their devastating cataclysm was

due to human greed and wandering away from the spiritual truths of our

What's interesting about this is that this idea is echoed in Plato's story of

the destruction of Atlantis.

The Atlanteans were also created by gods.

As soon as humanity wandered off into materialism, that's when Atlantis was

destroyed by water.

A perfect correspondence with what the Hopi said happened at the end of the

third world.

Could there be a connection between the ancient Greek tale of Atlantis and

Native American origin stories?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest Another story told by early Native

bears striking similarities to Atlantis, the legend of the lost city of Aflan,

which appears in the traditions of the Aztecs and numerous Native American

groups throughout the Southwest.

It considers the birthplace of civilization based on the Mexica codices

and the oral history.

There's debate among scholars as to exactly what Aslan looked like.

And we know that the Aztecs say that their capital of Tenochtitlan

was made in the image of Aslan.

And from that capital, we get a backwards projection that their origin

an island surrounded by water.

They actually built Tenochtitlan up into the lake and put causeways out so that

it looks very much like Atlantis.

According to the Aztecs, the god Huitzilopochtli was the founder of

Tenochtitlan.

which, as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, provides yet

intriguing connection to Plato's description of Atlantis.

Tenochtitlan was a place made artificially, compared to Atlantis.

In both cases, a god was the ruler of it.

In Atlantis, we have Poseidon. Now, Poseidon was an extraterrestrial.

Not everyone should have access to Atlantis.

The same thing in Aztlan or Tenochtitlan.

They wanted to be separated.

They had a certain technology there, which was a hidden technology, and it

not for the general public.

Say the same thing.

The fact that we have stories that are not just similar but identical leads me

to think that perhaps...

These ancient cultures were visited by the same extraterrestrials.

While mainstream academics consider the stories of these lost civilizations and

their destruction to be mythological, the recent discovery of vast sunken

landmasses such as Doggerland, located just east of the British Isles in 2012,

and Zealandia, found near New Zealand in 2017,

may offer proof that a catastrophic water event did, in fact, change the

the Earth.

So here we have authentic legends of lost lands that were destroyed in

cataclysms. Mainstream historians, you know, still pretty much reject this,

that it's all myths.

But it would seem, really, that all kinds of civilizations could have come

gone on our planet.

known submerged cities in the Mediterranean.

There's just so much on our planet that we have yet to find out.

In the Native American indigenous teaching, there are cycles of

rebirth. The interesting part is that this is parallel to other great world

teachings.

In the story of Noah, the sons of God came down to Earth, and they were

the humans evil ways, and God decided to intervene.

brought this great flood.

In the story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend, the council of gods brought the

flood.

The Inca god Viracocha created the great flood.

So all of these traditions correspond directly with the Hopi four worlds

tradition about previous civilizations destroyed by the gods. The story is

always the same.

This speaks to the idea of extraterrestrial intervention in human

I believe there are ancient civilizations that some people refuse to

about. But ancient civilizations are coming to surface because the time has

to tell the truth about human origin.

Could it be that Native American stories of star people?

and have lost civilizations, so closely resembles other ancient traditions from

around the globe because they all encountered the same otherworldly

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest the Native Americans' knowledge

of star people comes not only from the distant past, but from the

extraterrestrial activity that occurs over native lands even today.

Corn Mountain, New Mexico.

According to Zuni elder Clifford Mahudi, above this deep mesa on the Zuni

reservation, strange lights are seen in the sky nearly every night.

The UFO activity here is very, very prevalent because of

the religious system that we practice every day.

So all around the whole Zuni reservation, you can look up in the sky

up there.

And they're not stars.

They're not planets.

There's a lot of our people that here in Zuni have seen them.

When you talk to many Native Americans, they'll tell you that UFO sightings are

common on their native lands.

And you have to ask, why is that?

Is it because they have had these traditions of the star people and the

ancestors? Maybe places like the Zuni territory and Hopi mesas have been

for thousands of years.

Today, more UFO incidents are being reported and captured on camera than

before. But while this recent activity has captured the public's imagination

inspired sensational headlines,

For many Native Americans, it is nothing out of the ordinary.

In my time working as a Navajo ranger, we had incidences

of UFOs coming and going all the time.

When we talk to people, they tell us, oh yeah, they're here all the time. So

they just...

Accept it. And as such, with the knowledge that I have and the

had, I know they're out there. I've seen them numerous, numerous times.

And it's just a fact of life.

We must reestablish the connection between our star ancestors by educating

and creating an awareness among the humans on Earth.

We have to establish an urgency protecting the sacred sites and telling

story what they mean.

This is the history of the world. We are star beings.

As far as being connected with the star elders, they gave us this knowledge and

ours is a direct relationship with the entities throughout the universe.

as described in the ancient sacred traditions, still be happening in Native

American communities today?

And if so, might it be the beginning of the next Earth cycle and a profound new

chapter in the human story?

Perhaps as we learn the truth about the mysterious objects in the sky, we will

discover that the star ancestors are not merely ancient figures carved on rocks.

but an extraterrestrial present that has been guiding us all along.