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[Narrator] Ancient knowledge
that defies explanation...

[Travis Taylor] How in the world
did ancient people

understand the age of the Earth

thousands of years ago?

[Narrator] ...stories
of otherworldly visitors...

[David Childress] Hindu
mythology

is filled with powerful beings

who have advanced technology.

[Narrator] ...and links
to an extraordinary society

forgotten by history.

[Andrew Collins] The Indus
Valley Civilization

was incredibly complex
and advanced.

And yet,
we knew nothing about it.

[Narrator] Could it be

that the earliest writings
of India

contain the secrets
of our alien past?

[Giorgio A. Tsoukalos] All
of these ancient stories

are rooted in reality.

They didn't write it down
because it was ordinary,

they wrote it down
because it was extraordinary.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

Home to more than
1.4 billion people,

it is the world's
most populous country.

And roughly 80%
of the people living here

belong to the world's
oldest surviving religion...

...Hinduism.

[Amir Hussain] There's
a huge diversity

within the Hindu tradition.

There's no one way to be Hindu.

There's ideas
that are important in Hinduism.

One of the things
that distinguishes Hinduism

from other religions is there's
not just one life to live,

there are multiple lives.

You're born, you live,

you die, you're reborn.

[Sravana Borkataky-Varma] We
believe in the continuous cycle

of birth and death.

So, this life is not about
just the actions here.

I have carried something
from the past to this life.

[Narrator] The spiritual goal
of all Hindus is to gain freedom

from the endless cycle
of reincarnation.

This occurs
by following the concepts

of dharma and karma.

[Hussain] People know
the term karma and dharma

in Hinduism.

The idea that,
you know, every energy

releases a particular action,
that's karma.

Dharma, everyone has
a particular duty,

something to follow, uh,
in their lives.

How you live affects how you're
reborn in the world to come

or the next life or
the next life or the next life.

A lot of it
is about human action,

what is it that
you're supposed to do?

This is a way to gain liberation

from the cycle
of death and rebirth.

[Narrator] Exactly when
and where

the Hindu religion originated
is a mystery,

but the oldest known source
is a collection

of Sanskrit texts
called the Vedas.

[Dominic Steavu] The word Veda
means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.

And so, there is
this close association

with a special type
of, uh, wisdom or knowledge

that is transmitted
through the Vedas.

[Narrator] The Vedas teach
that the information

contained within them
was communicated directly

from the gods
to people known as seers.

[Deepak Shimkhada] The seers
were the conduits,

and once they were able
to download the information,

they passed it on
to their disciples,

and that's how
we got to know about

the mysteries of the universe.

[Narrator] In addition
to concepts

like reincarnation and karma,

the Vedas describe a vast
pantheon of Hindu deities.

Among them are
the three major gods:

Brahma,

Vishnu and Shiva.

Brahma is the god of creation,

often depicted with four heads
and four arms, riding a swan.

The blue-skinned Vishnu

is the preserver
and protector of the universe.

And Shiva is both the god
of destruction and rebirth,

depicted with a third eye.

But they are just three

of literally millions
of Hindu gods.

[Shimkhada] Hinduism has

330 million gods.

There are equal number
of female goddesses.

So, it has many, many gods
and goddesses.

[Narrator] According
to Hindu tradition,

at various times in history,
these powerful beings

have lived alongside humans.

[Praveen Mohan] The gods show

various emotions
of intelligent life.

They get angry,
they get depressed,

they go to war...

...and cause great destruction.

They fall in love
and get married.

Sometimes, they even get married

to human beings
and give birth to demigods.

[Narrator] When they are
not on Earth,

the gods reside
in other realms called lokas.

[Borkataky-Varma] Lokas are
different worlds.

There are seven worlds above us

and then there are
seven worlds below us.

And if you also
take this as present loka,

that would make it 15.

And different worlds have
different habitants of sorts.

[Narrator] While there are
millions of gods

in the Hindu pantheon,

many people choose just one
specific god to venerate.

Idols of these beings are
often kept within the home

and treated
as living family members.

And the idea
of communicating with the gods

dates back thousands of years.

In the ancient stories
of the Vedas,

the gods interact with humans,

guide them and are vital in
the development of civilization.

[William Henry] In
the Hindu tradition,

the gods came to Earth

and influenced human affairs.

And what's fascinating
about this is that

we find exactly the same story

in ancient Mesopotamia,

where we're told
that the Anunnaki gods

taught us the basics
of civilization.

We find this
in other cultures, as well--

Ancient Egypt, for example.

Mesoamerica, we find sky beings

who came to Earth,
altered humanity.

So, what we're seeing here
is a-a parallel

that we find in traditions
all around the world.

[Narrator] Today, the more than
one billion Hindu faithful

maintain a strong relationship
with the gods

described in the ancient
Vedic texts.

[Mohan] In the Hindu tradition,

these ancient gods
are not considered

just symbolic
or mythical beings.

They are considered
as flesh-and-blood beings

that came down from the sky
and existed in real life.

[Tsoukalos] According to
the ancient astronaut theory,

all of these ancient stories
of Hindu gods

are rooted in a type of reality

that they,
at some point, witnessed.

[Narrator] A key tenet
of the ancient astronaut theory

is that religious traditions
around the world were inspired

by interactions
that our ancestors had

with extraterrestrial visitors.

And Hinduism is perhaps
the most compelling of all...

...because the stories
of the gods

read like accounts
of otherworldly beings

with advanced technology.

[Childress] Hindu mythology
really reads like

the wildest
science fiction of today.

It is filled
with all kinds of demigods

who had airships
that they called vimanas,

and very sophisticated weapons

that would destroy
whole cities if need be.

[Narrator] While most
mainstream scholars

regard these stories
as metaphorical,

many Hindu faithful regard them
as accounts of real events.

[Henry] We have to be open
to the possibility

that the Vedas describe

eyewitness accounts
of these strange beings

that came out of the sky
thousands of years ago.

[Narrator] Could the Vedas
and other early Hindu texts

provide a historical record

of extraterrestrial contact
in the distant past?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest
further evidence can be found

by examining
the incredible technology

of the gods.

[Narrator] For more than
3,000 years,

the foundation of Hinduism
has been carefully preserved

in India's most ancient
Sanskrit texts.

The oldest are the four books
known as the Vedas,

but there are
additional manuscripts

that expand on these teachings.

[Hussain] In addition
to the Vedas,

you have the epics.

And the two great epics
are the Mahabharata,

literally,
"the-the great story of Bharat."

Bharat's an ancient name
for "India."

Then you've got the Ramayana.

[Narrator] Many of the events
that occur in the epics

feature the Hindu gods,
who are divided up

into separate classes.

The highest are the devas,

that include the trinity
of Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva,

as well as other
prominent Hindu gods

like Ganesha, Hanuman and Indra.

[Henry] When we look
at the-the sacred texts

of the ancient Hindus,
they describe

humanity's interaction
with the devas,

and that they then begin
to teach humanity how to use

all kinds of things,
like making weapons

and astronomy and the stars
and so forth.

[Narrator] Curiously,
Hindu accounts of the devas

are nearly identical
to a race of divine beings

found in mythological texts
across the world.

In Sanskrit, devas
literally means "light beings,"

or "the shining ones."

This immediately brings to mind
stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann,

who are a divine race of beings
in Irish mythology.

Like the devas,
the Tuatha Dé Danann

are described as light beings

who descended from the sky
in whirlwinds

and brought with them the arts
and knowledge of civilization.

Also, the Anunnaki,
who were the sky gods

of the ancient Sumerians,
were similarly described

as having a luminous appearance.

So, we have to ask the question,
is it possible

that the beings
described in the Vedas

are the same beings
that came to Earth,

visited numerous cultures
in the ancient world,

and this is exactly
what the ancients

recorded throughout time?

[Narrator] For ancient
astronaut theorists,

one of the most compelling
aspects of the Hindu stories

is that the gods travel in
flying machines called vimana,

which are described
in great detail.

[Tsoukalos] The vimanas are
aerial vehicles that were able

to travel faster
than what the eye could see,

or they could cloak themselves
to become invisible.

To me, those are not
spiritual vehicles.

Why would God need a vehicle

with which to move
from point A to point B?

But they're, in fact,
technological vehicles.

Vehicles that our ancestors saw
in physical form,

and tried to describe
what they witnessed.

[Childress] These were machines

that could fly, they would
hold different people,

there were pilots.

The vimanas themselves
would have weapons,

just like modern
fighter aircraft

and bombers
and things like that.

And the vimanas
were brightly lit,

and that's talked about
in the Mahabharata,

that people would see
giant lights in the sky.

There's a number of Vedic texts
that are talking about vimanas,

and some get very technical,
in fact.

One of the things
that it talks about is an engine

that has mercury in it.

[Taylor] There's been a lot of

speculative physics work
done on creating

flowing baths of mercury
in a vortex

where it's spinning around,

and you put it in the right
electromagnetic field

and it creates strange torsions

such that you could create
a propulsive force.

And I find it really intriguing
that the vimanas,

the way-- some of them
are described for flying in air,

some of them are-are described
as being used in water.

A lot of this reminds me
of videos that I've analyzed

of modern UAP.

[Tsoukalos] Modern-day
UFO videos show vehicles

that can just stop
or change direction immediately,

at g-forces
that we could not survive.

In the ancient Vedic texts,

the exact same
descriptions exist.

They are not only
aerial vehicles

but also vehicles with which
to reach the realm of the gods.

And you have to ask yourself,
"Well, wait a second,

what did they try
to describe here?"

The answer is
that the ancient Hindus tell us

that they were actual,
physical machines.

For all intents and purposes,
they describe modern-day UFOs.

[Narrator] Could it be
that UFOs witnessed today

are the same
otherworldly aircraft

described in writings that
date back more than 3,000 years?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further clues
can be found

in passages
of the Sanskrit texts

that describe
highly advanced weaponry.

[Shimkhada] In the Mahabharata,
there are listed

47 different types of weapons.

Agneyastra is a weapon
that releases extreme fire,

and burns everything
in front of it.

Sudarshana Chakra is a weapon
held by Vishnu himself.

It is a total guided missile.

It never misses the target.

Indra is the god of the storms,

no different than Zeus.

Indra has the vajra--

it's like
the thunderbolt of Zeus--

that can destroy anything
that it's unleashed on.

[Childress] If these weapons
really existed,

where did they originate?

The extraterrestrials
would naturally have

this kind
of advanced technology.

[Narrator] If the foundational
texts of Hinduism

describe real encounters
with extraterrestrials

that took place
thousands of years ago,

the question remains:

Who were the people
that witnessed these events

and wrote them down?

While the authors of the Vedas
and epics are still unknown,

many experts suggest
important clues can be found

within the ruins
of an incredible

lost civilization.

[Narrator] The Punjab Province
of British India, 1921.

Indian archaeologists are
conducting a survey

in the Indus River Valley,

an area that today is
largely uninhabited desert

and considered one of the most
inhospitable places on Earth.

While exploring the area,

the archaeologists are
astonished to find the ruins

of ancient mudbrick buildings
emerging from the soil.

And what they discover
hidden beneath the earth

is more extraordinary than
they ever would have expected.

[Shimkhada] As they dug,
they saw some pottery,

some structures and buildings.

It was discovered that
it was an archaeological site,

and it's a very advanced
civilization.

[Narrator] Over
the next two years,

two lost cities are unearthed
in the Indus Valley

that date to as far back
as 3300 BC,

predating the earliest known
civilizations in India

by almost 2,000 years.

Archaeologists name
the first city Harappa,

after a nearby town,

but the second city
they call Mohenjo Daro,

or "Mound of the Dead Men."

The ancient city is strewn
with the skeletons of people

who seem to have died suddenly
from some unknown catastrophe.

But what surprises
archaeologists even more

is how advanced
these cities were.

[Childress] Mohenjo Daro
and Harappa were

incredibly sophisticated,

much more than what early
archaeologists ever expected.

The streets were very well
laid out and planned.

They had indoor plumbing.

They had what we would call
a modern sewage system.

They had communal baths
that were extremely well made.

[Collins] Archaeologists
gradually revealed

this incredibly complex

society that had existed
during the third millennia BC,

one which rivaled anything

that you would have had

in Sumeria or Egypt
at this time.

And yet,
we knew nothing about it.

[Narrator] Researchers
determined that Harappa

and Mohenjo Daro were part
of an advanced civilization

that spanned
the entire Indus Valley.

At its peak,
the Indus Valley civilization

had more than
one thousand cities,

and was home
to over five million people.

[Shimkhada] There is the ruins
from Harappa all the way

to Lothal down there
in Arabian Sea.

So the whole area was
a very advanced civilization.

They made a lot of

artifacts, tools,

potteries.

And they were exported all
the way to the Middle East.

So it was very successful.

[Narrator] The culture thrived
for at least 1,400 years

before it suddenly collapsed
around 1900 BC.

But what happened to
the Indus Valley civilization?

And who were the people
who lived there?

We don't know
what language they spoke.

We don't know
when they actually got there,

where exactly they came from,

because they didn't leave
a record saying,

"Hi. We came from this place,

we spoke this language,

and we built this
at this point in time."

[Narrator] While
very little is known

about the Indus Valley
civilization,

many experts have come
to believe

that the inhabitants were
the authors of the Vedas.

[Borkataky-Varma] We don't
necessarily know

who the people were.

But here is where

the scholars have kind
of stitched this history.

Given the period,
given the geographical region,

given what we have discovered
in the archaeology,

it is understood
that the Vedas has some degree

of dotted-line continuity to
the Indus Valley civilization.

[Narrator] Could it be
that the foundational texts

of Hinduism were written
by the people

of this lost civilization?

Over the years,
researchers seeking evidence

that the Vedas are based
in real history

have found numerous
archaeological sites

that match locations described
in the ancient stories.

[Shimkhada] Today,
Indian archaeologists are

working vigorously,

you know, digging up
the ancient cities

and the places mentioned in the
Ramayana, in the Mahabharata.

They're all in North India,
where the original inhabitants

of Indus Valley lived.

So, there is
the real places and

the historical facts
that can be corroborated

with some artifacts.

[Narrator] As far as
ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned,
if the Vedas originated

in the Indus Valley
civilization,

it begs the question:

Are they historical accounts
of real events?

[Henry] When we look
at this civilization

and then its crossover
into ancient Sanskrit texts,

it becomes abundantly clear
we have to be open

to the possibility
that the Indus Valley people

were interacting
with extraterrestrials.

They actually
witnessed the gods.

They saw the vimana.

And what that means, then,

is that the very powerful
traditions of Hinduism

are actually remnants of
the Indus Valley civilization.

[Narrator] Is it possible
that Hinduism--

the world's
third largest religion--

was inspired by alien contact

that occurred
more than 4,000 years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and point to a discovery
at Mohenjo Daro

that many believe
depicts a visitor...

from another world.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

[Narrator] British archeologist
Ernest Mackay

undertakes
an extensive excavation

of the ancient Indus Valley
city of Mohenjo Daro.

Over the next few years, Mackay
and his team unearth artifacts

that reveal the sophistication
of the people who lived here,

such as finely detailed pottery,

elaborate jewelry
and bronze statues.

But of all the artifacts
uncovered during the excavation,

the one Mackay considers
most extraordinary

is a small stone tablet
that he estimates

to be more
than 4,000 years old.

[Henry] It depicts a figure
sitting in a lotus pose

and wearing a horned headdress.

He appears to have three faces.

One looking to the left,
one looking to the right

and one straight ahead.

This is a common motif
you see in Hindu art

that depicts the gods
as being all-knowing.

Now, Ernest Mackay is
amazed by this seal

because he believes
it depicts the Hindu god Shiva.

[Narrator] Shiva is one
of the three primary Hindu gods,

known as both a destroyer
and creator.

If the carving found
at Mohenjo Daro depicts Shiva,

as many experts believe,

it would be
an extraordinary discovery,

because it would mean
that Hinduism is centuries older

than previously thought.

[Henry] The seal dates
to before

2000 BC, and most
mainstream scholars say

the Hindu religion didn't emerge
until centuries later.

So, when we see artifacts

from Mohenjo Daro
depicting Shiva,

what that means, then, is that
the very powerful traditions

of Hinduism
are actually remnants

of the Indus Valley
civilization.

[Narrator] For many researchers,

the mysterious carving
that resembles Lord Shiva

provides a compelling link

between
the Indus Valley civilization

and the Vedic texts.

But along with
the intriguing artifact,

archaeologists at Mohenjo Daro
were also confronted

by a disturbing sight.

[Henry] As they're excavating
the city, layer

by layer, and they got down
to the street level,

people were just lying dead
in the streets.

It's like some doom
just took over the city,

and everyone was dead,

and then, eventually,
the desert winds buried it

for thousands of years.

[Collins] What they discovered
was quite shocking.

There were
a number of human bodies

that looked like they had
been killed very suddenly.

I mean, some of
the skeletons looked like

they had fallen together
and had died instantaneously.

And this led archaeologists

to the conclusion that something
terrible had gone on here.

[Narrator] Exactly what caused
the sudden devastation

at Mohenjo Daro has divided
historians for decades.

But if Hinduism was practiced by
the Indus Valley civilization,

as many experts now suspect,

might the foundational
Vedic texts provide clues

about what happened
at Mohenjo Daro?

In 1977, British researcher
David Davenport

posed this same question,
and set out

to conduct his own investigation
of the ancient city.

[Collins] David Davenport

spent 12 years at Mohenjo Daro,
researching it,

working with the excavators,

asking all the right questions,

looking at the artifacts
that were discovered,

going around the remains
of the streets,

and what he discovered was
that there seemed

to be absolute evidence

of intense heat

that had melted pottery,
made it incredibly brittle.

The sides of some buildings seem
to be virtually vitrified.

[Narrator] Davenport also
read reports that claimed

one of the skeletons
at Mohenjo Daro had high levels

of radiation.

Intrigued, he decided
to search in the pages

of the ancient Sanskrit epics

to see if they might contain
any mention

of a catastrophic event.

What he found instead
was a description

of a powerful weapon
called the Brahmastra.

[Hussain] Brahmastras

are these really
superpowerful weapons.

It's literally the astra--
the weapon-- of Brahma.

Brahma is one of the key gods
in the Vedic tradition.

And so, the Brahmastra
is this horrific weapon

that destroys gods.

[Narrator] The Brahmastra
weapon features prominently

in the story of the god Rama.

Rama mobilizes an army
to rescue his wife

who is held captive
in the kingdom of Lanka.

In the ensuing battle,
Rama unleashes the Brahmastra...

...and Lanka is destroyed.

[Henry] David Davenport looks
at the Ramayana

and realizes that the effects
of what he sees in Mohenjo Daro

precisely match
what is told in this epic

about this blinding
flash of light

that destroys the civilization.

What David Davenport proposed is

that Lanka is Mohenjo Daro.

And in all ways
and shape and form,

this Brahmastra has all
of the hallmarks

of an atomic weapon.

[Narrator] Is it possible
that Mohenjo Daro was destroyed

by a nuclear explosion,
as David Davenport suggests?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and believe further evidence
to support this notion

can be found in passages
of the Sanskrit epics

that describe a war

between the gods.

[Narrator] In 1979,

British researcher
David Davenport

published his incredible theory

that Mohenjo Daro is, in fact,

a city described
in the ancient Sanskrit texts

that was destroyed
by a devastating weapon.

In addition to radiated
skeletons and vitrified stone,

he pointed to a 50-yard crater
in the center of the city

as evidence
of a massive explosion.

[Collins] David Davenport
suggested

that what had
gone on here related

to what the ancient Hindu texts
were referring to

as some kind of weapon
of mass destruction.

It could create flashes
as bright as the sun.

It could lay waste to armies.

And this led Davenport
to the conclusion

that Mohenjo Daro
had been destroyed

by an atomic weapon.

[Narrator] Could nuclear weapons
really have been deployed

on Earth
thousands of years ago?

As incredible as it sounds,

ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

the evidence is too overwhelming
to dismiss.

Is it possible that some type
of a nuclear weapon was deployed

at Mohenjo Daro?

And the answer to that is yes.

Because not only do you have
higher levels of radiation,

but you have fused glass.

You have people
that just died instantaneously.

And then you also have
references in ancient texts

where they say that right after
these weapons were deployed,

people started
to have boils on their skin.

Their hair started to fall out.

Their fingernails started
to fall out.

Well, those are all results
of radiation poisoning.

Nuclear fallout.

[Narrator] According
to some experts,

it wasn't just Mohenjo Daro,

but the entire
Indus Valley civilization--

made up of more
than a thousand cities--

that suddenly collapsed.

And ancient astronaut theorists
point out

that this once again lines up
with the Sanskrit texts,

where numerous devastating wars
are waged between the gods.

[Childress] There were
these horrific wars

that are talked about
in the Vedas themselves.

There are essentially

very powerful beings
who have powerful weapons.

And they're all fighting

and destroying,
you know, each other.

[Martell] The gods had
these aerial battles, so,

it's very possible
that the civilization

in the Indus Valley had
firsthand interaction

with some of the events
that took place.

[Tsoukalos] This whole idea

that there were these wars

within the Vedas,
to me, is interesting

because this is not just
restricted to ancient India.

You have wars in Heaven
in the Old Testament.

-You have the ancient Greeks.
-[thunder crashes]

You have ancient Scandinavian
gods fighting with each other.

So, in my opinion,

those were all
misinterpretations

of flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials

who fought with one another.

[Martell] In lots of
these ancient stories,

there were various gods that
are all squabbling over Earth.

And right
over the Indus Valley,

this ET battle might have taken
place and could have ended

in some type of catastrophe

that wiped out the civilization
in the Indus Valley.

[Narrator] When David Davenport
proposed a link

between Mohenjo Daro and
the Vedic texts in the 1970s,

he was widely dismissed
by mainstream scholars.

But today,
more and more experts believe

at least some
of the ancient stories are based

on real events,

and that those events occurred
in the Indus Valley.

[Childress] When you look
at the Indus Valley,

you have to wonder what happened
to this civilization.

And archaeologists, when
they excavate these cities,

they fit perfectly
into the Vedic stories

of these ancient wars.

So could it be
that it was destroyed

by terrific weapons,

and, essentially,
ceased to exist?

That's exactly what
the Vedic stories are saying.

[Narrator] If the foundational
Sanskrit texts of Hinduism

can solve the mystery of what
happened to Mohenjo Daro,

might they also reveal
that the ancient people

of the Indus Valley
really did interact

with otherworldly beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest additional
evidence can be found

by examining the passages
within the Vedas

that describe
advanced knowledge

that came from the stars.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

On the campus
of the University of Kerala

is the Oriental
Research Institute.

It maintains one of
the largest collections

of ancient Indian literature,

including more than 40,000
rare palm leaf manuscripts.

Among them are versions
of the Ramayana,

and some of earliest known
copies of the Vedas--

the oldest religious documents
in existence.

[Borkataky-Varma] We don't
necessarily know

who the people were
that wrote them.

But we're talking about
oral transmission, oral history.

And we're talking
about thousands of years

of transmission.

[Narrator] These mysterious
texts have fascinated people

for centuries
with their incredible stories

of gods
and other celestial beings.

And in the modern world,

their significance has become
even more profound,

because the Vedas contain
incredible knowledge

that seems to line up perfectly
with today's science.

[Henry] The Vedas describe
the universe

as originally being
a single point

of consciousness that expanded,

out of which
all of creation emerged.

This is virtually identical
to what modern science

refers to
as the big bang theory,

the idea that all of creation
was once a single point of light

that exploded
and expanded into space.

[Narrator] The Hindu scriptures
also state the age of the Earth

with remarkable accuracy.

[Taylor] The ancient
Vedic texts,

they discuss a concept
called the day of Brahma.

And it's a discussion
about the age of the Earth.

It actually says the Earth

is 4.3 billion years old.

How in the world
do they know this? Because

our modern, technological
assessment suggests

that the Earth is
about 4.5 billion years old.

So, how in the world

did they understand
the age of the Earth

thousands of years ago?

[Narrator] The ancient Sanskrit
texts even contain concepts

eerily similar to Einstein's
theory of relative physics.

[Childress] In the Vedas,
they have the concept

that time travels differently
in different realms,

and that is the same as

Einstein's concept
of relativity,

where time is relative
to where you are

and what realm you are in
and that kind of a thing.

So, once again, we can see

how astonishingly advanced
Vedic thought is.

[Henry] We have
to seriously consider

that this knowledge was
extraterrestrial in origin,

that it was taught
to these ancient seers.

It was something that was
offered to them wholesale

by beings who already knew
the secrets of the universe.

[Tsoukalos] They knew that
the universe was expanding.

They knew that other dimensions
and other universes existed.

So how did they know this?
Well,

in the opinion
of the ancient astronaut theory,

the knowledge was imparted
by visiting extraterrestrials.

[Narrator] When considering
the advanced knowledge

that exists within the Vedas--
alongside the Vedic stories

that seem to line up
with ancient ruins--

could it be
that these writings were,

in fact, inspired
by extraterrestrials?

And if so, were they witnessed

by the people
of the Indus Valley?

The Indus Valley civilization
is still a mystery,

but the evidence
they've left us,

as far as their footprint,

with an understanding
of technology,

an understanding of the cosmos,

this shows
that they could have come up

with some of these advanced
concepts we see in the Vedas.

[Childress] What I really think
is important here is

that we pay more attention
to these ancient texts

and try to learn
what we can from them,

because it's clear that modern
Hindu civilization in India

goes back to
the Indus Valley civilization.

But does the Indus Valley
civilization go back

to, possibly, early
extraterrestrial visitors?

That is the question.

They have
the exact same stories,

as, for example,
the Sumerians had,

who talk about physical deities

that descended from the sky
and imparted knowledge.

Now, the Indus Valley
civilization

is the exact same way.

And the most ancient of Vedic
texts had scientific knowledge

that far surpassed,
at the time, what was known.

[Narrator] Was ancient India
an epicenter

of extraterrestrial contact?

Do the incredible
mythological tales of the Vedas

tell the story
of humankind's true history?

And if so,
could the extraordinary ruins

of the Indus Valley
reveal new information

about our interaction

with extraterrestrials
in the distant past?

Perhaps written among
the secrets of the Vedas

is the ultimate proof
of our alien origins.

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