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TOK THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia
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are one of the world's
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very, very oldest cultures.
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KEVIN GAVI DUNCAN:
Our stories
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are older than
the Stonehenge in England.
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They're 20 or 30,000 years older
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than the pyramids of Egypt.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
If you look
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at these Wandjina figures
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in the cave art,
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these figures look exactly
like Grey aliens.
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Wow.
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GARY SIMON JAGAMARRA:
We carved them, we sang them,
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we danced them in stories,
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we painted them,
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so when the visitors left,
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we didn't forget about them.
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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,
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mankind has credited its origins
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to gods and other visitors
from the stars.
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What if it were true?
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Did extraterrestrial beings
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really help
to shape our history?
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And if so,
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might the secrets of our past
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have been entrusted...
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to Australia's Wisdom Keepers?
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NARRATOR:
In 2015, documentary filmmaker
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Damien Nott released an archive
of over 2,000 UFO images
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taken over the skies
of Australia
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in the past three years.
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DAMIEN NOTT:
Oh, my God.
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WOMAN: It seems to be,
like, illuminating.
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NOTT:
It's actually morphing shape
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and rotating as well.
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-WOMAN: Yeah.
-This is phenomenal.
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Australia
is certainly a hot spot
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for UFO sightings.
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We've had a phenomenal growth
in the reporting
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of UFO sightings
by the general public,
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especially since the advent
of the Internet.
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But all evidence shows that UFOs
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have definitely
been visiting Australia
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for tens of thousands of years.
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We've had records
engraved on cave artwork
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by the Australian Aborigines,
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which goes back thousands
of years.
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Australia is one of the
most mysterious continents,
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and the Aboriginals
have all kinds
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of ancient stories
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of sky gods coming down.
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These are probably some
of the oldest stories
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of extraterrestrial intervention
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that we have on Planet Earth.
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Australia was something
of a last frontier
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long after America was settled.
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Well, it was 1770
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that the British explorer
Captain Cook
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actually came across Australia,
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and it wasn't until 1788
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that it was really settled--
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that was the east coast
of Australia--
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settled by convicts.
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That's what the British brought
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from their prisons.
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NARRATOR:
Today, the area of Sydney
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that the British first settled
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is a bustling metropolis,
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and Australia has become
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one of the most popular
tourist destinations on Earth.
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But hidden behind
this modern facade
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is nearly
2h million square miles
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of undeveloped
and sparsely populated land,
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known as the outback.
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And while Australia
is a relatively new land
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to the Western world,
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for the nearly 700,000 people
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that call the continent
their ancestral home,
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it has a history that dates back
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tens of thousands of years.
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THOMPSON: There is something
very, very special
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about Australia.
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Here we have a situation where
this huge land mass has been
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pretty much cut off
from the rest of the world
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for 40,000 years.
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And we don't really find that
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in-in many other places
in the world.
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NARRATOR: But what was happening
on this island continent
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for the tens of thousands
of years
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that it existed in isolation?
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DUNCAN: When the first
Europeans arrived here,
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they didn't have much knowledge
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in regards to the sky world,
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where our people had much
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ancient knowledge
of the star system,
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and the constellation
of the stars.
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Our knowledge and wisdom
is so old.
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NARRATOR: Anthropologists
have dated the existence
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of the Australian Aboriginal
people back 60,000 years,
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making it the most ancient
continuous culture in the world.
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THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia,
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are one of the world's very,
very oldest cultures.
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No other cultures in the world
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can compare
with the Australian cultures.
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They have knowledge that's been
around for a lot longer
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than really any of our knowledge
has been around.
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NARRATOR:
The Aboriginal people
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have no official
written language.
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Art, music,
and oral storytelling
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are how they pass their
histories and sacred knowledge
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to future generations.
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Their past is encoded
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on various rock walls
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scattered across the continent.
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Our oral traditions,
our stories
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that are passed down
from generation to generation,
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the wisdom and knowledge
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that have been given to us
by our god,
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they're 10,000 or more
years older
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than the Stonehenge in England.
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They're 20,000
or 30,000 years older
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than the pyramids of Egypt.
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NARRATOR:
These ancient traditions
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are all strongly tied
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to Australia's connection
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with the stars,
and with the beings
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that are said
to have come down from them.
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As evidence,
ancient astronaut theorists
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point to the caves of
the Northwest Kimberley region
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that contain depictions
of beings called the Wandjina,
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the sky heroes of one of
Australia's indigenous clans.
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The Aboriginals have all kinds
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of ancient stories
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of Wandjina figures,
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of great heroes
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and sky gods who
manipulated the continent
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and created the rivers
and mountains,
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and fought amongst each other,
and then they left.
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If you look at these Wandjina
figures in the cave art,
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they have big white faces.
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They have really no mouth
to speak of.
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They have very large,
black eyes,
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and there's a field
around their heads
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that's like a space helmet,
perhaps.
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So, in many ways
these Wandjina figures
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look exactly like Grey aliens.
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And you have to wonder, then,
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if the cave art
is depicting extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: Could these images
really be depicting
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extraterrestrials that visited
Australia in the ancient past?
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And if so, do the indigenous
people living in Australia today
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still have insight
into the meaning
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behind this ancient rock art?
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JAGAMARRA:
We all have stories
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of people in crafts
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coming from the stars,
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going to the stars,
and so on.
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In order to keep them,
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pass them down
to next generation,
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we carved them,
we painted them,
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we sung them.
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We danced them in stories
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to guarantee
that they passed down.
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So when the visitors left,
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we didn't forget about them.
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And we never forget
about the things
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that they passed down to us,
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and the knowledge
they passed down.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Australia
is one of the few places
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where we still have
living mythologies
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where we can talk
to the people whose story
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has been passed down
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over thousands of generations.
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And they talk of teachers
having descended from the sky,
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and bestowed any and all
of knowledge to mankind.
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So this, to me,
is an incredible treasure trove
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for the
ancient astronaut theory.
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NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
people of Australia,
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who carry an oral tradition
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that dates back
tens of thousands of years,
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really hold secrets
of humanity's past
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that the outside world
has yet to discover?
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Perhaps more evidence
can be found
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by examining the depiction
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of one of their
most important sky gods.
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NARRATOR:
Brisbane Water National Park.
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New South Wales, Australia.
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The Bulgandry preservation site
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is one of numerous sacred
indigenous locations
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where ancient rock art
and engravings can be found.
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Many are believed
to date back thousands of years.
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Oh, wow.
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NARRATOR:
In February 2016,
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researcher and publisher
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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traveled to Australia
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to meet with Aboriginal elder
Kevin Gavi Duncan
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to learn about one of the oldest
carvings that can be found here.
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So what are we looking at here?
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So this image is an actual image
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of what we say is our
Godfather creator being, Baiame.
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That's what our people believe.
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Okay.
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Baiame came from, well,
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a place that we call
the Morning Star
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within the Mirrabooka.
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"Mirra" means stars,
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and "booka" means river.
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That is the Milky Way that flows
across the-the night sky.
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No kidding? Okay.
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And so he is one
of those sky heroes
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that has descended
from the Milky Way?
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Yes.
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He's a sky hero, and
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Baiame is carved in the manner
that you see there--
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he has his arms out,
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and he holds
the moon in one hand...
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...and the Morning Star
in the other,
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which is a bit like
what we call Planet Earth.
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And these are
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the two moons which exist
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around the Morning Star
in the Mirrabooka
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that Baiame came from.
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TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
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And this is the canoe.
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He sailed through the river
of life, um, in the Mirrabooka
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across the sky world.
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TSOUKALOS: So, he sailed
through the Milky Way?
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DUNCAN: Yes, he sailed
through the Milky Way...
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and this was his vessel
that he sailed,
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and he landed, to the earth...
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and he crushed
the top of the mountain,
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which is the sacred mountain
of Mount Yengo
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not far from here.
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And when he landed they said
the fire came from his feet
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and it burnt the mount--
top of the mountain,
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and all around it
every time he landed.
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So, the landings were
always associated
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with a lot of noise, smoke
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-and fire?
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The fire trail that was left
when Baiame was leaving
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the top of the mountain
into the sky world,
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when Baiame had left,
was so bright,
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people interpret that
as a spaceship of some kind...
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TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
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DUNCAN:
...as coming and going,
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but this is the way
we simply interpret
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Baiame's spaceship.
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Right, but it's
because the vocabulary
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didn't exist at the time.
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-Yes.
-So, to me, those are all
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wonderfully poetic ways
to describe eyewitness accounts
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of things that were incredible.
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DUNCAN: Yes.
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This site is considered
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around 8,000 to 10,000
years old.
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DUNCAN:
These carvings,
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these rock paintings,
these are our books.
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They are considered to be,
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basically, as truth.
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NARRATOR:
While many in the Western world
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regard indigenous tales
as folklore,
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it has recently been found
that at least some
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of their stories are
historically accurate.
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In September 2015,
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scientists studying
Aboriginal lore
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of past sea level rise
found corroboration
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in the geological record.
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Incredibly, the information
was faithfully preserved
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even though these events
occurred somewhere
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between 7,000
to 18,000 years ago.
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Similar findings noting
the accuracy of indigenous myths
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have been published
since the 1980s,
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including knowledge of tsunamis,
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earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,
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meteorite impacts, and solar
eclipses in the remote past.
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Australia has been a fascinating
area where many different people
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working on different aspects
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such as sea level rises,
meteorite craters,
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extinct animals, have found that
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Australian lore, their folklore,
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actually seems to remember, and
encode, and be able to discuss
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events thousands of years old.
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In some cases, 7,000,
10,000 years old.
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We just don't really see
that sort of thing
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very often in the world,
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in terms of, uh,
this incredible long, uh,
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accumulation of knowledge.
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WILLIAM HENRY: Their stories
of events that happened
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12,000 years ago, maybe older,
have now been verified
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by the geological record.
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This is extremely important
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because if they're telling the
truth about geological events,
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can we then take at face value
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their stories or their
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recollections of
extraterrestrial beings,
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spirit beings, sky beings,
coming to Earth
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and intervening
in human affairs?
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I believe that we can.
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NARRATOR:
Might the Aboriginal stories
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of sky beings not be myth
but actual historical fact?
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Could their creator gods have
been extraterrestrial visitors?
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Perhaps further clues can be
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found by examining evidence
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of an ancient pilgrimage
to Australia
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made by the Egyptians.
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NARRATOR:
Central Coast,
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New South Wales, Australia.
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Deep in the Brisbane
Water National Park
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is a mysterious site
known as the Gosford Glyphs.
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The site consists of two
massive, eight-foot-high walls
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engraved with over
300 ancient carvings,
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carvings that experts say do not
resemble indigenous artwork,
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but Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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After deciphering the texts,
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21st century Egyptologist Ray
Johnson believed them to reveal
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the burial site
of Lord Nefer-ti-ru,
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a member of
the Egyptian royal family
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who died while visiting the area
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with his brother
sometime between 2637
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and 2614 BC.
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Absolutely beautiful out here.
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Oh, I know.
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NARRATOR: While visiting the
area in 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos
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met with local ancient astronaut
theorist Evan Strong
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to get a firsthand look
at these enigmatic carvings.
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-And here we are.
-Wow.
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That's incredible.
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I had no idea, I mean,
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this looks totally different
than on pictures.
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So, what do these
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-hieroglyphs say?
-Well...
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at least one panel talks
about two brothers,
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two princes,
coming here from Egypt.
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They were shipwrecked.
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One of them ended up
getting bitten by a snake.
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He then died.
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The theory is, then,
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he was interred here,
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and that's why
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-you've got hieroglyphs here...
-Mm-hmm.
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...because he died here...
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but there's these other walls
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with a mixture of symbols.
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This one over here,
it's-it's more
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of a philosophical
astrophysics style thing
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with symbols meaning all sorts
of esoteric stuff, so...
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Now, h-have these symbols
at all been interpreted
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by Egyptologists?
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There have been
a-a few, actually.
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Mm-hmm.
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Um, a few different, um,
people have done that.
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And what was their reaction?
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Well, Raymond Johnson was
one of the first people
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to come here and-and translate.
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He actually sent some
of his translations off
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to the Cairo Library,
and Dr. Abou Dia' Ghazi
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ended up saying, "Yep,
you're on the right track."
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It's something
called proto-Egyptian.
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And how old do you
reckon these are?
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We're thinking because of the
prevalence, at least in one,
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uh, panel of proto-Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.
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TSOUKALOS: Wow.
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Are there any hieroglyphs
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that stand out to you?
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Yeah, definitely.
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Follow me down here
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and I'll show you
this other one.
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So, this one here, um,
we call the UFO glyph
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and people have called it that
since they've been coming here
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because it kind of
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looks like a UFO.
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TSOUKALOS: It definitely has
the classic UFO shape.
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It's-it's got the... the rays
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or whatever you want to call it.
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What would you suggest
if anyone says, well,
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this is not a UFO,
it's-it's some other symbol
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that-- but certainly not that?
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I think that someone
suggested that it's jewelry
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but it's a completely different
symbol that's upside down
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and it really
doesn't quite fit in.
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It's one of those symbols here
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that-that doesn't fit
into the canon.
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In your opinion,
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why do you think the Egyptians
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made it all the way
to Australia?
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I think they were looking
for esoteric wisdom, definitely.
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-From the Aboriginals?
-Yes.
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DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians,
we have stories,
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and Aboriginal stories,
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about their arrival,
and about their visits
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long before Europeans
had arrived here.
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Naturally,
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we would have shared ceremony
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with these people because they
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have the same similar beliefs
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as our people.
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Egyptians have that
same spiritual connection
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to the sky world.
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Many stories
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from all over this continent,
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not just from here,
but all over this continent,
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talk about those
who came by the sea
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and came to these continents,
and some of our knowledge
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and wisdom and technology
went back with them,
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and if you do some
of the research,
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in the last pyramids
that they found,
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they found boomerangs
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made from iron bark
from here,
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and they have hieroglyphs
of black fellows
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throwing the boomerangs to take
out the ducks and the geese.
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Now the question would be,
why would they paint us
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and carve us on their walls
if they didn't come here?
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And if that meeting and
relationship
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was not significant,
they wouldn't have carved it.
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It must've been significant
in order to carve.
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NARRATOR:
Aboriginal artifacts
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found in Egypt?
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Hieroglyphs found in Australia?
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Might the continent have
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actually served as
a pilgrimage site for visitors
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seeking a direct connection
to the so-called gods?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and suggest further evidence
of this otherworldly link
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can be found in a megalithic
structure lost to time.
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NARRATOR: Mullumbimby,
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New South Wales, 1939.
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Frederic Slater,
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the president of the
Australian Archaeology Society,
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was dispatched to investigate
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the discovery of a complex
Aboriginal arrangement
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consisting of 188
standing stones.
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Slater dubbed the formation
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the "Stonehenge of Australia"
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and became convinced that it
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was one of the oldest temple
complexes in the world,
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predating those found in Europe
and the Middle East.
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Frederic Slater found that
the site he was investigating
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was part of a larger,
much larger site,
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and fitted in very closely
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with Aboriginal sacred law,
myths and legends.
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After a time,
Frederic Slater began to posit
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and suggest that instead
of out of Africa,
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that maybe we should reexamine
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the evolution of man
as out of Australia.
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He took a massive leap
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and started declaring that
in ancient times in Australia,
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the Aborigines
were more advanced
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than any culture that he
could recount on the planet.
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He was declared almost insane
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by the rest
of the academic community.
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The landowners were so terrified
of the controversy
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that it implied that it was
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pretty much
destroyed by bulldozers.
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CHILDRESS: There are
many stone circles, uh,
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throughout the British Isles
and Europe.
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Stonehenge is one
of the most well known.
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And they all have
some relationship
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to astronomical observatories.
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This Aboriginal Stonehenge
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would really alter the way
we think of the Aboriginals
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and the sophistication
of their society.
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Where they had astronomical
and archaeoastronomical
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structures that helped them
monitor the heavens,
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much as standing stones
in Europe would have done.
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DUNCAN: For our people,
it went beyond the paintings
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and the carvings
into stone arrangements.
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We would arrange
in certain patterns,
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which relate to the
constellation of the stars,
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in regards to our connectedness
with the sky world
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and where we originate from.
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NARRATOR:
Could the so-called
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Aboriginal Stonehenge
provide us insight
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into the other
stone arrangements
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found scattered
throughout the world?
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If so, might they serve
to provide a permanent record
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of a significant connection
to another world?
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Uluru Rock,
also known as Ayers Rock,
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is located nearly in the center
of the continent,
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over 1,200 miles
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from the nearest
major Australian city.
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This geological anomaly
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is one of the largest
isolated rocks in the world.
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It is over two miles long
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and rises over 1,100 feet.
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It is, in fact,
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the exposed tip of a huge
vertical slab of rock
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that continues below the surface
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for three miles.
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It is a huge sedimentary boulder
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that's gigantic,
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sitting there in the middle
of the desert.
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And geologists
cannot really explain
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how Ayers Rock came to be.
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It's almost
as if it was lifted up
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from somewhere else
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and brought to the center
of the continent
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and then just dumped there.
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NARRATOR:
For the indigenous population,
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Uluru is one
of their most sacred sites
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and a place of pilgrimage.
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They consider it
the navel of the earth.
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THOMPSON:
For the Aboriginal cosmologies,
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a lot of times
the landscape itself
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is sort of like the Bible
and Heaven, rolled into one.
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So, in places
like Uluru, Ayers Rock,
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this rock is
of great significance
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because they built this
into their cultural memories
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of when the world was formed
by sky spirits coming to Earth.
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NARRATOR: The creation stories
at Uluru Rock
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are primarily associated
with the rainbow serpent.
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This divine being is said
to have come out of the sky
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at the beginning of time,
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and held in its belly
all of creation,
516
00:26:13,706 --> 00:26:16,575
including
the first human beings.
517
00:26:17,977 --> 00:26:20,713
DUNCAN: The Rainbow Serpent,
we call Gria.
518
00:26:20,747 --> 00:26:22,982
And the Rainbow Serpent
is related
519
00:26:23,015 --> 00:26:26,218
to all Aboriginal nations
right across Australia.
520
00:26:26,252 --> 00:26:29,956
And it connects us all
as Aboriginal people,
521
00:26:29,989 --> 00:26:32,659
because it was regarded
522
00:26:32,692 --> 00:26:36,996
as a very sacred symbol
of creation.
523
00:26:37,029 --> 00:26:38,765
STRONG: An elder we're
in good contact with
524
00:26:38,798 --> 00:26:40,066
told us a story about Uluru,
525
00:26:40,099 --> 00:26:41,834
which is quite fascinating.
526
00:26:41,868 --> 00:26:44,103
That we were actually
seeded from the spear
527
00:26:44,136 --> 00:26:46,272
from the Pleiades through space.
528
00:26:49,742 --> 00:26:52,344
And it actually hit the ground,
529
00:26:52,378 --> 00:26:56,248
and where that place was
is Uluru.
530
00:26:56,282 --> 00:27:00,787
So Uluru and its creation story
with the rainbow serpent
531
00:27:00,820 --> 00:27:02,989
could perhaps even be indicative
532
00:27:03,022 --> 00:27:04,824
of an ancient astronaut
533
00:27:04,857 --> 00:27:08,194
kind of seeding moment
in-in our history.
534
00:27:10,029 --> 00:27:13,232
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long proposed
535
00:27:13,265 --> 00:27:18,004
that Earth was seeded by alien
visitors in the remote past.
536
00:27:18,037 --> 00:27:20,707
Might this be true?
537
00:27:20,740 --> 00:27:23,710
And if so,
do the Aboriginal stories
538
00:27:23,743 --> 00:27:25,377
reflect this truth?
539
00:27:25,411 --> 00:27:28,715
When the first Europeans
arrived here,
540
00:27:28,748 --> 00:27:31,017
Captain Phillip,
who was an English sailor,
541
00:27:31,050 --> 00:27:35,755
planted the Union Jack
in Sydney,
542
00:27:35,788 --> 00:27:37,957
and he asked Aboriginal people
543
00:27:37,990 --> 00:27:42,762
around that time, he said,
"Where do you people come from?"
544
00:27:42,795 --> 00:27:46,999
And our people would always
just point to the sky.
545
00:27:47,033 --> 00:27:50,002
He couldn't believe
that such people,
546
00:27:50,036 --> 00:27:52,138
who were grounded
by Mother Earth,
547
00:27:52,171 --> 00:27:54,673
say that they come
from the sky world.
548
00:27:57,744 --> 00:28:00,146
NARRATOR: Might humanity
actually have been seeded
549
00:28:00,179 --> 00:28:02,181
on Earth from another planet,
550
00:28:02,214 --> 00:28:05,284
as the Aboriginal elders claim?
551
00:28:05,317 --> 00:28:09,288
And could this truth be encoded
in the Australian landscape,
552
00:28:09,321 --> 00:28:12,925
preserved for
future generations?
553
00:28:12,959 --> 00:28:17,029
Researchers suggest
some sacred Aboriginal sites
554
00:28:17,063 --> 00:28:21,901
continue to serve
as extraterrestrial outposts.
555
00:28:28,941 --> 00:28:31,077
(wind whistling)
556
00:28:31,110 --> 00:28:32,912
NARRATOR:
The Blue Mountains.
557
00:28:32,945 --> 00:28:34,446
Australia.
558
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,117
Throughout the walls
of Red Hands Cave
559
00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:39,752
are the stenciled handprints
560
00:28:39,786 --> 00:28:44,156
of ancient Aboriginal men,
women and children.
561
00:28:44,190 --> 00:28:47,827
The art stands as a testament
562
00:28:47,860 --> 00:28:49,962
to their physical time
here on Earth,
563
00:28:49,996 --> 00:28:54,133
hundreds and possibly even
thousands of years ago.
564
00:28:54,166 --> 00:28:57,103
According to local elders,
565
00:28:57,136 --> 00:28:59,071
the location served
566
00:28:59,105 --> 00:29:02,074
as an initiation site
for young warriors.
567
00:29:02,108 --> 00:29:06,012
And it was here
that the collective wisdom
568
00:29:06,045 --> 00:29:07,546
of the land and the sky
569
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:11,750
was passed on to future
generations by the sky gods.
570
00:29:14,486 --> 00:29:17,489
We leave our images
on the cave walls,
571
00:29:17,523 --> 00:29:19,158
such as our handprints,
572
00:29:19,191 --> 00:29:21,360
from the time we are,
uh, children.
573
00:29:21,393 --> 00:29:27,066
This would be done
generation after generation.
574
00:29:27,099 --> 00:29:30,269
The Blue Mountains
is a very sacred area,
575
00:29:30,302 --> 00:29:32,138
a sacred place,
576
00:29:32,171 --> 00:29:35,107
especially the highest places,
577
00:29:35,141 --> 00:29:37,576
because we were being
closer to Baiame,
578
00:29:37,609 --> 00:29:40,012
closer to God.
579
00:29:44,316 --> 00:29:47,386
NARRATOR: Mount Yengo--
the original point of descent
580
00:29:47,419 --> 00:29:50,056
of the Aboriginal
creator god, Baiame--
581
00:29:50,089 --> 00:29:51,590
is located here,
582
00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:54,226
within the Blue Mountain range.
583
00:29:54,260 --> 00:29:58,998
And curiously, the area
is also well-known today
584
00:29:59,031 --> 00:30:01,133
for the mysterious
disappearances
585
00:30:01,167 --> 00:30:03,002
of numerous hikers...
586
00:30:03,035 --> 00:30:05,838
campers...
587
00:30:05,872 --> 00:30:09,008
and soldiers...
588
00:30:09,041 --> 00:30:13,312
in addition
to countless UFO sightings.
589
00:30:16,883 --> 00:30:19,618
Australia's Blue Mountains have
become internationally known
590
00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:23,055
as a hot spot for UFO sightings
and other mysteries.
591
00:30:24,924 --> 00:30:28,394
There is certainly a lot of
mystery in the Blue Mountains.
592
00:30:28,427 --> 00:30:31,263
Campers, bushwalkers,
explorers...
593
00:30:31,297 --> 00:30:34,166
all have got tales of mystery,
594
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,335
disappearing people,
595
00:30:36,368 --> 00:30:39,038
strange tunnels,
596
00:30:39,071 --> 00:30:40,873
strange noises
597
00:30:40,907 --> 00:30:43,409
and strange creature sightings.
598
00:30:45,945 --> 00:30:50,917
The UFO sightings
of the Blue Mountains
599
00:30:50,950 --> 00:30:53,920
have triggered many magazine
articles, radio shows and books.
600
00:30:53,953 --> 00:30:55,888
A lot of people
have come forward
601
00:30:55,922 --> 00:30:57,556
over the last few decades
to document
602
00:30:57,589 --> 00:31:01,928
and put onto the record
their own experiences.
603
00:31:01,961 --> 00:31:05,364
We have a great tradition
of some hundreds of sightings.
604
00:31:05,397 --> 00:31:07,366
I myself have gathered
605
00:31:07,399 --> 00:31:11,203
about 600,
800 sightings or so of UFOs.
606
00:31:11,237 --> 00:31:14,941
And it's growing all the time,
in my own lifetime.
607
00:31:14,974 --> 00:31:19,578
We have stories of UFOs
amongst early pioneer settlers
608
00:31:19,611 --> 00:31:23,315
dating back to... 1850,
thereabouts.
609
00:31:23,349 --> 00:31:27,486
There's a story
from about the 1890s
610
00:31:27,519 --> 00:31:31,490
of a farmer who was
plowing his field and a craft,
611
00:31:31,523 --> 00:31:34,426
a silver craft,
came over the cliffs.
612
00:31:36,963 --> 00:31:40,132
He stood there and watched it
while it disappeared.
613
00:31:44,403 --> 00:31:48,640
It came back after dark
and landed there.
614
00:31:48,674 --> 00:31:52,511
And he grabbed his rifle
and went out to see
615
00:31:52,544 --> 00:31:55,982
what was going on,
and the craft took off again.
616
00:31:59,018 --> 00:32:00,486
I would suggest
that the Blue Mountains
617
00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:03,122
have served as a contact point
for E.T.s
618
00:32:03,155 --> 00:32:05,691
from an advanced
civilization in space.
619
00:32:08,694 --> 00:32:10,462
CAROLINE CORY:
What is interesting to note
620
00:32:10,496 --> 00:32:12,498
is that there are
621
00:32:12,531 --> 00:32:16,302
several umbilical cords
on the planet.
622
00:32:16,335 --> 00:32:19,205
This particular location
is located exactly
623
00:32:19,238 --> 00:32:22,975
at -33 latitude.
624
00:32:23,009 --> 00:32:25,444
Which means
it is aligned specifically
625
00:32:25,477 --> 00:32:28,981
with the center of the galaxy.
626
00:32:29,015 --> 00:32:32,284
Now having said that,
there's an interesting parallel
627
00:32:32,318 --> 00:32:35,154
with the 33 latitude
628
00:32:35,187 --> 00:32:37,423
on Planet Earth.
629
00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:40,192
And that particular point
is considered to be
630
00:32:40,226 --> 00:32:43,095
continuously being visited
631
00:32:43,129 --> 00:32:45,664
from different parts
of the planetary system,
632
00:32:45,697 --> 00:32:48,534
from different parts
of the galaxy,
633
00:32:48,567 --> 00:32:50,436
and even from beyond
this galaxy,
634
00:32:50,469 --> 00:32:53,105
from way out in the universe.
635
00:32:58,377 --> 00:33:00,046
MAN:
Wow.
636
00:33:00,079 --> 00:33:01,347
WOMAN:
Yeah, did you see that thing?
637
00:33:05,484 --> 00:33:09,055
CHILDRESS:
There is a lot of UFO activity.
638
00:33:09,088 --> 00:33:13,425
So here, we have something
that would be like a stargate,
639
00:33:13,459 --> 00:33:17,463
some portal to another dimension
and jumping to hyperspace,
640
00:33:17,496 --> 00:33:20,499
perhaps, and for some reason,
641
00:33:20,532 --> 00:33:24,103
Australia was the place
where they put
642
00:33:24,136 --> 00:33:29,041
this hyperspace portal that is
used by extraterrestrials.
643
00:33:29,075 --> 00:33:32,478
NARRATOR: Could the Blue
Mountains of Australia function
644
00:33:32,511 --> 00:33:36,115
as an extraterrestrial gateway?
645
00:33:36,148 --> 00:33:38,784
Might this explain
the strange phenomena
646
00:33:38,817 --> 00:33:43,255
reported in and around the area?
647
00:33:43,289 --> 00:33:47,293
But if so,
is there some connection
648
00:33:47,326 --> 00:33:51,497
to the local Aboriginal tribe?
649
00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:55,267
DUNCAN: There is stories
that elders would say
650
00:33:55,301 --> 00:33:57,403
that some people
had actually traveled
651
00:33:57,436 --> 00:34:00,772
back to the Morning Star...
652
00:34:00,806 --> 00:34:03,642
and have come back again.
653
00:34:03,675 --> 00:34:06,812
That's not so much
of an abduction,
654
00:34:06,845 --> 00:34:08,614
but they have basically went--
655
00:34:08,647 --> 00:34:11,250
have gone back there
and come back.
656
00:34:13,885 --> 00:34:15,387
ROADS:
The Australian Aborigines
657
00:34:15,421 --> 00:34:18,190
have a connection
and a relationship
658
00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:20,492
with what we call
extraterrestrials and UFOs,
659
00:34:20,526 --> 00:34:22,828
which goes back
tens of thousands of years.
660
00:34:24,430 --> 00:34:27,399
They're rather nonplussed
by their existence.
661
00:34:27,433 --> 00:34:29,568
They have developed
662
00:34:29,601 --> 00:34:33,239
an awareness of individual
types of visitors
663
00:34:33,272 --> 00:34:37,143
from what we'd call outer space.
664
00:34:37,176 --> 00:34:38,577
This is not new.
665
00:34:38,610 --> 00:34:41,413
This has happened
thousands of times before.
666
00:34:41,447 --> 00:34:42,881
How do we know that?
667
00:34:42,914 --> 00:34:45,351
From all of the remnants
that are left behind
668
00:34:45,384 --> 00:34:47,386
by the ancients.
669
00:34:47,419 --> 00:34:49,488
Only a fool could say, "Oh, no.
670
00:34:49,521 --> 00:34:51,223
"We're the only ones here
671
00:34:51,257 --> 00:34:54,860
in this vast amount of space."
672
00:35:00,166 --> 00:35:03,302
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
Australians really
673
00:35:03,335 --> 00:35:07,906
have an ongoing relationship
to otherworldly beings?
674
00:35:07,939 --> 00:35:11,177
Beings who have been
visiting the continent
675
00:35:11,210 --> 00:35:13,612
for thousands of years?
676
00:35:13,645 --> 00:35:17,316
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest further evidence
677
00:35:17,349 --> 00:35:20,452
of extraterrestrial contact
can be found
678
00:35:20,486 --> 00:35:24,323
by examining
the Aboriginal rituals known
679
00:35:24,356 --> 00:35:25,757
as "dreaming."
680
00:35:32,764 --> 00:35:34,800
NARRATOR:
As the bustling streets
681
00:35:34,833 --> 00:35:37,369
of Sydney fill
with workers and tourists--
682
00:35:37,403 --> 00:35:40,239
over 500 miles away,
683
00:35:40,272 --> 00:35:43,642
Aboriginal elders
known as "men of learning"
684
00:35:43,675 --> 00:35:47,446
prepare
for a dreaming ceremony.
685
00:35:47,479 --> 00:35:51,917
Dreaming is sacred
to the culture
686
00:35:51,950 --> 00:35:54,653
and represents
a complex spiritual concept
687
00:35:54,686 --> 00:35:58,257
that transcends linear time.
688
00:36:00,959 --> 00:36:03,529
JAGAMARRA:
In the beginning,
689
00:36:03,562 --> 00:36:06,665
there was great spirit.
690
00:36:06,698 --> 00:36:09,501
From the stars they came,
691
00:36:09,535 --> 00:36:11,537
and they came down
692
00:36:11,570 --> 00:36:14,172
to this place.
693
00:36:15,641 --> 00:36:17,376
YOUNG:
The elders,
694
00:36:17,409 --> 00:36:20,279
the spiritual leaders
of the Aboriginal peoples,
695
00:36:20,312 --> 00:36:23,582
will-will not only chant,
but use hypnotic techniques
696
00:36:23,615 --> 00:36:26,552
like the didgeridoo,
which makes this humming sound.
697
00:36:26,585 --> 00:36:29,187
(didgeridoo droning)
698
00:36:32,991 --> 00:36:35,394
(singing in native language)
699
00:36:35,427 --> 00:36:38,530
It will take you
into an altered state.
700
00:36:40,666 --> 00:36:45,504
It takes them into connection
with the Dreamtime,
701
00:36:45,537 --> 00:36:47,606
the unseen worlds,
702
00:36:47,639 --> 00:36:49,475
to commune with the ancestors,
703
00:36:49,508 --> 00:36:52,578
the sky gods.
704
00:36:52,611 --> 00:36:56,582
The Dreamtime
is this vast storehouse
705
00:36:56,615 --> 00:36:58,317
of accumulated wisdom
706
00:36:58,350 --> 00:37:02,288
and images and stories.
707
00:37:02,321 --> 00:37:04,423
And it's like other traditions
that believe there is a place
708
00:37:04,456 --> 00:37:06,758
that everything
that has happened is recorded
709
00:37:06,792 --> 00:37:11,397
and can be reached by the elders
through their altered states.
710
00:37:11,430 --> 00:37:14,566
(chanting)
711
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,404
THOMPSON: There's probably
no more fundamental concept
712
00:37:18,437 --> 00:37:21,873
in Aboriginal cosmology than
the concept of the dreaming.
713
00:37:21,907 --> 00:37:25,377
Sometimes this is referred
to as "the Dreamtime."
714
00:37:25,411 --> 00:37:29,381
And this is the idea of this
mythic beginnings of the world,
715
00:37:29,415 --> 00:37:32,751
but it's important in that it's
a sort of transcendent time.
716
00:37:32,784 --> 00:37:34,486
And what I mean by that is
in their view,
717
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:35,854
it's never gone away.
718
00:37:39,325 --> 00:37:41,993
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
719
00:37:42,027 --> 00:37:45,397
that in many ways,
the concept of Dreamtime
720
00:37:45,431 --> 00:37:49,468
mirrors the ancient Hindu idea
of the Akashic record...
721
00:37:49,501 --> 00:37:53,038
a collection of past, present,
722
00:37:53,071 --> 00:37:56,442
and future knowledge
believed to be encoded
723
00:37:56,475 --> 00:37:58,644
in a non-physical existence
724
00:37:58,677 --> 00:38:01,480
known as the astral plane.
725
00:38:03,415 --> 00:38:06,585
HENRY: The Akashic records are
sort of like a giant hologram,
726
00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,655
a holographic world that we can
step into to gain wisdom,
727
00:38:09,688 --> 00:38:11,657
access knowledge...
728
00:38:11,690 --> 00:38:13,792
perhaps even to connect
729
00:38:13,825 --> 00:38:17,329
with extraterrestrial beings.
730
00:38:17,363 --> 00:38:20,666
It's pretty remarkable that the
Aborigines would have a concept,
731
00:38:20,699 --> 00:38:24,503
the Dreamtime, that matches
not only the Akashic records,
732
00:38:24,536 --> 00:38:28,374
but also the idea
of a holographic paradigm.
733
00:38:29,875 --> 00:38:32,678
NARRATOR:
In 1997,
734
00:38:32,711 --> 00:38:36,415
theoretical physicists
proposed a revolutionary idea
735
00:38:36,448 --> 00:38:39,551
called the holographic paradigm.
736
00:38:39,585 --> 00:38:43,054
Curiously, this theory
mirrors the ancient concept
737
00:38:43,088 --> 00:38:46,425
shared by
the indigenous Australians
738
00:38:46,458 --> 00:38:49,428
and also the Hindu tradition.
739
00:38:49,461 --> 00:38:51,497
The holographic universe theory
740
00:38:51,530 --> 00:38:54,099
suggests that
the world that we see
741
00:38:54,132 --> 00:38:57,536
is a mere projection
from a 2-D space.
742
00:38:57,569 --> 00:39:00,372
What we perceive
as physical objects
743
00:39:00,406 --> 00:39:04,943
are actually
projected fragments of data.
744
00:39:04,976 --> 00:39:08,414
YOUNG:
There is a fascinating idea
745
00:39:08,447 --> 00:39:12,150
that perhaps the universe
is not three-dimensional.
746
00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:14,119
That it's a projection
747
00:39:14,152 --> 00:39:16,755
from a two-dimensional slide
of some kind.
748
00:39:16,788 --> 00:39:19,691
That it's a-a hologram--
749
00:39:19,725 --> 00:39:22,561
something like The Matrix,
in the movie--
750
00:39:22,594 --> 00:39:26,832
and that we are walking around
inside of what seems like 3-D,
751
00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:29,935
but in fact is an illusion.
752
00:39:31,503 --> 00:39:32,738
NARRATOR:
While this incredible theory
753
00:39:32,771 --> 00:39:35,173
may seem far-fetched,
754
00:39:35,206 --> 00:39:39,878
in 2013, researchers
at Ibaraki University in Japan
755
00:39:39,911 --> 00:39:44,716
found that the theoretical model
is mathematically feasible
756
00:39:44,750 --> 00:39:49,621
and might actually be correct.
757
00:39:49,655 --> 00:39:51,156
CHILDRESS:
We have this parallel
758
00:39:51,189 --> 00:39:53,825
between the Aboriginal
Dreamtime,
759
00:39:53,859 --> 00:39:56,027
the Hindu Akashic record,
760
00:39:56,061 --> 00:39:58,764
and the Holographic
Universe Theory--
761
00:39:58,797 --> 00:40:00,666
what would appear to be
762
00:40:00,699 --> 00:40:04,636
some kind
of extraterrestrial technology
763
00:40:04,670 --> 00:40:07,639
that's putting all
the information of the universe
764
00:40:07,673 --> 00:40:10,008
into one spot.
765
00:40:12,611 --> 00:40:13,912
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
766
00:40:13,945 --> 00:40:16,782
that the Aboriginal elders
are tapping
767
00:40:16,815 --> 00:40:20,452
into an otherworldly plane when
they perform their ceremonies?
768
00:40:20,486 --> 00:40:23,489
A plane that our greatest
scientific minds
769
00:40:23,522 --> 00:40:26,658
don't yet fully understand?
770
00:40:26,692 --> 00:40:29,928
If so,
does this provide evidence
771
00:40:29,961 --> 00:40:34,766
of a maintained connection
between this indigenous culture
772
00:40:34,800 --> 00:40:37,669
and advanced
extraterrestrial beings?
773
00:40:42,107 --> 00:40:45,711
TSOUKALOS: We have to remind
ourselves that the Aboriginals
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are our last direct connection
to our extraterrestrial past.
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It would behoove us to listen,
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because one thing
is clear to me today--
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their stories
are very clear in their message
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that we are not alone
in the universe.
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DUNCAN:
We are the extraterrestrials.
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Our body is made up
of this earth,
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00:41:11,169 --> 00:41:15,273
but our spirit comes
from the Morning Star.
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00:41:15,306 --> 00:41:17,943
We come from another place,
from another world.
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00:41:17,976 --> 00:41:21,980
We were brought here a long
time ago to populate this place
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everyone now calls Earth.
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NARRATOR: Might the Aboriginal
Wisdom Keepers serve
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as a direct link to
our extraterrestrial creators?
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And could there be messages
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left behind for mankind encoded
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in their sacred traditions?
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00:41:44,069 --> 00:41:47,639
As we stand at the threshold
of a new level
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of science and understanding,
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00:41:50,241 --> 00:41:53,712
perhaps we will discover
that the stories
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00:41:53,745 --> 00:41:56,014
of the world's
oldest living culture
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not only reveal
our true origins...
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but also our destiny.
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