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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: This design has been taken

from a text that's at least

1,800 years old.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: Our vehicle

was showing positive lift,

like an aircraft would.

TSOUKALOS: So the information contained

in the ancient texts is indeed accurate.

PRAVEEN MOHAN: Now, this is a vast medical text

and it's considered the foundation

of traditional Indian medicine.

TSOUKALOS: Oh, so this is the basis

for Ayurvedic medicine?

MOHAN: Yes. This book was written

more than a 100 years before Hippocrates,

the father of modern medicine.

Incredible.

There is information about science,

technology, and medicine

preserved in ancient India.

Where did the ancestors receive this information?

Aliens. People from other planet.

*

NARRATOR: India.

Home to over 1.3 billion people.

It is the second most populous nation in the world.

Although it is home

to some of mankind's oldest civilizations,

India has, in recent years,

also undergone rapid modernization.

The city of Bangalore, for example,

is the headquarters of literally thousands

of information technology companies,

and has been ranked as one of the most high-tech cities

in the world.

But these advancements also coexist

with the country's ancient origins.

Roughly 80% of the Indian population

practices Hinduism.

And for the Hindu faithful,

their gods are not mythological creatures,

but are real flesh-and-blood beings

that have, at times, been present here on Earth.

For the Indian people,

the basis of their religion is essential

to the fabric of their lives.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Many of the faithful, to this day,

see these accounts not as fanciful, but as history.

They take it literally

that the gods walked among human beings

and conveyed knowledge.

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.

NARRATOR: The foundation of Hinduism

is carefully preserved in India's most ancient texts.

And according to their traditions,

these texts are accounts

given directly by the gods themselves,

and only transcribed by humans.

This collection includes the Vedas,

or Hindu scriptures,

as well as other manuscripts

written in the early Sanskrit language.

Vedic scholars suggest knowledge

pertaining to architecture, science,

technology, weaponry, and medicine

are preserved in meticulous detail in these works.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: The origins of the Vedic text

goes back to cosmic time.

They have been around

for thousands of thousands of years.

It is believed that the knowledge

came directly from gods.

DAVID WILCOCK: We are seeing a handbook of the gods.

We are looking at an endowment from some superior intelligence

that appears to have been given to us as a very practical guide

in ways that benefit humankind

all across the board.

NARRATOR: But if the ancient texts of India

are truly attributable to the extraterrestrial gods,

just what information do they contain?

Sirpur, India.

The Surang Tila Temple.

This structure,

which dates back to the seventh century AD,

was recently unearthed after being buried

by a powerful earthquake

that occurred in the 11th century.

Although the rest of the area

was completely leveled,

the structure itself

remained largely intact.

Archaeologists suggest

that this is due to the advanced construction techniques,

known as Ayurvedic or Vedic architecture,

utilized by its builders.

The principles they used are derived

from the ancient science of design

that can be traced back to the ancient Indian texts.

In March 2017,

researcher and ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to India

to meet with archaeologist Dr. Arun Sharma,

who headed the dig.

This is beautiful.

Mm-hmm.

Really?

Now, is this considered

Ayurvedic architecture, right here?

That's amazing. Huh.

Okay.

NARRATOR: Although much of the site

has been renovated using modern concrete,

blocks held together by the Ayurvedic paste

can still be found.

It seems to be almost like a... s-some type of glue.

NARRATOR: The glue-like substance

is said to form a bond

that is at least 20 times stronger than concrete.

But modern builders have been unwilling

to entertain the notion that such an ancient concoction

could be superior to today's building materials.

Wow, look at this.

Beautiful.

NARRATOR: The detailed instructions

for making this paste can be found

in an ancient Indian text

known as the Mayamatam--

a manuscript dedicated to construction techniques.

The information contained within the document

is understood to have been passed down to humans

from Mayasura,

the ancient king of the demigods,

who was said to oversee

various construction projects on Earth,

including cities in the sky.

This, right here?

NARRATOR: Curiously, there is a more astounding

earthquake-proof feature at the site

which indicates that advanced knowledge

was used in its construction.

Located at key points within the Surang Tila Temple

are several 80-foot long shafts

designed to form air pockets

that can dissipate the impact of seismic events.

Yes, please.

All right.

Wow.

Oh, wow, this is big.

It's a huge book.

And-and this text has been around

for 4,500 years?

In your opinion, where did this knowledge come from?

Uh-huh.

And you think that this knowledge

originated from the stars?

That's amazing.

NARRATOR: According to the Hindu faithful,

the construction techniques used

at the Surang Tila Temple

are just one example of advanced technology

detailed in the ancient Sanskrit texts.

Other works are said to contain information

far beyond the scope of early man--

perhaps even providing concrete proof

of extraterrestrial activity on Earth.

Coming up... NARRATOR: The Indus Valley.

Northwest India and Pakistan.

June 2011.

Paleontologists discover a 4,300-year-old skull

featuring multiple drilled holes in it.

Remarkably, they conclude

these are signs that brain surgery was performed.

And it even appears that the operation was successful,

as the wound showed signs of advanced healing.

NOORY: In ancient India, they performed

incredible kinds of medicine

and surgical procedures on people.

Things like operating on the skull.

What's fascinating about this is...

is this kind of advanced medical knowledge

goes way back, way back.

And they were able to use those techniques

to heal people.

NARRATOR: Vedic scholars suggest that not only

were the ancient Hindus able to perform brain surgery,

but other advanced procedures as well.

And much of this medical knowledge

was set to record in a Sanskrit text

dating back to 800 BC,

known as the Sushruta Samhita.

In 2017 at a local library

in Mahabalipuram, India,

Giorgio Tsoukalos

meets with fellow ancient astronaut theorist

Praveen Mohan to take a closer look at the text.

Now this is a, uh, vast medical text

that contains information

about more than 11,000 illnesses.

Uh, it talks about 700 medicinal plants,

64 preparations from mineral resources,

57 preparations from animal resources,

and it's considered the foundation of Ayurveda,

the traditional Indian medicine.

Oh, so this is the basis

-for Ayurvedic medicine right here. -Yes, yes.

I was able to find a passage. I thought you might find it,

-you know, interesting. -Mm-hmm.

Right here.

Now you can see where it says

that surgical operations are of eight types.

They are incising,

excising, scraping, puncturing,

probing, extracting,

secreting fluids, and even suturing.

-So imagine, we had suturing 2,600 years ago. -Mm-hmm.

And this book was written

more than a hundred years before Hippocrates,

the father of modern medicine.

That is amazing. And how was this information obtained?

Like, what's the story behind this?

Well, the title Sushruta Samhita

means that the author Sushruta

is not really the author.

He did not write this book.

He got this information from a character called Dhanvantari,

who was an otherworldly being.

NARRATOR: Dhanvantari is believed

to be the physician to the gods

and the father of Ayurvedic medicine.

SHIMKHADA: Dhanvantari himself has a divine origin

associated with the churning of the milky ocean.

The churning of the milk of sea

refers to, perhaps, uh, the Milky Way.

Dhanvantari came out of that

and then he was the god of medicine.

And he, then, gave this knowledge of medicine

to human beings.

TSOUKALOS: Dhanvantari was said

to have originated from the Milky Way.

And so, all of a sudden, you have a connection

with this deity arriving from the Milky Way.

Well, what more do you want?

The knowledge contained in this document,

known as the Sushruta Samhita, was brought here

by an extraterrestrial visitor.

NARRATOR: Ayurvedic medicine is considered

one of the world's oldest and most detailed healing sciences.

Is it possible that it was really handed down to mankind

by alien sources?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that other texts clearly reveal

this extraterrestrial connection.

Mumbai University.

Kalina, India.

January 2015.

The Indian Science Congress

presents talks on various technical disciplines

to an audience of some of India's top engineers.

Included in the list of presentations

is a lecture on "Ancient Indian Aviation Technology"

given by retired pilot and flight instructor

Captain Anand J. Bodas.

In his lecture, Captain Anand Bodas told young engineers

that they should recreate what is given in ancient Vedic texts,

because in the field of aviation,

there are much more advanced devices mentioned

than what we have today.

NOORY: This was a very controversial talk

because you had one camp that thought

that the ancient civilizations of India

possessed incredible flying technology,

yet you then had that other camp

that said this is crazy, it's nonsense.

But something was going on

many, many, many, many thousands of years ago,

and they presented evidence and documented facts

that they had flying machines

that were capable of doing incredible things.

How did they know this?

NARRATOR: Captain Bodas is just the latest

in a long line of researchers to suggest

that the ancient texts contained actual information

about lost technology pertaining to aerial vehicles,

often referred to in the texts as "vimanas."

In 1895, a full eight years before

the Wright Brothers successfully launched their flying machine,

Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade

tested an aircraft he fashioned based solely on information

gleaned from the ancient Indian writings.

JOHN BRANDENBURG: Talpade, in India,

was a student of the Vedic scriptures.

And he decided to try and construct

one of the vimana flying craft

that were seen in the, um, Vedic scriptures.

MOHAN: The first aircraft of Talpade

was called, "Marutsakha,"

which means, "friend of the wind."

He was able to fly this aircraft

in front of thousands of people in Mumbai Beach.

TAYLOR: The legend has it that he flew for,

like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.

The Wright brothers only went 120 feet for 12 seconds.

If this is true, that changes aviation history dramatically.

But even more exciting is that he based his design

on something written thousands of years

before mankind even thought flying was possible.

NARRATOR: In 2017, Kavya Vaddadi,

an aircraft design engineer in Delhi, India,

was able to re-create the Marutsakha

as a digital 3D model utilizing the same information contained

in the texts that Talpade studied.

She shared her digital file

with aerospace systems engineer Travis Taylor,

so he could 3D print it in order to test

its aerodynamic properties in a wind tunnel.

But just how would this ancient design hold up

when put to the test?

NARRATOR: University of California at Irvine.

April 2017.

Aerospace engineer Travis Taylor

has obtained a model of an aircraft

whose design specifications are based solely

on information gleaned

from ancient Indian texts that are believed

to have been formally set to writing in 500 BC.

He is going to subject it to wind tunnel analysis

to determine if it is a viable flying machine.

So explain to me what we've set up here with that wind tunnel.

Okay, so this is our aerospace vehicle model.

It's connected to this boom.

The armature has a force gauge on it.

But we're gonna have airflow go past it

-at about 50 miles per hour or so. -Okay.

And then we're gonna measure forces against it

to determine if, uh, if it's gonna fly or not.

And so, what are the signs that you're looking for

in order to determine whether this is,

-in fact, aerodynamically sound? -Right.

So we're gonna measure the, uh, normal force.

And the normal force is up or down.

Uh, if it starts to move up, then that'll be exciting,

because it's actually going to be rising

and that's how you get flight. You know, when the airplane

turns up, and it starts to move, it's because it's getting lift.

Uh, the other thing is, I don't want to see it

going real bad side to side,

or real bad chatter up and down,

because that would mean it's unstable.

All right. Well, let's do it.

Let's fire her up and see what happens.

Yeah, let's do it.

(whirring)

-The flow's coming up to speed. -Yep.

NARRATOR: While being subjected to 50-mile-an-hour winds,

the craft exhibits a slight lift upwards

yet remains relatively steady.

TAYLOR: No side-to-side wobble.

Okay.

NARRATOR: Sensors record the measurements of various forces,

as well as torque and pitch, to determine

just how aerodynamic the body is.

It looks very stable.

All right.

So let's look at the results.

So what happened during the test was the normal force,

which is where we measure the lift,

it was positive between .03 and .06 pounds of force.

-That means we were measuring lift. -Okay.

So our vehicle in the wind tunnel experiment

was showing positive lift like an aircraft would.

Did you expect these results from a shape that's like that?

Well, the shape looks like a lifting body to me.

But you never know until you actually do the experiment.

And we have experimental results now that says it is.

So that's the exciting part.

And-and what do you say to anyone who questions

the idea that this information has been taken

from a text that's at least 1,800 years old?

The only thing you can say is

we performed a good scientific experiment.

And the results were

that the shape made from those texts

is a viable aerodynamic structure.

NARRATOR: The aircraft model created

using details garnered from the ancient Indian texts

has proven to be flight-worthy.

Is it possible that, by studying the ancient Indian texts,

we may be able to recreate advanced technology

that existed thousands of years ago in India?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the texts may also contain details

for advanced spacecraft.

Hindu scholars point out that stories of space travel

can be found throughout the pages

of the ancient Sanskrit texts.

There are even detailed accounts

of humans entering flying crafts

and being transported to other solar systems.

MOHAN: In the ancient text of Vishnu Purana,

Lord Vishnu decides to take Dhruva,

a human being,

through an interstellar journey.

We know this because it is specifically stated

that Dhruva would be taken beyond

planets like Mercury, Venus,

and even beyond some other stars.

DAVID CHILDRESS: According to the text,

he went past seven planetary systems

in a physical craft,

and eventually he reached the solar system

and planet of Vishnu Loka,

the planet that Vishnu is said to have come from.

So here we have the story of extraterrestrials taking

a human to another solar system.

NARRATOR: Although few details exist

of the craft Dhruva was transported in,

scholars have noted that highly specific descriptions

of space vehicles can be found throughout the texts.

In 2014,

in an article in the Journal of Engineering

and Innovative Technology

titled "Vedic Ion Engine,"

a team of aerospace scientists posed the theory

that what is being described in a 1,000-year-old text

called the Samarangana Sutradhara

is a modern ion mercury vortex engine

used for space travel.

TAYLOR: In the Samarangana Sutradhara text,

there's a description of an engine that uses mercury,

and the mercury swirls in a vortex

and it uses the heat from, perhaps, solar power

to create some type of flying capability.

My thought on this is it sounds a lot like an ion engine.

MARC RAYMAN: The concept for ion engines has actually been around

for more than 100 years.

Now, the way it works is xenon gas,

which is like helium or neon but heavier,

is introduced into a chamber here.

And it's ionized, which means it's given an electric charge.

And once it has an electric charge, a voltage

applied between this grid and one just behind it

causes the xenon to shoot out of the engine.

Well, the action of the xenon going out this direction

causes a reaction that pushes the spacecraft

in the other direction.

And that's how the ion thruster propels the spacecraft.

You heat the ions up,

and then you accelerate them out the back end of the spacecraft.

It puts out a small amount of thrust,

but for a very long time.

And that's why ion engines are uniquely perfect

for interspace travel.

NARRATOR: In 2007,

NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft,

which used a conventional multistage chemical rocket

to blast off from Earth,

but then switched to an ion engine

for its journey through deep space.

Crucial to that mission was an ion thruster.

And it gets its energy from solar panels.

So here you have this solar-powered ion thruster

with this vortex in the middle of it going out

to the asteroid belt,

and it's described in Sanskrit texts.

NARRATOR: If information detailing

previously lost technology was purposely left

for humans to rediscover,

are we now sufficiently advanced to successfully replicate it?

And if so, are there any other developments beyond

ancient space travel that scientists have been able

to exploit?

Coming up... *

NARRATOR: Mahabalipuram, India.

While at a local library

with fellow ancient astronaut theorist Praveen Mohan,

Giorgio Tsoukalos gets a firsthand look at early copies

of some of India's most important ancient texts.

And now let me show you the other book.

This is the Bhagavad Gita.

NARRATOR: Among the most influential

is the Bhagavad Gita,

part of the 13,000-page epic

called the Mahabharata,

which contains 19 individual books.

Historians think this text was written around 500 BC,

so this book is 2,500 years old.

-Okay. -But according to "mythology,"

this was supposed to be written at least 10,000 years ago.

(chuckling): Okay.

It's a very popular book, and some people even say

atomic science is hidden in this book.

Not just regular people, but modern physicists.

So the argument can be made that the knowledge of,

-for example, the atom is contained in a book -Mm-hmm.

-Yes. -...that is at least 2,500 years old?

And some stories say

-that it was given by an otherworldly being. -Yes.

-Okay. -Even Robert Oppenheimer,

who is the father of atomic bomb,

-uh, was fascinated by this book. -Mm-hmm.

-Really? Wow. -Yes.

TSOUKALOS: Okay, that's interesting.

NARRATOR: Jornada del Muerto Desert, New Mexico.

July 16, 1945.

In the middle of the barren Alamogordo Bombing

and Gunnery Range,

scientists detonate the first man-made nuclear weapon.

The destruction was comparable to no other weapon known to man.

The father of the atomic bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer,

the leader of the Manhattan Project,

a secret government program created

to develop such a weapon.

Oppenheimer, when he saw the successful nuclear test

and realized what a terrible weapon he was unleashing,

he quoted the Bhagavad Gita's

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

NARRATOR: Oppenheimer's interest in ancient Sanskrit literature

began while he was a professor

at the University of California, Berkeley

and was introduced to the texts

by renowned scholar Arthur W. Ryder.

Under Ryder's tutelage,

Oppenheimer extensively studied the Vedic scriptures

and became proficient in Sanskrit.

According to his biographers,

he kept a hardcover of the Bhagavad Gita on his bookshelf

and was known to give copies away to his friends as gifts.

BRANDENBURG: One of the ideas that's deep

within the Vedic scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita,

is the idea of duty.

He felt it was his duty to do this,

even though it would be a terrible thing, he realized,

to develop this new nuclear weapon.

So he believed he was part of a cosmic cycle

and we had to do this to advance.

Perhaps he knew that by developing the atomic bomb,

we were actually reconnecting with technologies

that we had been exposed to many thousands of years before.

NARRATOR: One of the key ideas found within the Indian texts

is the concept of the cyclical nature of existence,

that once we complete a cosmic cycle,

it just begins once more.

Oppenheimer himself came to see

that he was, in a sense, fulfilling some ancient destiny

and that this weapon could ultimately be used

to stop a major war, which is exactly what happened.

It totally broke the momentum of World War II.

In that sense, he was seeing that he was, in some way,

fulfilling a destiny that came to him

from a seemingly supernatural source,

i.e. extraterrestrial gods who influenced ancient India.

NARRATOR: If Oppenheimer's work on the atomic bomb

was inspired by the ancient Indian texts,

could this mean that similar weapons actually existed

on Earth thousands of years ago?

Thar Desert.

Rajasthan, India.

1992.

Engineers conducting soil sampling at a site

where a housing development was to be built

discover a heavy layer of radioactive ash under the soil.

Further examination reveals the contamination stretches

across a three-square-mile area of the desert.

MOHAN: After cordoning off the area,

scientists unearthed a city

with completely demolished buildings.

HENRY: Scientists have discovered a radioactive ash

that they believe dates to 8,000 to 12,000 years ago

that shows evidence of a nuclear blast in ancient times.

This is very interesting because the Sanskrit texts

describe exactly this type of occurrence in this era

in ancient times.

NARRATOR: In the Ramayana,

one of the major ancient Sanskrit epics,

a mighty weapon of the god Brahma called the Brahmastra

is described as a weapon of immense power

intended to rain down destruction from above.

Brahma provided this weapon to the hero Rama

as a last resort after all conventional means of warfare

failed in his battle against the demon king.

SHIMKHADA: The Brahmastra is the deadliest weapon there is

in the history of humankind.

It is like a nuclear device, uh, that can be detonated,

and then it will have a very devastating effect.

Once it was fired, its effect fell on a lot of animals,

and then they dropped dead.

And also, people started losing their nails,

their hair, and they could not breathe.

LAYNE LITTLE: Rama fires the Brahmastra weapon

upon Dhrumatulya.

It is commonly accepted that this is in Rajasthan,

in Pakistan.

It's the 19th-largest desert

in the world.

NARRATOR: Does the layer of radioactive ash,

recently discovered in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan,

provide proof that the stories recorded

in the ancient scriptures have merit?

NARRATOR: Nuclear warfare,

space travel, flying craft...

might there be greater truth about our technological past

revealed in the ancient Indian texts?

And if so, are they simply a guide

to move us forward, as a warning

for mankind's impending fate?

NARRATOR: Ranakpur, India.

The Chaumukha Jain Temple.

Built in the 15th century AD, this place of worship

is dedicated to the Jains' first teacher god, Rishabhanatha,

who is credited with the task of civilizing human beings

and teaching them writing, mathematics,

science and agriculture.

Jainism is an ancient Indian religion

that predates Hinduism.

Jains and Hindus hold a similar belief system

relating to the cyclical nature of the Universe, karma,

and reincarnation, yet worship different gods.

For Jains, the quest for knowledge is essential

for their spiritual liberation.

And the iconography of the temple is meant to symbolize

Rishabhanatha's attainment of cosmic enlightenment.

MOHAN: The most uncanny feature

in the Temple of Ranakpur

is not on the ground, it's not on the walls,

but it is on the ceiling.

The ceiling is almost identical to images

of the Large Hadron Collider,

a particle accelerator in Switzerland.

WILCOCK: If you look at the carving on the ceiling,

you're seeing something that has a curious radial structure.

It's circular. There's bands within bands.

And then you have all of these lines that go

towards the center.

Now, there is a more-than-passing similarity

between the carving and what we're actually seeing

in the Large Hadron Collider.

NARRATOR: The 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider,

or LHC, is the world's largest and most powerful

particle accelerator.

It was created to smash tiny protons together

at speeds of nearly 670 million miles per hour,

roughly the speed of light.

The total energy produced by the collisions is believed

to reproduce similar states to those that existed

moments after the Big Bang,

the event that many scientists believe was responsible

for the creation of the cosmos.

By examining these collisions, scientists can attempt to answer

the question of just how the universe began.

BRANDENBURG: The Hadron supercollider:

its purpose is to duplicate, basically,

conditions of the Big Bang,

when the universe was first created.

But one of the concerns is that since we're recreating

conditions like the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe,

some of the things running around

at the beginning of the universe

we don't want to encounter.

And this is a very difficult thing,

to face so many unknowns.

NARRATOR: Work on this subatomic realm, or quantum mechanics,

can be traced to two scientific pioneers--

Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger,

and German physicist Werner Heisenberg.

According to biographers, both Schrodinger and Heisenberg

were highly influenced by the ancient Indian texts.

WILCOCK: Heisenberg is on record saying

quantum theory will not look so unusual to anyone

who is a student of the Vedanta,

the Hindu sacred scriptures.

Well, why would he say something like that?

The Hindus had a very interesting way

of looking at the world, including this concept

of a quantum reality through what they call "trutis,"

which appear to be magnificently tiny particles that ultimately

make up all of physical reality as we know it.

BRANDENBURG: It is fascinating how these very old texts

are still relevant today,

and, in fact, may be largely responsible for the progress

in quantum mechanics in the early 20th century.

WILCOCK: This suggests that the culture

that wrote those texts

had knowledge of quantum mechanics.

The Hindu texts in some ways mirrors,

or foreshadows, things that will come later.

Perhaps these people were being guided by extraterrestrials

to protect that knowledge, so that in our time we would

look back at that and notice the similarity.

And we have to look at the possibility

that this is an endowment that has been given to us

by these extraterrestrials for a greater divine purpose.

The texts could serve as a window into our future,

and a warning that if we don't alter the course that we're on,

it could be catastrophic.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials instructed our ancestors

to record lost advanced technological knowledge

and principles,

was it meant to serve as a guidebook

to our scientifically enlightened age?

Or might it, instead, be a warning

to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of the past?

If so, what do the texts say

about where mankind is headed next?

NARRATOR: New Delhi, India.

Scholars at the National Mission of Manuscripts

set out to translate and preserve

what they estimate to be over four million

rare ancient texts related to various disciplines,

including ancient science.

Many of these texts have been preserved on palm leaves,

and are believed to be scattered in obscure locations

throughout the subcontinent.

Currently, less than ten percent of the ancient writings

of India have been published.

And no one is certain what secrets lie hidden

in these remaining undeciphered manuscripts.

Is it possible that the road map for our future

is yet to be revealed by studying

these ancient Indian texts?

BRANDENBURG: These texts should be consulted

as we evolve into a world that is full of so many unknowns,

and the Vedic scriptures are a vast storehouse of knowledge.

And by not consulting them, who knows--

we may be missing something vital.

HENRY: We would be well served

to go back to the Hindu texts

and recognize that perhaps we've been here before.

The Vedic text offers the key to us to move forward.

Conversely, it could well be that ignoring it

will be at our own peril,

and that we could, in fact, face our end.

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 this is the gods, the extraterrestrials,

giving us this information.

NARRATOR: Do the voices of the gods,

as written in the pages of India's ancient texts,

really contain information left for us to discover,

or do they convey knowledge

that we were meant to avoid?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

one fact is certain--

that mankind's extraterrestrial past

provides the key to its future.

A future that will either see us successfully avoid

the mistakes of our ancestors,

or warn us of the deadly mistakes

we are destined...

to repeat.

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