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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
2½ 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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NARRATONARRATOR: u
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?
‐Yes.
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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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Wow.
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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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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
00:26:14,629 --> 00:26:17,215
including
the first human beings.
517
00:26:19,008 --> 00:26:21,719
DUNCAN: The Rainbow Serpent,
we call Gria.
518
00:26:21,719 --> 00:26:24,097
And the Rainbow Serpent
is related
519
00:26:24,097 --> 00:26:27,350
to all Aboriginal nations
right across Australia.
520
00:26:27,350 --> 00:26:30,937
And it connects us all
as Aboriginal people,
521
00:26:30,937 --> 00:26:33,606
because it was regarded
522
00:26:33,606 --> 00:26:38,027
as a very sacred symbol
of creation.
523
00:26:38,027 --> 00:26:39,696
STRONG: An elder we're
in good contact with
524
00:26:39,696 --> 00:26:41,072
told us a story about Uluru,
525
00:26:41,072 --> 00:26:42,824
which is quite fascinating.
526
00:26:42,824 --> 00:26:45,076
That we were actually
seeded from the spear
527
00:26:45,076 --> 00:26:47,078
from the Pleiades through space.
528
00:26:50,665 --> 00:26:53,460
And it actually hit the ground,
529
00:26:53,460 --> 00:26:57,422
and where that place was
is Uluru.
530
00:26:57,422 --> 00:27:01,759
So Uluru and its creation story
with the rainbow serpent
531
00:27:01,759 --> 00:27:04,012
could perhaps even be indicative
532
00:27:04,012 --> 00:27:05,889
of an ancient astronaut
533
00:27:05,889 --> 00:27:09,017
kind of seeding moment
in‐in our history.
534
00:27:11,102 --> 00:27:14,439
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long proposed
535
00:27:14,439 --> 00:27:18,943
that Earth was seeded by alien
visitors in the remote past.
536
00:27:18,943 --> 00:27:21,654
Might this be true?
537
00:27:21,654 --> 00:27:24,616
And if so,
do the Aboriginal stories
538
00:27:24,616 --> 00:27:26,451
reflect this truth?
539
00:27:26,451 --> 00:27:29,704
When the first Europeans
arrived here,
540
00:27:29,704 --> 00:27:32,040
Captain Phillip,
who was an English sailor,
541
00:27:32,040 --> 00:27:36,669
planted the Union Jack
in Sydney,
542
00:27:36,669 --> 00:27:39,047
and he asked Aboriginal people
543
00:27:39,047 --> 00:27:43,843
around that time, he said,
"Where do you people come from?"
544
00:27:43,843 --> 00:27:48,056
And our people would always
just point to the sky.
545
00:27:48,056 --> 00:27:50,975
He couldn't believe
that such people,
546
00:27:50,975 --> 00:27:53,186
who were grounded
by Mother Earth,
547
00:27:53,186 --> 00:27:55,313
say that they come
from the sky world.
548
00:27:58,691 --> 00:28:01,152
NARRATOR: Might humanity
actually have been seeded
549
00:28:01,152 --> 00:28:03,238
on Earth from another planet,
550
00:28:03,238 --> 00:28:06,449
as the Aboriginal elders claim?
551
00:28:06,449 --> 00:28:10,370
And could this truth be encoded
in the Australian landscape,
552
00:28:10,370 --> 00:28:13,957
preserved for
future generations?
553
00:28:13,957 --> 00:28:18,086
Researchers suggest
some sacred Aboriginal sites
554
00:28:18,086 --> 00:28:22,590
continue to serve
as extraterrestrial outposts.
555
00:28:29,847 --> 00:28:32,058
(wind whistling)
556
00:28:32,058 --> 00:28:33,768
NARRATOR:
The Blue Mountains.
557
00:28:33,768 --> 00:28:35,561
Australia.
558
00:28:35,561 --> 00:28:39,107
Throughout the walls
of Red Hands Cave
559
00:28:39,107 --> 00:28:40,733
are the stenciled handprints
560
00:28:40,733 --> 00:28:45,154
of ancient Aboriginal men,
women and children.
561
00:28:45,154 --> 00:28:48,783
The art stands as a testament
562
00:28:48,783 --> 00:28:50,952
to their physical time
here on Earth,
563
00:28:50,952 --> 00:28:55,123
hundreds and possibly even
thousands of years ago.
564
00:28:55,123 --> 00:28:58,042
According to local elders,
565
00:28:58,042 --> 00:29:00,169
the location served
566
00:29:00,169 --> 00:29:03,172
as an initiation site
for young warriors.
567
00:29:03,172 --> 00:29:06,926
And it was here
that the collective wisdom
568
00:29:06,926 --> 00:29:08,761
of the land and the sky
569
00:29:08,761 --> 00:29:12,432
was passed on to future
generations by the sky gods.
570
00:29:15,601 --> 00:29:18,604
We leave our images
on the cave walls,
571
00:29:18,604 --> 00:29:20,189
such as our handprints,
572
00:29:20,189 --> 00:29:22,483
from the time we are,
uh, children.
573
00:29:22,483 --> 00:29:28,114
This would be done
generation after generation.
574
00:29:28,114 --> 00:29:31,200
The Blue Mountains
is a very sacred area,
575
00:29:31,200 --> 00:29:33,077
a sacred place,
576
00:29:33,077 --> 00:29:36,205
especially the highest places,
577
00:29:36,205 --> 00:29:38,583
because we were being
closer to Baiame,
578
00:29:38,583 --> 00:29:40,710
closer to God.
579
00:29:45,423 --> 00:29:48,509
NARRATOR: Mount Yengo‐‐
the original point of descent
580
00:29:48,509 --> 00:29:51,012
of the Aboriginal
creator god, Baiame‐‐
581
00:29:51,012 --> 00:29:52,722
is located here,
582
00:29:52,722 --> 00:29:55,308
within the Blue Mountain range.
583
00:29:55,308 --> 00:29:59,979
And curiously, the area
is also well‐known today
584
00:29:59,979 --> 00:30:02,106
for the mysterious
disappearances
585
00:30:02,106 --> 00:30:03,900
of numerous hikers...
586
00:30:03,900 --> 00:30:06,694
campers...
587
00:30:06,694 --> 00:30:10,031
and soldiers...
588
00:30:10,031 --> 00:30:14,035
in addition
to countless UFO sightings.
589
00:30:17,914 --> 00:30:20,833
Australia's Blue Mountains have
become internationally known
590
00:30:20,833 --> 00:30:23,753
as a hot spot for UFO sightings
and other mysteries.
591
00:30:26,005 --> 00:30:29,467
There is certainly a lot of
mystery in the Blue Mountains.
592
00:30:29,467 --> 00:30:32,303
Campers, bushwalkers,
explorers...
593
00:30:32,303 --> 00:30:35,139
all have got tales of mystery,
594
00:30:35,139 --> 00:30:37,308
disappearing people,
595
00:30:37,308 --> 00:30:39,977
strange tunnels,
596
00:30:39,977 --> 00:30:41,771
strange noises
597
00:30:41,771 --> 00:30:44,232
and strange creature sightings.
598
00:30:46,943 --> 00:30:52,031
The UFO sightings
of the Blue Mountains
599
00:30:52,031 --> 00:30:54,909
have triggered many magazine
articles, radio shows and books.
600
00:30:54,909 --> 00:30:56,786
A lot of people
have come forward
601
00:30:56,786 --> 00:30:58,704
over the last few decades
to document
602
00:30:58,704 --> 00:31:02,959
and put onto the record
their own experiences.
603
00:31:02,959 --> 00:31:06,337
We have a great tradition
of some hundreds of sightings.
604
00:31:06,337 --> 00:31:08,423
I myself have gathered
605
00:31:08,423 --> 00:31:12,260
about 600,
800 sightings or so of UFOs.
606
00:31:12,260 --> 00:31:16,013
And it's growing all the time,
in my own lifetime.
607
00:31:16,013 --> 00:31:20,685
We have stories of UFOs
amongst early pioneer settlers
608
00:31:20,685 --> 00:31:24,355
dating back to... 1850,
thereabouts.
609
00:31:24,355 --> 00:31:28,609
There's a story
from about the 1890s
610
00:31:28,609 --> 00:31:32,613
of a farmer who was
plowing his field and a craft,
611
00:31:32,613 --> 00:31:35,241
a silver craft,
came over the cliffs.
612
00:31:37,910 --> 00:31:40,830
He stood there and watched it
while it disappeared.
613
00:31:45,501 --> 00:31:49,797
It came back after dark
and landed there.
614
00:31:49,797 --> 00:31:53,676
And he grabbed his rifle
and went out to see
615
00:31:53,676 --> 00:31:56,637
what was going on,
and the craft took off again.
616
00:31:59,974 --> 00:32:01,601
I would suggest
that the Blue Mountains
617
00:32:01,601 --> 00:32:04,145
have served as a contact point
for E. T. s
618
00:32:04,145 --> 00:32:06,522
from an advanced
civilization in space.
619
00:32:09,859 --> 00:32:11,444
CAROLINE CORY:
What is interesting to note
620
00:32:11,444 --> 00:32:13,613
is that there are
621
00:32:13,613 --> 00:32:17,366
several umbilical cords
on the planet.
622
00:32:17,366 --> 00:32:20,077
This particular location
is located exactly
623
00:32:20,077 --> 00:32:23,915
at ‐33 latitude.
624
00:32:23,915 --> 00:32:26,459
Which means
it is aligned specifically
625
00:32:26,459 --> 00:32:30,004
with the center of the galaxy.
626
00:32:30,004 --> 00:32:33,257
Now having said that,
there's an interesting parallel
627
00:32:33,257 --> 00:32:36,052
with the 33 latitude
628
00:32:36,052 --> 00:32:38,596
on Planet Earth.
629
00:32:38,596 --> 00:32:41,182
And that particular point
is considered to be
630
00:32:41,182 --> 00:32:44,101
continuously being visited
631
00:32:44,101 --> 00:32:46,771
from different parts
of the planetary system,
632
00:32:46,771 --> 00:32:49,607
from different parts
of the galaxy,
633
00:32:49,607 --> 00:32:51,484
and even from beyond
this galaxy,
634
00:32:51,484 --> 00:32:53,819
from way out in the universe.
635
00:32:59,283 --> 00:33:01,035
MAN:
Wow.
636
00:33:01,035 --> 00:33:02,036
WOMAN:
Yeah, did you see that thing?
637
00:33:06,541 --> 00:33:10,086
CHILDRESS:
There is a lot of UFO activity.
638
00:33:10,086 --> 00:33:14,549
So here, we have something
that would be like a stargate,
639
00:33:14,549 --> 00:33:18,469
some portal to another dimension
and jumping to hyperspace,
640
00:33:18,469 --> 00:33:21,639
perhaps, and for some reason,
641
00:33:21,639 --> 00:33:25,142
Australia was the place
where they put
642
00:33:25,142 --> 00:33:30,064
this hyperspace portal that is
used by extraterrestrials.
643
00:33:30,064 --> 00:33:33,484
NARRATOR: Could the Blue
Mountains of Australia function
644
00:33:33,484 --> 00:33:37,113
as an extraterrestrial gateway?
645
00:33:37,113 --> 00:33:39,907
Might this explain
the strange phenomena
646
00:33:39,907 --> 00:33:44,245
reported in and around the area?
647
00:33:44,245 --> 00:33:48,249
But if so,
is there some connection
648
00:33:48,249 --> 00:33:52,628
to the local Aboriginal tribe?
649
00:33:52,628 --> 00:33:56,257
DUNCAN: There is stories
that elders would say
650
00:33:56,257 --> 00:33:58,384
that some people
had actually traveled
651
00:33:58,384 --> 00:34:01,887
back to the Morning Star...
652
00:34:01,887 --> 00:34:04,724
and have come back again.
653
00:34:04,724 --> 00:34:07,893
That's not so much
of an abduction,
654
00:34:07,893 --> 00:34:09,687
but they have basically went‐‐
655
00:34:09,687 --> 00:34:11,939
have gone back there
and come back.
656
00:34:14,984 --> 00:34:16,402
ROADS:
The Australian Aborigines
657
00:34:16,402 --> 00:34:19,196
have a connection
and a relationship
658
00:34:19,196 --> 00:34:21,574
with what we call
extraterrestrials and UFOs,
659
00:34:21,574 --> 00:34:23,659
which goes back
tens of thousands of years.
660
00:34:25,536 --> 00:34:28,331
They're rather nonplussed
by their existence.
661
00:34:28,331 --> 00:34:30,666
They have developed
662
00:34:30,666 --> 00:34:34,211
an awareness of individual
types of visitors
663
00:34:34,211 --> 00:34:38,049
from what we'd call outer space.
664
00:34:38,049 --> 00:34:39,675
This is not new.
665
00:34:39,675 --> 00:34:42,345
This has happened
thousands of times before.
666
00:34:42,345 --> 00:34:44,096
How do we know that?
667
00:34:44,096 --> 00:34:46,307
From all of the remnants
that are left behind
668
00:34:46,307 --> 00:34:48,392
by the ancients.
669
00:34:48,392 --> 00:34:50,436
Only a fool could say, "Oh, no.
670
00:34:50,436 --> 00:34:52,146
"We're the only ones here
671
00:34:52,146 --> 00:34:55,691
in this vast amount of space."
672
00:35:01,155 --> 00:35:04,367
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
Australians really
673
00:35:04,367 --> 00:35:09,080
have an ongoing relationship
to otherworldly beings?
674
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:12,124
Beings who have been
visiting the continent
675
00:35:12,124 --> 00:35:14,752
for thousands of years?
676
00:35:14,752 --> 00:35:18,381
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest further evidence
677
00:35:18,381 --> 00:35:21,550
of extraterrestrial contact
can be found
678
00:35:21,550 --> 00:35:25,262
by examining
the Aboriginal rituals known
679
00:35:25,262 --> 00:35:26,597
as "dreaming."
680
00:35:33,854 --> 00:35:35,982
NARRATOR:
As the bustling streets
681
00:35:35,982 --> 00:35:38,275
of Sydney fill
with workers and tourists‐‐
682
00:35:38,275 --> 00:35:41,237
over 500 miles away,
683
00:35:41,237 --> 00:35:44,740
Aboriginal elders
known as "men of learning"
684
00:35:44,740 --> 00:35:48,536
prepare
for a dreaming ceremony.
685
00:35:48,536 --> 00:35:53,082
Dreaming is sacred
to the culture
686
00:35:53,082 --> 00:35:55,710
and represents
a complex spiritual concept
687
00:35:55,710 --> 00:35:58,963
that transcends linear time.
688
00:36:02,049 --> 00:36:04,552
JAGAMARRA:
In the beginning,
689
00:36:04,552 --> 00:36:07,722
there was great spirit.
690
00:36:07,722 --> 00:36:10,474
From the stars they came,
691
00:36:10,474 --> 00:36:12,518
and they came down
692
00:36:12,518 --> 00:36:14,854
to this place.
693
00:36:16,605 --> 00:36:18,482
YOUNG:
The elders,
694
00:36:18,482 --> 00:36:21,318
the spiritual leaders
of the Aboriginal peoples,
695
00:36:21,318 --> 00:36:24,739
will‐will not only chant,
but use hypnotic techniques
696
00:36:24,739 --> 00:36:27,533
like the didgeridoo,
which makes this humming sound.
697
00:36:27,533 --> 00:36:29,869
(didgeridoo droning)
698
00:36:34,081 --> 00:36:36,417
(singing in native language)
699
00:36:36,417 --> 00:36:39,295
It will take you
into an altered state.
700
00:36:41,797 --> 00:36:46,469
It takes them into connection
with the Dreamtime,
701
00:36:46,469 --> 00:36:48,637
the unseen worlds,
702
00:36:48,637 --> 00:36:50,473
to commune with the ancestors,
703
00:36:50,473 --> 00:36:53,684
the sky gods.
704
00:36:53,684 --> 00:36:57,605
The Dreamtime
is this vast storehouse
705
00:36:57,605 --> 00:36:59,273
of accumulated wisdom
706
00:36:59,273 --> 00:37:03,360
and images and stories.
707
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:05,488
And it's like other traditions
that believe there is a place
708
00:37:05,488 --> 00:37:07,990
that everything
that has happened is recorded
709
00:37:07,990 --> 00:37:12,286
and can be reached by the elders
through their altered states.
710
00:37:12,286 --> 00:37:15,706
(chanting)
711
00:37:15,706 --> 00:37:19,502
THOMPSON: There's probably
no more fundamental concept
712
00:37:19,502 --> 00:37:23,005
in Aboriginal cosmology than
the concept of the dreaming.
713
00:37:23,005 --> 00:37:26,509
Sometimes this is referred
to as "the Dreamtime."
714
00:37:26,509 --> 00:37:30,513
And this is the idea of this
mythic beginnings of the world,
715
00:37:30,513 --> 00:37:33,808
but it's important in that it's
a sort of transcendent time.
716
00:37:33,808 --> 00:37:35,392
And what I mean by that is
in their view,
717
00:37:35,392 --> 00:37:36,685
it's never gone away.
718
00:37:40,314 --> 00:37:43,192
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
719
00:37:43,192 --> 00:37:46,487
that in many ways,
the concept of Dreamtime
720
00:37:46,487 --> 00:37:50,449
mirrors the ancient Hindu idea
of the Akashic record...
721
00:37:50,449 --> 00:37:54,203
a collection of past, present,
722
00:37:54,203 --> 00:37:57,414
and future knowledge
believed to be encoded
723
00:37:57,414 --> 00:37:59,625
in a non‐physical existence
724
00:37:59,625 --> 00:38:02,211
known as the astral plane.
725
00:38:04,463 --> 00:38:07,758
HENRY: The Akashic records are
sort of like a giant hologram,
726
00:38:07,758 --> 00:38:10,594
a holographic world that we can
step into to gain wisdom,
727
00:38:10,594 --> 00:38:12,680
access knowledge...
728
00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:14,807
perhaps even to connect
729
00:38:14,807 --> 00:38:18,435
with extraterrestrial beings.
730
00:38:18,435 --> 00:38:21,814
It's pretty remarkable that the
Aborigines would have a concept,
731
00:38:21,814 --> 00:38:25,568
the Dreamtime, that matches
not only the Akashic records,
732
00:38:25,568 --> 00:38:29,071
but also the idea
of a holographic paradigm.
733
00:38:30,865 --> 00:38:33,784
NARRATOR:
In 1997,
734
00:38:33,784 --> 00:38:37,371
theoretical physicists
proposed a revolutionary idea
735
00:38:37,371 --> 00:38:40,666
called the holographic paradigm.
736
00:38:40,666 --> 00:38:44,253
Curiously, this theory
mirrors the ancient concept
737
00:38:44,253 --> 00:38:47,381
shared by
the indigenous Australians
738
00:38:47,381 --> 00:38:50,384
and also the Hindu tradition.
739
00:38:50,384 --> 00:38:52,511
The holographic universe theory
740
00:38:52,511 --> 00:38:55,347
suggests that
the world that we see
741
00:38:55,347 --> 00:38:58,559
is a mere projection
from a 2‐D space.
742
00:38:58,559 --> 00:39:01,353
What we perceive
as physical objects
743
00:39:01,353 --> 00:39:06,066
are actually
projected fragments of data.
744
00:39:06,066 --> 00:39:09,486
YOUNG:
There is a fascinating idea
745
00:39:09,486 --> 00:39:13,240
that perhaps the universe
is not three‐dimensional.
746
00:39:13,240 --> 00:39:15,326
That it's a projection
747
00:39:15,326 --> 00:39:17,828
from a two‐dimensional slide
of some kind.
748
00:39:17,828 --> 00:39:20,789
That it's a‐a hologram‐‐
749
00:39:20,789 --> 00:39:23,667
something like The Matrix,
in the movie‐‐
750
00:39:23,667 --> 00:39:27,880
and that we are walking around
inside of what seems like 3‐D,
751
00:39:27,880 --> 00:39:30,758
but in fact is an illusion.
752
00:39:32,509 --> 00:39:33,761
NARRATOR:
While this incredible theory
753
00:39:33,761 --> 00:39:36,430
may seem far‐fetched,
754
00:39:36,430 --> 00:39:41,101
in 2013, researchers
at Ibaraki University in Japan
755
00:39:41,101 --> 00:39:45,731
found that the theoretical model
is mathematically feasible
756
00:39:45,731 --> 00:39:50,653
and might actually be correct.
757
00:39:50,653 --> 00:39:52,321
CHILDRESS:
We have this parallel
758
00:39:52,321 --> 00:39:54,865
between the Aboriginal
Dreamtime,
759
00:39:54,865 --> 00:39:57,117
the Hindu Akashic record,
760
00:39:57,117 --> 00:39:59,828
and the Holographic
Universe Theory‐‐
761
00:39:59,828 --> 00:40:01,789
what would appear to be
762
00:40:01,789 --> 00:40:05,709
some kind
of extraterrestrial technology
763
00:40:05,709 --> 00:40:08,545
that's putting all
the information of the universe
764
00:40:08,545 --> 00:40:10,839
into one spot.
765
00:40:13,550 --> 00:40:15,010
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
766
00:40:15,010 --> 00:40:17,972
that the Aboriginal elders
are tapping
767
00:40:17,972 --> 00:40:21,475
into an otherworldly plane when
they perform their ceremonies?
768
00:40:21,475 --> 00:40:24,436
A plane that our greatest
scientific minds
769
00:40:24,436 --> 00:40:27,648
don't yet fully understand?
770
00:40:27,648 --> 00:40:31,068
If so,
does this provide evidence
771
00:40:31,068 --> 00:40:35,823
of a maintained connection
between this indigenous culture
772
00:40:35,823 --> 00:40:38,409
and advanced
extraterrestrial beings?
773
00:40:43,289 --> 00:40:46,834
TSOUKALOS: We have to remind
ourselves that the Aboriginals
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00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:51,255
are our last direct connection
to our extraterrestrial past.
775
00:40:54,675 --> 00:40:57,428
It would behoove us to listen,
776
00:40:57,428 --> 00:40:59,638
because one thing
is clear to me today‐‐
777
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their stories
are very clear in their message
778
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that we are not alone
in the universe.
779
00:41:06,729 --> 00:41:10,065
DUNCAN:
We are the extraterrestrials.
780
00:41:10,065 --> 00:41:12,276
Our body is made up
of this earth,
781
00:41:12,276 --> 00:41:16,488
but our spirit comes
from the Morning Star.
782
00:41:16,488 --> 00:41:19,158
We come from another place,
from another world.
783
00:41:19,158 --> 00:41:23,037
We were brought here a long
time ago to populate this place
784
00:41:23,037 --> 00:41:26,415
everyone now calls Earth.
785
00:41:28,959 --> 00:41:32,129
NARRATOR: Might the Aboriginal
Wisdom Keepers serve
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00:41:32,129 --> 00:41:36,175
as a direct link to
our extraterrestrial creators?
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And could there be messages
788
00:41:40,054 --> 00:41:42,389
left behind for mankind encoded
789
00:41:42,389 --> 00:41:45,184
in their sacred traditions?
790
00:41:45,184 --> 00:41:48,604
As we stand at the threshold
of a new level
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00:41:48,604 --> 00:41:51,357
of science and understanding,
792
00:41:51,357 --> 00:41:54,777
perhaps we will discover
that the stories
793
00:41:54,777 --> 00:41:57,112
of the world's
oldest living culture
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00:41:57,112 --> 00:41:59,907
not only reveal
our true origins...
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but also our destiny.
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