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NARRATOR: He is
the personification of evil.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: Satan was the source
of torture and death and destruction.

NARRATOR: He's the ruler of hell.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
He grew arrogant.

And he lost his heavenly position.

He was thrown out of
the heavens and fell.

NARRATOR: And he commands
an army of demons

united on a vengeable quest:

to destroy mankind.

REV. BOB LARSON: A demon is a body
who accomplishes evil purposes.

You can't have her.

So they can bring about their
plan of death and destruction

NARRATOR: But is the character
known as the prince of darkness,

merely a myth?

Or could he be something
much much more.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Satan may well be a person

a god, an angel, an E.T.

who's been malign in a sense.

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe

we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, could evidence be
found in centuries-old stories

of a fallen angel?

Could there really be
a Satan conspiracy?

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NARRATOR: He is called Satan...

Lucifer...

the Devil.

And his name conjures up
horrifying images of a horned

demon whose sole purpose is to
corrupt and destroy mankind.

HENRY ANSGAR KELLY: Satan is
portrayed as the enemy of God.

Trying to destroy good people,
to make good people bad and to,

uh, keep them from being saved,
keep them from going to Heaven

so that they can go to hell,
where he's in charge.

McGOWAN: Satan has become the
catchall for the embodiment of evil.

When we think of Satan, I think
there are two different ways

that our brains can go.

The first is this almost comical
character that rules over the

land of flames, the red guy with
the horns and the pitchfork.

But then, on the darker side, I
think that Satan has become this

very, very terrifying,
frightening embodiment of evil

who causes man to do terrible
things, who is the source of

torture and death and destruction.

NARRATOR: But are these
perceptions of Satan correct?

Is he really the master of all
things evil in the universe?

Lakeland, Florida.

2012.

Hundreds of faithful followers
congregate at the Ignited Church

to witness the removal of demons
from those who believe they're

possessed by the Devil.

LARSON: You let him go.

All the pain and the hurt you've
caused this man, you let him go.

The Devil wants to get even.

How else to hurt the heart of
God to the greatest possible

extent but to harm the
beloved of his creation?

The height of his creation.

The thing that God loves most:

humanity, human beings, me, you,
every single person on Earth.

NARRATOR: In the ritual known
as exorcism, a priest or

minister performs a sacred rite
in order to confront Satan and

drive him back to hell.

It is a ceremony that dates back
hundreds and perhaps thousands

of years and is considered quite
controversial, even within the

Catholic Church.

LARSON: I torment you
by the blood of Christ.

When I'm battling Satan, there
are a lot of mind games going on

and it's a bit of a chess match.

You think you have her, don't you?

Don't you?

WOMAN: Yes.

LARSON: You think she's
yours, don't you?

WOMAN: Mm-hmm.

LARSON: Well, she's not.

So I have to be mentally and
spiritually prepared for that.

How long have you had her?

WOMAN: Long time.

LARSON: Yeah?

Well, now it's gonna be a short time.

Torment! Torment!

Torment you.

NARRATOR: But just who
or what is Satan?

And why is he determined to
corrupt all of humanity?

Perhaps the answers can be found

in the myths and legends that
describe Satan's ancient origins.

ADAM BLAI: In the beginning,
Satan was one of the angels that

was created by God before the
physical universe was created.

And there was basically a
sphere of angels around God,

worshiping God.

And Satan at that time was
Lucifer or the Day Star.

He was the brightest of the angels.

McGOWAN: Satan is actually
one of the archangels.

He is one of the high angels,
one of the highest ranking, one

of the most beautiful,
the most beloved.

He is beloved of God.

He is a bringer of light.

KELLY: When God created man in
his image, he ordered all the

angels to, uh, worship
his image in this man.

And Satan refused.

He says, "Look, they're mud people.

We're made out of fire.

"And I'm not going to do it."

And so he gets kicked out.

YOUNG: He grew arrogant.

He began to challenge God.

And, for this arrogance, he
lost his heavenly position.

He was thrown out of
the heavens and fell.

BLAI: When Lucifer was cast
down, it was instant and

abrupt and total.

And he was cast down to Earth to
roam here until the end of time.

NARRATOR: Although few
references are made to Satan in

the Hebrew testament, he is
depicted as an opposer or

accuser and is generally
acknowledged to have been

the inspiration for the
serpent in the Garden of Eden.

BRETT PETERSON: One of the
great stories in the Bible is

Adam and Eve in the garden.

You know, we have this picture
of a beautiful garden scene and

Adam and Eve in their innocence
just enjoying God and each other

in this beautiful creation.

And all of a sudden enters
Satan in the form of a snake.

And he finds Eve close to the

one thing, the one law
God gave mankind.

NARRATOR: According to the Book
of Genesis, God placed two

trees in the garden...

the Tree of Life and the
Tree of Knowledge...

and forbade Adam and Eve to eat
fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.

PATRICK COOKE: Satan
convinces Eve to eat of the

fruit of the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil.

And she convinces Adam to do that.

And, of course, we see that

suddenly their whole
personality changes.

PETERSON: Prior to eating of
the forbidden fruit,

Adam and Eve were sinless.

It means that the one law that

God gave them, uh, they
had not disobeyed.

Satan himself decided that if he
could get them to break that one

law, then sin would enter mankind.

And when Adam ate, all mankind
from that point on has been

selfish, prideful and were
genetically given the ability

and, really, the desire to rebel
against authority and thus

obtain the knowledge of good and evil.

NARRATOR: But is this story
of Adam and Eve really a

fanciful account of how
evil entered the world?

Or might there be another, even
more profound explanation?

KENNETH HANSON: You can make a case
that Eve actually wants to mature.

She wants to grow up.

God wants to keep us in a
state of perpetual innocence,

infantility perhaps.

Eve decides that knowing
everything she can know about

this world into which she has
been placed is more important

even than obeying a
particular command of God.

The serpent enables her.

WILLIAM HENRY: Satan's
wanting to give humanity all

this incredible wisdom that maybe
can even elevate humankind

to the level of gods.

But the Old Testament God
Yahweh is saying, "Not so fast.

Humankind are-aren't perhaps
"worthy of this knowledge."

And this becomes then the
battle between God and Satan.

NARRATOR: Was the serpent's
temptation of Adam and Eve

really a case of sabotage?

Was it a deliberate effort to
seduce mankind into sinning

against its Creator?

Or might Satan's real purpose
have been to encourage mankind

to share the fruits of God's wisdom?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe more clues may lie in

another book of the Hebrew testament.

Southern Israel.

This dry, sun-blasted desert was
once the realm of Edom...

an ancient kingdom that some
researchers believe was home to

the biblical figure, Job.

According to the Hebrew Bible,
Job was among the wealthiest men

in the kingdom, and owned enormous
herds of cattle, sheep and camels.

He was also among the most
righteous, making sacrifices to

the Almighty God to atone for his
transgressions and the sins

of his family.

REVEREND BARRY H. DOWNING:
In the story of Job, Satan is part

of the heavenly council of angels.

And then the council meets, and
God is at the council meeting.

And basically, he and
Satan have a discussion.

WILLIAM FULCO: And God says,
"You know, look at Job.

He's very faithful."

And Satan, in charge of quality
control, says, "Well, of course.

You know, you give him everything.

"What do you expect?"

McGOWAN: And Satan actually
challenges God, and says,

"If Job were tempted, if he
no longer had all of these

wonderful things that God had given
to him, what happens to "him then?"

Satan convinces God that Job
should be tested to see if he is

really all that good.

And this is where Satan becomes
the first adversary, the first

tester of humans.

YOUNG: So, it's interesting
in this story.

Satan is actually working with
God as a kind of member of his

staff or his heavenly counsel.

HENRY: The divine council of God
is very interesting, because

we learn that it is composed
of various angelic beings,

including Satan.

And the idea is that these are
advanced beings who carry out

God's orders and God's wishes from
the commands of this council.

It really seems like we're
seeing some kind of divine

bureaucracy, something like you
would see in a corporate or a

governmental bureaucracy.

NARRATOR: Could our notion of Satan
as an evil force be incorrect?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe there is much more to

the story... and that the answer
may be found, not only in the

pages of the Hebrew Bible,
but on ancient scrolls.

Scrolls whose origins date
back thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Qumran,
the West Bank.

Here, during a series of
excavations beginning in 1949,

archaeologists unearth
hundreds of ancient scrolls.

They are believed to have been
written by a Hebrew sect known

as the Essenes more
than 2,000 years ago.

Several of the scrolls contain
fragments of what has become

known as the Book of Enoch, and
the account of a rebellion

launched by a group of
angels called the Watchers.

BLAI: One of the most famous
parts of the Book of Enoch

is a story of the Watchers.

This is a story about 200 angels
that were charged with watching

over mankind in its early
stages, and basically, taking

care of us, looking out for us.

McGOWAN: The Watchers are
a group of angels who are

dispatched to watch humans
and to help humans.

Now, the Watchers are very
interesting, because they are

angels who interact with humans.

BLAI: And there's a brief
reference to this in Genesis.

But the Book of Enoch
essentially expands that story

and tells a more full story.

This was taken out of the canon
of the Bible early in the

Church's life, but it was
in for a period of time.

McGOWAN: Once the Watchers
begin to interact with humans,

they become infatuated with this
new species, and they become

lustful of this new species.

And all of a sudden, the
original idea, the original

commands that they were given seem
a lot less interesting to them.

BLAI: They came to a point where
they wanted to take wives

and have children, and so
they decided to rebel, create

bodies, marry and bear children.

(shouting, metallic scraping)

NARRATOR: According to the
Book of Enoch, the leader of

this rebellion is a Watcher
known as Shemyaza or Satanael.

(thunder crackling)

Could this be the same
character we know as Satan?

PHILIP COPPENS: So, what
we're seeing in the story of

Shemyaza and the Watchers is
very similar to the story of

Lucifer in charge of the angels.

In both cases, we're confronted
with a hierarchy of a species

which is between us and God, the
leader of which disagrees with

God and basically wants
to live amongst mankind.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When you
look at different versions of

the Book of Enoch, the one thing
that combines all of them is

that they talk about the Watchers,
the Watchers from Heaven.

And they are the ones
who gave knowledge.

And when I look at terms such
as "Watchers from Heaven," then

personally, I interpret them
as possible extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do the ancient
accounts of Shemyaza's revolt

and Lucifer's fall suggest that
Satan's efforts to corrupt

mankind in the Garden of Eden
were actually an attempt to give

man forbidden knowledge?

And might these legends be
based, not on myth, but on

actual historical events...
events involving

extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and believe that close

examination of the Book of Enoch
may point to physical evidence

of where Satan's so-called
rebellion against God may have

actually occurred.

Mount Hermon, Lebanon.

Straddling the border of Syria,
this legendary mountain,

as described in the Book of Enoch,
is the peak where Shemyaza

and the Watchers descended to Earth.

BLAI: In the Book of Enoch, there's
a reference to Mount Hermon.

We see the angels basically
descending to Mount Hermon.

So, Mount Hermon was both a
place of connection with Heaven

and kind of a sally port
between Earth and Heaven.

The Watchers, being angels from
Heaven, knew the sciences of Heaven.

Samyaza was basically an expert
in enchantment and root cutting.

You could think of it as,
basically, witchcraft.

The casting of spells, creating magic
and using roots to create potions.

McGOWAN: The Book of Enoch
lists, very specifically, the

subjects that are taught to
humans by the Watchers, by these

angels who begin to share
their wisdom with them.

NARRATOR: The Book of Enoch
describes Mount Hermon as the

place where Shemyaza taught
humans about magic and medicine.

Other powerful angels passed
on knowledge of metallurgy,

weapons, astrology,
science and even warfare.

SCOTT ROBERTS: The Watchers
delivered to humanity the

forbidden knowledge of God.
All the stories in ancient

cultures, cross-cultural, had
these tales of beings that would

deliver the forbidden knowledge
of the gods to humans.

And they were all condemned for it.

McGOWAN: The Watchers,
through Shemyaza, give us

extraordinary tools, which make our
lives much, much better on Earth.

So, is Shemyaza really a bad
guy, or did he, in fact,

liberate humans from ignorance?

And if Shemyaza actually is the
forerunner of Satan, has Satan

actually been misrepresented
all of these years?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
Shemyaza and the other Watchers

were extraterrestrial beings
that gave humanity the

foundations for civilization?

Then, if so, how did Satan come
to be so misunderstood and

misinterpreted by history?

COPPENS: If we equal Shemyaza and
Satan, what we're confronted

with here is a larger framework
which basically tells us that

Shemyaza, Satan were
here to civilize us.

The Watchers were civilizing deities.

They basically helped us to develop
our skills of civilization.

And so, what we're confronted
with here is basically the

conclusion that civilization the
way we know it is not something

divine, but it's literally satanic.

It was Satan who gave us
the tools of civilization.

NARRATOR: Was Satan really a
civilizing force for early

humans, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe?

And, if so, might further
evidence be found by examining

other ancient myths and legends?

CHILDRESS: In ancient Sumeria,
you have these very

curious stories of the Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki were half-god, half-man,
who came down from the stars.

They were instructing the Sumerians
in various arts of civilization.

They were very strange-looking.

They had elongated heads.

They looked almost like
insect-type people.

Or what they call reptilian
features in a sense, or a viper

visage, as the Watchers
were called in the Bible.

HENRY: In global cultures, we
find constant references to

these giant celestial beings
coming to Earth and initiating,

or instructing humankind.

Satan himself is considered
to be a seraphim, which means

winged serpent or fiery
serpent, but yet the word

"seraphim" contains the word
"ser," meaning serpent, and

"rephaim," meaning giant.

NARRATOR: Was the character
we know as Satan really an

extraterrestrial being?

One who broke with his own
species in order to live among

our distant ancestors?

Did he, along with other
so-called fallen angels,

actually break with God, not
out of spite or arrogance, but

instead to help mankind?

Perhaps further clues can be
found in legends of a flying

serpent, and in the story of a
Titan who was savagely punished

for all eternity.

NARRATOR: The Yucatan Peninsula.

Here in the jungles of southern
Mexico lie the ruins of the

great Mayan city Chichen Itza.

Constructed more than a thousand
years ago, Chichen Itza was one

of the largest and most powerful
cities in the Mayan world.

And dominating the site is the
great pyramid El Castillo...

a temple built to honor the
Mayan serpent god Kukulkan.

HENRY: Kukulkan is the name for
Satan, or for the winged serpent.

He's always portrayed as a
wisdom-bearing being who

delivers this cosmic
knowledge to humankind.

Often we'll see Kukulkan
portrayed as half-human or

half-serpent or as a human being coming
out of the mouth of the serpent.

This is how Christianity will
traditionally portray Satan as a

dragon figure or a
serpentine-like being.

COPPENS: The question is,
why is he depicted as such?

And I think we really can find out that
Kukulkan is not unique in this sense.

NARRATOR: One of the most
powerful gods in the Mayan

pantheon, Kukulkan was believed
to have descended from the stars.

He is also credited with
teaching astronomy, mathematics

and agriculture to mankind.

HENRY: This is identical to the
Christian tradition of Satan

being the serpent of the Tree
of Knowledge, delivering the

forbidden wisdom to humanity.

In the Book of Enoch, we learn
of the Watchers who were

described as having visages of
vipers or the face of a serpent,

and delivering this powerful
knowledge to humankind.

So, it's possible that what
we're seeing in all of these

instances is the same figure or
representative of the same tribe

of angels, the satanic beings or
these serpentine-like angel beings.

NARRATOR: Are the stories of
Satan and Kukulkan really based

on the same being, as many ancient
astronaut theorists believe?

And, if so, might this same
character also be found in the

myths and legends of
other ancient cultures?

COPPENS: Satan, as a creature
who comes out nowhere to live

amongst mankind and teaches, is not
something which is limited to the Bible.

We find it in most
traditions across the world.

NARRATOR: According to the
legends of ancient Greece,

the Titan known as Prometheus sinned
against the gods by stealing the

secret of fire and giving it to man.

For his transgression, he was
doomed to suffer a gruesome,

eternal punishment, by being
chained to a rock and having an

eagle eat his liver, only to
have the organ grow back each

night so that the eagle could
continue to feast on it the next day.

RICHARD RADER: He's a god that
becomes associated with humans,

because he's a champion for humans.

Right, and the mythological
stories talk about how

Prometheus is basically
like their representative.

NARRATOR: Another such deity
was the god Viracocha.

Worshiped by the ancient Inca
in the Andes of South America,

Viracocha was a powerful creator
god who came to Earth to pass on

celestial knowledge.

Like Prometheus, this Incan god
was described as a bringer of

light, and is depicted in
ancient Incan sculpture as

holding two lightning bolts and
wearing the sun as a crown.

HENRY: The Inca describe
a luminous being called

Viracoca or Viracocha who
brought knowledge of medicine,

astronomy and other advanced sciences.

It's possible that Viracocha is
the same as Shemyaza or Satan as

a figure bringing this
liberating wisdom to humankind

that seeks to bring us along the path
of advancement and enlightenment.

So you have to ask yourself,

"Why would such diverse cultures
have such similar mythologies?"

COPPENS: In the case of
Viracocha, what we see is a

deity which manifests itself
from Earth, lives amongst

mankind, gives us sciences, and after
a number of years, disappears again.

NARRATOR: The ancient
Egyptians had cults that

worshiped the god Set;

a divine being who, like Satan,
ruled over darkness and chaos.

COPPENS: The tradition
of civilizing deities

who go around civilizing,
educating us, is something which

we find in all traditions.

Whether they are the great
cultures of Egypt, Inca,

or the Mayan empires,

or smaller cultures
elsewhere in the universe.

And so what we're finding is
that the story of Satan as a

civilizing deity is definitely
not unique, but sits within

a clear framework across
the the entire world.

And it shows you that the
importance of Satan is not just

something limited to the Bible,
but really tells us an awful lot

about civilization as a whole.

NARRATOR: Could it be that
these ancient myths were

actually describing the
same creature, the fallen

angel we now refer to as Satan?

But how, then, did a creature
who is so often credited with

bringing mankind knowledge and
enlightenment, become thought of

as the personification
of all things evil?

ERICH VON DANIKEN: The word
"Lucifer" comes from Latin.

Mix "lux" "ferre,"
"making light."

It's the same as in the Greek
mythology, Prometheus, who stole

the light from the gods.

It's really a sympathetic idea
that all these figures are

finally just one figure
in different languages.

But they were sympathetic
to the humans.

It is quite possible that our
religious traditions and those

who selected the-the old holy
texts some thousands of years

ago, they made out an evil figure
out of Lucifer and the Devil.

And maybe it was the other way around...
he was the good one.

COPPENS: When we're looking at
something like Satan, we're

not necessarily talking about
morality but we're actually

exploring things about our ancestors.

We're exploring mythology.

We're exploring accounts of our
ancestors saying that they

developed civilization not on
their own but with the help of

nonhuman intelligences.

And in the case of one such
story, we see that that

intelligence is Satan.

CHILDRESS: In many ways, Satan
may well be a person,

a god, an angel, an E.T.
who's maligned in a sense.

Lucifer is-is Prometheus.

He's the light bringer.

He's the god of hard work.

He's the one who brings us fire.

He's the one who gives us the
opportunity to do things ourselves.

NARRATOR: If the biblical
character of Satan is really

based on an extraterrestrial being...
one who stole technology

from his masters in order to
benefit early man... then why is

he now reviled as a creature
of consummate evil?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may lie not

in ancient scriptures but in numerous
accounts of demonic possession.

NARRATOR: Klingenberg, Germany.

Located 32 miles southeast of
Frankfurt, this small city is

home to one of the most famous
and frightening cases of demonic

possession ever recorded.

In September 1973, a young woman
named Anneliese Michel began

hearing voices that told her she
was damned and would rot in hell.

When medical treatments failed, she
sought the help of an exorcist.

MICHEL: Nein!

Nein.

(priest speaking German)

(Michel growls)

NARRATOR: Demonic possession is
perhaps the most frightening

and visceral of all phenomena
associated with Satan.

According to Christian
tradition, possession occurs

when a demon enters the body,
corrupting a person's physical

and spiritual being.

YOUNG: The belief in demonic
possession is widespread.

It seems to show up pretty
much all over the planet.

It was believed to be the
presence of a satanic energy,

a truly dark, terrible evil
that could take over a person.

Take over their body,
take over their mind.

And they would be acting with
no free will, they would be a

complete slave to the
power of the dark side.

BLAI: Demons manifest on Earth
to interact with people,

to afflict us and tempt
us in various ways.

The oppression involves
physically wounding us,

attacking us, causing effects
on our body and our mind.

Possession is when we surrender
our lower faculties to them and

they take over our body
and use it as their own.

And, in rare cases, they can
appear visibly to multiple

people as supposed human spirits.

NARRATOR: Most Christians
believe demons are evil

incarnations of the other angels
who followed Lucifer in his

rebellion against the Almighty God.

They bear names like Beelzebub,
Asmodeus, Moloch and

Mammon and are dedicated to
corrupting the souls of mankind.

ROBERTS: Biblically speaking, the
demonic comes from the fallen angels.

Those who fell with Lucifer
during the great wars in Heaven.

And their purpose is
to deceive humanity.

To lead them astray.

To distract them from God.

And there are many castes.

They range from your basic thugs
on the bottom all the way up to

your... if you will, your
intelligentsia that is

governing behind the scenes
of the affairs of mankind.

BLAI: It is essentially...

you can imagine a military
structure with generals,

officers, privates.

There's basically nine levels,
which are fallen angels of

various ranks serving under each
other, ultimately serving Satan.

NARRATOR: In many religious
traditions there are sacred

rites to exorcize these demons
from the bodies of the afflicted.

LARSON: Let her go.

Let her go.

I come against you again, Satan,
by the blood of Christ.

NARRATOR: The Reverend Bob
Larson is an evangelical

minister and exorcist who says
he has come face-to-face with

the demonic and the truly satanic.

LARSON: By the blood of
Christ, I torment you, Satan.

(woman grunts)

You can't have her.

She belongs to God.

I torment you.

I torment you by the blood of Christ.

I torment you!

I'm here to be an instrument of
God to cast out the Devil,

to free human souls.

It's not my power that does it.

It's God's power.

I'm simply the
instrument that he uses.

But my mission is to get every
demon possible out of every

possible human being and
send them straight to hell.

How long have you had her?

Give me some oil, please.

I anoint you in the name of the
Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.

How long have you had this woman?

How many generations?

How many generations?!

WOMAN: A thousand.

LARSON: A demon is metaphysical.

It is invisible.

It's spirit.

Doesn't have a physical body, so a
demon can't really do anything evil.

A demon can't start a war, can't
pull the trigger of a gun, can't

rape anybody.

A demon needs a body to
accomplish its evil purposes.

So demons are looking to inhabit
human souls so that through the

physicality of human beings
they can bring about their plan

of death and destruction.

NARRATOR: According to Larson and
other Christian theologians,

demonic forces have always been
present on Earth and demons are

continually traveling to Earth
to sow the seeds of ruin.

But where exactly are
they coming from?

Is it hell, or perhaps someplace else?

LARSON: Both the Jewish and
Christian scriptures, as well as

other religious books that delve
into the subject of demonism,

never fully describe the nature

of their existence,
where they operate.

It seems to be in a kind of
parallel reality, another

dimension, out of our
time-space continuum.

They're there, we're here.

Einstein opened a little bit of a door
into the possibility of other realms.

We are getting a small glimpse
of the reality that exists

beyond our understanding.

We just need to know there's
another realm out there, and

when I do an exorcism, I step
in and out of those realms.

I'm in the physical, natural
realm, but I'm also invading the

realm in which demons operate.

So I step from the physical
into the metaphysical.

I don't have to understand
what's going on there.

I'm on a simple mission: not to
find out everything I can about

that world, but to get the
demon out of the human soul.

NARRATOR: Might devils and
demons really be beings from

another realm?

And might that realm not
be hell, but an actual

extraterrestrial world?

And are they really malevolent?

Or might they have another...

perhaps even more profound...
agenda?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers may be found

in the mysterious prophecies
of the Book of Revelation.

NARRATOR: Megiddo, Israel.

Located 11 miles from Nazareth,
this ancient city is mentioned

more than a dozen times in the
Bible, most prominently in the

prophetic Book of Revelation.

According to the religious text,
it is outside this city, on the

so-called Plains of Megiddo,
where the forces of the Almighty

God will wage a final battle against
Satan and the forces of evil.

DOWNING: The Book of
Revelation is certainly one of

the most complicated books in
the Bible, and it belongs to a

separate set of material
that's called apocalyptic.

It is a book that gives visions
of the future to come.

PETERSON: There's a battle that
will take place in a valley

in Israel called Megiddo, or Har
Megiddo, thus Armageddon...

we get the term.

Satan himself will gather the
armies of the world to Megiddo

to fight Jesus Christ.

BLAI: Satan takes on a more
physical appearance, uses

various technologies to enslave
more and more of mankind.

Ultimately he becomes a
geopolitical force, basically

essentially a dictator
of the entire world.

NARRATOR: The Book of
Revelation further describes

that this battle will be
fought in Heaven and on Earth.

Angels will descend from the
sky, demons will spread out

across the land to destroy with
fiery swords, and the Almighty

God will rain destruction
down upon Earth.

McGOWAN: The Book of the
Revelation is really a

pretty terrifying document if
we're to look at it and think

that these things could
happen literally.

I mean, when you look at what's
happening in the book, we have

cataclysms on the Earth.

We have earthquakes.

We have fire raining from the sky.

We have angels doing battle in Heaven.

And then repeatedly, we
have Satan coming back.

NARRATOR: But could it be
that this biblical prophecy

isn't a doomsday prediction
of cataclysm and war?

But it has another, even more
profound interpretation?

HANSON: The Book of Revelation
gives us some of the

clearest depictions of what
not a few moderns would call

extraterrestrial activity.

Think about it.

We have supernatural beings
flying through the cosmos

blowing trumpets, casting
fire upon the Earth.

We have great conflict between
light and darkness, good and evil.

There's a cosmic dualism going
on here that involves in the end

the reassertion of divine
authority over those wayward

angels who had gone
astray so long ago.

NARRATOR: Extraterrestrial combat?

Could the Bible's Book of
Revelation really be referring

to a galactic war?

One waged over the
ultimate fate of mankind?

If so, who or what is Satan?

Is he a demon, the Devil, the
personification of evil?

Or was he, in fact, a benevolent
extraterrestrial being?

One who stole technology from
alien beings in an effort to

lead early man out of
darkness and ignorance?

If so, then why did Satan
become a force for evil?

Does he seek to punish mankind

for siding with our
Creator against him?

Perhaps he is testing us, using
alien technology to modify

human behavior in ways we
have yet to understand.

McGOWAN: He's this idea of
an adversary, this idea of a

liar or a tester combined with
this concept of Lucifer, the

fallen angel, combined with this
leader of the Watchers who also

leads a rebellion.

I think that ultimately, what
we find is that Lucifer is a

conflation, a character who is
a composite of all of these

different ideas and
different characters.

HENRY: It's important for us
to remember that Satan is part

of the class of angels
called seraphim.

The seraphim were sent to Earth
as benefactors of humankind

bringing wisdom.

The churches created this evil
monster out of Satan, perhaps

even out of thin air, when in
reality, Satan's entire mission

was about bringing knowledge and
wisdom to humanity, and in fact,

caring about humanity, not
seeking to destroy humankind.

CHILDRESS: In a sense,
Satan's not such a bad guy.

You cannot have the
light without the dark.

You can't have right without wrong.

And we have to learn these
things for ourselves.

And ultimately, uh, through
choice, wrong and right, we grow

and we become who we are.

And ultimately, that is
to be like our makers.

To... to become gods ourselves.

NARRATOR: Might Satan's
reputation as the

personification of evil really
have been his punishment for

giving mankind scientific knowledge?

If so, might his evil acts
really be expressions of

revenge against the human
creatures that abandoned him?

Or are the evil deeds associated with
Satan really a part of a grand plan?

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