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>> NARRATOR: Winged creatures...
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carrying messages from the
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heavens.
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Unearthly guardians, entrusted
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to both observe and protect.
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Powerful warriors, bringing
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about everything from plague to
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peace.
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But are angels merely the
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product of mankind's
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imagination...
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or do they really exist?
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If so, where do they come from?
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>> NARRATOR: Are angels really
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supernatural beings from heaven,
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or something more?
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>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It's
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essentially a misinterpreted
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flesh-and-blood extraterrestrial
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who visited Earth a long, long
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time ago.
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>> NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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If so, might angels really be
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travelers visiting the Earth
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from distant planets?
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>> NARRATOR: Angels.
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According to a Nielsen survey
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taken in 2010, nearly 70% of
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Americans believe in their
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existence.
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But what are they?
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Winged visitors from God, as
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depicted in the Bible?
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Smiling cherubs who peer down
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at us from billowing clouds?
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Or something much, much more?
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>> FATHER WILLIAM J. FULCO: The
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concept of angels is obviously
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very widespread, and certainly
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in American culture.
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And you find it in Latin
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culture, Greek culture,
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Babylonian culture.
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>> PHILIP COPPENS: When we think
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of angels, we immediately think
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to the Bible, but when you go
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onto the Internet, when you read
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books, you will find that people
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have visitations of angels every
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single day.
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>> NARRATOR: In the Hebrew
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Bible's Book of Genesis, angels
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first appear as divine beings
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sent to Earth as messengers of
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God.
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>> FULCO: They wanted to have
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God interacting with the human
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beings, but it seemed somewhat
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undignified to have God directly
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operating, and so he sent
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messengers.
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>> TSOUKALOS: The word angel is
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a mistranslation.
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In Hebrew, the word for angel
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is malach.
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However, the correct translation
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is not angel at all, but it is,
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in fact, "messenger."
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In Greek, the word angelosis
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not angel.
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It is intermediary, middleman.
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>> BILL BIRNES: By definition,
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angels are otherworldly.
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Angels are extraterrestrial.
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They're not from this planet.
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So really, by definition, ETs
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and angels are the same.
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Now our modern conception of
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ETs have changed.
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But go back thousands and
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thousands of years when angels
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lived among our biblical
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ancestors.
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They didn't call them ETs.
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They called them angels, but
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they knew they were not of this
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world, not of this planet.
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>> NARRATOR: But could these
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so-called messengers of God have
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served another function?
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One not so benevolent or benign?
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According to The Book of Enoch,
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the so-called lost biblical text
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that was rediscovered among the
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Dead Sea Scrolls in the late
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1940s, the first angels to
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arrive on Earth were the fallen
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arrive on Earth were the fallen
angels.
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angels.
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>> BIRNES: It was on Mount
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Hermon that angels came down
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from the heavens-- fallen
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angels-- to inhabit Earth.
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They were trying to assume
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power.
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And because of that, they were
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cast out from heaven and cast
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down to Earth.
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>> TSOUKALOS: Now to me, this
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sounds more of a mutiny story
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where extraterrestrials arrived
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here, and there was a type of
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rift, and so, they split into
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two different factions.
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And the faction that split off
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is what today is referred to as
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the fallen angels.h in The Book
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Enoch and in the Hebrew Bible,
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the fallen angels act in direct
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opposition to God's will by
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interbreeding with humans.
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>> FULCO: In Genesis 6, it
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talks about the sons of gods--a
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old texts-- a few key words--
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you change the sense of the old
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texts.
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It's all not coincidence.
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It was on purpose.
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It's time to wake up to see
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It's time to wake up to see
these things with modern eyes.
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these things with modern eyes.
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>> NARRATOR: But if, as ancient
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astronaut theorists maintain,
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angels are not ethereal winged
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beings but actually flesh and
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blood creatures visiting us from
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other planets, why are they
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here?
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And if they are messengers, just
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who or what do they represent?
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of Earth, they
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produced offspring-- the
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Nephilim, a race of giants,
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similar to those portrayed in
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the story of David and Goliath.
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But ancient astronaut theorists
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suggest the use of the term
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giants is misleading.
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They theorize that the term
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refers not to the Nephilim's
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physical size, but to their
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almost superhuman ability.
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>> TSOUKALOS: Were they giants,
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or is that the wrong word, and
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the correct word should be
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extraterrestrial?
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>> NARRATOR: But if, as many
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ancient astronaut theorists
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believe, fallen angels were
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really extraterrestrials that
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first arrived in the Middle
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East, wouldn't they have also
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appeared elsewhere in the world?
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For proof, researchers point to
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thousands of carvings and other
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depictions of winged guardians,
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strange creatures and other
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half-man and half-beasts that
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commonly appear on ancient
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walls and artifacts.
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>> COPPENS: There is such an
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enormous amount of evidence to
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suggest that angels are not
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something which Christianity
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invented, but that they were
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somehow physically present in
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all civilizations.
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>> REVEREND MICHAEL J.S. CARTER:
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Ancient cultures that depicted
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the gods as winged creatures are
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the Sumerians, the Babylonians,
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certainly the Egyptians.
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All of these civilizations had
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symbols where there may have
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been a winged disc, or there
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may have been what we would call
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today probably a UFO.
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Middle East in particular, there
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were depictions of supernatural
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beings with wings-- the demons
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of Mesopotamia; Pazuzu, which
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had the head of a lion and the
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body of a human and the wings of
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a locust.
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They were primarily soldiers of
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the higher gods, servants of the
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higher gods.
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The higher gods depended on
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these messengers.
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They would run back and forth
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and gather information.
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>> DAVID WILCOCK: The Bible may
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be the most thoroughly
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documented account of
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extraterrestrial contact ever in
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written history here on Earth.
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We just simply have not learned
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how to interpret and how to
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identify the clear and obvious
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evidence that the seraphim, the
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cherubim, the archangels, the
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angels, all of these different
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hierarchies of beings described
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in the Old and the New Testament
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literally do refer to visitors
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who come here.
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If you change a few words in the
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old texts-- a few key words--
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texts.
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It's all not coincidence.
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It was on purpose.
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It's time to wake up to see
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It's time to wake up to see
these things with modern eyes.
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these things with modern eyes.
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>> NARRATOR: But if, as ancient
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astronaut theorists maintain,
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angels are not ethereal winged
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beings but actually flesh and
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blood creatures visiting us from
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other planets, why are they
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here?
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And if they are messengers, just
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And if they are messengers, just
who or what do they represent?
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who or what do they represent?
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>> NARRATOR: Mount Sodom,
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>> NARRATOR: Mount Sodom,
Israel.
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Israel.
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A pillar of rock salt known as
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Lot's Wife overlooks the
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southwestern part of the Dead
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Sea, near the presumed location
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of the biblical cities of Sodom
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and Gomorrah.
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In both the Hebrew Book of
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Genesis and the Islamic Koran,
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angels traveled to this spot to
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warn Abraham's nephew Lot that
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God was about to unleash terror
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upon the world.
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>> VON DANIKEN: And the angel
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finally says to Lot, "If you
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don't come now with your
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family-- two girls and the
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wife-- I cannot help you
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anymore."
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It looks as if a countdown was
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working which could not be
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stopped anymore, if even the
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angel cannot stop it.
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>> TSOUKALOS: Sure enough, they
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walk away and there is this
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mayhem and destruction.
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His wife turns around and she
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His wife turns around and she
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turns into a pillar of salt.
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Since the ancient astronaut
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theory proposes that angels were
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nothing else but misinterpreted
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flesh and blood
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extraterrestrials, this means
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that extraterrestrials did side
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with certain people.
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Were angels, or
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extraterrestrials, interfering
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extraterrestrials, interfering
with human development?
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with human development?
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>> NARRATOR: But if angels saved
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Lot and his family from the
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wrath of God, is this proof that
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angels are more than just
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angels are more than just
otherworldly messengers?
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otherworldly messengers?
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Might they be more actively
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engaged in helping their human
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counterparts, even to the extent
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that they might still be
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affecting the outcome of human
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history?
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Once again, ancient astronaut
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theorists look to The Book of
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Enoch for their answer and claim
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to have found evidence in its
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references to a race of fallen
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angels known as watchers.
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>> TSOUKALOS: There is much
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debate amongst religious
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scholars about the fallen
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scholars about the fallen
angels.
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angels.
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angels.
[choir singing]
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[choir singing]
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And some say they were
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deliberately sent here to watch
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over man.
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And in The Book of Enoch
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specifically, we have 20
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watchers which are sort of in
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charge of all the other angels
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that are in Enoch's presence.
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You have the commanders and the
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officers and the lieutenants,
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and those 20 deliberately teach
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Enoch in various disciplines,
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such as meteorology, astronomy,
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how to make better swords.
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Now, would something like this
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really happen in the Kingdom of
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God?
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I think the answer is clear.
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>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Where did
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they come from?
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What do they want?
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And if we're dealing with one or
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more intelligences-- that maybe
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they have different agendas, but
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maybe there is something out
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there that has been an ally to
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evolving hominids, and we're the
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evolving hominids, and we're the
latest model.
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latest model.
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>> NARRATOR: In the Bible,
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angels often appear to humans as
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physical entities that can be
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physical entities that can be
seen, heard, and even touched.
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seen, heard, and even touched.
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But today many people believe
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angels are present whether they
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can see them or not.
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According to a 2008 survey by
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Baylor University's Institute
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for Studies of Religion, 55% of
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all American adults believe a
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guardian angel protects them.
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>> BULLARD: The popularity of
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guardian angels in modern
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culture I think has to do with
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the idea that we want some kind
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of supernatural protection in a
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world where we don't really feel
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very safe oftentimes.
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>> NARRATOR: The Islamic faith
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teaches that every human being
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has not one but two guardian
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angels, one for each shoulder.
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These celestial beings are
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called writing angels because
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they write down the good deeds
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and the bad deeds in each
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and the bad deeds in each
person's life.
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person's life.
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The first so-called guardian
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angel to appear in Judeo-
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Christian texts is the angel
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Raphael, who was featured in the
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Book of Tobit, written sometime
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between the eighth and second
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century B.C.
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>> FULCO: Tobit is off on a very
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difficult mission.
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He's going to go to Persia to
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find a wife, and he runs into
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all sorts of problems on the
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way, so God sends the angel
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Raphael, and now we have the
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angel not just as a messenger
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from God.
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He becomes a guardian angel, he
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becomes a special protector.
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>> VON DANIKEN: The idea of
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guardian angel, is it just
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because we wish it, we believe
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it, that somebody's protecting
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us, or does it come from the
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past?
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Has it to do maybe something
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with extraterrestrials?
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In the sense that some
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extraterrestrials said to some
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human, "We protect you.
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Don't be afraid."
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>> MARZULLI: What is the
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guardian angel guarding us from?
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Why is that guardian angel
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protecting us?
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And is there more than one?
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The short answer to that is
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absolutely, yes.
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He's guarding us from what?
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He's guarding us from what?
The fallen angels.
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The fallen angels.
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>> BULLARD: In Judeo-Christian,
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and Islamic tradition, there
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was an idea that there will be
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some kind of final warfare when
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God defeats Satan, once and
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for all.
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That's been interpreted, by
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some people, to say that, the
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aliens will come back; they
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will fight it out again, one
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final time.
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>> NARRATOR: Both The Book of
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Enoch and the New Testament
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Book of Revelation refers to a
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final cosmic battle of good
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final cosmic battle of good
versus evil.
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versus evil.
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Other biblical stories include
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accounts of angels wielding
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accounts of angels wielding
extraordinary powers.
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extraordinary powers.
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Angels who are not just
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guardians, but who intervene in
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human affairs.
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But who are these celestial
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00:17:14,163 --> 00:17:16,122
warriors?
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The New Testament's Acts of the
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Apostles tells of one such
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story, that of Saint Peter, who
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was imprisoned in Jerusalem by
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King Herod in 44 A.D.
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>> CARTER: Peter is asleep
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between two soldiers.
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So the angel walks through the
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wall.
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He's a physical being because
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he touches Peter, tells Peter
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to wake up, come with me.
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He unshackles Peter, and he
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00:17:44,454 --> 00:17:46,456
He unshackles Peter, and he
says to Peter, "Follow me."
451
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says to Peter, "Follow me."
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>> MARZULLI: The prison cell
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opens, Peter walks out, and the
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first thing he notices, all the
455
00:17:56,162 --> 00:17:58,120
first thing he notices, all the
guards are asleep.
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guards are asleep.
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They get out to the courtyard,
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this huge prison gate opens by
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itself and Peter walks out and
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he's free.
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00:18:06,215 --> 00:18:07,086
Angel walks with him a little
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bit longer...
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He's gone.
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>> NARRATOR: Is the freeing of
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Saint Peter an alien encounter
466
00:18:14,223 --> 00:18:17,226
story?
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Or is it a true story of
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heavenly angels commanding
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00:18:21,404 --> 00:18:24,233
otherworldly powers?
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>> CARTER: A lot of the times
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modern contactees say, "Well,
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these beings have come to me in
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my dreams.
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They can come through my walls.
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All my doors are locked, my
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windows are shut, and all of a
477
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sudden, I open my eyes and there
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is a being there."
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>> CREMO: Some might say these
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accounts of visitations by
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angels are a result of
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imagination or projection, but
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I take them as actual historical
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accounts because they're
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presented that way.
486
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presented that way.
[bell tolling]
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[bell tolling]
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>> WILCOCK: If we look at the
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case of religion, we can see
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clear evidence of
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extraterrestrial human visitors
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who have come here and have
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tried to help improve conditions
494
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in our civilization.
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And they have been consistently
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trying to help the Earth along,
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which may, in fact, be leading
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up to a galactic family reunion,
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where after a certain point
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when we're ready, they no
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longer have to follow the prime
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directive, if you will, and can
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directive, if you will, and can
again show themselves to us.
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again show themselves to us.
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>> NARRATOR: But whether angels
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are, in fact, supernatural or
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extraterrestrial beings,
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artists have nearly always
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00:19:46,837 --> 00:19:48,448
depicted them as having large,
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almost bird-like wings.
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But where does this notion come
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from?
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From ancient texts?
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Or from a more mysterious
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source?
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A source, not from the heavens,
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but from places thousands of
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but from places thousands of
light-years away?
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00:20:09,295 --> 00:20:24,658
light-years away?
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>> NARRATOR: Rome, Italy.
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Stored in the Treasury of Saint
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Peter's Basilica in the Vatican
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is the Sarcophagus of Junius
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Bassus.
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Constructed in 359 A.D., the
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sarcophagus features what some
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believe to be the earliest
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known depiction of winged
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angels in all of Christianity.
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In the centuries that followed,
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angels were almost always
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00:20:53,643 --> 00:20:56,080
depicted as having wings.
533
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But why?
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Especially since the actual
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biblical texts rarely describe
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angels as having bird-like
537
00:21:05,264 --> 00:21:07,309
appendages?
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>> CARTER: The vast majority
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of the stories in the Old
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Testament, angels aren't
541
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described as having wings
542
00:21:13,576 --> 00:21:14,403
at all.
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Some of them, they look human.
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When the angel comes to visit
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Abraham, this angel does not
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00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:22,324
have wings.
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00:21:22,324 --> 00:21:23,325
He looks like a man.
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00:21:23,325 --> 00:21:24,848
Abraham bows to him, which is
549
00:21:24,848 --> 00:21:25,849
interesting.
550
00:21:25,849 --> 00:21:27,808
How did Abraham know?
551
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If he looks like a human being,
552
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what was it that gave Abraham
553
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:33,727
the clue to run over and bow
554
00:21:33,727 --> 00:21:34,858
down to him?
555
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And so there's a supernatural
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quality, there's a superhuman
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quality that they acknowledge.
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00:21:40,299 --> 00:21:42,257
That this was a person who was
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a little more than human.
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00:21:47,393 --> 00:21:49,177
>> RICHARD RADER: The concept of
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the angel as such comes
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00:21:50,613 --> 00:21:52,311
directly out of the Graeco-Roman
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00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:53,834
tradition.
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Stories of Hermes and Iris kind
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of coming down and giving
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messages, envisioning them as
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beings like human beings, kind
568
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of looking like human beings
569
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and being benevolent.
570
00:22:06,194 --> 00:22:07,630
There are plenty of other
571
00:22:07,630 --> 00:22:09,066
beings which have these
572
00:22:09,066 --> 00:22:10,459
beautiful wings, these kind of
573
00:22:10,459 --> 00:22:12,331
forms and shapes.
574
00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:13,854
But all of these beings,
575
00:22:13,854 --> 00:22:15,943
however they're conceived of,
576
00:22:15,943 --> 00:22:18,598
are a way of telling us that we
577
00:22:18,598 --> 00:22:20,991
have a hard time understanding
578
00:22:20,991 --> 00:22:23,211
what it is that separates us
579
00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:25,082
from them, from the gods.
580
00:22:25,082 --> 00:22:27,563
They have to be these kind of
581
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weird beings who have wings.
582
00:22:30,871 --> 00:22:32,612
>> MARTELL: Angels show up in
583
00:22:32,612 --> 00:22:34,744
various cultures as probably
584
00:22:34,744 --> 00:22:36,746
misidentified technology.
585
00:22:36,746 --> 00:22:37,878
If they saw someone-- a human
586
00:22:37,878 --> 00:22:39,749
being or a humanoid-- flying in
587
00:22:39,749 --> 00:22:41,272
the skies, they could only give
588
00:22:41,272 --> 00:22:43,187
it a natural review, giving it
589
00:22:43,187 --> 00:22:44,275
wings.
590
00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:45,538
I don't think they actually had
591
00:22:45,538 --> 00:22:46,539
wings.
592
00:22:46,539 --> 00:22:48,192
It was ancient man's way of
593
00:22:48,192 --> 00:22:49,193
saying they had the power of
594
00:22:49,193 --> 00:22:51,326
flight.
595
00:22:51,326 --> 00:22:53,241
>> CARTER: The angels that have
596
00:22:53,241 --> 00:22:54,590
wings that we're used to seeing
597
00:22:54,590 --> 00:22:56,331
depicted in pictures of the
598
00:22:56,331 --> 00:22:57,680
Bible and what have you,
599
00:22:57,680 --> 00:22:59,813
basically the wings say these
600
00:22:59,813 --> 00:23:01,684
beings can fly.
601
00:23:01,684 --> 00:23:04,600
So we believe in angels, and
602
00:23:04,600 --> 00:23:06,733
the Native Americans talk about
603
00:23:06,733 --> 00:23:09,692
the Star People, the Egyptians
604
00:23:09,692 --> 00:23:11,694
talk about the gods coming to
605
00:23:11,694 --> 00:23:13,696
talk about the gods coming to
and from the Earth.
606
00:23:13,696 --> 00:23:14,828
and from the Earth.
607
00:23:14,828 --> 00:23:16,656
So I believe this is the basis,
608
00:23:16,656 --> 00:23:18,222
this is the template for the
609
00:23:18,222 --> 00:23:20,094
civilizations of the Earth's
610
00:23:20,094 --> 00:23:21,835
religious practices.
611
00:23:21,835 --> 00:23:23,837
religious practices.
I-I believe that.
612
00:23:23,837 --> 00:23:27,275
I-I believe that.
613
00:23:27,275 --> 00:23:28,407
>> NARRATOR: For centuries,
614
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:30,191
religious tradition has
615
00:23:30,191 --> 00:23:31,453
perpetuated the notion of
616
00:23:31,453 --> 00:23:33,629
bird-like wings to explain an
617
00:23:33,629 --> 00:23:35,762
angel's mode of travel.
618
00:23:35,762 --> 00:23:37,677
But is such a concept even
619
00:23:37,677 --> 00:23:41,332
scientifically plausible?
620
00:23:41,332 --> 00:23:44,118
In 2009, a study at University
621
00:23:44,118 --> 00:23:46,686
College, London compared
622
00:23:46,686 --> 00:23:48,383
classic depictions of winged
623
00:23:48,383 --> 00:23:51,430
angels with actual bird
624
00:23:51,430 --> 00:23:53,127
physiology.
625
00:23:53,127 --> 00:23:54,607
>> MICHAEL DENNIN: You have to
626
00:23:54,607 --> 00:23:56,086
be able to flap down and
627
00:23:56,086 --> 00:23:57,174
flap up.
628
00:23:57,174 --> 00:23:58,088
And you really need a separate
629
00:23:58,088 --> 00:24:00,177
muscle to do each of these.
630
00:24:00,177 --> 00:24:01,527
On the way down, you're
631
00:24:01,527 --> 00:24:03,746
generating the lift.
632
00:24:03,746 --> 00:24:04,660
And you actually, you have to
633
00:24:04,660 --> 00:24:06,532
rotate the wing slightly and get
634
00:24:06,532 --> 00:24:07,924
a different angle as you come
635
00:24:07,924 --> 00:24:11,188
up, and then they actually
636
00:24:11,188 --> 00:24:12,494
generate their thrust.
637
00:24:12,494 --> 00:24:13,669
Otherwise if you just went up
638
00:24:13,669 --> 00:24:15,149
and down in the same straight
639
00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:16,933
pattern, you'd be making lift
640
00:24:16,933 --> 00:24:18,674
one way, but when you went back
641
00:24:18,674 --> 00:24:19,545
the other way, you'd just push
642
00:24:19,545 --> 00:24:21,068
yourself back down.
643
00:24:21,068 --> 00:24:23,374
So when you look at the classic
644
00:24:23,374 --> 00:24:26,203
pictures of angels, the wings
645
00:24:26,203 --> 00:24:28,292
are centered on their back.
646
00:24:28,292 --> 00:24:30,512
Very close together.
647
00:24:30,512 --> 00:24:31,513
Whereas the birds with the
648
00:24:31,513 --> 00:24:33,080
wings on the side can have
649
00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:34,821
longer muscles with the great
650
00:24:34,821 --> 00:24:36,300
strength that go into moving
651
00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:37,388
them up and down.
652
00:24:37,388 --> 00:24:38,346
With the wings on the back,
653
00:24:38,346 --> 00:24:39,521
they're gonna look like they're
654
00:24:39,521 --> 00:24:41,175
gonna flap more like this than
655
00:24:41,175 --> 00:24:44,091
up and down.
656
00:24:44,091 --> 00:24:45,571
>> NARRATOR: Researchers also
657
00:24:45,571 --> 00:24:47,877
concluded that angels, given
658
00:24:47,877 --> 00:24:49,749
their humanoid interpretation,
659
00:24:49,749 --> 00:24:51,881
would be simply too heavy for
660
00:24:51,881 --> 00:24:53,274
flight.
661
00:24:53,274 --> 00:24:54,188
>> DENNIN: We're not designed
662
00:24:54,188 --> 00:24:55,232
aerodynamically.
663
00:24:55,232 --> 00:24:57,278
And we're quite heavy.
664
00:24:57,278 --> 00:24:59,106
I mean, we're solid bone, solid
665
00:24:59,106 --> 00:25:00,499
muscle.
666
00:25:00,499 --> 00:25:02,196
So those two features you have
667
00:25:02,196 --> 00:25:04,198
So those two features you have
to overcome.
668
00:25:04,198 --> 00:25:05,678
to overcome.
669
00:25:05,678 --> 00:25:07,418
>> NARRATOR: But if angels could
670
00:25:07,418 --> 00:25:08,898
not have possessed actual wings,
671
00:25:08,898 --> 00:25:10,465
how would they have managed to
672
00:25:10,465 --> 00:25:14,034
how would they have managed to
travel to and from the heavens?
673
00:25:14,034 --> 00:25:17,254
travel to and from the heavens?
674
00:25:17,254 --> 00:25:18,604
>> TSOUKALOS: Angels were never
675
00:25:18,604 --> 00:25:20,214
described to fly around like
676
00:25:20,214 --> 00:25:22,303
Superman, but they sort of had
677
00:25:22,303 --> 00:25:24,697
a vertical ascent into the sky,
678
00:25:24,697 --> 00:25:26,525
or when they descended, it was
679
00:25:26,525 --> 00:25:27,961
a vertical descent.
680
00:25:27,961 --> 00:25:30,529
How was that possible?
681
00:25:30,529 --> 00:25:32,879
>> NARRATOR: In 1953, Bell
682
00:25:32,879 --> 00:25:34,881
Aerosystems developed the
683
00:25:34,881 --> 00:25:37,884
rocket belt, the precursor to
684
00:25:37,884 --> 00:25:40,800
today's workable jet pack.
685
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:42,845
Designed to lift individuals
686
00:25:42,845 --> 00:25:44,412
vertically into the air and
687
00:25:44,412 --> 00:25:47,241
glide them across the skies,
688
00:25:47,241 --> 00:25:49,112
today's jet packs can reach
689
00:25:49,112 --> 00:25:51,637
altitudes of over 8,000 feet
690
00:25:51,637 --> 00:25:54,553
and travel at speeds of up to
691
00:25:54,553 --> 00:25:56,555
and travel at speeds of up to
60 miles per hour.
692
00:25:56,555 --> 00:25:59,253
60 miles per hour.
693
00:25:59,253 --> 00:26:00,602
>> TSOUKALOS: If you look at a
694
00:26:00,602 --> 00:26:02,778
modern jet pack, humans are
695
00:26:02,778 --> 00:26:05,085
ascending and descending in a
696
00:26:05,085 --> 00:26:07,957
vertical position.
697
00:26:07,957 --> 00:26:11,221
Now imagine if that picture was
698
00:26:11,221 --> 00:26:13,441
shown to our ancestors.
699
00:26:13,441 --> 00:26:16,879
How would they react?
700
00:26:16,879 --> 00:26:20,230
Obviously, they will say, "Wow,
701
00:26:20,230 --> 00:26:23,756
this creature must be divine.
702
00:26:23,756 --> 00:26:26,280
This creature must be some type
703
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,543
of a god because they've got
704
00:26:28,543 --> 00:26:30,893
the capability of flight.
705
00:26:30,893 --> 00:26:34,288
They're like birds.
706
00:26:34,288 --> 00:26:36,377
Not even the sky is the limit
707
00:26:36,377 --> 00:26:38,422
to them."
708
00:26:38,422 --> 00:26:39,859
>> NARRATOR: But could a device
709
00:26:39,859 --> 00:26:41,817
similar to modern day jet packs
710
00:26:41,817 --> 00:26:44,254
really explain how biblical
711
00:26:44,254 --> 00:26:46,039
angels were capable of
712
00:26:46,039 --> 00:26:47,475
ascending bodily into the
713
00:26:47,475 --> 00:26:49,433
heavens?
714
00:26:49,433 --> 00:26:51,044
Could they have had other
715
00:26:51,044 --> 00:26:53,437
methods of flight unfamiliar to
716
00:26:53,437 --> 00:26:55,396
our ancient ancestors?
717
00:26:55,396 --> 00:26:56,484
>> C
718
00:26:56,484 --> 00:26:58,573
The story of Jacob and the
719
00:26:58,573 --> 00:27:01,228
angel in Genesis 28 is a
720
00:27:01,228 --> 00:27:04,405
classic UFO scenario.
721
00:27:04,405 --> 00:27:06,842
Jacob falls asleep, and in this
722
00:27:06,842 --> 00:27:10,411
dream, he dreams that there's
723
00:27:10,411 --> 00:27:12,239
angels going up and down a
724
00:27:12,239 --> 00:27:14,241
ladder, and this ladder comes
725
00:27:14,241 --> 00:27:15,634
from heaven.
726
00:27:15,634 --> 00:27:17,070
>> TSOUKALOS: If you look at,
727
00:27:17,070 --> 00:27:19,681
let's say, a spaceship, and it
728
00:27:19,681 --> 00:27:21,117
opens its door, and there's a
729
00:27:21,117 --> 00:27:22,466
ramp coming out.
730
00:27:22,466 --> 00:27:23,642
I mean, that almost looks like
731
00:27:23,642 --> 00:27:24,512
a ladder.
732
00:27:24,512 --> 00:27:27,515
So it is possible that what is
733
00:27:27,515 --> 00:27:30,605
described there is nothing else
734
00:27:30,605 --> 00:27:34,435
but a technological event that
735
00:27:34,435 --> 00:27:38,178
was described as a ladder.
736
00:27:38,178 --> 00:27:39,788
>> NARRATOR: Did our ancestors
737
00:27:39,788 --> 00:27:42,530
try to explain an ancient alien
738
00:27:42,530 --> 00:27:44,750
technology by suggesting that
739
00:27:44,750 --> 00:27:47,709
extraterrestrial visitors were
740
00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:49,755
heavenly visitors with bird-like
741
00:27:49,755 --> 00:27:52,279
wings?
742
00:27:52,279 --> 00:27:55,282
If the answer is "yes," the
743
00:27:55,282 --> 00:27:57,850
implications are both profound
744
00:27:57,850 --> 00:28:01,592
and potentially disturbing.
745
00:28:01,592 --> 00:28:04,204
For if angels are actual
746
00:28:04,204 --> 00:28:05,858
visitors from other worlds,
747
00:28:05,858 --> 00:28:08,425
then what is their mission?
748
00:28:08,425 --> 00:28:11,602
Are they simply watching us?
749
00:28:11,602 --> 00:28:15,215
Or is there, perhaps, a more
750
00:28:15,215 --> 00:28:17,217
Or is there, perhaps, a more
sinister purpose?
751
00:28:17,217 --> 00:28:24,441
sinister purpose?
752
00:28:24,441 --> 00:28:25,965
>> NARRATOR: Temple Mount,
753
00:28:25,965 --> 00:28:29,664
Old City, Jerusalem.
754
00:28:29,664 --> 00:28:32,101
It was here that many biblical
755
00:28:32,101 --> 00:28:34,147
stories reportedly occurred,
756
00:28:34,147 --> 00:28:36,715
including the binding of Isaac,
757
00:28:36,715 --> 00:28:38,717
including the binding of Isaac,
from Genesis 22.
758
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:40,675
from Genesis 22.
759
00:28:40,675 --> 00:28:43,373
In this story, God asks Abraham
760
00:28:43,373 --> 00:28:44,940
to sacrifice his son, Isaac, on
761
00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:47,508
Mount Moriah.
762
00:28:47,508 --> 00:28:50,076
Abraham sets out to obey God's
763
00:28:50,076 --> 00:28:51,555
command.
764
00:28:51,555 --> 00:28:53,122
But after binding his son and
765
00:28:53,122 --> 00:28:55,211
preparing for the sacrifice, he
766
00:28:55,211 --> 00:28:57,039
is stopped at the last minute
767
00:28:57,039 --> 00:28:59,172
by an angel.
768
00:28:59,172 --> 00:29:02,088
Conventional interpretations of
769
00:29:02,088 --> 00:29:04,830
the story usually conclude that
770
00:29:04,830 --> 00:29:06,483
God only wanted to test
771
00:29:06,483 --> 00:29:09,356
Abraham's faith.
772
00:29:09,356 --> 00:29:11,488
But ancient alien theorists
773
00:29:11,488 --> 00:29:13,795
suggest that the tale has
774
00:29:13,795 --> 00:29:16,711
another interpretation.
775
00:29:16,711 --> 00:29:18,757
>> TSOUKALOS: In my opinion
776
00:29:18,757 --> 00:29:21,672
"God-God" would never ask such
777
00:29:21,672 --> 00:29:22,848
a question.
778
00:29:22,848 --> 00:29:25,981
So is it possible that it was a
779
00:29:25,981 --> 00:29:28,854
fallen angel, slash, alien
780
00:29:28,854 --> 00:29:32,422
extraterrestrial who posed as
781
00:29:32,422 --> 00:29:35,295
God?
782
00:29:35,295 --> 00:29:37,340
>> RADER: God never demands
783
00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:38,733
human sacrifice.
784
00:29:38,733 --> 00:29:39,865
Human sacrifice is totally
785
00:29:39,865 --> 00:29:41,562
anathema to Christianity and
786
00:29:41,562 --> 00:29:43,303
it's totally anathema to God as
787
00:29:43,303 --> 00:29:45,435
a creator.
788
00:29:45,435 --> 00:29:47,437
The French philosopher Sartre
789
00:29:47,437 --> 00:29:49,700
very famously wrote, "If an
790
00:29:49,700 --> 00:29:51,877
angel were to tell me I needed
791
00:29:51,877 --> 00:29:53,661
to sacrifice my son, I'd ask for
792
00:29:53,661 --> 00:29:56,229
some ID."
793
00:29:56,229 --> 00:29:58,709
>> COPPENS: Maybe somebody else
794
00:29:58,709 --> 00:30:00,450
impersonating a god.
795
00:30:00,450 --> 00:30:01,625
And do we then have somebody
796
00:30:01,625 --> 00:30:03,323
stepping in to actually prevent
797
00:30:03,323 --> 00:30:04,585
this from happening?
798
00:30:04,585 --> 00:30:05,847
Are we, in fact, maybe
799
00:30:05,847 --> 00:30:07,631
confronted with two warring
800
00:30:07,631 --> 00:30:10,547
civilizations trying to control
801
00:30:10,547 --> 00:30:11,940
what is happening in the
802
00:30:11,940 --> 00:30:14,638
stories of the Bible?
803
00:30:14,638 --> 00:30:15,509
>> TSOUKALOS: Just like there
804
00:30:15,509 --> 00:30:17,554
are good people and bad people
805
00:30:17,554 --> 00:30:19,730
here on Earth, there is good
806
00:30:19,730 --> 00:30:21,254
and bad extraterrestrials out
807
00:30:21,254 --> 00:30:22,864
there.
808
00:30:22,864 --> 00:30:24,735
Good and evil permeates the
809
00:30:24,735 --> 00:30:27,173
entire universe.
810
00:30:27,173 --> 00:30:28,217
Yin and yang.
811
00:30:28,217 --> 00:30:30,916
There's a balance.
812
00:30:30,916 --> 00:30:33,832
>> NARRATOR: Deep inside the
813
00:30:33,832 --> 00:30:35,442
Middle Eastern country of Oman,
814
00:30:35,442 --> 00:30:38,053
a mysterious cavern lies hidden
815
00:30:38,053 --> 00:30:40,403
far beneath the surface.
816
00:30:40,403 --> 00:30:42,666
Called Majlis al Jinn, or
817
00:30:42,666 --> 00:30:45,321
"meeting place of the jinn," it
818
00:30:45,321 --> 00:30:47,846
stretches more than 14 acres
819
00:30:47,846 --> 00:30:50,196
underground, and is one of the
820
00:30:50,196 --> 00:30:52,851
world's ten largest caves.
821
00:30:52,851 --> 00:30:55,288
Many Omanis still believe this
822
00:30:55,288 --> 00:30:57,203
cavern and others like it are
823
00:30:57,203 --> 00:30:59,161
actually inhabited by
824
00:30:59,161 --> 00:31:00,859
supernatural creatures of
825
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:03,862
Islamic folklore called jinn
826
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,908
or genies; mystical creatures
827
00:31:06,908 --> 00:31:08,823
that are usually invisible to
828
00:31:08,823 --> 00:31:10,825
man.
829
00:31:10,825 --> 00:31:12,087
>> JONATHAN YOUNG: One
830
00:31:12,087 --> 00:31:13,741
interesting aspect of the jinn
831
00:31:13,741 --> 00:31:15,047
is an element of free will.
832
00:31:15,047 --> 00:31:16,700
They're like angels, but we
833
00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:18,398
think of angels in the west as
834
00:31:18,398 --> 00:31:20,966
under the direct command of the
835
00:31:20,966 --> 00:31:23,229
divine powers.
836
00:31:23,229 --> 00:31:25,666
But the jinn can make some
837
00:31:25,666 --> 00:31:27,102
decisions for themselves, and
838
00:31:27,102 --> 00:31:28,147
some of them are a little
839
00:31:28,147 --> 00:31:29,931
contrary or curious in their
840
00:31:29,931 --> 00:31:31,498
way of being.
841
00:31:31,498 --> 00:31:33,369
>> NARRATOR: According to
842
00:31:33,369 --> 00:31:36,155
Islamic theology, genies often
843
00:31:36,155 --> 00:31:37,547
reveal themselves to humans
844
00:31:37,547 --> 00:31:39,767
with messages, which can be
845
00:31:39,767 --> 00:31:43,118
either benevolent or deceptive.
846
00:31:43,118 --> 00:31:45,904
But is it possible that genies
847
00:31:45,904 --> 00:31:48,036
actually exist?
848
00:31:48,036 --> 00:31:51,039
If so, where did they come from?
849
00:31:51,039 --> 00:31:52,214
>> TSOUKALOS: When we talk
850
00:31:52,214 --> 00:31:53,607
about genie, genie in a bottle,
851
00:31:53,607 --> 00:31:55,087
it's very interesting because
852
00:31:55,087 --> 00:31:56,653
you rub the bottle and then the
853
00:31:56,653 --> 00:31:57,916
genie comes out of it, and it
854
00:31:57,916 --> 00:31:59,395
fulfills your wishes.
855
00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:00,919
Well, let's look at this from a
856
00:32:00,919 --> 00:32:03,095
modern day perspective.
857
00:32:03,095 --> 00:32:05,662
If you have a little container,
858
00:32:05,662 --> 00:32:07,926
and you push a button and a
859
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:09,710
hologram comes out, then could
860
00:32:09,710 --> 00:32:12,104
that be a genie in a bottle?
861
00:32:12,104 --> 00:32:14,019
And according to the ancient
862
00:32:14,019 --> 00:32:15,542
astronaut theory, that is
863
00:32:15,542 --> 00:32:17,196
exactly what happened.
864
00:32:17,196 --> 00:32:20,155
Where extraterrestrials used
865
00:32:20,155 --> 00:32:23,376
holograms in order to relay
866
00:32:23,376 --> 00:32:24,464
messages.
867
00:32:24,464 --> 00:32:26,074
That is essentially a genie in
868
00:32:26,074 --> 00:32:28,076
That is essentially a genie in
a bottle.
869
00:32:28,076 --> 00:32:29,991
a bottle.
870
00:32:29,991 --> 00:32:31,950
>> NARRATOR: Like angels, jinn
871
00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:33,560
are said to be able to appear
872
00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:36,171
and disappear at will, and are
873
00:32:36,171 --> 00:32:37,912
sometimes only heard as
874
00:32:37,912 --> 00:32:41,046
disembodied voices.
875
00:32:41,046 --> 00:32:42,569
But while some ancient
876
00:32:42,569 --> 00:32:43,918
astronaut theorists believe
877
00:32:43,918 --> 00:32:45,964
this behavior resembles that of
878
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:49,010
extraterrestrials, others claim
879
00:32:49,010 --> 00:32:51,186
that angels, jinn and other
880
00:32:51,186 --> 00:32:52,971
supernatural creatures have
881
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:56,017
origins right here on Earth.
882
00:32:56,017 --> 00:32:57,497
They call these beings,
883
00:32:57,497 --> 00:32:59,281
"ultra-terrestrial."
884
00:32:59,281 --> 00:33:01,675
>> MARTELL: Ultra-terrestrials
885
00:33:01,675 --> 00:33:03,546
are possible beings that travel,
886
00:33:03,546 --> 00:33:05,374
and visit us, from other
887
00:33:05,374 --> 00:33:06,201
dimensions.
888
00:33:06,201 --> 00:33:07,986
We know that, we all vibrate in
889
00:33:07,986 --> 00:33:09,552
the three-dimensional space, at
890
00:33:09,552 --> 00:33:10,989
a certain frequency.
891
00:33:10,989 --> 00:33:12,338
It's very possible that other
892
00:33:12,338 --> 00:33:14,209
beings vibrate, at a higher
893
00:33:14,209 --> 00:33:15,602
frequency, and are able to pass
894
00:33:15,602 --> 00:33:17,386
more easily into other
895
00:33:17,386 --> 00:33:19,214
dimensions.
896
00:33:19,214 --> 00:33:20,259
>> BULLARD: The ultra-
897
00:33:20,259 --> 00:33:21,564
terrestrial theory would also
898
00:33:21,564 --> 00:33:23,740
explain the folkloric
899
00:33:23,740 --> 00:33:25,003
creatures, the angelic
900
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,743
creatures, any sort of
901
00:33:26,743 --> 00:33:29,007
experience of a strange,
902
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:31,009
supernatural, or alien being,
903
00:33:31,009 --> 00:33:32,271
that has occurred throughout
904
00:33:32,271 --> 00:33:34,142
history.
905
00:33:34,142 --> 00:33:37,015
>> NARRATOR: But could so-called
906
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:39,539
fallen angels, jinn and other
907
00:33:39,539 --> 00:33:41,541
mysterious ultra-terrestrial
908
00:33:41,541 --> 00:33:44,239
creatures really help to explain
909
00:33:44,239 --> 00:33:46,546
more recent stories of people
910
00:33:46,546 --> 00:33:47,677
who claim they are directed
911
00:33:47,677 --> 00:33:49,549
toward violent ends by the word
912
00:33:49,549 --> 00:33:51,899
of God?
913
00:33:51,899 --> 00:33:54,989
David Berkowitz, better known
914
00:33:54,989 --> 00:33:57,905
as Son of Sam, claimed a demon
915
00:33:57,905 --> 00:33:59,472
who took possession of his
916
00:33:59,472 --> 00:34:01,430
neighbor's dog commanded him to
917
00:34:01,430 --> 00:34:03,563
kill.
918
00:34:03,563 --> 00:34:06,000
Herbert Mullin, who committed
919
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,046
13 murders in California in the
920
00:34:08,046 --> 00:34:11,571
early 1970s, claimed voices in
921
00:34:11,571 --> 00:34:13,877
his head told him he had to make
922
00:34:13,877 --> 00:34:15,531
human sacrifices to prevent a
923
00:34:15,531 --> 00:34:18,360
cataclysmic earthquake.
924
00:34:18,360 --> 00:34:20,928
Marshall Applewhite, the leader
925
00:34:20,928 --> 00:34:22,408
of the UFO cult known as
926
00:34:22,408 --> 00:34:25,237
Heaven's Gate, inspired a mass
927
00:34:25,237 --> 00:34:27,021
suicide based on a vision that
928
00:34:27,021 --> 00:34:28,936
led him to believe he was
929
00:34:28,936 --> 00:34:31,243
related to Jesus.
930
00:34:31,243 --> 00:34:32,983
>> RADER: Ancient literature is
931
00:34:32,983 --> 00:34:36,378
full of characters who are
932
00:34:36,378 --> 00:34:38,206
claiming that they have been
933
00:34:38,206 --> 00:34:41,209
influenced by gods, angels,
934
00:34:41,209 --> 00:34:42,732
extraterrestrial beings, right?
935
00:34:42,732 --> 00:34:45,039
Which is rather like when
936
00:34:45,039 --> 00:34:46,910
Charles Manson, or the Son of
937
00:34:46,910 --> 00:34:50,088
Sam claims, say, metaphysical
938
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:52,220
reasons or theological reasons
939
00:34:52,220 --> 00:34:53,395
for what they're doing now.
940
00:34:53,395 --> 00:34:54,962
So it's not a matter of whether
941
00:34:54,962 --> 00:34:56,137
we believe them or not.
942
00:34:56,137 --> 00:34:58,052
They very much believe it, and
943
00:34:58,052 --> 00:34:59,749
that's what's important.
944
00:34:59,749 --> 00:35:01,055
What matters is that from the
945
00:35:01,055 --> 00:35:02,622
ancient world to the modern,
946
00:35:02,622 --> 00:35:04,667
there are mysterious forces.
947
00:35:04,667 --> 00:35:06,147
Whether they are fictions or
948
00:35:06,147 --> 00:35:07,540
not, we don't have the ultimate
949
00:35:07,540 --> 00:35:08,758
answers.
950
00:35:08,758 --> 00:35:10,804
What matters is the similarity.
951
00:35:10,804 --> 00:35:12,545
And those discourses are, to a
952
00:35:12,545 --> 00:35:17,115
certain extent, transhistorical.
953
00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:20,335
>> NARRATOR: Angels and demons.
954
00:35:20,335 --> 00:35:23,251
Good versus evil.
955
00:35:23,251 --> 00:35:25,384
But if, as many ancient
956
00:35:25,384 --> 00:35:27,386
astronaut proponents maintain,
957
00:35:27,386 --> 00:35:29,736
extraterrestrials have been
958
00:35:29,736 --> 00:35:32,434
masquerading as angels, jinn
959
00:35:32,434 --> 00:35:34,219
and otherworldly creatures for
960
00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:36,308
thousands of years, where did
961
00:35:36,308 --> 00:35:39,049
they come from?
962
00:35:39,049 --> 00:35:41,182
Why are they here?
963
00:35:41,182 --> 00:35:43,576
And could they be all around us
964
00:35:43,576 --> 00:35:46,144
And could they be all around us
in plain sight?
965
00:35:46,144 --> 00:35:52,019
in plain sight?
966
00:35:52,019 --> 00:35:53,107
>> NARRATOR: Mount Hermon, high
967
00:35:53,107 --> 00:35:56,676
above the Holy Land.
968
00:35:56,676 --> 00:36:00,506
At 9,230 feet, this mysterious
969
00:36:00,506 --> 00:36:02,508
mountain straddles the borders
970
00:36:02,508 --> 00:36:07,513
of Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
971
00:36:07,513 --> 00:36:10,168
Sitting above the Golan Heights,
972
00:36:10,168 --> 00:36:12,170
Mount Hermon has been contested
973
00:36:12,170 --> 00:36:14,563
ground among Christian, Hebrew
974
00:36:14,563 --> 00:36:16,609
and Islamic faithful for
975
00:36:16,609 --> 00:36:18,654
thousands of years.
976
00:36:18,654 --> 00:36:20,221
According to the Synoptic
977
00:36:20,221 --> 00:36:22,441
Gospels, Mount Hermon is the
978
00:36:22,441 --> 00:36:24,660
location of the Transfiguration
979
00:36:24,660 --> 00:36:29,230
of Jesus, an event in which
980
00:36:29,230 --> 00:36:31,493
Jesus was transformed into a
981
00:36:31,493 --> 00:36:33,321
radiant, altered state and was
982
00:36:33,321 --> 00:36:35,584
seen to be conversing with Moses
983
00:36:35,584 --> 00:36:40,241
and the prophet Elijah.
984
00:36:40,241 --> 00:36:43,201
Mount Hermon is also the site
985
00:36:43,201 --> 00:36:44,854
where the 200 fallen angels
986
00:36:44,854 --> 00:36:46,682
descended to Earth in The Book
987
00:36:46,682 --> 00:36:49,424
of Enoch.
988
00:36:49,424 --> 00:36:52,079
But why Mount Hermon?
989
00:36:52,079 --> 00:36:53,689
Is there a geological
990
00:36:53,689 --> 00:36:56,214
significance to that site?
991
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:57,171
>> BIRNES: All across the face
992
00:36:57,171 --> 00:36:58,303
of the Earth there are
993
00:36:58,303 --> 00:37:01,219
particular hot spots, and it
994
00:37:01,219 --> 00:37:03,177
could well be that the reason
995
00:37:03,177 --> 00:37:04,570
the Middle East is such a hot
996
00:37:04,570 --> 00:37:06,398
spot, and the reason there are
997
00:37:06,398 --> 00:37:07,834
legends that the Middle East
998
00:37:07,834 --> 00:37:09,749
contains star gates, portals to
999
00:37:09,749 --> 00:37:11,881
other universes.
1000
00:37:11,881 --> 00:37:14,841
One theory says that we were
1001
00:37:14,841 --> 00:37:16,451
populated from the stars in the
1002
00:37:16,451 --> 00:37:18,410
Middle East at the beginning of
1003
00:37:18,410 --> 00:37:23,719
what we call our own time.
1004
00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:24,894
>> NARRATOR: In the occult
1005
00:37:24,894 --> 00:37:27,070
science of numerology, the
1006
00:37:27,070 --> 00:37:29,247
number 33 represents the
1007
00:37:29,247 --> 00:37:30,639
ultimate attainment of
1008
00:37:30,639 --> 00:37:33,251
consciousness.
1009
00:37:33,251 --> 00:37:34,687
Mount Hermon is located at the
1010
00:37:34,687 --> 00:37:37,777
33rd parallel north, which is a
1011
00:37:37,777 --> 00:37:40,345
latitude 33 degrees north of the
1012
00:37:40,345 --> 00:37:43,217
Earth's equator.
1013
00:37:43,217 --> 00:37:44,349
Tracing the 33rd parallel to
1014
00:37:44,349 --> 00:37:46,264
the exact opposite side of the
1015
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:48,570
globe directly points to the
1016
00:37:48,570 --> 00:37:50,703
site of the most famous alleged
1017
00:37:50,703 --> 00:37:53,532
UFO encounter in modern history:
1018
00:37:53,532 --> 00:37:56,535
in Roswell, New Mexico.
1019
00:37:56,535 --> 00:37:58,101
>> MARZULLI: If you take the
1020
00:37:58,101 --> 00:37:59,799
geographic polar opposite from
1021
00:37:59,799 --> 00:38:01,322
Mount Hermon, you wind up in
1022
00:38:01,322 --> 00:38:02,280
Roswell, New Mexico.
1023
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:03,542
Now that's not an accident,
1024
00:38:03,542 --> 00:38:04,499
folks.
1025
00:38:04,499 --> 00:38:05,848
It's not an accident.
1026
00:38:05,848 --> 00:38:08,155
Fallen angels are very big on
1027
00:38:08,155 --> 00:38:09,722
where they show up, what they
1028
00:38:09,722 --> 00:38:11,289
do, how they do it.
1029
00:38:11,289 --> 00:38:13,291
That should send shivers up and
1030
00:38:13,291 --> 00:38:15,771
down your spine.
1031
00:38:15,771 --> 00:38:17,469
>> NARRATOR: But could the
1032
00:38:17,469 --> 00:38:19,079
global coordinates of the
1033
00:38:19,079 --> 00:38:21,342
Roswell crash site and those of
1034
00:38:21,342 --> 00:38:23,736
Mount Hermon have a special,
1035
00:38:23,736 --> 00:38:26,216
perhaps secret, significance?
1036
00:38:26,216 --> 00:38:28,218
>> BIRNES: If aliens use the
1037
00:38:28,218 --> 00:38:31,700
33rd latitudinal line as a way
1038
00:38:31,700 --> 00:38:34,050
point, as a landing point for
1039
00:38:34,050 --> 00:38:38,185
planet Earth, what biblical
1040
00:38:38,185 --> 00:38:40,143
people saw thousands and
1041
00:38:40,143 --> 00:38:41,667
thousands of years ago on Mount
1042
00:38:41,667 --> 00:38:44,147
Hermon were entities that came
1043
00:38:44,147 --> 00:38:45,105
down from the sky.
1044
00:38:45,105 --> 00:38:49,152
They called them angels.
1045
00:38:49,152 --> 00:38:51,111
We called them
1046
00:38:51,111 --> 00:38:53,243
extraterrestrials.
1047
00:38:53,243 --> 00:38:54,332
>> VON DANIKEN: My idea is,
1048
00:38:54,332 --> 00:38:55,724
these extraterrestrials-- they
1049
00:38:55,724 --> 00:38:58,379
landed at different points.
1050
00:38:58,379 --> 00:39:00,120
Why?
1051
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,209
They knew that thousands of
1052
00:39:02,209 --> 00:39:04,167
years in the far future, the
1053
00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:07,170
humans would know the geometry
1054
00:39:07,170 --> 00:39:08,084
of their land.
1055
00:39:08,084 --> 00:39:09,521
And of a sudden, they say, "Hey,
1056
00:39:09,521 --> 00:39:10,739
what's that?"
1057
00:39:10,739 --> 00:39:12,088
These are places linked
1058
00:39:12,088 --> 00:39:13,742
together.
1059
00:39:13,742 --> 00:39:15,265
It's not coincidence.
1060
00:39:15,265 --> 00:39:19,705
It was on purpose.
1061
00:39:19,705 --> 00:39:20,749
>> NARRATOR: Could the angels
1062
00:39:20,749 --> 00:39:22,490
that descended on Mount Hermon
1063
00:39:22,490 --> 00:39:24,492
thousands of years ago, and the
1064
00:39:24,492 --> 00:39:26,668
aliens who were reportedly seen
1065
00:39:26,668 --> 00:39:28,061
over Roswell, New Mexico, in
1066
00:39:28,061 --> 00:39:31,760
1947 belong to the same
1067
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:35,068
extraterrestrial race?
1068
00:39:35,068 --> 00:39:38,158
And if so, does this mean that
1069
00:39:38,158 --> 00:39:40,203
angels or aliens have been among
1070
00:39:40,203 --> 00:39:43,250
us all along?
1071
00:39:43,250 --> 00:39:45,034
Were they left behind to monitor
1072
00:39:45,034 --> 00:39:46,340
us?
1073
00:39:46,340 --> 00:39:48,603
Or perhaps even guide us into
1074
00:39:48,603 --> 00:39:53,260
the future?
1075
00:39:53,260 --> 00:39:54,392
>> WILCOCK: Probably the last
1076
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,132
time that we had any regular
1077
00:39:56,132 --> 00:39:58,134
interaction with these ETs as a
1078
00:39:58,134 --> 00:40:00,223
cultural level was during the
1079
00:40:00,223 --> 00:40:01,747
time of the foundation of Islam.
1080
00:40:01,747 --> 00:40:04,663
For whatever reason, these guys
1081
00:40:04,663 --> 00:40:06,708
seem to have followed a mutual,
1082
00:40:06,708 --> 00:40:08,493
collective agreement that they'd
1083
00:40:08,493 --> 00:40:09,755
withdraw from the Earth after
1084
00:40:09,755 --> 00:40:11,147
the time of Islam, the New
1085
00:40:11,147 --> 00:40:12,279
Testament in the Bible,
1086
00:40:12,279 --> 00:40:13,585
etcetera, etcetera.
1087
00:40:13,585 --> 00:40:17,284
Stay away...
1088
00:40:17,284 --> 00:40:18,546
but in the meantime, we develop
1089
00:40:18,546 --> 00:40:20,374
technology, we get all proud of
1090
00:40:20,374 --> 00:40:22,289
ourselves and think, oh, we're
1091
00:40:22,289 --> 00:40:24,160
the only game in town here.
1092
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:25,466
Wake up!
1093
00:40:25,466 --> 00:40:27,250
They're all over the place!
1094
00:40:27,250 --> 00:40:29,470
Look at the angels in the Bible!
1095
00:40:29,470 --> 00:40:30,471
These are documented records.
1096
00:40:30,471 --> 00:40:32,081
The people that wrote these
1097
00:40:32,081 --> 00:40:33,431
books didn't think they were
1098
00:40:33,431 --> 00:40:34,649
myths.
1099
00:40:34,649 --> 00:40:35,694
They didn't think they were
1100
00:40:35,694 --> 00:40:36,695
fake.
1101
00:40:36,695 --> 00:40:39,393
They were writing down history.
1102
00:40:39,393 --> 00:40:40,394
>> VON DANIKEN: The
1103
00:40:40,394 --> 00:40:43,005
extraterrestrials want that, in
1104
00:40:43,005 --> 00:40:45,051
a far future of mankind, we
1105
00:40:45,051 --> 00:40:47,357
start to see these things.
1106
00:40:47,357 --> 00:40:48,576
We start to translate these
1107
00:40:48,576 --> 00:40:49,621
books.
1108
00:40:49,621 --> 00:40:51,231
We start to realize that
1109
00:40:51,231 --> 00:40:53,189
something on Earth in geometry
1110
00:40:53,189 --> 00:40:54,190
is wrong.
1111
00:40:54,190 --> 00:40:55,148
And now we start to ask
1112
00:40:55,148 --> 00:40:56,149
question.
1113
00:40:56,149 --> 00:40:58,020
We start to ask, for example,
1114
00:40:58,020 --> 00:40:59,457
how can we explain that?
1115
00:40:59,457 --> 00:41:02,242
Have we maybe been visited by
1116
00:41:02,242 --> 00:41:03,156
extraterrestrials?
1117
00:41:03,156 --> 00:41:05,288
And I think it's important to
1118
00:41:05,288 --> 00:41:06,681
think in this way.
1119
00:41:06,681 --> 00:41:08,204
Because these extraterrestrials
1120
00:41:08,204 --> 00:41:09,336
have promised to return.
1121
00:41:09,336 --> 00:41:13,296
And one day, they will return.
1122
00:41:13,296 --> 00:41:16,256
>> HOWE: If we humans are now
1123
00:41:16,256 --> 00:41:18,693
on, we'll say the cusp of
1124
00:41:18,693 --> 00:41:20,173
finally having some truth laid
1125
00:41:20,173 --> 00:41:22,784
out to us about our relationship
1126
00:41:22,784 --> 00:41:24,307
to other intelligences in the
1127
00:41:24,307 --> 00:41:27,180
universe, I just hope that we
1128
00:41:27,180 --> 00:41:29,661
will be looking at aliens--
1129
00:41:29,661 --> 00:41:32,272
past, present and future-- as
1130
00:41:32,272 --> 00:41:35,057
not our killers and not our
1131
00:41:35,057 --> 00:41:38,104
saviors, but as another
1132
00:41:38,104 --> 00:41:41,150
intelligence that we will be
1133
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able to shake hands with and
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learn something about the
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cosmos.
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>> NARRATOR: But if, and
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perhaps, when, so-called angels
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reveal themselves to us in the
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form of extraterrestrials, would
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we accept them?
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Perhaps only when we are ready
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to know the truth about our own
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origins will that day come.
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