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NARRATOR: Unexplained sightings.

WILLIAM HENRY: The first responders
on the scene reported a UFO.

NARRATOR: Miraculous appearances.

BRETT PETERSON: Inside the
tilma was the Virgin Mother.

NARRATOR: And visions
that changed the world.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: This
extraordinary sign from the heavens

becomes one of the crucial
turning points in human history.

NARRATOR: Stories of strange encounters
accompany many of history's major events.

Is it merely coincidence?

Or might it be evidence of
extraterrestrial intervention?

DAVID WILCOCK: It appears that
there is an ongoing plan in place,

a hidden hand in history
that is manipulating events

for a certain given outcome.

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,

might mankind's greatest moments have
been influenced by alien encounters?

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NARRATOR: Japan.

March 11, 2011.

Emanating 43 miles off the eastern
coast of the Oshika Peninsula...

one of the largest earthquakes
in recorded history...

a magnitude 9.0...

shakes the earth.

The massive movement of two tectonic plates

instantly moves the
entire Japanese mainland

some eight feet,

ripping down buildings,

setting fires,

and killing thousands of people.

But the worst is yet to come.

The earthquake also
triggers enormous tsunamis.

Waves as high as 130 feet

begin smashing ashore

with devastating consequences.

GREGORY S. BEIRICH: One wave in particular

struck the Fukushima Daiichi
power generating plant

and overwhelmed the safety systems,

which caused the plant
to enter a critical phase

and release radioactive material into
the atmosphere and into the water.

NARRATOR: With the nuclear power
plant's reactors melting down

and radiation seeping into the atmosphere,

the authorities evacuate the region.

The only people who remain are employees

who struggle for days to prevent a
larger catastrophe from occurring.

But according to eyewitnesses on the scene,

these workers were not alone.

CHRIS PITTMAN: There were UFO sightings

reported in some significant
numbers in that area

in the weeks and the days leading
up to the earthquake and tsunami.

And there were a number of UFO sightings

reported in the immediate
area, uh, directly afterward.

HENRY: And this suggests
the possibility that

extraterrestrials were involved

in stabilizing that situation.

Because had that Fukushima
plant melted down,

it would have made a large swath of Asia

uninhabitable for a very long time.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Is it possible

that extraterrestrials
became aware of this meltdown

and they did something

to lessen the impact of this disaster

and ultimately save mankind from what
could have been a much worse cataclysm?

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials really
have been present at the Fukushima meltdown

and might they have helped to prevent it

from being an even more
catastrophic disaster?

Ancient astronaut theorists

point out that similar accounts
of strange objects seen in the sky

were also reported 25 years earlier

during the meltdown at the Chernobyl
nuclear power plant in Ukraine.

CHILDRESS: A number of witnesses
reported that there were UFOs

hovering around the power station

and that even beams of light
were coming down from these UFOs

and doing something to
the nuclear power plants,

and keeping them from having a much
worse meltdown than they did have.

PITTMAN: Some have speculated that the
UFOs that were seen during the crisis

may have been, perhaps, protecting us,

trying to stave off a
horrifying nuclear explosion.

Or if not protecting us, at
least protecting our world.

NARRATOR: Was it simply good fortune

that the nuclear accidents
at Fukushima and Chernobyl

weren't far more deadly?

Or is it possible that the
UFOs eyewitnesses spotted

were responsible for
averting these catastrophes

when humans were powerless to do so?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe these
encounters weren't random occurrences,

but part of an extraterrestrial agenda

that has been in place on
Earth for thousands of years.

WILCOCK: It appears that there
is an ongoing plan in place,

a hidden hand in history
that is manipulating events

and that we are interacting
with an alien civilization.

And that we are experiencing the fruits

of what they are offering us

because our history is being
intelligently guided and directed

to steer us towards a particular outcome.

NARRATOR: But if alleged alien encounters

really are evidence that extraterrestrials

are intervening in human affairs,

what is their purpose?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer can be found

by looking back at the very earliest
alien encounters ever recorded.

Mt. Sinai,

the 15th century, B.C.

According to the Bible's Book of Exodus,

it was on the peak of this holy mountain

that Moses met with God.

But ancient astronaut theorists believe

Moses's encounter may have
been with a different kind

of otherworldly entity.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: There's an interesting
legend passed down from temple times itself

that when Moses ascended to
Mt. Sinai to speak with God,

a cloud came down from heaven

and told Moses, "Come into the cloud

to ascend to God."

A door opened in the cloud

and Moses walked in and it
closed behind him and he ascended.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: The Lord descends with
smoke, fire, loud noise, trembling and so on.

All religions speak about the same thing.

They use different names

and the stories change,

but the basic stories
are always the same...

somebody descended with
loud noise, smoke, fire.

The humans could not
understand what it was.

They misinterpreted and believed
that this was God or the gods.

It's just a misinterpretation.

I am absolutely sure... there's no doubt...

that we were visited by
beings from outer space.

NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

such accounts of unearthly encounters

can be found in every major religion,

including Islam,

where the angel Gabriel,
also known as Jibril,

was said to be the intermediary

between the prophet Muhammad

and the Muslim god Allah.

WILCOCK: Jibril normally would
come and dispense wisdom to Muhammad

inside this cave that he was dwelling in.

But on two occasions,

Muhammad did not meet
Jibril in the cave in person,

Muhammad went outside the cave,

and it was at this time that something
absolutely fantastic happened.

What did Muhammad see when
he went outside the cave?

The records show

that there was a magnificent
shining object there in front of him.

It was said to have 600 wings,

and it was burning as if it was on fire.

What do we know of in
modern times that could

add up to a sighting
like that? It's obvious.

A craft that would be hovering there

in front of him, giving
off brilliant white light

that he interpreted as fire.

And when he went out and saw
this magnificent shining object,

the same wisdom that he
was getting from Jibril

was imparted to him,

though he could not see any being;
he only could see this object.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that many
of the stories of gods and angels

descending from the heavens are
not actually divine encounters,

but extraterrestrial visitations?

And if so,

are they purposely guiding our future?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe
further evidence can be found

by examining a famous vision so important,

it changed the course of human history.

NARRATOR: Rome.

October 27, 312 A.D.

Just north of the city,

the emperor Constantine

leads his troops toward the Milvian Bridge

and a decisive battle with
Maxentius to reclaim his throne.

At stake is control over the western
part of the vast Roman Empire.

According to an account
from the historian Eusebius,

on the eve of the battle,
Constantine looks up into the sky...

and sees what he believes
is a divine vision.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS:
Constantine and his followers

saw in the sky what

their chroniclers say

was a huge, white...

- fiery cross.
- (flames crackling)

Now, his followers didn't
know what to make of this,

but Constantine decided that
this was the Christian cross.

McGOWAN: Constantine feels,

after viewing this extraordinary
sign from the heavens,

this lighted cross in the sky,

that he will go forth the next day

and he will conquer the Roman Empire,

and this is exactly what he does.

(clamoring)

This vision becomes one of the crucial
turning points in human history.

(horse sputters)

NARRATOR: After winning the
brutal battle of Milvian Bridge,

Constantine consolidates his power

and begins a campaign of religious
tolerance across the empire,

and he himself converts to Christianity.

But what exactly did
Constantine see in the sky

that ended up changing the
course of Western civilization?

Was it a divine vision...

or something else?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Don't we
all see crosses up in the sky

when we look at planes?

Because you have lights on
the sides and at the front.

And if you have a little
bit of light shining on it,

sometimes they look like crosses.

So we have to ask ourselves: is it possible

that this was absolutely
no Christian symbol at all,

but that it was adapted over time

after something that
was witnessed in the sky?

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

were responsible for Constantine's vision?

Ancient astronaut theorists

say one compelling piece of evidence

that aliens have tried
to manipulate mankind

through religious visions
still exists today.

Mexico City.

December 1531.

According to an account
called the Nican Mopohua,

published in the Aztec language of Nahuatl,

a peasant named Juan Diego

was walking in the countryside

when he heard a beautiful voice

singing on the other side of a hill.

Diego climbed the hill

and saw an angelic vision...

a woman in white garments
that shone like the sun.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: She said to him,

"Juan Diego, I am the Virgin
Mary, and I'm asking you

to build a sanctuary for
me here on this hill."

Well, Juan Diego fell to his knees in awe,

and he said, "Great lady,
I will do as you desire."

NARRATOR: But according to the story,

Juan Diego couldn't
convince the local bishop

that he had actually seen the Virgin Mary,

so he went back to the hill,

where he again saw the vision.

MAGLIOCCO: He says, "Lady,
please give me a sign,

because nobody believes me when
I tell them that I have seen you."

And she says, "Juan Diego,
take off your cloak."

And he does, he takes off his cloak,

and she fills his cloak with roses.

PETERSON: He took the roses to the bishop,

and the bishop fell down on his knees,

because it wasn't the roses

as to why he believed the story from Diego,

but inside the tilma was a painting

of the Virgin Mother.

And the bishop believed, and they
built the church on that hill.

NARRATOR: This cloak still exists today,

and despite its frail fabric,

it has reportedly remained
in pristine condition

despite the cruel ravages of time.

PETERSON: Right now
you can go to the church

and see the tilma hanging there.

And it has not degraded

over the 400-plus years
that they've had it.

It's been through a fire,
it's been through an explosion,

where purportedly an iron cross was twisted

from the explosion, but the tilma

right next to the cross was still fine.

NARRATOR: Could this
sacred image on the cloak,

really be evidence of a
visitation by the Virgin Mary?

Or might it have a different,
otherworldly explanation?

In addition to the tilma inexplicably
enduring for hundreds of years,

those who have studied it

have found other unexplainable qualities.

WILCOCK: Most bizarre of all

are the eyes of the image.

Approximately seven to
eight millimeters wide,

what we see inside those eyes

is a highly enigmatic mystery,

because it appears

that there are characters in the eyes,

the faces of the people who were there

at the time that the tilma was unveiled

by Our Lady of Guadalupe in 1531.

NARRATOR: But if Our Lady of Guadalupe
really does have otherworldly origins,

did it come from a heavenly realm

or somewhere else?

Not only do ancient astronaut theorists

believe Juan Diego's vision

was an extraterrestrial encounter,

but even some members of the church

claim that it was something
other than a religious experience.

PETERSON: Our Lady of Guadalupe

is definitely a heavenly visitor.

In my opinion, though, what her story said

disagrees with what the Bible says.

In fact, she said she would protect
the people that worship at the church.

What that does is really deify Mary

when the Bible is very clear that only
God can protect those that serve him.

And so any otherworldly being

that demands worship or respect,

it cannot be an angel from God.

WILCOCK: Juan Diego may have witnessed

not just an apparition

but an actual live extraterrestrial

appearing through some
sort of advanced technology

whose mission was to impart spiritual faith

and a thirst for the divine.

NARRATOR: Could it be that some of
history's most significant religious visions

have actually been produced

by alien beings carrying
out a secret mission?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe further proof that
extraterrestrials have been guiding our future

can be found in the story
of a mysterious magician

that may have helped propel humanity

into the modern age.

NARRATOR: The English Channel.

1588.

King Philip II of Spain

has dispatched an enormous
armada of ships to invade England.

They are reportedly filled
with more than 20,000 soldiers

and scores of medieval torture devices.

According to some historians,

Philip, a devout Catholic,

wants to bring the brutal
Spanish Inquisition to England

to punish Queen Elizabeth I

and her subjects for
leaving the Catholic Church.

MAGLIOCCO: Philip was a Catholic,
and England had been turned Protestant

by Elizabeth's father, Henry VII,

when he broke with the Catholic Church in
order to marry Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn.

So, to Philip, the English were sinners

and their ways needed to be reformed.

So he sent a great armada, a
great fleet of over 130 ships.

There had never been
anything like it before.

England didn't have a lot of money,

and a lot of their vessels

were not even official government vessels.

They were whatever merchant seamen
and sailors could cobble together.

NARRATOR: The Spanish
Armada seemed invincible

and the British severely over-matched.

But when the two forces finally met,

superior English tactics and strategy

forced the armada to retreat.

But the number of Spanish
ships was so overwhelming

that the English couldn't
score a decisive victory

until a freak storm struck.

BEIRICH: The English ships were more
maneuverable than the Spanish ships.

In order to counter this,
the Spanish cut their anchors.

They figured, "Well, let's get rid of
some of this dead weight, so to speak."

But when the winds hit,

they had no way to find a mooring,

and then therefore the winds blew

their ships all over the place,

including into the coast.

They lost roughly half of
their fleet due to the weather.

McGOWAN: From the point of
view of the English people,

this extraordinary storm that destroys
the Spanish Armada is a miracle,

destroying the might of Spain

when mankind cannot do it.

NARRATOR: The English
believed this miraculous storm

was the work of God,

but some ancient astronaut theorists

claim there is evidence that suggests

it may have actually been the work

of otherworldly beings.

Their first clue

comes from one of Queen
Elizabeth's closest advisors,

a mysterious man named John Dee.

MAGLIOCCO: John Dee was the court
astrologer, mathematician, philosopher,

medical doctor at the
court of Queen Elizabeth I.

He was an extraordinarily
learned man for his time.

BEIRICH: He dealt with magic and potions

and what we might call spells
to try to effect change.

John Dee was a Hermetic thinker.

Hermetic thinkers believed

that there was a contemporary of Moses
by the name of Hermes Trismegistus

who lived in Egypt.

And, just as God revealed
the Ten Commandments to Moses,

God revealed to Hermes the secret
knowledge of how nature worked

and that with the proper mind-set

and proper tools that one could uncover

essentially what God was thinking

by reading the world.

NARRATOR: According to legend,

John Dee used this knowledge of the
natural and supernatural worlds

to predict the storm that would
ultimately thwart the Spanish Armada.

BEIRICH: The story goes that John Dee told

Queen Elizabeth not to worry because a
storm would destroy the Spanish fleet.

And then, when it happened,

it confirmed his knowledge of
the world and what lay beneath it.

NARRATOR: But if John Dee
really did make such a prophecy,

what was the source?

Was it something divine?

Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend,

that this mysterious man

was using Hermetic wisdom
to establish communication

with extraterrestrial beings?

JASON MARTELL: John Dee was
very interested in the occult

and seemed to spend a
lot of time harnessing or

finding a way to communicate

to life-forms beyond this Earth.

We really don't understand
the influence over John Dee

as to how he was able to interpret
such accurate information.

It's very possible that John Dee

was receiving his information
from an outside source

that was possibly an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: But if John Dee's
pursuit of Hermetic wisdom

gave him insights into
the alien agenda on Earth,

what did he find?

And why would extraterrestrials

want to sink the Spanish Armada?

WILCOCK: It is possible these
extraterrestrials had a vested interest

in preserving the monarchy
of Queen Elizabeth,

in seeing that the
monarchy was not overthrown,

and they repelled any such invading forces

in order to make sure that this
carefully constructed power structure

was kept fully intact.

NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

extraterrestrials were not acting
to favor Protestants over Catholics

but may have wanted to
preserve the great cultural

and scientific developments
that would occur in England

in the coming centuries.

PHILLIPS: What happened in England

after Queen Elizabeth's time

was nothing less than miraculous.

We had the Scientific Revolution.

We had people like Isaac Newton.

And we had other great scientists develop

what eventually became the
Industrial Revolution...

steam trains, electricity
and the modern world.

NARRATOR: The period that followed

also gave rise to champions
of the scientific method,

like Francis Bacon and John Locke,

and led to an age of exploration

that would give rise to a greater investment
in the still fledgling new land of America.

HENRY: If the Spanish had
succeeded in conquering England,

they would have brought
the Inquisition with them

in a period of darkness and torture.

And, likely, the Industrial
Revolution never would have happened.

NARRATOR: Might some otherworldly entity

really have intervened
in the Spanish invasion,

sending a storm to destroy their ships

and ensure the future of England?

And, if so,

is this a sign that aliens really
do have an interest in our future?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the vision that inspired
one of the world's newest religions.

NARRATOR: Manchester, New York.

September 21, 1823.

(insects chirping)

As he settles into bed,

a 17-year-old farmhand named Joseph Smith

begins to say his prayers.

Suddenly, without warning,

an overpowering light envelops his room,

and a robed figure appears.

According to Smith's account,

"Not only was his robe exceedingly white,

but his whole person was
glorious beyond description."

Speaking from the center of the light,

the angel, whose name is Moroni,

sends Smith on a quest
for several sacred texts

hidden near a local tree.

BEIRICH: Upon locating the tree,

Joseph dug and indeed found the texts,

but they recorded a language
which he could not read.

A second visitation from Moroni

told Joseph Smith where he could find

what we might call a device of some kind

that would allow him to read the texts.

TSOUKALOS: Joseph Smith was
given this translating stone,

the Urim and Dethumium,
with which he was able to

not only write down this text,

but also to be able to translate it.

BEIRICH: He then translated
the texts into English,

which become The Book of Mormon.

And it depicts, among other things,

that after Jesus ascended into heaven,

he came to the Americas

and ministered to the native peoples here,

to convert them to his way of life,

and that at some point the texts that become
The Book of Mormon are deposited here,

so that Joseph Smith could find them.

NARRATOR: Seven years later,

Smith publishes these texts
as part of The Book of Mormon,

establishing The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-Day Saints,

a denomination with more than
15 million followers today.

Many religions worldwide have been
founded with the help of angels.

Whether they're representatives
of Christian, Muslim,

or Buddhist gods,

these apparitions are thought to be a way

the gods intervene on Earth with humans.

MAGLIOCCO: Angels, when they appear
in religious legends and in myths,

generally are messengers between the
heavenly realm and the human realm.

PETERSON: Throughout the
Bible, we have stories of angels

and demons appearing to mankind.

In fact, Paul says that,

"You be careful how you entertain strangers

because some of you
entertain angels unaware."

The Bible is very clear that

angels can take on human form

and appear in the likeness of man.

NARRATOR: But ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

that sometimes these heavenly
visions and apparitions

may not actually be angels
sent by an omniscient god.

And curiously,

the so-called angel that led
Joseph Smith to the sacred texts

that would become The Book of Mormon

did not profess to have heavenly origins,

but claimed to be from
another part of the universe.

WILCOCK: Now, Moroni did
not say that he was an angel.

He said that at one time
he had lived on Earth,

but that now he came from
the Pleiades star cluster.

And he said there were
many others like him.

MARTELL: When we look at the
background of The Book of Mormon,

we see some very interesting
parallels to what could be

an extraterrestrial tale.

This angel, Moroni, that
appears to Joseph Smith

seems to be more than just chance.

It's very possible that Joseph Smith was

interacting with a type
of extraterrestrial.

WILCOCK: These extraterrestrials
may be giving these messages

to world leaders and to
prophets and seers and mystics

to let us know

that we are the product of an
extraterrestrial interbreeding,

and an ongoing contact
with these other people

who were not born on Earth.

And we have lost touch with that history

only because

we refuse to believe the truth

that is recorded in our historical books

and see what's right in front of our faces,

even now with the encounters

that are happening in the modern world.

NARRATOR: But if an extraterrestrial

being really did inspire Joseph Smith

to found the Mormon church, why?

Joseph Smith's encounter

ultimately led the Mormons to migrate west

to establish a new holy land in Utah,

which has led some to speculate
that aliens, once again,

were guiding the course of humanity.

BEIRICH: Moroni let Joseph Smith
know that he would be the prophet,

and he would lead his
people to the new Jerusalem.

WILCOCK: Mormonism is
another example, potentially,

of an extraterrestrial influence

steering the course of our humanity,

and helping steer the outcome

of historical events here on Earth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Joseph Smith,

the founder of the Mormon religion,

was guided by an extraterrestrial being?

And if so,

was this alien encounter another attempt

to guide us into a more enlightened age?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and believe further evidence can be found

by examining a dream

that helped defeat one
of the 20th century's

most diabolical dictators.

NARRATOR: Olympia, Greece.

his valley on the Peloponnesus Peninsula,

once filled with temples,
altars and statues,

is where the ancient Greeks came
to pay tribute to their gods.

Near the temple to Zeus,
the king of the gods,

was a sanctuary dedicated to the Moirai,

the only beings that Zeus was said to fear.

These mythical figures were
believed to control destiny.

English speakers call them "The Fates."

MAGLIOCCO: In ancient
times, fate and human destiny

were thought to be in
the hands of the gods.

There was much less this idea that
we're in charge of our own destiny

and that we make our own lives through
choices and decisions and action.

The idea was that human destiny

was in someone else's hands. It
was in the hands of the fates.

There were three supernatural creatures.

Clotho, who spun the thread of life;

Lachesis, who wove it;

and Atropos, who cut the
thread at the moment of death.

In the ancient times, gods and goddesses

were thought to be able to
influence people's destiny,

and that they were constantly
interfering in human affairs.

They were constantly messing with humans.

They could make humans
do all kinds of things.

They could disguise themselves.
They could trick humans.

They could persuade humans.

And yet, that final moment of destiny

was still in the hands of the Fates.

NARRATOR: Other ancient
cultures had similar beliefs.

The Egyptians personified
fate as the god Shai

who was said to control
the actions of humans,

while the Vedic texts of ancient India

talked about a universal order called Rta.

CHILDRESS: There was a similar
legend in ancient Mesopotamia.

And it was of the Mamitu,

who was a goat-headed goddess

who lived with the Anunnaki
in the realms of the sky.

The Mamitu was also in charge of our fate.

So you have to wonder... was the Mamitu

and these other gods of fate

some kind of extraterrestrials
that were controlling our lives?

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as some
ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that the gods who were
said to control our fate

were actually members of an
advanced alien civilization?

And if so,

how were they able to interfere
in people's lives undetected?

Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that extraterrestrials not
only communicate with us

through visions and physical encounters,

but even through our dreams.

New York City.

Spring, 1940.

At the Bell Laboratory
complex in Manhattan,

a young engineer named David Parkinson

is using a device called a potentiometer

to track the varying electrical voltages

that course through a
telephone when people use it.

Parkinson's work with
potentiometers seems unimportant

compared to the big news of the day.

REPORTER: Nazis have begun their
shattering blitz on Britain.

(air raid siren blaring)

NARRATOR: The Nazis have
conquered most of Europe,

forcing the Allies to flee the continent

in a ragtag flotilla of civilian
boats after the Battle of Dunkirk.

McGOWAN: The Nazis were almost
undefeatable at this time in the war,

and there was a tremendous despair
and fear amongst the Allied forces.

And the story goes that David
Parkinson had a dream one night,

and in the dream he was standing
beside a certain type of gun.

And that gun was hitting every
Nazi plane with absolute accuracy.

NARRATOR: Parkinson's dream
gave him a brilliant idea.

He could use the same technology
that tracked electrical charges

flowing through a telephone

to track enemy airplanes
flying through the sky.

McGOWAN: And in the dream, he
was able to see the technology

that was created to make
this gun so accurate.

And it is said that when he awoke,

he went back to the labs and he
ultimately created the technology

that was necessary to
shoot down Nazi aircraft.

NARRATOR: Parkinson's dream inspired him
to create the M-9 electrical gun director,

which allowed Allied anti-aircraft guns

to hit moving targets like
the dangerous V-1 rocket

with incredible accuracy.

But how could such an advanced weapon

be completely realized in a single dream?

PHILLIPS: The weird part about it is

this guy was a scientist,

but he knew nothing about aeronautics.

Because David Parkinson had
no background in aerodynamics,

his contemporaries, other
scientists, and the military were

literally taking him not seriously at all.

But he insisted and he even
spent a lot of his own time

creating prototypes, which
eventually were found to work.

McGOWAN: Throughout human history,

there are amazing stories of
how mankind has been inspired

through their dreams and
through their visions.

I think we have to ask ourselves

what is the source of this inspiration?

Where do these dreams
and visions come from?

Is it possible that we are being
communicated with by otherworldly beings?

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials

really be using dreams to
convey ideas and information

to the human race?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and claim the proof that dream manipulation

is a real possibility

can be found in the human brain.

NARRATOR: Throughout history,

many of mankind's greatest thinkers

have been inspired by their dreams.

Scientist James Watson

claimed the double helix structure of DNA

came to him through his
dream of a spiral staircase.

Friedrich August Kekul�

discovered the chemical
structure of benzene

when he had a dream of a group of snakes

swallowing their tails.

Srinivasa Ramanujan,

whose mathematic principles are still
being used by quantum physicists today,

said that he obtained
these mathematic theorems

in dreams implanted in his mind

by the Hindu goddess Namagiri.

WILCOCK: We are seeing an ongoing pattern

of dreams being used to
communicate information.

This is a widespread phenomenon.

It's been going on for
many thousands of years.

And it continues right straight
through to the present day.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that extraterrestrial beings

could actually manipulate our dreams?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes;

and as evidence, they point
out that modern science

is already starting to understand

how to interpret and manipulate dreams.

Moran Cerf is a neuroscientist

who studies human brainwaves.

In one of his experiments,

he shows pictures to test
subjects while they're awake

and analyzes how their
brains process the images.

MORAN CERF: So each of those little squares
here corresponds to a cell in Matt's brain.

So, right now, Matt has
128 electrodes in his brain.

They come from all various parts of
his brain... right, left and so on.

All of those wires going to this computer.

What we see here are the activities
of those little cells in his brain.

So, if I pick cell number 36,

and I double click on that,

what you see here is the
activity inside his brain.

This is like a microphone sitting
next to one cell in his brain.

NARRATOR: Dr. Cerf can determine which cell
stores the memory of a particular picture,

like movie star Cary Grant,

by analyzing which cell reacted when
he showed it to his test subject.

Once he's figured this
out for dozens of cells,

Dr. Cerf waits for his
patients to go to sleep

and then watches for signs that they're
dreaming about the images he has shown them.

In a very basic way,

he can see his patients' dreams.

But in the future,

Dr. Cerf may actually be
able to dictate our dreams

by stimulating the set of
cells that store our memories

about a person or event.

CERF: If I really map the entire sequence,
if I know all the, say, one million cells

that encode Cary Grant in your
brain and know exactly what they are,

and I activate all of them,
I stimulate all of them,

then, we believe, you are going
to actually see Cary Grant.

NARRATOR: If aliens really have been
coming to Earth for thousands of years,

could they be using similar
technology to manipulate our dreams?

CHILDRESS: Is it possible
that the extraterrestrials

don't want to directly
interfere in our society

but to guide us from behind the scenes?

And even though they have to

push us along in certain directions,

we need to have the
feeling that we're doing it,

even if it does include some
extraterrestrial guidance.

HENRY: They continue to communicate
with humans through dreams and visions

and other methods of indirect communication

in order for them to provide guidance,

but also to provide this
guidance in a hands-off way.

WILCOCK: Is it possible that
they withdrew from our reality

because we had to modernize?

It could be that the purpose of this

was to give us the opportunity

to follow them without being pushed.

And if they forced it upon us,

we would simply worship them as gods
and we would have learned nothing.

But by doing it ourselves,

we form our own path.

We actually make our
own ascension experience.

And we become

much more like them in the process.

NARRATOR: Has life on Earth been
influenced by alien encounters

for thousands of years?

Are divine visions, prophetic dreams,

and modern-day UFO sightings

all signs that we are being manipulated

by a more advanced race of beings?

Could it be that these encounters

are not meant for them to get to know us,

but for us to get to know them?

And if so, what are
they guiding us towards?

Perhaps we are getting closer
to our ultimate destination,

and when we reach it,

we will once again be reunited

with our alien ancestors.

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