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NARRATOR: Evidence of
a cataclysmic event...

ANDREW COLLINS: You can see
it here, that this event

took place.
NARRATOR: Written accounts

describing lost cities...
SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Atlantis

had a great advanced
civilization.

NARRATOR: And mythic tales
of gods punishing humanity...

DAVID CHILDRESS: They decided
that they would destroy all

these civilizations.
NARRATOR: In ancient

cultures throughout
the world, there are numerous

stories of mankind nearly being
destroyed by a great flood.

But could such an event have
actually taken place?

And might it have been caused by
an otherworldly force?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has to
ask the question: "What if Noah

was one of the
extraterrestrials?"

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 we find

evidence in the stories of
"The Great Flood"?

NARRATOR: It is one of the
best-known stories of the Bible,

and variations of this ancient
tale can be found in cultures

throughout the world.
From ancient Hindu teachings and

Mesopotamian legends to
Mesoamerican myths, it is

written that the gods sent a
powerful flood to wipe out all

of humanity...
MAGLIOCCO: God is angry at

human beings, because human
beings have not been behaving

properly; they have been
violating God's laws.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS:
Certainly the most famous of

these is the legend of Noah.
In Genesis, God becomes so

disgusted with the behavior of
His creation that He says He

"repenteth of making them..."
...and He brings forth the

deluge.
JONATHAN YOUNG: In stories

much older than the story of
Noah, in the story of

Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend,
the council of gods brought

the flood.
In Plato's writing,

Zeus brought the flood.
DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: In

Hinduism, God had instructed
that, one day, the whole Earth

will be flooded.
When that happens, you build a

boat and you gather the people,
some animals, and then I will

save you.
NARRATOR: The story of the

Great Flood is often considered
to be mythological.

But similar stories of a
cataclysmic flood can be found

in approximately 1,200 different
cultures around the world,

and many anthropologists say
that because these stories are

so numerous and date back
thousands of years, it is

unlikely that they originated
from a single source.

MAGLIOCCO: When we find
similar myths all over the

world, like the myth of the
flood, then we have to ask

ourselves are these things that
human beings came up with

independently, because let's say
there was a great flood in

ancient history, that has been
memorialized in people's

mythologies, because it was such
a cataclysmic event that people

looked for a religious
explanation for it.

TSOUKALOS: The fact that
there are ancient stories that

speak of the same flood, it
almost leads into that

direction that, at some point,
some cataclysm happened that

not just affected one geographic
area of the world, but the

entire planet.
NARRATOR: If a cataclysmic

flood really did occur, killing
most life on the planet,

what could have caused it?
And is there any

physical evidence to suggest
that it actually happened?

Scientists say answers to both
questions may be buried deep

beneath the sea.
The Indian Ocean.

According to the five scientists
who make up the Holocene Impact

Working Group, this area--
900 miles southeast of

Madagascar-- is where an
enormous asteroid struck the

Earth, thousands of years ago.
This impact may have been so

large that it triggered enormous
tsunamis that flooded inland

areas across the region--
an event the local inhabitants

would have perceived as
a great flood.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Since so many
ancient cultures have a flood

story or a flood mythology,
this is probably based in some

sort of real event...
and an asteroid landing in

the ocean, in the right place,
triggering a tsunami, would then

lead to one of these
major floods.

NARRATOR: The Holocene Group
says evidence for a

catastrophic asteroid strike
lies in what they believe is an

18-mile-wide crater on the
floor of the Indian Ocean,

just west of the island
of Madagascar.

Holocene Group scientists
believe further evidence

supporting their theory also
lies in what are called

"chevrons"-- ancient deposits of
sediment and fossils in both

Madagascar and Australia.
BOB FRISBEE: What was so out

of place and unusual about the
chevrons was that they

weren't land-based debris.
But, rather, it was the

kind of debris you get from an
ocean sea bottom, things like

marine animals, marine fossils.
They've also found what's really

the smoking gun of any asteroid
or comet impact, and that's

micro-beads.
The only way they are formed

is by the extreme heat of an
impact melting the rock,

the rock being thrown into
the air, or water, and cooling

into these nice little spheres.
NARRATOR: Similar marine

fossils have also been found on
the other side of the world,

at the ancient temple
complex of Puma Punku,

in modern-day Bolivia.
If the Holocene Group's initial

findings prove true, they could
be definitive evidence that

a cosmic strike caused
large-scale flooding thousands

of years ago.
But if an asteroid really was

responsible for a worldwide
flood, scientists say it would

have to have been as large as
the one that led to the

extinction of the dinosaurs,
which measured eight miles

wide and struck the Earth with a
force five billion times more

powerful than the bomb dropped
on Hiroshima.

COLLINS: There are many
ancient texts that tell us

that there wasn't just a flood,
but there was also a

conflagration, a period of fire,
when the Earth was bombarded

with firestorms, the gods
bringing them down, and that

this period was then
followed by a flood.

And it would seem that
fragments of this comet

vaporized the ice sheets that
had been covering large parts

of the northern hemisphere for
tens of thousands of years,

sending all of the water up
into the atmosphere,

which then rained down.
Perhaps even for 40 days,

40 nights, like the Bible
tells us.

NARRATOR: According to those
scientists who subscribe to this

theory, the fires that might
have occurred just before the

flood would have left behind an
ash layer in the Earth, all over

the world.
This distinctive ash layer--

which scientists call the
Usselo Horizon-- could be the

ultimate proof that the Great
Flood really occurred.

And researchers believe they may
have discovered it.

Just outside the small Belgian
town of Lommel, author and

researcher Andrew Collins
follows local archeologist

Ferdi Geerts to the site of a
mysterious black layer of soil

excavated by a mining company.
COLLINS: I can already see a

black layer, um, in the soil
here.

It's about just under a-a meter
down, um, three to four feet,

um, and, um, are we looking here
at the Usselo Horizon?

GEERTS: Yes.
COLLINS: Is this, is this it?

GEERTS: At the end of the
ditch we see, uh, a peat layer.

COLLINS: Yeah.
GEERTS: At the top of the

peat layer, there is, uh, some
charcoal.

COLLINS: Right. So, can-can
we go down and look at this?

GEERTS: Yes.
NARRATOR: Collins and Geerts

get a closer look, which allows
them to determine that this dark

layer of soil seems to date to
the end of the last ice age,

about the same time the Usselo
Horizon is supposed to have

formed.
COLLINS: If we come down from

the, from the-the surface here,
which is obviously the modern

day, there is this accumulation
of sand over a period of around

13,000 years, that takes us back
to this point here.

GEERTS: The black is a layer,
eh?

COLLINS: Yeah.
GEERTS: And the-the white is

sand.
We call that a soil horizon.

COLLINS: Yeah. Okay.
NARRATOR: According to

Geerts, this black layer dates
back to the time period when a

global flood may have devastated
Earth.

But what is it made of?
Collins and Geerts dig into the

soil and discover that it is,
indeed, charcoal.

This is the Usselo Horizon, and
to Collins, it's confirmation

that the catastrophe described
in the Bible was real.

COLLINS: This is physical
evidence of that flood,

of that conflagration.
This is your absolute evidence

that this event took place.
This is the evidence of the

cataclysm.
NARRATOR: Could the Usselo

Horizon, a possible impact
crater in the Indian Ocean and

sea fossils at Puma Punku all be
proof that the ancient story

of a great flood is not a myth,
but that it is based on actual

events?
And if so, could the rest of the

story, in which God sent a
flood to annihilate the human

race, be true as well?
DAVID WILCOCK: This suggests

that a great flood did, in fact,
happen; that it was real.

But then it also presents us
with an intriguing possibility.

It is entirely possible that
there is an extraterrestrial

origin to this terrible flood.
NARRATOR: Could it be that

the Great Flood described in so
many ancient texts really did

occur at the end of the last
Ice Age?

And if so, could it have been
brought on by extraterrestrial

beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and claim that evidence of
this can be found at the top of

one of the world's most sacred
mountains.

NARRATOR: Laurel, Maryland.
October 2014.

At Johns Hopkins University,
top scientists from all over the

world gather for the first
International Asteroid Impact

Deflection Assessment Workshop.
The focus of this event is to

demonstrate the latest
technology designed for

diverting the course of
asteroids headed for a collision

with Earth.
The proposed method involves

launching a spacecraft to
collide with the asteroid at a

velocity nine times faster than
the speed of a bullet fired from

an AK-47.
TSOUKALOS: If we look at

the dinosaurs, for example,
65 million years ago-- they were

wiped out due to the impact of a
giant rock that wiped out

everything on planet Earth at
the time.

And so, right now, scientists
around the globe are working

tirelessly to redirect asteroids
from possible collisions with Earth.

NARRATOR: In addition to

using direct impact to knock an
asteroid off course, scientists

have also looked into the
possibility of creating a

gravity tractor that could
actually manipulate the

trajectory of the object.
But if we are close to

developing this kind of
technology today, is it possible

that extraterrestrials who
visited Earth in the distant

past already possessed the
ability to redirect asteroids?

And if so, might they have used
this technology not to deflect

an asteroid away from Earth...
but towards it?

TSOUKALOS: We are talking
about technology that equals

ours today, or as some have
said, that it actually surpasses

whatever it is that we've
achieved so far in our modern

age.
And so, if we can control

the trajectories of asteroids,
to direct them away from Earth,

then it's certainly possible
that highly advanced

extraterrestrials could have had
the technology to direct an

asteroid towards Earth.
ARIEL BAR TZADOK: It's

interesting how the legends
described how the flood came.

It is stated that a great meteor
or comet or something was to

swing around from behind the
sun, and as such, rip the oceans

out of their bodies.
The flood was clearly contrived.

It was sent by higher powers to
correct things here on Earth.

They had an intent and a purpose
for Experiment Earth, which they

believe had become corrupted,
and therefore the flood was sent

as an attack, an assault upon
humanity.

NARRATOR: If the Great Flood
was a real, historical event,

could it have been deliberately
caused by otherworldly beings

as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?

But if so, why?
What might they have been trying

to destroy?
Mount Hermon, Lebanon.

1869.
Exploring the top of this

historic mountain range, British
archeologist General Sir Charles

Warren discovers the sacred
temple of Qasr Antar-- believed

to be the highest place of
worship in the biblical world.

CHILDRESS: Sir Charles
Warren hiked up to the top of

Mount Hermon.
The ruins of this temple are

there.
And there he found an ancient

stele and he broke this stele
into two pieces and brought it

back to the British Museum.
NARRATOR: When scholars

translated the Greek text, it
read: "According to the command

of the greatest and holy God,
those who take an oath proceed

from here."
The inscription's significance

was lost on archeologists for
more than a century, until

biblical scholar George
Nicklesburg connected it to an

oath mentioned in the ancient
Book of Enoch.

According to Enoch, Mount Hermon
is where a band of renegade

angels known as the Watchers
descended from the heavens in

the distant past and took an
oath before meeting with humans.

YOUNG: In the time before
time, the sons of God came down

to Earth.
They were the shining ones, the

Enohim, or fallen angels.
And they found the women very

attractive and they married the
women or bonded with the women.

NARRATOR: The offspring of
these unnatural unions between

angels and humans were said to
produce giant hybrid beings

called the Nephilim, and God was
so disgusted by their existence

that he decided to send a great
flood to cleanse the Earth of

them.
But how is it that human women

were able to be impregnated by
angels?

Could it be, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that the Book of Enoch is not
actually describing angels, but

rather a different kind of
otherworldly being?

CHILDRESS: You've got to
wonder what was really going on

here?
Are extraterrestrials coming

and now breeding with humans,
which was somehow forbidden and

wrong, but they did it anyway?
So the other extraterrestrials

decided, "This is a big mistake. Now
we've got to destroy all these people."

NARRATOR: Could the story of

the Great Flood actually be
describing extraterrestrials

coming to Earth long ago, and
interbreeding with human women

to create a mutant race of
giants?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and claim further evidence

can be found by examining ruins
that are believed to date back

thousands of years before our
earliest known civilizations.

NARRATOR: The Gulf of
Khambhat, India. 2001.

Scientists working some 25 miles

from shore, and 125 feet below
the surface, stumble across

something extraordinary: what
appears to be the signs of an

ancient civilization.
SHIMKHADA: Recently,

the marine archeologists of
India have discovered two cities

in the Bay of Khambhat.
They are still working on it,

uh, you know, going down there
and archiving it and taking

photographs and videos.
CHILDRESS: They think that

these cities were destroyed in
a geological change that

happened many thousands of years
ago.

But you have to wonder,
yourself, if there are not more

sunken cities all around India.
Their own legends and myths say

exactly that.
NARRATOR: The ruins found

beneath the ocean in the Gulf
of Khambhat are thought to date

back at least 9,000 years, to
the time when some researchers

believe a comet struck the Earth
and caused a global deluge.

Could these submerged cities not
only be evidence that the Great

Flood really did occur, but also
that it wiped out an advanced

society that existed long before
the earliest known human

civilization?
Scientists say further evidence

can be found in archeological
sites around the world that date

back to end of the last ice age.
In southeastern Turkey lies

Gobekli Tepe, an extraordinary
series of circular stone

structures with intricately
carved pillars weighing as much

as 50 tons.
Radiocarbon dating indicates

parts of the complex were built
about 10,000 BC, and at least

one archeologist believes there
are signs it may have been

destroyed by a flood.
ROBERT SCHOCH: We have

evidence there of catastrophic
destruction; of pillars being

knocked over at the end of the
last ice age; that things were

very severe, people were trying
to rebuild it at the time.

Eventually, they effectively
gave up and covered over the

entire site, maybe to come back
later to uncover it, maybe to

simply bury it for posterity.
NARRATOR: In the rain forests

of Indonesia is a series of
terraces, walls and steps on a

hill that the locals call Gunung
Padang.

When scientists drilled into the
Earth to determine its age, they

discovered the site dates back
to at least 9700 BC.

SCHOCH: Very interestingly,
one of the layers of Gunung

Padang that's been exposed
seismically shows that there was

an entrance to a cave at about
9700 or so BC that was

subsequently covered over.
Again, I think this ties in with

the events at the end of the
last ice age.

People were going into caves,
they had to escape, and then

things were covered over after
that.

NARRATOR: Are these ruins
that are found across the world

evidence of an advanced
civilization that existed before

a global deluge?
And if so, might we find mention

of it in ancient myths?
MAGLIOCCO: If we go back to

ancient Greece, one of the
myths, one of the sacred

narratives that Plato preserves
is the narrative that there used

to be a great continent, which
he calls Atlantis.

And Atlantis had a great,
advanced civilization.

Atlantis was one of the
continents that was destroyed by

the Great Flood.
SCHOCH: When does he date

Atlantis?
To 9600 BC, which is very close

to the modern date of the end of
the last ice age.

So all this, I believe, ties
together that we had an earlier

cycle of civilization.
It was devastated at the end of

the last ice age by natural
catastrophes.

Humanity was driven into a dark
age that lasted thousands and

thousands of years, until
civilization reemerged about

5,000 years ago.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the story of Atlantis is really
describing a civilization that

existed before 10,000 BC, when
the Great Flood and the end of

the ice age are said to have
happened?

Did Atlantis suffer the same
fate as Gobekli Tepe, Gunung

Padang and many other ancient
structures that appear to have

been hit by some catastrophic
event?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes, and suggest that the most

compelling evidence can be found
not with what was destroyed,

but with what survived.

NARRATOR: Qumran, Palestine.

1946.
In the desert, ten miles east of

Jerusalem, a Bedouin shepherd
leaves his flock of sheep and

goats to look for a stray.
Walking along the cliffs, the

shepherd spots a cave in
the distance.

ROBERT MULLINS: He threw
a stone into a cave and

he heard the crack of breaking
pottery...

so he went in to investigate,
and found jars that contained

ancient manuscripts.
McGOWAN COPPENS: The Bedouin

shepherd's find led to a
discovery of 11 caves

that contained the most
extraordinary cache of

literature, arguably, in human
history-- the Dead Sea Scrolls.

There are 800 pieces of
literature found in these

11 caves and it tells us so much
about the ancient world.

One of the amazing revelations
is the story about Noah that we

don't see in the Old Testament,
and the story is that when Noah

is born, he's an extraordinary
baby with a strange complexion

and the ability to light up
the room with his eyes.

ROBERT CARGILL: What's
interesting is that you

actually have Noah's father,
Lamech, questioning whether or

not Noah is his son.
And this is due to the fact that

we have this story about these
fallen angels that came down and

had sex with women.
Lamech confronts his wife,

Batenosh, "Is it my son or is
it, is it one of theirs?"

TSOUKALOS: Noah's exterior
is described as very foreign.

His eyes are described to be
glowing like sunbeams; his skin

is glowing, as well.
Now that's a very bizarre

description, and so, one has to
ask the question: "What if

Noah was one of the
extraterrestrials?"

NARRATOR: Could it be, as
ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the Biblical
figure of Noah was, in fact,

an alien being?
Is this the reason he is

described as having a strange
complexion and glowing eyes?

BARRY DOWNING: The key thing
that's going on with Noah is

that he is pure in God's sight,
and so is his family.

And this purity seems to
be genetic, as much as what you

might call spiritual.
And so, when God makes plans to

wipe out the rest of humanity,
what he's wiping out is the

extraterrestrial dimension of
humanity that has come about

through the pollution of human
genetics.

NARRATOR: Could
extraterrestrials have sent

the Great Flood to cleanse
the Earth of genetic mistakes,

and make Noah the father of a
new version of humankind?

According to ancient stories,
the world that Noah's

descendants were born into was
very different from the one that

existed in pre-flood times,
when gods, giants, fairies, and

other creatures were said to
share the planet with humans.

MULLINS: The flood does seem
to serve as a demarcation point.

In the Bible, we read about how,
before the flood, people had

longer lives, but then, after
the flood, shorter lives.

We see the same thing in
Mesopotamian tradition,

with the Sumerian King List,
where, before the flood, we have

kings that ruled in Mesopotamia,
with extraordinarily long lives.

After the flood, the lengths of
reigns of these kings becomes

much shorter.
YOUNG: The other thing that

happened before this
Great Demarcation is that the

gods were present among us.
There was a close interaction

between the human and
the sacred.

The gods would guide us and
they would be tempted.

There would be interaction,
the god might marry a mortal

and then there would be
descendants of the gods.

Now the gods seem so far away.
So, there are these theories

that this was the big shifting
point in human history.

JASON MARTELL: It is really
interesting to note that the

interaction with these higher
beings seems to only be located

in the past.
All these depictions of "there

were giants upon the Earth."
Or a time when man interacted

with the gods.
Where are the gods today?

We only seem to have subtle
interactions.

ROB SIMONE: It's curious to
think why that might have been.

What was it about this
Great Flood, this dividing line

in history, that caused the
separation of god and man?

It could be that our evolution
depended upon a natural

upbringing, an upbringing that
was not contaminated by this

notion that we're not alone in
the universe.

It could be a necessary part of
the human development.

NARRATOR: Uzengili, Turkey.
1997.

More than 7,000 feet up,
near the country's eastern

border, an American explorer
searching for Noah's Ark, named

David Allen Deal, stumbles upon
the ruins of an ancient

settlement.
McGOWAN COPPENS: There is an

extraordinary archaeological
site in the Anatolian plateau,

in Turkey, called Naxuan, and
Naxuan comes from an ancient

word that means "Noah's Zion,"
the city of God that Noah built.

Mount Ararat, which is the
legendary resting place of

Noah's Ark, is very close by,
so it makes a lot of sense

that this could have been
the landing site of the ark and

then this city would have been
built by Noah.

NARRATOR: The ancient
Armenian historian Moses of

Choren called Naxuan,
"the place of first descent

where Noah and his family
emerged from the ark and built

the first city or town after
the flood."

Could this be the first
settlement in the post-flood

world, the place where Noah
lived and died?

Today, this remote area is
largely uninhabited, but

according to explorer David
Deal, a recent archeological dig

reportedly uncovered something
remarkable:

the region may contain as many
as a million graves.

McGOWAN COPPENS: There is
evidence that people came

from all over the world
to bury their dead here,

for 10,000 years.
The idea is that if you are

brought here to be buried in
the site of this extraordinary

prophet, this man who was chosen
by God to be the survivor of the

deluge, that you, too, would be
resurrected because you were in

such holy company.

NARRATOR: According to some
researchers, if this is indeed

the place where Noah began the
repopulation of the Earth, then

the Ark must be nearby as well.
MULLINS: In the Book of

Genesis, we read about how God
commanded Noah to build an ark.

And the measurements of this ark
are quite large.

The dimensions usually given are
about 450 feet long by 75 feet

wide by about 45 feet high.
Such a boat of these dimensions

was never seen in the ancient
world, and in fact, not until

the 19th century was there ever
a boat of this size.

NARRATOR: In 2009, a Dutchman
named Johan Huibers started

building a full-size version of
Noah's ark using the

instructions laid out in the
Bible.

It took him three years and more
than a million dollars

to complete the project.
But while the ship seems

perfectly designed to ride out a
torrential storm, many say it's

still far too small to literally
hold two of every animal species

on the planet.
DOWNING: It would seem pretty

clear that Noah did not scoop up
every form of life on Earth and

put it into the Ark.
And so as a means of saving all

life-forms on Earth, uh, this is
not possible, not believable.

NARRATOR: But ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

there might be another way in
which the ark was able to

preserve two of every creature
on Earth, as stated in the

Bible.
TSOUKALOS: Let's look at it

from a technological
perspective.

The only way that you can create
an ark like Noah created,

according to what we can read in
the Old Testament, is if you

collect DNA samples.
So, what if the ark was a

metaphor or a symbol for some
type of a DNA bank?

NARRATOR: Did the ark
described in the story of Noah

really exist?
And if so, might it have been

not a vessel to carry two of
every animal species, but a DNA

bank, built to hold the genetic
information of all life on our planet?

CHILDRESS: What one might

read into this is that some kind
of special DNA bank was to be

created; that animal DNA, plant
DNA, and human DNA for that

matter, were all to be
preserved somehow in an ark that

was to float through the flood
and this catastrophe.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
all of humanity is descended

from Noah's genetic lineage-- a
new species that replaced the

indigenous people who once
existed on Earth?

And all that remains of this
once great society are the giant

slabs of rock that were too big
to be washed away by the flood?

And if so, might we be destined
to suffer the same fate?

Perhaps further clues can be
found by looking at our own

modern-day version
of Noah's Ark.

NARRATOR: Spitsbergen,
Norway.

On this remote archipelago, not
far from the Arctic Ocean, lies

the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Known as the "doomsday vault,"

this repository for the DNA of
plants, animals, and humans can

withstand nearly any cataclysm,
including a flood, an

earthquake, or a nuclear blast.

KIRSTEN FISHER: The Svalbard

Seed Bank is a structure or a
facility that's sunk into the

permafrost.
It's essentially an

international effort to deposit
as many seeds, and particularly

seeds of crop plant varieties, to
help to preserve genetic diversity.

NARRATOR: With the doomsday

vault, are we creating our own
modern-day ark...

one that, instead of housing
two of every living creature on

Earth, will house the seeds of
every kind of plant life?

FISHER: The Svalbard Seed
Vault has been designed with

some sort of cataclysm in mind.
The idea is that in the event of

some catastrophic event, it
would still stay cold and

preserve seeds for thousands of
years.

It's sort of this last hope.
NARRATOR: The Svalbard is

just one of several biological
storehouses located around the

world.
England's Millennium Seed Bank

is even larger, while the U.S.
federal government has built a

similar facility in Fort
Collins, Colorado.

Scientists say one reason for
these repositories is that

another large asteroid-- similar
to the one that is believed to

have caused the Great Flood--
will eventually strike Earth.

It's just a matter of time.
FRISBEE: You always have the

risk, and of course we've seen
it here on Earth, of having

large asteroids or comets hit
the planet and cause tremendous

ecological damage.
Right now, all our genetic eggs

are in one basket.
Whether it's a comet or asteroid

hitting us, we are in jeopardy.
NARRATOR: In February of

2013, an asteroid large enough
to take out all of New York City

came within 18,000 miles of
Earth.

Another has been predicted to
strike the Earth sometime in the

next 20 years.
But if a great flood or some

other global catastrophe were
to occur today, are we prepared

to survive it?
And if there really are

extraterrestrial beings watching
over the Earth, are they likely

to be the cause of such a
cataclysm?

Or will they simply be
observers, sitting quietly by

and letting nature take
its course?

CHILDRESS: If
extraterrestrial gods are there

watching us and, either aware of
future catastrophes or are

capable of making them
themselves, then perhaps we need

to be prepared for that.
We live in a precarious point

where, at any time, we could go
through another catastrophe.

And you have to ask yourself if
the extraterrestrials themselves

may not create that.
WILLIAM HENRY: One of the

explanations for why
extraterrestrials might seek to

destroy humankind is because
they treat us as their property.

They treat us as their
offspring.

And they're able to make
decisions about humanity based

on their needs.
So perhaps their needs were

satisfied and they decided they
didn't want humankind around

anymore, so it's just as easy to
wipe them out as it is to

continue to perpetuate their
existence.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: The
evolution of humans on this

planet has been completely and
totally an experiment on the

part of extraterrestrials.
If survival is the bottom line,

they are trying to get us over
some kind of a finish line when

we're still alive.
TSOUKALOS: Our survival

was ensured by
extraterrestrials, way back in

the remote past, because we are
their direct offspring.

We are their product.
They, in fact, have a vested

interest in our survival.
NARRATOR: Are we the

descendants of an
extraterrestrial ancestor named

Noah, who was sent to repopulate
the Earth after the Great

Flood?
And if so, are there

extraterrestrials watching over
us, even to this day?

Not to destroy us, but simply
to see if we can prevail over

the Earth's next great
cataclysm?

It is a question we may not have
much time to think about

except to consider how
much or how many will survive.

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