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NARRATOR: An ancient battle fought with nuclear weapons.

A deadly virus of otherworldly origins.

And biblical plagues that some believe

were caused by extraterrestrial technology.

Throughout history, devastating disasters

have been associated with celestial beings

and mysterious objects in the sky.

Now, Ancient Aliens is taking a look back

at ten of the biggest disasters we've investigated.

Disasters that add to the growing body of evidence

that Earth has been visited...

by extraterrestrials.

Disasters and devastating events

are unavoidable facts of life on planet Earth.

But what's interesting

to ancient astronaut theorists like me

is that every once in a while,

we find evidence that a catastrophe

might be linked to an extraterrestrial presence.

Like when mysterious flying craft

were reported hovering over the site

of a recent deadly incident.

Number ten on our countdown

of the top ten alien disasters: The Fukushima Nuclear Accident.

NARRATOR: March 11, 2011. Tohoku, Japan.

(screaming)

At 2:46 p.m., a massive earthquake

shakes the region for nearly six minutes.

The energy released registers 9.0 on the Richter scale,

making it the most powerful earthquake

ever recorded in Japan.

The violent tremors destroy buildings,

set fires, and kill thousands of people.

It also triggers a catastrophic tsunami.

In a matter of minutes, 130-foot-tall waves

slam into the coast and travel more than six miles inland.

But the greatest impact

would be to a nearby nuclear power plant.

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: In a matter of hours,

rescue teams arrive

to prevent the plant's reactors from melting down.

As the situation worsens,

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.

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.

DAVID CHILDRESS: At that time, it seemed that there was going to be

this huge nuclear disaster

that would devastate all of Japan

and the western hemisphere.

Is it possible that extraterrestrials

did something to lessen the impact of this disaster?

It would seem that this nuclear meltdown

could have been much, much worse.

WILLIAM HENRY: 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.

If extraterrestrials really were there

at the Fukushima disaster,

they must have been there on a rescue mission.

They were there to avert a larger catastrophe.

The notion that UFOs had a hand in protecting us

from the Fukushima disaster is a truly wild idea.

But what makes it even more incredible is the fact

that UFOs were also seen

during another nuclear meltdown.

And this time, they were observed

alongside a mysterious winged creature

who had glowing red eyes.

Number nine on our countdown: The Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster.

NARRATOR: Pripyat, Ukraine. 1986.

This small city is the home of Chernobyl,

one of the world's most advanced nuclear power plants.

But on April 26, just after 1:00 a.m., disaster strikes.

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During a routine safety test,

reactor number 4 suffers a catastrophic meltdown.

PITTMAN: Literally tons of radioactive material

was released in the atmosphere

after a series of thermal explosions

and a devastating fire.

More than 30 people were killed very quickly

as a direct result of the disaster.

Thousands more have died or will die

due to radiation-related cancers.

The absolute catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

was the worst nuclear disaster in the history of humanity.

NARRATOR: According to official reports,

the nuclear meltdown was caused by a combination

of human error and mechanical failures.

But some former residents of Pripyat

believe the disaster had an otherworldly connection.

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.

NARRATOR: But UFOs were not the only strange phenomenon

seen in the area.

Residents also reported a large, black creature

flying near the nuclear reactor.

It has become known as the Blackbird of Chernobyl.

Some of the workers at Chernobyl in the days

immediately preceding the explosion and following

reported seeing this mysterious,

bat-like, winged creature

with blazing red eyes.

It was regarded as this otherworldly, monstrous figure

that struck them with terror.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Blackbird of Chernobyl

was an extraterrestrial being?

And if so,

what was it doing at the site of this disaster?

Some suggest that this entity

was not attempting to create devastation,

but, rather, to prevent it.

PITTMAN: Now, the explosions at Chernobyl,

those were thermal explosions.

They weren't nuclear explosions.

The thermal explosions were devastating.

However, had it been a nuclear explosion,

what we now look at as, uh, former Soviet Union

a-and much of Europe wouldn't be on a map anymore.

And some have speculated that the UFOs

that were seen during the crisis,

after the crisis, may have been, perhaps, protecting us.

Trying to stave off a horrifying nuclear explosion.

The Blackbird of Chernobyl provides compelling evidence

that extraterrestrials may be observing us

during devastating events.

And an even more extraordinary example

occurred on the opposite side of the globe

where witnesses reported the presence

of a mysterious flying creature

during a disaster in West Virginia.

Number eight on our countdown: The Silver Bridge Collapse.

NARRATOR: Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

December 15, 1967.

At 5:00 p.m.,

during bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic,

the historic Silver Bridge suddenly collapses

into the freezing-cold Ohio River.

It was the worst bridge disaster in U.S. history.

Uh, 46 people died.

Everybody here in Point Pleasant

knew somebody on the bridge or had a relative,

you know, that was on the bridge,

and it changed the town of Point Pleasant forever.

NARRATOR: Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board

concluded that the bridge failed due to a structural flaw

that had been present since it was built in 1928.

But some witnesses believe

there was an otherworldly connection.

WAMSLEY: There were people that claimed to have seen

a large, winged creature, six to seven foot tall,

gray in color and two large red eyes

flying back and forth, you know,

across the river before the bridge fell.

NARRATOR: For residents of Point Pleasant,

the description is instantly recognizable.

The creature had been terrifying residents for months.

It's known as the Mothman.

CHILDRESS: From late 1966 to December 1967,

were what was called the Mothman encounters.

And the Mothman was a strange flying humanoid

that had these red, burning eyes.

Some people felt that, you know, since the bridge fell

right when the Mothman sightings were taking place

that there may have been some kind of a connection,

a harbinger of doom or whatever.

So, what is the connection here between Mothman,

UFOs and the Silver Bridge?

The strange thing is that after the collapse,

Mothman disappeared.

There were no further sightings.

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the most devastating disasters to hit this planet

happened long before the time of humans.

For example, every grade school student is taught

about the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs.

However, for ancient astronaut theorists,

it's possible that this was not a natural disaster,

but one orchestrated by extraterrestrials.

Number seven on our countdown

of the top ten alien disasters: The Dinosaur Extinction.

NARRATOR: The Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.

Here, just off the north coast of this tropical paradise,

lies the enormous Chicxulub crater.

It is a remnant of a cataclysmic event

that forever changed our planet.

MARK WILSON: The Chicxulub crater is the largest impact crater on Earth.

This crater is 180 kilometers in diameter.

It's absolutely ginormous.

And it represents an event that occurred

at the end of the Cretaceous period

that took out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

KAKU: We think that the dinosaurs were wiped out

perhaps within a period of one year.

With all the debris being shot into the space,

it blanketed the sunlight.

Temperatures plunged as a consequence.

Therefore, vegetation died.

With the dying of vegetation, the plant eaters died.

And when the plant eaters died,

then the meat eaters would also die as a consequence.

And so the whole food chain collapsed

as a consequence of just one year's worth

of cataclysmic weather change.

NARRATOR: According to mainstream scientists,

the meteor impact didn't just draw

the age of the dinosaurs to a close,

but it marked a new dawn for life on Earth.

COLLINS: The blast that killed the dinosaurs

allowed mammals to thrive.

If the dinosaurs had been left

and remained on this earth,

we wouldn't be here now.

So, our very existence

has come about through impact events.

NARRATOR: The chance of Earth being hit by an asteroid

like the one that killed the dinosaurs

is extremely remote.

And for ancient astronaut theorists,

this raises an interesting possibility.

Was the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs

simply the result of chance,

an intergalactic accident,

or might it have been a planned event?

TSOUKALOS: In September 2022, we shot up a probe

towards an asteroid, crashed it into it,

in order to move the trajectory of the asteroid.

in order to move the trajectory of the asteroid.

If we can now direct an asteroid,

then it's certainly possible

that highly advanced extraterrestrials

could have had the technology

to direct an asteroid towards Earth.

NARRATOR: Were the dinosaurs killed off by a cosmic "natural event,"

as mainstream scientists believe?

Or might the dinosaurs have been the target of extermination?

And if so, for what purpose?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe

that extraterrestrials may have wanted to clear a path

for the development of humanity.

Maybe it was made on purpose by extraterrestrials,

simply because if the dinosaurs would have survived,

they would have overtaken the planet Earth.

According to mythology, which is worldwide,

the gods created man according to their image.

It was in the extraterrestrials' plan

to create something like themselves,

human-like being.

So, the dinosaurs were not helpful in this game.

(roaring)

The possibility that aliens sent an asteroid to Earth

millions of years ago is truly mind-blowing.

But even more incredible is that in Siberia,

the locals claim there is otherworldly technology

embedded in the Earth,

which actually protects us

from the kind of impact events

that wiped out the dinosaurs.

And they say there is evidence

that it destroyed an enormous meteor

hurtling towards our planet as recently as the 20th century.

Number six on our list: The Tunguska Explosion.

NARRATOR: The taiga forest, Siberia,

1908.

On June 30, a fireball was seen streaking

across the sky over the Tunguska river.

Moments later, there was a massive explosion.

The blast flattened more than 80 million trees

across 800 square miles of forest.

Whatever happened over the taiga that day,

it had the power of the most powerful nuclear bombs.

It was one of the greatest disasters

of the 20th century.

But it was in such a faraway part of the world

that nobody really knew what was going on.

CHILDRESS: Soviet scientists

took several years to actually reach the crash site,

and look for what they thought was a meteorite

that had come down and exploded in Siberia.

But they could not find a crater for this asteroid.

NARRATOR: If the devastating Tunguska explosion

wasn't created by a meteorite impact, what caused it?

Researcher Ivan Mackerle

has spent decades studying the mythology

of the region's native Yakut people.

Their legends describe mysterious metallic cauldrons

that are hidden in the taiga forest.

(speaking foreign language)

(translated): These pictures illustrate what people claimed

the cauldrons had looked like.

The first picture shows a cauldron upside down

with an open entrance

where even a man on his reindeer can enter it.

The second one shows another cauldron

with some side supports.

NARRATOR: According to Yakut mythology,

the mysterious cauldrons were placed in the forest

by celestial beings in the distant past.

The cauldrons were said to be a type of weapon

that would send fireballs into the sky.

CHILDRESS: The local people there say it is some kind of alien

underground installation that becomes active,

and comets or meteors

that had been entering the Earth's atmosphere,

they are being shot down by unknown technology.

And, in fact, this may have been what caused

the Tunguska explosion.

NARRATOR: Might the mysterious metallic cauldrons

and the legends of the Yakut people

explain the explosion over Siberia in 1908?

Explorers continue to search the taiga forest

for the so-called cauldrons that the locals claim

to have seen with their own eyes.

And ancient astronaut theorists suspect

their discovery will present undeniable proof

of extraterrestrial technology.

But they say that an even more powerful technology

can be found in the biblical account of Moses

and a powerful staff that brought destruction

upon ancient Egypt.

to devastating disasters, s

one of the most famous examples can be found

in the pages of the Holy Bible.

But for ancient astronaut theorists like me,

the descriptions sound very much like

misunderstood technology.

At number five on our countdown

of the top ten alien disasters, The Ten Plagues of Egypt.

NARRATOR: Qantir, Egypt,

60 miles northeast of Cairo.

Many historians believe that beneath these fields

lie the ancient ruins of the lost city of Pi-Ramesses.

In the 13th century BC, this was the capital of Egypt

and home to Pharaoh Ramesses II.

According to some theologians, it was also the location

of a miraculous series of events described in the Book of Exodus

known as the Ten Plagues of Egypt.

MICHAEL CARTER: We have the story of the Exodus,

which is the story of the Hebrew people leaving Egypt.

And so Moses is going to be the liberator.

He's chosen by God,

i.e. Yahweh, to go to pharaoh

and say "Let my people go."

NARRATOR: According to the biblical account,

the pharaoh refuses to release the Hebrew slaves.

So God instructs Moses to unleash a series of

ten increasingly devastating plagues on the people of Egypt.

MULLINS: In the first plague,

Moses touches his staff to the Nile river

and it becomes blood.

In the second plague, Moses multiplies frogs.

In the third plague,

Moses brings about gnats or, some think, lice.

CARTER: Livestock were poisoned.

There were boils,

thunder and hail.

There was a darkness across the land.

The land was covered with locusts.

And, of course, the kicker is

the death of the firstborn sons of Egypt.

MULLINS: So, for each of these plagues,

they begin to increase in their severity.

And, finally, the pharaoh needs to concede that,

you know, this is the finger of God,

and beyond this, we can't challenge him anymore.

NARRATOR: According to the biblical account,

Moses summoned the plagues by using his staff.

Religious scholars contend the staff held the power of God.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

it was a device that came from another world.

TSOUKALOS: Through this staff, Moses was able to

perform these miracles.

Now, when I look at something like that,

then what I am suggesting is that perhaps

some type of technology was used.

This is what the ancient astronaut theory does.

We try to dispel

the misunderstandings of our past

and suggest that what was described in the Old Testament

was not God,

it was extraterrestrials

who had nuts-and-bolt technology

that our ancestors looked at

and thought, "Wow,

it must be something divine."

And, therefore, these plagues

were actually technological in origin.

In 1992, archaeologists in India uncovered

radioactive ash that some believe

was caused by a nuclear explosion

thousands of years ago.

And according to ancient Sanskrit texts,

it was the result of a powerful weapon

deployed by beings who came from the stars.

At number four on our countdown:

The Ancient Nuclear War.

NARRATOR: Thar Desert, Rajasthan, India.

1992.

Engineers working on a housing development

discover a heavy layer of radioactive ash under the soil.

Further examination reveals

the contamination stretches across

a three-square-mile area of the desert

that was once home to an ancient civilization.

PRAVEEN MOHAN: After cordoning off the area,

scientists unearthed a city

with completely demolished buildings.

When they looked closer,

they found evidence of an atomic blast

that happened 10,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the radioactive ash was created

by a nuclear explosion in the distant past?

And if so, what could have caused it?

Scientists are unable to

determine the cause of the radiation.

But ancient astronaut theorists believe

a clue can be found

in one of India's oldest Sanskrit texts.

The Indian epics themselves

actually describe what seem to be atomic wars.

The Ramayana, particularly, is talking about

this terrific war that occurred.

NARRATOR: In the Ramayana,

one of the major ancient Sanskrit texts,

is a description of a battle fought by the god Rama

against the Demon King.

To win the war,

Rama unleashes a powerful weapon

to rain down destruction from above.

It's called the Brahmastra.

CHILDRESS: And these Brahmastras

they devasted everything.

Everything was killed.

All life was destroyed and nothing could grow

in that area for years.

It was exactly like

an atomic weapon had been used.

NARRATOR: Could the radioactive soil discovered in the Thar Desert

have resulted from an ancient nuclear explosion?

And if so, was the weapon known as

the Brahmastra a description of extraterrestrial technology?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

it's a distinct possibility.

TSOUKALOS: Those texts are chock full with extraterrestrials or

the so-called gods having waged a war up in the sky

that our ancestors actually witnessed.

When you combine the physical evidence

and you combine that with ancient written documents,

perhaps what we have here

are descriptions of weapons of mass destruction.

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humanity faced one of the deadliest epidemics

in our history when a devastating disease

swept across the world.

But what might surprise you is that these outbreaks

were often preceded by sightings

of mysterious otherworldly beings.

Number three on our list

of the top ten alien disasters: The Black Plague.

NARRATOR: Messina, Sicily.

1347.

Italian sailors returning from the Black Sea

develop dark, oozing boils,

and die soon after.

The disease spreads rapidly throughout Europe

and is given the name the Black Plague.

MILTON WAINWRIGHT: What you get with the Black Plague

is a slow, lingering, painful death.

And, uh, that's what... (chuckles) is nasty.

And it completely decimates populations.

In the Middle Ages, the whole of civilization

had collapsed for a time period.

NARRATOR: Within five years, this previously unknown disease

had wiped out nearly one-third of Europe,

the equivalent in today's numbers

of more than 300 million dead.

And curiously, outbreaks of the plague

were accompanied by sightings of mysterious aerial phenomena.

TSOUKALOS: What's interesting about these accounts

is that they seem to have originated

after something strange was seen up in the sky.

For example, they saw this shield

made out of bronze and gleaming metal

that appears to be floating in the sky,

and then it is also described that this black dust

came off that particular object.

IMBROGNO: People saw strange bronze ships

spreading a mist around the entire area,

and shortly after that,

people began to become very sick and die.

CHILDRESS: During the Black Plague,

UFOs were seen sometimes.

There would be vapor trails or something behind these UFOs.

Certain, uh, researchers

have speculated that,

like this so-called modern phenomenon of chemtrails,

that something like this was happening,

where UFOs are spreading,

really, viruses and bacteria

which will infect some people,

uh, and perhaps kill them, while others survive

and they develop a stronger immune system

and are ultimately a hardier race, uh, because of that.

NARRATOR: Bronze ships in the sky?

A mysterious mist that made people sick?

What natural phenomenon could explain these strange reports?

IMBROGNO: If you ask a historian today,

they would say that they were hallucinating

because of the illness.

But how do you get thousands of people

hallucinating the same thing?

NARRATOR: In addition to the sightings of ships in the sky

were accounts of mysterious cloaked figures

spraying mist on the ground.

It was this report that gave rise to rumors

of a black-hooded messenger of death,

later known as the Grim Reaper.

PITTMAN: In one case, the chronicle recounts a group of men

mowing down wheat, and their scythes

were making a loud swishing sound

but not actually cutting down the crops.

We can imagine that maybe what was perceived in medieval times

as scythes making a swishing sound

were perhaps some kind of wand

shooting some kind of aerosol into the air

that was a pathogen that made so many people sick.

TSOUKALOS: There are eyewitness reports

of these black-clad creatures.

Now, to me, that is highly fascinating because

it essentially depicts what looks like people

in hazmat suits.

Now, is it possible that what we have here

are extraterrestrials wearing some type of protective suits?

IMBROGNO: These beings were tall, with hoods over their head,

and they would have some type of device

that looked like a curved apparatus, a sickle,

which would spray onto the wheat.

And shortly after that, the Black Death occurred.

And people associated those beings with the coming of death.

Maybe the Grim Reaper could have been

extraterrestrials.

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of a devastating disaster was written

by the Greek philosopher Plato

more than 2,000 years ago.

According to the story, an entire continent

was destroyed in a single night

of smoke and fire,

bringing an end to a highly advanced

and potentially extraterrestrial civilization.

Number two on our list of alien disasters:

The Disappearance of Atlantis.

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NARRATOR: For over 2,000 years, historians and explorers

have been fascinated by the story of a great cataclysm

that destroyed a long-lost civilization

known as Atlantis.

TSOUKALOS: The first reference of Atlantis that we have is

in Plato's dialogues by Timaeus and Critias.

In the very end of Timaeus, it talks about

this mythical place called Atlantis

from where any and all knowledge of the world came.

And so some people have suggested

that the first civilization on Earth

may have been Atlantean.

CHILDRESS: Atlantis,

as described by Plato,

was a great civilization that was

over 12,000 years ago.

Atlantis had had concentric circles

that were ports and canals,

and they led to a central city,

and the Atlanteans were said to have,

uh, great technology.

They had huge fleets of ships.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Atlantis was thought to be the great civilization

of high culture and technological achievement.

They had robotics at a very advanced level.

The power of levitation, which is how they built

their glorious cities.

They achieved things that we still

are not able to do.

NARRATOR: According to Plato, the remarkable accomplishments

of Atlantis came from an otherworldly connection.

CHILDRESS: According to legend,

Atlantis was founded by the god Poseidon.

He fell in love with a human woman named Cleito,

and that they had five sets of twins.

And these twins went on to be

the founders of Atlantis.

So here we see really a story of extraterrestrials,

perhaps, coming to Earth at a very early date.

HENRY: Plato said the Atlanteans

were the children of the gods. They were, to use our term,

"hybrid beings," they were part-human, part-god.

And, perhaps, also contributed to their ability

to develop advanced technologies as Plato described.

But then that divine aspect that they possessed

suddenly started to diminish.

And that's when Atlantis was destroyed.

RICHARD RADER: At some point, for reasons

that are not entirely clear,

the city disappeared.

And it was either destroyed by a natural disaster, a flood,

or if we look at the archaeological record,

maybe even the eruption

of Mount Thera, as well,

in the seventh century BCE.

But a disaster consumes

the city of Atlantis

and all of its natural wonders.

NARRATOR: Was Atlantis destroyed by a natural disaster?

Or did otherworldly beings

punish the greed of Atlanteans by destroying it

in a cataclysm,

as the writings of Plato suggest?

It's a question that might never be answered.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

there could be an even more profound explanation.

When Plato said

that Atlantis disappeared in Timaeus and Critias,

the accepted idea is that Atlantis,

at some point, sank.

Well, when you read the original Plato,

Plato not once said that Atlantis sank,

but he says that Atlantis disappeared

in a night of fire, smoke and trembling.

In my opinion, Atlantis did exist,

but it was never an island

that sank or disappeared.

It was some type of a machine.

A type of movable island

that the ancient Greeks referred to as Asteria.

Asteria means "star that fell from the sky."

The Atlantis description is very clear.

I mean, it's concentric circles and it has this,

this bronze exterior.

So what if Atlantis was a proverbial disk

that descended from the sky, landed in the sea,

was able to float around, and then lifted off again?

We're just moments away from revealing

the number one alien disaster on our list.

And it's some of the best evidence yet

for the ancient astronaut theory.

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And if you're a fan of Ancient Aliens,

I'm sure you guessed this one right from the start.

It's a story from the Hebrew Bible

that, as far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, paints a clear picture

of extraterrestrial intervention.

At number one on our countdown

of alien disasters: 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.

It is written that God sent a powerful storm

that rained for 40 days and 40 nights.

The deluge created a great flood

that submerged even the tallest mountains.

It lasted for 150 days

and destroyed all of humanity,

except for one man and his family.

IRVING FINKEL: In the Bible, God decided, because

the human race was so sinful and wicked, to destroy everything.

And at last minute relented enough

to inform Noah that he has to build a boat

really fast and put

all the animals in it and shut the doors.

Then, afterwards, life could continue

when the waters went down.

YOUNG: There's a similar story in India.

King Manu was warned by a fish

that there would be a great flood.

The king built a great boat and survived.

In an Aztec version, a sacred couple

hide in a hollow tree with a little corn

and somehow manage to survive the deluge.

Other versions come from Irish legend, Norse lore,

also from China.

This is a terribly important motif.

The common denominator in the flood myths

around the world is that there was

an otherworldly being,

an extraterrestrial being, who is providing knowledge

to certain humans of what is to come.

This tells us that there was definitely

an extraterrestrial connection.

NARRATOR: Was the Great Flood caused by extraterrestrial beings

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, why?

Perhaps clues can be found

within a set of ancient documents

known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

These scrolls contain the oldest versions

of the Bible ever discovered.

Among them were copies of a text called the Book of Enoch,

which greatly expands on the story of the Great Flood.

COLLINS: The Book of Enoch is about these angels

who are described as "watchers."

And it was said that 200 of their number

come down from heaven

and they took mortal wives

who begat offspring.

And these offspring

were of giant nature

and they were referred to as the Nephilim.

And these Nephilim ran amok.

It was said that they drank blood.

They caused battles and wars.

NARRATOR: According to the Book of Enoch,

the Nephilim were guilty of horrific crimes,

including slaughtering humans

and feasting on their flesh.

God ultimately decides

the Earth must be cleansed.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN: One of the differences is that in the Book of Enoch

the flood washes away the Nephilim,

as opposed to the traditional flood story,

which washes away people

who have been rebellious and sinful.

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?

And so the other extraterrestrials decided,

this is a big mistake.

Now we've got to destroy all these people.

According to the ancient astronaut theory,

the realm of the angels was some type of a spaceship

that was, uh, orbiting the Earth

and the angels most certainly were not angels.

The idea is that the extraterrestrials,

in the end, are looking out for our survival.

They're not interested in killing us.

So this is why some people were "saved."

For ancient astronaut theorists like me,

the disasters featured on our countdown

not only provide evidence of an alien connection

but also suggest extraterrestrials have played

a greater role in the history

of our planet than ever imagined.

Perhaps as we continue to study these devastating events,

from deadly plagues

to nuclear meltdowns

and asteroid impacts...

...the truth will finally be revealed.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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