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of an otherworldly encounter.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: It is an eyewitness account.

He was taken up and sees planet Earth underneath him.

WILLIAM HENRY: He is given powerful

universal knowledge by angelic beings.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: These angels were not spiritual beings.

They were physical beings,

whose role it is to direct the affairs

of humanity.

NARRATOR: It is an account

that was strictly forbidden.

TSOUKALOS: These texts were deemed too dangerous.

NARRATOR: And now, new technology

may reveal even more shocking revelations.

We are recovering burned texts, which, there it is.

TSOUKALOS: Look at this.

This is sensational.

NARRATOR: Could the Book of Enoch

contain profound truths about our extraterrestrial past?

And might it even hold the key to humanity's future?

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Enoch knew that all these writings

would be found in the far future.

And Enoch said, "I will return to this planet."

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: The Tigray highlands, Ethiopia.

Here, 7,000 feet above sea level

and clinging to the side of a mountain

stands the Abba Garima Monastery.

This church is home

to one of Christianity's most ancient

and spectacular treasures: the Garima Gospels.

Consisting of two beautifully illustrated volumes,

it has been dated to the 6th century AD--

making it one of the oldest and most complete Bibles on Earth.

JONATHAN YOUNG: There is the very earliest Christian churches in Ethiopia.

So there is this strong connection

to the ancient roots of Western civilization,

Western religion in Ethiopia.

NARRATOR: Ethiopia's biblical connections

date back nearly 3,000 years.

In the 10th century BC, King Solomon,

the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem

and the keeper of the Ark of the Covenant,

was visited by Queen Makeda of Ethiopia,

also known as the Queen of Sheba.

YOUNG: The Queen of Sheba, it is said,

had a relationship with Solomon and had a son.

When he came of age, he wanted to meet his father.

And his mother blessed this journey

up to Israel to meet Solomon.

And he stayed for some time.

And then some, uh, leaders of the Jewish nation

went back with him to Ethiopia.

Because of this connection between the Queen of Sheba

and Solomon, there's a large Jewish population in Ethiopia.

There are many returnees to the Holy Land,

to Israel from Ethiopia and other nearby areas in Africa.

Ethiopia is an unusually holy place.

NARRATOR: Curiously, the Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

differs from that of other Christian denominations.

Its version of the Old Testament

includes a controversial text known as the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch, a very, very interesting,

very ancient document, which, uh, is only found

in the language of Ge'ez,

which is sort of Ethiopian early language

and has over a hundred chapters in the full form.

So in the Ethiopian church,

Enoch is considered a, uh, canonical text.

In other Christian traditions it is not.

NARRATOR: The author of the book, according to the text,

is the Jewish patriarch Enoch-- the great-grandfather of Noah.

Enoch is a biblical figure

mentioned in the Book of Genesis, chapter 5.

What's interesting about Enoch is a tradition arose

that he never died.

And this is because in Genesis 5:24,

the text says that Enoch walked with God,

and then was no more because God took him.

NARRATOR: But where the Hebrew Bible only mentions Enoch briefly,

the Book of Enoch, which consists

of more than 100 chapters, greatly expands on his story.

In it is a curious passage

that details Enoch's assent to heaven.

VON DANIKEN: According to the Book of Enoch,

he says he was 12 years old.

The whole community of his village wanted to sleep.

But then they hear the noise in the sky.

[rumbling]

Two angels came down from the sky.

One of the two beings said to Enoch, "Don't be afraid, human."

Then they went up to the so-called heaven.

HENRY: And in the Book of Enoch, we learn

Enoch himself is taken into the heavens in a fiery chariot.

VON DANIKEN: Enoch goes up to the so-called sky

and there Enoch sees something over the Earth,

which he cannot describe.

He has no word like "spaceship" or something.

He says it looked like houses of crystal.

TSOUKALOS: It is described that he sees

planet Earth underneath him.

He actually describes his arrival.

How he has to walk through these different rooms,

where he sees jewels

and he see shiny surfaces and blinking lights.

It is an eyewitness account.

It's "I, Enoch" did this, "I, Enoch" saw that.

The Book of Enoch is one of the first abduction accounts

written down by a fellow human being.

NARRATOR: Does the Book of Enoch

really describe an actual abduction event,

one that took place thousands of years ago?

And if so, might this incredible close encounter

be documenting communication with otherworldly beings?

ROBERT CARGILL: Enoch was said to be at the right hand of God.

In fact, Enoch was said to be God's scribe in later tradition.

So, God would decree things and Enoch was the one

who recorded everything that went on.

So, Enoch was the keeper of all knowledge of heaven.

HENRY: This is one the reasons

why the Book of Enoch is so controversial.

He's taken up into the heavenly realms, to the throne of God,

where he is given powerful universal knowledge

by angelic beings, or extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the Book of Enoch is one of the most compelling texts

ever written documenting extraterrestrial visitation.

But it is far from unique.

They say that similar encounters were documented

by many other ancient cultures, lending support to the notion

that Enoch's experiences were genuine.

We can find ancient texts that speak of people

ascending to heaven and then coming back down.

For example, in ancient Greece,

you have the story of Ganymede

that was taken up by Zeus's eagle.

Also in ancient China, and in ancient Sumeria,

and also in ancient Egypt, are there stories of people

having been visited or having gone up to the sky

to visit with the so-called gods, lowercase G.

NARRATOR: While these other accounts tell a similar story,

none contain the incredible detail

found within the Book of Enoch.

And some researchers believe

that it was because of this controversial content

that the text was omitted from most versions of the Bible.

Not only do-do these texts infer quite strongly,

uh, the possibility of extraterrestrial life,

but they also show a very different side of God.

This type of information, these type of texts,

this could not be put into the Bible.

TZADOK: The sages of the time considered

the teachings of the Book of Enoch,

if you will, too hot to handle.

And therefore, it fell along by the wayside,

concealed and hidden.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the teachings of Enoch reveal

that not all angelic encounters were of a divine nature?

Is this the secret that has been kept alive

in the Ethiopian version of the Bible?

For ancient astronaut theorists, the Book of Enoch

lies at the heart of an extraterrestrial agenda

that has been shaping human history for thousands of years.

And they suggest that nowhere is this more evident

than in the book's descriptions of beings called "the Watchers."

[thunder crashes]

KEN BOYDSTON: What we're doing is just

To end a dispute in the Anglican church,

King James the First orders the creation

of a standardized English Bible.

Today, more than four centuries after its creation,

the King James Version remains the most famous Bible in history

and one of the most published books of all time.

Interestingly, while it contains 66 books,

the Catholic Bible has 73,

and the Ethiopian Orthodox version is comprised of 81.

But why were so many texts, including the Book of Enoch,

edited out?

There has always been accepted literature,

which becomes the foundation of orthodoxy,

and then there's other literature

that the accepted orthodoxy rejects.

Books that don't make it into the collection of the Bible--

both the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament--

are the Apocrypha.

JULYE BIDMEAD: The word Apocrypha means hidden things,

and that's probably from

the ancients hiding these texts away from the general public,

because they could be dangerous.

NARRATOR: "Dangerous"?

Is it possible that the Book of Enoch was omitted

because it exposed truths

about human history that were considered

too risky for the public to know?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest insight can be found

by examining a passage in the Old Testament.

We know from the Book of Daniel in chapter 4

that there is a group of angelic entities,

whose job, whose role it is as ordained by God

to direct the affairs of humanity.

These angelic forces look over our world

and control the direction of civilization.

NARRATOR: While this passage is brief,

these beings serve as the primary focus

of the Book of Enoch,

where they are described as divine overseers

known as "the Watchers."

VON DANIKEN: Enoch calls them, in the English version,

"guardians of the sky or watchers of the sky."

In the German version, they are called "angels."

No, it was simply another time.

Now we have a new time.

Now we must translate it with new words.

Change the word of "angel."

Scratch it out and write "extraterrestrial."

TZADOK: These angels were not spiritualbeings.

They were physicalbeings.

That is something very clear

about the identity of biblical angels.

They're not of this world,

and, therefore, they are not terrestrial.

And, therefore, they are extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: According to the Book of Enoch,

a total of 200 Watchers descended to Earth.

Enoch gives us some of the names,

but we know they were ruled by Samyaza

and Aza... Azazel.

Azazel was later known as Lucifer.

HUGH NEWMAN: The Watchers had a very bright appearance

and one of their names was "the Shining Ones."

And even Enoch, when he wrote about them, he even said

he could barely look at them because they were so bright.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the idea that the Watchers were alien visitors

is most strongly corroborated

by the stories of the prophet Elijah.

TZADOK: Aside from Enoch,

there was one other we know from the Bible,

who did ascend to heaven in chariots of fire,

whatever that is meaning.

And this, of course, is the famous prophet, Elijah.

Elijah was a powerful, powerful prophet

who had abilities apparently far beyond those of other prophets.

Elijah possessed a power cloak or a garment

that gave him the-the ability to heal the sick

and even to raise the dead.

And then one day he used that power cloak or garment

to ascend upon a fiery chariot.

A chariot of the gods.

And when Elijah ascended, there were 50 prophets

that witnessed his ascension.

TZADOK: The Bible calls it "chariot of fire."

Now, what is this chariot?

Was it some type of a...

technological transportation device,

which in ancient times would not have been understood

as anything else but a chariot of fire?

NARRATOR: Curiously, while the idea of the soul ascending to heaven

is a key component of Judeo-Christian traditions,

there are a number of instances in the Bible

where it is said that a person ascends bodily.

In addition to Enoch and Elijah,

this is also the case with both Jesus and his mother Mary.

But why?

If heaven is a spiritual realm,

why is it written that certain individuals ascended bodily?

Neither Enoch nor Elijah ever claimed that they were prophets.

It was the biblical writers later

who claimed that they're prophets.

The reason why Enoch ended up being called a prophet

is because of the experiences he had.

He was taken up into space by extraterrestrials,

and we have a similar story with Elijah.

Enoch, Elijah...

It-It's all part of the big concept

of misunderstood technology.

NARRATOR: If the Watchers were, in fact, extraterrestrials--

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest--

did they have an agenda for humankind?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining another ancient text attributed to Enoch

that was almost entirely destroyed--

The Book of Giants.

What if there are references

20 miles east of Jerusalem,

at this ancient site in the Judean Desert...

Bedouin shepherds stumble upon an extraordinary discovery.

BIDMEAD: The Dead Sea is surrounded by caves.

And as young teenage boys would do,

they threw a rock into the cave,

heard the sound of breaking pots.

Came back the next day, climbed into the cave,

and what did they find?

They found huge clay jars.

COLLINS: Inside these storage jars were ancient texts,

which very quickly they came to realize

that these were incredibly important.

CARGILL: In these scrolls,

we find biblical manuscripts--

copies of the Bible that are a thousand years older

than any previously known copy of the Bible.

As well as a treasure trove of documents

that we had never seen before.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists were surprised to find

that whoever collected the Dead Sea Scrolls

considered The Book of Enoch to be of vital importance,

preserving 11 different manuscripts,

including versions never seen in modern times.

Also found were fragments

of another work attributed to Enoch--

The Book of Giants.

Some parts of this text included in the Dead Sea Scrolls

had been lost for centuries,

and many scholars believe the stories contained

within The Book of Giants

were written before even the Book of Genesis.

It expounds on Genesis 6:1-4,

when the story is-is begun

that the Watchers descended upon Earth

and took wives from Earth women-- from human women--

and their offspring were giants.

COLLINS: The Book of Giants is about the Nephilim,

the sons of the Watchers.

It's about their lives, uh, their conversations

and they realize that they are evil.

NARRATOR: According to The Book of Giants,

the Nephilim were guilty of horrific crimes,

including slaughtering humans and feasting on their flesh.

God ultimately decides the Earth must be cleansed

and chooses one man to restart humanity anew--

Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch.

In the Bible, Noah-- the son of a Shepherd named Lamech--

and his wife Betenos was chosen by God

because of his blameless piety.

But when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered,

religious scholars were shocked to find a much different

and potentially older version of the story of Noah.

The Lamech Scroll documents that Noah became the chosen one

before he was born,

and his father was not Lamech.

TSOUKALOS: When Noah was born,

the father, Lamech, was gone at the time.

However, the wife of Lamech knew immediately something was up

with Noah because he didn't look like a normal human being.

CARTER: He is described as having skin

so white it was radiant.

His hair was white like wool.

His father, Lamech, says,

"He has the ways of the Watchers."

When he blinked, his eyes lit up the whole house.

This does not sound like a human being.

The boy looked completely different

than Lamech's other children.

And Lamech said to his wife Betenos,

"This can't be my son because I was away too long."

You know, it doesn't fit with the nine months.

And Lamech goes for advice to his father

who was the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah goes to his father which is Enoch.

Enoch says, "The guardians of the sky

"have inseminated Betenos without touching her sexually.

"He should accept this boy as his own

"and should give him the name of Noah

"because the guardians of the sky have decided

Noah is the father of the coming generation."

So in that case, proven in the Dead Sea Scrolls,

we know for sure there was an artificial insemination.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Dead Sea Scrolls

contain the true story of Noah?

Was he not a pious man chosen by God,

but a genetically altered human,

created by extraterrestrials to reboot life on Earth?

While further details about Enoch and Noah

may have existed in The Book of Giants,

only fragments of the full text have survived.

But now, new technology may bring to light

even more incredible revelations.

Santa Barbara, California.

February 18, 2020.

Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok and Giorgio Tsoukalos

travel to MegaVision

to meet with imaging expert Ken Boydston.

-Ken. Good to see you. -BOYDSTON: Hey.

NARRATOR: Ken recently invented a revolutionary type of camera

that takes pictures using a technology

called multispectral imaging.

Giorgio and Ariel are intrigued

by the implications of this technology,

and they are eager to find out just how far it can go

in retrieving lost passages from the Book of Enoch.

TSOUKALOS: Ken, can you explain to me

the multispectral imaging system that you have invented?

BOYDSTON Well, multispectral,

simply put, it's taking a lot of pictures

under different colors of light.

-Mm-hmm. -And we don't want to see the light that's on the object.

We want to only see the light that the object is producing

in response to that light coming in.

What we're doing is just listening

with light to the object.

"What story do you have to tell us?"

The camera can see what the human eye cannot see,

and therein lies the magic and some of the mystery

and some of the great excitement,

because we are able to discover things

that have been hidden for generations or ages.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR: Incredibly, Ken's camera

is able to retrieve script that has become eroded with time,

script that was purposely scrubbed from parchment

and written over, and even script within scrolls

that cannot be opened because they are too fragile to handle.

Many of these scrolls might be thousands of years old,

and as you know, we can't just open them up and read them

because they will deteriorate,

very similar like the Dead Sea Scrolls.

TSOUKALOS: Yes. So, can you

-show us how this works? -BOYDSTON: Yeah.

Let's kind of go through a little bit of stuff.

NARRATOR: To demonstrate the power of this technology,

Ken is going to apply spectral imaging to a document

that has been burned so badly,

much of the text is completely undetectable to the naked eye.

BOYDSTON: During World War II, the Nazis

burned vast quantities of documents...

Ah.

...so we are recovering the partially burned texts.

-Amazing. -And so, we're ready to do it.

TSOUKALOS: Lights.

BOYDSTON: Each time the light flashes,

the shutter clicks, another picture is captured.

So, you're seeing a little tiny bit of light right now,

but the camera is seeing lots of light

because this is down into the infrared.

All right.

So, out of the visible light pictures that we just took,

those individual ones, the computer put them together

and lo and behold,

there's a perfect color picture of that object,

which would be just what our eyes see.

-TSOUKALOS: Look at this. -Which, there it is.

TSOUKALOS: There you go.

-TZADOK: Wow. -BOYDSTON: There it is.

All of that text right there.

And we can enhance that a little bit.

We can, uh, we can push the contrast up a little bit

-on that... -That word says símera.

-There we go. -It means "today."

-BOYDSTON: So, um... -Arius.

That's a little demonstration of what-what the technology can do.

Uh, just, a very quick, and, uh, compelling, really.

TSOUKALOS: This is extraordinary, really.

-Wow. -So, just imagine,

uh, if you have thousands and thousands of these pages,

where, uh, no one has been able to read them

since they were destroyed.

TSOUKALOS: In front of our eyes,

long-lost knowledge that has been thought

to have been completely and utterly destroyed

has been resurrected with the power of light.

An ancient prophecy said that towards the coming

of what we will call disclosure, all of these secrets,

these ancient secrets, would be brought back to us.

We never understood how,

but now it's actually happening in front of our eyes.

What if there are references

to extraterrestrials that we've never seen before?

-There definitely are. -So it's a corroboration

of what we're already doing.

I mean, this is sensational.

NARRATOR: In 2018, the Israel Antiquities Authority

studying the Dead Sea Scrolls announced

that multispectral analysis had uncovered writings on a fragment

that points to a previously unknown manuscript.

Once it's discovered, what will this missing manuscript reveal?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

there could be numerous lost texts of Enoch

that will come to light.

Texts that were hidden in secure locations

so that they would survive

a devastating global cataclysm...

...the Great Flood.

COLLINS: The world was devastated

NARRATOR: The Book of Genesis.

In chapters six through nine,

it is described that God had become deeply troubled

by the wickedness of the human race,

and decided to bring it to an end

by sending a great flood upon the Earth.

Only Noah and his family would survive, and it was God himself

who gave Noah instructions for building the Ark

that would save both them and two of every earthly creature.

The Book of Enoch tells the same story,

but with significant differences.

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

the flood washes away these rebellious angels.

And it washes away the Nephilim, as opposed

to the traditional flood story,

which washes away people who have been rebellious and sinful.

God is protecting us in the Book of Enoch.

It is a very different God than the spiteful, wrathful God

that we see in the Genesis account.

NARRATOR: Another key difference

in Enoch's account is that Noah is not given instructions

to build the Ark by God, but by the angel Uriel.

HENRY: The archangel Uriel is the one who warned Noah

about the impending flood, and who told him

about humanity's future and the possibility of this cataclysm.

What we're witnessing here is an extraordinary story

of an extraterrestrial being having a tremendous--

in fact, incalculable influence on human affairs.

NARRATOR: Does Enoch's account of the Great Flood reveal

that it is not a story of God punishing humankind,

but of extraterrestrials

directing the course of humanity?

As far as many religious scholars are concerned,

both the biblical version

and the Enochian version of the Great Flood

are simply allegorical tales.

But an increasing number of archaeologists and historians

now believe that this global cataclysm actually happened.

Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.

After years of research,

American explorer David Allen Deal has become convinced

that the biblical story of Noah is, in fact, historical,

and is on the hunt to find the remnants of the Ark.

At an elevation of more than 7,000 feet, near Mount Ararat,

where the Bible says Noah's Ark eventually landed,

he stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient settlement.

DAVID CHILDRESS: What he discovered

is what's known as the lost city of-of Noah, or-or Naxuan.

And this is an area that's near a strange geological formation

that some people think is actually Noah's Ark.

NARRATOR: The ancient Armenian historian Moses of Chorene

identified Naxuan as the place of Noah's first descent.

Could this be the first settlement

in a post-flood world?

A recent archeological dig reportedly uncovered

something remarkable:

the region may contain millions of graves.

CHILDRESS: Because Noah's tomb is said to be here,

a huge cemetery has grown up around this lost city of Noah.

And people from all over the Middle East in ancient times,

uh, insisted on being buried in this area.

NARRATOR: Researchers suggest that Naxuan

is just one of many points of evidence

that support the notion of a historical great flood.

What we now know from incredible amount of evidence

coming from every part of the world,

is that around 10,800 BC,

the world was devastated by some kind of impact event.

And this devastated every part of the landscape,

what today we might refer to as a nuclear winter

that blotted out the Sun, the Moon and the stars.

There's something called the Usselo horizon

that's been found all over the world.

It's like a layer of black ash.

This suggests there was a great conflagration

that took place, great fires and burning,

and it left this layer all around the world.

And it dates to between 11,000 and 13,000 years ago.

So this does suggest something very serious

took place at this time.

NARRATOR: Could this layer of ash,

found roughly 50 feet deep in the Earth's soil,

be evidence of a devastating global event?

According to geologist Dr. Robert Schoch,

a worldwide cataclysm, and the resulting layer of ash,

was likely created by a solar flare,

a sudden flash of increased brightness on the Sun.

SCHOCH: Based on my analysis of the evidence

is that there was a major, major solar outburst.

The Sun essentially erupted.

This caused, in a flash,

the glaciers to melt virtually instantaneously.

It caused evaporation of water.

This not only led to the rising sea levels,

flooding the coastal areas and torrential rains.

We have physical evidence of this in the geological record.

NARRATOR: Could the Book of Enoch

overturn everything we know

about the history of life on our planet?

Did Enoch intend to make a record

of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth

for future generations of humans to discover?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest there are still chapters

we have yet to uncover.

Chapters that may be hidden

within the Great Pyramid.

TSOUKALOS: The pyramids were built

Here on the Giza Plateau

stands the oldest

of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World:

the Great Pyramid.

But ancient astronaut theorists suspect this awesome structure

is even older than Egyptologists have proposed.

Mainstream archaeologists

date the Great Pyramid to 2500 BC

and suggest it was built as a tomb

for the pharaoh Khufu.

However, according to a 14th century account

written by Islamic historian Ibrahim al-Maqrizi,

the Pyramid of Giza was built thousands of years earlier...

before the event described in both the Hebrew Bible

and the Book of Enoch as "the Great Flood."

VON DANIKEN: Now what is very, very astonishing,

there are many other old historian books,

especially Arabian historians,

which nobody knows in the Western world.

They say the Great Pyramid was constructed

before the Great Flood, by a pharaoh

with the name of Saurid.

And they precisely say Saurid is the same figure,

which the Hebrew community calls Enoch.

NARRATOR: Enoch?

The builder of the Great Pyramid?

Could such an incredible notion be true?

The Islamic text goes on to detail

the pyramid's construction, which it says was made possible

by otherworldly beings.

TSOUKALOS: According to al-Maqrizi,

the pyramids were built in order to preserve knowledge

that was given to the Egyptians

by the so-called gods, the so-called Watchers,

the guardians of the sky.

These blocks were levitated and essentially

walked themselves into position.

NARRATOR: Was the Great Pyramid

actually built by Enoch

using extraterrestrial technology?

While it may sound far-fetched,

the notion that the pharaoh Khufu was behind

the construction of the pyramid

has come under great scrutiny.

In 1837, a British colonel, who became an archeologist

named Richard Howard-Vyse used dynamite

to get up into the king's chamber of the Great Pyramid.

This was something that had not been entered

by other archeologists before.

When he got into these upper chambers,

he then apparently claimed that he found, uh,

some hieroglyphic cartouches

that mentioned the pharaoh Khufu.

Egyptologists knew when Khufu lived,

he lived 2500, roughly, BC.

And because of that, by extension,

that became the time line and the date

of the Great Pyramid's construction,

according to mainstream Egyptology.

NARRATOR: Colonel Vyse's expedition

to the Great Pyramid cost $1.3 million,

a figure equal to $35 million today.

Due to the cost, Vyse was under tremendous pressure

to make a major discovery--

like finding hard evidence of who commissioned

the building of the pyramid.

But new evidence has been found that some believe

puts Vyse's discovery into question.

Recently it has been discovered

by going through, uh, Vyse's journals

that he in his journals actually says

that there were no hieroglyphs within this chamber.

And so it is suspected that Vyse did in fact

forge this cartouche of the pharaoh Khufu.

NARRATOR: Egyptologists have also pointed out

that during the time of Khufu,

cartouches were written vertically,

but the cartouche Colonel Vyse claimed to have discovered

was written horizontally.

And no mummy was ever found inside the Great Pyramid.

VON DANIKEN: Especially in Egyptology,

many archeologists believe that they know everything,

and that their knowledge is a true base.

In reality, there are thousands of open questions,

starting with the builder of the Great Pyramid.

NARRATOR: In March 2016,

the Great Pyramid of Giza

presented researchers with yet another mystery.

Archeologists examining the ancient structure

with a new technology known as muography,

made a shocking discovery--

a mysterious chamber inside the structure

that is as large as the Statue of Liberty.

CHILDRESS: It's always exciting when

Egyptologists are making new discoveries

inside of the Great Pyramid or other pyramids.

And now they're saying that there is

a 30-meter void inside the pyramid.

So the whole idea that these pyramids are

just simple tombs for a pharaoh,

Egyptologists now realize

that they're far more complicated.

This new room is only the beginning of it.

I'm sure within the next months, or at least two years,

they will discover more rooms in the Great Pyramid.

I personally think that the Great Pyramid in Egypt

holds some sort of time capsule.

In my opinion, we will find mummies in there.

Mummies of before the Great Flood.

And we will find writings in there.

Writings of Enoch, who tell us how it all was.

Enoch knew that all these writings

would be found in the far future.

NARRATOR: A time capsule hidden within the Great Pyramid of Giza?

When the Great Pyramid of Egypt is fully excavated,

could it be found to hold undeniable proof

that the Book of Enoch documents

extraterrestrial intervention on Earth?

And might it reveal even more profound truths

about the history of humankind?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is a resounding yes.

And they say further examination of the Bible

may indicate exactly what information

is about to be discovered.

NARRATOR: The Book of Enoch.

Chapter 91.

After journeying through the heavenly realm

and returning to Earth,

Enoch is preparing to be taken back up

into the heavens once again.

Before he leaves, Enoch gathers together his family

and shares with them a startling prophecy.

He assembles the whole family.

The oldest of his son was Methuselah,

the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah asked his father,

"Enoch, will I see you again?"

And Enoch said, "The guardians of the sky told me

"I will return to this planet,

"but thousands of years will have passed.

So we will not see each other again."

NARRATOR: The concept of a divine figure leaving and returning to Earth

is echoed across almost every major religion.

HUSSAIN: In the Jewish tradition,

there's the expectation the prophet Elijah

will return before the Messiah and bring in this age of peace

and righteousness that ushers in the end of time.

In the Christian tradition, the return of Jesus,

who for Christians is the Messiah.

In the Islamic tradition, you know, it's either the Al-Mahdi,

the divinely guided one, or it's Muhammad who will return.

In a sense, this ushers in a brand-new age,

a brand-new relationship with God,

a brand-new way of existing in the world.

LAYNE LITTLE: There's a body of Hindu scriptures

known as the Puranas and these tell

about the tenth and final incarnation

of the god Vishnu

that comes at the end

of this present cycle of time.

These prophecies speak of this Messianic figure

riding upon the clouds of heaven,

accompanied by the armies of heaven.

This suggests that we're talking

about some kind of a vehicle or a craft.

TSOUKALOS: This whole concept of the return of the gods--

well, who are we waiting for?

It will not be any of these ancient "saintly figures"

or-or holy figures, but it will be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that

humankind's most sacred religious texts

document extraterrestrial intervention

on Earth?

And might the teachings of Enoch

have been meant to prepare humanity

for the day when we will awaken to a profound new reality?

Perhaps the Book of Enoch has yet to be completed.

And when the final chapter is written,

we will know that it is not a story of angels...

but of our alien ancestors.

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