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NARRATOR: Beetles buried with
Egyptian mummies...
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GENE KRITSKY: The scarab
was critical for the resurrection.
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NARRATOR: and swarms of
locusts targeting humans.
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NARRATOR: In cultures
throughout the world, insects
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have been worshipped, feared,
and even thought of as gods.
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But might these strange
creatures that have inhabited
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Earth for hundreds of millions
of years provide a link
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to extraterrestrial beings?
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
The idea that insect aliens
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are coming here to this planet, interacting
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with humans, may well
be based on something real.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
And if so is there a connection
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between aliens and insects?
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NARRATOR: The Nile Delta, Egypt.
A small, centimeters-wide trail
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is cut in the desert floor by
the rolling cocoon
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of a dung beetle.
This strange-looking two-inch
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long insect, also called a
scarab, uses the dung as both a
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source of nourishment and a
place for storing its eggs.
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It will roll the ball in a
straight line despite all
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obstacles, and is the only
insect on Earth known to
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navigate by following the light
of the Milky Way galaxy.
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Biologists just made this
discovery in 2013...
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but 5,000 years ago,
with presumably no knowledge of
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its unique connection
to the stars, the ancient
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Egyptians held the scarab
as a sacred symbol,
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representing a link to the gods.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: Interesting
that a great civilization
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could pay so much attention
to a little bug, but
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it appears constantly throughout
Egyptian temples and hieroglyphics.
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It's a very frequent image.
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NARRATOR: At the Temple of
Karnak, overlooking the Sacred
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Lake where the pharaohs
received their coronation,
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a giant scarab beetle stands
watch, representing the Egyptian
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god Khepri.
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KRITSKY: The Egyptians saw the
Sun moving across the sky
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during the day.
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Also, around the desert sands, you'd
see beetles moving balls of dung.
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And so the Egyptians thought
that the force that moved the
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Sun across the sky was a giant
scarab beetle god, Khepri.
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GRAHAM PHILLIPS: They believe
that the Sun was what
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is known as the eye of Ra,
which was Ra's chariot or his
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flying machine.
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And the thing that moved it,
they believed, was the scarab-
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headed god, Khepri, and the
scarab represented Khepri,
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the pilot, if you like,
of Ra's Sun ship or barge.
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He was basically a pilot
to the gods.
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NARRATOR: But could there be
another explanation for why the
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Egyptians regarded Khepri
as a pilot?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the representation
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of Khepri as a scarab and
sometimes as a human with
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a scarab head... may have been
inspired by actual contact the
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Egyptians had with an
otherworldly being.
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has to
wonder whether or not these
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beings actually existed,
because the ancient Egyptians
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were incredibly proud in carving their
history into countless of walls.
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And according to the ancient
astronaut theory, we all came
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about through a deliberate
mutation of our genes.
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And so it is entirely possible,
in my opinion, that some of
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those creatures that we see
depicted in reliefs and in
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carvings might have actually
exted in the past.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible the
ancient Egyptians could have
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encountered alien beings that
had an insect-like appearance?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes...
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and as further evidence,
point to the fact that the
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Egyptians' obsession with the
scarab also extended to their
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funeraryituals.
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The Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
November, 1922.
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Archaeologist Howard Carter
discovers the tomb
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of King Tutankhamen.
Among the treasure trove of
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artifacts found inside is the
young pharaoh's breastplate,
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which features a scarab
as the centerpiece.
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The scarab is made of a yellow
silica glass stone procured from
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the Sahara, originally formed 28
million years ago when the sand
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was superheated
by a comet strike.
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But why would the ancient
Egyptians place a scarab...
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and one sculpted from material
produced by a cosmic event... at
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the center of their pharaoh's
funerary breastplate?
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Curiously, scarabs always played
an integral role in the
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Egyptians' mummification
process, often included during
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the wrapping of the body.
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SABINA MAGLIOCCO: In between
those wrappings, the Egyptians
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put a number of charms, which
served not just a preservation
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function, but a
magical function.
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KRITSKY: There was a
heart scarab, which was
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placed on the body.
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We also find other scarabs,
sometimes knitted into the linen
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of the deceased.
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The scarab was thought to be
critical for the resurrection,
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because of its power and
necessity for it to be present
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when the Sun rose
in the morning.
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BARA: The idea was, is that
the soul or even the
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body of the person that had
departed was carried by scarab
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beetles along the path to the
next life, to the next dimension.
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It's almost as if the scarab
beetle was some kind of device,
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not an insect, but a device
that actually allows travel
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from one place to another.
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WILLIAM HENRY: Where did
the Egyptians get the idea
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of resurrection and this
idea that we could be reborn
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as star beings?
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It seems as if they were
given this idea by Khepri.
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NARRATOR: Could the inclusion
of scarab-shaped objects in the
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mummification process have been
inspired by an actual encounter
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with the scarab god Khepri?
To some ancient astronaut
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theorists, it's not just the
presence of scarabs that
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suggests the Egyptians made a
connection between insects and
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the afterlife...
they say the mummification
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process also mimics
insect metamorphosis itself.
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BARA: The similarities
between mummification and the
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cocooning process that a
caterpillar goes through before
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it becomes a moth are really
quite incredible.
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I think what the
Egyptians were trying to do
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is actually cocoon the human
being so that when he emerged
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into the next life at the next
level up, he would be
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transformed into something
greater, more powerful, and
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epically more beautiful.
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DAVID WILCOCK: This does mimic,
in nature, what we would
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see with a pupa or a chrysalis,
in which the caterpillar
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actually creates a hard
outer shell around itself,
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and the material of the
caterpillar's body actually
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turns into a broth before
it reconstitutes into what
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ultimately emerges
as a butterfly.
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NARRATOR: While most people
associate metamorphosis with a
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caterpillar transforming into
a butterfly...
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beetles, like the scarab,
undergo a complete
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metamorphosis as well.
The hatched larva inside the
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ball of dung emerges fully
developed and capable of flight.
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To the ancient Egyptians, it
seemed the sacred scarab had
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miraculously regenerated inside
its cocoon.
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PHILLIPS: The actual scarab
beetle in ancient Egyptian was
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called something that means
"he that comes from nowhere."
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Which is basically what
the name Khepri means.
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"He comes from nowhere. He
can make himself exist."
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NARRATOR: Much like the
scarab emerging from its cocoon,
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the Egyptians believed a
mummified body could rise from
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its sarcophagus as a transformed
being, and live once again.
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MAGLIOCCO: Part of the soul
was inexorably attached to the
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body, so in order for that part
of the soul to live on in the
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afterlife, the body had to be
preserved as closely as possible
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to the way that it had existed
in life.
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KRITSKY: The idea of the
Egyptian soul is so alien
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from our own that it's-it's
difficult to put parallels on.
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For example, the Egyptians
concept of the soul had five
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parts... the Ba and the
Ka are two in particular.
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And part of their mythology was
that the Ba must return to the
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body, enter the body, so that the
body can rise and live again.
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DAVID CHILDRESS: It's possible
that the mummification
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process was some kind of
replication of this process that
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the extraterrestrials
went through.
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And even the possibility that
the mummies themselves were
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going into some kind of larval
stage and suspended animation
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where they would emerge
eventually into some kind of new
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body like the
extraterrestrials did.
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NARRATOR: While the scarab
dominates Egyptian symbolism,
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another beetle common to this
part of the world, the buprestid
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beetle, has a direct tie to the
Egyptians most important god...Osiris.
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KRITSKY: Buprestid beetles,
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when bothered by a predator,
actually tuck their legs up
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and lie perfectly still.
And the way they hold their
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limbs is very similar to the way
Osiris would be represented in
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some tomb paintings.
Well, it turns out the buprestid
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beetle is found in the tamarisk
wood, and that is the wood that
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comes from a tree that was part
of the Osiris legend.
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Actually becomes the Djed
pillar.
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And when, uh, Isis split this
pillar, she found Osiris inside,
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and this beautiful beetle
inside, and so it's quite
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possible that this beetle may
have a relationship to the
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mummification process.
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NARRATOR: But does the
Ancient Egyptian worship of
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a beetle really suggest an
encounter with insect-like
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extraterrestrials?
Could they be mimicking
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misunderstood technology?
Or might there be
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another explanation?
Perhaps further clues can be
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found in the numerous ancient
stories of Ant People.
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NARRATOR: Cambridge
University, England. 2013.
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Using a high-speed camera with
intense magnification,
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scientists from the department
of zoology record the movement
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of a plant-hopping insect called
Issus.
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Examining the footage, they make
a shocking discovery.
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The movement of the Issus is
powered by mechanical gears.
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It is the world's first evidence
of mechanical gearing in a
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biological structure.
This natural cog mechanism
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allows the Issus to make
powerful jumps, with the gear
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teeth on the opposing hind-legs
locking together like those in
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the gearbox of a car, ensuring
almost complete synchronicity of
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leg movement.
But how did a biological entity
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develop mechanisms that appear
manmade?
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KRITSKY: Insects are
essentially evolution's
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Tinkertoy set.
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Insects were the first animal
group to evolve the ability to
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fly on their own power.
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Insects have an exoskeleton,
which is almost like a living armor.
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NARRATOR: In terms of sheer numbers,
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insects are by far the
most dominant life-form on
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Earth, and with over one million
different species, they also
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remain the most mysterious.
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KRITSKY: Insects appeared on the
Earth over 400 million years
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before humans appeared
on the Earth.
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They were incredibly successful,
well before the age of the
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dinosaurs, and a long
time before humans.
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IAN RECCHIO: About half of
the living creatures on the
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planet belong to the
group of insects.
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They've really found ways
to inhabit just about every
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ecological niche in nature.
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They have compound eyes, which,
in some cases, they can see into
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the, uh, ranges that humans
cannot, like ultraviolent.
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KRITSKY: They have a very
sophisticated sensory system
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that makes them different from
what we can perceive.
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For example, insects taste,
smell, and feel with the hairs
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on their body.
When they land on you, they're
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smelling you, they're tasting
you, they're feeling you.
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There are upwards of a million
species of insects evolved
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so far. So, we may
think of ourselves as
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being special, but in reality,
insects are the most successful
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animal group that's ever evolve
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NARRATOR: In the more than
400 million years that insects
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are believed to have existed, no
bug has thrived more than the ant.
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KRITSKY: Ants are among the
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most successful animal groups
that we see on the face
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of the Earth. One out of
every four individual
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animals on the face of the Earth
is an ant.
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Ants are incredible insects.
And they're highly evolved.
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NARRATOR: In size and
appearance, ants and humans
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could not be more different.
But interestingly, in many ways,
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these tiny bugs are more like us
than any other creature in the
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animal kingdom.
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KRITSKY: Ants have a social
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system where they have a
division of labor.
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You have a reproductive queen.
You have males that will mate
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with the queen. You have
sub-reproductives that
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can leave the colony and start
new colonies.
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Then you've got a
series of workers.
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And then there sre acialized
workers that are soldiers, that
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can actually protect the colony
if they're under attack.
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So, they're rather, uh, intriguing
with regard to their behavior.
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NARRATOR: But how is it that
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the behavior of ants mirrors
that of humans in so many ways?
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Is it simply coincidence?
Or could ants and humans be more
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closely related than we think?
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Ancient Greece.
In both Homer's Iliad and
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Ovid's Metamorphoses, there is a
group of warriors known as the
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Myrmidon, who are born of
mysterious origins.
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According to the Ovid, King
Aeacus of Aegina pleads with the
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god Zeus to repopulate his
plague-ravaged country.
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That night, he dreams that ants
fall from the branch of a tree
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and turn into men.
He awakes the next morning to
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find his dream has come true.
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YOUNG: The story of the Myrmidons
is that they were ants
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made into warriors.
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They were said to have fought
with Achilles at Troy and they
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were very effective.
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BARA: The descriptions of the
ant people are very, very
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accurate in terms of the
behavior of the insect...
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the ant itself.
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They were very loyal, they
moved together as one,
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almost at a hive mentality.
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KRITSKY: The Myrmidons were
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thought to be the first to
develop ships, and to sail under
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their own power.
This ability to be organized
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like an army, comes from ants
marching in a nice linear
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fashion. The ea about
being the first
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to sail comes from the ant's
ability to raft.
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Ants will get on the surface
tension of water and lock legs,
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other ants will climb on top,
and this little mound of ants
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will float around on the surface
of water.
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In the case of the Myrmidons,
these were fierce warriors.
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They were well-trained,
they were organized...
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just like ants.
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BARA: These descriptions
are so vivid and so accurate
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in terms of the ants'
behavior that what Zeus seems to
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have done is actually some sort
of genetic crossbreeding
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between humans and insects
in order to create this army
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of ant people.
You're dealing with an extremely
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advanced technology that really,
really understands how to use
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genetic manipulation to create
new species.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Myrmidons depicted in the
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ancient Greek stories were
actually some type of ant-and-
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human hybrid, manufactured by an
alien being?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
claim further evidence that ants
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may have a connection to
extraterrestrials can be found
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in stories throughout numerous
cultures.
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In the Muslim holy book, the
Quran, there is a story of ants
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speaking like humans.
In parts of Africa, ants are
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considered to be the messengers
of the gods.
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And Native American tribes, like
the Hopi and Zuni, tell stories
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of the Ant People who emerge
from beneath the Earth.
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CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: The ant
people is a very interesting
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subject when it comes to looking
at the Hopi belief system.
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Ant people, number one,
are caretakers of the Earth.
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NARRATOR: Unlike the Myrmidons
of Greek mythology,
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the Ant People of the Native
American stories don't just
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behave like ants, they
resemble them as well.
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DAVID: They have spindly
arms, they have antennae.
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They have elongated skulls.
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These are clearly a merging
of the human and the insect.
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They are not simply a
fable or a parable.
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TSOUKALOS: If one explores the
question of insectoid alien life...
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then my question is why not?
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Because if life is pervasive
throughout the entire iverun
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then that life comes in all
shape, size, and color.
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So, the idea that insectoid
aliens might exist is very
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possible to me.
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However, I think the idea came
from our ancestors witnessing
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physical features that made them
look like ants or could be best
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described as ants.
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WILCOCK: If we look at the
face of an ant, we look
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at the head of an ant, we see
large, buggy eyes widely
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spaced on the face,
and a large head.
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So this could be an illustration
of people seeing beings like
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what we now call the Greys, and
associating it with something
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that's familiar to them.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the Ant People that appear in
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both Greek and Native American
mythology were really
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Grey aliens?
Or might they even be
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human-insect hybrids engineered
by otherworldly beings?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
in the accounts of those who
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claim to have been victims
of alien abductions.
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NARRATOR: The Kalahari
Desert, South Africa.
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The indigenous people of this
area, called the San,
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represent one of the oldest
existing populations on Earth,
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with a culture that dates back
approximately 80,000 years.
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According to the origin story of
this ancient society, the first
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humans were created not by
traditional gods but by insects.
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MAGLIOCCO: According to the
San people, the origin
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of humans lies with
the praying mantis.
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There once was a bee who was
asked by a praying mantis to
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carry him across a raging river.
And the bee did so.
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He carried the praying mantis
across the river and deposited
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him on a leaf.
But before leaving, the
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exhausted bee left an egg inside
the praying mantis and that egg
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is the source of all human
beings.
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NARRATOR: But where did the
San people get the idea that
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humans were created by a praying
mantis?
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Curiously, the San tradition
also holds that a praying mantis
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gave early humans the gifts
of language and fire.
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And one of their most
important gods, Cagn,
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the creator of the world, often
took the form of a mantis.
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YOUNG: The San people
of South Africa had a
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fascinating theology.
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Their god was known as Cagn,
and Cagn was a trickster god.
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He could shape-shift and appear
in a number of different forms...
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but was very fond of appearing
as a praying mantis.
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BARA: Cagn had a lot struggles
on the planet Earth.
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There were many wars that were
fought, and eventually he left
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the Earth by means of
going up into the sky.
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CHILDRESS: Another
interesting thing about Cagn
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is that it's said that
he created the Moon.
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And the San people do their planting
because of phases of the Moon.
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So you've got to wonder: is this
praying mantis extraterrestrial
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god just some mythical figure,
or is he really a representation
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of some kind of real praying
mantis insectoid alien that's
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come to Earth?
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NARRATOR: Could the
prominence of the praying mantis
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in San mythology suggest that
their ancestors actually
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encountered such beings in the
distant past?
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Although most anthropologists
regard these stories as fables,
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some ancient astronaut theorists
find it curious that the praying
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mantis is also a recurring image
in reports of alien abduction.
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Covina, California.
1963.
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In this small farming town on
the outskirts of Los Angeles,
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17-year-old Linda Porter awakens
to find herself aboard
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a strange craft.
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From what she is able to recall
later, under hypnosis, a small
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creature that appeared to be a
Grey alien led her towards a
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light-filled room where she
encountered another type of
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being... one much taller and
with the features of
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a praying mantis.
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O'BRIEN: Very stand-alone,
very odd case.
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The fact that this occurred in
1963 is very intriguing, because
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it's before the abduction
phenomenon became popularized.
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JASON MARTELL: There have
depictions throughout various
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abduction scenarios that include
the Grey aliens and this
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larger, tall insectesoid being,
very praying mantis-like.
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NARRATOR: Linda Porter claims
that throughout her teens and
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20s, she experienced numerous
other encounters with
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these alien beings...
but it wasn't until
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the age of 45 that she
finally reached out to
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investigative journalist Linda
Moulton Howe to tell her story.
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LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I
received a letter, carefully
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written, from Linda Porter.
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This led up to her sending
me a whole lot of drawings.
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NARRATOR: These drawings
appear in Linda Moulton Howe's
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book Glimpses of
Other Realities.
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HOWE: One of the drawings
was of a praying mantis
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about eight feet tall in a
room that was very odd,
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had a cylindrical object
and sparkles of light.
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O'BRIEN: There have been
quite a number of different
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types of aliens seen, allegedly,
by contactees.
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But the ones that are really
peculiar, and very rare, are
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these very scary, skinny, large,
basically intelligent insects
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CHRIS PITTMAN: People have
drawn parallels between the
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aliens that are reported onboard
UFOs and insects, particularly bees.
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The Greys, for instance, could
be equated in some way to the
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drone or the worker bee.
The so-called praying mantis
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type could be seen, perhaps,
as the queen bee, larger than
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the others, more intelligent.
They're taller than a person...
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eight or even nine feet tall.
And the Grey aliens may handle
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the person who's being abducted,
but in the background, there's
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this praying mantis type that
seems toe calling the shots.
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NARRATOR: According to
Porter, she is part of a larger
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experiment... one in which these
aliens appear concerned with her soul.
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HOWE: She said whatever we
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humans are, we have an animus,
a soul, that is mysterious to
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them, and they are trying to
find out where does the soul,
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spirit, go at the moment of
death, and that the non-humans
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were studying the recycling of
the soulin and out of
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containers.
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NICK REDFERN: She talked about
being shown three cylinders.
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Contained in each cylinder was a
human being in kind of like a
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state of suspended animation.
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NARRATOR: Numerous alleged
alien abduction victims have
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reported seeing these
cocoon-like containers, but if
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these accounts are real, might
there be another explanation
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behind this technology?
Could it be, as some ancient
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astronaut theorists contend,
that aliens are performing
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genetic experimentation?
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HOWE: Linda Porter came away
from her two or three decades
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of interaction with these
non-humans, including the at
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first terrifying praying mantis,
that these are extraterrestrial
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biological entities that have
taken a deep interest in the
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evolution of life-forms here,
that they have manipulated DNA
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in already evolving primates,
that they have created a whole
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series of different models.
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NARRATOR: Might the numerous
accounts of mantis-like beings
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reported by alleged alien
abduction victims, along with
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the ancient San story of a
praying mantis god, be evidence
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that an otherworldly race of
insectoids really does exist?
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And, if so, could they be
conducting genetic experiments
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with humans to make us more like
them?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
further clues revealing the
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connection between insects and
aliens can be found...
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in the Holy Bible.
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NARRATO Pi-Ramesses, Egypt.
The 15th century BC.
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Most archaeologists believe this
ancient city to be the site of
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the ten plagues as described in
the Bible's Book of Exodus.
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According to the scripture, God
brought these plagues upon Egypt
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when the pharaoh refused to
release the Israelites from
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slavery.
Three of them involved insects.
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The third was a plague of gnats,
which came up from the ground
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and infested both man and
animal.
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The fourth was flies that
attacked only the Egyptians,
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sparing the Israelites.
And the eighth was a plague of
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KRITSKY: Locusts are
grasshoppers that have had an
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unusual change in their
biology and behavior.
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They will start to move in the
same direction.
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They will land, eat.
Other locusts flying over them
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will land and eat and so on and
so on, wiping out all the
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vegetation in a given area and
destroying all the crops that
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people might have planted.
And for every one million
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locusts, they can eat a ton of
food.
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NARRATOR: But an even more
incredible story of locusts can
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be found in the Bible's New
Testament Book of Revelation.
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Rising from deep pits within the
Earth, these locusts form waves
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of scorpion-tailed warhorses,
protected by iron breastplates.
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And unlike the locusts from the
Book of Exodus, the target isn't
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BARA: The locusts themselves
actually didn't eat any crops,
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they didn't clear any fields.
They only attacked people, and
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they only ate up and
devoured and damaged people.
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It's almost as if the locusts
themselves were programmed.
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MARTELL: The locusts that
appear out of the smoke have
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some type of ability to sting
people with a scorpion-like sting.
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Now, locusts are known not to
have any type of way of harming
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people, so these locusts
were special in origin.
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HENRY: These locusts only
sought out humans who did not
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have the seal of God
on their foreheads.
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And it makes you wonder if these
locusts are in fact some kind of
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an advanced extraterrestrial
technology that was sent to seek
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specific human beings.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
what is described in the Book of
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Revelation is not the
plant-eating locust we have
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today but some type of advanced
weaponry wielded ban
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extraterrestrial being?
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BARA: Now, if an extraterrestrial was
fighting a war, a weapon that you could
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use would be mechanical devices
that basically were like little
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nanotechnology that would attack
certain very specific targets.
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There are, in fact, such weapons
in use today.
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NARRATOR: DARPA headquarters,
Arlington, Virginia.
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This is the military's visionary
toy shop, where the blueprints
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for the weaponry of tomorrow are
drawn.
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Here stealth technology and GPS
were conceived.
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00:33:42,647 --> 00:33:47,683
Now, according to sources, a new
arms race is underway, one
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focused not on the biggest
weapons but the smallest.
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RICHARD DOLAN: Insects are
one of the most amazingly
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designed creatures that
exist on planet Earth.
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I mean, they're extraordinary.
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00:33:59,113 --> 00:34:02,397
It's no surprise that the United
States military is interested in
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insects. It's
absolutely logical.
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MARTELL: Why not send a small
insect or a crawling beetle into
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a war zone, into a place to
gather intelligence?
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That's exactly what we see
happening now.
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NARRATOR: At DARPA,
scientists have been
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experimenting with
electronically modifying beetles
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so they can actually manipulate
their flight.
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Threading thin wires into the
base of the beetles' optic
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lobes, they can control the
region of the brain at makes
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the beetles start
and stop flying.
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With another pair of wires in
the wing muscles, they can also
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make the beetle veer to the
right to the left by remote
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control. And scientists
working with
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nanotechnology are not only
looking for ways to control
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insects but to actually recreate
them.
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Thomas Vaneck at Physical
Sciences, Incorporated, is
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00:35:00,457 --> 00:35:04,894
currently developing flying
robots based on insects.
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00:35:04,896 --> 00:35:08,264
THOMAS VANECK: Instant Eye is
a very small aerial robot about
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the size of a pie plate.
It's relatively simple and yet
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Just about any insect you can imagine
is being studied by somebody.
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NARRATOR: Hornets.
Dragonflies.
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Mosquitoes.
All are said to be potential
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models for the next generation
of biomimetic weapons... robots
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that could one day be indistinguishable
from actual insects.
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00:35:33,222 --> 00:35:35,157
VANECK: Right now, probably
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the smallest insect-inspired
robot that we can make is about
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the size of a hummingbird, from
the technologies that are
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available to us today.
The driving force there is
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energy storage, because we just
don't have a battery that stores
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enough energy.
We're going to figure it out.
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I can easily envision that
you're going to have a robot the
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O'BRIEN: And if it landed on
the wall in some terrorist's
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house, he probably
wouldn't know.
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00:36:01,352 --> 00:36:04,737
And we're able to fit so much
into such a small space now.
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00:36:04,739 --> 00:36:08,857
Keep the weight down, we can
give it wings, and the average
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person would just try
to swat it away.
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VANECK: In the not-too-distant
future, you're going to
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sit there, and go, "Wow,
what a" beautiful insect."
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Maybe it's not an insect at all.
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00:36:19,136 --> 00:36:20,202
(drone buzzing)
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NARRATOR: But if we can produce
insect drones today, is
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it possible that the biblical
stories of locusts sent by God
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are really accounts of alien
technology in the ancient past?
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00:36:32,850 --> 00:36:36,485
And could this be the reason why
insects are feared by humans,
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00:36:36,487 --> 00:36:40,773
even to this day?
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00:36:40,775 --> 00:36:43,776
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe such an incredible
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00:36:43,778 --> 00:36:49,031
notion is possible, and for
proof, point to a mysterious
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area in Nevada simply
known as Area 51.
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00:36:54,120 --> 00:37:02,120
NARRATOR: Kingman, Arizona.
May, 1953.
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At the height of the Cold War,
an unidentified object
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reportedly crashed in the desert
sands.
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What remained was allegedly sent
to America's most top-secret
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00:37:19,659 --> 00:37:24,662
facility...
Area 51.
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00:37:24,664 --> 00:37:32,003
But it wasn't until 45 years
later, in 1998, that a retired
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00:37:32,005 --> 00:37:35,940
military engineer named Bill
Uhouse came forward to make a
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00:37:35,942 --> 00:37:40,194
stunning claim.
The military didn't just have
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the extraterrestrial technology.
They had an actual living alien.
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CHILDRESS: Uhouse claimed
that he worked in a secret
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laboratory, supposedly in the
Papoose Mountains of Area 51
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00:37:57,964 --> 00:38:03,885
in Nevada, and that since 1953,
the American government had an
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insectoid alien that
was working with them.
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His name was J-Rod.
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00:38:10,894 --> 00:38:15,763
REDFERN: J-Rod supposedly
assisted the military in
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understanding and duplicating the
incredible power systems and
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00:38:20,987 --> 00:38:24,906
futuristic technology that was
combined and created for the
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00:38:24,908 --> 00:38:28,443
Kingman craft.
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> NARRATOR: Shortly after
Bill Uhouse broke the story,
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microbiologist Dan Burisch came
forward to confirm his claim.
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But according to Dan Burisch, J-Rod
claimed that he was not an alien.
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What he revealed was something
even more shocking.
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CHILDRESS: This insectoid
alien J-Rod said that he had
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actually come from our future,
and that, at some time in the
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near future, to us, there is a
catastrophe on this planet...
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and much of mankind is
destroyed...
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and that mankind splits into
two different species.
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And one of these species goes
and lives underground, and while
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underground, they develop these
insectoid traits...
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00:39:33,059 --> 00:39:38,646
which is exactly what the Hopi
and Zuni and even Navajo legends
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say... that, during the
transition period between
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the third and the fourth
worlds, this above world
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00:39:47,073 --> 00:39:52,143
of today was not habitable, and
they had to go underground and
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00:39:52,145 --> 00:39:56,581
live for some time with what
they call the Ant People.
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00:39:56,583 --> 00:40:01,502
And you have to wonder if
perhaps J-Rod is actually an
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insectoid human being from our
own future.
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NARRATOR: Could the accounts
of J-Rod confirm that the Hopi
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stories of Ant People were more
than just mythology?
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And if the so-called insectoids
really do exist, is it possible
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that they are not aliens, but
humans from the future?
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MARTELL: Aliens appear to be a
part of our human evolution
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over thousands of years.
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00:40:34,037 --> 00:40:37,038
A lot of it has to do with
our reproductive systems.
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Maybe they're actually trying to
create a new race, possibly that
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will be able to withstand
atmospheric changes here on
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Earth, or potentially lead us to a point
where we have to leave the planet.
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NARRATOR: But if humans are
someday forced underground by a
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cataclysmic event, does it even
make scientific sense that we
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would evolve to have
insect-like characteristics?
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According to some scientists,
we are part insect already.
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KRITSKY: The work on the human
genome has indicated that
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possibly up to half of our
DNA may be the result of
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transposons.
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00:41:15,612 --> 00:41:19,747
That's a fancy word for jumping genes...
genes that can jump from
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one species to another.
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00:41:21,784 --> 00:41:27,788
Recently, it was shown that rhodnius...
this is the sucking
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insect that spreads Chagas disease...
not only can spread
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00:41:30,677 --> 00:41:33,911
the trypanosome, the
disease-causing agent, from
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organism to organism, it also
can spread its own genes
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00:41:37,917 --> 00:41:40,101
to those organisms.
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00:41:40,103 --> 00:41:42,436
Humans get Chagas disease.
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00:41:42,438 --> 00:41:46,757
So far, they have not tested
humans for this insect DNA.
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00:41:46,759 --> 00:41:51,595
Odds are, we do have some of these
insect genes in our system.
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00:41:51,597 --> 00:41:54,315
We know some of these transposon
probably came from diseases
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00:41:54,317 --> 00:41:58,436
caught when our ancestors
were bitten by insects.
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00:41:58,438 --> 00:42:03,174
NARRATOR: Could the studies on
Horizontal Gene Transfer one
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00:42:03,176 --> 00:42:09,664
day prove that we really do have
insect DNA in our genetic makeup?
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00:42:09,666 --> 00:42:13,885
And if so, might it be not
by chance, but by some
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00:42:13,887 --> 00:42:17,838
extraterrestrial design?
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00:42:17,840 --> 00:42:23,144
WILCOCK: Is it possible that
evolution is being guided by
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00:42:23,146 --> 00:42:26,397
some sort of greater galactic
or universal intelligence?
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00:42:26,399 --> 00:42:30,668
Could it be possible that, in
certain circumstances, insects
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00:42:30,670 --> 00:42:34,372
could be the dominant species
that ultimately becomes sentient
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00:42:34,374 --> 00:42:37,208
and develops hominid
characteristics?
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00:42:37,210 --> 00:42:40,912
The contactee reports
are consistent.
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00:42:40,914 --> 00:42:44,916
Some people are seeing beings
like this, communicating with
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them intelligently, and
for benevolent purpose.
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00:42:48,487 --> 00:42:52,423
CHILDRESS: The whole idea of
mixing these life-forms together
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is fascinating, making hybrids
of the two of them.
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00:42:56,930 --> 00:43:01,549
Throughout history, people have
honored and even worshipped
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00:43:01,551 --> 00:43:07,555
insects, built temples to them.
It's quite possible that there
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is an insectoid type life on
other planets that actually have
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00:43:12,511 --> 00:43:16,697
intelligence that's beyond our
own.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
there really is a connection
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00:43:23,356 --> 00:43:29,210
between insects and aliens?
Are they related to beings from
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beyond our world, as some
ancient astronaut theorists
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00:43:32,415 --> 00:43:36,584
suggest? And if so,
might they have a
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00:43:36,586 --> 00:43:40,921
secret purpose we have yet to
discover?
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Perhaps, one day, we'll find
that alien beings don't only
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00:43:44,042 --> 00:43:47,142
inhabit the furthest reaches of space.
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But there are in fact
billions here on earth.
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And most of them right under our feet.
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