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NARRATOR: Beetles buried with Egyptian mummies...

GENE KRITSKY: The scarab was critical for the resurrection.

NARRATOR: and swarms of locusts targeting humans.

NARRATOR: In cultures throughout the world, insects

have been worshipped, feared, and even thought of as gods.

But might these strange creatures that have inhabited

Earth for hundreds of millions of years provide a link

to extraterrestrial beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: The idea that insect aliens

are coming here to this planet, interacting

with humans, may well be based on something real.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history? And if so is there a connection

between aliens and insects?

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NARRATOR: The Nile Delta, Egypt. A small, centimeters-wide trail

is cut in the desert floor by the rolling cocoon

of a dung beetle. This strange-looking two-inch

long insect, also called a scarab, uses the dung as both a

source of nourishment and a place for storing its eggs.

It will roll the ball in a straight line despite all

obstacles, and is the only insect on Earth known to

navigate by following the light of the Milky Way galaxy.

Biologists just made this discovery in 2013...

but 5,000 years ago, with presumably no knowledge of

its unique connection to the stars, the ancient

Egyptians held the scarab as a sacred symbol,

representing a link to the gods.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Interesting that a great civilization

could pay so much attention to a little bug, but

it appears constantly throughout Egyptian temples and hieroglyphics.

It's a very frequent image.

NARRATOR: At the Temple of Karnak, overlooking the Sacred

Lake where the pharaohs received their coronation,

a giant scarab beetle stands watch, representing the Egyptian

god Khepri.

KRITSKY: The Egyptians saw the Sun moving across the sky

during the day.

Also, around the desert sands, you'd see beetles moving balls of dung.

And so the Egyptians thought that the force that moved the

Sun across the sky was a giant scarab beetle god, Khepri.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: They believe that the Sun was what

is known as the eye of Ra, which was Ra's chariot or his

flying machine.

And the thing that moved it, they believed, was the scarab-

headed god, Khepri, and the scarab represented Khepri,

the pilot, if you like, of Ra's Sun ship or barge.

He was basically a pilot to the gods.

NARRATOR: But could there be another explanation for why the

Egyptians regarded Khepri as a pilot?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the representation

of Khepri as a scarab and sometimes as a human with

a scarab head... may have been inspired by actual contact the

Egyptians had with an otherworldly being.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder whether or not these

beings actually existed, because the ancient Egyptians

were incredibly proud in carving their history into countless of walls.

And according to the ancient astronaut theory, we all came

about through a deliberate mutation of our genes.

And so it is entirely possible, in my opinion, that some of

those creatures that we see depicted in reliefs and in

carvings might have actually exted in the past.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the ancient Egyptians could have

encountered alien beings that had an insect-like appearance?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and as further evidence, point to the fact that the

Egyptians' obsession with the scarab also extended to their

funeraryituals.

The Valley of the Kings, Egypt. November, 1922.

Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb

of King Tutankhamen. Among the treasure trove of

artifacts found inside is the young pharaoh's breastplate,

which features a scarab as the centerpiece.

The scarab is made of a yellow silica glass stone procured from

the Sahara, originally formed 28 million years ago when the sand

was superheated by a comet strike.

But why would the ancient Egyptians place a scarab...

and one sculpted from material produced by a cosmic event... at

the center of their pharaoh's funerary breastplate?

Curiously, scarabs always played an integral role in the

Egyptians' mummification process, often included during

the wrapping of the body.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: In between those wrappings, the Egyptians

put a number of charms, which served not just a preservation

function, but a magical function.

KRITSKY: There was a heart scarab, which was

placed on the body.

We also find other scarabs, sometimes knitted into the linen

of the deceased.

The scarab was thought to be critical for the resurrection,

because of its power and necessity for it to be present

when the Sun rose in the morning.

BARA: The idea was, is that the soul or even the

body of the person that had departed was carried by scarab

beetles along the path to the next life, to the next dimension.

It's almost as if the scarab beetle was some kind of device,

not an insect, but a device that actually allows travel

from one place to another.

WILLIAM HENRY: Where did the Egyptians get the idea

of resurrection and this idea that we could be reborn

as star beings?

It seems as if they were given this idea by Khepri.

NARRATOR: Could the inclusion of scarab-shaped objects in the

mummification process have been inspired by an actual encounter

with the scarab god Khepri? To some ancient astronaut

theorists, it's not just the presence of scarabs that

suggests the Egyptians made a connection between insects and

the afterlife... they say the mummification

process also mimics insect metamorphosis itself.

BARA: The similarities between mummification and the

cocooning process that a caterpillar goes through before

it becomes a moth are really quite incredible.

I think what the Egyptians were trying to do

is actually cocoon the human being so that when he emerged

into the next life at the next level up, he would be

transformed into something greater, more powerful, and

epically more beautiful.

DAVID WILCOCK: This does mimic, in nature, what we would

see with a pupa or a chrysalis, in which the caterpillar

actually creates a hard outer shell around itself,

and the material of the caterpillar's body actually

turns into a broth before it reconstitutes into what

ultimately emerges as a butterfly.

NARRATOR: While most people associate metamorphosis with a

caterpillar transforming into a butterfly...

beetles, like the scarab, undergo a complete

metamorphosis as well. The hatched larva inside the

ball of dung emerges fully developed and capable of flight.

To the ancient Egyptians, it seemed the sacred scarab had

miraculously regenerated inside its cocoon.

PHILLIPS: The actual scarab beetle in ancient Egyptian was

called something that means "he that comes from nowhere."

Which is basically what the name Khepri means.

"He comes from nowhere. He can make himself exist."

NARRATOR: Much like the scarab emerging from its cocoon,

the Egyptians believed a mummified body could rise from

its sarcophagus as a transformed being, and live once again.

MAGLIOCCO: Part of the soul was inexorably attached to the

body, so in order for that part of the soul to live on in the

afterlife, the body had to be preserved as closely as possible

to the way that it had existed in life.

KRITSKY: The idea of the Egyptian soul is so alien

from our own that it's-it's difficult to put parallels on.

For example, the Egyptians concept of the soul had five

parts... the Ba and the Ka are two in particular.

And part of their mythology was that the Ba must return to the

body, enter the body, so that the body can rise and live again.

DAVID CHILDRESS: It's possible that the mummification

process was some kind of replication of this process that

the extraterrestrials went through.

And even the possibility that the mummies themselves were

going into some kind of larval stage and suspended animation

where they would emerge eventually into some kind of new

body like the extraterrestrials did.

NARRATOR: While the scarab dominates Egyptian symbolism,

another beetle common to this part of the world, the buprestid

beetle, has a direct tie to the Egyptians most important god...Osiris.

KRITSKY: Buprestid beetles,

when bothered by a predator, actually tuck their legs up

and lie perfectly still. And the way they hold their

limbs is very similar to the way Osiris would be represented in

some tomb paintings. Well, it turns out the buprestid

beetle is found in the tamarisk wood, and that is the wood that

comes from a tree that was part of the Osiris legend.

Actually becomes the Djed pillar.

And when, uh, Isis split this pillar, she found Osiris inside,

and this beautiful beetle inside, and so it's quite

possible that this beetle may have a relationship to the

mummification process.

NARRATOR: But does the Ancient Egyptian worship of

a beetle really suggest an encounter with insect-like

extraterrestrials? Could they be mimicking

misunderstood technology? Or might there be

another explanation? Perhaps further clues can be

found in the numerous ancient stories of Ant People.

NARRATOR: Cambridge University, England. 2013.

Using a high-speed camera with intense magnification,

scientists from the department of zoology record the movement

of a plant-hopping insect called Issus.

Examining the footage, they make a shocking discovery.

The movement of the Issus is powered by mechanical gears.

It is the world's first evidence of mechanical gearing in a

biological structure. This natural cog mechanism

allows the Issus to make powerful jumps, with the gear

teeth on the opposing hind-legs locking together like those in

the gearbox of a car, ensuring almost complete synchronicity of

leg movement. But how did a biological entity

develop mechanisms that appear manmade?

KRITSKY: Insects are essentially evolution's

Tinkertoy set.

Insects were the first animal group to evolve the ability to

fly on their own power.

Insects have an exoskeleton, which is almost like a living armor.

NARRATOR: In terms of sheer numbers,

insects are by far the most dominant life-form on

Earth, and with over one million different species, they also

remain the most mysterious.

KRITSKY: Insects appeared on the Earth over 400 million years

before humans appeared on the Earth.

They were incredibly successful, well before the age of the

dinosaurs, and a long time before humans.

IAN RECCHIO: About half of the living creatures on the

planet belong to the group of insects.

They've really found ways to inhabit just about every

ecological niche in nature.

They have compound eyes, which, in some cases, they can see into

the, uh, ranges that humans cannot, like ultraviolent.

KRITSKY: They have a very sophisticated sensory system

that makes them different from what we can perceive.

For example, insects taste, smell, and feel with the hairs

on their body. When they land on you, they're

smelling you, they're tasting you, they're feeling you.

There are upwards of a million species of insects evolved

so far. So, we may think of ourselves as

being special, but in reality, insects are the most successful

animal group that's ever evolve

NARRATOR: In the more than 400 million years that insects

are believed to have existed, no bug has thrived more than the ant.

KRITSKY: Ants are among the

most successful animal groups that we see on the face

of the Earth. One out of every four individual

animals on the face of the Earth is an ant.

Ants are incredible insects. And they're highly evolved.

NARRATOR: In size and appearance, ants and humans

could not be more different. But interestingly, in many ways,

these tiny bugs are more like us than any other creature in the

animal kingdom.

KRITSKY: Ants have a social

system where they have a division of labor.

You have a reproductive queen. You have males that will mate

with the queen. You have sub-reproductives that

can leave the colony and start new colonies.

Then you've got a series of workers.

And then there sre acialized workers that are soldiers, that

can actually protect the colony if they're under attack.

So, they're rather, uh, intriguing with regard to their behavior.

NARRATOR: But how is it that

the behavior of ants mirrors that of humans in so many ways?

Is it simply coincidence? Or could ants and humans be more

closely related than we think?

Ancient Greece. In both Homer's Iliad and

Ovid's Metamorphoses, there is a group of warriors known as the

Myrmidon, who are born of mysterious origins.

According to the Ovid, King Aeacus of Aegina pleads with the

god Zeus to repopulate his plague-ravaged country.

That night, he dreams that ants fall from the branch of a tree

and turn into men. He awakes the next morning to

find his dream has come true.

YOUNG: The story of the Myrmidons is that they were ants

made into warriors.

They were said to have fought with Achilles at Troy and they

were very effective.

BARA: The descriptions of the ant people are very, very

accurate in terms of the behavior of the insect...

the ant itself.

They were very loyal, they moved together as one,

almost at a hive mentality.

KRITSKY: The Myrmidons were

thought to be the first to develop ships, and to sail under

their own power. This ability to be organized

like an army, comes from ants marching in a nice linear

fashion. The ea about being the first

to sail comes from the ant's ability to raft.

Ants will get on the surface tension of water and lock legs,

other ants will climb on top, and this little mound of ants

will float around on the surface of water.

In the case of the Myrmidons, these were fierce warriors.

They were well-trained, they were organized...

just like ants.

BARA: These descriptions are so vivid and so accurate

in terms of the ants' behavior that what Zeus seems to

have done is actually some sort of genetic crossbreeding

between humans and insects in order to create this army

of ant people. You're dealing with an extremely

advanced technology that really, really understands how to use

genetic manipulation to create new species.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Myrmidons depicted in the

ancient Greek stories were actually some type of ant-and-

human hybrid, manufactured by an alien being?

Ancient astronaut theorists claim further evidence that ants

may have a connection to extraterrestrials can be found

in stories throughout numerous cultures.

In the Muslim holy book, the Quran, there is a story of ants

speaking like humans. In parts of Africa, ants are

considered to be the messengers of the gods.

And Native American tribes, like the Hopi and Zuni, tell stories

of the Ant People who emerge from beneath the Earth.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: The ant people is a very interesting

subject when it comes to looking at the Hopi belief system.

Ant people, number one, are caretakers of the Earth.

NARRATOR: Unlike the Myrmidons of Greek mythology,

the Ant People of the Native American stories don't just

behave like ants, they resemble them as well.

DAVID: They have spindly arms, they have antennae.

They have elongated skulls.

These are clearly a merging of the human and the insect.

They are not simply a fable or a parable.

TSOUKALOS: If one explores the question of insectoid alien life...

then my question is why not?

Because if life is pervasive throughout the entire iverun

then that life comes in all shape, size, and color.

So, the idea that insectoid aliens might exist is very

possible to me.

However, I think the idea came from our ancestors witnessing

physical features that made them look like ants or could be best

described as ants.

WILCOCK: If we look at the face of an ant, we look

at the head of an ant, we see large, buggy eyes widely

spaced on the face, and a large head.

So this could be an illustration of people seeing beings like

what we now call the Greys, and associating it with something

that's familiar to them.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the Ant People that appear in

both Greek and Native American mythology were really

Grey aliens? Or might they even be

human-insect hybrids engineered by otherworldly beings?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the accounts of those who

claim to have been victims of alien abductions.

NARRATOR: The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.

The indigenous people of this area, called the San,

represent one of the oldest existing populations on Earth,

with a culture that dates back approximately 80,000 years.

According to the origin story of this ancient society, the first

humans were created not by traditional gods but by insects.

MAGLIOCCO: According to the San people, the origin

of humans lies with the praying mantis.

There once was a bee who was asked by a praying mantis to

carry him across a raging river. And the bee did so.

He carried the praying mantis across the river and deposited

him on a leaf. But before leaving, the

exhausted bee left an egg inside the praying mantis and that egg

is the source of all human beings.

NARRATOR: But where did the San people get the idea that

humans were created by a praying mantis?

Curiously, the San tradition also holds that a praying mantis

gave early humans the gifts of language and fire.

And one of their most important gods, Cagn,

the creator of the world, often took the form of a mantis.

YOUNG: The San people of South Africa had a

fascinating theology.

Their god was known as Cagn, and Cagn was a trickster god.

He could shape-shift and appear in a number of different forms...

but was very fond of appearing as a praying mantis.

BARA: Cagn had a lot struggles on the planet Earth.

There were many wars that were fought, and eventually he left

the Earth by means of going up into the sky.

CHILDRESS: Another interesting thing about Cagn

is that it's said that he created the Moon.

And the San people do their planting because of phases of the Moon.

So you've got to wonder: is this praying mantis extraterrestrial

god just some mythical figure, or is he really a representation

of some kind of real praying mantis insectoid alien that's

come to Earth?

NARRATOR: Could the prominence of the praying mantis

in San mythology suggest that their ancestors actually

encountered such beings in the distant past?

Although most anthropologists regard these stories as fables,

some ancient astronaut theorists find it curious that the praying

mantis is also a recurring image in reports of alien abduction.

Covina, California. 1963.

In this small farming town on the outskirts of Los Angeles,

17-year-old Linda Porter awakens to find herself aboard

a strange craft.

From what she is able to recall later, under hypnosis, a small

creature that appeared to be a Grey alien led her towards a

light-filled room where she encountered another type of

being... one much taller and with the features of

a praying mantis.

O'BRIEN: Very stand-alone, very odd case.

The fact that this occurred in 1963 is very intriguing, because

it's before the abduction phenomenon became popularized.

JASON MARTELL: There have depictions throughout various

abduction scenarios that include the Grey aliens and this

larger, tall insectesoid being, very praying mantis-like.

NARRATOR: Linda Porter claims that throughout her teens and

20s, she experienced numerous other encounters with

these alien beings... but it wasn't until

the age of 45 that she finally reached out to

investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe to tell her story.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I received a letter, carefully

written, from Linda Porter.

This led up to her sending me a whole lot of drawings.

NARRATOR: These drawings appear in Linda Moulton Howe's

book Glimpses of Other Realities.

HOWE: One of the drawings was of a praying mantis

about eight feet tall in a room that was very odd,

had a cylindrical object and sparkles of light.

O'BRIEN: There have been quite a number of different

types of aliens seen, allegedly, by contactees.

But the ones that are really peculiar, and very rare, are

these very scary, skinny, large, basically intelligent insects

CHRIS PITTMAN: People have drawn parallels between the

aliens that are reported onboard UFOs and insects, particularly bees.

The Greys, for instance, could be equated in some way to the

drone or the worker bee. The so-called praying mantis

type could be seen, perhaps, as the queen bee, larger than

the others, more intelligent. They're taller than a person...

eight or even nine feet tall. And the Grey aliens may handle

the person who's being abducted, but in the background, there's

this praying mantis type that seems toe calling the shots.

NARRATOR: According to Porter, she is part of a larger

experiment... one in which these aliens appear concerned with her soul.

HOWE: She said whatever we

humans are, we have an animus, a soul, that is mysterious to

them, and they are trying to find out where does the soul,

spirit, go at the moment of death, and that the non-humans

were studying the recycling of the soulin and out of

containers.

NICK REDFERN: She talked about being shown three cylinders.

Contained in each cylinder was a human being in kind of like a

state of suspended animation.

NARRATOR: Numerous alleged alien abduction victims have

reported seeing these cocoon-like containers, but if

these accounts are real, might there be another explanation

behind this technology? Could it be, as some ancient

astronaut theorists contend, that aliens are performing

genetic experimentation?

HOWE: Linda Porter came away from her two or three decades

of interaction with these non-humans, including the at

first terrifying praying mantis, that these are extraterrestrial

biological entities that have taken a deep interest in the

evolution of life-forms here, that they have manipulated DNA

in already evolving primates, that they have created a whole

series of different models.

NARRATOR: Might the numerous accounts of mantis-like beings

reported by alleged alien abduction victims, along with

the ancient San story of a praying mantis god, be evidence

that an otherworldly race of insectoids really does exist?

And, if so, could they be conducting genetic experiments

with humans to make us more like them?

Ancient astronaut theorists say further clues revealing the

connection between insects and aliens can be found...

in the Holy Bible.

NARRATO Pi-Ramesses, Egypt. The 15th century BC.

Most archaeologists believe this ancient city to be the site of

the ten plagues as described in the Bible's Book of Exodus.

According to the scripture, God brought these plagues upon Egypt

when the pharaoh refused to release the Israelites from

slavery. Three of them involved insects.

The third was a plague of gnats, which came up from the ground

and infested both man and animal.

The fourth was flies that attacked only the Egyptians,

sparing the Israelites. And the eighth was a plague of

KRITSKY: Locusts are grasshoppers that have had an

unusual change in their biology and behavior.

They will start to move in the same direction.

They will land, eat. Other locusts flying over them

will land and eat and so on and so on, wiping out all the

vegetation in a given area and destroying all the crops that

people might have planted. And for every one million

locusts, they can eat a ton of food.

NARRATOR: But an even more incredible story of locusts can

be found in the Bible's New Testament Book of Revelation.

Rising from deep pits within the Earth, these locusts form waves

of scorpion-tailed warhorses, protected by iron breastplates.

And unlike the locusts from the Book of Exodus, the target isn't

BARA: The locusts themselves actually didn't eat any crops,

they didn't clear any fields. They only attacked people, and

they only ate up and devoured and damaged people.

It's almost as if the locusts themselves were programmed.

MARTELL: The locusts that appear out of the smoke have

some type of ability to sting people with a scorpion-like sting.

Now, locusts are known not to have any type of way of harming

people, so these locusts were special in origin.

HENRY: These locusts only sought out humans who did not

have the seal of God on their foreheads.

And it makes you wonder if these locusts are in fact some kind of

an advanced extraterrestrial technology that was sent to seek

specific human beings.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that what is described in the Book of

Revelation is not the plant-eating locust we have

today but some type of advanced weaponry wielded ban

extraterrestrial being?

BARA: Now, if an extraterrestrial was fighting a war, a weapon that you could

use would be mechanical devices that basically were like little

nanotechnology that would attack certain very specific targets.

There are, in fact, such weapons in use today.

NARRATOR: DARPA headquarters, Arlington, Virginia.

This is the military's visionary toy shop, where the blueprints

for the weaponry of tomorrow are drawn.

Here stealth technology and GPS were conceived.

Now, according to sources, a new arms race is underway, one

focused not on the biggest weapons but the smallest.

RICHARD DOLAN: Insects are one of the most amazingly

designed creatures that exist on planet Earth.

I mean, they're extraordinary.

It's no surprise that the United States military is interested in

insects. It's absolutely logical.

MARTELL: Why not send a small insect or a crawling beetle into

a war zone, into a place to gather intelligence?

That's exactly what we see happening now.

NARRATOR: At DARPA, scientists have been

experimenting with electronically modifying beetles

so they can actually manipulate their flight.

Threading thin wires into the base of the beetles' optic

lobes, they can control the region of the brain at makes

the beetles start and stop flying.

With another pair of wires in the wing muscles, they can also

make the beetle veer to the right to the left by remote

control. And scientists working with

nanotechnology are not only looking for ways to control

insects but to actually recreate them.

Thomas Vaneck at Physical Sciences, Incorporated, is

currently developing flying robots based on insects.

THOMAS VANECK: Instant Eye is a very small aerial robot about

the size of a pie plate. It's relatively simple and yet

Just about any insect you can imagine is being studied by somebody.

NARRATOR: Hornets. Dragonflies.

Mosquitoes. All are said to be potential

models for the next generation of biomimetic weapons... robots

that could one day be indistinguishable from actual insects.

VANECK: Right now, probably

the smallest insect-inspired robot that we can make is about

the size of a hummingbird, from the technologies that are

available to us today. The driving force there is

energy storage, because we just don't have a battery that stores

enough energy. We're going to figure it out.

I can easily envision that you're going to have a robot the

O'BRIEN: And if it landed on the wall in some terrorist's

house, he probably wouldn't know.

And we're able to fit so much into such a small space now.

Keep the weight down, we can give it wings, and the average

person would just try to swat it away.

VANECK: In the not-too-distant future, you're going to

sit there, and go, "Wow, what a" beautiful insect."

Maybe it's not an insect at all.

(drone buzzing)

NARRATOR: But if we can produce insect drones today, is

it possible that the biblical stories of locusts sent by God

are really accounts of alien technology in the ancient past?

And could this be the reason why insects are feared by humans,

even to this day?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe such an incredible

notion is possible, and for proof, point to a mysterious

area in Nevada simply known as Area 51.

NARRATOR: Kingman, Arizona. May, 1953.

At the height of the Cold War, an unidentified object

reportedly crashed in the desert sands.

What remained was allegedly sent to America's most top-secret

facility... Area 51.

But it wasn't until 45 years later, in 1998, that a retired

military engineer named Bill Uhouse came forward to make a

stunning claim. The military didn't just have

the extraterrestrial technology. They had an actual living alien.

CHILDRESS: Uhouse claimed that he worked in a secret

laboratory, supposedly in the Papoose Mountains of Area 51

in Nevada, and that since 1953, the American government had an

insectoid alien that was working with them.

His name was J-Rod.

REDFERN: J-Rod supposedly assisted the military in

understanding and duplicating the incredible power systems and

futuristic technology that was combined and created for the

Kingman craft.

> NARRATOR: Shortly after Bill Uhouse broke the story,

microbiologist Dan Burisch came forward to confirm his claim.

But according to Dan Burisch, J-Rod claimed that he was not an alien.

What he revealed was something even more shocking.

CHILDRESS: This insectoid alien J-Rod said that he had

actually come from our future, and that, at some time in the

near future, to us, there is a catastrophe on this planet...

and much of mankind is destroyed...

and that mankind splits into two different species.

And one of these species goes and lives underground, and while

underground, they develop these insectoid traits...

which is exactly what the Hopi and Zuni and even Navajo legends

say... that, during the transition period between

the third and the fourth worlds, this above world

of today was not habitable, and they had to go underground and

live for some time with what they call the Ant People.

And you have to wonder if perhaps J-Rod is actually an

insectoid human being from our own future.

NARRATOR: Could the accounts of J-Rod confirm that the Hopi

stories of Ant People were more than just mythology?

And if the so-called insectoids really do exist, is it possible

that they are not aliens, but humans from the future?

MARTELL: Aliens appear to be a part of our human evolution

over thousands of years.

A lot of it has to do with our reproductive systems.

Maybe they're actually trying to create a new race, possibly that

will be able to withstand atmospheric changes here on

Earth, or potentially lead us to a point where we have to leave the planet.

NARRATOR: But if humans are someday forced underground by a

cataclysmic event, does it even make scientific sense that we

would evolve to have insect-like characteristics?

According to some scientists, we are part insect already.

KRITSKY: The work on the human genome has indicated that

possibly up to half of our DNA may be the result of

transposons.

That's a fancy word for jumping genes... genes that can jump from

one species to another.

Recently, it was shown that rhodnius... this is the sucking

insect that spreads Chagas disease... not only can spread

the trypanosome, the disease-causing agent, from

organism to organism, it also can spread its own genes

to those organisms.

Humans get Chagas disease.

So far, they have not tested humans for this insect DNA.

Odds are, we do have some of these insect genes in our system.

We know some of these transposon probably came from diseases

caught when our ancestors were bitten by insects.

NARRATOR: Could the studies on Horizontal Gene Transfer one

day prove that we really do have insect DNA in our genetic makeup?

And if so, might it be not by chance, but by some

extraterrestrial design?

WILCOCK: Is it possible that evolution is being guided by

some sort of greater galactic or universal intelligence?

Could it be possible that, in certain circumstances, insects

could be the dominant species that ultimately becomes sentient

and develops hominid characteristics?

The contactee reports are consistent.

Some people are seeing beings like this, communicating with

them intelligently, and for benevolent purpose.

CHILDRESS: The whole idea of mixing these life-forms together

is fascinating, making hybrids of the two of them.

Throughout history, people have honored and even worshipped

insects, built temples to them. It's quite possible that there

is an insectoid type life on other planets that actually have

intelligence that's beyond our own.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that there really is a connection

between insects and aliens? Are they related to beings from

beyond our world, as some ancient astronaut theorists

suggest? And if so, might they have a

secret purpose we have yet to discover?

Perhaps, one day, we'll find that alien beings don't only

inhabit the furthest reaches of space.

But there are in fact billions here on earth.

And most of them right under our feet.

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