All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S07E07 Aliens And Insects

NARRATOR: Legends of ant men...

MAN: They have antennae.
They have elongated skulls.

NARRATOR: Beetles buried
with Egyptian mummies...

SECOND MAN: The scarab was
critical for the resurrection.

NARRATOR: And swarms
of locusts targeting humans.

THIRD MAN: It's almost as if
the locusts themselves

were programmed.

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?

FOURTH MAN: 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?

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.

MAN: 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.

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.

And 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.

MAN: 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 existed
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 funerary rituals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

MAN: 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.

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
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.

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 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 lssus.

Examining the footage,
they make a shocking discovery.

The movement of the lssus
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 lssus 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.

MAN: 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 ranges that humans cannot,

like ultraviolet.

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 evolved.

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 4 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 are specialized
workers that are soldiers

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

So they're rather 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 "Illiad"
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 in 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 the ants marching
in a nice linear fashion.

The idea 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.

MAN: 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.

MAN: 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 universe,

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 of
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: A 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.

MAN: There have been depictions

throughout various
abduction scenarios that include

the Grey aliens and this
larger, tall insectoid 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.

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
that have been reported.

People have drawn
parallels between the aliens

that are reported on board 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
8 or even 9 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
to be 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 souls
in and out of containers.

MAN: She talked
about being shown 3 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 2 or 3 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.

NARRATOR: Pi-Ramesses, Egypt,
the 15th century, BC.

Most archaeologists believe
this ancient city to be the site

of the 10 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.

[insects buzzing]

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
locusts.

KRITSKY: Locusts
are grasshoppers that have had

an unusual change
in their biology and behavior.

They 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 the crops.

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
by an 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.

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.

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

that 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

or 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.

MAN: Instant Eye
is a very small aerial robot

about the size of a pie plate.

It's relatively simple,
yet it can do amazing things.

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 size of a fruit fly.

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.

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...

[camera shutter clicks]

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.

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 2 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 called 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 transposons probably came

from diseases we 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

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 that there are,
in fact, billions here on Earth

and most of them
right under our feet.