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NARRATOR: Japan is a land rich
with ancient mysteries.

WILLIAM HENRY: In Japanese
history there's been hundreds

of sightings
of mysterious lights

that fly in the air and
then also enter into the oceans.

DAVID CHILDRESS: We have these
underwater cities there

that have strange
energy associated with them.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
You have these statues that look

eerily similar
to modern-day astronauts.

NARRATOR: And recently,
Japan has also become known

as a hot spot for
unidentified aerial phenomena.

The Japanese government actually

issued a policy
to shoot down UFOs.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the entire
history of this island nation

has been directed by
extraterrestrial visitors?

Ancient aliens brought Japan
into the modern world.

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NARRATOR:
At 2:46 p.m.,
the region is rocked

by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake--

the most powerful
to ever hit the island nation.

A little over 30 minutes later

a tsunami with 130-foot-tall
waves smashes into the area.

Among the hardest hit
locations is the nearby

Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant.

The power was cut out.

The cooling system went down,
and just this enormous

amount of radiation
went into the atmosphere.

NARRATOR:
Authorities evacuate the region
and order a small team to stay

behind to prevent a larger
catastrophe from occurring.

But days later,

videos posted on social media

show these workers

were not alone.

TSOUKALOS: The video
that we have of Fukushima,

you see these bright
golden orbs,

many of them flying
in formation.

And of course,
with all these orbs that we see,

we know it's
something technological.

NARRATOR: Curiously,
almost exactly ten years later,

on February 13, 2021,

the region is rocked
by another powerful earthquake.

Over the next two months,

mysterious yellow orbs
are observed

hovering above the Fukushima
nuclear power plant.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
Recently, Japanese people

have reported seeing UAPs
in the region

near the Fukushima
reactor meltdown.

It radiated
a major part of Japan,

but for some reason
people are seeing

UFO activity in the area.

NARRATOR:
What are the mysterious lights

that have been seen flying

over the Fukushima Daiichi
Nuclear Power Plant?

It's a question that prompted

the Japanese government
to take action.

On May 28, 2024,
the Japanese parliament

announced the formation
of an investigation

unprecedented in modern Japan.

In 2024 the Japanese government
issued a mandate for

a bipartisan 80-member panel

to investigate
the UAP situation.

Now, why did they do that?

I think mainly,
the Japanese people were

getting concerned
with the things flying over

their infrastructure and
wanted to take precautions.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated):
I have been deeply involved

and I participated in the first

general meeting
and the second one as well.

I believe that the government
is taking the UAP issue

more seriously
from the viewpoint

of national defense
or national security.

NARRATOR: Government officials
have refrained

from commenting on
the events at Fukushima

and other UAP sightings
in Japan.

But Defense Minister
Yasukazu Hamada

recently issued
radical new protocols

for Japan's Air Self-Defense
Force in the event

of encountering UFOs in highly
restricted areas like Fukushima.

The Japanese government actually

issued a policy, a guideline,
to actually shoot down

UAPs if they don't
leave the areas

over sensitive infrastructure
like a nuclear reactor facility.

So this shows
that the government of Japan,

and the military of Japan,

take UFOs and UAPs
very seriously.

And that this is something
that, you know,

they are
intensely interested in.

NARRATOR: But while
the Japanese government

has only recently begun

its first official
UFO investigation,

the people of Japan

have shown a strong interest

in unidentified
flying objects for decades.

Aviation journalist
Yusuke Matsumura

is leaving his house
early in the morning

when he spots a metallic disc
hovering in the sky.

Fortunately,
Matsumura is carrying a camera,

and takes the first ever
photograph of a UFO in Japan.

Inspired by his sighting,
Matsumura created a group called

the Cosmic Brotherhood.

When the UFO craze
really began in the 1950s,

in Japan it was quite sedated.

Reports were filed
and basically forgotten

as something a bit strange--
there was a weather balloon

in the vicinity at that time,

maybe it was a Korean spy plane.

There was one exception,
which was

the Cosmic
Brotherhood Association.

And that was
founded by Yusuke Matsumura.

And he said, "No, no, no.
All these UFOs are alien craft."

In '64, the Cosmic Brotherhood
Association started to build

an altar in Biratori
in Hokkaido,

which is an absolutely massive
thing as their place of contact.

NARRATOR: The Cosmic Brotherhood
built this altar as a place

to communicate
with extraterrestrials,

and they selected the mountain

because it was believed
to be the landing spot of a god

who traveled to Japan
thousands of years ago.

They chose Biratori because
that was where the god Okikurumi

had either come down to Earth
or left Earth again.

Which sounds like
an ancient people

trying to describe
a first contact.

So it seemed like,
you know, a good spot.

HENRY: The Cosmic
Brotherhood organization

emerged in Japan
with a fascinating theory.

They maintained
that the very spot where

Okikurumi is believed to
have landed was considered to be

a meeting place to meet
extraterrestrial visitors.

NARRATOR: 15 years
after the Cosmic Brotherhood

was formed,
Japan was electrified by

a series of extraordinary
incidents that, to this day,

remain the country's
most famous UFO events.

13-year-old junior high
student Michio Seo

observes a very small
and peculiar object flying

above a rice field,
zigzagging back and forth.

Later that night, he and several
friends find the object again,

only now it's emitting
a pulsating silver light.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated):
It's about this big, just about.

A small object
shaped like a doorknob.

And this thing was flying.

Finally,
it fell into a rice paddy.

So they caught it
and then they went home

and the people at home saw it.

NARRATOR: The boys reported
that the mysterious

silver object was less than

eight inches in diameter
and weighed only three pounds.

The bottom surface was
perforated with an array

of tiny holes and
imprinted with curious designs.

But before
it could be further examined,

the object disappeared again.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated):
There was more than one witness.

A number of junior high school
students saw the incident,

and it definitely happened.

NARRATOR:
Another sensational incident

involving schoolchildren

occurred in Japan
just three years later,

and this time it included

a face-to-face encounter
with an alien entity.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated):
In this incident,

a UFO landed and an alien
appeared from inside.

Two elementary school children
encountered the alien,

and one of them was tapped
on the shoulder by the alien.

Later, when a scientist analyzed
the soil where it landed,

they found a radioactive
substance, phosphorus-32,

which cannot be found in nature.

The fact
that phosphorus-32 was produced

is evidence that there was
an object that emits radiation.

So, there was
definitely an incident.

NARRATOR:
While reports of UFO sightings
throughout the 20th century

received little attention
from the Japanese government,

recent encounters with
unidentified aerial phenomena

have sparked a call to action.

And Japan
is now at the forefront

of investigating UFO activity.

But why does Japan
seem to be experiencing such

an increase
in unusual sightings?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining ancient figurines

that are believed to
depict otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR:
American archaeologist
Edward Sylvester Morse

is excavating
an ancient shell mound

when he unearths
unique cord-marked pottery.

The artifacts are among
the oldest ever discovered

in Japan and
Morse uses the term "Jomon,"

meaning "cord-marked"
to identify the mysterious

ancient culture that made them.

The Jomon are one of
the main Indigenous peoples

of Japan, historically.

They dominated the archipelago

from about 15,000 BCE
to 300 BCE.

And not much
is known about them.

It's a fairly mysterious
or poorly understood culture.

What we know
about Jomon culture is

restricted to material culture.

It's the stuff
that we dig up from the ground.

The striking thing
about the Jomon people

and Jomon culture
is that it is unusually

advanced for
what we would expect

for a hunter-gatherer group.

Jomon pottery is
very elaborate and the idea

that a "hunter-gatherer"
group of people

would even develop pottery

is itself-- kind of flies
in the face of

traditional
anthropological distinctions

between hunter-gatherer
and agriculturalist people.

NARRATOR: The Jomon's
most mysterious artifacts

are small statues depicting
strange-looking figures

that are referred to
as the Dogu.

The Dogu statues are
one of the smoking guns

of the ancient astronaut theory.

You have these statues that look
like some type of beings inside

of a pressurized suit
completely hermetically sealed.

You have these helmet-type
enclosures on top of their heads

with giant goggle eyes.

And an engineer by the name
of Vaughn Greene

wrote a book and proposed

that what we're looking at here
is a modern-type space suit.

He compared
and contrasted modern-day

space and diving suits
with these Dogu statues.

And for 30 points
they matched exactly.

And what's so interesting too
is that the correlation

between the Dogu figures
and their mythology is

that these beings
descended from the sky.

NARRATOR: Although the Jomon
people left no written records,

it is believed
that they developed Shinto,

Japan's Indigenous religion.

Shinto beliefs
hold that thousands of gods

descended on Japan from the sky.

STEAVU: The Shinto religion
is the only Indigenous

Japanese religious tradition.

Shinto translates as
"the way of the gods"

or "the way of the Kami,"

the Kami being these
divine beings or gods.

Kami in the Japanese
native religion of Shinto

can take on a variety of forms.

This included
the heavenly Kami who are

the ones who live in heaven,

and earthly Kami who live
in the Japanese archipelago.

STEAVU: These heavenly
Kamis intermingled and

procreated with the earthly ones

and eventually this formed
the human race as well.

So, from the moment
in which humans appear,

this is a different era
in this Shinto cosmology,

which is known
as the era of humans.

And this is when we have
a kind of hybrid race,

a mixture of human
and divine Kami stock.

The idea that a divine race
is breeding with humans

is fundamentally
the basis of Japanese religion.

It's the basis of Shinto.

NARRATOR: According
to the Shinto tradition,

before the establishment
of the Japanese emperor,

the island nation
was ruled by gods.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS:
The first emperor was thought
to have reigned around 700 BC.

The period before that
was known in Japanese mythology

as the Age of the Gods.

The reason
is because it was said

that the gods walked
amongst humans,

which is very similar to
the ancient Egyptian mythology

where the Pyramid Texts

describe the early period of

Egyptian history as
the golden age of the gods.

NARRATOR: As told in the ancient
Japanese texts, the Kojiki,

a man named Jimmu, a divine
descendant of the Sun goddess

Amaterasu is chosen by the gods
to be Japan's first emperor.

But in order to take the throne,

Jimmu must journey from
the southern island of Kyushu

to the Yamato Province,

roughly 500 miles
to the northeast,

navigating mountainous terrain

and battling warlords
along the way.

What's so fascinating
about the ascent of Jimmu

to the throne
around 600 BC is the fact

that this is, in my opinion,
one of those legends

that perfectly fits into
the ancient astronaut theory

because it involves
misunderstood technology

and a celestial visitor.

It is said
that Jimmu was guided by

a three-legged crow
called Yatagarasu.

And this so-called crow

was given to Jimmu
by Amaterasu--

the first goddess
that descended from the sky.

PHILLIPS:
The stories are that this

three-legged crow was huge

and it was surrounded
by a white globe of light.

(crow cawing)

TSOUKALOS:
The ancient astronaut theory

tries to understand

what it is
our ancestors tried to

explain to us because
one thing is crystal clear:

There is no three-legged crow,
so the question then is,

well, why,
how did that come about?

This to me sounds
like some type of an aerial

drone technology with which
to survey the ground

that our ancestors witnessed

without knowing
anything about technology.

NARRATOR:
Does the story of Jimmu reveal

extraterrestrial
intervention in ancient Japan?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining mysterious
relics of immense power

that the imperial family

has hidden from
the public for centuries.

NARRATOR: Japan celebrates
the ascension of its new emperor

Naruhito,
who takes the throne at age 59.

He is the latest emperor
in the longest running

royal family on earth.

Japan's imperial family known
as the Chrysanthemum Throne

dates back an incredible
2,700 years.

Most dynasties, if they
last several hundred years,

that's a good run.

Monarchies do not last
2,700 years,

so it's extraordinary

that Japan's imperial family
has lasted this long.

NARRATOR:
The elaborate ceremony involved
a series of sacred rituals,

but the most important
of these events

is also the most mysterious.

In the state room of
the Imperial Palace,

the new emperor was presented

with several boxes
that are filled

with treasures so secret,

they've never
been seen in public.

They contain
Japan's imperial regalia.

STEAVU: The imperial regalia are
a set of three divine treasures.

The first one is a sacred sword.

The second is a sacred mirror,
or divine mirror.

And the third is a curved jewel,
which is also divine in nature.

TSOUKALOS: They're being kept
under lock and key because

not only are they sacred,
but some people have proposed

that they are
of otherworldly origin.

And it's accepted as fact.

HENRY:
These sacred items

are the ultimate treasures
of Japan.

In fact,
at the end of World War II,

Emperor Hirohito was
deathly afraid that should

Japan be invaded,
these sacred treasures

could ultimately be possessed by

the United States Army
or some other invading power.

And this was said to be one of
the reasons why he surrendered

to General MacArthur, was to
actually protect these relics.

NARRATOR: According to legend,
the imperial regalia

are gifts from
the Sun goddess Amaterasu

that were passed down
to Japan's first emperor, Jimmu,

who was her direct descendant.

Legend has it that each
of the three objects

possess supernatural powers.

The most mysterious
is the curved jewel.

The jewel
is a big question mark.

We don't really see it referred
to in-in other myths.

It's not clear what
its purpose or provenance is.

CHILDRESS: These three objects
are held in boxes.

And ancient records in Japan
say that there was an emperor

who decided to open one of these
boxes with the jewel in it.

And that a white smoke
started coming out of it.

And so he ordered it
closed again.

So you just have to wonder,
what's in this box?

Could it be some
extraterrestrial device

that has an energy
coming out of it?

NARRATOR: While very little
is known about the jewel,

much more has been written
about the mirror,

which is said to provide
a direct connection

to otherworldly beings.

Amaterasu's mirror was
supposedly given to the daughter

of the 11th emperor of Japan,
Yamato Hime.

And she wandered Japan
for 20 years looking

for the right place to

build the shrine that
the mirror would be held in.

MATSUURA: She came to a spot
in what is now Mie Prefecture.

And there was some kind of

communication
through the mirror where,

this is where the Amaterasu

wanted her shrine to be built.

And it was built.

To this day it's still there,

the Grand Shrine of Ise.

NARRATOR: In addition to
communicating with Amaterasu,

the mirror could also
be used to see what was

happening worldwide
in real time.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated): I think this
is probably a tablet.

Using something like FaceTime
communicating with the gods.

But it only works for people
who have been chosen to use it.

(speaking Japanese)

NARRATOR: Could it be
that Amaterasu's mirror

was an extraterrestrial device

similar to what
we know today as a tablet?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further evidence
that the imperial regalia

contains advanced alien
technology can be found by

examining the third object,
the sacred sword.

STEAVU: Yamato Takeru,
the 12th emperor of Japan,

famously discovered that
the sword had a magical power.

He was trapped by
a treacherous warlord,

who intended to
eliminate him by burning him

alive in a field of grass.

And when Yamato Takeru started
hacking away at the grass to

remove the fuel from the fire,
he noticed that the swings

of his swords were
actually producing wind

and pushing the flames
in the opposite direction.

So he used this
magical power that he discovered

to actually fan
the flames in the direction

of the warlord and
his troops and burn them.

The last time this sword
was viewed publicly

was in the 1600s.

A priest named Masanou
had gathered some other priests

and they went to the shrine
where the sword was located,

intent on doing repairs.

STEAVU:
They happen to open the box
in which the sword is contained

in order to better
clean it and maintain it.

And he describes this sword
as being made

of a very brilliant white metal,

almost supernatural
type of metal.

And it didn't
show any signs of age,

or rust, or any decay on it.

Everybody around the sword

developed some kind of
affliction and died soon after

opening it
and then looking at it.

But one priest survived
to report what happened.

TSOUKALOS:
This is interesting to me,
because there is a connection

between celestial objects
and people dying.

For example, the Ark of
the Covenant comes to mind.

Whoever did not know
how to operate the Ark died

of unknown conditions

and the unknown conditions are

boils on the skin, the falling
out of fingernails and hair.

Well, what unknown disease
is that?

It's radioactive fallout.

That's the only way
that this really can happen.

So, is it possible
that there are potentially

radioactive extraterrestrial
artifacts here on Earth?

The answer is a resounding yes.

NARRATOR: Could the closely
guarded ancient relics

that have been hidden
from the public

for thousands of years
be extraterrestrial in origin?

And if so, have they been
used over the centuries

to keep the Japanese
royal family in power?

The true nature
of the imperial regalia

may only ever be known
to the emperor,

but ancient astronaut theorists
suggest other artifacts

that point to Japan's
extraterrestrial past

are hiding in plain sight.

NARRATOR: One of the greatest
mysteries of the ancient world

is why enormous stone structures

appear on
nearly every continent.

And at one time,
megalithic monuments

could be found
throughout the islands of Japan.

Not many people know this,
but ancient Japan was strewn

with megaliths and henges.

The ancient peoples of Japan
had these stone monuments

all over the place.

During the samurai era,
which was war all the time,

most of them were ripped up
and used to make castle walls

and castle foundations.

Some survived
because they're so weird.

NARRATOR:
Perhaps the most curious,

and awe-inspiring,
of Japan's megaliths

is Ishi-no-Hoden,

a giant stone monument near
Osaka carved out of the bedrock

and believed
to date back 16,000 years.

The Ishi-no-Hoden megalith is

sometimes called
the heavenly floating rock.

It's huge,
probably around 500 tons.

It's about a 20-foot
square cube that has been

built in such a strange way
that underneath it,

there's a base that
holds it up above the ground,

so it appears for all the world
to be hovering in the air.

It is said to commemorate

a god that once
came to Earth in a huge

cubic-shaped object and
landed somewhere in that area.

TSOUKALOS: In Japanese
mythologies and legends,

it says that long ago

physical gods
were amongst our ancestors

that had the capability
of flying or of flight.

So, the fact that they used
this water mirror underneath

this stone to show as if
it is hovering and floating

in the air, to me,
is to signify flight.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, Ishi-no-Hoden is
not the only Japanese megalith

that appears to document

an ancient
extraterrestrial visitation.

STEAVU:
The Masuda-no-Iwafune,
which translates to

"the stone ship of Masuda,"

is another megalithic structure.

This is an even larger
granite megalith

30 feet across
and about 20 feet in width

and 15 or so in height that has
a central depression or trough.

PHILLIPS:
This monolith is said
to have marked the Earth side

of a so-called floating bridge

that connected Earth
to the heavens.

Now, what is a floating bridge?

It's described as something
that the gods descend in.

STEAVU:
There is a story
in Shinto annals

about the bridge that unites

the earthly realm
with the heavenly realm

collapsing and
falling onto the Earth.

So, these megaliths,
according to some,

are the remnants or
the building blocks of this

celestial bridge
that has since collapsed.

This floating bridge
sounds exactly like the bridge

Bifrost of the Nordic tradition
upon which the gods would come

and go from the Earth into
the heavenly realms, or Asgard.

This suggests
that the same people

are descending to
these various cultures.

NARRATOR:
Might the Ishi-no-Hoden

and Masuda-no-Iwafune megaliths

have an extraterrestrial
connection?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest
the most intriguing of Japan's

megalithic structures
can be found

beneath the sea.

On the western tip of
the Japanese archipelago

lies the tiny island
of Yonaguni.

In 1986, scuba divers exploring

just off the coast
make a shocking discovery.

60 feet
beneath the ocean surface,

they find a massive rectangular
structure roughly 328 feet long

and 196 feet wide.

It has since become
known as the Yonaguni Monument.

PHILLIPS:
The Yonaguni Monument is huge,

and it looks for all the world
like an artificial construction.

There are steps.

There are
what appear to be columns

and all sorts
of geometric formations

that seem to have been
artificial constructions.

Professor Masaki Kimura
spent ten years

examining the structure
with divers

and the most sophisticated
equipment at the time,

and he was
convinced beyond any doubt

that it was
an artificial formation.

TSOUKALOS:
Yonaguni boggles the mind

because at some point that was
a land bridge that existed

when the water levels
were lower and that means

we're talking around
the last ice age,

which was 10,000 or so BC.

Now, that means that back then

a culture must have existed

to carve Yonaguni
the way it appears today.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut
theorists, the possibility

that the Japanese were building

sophisticated
megalithic monuments

as much as 12,000 years ago

is highly significant

because in numerous
cultures around the world,

there are ancient stories
about advanced civilizations

that inhabited the Earth
right around that time.

If the Yonaguni monument
is as old as we think it is,

then this aligns this
Japanese site with other sites

in the Pacific,
most notably Lemuria and Mu,

which are thought to
be pre-flood civilizations

that had achieved an advanced
state of civilization

but were destroyed by cataclysm.

NARRATOR:
Could Yonaguni have been part
of an advanced, prehistoric

civilization that was submerged
at the end of the last ice age?

And did some of the survivors
populate Japan?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by looking at the ocean region
where Yonaguni lies,

which is a hot spot
of mysterious activity called

the Dragon's Triangle.

NARRATOR: The Japanese
freighter Kaiyo Maru

is en route
to California when suddenly,

the ship's instruments begin
to fluctuate wildly.

Just after 8:30 p.m.,
the crew watches in astonishment

as a huge
elliptical-shaped object

suddenly appears on their radar.

The mysterious craft,

which is larger
than a supertanker,

circles them for
several minutes,

before it makes a sharp turn
and heads straight for them.

(speaking Japanese)

(translated): A large object
on radar approached the ship

and passed overhead
when they thought

it was going to hit them.

This was reported
in newspapers at the time,

especially in a scientific
magazine called Nikkei Science,

so it is known as
a very famous incident.

NARRATOR: This is just one of
thousands of encounters reported

in a part of the Pacific Ocean

that stretches
south of Japan down to Guam

and the area
of the Yonaguni Monument.

It is known as
"the Dragon's Triangle."

1,500 vessels have disappeared

in the Dragon's Triangle.

Planes have disappeared
in the triangle.

What happened?
But more important, why?

Beginning in 1950, the Japanese
government was so concerned

about this area

that they sent
a research ship out

and it too vanished with 22 crew
and nine scientists aboard.

TSOUKALOS: Is it possible
that some ships have disappeared

because of calamities
and, you know, accidents?

Sure.

But is it also possible

that perhaps some of
these boats disappeared

due to extraterrestrial
interference?

The answer to that is
a resounding yes as well,

because there are stories
of other ships witnessing

things happening with lights

and objects hovering over
the ocean and things like that.

NARRATOR: Disappearances
and strange sightings

have not only been reported
in this area in modern times

but going back centuries.

HENRY: Adding to the intrigue
of the Devil's Triangle

is the fact that in
Japanese history there's been

hundreds of sightings
of mysterious lights

that reach out
from within the sea

and absorb or sink these ships.

Today we think
of these as submersibles

or transmedium craft
that have the ability to

fly in the air and then
also enter into the ocean.

CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder if there's
some underwater UFO base.

And there's some hyperspace
portal going on, or vortex.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that hidden
beneath the Pacific Ocean,

somewhere
within the Dragon's Triangle,

there is
an extraterrestrial base?

Curiously,
there have also been reports

of sea monsters in this area
dating back centuries.

And the Dragon's Triangle
was the location

of Japan's most famous
historical UFO encounter,

known as
the Utsuro Bune sighting.

CLEMENTS:
There's a really odd story
from 1803 in Hitachi

where a woman washes up
on shore on the beach

in a very strangely shaped boat.

And when she comes
out of the boat,

she has white or pink skin.

She has red hair
with white tips,

and she doesn't speak Japanese.

And during this time, Japan
is closed to the outside world,

and it's a capital offense
to interact with foreigners.

So the people on the shore

were absolutely terrified
of this woman.

They didn't know what to do.

They put her back in the boat
and they pushed it out again.

And they reported it
to the local lord,

and they referred to her ship
as the "utsoro bune,"

"the hollow ship."

There are at least 11 different

people who came forward
and documented it.

They drew pictures of it.

There's paintings of what

the ship looks like
and what happened.

HENRY: Her craft looks
exactly like a flying saucer,

a contemporary flying saucer.

But this is in 1803,
suggesting that this is one

of the most extraordinary
UFO sightings, perhaps not only

in Japanese history
but in all human history.

NARRATOR:
Does the Dragon's Triangle
provide compelling evidence

that an alien presence
has existed on Earth

in this area of Japan
for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further evidence
can be found

by examining a sensational
event that happened

in Tokyo Bay,
involving the U.S. military.

NARRATOR:
U.S. Naval officer,
Commodore Matthew C. Perry,

arrives with his American fleet

to force Japan to end
its policy of isolation.

American ships were sent
to Japan to try and get Japan to

open up to the world
because it had been pretty much

closed off for centuries

during the time
of the Shogunate,

the military rule in Japan.

The emperor
had continued to rule

but only really
as a puppet ruler.

NARRATOR:
The night Perry's fleet
arrived in the bay,

both the Americans
and the Japanese

were awed
by a spectacular sight.

PHILLIPS:
Perry, he wrote a log,

and he said that while
they were in Tokyo Bay

a strange, glowing blue object

was seen in the skies
that hovered over the ships.

So bright was it at night,

that it literally lit up
all the ships.

Underneath it was
what he wrote and described

as like the sparks
from a rocket.

And it hovered around
the skies and eventually

descended into the water.

What we have
in the case of Commodore Perry

in Tokyo Bay in 1853
is a sighting that lasted

four hours
of a gigantic blue sphere

up in the sky
with a red wedge tail.

What the heck is that?

And it just stood there

illuminating the entire
Tokyo Bay.

NARRATOR: Perry's mission
not only led to the opening up

and modernization of Japan,

but also to
the overthrow of the shoguns

and the restoration of
the imperial family to power.

STEAVU: This re-initiated
imperial rule

that has lasted
up until nowadays

and brought it, if you will,

back to Emperor Jimmu,

establishing essentially
an imperial rule

of over 2,600 years.

NARRATOR:
According to some researchers,
the remarkable UFO

seen by Commodore Perry's fleet
may have been a sign of approval

from otherworldly beings
who have been protecting

the imperial family
since its foundation.

Ancient aliens established
the Japanese imperial family,

ancient aliens protected
the Japanese imperial family

and brought Japan
into the modern world.

HENRY:
This is taken by some

as an affirmation that perhaps

while Commodore Perry
is practicing gunboat diplomacy,

maybe so too are
the extraterrestrials who had

a hand in the founding
of the Imperial Dynasty.

CHILDRESS:
When we look at Japan and
all of this ancient activity,

the gods coming down,
interacting and creating

semi-god,
semi-human hybrids and things.

We have these
underwater cities there.

We have these special artifacts

that have strange energy
associated with them.

All this really seems
to add up that,

you know,
ancient astronaut theory

is very much validated
by the history of Japan.

NARRATOR: From an imperial
dynasty that traces its lineage

to the gods,

to a sensational
mass UFO sighting

occurring at a critical
moment in history...

to new government investigations
into unexplained phenomena,

has alien intervention

been taking place in Japan
for thousands of years?

Perhaps the mysterious
ancient megaliths

that still stand on
the island serve as a testament

to an enduring connection
with otherworldly beings

who continue to watch
over Japan even today.

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