1 00:00:01,870 --> 00:00:04,620 NARRATOR: A giant missing link in human evolution. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:10,580 Evidence in our DNA of genetic manipulation. 3 00:00:10,790 --> 00:00:13,160 And global accounts detailing 4 00:00:13,370 --> 00:00:17,620 an otherworldly hand in the creation of man. 5 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:20,750 For nearly two decades, 6 00:00:20,910 --> 00:00:24,000 Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe 7 00:00:24,200 --> 00:00:26,500 exploring towering megalithic structures, 8 00:00:26,700 --> 00:00:28,660 mysterious artifacts 9 00:00:28,830 --> 00:00:31,370 and stories of otherworldly beings 10 00:00:31,540 --> 00:00:35,080 in a quest for evidence that might reveal 11 00:00:35,200 --> 00:00:38,540 the truth of our extraterrestrial origins. 12 00:00:38,700 --> 00:00:41,410 When you look at the rapid pace of human evolution, 13 00:00:41,540 --> 00:00:43,040 it begs the question, 14 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,580 was our evolution manipulated in some way? 15 00:00:46,750 --> 00:00:48,950 NARRATOR: Now we take a look back 16 00:00:49,120 --> 00:00:51,250 through the Ancient Aliens archives 17 00:00:51,410 --> 00:00:54,120 to the show's very origins 18 00:00:54,250 --> 00:00:58,120 to examine the evidence that we are not alone. 19 00:00:58,290 --> 00:01:00,830 We have never been alone. 20 00:01:00,950 --> 00:01:03,120 ♪ ♪ 21 00:01:08,370 --> 00:01:11,950 After more than 300 hours of content on Ancient Aliens, 22 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:13,950 for me, when I look back over the series, 23 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:16,910 one of the most intriguing topics we've covered 24 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:18,910 -is the origins of humanity. -Oh, absolutely. 25 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,830 And one of the biggest questions of the ancient astronaut theory 26 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,830 is the exploration of the missing link 27 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,830 in human evolution. 28 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:29,830 And it is a fact 29 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,040 that tens of thousands of years ago 30 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:34,370 this giant leap happened, 31 00:01:34,540 --> 00:01:38,160 and it essentially defies the laws 32 00:01:38,370 --> 00:01:40,120 of conventional evolution. 33 00:01:40,290 --> 00:01:43,080 And that's where this episode kicks off, 34 00:01:43,250 --> 00:01:45,330 with a show from season three, 35 00:01:45,540 --> 00:01:48,790 where we explore the possibility that aliens influenced 36 00:01:48,910 --> 00:01:51,330 the creation of humanity. 37 00:01:52,370 --> 00:01:53,790 NARRATOR: South Africa. 38 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:58,620 25 miles northwest of Johannesburg 39 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:00,700 lie the Malapa Caves. 40 00:02:02,580 --> 00:02:07,500 Here, in August of 2008, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger 41 00:02:07,660 --> 00:02:10,200 and his nine-year-old son, Matthew, 42 00:02:10,370 --> 00:02:13,160 discover several fossilized skeletal remains 43 00:02:13,330 --> 00:02:16,040 of two-million-year-old early humans, 44 00:02:16,160 --> 00:02:18,370 including a female adult 45 00:02:18,580 --> 00:02:22,750 and male child, perhaps a mother and son. 46 00:02:25,370 --> 00:02:28,830 The size and shape of the bones indicate 47 00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:30,790 that the individuals walked upright 48 00:02:30,950 --> 00:02:33,160 and had modern hands. 49 00:02:34,790 --> 00:02:36,870 Over the past several decades, 50 00:02:37,040 --> 00:02:40,500 scientists have unearthed the remains of nearly two dozen 51 00:02:40,620 --> 00:02:43,330 different types of early human ancestors, 52 00:02:43,450 --> 00:02:45,700 all known as hominids. 53 00:02:51,870 --> 00:02:55,910 IAN TATTERSALL: We have an extremely good fossil record of ancient hominids. 54 00:02:57,410 --> 00:02:59,580 And I think the picture emerging from it 55 00:02:59,750 --> 00:03:02,370 is pretty clear that in earlier days 56 00:03:02,580 --> 00:03:04,330 before Homo sapiens came along 57 00:03:04,500 --> 00:03:06,660 there were typically many different kinds of hominids 58 00:03:06,870 --> 00:03:09,000 coexisting in the world. 59 00:03:10,290 --> 00:03:12,500 CRAIG STANFORD: We have a hard time getting our minds around this now 60 00:03:12,700 --> 00:03:14,540 because, of course, there's just one kind of human on Earth today 61 00:03:14,660 --> 00:03:16,500 and there are seven billion of us, 62 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:19,750 but at one time within the last few hundred thousand years, 63 00:03:19,910 --> 00:03:24,160 you could find two or even three species of hominin 64 00:03:24,330 --> 00:03:27,290 living in the same area at the same time. 65 00:03:30,410 --> 00:03:32,830 NARRATOR: Most mainstream scholars tell us 66 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:35,040 hominids evolved from an ape ancestor 67 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:37,370 nearly six million years ago 68 00:03:37,540 --> 00:03:40,830 through what is referred to as natural selection. 69 00:03:42,870 --> 00:03:45,950 This theory of evolution was first popularized 70 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:48,580 by English anthropologist Charles Darwin 71 00:03:48,700 --> 00:03:53,000 in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species. 72 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:56,330 TATTERSALL: Darwin's mechanism of evolution was natural selection. 73 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:59,000 That is to say a long-term process 74 00:03:59,160 --> 00:04:02,290 whereby better-adapted individuals 75 00:04:02,450 --> 00:04:04,700 reproduce more successfully. 76 00:04:04,870 --> 00:04:09,410 FIORELLA TERENZI: Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection 77 00:04:09,580 --> 00:04:14,790 explain that organism with certain traits, 78 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,370 such as mutation, 79 00:04:18,540 --> 00:04:21,080 turn out to be actually beneficial. 80 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:26,330 Turn out to be of advantage in the struggle for reproduction. 81 00:04:26,540 --> 00:04:30,120 So mutation allow organism 82 00:04:30,250 --> 00:04:33,660 to survive and to pass on 83 00:04:33,830 --> 00:04:37,620 to the next generation these mutation. 84 00:04:42,250 --> 00:04:44,700 Darwin speculated that over time, 85 00:04:44,870 --> 00:04:50,000 hominids walking on two feet used their hands to make tools. 86 00:04:50,200 --> 00:04:53,250 This, in turn, made them smarter. 87 00:04:53,370 --> 00:04:57,160 Then, approximately 200,000 years ago, 88 00:04:57,370 --> 00:05:01,370 hominids evolved into Homo sapiens, or modern man. 89 00:05:01,540 --> 00:05:04,870 But many scholars dispute Darwin's findings. 90 00:05:05,830 --> 00:05:08,620 We don't see dolphins building cars. 91 00:05:08,790 --> 00:05:11,160 We don't see elephants building houses. 92 00:05:11,330 --> 00:05:13,450 That might sound trite, but it's a fact 93 00:05:13,620 --> 00:05:15,330 that these animals just simply haven't progressed 94 00:05:15,500 --> 00:05:17,040 and advanced in the way we have. 95 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:19,370 And the big question is, why is that? 96 00:05:19,540 --> 00:05:23,500 Why should that happen? Why should we be so unique? 97 00:05:23,660 --> 00:05:25,450 STANFORD: Tool use doesn't really come into play 98 00:05:25,580 --> 00:05:27,830 for several million years after the first earliest humans 99 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:29,500 began to walk upright. 100 00:05:29,660 --> 00:05:32,160 And then brain size doesn't really begin to expand 101 00:05:32,330 --> 00:05:33,620 and really mushroom in size 102 00:05:33,790 --> 00:05:36,580 until the last several hundred thousand years. 103 00:05:36,700 --> 00:05:39,370 So, actually, six million years of human evolution, 104 00:05:39,540 --> 00:05:41,580 there are millions of years separating each of those 105 00:05:41,790 --> 00:05:45,160 major features: upright posture, tool use, brain expansion. 106 00:05:45,370 --> 00:05:47,410 So Darwin was wrong because he couldn't possibly 107 00:05:47,620 --> 00:05:49,660 have known the chronology in his day. 108 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:56,500 In 1967, British zoologist Desmond Morris 109 00:05:56,660 --> 00:05:59,290 argued against Darwin's theories on evolution 110 00:05:59,450 --> 00:06:02,500 in his book The Naked Ape. 111 00:06:02,660 --> 00:06:05,620 In it, Morris wrote that there was no reason 112 00:06:05,790 --> 00:06:08,250 why man stood alone from other species 113 00:06:08,370 --> 00:06:10,450 in terms of his nudity. 114 00:06:10,620 --> 00:06:12,370 Well, of course, as Homo sapiens, 115 00:06:12,540 --> 00:06:15,000 we still continue to have a coating of hair, 116 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:18,450 but that hair is very much reduced over most of our bodies, 117 00:06:18,620 --> 00:06:21,000 and that reduction probably goes back 118 00:06:21,160 --> 00:06:23,830 way beyond Homo sapiens in time. 119 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:27,200 It probably goes back to the time when the very first 120 00:06:27,330 --> 00:06:30,290 early bipedal hominids came out of the forests, 121 00:06:30,450 --> 00:06:33,330 uh, in Africa into the savannas, 122 00:06:33,450 --> 00:06:36,330 where they had more sun and, uh, 123 00:06:36,540 --> 00:06:39,830 more thermal radiation to... to cope with. 124 00:06:45,700 --> 00:06:47,910 STANFORD: In places like Europe, Northern Europe, 125 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,830 why we lost body hair, it's a chicken-and-egg question. 126 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:52,500 Did we lose our body hair because we began 127 00:06:52,660 --> 00:06:54,540 to wear clothing to keep us warm, 128 00:06:54,700 --> 00:06:56,330 or was there some other factor at work 129 00:06:56,500 --> 00:06:58,120 that caused us to lose our body hair? 130 00:06:58,290 --> 00:07:00,830 Perhaps women didn't find body hair on men attractive, 131 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:02,410 and so it was lost because they didn't 132 00:07:02,540 --> 00:07:04,540 choose those men as mates. 133 00:07:04,700 --> 00:07:06,450 There's no way to ever answer that question. 134 00:07:06,580 --> 00:07:10,250 If we were to subscribe 100% 135 00:07:10,410 --> 00:07:13,830 to the idea of survival of the fittest, 136 00:07:13,950 --> 00:07:18,790 isn't it illogical to think that all of a sudden 137 00:07:18,870 --> 00:07:23,250 we're completely naked and we're losing all of our fur? 138 00:07:23,450 --> 00:07:26,660 I mean, that makes absolutely no sense 139 00:07:26,750 --> 00:07:29,290 because right after we shed our fur, 140 00:07:29,450 --> 00:07:32,500 we had to wear furs to keep warm. 141 00:07:32,620 --> 00:07:36,330 Had we not worn any furs, we would have frozen to death. 142 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:38,000 We would have died. 143 00:07:38,120 --> 00:07:41,410 So the whole idea that we shed all of our hair 144 00:07:41,580 --> 00:07:44,450 in order to survive because we were stronger 145 00:07:44,580 --> 00:07:47,870 logically makes no sense. 146 00:07:51,250 --> 00:07:54,250 NARRATOR: But if Darwin's theory of natural selection 147 00:07:54,370 --> 00:07:55,660 cannot account for the appearance 148 00:07:55,870 --> 00:07:59,950 of intelligent, hairless Homo sapiens, what can? 149 00:08:01,870 --> 00:08:05,450 Might the transition of hominids to modern human beings 150 00:08:05,620 --> 00:08:08,700 have been the result of an otherworldly design, 151 00:08:08,870 --> 00:08:11,700 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 152 00:08:13,410 --> 00:08:16,580 Alfred Russel Wallace, a colleague of Darwin, 153 00:08:16,700 --> 00:08:19,700 called it the intelligence evolution. 154 00:08:19,870 --> 00:08:21,660 TATTERSALL: Darwin believed that the human brain 155 00:08:21,870 --> 00:08:25,660 had been driven into existence by natural selection, 156 00:08:25,870 --> 00:08:28,580 but Wallace couldn't quite see how this could be so. 157 00:08:29,870 --> 00:08:35,160 What Wallace perceived was that the way that humans think, 158 00:08:35,330 --> 00:08:39,750 their intellectual faculties are qualitatively different 159 00:08:39,910 --> 00:08:42,000 from anything that had preceded them. 160 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,750 And he couldn't quite see how this enormous gap 161 00:08:46,870 --> 00:08:49,830 could be bridged by natural selection. 162 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:54,580 So he invoked another explanation for the evolution, 163 00:08:54,700 --> 00:08:59,500 the arrival of, uh, modern human cognitive abilities. 164 00:08:59,580 --> 00:09:05,500 His choice was a spiritual explanation. 165 00:09:07,580 --> 00:09:11,830 DAVID CHILDRESS: Alfred believed there was an unseen creative spirit 166 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:15,830 that was behind all life on our planet. 167 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,290 And he believed that this unseen creative spirit 168 00:09:19,450 --> 00:09:22,580 had interceded three times in this planet. 169 00:09:25,700 --> 00:09:31,450 The first was to create life from inorganic matter. 170 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:34,830 And then the second time was when animals 171 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:37,660 achieved some kind of consciousness. 172 00:09:37,830 --> 00:09:41,500 And the third time was when humans 173 00:09:41,660 --> 00:09:44,580 suddenly were able to have the mental abilities 174 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:46,870 that we have today. 175 00:09:48,120 --> 00:09:52,410 But he felt that it wasn't just, uh, random selection 176 00:09:52,580 --> 00:09:54,500 like Charles Darwin thought. 177 00:09:54,660 --> 00:09:57,830 He believed that all of these changes 178 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:01,950 had a creative intelligence behind it. 179 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:06,620 The view that I have is that because the rest of nature 180 00:10:06,790 --> 00:10:10,830 hasn't changed that much that arguably we shouldn't. 181 00:10:10,950 --> 00:10:13,120 So that suggests to me we're seeing something 182 00:10:13,290 --> 00:10:14,950 potentially that has gone against nature, 183 00:10:15,160 --> 00:10:17,830 and if it's gone against nature, maybe that means 184 00:10:18,000 --> 00:10:21,660 because somebody has been manipulating nature. 185 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:25,330 PHILIP IMBROGNO: There's no explanation for human beings. 186 00:10:25,500 --> 00:10:28,290 They shouldn't be here on this planet. 187 00:10:28,410 --> 00:10:32,750 If we were evolved and changed 188 00:10:32,910 --> 00:10:34,450 by an extraterrestrial source 189 00:10:34,620 --> 00:10:38,660 from our early primate ancestors, 190 00:10:38,830 --> 00:10:40,450 that's the only way, really, you can account 191 00:10:40,660 --> 00:10:42,040 for the human species-- 192 00:10:42,200 --> 00:10:45,660 unless you, of course, put God in the equation. 193 00:10:45,870 --> 00:10:48,830 And who knows who the gods may have been? 194 00:10:50,370 --> 00:10:54,450 GEORGE NOORY: Charles Darwin might be rolling over in his grave right now, 195 00:10:54,580 --> 00:10:58,410 but it's very possible that mankind came about 196 00:10:58,580 --> 00:11:01,620 because of extraterrestrial intervention. 197 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:07,870 NARRATOR: Did the evolution of modern humans 198 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:11,870 really receive a jump start by extraterrestrial beings, 199 00:11:12,040 --> 00:11:14,910 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 200 00:11:15,080 --> 00:11:18,910 And if so, might there be tangible evidence? 201 00:11:19,040 --> 00:11:22,660 Some scientists believe proof can be found 202 00:11:22,830 --> 00:11:25,830 inside the human brain. 203 00:11:33,620 --> 00:11:36,410 NARRATOR: Chicago, Illinois. 204 00:11:36,580 --> 00:11:39,910 December 2004. 205 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,870 Researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute 206 00:11:43,080 --> 00:11:45,580 of the University of Chicago 207 00:11:45,700 --> 00:11:48,040 publish the results of a study that claims 208 00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:50,620 the sophistication of the human brain 209 00:11:50,790 --> 00:11:54,290 was the result of a so-called special event. 210 00:11:56,700 --> 00:11:58,910 They said mankind's intelligence 211 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:01,330 was not only the result of evolution 212 00:12:01,540 --> 00:12:06,750 and that around 50,000 years ago the genes of ancient humans 213 00:12:06,910 --> 00:12:09,540 went through an intense amount of change 214 00:12:09,700 --> 00:12:12,000 in a relatively short amount of time, 215 00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,700 what some refer to as the big bang of the brain. 216 00:12:19,660 --> 00:12:21,870 IMBROGNO: No one really knows how 217 00:12:22,040 --> 00:12:25,950 human beings developed so fast in such a short period of time. 218 00:12:26,160 --> 00:12:28,200 I don't believe it was done naturally. 219 00:12:28,370 --> 00:12:33,580 TATTERSALL: It's very clear that fully modern intellectual function 220 00:12:33,700 --> 00:12:36,450 is a very recent acquisition in our lineage. 221 00:12:36,620 --> 00:12:39,290 It's not an improvement upon what was there before. 222 00:12:39,450 --> 00:12:44,080 It's a new kind of manipulation of information in the mind. 223 00:12:46,040 --> 00:12:49,000 LINDA MOULTON HOWE: There's no other animal creature on the planet 224 00:12:49,080 --> 00:12:50,830 that has such a comparative point, 225 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:54,950 and that's why they call it the Big Brain Event. 226 00:12:56,410 --> 00:12:58,750 REDFERN: People talk about the missing link. 227 00:12:58,870 --> 00:13:00,660 Where is the link between 228 00:13:00,790 --> 00:13:04,000 going from apes, monkeys, gorillas, et cetera, 229 00:13:04,160 --> 00:13:08,200 to being able to develop atomic weaponry and fly in space? 230 00:13:08,370 --> 00:13:11,700 PHILIP COPPENS: When we're looking at the origins of man, 231 00:13:11,870 --> 00:13:15,450 we realize that 50,000 years ago 232 00:13:15,580 --> 00:13:19,620 we really went where no creature on Earth had ever gone before. 233 00:13:19,830 --> 00:13:22,040 We have become human. 234 00:13:24,500 --> 00:13:28,040 NARRATOR: But what was the spark that spurred human intelligence? 235 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,040 Was it a genetic mutation brought about 236 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,040 by the natural selection process of evolution, 237 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,700 as many mainstream scientists contend? 238 00:13:37,870 --> 00:13:40,830 Or could it have been a genetic modification 239 00:13:40,950 --> 00:13:44,000 produced by extraterrestrial beings, 240 00:13:44,160 --> 00:13:47,160 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 241 00:13:51,500 --> 00:13:54,370 STANFORD: There is the idea that there was a gene or genes 242 00:13:54,500 --> 00:13:58,080 that popped up sometime in our ancestors randomly 243 00:13:58,200 --> 00:14:00,160 that may have given us the ability to symbolically 244 00:14:00,330 --> 00:14:03,370 represent objects in our environment or be abstract. 245 00:14:03,540 --> 00:14:05,160 Those are things that-that, for instance, 246 00:14:05,330 --> 00:14:07,000 chimpanzees have a great deal of trouble with 247 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,200 even when they're taught language. 248 00:14:11,950 --> 00:14:14,830 TATTERSALL: Homo sapiens emerging from Africa 249 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,370 started to behave symbolically. 250 00:14:17,540 --> 00:14:20,660 They started to manipulate information in their mind 251 00:14:20,790 --> 00:14:22,330 in a way in which their predecessors 252 00:14:22,540 --> 00:14:23,830 had never done before. 253 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,370 They disassembled the world around them 254 00:14:26,540 --> 00:14:30,370 into a vocabulary of, uh, discreet symbols 255 00:14:30,540 --> 00:14:32,660 and recombined them so they could imagine 256 00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:34,580 new kinds of worlds. 257 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:39,040 ERICH VON DÄNIKEN: Long, long time ago, 258 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:41,660 extraterrestrials arrived on this planet. 259 00:14:42,700 --> 00:14:45,160 They realized that the planet was full of life, 260 00:14:45,250 --> 00:14:47,540 and one of them was the most advanced form, 261 00:14:47,750 --> 00:14:50,000 was one of our ancestors. 262 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:54,700 They took the DNA out, 263 00:14:54,870 --> 00:14:56,870 and they changed the basic information 264 00:14:57,000 --> 00:14:58,450 in the DNA. 265 00:14:58,580 --> 00:15:01,450 This is what our genetics are doing every day. 266 00:15:01,620 --> 00:15:04,160 Now the cell was changed. 267 00:15:04,370 --> 00:15:07,040 The product you plant into the womb 268 00:15:07,250 --> 00:15:10,000 of a female of the same species. 269 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,500 This female will give birth to a child 270 00:15:12,660 --> 00:15:15,040 approximately after nine months. 271 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,370 But because of this artificial mutation, 272 00:15:18,540 --> 00:15:22,410 that's different because it was made artificially 273 00:15:22,540 --> 00:15:24,410 by the extraterrestrials. 274 00:15:26,700 --> 00:15:30,160 BILL BIRNES: What if, as part of the genetic updates 275 00:15:30,370 --> 00:15:33,080 human beings were getting from extraterrestrials, 276 00:15:33,200 --> 00:15:35,500 one of those genetic updates 277 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:41,000 involved a software download, a biological download 278 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:44,160 to differentiate the different hemispheres of the brain 279 00:15:44,370 --> 00:15:48,160 to allow human society-- toolmaking, fire, 280 00:15:48,370 --> 00:15:51,500 social organization-- to be created, 281 00:15:51,660 --> 00:15:55,330 and from that, that particular species of hominid 282 00:15:55,500 --> 00:15:58,160 became the human being we are today? 283 00:16:02,250 --> 00:16:04,040 LYLE ARMSTRONG: If alien species out there 284 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,790 could fly across interstellar space, 285 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,160 then in all probability, they would have 286 00:16:09,370 --> 00:16:11,660 similar DNA recombinant technology. 287 00:16:11,870 --> 00:16:14,000 Of course, it would depend 288 00:16:14,200 --> 00:16:17,870 on their own genetic composition being similar to ours. 289 00:16:18,040 --> 00:16:21,580 But if they understood sufficient chemistry 290 00:16:21,750 --> 00:16:24,910 and physical principles from their own experience of... 291 00:16:25,080 --> 00:16:28,830 of the physical world model, then in all probability, 292 00:16:28,910 --> 00:16:31,620 manipulating our DNA would be simple. 293 00:16:31,790 --> 00:16:33,950 ♪ ♪ 294 00:16:38,660 --> 00:16:41,410 NARRATOR: But if alien beings created humans 295 00:16:41,580 --> 00:16:45,540 by genetically altering our primitive ancestors, 296 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:49,290 might various versions of hominids have been the result 297 00:16:49,370 --> 00:16:53,120 of experiments at creating intelligent life on Earth, 298 00:16:53,200 --> 00:16:56,620 as ancient astronaut theorists contend? 299 00:16:58,330 --> 00:17:01,080 COPPENS: This is one of the greatest unanswered questions. 300 00:17:01,250 --> 00:17:04,040 The ancient records do not say that we are part 301 00:17:04,200 --> 00:17:05,830 of a social experiment. 302 00:17:05,950 --> 00:17:07,250 The ancient records say 303 00:17:07,450 --> 00:17:10,000 that we were bestowed upon this gift. 304 00:17:10,160 --> 00:17:12,580 The gods gave us the gift of intellect, 305 00:17:12,750 --> 00:17:14,580 and it is for us to use it. 306 00:17:14,700 --> 00:17:18,120 So yes, we might actually be part of an experiment, 307 00:17:18,290 --> 00:17:20,250 but it might be an experiment in intelligence. 308 00:17:20,410 --> 00:17:22,160 It might actually be a game, 309 00:17:22,290 --> 00:17:25,120 a kind of the greatest reality TV show 310 00:17:25,290 --> 00:17:29,000 whereby the entire human species is watched by ancient aliens 311 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:33,250 who have been watching the show for maybe 50,000 years. 312 00:17:36,500 --> 00:17:41,950 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: FOXP2 is a gene that was found in our nucleotides, 313 00:17:42,120 --> 00:17:45,660 and it is something that sets us completely apart 314 00:17:45,870 --> 00:17:48,500 from any other animal. 315 00:17:48,660 --> 00:17:53,950 And scientists have suggested that that gene alone 316 00:17:54,080 --> 00:17:57,450 is responsible for language. 317 00:17:57,580 --> 00:18:00,450 And there is absolutely no evidence of origin 318 00:18:00,540 --> 00:18:03,660 or that this thing somehow mutated 319 00:18:03,870 --> 00:18:06,160 from the animal kingdom towards us. 320 00:18:06,330 --> 00:18:12,160 So this gene exists out of nowhere without any origin. 321 00:18:12,250 --> 00:18:15,750 So my question is, is it possible 322 00:18:15,870 --> 00:18:22,040 that this gene was given to us or grafted into us 323 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,830 by extraterrestrials in the remote past? 324 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,700 And the answer is yes. 325 00:18:32,620 --> 00:18:36,620 Was it the same nonhuman ancient aliens 326 00:18:36,790 --> 00:18:41,080 of so many ancient settlements on this planet 327 00:18:41,250 --> 00:18:43,250 deciding that they wanted humans 328 00:18:43,410 --> 00:18:47,000 to be able to communicate at a more sophisticated level? 329 00:18:47,200 --> 00:18:50,330 I think that's the fundamental angst today 330 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:52,750 among people trying to understand, 331 00:18:52,910 --> 00:18:57,660 who we are in relationship to extraterrestrials 332 00:18:57,870 --> 00:19:00,620 that may have been manipulating DNA on this planet 333 00:19:00,830 --> 00:19:03,080 for thousands of years? 334 00:19:06,370 --> 00:19:09,080 NARRATOR: Might the evidence of our alien origins 335 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:10,910 really have been passed down to us 336 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:12,620 implanted in our genetic code, 337 00:19:12,700 --> 00:19:16,120 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 338 00:19:17,250 --> 00:19:19,950 Perhaps further evidence can be found 339 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:23,950 not by scientists but by religious scholars 340 00:19:24,160 --> 00:19:28,540 that claim Adam and Eve really did exist. 341 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,410 When you look at the rapid pace of human evolution 342 00:19:36,500 --> 00:19:38,330 and you consider what's being called 343 00:19:38,500 --> 00:19:41,410 the big bang of the brain, it begs the question: 344 00:19:41,620 --> 00:19:44,620 Was our evolution manipulated in some way? 345 00:19:44,790 --> 00:19:47,830 Well, yeah, because that is what the great majority 346 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:51,080 of creation stories talk about. 347 00:19:51,250 --> 00:19:54,700 That long ago, these beings descended from the sky 348 00:19:54,870 --> 00:19:57,660 and created human beings. 349 00:19:57,790 --> 00:20:02,040 And so, to me, this idea is not as far-fetched as it might seem. 350 00:20:02,250 --> 00:20:04,910 Not at all. I mean, when we look across cultures, 351 00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:06,410 we can go into ancient Greece 352 00:20:06,540 --> 00:20:08,910 and see Prometheus creating humans. 353 00:20:09,120 --> 00:20:10,450 Go over to Egypt, we have the gods 354 00:20:10,620 --> 00:20:12,830 Ptah and Khnum creating humans. 355 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:14,330 And even in the Bible, obviously, 356 00:20:14,500 --> 00:20:16,830 it all starts with Adam and Eve. 357 00:20:19,160 --> 00:20:21,620 NARRATOR: The Hebrew Bible. 358 00:20:21,830 --> 00:20:25,120 In it, the Book of Genesis describes how God created 359 00:20:25,250 --> 00:20:29,160 the first two humans, Adam and Eve, 360 00:20:29,330 --> 00:20:31,910 in the Garden of Eden and told them 361 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,410 to go forth and multiply. 362 00:20:36,370 --> 00:20:39,330 For centuries, scientists and theologians 363 00:20:39,500 --> 00:20:43,000 have debated whether this story of the creation of man 364 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,620 was mere myth or historical fact. 365 00:20:46,790 --> 00:20:49,200 JONATHAN YOUNG: The Torah mentions that humanity 366 00:20:49,370 --> 00:20:51,330 is made out of the dust of the Earth 367 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:55,950 and that God breathed life into this to make us animated. 368 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,370 Here is the breath of soul and the breath of vitality, 369 00:20:59,540 --> 00:21:03,160 the divine breath which suggests that the spark, 370 00:21:03,330 --> 00:21:05,870 the life force that makes a human body tick, 371 00:21:06,040 --> 00:21:08,700 is divine in its nature. 372 00:21:10,370 --> 00:21:14,000 NARRATOR: In 1987, scholarly disagreements 373 00:21:14,080 --> 00:21:16,500 over the origin of man intensified 374 00:21:16,660 --> 00:21:18,700 with the discovery that the genetic lineage 375 00:21:18,870 --> 00:21:22,290 of every living person could be traced back 376 00:21:22,450 --> 00:21:25,620 to a single woman who once lived in Africa. 377 00:21:28,700 --> 00:21:30,500 TATTERSALL: It's pretty well established by now, 378 00:21:30,660 --> 00:21:33,700 particularly from the molecular, the DNA record, 379 00:21:33,870 --> 00:21:37,830 that Homo sapiens did originate at one place in Africa 380 00:21:38,040 --> 00:21:41,250 and after having become fully modern 381 00:21:41,370 --> 00:21:44,200 in the sense of intellectually modern, 382 00:21:44,370 --> 00:21:48,200 spread out to occupy Europe, to occupy eastern Asia 383 00:21:48,370 --> 00:21:50,700 and the Old World in general. 384 00:21:50,870 --> 00:21:52,870 STANFORD: It's sometimes called the Eve model, 385 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:55,660 not meaning that we're all descended from the same woman, 386 00:21:55,830 --> 00:21:58,950 but it does mean that there was a woman 387 00:21:59,120 --> 00:22:02,000 in that early human population migrating out of Africa 388 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:05,700 who was the only female who ultimately left her genes 389 00:22:05,870 --> 00:22:07,620 in every modern person. 390 00:22:07,700 --> 00:22:10,290 NARRATOR: But is it possible that mainstream science 391 00:22:10,450 --> 00:22:12,620 and the Book of Genesis 392 00:22:12,790 --> 00:22:15,450 are both pointing to the same moment in ancient time 393 00:22:15,620 --> 00:22:18,950 when modern man first appeared on Earth? 394 00:22:20,950 --> 00:22:23,250 NOORY: The myth of Adam and Eve, I think, is not a myth. 395 00:22:23,410 --> 00:22:25,500 I think it's a true story. 396 00:22:27,500 --> 00:22:30,370 I think Adam and Eve were on this planet. 397 00:22:30,540 --> 00:22:33,540 They were the first human beings that we know of. 398 00:22:33,700 --> 00:22:36,950 And they helped populate this planet. 399 00:22:37,080 --> 00:22:38,750 What is the Garden of Eden? 400 00:22:38,870 --> 00:22:40,830 I think it just happened to be the area 401 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:44,870 that the genetically manipulated human being, Adam and Eve, 402 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:46,700 were placed. 403 00:22:46,870 --> 00:22:48,160 That's where they lived. 404 00:22:48,370 --> 00:22:49,950 That's where they started to breed. 405 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,910 And that's where the populations of the planet started to grow. 406 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,620 NARRATOR: If Adam and Eve actually had existed 407 00:22:56,790 --> 00:22:59,250 as described in the Hebrew Bible, 408 00:22:59,410 --> 00:23:01,950 might this also mean that a serpent 409 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:05,540 really did tempt them to eat from the tree of knowledge? 410 00:23:05,700 --> 00:23:09,750 And if so, might this account have been an effort to describe 411 00:23:09,910 --> 00:23:13,160 the sudden awakening of the modern human mind, 412 00:23:13,330 --> 00:23:16,750 when man first became an intelligent being? 413 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,830 (translated): In the Bible, it says that if you eat 414 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,580 from this tree you will be like God. 415 00:23:26,540 --> 00:23:29,830 Satan, in the form of a snake, tempts Adam and Eve 416 00:23:29,950 --> 00:23:32,910 and promises them that they will be like God. 417 00:23:35,660 --> 00:23:37,660 The knowledge that Adam and Eve acquire, 418 00:23:37,830 --> 00:23:39,700 as well as humanity in general, 419 00:23:39,870 --> 00:23:42,870 gives man the ability to eventually carry out 420 00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:45,120 genetic manipulations. 421 00:23:47,410 --> 00:23:50,080 So, what was this tree of knowledge? 422 00:23:50,200 --> 00:23:52,200 Is the tree of knowledge, in fact, 423 00:23:52,370 --> 00:23:56,580 the helical DNA sequencing in our own bodies 424 00:23:56,750 --> 00:23:59,160 that was genetically engineered 425 00:23:59,330 --> 00:24:01,830 by extraterrestrials 50,000 years ago 426 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:04,950 so that we would have the abilities that we have today? 427 00:24:05,120 --> 00:24:10,500 In my mind, it's our DNA itself that is the tree of knowledge. 428 00:24:10,660 --> 00:24:14,040 But why was this suddenly a-a bad thing? 429 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:17,830 It would seem that the aliens, some of them wanted us 430 00:24:18,040 --> 00:24:21,410 to have this knowledge to be like the gods. 431 00:24:21,580 --> 00:24:23,500 But others said, "No, no, 432 00:24:23,660 --> 00:24:26,910 man is not to have all of this knowledge." 433 00:24:27,080 --> 00:24:31,160 This is also the same story of the Greek god Prometheus, 434 00:24:31,330 --> 00:24:34,160 who, against the orders of the other gods, 435 00:24:34,330 --> 00:24:39,080 comes down to Earth and gives mankind the knowledge of fire. 436 00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:42,450 But because of this gift to mankind, 437 00:24:42,620 --> 00:24:46,330 he himself, as a god, is, like Satan, 438 00:24:46,540 --> 00:24:48,500 he's banished from the Earth. 439 00:24:48,660 --> 00:24:51,290 And why? Because he helped mankind 440 00:24:51,450 --> 00:24:53,580 to have greater knowledge. 441 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:00,700 TSOUKALOS: The whole idea or concept of Satan 442 00:25:00,870 --> 00:25:04,000 is based on a misunderstood visit 443 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,200 by extraterrestrials in the remote past. 444 00:25:08,700 --> 00:25:10,830 According to the ancient astronaut theory, 445 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:16,700 the reason why we have the idea of a Satan today 446 00:25:16,870 --> 00:25:21,450 is because there might have been some type of a mutiny 447 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:25,330 between good and bad extraterrestrial factions 448 00:25:25,540 --> 00:25:27,620 in the remote past. 449 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:34,120 And so the mutineers were cast out by the commander 450 00:25:34,290 --> 00:25:39,540 and they became known as the evil fallen angels, 451 00:25:39,700 --> 00:25:42,120 which they never were. 452 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:46,910 NARRATOR: If, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, 453 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,500 extraterrestrials were responsible 454 00:25:49,660 --> 00:25:52,120 for providing humans with intelligence, 455 00:25:52,250 --> 00:25:56,750 might they have also given man the ability to speak? 456 00:25:56,910 --> 00:26:00,660 Our voice box, our larynx, is so different than the apes-- 457 00:26:00,830 --> 00:26:03,750 even the chimpanzee, who is our closest cousin-- 458 00:26:03,910 --> 00:26:06,540 that we're able to produce sounds and produce language. 459 00:26:06,700 --> 00:26:09,040 To a scientist today, that's almost like it was 460 00:26:09,200 --> 00:26:15,500 genetically designed so that we can say words and sing. 461 00:26:15,660 --> 00:26:17,160 REDFERN: There really isn't anything 462 00:26:17,370 --> 00:26:19,750 more advanced than human language. 463 00:26:19,870 --> 00:26:21,830 So many different cultures, 464 00:26:21,950 --> 00:26:24,370 dialects, languages around the world. 465 00:26:24,500 --> 00:26:27,700 And the very fact we can communicate 466 00:26:27,910 --> 00:26:30,250 on such a deep, extensive level, 467 00:26:30,370 --> 00:26:34,160 that really sets us apart from all other animals. 468 00:26:34,330 --> 00:26:37,250 Who invented language? Where did that come from? 469 00:26:37,370 --> 00:26:40,290 Was that something instilled in us? 470 00:26:40,450 --> 00:26:43,000 I think these are mysteries that, to a large degree, 471 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:45,700 science and the world of history, even in archaeology, 472 00:26:45,870 --> 00:26:47,830 are still scrambling around for answers. 473 00:26:47,950 --> 00:26:50,450 Maybe we shouldn't be looking down here for answers. 474 00:26:50,620 --> 00:26:52,790 Maybe we should be looking up there. 475 00:26:55,500 --> 00:26:57,000 COPPENS: We are told in the Bible 476 00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:59,660 that we are made into the image of God. 477 00:26:59,790 --> 00:27:01,660 What does that mean? 478 00:27:01,830 --> 00:27:05,500 Does it mean that we were made physically in somebody's image? 479 00:27:05,620 --> 00:27:07,040 And so, therefore, the question-- 480 00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,750 namely, whether we are descendants from apes 481 00:27:09,950 --> 00:27:11,500 and other creatures on this planet 482 00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:14,160 or whether we truly have been engineered-- 483 00:27:14,290 --> 00:27:17,370 can be answered by mythology. 484 00:27:17,540 --> 00:27:19,330 Mythology is able to say 485 00:27:19,500 --> 00:27:21,500 that we are not descending from the ape 486 00:27:21,700 --> 00:27:23,750 but that something happened on this Earth 487 00:27:23,910 --> 00:27:25,700 and an alien intervention came 488 00:27:25,870 --> 00:27:28,250 and we were the end result of this. 489 00:27:30,250 --> 00:27:32,330 VON DÄNIKEN: In my opinion, the extraterrestrials, 490 00:27:32,540 --> 00:27:33,750 by an artificial mutation, 491 00:27:33,910 --> 00:27:36,080 they created the intelligence of humans. 492 00:27:36,290 --> 00:27:39,160 Then the extraterrestrial disappeared. 493 00:27:39,370 --> 00:27:41,410 And some of our ancestors 494 00:27:41,580 --> 00:27:44,660 had again sex with their ancestor, 495 00:27:44,830 --> 00:27:46,830 with apelike beings. 496 00:27:47,040 --> 00:27:52,330 And that was called into mythology original sin. 497 00:27:52,500 --> 00:27:54,580 Then they return again, the gods. 498 00:27:54,700 --> 00:27:56,660 They realized what happened. 499 00:27:56,830 --> 00:28:01,040 And they decided to destroy the whole race by a great flood 500 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,330 and to restart the experiment again 501 00:28:03,450 --> 00:28:06,830 with what we call in mythology Noah. 502 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:09,910 That's all text. That's the way it is. 503 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:17,660 CHILDRESS: It would appear that extraterrestrials came here, 504 00:28:17,790 --> 00:28:21,540 used great apes, other early hominids, 505 00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,870 created what would be Neanderthal man 506 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,410 or Homo erectus, somebody similar to us, 507 00:28:28,580 --> 00:28:31,500 and then refined that hominid 508 00:28:31,620 --> 00:28:35,200 until they came up with Homo sapien, 509 00:28:35,370 --> 00:28:40,160 and then the other early hominids were destroyed. 510 00:28:41,540 --> 00:28:45,870 NARRATOR: Might the Biblical account of Adam and Eve and Noah's Ark 511 00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:49,500 really be the retelling of extraterrestrial events, 512 00:28:49,700 --> 00:28:52,870 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 513 00:28:53,040 --> 00:28:55,870 Perhaps further evidence can be found 514 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:59,700 in the archaeological remnants and eyewitness accounts 515 00:28:59,870 --> 00:29:03,080 from man's earliest known civilization. 516 00:29:07,700 --> 00:29:09,830 For me, some of the most intriguing stories 517 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,790 of extraterrestrial influence on human evolution 518 00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:14,870 comes from the Sumerians and their stories of the Anunnaki. 519 00:29:15,080 --> 00:29:17,580 I mean, some of these texts actually tell us 520 00:29:17,700 --> 00:29:20,910 that we were created in their image and after their likeness. 521 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:22,660 A lot of this seems to be explaining 522 00:29:22,870 --> 00:29:24,660 some form of bioengineering. 523 00:29:24,830 --> 00:29:26,160 Oh, absolutely. 524 00:29:26,330 --> 00:29:29,410 In fact, we have many ancient Sumerian carvings 525 00:29:29,580 --> 00:29:31,620 that illustrate something like this. 526 00:29:31,790 --> 00:29:33,830 For example, we have this one carving 527 00:29:33,950 --> 00:29:35,950 where you have these two beings 528 00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,330 and they seem to be manipulating this double-helix structure. 529 00:29:39,500 --> 00:29:43,250 Well, that to me is reminiscent of a DNA strand. 530 00:29:43,410 --> 00:29:46,910 Well, one of our first discussions on Ancient Aliens 531 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,330 about the Sumerians and their origin story 532 00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:53,160 came in season one in an episode, "The Mission." 533 00:29:54,370 --> 00:29:57,370 NARRATOR: Here in what is now known as Iraq 534 00:29:57,540 --> 00:30:01,620 lies what is commonly regarded by historians and archaeologists 535 00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:03,750 as the cradle of civilization. 536 00:30:03,910 --> 00:30:08,160 Between 3500 and 1900 BC, 537 00:30:08,290 --> 00:30:11,580 the fertile area between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 538 00:30:11,790 --> 00:30:14,160 was the home of the Sumerian people. 539 00:30:14,330 --> 00:30:16,660 TSOUKALOS: The Sumerians were one of the first cultures 540 00:30:16,830 --> 00:30:19,160 that built actual cities 541 00:30:19,330 --> 00:30:22,200 with streets and a street grid like... 542 00:30:22,370 --> 00:30:24,540 almost like New York City, where you have, you know, 543 00:30:24,700 --> 00:30:26,330 a square street grid. 544 00:30:26,500 --> 00:30:29,660 They invented cobblestones. 545 00:30:29,750 --> 00:30:32,830 Uh, they had a-a sewage system. 546 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,040 They were taught in-in agriculture. 547 00:30:38,370 --> 00:30:42,000 NARRATOR: The Sumerians also invented the first known writing system 548 00:30:42,200 --> 00:30:46,000 by using cuneiform script on clay tablets. 549 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:49,620 In the 19th century, archaeologists exploring 550 00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:51,620 the ancient ruins of Nineveh 551 00:30:51,830 --> 00:30:55,370 discovered 22,000 of these clay tablets. 552 00:30:55,580 --> 00:30:59,870 When they were later translated, the texts described many stories 553 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,080 similar to those found in the Judeo-Christian Bible. 554 00:31:04,290 --> 00:31:06,750 Virtually every story that's in Genesis-- 555 00:31:06,870 --> 00:31:10,290 uh, the flood story, the Adam and Eve story-- 556 00:31:10,450 --> 00:31:13,500 they all have precedence with the ancient Sumerians. 557 00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:18,500 NARRATOR: In 1976, 558 00:31:18,660 --> 00:31:22,250 author Zecharia Sitchin published his own translations 559 00:31:22,370 --> 00:31:24,950 of the Sumerian texts in a series of books 560 00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:28,040 called The Earth Chronicles. 561 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:31,160 According to Sitchin, the clay tablets describe 562 00:31:31,330 --> 00:31:34,120 an alien race known as the Anunnaki 563 00:31:34,290 --> 00:31:37,120 who came to Earth to mine gold. 564 00:31:38,660 --> 00:31:42,120 TSOUKALOS: Zecharia Sitchin has essentially suggested that the reason 565 00:31:42,290 --> 00:31:45,000 why we were visited in the remote past 566 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,790 is because the ancient astronauts' home planet 567 00:31:48,950 --> 00:31:52,000 needed gold for their atmosphere 568 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:57,910 and that their gold content in the atmosphere was depleting. 569 00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:01,660 So they came to Earth in order to mine gold 570 00:32:01,830 --> 00:32:04,910 and bring it back to their home planet. 571 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,950 NARRATOR: But why gold? 572 00:32:07,120 --> 00:32:09,870 What are the unique properties of this precious metal 573 00:32:10,040 --> 00:32:12,290 that might make it important and worth traveling 574 00:32:12,450 --> 00:32:14,370 through the galaxy for? 575 00:32:14,540 --> 00:32:17,870 NOORY: If you look at Zecharia Sitchin's theories, 576 00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:20,500 that ETs came down from another planet 577 00:32:20,700 --> 00:32:25,120 in our solar system, which is on a 3,600-year elliptical orbit, 578 00:32:25,330 --> 00:32:27,330 that they were running out of minerals, 579 00:32:27,450 --> 00:32:30,160 and gold, specifically, that they somehow needed 580 00:32:30,370 --> 00:32:33,000 to line their atmosphere with. 581 00:32:35,290 --> 00:32:39,160 These extraterrestrials, they just first measure our planet. 582 00:32:39,330 --> 00:32:41,370 And they have the instrument to find out, 583 00:32:41,540 --> 00:32:45,040 where on this planet do we find raw material? 584 00:32:46,330 --> 00:32:48,330 NOORY: Through their incredible equipment, 585 00:32:48,540 --> 00:32:52,660 they find a planet that has this-- it's got gold. 586 00:32:52,830 --> 00:32:56,120 So they decide, we're gonna go there and we're gonna mine. 587 00:32:56,290 --> 00:32:59,660 So they send some expeditions to planet Earth. 588 00:32:59,870 --> 00:33:03,750 All of a sudden, they get here and the factions begin to say, 589 00:33:03,910 --> 00:33:05,660 "Well, there's a lot of gold here, 590 00:33:05,830 --> 00:33:07,370 "but we're not digging it out. 591 00:33:07,540 --> 00:33:09,500 What are we gonna do? We need workers." 592 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:13,580 HORN: The story that came down to the Sumerians 593 00:33:13,700 --> 00:33:18,540 is that the Anunnaki were mining gold on the Earth. 594 00:33:18,660 --> 00:33:22,410 And, uh, the run-of-the-mill workers complained, said, 595 00:33:22,580 --> 00:33:25,200 "This is really hard work and we're tired. 596 00:33:25,370 --> 00:33:27,160 We don't want to do this anymore." 597 00:33:27,290 --> 00:33:29,830 And so they had a big council, and they decided to create 598 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:32,950 a primitive worker called an Adamu. 599 00:33:36,450 --> 00:33:38,830 So they look at what is on this planet, 600 00:33:39,040 --> 00:33:40,870 and that is Homo erectus, 601 00:33:41,040 --> 00:33:43,160 and they say, "Well, they're not very intelligent, 602 00:33:43,330 --> 00:33:45,040 "and they're not gonna listen to us, 603 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,250 so we're going to genetically alter them." 604 00:33:48,290 --> 00:33:52,160 The Anunnaki created, uh, humans as a slave species. 605 00:33:52,370 --> 00:33:54,370 NARRATOR: According to Zecharia Sitchin, 606 00:33:54,540 --> 00:33:57,250 the Adamu were the first modern humans. 607 00:33:58,410 --> 00:34:02,950 They were created by the Anunnaki 450,000 years ago, 608 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:05,200 when they genetically mixed their DNA 609 00:34:05,370 --> 00:34:08,000 with that of prehistoric man. 610 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:14,200 They took one cell of one of this ancestor of us. 611 00:34:14,370 --> 00:34:17,790 They changed the cell by an artificial mutation. 612 00:34:17,910 --> 00:34:19,410 They changed the DNA code, 613 00:34:19,540 --> 00:34:21,540 what our genetics are doing every day. 614 00:34:21,750 --> 00:34:23,660 It's carved in their stone. 615 00:34:23,830 --> 00:34:25,950 This is not something made up. 616 00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:28,290 This is part of the Sumerian history. 617 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,120 HORN: They believed that the gods came down 618 00:34:32,330 --> 00:34:33,830 and, uh, created them 619 00:34:33,950 --> 00:34:36,080 and they were their slave species. 620 00:34:36,290 --> 00:34:38,330 They knew that, and they didn't have any 621 00:34:38,500 --> 00:34:42,830 philosophical beliefs about the purpose of man or anything. 622 00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:47,410 NOORY: If you believe Sitchin's theory that mankind was created 623 00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:52,580 by ETs for slave labor, all of a sudden, it makes sense. 624 00:34:52,700 --> 00:34:54,580 And then when you look at the biblical terms 625 00:34:54,790 --> 00:34:57,330 of what may have happened-- Adam and Eve-- 626 00:34:57,450 --> 00:35:00,910 sure, they may have been two individuals 627 00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,910 back a long time ago, the beginning of time. 628 00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:06,160 But perhaps Adam and Eve were the first 629 00:35:06,330 --> 00:35:10,330 of the genetically created human beings. 630 00:35:12,700 --> 00:35:15,450 NARRATOR: Closer comparisons between the Hebrew Bible 631 00:35:15,620 --> 00:35:19,580 and the Sumerian texts reveal many similarities 632 00:35:19,700 --> 00:35:23,950 not only in their stories but also in their language. 633 00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,540 "Adam" is Hebrew for "man." 634 00:35:26,700 --> 00:35:30,910 Adamu is what the Sumerians refer to as first man, 635 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,450 the Anunnaki slaves. 636 00:35:33,620 --> 00:35:37,870 But do the Sumerian tablets actually describe an alien race, 637 00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,870 a race that conducted mining operations on a global scale? 638 00:35:47,700 --> 00:35:51,330 Thousands of miles away, on the African continent, 639 00:35:51,500 --> 00:35:55,830 ruins of ancient gold mines have recently been discovered. 640 00:35:56,000 --> 00:36:00,160 The largest concentration can be found in South Africa, 641 00:36:00,370 --> 00:36:03,160 where some excavations, according to scientists, 642 00:36:03,370 --> 00:36:07,080 date back some 150,000 years. 643 00:36:07,290 --> 00:36:11,040 They're in areas that have an abundance of gold right now. 644 00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:13,370 So it's very possible that they could've mined it. 645 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,330 Now, the big question is, how do we know 646 00:36:15,450 --> 00:36:17,580 they weren't human beings that simply did that? 647 00:36:17,750 --> 00:36:19,370 Why the ET theory? 648 00:36:20,700 --> 00:36:23,000 CHILDRESS: Some ancient mines in Southern Africa 649 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,120 are thought to be 100,000 years old or older. 650 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,000 If humans weren't doing that mining 651 00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:32,830 100,000 years ago and making metals, 652 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:34,410 then we would have to assume 653 00:36:34,580 --> 00:36:36,370 it would be extraterrestrials doing it. 654 00:36:36,540 --> 00:36:39,120 NARRATOR: Alien slave mines? 655 00:36:39,250 --> 00:36:41,540 Genetically engineered humans? 656 00:36:41,700 --> 00:36:44,660 To believers of ancient astronaut theory, 657 00:36:44,830 --> 00:36:47,290 these notions are not far-fetched fantasies 658 00:36:47,450 --> 00:36:50,290 or fairy tales but facts. 659 00:36:51,370 --> 00:36:54,370 And they suggest that further proof can be found 660 00:36:54,540 --> 00:36:57,250 by examining the mysterious remains 661 00:36:57,410 --> 00:37:00,580 of an ancient Sumerian queen. 662 00:37:06,370 --> 00:37:10,830 NARRATOR: 1927. Southeast Iraq. 663 00:37:12,950 --> 00:37:14,620 During advanced excavations 664 00:37:14,790 --> 00:37:18,330 at the ancient Mesopotamian city of Ur, 665 00:37:18,540 --> 00:37:21,830 British archaeologist Leonard Woolley discovers 666 00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,750 the remains of Queen Puabi. 667 00:37:25,700 --> 00:37:28,620 According to reports, the queen is found 668 00:37:28,790 --> 00:37:32,660 with an unusually large skull, similar to that possessed 669 00:37:32,870 --> 00:37:37,500 by some Egyptian pharaohs and mummies in Peru. 670 00:37:37,700 --> 00:37:40,330 For many ancient astronaut theorists, 671 00:37:40,450 --> 00:37:43,250 the queen's skull provides further evidence 672 00:37:43,370 --> 00:37:46,790 of mankind's extraterrestrial origins. 673 00:37:47,830 --> 00:37:50,750 The description of the queen was highly unusual. 674 00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:52,500 A head that was huge. 675 00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,000 She was not a normal human. 676 00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:57,830 She may not have been full Anunnaki. 677 00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,580 She could have been a hybrid. 678 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,250 There is an effort underway to try to get 679 00:38:02,450 --> 00:38:05,620 genetic analysis of the bones. 680 00:38:06,830 --> 00:38:12,370 There are characteristics that allude to Anunnaki genes. 681 00:38:14,540 --> 00:38:17,120 CHILDRESS: This is what the Anunnaki supposedly looked like, 682 00:38:17,290 --> 00:38:20,000 with these cone-head-type skulls. 683 00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:22,370 So we would naturally think that she is 684 00:38:22,540 --> 00:38:24,910 one of the original Anunnaki 685 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,540 or certainly an extraterrestrial-human hybrid. 686 00:38:30,870 --> 00:38:32,750 COPPENS: What's of interest of Queen Puabi is that 687 00:38:32,910 --> 00:38:37,370 she's a first-dynasty queen and/or priestess. 688 00:38:38,500 --> 00:38:41,160 So the fact that she's first dynasty means 689 00:38:41,370 --> 00:38:43,500 that she's very close to the reign of the Anunnaki. 690 00:38:43,700 --> 00:38:45,620 This puts her in a very unique position 691 00:38:45,750 --> 00:38:47,660 because she really holds the key. 692 00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:49,830 She might be the evidence to suggest 693 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,700 whether or not the ancient Anunnaki were physically real 694 00:38:53,870 --> 00:38:56,830 and that specifically the Anunnaki interbred. 695 00:38:57,950 --> 00:39:02,410 NARRATOR: But if the unusual skulls found in Mesopotamia and elsewhere 696 00:39:02,540 --> 00:39:06,290 are really evidence of the Anunnaki's reign on Earth, 697 00:39:06,410 --> 00:39:09,200 might the legends about them descending from the sky 698 00:39:09,370 --> 00:39:11,160 also be true? 699 00:39:11,250 --> 00:39:13,830 And if so, might the same be said 700 00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,080 for other legends that describe similar beings, 701 00:39:17,250 --> 00:39:20,660 found in ancient texts all over the world? 702 00:39:24,250 --> 00:39:25,700 Angels. 703 00:39:27,290 --> 00:39:30,830 The flying serpents of Central America. 704 00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,830 The Star People of the Anasazi. 705 00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:36,830 The notion that otherworldly beings 706 00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:41,160 came to Earth from the heavens is one of the most common themes 707 00:39:41,290 --> 00:39:44,000 in ancient mythology and religion. 708 00:39:45,700 --> 00:39:49,500 Could the stories really have a basis in truth? 709 00:39:49,660 --> 00:39:52,830 REDFERN: If we go back and look into ancient history, 710 00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,500 we find stories that sound very, very similar. 711 00:39:56,700 --> 00:40:00,830 They're sort of all-powerful, magical superior entities, 712 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,580 and they come from above. 713 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,200 HOWE: When you go into mythology, 714 00:40:07,410 --> 00:40:10,580 when you go into the Star People tales, 715 00:40:10,700 --> 00:40:14,080 when you go into the Anunnaki, 716 00:40:14,290 --> 00:40:16,000 it is the sameness, 717 00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:19,330 the similarity around the planet, 718 00:40:19,500 --> 00:40:23,370 that makes you say something has to be responsible 719 00:40:23,540 --> 00:40:27,250 for the same dreams, the same mythology, 720 00:40:27,370 --> 00:40:31,500 the same idea that life came from the stars. 721 00:40:35,620 --> 00:40:37,660 WILLIAM HENRY: All across the world, we find stories 722 00:40:37,870 --> 00:40:40,620 of otherworldly or extraterrestrial beings 723 00:40:40,750 --> 00:40:42,790 coming to Earth and influencing humanity. 724 00:40:44,950 --> 00:40:46,290 This raises a question: 725 00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:48,620 Are there different races of beings 726 00:40:48,790 --> 00:40:51,500 coming from the stars and influencing all these cultures? 727 00:40:51,700 --> 00:40:54,330 Or is it possible that, in fact, 728 00:40:54,500 --> 00:40:56,620 it's one race of beings, the Anunnaki, 729 00:40:56,790 --> 00:40:58,790 who influenced all of these cultures 730 00:40:58,910 --> 00:41:01,830 and they told the story of the same beings? 731 00:41:04,000 --> 00:41:07,450 NARRATOR: Do worldwide legends of so-called gods 732 00:41:07,580 --> 00:41:09,790 really help to prove that ancient man 733 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:14,790 was actually in contact with extraterrestrial beings? 734 00:41:14,950 --> 00:41:18,330 And if so, is it possible that religious tales 735 00:41:18,450 --> 00:41:21,700 of otherworldly beings interbreeding with humans 736 00:41:21,870 --> 00:41:25,120 support the notion that the stories of the Anunnaki 737 00:41:25,290 --> 00:41:27,700 are based on historical fact? 738 00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:32,790 According to some researchers, the answers may lie 739 00:41:32,950 --> 00:41:36,000 in the Hebrew Bible's story of the Nephilim. 740 00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,660 FATHER WILLIAM FULCO: The Nephilim are mentioned 741 00:41:37,830 --> 00:41:39,700 in the sixth Chapter of Genesis, 742 00:41:39,870 --> 00:41:43,500 where we have the, uh... the sons of the gods 743 00:41:43,620 --> 00:41:46,370 mating with the... the daughters of men 744 00:41:46,540 --> 00:41:50,000 and producing, therefore, superhuman folk. 745 00:41:52,700 --> 00:41:54,500 SCOTT ROBERTS: The Nephilim are described 746 00:41:54,620 --> 00:41:57,450 in some translations as being giants. 747 00:42:00,580 --> 00:42:03,580 The relationship between the Anunnaki and the Nephilim 748 00:42:03,750 --> 00:42:06,750 is really a story of two cultures 749 00:42:06,910 --> 00:42:08,120 but are related. 750 00:42:08,290 --> 00:42:10,330 The Anunnaki was the god caste 751 00:42:10,540 --> 00:42:13,450 who created primordial man to enslave them, 752 00:42:13,620 --> 00:42:16,540 while the Nephilim were the offspring of those 753 00:42:16,700 --> 00:42:18,870 who came down and intermingled with humans. 754 00:42:20,290 --> 00:42:22,910 HENRY: Now, these beings could be giant in stature, 755 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,830 but we're also told that the Nephilim 756 00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:29,450 possessed extraordinary supernatural knowledge 757 00:42:29,620 --> 00:42:32,790 that they shared with certain portions of humanity. 758 00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,660 NARRATOR: In Greek mythology, Zeus, the ruler of the gods, 759 00:42:38,870 --> 00:42:42,410 is said to have fathered two hybrid sons, 760 00:42:42,580 --> 00:42:47,830 Hercules and Perseus, both with earthly women. 761 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,500 And the apocryphal Book of Enoch describes beings 762 00:42:51,620 --> 00:42:54,290 known as the Watchers, 763 00:42:54,450 --> 00:42:59,660 angels who fell from heaven and procreated with humans. 764 00:42:59,830 --> 00:43:02,700 Could these tales actually have their origins 765 00:43:02,870 --> 00:43:05,910 in the ancient stories of the Anunnaki? 766 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,200 The story of the Anunnaki might seem like 767 00:43:08,370 --> 00:43:10,000 something right out of sci-fi. 768 00:43:10,200 --> 00:43:11,370 But when we compare the fact 769 00:43:11,540 --> 00:43:13,200 that every culture around the world-- 770 00:43:13,370 --> 00:43:17,160 from the Hindus to the Greeks, the Romans, Egyptians, Mayas-- 771 00:43:17,370 --> 00:43:20,000 all around the world, we have a similar description 772 00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:24,000 of these beings coming to Earth from the heavens, 773 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:28,700 having offspring that were then one half divine, one half human. 774 00:43:30,870 --> 00:43:33,870 NARRATOR: But if legends of gods, angels and giants 775 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:37,080 coming to Earth and breeding with human females 776 00:43:37,250 --> 00:43:38,500 are to be believed, 777 00:43:38,700 --> 00:43:40,700 might there need to be some evidence? 778 00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,160 Ancient astronaut theorists say the answer is yes 779 00:43:46,330 --> 00:43:50,080 and believe that evidence exists in the countless depictions 780 00:43:50,250 --> 00:43:53,700 of the Anunnaki as winged, giant creatures. 781 00:43:53,910 --> 00:43:56,330 Evidence found all throughout the region 782 00:43:56,540 --> 00:43:59,200 formerly known as Mesopotamia. 783 00:44:00,790 --> 00:44:03,870 The Anunnaki, we can also see them 784 00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,790 on different carvings or on cylinder seals 785 00:44:06,950 --> 00:44:10,160 where they are depicted as having wings. 786 00:44:10,330 --> 00:44:14,660 Sometimes they have faces like birds with beaks. 787 00:44:14,830 --> 00:44:17,660 But they're also very humanlike, 788 00:44:17,790 --> 00:44:20,830 giant beings with muscular bodies 789 00:44:20,950 --> 00:44:25,290 wearing things that look like wristwatches. 790 00:44:28,700 --> 00:44:33,750 Now, is this an exact replica of what people saw? 791 00:44:35,540 --> 00:44:37,540 Clearly, the evidence that we have 792 00:44:37,700 --> 00:44:41,120 here in the Sumerian culture of wall descriptions, 793 00:44:41,250 --> 00:44:45,040 the artwork, the esoteric cuneiform script, 794 00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:46,830 they went to great lengths to record 795 00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,000 this very momentous information. 796 00:44:49,120 --> 00:44:51,660 We have to start to look at this in a fresh new light 797 00:44:51,830 --> 00:44:54,290 and stop thinking of it as just mythology. 798 00:44:55,450 --> 00:44:57,830 Looking into the Sumerian accounts, 799 00:44:58,000 --> 00:45:00,540 what we are finding is that the Anunnaki 800 00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:02,700 are described as special. 801 00:45:02,870 --> 00:45:05,700 Their age spans are far longer than anything 802 00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:07,830 a human being can have. 803 00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:10,160 And afterwards, whether they disappeared 804 00:45:10,330 --> 00:45:13,000 into complete oblivion or whether they somehow remained 805 00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:15,750 here on planet Earth remains a question mark. 806 00:45:16,830 --> 00:45:18,910 NARRATOR: Might the similar images and descriptions 807 00:45:19,080 --> 00:45:22,500 of gods who descended from the heavens to rule on Earth 808 00:45:22,660 --> 00:45:24,950 be something of a smoking gun, 809 00:45:25,120 --> 00:45:27,950 proof that the Anunnaki were actual beings 810 00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,500 who came to Earth from another world? 811 00:45:31,700 --> 00:45:34,660 But if so, why has very little evidence 812 00:45:34,870 --> 00:45:37,410 of their time on Earth survived? 813 00:45:37,620 --> 00:45:39,830 Why are they virtually forgotten? 814 00:45:40,910 --> 00:45:43,080 Ancient astronaut theorists believe that the answers 815 00:45:43,250 --> 00:45:48,370 can be found in the ancient stories of a great flood. 816 00:45:48,540 --> 00:45:50,120 (thunder crashes) 817 00:45:55,540 --> 00:45:56,830 One of the best-known stories in the Old Testament 818 00:45:57,000 --> 00:45:58,500 is the great flood. 819 00:45:58,660 --> 00:46:01,120 In a way, this, too, is an origin story, 820 00:46:01,250 --> 00:46:04,160 but maybe it's actually more of a reboot story, 821 00:46:04,370 --> 00:46:06,410 because you have, essentially, the Earth being 822 00:46:06,580 --> 00:46:08,950 wiped clean of the old order 823 00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:12,750 and then a chosen figure being tasked with starting anew 824 00:46:12,910 --> 00:46:14,790 and repopulating the world. 825 00:46:14,950 --> 00:46:16,830 Yeah, and it's fascinating that this story isn't 826 00:46:16,910 --> 00:46:18,160 localized to just the Bible. 827 00:46:18,330 --> 00:46:20,790 You find it in countries around the world. 828 00:46:20,910 --> 00:46:23,660 Hindu writings, even the story of Gilgamesh, 829 00:46:23,870 --> 00:46:26,120 the Epic of Gilgamesh in the Sumerian writings. 830 00:46:26,330 --> 00:46:29,830 Right, and this is exactly why this story holds 831 00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:32,950 such great importance for the ancient astronaut theory. 832 00:46:33,120 --> 00:46:36,830 Because, essentially, the flood illustrates the end 833 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:40,660 of a time period when those so-called Watchers 834 00:46:40,830 --> 00:46:43,620 or those visitors were interacting 835 00:46:43,790 --> 00:46:47,500 with our ancestors in physical form. 836 00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:56,370 NARRATOR: Qumran, Palestine. 1946. 837 00:46:58,370 --> 00:47:02,200 In the desert, ten miles east of Jerusalem, 838 00:47:02,410 --> 00:47:05,700 a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock of sheep and goats 839 00:47:05,830 --> 00:47:07,330 to look for a stray. 840 00:47:08,700 --> 00:47:10,250 Walking along the cliffs, 841 00:47:10,410 --> 00:47:12,870 the shepherd spots a cave in the distance. 842 00:47:14,450 --> 00:47:17,330 ROBERT MULLINS: He threw a stone into a cave, 843 00:47:17,410 --> 00:47:20,290 and he heard the crack of breaking pottery. 844 00:47:21,870 --> 00:47:25,540 So he went in to investigate and found jars 845 00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:28,450 that contained ancient manuscripts. 846 00:47:30,950 --> 00:47:33,580 The Bedouin shepherd's find led to a discovery 847 00:47:33,750 --> 00:47:38,000 of 11 caves that contained the most extraordinary cache 848 00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:40,330 of literature, arguably in human history, 849 00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:41,910 the Dead Sea Scrolls. 850 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,580 There are 800 pieces of literature 851 00:47:45,750 --> 00:47:48,580 found in these 11 caves, and it tells us 852 00:47:48,750 --> 00:47:50,910 so much about the ancient world. 853 00:47:52,580 --> 00:47:55,620 One of the amazing revelations is a story about Noah 854 00:47:55,750 --> 00:47:58,580 that we don't see in the Old Testament. 855 00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,160 And the story is that when Noah is born 856 00:48:02,370 --> 00:48:05,450 he's an extraordinary baby with a strange complexion 857 00:48:05,620 --> 00:48:09,290 and the ability to light up the room with his eyes. 858 00:48:09,450 --> 00:48:12,250 What's interesting is that you actually have 859 00:48:12,370 --> 00:48:16,200 Noah's father, Lamech, questioning whether or not 860 00:48:16,370 --> 00:48:18,120 Noah is his son. 861 00:48:21,080 --> 00:48:25,450 And this is due to the fact that we have this story 862 00:48:25,620 --> 00:48:27,040 about these fallen angels 863 00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,330 that came down and had sex with women. 864 00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,830 Lamech confronts his wife, Batenosh: 865 00:48:35,000 --> 00:48:38,620 "Is it my son, or is it... is it one of theirs?" 866 00:48:38,790 --> 00:48:43,160 TSOUKALOS: Noah's exterior is described as very foreign. 867 00:48:43,330 --> 00:48:47,750 His eyes are described to be glowing like sunbeams. 868 00:48:47,950 --> 00:48:51,250 His skin is glowing, as well. 869 00:48:53,250 --> 00:48:55,660 Now, that's a very bizarre description. 870 00:48:55,870 --> 00:48:59,080 And so one has to ask the question: 871 00:48:59,250 --> 00:49:03,120 What if Noah was one of the extraterrestrials? 872 00:49:05,370 --> 00:49:08,330 NARRATOR: Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, 873 00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:13,580 that the Biblical figure of Noah was, in fact, an alien being? 874 00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,000 Is this the reason he is described 875 00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:21,830 as having a strange complexion and glowing eyes? 876 00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:25,080 The key thing that's going on with Noah is that 877 00:49:25,200 --> 00:49:29,040 he is pure in God's sight, and so is his family. 878 00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:31,250 And this purity seems to be genetic 879 00:49:31,410 --> 00:49:33,700 as much as what you might call spiritual. 880 00:49:35,410 --> 00:49:38,000 And so, when God makes plans to wipe out 881 00:49:38,200 --> 00:49:40,950 the rest of humanity, what he's wiping out 882 00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:44,830 is the extraterrestrial dimension of humanity 883 00:49:44,910 --> 00:49:48,620 that has come about through the pollution of human genetics. 884 00:49:51,540 --> 00:49:54,450 NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials have sent the great flood 885 00:49:54,580 --> 00:49:58,500 to cleanse the Earth of genetic mistakes 886 00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:02,950 and make Noah the father of a new version of humankind? 887 00:50:05,120 --> 00:50:07,000 According to ancient stories, 888 00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:09,620 the world that Noah's descendants were born into 889 00:50:09,790 --> 00:50:14,250 was very different from the one that existed in pre-flood times, 890 00:50:14,370 --> 00:50:18,410 when gods, giants, fairies and other creatures 891 00:50:18,620 --> 00:50:21,370 were said to share the planet with humans. 892 00:50:22,370 --> 00:50:25,700 The flood does seem to serve as a demarcation point. 893 00:50:25,870 --> 00:50:28,200 (thunder crashing) 894 00:50:28,410 --> 00:50:31,660 In the Bible, we read about how, before the flood, 895 00:50:31,830 --> 00:50:33,830 people had longer lives, 896 00:50:33,910 --> 00:50:36,580 but then after the flood, shorter lives. 897 00:50:36,700 --> 00:50:39,040 We see the same thing in Mesopotamian tradition 898 00:50:39,200 --> 00:50:42,370 with the Sumerian King List where, before the flood, 899 00:50:42,500 --> 00:50:45,000 we have kings that ruled in Mesopotamia 900 00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,330 with extraordinarily long lives. 901 00:50:48,450 --> 00:50:51,080 After the flood, the lengths of reigns 902 00:50:51,250 --> 00:50:54,500 of these kings becomes much shorter. 903 00:50:54,700 --> 00:50:56,830 The other thing that happened before this great demarcation 904 00:50:57,040 --> 00:50:59,790 is that the gods were present among us. 905 00:50:59,950 --> 00:51:01,290 There was a close interaction 906 00:51:01,450 --> 00:51:03,330 between the human and the sacred. 907 00:51:03,500 --> 00:51:06,450 The gods would guide us, and they would be tempted. 908 00:51:06,660 --> 00:51:09,500 There would be interaction-- the god might marry a mortal, 909 00:51:09,660 --> 00:51:11,950 and then there would be descendants of the gods. 910 00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:14,160 Now the gods seem so far away. 911 00:51:14,370 --> 00:51:16,410 So there are these theories that this was 912 00:51:16,540 --> 00:51:19,750 the big shifting point in human history. 913 00:51:19,910 --> 00:51:22,330 It is really interesting to note that the interaction 914 00:51:22,540 --> 00:51:26,500 with these higher beings seems to only be located in the past. 915 00:51:26,700 --> 00:51:29,870 All these depictions of "there were giants upon the Earth" 916 00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:32,620 or a time when man interacted with the gods. 917 00:51:32,790 --> 00:51:34,290 Where are the gods today? 918 00:51:34,410 --> 00:51:37,660 We only seem to have subtle interactions. 919 00:51:37,870 --> 00:51:41,660 ROB SIMONE: It's curious to think why that might have been. 920 00:51:41,870 --> 00:51:43,790 What was it about this great flood, 921 00:51:43,910 --> 00:51:46,330 this dividing line in history, 922 00:51:46,540 --> 00:51:50,160 that caused the separation of god and man? 923 00:51:51,790 --> 00:51:53,950 It could be that our evolution 924 00:51:54,120 --> 00:51:56,910 depended upon a natural upbringing, 925 00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,250 an upbringing that was not contaminated 926 00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:03,750 by this notion that we're not alone in the universe. 927 00:52:03,910 --> 00:52:07,620 It could be a necessary part of the human development. 928 00:52:12,950 --> 00:52:15,160 NARRATOR: Could it be that the great flood 929 00:52:15,330 --> 00:52:19,500 removed not only most living creatures from the planet 930 00:52:19,700 --> 00:52:25,410 but also the alien beings that lived alongside humanity? 931 00:52:25,580 --> 00:52:28,870 And if Noah represented a new breed of human, 932 00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:31,830 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest, 933 00:52:31,950 --> 00:52:34,160 might his lineage and our own 934 00:52:34,330 --> 00:52:37,660 really have origins beyond Earth? 935 00:52:46,660 --> 00:52:49,750 NARRATOR: Tell al-Uhaymir, Iraq. 936 00:52:49,910 --> 00:52:54,660 Here in what was once the ancient Sumerian city of Kish, 937 00:52:54,830 --> 00:52:56,330 archaeologists unearthed 938 00:52:56,500 --> 00:52:59,120 the world's oldest written document. 939 00:53:00,330 --> 00:53:04,330 The Kish tablet dates to 3500 BC 940 00:53:04,450 --> 00:53:08,160 and is believed to predate both the Sumerian cuneiform 941 00:53:08,370 --> 00:53:10,250 and Egyptian hieroglyphic writing 942 00:53:10,410 --> 00:53:13,160 by nearly a hundred years. 943 00:53:14,410 --> 00:53:16,870 Developing the ability to express thoughts 944 00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:21,410 through written language is one of the first ways in which man 945 00:53:21,540 --> 00:53:24,910 separated itself from the rest of the animal kingdom. 946 00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,040 In the 5,000 years since, 947 00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:31,330 humans have harnessed electricity, 948 00:53:31,540 --> 00:53:36,790 split the atom, developed computers 949 00:53:36,950 --> 00:53:39,500 and placed a man on the Moon. 950 00:53:39,660 --> 00:53:42,500 No other species on Earth can claim 951 00:53:42,620 --> 00:53:46,330 such unique achievements in such a short span of time. 952 00:53:47,580 --> 00:53:50,620 In comparison to other animals, our evolution is pretty brief. 953 00:53:50,790 --> 00:53:52,370 Um, it's been a fairly short time-- 954 00:53:52,540 --> 00:53:54,000 only a couple million years, probably-- 955 00:53:54,080 --> 00:53:55,450 since the first hominids. 956 00:53:56,540 --> 00:53:58,620 WARD: One of the great scientific questions is: 957 00:53:58,790 --> 00:54:02,160 Why is it our species uniquely arose 958 00:54:02,330 --> 00:54:04,500 into this truly advanced 959 00:54:04,700 --> 00:54:07,830 technological intelligence that we have? 960 00:54:08,000 --> 00:54:11,950 Clearly, there's nothing else on planet Earth that is like us. 961 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:13,620 There are many intelligences, 962 00:54:13,790 --> 00:54:15,870 but nothing is wielding technology 963 00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:18,410 to the extent that we do. 964 00:54:18,540 --> 00:54:21,080 PAUL DAVIES: If we just had to sort of go back to the jungle, 965 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:23,370 the proverbial jungle, and just survive, 966 00:54:23,540 --> 00:54:26,330 most of us wouldn't really live for very long. 967 00:54:26,500 --> 00:54:28,790 Human beings, apart from their intelligence, 968 00:54:28,950 --> 00:54:32,910 uh, really are not very well suited to occupying 969 00:54:33,080 --> 00:54:34,790 a wide range of environments. 970 00:54:34,950 --> 00:54:36,660 (crying) 971 00:54:36,830 --> 00:54:39,120 NARRATOR: In addition to our incredible intelligence, 972 00:54:39,290 --> 00:54:42,330 biologists have also noted contrasts 973 00:54:42,540 --> 00:54:46,290 between human physiology and other animals. 974 00:54:46,410 --> 00:54:49,000 KIRSTEN FISHER: Compared to other animals, I think we're a little odd. 975 00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:50,790 A baby horse is born, for instance, 976 00:54:50,910 --> 00:54:52,290 and it's able to walk around 977 00:54:52,450 --> 00:54:54,660 and-and do its own thing, like, immediately. 978 00:54:54,830 --> 00:54:57,450 The same is certainly not true of a... of a human infant. 979 00:54:57,540 --> 00:54:59,330 We are pretty helpless. 980 00:54:59,540 --> 00:55:02,410 We're born before we're quite neurologically cooked. 981 00:55:02,540 --> 00:55:06,330 There are many vulnerabilities which go alongside 982 00:55:06,450 --> 00:55:09,660 our, uh, much vaunted intelligence. 983 00:55:11,250 --> 00:55:14,120 We became bipeds, and that freed up our forelimbs 984 00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,160 to be able to manipulate objects, 985 00:55:16,250 --> 00:55:19,540 make tools and so on, but it comes at a price 986 00:55:19,700 --> 00:55:23,290 because we've got these back problems. 987 00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:25,330 WILLIAM R. LEONARD: Lower back pain is something 988 00:55:25,540 --> 00:55:28,450 that is virtually unknown in other primate species, 989 00:55:28,620 --> 00:55:31,000 whereas it's something that is very common 990 00:55:31,200 --> 00:55:32,790 in contemporary humans. 991 00:55:34,870 --> 00:55:39,330 NARRATOR: In 2013, ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver 992 00:55:39,540 --> 00:55:42,750 set forth in his book Humans Are Not from Earth 993 00:55:42,950 --> 00:55:46,410 a possible theory to explain why humans seem 994 00:55:46,540 --> 00:55:49,790 so evolutionarily unsuited to the planet. 995 00:55:49,950 --> 00:55:52,910 Dr. Ellis Silver developed an idea that perhaps 996 00:55:53,080 --> 00:55:56,120 the human race did not actually naturally evolve 997 00:55:56,250 --> 00:55:58,330 here on the Earth but somewhere else. 998 00:55:58,500 --> 00:56:00,660 WILCOCK: Silver's book raises a lot 999 00:56:00,870 --> 00:56:03,450 of very provocative and intriguing questions. 1000 00:56:03,620 --> 00:56:06,830 For example, why is it that we get 1001 00:56:06,950 --> 00:56:09,290 cataracts from the Sun? 1002 00:56:09,500 --> 00:56:11,410 Why is it that the Sun seems to hurt us 1003 00:56:11,580 --> 00:56:13,410 if we go out for too long? 1004 00:56:13,540 --> 00:56:15,910 So Dr. Silver suggests that we might have come 1005 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:19,250 from a planet with different solar exposure. 1006 00:56:19,410 --> 00:56:24,000 We also have 223 genes that appear in human DNA 1007 00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:28,080 that do not appear in any other species on Earth, 1008 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:31,450 suggesting again that there's something unusual about us. 1009 00:56:32,540 --> 00:56:34,700 MIKE BARA: They've discovered that astronauts, 1010 00:56:34,870 --> 00:56:37,120 when they're in space, their circadian rhythms 1011 00:56:37,250 --> 00:56:39,700 actually change from 24 hours, 1012 00:56:39,870 --> 00:56:41,950 like we have when we're here on Earth, 1013 00:56:42,040 --> 00:56:45,370 to 24.9 hours, which is the exact circadian rhythm 1014 00:56:45,580 --> 00:56:48,410 or the exact length of a Martian day, 1015 00:56:48,540 --> 00:56:50,040 not an Earth day. 1016 00:56:51,700 --> 00:56:55,160 NOORY: The patterns of who we are as human beings 1017 00:56:55,370 --> 00:56:57,160 doesn't fit into some of the other creatures 1018 00:56:57,370 --> 00:56:58,500 that are on this planet. 1019 00:56:58,660 --> 00:57:01,410 Dr. Silver, his theory was that 1020 00:57:01,580 --> 00:57:04,330 we were either brought here or seeded here 1021 00:57:04,450 --> 00:57:07,660 but clearly of an extraterrestrial origin. 1022 00:57:08,790 --> 00:57:12,120 CHILDRESS: We are, in a sense, transplanted here 1023 00:57:12,290 --> 00:57:15,500 from some other solar system. 1024 00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:19,080 And Neanderthals were already here, 1025 00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:22,790 and we are a crossbred 1026 00:57:22,950 --> 00:57:25,910 part alien race that's part Neanderthal 1027 00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:27,830 and part extraterrestrial. 1028 00:57:28,910 --> 00:57:32,620 NARRATOR: Might Dr. Silver's observations of human physiology 1029 00:57:32,790 --> 00:57:36,830 be proof that we are a hybrid species, 1030 00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:40,540 one whose origin comes from a celestial place? 1031 00:57:40,700 --> 00:57:43,540 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes 1032 00:57:43,700 --> 00:57:46,160 and claim further evidence can be found 1033 00:57:46,370 --> 00:57:49,540 in the narratives of numerous religions. 1034 00:57:52,330 --> 00:57:54,330 Brigham Young, one of the most important 1035 00:57:54,410 --> 00:57:57,080 leaders of the Mormon religion, 1036 00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:01,450 proposed that the biblical Adam was not created on Earth 1037 00:58:01,580 --> 00:58:04,290 but was born to parents on another world 1038 00:58:04,450 --> 00:58:06,450 and then was brought to our planet. 1039 00:58:07,790 --> 00:58:11,540 In the Zohar, the primary text of Jewish mysticism, 1040 00:58:11,700 --> 00:58:14,500 a similar story is told. 1041 00:58:14,660 --> 00:58:18,080 Adam actually had parents-- 1042 00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,540 a mother and a father-- 1043 00:58:20,660 --> 00:58:23,160 and that God took Adam 1044 00:58:23,370 --> 00:58:25,580 from whatever place that he came from. 1045 00:58:25,700 --> 00:58:27,620 We don't understand what that is. 1046 00:58:27,790 --> 00:58:30,830 Another dimension, another world-- we don't know. 1047 00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,160 We are half physical, and we are half 1048 00:58:34,290 --> 00:58:36,250 something much greater. 1049 00:58:36,410 --> 00:58:40,870 Celestial, extraterrestrial, divine. 1050 00:58:42,290 --> 00:58:44,500 TSOUKALOS: According to the ancient astronaut theory, 1051 00:58:44,700 --> 00:58:48,830 we were created in the image of the gods, 1052 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:53,370 and those stories are reflected in all of our ancient legends. 1053 00:58:53,580 --> 00:58:57,660 For example, the Native American culture clearly states 1054 00:58:57,790 --> 00:59:01,410 that our entire planet was seeded. 1055 00:59:01,580 --> 00:59:03,370 LOGAN HAWKES: In the ancient American world, 1056 00:59:03,540 --> 00:59:04,830 part of their core belief system is that 1057 00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:08,080 they may not have originated on Earth. 1058 00:59:08,250 --> 00:59:10,910 We know that the Hopi, for example, believed 1059 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:13,200 that they, uh, were brought to the Earth 1060 00:59:13,370 --> 00:59:16,660 by Star People from the Orion system. 1061 00:59:16,830 --> 00:59:19,870 NARRATOR: Is it possible that these ancient accounts 1062 00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,540 reveal the truth behind human genesis? 1063 00:59:23,750 --> 00:59:28,830 And if so, do humanity's origins lie beyond Earth? 1064 00:59:28,950 --> 00:59:32,370 Perhaps further clues can be found by examining 1065 00:59:32,580 --> 00:59:36,080 a strange anomaly in our blood. 1066 00:59:40,790 --> 00:59:41,500 It's fascinating to think about-- 1067 00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:43,790 we're just not really built to survive this planet. 1068 00:59:43,950 --> 00:59:45,580 But because of our high intelligence, 1069 00:59:45,700 --> 00:59:47,080 we are at the top of the food chain. 1070 00:59:47,200 --> 00:59:49,830 Other animals don't have the ability to do things 1071 00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:52,160 like build rocket ships to send them to Mars. 1072 00:59:52,370 --> 00:59:55,500 Well, you have to wonder, of all the millions 1073 00:59:55,660 --> 00:59:58,290 of species on this planet, why are we the only one 1074 00:59:58,370 --> 01:00:01,290 that's evolved to build cities and travel beyond Earth? 1075 01:00:01,450 --> 01:00:03,000 TSOUKALOS: Right. 1076 01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,120 And I think that there are markers that point towards 1077 01:00:06,250 --> 01:00:10,700 a potential ET intervention in our own human species. 1078 01:00:10,870 --> 01:00:14,750 For example, the Rh-negative blood type. 1079 01:00:14,910 --> 01:00:17,750 Everybody agrees that it's very rare, number one. 1080 01:00:17,910 --> 01:00:22,160 Number two, even scientists agree that it is an anomaly. 1081 01:00:22,370 --> 01:00:25,660 And what's even more fascinating is that the great majority 1082 01:00:25,830 --> 01:00:28,500 of modern-day alien abductees, 1083 01:00:28,700 --> 01:00:33,370 they have exactly that Rh-negative blood type. 1084 01:00:36,660 --> 01:00:38,250 NARRATOR: Located between the border 1085 01:00:38,370 --> 01:00:42,120 of Spain and France is the Pyrenees mountain range. 1086 01:00:43,830 --> 01:00:46,500 The people that occupy this isolated region 1087 01:00:46,660 --> 01:00:48,910 are known as the Basque, 1088 01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:53,120 and they have long confounded anthropologists and historians. 1089 01:00:55,200 --> 01:00:58,620 The language spoken by the enclave is not related 1090 01:00:58,790 --> 01:01:01,290 to any other in that part of the world. 1091 01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:06,500 And the population also has the highest concentration 1092 01:01:06,700 --> 01:01:10,040 of Rh-negative blood type in the world. 1093 01:01:12,790 --> 01:01:18,200 Up to 35% of Basque people have Rh-negative blood. 1094 01:01:18,370 --> 01:01:23,000 And Rh-negative blood is one of the most unusual blood types. 1095 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,830 And it's the one blood type that is least likely 1096 01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:31,750 to mutate or interact with other blood types. 1097 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:37,790 NARRATOR: Human blood types are grouped into four distinct designations 1098 01:01:37,910 --> 01:01:42,000 that include O, A, B and AB. 1099 01:01:42,160 --> 01:01:44,700 Additionally, there is another variance 1100 01:01:44,870 --> 01:01:48,000 between blood types known as the Rh factor, 1101 01:01:48,200 --> 01:01:51,500 or Rhesus factor, which is a measure 1102 01:01:51,620 --> 01:01:54,830 of rhesus-based antigens in the blood. 1103 01:01:55,000 --> 01:01:57,080 The name comes from a monkey from India 1104 01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:00,040 and other parts of Asia, which is the rhesus macaque. 1105 01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:03,330 And this monkey was used in experiments 1106 01:02:03,450 --> 01:02:04,870 looking at blood transfusions. 1107 01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,950 How blood was received from recipients varied. 1108 01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:12,660 And it was discovered that the Rhesus factor 1109 01:02:12,870 --> 01:02:15,000 could be positive or negative. 1110 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,080 Most humans in the world are Rhesus-positive. 1111 01:02:20,000 --> 01:02:21,910 ♪ ♪ 1112 01:02:23,790 --> 01:02:25,910 NARRATOR: 85% of humans in the world 1113 01:02:26,080 --> 01:02:28,750 are Rh-positive and have no issues 1114 01:02:28,910 --> 01:02:32,450 receiving blood from positive or negative donors. 1115 01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:36,870 But for the Rh-negative population, 1116 01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:41,750 receiving Rh-positive blood may be fatal, 1117 01:02:41,910 --> 01:02:45,370 as the body will try to destroy the foreign antigens. 1118 01:02:47,540 --> 01:02:49,750 And for women that are Rh-negative, 1119 01:02:49,910 --> 01:02:52,120 mating with an Rh-positive partner 1120 01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,000 could be detrimental to the fetus. 1121 01:03:00,120 --> 01:03:03,830 If a Rhesus-positive and a Rhesus-negative, uh, parents 1122 01:03:03,910 --> 01:03:05,620 were to have an offspring, 1123 01:03:05,790 --> 01:03:08,950 there is a potential danger to the offspring, 1124 01:03:09,120 --> 01:03:12,700 because these two blood types can't interbreed, basically. 1125 01:03:12,870 --> 01:03:14,580 Medical intervention is needed. 1126 01:03:14,700 --> 01:03:17,500 It's why, actually, in the past, people had to have a blood test 1127 01:03:17,700 --> 01:03:19,410 before they were allowed to get married. 1128 01:03:19,540 --> 01:03:23,500 REDFERN: The very fact that an Rh-negative mother, 1129 01:03:23,620 --> 01:03:28,700 her body would actually try to kill an Rh-positive baby, 1130 01:03:28,910 --> 01:03:31,160 generates bizarre scenarios. 1131 01:03:31,250 --> 01:03:32,950 How on earth could this happen? 1132 01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:35,700 It suggests somewhere in our lineage 1133 01:03:35,870 --> 01:03:38,750 that the Rh-negatives and the Rh-positives 1134 01:03:38,910 --> 01:03:41,040 are perceived as being profoundly different. 1135 01:03:41,200 --> 01:03:45,250 And also, studies of Rh-negatives suggest 1136 01:03:45,450 --> 01:03:47,870 that they have lower than normal blood pressure, 1137 01:03:48,040 --> 01:03:49,910 lower than normal pulse. 1138 01:03:50,080 --> 01:03:54,160 In a number of cases, they have an extra vertebra in their back. 1139 01:03:56,750 --> 01:03:58,870 WILL HART: Rh-negative is very rare. 1140 01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:01,200 Most of the world didn't have it 1141 01:04:01,370 --> 01:04:05,160 until colonization started in the 15th century. 1142 01:04:05,330 --> 01:04:07,540 Rh-negative didn't exist in the Americas, 1143 01:04:07,700 --> 01:04:09,580 and it didn't exist in Southern Africa. 1144 01:04:09,700 --> 01:04:11,330 It didn't exist in Asia. 1145 01:04:11,540 --> 01:04:12,790 It was only in Europe. 1146 01:04:12,950 --> 01:04:14,330 So it spread out from there. 1147 01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:18,330 Out of Africa, that theory has it 1148 01:04:18,500 --> 01:04:20,080 that all human beings originated 1149 01:04:20,250 --> 01:04:23,000 in Africa, Southern Africa, sub-Sahara-- 1150 01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,660 they're all Rh-positive. 1151 01:04:25,870 --> 01:04:27,620 They don't have any Rh-negative. 1152 01:04:27,790 --> 01:04:29,870 Where did Rh-negative evolve, then? 1153 01:04:31,120 --> 01:04:36,200 NOORY: 15% of the humans have Rh-negative blood-- 15%. 1154 01:04:37,200 --> 01:04:40,290 And scientists have no idea where it came from. 1155 01:04:40,410 --> 01:04:43,750 What they do believe is that if you have that, 1156 01:04:43,870 --> 01:04:45,790 you may have been evolved 1157 01:04:45,950 --> 01:04:48,500 from a different kind of species on this planet. 1158 01:04:49,660 --> 01:04:54,910 Now, was that species put here, genetically altered, 1159 01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:57,700 or was it just a natural formation of the planet 1160 01:04:57,870 --> 01:05:00,160 in its evolutionary stage? 1161 01:05:00,370 --> 01:05:04,000 Who knows? But the fact is that Rh-negative people-- 1162 01:05:04,160 --> 01:05:06,910 and again, there's 15% of them on this planet-- 1163 01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,870 may have come from outside sources. 1164 01:05:12,410 --> 01:05:15,080 NARRATOR: Could the Rh-negative blood type 1165 01:05:15,250 --> 01:05:18,580 offer evidence of a vastly different prehuman evolution 1166 01:05:18,700 --> 01:05:22,080 than what we are led to believe in our history books? 1167 01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:24,830 Might it offer indisputable proof 1168 01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:29,330 of extraterrestrial intervention in the remote past? 1169 01:05:29,450 --> 01:05:32,410 But if so, is the experimentation 1170 01:05:32,580 --> 01:05:34,700 with intelligent hominin over, 1171 01:05:34,910 --> 01:05:38,410 or is it still taking place? 1172 01:05:44,290 --> 01:05:45,750 You can't have a discussion about the possible 1173 01:05:45,910 --> 01:05:48,330 extraterrestrial influence on human evolution 1174 01:05:48,540 --> 01:05:51,500 without discussing the highly intelligent kids 1175 01:05:51,620 --> 01:05:54,120 being born today, known as the Star Children. 1176 01:05:54,290 --> 01:05:57,870 Right, and not only are they highly intelligent 1177 01:05:58,040 --> 01:06:00,080 but some of them seem to have some sort 1178 01:06:00,290 --> 01:06:01,830 of extrasensory capabilities. 1179 01:06:02,000 --> 01:06:04,910 Like, for example, telekinesis, which allows you 1180 01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:07,750 to move objects without even touching them. 1181 01:06:07,910 --> 01:06:10,000 Or other psychic abilities. 1182 01:06:10,120 --> 01:06:11,660 And here is the thing. 1183 01:06:11,870 --> 01:06:14,120 Some of these cases are documented. 1184 01:06:14,290 --> 01:06:16,540 I remember we talked about the Star Children 1185 01:06:16,700 --> 01:06:18,330 in season six of Ancient Aliens. 1186 01:06:18,540 --> 01:06:20,200 Do you remember what the title of that show was? 1187 01:06:20,370 --> 01:06:22,790 -"The Star Children." -MARTELL: Of course. 1188 01:06:22,950 --> 01:06:24,200 -Go figure. -Figures. 1189 01:06:25,870 --> 01:06:27,370 NARRATOR: Throughout the world, 1190 01:06:27,580 --> 01:06:30,580 there are children who possess astonishing abilities. 1191 01:06:31,910 --> 01:06:36,040 In 2002, Sho Yano graduated summa cum laude 1192 01:06:36,200 --> 01:06:39,950 from Loyola University Chicago at the age of 12. 1193 01:06:41,870 --> 01:06:44,370 Six years later, he received a PhD 1194 01:06:44,540 --> 01:06:47,370 in molecular genetics and cell biology. 1195 01:06:49,500 --> 01:06:51,750 In 2006, six-year-old 1196 01:06:51,910 --> 01:06:54,410 Ainan Celeste Cawley of Singapore, 1197 01:06:54,580 --> 01:06:57,120 who spoke his first words at two weeks old, 1198 01:06:57,290 --> 01:07:01,370 gave a science lecture about acid and alkaloids. 1199 01:07:02,700 --> 01:07:06,120 And in 2013, Adam Kirby became 1200 01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,000 the youngest member of British Mensa 1201 01:07:08,160 --> 01:07:09,950 at just two years old, 1202 01:07:10,120 --> 01:07:13,950 scoring 141 on an IQ test 1203 01:07:14,080 --> 01:07:17,660 and reading books by the age of ten months. 1204 01:07:19,450 --> 01:07:22,500 Highly gifted children often know things 1205 01:07:22,620 --> 01:07:23,950 that they shouldn't know. 1206 01:07:24,160 --> 01:07:26,160 They often surprise us 1207 01:07:26,370 --> 01:07:29,500 with the things they're able to understand at very young ages. 1208 01:07:30,450 --> 01:07:33,450 And they're able to bring together 1209 01:07:33,620 --> 01:07:37,000 disparate pieces of information from history, 1210 01:07:37,160 --> 01:07:40,080 scientific discovery and their own experiences 1211 01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:42,290 and heightened intuitive sense. 1212 01:07:43,370 --> 01:07:45,000 NARRATOR: Throughout human history, 1213 01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:47,330 there have been children who stand out 1214 01:07:47,500 --> 01:07:51,160 for their advanced knowledge and incredible abilities. 1215 01:07:52,200 --> 01:07:55,120 But are these uniquely talented and intelligent children 1216 01:07:55,250 --> 01:07:57,500 simply the product of good genetics? 1217 01:07:57,660 --> 01:08:00,830 Or could there be another explanation 1218 01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,080 for why some children display abilities 1219 01:08:03,290 --> 01:08:05,580 far beyond their years? 1220 01:08:05,750 --> 01:08:08,250 Some ancient astronaut theorists 1221 01:08:08,410 --> 01:08:10,660 believe there are children born here on Earth 1222 01:08:10,830 --> 01:08:15,000 who have a connection to beings from beyond our world. 1223 01:08:15,160 --> 01:08:17,790 They call them Star Children. 1224 01:08:18,830 --> 01:08:22,450 When we see these Star Children, these children who are gifted 1225 01:08:22,620 --> 01:08:24,790 with extraordinary human function... 1226 01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:28,580 ...born seeming to know things already, 1227 01:08:28,700 --> 01:08:32,120 show that there is some sort of interaction going on 1228 01:08:32,290 --> 01:08:35,160 with a nonphysical intelligence. 1229 01:08:36,330 --> 01:08:39,830 DAVID WEATHERLY: The concept is that children are being born 1230 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,200 with a higher level of awareness. 1231 01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:45,700 These kids, many people believe, 1232 01:08:45,870 --> 01:08:48,000 are being born in order to help 1233 01:08:48,200 --> 01:08:50,620 usher in a true new age, 1234 01:08:50,750 --> 01:08:52,370 a time of peace, 1235 01:08:52,540 --> 01:08:55,500 a time of a greater consciousness 1236 01:08:55,660 --> 01:08:59,330 and greater prosperity for the planet. 1237 01:08:59,450 --> 01:09:02,750 What is commonly termed the Star Children 1238 01:09:02,910 --> 01:09:05,450 has always been with the American Indian people 1239 01:09:05,620 --> 01:09:07,500 throughout the ages. 1240 01:09:07,700 --> 01:09:10,160 And, uh, these are special children. 1241 01:09:10,330 --> 01:09:12,500 They're the ones that can heal with their hands. 1242 01:09:13,950 --> 01:09:17,370 These Star Children are said to have lots of special qualities. 1243 01:09:17,540 --> 01:09:21,160 Their psychic abilities are quite enhanced. 1244 01:09:21,330 --> 01:09:25,000 And so these Star Children, in a way, are some new race 1245 01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,200 that's living amongst us right now. 1246 01:09:29,750 --> 01:09:33,410 NARRATOR: Is it possible that some of the world's most gifted children 1247 01:09:33,580 --> 01:09:36,540 really have an otherworldly connection? 1248 01:09:36,700 --> 01:09:40,160 A connection that endows them with special gifts 1249 01:09:40,290 --> 01:09:44,040 and the power to transform society? 1250 01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:46,330 Today there is evidence 1251 01:09:46,540 --> 01:09:49,000 that a higher number of unusually gifted children 1252 01:09:49,200 --> 01:09:52,290 are being born than ever before. 1253 01:09:55,620 --> 01:09:57,450 WILCOCK: There is genetic evidence 1254 01:09:57,620 --> 01:10:00,250 to prove that humans are evolving 1255 01:10:00,450 --> 01:10:02,830 at a rapid rate of speed. 1256 01:10:03,000 --> 01:10:07,040 For example, an anthropologist from the University of Wisconsin 1257 01:10:07,200 --> 01:10:10,910 named Professor John Hawks studied human DNA, 1258 01:10:11,120 --> 01:10:15,160 and what he found was that in the past 5,000 years alone 1259 01:10:15,330 --> 01:10:19,200 human DNA has evolved by seven percent 1260 01:10:19,370 --> 01:10:21,330 in its overall genetic structure. 1261 01:10:21,450 --> 01:10:23,370 That is a staggering amount. 1262 01:10:23,500 --> 01:10:26,830 Every decade, we're getting smarter and smarter and smarter. 1263 01:10:29,200 --> 01:10:32,290 NARRATOR: But those who have studied the Star Children phenomenon 1264 01:10:32,410 --> 01:10:34,660 say that these unusually gifted children 1265 01:10:34,830 --> 01:10:39,330 display more than just superior intelligence. 1266 01:10:39,500 --> 01:10:43,120 RICHARD BOYLAN: Star Kids are advanced in several departments. 1267 01:10:43,250 --> 01:10:45,250 These kids are much brighter 1268 01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:49,290 than the old-school child of a previous generation. 1269 01:10:49,450 --> 01:10:51,700 They are very sensitive. 1270 01:10:51,870 --> 01:10:53,700 They are compassionate. 1271 01:10:53,870 --> 01:10:56,830 They have a mission sense. 1272 01:10:57,040 --> 01:11:02,370 They're using, uh, special gifts they have as advanced Star Kids. 1273 01:11:02,500 --> 01:11:05,290 For example, in the area of telepathy. 1274 01:11:05,370 --> 01:11:07,500 They can pick up on things 1275 01:11:07,660 --> 01:11:11,000 that somebody else is thinking or sensing. 1276 01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:13,910 Parents of Star Children 1277 01:11:14,040 --> 01:11:16,330 know that their children are different. 1278 01:11:16,500 --> 01:11:19,080 Maybe their child is psychic and talking about 1279 01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,620 seeing things that other people can't see. 1280 01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:25,330 Or hearing things other people can't hear, 1281 01:11:25,540 --> 01:11:29,000 or knowing things that other people don't know. 1282 01:11:30,330 --> 01:11:33,700 Some of the Star Children have very high energy. 1283 01:11:33,870 --> 01:11:38,540 They can go long periods without sleeping, without eating. 1284 01:11:38,660 --> 01:11:41,750 It's just not your normal, typical child. 1285 01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:45,790 NARRATOR: According to Nikki Pattillo, 1286 01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:50,330 her daughter Maddy has told her that her home is in the sky 1287 01:11:50,500 --> 01:11:53,660 and has displayed numerous astonishing abilities 1288 01:11:53,870 --> 01:11:56,950 like telekinesis and psychic visions. 1289 01:11:58,450 --> 01:12:00,700 But could ten-year-old Maddy Pattillo 1290 01:12:00,870 --> 01:12:03,950 really have superhuman abilities? 1291 01:12:05,200 --> 01:12:09,160 If so, where did they come from? 1292 01:12:09,330 --> 01:12:11,250 OLDHAM: Science tells us that 1293 01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:14,160 in addition to the two-strand double-helix DNA 1294 01:12:14,330 --> 01:12:16,540 there's an additional ten etheric strands of DNA 1295 01:12:16,700 --> 01:12:18,540 that is dormant in humans 1296 01:12:18,700 --> 01:12:20,580 and has been since recorded history. 1297 01:12:20,750 --> 01:12:23,330 It's highly possible that alien creators 1298 01:12:23,450 --> 01:12:25,500 have designed us this way 1299 01:12:25,700 --> 01:12:29,000 and certain individuals are chosen throughout time 1300 01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,160 to awaken these dormant strands 1301 01:12:31,330 --> 01:12:33,830 in order to help mankind advance. 1302 01:12:37,040 --> 01:12:38,620 NARRATOR: Are Star Children really 1303 01:12:38,790 --> 01:12:42,080 tapping into something inherent in our DNA? 1304 01:12:42,250 --> 01:12:44,410 According to geneticist David Reich 1305 01:12:44,620 --> 01:12:48,000 of the Harvard Medical School, there is, in fact, 1306 01:12:48,160 --> 01:12:52,700 something mysterious inside us that has yet to be identified. 1307 01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,750 In his study published in the fall of 2013, 1308 01:12:57,910 --> 01:13:00,830 Reich examined the genome of Neanderthals 1309 01:13:01,040 --> 01:13:05,250 and another group of ancient hominids known as Denisovans, 1310 01:13:05,410 --> 01:13:08,330 both of which interbred with humans. 1311 01:13:10,200 --> 01:13:12,250 He discovered that their DNA, 1312 01:13:12,410 --> 01:13:15,450 dating back more than 400,000 years, 1313 01:13:15,580 --> 01:13:18,500 contains an unknown ancestor. 1314 01:13:19,870 --> 01:13:22,040 Now, this is incredibly exciting to me 1315 01:13:22,200 --> 01:13:23,910 because I've always maintained 1316 01:13:24,080 --> 01:13:28,290 that what some geneticists currently refer to as junk DNA 1317 01:13:28,500 --> 01:13:30,450 might not be junk after all. 1318 01:13:30,580 --> 01:13:33,870 And this study proves this in part. 1319 01:13:34,040 --> 01:13:36,000 DNA is a code. 1320 01:13:36,200 --> 01:13:40,660 And just because its code hasn't been cracked yet 1321 01:13:40,830 --> 01:13:43,080 doesn't mean it's actually junk. 1322 01:13:43,290 --> 01:13:45,120 And to speculate even further, 1323 01:13:45,290 --> 01:13:50,500 what if this unknown species was not of earthly origin 1324 01:13:50,660 --> 01:13:54,540 and every human being already is part alien? 1325 01:14:01,250 --> 01:14:01,750 It's clear that there have been 1326 01:14:02,750 --> 01:14:03,200 huge leaps forward in our evolution, but then the question 1327 01:14:03,750 --> 01:14:04,870 always comes up: Where did it begin? 1328 01:14:05,040 --> 01:14:07,700 Well, there's a theory known as panspermia, 1329 01:14:07,870 --> 01:14:11,290 and when Ancient Aliens first premiered over 15 years ago, 1330 01:14:11,500 --> 01:14:13,450 most scientists dismissed it, 1331 01:14:13,620 --> 01:14:16,080 but many believe now that it's true. 1332 01:14:16,290 --> 01:14:19,330 And this is the idea that life first arrived on Earth 1333 01:14:19,540 --> 01:14:21,500 via a comet or a meteor. 1334 01:14:21,700 --> 01:14:24,660 But some go further and say this wasn't just chance; 1335 01:14:24,790 --> 01:14:27,540 it was aimed here deliberately 1336 01:14:27,660 --> 01:14:30,120 by an intelligent extraterrestrial species. 1337 01:14:30,290 --> 01:14:32,120 Right, so it's very possible 1338 01:14:32,250 --> 01:14:36,580 that that is how Homo sapiens first emerged on Earth. 1339 01:14:36,750 --> 01:14:39,750 And then later, the extraterrestrials visited 1340 01:14:39,910 --> 01:14:43,870 in order to continue their manipulation of our DNA. 1341 01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:47,450 Because we now know that life can survive 1342 01:14:47,660 --> 01:14:49,660 when traveling in space, 1343 01:14:49,830 --> 01:14:52,830 so this idea that it all began elsewhere 1344 01:14:52,950 --> 01:14:57,000 is definitely in the realm of the possible. 1345 01:14:58,540 --> 01:15:00,500 NARRATOR: Huntsville, Alabama. 1346 01:15:00,700 --> 01:15:04,080 NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. 1347 01:15:04,290 --> 01:15:07,160 Here, in March of 2011, 1348 01:15:07,330 --> 01:15:11,500 astrobiologist Richard Hoover reports the extraordinary news 1349 01:15:11,580 --> 01:15:14,620 that he found microfossil organisms-- 1350 01:15:14,790 --> 01:15:18,370 or ancient bacteria-- inside rare meteorites 1351 01:15:18,500 --> 01:15:21,000 that are more than four billion years old, 1352 01:15:21,160 --> 01:15:24,870 dating back to the birth of our solar system. 1353 01:15:26,540 --> 01:15:29,620 Until recently, scientists did not believe 1354 01:15:29,790 --> 01:15:32,750 life could survive the rigors of space travel. 1355 01:15:32,910 --> 01:15:35,250 But Hoover's finding suggests 1356 01:15:35,410 --> 01:15:37,790 that live bacteria made it to Earth 1357 01:15:37,910 --> 01:15:41,040 and may have even taken root here. 1358 01:15:43,410 --> 01:15:45,370 ♪ ♪ 1359 01:15:45,540 --> 01:15:49,200 TERENZI: Microorganism trapped inside comets 1360 01:15:49,370 --> 01:15:51,950 can survive the travel 1361 01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:53,660 through interplanetary space 1362 01:15:53,830 --> 01:15:55,910 and interstellar space. 1363 01:15:56,080 --> 01:15:59,500 And the reason is that microorganism 1364 01:15:59,700 --> 01:16:02,700 are trapped in the rocky core. 1365 01:16:02,910 --> 01:16:08,120 Around, you have a thick shield of icy material. 1366 01:16:08,290 --> 01:16:13,660 And on top, you have a stratification of dust. 1367 01:16:13,870 --> 01:16:18,330 Dust is highly effective in shielding 1368 01:16:18,540 --> 01:16:22,250 the microorganism from ultraviolet light. 1369 01:16:22,450 --> 01:16:25,950 So comet are an excellent vehicle 1370 01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:30,830 to transport microorganism single-cell life, 1371 01:16:30,950 --> 01:16:34,660 amino acid in the vastness of space. 1372 01:16:37,500 --> 01:16:39,790 REDFERN: Instead of aliens coming to the Earth in UFOs 1373 01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:43,870 in classic Hollywood terms, a microbial piece of life 1374 01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:45,870 comes to the Earth on a meteorite, 1375 01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:48,580 survives entry into our atmosphere, 1376 01:16:48,700 --> 01:16:51,830 crashes on the planet and begins to thrive. 1377 01:16:55,500 --> 01:16:57,330 NARRATOR: The theory that life on Earth 1378 01:16:57,540 --> 01:17:00,000 began with alien organisms landing here 1379 01:17:00,160 --> 01:17:03,700 from other parts of the universe is controversial. 1380 01:17:05,290 --> 01:17:08,700 Called panspermia, one of the most vocal proponents 1381 01:17:08,870 --> 01:17:11,660 of this theory was Sir Francis Crick, 1382 01:17:11,830 --> 01:17:17,580 a British scientist who codiscovered DNA in 1953. 1383 01:17:17,750 --> 01:17:21,250 PETER FIEBAG (translated): Francis Crick, codiscoverer 1384 01:17:21,410 --> 01:17:24,080 of the double helix in cells, 1385 01:17:24,200 --> 01:17:26,620 said that all this can't happen by chance 1386 01:17:26,830 --> 01:17:29,660 but has to have been engineered. 1387 01:17:29,870 --> 01:17:32,950 One of his arguments is that the rotation of the DNA 1388 01:17:33,120 --> 01:17:36,200 is in the same direction for all living things. 1389 01:17:37,410 --> 01:17:40,540 Had DNA developed on Earth, it would probably have had 1390 01:17:40,700 --> 01:17:42,790 a 50-50 distribution, 1391 01:17:42,870 --> 01:17:45,750 and that's exactly what we don't have. 1392 01:17:49,870 --> 01:17:51,500 NOORY: One of the reasons why I think 1393 01:17:51,700 --> 01:17:55,500 the theory of panspermia is so incredible 1394 01:17:55,660 --> 01:17:58,120 is that it tells you that there's life 1395 01:17:58,290 --> 01:18:00,160 throughout the universe. 1396 01:18:01,330 --> 01:18:03,330 If panspermia is correct, 1397 01:18:03,450 --> 01:18:07,540 life came here on comets or meteorites 1398 01:18:07,700 --> 01:18:09,870 and we're being seeded not only on this planet 1399 01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:11,660 but other planets as well. 1400 01:18:11,870 --> 01:18:14,330 And it could be part of the great design. 1401 01:18:16,830 --> 01:18:18,830 BIRNES: It is the intentional... 1402 01:18:19,040 --> 01:18:24,500 the deliberate colonization of other planets, other worlds 1403 01:18:24,620 --> 01:18:27,000 by an intelligent race of beings 1404 01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:30,410 using not flying saucers landing in the desert somewhere 1405 01:18:30,540 --> 01:18:32,160 or in the middle of a city 1406 01:18:32,330 --> 01:18:34,830 but the best way to colonize a planet-- 1407 01:18:35,040 --> 01:18:37,580 you colonize it with your own DNA 1408 01:18:37,750 --> 01:18:41,000 and let the DNA sprout into your own species. 1409 01:18:42,200 --> 01:18:45,080 REDFERN: In terms of our science and technology today, 1410 01:18:45,250 --> 01:18:48,950 we have the ability to extract cells and DNA 1411 01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:52,660 at a genetic level and save them. 1412 01:18:52,870 --> 01:18:54,870 That's how we have so-called test-tube babies 1413 01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:56,870 for couples who can't have babies. 1414 01:18:57,040 --> 01:19:01,000 We preserve the materials for when they're needed. 1415 01:19:01,120 --> 01:19:03,790 And the day may well come when we send into outer space 1416 01:19:03,870 --> 01:19:06,000 the equivalent of, like, Noah's Ark, 1417 01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,330 but instead of sending literal animals, 1418 01:19:08,500 --> 01:19:12,450 we send their essence, their DNA, their genetic makeup. 1419 01:19:14,330 --> 01:19:15,540 I don't rule out the idea 1420 01:19:15,700 --> 01:19:17,500 that we could seed a whole new world. 1421 01:19:17,620 --> 01:19:19,700 ♪ ♪ 1422 01:19:21,950 --> 01:19:24,200 NARRATOR: Today scientists know that only 1423 01:19:24,370 --> 01:19:27,500 about five percent of the DNA contained in our genes 1424 01:19:27,660 --> 01:19:30,660 is used to reproduce human beings. 1425 01:19:30,870 --> 01:19:34,080 The remainder is an undecipherable code, 1426 01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:37,700 once referred to as junk DNA. 1427 01:19:37,870 --> 01:19:39,120 But is it really possible 1428 01:19:39,290 --> 01:19:43,160 that so much of our DNA is unnecessary? 1429 01:19:43,330 --> 01:19:46,540 Or might the majority of our DNA be decoded 1430 01:19:46,700 --> 01:19:49,080 sometime in the future? 1431 01:19:49,250 --> 01:19:51,830 And when it is, what might our DNA reveal 1432 01:19:52,000 --> 01:19:55,620 about the origin of modern man? 1433 01:19:55,790 --> 01:19:58,870 TSOUKALOS: Just because we cannot decipher 1434 01:19:59,080 --> 01:20:02,790 95% of our genetic material 1435 01:20:02,950 --> 01:20:07,500 doesn't necessarily mean that that 95% is, 1436 01:20:07,660 --> 01:20:10,000 in fact, useless. 1437 01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,830 Nature is extremely efficient. 1438 01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:20,160 DNA is the most powerful storage device in the universe. 1439 01:20:20,330 --> 01:20:23,160 Not even with all the supercomputers 1440 01:20:23,370 --> 01:20:25,080 combined in the world 1441 01:20:25,250 --> 01:20:27,660 could we store as much information 1442 01:20:27,790 --> 01:20:30,870 as we could store on DNA. 1443 01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:34,160 So I'm suggesting that the ultimate proof 1444 01:20:34,370 --> 01:20:38,040 of extraterrestrial life will not be found 1445 01:20:38,250 --> 01:20:41,830 in a crashed spaceship or in a text, 1446 01:20:42,040 --> 01:20:47,080 but it will be found within our own genes. 1447 01:20:49,620 --> 01:20:52,250 We have so much to learn from studying our own DNA. 1448 01:20:52,370 --> 01:20:54,830 We're only just now beginning to decode 1449 01:20:55,040 --> 01:20:57,450 the human DNA sequence. 1450 01:20:58,830 --> 01:21:01,830 And as we do that, what we may discover 1451 01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,500 is that extraterrestrial DNA 1452 01:21:04,700 --> 01:21:08,540 is built into our own genetics. 1453 01:21:08,700 --> 01:21:12,200 NOORY: Whatever is out there created the universe, 1454 01:21:12,410 --> 01:21:15,700 this planet and other planets and life. 1455 01:21:15,870 --> 01:21:18,830 And I strongly believe that this tie-in 1456 01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:23,500 with whether gods and ETs were one and the same 1457 01:21:23,620 --> 01:21:25,370 might very well be the case. 1458 01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:30,000 It does not take away from the fact 1459 01:21:30,160 --> 01:21:33,500 that there's a god, that there's a higher power, 1460 01:21:33,660 --> 01:21:37,290 that there's some creation out there that made the ETs. 1461 01:21:37,450 --> 01:21:41,290 But I think that layer between God and man 1462 01:21:41,450 --> 01:21:43,160 is right in the middle, 1463 01:21:43,330 --> 01:21:46,080 and that's extraterrestrials from other planets. 1464 01:21:46,250 --> 01:21:48,120 ♪ ♪ 1465 01:21:49,910 --> 01:21:52,250 I wonder sometimes, is it possible 1466 01:21:52,450 --> 01:21:54,910 that we're getting periodic upgrades to our DNA 1467 01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:57,200 that help us make these large leaps forward? 1468 01:21:57,410 --> 01:22:01,750 That plays to exactly what we see unfolding in front of us. 1469 01:22:01,910 --> 01:22:03,620 The question is: What are we dealing with? 1470 01:22:03,790 --> 01:22:09,370 And if Earth, if humanity is some sort of experiment, 1471 01:22:09,540 --> 01:22:11,200 some sort of project, well, 1472 01:22:11,370 --> 01:22:13,790 you don't take your eye off your own creation. 1473 01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:15,700 Somebody is watching closely, 1474 01:22:15,870 --> 01:22:18,830 and somebody perhaps is making adjustments. 1475 01:22:19,000 --> 01:22:22,290 And that is exactly why our ancestors 1476 01:22:22,450 --> 01:22:25,410 referred to them as the Watchers-- 1477 01:22:25,580 --> 01:22:27,330 'cause they watched. 1478 01:22:27,450 --> 01:22:32,000 And, you know, nobody ever said that the watching stopped. 1479 01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:36,540 And in my opinion, that is because 1480 01:22:36,700 --> 01:22:39,830 we are hybrid beings. 1481 01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,830 We are half human and half extraterrestrial. 1482 01:22:43,000 --> 01:22:45,200 It's loaded into us. 1483 01:22:45,370 --> 01:22:48,830 It's preprogrammed that our origin 1484 01:22:49,000 --> 01:22:51,660 is not down here but it's out there. 1485 01:22:51,830 --> 01:22:54,450 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A E NETWORKS