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NARRATOR: Legends of ant men.

SCIENTIST: They have antennae.

They have elongated skulls.

NARRATOR: Beetles buried
with Egyptian mummies.

GENE KRITSKY: The scarab was
critical for the Resurrection.

NARRATOR: And swarms of
locusts targeting humans.

MIKE BARA: It's almost
as if the locusts

themselves were programmed.

NARRATOR: In cultures
throughout the world,

insects have been
worshipped, feared,

and even thought of as gods.

But might these
strange creatures

that have inhabited earth for
hundreds of millions of years

provide a link to
extraterrestrial beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: The idea that
insect aliens are coming here

to this planet,
interacting with humans,

may well be based
on something real.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we have been
visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, is there a connection
between aliens and insects?

The Nile Delta--

Egypt.

A small, centimeters-wide trail
is cut in the desert floor

by the rolling cocoon
of a dung beetle.

This strange looking 2 inch long
insect, also called a scarab,

uses the dung as both
a source of nourishment

and a place for
storing its eggs.

It will roll the ball
in a straight line,

despite all obstacles, and
is the only insect on Earth

known to navigate by
following the light

of the Milky Way galaxy.

Biologists just made
this discovery in 2013.

But 5,000 years ago, with
presumably no knowledge

of its unique
connection to the stars,

the ancient Egyptians held
the scarab as a sacred symbol

representing a link to the gods.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Interesting
that a great civilization

could pay so much
attention to a little bug.

But it appears constantly
throughout the Egyptian temples

and the hieroglyphics as
a very frequent image.

NARRATOR: At the temple
of Karnak, overlooking

the sacred lake where
the pharaohs received

their coronation, a
giant scarab beetle

stands watch representing
the Egyptian God Khepri.

GENE KRITSKY: The Egyptians saw
the sun moving across the sky

during the day.

Also around the desert
sands, you'd see

beetles moving balls of dung.

And so the Egyptians
thought that the force that

moved the sun across the sky
was a giant scarab beetle God

Khepri.

And they believe
that the sun was

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

or his flying machine.

And the thing that
moved it, they believe,

was this scarab-headed
god, Khepri.

And the scarab
represented Khepri--

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

It was basically a
pilot to the gods.

NARRATOR: But could there
be another explanation

for why the Egyptians
regarded Khepri as a pilot?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the representation

of Khepri as a
scarab, and sometimes

as a human with a scarab
head may have been inspired

by actual contact the Egyptians
had with an otherworldly being.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has
to wonder whether or not

these beings actually existed,
because the ancient Egyptians

were incredibly proud
in carving their history

into countless of walls.

And according to the
ancient astronaut theory,

we all came about
through a deliberate

mutation of our genes.

And so it is entirely
possible, in my opinion,

that some of those creatures
that we see depicted

in reliefs and in
carvings might have

actually existed in the past.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
the ancient Egyptians

could have encountered
alien beings that

had an insect-like appearance?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and as further evidence,
point to the fact

that the Egyptians'
obsession with the scarab

also extended to their
funerary rituals.

The Valley of the Kings,
Egypt, November 1922.

Archeologist Howard
Carter discovers

the tomb of King Tutankhamen.

Among the treasure trove
of artifacts found inside

is the young pharaoh's
breastplate, which features

a scarab as the centerpiece.

The scarab is made of a yellow
silica glass stone procured

from the Sahara,
originally formed

28 million years ago
when the sand was

superheated by a comet strike.

But why would the ancient
Egyptians place a scarab--

and one sculpted from material
produced by a cosmic event--

at the center of their
pharaoh's funerary breastplate?

Curiously, scarabs always
played an integral role

in the Egyptians'
mummification process,

often included during
the wrapping of the body.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO: In
between those wrappings,

the Egyptians put
a number of charms

which served not just
a preservation function

but a magical function.

GENE KRITSKY: There
was a heart scarab,

which was placed on the body.

We also find other
scarabs sometimes knitted

into the linen of the deceased.

The scarab was thought to be
critical for the Resurrection

because of its power and the
necessity for it to be present

when the sun rose
in the morning.

The idea was is that the soul
or even the body of the person

that had departed was
carried by scarab beetles

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

It's almost as if
the scarab beetle

was some kind of device--

not an insect, but a
device that actually allows

travel from one
place to another.

Where did the
Egyptians get the idea

of resurrection and
this idea that we

could be reborn as star beings?

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

NARRATOR: Could the inclusion
of scarab-shaped objects

in the mummification
process have

been inspired by
an actual encounter

with the scarab god Khepri?

To some ancient
astronaut theorists,

it's not just the presence
of scarabs that suggest

the Egyptians made a
connection between insects

and the afterlife.

They say the mummification
process also mimics

insect metamorphosis itself.

MIKE BARA: The similarities
between mummification

and the cocooning process
that a caterpillar

goes through before
it becomes a moth

are really quite incredible.

I think what the Egyptians were
trying to do is actually cocoon

the human being so that when
he emerged into the next life

at the next level up,
he would be transformed

into something
greater, more powerful,

and epically more beautiful.

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

with a pupa or a chrysalis in
which the caterpillar actually

creates a hard outer
shell around itself

and the material of
the caterpillar's body

actually turns into
a broth before it

reconstitutes into
what ultimately

emerges as a butterfly.

NARRATOR: While most people
associate metamorphosis

with a caterpillar
transforming into a butterfly,

beetles like the scarab undergo
a complete metamorphosis,

as well.

The hatched larva
inside the ball of dung

emerges fully developed
and capable of flight.

To the ancient
Egyptians, it seemed

the sacred scarab
had miraculously

regenerated inside its cocoon.

The actual scarab
beetle in ancient Egyptian

was called something
that means, "he

that comes from nowhere,"
which is basically

what the name Khepri means.

He comes from nowhere.

He can make himself exist.

NARRATOR: Much like the scarab
emerging from its cocoon,

the Egyptians believed
a mummified body could

rise from its sarcophagus
as a transformed beam

and live once again.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO:
Part of the soul

was inexorably
attached to the body.

So in order for that
part of the soul

to live on in the
afterlife, the body

had to be preserved as
closely as possible to the way

that it had existed in life.

GENE KRITSKY: The idea
of the Egyptian soul

is so alien from
our own that it's

difficult to put parallels on.

For example, the Egyptians'
concept of the soul

had five parts.

The [non-english]
and the [non-english]

are two in particular.

And part of their mythology
was that the [non-english] must

return to the body, enter
the body, so that the body

can rise and live again.

It's possible that the
mummification process

was some kind of
replication of this process

that the extraterrestrials
went through,

and even the possibility
that the mummies themselves

were going into some
kind of larval stage

and suspended animation
where they would emerge

eventually into some
kind of new body

like the extraterrestrials did.

NARRATOR: While the scarab
dominates Egyptian symbolism,

another beetle common to
this part of the world,

the buprestid beetle, has a
direct tie to the Egyptians'

most important God--

Osiris.

GENE KRITSKY: Buprestid beetles,
when bothered by a predator,

actually tuck their legs
up and lie perfectly still.

And the way they hold
their limbs is very

similar to the way Osiris
would be represented

in some tomb paintings.

Well, it turns out
the buprestid beetle

is found in the tamarisk wood.

And that is the wood that
comes from a tree that

was part of the Osiris legend.

It actually becomes
the Djed Pillar.

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

And it's a beautiful
beetle inside.

And so it's quite
possible that this beetle

may have a relationship to
the mummification process.

NARRATOR: But does the ancient
Egyptian worship of a beetle

really suggest an encounter with
insect-like extraterrestrials?

Could they be mimicking
misunderstood technology?

Or might there be
another explanation?

Perhaps further
clues can be found

in the numerous ancient
stories of ant people.

Cambridge University,
England, 2013--

using a high speed camera
with intense magnification,

scientists from the
Department of Zoology

record the movement of
a plant-hopping insect

called issus.

Examining the footage, they
make a shocking discovery.

The movement of the issus is
powered by mechanical gears.

It is the world's first
evidence of mechanical gearing

in a biological structure.

This natural cog
mechanism allows the issus

to make powerful jumps
with the gear teeth

on the opposing hind legs
locking together like those

in the gearbox of a car,
ensuring almost complete

synchronicity of leg movement.

But how did a biological
entity develop

mechanisms that appear manmade?

GENE KRITSKY: Insects
are essentially

evolution's tinkertoy set.

Insects were the first animal
group to evolve the ability

to fly on their own power.

Insects have an
exoskeleton which

is almost like a living armor.

NARRATOR: In terms
of sheer numbers,

insects are by far the most
dominant life form on Earth.

And with over 1 million
different species,

they also remain
the most mysterious.

GENE KRITSKY: Insects
appeared on the Earth

over 400 million years before
humans appeared on the Earth.

They were incredibly
successful well

before the age of the dinosaurs
and a long time before humans.

IAN RECCHIO: About half of the
living creatures on the planet

belong to the group of insects.

They've really found
ways to inhabit just

about every ecological
niche in nature.

They have compound eyes,
which in some cases,

they can see into the
ranges that humans cannot,

like ultraviolet.

GENE KRITSKY: They have
a very sophisticated

sensory system that makes
them different from what

we can perceive.

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

on their body.

When they land on you,
they're smelling you.

They're tasting you.

They're feeling you.

There are upwards
of a million species

of insects involved so far.

So we may think of
ourselves as being special,

but in reality, insects are
the most successful animal

group that's ever evolved.

NARRATOR: In the more than
400 million years that insects

are believed to
have existed, no bug

has thrived more than the ant.

GENE KRITSKY: Ants are among the
most successful animal groups

that we see on the
face of the Earth.

One out of every four
individual animals on the face

of the earth is an ant.

Ants are incredible insects.

And they're highly evolved.

NARRATOR: In size
and appearance,

ants and humans could
not be more different.

But interestingly, in
many ways, these tiny bugs

are more like us than any other
creature in the animal kingdom.

GENE KRITSKY: Ants have
a social system where

they have a division of labor.

You have a reproductive queen.

You have males that will
mate with the queen.

You have sub reproductives
that can leave the colony

and start new colonies.

Then you've got a
series of workers.

And then there are
specialized workers.

They're soldiers that can
actually protect the colony

if they're under attack.

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

NARRATOR: But how is it
that the behavior of ants

mirrors that of humans
in so many ways?

Is it simply coincidence, or
could ants and humans be more

closely related than we think?

Ancient Greece.

In both Homer's "Iliad"
and Ovid's "Metamorphosis,"

there was a group of warriors
known as the Myrmidon, who

are born of mysterious origins.

According to the
"Ovid," King Aeacus

of Aegina pleads with the
god Zeus to repopulate

his plague-ravaged country.

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

and turn into men.

He awakes the next morning to
find his dream has come true.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The
story of the Myrmidons

is that they were ants
made into warriors.

They were said to have
fought with Achilles at Troy.

And they were very effective.

MIKE BARA: The descriptions
of the ant people

are very, very accurate
in terms of the behavior

of the insect the ant itself.

They were very loyal.

They moved together as one,
almost at a hive mentality.

GENE KRITSKY: The
Myrmidons were thought

to be the first to
develop ships and to sail

under their own power.

This ability to be
organized like an army

comes from the ants marching
in a nice, linear fashion.

The idea about being
the first to sail

comes from the ants'
ability to raft.

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

Other ants will climb on top.

And this little mound
of ants will float

around on the surface of water.

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

They were well-trained.

They were organized,
just like ants.

MIKE BARA: These descriptions
are so vivid and so accurate

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

done is actually some sort
of genetic crossbreeding

between humans and
insects in order to create

this army of ant people.

You're dealing with an
extremely advanced technology

that really, really understands
how to use genetic manipulation

to create new species.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Myrmidons depicted

in the ancient Greek
stories were actually

some type of ant
and human hybrid

manufactured by an alien being?

Ancient astronaut
theorists claim

further evidence
that ants may have

a connection to
extraterrestrials

can be found in stories
throughout numerous cultures.

In the Muslim holy
book, the Quran,

there is a story of ants
speaking like humans.

In parts of Africa, ants
are considered to be

the messengers of the gods.

And Native American tribes
like the Hopi and Zuni

tell stories of
the ant people who

emerge from beneath the earth.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN:
The ant people

is a very interesting subject
when it comes to looking

at the Hopi belief system.

The ant people, number one,
are caretakers of the Earth.

NARRATOR: Unlike the
Myrmidons of Greek mythology,

the ant people of the
Native American stories

don't just behave like ants.

They resemble them, as well.

GARY DAVID: They
have spindly arms.

They have antenna.

They have elongated skulls.

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

They are not simply
a fable or a parable.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
If one explores

the question of insectoid alien
life, then my question is,

why not?

Because if life is pervasive
throughout the entire universe,

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

So the idea that insectoid
aliens might exist

is very possible to me.

However, I think the idea
came from our ancestors

witnessing physical features
that made them look like ants

or could be best
described as ants.

DAVID WILCOCK: You look
at the face of an ant,

we look at the
head of an ant, we

see large, buggy
eyes widely spaced

on the face and a large head.

So this could be an illustration
of people seeing beings

like what we now call the
greys and associating it

with something that's
familiar to them.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the ant people that appear

in both Greek and Native
American mythology

were really gray aliens?

Or might they even be human
insect hybrids engineered

by otherworldly beings?

Perhaps the answer can
be found in the accounts

of those who claim to have been
victims of alien abductions.

The Kalahari Desert--

South Africa.

The indigenous
people of this area

called the San represent one of
the oldest existing populations

on Earth with a
culture that dates back

approximately 80,000 years.

According to the origin story
of this ancient society,

the first humans were created
not by traditional gods,

but by insects.

According to the San
people, the origin of humans

lies with the praying mantis.

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

to carry him across
a raging river.

And the bee did so.

He carried the praying
mantis across the river

and deposited him on a leaf.

But before leaving, the
exhausted bee left an egg

inside the praying mantis.

And that egg is the source
of all human beings.

NARRATOR: But where
did the San people

get the idea that humans were
created by a praying mantis?

Curiously, the
San tradition also

holds that a praying
mantis gave early humans

the gifts of language and fire.

And one of their
most important gods,

IKaggen, the creator
of the world,

often took the form of a mantis.

These San people
of South Africa

had a fascinating theology.

Their God was known
as IKaggen. And

IKaggen was a trickster God.

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

but was very fond of
appearing as a praying mantis.

MIKE BARA: IKaggen had a lot of
struggles on the planet Earth.

There were many wars
that were fought.

And eventually, he
left the Earth by means

of going up into the sky.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Another
interesting thing about IKaggen

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

And the San people
do their planting

because of phases of the moon.

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

God just some mythical figure?

Or is he really a
representation of some kind

of real praying mantis insectoid
alien that's come to Earth?

NARRATOR: Could the prominence
of the praying mantis in San

mythology suggest
that their ancestors

actually encountered such
beings in the distant past?

Although most anthropologists
regard these stories as fables,

some ancient astronaut
theorists find

it curious that
the praying mantis

is also a recurring image in
reports of alien abduction?

Covina, California-- 1963.

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

17-year-old Linda
Porter awakens to find

herself aboard a strange craft.

From what she is able to
recall later under hypnosis,

a small creature that appeared
to be a grey alien led her

towards a light-filled room
where she encountered another

type of being, one much
taller and with the features

of a praying mantis.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: A very
standalone, very odd case.

The fact that this
occurred in 1963

is very intriguing because
it's before the abduction

phenomenon became popularized.

JASON MARTELL: There
have been depictions

throughout various
abduction scenarios

that include the gray
aliens and this larger,

tall, insectisoid being--

very praying-mantis-like.

NARRATOR: Linda Porter claims
that throughout her teens

and 20s, she experienced
numerous other encounters

with these alien beings.

But it wasn't
until the age of 45

that she finally reached out to
investigative journalist Linda

Moulton Howe to tell her story.

I received a letter carefully
written from Linda Porter.

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

NARRATOR: These drawings appear
in Linda Moulton Howe's book,

"Glimpses of Other Realities."

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
One of the drawings

was of a praying mantis about
eight feet tall in a room

that was very odd, had
a cylindrical object

and sparkles of light.

AUTHOR: There have
been quite a number

of different types of aliens
seen, allegedly by contactees.

But the ones that are really
peculiar and very rare

are these very scary,
skinny, large, basically

intelligent insects
that have been reported.

People have drawn
parallels between the aliens

that are reported on board UFOs
and insects, particularly bees.

The grays, for instance,
could be equated in some way

to the drone or the worker bee.

The so-called praying
mantis type could be

seen perhaps as the queen bee--

larger than the others,
more intelligent.

They're taller than a person--

eight or even nine feet tall.

And the gray aliens
may handle the person

who's being abducted.

But in the background, there's
this praying mantis type that

seems to be calling the shots.

NARRATOR: According
to Porter, she

is part of a larger
experiment, one in which

these aliens appear
concerned with her soul.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: She
said, whatever we humans are,

we have an animus, a soul,
that is mysterious to them.

And they are trying to find out,
where does the soul spirit go

at the moment of death?

And that the non-humans
were studying

the recycling of the souls
in and out of containers.

NICK REDFERN: She talked about
being shown three cylinders.

Contained in each
cylinder was a human being

in kind of like a state
of suspended animation.

NARRATOR: Numerous
alleged alien abduction

victims have reported seeing
these cocoon-like containers.

But if these accounts
are real, might

there be another explanation
behind this technology?

Could it be, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend,

that aliens are performing
genetic experimentation?

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Linda Porter
came away from her two or three

decades of interaction
with these non-humans,

including the at first
terrifying praying mantis,

that these are extraterrestrial
biological entities that have

taken a deep interest in
the evolution of life forms

here, that they
have manipulated DNA

in already-evolving
primates, that they

have created a whole
series of different models.

Might the numerous accounts
of mantis-like beings

reported by alleged
alien abduction victims

along with the ancient San
story of a praying mantis

God, the evidence that an
otherworldly race of insectoids

really does exist.

And if so, could
they be conducting

genetic experiments with humans
to make us more like them?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say further clues revealing

the connection between
insects and aliens

can be found in the Holy Bible.

Pi-Ramesses Egypt--
the 15th century BC.

Most archeologists
believe this ancient city

to be the site of the
10 plagues as described

in the Bible's Book of Exodus.

According to the scripture,
God brought these plagues

upon Egypt when the
Pharaoh refused to release

the Israelites from slavery.

Three of them involved insects.

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

and infested both
man and animal.

The fourth was flies that
attacked only the Egyptians,

sparing the Israelites.

And the eighth was
a plague of locusts.

Locusts are grasshoppers
that have had an unusual change

in their biology and behavior.

Start to move in
the same direction.

They will land, eat.

Other locusts flying over,
they will land and eat

and so on and so on, wiping out
all the vegetation in a given

area and destroying
all the crops

that people might have planted.

And for every one
million locusts,

they can eat a ton of food.

NARRATOR: But an even more
incredible story of locusts

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

Rising from deep pits
within the Earth,

these locusts form waves of
scorpion-tailed warhorses

protected by iron breastplates.

And unlike the locusts
from the Book of Exodus,

the target isn't the crops.

The locusts themselves
actually didn't eat any crops.

They didn't clear any fields.

They only attacked people.

And they only ate up and
devoured and damaged people.

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

JASON MARTELL: The locusts
that appear out of the smoke

have some type of
ability to sting people

with a scorpion-like sting.

Now, locusts are known
not to have any type

of way of harming people.

So these locusts were
special in origin.

WILLIAM HENRY:
These locusts only

sought out humans who did
not have the seal of God

on their foreheads.

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

of an advanced extraterrestrial
technology that was sent

to seek specific human beings.

NARRATOR: Is it
possible that what

is described in the
book of Revelation

is not the plant eating
locusts we have today

but some type of
advanced weaponry

wielded by an
extraterrestrial being?

Now, if an extraterrestrial
was fighting a war,

a weapon that you could use
would be mechanical devices

that basically were like
little nanotechnology that

would attack certain
very specific targets.

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

NARRATOR: DARPA headquarters,
Arlington, Virginia.

This is the military's
visionary toy

shop where the blueprints
for the weaponry of tomorrow

are drawn.

Here stealth technology
and GPS were conceived.

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

one focused not on the biggest
weapons, but the smallest.

Insects are one of the most
amazingly designed creatures

that exist on planet Earth.

I mean, they're extraordinary.

It's no surprise that the
United States military

is interested in insects.

It's absolutely logical.

Why not send a small
insect or a crawling beetle

into a war zone or into a
place to gather intelligence?

That's exactly what
we see happening now.

NARRATOR: At DARPA, scientists
have been experimenting

with electronically
modifying beetles

so they can actually
manipulate their flight.

Threading thin wires into
the base of the beetles'

optic lobes, they can
control the region

of the brain that makes the
beetle start and stop flying.

With another pair of
wires in the wing muscles,

they can also make the
beetle veer to the right

or to the left by
remote control.

And scientists working
with nanotechnology

are not only looking for
ways to control insects,

but to actually recreate them.

Thomas Vaneck at
Physical Sciences, Inc

is currently developing flying
robots based on insects.

THOMAS VANECK: Instant Eye
is a very small aerial robot

about the size of a pie plate.

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

Just about any insect
you can imagine

is being studied by somebody.

NARRATOR: Hornets,
dragonflies, mosquitoes--

all are said to be potential
models for the next generation

of biomimetic weapons--

robots that could one
day be indistinguishable

from actual insects.

Right now, probably the
smallest insect-inspired robot

that we can make
is about the size

of a hummingbird
from the technologies

that are available to us today.

The driving force there
is energy storage,

because we just
don't have a battery

that stores enough energy.

We're going to figure it out.

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

the size of a fruit fly.

CHRISTOPHER O'BRIEN: And
if it landed on the wall

in some terrorist's house,
he probably wouldn't know.

And were able to fit so much
into such a small space now.

Keep the weight down.

We can give it wings
and the average person

would just try to swat it away.

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

to sit there and go, wow.

What a beautiful insect.

Maybe it's not an insect at all.

NARRATOR: But if we can
produce insect drones today,

is it possible that the biblical
stories of locusts sent by God

are really accounts of alien
technology in the ancient past?

And could this be the reason
why insects are feared

by humans even to this day?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe

such an incredible
notion is possible,

and for proof, point to a
mysterious area in Nevada

simply known as Area 51.

Kingman, Arizona-- May 1953.

At the height of the Cold War an
unidentified object reportedly

crashed in the desert sands.

What remained was
allegedly sent to America's

most top secret facility--

Area 51.

But it wasn't until
45 years later in 1998

that a retired military engineer
named Bill Uhouse came forward

to make a stunning claim.

The military didn't
just have the

extraterrestrial technology.

They had an actual living alien.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Uhouse
claimed that he worked

at a secret
laboratory, supposedly

in the Papoose mountains
of Area 51 in Nevada

and that since 1953,
the American government

had an insectoid alien
that was working with them.

His name was J-Rod.

J-Rod supposedly assisted
the military in understanding

and duplicating the incredible
power systems and futuristic

technology that was combined and
created for the Kingman craft.

NARRATOR: Shortly after
Bill Uhouse broke the story,

microbiologist Dan Burisch came
forward to confirm his claim.

But according to Dan
Burisch, J-Rod claimed

that he was not an alien.

What he revealed was
something even more shocking.

This insectoid alien J-Rod
said that he had actually come

from our future and
that at some time

in the near future
to us, there is

a catastrophe on this planet.

And much of mankind
is destroyed,

and that mankind splits
into two different species.

And one of these species
goes and lives underground.

And while underground, they
develop these insectoid traits,

which is exactly what the
Hopi and Zuni and even Navajo

legends say, that during
the transition period

between the third and
the fourth worlds,

this above world of
today was not habitable

and they had to go
underground and live

for some time with what
they called the Ant People.

And you have to
wonder if perhaps

J-Rod is actually an
insectoid human being

from our own future.

NARRATOR: Could the
accounts of J-Rod

confirm that the Hopi
stories of ant people

were more than just mythology?

And if the so-called
insectoids really do exist,

is it possible that
they are not aliens

but humans from the future?

Aliens appear to be a
part of our human evolution

over thousands of years.

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

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

possibly that will be able to
withstand atmospheric changes

here on Earth or potentially
lead us to a point

where we have to
leave the planet?

NARRATOR: But if humans are
someday forced underground

by a cataclysmic event,
does it even make

scientific sense that
we would evolve to have

insect-like characteristics?

According to some scientists,
we are part insect already.

GENE KRITSKY: The work
of the human genome

has indicated that possibly
up to half of our DNA

may be the result
of transposons.

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

from one species to another.

Recently it was
shown that Rhodnius--

this is the sucking insect
that spreads Chagas disease--

not only can spread the
trypanosoma, the disease

causing agent, from
organism to organism,

it also can spread its own
genes to those organisms.

Humans get Chagas disease.

So far they've not tested
humans for this insect DNA.

Odds are, we do have some
of these insect genes

in our system.

We know some of these
transposon probably

came from diseases we caught
when our ancestors were

bitten by insects.

NARRATOR: Could the
studies on horizontal gene

transfer one day prove that
we really do have insect DNA

in our genetic makeup?

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

some extraterrestrial design?

DAVID WILCOCK: Is it possible
that evolution is being

guided by some sort
of greater galactic

or universal intelligence?

Could it be possible that
certain circumstances, insects

could be the
dominant species that

ultimately become
sentient and develops

hominid characteristics.

The contact reports
are consistent.

Some people are seeing beings
like this communicating

with them intelligently and
for a benevolent purpose.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The whole
idea of mixing these life

forms together is fascinating,
making hybrids of the two

of them.

Throughout history, people have
honored and even worshipped

insects, built temples to them.

It's quite possible that
there is an insectoid type

life on other planets
that can actually have

intelligence beyond our own.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
there really is a connection

between insects and aliens?

Are they related to beings
from beyond our world,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

And if so, might they
have a secret purpose

we have yet to discover?

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

the furthest reaches of
space but that there are,

in fact billions here on
Earth, and most of them

right under our feet.