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NARRATOR: A Biblical relic
with incredible powers.

The power to harm.
The power to kill.

Even the power to talk to God.

The Ark of the Covenant

it's the ultimate high
technology device of its day.

People were terrified of this great

and awesome Ark.

Wherever it showed up people

would all of a sudden die.

NARRATOR: But is this mysterious
gold chest truly of divine origin?

Or might its powers come from
some even more otherworldly source?

It's a type of super weapon

that was being controlled
or guided from an extra-terrestrial.

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, might the proof be found

inside The Ark of the Covenant?

NARRATOR: The West Bank. July, 2013.

Ten miles north of the
Israeli settlement of Beit El,

archaeologists unearth
clay pots, stoves,

and a portion of a wall
dating back to around 1300 B.C.

But the most mundane
of their findings here

may also be the most significant -

holes carved into
the solid rock ground.

Based on the location
and the date of the artifacts,

they believe these
holes may have once held

the wooden beams used to
support the Tabernacle at Shiloh.

If true,
it is the first physical evidence

ever discovered of
the ancient sanctuary built

to house what is perhaps

the most mysterious religious
relic in the world:

the Ark of the Covenant.

The story of the Ark

of the Covenant is
one of the most fascinating

and unexplored stories of the bible.

The Ark of the Covenant
had some very mysterious powers.

The Ark of the Covenant

was what took me out
of mainstream journalism.

I began to wonder, what,
what could this thing have been?

NARRATOR: Reproductions
of the Ark of the Covenant

can be found in churches,
synagogues,

and Masonic temples
throughout the world.

It has even been featured
in popular culture.

But just what is
the Ark of the Covenant?

NARRATOR: Mt. Sinai.
The 15th Century, BC.

According to the
Bible's Book of Exodus,

after the Israelites
were released from Egypt,

God summoned Moses to
the peak of this holy mountain

and gave him two stone tablets...

Carved with the Ten Commandments.

He also gave him
specific instructions

for building the
Ark of the Covenant.

It was the
box that was constructed to contain

the two tablets of
the Ten Commandments,

which were irradiated
with divine power

because they had been
touched by the finger of God.

The covenant itself was a contract

between God and the Israelites:

"I will be your God

and protect you provided
you keep my commandments."

Israel's end of the deal

then was going to be kept
in the box, which is the Ark itself.

NARRATOR: But the Ark of the
Covenant

didn't only carry
the Ten Commandments -

it was also said to be
the throne of God himself.

In the Book of Exodus
in the 25th Chapter,

the verse is very
clear: God says to Moses,

"V'Asu Li mikdash
v'shachanti b'tocham."

"Have them make
me a holy place and I,

God, I will dwell among them."

And wherever the Ark went,
that power of God went with them.

The Ark is built in a reflection

of what's called a heavenly ark.

It was built two and a half cubits,

by one and a half cubits,
by one and a half cubits.

So the Ark would've been somewhere

in the ballpark of about a
three by five foot rectangular box.

It was going to be covered with
gold,

on the outside and the inside,

and was to have two gold
rings in each of the four corners.

And it was carried with poles
that were run through the rings.

And the orders were that the poles

should never be
removed from the rings.

And the lid was
to be made out of gold

and on each end of
the lid were to be, uh,

cherubim or guardian angels,
basically, with wings.

NARRATOR: But why
was it so important that

the Ark be constructed
to such exact specifications?

And why would God
- a spiritual being -

require a physical
throne here on Earth?

Perhaps there is an answer
in the Bible's description

of Moses after he
returned from Mount Sinai.

After Moses came down from
Mt. Sinai,

he was glowing.

The Bible says that he had
to wear a scarf over his face.

I am fascinated with the idea

that Moses all of a sudden
his appearance changed.

And so the idea that Moses
all of a sudden looked different,

we have to ask ourselves why?

NARRATOR: Just what did
Moses encounter on Mount Sinai?

Was it God? Or was it
someone - or something... else?

God is
clearly an entity not of this earth,

and by definition therefore
an extraterrestrial.

Where does he come from?

We must recognize that when
the ancients are speaking about God

there is no other term

that we can use to describe

these experiences other
than extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: After the Ark was built

and the Ten Commandments
placed within it,

the Israelites carried
it with them on their

40-year exodus through the desert.

The Ark of the
Covenant was considered powerful,

because it was the meeting
place of God and humanity.

And so it had to
be carried on poles so

that it could be conveyed
without being touched.

Certain people were allowed

to carry it,

and those people
were ordained priests.

Aaron, Moses' brother,
and his sons were certainly priests.

It was a prestigious job.

But you had to know
what you were doing.

Now, the ark would be covered

while they're carrying it
with a cloth

so that they really couldn't see
what they were carrying.

And they were given strict orders

that they should
not lift up the cloth

and look at the
ark and try to see it.

NARRATOR: But why
was the Ark considered

so dangerous that
it couldn't be touched...

or even looked at?

According to the
Old Testament accounts,

the Ark of the Covenant

was not only a powerful
device on its own;

it also housed a number of
other important religious relics.

In addition to the Ten Commandments,

it held Aaron's Rod -

the staff that could miraculously
turn into a serpent.

It also held a jar of manna,

an edible starch which reportedly,
came from the sky.

What we begin to realize

is that the Ark of the Covenant

was a sort of tool kit.

And whence this
tool kit was assembled

we have the fully functioning
Ark of the Covenant.

The Ark
went before them in the wilderness

and made sure the place
where the children of Israel

were to go would be safe and able

to provide for them in the desert.

Anybody who's been
to the Sinai desert

you could hardly imagine
two to three million people

having any kind of
sustenance in a desert.

So therefore what the Ark

must've accomplished was profound.

NARRATOR: The Ark
of the Covenant was said

to have protected and
provided for the Israelites

during the Exodus.

But how?

What we can read in the Bible

is that they were sustained
by something called manna.

And the big question is
where did this manna come from?

Well, two engineers
by a name of Rodney Dale

and George Sassoon
in the 1970's proposed

that the Ark of the
Covenant was nothing else

but a container in which
to store what they referred

to as the Manna Machine.

The Manna Machine was
a nuclear driven device

that dispensed food
or manna to the Israelites.

The Ark
of the Covenant is such a mystery,

it could actually
create food supposedly,

the manna that they were eating.

It's like some kind
of a super engineering,

duplicating, energy machine.

We have a concise description of it

in the ancient Jewish
texts of the Zohar

which is a part of the Kabbalah

where they describe
the ancient of days.

But in reality "the ancient
of days" is a mistranslation.

The correct translation is the
transportable one with the tanks.

Since when is God transportable

and why does he need tanks?

So in the Zohar we
have concise descriptions

not of God but some
type of a machine.

NARRATOR: Did the Ark of the
Covenant really house a machine

that provided food to the Israelites

during their 40 years in the desert?

According to ancient
astronaut theorists -

and many religious scholars...

The answer is, "yes."

But that wasn't the only
power the Ark possessed -

for, as the Ark could sustain life,
it could also destroy it.

NARRATOR: The Jordan River.

A 200-mile border
separating the present day

Kingdom of Jordan from
Israel and the West Bank.

In 1400 BC,
this waterway represented

one of the final obstacles
to the wandering Israelites'

long-awaited entrance
into the Promised Land.

The Ark of the Covenant

comes into its own when
Joshua is given the task

of leading Israel
across the Jordan River.

And the story is that
the Ark of the Covenant

would go first and be
carried into the Jordan River.

The water would stop flowing.

Some energy came forth

from the Ark causing the

waters to literally stop and ascend,

and therefore creating dry land

for the entire children of Israel
to pass on off into the Holy Land.

NARRATOR: But if this
Biblical story is true,

what kind of power could
the Ark of the Covenant

have possessed that would
cause a raging river to stand still?

What if the
people who wrote these stories

were simply reporting on
what they were actually seeing.

If that's true,
then the Ark of the Covenant

clearly represents a technology
that is more advanced

than anything we have now.

If you want to part water,

maybe a good way to do it
would be with high-speed winds.

If you blow enough air,

you can get the water out of the way

and you can actually maybe
even form those two walls of water.

There's
some kind of technology

that they're using and it's so that

they can accomplish their goals...

And continue on their
journey and they're able to use

this extraterrestrial
technology to do it.

NARRATOR: According to
the Bible's Book of Joshua,

the Ark of the Covenant
once again proved a powerful ally.

When the Israelites arrived

on the western banks
of the Jordan River,

set on conquering the
seemingly impenetrable

walled city of Jericho.

The reputation of the Israelites

preceded them.

People were terrified.

They have heard the rumors
of this great and awesome Ark.

They now come to
the city of Jericho.

The people were commanded by God,

"March around the city walls".

They march around the city once

on the first day.

The next day they
do the very same thing.

The third, fourth, fifth
and the sixth day is the same thing.

On the seventh day,

they march around and then they blow

the trumpets and
all the people shout.

Between the marching of the feet,

the sounding of the ram's horns,

the shofar, and with some
power not described from the Ark,

enabled the big stone mighty
walls of the city of Jericho

to somehow be vibrated

with a earthquake type force
which caused them to collapse.

When I hear
that they had to walk around Jericho

seven times and then the
trumpets were the ones that

allowed for those walls to crumble,

one would have to ask yourselves
was there something else to it?

Knocking something down like a wall

with pressure is not inconceivable.

So you could imagine
trying to do this.

Now when you look at things,

think of standard examples
that we experience.

When the space shuttle lands,
we get the sonic boom.

And you can feel it rattling the
walls and you can actually hear it.

That's far away.

Imagine getting the sonic
boom closer to the object.

You might be able to do
significant damage to the wall.

NARRATOR: Could the Israelites

actually have witnessed
an advanced technology,

beyond even our own
modern capabilities?

A machine that could
instantly part waters

and bring down stone walls?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe the best evidence
that the Ark of the Covenant

may have held alien
technology can be found

by studying events
that took place 300 years

after the sacking of Jericho,
when the Ark was stolen.

NARRATOR: According
to the Book of Samuel,

when the Israelites went to battle

with the mighty Philistine
army around 1100 B.C.,

they brought out
the Ark of the Covenant

to aid them once again.

But God had not given
them instructions to do so.

Angered by their presumption

that they could use the Ark
as a weapon without his orders,

he awarded victory
to the Philistines,

who captured it as a trophy.

The Bible records very strange
things

then started to happen.

Death, sickness broke
out amongst the Philistines.

Now in ancient times,

they had no understanding of energy

or what we would maybe
consider something similar

to a radioactive sickness.

They considered this
to be displeasure of the god.

They placed the ark next to a statue

of one of their gods, Dagon.

And they leave and
when they come back,

they see that Dagon's
head has been decapitated

and his hands have been taken off.

So they say,
"We've gotta get rid of this thing."

And so they loaded

the Ark of The Covenant on a cart,

and sent it off in the direction

of an Israeli village
called Beth Shemesh.

Of course everyone
ran up to look at the ark.

And as a result,
the Bible says seventy men died

when they looked at the ark.

For those who have been
fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark,

and remember the last
scene when Indy is shouting,

"Don't look,
don't look, don't look".

That's where that story comes from.

NARRATOR: The Old Testament
contains numerous other examples

of the Ark's devastating
powers and ultimately depicts it

as a deadly device
capable of striking down

anyone who does not
follow God's rules.

When Aaron,

who was the high priest,

his two sons approached
to give an offering,

it's stated that literally
two beams of fire came

forth from the Ark
and went up their nostrils

and burnt them from the inside,

leaving their entire
outsides intact.

NARRATOR: Beams of fire...

burning people from inside?

Why would an instrument
of God contain such deadly powers?

If the Ark of the
Covenant was truly divine,

why would it strike down two people

who were simply trying
to make an offering?

Wherever it showed up,

people would all of a sudden die.

In my opinion it
was a storage container

that housed some type
of a nuclear device.

And having a nuclear device

in the hands of a
technologically primitive society

would result in people
dying left and right.

Naturally people would refer

to that as the wrath of God
when in reality it's nothing else

but the wrath of atomic power.

NARRATOR: Is it possible, as
ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that the Ark of the Covenant
actually contained a nuclear device?

One that was brought to Earth...

Not by God... but by
visitors from another planet?

It's possible
that the Ark of the Covenant

was some type of super weapon

that was being controlled
or guided from an extra-terrestrial.

NARRATOR: Was the Ark of the
Covenant actually a sophisticated,

high-tech device
that was so advanced

that the ancient Israelites
were unable to control it? Perhaps.

But of all the Ark's alleged powers,

there was one that
was the most incredible...

Its ability to communicate
directly with God.

NARRATOR: Petra, Jordan.
At the summit of Jebel Haroun,

a small white dome
marks the tomb of Aaron -

the brother of Moses.

According to the Hebrew Bible,

Aaron was chosen by God

to be the first high
priest of the Israelites -

a title that came with
enormous responsibility.

Aaron... Moses' brother...

Served as priest of the people.

And then following Aaron,

the line of the priests
followed his genealogy.

They were the ones
designated to carry the ark.

And they were the ones permitted
to come close to it in worship.

The attire of the priests

was beautiful,

but it was also there
for their protection.

They had to wear a miter.
They wore a breastplate.

They had to wear a long robe.

They had to keep certain
areas of the body protected.

The head, the lungs,
the heart, the genital area.

The high priest would have

to have these on
to approach the Ark.

And when he approached the Ark

he had to have a rope
tied around his leg. Why?

So if and when something
ever went wrong

and the Ark struck him or he died,

no one would be allowed
to go in to retrieve his body

'cause they would
suffer the same fate.

On top of the
Ark were the figures of two angels.

And it was said in the Bible

that God's presence came to rest

in the tiny space between them.

That was the place where
heaven and Earth touched.

NARRATOR: The space between
the angels on the lid of the Ark

was known as the Mercy Seat,

upon which the image
of God would allegedly sit

when communicating
with a Levite priest.

But did the Israelites
really witness

an otherworldly presence
between the two angels?

And if so, was it literally
the image of God or something else?

Based on the numerous accounts
of the Ark's awesome power,

some ancient astronaut theorists

have proposed that it may
have been an electrical capacitor -

a device used for storing
and transmitting energy.

Some of the
stories that have come out of

history about the
Ark of the Covenant,

that it erupted in sparks
and flames and people

would touch it and die instantly,

or that it leveled cities.

And many people have theorized

that this is some type
of actual large energy capacitor.

Capacitor
is exactly the right word to use.

It relies on static electricity,
it's the simplest device.

You just need two conductors
with an insulator between them.

You've got the outer gold,

a very nice conductor,

and then if you open this up

and look to the inside
you'll see a second electrode.

So what that's gonna look like,

okay, you have the
outer side of your Ark.

That's gonna say charge positive.

Then you have your inner
wall of the Ark coated in gold.

And then you have
an insulator in between,

that's just the wood
you make the Ark out of.

Now what you gotta
do is get negative charges

here on the inner side.

And the question is,

how do I get my positive
and negative charges onto my Ark?

This is where the cherubs come in,

you have one sitting on top here

that's attached to the outer side.

And you can put charge on
it and get your positive charge.

The other cherub is
going to be sitting here.

It won't be connected
to the outer layer

but it will come in from
a rod and connect to the inner side.

And this is where we'll
put our negative charge.

So what that looks like over here

at the ark is this cherub
will not actually be attached

to the outer conductor.

There'll be an insulator there,

and then it can have
a rod that goes through

and attaches to the inner conductor.

Now the Israelites
claim to have actually been able to

see the presence of
God between the two cherubs.

A representation of God.

Now if they weren't actually
seeing a representation of God,

could this arc of energy
have been some type

of other energy device
that they were seeing?

So when we're
thinking about the Israelites

seeing the image of God
between the two cherub wings,

one of the things to keep in mind

I think is how the image
of God was often described.

We have smoke, fire,
there's very rarely an actual, like,

visual picture of a person.

And so if you picture what
arcs of electricity will be doing,

they'll probably be
a little bit of smoke,

um, there will be
the really bright light,

there'll be a cracking noise.

That could certainly be something

that would be interpreted
as an image of God.

NARRATOR: Is it
possible that accounts

of God's presence atop the Ark

were actually describing
electrical discharge?

And if so,
might someone - or something -

have been sending
electrical signals through

the Ark of the Covenant to
communicate with the Israelites?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

such a notion is not only possible -

but all the more plausible,

given the Biblical
descriptions of a device

known as "the
Breastplate of Judgment."

According to the Book of Exodus,

it was worn by the priests
when entering the Tabernacle -

and was adorned

with twelve sacred gemstones
called the stones of fire,

which represented the
twelve tribes of Israel.

And according to detailed accounts

from sacred texts
known as the Talmud,

these gemstones played
an important role

when communicating
with God through the Ark.

Somehow
there would be a pulsating sound

emanating from on
top of the cherubim.

And these pulsating,
high-pitched sounds

would cause vibration in
the stones on his breastplate.

The stones would actually
start to light up.

There seems to be a very complex

but very specific
code happening here

that God is communicating through.

It was like
some extraterrestrial Morse code

that was being received
from the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: Jerusalem. 995 BC.

Nearly a century
after the Philistines

returned the Ark to Judah,

King David transports
it to the capital city

with plans to build an enormous
temple in order to house it.

It's Solomon,
David's son,

who built the Temple of Jerusalem

and installed the ark in the
inner sanctum, the Holy of Holies.

NARRATOR: Once installed
in the Temple in 955 BC,

the mysterious Ark continued
to serve the Israelites

for another three
and a half centuries

until suddenly,
it vanishes from history.

The Book
of Kings describes the destruction

of the city of Jerusalem,
says nothing about the Ark.

It disappears from
the literary history

in the same way that it
disappeared from material history.

NARRATOR: But what happened to it?
Was it stolen? Destroyed?

Or was it deliberately hidden?

There are those who believe

they know the answer and that
not only does the Ark still exist,

but they are confident
it will return.

NARRATOR: Mt. Tsurugi, Japan.

Every year Shinto worshippers
ascend this mountain -

6,000 miles from
the Jewish holy land.

They carry an elaborate
gold-clad chest that,

like the Ark of the Covenant,

is believed to contain
the spirit of God.

Scholars in Japan look
at the Old Testament.

They also look at the kind
of mythical foundational texts

of Japan like the Kojiki
and see certain similarities.

And they like to think that

these similarities
are not coincidences

but actually suggest
ancient connections.

Part of this theory is
that these lost tribes of Israel,

brought the Ark to Japan.

And it ended up at a sacred peak,

Mount Tsurugi,

and it lays hidden in the
limestone caves underneath it.

NARRATOR: Could the Ark of the
Covenant really be hidden in Japan?

And might this explain
why Shinto worshippers perform

a ritual that's eerily reminiscent
of the ancient Israelites

carrying the Ark through the desert?

One Japanese historian
named Takane Masanori

was so confident that
the Ark of the Covenant

was hidden in Mt. Tsurugi,

he actually performed excavations
of the mountain in the 1930s.

Excavations
were started in 1936

on the peak or near
the peak of Mount Tsurugi

and this research
went on for some decades

and then it was all shut down.

And the area is now a National Park,

so further research is
banned for environmental reasons

so we won't know.

The Ark of the Covenant
has not been found

in Japan but the legend continues.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that a lost
tribe of Israel made their way...

Thousands of miles across
the Asian continent -

and brought the Ark to Japan?

It is just one theory out of many.

Some Biblical scholars suggest
that Israel's high priests,

anticipating the
destruction of the city,

stashed the Ark deep in a cave

under Jerusalem's Temple
Mount for protection.

It is also believed
that - centuries later -

the Ark was discovered
in its hiding place

and was taken away to safety by a
group known as the Knights Templar.

The Knights Templar were monks

who were trained
to fight as soldiers

in the Holy Land during the Crusades

from the 1100s up until the 1300s.

They discovered a great treasure...

They themselves describe
it as a great Biblical treasure.

There are certainly legends

throughout Europe and
specifically from France

of where the Ark of
the Covenant ended up.

Some say it was buried beneath
Chartres Cathedral in the crypt.

Some say it was buried
in the Languedoc region

near Rennes-Le-Chateau.

And we know that the Nazis excavated

in depth in these mountains
looking for the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: But some believe the
Ark's journey didn't end in France,

and that, eventually, it
was taken even further to the north.

There's
been a rumor for years

that the Templar treasure that
was actually taken through France

by the Templars.
And, the story goes that,

it was then taken to Rosslyn
Chapel in Scotland, for safekeeping.

NARRATOR: Could the Ark
of the Covenant still be hidden

somewhere in Rosslyn Chapel?

Or might it have been -

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest -

taken far away to North America -

where it was hidden
deep underground -

and still lies buried? Perhaps.

But there are those who believe
that the Ark isn't hidden at all.

They claim its whereabouts
have been well known -

and well guarded...
For hundreds of years.

NARRATOR: Aksum, Ethiopia.

Church of St. Mary of Zion.

A solitary monk, who is
not allowed to leave the grounds,

is charged with guarding
the church's holiest relic.

It is a job he has
devoted his life to -

and one he will
keep until his death.

There's
a cathedral there

called the Cathedral of St.
Mary of Zion.

And I started talking to
the monk who guarded the chapel.

And he told me that lying
in that chapel was the true,

the original, Ark of the Covenant.

Now at first it seemed to
me like an incredibly tall story.

But as I began to look into it,

I realized that there was
something to the Ethiopian claim.

For example,

why was there an ancient
Jewish population in Ethiopia?

It was like they
were frozen in amber

from an earlier time and,
and caught in Ethiopia.

And I got to know a succession

of three different
guardians of the Ark.

Once appointed as guardian,

they have a very short life span.

They die very quickly.

And one of them
in particular pointed

the issue of his
eyes to me in the way

that the cataracts were
creeping over his eyes.

And I said, "What is causing that?"

And he said, "It's the Ark of
the Covenant that's causing that."

He said,
"The Ark is a thing of fire."

And there was such truth
and power in his words

that I began to feel very strongly

that the Ethiopians could
indeed have this object.

NARRATOR: Could the Ark
of the Covenant really reside

in a church in Ethiopia?

In a location so publicly known -

and so modestly protected?

If so, why has there been no proof?

Is it an elaborate hoax?

Or is there,
perhaps, another reason?

And could that reason be based

on one of the other audacious
theories concerning the Ark,

that there are more
than one of them?

The Torah speaks that

there were actually two Arks.

There was one Ark,
which was built by Moses

when he first came
down from Mt. Sinai.

And only later do we
find in the Book of Exodus

was the commandment given
for a Ark to be built by Bezalel.

That was the Ark that
stayed in the tabernacle.

NARRATOR: If the Ark really
was a technological device,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,

might there really have
been more than one of them?

And, if so, might the various
myths and legends about the Ark -

and its whereabouts
- all be plausible? Perhaps.

But whether there
is one Ark or many,

two other important
questions remain:

What was the Ark's true purpose?

And what would happen
if it ever returned?

NARRATOR: The Dome of the Rock.
Jerusalem.

This Islamic shrine
sits atop the Temple Mount -

once the site of
King Solomon's Temple -

and the last known location
of the Ark of the Covenant.

In 1981,
a small team of Israeli workmen

secretly tunneled under
this hotly disputed site.

Rabbi Yehuda Getz,

the preeminent rabbi
of the Western Wall supervised

the highly prohibited,

and politically inflammatory,
excavation.

There
was a pretty big problem

with this because that
is the number one sacred site

for the Muslims as well,

and these men believed
strongly enough

that the Ark of the Covenant
had been located there

that they were willing
to take such great risks

to try to locate the Ark
of the Covenant themselves.

NARRATOR: When Arabs on the Mount
heard noises from the cistern below,

they confronted the
work crew in what became

a dramatic subterranean standoff.

Police separated the
two sides and ordered

the tunnel to be re-sealed.

To his dying day,
Rabbi Getz believed

he was just 40 feet
away from finding

the original Ark of the Covenant.

But could such an
audacious claim be true?

Might the Ark really
still be located

where it was thousands
of years ago -

at the site of the
Jews most sacred temple?

One of the holiest places on earth?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer may very well be "yes".

And for proof they point to reports

of strange sightings over
the Mount in recent years.

In 2011, there
was a very sensational UFO sighting

over the Dome of
the Rock in Jerusalem.

Many will call it a fraud.

Many will say it was not real.

But itwas witnessed
that a ball of light

came down
over the Temple Mount,

And just hovered there.

And then all of a sudden a pulsating
light went out from it, poof.

- Wow.
- And then it ascended back up.

Some speculate
that this UFO sighting

may have been energizing
the Ark of the Covenant,

which is still there in Jerusalem.

NARRATOR: Could it
be a mere coincidence

that the UFO sightings occurred
over this particular site?

Or could it be - as some
ancient astronaut theorists claim -

merely the first in a series
of events concerning the Ark

that are, in fact, the fulfillment
of an ancient prophesy.

There's
a very interesting prophecy

in the Book of Zechariah that states

that there's gonna be a tremendous
earthquake in Jerusalem.

The Mt. of Olives is to split.

It is said that this
earthquake is to be caused

by some type of sonic vibration
created from under the earth,

and that the powers
from under the earth

are then gonna arise out
of this chasm with the Ark.

This is then considered to be,
A, the return of the Ark.

And B, the famous,
of course, coming of the Messiah.

All three
of the big three religions,

have prophecies about the end
time arrival of a Messianic figure.

What we're told is that
angels will help bring the Ark

of the Covenant back to Earth.

NARRATOR: Could the lights
seen over the Temple Mount indicate

that some sort of
extraterrestrial reactivation

of the Ark was taking place?

And, if so, might we be close

to finally rediscovering
this ancient relic -

and finding the source
of its incredible power?

If that
device were ever to be found then

that will forever change
the course of human history

because if we look at our past,

it already has changed
the course of human history.

If the Ark could be
found and if it could be retrieved,

the possibility exists
that its technology

could be understood and exploited

and possibly even used to reconnect

with whoever created it.
If they were, in fact,

extraterrestrial beings,
then the reality is,

we might have a direct
phone line to the E.T.s.

We, as a culture, as a species,

we seem to use most
of our technology for war.

And so it would be like giving
a three year old a loaded gun.

We can barely deal
with the technology

that we have now, so maybe it's
good that, for now, it's hidden.

NARRATOR: Could the
Ark of the Covenant -

perhaps the most coveted
of the world's "lost relics" -

really be the ultimate proof

of an ancient
extraterrestrial encounter?

If so, what was it?
A sophisticated weapon?

A communication device?

A nuclear power source?

Or was it something else entirely?

Something beyond our comprehension?

And if it is found, will
it lead to mankind's destruction

or to a reunion with
our alien ancestors?

One thing is certain

the search for the
Ark will continue.

And there are those who believe

it will be found much sooner

than we think.