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NARRATOR: Legendary weapons
of mass destruction.

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Incredible technology
bestowed by otherworldly forces. 

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And modern military capabilities 

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that mirror the arsenal
of the gods. 

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For nearly two decades, 

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Ancient Aliens
has traveled the globe, 

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exploring towering
megalithic structures, 

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mysterious artifacts 

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and stories
of otherworldly beings 

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in a quest for evidence
that might reveal the truth 

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of our extraterrestrial origins. 

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People thousands of years ago

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would have never known
about heat-seeking missiles 

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and stealth bombers. 

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NARRATOR:
Now we take a look back 

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through
the Ancient Aliens archives 

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to the show's very origins 

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to examine the evidence
that we are not alone. 

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We have never been alone. 

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♪ ♪ 

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As we look back at our vast
Ancient Aliens library, 

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one of the things we talked
about in every episode 

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is technology. Because according
to the ancient astronaut theory, 

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the extraterrestrials 

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shared their technology
with our ancestors. 

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And with technology
comes weaponry. 

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-Right.
-And that means harnessing fire 

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to work with metals. 

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And before that, we were maybe
hitting each other with sticks 

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and stones or something. 

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But once we could harness fire 

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and work with metals, that meant 

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we could make swords. 

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And not only did
our ancestors say 

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that fire was a gift
from the gods but, 

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all around the globe, people
started to develop metallurgy 

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at about the same time.

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How do you explain that? 

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They weren't supposed to be
in contact with one another. 

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We covered this
in a season three episode 

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called "Aliens
and Deadly Weapons." 

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♪ ♪ 

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NARRATOR:
Earth. 

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4.5 billion years ago. 

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Molten hot magma spews
from beneath the ground. 

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Lightning cracks down
in bursts from the sky. 

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And rivers of lava
flow across the land. 

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Ever since the dawn of time, 

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our planet has been changing, 

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evolving, 

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and ripped apart
by the awesome forces of nature.

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And it's the harnessing
of that nature 

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that has offered mankind
its most formidable challenge 

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and greatest accomplishment. 

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Mankind achieving
the ability to manipulate fire 

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is probably the most historical
event that ever happened. 

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When we achieved
the ability to master fire, 

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everything changed for mankind. 

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NARRATOR: But how did our
ancestors learn to re-create

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and harness this most volatile
and ultimately essential 

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of the Earth's elements? 

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Was it simply a part
of our intellectual evolution? 

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Or is it possible
that the knowledge came 

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from another,
more otherworldly origin? 

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When we look at fire,
we imagine this idea 

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that somehow our ancestors are
rubbing some sticks together. 

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But each culture always says 

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that fire is a gift
from the gods. 

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SOUTHWELL: In Native American
traditions, quite often

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its fire was stolen
from the world above. 

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In Maori legends, again, 

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we see the theft of fire
from the gods. 

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In the Greek legends,

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it's Prometheus
stealing fire from the gods. 

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NARRATOR: How is it that
such similar myths exist

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about fire being given
to man by the gods? 

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According to
ancient astronaut theorists, 

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this eerie similarity may
actually be evidence that gods, 

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or perhaps
extraterrestrial beings, 

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really do exist. 

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And if so, it might also reveal 

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how mankind eventually used fire 

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to create deadlier
and more sophisticated weapons. 

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SOUTHWELL: If we are talking about
ancient aliens having an impact,

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where would we expect
to see that impact? 

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I would expect
to see it in metalworking. 

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And do we actually see
hard and fast evidence 

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of mankind making sudden
huge leaps in metalworking? 

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Yes, we do. 

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TSOUKALOS: We go
from attaching sharp stones 

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to the ends of sticks 

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and then, all of a sudden, 

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we have actual swords. 

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NARRATOR:
According to archaeologists, 

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the first human work
with metal weaponry 

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began in the Bronze Age,

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beginning around 3300 BC
in the Near East. 

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Most of the swords at one time
were either copper or iron. 

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MICHAEL DENNIN: If you think about it,
the ages, we started first with bronze,

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nickel, softer things
that are easier to work with. 

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The reason we don't have iron
as our first example 

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is because it's
a much harder material. 

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You have to get much hotter fire
to be able to work with it, 

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and it's just a tougher material
to work with. 

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RAFAEL KOSCHE: They were fighting,
bashing each other with these swords.

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They wanted a tough sword, 

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which means
it was not always very sharp. 

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When these people were fighting, 

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when they're hacking
each other's heads and arms off, 

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they were ripping
each other's heads and arms off 

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with blunt pieces of metal. 

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(yelling) 

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NARRATOR:
Approximately 1,000 years 

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after the development of iron 

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came another,
even greater breakthrough. 

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The invention of steel. 

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IMBROGNO: No one really knows when
people first started making steel.

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Some say it only dates, uh,
1000 BC. 

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To make a steel sword in ancient
times was not an easy task. 

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You would have to get
high-quality iron. 

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And most of the time,
they could not get that iron 

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mined from the earth. 

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And meteorites were obtained, 

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which were pure iron, 

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which made
the best steel swords. 

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These were considered
magic swords. 

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And it was usually
a guarded secret, 

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and villages would have
one or two steel swords.

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And there's tales about warlords
who had one purpose in mind. 

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To find all the steel swords
that were made... 

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...and take them for their army. 

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There's no doubt that cultures
that were able to obtain steel 

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usually became
masters of the world. 

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(yelling) 

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NARRATOR:
But where the forging of iron 

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requires a relatively
unsophisticated knowledge 

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of metallurgy, 

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the creation of steel 

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is a more complex
scientific process. 

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So who or what was responsible 

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for this incredible
evolutionary innovation? 

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IMBROGNO:
In the Book of Enoch, 

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we see some type of interaction 

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between celestial beings
and human beings. 

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What did they give us? 

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They gave us steel. 

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And the legend goes 

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not only from the Bible
and from Enoch 

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but it goes to Sumerian times, 

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where the gods had steel. 

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JONATHAN YOUNG: The making of
the sword is a magical process.

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Back in the time
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the ability to take
natural material 

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and make a sword out of it was
considered the work of a wizard. 

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(speaking German, translated): You
mustn't look the village blacksmith

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in the eyes, 

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because people are frightened 

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of being killed by his gaze. 

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A blacksmith isn't allowed
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because of his magical powers. 

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NARRATOR: The notion of metalworking
being a dark and magical process

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was so prevalent
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that, in Greek mythology, 

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even Zeus looked
upon his son Hephaestus, 

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the god of metallurgy,
with suspicion. 

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RICHARD RADER: Hephaestus is responsible
for making armature for the gods.

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But the real miracle
that he does 

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is for this shield for Achilles. 

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And it's got
the whole universe on it. 

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What's amazing about this thing 

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is that it's not just
a static shield. 

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It's alive. 

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This is not something
that a human being makes. 

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This is terrifying
and this is scary 

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and this thing will kill you, 

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just in its own kind of
metaphysical beauty.

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And so he has this weird ability
to kind of endow metal 

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with a kind of life of its own. 

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So, Zeus is in fact
very suspicious of this guy 

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and just tries
to get rid of him. 

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So, Zeus picks him up
and slings him 

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and he just falls and falls
and falls and falls and falls 

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until he crash-lands
on the island of Lemnos. 

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There is a little city
on the island of Lemnos 

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called Hephaestia. 

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So there's a place that is named
specifically after Hephaestus. 

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NARRATOR:
3,000 years ago,

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Hephaestia was one of the
most important cities in Greece. 

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And according to
the ancient stories, 

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Hephaestus actually lived here
among the people of Lemnos. 

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The Greeks worshipped
this divine blacksmith 

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and built monuments to him. 

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But could
this mythological being 

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have actually been present
in ancient Greece? 

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And if so,
might he have been not a god... 

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...but an ancient alien visitor? 

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RADER: Greek mythology,
you conceive of gods

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as kind of like human beings.

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We have lots of literature
which deals with the whole range 

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of interactions that
human beings can have with gods. 

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It is very clearly stated 

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that the knowledge
for making swords 

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was given directly by the gods. 

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And those gods weren't figments
of our ancestors' imagination 

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but they were physical beings. 

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NARRATOR: Is it really possible
that our ancestors' ability

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to forge metals and make weapons 

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was aided
by extraterrestrial beings? 

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And might stories of swords
imbued with magical powers 

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be something more
than mere works of fiction? 

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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer 

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can be found half a world away, 

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in Japan. 

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NARRATOR:
Japan, 700 AD. 

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Here, according to legend, 

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the swordsmith Amakuni
and his son Amakura 

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sealed themselves away
in their blacksmith shop 

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in an effort to forge
the perfect weapon. 

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For seven days and seven nights, 

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they prayed to the Shinto gods
to guide them. 

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Thirty-one days later, 

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they emerged
from their isolation 

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with a curved,
single-edged sword 

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resembling no blade
ever made before. 

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KOSCHE: At that time, the
swords that they used

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were these double-edged
Chinese design, 

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clunky, heavy, unwieldy swords. 

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And Amakuni
started reestablishing 

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and learning everything
that he knew about metallurgy. 

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And after about a month, 

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he finally emerged
from his forge, 

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and he had
this single-edged blade 

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with a curvature to it. 

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Every swordsmith in the area
ridiculed him, 

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everybody laughed at him,
they thought he was ridiculous, 

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they didn't know
what he was doing. 

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"That's not the way you do it." 

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Well, the next time the emperor
went off into battle... 

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(shouting) 

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...when he came back,
Amakuni stood on his front porch 

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and he started
counting the blades-- 

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two, ten, 15, 20,
100, 200 blades-- 

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none of them were broken. 

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And the emperor
praised him and said, 

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"You are the greatest
swordsmith ever." 

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Ever since then,
they have followed that design. 

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NARRATOR:
But what was the secret 

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behind Amakuni's
radical new design? 

249
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And what, or who,
inspired him to deviate 

250
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from the one that had been used
for more than a thousand years? 

251
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Was he simply ahead of his time? 

252
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Or could he really have
received otherworldly guidance 

253
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during the seven days and nights 

254
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he and his son prayed
to the Shinto gods? 

255
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KOSCHE: The history
of the Japanese sword

256
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is a long and varied history, 

257
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all the way back
to mythological beliefs 

258
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that Omikami the sun goddess, 

259
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gave her grandson a sword 

260
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when she sent him down
to rule over the Earth. 

261
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NARRATOR: According to the
beliefs of the samurai,

262
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higher beings called kami
began human life. 

263
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But in order for humans
to experience 

264
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the divine nature of the kami, 

265
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they must undergo
purification rituals, 

266
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which were always performed
when making a new blade. 

267
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KOSCHE:
Before you even begin, 

268
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you bathe yourself
and you put on clean clothes.

269
00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:09,330
All your assistants
give prayers, 

270
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and they solicit the help
from the gods. 

271
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And, in fact,
there are swordsmiths 

272
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that will actually chant 

273
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as they're hammering
on the blade... 

274
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...because every hammer,
as it compacts the metal, 

275
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is also including
their chant into it. 

276
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NARRATOR: Could the sword maker
Amakuni and his son Amakura

277
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have actually come in contact
with the kami? 

278
00:14:37,160 --> 00:14:38,870
And might these Buddhist gods 

279
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have come not
from a spiritual realm 

280
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but from
an extraterrestrial one, 

281
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as ancient astronaut theorists
believe? 

282
00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,120
Might alien beings
have chosen Amakuni, 

283
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the greatest sword maker
of his time, 

284
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to hold the knowledge
of this new technology? 

285
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COPPENS: When you give certain,
very powerful objects to people,

286
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you need to have extremely
intelligent people to use them. 

287
00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:07,290
And so, what we find,
everywhere, 

288
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is that even if
the gods had given 

289
00:15:09,660 --> 00:15:11,500
the most extraordinary machine, 

290
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including fire or any other
piece of technology,

291
00:15:14,410 --> 00:15:16,160
you would have to have
somebody able 

292
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to operate it,
a highly-trained human being. 

293
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NARRATOR: Another example
of Amakuni's work--

294
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the Kogarasu Maru blade, 

295
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the most legendary sword
in Japanese history-- 

296
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resides in the Japanese
Imperial Collection. 

297
00:15:34,370 --> 00:15:37,250
But modern scholars
and scientists 

298
00:15:37,410 --> 00:15:40,540
have had difficulty
in figuring out the secret 

299
00:15:40,700 --> 00:15:42,410
to its amazing strength. 

300
00:15:42,540 --> 00:15:44,120
DENNIN: The famous stories
are always, of course,

301
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the Japanese steel
used for the samurai blades.

302
00:15:46,870 --> 00:15:50,000
It's been very hard to reproduce
because some of these processes 

303
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can be incredibly sensitive
to the exact detail 

304
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of the temperature. 

305
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Some of its features
are just its flexibility 

306
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and the way they were able
to fold it over and over, 

307
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and its incredible strength
and its resistance to oxidation, 

308
00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:06,910
which is what you really need
to keep something sharp. 

309
00:16:08,540 --> 00:16:11,040
NARRATOR: Could the fact
that modern sword makers

310
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have been unable
to achieve the same quality 

311
00:16:13,870 --> 00:16:17,080
as Amakuni's blades
be further evidence 

312
00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:21,080
that he was trained by
a more advanced race of beings? 

313
00:16:21,250 --> 00:16:25,500
And might these ancient swords
have held some technology 

314
00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:28,080
we have yet to discover? 

315
00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,040
KOSCHE:
In Shingon Buddhism, 

316
00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:34,000
the sword has a life of its own. 

317
00:16:34,200 --> 00:16:37,750
It's not that the samurai
selects the blade. 

318
00:16:37,910 --> 00:16:39,950
Is the samurai,
more appropriately, 

319
00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:41,660
good enough for the blade? 

320
00:16:41,870 --> 00:16:44,080
Does the blade choose him? 

321
00:16:47,370 --> 00:16:50,120
NARRATOR: Is the philosophy
of Shingon Buddhism--

322
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that the blade
chooses its owner-- 

323
00:16:53,370 --> 00:16:56,620
simply an example
of early humans' tendency 

324
00:16:56,830 --> 00:16:58,660
to project
spiritual consciousness 

325
00:16:58,830 --> 00:17:01,700
onto inanimate objects? 

326
00:17:01,870 --> 00:17:04,580
Or might ancient swordsmiths
like Amakuni 

327
00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:08,540
really have possessed
some otherworldly knowledge? 

328
00:17:08,700 --> 00:17:12,450
A knowledge that swords,
like other deadly weapons, 

329
00:17:12,620 --> 00:17:15,580
come not from man
but from a divine 

330
00:17:15,750 --> 00:17:18,500
or extraterrestrial origin? 

331
00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:24,080
According to legend, 

332
00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:29,000
one such sword may have existed
in 15th century France-- 

333
00:17:29,200 --> 00:17:33,000
the sword of Joan of Arc. 

334
00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:35,000
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: When Joan of
Arc was arrested and brought

335
00:17:35,200 --> 00:17:38,910
to what we now know of
as her condemnation trial, 

336
00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,000
her inquisitors were determined 

337
00:17:41,080 --> 00:17:43,290
to get information
about her sword. 

338
00:17:44,950 --> 00:17:47,000
Her inquisitors were obsessed 

339
00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:48,410
with finding out
about her sword, 

340
00:17:48,540 --> 00:17:50,700
and that is because
Joan of Arc's sword 

341
00:17:50,830 --> 00:17:55,120
was reputed to have
legendary power, divine power. 

342
00:17:57,750 --> 00:18:00,080
Joan claimed that her voices, 

343
00:18:00,250 --> 00:18:04,290
her angelic voices,
led her to this sword. 

344
00:18:08,450 --> 00:18:12,040
COPPENS: She's said to
have found it, as it was,

345
00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:13,830
hidden behind an altar 

346
00:18:14,040 --> 00:18:17,330
dedicated to
Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois.

347
00:18:17,450 --> 00:18:20,160
It is said that the sword itself
was forged 

348
00:18:20,370 --> 00:18:22,580
by the archangel Saint Michael. 

349
00:18:24,450 --> 00:18:28,580
And that whoever possessed it
was invincible. 

350
00:18:28,750 --> 00:18:31,700
McGOWAN: And that was certainly
true when Joan wielded this sword,

351
00:18:31,870 --> 00:18:34,450
carried it with her
into the battle of Orléans... 

352
00:18:37,620 --> 00:18:40,330
...which was the decisive battle
which allowed them 

353
00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:44,580
to put King Charles VII
on the throne of France. 

354
00:18:45,790 --> 00:18:47,160
NARRATOR:
Could Joan of Arc 

355
00:18:47,290 --> 00:18:49,790
really have been given
her invincible sword 

356
00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,500
by extraterrestrials 

357
00:18:51,700 --> 00:18:55,500
who had an interest
in the future of France? 

358
00:18:55,700 --> 00:18:58,040
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe such a thing 

359
00:18:58,200 --> 00:19:01,080
is not only possible but likely. 

360
00:19:03,580 --> 00:19:05,290
And they point
to the legendary story 

361
00:19:05,450 --> 00:19:09,500
of King Arthur
as evidence of their claim. 

362
00:19:09,660 --> 00:19:11,830
CHILDRESS:
King Arthur had two swords. 

363
00:19:11,950 --> 00:19:14,500
The sword in the stone, 

364
00:19:14,700 --> 00:19:17,160
that showed that he was
to be king, is one sword. 

365
00:19:17,370 --> 00:19:19,950
TSOUKALOS:
When I hear a story 

366
00:19:20,160 --> 00:19:22,870
about this magnificent sword 

367
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:25,120
that's encased in this stone 

368
00:19:25,290 --> 00:19:27,200
with only the handle
sticking out, 

369
00:19:27,370 --> 00:19:32,370
and only King Arthur has
the capability to pull it out, 

370
00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:34,790
well, then I start thinking 

371
00:19:34,950 --> 00:19:38,660
about some type of
a biometric security system... 

372
00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,200
...where, today, we now have
guns 

373
00:19:42,370 --> 00:19:45,040
that can only be fired 

374
00:19:45,200 --> 00:19:49,660
if the handle recognizes
your fingerprint. 

375
00:19:51,580 --> 00:19:55,120
Is it possible
that the sword in the stone 

376
00:19:55,330 --> 00:19:58,040
was calibrated specifically 

377
00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,160
to King Arthur's biometrics? 

378
00:20:01,330 --> 00:20:03,580
I think yes. 

379
00:20:03,700 --> 00:20:07,500
I know it sounds crazy. 

380
00:20:07,620 --> 00:20:11,200
We're merely saying that what
today is being discovered 

381
00:20:11,370 --> 00:20:15,200
is a rediscovery
of what already took place

382
00:20:15,370 --> 00:20:18,870
thousands of years ago. 

383
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:21,500
NARRATOR: According to the
stories of King Arthur,

384
00:20:21,660 --> 00:20:24,160
the sword that he is said
to have pulled from the stone 

385
00:20:24,370 --> 00:20:27,120
was never used in battle. 

386
00:20:27,290 --> 00:20:30,870
His weapon was
the legendary Excalibur. 

387
00:20:32,750 --> 00:20:34,830
CHILDRESS:
The Excalibur sword came to him 

388
00:20:34,950 --> 00:20:36,750
from the Lady in the Lake, 

389
00:20:36,870 --> 00:20:41,040
where a hand came up
and handed him a magical sword. 

390
00:20:41,200 --> 00:20:43,000
And according
to the ancient chronicles, 

391
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:46,950
this sword shone
with the light of 30 suns 

392
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:49,330
and blinded his enemies. 

393
00:20:52,540 --> 00:20:54,370
FIEBAG (speaking German, translated):
This sword of King Arthur

394
00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:57,160
was said to have radiated
lightning and energy 

395
00:20:57,330 --> 00:20:59,500
when he fought against monsters. 

396
00:21:00,830 --> 00:21:04,000
So, we have swords
as magical objects, 

397
00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:06,160
but here, also, is the suspicion 

398
00:21:06,330 --> 00:21:09,200
that a misunderstood technology
could exist. 

399
00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,160
NARRATOR: Although historians
still debate whether the stories

400
00:21:15,370 --> 00:21:18,000
of King Arthur
have a basis in fact, 

401
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:23,660
in 1998, archeologists found
a sixth century piece of slate 

402
00:21:23,830 --> 00:21:26,580
inscribed with his name 

403
00:21:26,700 --> 00:21:31,500
at his reputed birthplace,
Tintagel, England.

404
00:21:31,660 --> 00:21:34,410
But if King Arthur
really existed, 

405
00:21:34,540 --> 00:21:39,000
might the legends of his
incredible swords also be true? 

406
00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,540
And if so, might that suggest 

407
00:21:41,700 --> 00:21:45,250
that extraterrestrial visitors
did, in fact, 

408
00:21:45,410 --> 00:21:49,500
provide humans with weapons
not of this world? 

409
00:21:49,700 --> 00:21:53,250
Perhaps the answer
can be found in ancient Rome, 

410
00:21:53,410 --> 00:21:56,660
and by examining
a legendary battle, 

411
00:21:56,790 --> 00:22:01,660
one involving a much-witnessed
phenomenon in the sky. 

412
00:22:07,540 --> 00:22:08,500
When we look at ancient stories
from around the world, 

413
00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:10,870
sometimes the gods
are teaching us humans

414
00:22:11,080 --> 00:22:13,540
skills that they can use
to develop our own weapons. 

415
00:22:13,700 --> 00:22:15,450
Other times,
it's like they're giving us 

416
00:22:15,620 --> 00:22:18,160
their own alien weapons. 

417
00:22:18,370 --> 00:22:19,500
-Right. -CHILDRESS: A
great example of this

418
00:22:19,660 --> 00:22:21,000
is what
the ancient Romans called 

419
00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,200
-Greek fire.
-Mm-hmm. 

420
00:22:23,370 --> 00:22:25,410
Which they said
was given to us by angels. 

421
00:22:25,580 --> 00:22:27,410
-Right.
-And it's this intense fire 

422
00:22:27,580 --> 00:22:29,790
that would burn underwater. 

423
00:22:29,950 --> 00:22:31,540
TSOUKALOS:
Right, and even historians 

424
00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:35,620
say that this was
a real weapon at some point. 

425
00:22:35,790 --> 00:22:39,200
The problem is,
we can't figure out what it was

426
00:22:39,410 --> 00:22:41,790
and also, we cannot replicate it 

427
00:22:41,950 --> 00:22:44,330
with modern technology. 

428
00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:50,700
NARRATOR:
Rome, October 27th, 312 AD. 

429
00:22:52,410 --> 00:22:56,120
At the Milvian Bridge
on the north side of the city, 

430
00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:58,500
deposed emperor Constantine 

431
00:22:58,620 --> 00:23:01,870
prepares to reclaim his throne
from Maxentius. 

432
00:23:03,870 --> 00:23:07,950
In the sky, he witnesses
what he will later describe 

433
00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:10,620
as a cross hovering above him. 

434
00:23:10,830 --> 00:23:15,000
He interprets this vision as
a sign from the Christian God. 

435
00:23:16,330 --> 00:23:18,120
(shouting) 

436
00:23:19,450 --> 00:23:20,950
The next day, 

437
00:23:21,120 --> 00:23:22,830
Constantine and his army 

438
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,660
bear the image of the Chi-Rho
on their shields and flags, 

439
00:23:26,830 --> 00:23:31,250
one of the earliest cruciform
symbols used by Christians. 

440
00:23:31,410 --> 00:23:33,160
When they emerge victorious, 

441
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:35,410
Christianity becomes
the official religion 

442
00:23:35,580 --> 00:23:37,660
of the Roman Empire, 

443
00:23:37,830 --> 00:23:40,950
and the world
is changed forever. 

444
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,500
But was the cross-shaped object 

445
00:23:43,660 --> 00:23:46,200
Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky 

446
00:23:46,370 --> 00:23:48,540
really a sign from God? 

447
00:23:48,700 --> 00:23:52,870
Or might it have been
some other extraordinary force? 

448
00:23:53,040 --> 00:23:54,870
BRAMLEY: It looked like they
were in the shape of a cross,

449
00:23:55,040 --> 00:23:57,870
but the shape of a cross could
have been airplane-type objects, 

450
00:23:58,040 --> 00:24:00,290
because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross 

451
00:24:00,450 --> 00:24:01,830
to somebody who's looking up. 

452
00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,330
And of course,
they had no concept 

453
00:24:03,540 --> 00:24:05,120
of these things back then. 

454
00:24:05,290 --> 00:24:07,580
There were other signs
and portents 

455
00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,910
that were seen
around the same time 

456
00:24:10,080 --> 00:24:14,370
that were described
as a crucifix in the sky. 

457
00:24:14,540 --> 00:24:16,410
If these were to appear
in the sky today, 

458
00:24:16,540 --> 00:24:18,830
we would describe them
quite differently. 

459
00:24:21,540 --> 00:24:24,160
TSOUKALOS:
Is it possible that Constantine, 

460
00:24:24,290 --> 00:24:28,500
instead of actually having seen
a cross floating in the sky, 

461
00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:31,290
actually saw a type 

462
00:24:31,450 --> 00:24:34,450
of an extraterrestrial craft? 

463
00:24:34,660 --> 00:24:38,000
Is it possible
that Constantine won 

464
00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,660
because the extraterrestrials
were siding with Constantine 

465
00:24:42,830 --> 00:24:46,790
and thus altering
mankind's history forever? 

466
00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:52,950
NARRATOR: But according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

467
00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:56,660
even stronger evidence exists
that Emperor Constantine 

468
00:24:56,870 --> 00:25:00,040
had a genuine alien encounter. 

469
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,040
Shortly after
the Battle of Milvian Bridge, 

470
00:25:03,200 --> 00:25:06,790
he was said to have acquired
a powerful new weapon.

471
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,450
Known as Greek fire, 

472
00:25:09,620 --> 00:25:12,620
it was the most devastating
weapon of the time. 

473
00:25:12,830 --> 00:25:16,870
And it was said to have been
given to Constantine by angels. 

474
00:25:19,870 --> 00:25:22,620
IMBROGNO: It was said to burn
so violently and so hot,

475
00:25:22,750 --> 00:25:27,160
it was said that even
in the greatest of rainstorms, 

476
00:25:27,370 --> 00:25:29,700
the fire would not go out. 

477
00:25:29,870 --> 00:25:33,830
And when projected out to sea,
when it sunk into the water, 

478
00:25:33,950 --> 00:25:36,620
it would still burn
on the bottom of the ocean. 

479
00:25:39,450 --> 00:25:42,160
(speaking German, translated): In
one battle, Byzantium was attacked

480
00:25:42,330 --> 00:25:45,000
by 1,800 Persian ships.

481
00:25:46,160 --> 00:25:48,830
Only 15 escaped. 

482
00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:53,160
All the others were destroyed
by the so-called Greek fire. 

483
00:25:57,370 --> 00:26:02,660
And Prince Igor, who attacked
Byzantium in the year 941 AD, 

484
00:26:02,790 --> 00:26:05,540
attacked with a fleet
of 1,000 ships. 

485
00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:10,040
Only ten ships made it home. 

486
00:26:12,620 --> 00:26:14,790
NARRATOR:
But perhaps even more astounding 

487
00:26:14,910 --> 00:26:17,660
than the incredible power
of Greek fire 

488
00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:19,540
is the fact that scientists 

489
00:26:19,700 --> 00:26:22,000
have not been able
to reproduce it, 

490
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:25,620
even after 1,600 years. 

491
00:26:27,540 --> 00:26:29,450
Scientists have been
trying to identify 

492
00:26:29,620 --> 00:26:32,160
what Greek fire is
for decades, if not centuries.

493
00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:34,500
Nobody has come up
with a satisfying answer. 

494
00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:36,620
The most logical answer 

495
00:26:36,830 --> 00:26:39,040
is that it might be,
somehow, petroleum, 

496
00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:41,160
because it is known that
petroleum continues to burn 

497
00:26:41,290 --> 00:26:43,160
when in contact with water. 

498
00:26:43,330 --> 00:26:46,580
I think it has to do
with phosphorus and magnesium, 

499
00:26:46,750 --> 00:26:49,200
because when they are
mixed in with water, 

500
00:26:49,370 --> 00:26:51,830
they tend to explode. 

501
00:26:54,540 --> 00:26:56,120
NARRATOR:
The formula for Greek fire 

502
00:26:56,330 --> 00:26:59,330
was not even known to most
of those who'd used the weapon, 

503
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:04,200
as the delivery system required
multiple people to operate it.

504
00:27:04,370 --> 00:27:06,120
What's interesting
about Greek Fire 

505
00:27:06,290 --> 00:27:08,330
is that it only worked 

506
00:27:08,540 --> 00:27:10,790
when all the different
components 

507
00:27:10,950 --> 00:27:15,160
worked together as one piece. 

508
00:27:15,370 --> 00:27:18,830
Each component was operated
by a different person, 

509
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:22,160
so if somebody was captured,
they couldn't give away 

510
00:27:22,290 --> 00:27:25,080
the quote-unquote
"secret of Greek fire." 

511
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,750
NARRATOR: But what was
this mysterious weapon?

512
00:27:29,870 --> 00:27:34,370
And more importantly,
where did it come from? 

513
00:27:34,540 --> 00:27:37,500
TSOUKALOS:
One story goes that Greek fire 

514
00:27:37,700 --> 00:27:42,160
was given to Constantine
by an angel.

515
00:27:42,330 --> 00:27:46,410
Now, angels are supposed to be
these friendly creatures 

516
00:27:46,540 --> 00:27:48,500
that instill peace and love, 

517
00:27:48,620 --> 00:27:52,950
and all of a sudden, we have
this one quote-unquote "angel" 

518
00:27:53,120 --> 00:27:56,000
that gives one of the most
sophisticated weapons 

519
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:59,620
in mankind's history
to Constantine? 

520
00:27:59,830 --> 00:28:03,790
Replace the word "angel"
with "extraterrestrial," 

521
00:28:03,950 --> 00:28:07,040
and we have
a very different story. 

522
00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:12,160
NARRATOR: Could Greek fire
really have been a type

523
00:28:12,370 --> 00:28:15,830
of advanced alien technology
given to Constantine 

524
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,910
to ensure the success
of the Roman Empire?

525
00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,870
If so, wouldn't there
be evidence 

526
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:27,200
of extraterrestrial influence
during other Earthly conflicts? 

527
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,540
(speaking German, translated):
Hannibal, who crossed the Alps 

528
00:28:32,700 --> 00:28:34,040
and attacked Rome, 

529
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,540
was said to have had
a chemical explosive. 

530
00:28:36,700 --> 00:28:39,290
We don't know where
the knowledge came from 

531
00:28:39,410 --> 00:28:40,910
in these cases, 

532
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:43,250
but there could definitely
be a connection 

533
00:28:43,370 --> 00:28:45,330
to other weapons of the gods. 

534
00:28:47,330 --> 00:28:50,000
NARRATOR: The explosive weapon
Hannibal allegedly used

535
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,250
against ancient Rome
in the third century BC

536
00:28:53,450 --> 00:28:56,700
predated gunpowder
by over a thousand years. 

537
00:28:59,370 --> 00:29:03,790
And some believe even gunpowder
itself may have been a discovery 

538
00:29:03,950 --> 00:29:08,450
inspired by otherworldly beings
back in the ninth century. 

539
00:29:08,620 --> 00:29:11,450
Ironically,
this deadly invention 

540
00:29:11,580 --> 00:29:13,790
was discovered
by Chinese alchemists 

541
00:29:13,950 --> 00:29:17,370
attempting to create
an elixir of immortality. 

542
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,830
Alchemy has a long history
in China. 

543
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,830
And the alchemist Tze
had been seeking 

544
00:29:24,950 --> 00:29:27,040
elixir of immortality. 

545
00:29:27,200 --> 00:29:30,160
The medicine, for example,
to live forever. 

546
00:29:30,330 --> 00:29:33,870
So, they were experimenting
for many centuries, 

547
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,540
and mixed all kind
of things and 

548
00:29:36,700 --> 00:29:41,200
it was not until
around the 850 Common Era, 

549
00:29:41,410 --> 00:29:44,870
and we have records to show 

550
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:48,370
the disastrous impact
of this mixing. 

551
00:29:51,700 --> 00:29:53,540
NARRATOR:
Though the Chinese emperors 

552
00:29:53,700 --> 00:29:56,790
never achieved
this elixir for immortality, 

553
00:29:56,950 --> 00:30:00,450
they ended up with something
almost as valuable: 

554
00:30:00,620 --> 00:30:05,660
a weapon more powerful than
anything that had come before. 

555
00:30:05,870 --> 00:30:07,500
SUN:
The Chinese gunpowder technology 

556
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:12,160
led to this important political
and this geographical changes

557
00:30:12,370 --> 00:30:15,500
in China, in Vietnam,
in Southeast Asia. 

558
00:30:15,660 --> 00:30:20,120
It led to the-- even the rise
and the fall of dynasties. 

559
00:30:20,290 --> 00:30:24,330
NARRATOR: But where did such an
incendiary ability come from?

560
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:30,500
Was the formula given to us
by extraterrestrials 

561
00:30:30,660 --> 00:30:33,660
or did somebody
discover it by accident? 

562
00:30:33,830 --> 00:30:35,580
No one really knows. 

563
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:38,200
Gunpowder was made of charcoal, 

564
00:30:38,370 --> 00:30:41,200
which they burnt trees
and ground down the charcoal. 

565
00:30:41,370 --> 00:30:44,660
Sulfur, they would get
from volcanoes, 

566
00:30:44,870 --> 00:30:48,500
and sodium or potassium nitrate 

567
00:30:48,700 --> 00:30:50,950
is not readily available.

568
00:30:51,080 --> 00:30:55,080
So how would they know
to get those nitrates 

569
00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:58,330
and mix them all together
in the right proportions? 

570
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,080
NARRATOR:
Could the formula for gunpowder 

571
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:05,540
really have
extraterrestrial origins? 

572
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:10,160
And if deadly technologies
like gunpowder and Greek fire 

573
00:31:10,370 --> 00:31:15,160
really were handed down
to humans by an alien race, why? 

574
00:31:15,370 --> 00:31:18,370
Might they have been trying
to shape our future? 

575
00:31:25,200 --> 00:31:26,910
When you talk about aliens
giving knowledge to mankind, 

576
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,500
you have to ask
how they would do that. 

577
00:31:29,620 --> 00:31:31,000
And one answer is

578
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,910
that they would chose
certain individuals 

579
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:34,000
to give them knowledge 

580
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,580
that would help advance mankind. 

581
00:31:36,790 --> 00:31:39,000
Right, and one
of the great examples 

582
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:41,950
of a story like this
can be found in the Bible 

583
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,870
with the story of Enoch, 

584
00:31:44,040 --> 00:31:47,160
who was taken up
in a fiery chariot 

585
00:31:47,370 --> 00:31:49,660
and then he was
imparted information 

586
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:51,540
which he then later shared 

587
00:31:51,700 --> 00:31:52,950
-with humanity.
-HENRY: Yeah. 

588
00:31:53,120 --> 00:31:53,910
And then you have
the great inventors 

589
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,580
like Leonardo da Vinci. 

590
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:57,120
He said he received ideas 

591
00:31:57,290 --> 00:31:59,290
by staring
into a flickering candle.

592
00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:00,500
Futuristic weapons 

593
00:32:00,620 --> 00:32:02,660
like machine guns and tanks. 

594
00:32:02,830 --> 00:32:04,160
We covered this
in a season two episode 

595
00:32:04,330 --> 00:32:06,410
called "Alien Devastations." 

596
00:32:08,870 --> 00:32:10,410
NARRATOR:
2005. 

597
00:32:10,580 --> 00:32:12,830
Florence, Italy. 

598
00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,120
Beyond a hidden staircase 

599
00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:18,080
in the Santissima
Annunziata convent, 

600
00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:22,290
researchers from Italy's
Military Geographical Institute 

601
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,910
discover the secret workshop
of Leonardo da Vinci. 

602
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:30,660
WILCOCK: He was the true
archetypal Renaissance man.

603
00:32:30,830 --> 00:32:33,870
Brilliant painter,
brilliant inventor, 

604
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:37,330
brilliant poet,
ambidextrous, could write

605
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:39,660
with his left hand and his
right hand at the same time. 

606
00:32:39,870 --> 00:32:41,700
Wrote backwards
instead of forwards. 

607
00:32:41,870 --> 00:32:43,500
A very interesting guy. 

608
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:47,290
NARRATOR: Though da Vinci is
renowned for his public paintings

609
00:32:47,410 --> 00:32:50,540
like the Mona Lisa
and The Last Supper, 

610
00:32:50,750 --> 00:32:53,910
ancient astronaut theorists
are more intrigued 

611
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,540
by his private notebooks
that contain sketches 

612
00:32:57,750 --> 00:33:00,700
of futuristic
military technology, 

613
00:33:00,870 --> 00:33:02,750
including machine guns, 

614
00:33:02,910 --> 00:33:05,830
tanks, helicopters 

615
00:33:05,950 --> 00:33:07,830
and even submarines. 

616
00:33:08,870 --> 00:33:11,410
WILCOCK: It clearly seems
that Leonardo da Vinci was

617
00:33:11,580 --> 00:33:15,540
privy to a series of secrets
that had been handed down 

618
00:33:15,700 --> 00:33:19,290
for many,
many thousands of years. 

619
00:33:19,450 --> 00:33:22,830
Da Vinci may also have
actually been contacted 

620
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,830
by humanlike extraterrestrials 

621
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,250
who either
spoke to him in person 

622
00:33:28,370 --> 00:33:30,160
or perhaps telepathically 

623
00:33:30,370 --> 00:33:33,250
and inspired him to do
so many different things. 

624
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:36,370
BRAMLEY:
We do know, for example, 

625
00:33:36,540 --> 00:33:39,200
that one of his inventions
was a circular car. 

626
00:33:39,370 --> 00:33:42,000
Looks kind of like a UFO. 

627
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:44,790
Now, he's also
into inventing weapons. 

628
00:33:44,950 --> 00:33:47,790
And did that come
from the fact that

629
00:33:47,870 --> 00:33:49,580
the UFO has demonstrated, 

630
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:52,120
basically, some aggressiveness, 

631
00:33:52,290 --> 00:33:56,000
and did some of that maybe
in some way rub off on him? 

632
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:58,450
WILCOCK: Were they trying
to give him weapons

633
00:33:58,620 --> 00:34:01,540
that could be used
to destroy life on Earth? 

634
00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:02,660
That could have been possible. 

635
00:34:05,450 --> 00:34:07,910
NARRATOR: But if Leonardo
da Vinci did have knowledge

636
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:09,660
of advanced weaponry, 

637
00:34:09,870 --> 00:34:13,750
might he have learned of it
through observation and study? 

638
00:34:13,950 --> 00:34:16,700
Or was this knowledge
given to him by another, 

639
00:34:16,910 --> 00:34:19,660
perhaps extraterrestrial source?

640
00:34:22,160 --> 00:34:24,410
TSOUKALOS: There is this
book of prophecies,

641
00:34:24,620 --> 00:34:26,830
which is a very rare book, 

642
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,870
and in there are some type
of descriptions 

643
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,040
that could indicate some type 

644
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:35,660
of an extraterrestrial
visitation. 

645
00:34:35,830 --> 00:34:40,160
There are references
in which da Vinci himself says 

646
00:34:40,370 --> 00:34:42,660
that he's had these encounters, 

647
00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:46,000
these visions of God and angels. 

648
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:47,410
And of course, 

649
00:34:47,540 --> 00:34:49,450
according to the ancient
astronaut hypothesis, 

650
00:34:49,620 --> 00:34:52,160
that wasn't God,
it wasn't angels. 

651
00:34:52,330 --> 00:34:55,160
They were extraterrestrials. 

652
00:34:57,160 --> 00:34:59,950
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that over the centuries,

653
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:01,870
extraterrestrials
have been partnering 

654
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:03,580
with human collaborators? 

655
00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:06,120
Human beings entrusted 

656
00:35:06,250 --> 00:35:08,450
with the kind of advanced
scientific knowledge 

657
00:35:08,660 --> 00:35:10,750
that would allow mankind 

658
00:35:10,870 --> 00:35:14,290
to leap over centuries of normal
intellectual evolution? 

659
00:35:15,330 --> 00:35:17,160
To ancient astronaut theorists, 

660
00:35:17,370 --> 00:35:20,450
the fact that mankind had gone
from the horse and buggy 

661
00:35:20,580 --> 00:35:23,660
to the moon
in less than 100 years 

662
00:35:23,830 --> 00:35:25,080
makes such a notion 

663
00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,660
not only possible
but entirely probable. 

664
00:35:29,660 --> 00:35:32,660
In our development,
all of a sudden

665
00:35:32,870 --> 00:35:35,160
we've made a quantum leap 

666
00:35:35,330 --> 00:35:39,080
where we were sitting in caves
munching on bananas 

667
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:42,120
and the next thing we do
is we're building pyramids. 

668
00:35:42,290 --> 00:35:43,910
Virtually overnight. 

669
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:47,330
And so that quantum leap
can be explained 

670
00:35:47,540 --> 00:35:52,120
with a direct extraterrestrial
intervention of our past. 

671
00:35:52,290 --> 00:35:55,120
And the visitors are the ones
who are revered as gods, 

672
00:35:55,290 --> 00:35:57,700
who seem to come
on flying shields 

673
00:35:57,830 --> 00:35:59,040
or silver boats 

674
00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,830
or any of the various
descriptions 

675
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:02,540
of extraterrestrial technology 

676
00:36:02,660 --> 00:36:05,250
that you see
in these ancient legends.

677
00:36:05,410 --> 00:36:08,540
And they consistently are
trying to cultivate humanity 

678
00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:11,290
in a direction that's
beneficial for everyone. 

679
00:36:11,450 --> 00:36:13,120
NARRATOR:
There are many who believe 

680
00:36:13,290 --> 00:36:15,790
extraterrestrial visitors
might have provided 

681
00:36:15,910 --> 00:36:20,000
intellectual inspiration
to men like Albert Einstein, 

682
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,830
whose theories of relativity
opened the door 

683
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,910
for the possibility
of future travels 

684
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,040
through space and time. 

685
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,450
J. Robert Oppenheimer, 

686
00:36:29,660 --> 00:36:32,500
whose research in the field
of theoretical physics 

687
00:36:32,700 --> 00:36:35,830
resulted in the development
of atomic weapons.

688
00:36:38,080 --> 00:36:40,410
Wernher von Braun,
whose innovations 

689
00:36:40,580 --> 00:36:42,620
in advanced rocket technology 

690
00:36:42,790 --> 00:36:46,370
led to the modern-day
space program. 

691
00:36:46,540 --> 00:36:48,500
COPPENS: When we look into the
lives and the motivations

692
00:36:48,700 --> 00:36:51,160
as to Wernher von Braun
and to why he wanted 

693
00:36:51,370 --> 00:36:53,790
to take mankind
into outer space, 

694
00:36:53,950 --> 00:36:55,500
we're confronted with the fact 

695
00:36:55,660 --> 00:36:59,370
that he was absolutely convinced
that we had gone there before 

696
00:36:59,540 --> 00:37:03,540
or that an ancient civilization
had come from there to Earth. 

697
00:37:05,330 --> 00:37:08,160
These people were
motivated and, specifically,

698
00:37:08,370 --> 00:37:11,580
they wanted to take us to space
because they were convinced 

699
00:37:11,700 --> 00:37:13,660
that somehow
they would find something 

700
00:37:13,870 --> 00:37:16,450
which would completely
change planet Earth. 

701
00:37:17,790 --> 00:37:20,330
NARRATOR:
Then there is Nikola Tesla, 

702
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:22,660
whose experiments
with electricity 

703
00:37:22,750 --> 00:37:25,000
led to everything
from satellite technology 

704
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,830
and robotics 

705
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,620
to what some would term
a death ray. 

706
00:37:31,250 --> 00:37:33,080
DAVID SEREDA:
But the Tesla death ray, 

707
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:37,370
Tesla said could annihilate an
army of 100,000 soldiers at once 

708
00:37:37,540 --> 00:37:39,200
and could melt
an aircraft engine

709
00:37:39,370 --> 00:37:41,290
from 250 miles away. 

710
00:37:41,450 --> 00:37:43,950
When the FBI investigated
Tesla's murder, 

711
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,160
they found documentation 

712
00:37:46,290 --> 00:37:48,750
that the Tesla death ray
was in development 

713
00:37:48,870 --> 00:37:53,200
at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in 1943. 

714
00:37:53,370 --> 00:37:56,160
Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, 1943? 

715
00:37:56,370 --> 00:37:58,500
Where was the Roswell
flying saucer taken? 

716
00:37:58,660 --> 00:38:00,080
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. 

717
00:38:00,250 --> 00:38:02,620
So, we have a connection
to that weapon. 

718
00:38:04,540 --> 00:38:06,000
NARRATOR:
Is it possible 

719
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:08,830
that Nikola Tesla's
scientific achievements 

720
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,500
could have been influenced
by alien intelligence?

721
00:38:12,620 --> 00:38:16,160
Might other human geniuses
throughout time 

722
00:38:16,330 --> 00:38:18,250
have served as human gateways, 

723
00:38:18,370 --> 00:38:20,540
allowing extraterrestrials
to jump-start 

724
00:38:20,700 --> 00:38:23,200
our technological advances? 

725
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:28,750
If the answer is yes, then
what are we being prepared for? 

726
00:38:29,830 --> 00:38:33,540
And might there be a connection
between mankind's intellectual 

727
00:38:33,700 --> 00:38:36,040
and scientific advancements 

728
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:39,250
and the otherworldly
weapons of warfare 

729
00:38:39,450 --> 00:38:42,790
that existed
in our ancient past? 

730
00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:49,580
When talking about
the ancient accounts 

731
00:38:49,580 --> 00:38:50,500
of the weapons of the gods, 

732
00:38:50,950 --> 00:38:53,500
what stands out to me are
the numerous descriptions 

733
00:38:53,660 --> 00:38:56,370
of what sounds like the use
of atomic or nuclear weapons. 

734
00:38:56,540 --> 00:38:59,250
And we have the ancient
Vedic texts of India, 

735
00:38:59,370 --> 00:39:00,830
which talk about
the Brahma weapon 

736
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,330
that could level entire cities. 

737
00:39:03,450 --> 00:39:05,000
And the evidence for this is 

738
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,790
the massive explosion
at Mohenjo Daro, 

739
00:39:07,950 --> 00:39:11,250
which vitrified the brick walls
with intense heat. 

740
00:39:11,410 --> 00:39:12,450
Yeah, and it's also fascinating 

741
00:39:12,660 --> 00:39:15,000
that the creator
of the atom bomb, 

742
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:16,580
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, 

743
00:39:16,700 --> 00:39:20,580
is known to have studied
the ancient Vedic texts.

744
00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:25,330
In fact, we covered this
in season one of Ancient Aliens. 

745
00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:31,870
NARRATOR:
Alamogordo, New Mexico. 

746
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:36,750
White Sands proving ground.
July 16, 1945. 

747
00:39:38,870 --> 00:39:40,500
Early in the morning, 

748
00:39:40,660 --> 00:39:44,290
a number of U.S. military
officers and scientists gather 

749
00:39:44,370 --> 00:39:47,540
to watch a powerful
new weapon being tested. 

750
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:51,620
Some believe the device
will be a complete failure. 

751
00:39:51,830 --> 00:39:56,700
Others think it might destroy
the entire State of New Mexico. 

752
00:39:56,870 --> 00:39:59,580
As a precaution,
viewing stations are placed 

753
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:02,660
from ten to 20 miles away
from the test site.

754
00:40:02,870 --> 00:40:06,500
At precisely
5:29 and 45 seconds, 

755
00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:10,080
the first atomic bomb
is detonated. 

756
00:40:10,290 --> 00:40:13,540
MAN:
Three, two, one, 

757
00:40:13,700 --> 00:40:14,910
fire. 

758
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:26,450
The blast emits a fireball
over 600 feet wide 

759
00:40:26,620 --> 00:40:31,540
and produces an explosion
equal to 20,000 tons of TNT. 

760
00:40:32,540 --> 00:40:36,700
The mushroom cloud reaches
over seven miles in height 

761
00:40:36,870 --> 00:40:41,500
and the reverberations can be
felt nearly 100 miles away. 

762
00:40:42,540 --> 00:40:45,330
The world had a new weapon: 

763
00:40:45,540 --> 00:40:48,910
one so terrifying it left
even its creator, 

764
00:40:49,040 --> 00:40:52,700
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,
shocked and shaken. 

765
00:40:52,870 --> 00:40:55,660
OPPENHEIMER:
Few people laughed.

766
00:40:57,250 --> 00:40:59,200
Few people cried. 

767
00:40:59,370 --> 00:41:01,080
Most people were silent. 

768
00:41:02,790 --> 00:41:04,540
NARRATOR: For the first
time in its history,

769
00:41:04,700 --> 00:41:07,870
the Earth had been assaulted
by a man-made weapon 

770
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:09,700
of incredible power. 

771
00:41:10,620 --> 00:41:13,410
But what if it had
all happened before? 

772
00:41:13,580 --> 00:41:15,540
What if an explosion 

773
00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:18,500
of even greater force
and destructiveness 

774
00:41:18,700 --> 00:41:21,410
had long ago shaped
the Earth's history? 

775
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:24,330
Some people have suggested 

776
00:41:24,540 --> 00:41:26,950
on the basis of a number
of lines of evidence 

777
00:41:27,120 --> 00:41:30,700
that there may have been
atomic warfare, atomic bombs, 

778
00:41:30,830 --> 00:41:34,700
atomic explosions,
in the very distant past. 

779
00:41:34,870 --> 00:41:38,660
NARRATOR: Atomic warfare
among ancient civilizations

780
00:41:38,870 --> 00:41:41,500
may sound like something
out of a science fiction novel, 

781
00:41:41,620 --> 00:41:45,450
but descriptions
of similar deadly occurrences 

782
00:41:45,620 --> 00:41:48,000
can be found
in the very same text 

783
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,200
Dr. Oppenheimer quoted after
the New Mexico atomic test. 

784
00:41:52,330 --> 00:41:56,160
OPPENHEIMER: I remembered the
line from the Hindu scripture,

785
00:41:56,290 --> 00:41:58,500
the Bhagavad Gita. 

786
00:41:58,660 --> 00:42:02,450
"Now I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds." 

787
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:08,000
♪ ♪ 

788
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,500
NARRATOR: Part of an
ancient Hindu scripture

789
00:42:14,700 --> 00:42:16,660
known as the Mahabharata, 

790
00:42:16,870 --> 00:42:19,200
the Bhagavad Gita
was written sometime 

791
00:42:19,410 --> 00:42:22,790
between the fifth
and second century BC. 

792
00:42:22,950 --> 00:42:25,660
This massive 100,000-verse text 

793
00:42:25,870 --> 00:42:29,500
contains stories about
the ancient empire of Rama, 

794
00:42:29,700 --> 00:42:33,620
which, it is said,
existed over 12,000 years ago 

795
00:42:33,830 --> 00:42:36,660
or roughly 5,000 years before 

796
00:42:36,870 --> 00:42:40,660
the earliest recorded
civilization in Mesopotamia. 

797
00:42:42,580 --> 00:42:45,870
TSOUKALOS: If you read the
ancient Indian epics,

798
00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,200
they read like modern-day
science fiction, 

799
00:42:49,370 --> 00:42:51,580
yet they're thousands
of years old 

800
00:42:51,750 --> 00:42:54,750
with references
not only of flying chariots 

801
00:42:54,910 --> 00:42:57,500
and of these gods that had 

802
00:42:57,660 --> 00:43:00,620
these incredible
technological capabilities, 

803
00:43:00,790 --> 00:43:02,830
but incredible weapons 

804
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,290
that they used
in those epic battles. 

805
00:43:06,450 --> 00:43:11,160
NANCY RED STAR: They had what
was called a Brahma weapon.

806
00:43:14,290 --> 00:43:17,080
There were many people
that were singed and burned 

807
00:43:17,250 --> 00:43:19,790
and melted by the Brahma weapon. 

808
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:24,080
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

809
00:43:24,250 --> 00:43:27,000
the Brahma weapon
was an early nuclear device 

810
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:30,790
because the descriptions
of its deadly aftereffects 

811
00:43:30,870 --> 00:43:32,750
are eerily similar
to the effects 

812
00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:35,540
of exposure
to intense radiation. 

813
00:43:35,700 --> 00:43:39,000
It is a theory
largely discounted 

814
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:40,660
by conventional science. 

815
00:43:40,830 --> 00:43:42,290
There is no evidence 

816
00:43:42,450 --> 00:43:43,910
that a nuclear bomb
was described 

817
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:46,120
in the Mahabharata,
the Bhagavad Gita. 

818
00:43:48,370 --> 00:43:50,250
It describes a battle. 

819
00:43:51,910 --> 00:43:53,870
In battles,
there are explosions. 

820
00:43:57,580 --> 00:44:01,330
It's one thing about suggesting 

821
00:44:01,450 --> 00:44:03,830
that, you know,
battles have explosions. 

822
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,870
But that's not really
what we're looking at. 

823
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,750
You got to look
at the whole picture. 

824
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,120
One reference
that we have, for example,

825
00:44:16,250 --> 00:44:18,910
speaks of these explosions 

826
00:44:19,080 --> 00:44:22,330
that were brighter
than a thousand suns. 

827
00:44:22,540 --> 00:44:25,660
And when these blasts occurred, 

828
00:44:25,830 --> 00:44:27,830
the suns
were twirling in the air, 

829
00:44:27,950 --> 00:44:30,540
trees went up in flames 

830
00:44:30,700 --> 00:44:33,040
and there was just
this mass destruction. 

831
00:44:34,250 --> 00:44:37,250
After those blasts,
people who survive 

832
00:44:37,410 --> 00:44:41,950
start to lose their hair
and nails start to fall out. 

833
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,750
I mean, right there,
we have a concise reference 

834
00:44:44,910 --> 00:44:48,000
to radiation poisoning,
nuclear fallout. 

835
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:51,330
And those texts
are thousands of years old. 

836
00:44:54,830 --> 00:44:58,080
NARRATOR: But if the
Mahabharata is based on fact,

837
00:44:58,250 --> 00:45:00,540
wouldn't archaeologists
have uncovered 

838
00:45:00,700 --> 00:45:03,330
physical
or radiological evidence? 

839
00:45:05,870 --> 00:45:10,080
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they have. 

840
00:45:13,450 --> 00:45:16,910
The Indus Valley,
Southern Pakistan. 

841
00:45:19,370 --> 00:45:21,700
In 1922, 

842
00:45:21,870 --> 00:45:25,040
an officer with an Indian
archeological survey group 

843
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:28,040
discovered the ruins
of an ancient city 

844
00:45:28,200 --> 00:45:31,080
known as Mohenjo Daro. 

845
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:33,790
According
to mainstream archeologists, 

846
00:45:33,950 --> 00:45:36,700
the city, whose name means
"mound of the dead," 

847
00:45:36,870 --> 00:45:41,830
had flourished
between 2600 and 1900 BC.

848
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:44,660
However, scientists in Pakistan 

849
00:45:44,790 --> 00:45:49,040
have suggested
Mohenjo Daro is much older. 

850
00:45:49,250 --> 00:45:53,290
Mainstream archeologists
believe the city was abandoned 

851
00:45:53,410 --> 00:45:58,620
as a result of climatic changes,
or possibly a decrease in trade. 

852
00:45:58,790 --> 00:46:00,700
But when
the ruins of Mohenjo Daro 

853
00:46:00,910 --> 00:46:04,000
were discovered in the 1920s... 

854
00:46:05,330 --> 00:46:09,250
...44 skeletons were found
lying face down in the street, 

855
00:46:09,410 --> 00:46:11,950
many holding hands. 

856
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,290
Their faces and body positioning 

857
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:19,750
suggested they suffered
a sudden, violent death. 

858
00:46:21,540 --> 00:46:23,500
COPPENS: You have a culture
of people who literally

859
00:46:23,700 --> 00:46:25,500
were lying dead in the street. 

860
00:46:25,700 --> 00:46:27,330
Archaeologists have found
human remains. 

861
00:46:27,540 --> 00:46:29,620
And something big
has happened to these people. 

862
00:46:30,700 --> 00:46:35,500
NARRATOR: What, in fact, did happen
to the people of Mohenjo Daro?

863
00:46:35,700 --> 00:46:38,120
Why is there evidence
that wild animals 

864
00:46:38,250 --> 00:46:40,870
avoided
scavenging their remains? 

865
00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:44,540
And why,
even after thousands of years, 

866
00:46:44,700 --> 00:46:47,250
had their bones not decayed? 

867
00:46:48,080 --> 00:46:51,500
TSOUKALOS:
In certain areas of that site, 

868
00:46:51,660 --> 00:46:54,750
you find increased
levels of radiation. 

869
00:46:54,870 --> 00:46:59,000
And radiation exists
all over the place. 

870
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:01,950
When, all of a sudden, you have
higher levels of radiation 

871
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,330
in certain areas of the world, 

872
00:47:04,540 --> 00:47:08,000
the question arises: why? 

873
00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:15,950
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that Mohenjo Daro

874
00:47:16,160 --> 00:47:19,950
was one of the cities
mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita? 

875
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,700
A city that
suffered the equivalent 

876
00:47:22,910 --> 00:47:25,040
of a sudden atomic attack? 

877
00:47:28,700 --> 00:47:31,040
In his 1979 book, 

878
00:47:31,160 --> 00:47:35,000
Atomic Destruction in 2000 BC, 

879
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:37,250
British researcher
David Davenport 

880
00:47:37,410 --> 00:47:40,750
claimed to have found
a 50-yard-wide epicenter 

881
00:47:40,910 --> 00:47:43,870
at Mohenjo Daro
where everything appeared 

882
00:47:44,040 --> 00:47:46,540
to have been fused through
a transformative process 

883
00:47:46,700 --> 00:47:48,830
known as vitrification. 

884
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,700
TSOUKALOS:
Vitrification is a process 

885
00:47:52,870 --> 00:47:56,540
in which regular type stone 

886
00:47:56,660 --> 00:47:59,790
gets molten into a magma state 

887
00:47:59,950 --> 00:48:03,200
and then it hardens again. 

888
00:48:03,370 --> 00:48:06,200
But once the stone
is hardened again, 

889
00:48:06,370 --> 00:48:09,250
it feels like glass. 

890
00:48:09,370 --> 00:48:13,750
At Mohenjo Daro, we find
evidence of vitrification, 

891
00:48:13,910 --> 00:48:15,950
which could have
only been achieved 

892
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:20,450
if the material
was exposed to extreme heat 

893
00:48:20,660 --> 00:48:22,870
by some type of a blast.

894
00:48:24,540 --> 00:48:28,000
NARRATOR: Could the strange
ruins found in the Indus Valley

895
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:32,160
really contain evidence
of an ancient atomic explosion? 

896
00:48:32,370 --> 00:48:36,120
If so, where did these
powerful weapons come from? 

897
00:48:36,290 --> 00:48:39,870
Who was using them? And why? 

898
00:48:44,540 --> 00:48:45,410
I've written about the weapons 

899
00:48:45,500 --> 00:48:46,450
described
in the ancient Vedic texts 

900
00:48:46,540 --> 00:48:47,160
in many of my books. 

901
00:48:47,620 --> 00:48:49,870
And what amazes me
is that these descriptions 

902
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,080
of these weapons
are very similar 

903
00:48:52,250 --> 00:48:55,790
to what our modern military
is using today. 

904
00:48:55,950 --> 00:48:58,700
Yeah, like heat-seeking missiles
and stealth bombers.

905
00:48:58,870 --> 00:49:00,830
I mean, it goes without saying
that people 

906
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,450
from thousand years ago 

907
00:49:02,660 --> 00:49:04,410
would have never
known about this 

908
00:49:04,580 --> 00:49:08,370
unless they witnessed some sort
of advanced civilization. 

909
00:49:08,540 --> 00:49:11,160
Right. So, you have to be
open to ask the question. 

910
00:49:11,370 --> 00:49:13,580
Were they describing
some kind of alien technology? 

911
00:49:13,700 --> 00:49:17,080
-It's pronounced some "koind," William.
-HENRY: Oh, right.

912
00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:19,580
Some "koind"
of alien technology. 

913
00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:21,750
That's the alien pronunciation. 

914
00:49:21,950 --> 00:49:24,040
(laughing) 

915
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:27,620
NARRATOR: An unmanned
aerial vehicle 

916
00:49:27,790 --> 00:49:29,540
hurtles across the sky.

917
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,830
It travels at supersonic speeds, 

918
00:49:34,040 --> 00:49:36,500
spitting fire, 

919
00:49:36,700 --> 00:49:40,000
launching deadly missiles, 

920
00:49:40,120 --> 00:49:43,290
programmed to seek and destroy. 

921
00:49:44,700 --> 00:49:46,950
The effect is devastating, 

922
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:51,580
high-tech warfare
at its most lethal. 

923
00:49:51,700 --> 00:49:53,080
But what could be a page 

924
00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:56,700
stolen from a U.S. military
black project 

925
00:49:56,870 --> 00:49:59,660
is actually
a description written down 

926
00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:02,540
over 2,500 years ago 

927
00:50:02,700 --> 00:50:04,660
in the sacred Hindu text 

928
00:50:04,870 --> 00:50:07,660
known as the Mahabharata. 

929
00:50:08,750 --> 00:50:11,080
COPPENS: When it comes to the
ancient Indian accounts,

930
00:50:11,250 --> 00:50:13,160
they're really
eyewitness testimony 

931
00:50:13,290 --> 00:50:15,160
of the gods fighting.

932
00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:19,950
CHILDRESS: When you read
the ancient Hindu epics,

933
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:23,700
they talk about
horrific weapons: 

934
00:50:23,870 --> 00:50:28,370
missiles and atomic weapons. 

935
00:50:29,870 --> 00:50:32,000
Massive laser weapons 

936
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:35,250
that are melting
and devastating entire cities. 

937
00:50:36,540 --> 00:50:40,000
TSOUKALOS: I refuse to
think that our ancestors

938
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,950
came up with these stories
out of thin air. 

939
00:50:43,160 --> 00:50:45,580
When writing was first invented, 

940
00:50:45,700 --> 00:50:48,250
they wrote down their history. 

941
00:50:49,620 --> 00:50:52,500
The first things
that were ever written down 

942
00:50:52,660 --> 00:50:54,620
were actual events. 

943
00:50:56,200 --> 00:50:58,160
NARRATOR: How is it that
some of the earliest

944
00:50:58,330 --> 00:51:00,160
written accounts of warfare 

945
00:51:00,370 --> 00:51:02,620
describe sophisticated weaponry 

946
00:51:02,830 --> 00:51:04,830
that humans wouldn't develop 

947
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,040
for thousands of years? 

948
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,160
For the answer,
ancient astronaut theorists 

949
00:51:11,370 --> 00:51:14,200
point to numerous descriptions
of deadly weapons 

950
00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:17,660
found throughout
the Mahabharata-- 

951
00:51:17,870 --> 00:51:23,370
many strikingly similar to those
used by the military today. 

952
00:51:24,910 --> 00:51:27,580
One example
are the incendiary weapons 

953
00:51:27,750 --> 00:51:31,200
wielded by Vishnu, 

954
00:51:31,370 --> 00:51:34,790
which are specially equipped
to find their targets. 

955
00:51:34,950 --> 00:51:40,000
SHIMKADA: Vishnu has a flying
guided missile, the Narayanastra.

956
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:41,950
And once it is launched, 

957
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:45,040
it will destroy
everything that is moving. 

958
00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:47,790
So, you know,
according to the description, 

959
00:51:47,910 --> 00:51:52,160
it is a motion-detecting weapon, 

960
00:51:52,330 --> 00:51:55,450
which is pretty much
like our modern weaponry. 

961
00:51:56,700 --> 00:52:00,660
There is also a weapon
that is heat-seeking. 

962
00:52:01,910 --> 00:52:04,580
ROBERT DICKMAN: Heat-seeking is a very
effective way of finding something.

963
00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:07,330
You would fire a missile
from behind one aircraft 

964
00:52:07,450 --> 00:52:09,370
at an aircraft in front of you, 

965
00:52:09,500 --> 00:52:11,660
specifically targeted
against the hot engine. 

966
00:52:12,700 --> 00:52:16,700
And then you were able to move
off from behind the airplane 

967
00:52:16,910 --> 00:52:19,370
and the heat-seeker would still
be able to find the target. 

968
00:52:22,080 --> 00:52:23,660
I am aware 

969
00:52:23,870 --> 00:52:26,750
that there are forces of nature. 

970
00:52:29,040 --> 00:52:30,620
You've got thunder, lightning, 

971
00:52:30,790 --> 00:52:32,330
earthquakes. 

972
00:52:32,540 --> 00:52:35,410
But how would you go
from witnessing that 

973
00:52:35,580 --> 00:52:39,160
to a description
of heat-seeking missiles? 

974
00:52:41,660 --> 00:52:43,540
NARRATOR:
In addition to guided missiles, 

975
00:52:43,660 --> 00:52:46,580
the Mahabharata
is filled with accounts 

976
00:52:46,750 --> 00:52:50,540
of other sophisticated weapons
wielded by the gods.

977
00:52:50,660 --> 00:52:52,500
In the Mahabharata, 

978
00:52:52,700 --> 00:52:55,250
46 different types
of weapon are described. 

979
00:52:56,330 --> 00:52:58,540
And each one has
a specific function. 

980
00:52:59,790 --> 00:53:02,370
The Pashupatastra is a weapon
that actually multiplies 

981
00:53:02,540 --> 00:53:04,410
into seven different arrows. 

982
00:53:04,580 --> 00:53:07,620
So then it hits seven different
targets at the same time. 

983
00:53:08,660 --> 00:53:10,750
Salwa is an anti-god. 

984
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:14,200
He can make
his vehicle disappear. 

985
00:53:14,370 --> 00:53:18,160
So, we're talking about
a flying object that is stealth. 

986
00:53:19,200 --> 00:53:21,700
He also can put people
into sleep. 

987
00:53:22,750 --> 00:53:25,330
So we're perhaps
talking about nerve gas. 

988
00:53:26,450 --> 00:53:29,290
CHILDRESS: They talk about
weapons that are so high tech

989
00:53:29,410 --> 00:53:33,250
that it could only be
from extraterrestrials. 

990
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,370
NARRATOR: But of all the weapons
described in the Mahabharata,

991
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:42,450
perhaps the most deadly was
a device called the Brahmastra. 

992
00:53:42,580 --> 00:53:47,330
A weapon that the texts
warned was never to be used. 

993
00:53:47,450 --> 00:53:51,160
Brahmastra is described
as the ultimate weapon. 

994
00:53:51,370 --> 00:53:53,160
Once it is launched, 

995
00:53:53,370 --> 00:53:56,000
it will simply burn everything. 

996
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:58,950
So it will incinerate
the entire universe. 

997
00:54:03,580 --> 00:54:06,660
We're talking
about a nuclear blast 

998
00:54:06,830 --> 00:54:09,450
100-fold magnitude
of the bomb that we have seen 

999
00:54:09,580 --> 00:54:11,950
or experienced in our own times. 

1000
00:54:12,160 --> 00:54:13,500
So, never be used. 

1001
00:54:13,660 --> 00:54:16,700
And yet, someone
was going to make 

1002
00:54:16,870 --> 00:54:18,830
use of that Brahmastra. 

1003
00:54:19,040 --> 00:54:21,160
So, that's the dilemma 

1004
00:54:21,370 --> 00:54:24,750
that the books talks
about in the Mahabharata. 

1005
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,660
India now has a rocket program, 

1006
00:54:28,870 --> 00:54:31,700
and one of their rockets
is called Shakti. 

1007
00:54:32,870 --> 00:54:35,000
Shakti means "goddess energy." 

1008
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,330
This is also
another divine weapon. 

1009
00:54:39,370 --> 00:54:41,500
Indians are now sort
of going back to their text 

1010
00:54:41,660 --> 00:54:44,000
or their mythology
and they're reliving it

1011
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:46,450
by their modern technology. 

1012
00:54:50,580 --> 00:54:53,830
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
alien beings visiting the earth

1013
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,580
thousands of years ago 

1014
00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:59,120
dealt with the same issues
of nuclear annihilation 

1015
00:54:59,290 --> 00:55:01,620
that humans
are dealing with today? 

1016
00:55:03,330 --> 00:55:05,540
And might
the deadly weapons currently 

1017
00:55:05,750 --> 00:55:07,870
being deployed
by the world's military 

1018
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,000
really be recreations of weapons
first used on Earth 

1019
00:55:12,200 --> 00:55:15,040
by extraterrestrials
in the ancient past? 

1020
00:55:16,870 --> 00:55:18,120
Perhaps. 

1021
00:55:18,290 --> 00:55:20,500
But then it should
also be possible 

1022
00:55:20,660 --> 00:55:23,450
to predict
mankind's military future

1023
00:55:23,580 --> 00:55:26,830
by searching through
still more ancient texts. 

1024
00:55:32,870 --> 00:55:34,330
NARRATOR: Dwarka. 

1025
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:38,040
Northwest India, 1983. 

1026
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,120
Marine archeologist Dr. S.R. Rao 

1027
00:55:44,290 --> 00:55:48,080
begins a ten-year underwater
exploration just off the coast 

1028
00:55:48,250 --> 00:55:50,370
of this ancient fishing town. 

1029
00:55:51,700 --> 00:55:54,450
And what he finds is stunning. 

1030
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:59,290
Starting at 20 feet
beneath the surface of the ocean 

1031
00:55:59,450 --> 00:56:01,950
are sandstone walls, 

1032
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:04,250
cobblestone streets, 

1033
00:56:04,410 --> 00:56:07,160
and further evidence
of what once was 

1034
00:56:07,370 --> 00:56:10,450
a prosperous seaport. 

1035
00:56:11,410 --> 00:56:14,580
At Dwarka,
what has been found so far 

1036
00:56:14,700 --> 00:56:17,500
under the ocean
is incredibly tantalizing. 

1037
00:56:17,620 --> 00:56:20,080
For instance,
there's this huge wall, 

1038
00:56:20,250 --> 00:56:23,160
estimated about 580 meters long. 

1039
00:56:23,330 --> 00:56:25,120
So, this is not insignificant. 

1040
00:56:25,290 --> 00:56:27,330
And this would suggest
that this was 

1041
00:56:27,450 --> 00:56:30,580
a sophisticated dwelling area. 

1042
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,000
NARRATOR:
Further underwater excavations 

1043
00:56:35,160 --> 00:56:37,370
and geological evidence indicate 

1044
00:56:37,540 --> 00:56:41,450
the ruins are part of a city
that suddenly became 

1045
00:56:41,620 --> 00:56:45,040
submerged in 1443 BC. 

1046
00:56:46,910 --> 00:56:50,830
The discovery of these ruins
is a major archeological find. 

1047
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,250
But for some,
even more significant

1048
00:56:54,410 --> 00:56:57,120
is where the ruins were found. 

1049
00:57:02,580 --> 00:57:05,910
For centuries,
the modern-day city of Dwarka 

1050
00:57:06,040 --> 00:57:09,660
was thought by many Hindus
to be the Dwarka described 

1051
00:57:09,870 --> 00:57:12,330
in the Mahabharata
as the ancient kingdom 

1052
00:57:12,450 --> 00:57:14,580
of the god Krishna. 

1053
00:57:15,870 --> 00:57:19,160
According to the text,
during the Kurukshetra War, 

1054
00:57:19,250 --> 00:57:22,660
a rival to Krishna, Lord Salwa, 

1055
00:57:22,830 --> 00:57:25,660
attacked Dwarka
from a flying chariot, 

1056
00:57:25,870 --> 00:57:28,410
raining down weapons
of mass destruction 

1057
00:57:28,580 --> 00:57:30,120
that lit up the sky. 

1058
00:57:31,700 --> 00:57:35,910
He actually flew over Dwarka 

1059
00:57:36,040 --> 00:57:37,910
using his chariot, 

1060
00:57:38,120 --> 00:57:40,790
and he started
bombarding the city of Dwarka, 

1061
00:57:40,950 --> 00:57:43,500
throwing down
all kinds of weapons. 

1062
00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:47,750
Finally, Krishna employs
his own incredible weapon 

1063
00:57:47,950 --> 00:57:50,660
and blows the thing
out of the sky. 

1064
00:57:54,330 --> 00:57:56,160
It says in the scripture 

1065
00:57:56,290 --> 00:57:59,080
that Lord Salwa's
flying craft itself 

1066
00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:01,120
comes smoldering out of the sky 

1067
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,370
and crashes to the earth. 

1068
00:58:03,540 --> 00:58:05,500
This suggests
that there was machines 

1069
00:58:05,660 --> 00:58:08,700
involved in the war,
machines that could fly. 

1070
00:58:10,790 --> 00:58:14,040
Shortly after the great war,
Krishna is killed. 

1071
00:58:15,040 --> 00:58:17,580
And the city--
this magnificent city 

1072
00:58:17,700 --> 00:58:21,160
built on land that
came out of the sea-- 

1073
00:58:21,370 --> 00:58:24,500
sank back into the ocean again. 

1074
00:58:24,620 --> 00:58:28,450
It only existed during the time
that Krishna lived there. 

1075
00:58:34,330 --> 00:58:38,750
NARRATOR: Most historians dismiss
this "war of the gods" as folklore.

1076
00:58:40,450 --> 00:58:43,250
But could these underwater ruins
be evidence 

1077
00:58:43,410 --> 00:58:47,870
that the ancient Hindu texts
are based in actual history? 

1078
00:58:50,410 --> 00:58:52,660
And it seems to confirm
the ancient myths, 

1079
00:58:52,790 --> 00:58:54,330
the ancient legends. 

1080
00:58:54,540 --> 00:58:57,000
They have a basis in reality. 

1081
00:58:59,870 --> 00:59:02,660
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest 

1082
00:59:02,830 --> 00:59:06,500
further evidence can be found
at Mahabalipuram, 

1083
00:59:06,700 --> 00:59:08,450
an ancient port city 

1084
00:59:08,580 --> 00:59:11,950
located along India's
southeastern coast. 

1085
00:59:13,660 --> 00:59:16,000
According to ancient stories, 

1086
00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,500
six of seven pagodas
that once stood 

1087
00:59:18,700 --> 00:59:21,700
at Mahabalipuram were lost 

1088
00:59:21,870 --> 00:59:25,160
due to a great deluge
sent to destroy the city 

1089
00:59:25,330 --> 00:59:27,870
by the Hindu god Indra. 

1090
00:59:30,540 --> 00:59:32,700
Just as in the case of Dwarka, 

1091
00:59:32,870 --> 00:59:35,120
historians and archeologists 

1092
00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:37,410
dismissed the story
of the missing six temples 

1093
00:59:37,580 --> 00:59:39,750
as myth. 

1094
00:59:42,700 --> 00:59:46,000
But on December 26, 2004, 

1095
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:48,950
a massive tsunami
caused water levels 

1096
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:51,120
to temporarily drop,

1097
00:59:51,250 --> 00:59:55,500
exposing a number
of mysterious-looking formations 

1098
00:59:55,620 --> 00:59:57,830
along the shoreline. 

1099
00:59:59,370 --> 01:00:01,660
Upon closer inspection,
they were found 

1100
01:00:01,870 --> 01:00:03,870
to be man-made structures. 

1101
01:00:04,870 --> 01:00:07,290
And quite possibly the ruins 

1102
01:00:07,410 --> 01:00:10,700
of the lost pagodas
of Mahabalipuram. 

1103
01:00:13,540 --> 01:00:16,120
Archeologists went diving 

1104
01:00:16,250 --> 01:00:18,700
into this area
and also found that there was, 

1105
01:00:18,830 --> 01:00:21,620
basically, a sunken city there. 

1106
01:00:21,750 --> 01:00:25,330
And so this would indicate
that the legends 

1107
01:00:25,500 --> 01:00:28,330
are really correct
about this place. 

1108
01:00:28,450 --> 01:00:32,620
That, in fact, it was destroyed
in some kind of a flood,

1109
01:00:32,750 --> 01:00:35,080
just as the legends said. 

1110
01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:41,200
NARRATOR: If recent
archeological finds have proven 

1111
01:00:41,370 --> 01:00:45,330
that the city of Krishna and the
Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram 

1112
01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:47,000
really did exist, 

1113
01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,000
then might that mean
that the stories 

1114
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:54,120
of these sites being attacked
from the sky are true as well? 

1115
01:00:55,410 --> 01:00:57,660
Perhaps the answer can be found 

1116
01:00:57,870 --> 01:01:00,450
by examining the many
ancient stone structures 

1117
01:01:00,580 --> 01:01:03,870
of Mahabalipuram called rathas. 

1118
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:09,500
All over Mahabalipuram there are
these towerlike structures. 

1119
01:01:09,620 --> 01:01:11,080
They're called rathas.

1120
01:01:12,540 --> 01:01:14,500
"Rathas" can be translated with 

1121
01:01:14,580 --> 01:01:18,000
"sky city," "house of the gods" 

1122
01:01:18,160 --> 01:01:20,040
or even "sky ship." 

1123
01:01:22,910 --> 01:01:25,080
LAYNE LITTLE:
These are temples. 

1124
01:01:25,250 --> 01:01:28,410
But, simultaneously,
they are seen as being 

1125
01:01:28,540 --> 01:01:31,200
movable vehicles in which 

1126
01:01:31,370 --> 01:01:32,950
the gods can come to Earth, 

1127
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,000
can come to the presence
of the worshippers. 

1128
01:01:35,160 --> 01:01:38,160
You'll see that
there are all these little-- 

1129
01:01:38,330 --> 01:01:39,870
they're called kudo. 

1130
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,910
They're little windows
that are shaped like horseshoes. 

1131
01:01:43,080 --> 01:01:45,660
And even in those
little windows, you'll see, 

1132
01:01:45,830 --> 01:01:48,080
peering out,
the faces of the gods.

1133
01:01:51,700 --> 01:01:53,830
In many temples throughout India 

1134
01:01:53,950 --> 01:01:56,290
you'll actually see
gigantic wheels 

1135
01:01:56,410 --> 01:01:59,370
added as a motif
on the base of these temples 

1136
01:01:59,540 --> 01:02:03,660
just to remind the worshippers
that these are moving chariots. 

1137
01:02:03,870 --> 01:02:06,250
They were
the vimanas of the gods. 

1138
01:02:06,410 --> 01:02:09,660
The stone structures
themselves are replicas 

1139
01:02:09,870 --> 01:02:13,040
of the machines
that our ancestors witnessed. 

1140
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:24,830
NARRATOR: Do the ruins off the
coast of Dwarka and Mahabalipuram,

1141
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,160
along with the stone temples and
carvings found throughout India, 

1142
01:02:29,330 --> 01:02:33,040
provide a physical record
of the advanced warfare 

1143
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,450
described in
the ancient Hindu texts? 

1144
01:02:36,580 --> 01:02:39,160
And if so, were these wars 

1145
01:02:39,370 --> 01:02:45,160
waged between opposing factions
of extraterrestrial beings? 

1146
01:02:45,290 --> 01:02:48,540
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining 

1147
01:02:48,700 --> 01:02:53,250
the historical records
of ancient Mesopotamia. 

1148
01:02:59,040 --> 01:03:00,410
One interesting thing
we see in ancient stories 

1149
01:03:00,410 --> 01:03:02,160
is weather manipulation. 

1150
01:03:02,330 --> 01:03:04,830
And we have stories of the gods
creating earthquakes 

1151
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,790
and tornados and great storms
that turn the tide of a battle. 

1152
01:03:08,910 --> 01:03:10,540
TSOUKALOS:
And floods.

1153
01:03:10,700 --> 01:03:12,410
I mean, one of the most
famous ancient stories 

1154
01:03:12,580 --> 01:03:15,200
of weather being used
as a weapon 

1155
01:03:15,370 --> 01:03:18,660
has to be the account
of the great flood in the Bible. 

1156
01:03:18,870 --> 01:03:21,160
And by the way,
there are some geologists 

1157
01:03:21,370 --> 01:03:25,000
who now believe that
that was a historical event. 

1158
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,660
Right, and we talked about
weather manipulation 

1159
01:03:27,870 --> 01:03:31,870
back in 2012 in
"Aliens and Mega-Disasters." 

1160
01:03:35,450 --> 01:03:37,580
NARRATOR:
In 1996, 

1161
01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:40,870
the United States Air Force
commissioned a secret study 

1162
01:03:41,040 --> 01:03:44,160
called the 2025 Report. 

1163
01:03:44,330 --> 01:03:47,410
In it, the military
examined the feasibility

1164
01:03:47,580 --> 01:03:52,950
of combat capabilities
and tactics in the year 2025. 

1165
01:03:53,120 --> 01:03:56,290
One of the areas that was seen
as ripe for research, 

1166
01:03:56,450 --> 01:04:00,000
exploitation and development
was the modification 

1167
01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:02,080
of the weather
as a tool of warfare. 

1168
01:04:02,250 --> 01:04:04,080
People might think the idea 

1169
01:04:04,250 --> 01:04:05,950
that we can weaponize
the weather is something 

1170
01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,000
just straight out
of science fiction, 

1171
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:10,200
the idea we could
pulverize whole nations 

1172
01:04:10,330 --> 01:04:13,830
just by modifying
and exploiting the weather. 

1173
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,830
But this is a verifiable report 

1174
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,700
that is now
in the public domain.

1175
01:04:17,870 --> 01:04:20,540
So we do know that government
and military bodies 

1176
01:04:20,700 --> 01:04:25,540
are significantly researching
weaponizing the weather. 

1177
01:04:27,540 --> 01:04:30,160
Well, one of the big advantages
of using weather as a weapon 

1178
01:04:30,370 --> 01:04:33,370
is that it's really difficult
to prove who attacked you. 

1179
01:04:35,580 --> 01:04:37,250
The other thing is
that weather itself can cause 

1180
01:04:37,370 --> 01:04:39,830
a heck of a lot of more damage
than weapons can. 

1181
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,250
You could have, for instance,
a powerful thunderstorm 

1182
01:04:42,410 --> 01:04:44,450
that could go all the way
across the U.S. 

1183
01:04:46,410 --> 01:04:49,160
And cause, basically,
nuclear-level destruction

1184
01:04:49,290 --> 01:04:52,000
all the way across a huge swath. 

1185
01:04:53,330 --> 01:04:54,910
There have been
many attempts to control 

1186
01:04:55,040 --> 01:04:57,160
the weather during warfare, 

1187
01:04:57,290 --> 01:05:00,120
and one of the most
famous attempts was in Vietnam. 

1188
01:05:04,580 --> 01:05:07,950
In which there was a real effort
to seed the clouds 

1189
01:05:08,040 --> 01:05:12,410
over the Ho Chi Minh trail
and create torrential rains. 

1190
01:05:12,580 --> 01:05:17,040
By flooding the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong supply lines, 

1191
01:05:17,250 --> 01:05:20,000
it would reduce their utility
and choke off supplies 

1192
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:22,450
to guerillas in the south. 

1193
01:05:22,540 --> 01:05:27,160
So certainly, we've had
success in seeding clouds.

1194
01:05:27,330 --> 01:05:29,160
NARRATOR: If the weather
can be manipulated

1195
01:05:29,370 --> 01:05:33,290
by the military
to produce powerful storms 

1196
01:05:33,450 --> 01:05:35,790
and even catastrophes, 

1197
01:05:35,950 --> 01:05:38,830
is this only
a recent innovation? 

1198
01:05:39,040 --> 01:05:41,500
Or is there evidence
of the weaponized use 

1199
01:05:41,700 --> 01:05:44,290
of weather in the ancient past? 

1200
01:05:50,540 --> 01:05:53,830
Tales of a great flood
destroying the world 

1201
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,000
can be found
in the earliest myths 

1202
01:05:56,200 --> 01:06:00,410
of many ancient cultures
across the globe. 

1203
01:06:00,580 --> 01:06:03,910
Both the Hebrew Bible
and the Islamic Quran 

1204
01:06:04,120 --> 01:06:08,200
describe an epic flood
in the tale of Noah's Ark. 

1205
01:06:08,370 --> 01:06:11,250
God was unhappy with the people
for their sinful ways, 

1206
01:06:11,370 --> 01:06:13,660
and as a kind of punishment 

1207
01:06:13,830 --> 01:06:15,580
and, also,
an act of purification, 

1208
01:06:15,700 --> 01:06:18,080
sent the great deluge. 

1209
01:06:18,200 --> 01:06:20,160
Most living things 

1210
01:06:20,370 --> 01:06:24,040
would die in this,
except for a few birds and fish. 

1211
01:06:24,160 --> 01:06:25,950
But he told Noah
very specifically 

1212
01:06:26,080 --> 01:06:30,000
how to build a craft
that could survive the storm. 

1213
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,040
WILSON:
Noah is to collect pairs 

1214
01:06:32,200 --> 01:06:34,500
of the air-breathing animals
on Earth, 

1215
01:06:34,660 --> 01:06:38,250
and he packs these animals
and his family into the Ark, 

1216
01:06:38,410 --> 01:06:41,660
and then it rains
for 40 days and 40 nights

1217
01:06:41,750 --> 01:06:45,000
and floods the entire Earth, 

1218
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,450
and all air-breathing animals
and people are killed. 

1219
01:06:53,830 --> 01:06:55,910
NARRATOR:
In ancient Mesopotamia, 

1220
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,500
a similar story
of a catastrophic flood 

1221
01:06:58,660 --> 01:07:03,620
was chiseled into clay tablets
dating to 2000 BC. 

1222
01:07:03,830 --> 01:07:06,040
Known as the Epic of Gilgamesh, 

1223
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:09,700
this early Sumerian poem
describes angry gods 

1224
01:07:09,870 --> 01:07:12,830
that send a great flood
to destroy mankind 

1225
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,500
while allowing
only a chosen few to survive. 

1226
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:20,410
BRAMLEY: The gods-- they'd
created humanity to perform

1227
01:07:20,580 --> 01:07:22,620
whatever labor
they were supposed to do,

1228
01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:24,000
but what happened was that, 

1229
01:07:24,200 --> 01:07:26,250
according to the old
Mesopotamian stories, 

1230
01:07:26,370 --> 01:07:29,250
human beings just started
causing too much trouble. 

1231
01:07:29,370 --> 01:07:33,160
They became noisy,
they became rebellious, 

1232
01:07:33,330 --> 01:07:36,000
and it was just time
to wipe them out. 

1233
01:07:37,830 --> 01:07:39,000
And that's actually
what's reported 

1234
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,500
in those old creation stories. 

1235
01:07:46,580 --> 01:07:50,410
NARRATOR: But did such stories of
great floods engulfing the world

1236
01:07:50,580 --> 01:07:53,830
merely spring
from man's imagination? 

1237
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,290
Or were they real? 

1238
01:07:57,500 --> 01:08:02,790
If so, might such devastation
have had an otherworldly origin,

1239
01:08:02,950 --> 01:08:06,830
as ancient astronaut theorists
believe? 

1240
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,580
REDFERN: If the human race
in the early 21st century

1241
01:08:09,750 --> 01:08:11,370
is now weaponizing the weather, 

1242
01:08:11,540 --> 01:08:14,040
why shouldn't aliens
from some faraway world 

1243
01:08:14,200 --> 01:08:16,160
have already developed it? 

1244
01:08:17,450 --> 01:08:19,000
If ancient aliens were able 

1245
01:08:19,200 --> 01:08:20,450
to weaponize the weather, 

1246
01:08:20,620 --> 01:08:23,200
then I don't think
we can rule out the idea 

1247
01:08:23,330 --> 01:08:26,040
that, possibly, some
of these great ancient floods 

1248
01:08:26,160 --> 01:08:28,000
may not have been
the work of gods 

1249
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:30,830
but could have been the work
of highly-advanced 

1250
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,120
technological aliens
actually seeking

1251
01:08:33,290 --> 01:08:36,330
to potentially obliterate
the human race. 

1252
01:08:39,750 --> 01:08:42,120
GRAHAM HANCOCK: There are more than
a thousand different flood myths

1253
01:08:42,330 --> 01:08:45,330
from cultures
all around the world. 

1254
01:08:45,450 --> 01:08:51,000
And the tendency has been
for archaeologists to say 

1255
01:08:51,200 --> 01:08:53,160
that that's simply
because people's fantasies 

1256
01:08:53,330 --> 01:08:55,080
work in the same way. 

1257
01:08:55,250 --> 01:08:59,500
But I honestly think there's
a much simpler explanation 

1258
01:08:59,660 --> 01:09:04,200
for why the flood myth
is so universal. 

1259
01:09:04,370 --> 01:09:06,000
I think it's a memory
of what happened 

1260
01:09:06,120 --> 01:09:08,160
at the end of the Ice Age. 

1261
01:09:08,290 --> 01:09:10,250
What's much more mysterious

1262
01:09:10,410 --> 01:09:14,000
is that, coupled with these
memories of global devastation, 

1263
01:09:14,200 --> 01:09:18,080
there are also memories
of almost godlike beings 

1264
01:09:18,250 --> 01:09:20,080
with incredible powers
and abilities 

1265
01:09:20,250 --> 01:09:22,870
who were caught up
in that cataclysm. 

1266
01:09:24,870 --> 01:09:28,370
The deluge stories
are really very interesting. 

1267
01:09:30,040 --> 01:09:32,040
What they all say
is that the angels, 

1268
01:09:32,250 --> 01:09:34,410
the gods, whatever
we want to call them today-- 

1269
01:09:34,540 --> 01:09:36,910
they basically
just got tired of humanity, 

1270
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:40,120
where there's a wanton
intention to wipe out 

1271
01:09:40,290 --> 01:09:42,410
or thin out, the human race. 

1272
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:47,160
Right there,
we have a perfect example 

1273
01:09:47,330 --> 01:09:50,330
that maybe the extraterrestrials 

1274
01:09:50,500 --> 01:09:53,120
were unhappy with Homo sapiens, 

1275
01:09:53,250 --> 01:09:56,160
and it is possible
that they then created 

1276
01:09:56,330 --> 01:09:58,290
some type of a catastrophe, 

1277
01:09:58,500 --> 01:10:02,160
some flood,
to eliminate mankind. 

1278
01:10:02,370 --> 01:10:04,040
But it's also possible 

1279
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:07,950
that benevolent
extraterrestrials 

1280
01:10:08,120 --> 01:10:11,910
warned us about
an impending catastrophe 

1281
01:10:12,080 --> 01:10:15,910
so that not everyone
would be destroyed. 

1282
01:10:17,910 --> 01:10:20,200
NARRATOR: Could the mythic
floods of the ancient past

1283
01:10:20,370 --> 01:10:25,500
really have been the result
of extraterrestrial influence? 

1284
01:10:25,660 --> 01:10:27,000
Or is it possible,

1285
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:29,540
as some ancient astronaut
theorists contend, 

1286
01:10:29,750 --> 01:10:34,790
that aliens may have actually
helped mankind survive? 

1287
01:10:40,540 --> 01:10:41,950
When we talk about weapons, 

1288
01:10:41,950 --> 01:10:43,700
we have to remember,
weapons can be used to attack, 

1289
01:10:43,700 --> 01:10:45,370
but they can also
be used to defend. 

1290
01:10:45,540 --> 01:10:48,500
So, when we carry a sword,
we also carry a shield. 

1291
01:10:48,700 --> 01:10:51,330
Right, and the essence
of the ancient astronaut theory 

1292
01:10:51,500 --> 01:10:54,830
is that the extraterrestrials
want us humans to thrive. 

1293
01:10:54,950 --> 01:10:57,080
So, in my opinion, 

1294
01:10:57,250 --> 01:10:59,120
these technologies
that were given to us 

1295
01:10:59,290 --> 01:11:02,000
could be used both
for protection 

1296
01:11:02,200 --> 01:11:03,620
and our benefit. 

1297
01:11:03,750 --> 01:11:05,200
And, you know,
scientists have discovered 

1298
01:11:05,370 --> 01:11:07,370
some bizarre things out in space 

1299
01:11:07,540 --> 01:11:09,540
that are actually
protecting our planet. 

1300
01:11:09,700 --> 01:11:11,910
And we talked about this
in an Ancient Aliens episode 

1301
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:14,450
from 2015. 

1302
01:11:14,660 --> 01:11:17,080
LAUNCH CONTROL:
Five, four, three, 

1303
01:11:17,250 --> 01:11:19,870
two, one. 

1304
01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:22,370
Ignition sequence start
and liftoff. 

1305
01:11:24,790 --> 01:11:28,500
NARRATOR: Cape Canaveral Air
Force Station, Florida.

1306
01:11:28,700 --> 01:11:32,250
August 30, 2012. 

1307
01:11:33,330 --> 01:11:36,660
NASA launches
two probes into space 

1308
01:11:36,870 --> 01:11:41,000
in order to study
the Van Allen radiation belts

1309
01:11:41,160 --> 01:11:46,540
a pair of donut-shaped particle
zones that surround the Earth. 

1310
01:11:48,540 --> 01:11:51,330
After two years
of collecting data, 

1311
01:11:51,500 --> 01:11:55,950
NASA scientists discover
a surprising phenomenon: 

1312
01:11:56,040 --> 01:12:00,660
the Van Allen belts are
operating as a protective dome, 

1313
01:12:00,830 --> 01:12:04,540
shielding the Earth
from dangerous radiation. 

1314
01:12:06,910 --> 01:12:08,290
Our planet is constantly
flooded with particles 

1315
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:09,830
from space that are charged 

1316
01:12:09,950 --> 01:12:11,620
that, if they made it
through the atmosphere, 

1317
01:12:11,790 --> 01:12:14,040
would actually be quite
damaging radiation to life. 

1318
01:12:14,200 --> 01:12:15,660
But because of
the Van Allen belt

1319
01:12:15,870 --> 01:12:17,580
and the combination
of magnetic fields 

1320
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:19,620
and charged particles
already there, 

1321
01:12:19,790 --> 01:12:22,660
incoming charged particles
are sent on curved paths 

1322
01:12:22,830 --> 01:12:26,160
that safely protect the Earth
and we don't get hit by them. 

1323
01:12:26,290 --> 01:12:28,660
The Van Allen radiation belt is 

1324
01:12:28,830 --> 01:12:32,540
one of the most phenomenal
scientific phenomena 

1325
01:12:32,700 --> 01:12:34,700
to be discovered
in recent times. 

1326
01:12:35,790 --> 01:12:38,080
One of the things
that's so shocking about it 

1327
01:12:38,250 --> 01:12:41,330
is that it's changing
and mutating 

1328
01:12:41,500 --> 01:12:44,500
as if it's
intelligently directed. 

1329
01:12:45,500 --> 01:12:48,660
The Van Allen belts may be
an advanced technology 

1330
01:12:48,830 --> 01:12:50,830
that we still
don't really understand. 

1331
01:12:51,910 --> 01:12:54,580
A technology
that actually is blocking 

1332
01:12:54,700 --> 01:12:57,290
not just natural
cosmic particles 

1333
01:12:57,450 --> 01:12:58,870
from the sun from coming in... 

1334
01:13:00,290 --> 01:13:02,040
...but potentially
protecting the Earth 

1335
01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:04,290
from extraterrestrial weapons 

1336
01:13:04,450 --> 01:13:06,700
that might use some sort
of particle beam technology, 

1337
01:13:06,910 --> 01:13:09,870
from ever being able
to make its way in here. 

1338
01:13:14,200 --> 01:13:15,580
NARRATOR:
Were the Van Allen belts 

1339
01:13:15,790 --> 01:13:18,500
designed
by extraterrestrial beings 

1340
01:13:18,660 --> 01:13:23,040
to protect mankind from other
hostile alien factions?

1341
01:13:26,290 --> 01:13:27,580
Might there really be 

1342
01:13:27,700 --> 01:13:30,120
an extraterrestrial
defense system 

1343
01:13:30,290 --> 01:13:32,750
protecting the Earth
from attack? 

1344
01:13:34,700 --> 01:13:37,450
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes, 

1345
01:13:37,620 --> 01:13:41,540
and suggest further evidence
that there is an alien faction 

1346
01:13:41,700 --> 01:13:44,580
policing Earth's airspace
can be found 

1347
01:13:44,700 --> 01:13:48,500
by examining
modern-day UFO crashes. 

1348
01:13:52,370 --> 01:13:54,330
In 2005, 

1349
01:13:54,450 --> 01:13:58,290
UFO researcher Ryan Wood
published a book 

1350
01:13:58,450 --> 01:14:01,660
chronicling 74 instances
of strange objects 

1351
01:14:01,870 --> 01:14:06,790
falling from the sky
dating back to 1897. 

1352
01:14:10,700 --> 01:14:13,330
As proof that
these crashes took place,

1353
01:14:13,540 --> 01:14:17,500
he cites official documents,
eyewitness reports, 

1354
01:14:17,660 --> 01:14:19,950
and even physical evidence. 

1355
01:14:22,200 --> 01:14:25,290
PAUL HELLYER: In Ryan Woods
book Majic Eyes Only,

1356
01:14:25,450 --> 01:14:27,660
he lists all of these crashes, 

1357
01:14:27,830 --> 01:14:30,540
and I think that the U.S.
has been involved 

1358
01:14:30,700 --> 01:14:33,500
in the retrieval
of the vast majority, 

1359
01:14:33,660 --> 01:14:35,750
doesn't matter where they are. 

1360
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:41,160
We had one crash north
of Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada, 

1361
01:14:41,290 --> 01:14:43,750
and our regular people that go 

1362
01:14:43,910 --> 01:14:46,660
and investigate aerial crashes
went out there 

1363
01:14:46,830 --> 01:14:50,000
and were greeted
with American troops 

1364
01:14:50,160 --> 01:14:52,040
pointing guns at them.

1365
01:14:52,200 --> 01:14:53,910
And they contacted Ottawa 

1366
01:14:54,080 --> 01:14:56,910
and were told, "Well,
let the Americans have it." 

1367
01:14:57,080 --> 01:15:00,700
NOORY: We've had some
great stories of crashes.

1368
01:15:00,830 --> 01:15:03,290
Roswell,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, 

1369
01:15:03,450 --> 01:15:04,540
they're all over the place. 

1370
01:15:04,660 --> 01:15:05,830
And you say to yourself, 

1371
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,410
"How could they crash
when they have 

1372
01:15:07,580 --> 01:15:08,830
that kind of technology?" 

1373
01:15:09,870 --> 01:15:12,620
CHILDRESS: You've got to
wonder how extraterrestrials,

1374
01:15:12,790 --> 01:15:16,290
with all of their
advanced super technology 

1375
01:15:16,450 --> 01:15:18,620
would then just crash. 

1376
01:15:20,080 --> 01:15:21,330
It would seem that 

1377
01:15:21,500 --> 01:15:23,580
something else
is really going on here.

1378
01:15:23,790 --> 01:15:26,000
Perhaps we have
the extraterrestrials 

1379
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:30,000
themselves battling it out
over our skies. 

1380
01:15:30,200 --> 01:15:33,540
Is it possible that even now,
warring factions 

1381
01:15:33,700 --> 01:15:36,660
of extraterrestrial
so-called "gods" are, 

1382
01:15:36,830 --> 01:15:41,000
in fact, duking it out
over what happens on Earth? 

1383
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:44,830
And wars that we see
in ancient texts, 

1384
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:48,540
like the Mahabharata
or the Bible 

1385
01:15:48,700 --> 01:15:52,790
could be still playing out
in our skies as we speak. 

1386
01:15:56,580 --> 01:15:58,330
NARRATOR:
Could we really be at the center 

1387
01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:00,410
of an extraterrestrial conflict 

1388
01:16:00,580 --> 01:16:03,250
that dates back
to before the dawn

1389
01:16:03,410 --> 01:16:06,040
of human civilization on Earth? 

1390
01:16:07,620 --> 01:16:12,290
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest 

1391
01:16:12,450 --> 01:16:14,500
that our survival
may be dependent 

1392
01:16:14,700 --> 01:16:16,700
upon an ancient defense system 

1393
01:16:16,870 --> 01:16:20,160
that has existed
for thousands of years 

1394
01:16:20,330 --> 01:16:22,790
right beneath our feet. 

1395
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,200
NARRATOR:
Yakutia, Russia. 1854. 

1396
01:16:34,330 --> 01:16:37,200
In a desolate region of Siberia 

1397
01:16:37,370 --> 01:16:39,080
known as the Valley of Death... 

1398
01:16:40,750 --> 01:16:42,660
...geographer
and natural scientist 

1399
01:16:42,830 --> 01:16:46,830
Richard Karl Maak leads
a scientific expedition 

1400
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,330
of the Russian
Geographical Society 

1401
01:16:49,500 --> 01:16:51,580
into the Vilyuy River basin.

1402
01:16:52,830 --> 01:16:56,790
In his journal, Maak writes
that he and his team encountered 

1403
01:16:56,910 --> 01:17:00,330
several large
and mysterious metallic objects 

1404
01:17:00,540 --> 01:17:02,000
embedded in the Earth 

1405
01:17:02,160 --> 01:17:06,330
that the local hunters
referred to as "cauldrons." 

1406
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:09,750
Additional accounts
were reported 

1407
01:17:09,910 --> 01:17:13,870
throughout the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. 

1408
01:17:16,830 --> 01:17:18,410
According to descriptions, 

1409
01:17:18,580 --> 01:17:21,870
these large metallic domes
that protrude from the ground 

1410
01:17:22,040 --> 01:17:26,580
each measure between
20 and 30 feet in diameter. 

1411
01:17:28,660 --> 01:17:31,040
Their existence
is also supported 

1412
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,580
by the legends
of the local Yakut people, 

1413
01:17:34,750 --> 01:17:36,660
who say that over the years, 

1414
01:17:36,870 --> 01:17:40,040
the cauldrons would
periodically open up and send 

1415
01:17:40,200 --> 01:17:42,160
fireballs into the sky. 

1416
01:17:45,580 --> 01:17:48,450
STONEHILL: What happens is
that an object would fly out

1417
01:17:48,620 --> 01:17:51,660
from under the ground
and intercept 

1418
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:53,870
an incoming celestial body... 

1419
01:17:56,370 --> 01:17:57,950
...be it a bolide, 

1420
01:17:58,160 --> 01:18:02,790
a meteor, anything that can
really damage our planet. 

1421
01:18:02,910 --> 01:18:04,660
It's like somebody put in 

1422
01:18:04,870 --> 01:18:09,000
an automatic station
programmed to take out 

1423
01:18:09,160 --> 01:18:13,540
a celestial body that can
cause us tremendous damage

1424
01:18:13,750 --> 01:18:16,290
and maybe to end life on Earth. 

1425
01:18:19,620 --> 01:18:22,080
NARRATOR:
On June 30, 1908, 

1426
01:18:22,250 --> 01:18:25,370
a fireball was seen
streaking across the sky 

1427
01:18:25,580 --> 01:18:28,790
over the Tunguska River
in rural Siberia 

1428
01:18:28,910 --> 01:18:31,080
followed by a massive explosion. 

1429
01:18:35,370 --> 01:18:36,660
It was the same area 

1430
01:18:36,830 --> 01:18:39,000
where these mysterious
sunken cauldrons 

1431
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:41,040
are said to be located. 

1432
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:43,160
Twenty years later, 

1433
01:18:43,330 --> 01:18:46,040
when the Soviet military
examined the area, 

1434
01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,700
they reported finding
flattened trees 

1435
01:18:48,910 --> 01:18:51,910
for miles around the blast site, 

1436
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:53,830
but no crater. 

1437
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:59,580
STONEHILL: A Soviet military
officer came up with an idea,

1438
01:18:59,750 --> 01:19:03,330
Aleksandr Kazantsev, in 1940s, 

1439
01:19:03,500 --> 01:19:05,540
that this was an alien ship, 

1440
01:19:05,700 --> 01:19:07,500
a UFO that came
into the atmosphere 

1441
01:19:07,620 --> 01:19:09,540
of our planet and exploded. 

1442
01:19:09,700 --> 01:19:11,580
Others took up this idea. 

1443
01:19:11,750 --> 01:19:13,160
But where he came up with it, 

1444
01:19:13,370 --> 01:19:14,500
it's very hard to say, 

1445
01:19:14,700 --> 01:19:16,250
because secrecy
is all over Russia. 

1446
01:19:18,200 --> 01:19:20,290
NARRATOR: Is it possible
the cauldrons serve

1447
01:19:20,450 --> 01:19:25,120
as a type of antiaircraft weapon
against space-based threats? 

1448
01:19:26,330 --> 01:19:29,120
It's possible that the Earth
has been equipped 

1449
01:19:29,200 --> 01:19:31,500
with some sort
of hyper-advanced technology

1450
01:19:31,660 --> 01:19:34,120
that is actually
keeping us all safe. 

1451
01:19:34,250 --> 01:19:37,120
And that whoever won these
ancient extraterrestrial wars-- 

1452
01:19:37,290 --> 01:19:39,830
who may in fact
be our progenitors-- 

1453
01:19:39,950 --> 01:19:41,750
put that there
so that their offspring 

1454
01:19:41,870 --> 01:19:44,830
would be protected from whoever
their enemies had been 

1455
01:19:44,950 --> 01:19:46,500
many thousands of years ago. 

1456
01:19:51,250 --> 01:19:53,660
NARRATOR: Some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

1457
01:19:53,830 --> 01:19:55,660
that if there is
an extraterrestrial 

1458
01:19:55,870 --> 01:19:58,200
conflict over humanity, 

1459
01:19:58,370 --> 01:19:59,950
it may be due to the fact 

1460
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:04,330
that certain alien factions
consider humans a threat.

1461
01:20:05,450 --> 01:20:09,000
They propose that the point
mankind has reached today 

1462
01:20:09,160 --> 01:20:12,540
is predicted
in the same Sanskrit texts 

1463
01:20:12,700 --> 01:20:16,160
that documented
these ancient alien wars. 

1464
01:20:16,950 --> 01:20:19,040
CHILDRESS:
The ancient Hindu texts tell us 

1465
01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:21,950
that we are in the very last 

1466
01:20:22,080 --> 01:20:25,910
of four stages of the planet. 

1467
01:20:27,700 --> 01:20:30,830
And that stage
is called Kali Yuga. 

1468
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,540
And Kali Yuga
is a time of strife 

1469
01:20:34,700 --> 01:20:39,290
and terrible activities,
and of evil. 

1470
01:20:39,870 --> 01:20:41,580
And it may be
that the extraterrestrials 

1471
01:20:41,700 --> 01:20:44,160
are really monitoring us 

1472
01:20:44,370 --> 01:20:49,080
to see how we can handle
this very stressful period.

1473
01:20:52,330 --> 01:20:55,160
HELLYER: There are
conflicts in the skies.

1474
01:20:55,290 --> 01:20:59,000
There are different species
with different agendas. 

1475
01:20:59,910 --> 01:21:04,200
I'm sure that we are regarded
as a potential threat. 

1476
01:21:04,370 --> 01:21:07,620
They would assume that
eventually we'll be traveling 

1477
01:21:07,790 --> 01:21:09,540
around the cosmos 

1478
01:21:09,700 --> 01:21:13,950
and it's something that must go
through their collective minds, 

1479
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:17,330
that these are warlike people 

1480
01:21:17,500 --> 01:21:20,330
and consequently we're gonna
have to keep an eye on them. 

1481
01:21:20,540 --> 01:21:23,120
Now, for the first time, 

1482
01:21:23,290 --> 01:21:25,830
I think that the future
of the species 

1483
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:27,750
is at stake.

1484
01:21:27,870 --> 01:21:30,250
That's how deeply I feel. 

1485
01:21:31,790 --> 01:21:33,750
There are lessons to be learned. 

1486
01:21:33,950 --> 01:21:35,910
And we have to learn them now, 

1487
01:21:36,080 --> 01:21:38,500
we have to learn them
very, very quickly. 

1488
01:21:41,370 --> 01:21:44,790
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrial beings

1489
01:21:44,910 --> 01:21:46,950
have been fighting
for control of planet Earth 

1490
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,870
for thousands of years? 

1491
01:21:51,870 --> 01:21:53,870
And could the outcome
of this dispute 

1492
01:21:54,040 --> 01:21:56,040
ultimately be determined, 

1493
01:21:56,200 --> 01:22:00,290
not by the alien combatants
but by humans? 

1494
01:22:01,540 --> 01:22:03,160
Perhaps we are on the verge 

1495
01:22:03,370 --> 01:22:06,870
of reaching a defining moment
in our evolution,

1496
01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:09,160
a turning point that will lead 

1497
01:22:09,290 --> 01:22:14,410
either to our ascension
or our extermination. 

1498
01:22:16,700 --> 01:22:19,500
It seems like
our modern military is 

1499
01:22:19,700 --> 01:22:21,750
just catching up
with these weapons 

1500
01:22:21,910 --> 01:22:23,120
described in these
ancient texts. 

1501
01:22:23,290 --> 01:22:25,330
And then, this whole idea 

1502
01:22:25,540 --> 01:22:28,000
of what's happened in the past
is happening again. 

1503
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,330
So, we have these great wars
in ancient times. 

1504
01:22:31,540 --> 01:22:34,370
And it's like we're
repeating history. 

1505
01:22:34,540 --> 01:22:37,540
And it's as if we're not
learning from history at all. 

1506
01:22:37,700 --> 01:22:39,200
And look at us, 

1507
01:22:39,410 --> 01:22:42,660
we're doing the exact
same thing as 5,000 years ago. 

1508
01:22:42,790 --> 01:22:46,160
And it may be that this is part
of an extraterrestrial test. 

1509
01:22:47,870 --> 01:22:49,120
We're gonna give you
this technology. 

1510
01:22:49,290 --> 01:22:51,250
Now we want to see
what you do with it. 

1511
01:22:51,410 --> 01:22:54,330
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