1 00:00:03,880 --> 00:00:07,509 [ Man Narrating ] A civilization suddenly destroyed. 2 00:00:07,592 --> 00:00:10,679 [ Man ] I think they possessed incredible technology... 3 00:00:10,762 --> 00:00:12,847 and then something happened. 4 00:00:12,931 --> 00:00:16,768 [ Narrator] Centuries of knowledge wiped out forever. 5 00:00:16,851 --> 00:00:18,853 [ Man ] When these books were all destroyed... 6 00:00:18,937 --> 00:00:23,274 it was a way of setting the knowledge back to zero. 7 00:00:24,234 --> 00:00:26,569 [ Narrator] And the world's most powerful weapons... 8 00:00:26,653 --> 00:00:29,656 inexplicably taken off-line. 9 00:00:29,739 --> 00:00:33,201 We were being sent a message. “We are watching.” 10 00:00:33,284 --> 00:00:37,288 [ Narrator] Is it possible that extraterrestrials have intervened... 11 00:00:37,372 --> 00:00:41,751 at key moments in our history to manipulate our progress? 12 00:00:42,794 --> 00:00:46,381 And if so, what is their ultimate goal? 13 00:00:47,215 --> 00:00:52,303 [Woman ] There are extraterrestrials that want to see humanity evolve and grow... 14 00:00:52,387 --> 00:00:56,641 and another group that wants us destroyed. 15 00:00:57,475 --> 00:00:59,811 [ Narrator] Millions of people around the world... 16 00:00:59,894 --> 00:01:04,566 believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 17 00:01:04,649 --> 00:01:06,818 What if it were true? 18 00:01:07,694 --> 00:01:12,073 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 19 00:01:12,157 --> 00:01:13,742 And if so... 20 00:01:13,825 --> 00:01:19,289 is the advancement of mankind determined by an alien agenda? 21 00:01:51,070 --> 00:01:52,947 Washington, DC. 22 00:01:53,031 --> 00:01:55,033 2013. 23 00:01:56,659 --> 00:01:59,120 At the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure... 24 00:01:59,204 --> 00:02:02,791 six former members of the United States Congress... 25 00:02:02,874 --> 00:02:04,334 listened to testimony... 26 00:02:04,417 --> 00:02:08,129 from former high-ranking government and military officials... 27 00:02:08,213 --> 00:02:12,133 along with a variety of scientists and researchers... 28 00:02:12,217 --> 00:02:16,638 about extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race. 29 00:02:17,889 --> 00:02:22,727 One of the speakers was former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer. 30 00:02:25,563 --> 00:02:28,399 The American people and the people of the world have a right to know. 31 00:02:28,483 --> 00:02:33,363 UFOs are as real as the airplanes flying overhead. 32 00:02:34,823 --> 00:02:37,826 We live in a cosmos teaming with life. 33 00:02:40,119 --> 00:02:44,207 [ Man ] To have a former defense minister and deputy prime minister... 34 00:02:44,290 --> 00:02:48,127 come out and say that the UFO phenomenon is real... 35 00:02:48,211 --> 00:02:51,005 and that we're being visited and that there's a government cover-up... 36 00:02:51,089 --> 00:02:53,842 is in of itself sensational. 37 00:02:56,094 --> 00:02:58,680 And he also expressed the view... 38 00:02:58,763 --> 00:03:04,018 that some alien civilizations are concerned about humanity... 39 00:03:04,102 --> 00:03:07,188 and do not want to share technology with the human race... 40 00:03:07,272 --> 00:03:12,986 for fear that we are not ready for it, that we'll abuse that technology. 41 00:03:13,069 --> 00:03:17,699 We are, after all, a race that has used atomic bombs on our own people. 42 00:03:23,663 --> 00:03:27,709 [ Narrator] Other distinguished speakers at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure... 43 00:03:27,792 --> 00:03:31,296 included nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman... 44 00:03:31,379 --> 00:03:34,757 retired air force captain, Robert Salas... 45 00:03:34,841 --> 00:03:40,638 and a former official for the Federal Aviation Administration, John Callahan... 46 00:03:40,722 --> 00:03:44,267 all of whom corroborated Paul Hellyer's assertion... 47 00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:48,104 that we are being visited b y otherworldly beings. 48 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,609 They also claim that these visitors have an interest... 49 00:03:52,692 --> 00:03:54,986 in our technological advancements... 50 00:03:55,862 --> 00:03:59,574 especially when it comes to nuclear weapons. 51 00:04:01,534 --> 00:04:06,706 These objects know in great detail how our missiles operate. 52 00:04:06,789 --> 00:04:09,459 They can shut down our missiles at any time. 53 00:04:09,542 --> 00:04:12,211 If you release that information to the public... 54 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:15,882 what do you say then about, urn, you know... 55 00:04:15,965 --> 00:04:18,593 what kind of defense do we have against these things? 56 00:04:21,679 --> 00:04:24,724 [ Narrator] Could the UFO phenomenon be real? 57 00:04:25,808 --> 00:04:29,979 And is it possible that extraterrestrials have been monitoring... 58 00:04:30,063 --> 00:04:32,482 and perhaps even interfering... 59 00:04:32,565 --> 00:04:35,568 with the technological advancement of mankind? 60 00:04:37,028 --> 00:04:40,114 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 61 00:04:40,198 --> 00:04:45,161 and suggest that the earliest and perhaps strongest evidence of this... 62 00:04:45,244 --> 00:04:49,874 can be found in the biblical story of the Tower of Babel. 63 00:04:52,293 --> 00:04:54,545 According to the Book of Genesis... 64 00:04:54,629 --> 00:04:59,509 the Tower of Babel was built in Mesopotamia after the Great Flood. 65 00:04:59,592 --> 00:05:05,556 Some accounts suggest it reached nearly 30 stories, or 300 feet tall. 66 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,228 It was described as a bridge between heaven and earth... 67 00:05:10,311 --> 00:05:12,647 built by a unified people. 68 00:05:12,730 --> 00:05:15,108 [ Man ] In the Book of Genesis, chapter 11... 69 00:05:15,191 --> 00:05:20,488 it says, “In the beginning there was only one language and few words.” 70 00:05:20,571 --> 00:05:22,490 And then a group of people got together... 71 00:05:22,573 --> 00:05:25,201 and decided that things could be improved. 72 00:05:25,910 --> 00:05:28,204 They learned how to make bricks... 73 00:05:28,287 --> 00:05:30,415 and this meant they could build buildings. 74 00:05:32,333 --> 00:05:34,585 [ Man ] Someone got the idea of building a tower- 75 00:05:34,669 --> 00:05:37,422 a tower to heaven to make a name for ourselves. 76 00:05:37,505 --> 00:05:41,467 Well, this starts to become hubris, where you start challenging the gods. 77 00:05:41,551 --> 00:05:43,094 This is a key idea- 78 00:05:43,177 --> 00:05:46,764 a certain kind of arrogance that is starting to think that you are a god... 79 00:05:46,848 --> 00:05:49,934 and so as the tower lifts up, God is annoyed. 80 00:05:53,980 --> 00:05:57,775 The powers up in the sky thought, “Uh-huh. 81 00:05:57,859 --> 00:06:00,570 We cannot let them succeed with this... 82 00:06:00,653 --> 00:06:04,657 because if they succeed in doing this, who knows what they'll do next?” 83 00:06:06,451 --> 00:06:10,079 [ Man ] God comes down and says, “Wow, they can actually accomplish this feat. 84 00:06:10,163 --> 00:06:13,041 They can actually build a tower up into the heavens. 85 00:06:13,124 --> 00:06:15,752 So let's disperse their language... 86 00:06:15,835 --> 00:06:18,880 and then they can't communicate and then they can't build this tower.” 87 00:06:22,258 --> 00:06:24,218 [ Narrator] Biblical scholars contend... 88 00:06:24,302 --> 00:06:27,889 that the story merely attempts to offer an explanation... 89 00:06:27,972 --> 00:06:30,391 for the various languages on Earth. 90 00:06:31,726 --> 00:06:34,520 But ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 91 00:06:34,604 --> 00:06:38,649 the biblical account may actually reveal a greater truth... 92 00:06:38,733 --> 00:06:44,489 about extraterrestrial interest in the technological progress of mankind. 93 00:06:46,324 --> 00:06:50,578 [ Man ] From the other literature that we have peripheral to the Bible... 94 00:06:50,661 --> 00:06:53,247 a much deeper story is told. 95 00:06:53,331 --> 00:06:55,374 What was this tower? 96 00:06:55,458 --> 00:06:57,543 According to this ancient source... 97 00:06:57,627 --> 00:07:03,007 this ancient technology that they discovered was to reach to the heavens. 98 00:07:03,800 --> 00:07:06,219 [ Man ] When you look at the story of the Tower of Babel... 99 00:07:06,302 --> 00:07:11,099 it's essentially a story of mankind developing technology... 100 00:07:11,182 --> 00:07:16,771 and being like the gods, being like our extraterrestrial creators. 101 00:07:16,854 --> 00:07:20,399 And therefore mankind was, in a sense... 102 00:07:20,483 --> 00:07:23,694 kept from reaching a technological level. 103 00:07:24,987 --> 00:07:28,116 [ Man ] The word Babel means “gate to God”... 104 00:07:28,199 --> 00:07:32,453 and some believe that the gate to God was, in fact, a star gate- 105 00:07:32,537 --> 00:07:36,916 a ladder, tower or stairway that reached into the heavens. 106 00:07:36,999 --> 00:07:42,296 And so when God saw that humankind were building a star gate... 107 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:44,006 this was too much. 108 00:07:45,967 --> 00:07:48,469 [ Tzadok ] Well, what happened next? 109 00:07:48,553 --> 00:07:53,015 Powers that be watched. They observed. 110 00:07:53,099 --> 00:07:55,143 They spoke to one another saying... 111 00:07:55,226 --> 00:07:57,645 “We have to descend to the Earth... 112 00:07:57,728 --> 00:08:01,190 to bring an assault upon the builders of the Tower.” 113 00:08:01,274 --> 00:08:03,317 What kind of an assault? 114 00:08:03,401 --> 00:08:05,361 The Biblical text is very clear. 115 00:08:05,444 --> 00:08:08,865 They touched the minds of the people... 116 00:08:08,948 --> 00:08:12,451 and corrupted their spirit of unity. 117 00:08:12,535 --> 00:08:17,456 [ Man ] The Tower of Babel story really relates to a decision... 118 00:08:17,540 --> 00:08:20,168 that the so-called gods had made. 119 00:08:20,251 --> 00:08:23,588 Human beings were not only supposed to speak different languages. 120 00:08:23,671 --> 00:08:26,716 They were also supposed to fight with each other. 121 00:08:26,799 --> 00:08:29,177 They were supposed to come into conflict with each other. 122 00:08:29,260 --> 00:08:31,012 And as long as they're squabbling with each other... 123 00:08:31,095 --> 00:08:33,389 they're not gonna unite and fight against you. 124 00:08:34,390 --> 00:08:37,101 [ Man ] I believe whoever got involved realized... 125 00:08:37,185 --> 00:08:40,646 these human beings are coming along pretty darned fast. 126 00:08:40,730 --> 00:08:43,983 We got to slow this down a little bit, and that's what they did. 127 00:08:47,236 --> 00:08:51,449 [ Narrator] Is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 128 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:56,370 that otherworldly beings have been carefully watching the advancements of humans... 129 00:08:56,454 --> 00:08:57,955 and have intervened... 130 00:08:59,123 --> 00:09:04,921 creating barriers as a way to keep mankind from obtaining powerful technology? 131 00:09:06,130 --> 00:09:08,925 Perhaps further clues can be found... 132 00:09:09,008 --> 00:09:12,345 by examining the remnants of an ancient civilization... 133 00:09:12,428 --> 00:09:17,016 that appears to have been destroyed by a massive explosion. 134 00:09:24,315 --> 00:09:27,026 Sindh Province, Pakistan. 135 00:09:27,735 --> 00:09:29,946 1922. 136 00:09:30,988 --> 00:09:34,742 An officer of the Archaeological Survey of India... 137 00:09:34,825 --> 00:09:36,827 is led by a Buddhist monk... 138 00:09:36,911 --> 00:09:40,331 to an area believed to have been a religious monument. 139 00:09:41,916 --> 00:09:43,960 But under the mounds of dirt... 140 00:09:44,043 --> 00:09:48,381 archaeologists find instead an ancient Indus Valley city... 141 00:09:48,464 --> 00:09:51,676 dating back to 2000 BC. 142 00:09:52,677 --> 00:09:57,306 It is called Mohenjo-daro, or “mound of the dead.” 143 00:09:57,390 --> 00:10:01,769 And it is one of the oldest civilizations discovered in the world. 144 00:10:04,355 --> 00:10:08,985 [ Bramley] Mohenjo-daro was very advanced for that time. 145 00:10:10,778 --> 00:10:13,114 They had sanitation. 146 00:10:13,197 --> 00:10:15,449 They had all kinds of good things going. 147 00:10:15,533 --> 00:10:18,536 And they had a lot of trade going with Mesopotamia. 148 00:10:20,037 --> 00:10:23,874 [ Narrator] The city of Mohenjo-daro rivaled the ancient civilizations... 149 00:10:23,958 --> 00:10:26,252 in Egypt and Mesopotamia. 150 00:10:28,754 --> 00:10:34,719 Archaeologists believe that over 35,000 people once occupied the city. 151 00:10:34,802 --> 00:10:39,807 However, only 43 skeletons have been discovered at the site. 152 00:10:45,062 --> 00:10:48,441 There are many theories surrounding the mysterious disappearance... 153 00:10:48,524 --> 00:10:51,736 of the Indus people from Mohenjo-daro. 154 00:10:52,695 --> 00:10:57,033 In 1977, British researcher David Davenport... 155 00:10:57,116 --> 00:11:01,495 discovered that part of the archaeological site showed evidence... 156 00:11:01,579 --> 00:11:05,916 of having been destroyed by an extremely powerful explosion. 157 00:11:08,169 --> 00:11:11,339 [Marl] 158 00:11:32,568 --> 00:11:37,448 [ Narrator] Scholars claim that several calcified skeletons found at the site... 159 00:11:37,531 --> 00:11:41,160 suggest they suffered an instantaneous death. 160 00:11:45,164 --> 00:11:48,584 [ Henry] At Mohenjo-Daro, they found bodies arm in arm... 161 00:11:48,667 --> 00:11:53,255 skeletons, arm in arm, that had been vitrified- virtually vitrified. 162 00:11:55,216 --> 00:11:58,386 [ Narrator] For years, restricted access to the site... 163 00:11:58,469 --> 00:12:02,640 has prevented scientists from analyzing the vitrified ruins. 164 00:12:04,141 --> 00:12:09,355 But in 2014, mineralogist Dr. Sam Iyengar... 165 00:12:09,438 --> 00:12:13,401 was able to obtain a piece of fused pottery from Mohenjo-daro... 166 00:12:13,484 --> 00:12:16,654 and put it through a series of tests. 167 00:12:16,737 --> 00:12:18,823 [lyengar] When I did the elemental analysis... 168 00:12:18,906 --> 00:12:22,368 it showed me that the Mohenjo-daro rock... 169 00:12:22,451 --> 00:12:28,124 contained mostly silicon, aluminum, with some calcium and potassium. 170 00:12:28,207 --> 00:12:32,086 So my thought was maybe it could be some type of a clay... 171 00:12:32,169 --> 00:12:34,171 till I did the X-ray diffraction. 172 00:12:36,590 --> 00:12:39,635 [ Narrator] X-ray diffraction is able to determine... 173 00:12:39,718 --> 00:12:42,471 exactly how a material was formed. 174 00:12:44,557 --> 00:12:47,309 [lyengar] When I did the X-ray powder diffraction... 175 00:12:47,393 --> 00:12:50,271 this is the pattern I got. 176 00:12:50,354 --> 00:12:54,108 And you can see some crystalline peaks here... 177 00:12:54,191 --> 00:12:56,318 along with an amorphous hump... 178 00:12:56,402 --> 00:13:00,531 which usually results from a glassy phase in the rock. 179 00:13:00,614 --> 00:13:04,410 The composition is very similar to volcanic rock. 180 00:13:06,454 --> 00:13:11,375 The only way the clay can be converted into something, which we saw... 181 00:13:11,459 --> 00:13:16,213 is subjecting the clays to a very, very high temperature. 182 00:13:16,297 --> 00:13:20,426 I am talking 4,000 to 5,000-degree Fahrenheit. 183 00:13:21,719 --> 00:13:26,807 That is not something a early civilization can do intentionally. 184 00:13:26,891 --> 00:13:30,144 It has to be something supernatural. 185 00:13:33,564 --> 00:13:35,316 [ Narrator] Could this pottery sample... 186 00:13:35,399 --> 00:13:39,987 which shows irrefutable evidence of having been subjected to extreme heat... 187 00:13:41,864 --> 00:13:43,449 be definitive evidence... 188 00:13:43,532 --> 00:13:48,537 that Mohenjo-daro really was the site of some type of powerful explosion... 189 00:13:48,621 --> 00:13:50,331 in the ancient past? 190 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:58,005 David Davenport and other researchers of India's ancient Vedic texts... 191 00:13:58,088 --> 00:14:01,091 have suggested that this is the case... 192 00:14:01,175 --> 00:14:05,804 and that Mohenjo-daro may in fact be the kingdom of Lanka- 193 00:14:07,473 --> 00:14:10,226 a city whose destruction is detailed... 194 00:14:10,309 --> 00:14:13,771 in the Indian epic known as the Ramayana. 195 00:14:14,438 --> 00:14:16,732 In the Ramayana it is described... 196 00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:20,194 that the god Vishnu decides the leader of Lanka- 197 00:14:20,277 --> 00:14:24,740 a modal named Ravana- has grown too powerful. 198 00:14:25,324 --> 00:14:30,079 Vishnu takes the human form of Rama and does battle with Ravana... 199 00:14:30,162 --> 00:14:32,790 who has become like the gods himself. 200 00:14:33,624 --> 00:14:35,960 [ Man ] Ravana was a very formidable enemy. 201 00:14:36,043 --> 00:14:41,048 In fact, most of his power, it was acquired from god Shiva himself... 202 00:14:41,131 --> 00:14:43,801 because he was a great devotee of Shiva. 203 00:14:44,635 --> 00:14:47,179 And Shiva gave him lethal weapons. 204 00:15:04,029 --> 00:15:10,035 It was described as the sun turning into 5O even more brighter suns... 205 00:15:10,119 --> 00:15:12,663 with this incredible blast. 206 00:15:14,164 --> 00:15:16,250 So some people have suggested... 207 00:15:16,333 --> 00:15:21,422 that perhaps at Mohenjo-daro some type of a nuclear blast occurred. 208 00:15:21,505 --> 00:15:27,428 Not only do we have a textual reference to a possible nuclear blast... 209 00:15:27,511 --> 00:15:31,640 but we also find physical evidence... 210 00:15:31,724 --> 00:15:36,353 that show vitrification of stone. 211 00:15:36,437 --> 00:15:39,773 And the only way that stone can be vitrified... 212 00:15:39,857 --> 00:15:42,776 is if it's exposed to extreme heat. 213 00:15:46,697 --> 00:15:49,325 This is not mythology. This is not superstition. 214 00:15:49,408 --> 00:15:52,328 This is documented historical events... 215 00:15:52,411 --> 00:15:56,415 of people that are warring with each other using advanced technology. 216 00:15:58,208 --> 00:16:02,338 I happen to believe that mankind possessed incredible technology... 217 00:16:02,421 --> 00:16:04,006 incredible knowledge... 218 00:16:04,089 --> 00:16:07,551 and that they did things that we're doing right now... 219 00:16:07,635 --> 00:16:09,720 and then something happened... 220 00:16:12,890 --> 00:16:15,434 and they had to literally start all over again. 221 00:16:17,061 --> 00:16:20,648 Whoever got involved said, “Uh-uh. That's not going to happen. 222 00:16:20,731 --> 00:16:24,318 Let's let them have knowledge, but not too much knowledge.” 223 00:16:24,401 --> 00:16:26,945 And I think that's probably what's happening here. 224 00:16:27,821 --> 00:16:30,491 [Wilcock ] These extraterrestrials wouldn't want us to have access... 225 00:16:30,574 --> 00:16:34,119 to these advanced technologies and essentially become like gods. 226 00:16:34,203 --> 00:16:36,288 But they may have a keen interest... 227 00:16:36,372 --> 00:16:39,708 in following some sort of prime directive... 228 00:16:39,792 --> 00:16:44,171 so they don't openly interfere with us so that everybody knows they exist... 229 00:16:44,254 --> 00:16:48,759 but also making sure that we don't destroy the planet. 230 00:16:52,596 --> 00:16:56,684 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the vitrified ruins at Mohenjo-daro... 231 00:16:56,767 --> 00:17:01,188 are evidence that humans were in possession of advanced technology... 232 00:17:01,271 --> 00:17:03,816 thousands of years ago? 233 00:17:03,899 --> 00:17:05,693 And does this suggest... 234 00:17:05,776 --> 00:17:10,906 that extraterrestrial beings intervened in the affairs of mankind... 235 00:17:10,989 --> 00:17:14,159 to prevent the exploitation of these weapons? 236 00:17:15,369 --> 00:17:18,288 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 237 00:17:18,372 --> 00:17:21,542 and suggest further proof can be found... 238 00:17:21,625 --> 00:17:26,296 by examining the ancient world’s greatest repository of knowledge... 239 00:17:26,380 --> 00:17:29,299 and how it came to be destroyed. 240 00:17:38,976 --> 00:17:42,104 Egypt. 391 AD, 241 00:17:43,731 --> 00:17:46,442 The Great Library of Alexandria... 242 00:17:46,525 --> 00:17:49,862 which houses perhaps the most extensive collection of knowledge... 243 00:17:49,945 --> 00:17:52,072 in the ancient world... 244 00:17:52,156 --> 00:17:54,450 is set aflame. 245 00:17:54,533 --> 00:17:57,327 [ People Screaming ] 246 00:17:57,411 --> 00:18:01,457 It is burned by decree of Emperor Theodosius I... 247 00:18:01,540 --> 00:18:05,127 who has deemed many of the works contained at the library... 248 00:18:05,210 --> 00:18:07,588 unorthodox and heretical. 249 00:18:09,673 --> 00:18:13,093 Built by the Egyptians in the third century BC... 250 00:18:13,177 --> 00:18:18,557 the Library of Alexandria was said to contain as many as a million scrolls... 251 00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:20,934 on a wide variety of topics... 252 00:18:21,018 --> 00:18:24,813 including astronomy, mathematics... 253 00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:28,776 physics, medicine and philosophy. 254 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:36,617 [ Man ] The Library at Alexandria was the greatest library of the ancient world. 255 00:18:36,700 --> 00:18:38,786 Thousands and thousands of scrolls... 256 00:18:38,869 --> 00:18:42,122 all of the ancient science, all of the ancient wisdom... 257 00:18:42,206 --> 00:18:44,958 the occult lore, the literature. 258 00:18:45,042 --> 00:18:47,628 But as regimes changed... 259 00:18:47,711 --> 00:18:52,508 there was a fear that perhaps there were heresies in those volumes. 260 00:18:53,884 --> 00:18:57,763 [Woman ] As Christianity grew and became a more powerful religion... 261 00:18:57,846 --> 00:19:00,557 they began to see some of the learning... 262 00:19:00,641 --> 00:19:04,353 that was part of ancient civilization as evil. 263 00:19:05,687 --> 00:19:09,900 So all of the astronomy, all of the technological knowledge... 264 00:19:09,983 --> 00:19:12,903 all of the philosophy had to be destroyed. 265 00:19:14,238 --> 00:19:16,990 There was ancient technologies that were lost. 266 00:19:17,074 --> 00:19:20,035 We know this from modern historical record. 267 00:19:20,118 --> 00:19:25,916 Technologies- working with systems like magnetism, crystals, energy. 268 00:19:26,583 --> 00:19:28,168 Like the Ark of the Covenant. 269 00:19:28,252 --> 00:19:29,753 We know these things existed... 270 00:19:29,837 --> 00:19:33,131 but we don't know what was the nature of their existence. 271 00:19:34,132 --> 00:19:37,678 Some of those books were the history of our planet... 272 00:19:37,761 --> 00:19:40,973 going back to 100,000 years even. 273 00:19:41,765 --> 00:19:44,184 So when these books were all destroyed... 274 00:19:44,268 --> 00:19:49,314 it was a way of setting the knowledge back to zero. 275 00:19:53,193 --> 00:19:56,530 [ Narrator] Of the volumes once held b y the vast library - . 276 00:19:56,613 --> 00:20:00,284 Researchers have estimated that 95% of the knowledge... 277 00:20:00,367 --> 00:20:03,120 that was recorded there was incinerated... 278 00:20:03,203 --> 00:20:07,624 plunging humanity back thousands of years in its evolution. 279 00:20:07,708 --> 00:20:09,209 But Why? 280 00:20:11,128 --> 00:20:14,214 Was the Library of Alexandria burned down... 281 00:20:14,298 --> 00:20:16,383 simply because the Catholic Church... 282 00:20:16,466 --> 00:20:20,137 considered some of its contents to be heretical? 283 00:20:21,305 --> 00:20:24,266 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 284 00:20:24,349 --> 00:20:28,937 there may have been another- perhaps extraterrestrial- agenda... 285 00:20:29,021 --> 00:20:30,856 behind its destruction. 286 00:20:34,192 --> 00:20:38,488 According to an official NASA document published in 2007... 287 00:20:38,572 --> 00:20:42,951 titled “Unidentified Flying Objects in Classical Antiquity”... 288 00:20:43,035 --> 00:20:46,246 there were a remarkable number of mysterious encounters... 289 00:20:46,330 --> 00:20:49,541 during the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. 290 00:20:50,250 --> 00:20:53,921 They didn't use the term “UFO” or “flying saucer”... 291 00:20:54,004 --> 00:20:57,049 back in the times of the Romans and the Greeks... 292 00:20:57,132 --> 00:21:03,096 but they spoke about things like “sky armies,” “shields,” “ships.” 293 00:21:03,180 --> 00:21:05,432 I mean, this is history. 294 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:09,102 [ Bramley] There's a very interesting report by Cicero. 295 00:21:09,186 --> 00:21:12,648 And what that was is that there was a sphere in the sky... 296 00:21:12,731 --> 00:21:15,609 which then divided into smaller spheres. 297 00:21:15,692 --> 00:21:19,237 This reflects the classic UFO reports that we get today... 298 00:21:19,321 --> 00:21:21,490 where there's just one big object, usually a sphere... 299 00:21:21,573 --> 00:21:26,203 and then suddenly it breaks apart and these smaller subsets go flying around. 300 00:21:28,997 --> 00:21:31,875 [ Narrator] This report from the first century BC... 301 00:21:31,959 --> 00:21:35,712 was just one of over 100 unexplained sightings... 302 00:21:35,796 --> 00:21:38,840 recorded during the Roman Empire. 303 00:21:38,924 --> 00:21:42,886 There's one remarkable story after another in the Roman Empire... 304 00:21:42,970 --> 00:21:45,138 of the appearance of spaceships. 305 00:21:45,222 --> 00:21:47,474 They're influencing battles. 306 00:21:47,557 --> 00:21:51,103 And it leaves the appearance that these extraterrestrial beings... 307 00:21:51,186 --> 00:21:55,941 had a direct bearing on the outcome of some of these battles and these wars. 308 00:21:56,858 --> 00:21:58,902 [ Narrator] Of all the unexplained sightings... 309 00:21:58,986 --> 00:22:03,156 the most famous was reported by Emperor Constantine the Great... 310 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:06,618 on October 27, 312 AD... 311 00:22:06,702 --> 00:22:09,496 at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge... 312 00:22:09,579 --> 00:22:14,459 which would win him the throne and change western civilization forever. 313 00:22:15,419 --> 00:22:17,754 [ Magliocco ] The real moment of truth for Constantine... 314 00:22:17,838 --> 00:22:22,676 came when he was engaged in the midst of a great battle. 315 00:22:25,178 --> 00:22:29,683 He claimed to have seen a cross appear in the sky... 316 00:22:29,766 --> 00:22:31,518 over the battlefield. 317 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:37,190 At that point he made a vow to Christ that if he won the battle... 318 00:22:37,274 --> 00:22:40,569 he would convert to Christianity for good... 319 00:22:40,652 --> 00:22:46,241 and he would make Christianity the state religion of the Roman Empire. 320 00:22:46,950 --> 00:22:50,829 [ Bramley] The vision of Constantine was extremely significant. 321 00:22:50,912 --> 00:22:52,831 They thought it was some kind of message. 322 00:22:52,914 --> 00:22:56,501 Fight this battle and establish this form of Christianity. 323 00:22:57,794 --> 00:23:01,256 [ Narrator] Shortly after Constantine became emperor of Rome... 324 00:23:01,339 --> 00:23:05,969 religious wars broke out between the Christians, Jews and pagans. 325 00:23:07,137 --> 00:23:08,847 It was during these wars... 326 00:23:08,930 --> 00:23:13,393 that the first attacks were made on the Library of Alexandria... 327 00:23:13,477 --> 00:23:18,398 ultimately leading to its total destruction in 391 AD. 328 00:23:19,691 --> 00:23:22,736 And according to some ancient astronaut theorists... 329 00:23:23,779 --> 00:23:28,116 this was done at the direction of those extraterrestrial beings... 330 00:23:28,200 --> 00:23:32,662 that were responsible for Constantines vision at the Milvian Bridge. 331 00:23:34,831 --> 00:23:39,252 [ Pope ] The Roman Empire, in many ways, was ahead of its time. 332 00:23:39,336 --> 00:23:45,258 Now, was this something that caught the attention of intelligent extraterrestrials? 333 00:23:45,342 --> 00:23:48,261 Did it give them cause for concern? 334 00:23:48,345 --> 00:23:53,934 Were these UFO sightings at the time of the Roman Empire a monitoring process... 335 00:23:54,017 --> 00:23:58,146 and maybe humanity was just pegged back a little bit? 336 00:24:00,774 --> 00:24:05,737 [ Narrator] Is it possible the alleged UFO sightings throughout the Roman Empire... 337 00:24:05,821 --> 00:24:09,116 indicate that there is an extraterrestrial agenda... 338 00:24:09,199 --> 00:24:12,327 to hold back the progress of humanity? 339 00:24:12,410 --> 00:24:16,581 Or might there be an even more incredible explanation? 340 00:24:17,374 --> 00:24:20,043 Some ancient astronaut theorists claim... 341 00:24:20,127 --> 00:24:23,755 there may not be just one alien agenda... 342 00:24:25,382 --> 00:24:27,008 but several. 343 00:24:31,763 --> 00:24:33,849 Washington, DC. 344 00:24:35,100 --> 00:24:40,355 After five days of expert testimony at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure... 345 00:24:40,438 --> 00:24:45,193 astounding claims regarding extraterrestrial involvement with the human race... 346 00:24:45,277 --> 00:24:48,405 were shared with former members of Congress. 347 00:24:50,073 --> 00:24:52,033 Among the mos! inflammatory. - . 348 00:24:52,117 --> 00:24:56,746 Is the assertion from former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer... 349 00:24:57,747 --> 00:25:01,626 that we are not being visited by just one alien faction... 350 00:25:02,586 --> 00:25:04,087 but several. 351 00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:10,635 At least four species had been visiting Earth for thousands of years. 352 00:25:11,678 --> 00:25:15,557 They are different species and consequently may have different agendas. 353 00:25:17,100 --> 00:25:18,727 [ Pope] The thing about Paul Hellyer... 354 00:25:18,810 --> 00:25:21,855 is the level of detail that he goes down to- 355 00:25:21,938 --> 00:25:25,358 numbers of civilizations, alien agendas. 356 00:25:25,442 --> 00:25:30,113 This is not some maverick UFO researcher. 357 00:25:30,197 --> 00:25:33,533 This is a politician still deeply connected. 358 00:25:33,617 --> 00:25:38,121 He has a number of extremely high-level government... 359 00:25:38,205 --> 00:25:41,499 and military and intelligence community sources. 360 00:25:43,126 --> 00:25:46,046 [ Narrator] Is it possible the government has been covering up... 361 00:25:46,129 --> 00:25:49,507 the presence of otherworldly beings here on Earth? 362 00:25:51,092 --> 00:25:55,180 And could there, in fact, be more than one agenda? 363 00:25:56,681 --> 00:25:58,975 Ancient astronaut theorists claim... 364 00:25:59,059 --> 00:26:02,812 that not only do different extraterrestrial agendas exist... 365 00:26:03,813 --> 00:26:08,652 but that this notion is supported by some of mankind's earliest writings. 366 00:26:10,445 --> 00:26:14,908 In Greek mythology, Prometheus acts in opposition to Zeus... 367 00:26:14,991 --> 00:26:17,994 by giving fire and knowledge to mankind. 368 00:26:20,038 --> 00:26:22,082 In the Indian Vedic texts... 369 00:26:22,165 --> 00:26:26,127 the gods Vishnu and Shiva are often at odds. 370 00:26:26,878 --> 00:26:32,175 Ana' even in the Bible, Lucifer is cast out of heaven for disobeying God. 371 00:26:34,010 --> 00:26:35,971 But perhaps the strongest clues... 372 00:26:36,054 --> 00:26:39,057 as to just what these opposing agendas are... 373 00:26:39,140 --> 00:26:43,812 can be found in the detailed accounts of the ancient Sumerians. 374 00:26:48,775 --> 00:26:51,319 Tall al Muqayyar, Iraq. 375 00:26:51,403 --> 00:26:53,363 1922. 376 00:26:54,322 --> 00:26:58,076 British archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley and his team... 377 00:26:58,159 --> 00:27:01,496 uncover the ancient Sumerian city of Ur... 378 00:27:02,747 --> 00:27:05,000 and discover numerous clay tablets... 379 00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:09,296 containing fantastic tales of gods interacting with humans. 380 00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:16,469 We have these cuneiform tablets carved into clay with a primitive stylus... 381 00:27:16,553 --> 00:27:21,808 but the stories they tell- the Sumerian mythology of the Anunnaki... 382 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:24,185 those who from heaven to Earth came- 383 00:27:24,269 --> 00:27:27,188 are so intricate and fascinating. 384 00:27:28,398 --> 00:27:31,568 [ Narrator] After studying the tablets for nearly 50 years... 385 00:27:31,651 --> 00:27:35,572 preeminent Mesopotamian historian, Thorkild Jacobsen... 386 00:27:35,655 --> 00:27:38,241 publishes Treasures of Darkness... 387 00:27:38,325 --> 00:27:44,289 a book outlining the governing structure of Sumerian gods called the Anunnaki. 388 00:27:45,332 --> 00:27:47,625 [ Bramley] Thorkild Jacobsen. 389 00:27:47,709 --> 00:27:52,172 He was not an ancient astronaut theorist or a ufologist by any means... 390 00:27:52,255 --> 00:27:55,884 but he just simply took all of these Mesopotamian stories... 391 00:27:55,967 --> 00:28:00,847 and he's able to construct from that exactly how the gods rule, how they manage... 392 00:28:00,930 --> 00:28:03,933 and the effect that it has on the human population... 393 00:28:04,017 --> 00:28:06,311 once they establish certain policies. 394 00:28:08,229 --> 00:28:11,358 [ Narrator] Jacobsen outlines that an assembly of gods... 395 00:28:11,441 --> 00:28:14,944 were charged with making decisions regarding Earth. 396 00:28:15,028 --> 00:28:17,322 The unanimous will of the assembly... 397 00:28:17,405 --> 00:28:21,117 would ultimately shape and control human history. 398 00:28:22,452 --> 00:28:27,499 The high-ranking gods of the assembly included half brothers, Enlil and Enki... 399 00:28:27,582 --> 00:28:30,585 who had opposing ideas about mankind. 400 00:28:32,796 --> 00:28:36,549 [ Henry] Enki is a very benevolent god, a very wise god. 401 00:28:36,633 --> 00:28:38,551 In fact, he's credited with being the one... 402 00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:41,554 who actually fashioned or created the human body. 403 00:28:41,638 --> 00:28:45,642 And his agenda was to raise humankind... 404 00:28:45,725 --> 00:28:48,061 even to the level of the gods. 405 00:28:48,144 --> 00:28:50,146 He's apposed by his half brother, Enlil... 406 00:28:50,230 --> 00:28:52,857 who's very militaristic and commanding... 407 00:28:52,941 --> 00:28:57,404 who prefers to keep humanity at the level of slaves and sex objects. 408 00:28:57,487 --> 00:28:59,447 And so throughout the Babylonian epics... 409 00:28:59,531 --> 00:29:04,160 there's this continuing battle between these two opposing forces, these brothers. 410 00:29:05,328 --> 00:29:08,957 Enlil did not like Enki's relationship with mankind. 411 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,378 So apparently, he was the one who brought the deluge, the flood... 412 00:29:14,879 --> 00:29:17,298 that wiped out civilizations. 413 00:29:18,258 --> 00:29:21,428 Enki, on the other hand, tried to keep things going. 414 00:29:23,721 --> 00:29:26,558 [ Narrator] But just who were these brothers? 415 00:29:26,641 --> 00:29:29,060 According to ancient astronaut theorists... 416 00:29:29,144 --> 00:29:33,857 the Sumerians were visited by alien beings from another solar system. 417 00:29:35,191 --> 00:29:38,486 [Wilcock] It's easy for us to say that the Anunnaki were their gods. 418 00:29:38,570 --> 00:29:40,113 But let's be clear. 419 00:29:40,196 --> 00:29:44,451 The Sumerians did not refer to the Anunnaki as gods. 420 00:29:44,534 --> 00:29:49,414 They referred to them as a race of giant human-looking people... 421 00:29:49,497 --> 00:29:52,041 who came from the stars. 422 00:29:53,418 --> 00:29:55,128 Enlil and Enki- 423 00:29:55,211 --> 00:30:00,008 they fought over whether humanity should be destroyed or not. 424 00:30:02,093 --> 00:30:05,847 And ever since then there has been a battle that has been going on... 425 00:30:05,930 --> 00:30:09,142 between extraterrestrial watchers... 426 00:30:09,225 --> 00:30:12,812 that want to see humanity evolve and grow... 427 00:30:12,896 --> 00:30:16,357 and another group that wants us destroyed. 428 00:30:17,775 --> 00:30:21,070 [ Noory] Look at humankind. Some are good. Some are bad. 429 00:30:21,154 --> 00:30:23,406 I think extraterrestrials are the same thing. 430 00:30:23,490 --> 00:30:25,992 Some are very enlightened. They want to upgrade us. 431 00:30:26,075 --> 00:30:29,996 They want great things for this planet and this universe. 432 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:32,123 There are others who don't. 433 00:30:32,207 --> 00:30:37,253 They want to keep us ignorant and down and fighting and greedy. 434 00:30:40,048 --> 00:30:43,885 [ Narrator] Do the legends of gods with different agendas for mankind... 435 00:30:43,968 --> 00:30:47,680 actually give insight into the extraterrestrial claims... 436 00:30:47,764 --> 00:30:50,934 of former Canadian Defense Minister Paul Hellyer? 437 00:30:52,143 --> 00:30:57,607 And if so, are these otherworldly rivalries still occurring today? 438 00:30:57,690 --> 00:31:02,570 Perhaps clues can be found by looking at our more recent past... 439 00:31:02,654 --> 00:31:06,366 and the secret technology of the Nazis. 440 00:31:17,835 --> 00:31:21,297 London, England. 1939. 441 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:25,718 Former Nazi officer, Hermann Rauschning... 442 00:31:25,802 --> 00:31:29,013 publishes a book tit/ea' Hitler Speaks. 443 00:31:30,014 --> 00:31:33,393 In it, he reveals some shocking conversations... 444 00:31:33,476 --> 00:31:37,146 that he claimed to have had with Adolf Hitler- 445 00:31:38,314 --> 00:31:43,194 conversations about contact with nonhuman intelligences. 446 00:31:43,820 --> 00:31:46,406 The surprising thing is that Adolf Hitler was basically- 447 00:31:46,489 --> 00:31:49,200 We would call him today basically a UFO contactee. 448 00:31:49,284 --> 00:31:53,871 He claimed that he personally had at least one contact or meeting... 449 00:31:53,955 --> 00:31:56,749 with these so-called supermen. 450 00:31:56,833 --> 00:31:59,252 They called them the supermen or the underground supermen. 451 00:31:59,335 --> 00:32:04,257 But basically it was a contact with these super people... 452 00:32:04,340 --> 00:32:06,551 who were guiding them. 453 00:32:08,303 --> 00:32:13,641 [ Tzadok ] There are beings that are said to manipulate segments of humanity... 454 00:32:13,725 --> 00:32:18,605 so as to express their own agendas. 455 00:32:18,688 --> 00:32:24,402 And therefore it is they who influence nations to go to war... 456 00:32:24,485 --> 00:32:27,905 and to fight for their purposes and their agendas. 457 00:32:29,616 --> 00:32:33,494 [ Narrator] Is it really possible that Adolf Hitler was in contact... 458 00:32:33,578 --> 00:32:37,373 with a race of extraterrestrials he called “supermen”? 459 00:32:38,791 --> 00:32:41,711 While the authenticity of Hermann Rauschning's accounts... 460 00:32:41,794 --> 00:32:43,630 are widely questioned... 461 00:32:43,713 --> 00:32:46,174 ancient astronaut theorists propose... 462 00:32:46,257 --> 00:32:49,844 that extraterrestrials may have had a particular interest... 463 00:32:49,927 --> 00:32:53,640 in the quest of Hitler to obtain super weapons... 464 00:32:53,723 --> 00:32:55,850 lost knowledge... 465 00:32:55,933 --> 00:32:59,145 and artifacts of the ancestral gods. 466 00:32:59,228 --> 00:33:04,567 The Nazis embarked on a quest for so-called Wunderwaffe- 467 00:33:04,651 --> 00:33:06,027 wonder-weapons. 468 00:33:07,111 --> 00:33:11,115 And the Nazis were after not just making the atomic bomb- 469 00:33:11,199 --> 00:33:13,451 which they clearly were working toward- 470 00:33:13,534 --> 00:33:15,870 but guided missiles... 471 00:33:18,039 --> 00:33:20,667 and even something called the sun gun... 472 00:33:20,750 --> 00:33:25,171 which actually involved plans for some sort of space station... 473 00:33:25,254 --> 00:33:30,760 and then effectively directed energy weapon down to the surface of the Earth. 474 00:33:34,138 --> 00:33:36,224 Many people now speculate... 475 00:33:36,307 --> 00:33:40,436 that extraterrestrials were watching humanity... 476 00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,481 engaged in this cataclysmic conflict. 477 00:33:46,651 --> 00:33:50,446 The theory was that this was war on a totally new scale... 478 00:33:52,615 --> 00:33:58,204 and that it had attracted the attention of these alien visitors... 479 00:33:58,287 --> 00:34:04,210 who were watching with concern at human beings advancing so rapidly. 480 00:34:05,795 --> 00:34:10,925 There are a ton of reports that date back to the Second World War... 481 00:34:11,008 --> 00:34:15,388 where pilots reported the so-called “Foo Fighters.” 482 00:34:16,097 --> 00:34:21,477 And Foo Fighters are something that can be likened to modern-day UFOs. 483 00:34:21,561 --> 00:34:26,733 So that is very interesting because it shows to me... 484 00:34:26,816 --> 00:34:32,613 that somehow extraterrestrials were interested in the outcome. 485 00:34:34,741 --> 00:34:36,743 [ Bramley] You have World War ll with Hitler. 486 00:34:36,826 --> 00:34:38,703 Signs were really clear... 487 00:34:38,786 --> 00:34:41,956 that we were now starting to enter a phase of our development... 488 00:34:42,039 --> 00:34:45,251 where we are now going to have some pretty good technology. 489 00:34:46,252 --> 00:34:50,548 We're going to start understanding some of the weirder aspects of reality. 490 00:34:50,631 --> 00:34:54,719 That was the knowledge of the gods, perhaps, that they did not want us to have. 491 00:34:56,846 --> 00:35:00,266 [ Narrator] Is it possible that Hitler's quest for super weapons... 492 00:35:00,349 --> 00:35:02,727 ultimately led to his downfall? 493 00:35:04,103 --> 00:35:07,148 Might an extraterrestrial faction have intervened... 494 00:35:07,231 --> 00:35:10,526 to stop him before he went even further? 495 00:35:13,946 --> 00:35:16,324 Immediately following World War II... 496 00:35:16,407 --> 00:35:20,411 the United States military enlisted Nazi scientists... 497 00:35:20,495 --> 00:35:26,292 to continue the development of weaponry, including rockets and nuclear bombs. 498 00:35:29,378 --> 00:35:31,380 After World War ll... 499 00:35:31,464 --> 00:35:37,261 much of the UFO activity around the world really stepped up considerably. 500 00:35:38,930 --> 00:35:44,894 There are stories of how UFOs would circle around nuclear weapon silos. 501 00:35:46,896 --> 00:35:49,315 [ Narrator] UFO sightings were reported... 502 00:35:49,398 --> 00:35:53,486 at numerous US Air Force bases with nuclear capabilities... 503 00:35:53,569 --> 00:35:59,116 including high-profile reports from the Malmstrom Air Force base in Montana... 504 00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:03,621 and Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. 505 00:36:04,747 --> 00:36:09,377 In 7.980, there was a famous sighting of a disc-shaped object'... 506 00:36:09,460 --> 00:36:13,798 that hovered near a nuclear bomb storage depot in Suffolk, England... 507 00:36:13,881 --> 00:36:16,926 and emitted laser-like beams of light. 508 00:36:18,594 --> 00:36:23,349 The sightings over the missile facilities at Malmstrom and Minot... 509 00:36:23,432 --> 00:36:27,854 involved apparent shutdowns of the missiles. 510 00:36:27,937 --> 00:36:33,109 That is to say it was alleged that the missiles were taken off-line. 511 00:36:33,192 --> 00:36:38,573 Now, UFO believers think that we were being sent a message... 512 00:36:38,656 --> 00:36:40,867 and that the message was... 513 00:36:40,950 --> 00:36:45,371 “We know what your nuclear arsenal is capable of. 514 00:36:45,454 --> 00:36:46,998 We're watching.” 515 00:36:50,209 --> 00:36:54,380 [ Narrator] Are extraterrestrials monitoring nuclear facilities? 516 00:36:54,463 --> 00:36:56,674 Perhaps to ensure mankind... 517 00:36:56,757 --> 00:37:01,012 does not unleash such weapons of mass destruction. 518 00:37:02,096 --> 00:37:07,435 And if there are, in fact, competing alien agendas for mankind... 519 00:37:07,518 --> 00:37:09,437 will proof of this be revealed... 520 00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:13,941 with the introduction of an incredible new technology? 521 00:37:21,657 --> 00:37:23,534 Geneva, Switzerland. 522 00:37:23,618 --> 00:37:25,202 CERN headquarters. 523 00:37:26,829 --> 00:37:29,415 A multinational coalition of scientists... 524 00:37:29,498 --> 00:37:33,336 are working to upgrade the Large Hadron Collider... 525 00:37:33,419 --> 00:37:37,256 the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher... 526 00:37:37,340 --> 00:37:42,720 which is capable of producing the energy of 70,000 atomic bombs. 527 00:37:44,764 --> 00:37:46,432 The Large Hadron Collider... 528 00:37:46,515 --> 00:37:51,604 was key to the initial discovery of the Higgs boson, or “God Particle”- 529 00:37:53,105 --> 00:37:58,986 a subatomic particle that many scientists believe exists for a fraction of a second... 530 00:37:59,070 --> 00:38:01,739 before other particles get their mass... 531 00:38:01,822 --> 00:38:03,532 and the one missing piece... 532 00:38:03,616 --> 00:38:06,869 of our present understanding of the laws of physics. 533 00:38:08,829 --> 00:38:10,581 For theoretical physicists... 534 00:38:10,665 --> 00:38:14,835 the find opens up new frontiers in science and technology... 535 00:38:15,711 --> 00:38:19,173 suggesting the possibility of antigravity... 536 00:38:20,049 --> 00:38:22,343 travel at the speed of light... 537 00:38:23,302 --> 00:38:24,887 teleportation... 538 00:38:26,555 --> 00:38:29,892 and even future military applications. 539 00:38:31,102 --> 00:38:33,187 The Higgs particle is so new... 540 00:38:33,270 --> 00:38:36,732 we just really don't know what we're going to be able to do with it. 541 00:38:39,402 --> 00:38:43,155 [ Narrator] The first person to refer to the Higgs boson as the God Particle... 542 00:38:43,239 --> 00:38:46,993 was Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman... 543 00:38:48,244 --> 00:38:51,455 who also likened the use of the Large Hadron Collider... 544 00:38:51,539 --> 00:38:55,543 to the building of the Tower of Babel to reach the realm of God. 545 00:38:56,377 --> 00:38:58,337 lf we take his words literally... 546 00:38:58,421 --> 00:39:01,757 it suggests that the search for the God particle... 547 00:39:01,841 --> 00:39:04,427 and the creation of these amazing particle accelerators... 548 00:39:04,510 --> 00:39:06,303 such as the one at CERN... 549 00:39:06,387 --> 00:39:11,183 is actually a re-creation of the Tower of Babel. 550 00:39:11,267 --> 00:39:15,229 Well, the Tower of Babel seems to have been humanity's first attempt... 551 00:39:15,312 --> 00:39:17,356 to blast open holes in heaven... 552 00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,817 to open star gates and wormholes. 553 00:39:24,989 --> 00:39:28,701 [ Narrator] With the promise of a more powerful, upgraded Collider... 554 00:39:28,784 --> 00:39:31,912 to go online in the next few years... 555 00:39:31,996 --> 00:39:36,959 scientists are hopeful that humankind will make even more technological leaps... 556 00:39:37,043 --> 00:39:40,337 in understanding just how the universe works. 557 00:39:43,632 --> 00:39:49,388 [ Frisbee ] When they finish the upgrade, it will be about 13 times more powerful. 558 00:39:52,266 --> 00:39:55,311 So that's an enormous increase in energy. 559 00:39:56,395 --> 00:40:01,317 We've never had a machine that could operate at these energy levels. 560 00:40:02,735 --> 00:40:04,361 But the questions is... 561 00:40:04,445 --> 00:40:08,240 are we at risk of opening up something we don't want? 562 00:40:08,324 --> 00:40:10,201 Is it a Pandora's Box? 563 00:40:12,995 --> 00:40:16,540 [ Narrator] Could the collaborations with scientists from across the world... 564 00:40:16,624 --> 00:40:18,876 happening at CERN today... 565 00:40:18,959 --> 00:40:22,713 mirror the efforts of the ancient civilization in Genesis... 566 00:40:22,797 --> 00:40:24,924 who built the Tower of Babel? 567 00:40:26,342 --> 00:40:28,010 If we are reaching a level... 568 00:40:28,094 --> 00:40:32,473 where we could interact with the heavens and connect with a galactic community... 569 00:40:32,556 --> 00:40:34,350 are we ready? 570 00:40:34,433 --> 00:40:37,228 Or will our efforts be thwarted again... 571 00:40:37,311 --> 00:40:41,524 pushing us back thousands of years in our development? 572 00:40:41,607 --> 00:40:44,610 The Egyptians, the Romans, the Greeks. 573 00:40:44,693 --> 00:40:47,404 Most of these empires, of course, fell... 574 00:40:47,488 --> 00:40:50,783 and for a while humanity was pegged back... 575 00:40:50,866 --> 00:40:54,787 but always we rose again and always we advance. 576 00:40:56,163 --> 00:41:00,918 Now it seems that we stand on the threshold of the final jump. 577 00:41:03,087 --> 00:41:07,550 [Young ] There do seem to be cyclical patterns in history. 578 00:41:07,633 --> 00:41:10,970 Each generation has to make the same mistakes. 579 00:41:11,053 --> 00:41:15,099 We personally have to make similar mistakes at each life stage. 580 00:41:16,642 --> 00:41:19,562 Some argue it is a spiral pattern- 581 00:41:19,645 --> 00:41:23,149 that the cycles have a kind of forward motion. 582 00:41:23,232 --> 00:41:28,195 It's actually traveling in a direction even as it seems to be going around in circles. 583 00:41:31,574 --> 00:41:33,826 [Tzadok] It is human destiny... 584 00:41:33,909 --> 00:41:36,662 from every legend, from every religion- 585 00:41:36,745 --> 00:41:41,792 to know we as a race of human beings will evolve. 586 00:41:41,876 --> 00:41:43,502 We will overcome. 587 00:41:43,586 --> 00:41:47,882 We will achieve the fulfillment of the messianic destiny... 588 00:41:47,965 --> 00:41:52,303 to knowing the truth of our universe, the truth of our existence. 589 00:41:52,386 --> 00:41:54,180 It's inevitable. 590 00:41:54,263 --> 00:41:56,640 It could well be that what we are seeing here... 591 00:41:56,724 --> 00:42:00,978 is the fulfillment of this long-standing plan or agenda... 592 00:42:01,061 --> 00:42:02,980 of these extraterrestrial beings... 593 00:42:03,063 --> 00:42:04,565 who have been waiting for us... 594 00:42:04,648 --> 00:42:09,403 to arrive at this level of consciousness or technology... 595 00:42:09,486 --> 00:42:13,365 through which they will feel comfortable now to reveal themselves. 596 00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:20,206 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the course of humanity... 597 00:42:20,289 --> 00:42:24,543 has been guided from the beginning by an alien agenda... 598 00:42:24,627 --> 00:42:27,379 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 599 00:42:28,756 --> 00:42:34,386 Have extraterrestrials been monitoring our progress for thousands of years... 600 00:42:34,470 --> 00:42:40,142 at times helping us to advance, and at other times holding us back? 601 00:42:41,143 --> 00:42:45,481 Are we finally reaching the point in our technological evolution... 602 00:42:45,564 --> 00:42:50,653 where these alien visitors can no longer exist among us undetected? 603 00:42:52,112 --> 00:42:54,615 Perhaps the setbacks throughout our history... 604 00:42:54,698 --> 00:42:58,410 were to assure we were prepared for full disclosure... 605 00:42:58,494 --> 00:43:03,415 and only then would we be allowed to realize our potential... 606 00:43:03,499 --> 00:43:07,336 and be reunited with our alien ancestors.