Original subtitles

[Narrator] It is a land of stunning beauty

and home to some of the world's greatest mysteries.

[Michael Tellinger] There are about four and a half thousand

of these stone circle ruins

in Africa generating energy.

[Narrator] Ancestral stories describe incredible technology.

[William Henry] Ancient African myths described

thunderous vehicles with flames coming out of them.

[Narrator] And the Indigenous people

talk of otherworldly origins.

[Gogo Ekhaya] There is an ancestral connection

to the Amakhosi, or the kings and queens of the stars.

[Narrator] Could it be that Africa

holds the ultimate secrets

of our extraterrestrial past?

[Giorgio Tsoukalos] You have to wonder if maybe

this is where first contact took place.

? ?

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

The second largest continent on Earth

is known for its striking landscapes,

mysterious ancient structures,

and vibrant cultural traditions

that date back thousands of years.

[Henry] Africa is truly a remarkable place.

It immediately conjures up images of majestic creatures,

like lions, elephants.

You think of striking vistas, the Great Rift Valley,

the Congo, the Sahara, the Nile River.

Africa gave rise to ancient Egypt,

one of history's greatest and most iconic civilizations.

And today, it boasts thriving metropolises like Cairo

and Johannesburg.

[Narrator] Africa is also considered

the birthplace of humanity,

and is the most genetically

and culturally diverse continent on Earth.

But what makes it intriguing to ancient astronaut theorists

is that, all across this vast continent,

the native people share similar traditions regarding

visitors from the stars.

[Sabata-Mpho Mokae] The different ethnic groups

in Africa do share beliefs.

And they see God almost a similar way.

Their beliefs are common in the sense that

they believe in this higher, superior being,

but also they believe in people who came before

coming down to Africa from another planet.

[Rev. Michael Carter] All of these different cultures,

tribes have stories

of beings who come down from the sky

and to interact with human beings.

Some as intermediaries, some as messengers.

[Narrator] African traditional religions,

such as those of the Igbo,

Akan, Shona, and Zulu share common stories

of celestial teachers.

[Andrew Collins] What you have

are whole collections of gods,

of celestial beings,

of great ancestors that are venerated

by each different tribal group.

There's such a diverse area of knowledge

and wisdom relating to this.

This is something that has been preserved

all the way down to the present day.

[Narrator] For thousands of years,

cultures across Africa

have kept these mythologies alive through oral traditions,

elaborate ceremonies, and by carving them into stone.

In Egypt, hieroglyphs at the Temple of Edfu

describe the god Horus descending from the sky.

[Giorgio Tsoukalos] Horus was a celestial sky god.

Horus did not originate here on Earth,

and the ancient Egyptians were very, very concise in stating

that he was a physical being that came from the stars.

[Narrator] The Yoruba,

one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa,

worship supreme beings called the orisha.

[Carter] The Yoruba people talked about beings

who were called orishas.

Who descended to Earth

and have a hand, even now,

into what goes on on this planet.

And this is what they use, even to this day,

to explain the world that they live in.

[Narrator] According to the Yoruba,

these deities came down from the sky

and moved between human and divine realms.

One of the most prominent is a figure named Eshu.

[Tsoukalos] What's interesting is that Eshu

descended from the sky, and he decides

who is allowed to communicate with the other realm.

[Jonathan Young] Of the many African divinities,

Eshu stands out. A kindly, but

a troublemaking, playful god

and would make people happy,

but would intentionally cause confusion.

Artistic representations of Eshu often show him

with an elongated head.

Sometimes about a third of the body shape is head.

[Tsoukalos] He's this interesting looking guy

with this elongated head, and very large eyes.

From a modern-day perspective,

he looks like how we would depict an extraterrestrial.

[Narrator] Might representations

of Eshu reveal that the sky gods described

in numerous African traditions were, in fact,

otherworldly visitors

encountered by the ancient people?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

it is an intriguing possibility,

and they suggest more compelling clues

can be found on the outskirts of the Sahara Desert.

Central Mali. 1931.

French anthropologist Marcel Griaule

treks through the rugged Bandiagara Escarpment

in search of the mysterious Dogon tribe.

When he finds them, he becomes fascinated

by their culture and traditions.

Including the tale of mysterious teachers called the Nommo.

[Tsoukalos] The Dogon claim that these

Nommo descended from the sky in physical form,

and they brought knowledge.

They first taught the local population about agriculture,

mathematics, buildings, and astronomy.

[Narrator] Once every 60 years, the Dogon

commemorate the arrival of the Nommo with a celebration

called the Sigui festival.

[Henry] The Dogon people of Mali

told incredible stories about their teacher beings

that landed on Earth in spinning craft

that made a thunderous sound as they were landing.

And when the craft landed,

they created this pool of water around the craft.

[Tsoukalos] These Nommo-

not only did they descend in physical form,

but they allegedly had these suits

that made them look like fish,

and they would actually live inside the water overnight.

[Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists find it intriguing

that the Dogon describe amphibious beings,

because the Yoruba people who live nearby

seem to depict their gods with amphibious features.

[Henry] What we're seeing here is artwork

that precisely matches the ancient stories

of encounters with a nonhuman amphibious species.

But one of the most intriguing details that the Dogon

left for us is they claimed that the Nommo

came from the Sirius star system.

[Narrator] According to the Dogon,

their gods didn't come from Sirius A-

a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky-

but instead from its tiny companion,

a dying star called Sirius B

that is invisible to the naked eye.

[Henry] The Dogon specifically identified a star

that modern science and astronomy did not

even know about until 1862.

[Tsoukalos] When the anthropologists asked,

"Well, who taught you this?"

They were like, "Well, our teacher gods,"

and they happened to arrive from Sirius B.

[Narrator] Might the Dogon have been given knowledge of Sirius B

by alien beings who came to Africa thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and as further evidence,

they point to the wooden masks the Dogon people wear

during the Sigui festival to represent the Nommo.

[Tsoukalos] These masks have been carbon-dated.

And so we know that

some of these masks go back at least 600 years.

Meaning they knew about Sirius B

already 600 years ago.

And the only way that somebody can know

about an invisible star system

is if somebody tells you

that there's something there.

And so, with the Dogon, they are very clear

in stating that the Nommo,

visiting celestial beings, gave them that knowledge.

It's fascinating that, in Africa,

we find all these stories

of otherworldly beings,

teachers coming down from the sky,

and imparting early humans with knowledge.

And you have to wonder

if maybe this is where first contact took place.

[Narrator] Do the traditions

of Indigenous peoples, like the Dogon,

the Yoruba, and the ancient Egyptians

reveal that Africa was a place of extraterrestrial visitation

in the distant past?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining Zulu teachings that describe ancestors

from other worlds.

[Narrator] Johannesburg, South Africa. 1964.

Zulu author Credo Mutwa

publishes the groundbreaking book Indaba, My Children,

which chronicles the tribal history, legends,

customs and religious beliefs of the Zulu people,

the largest ethnic group in South Africa.

Mutwa's book contains a comprehensive collection

of Zulu oral history and mythologies

dating back centuries.

With the publication of his book,

many of these stories become public for the first time.

Credo Mutwa was a high Sanusi or high elder

in the sangoma tradition from Southern Africa.

And he helped to popularize Southern African spirituality

and religion to the world.

[David Childress] Indaba is a Zulu word that means

"listen to me," essentially.

So the title of his book was kind of, you know,

"Listen to me, my children."

[Narrator] In 1964, social tensions in apartheid

South Africa were approaching a boiling point.

It was amidst this backdrop of unrest

that Credo Mutwa endeavored to publish his book

and preserve his people's history.

We need to remember that most of our mythologies

in Africa have been passed down orally

from generation to generation,

and had not been recorded on paper.

We had not had that kind of literature before.

But here was somebody who was contributing towards

how the world understood

Africans, African religions, traditions, beliefs,

for the very first time in history.

[Childress] Credo Mutwa actually got into trouble

with other Zulu elders,

because he was revealing

all kinds of, basically,

kind of secrets of the shamans.

And they didn't like that.

He was

reporting all of these things that,

in their minds, should be kept secret.

[Ekhaya] A lot of the Zulu community

wasn't on board with the release of this sacred information,

but Credo Mutwa saw that

if he wasn't able to tell the stories, then it would dissolve

at some point in the future.

[Narrator] According to Mutwa, the knowledge shared in his book

was passed down to him by Zulu elders

when he was initiated as a sangoma.

A sangoma is a traditional healer

from the Southern African region.

Sangomas are diviners

connected to the ancient wisdom of the ancestors.

[Carter] These stories were passed down to Credo Mutwa.

His grandfather was an old-school

shaman.

And so when Credo was initiated,

these stories were passed down to him.

But they were kept secret. And he broke that oath

in order to get those stories out.

He wanted to decolonize

this Eurocentric mindset

that Africa had nothing to offer the world.

[Narrator] For the next three decades,

Mutwa continued to share his knowledge

of Zulu folklore and published numerous books.

And in a 1996 book entitled

Song of the Stars: the Lore of a Zulu Shaman,

he captured the public's attention

when he revealed new details

about the Zulu gods.

Mutwa claimed that the beings described

in the sacred stories were otherworldly visitors

who were encountered by the ancient people of Africa.

[Carter] He is saying

they are not gods.

That they are flesh and blood like you and I.

And at the same time, he also says

that people who kept the old ways

believe these people came from the sky.

[Henry] Mutwa tells how the ancient Africans

believed that their creator gods came from the sky.

They descended in shining vehicles

with flames coming out of them,

sometimes described as thunderous.

The beings themselves are described as

flaming beings or fire beings.

The word "Zulu" means "people from the heavens."

There is an ancestral connection

from the sky, the stars.

And in the tradition, there's a lot of songs,

there's a lot of prayer to the amakhosi,

or the kings and queens of the stars.

[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,

particularly intriguing

is that the ancient visitors Mutwa describes

and illustrates in his books are similar to extraterrestrials

that people have claimed to encounter in modern times.

Among them are descriptions of tall, peaceful creatures

called the Muncwi,

gray-skinned beings with large, black eyes

known as the Mantindane,

serpent-like visitors called the Kontombile,

and the Muzungu,

tall white figures who bear a striking resemblance

to modern accounts of beings known as Nordics.

The Nordics are often described as being

tall and slender with

radiant eyes and long, white hair.

So Credo Mutwa's book is

talking about, essentially, the same thing, in a sense.

[Narrator] Like the Dogon of Mali,

the Zulu stories shared by Mutwa

also describe powerful beings associated with water.

There were these water beings

that Baba Credo Mutwa talked about.

The water beings are very much a part of

the sangoma tradition and the Zulu people.

[Childress] Credo Mutwa was trained at an early age

to know these stories.

So we have to think that there's certainly something

to these stories,

in the sense that they're genuine

Zulu myths.

[Narrator] Do the ancient Zulu stories told by Credo Mutwa

reveal that Africa was not only the cradle of humanity

but also a place of early extraterrestrial visitation?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest even more compelling evidence can be found

by comparing the ancient mythology of Africa

to Sumerian stories of celestial visitors

called the Anunnaki.

[Narrator reads on-screen text]

[Narrator] Author Credo Mutwa publishes

Africa's Hidden History,

sharing more of the ancient Zulu stories.

In this book, he focusses on a group

of otherworldly visitors called the Chitauri.

[John Lockley] The Chitauri

was an ancient race that

came thousands of years ago,

and they were very tall, very powerful

and very manipulative in some ways.

[Henry] According to Mutwa, the Chitauri

landed on Earth in what are described

as thunderous vehicles that are emitting fire

and creating all this noise.

They're described as reptilian in nature.

They have yellow eyes. They have a tail.

[Narrator] According to Mutwa,

the Chitauri didn't just visit our planet,

but had a hand in human evolution.

[Mokae] Credo Mutwa tells us the Chitauri

came from outside planet Earth.

They had powers that we didn't have.

They came here when we had no power

of speech, when we had

no ability to speak

to one another in words

and sentences as we do,

and that's what they imparted to us.

[Childress] Credo Mutwa is saying that the Chitauri

were teaching humanity,

and that these extraterrestrials had actually

genetically manipulated mankind

to create the modern humans that we are.

[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,

the stories of the Chitauri

bear a striking resemblance to the writings of the Sumerians.

Considered the world's first known civilization,

the Sumerians are responsible for dozens

of innovations that are essential to modern society.

And they credited these achievements

to powerful beings who came from the sky.

[Tsoukalos] The Sumerians are

the first ones to create cities.

They're the first ones to create the plow.

They're the first to have a language

that was written down.

And they're also very clear

that this was all imparted to them by the teachers

from the sky, the Anunnaki.

[Jason Martell] The story goes that the Anunnaki

took their genetic marker

and made us in their image and after their likeness.

And this is exactly mirrors what we hear with the Chitauri.

Mutwa described the Chitauri

as having some type of a genetic play on us.

Basically being involved in our creation.

[Narrator] According to Mutwa, the Chitauri

not only influenced human evolution

but anointed the first human rulers.

[Henry] Mutwa describes African myths that say

that monarchy was something that was imported to Earth

by the extraterrestrials.

That's fascinating because we find exactly the same story

in ancient Mesopotamia,

where we're told that the Anunnaki gods

lowered kingship to Earth.

There's strong crossover between

what Chitauri were doing and what the Anunnaki were doing.

[Narrator] As far as ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, separate cultures

telling similar stories about encounters with their gods

constitutes some of the strongest evidence

for ET visitation in the distant past.

And one of the most compelling examples

involves a Sumerian god who resembles descriptions

of not only the Zulu water deities

but also the Dogon stories of the Nommo.

In the third millennium BC, the Babylonian historian Berossus

told a story about an amazing sea creature called Oannes.

He's depicted as half human, half fish,

and he's considered to be a great teacher for humanity.

He is also, we're told, sent by the Sumerian god Enki.

He's one of what are called the Apkallu,

who are the wise sages sent by Enki to instruct humanity.

[Tsoukalos] The earliest of culture-bringers

to planet Earth

was Oannes, with the ancient Sumerians.

And there, too, it is described

how this fish being descended from the sky

and, in physical form, imparted knowledge

to the Babylonians and the first Sumerians.

And at night,

this Oannes guy would walk into the water,

and not eat anything, but that's where he would live.

And then, you know, to re-emerge the next day,

to impart more knowledge to the local population.

[Childress] He has a fish head, but with a human head

underneath it. And then there's a fish body

with a fish tail, but he has human feet as well.

And he teaches science

and technology

and medicine and agriculture.

So he's very similar to the Nommo of the Dogon,

in many ways. And he's an amphibious god.

Vishnu, too, is also sometimes depicted

as a kind of a amphibious fish god.

And you have that in Japan.

In cultures all over the world,

we have these stories of these amphibious gods

who are coming, they're teaching the people.

And they're coming from, you know, dissimilar cultures,

but they have very similar stories.

And so, you have to wonder

if this has to do with, you know, real,

extraterrestrial amphibious gods

who are, um, instructing people all over the world.

[Narrator] Could it be that the stories passed down

by the early people of Africa

resemble the mythology of the Sumerians

and other ancient civilizations

because these cultures

all experienced real encounters

with otherworldly visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest further evidence

of extraterrestrial contact in Africa can be found

not only in oral traditions

but in mysterious ancient ruins.

[Narrator] Every year,

over 1 million visitors

travel to the border of South Africa and Zimbabwe

for a chance to see lions,

elephants

and rhinos.

But this picturesque savanna

is also home to an enduring mystery.

The landscape is dotted with thousands of ancient ruins

that stand roughly four feet tall

and are often described as stone circles.

[Hugh Newman] These are not classic stone circles.

They're not like megaliths

arranged in a certain configuration.

These are built up of walls of smaller stones,

but creating these very specific shapes and geometries,

often with avenues coming out from them,

often going for many miles.

[Collins] The structures

that are found in South Africa

are individually referred to as kraals,

and this is probably a corruption of the word "corral,"

which means the place or pen that you put animals in,

but they're more than simply animal pens.

The stone circle ruins were first spoken about

by the Portuguese,

when they came across these ruins.

And they asked the locals,

"Are these your structures?"

And they were told, "No, these are not our structures."

That's the first time we read about it.

But the first time we really, really start

to hear about the stone circles is around 1891

when Theodore Bent, a British archaeologist,

was here in South Africa.

And he estimated that there are

about four and a half thousand

of these stone circle ruins in southern Africa.

[Narrator] The builders of these strange formations

remain a mystery, as does the date of their creation.

Artifacts found at these sites

suggest the circles could be several thousand years old.

And recently, with the benefit of satellite imagery,

researchers have discovered that these ruins

span almost 4,000 square miles.

[Newman] We're talking

not just tens of thousands, there's potentially

hundreds of thousands of them.

And so, they may be ancient structures

built as some kind of

network across the whole of South Africa.

[Narrator] Could the mysterious circular structures

found throughout southern Africa

be remnants of a lost civilization?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

an ancient stone circle of a very different kind.

The Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.

2003.

Pilot Johan Heine is flying over the Highveld plateau

when he sees something unusual.

It is the remnants of what appears to be a circle

made with standing stones

with two towering monoliths at its center.

[Tellinger] Johan immediately realized

that's not a natural arrangement of stones.

And he came back that same day

in the afternoon to come and investigate.

[Narrator] Over the next four years,

Heine conducted his own examination of the unusual site.

He then brought his findings

to fellow researcher Michael Tellinger.

[Tellinger] When Johan took me there for the first time,

he showed me all the measurements

that he'd been doing all these years

since he discovered it in 2004,

and all the time and effort he put into it,

analyzing it, checking out the cardinal point alignments,

north, south, east, west,

and the solstices and equinoxes,

and realized that this

is an ancient calendar site.

As the sun moves from solstice to solstice,

the shadow moves on the calendar stone.

And the calendar is still accurate.

[Narrator] After his initial investigation,

Tellinger began to suspect

that the mysterious stone circle might be very ancient,

and named it Adam's Calendar,

for the first human in the Bible's Book of Genesis.

[Tellinger] How old is Adam's Calendar

and what evidence do we have for its age?

That is a very difficult question to answer,

so you have to look at every possible thing.

We've looked at the geology.

We've looked at erosion. We've looked at lichen growth.

[Narrator] According to Tellinger,

the analysis he performed

indicated that Adam's Calendar

could be the oldest stone circle on Earth,

dating back tens of thousands of years.

Curiously, as Tellinger continued

to investigate the site, he began to notice

unusual phenomena.

[Tellinger] The first way we noticed it is that

the moment you enter the site,

the GPS stops working.

Even a magnetic compass

moves around and keeps changing directions.

[Newman] Now, this is intriguing. This is very much

in association with the British stone circles

or the European megaliths in general,

that they kind of have this energetic signature.

[Tellinger] We measured electromagnetic fields

moving vertically from the sky into the ground.

The frequencies that come out of the ground

are amplified between the stones,

so it generates the energy and it amplifies it

very, very powerfully.

So the conclusion is that Adam's calendar

is not only a calendar,

it is a machine.

[Narrator] A machine?

Is it possible that the stones at Adam's Calendar

are arranged to produce energy?

And if so, who built it?

[Tellinger] I believe it is a very powerful ancient machine

that generates amazing amounts of energy

unimaginable to us today.

And it does so by using frequencies

of the Earth that it amplifies.

And I suspect it was built

by these advanced beings, these ETs

with an advanced technology.

[Narrator] Could it be that Adam's Calendar

was created by an extraterrestrial civilization

to generate energy?

It is a controversial claim,

and like many of the other great mysteries of Africa,

no written record exists to document

the true purpose of Adam's Calendar

or the thousands of other ancient circular structures

spread across the landscape.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that information on what was happening in Africa

in the distant past

can be found in the extensive written

and pictorial records created by

the Egyptians.

[Narrator] Of all the wonders of Africa,

perhaps none have captured the imagination more

than the great empire that emerged along the Nile River.

Ancient Egypt stands

as the longest-lasting continuous civilization

in human history,

rising in the third millennium BC

and lasting roughly 3,000 years.

Its colossal structures,

mysterious mummification rituals

and depictions of strange hybrid beings

have long fascinated ancient astronaut theorists.

And what they find particularly intriguing

is that while the stories of many of

the ancient peoples of Africa were preserved

only in oral traditions,

the Egyptians left an extensive written and pictorial record

of contact with otherworldly beings.

[Collins] Hieroglyphs are the written language

of ancient Egypt.

The dynastic pharaohs.

But what's so interesting about them

is that they were known as the language of the gods,

and the entire hieroglyphic system essentially turns up,

ready-made, around 5,200 years ago,

at the very beginning of dynastic Egypt.

And you have to ask yourself where did they come from?

Where is their precedent?

It's said that the god Thoth

actually presented them to humankind wholesale.

[Tsoukalos] Some of the earliest Egyptian texts

refer to a time when the so-called gods mingled

with human beings.

And it is said that these guardians of the sky,

these so-called gods,

were the ones that imparted knowledge

such as city planning, writing,

medicine, engineering,

astronomy, agriculture.

The Egyptians describe their gods as teachers,

just as the Zulu and the Dogon did.

[Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

what the Egyptians documented in hieroglyphs and artwork

provides a record of otherworldly visitation

similar to what was happening

throughout the continent of Africa.

And much like the Dogon and Zulu,

the Egyptians described contact with beings

who arrived in a thunderous craft,

which they depicted as the Benben stone.

[Tsoukalos] According to the ancient Egyptian texts,

this Benben stone descended from the sky

in physical form,

and it landed in front of the ancient Egyptians.

And then a hatch opened on this Benben stone

and people walked out in order to impart knowledge.

Now, people may say that this is all fantasy,

but any ancient mythology

is rooted in some sort of a reality.

And what's so interesting about the Benben stone

is that it is considered a vehicle of the gods.

The ancient astronaut theory suggests that the Benben stone

is a form of misunderstood technology

where the ancient Egyptians tried to describe a ship

in the shape of a pyramidion.

We think of the Benben as a craft because

the myth says it came from the stars.

And when the god Atum arrived on Earth in the Benben,

he descended from the stars.

And when he left the Earth,

he rose into the stars upon the Benben.

[Narrator] Is it possible that the pyramid shape

that dominates the iconography of ancient Egypt

was inspired by an alien craft?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest even stronger evidence

of extraterrestrial contact can be found

by examining the pyramids themselves.

Archaeologists and Egyptologists claim

that the pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs,

but we have never found any Egyptian pharaoh in a pyramid.

Egyptologists have no real explanation

for what the pyramids were really built for.

[Narrator] According to aerospace engineer Chris Dunn,

the Giza Pyramids served a far more profound purpose

than merely commemorating the dead.

This idea came to him while examining the interior

of the Great Pyramid in 1995.

[Christopher Dunn] Inside the Great Pyramid,

you have all these various shafts

and passageways and chambers.

And when you look at it, as a schematic,

for me, it looks like a machine.

And so,

then the question becomes,

well, if that's the case,

what did this machine do?

[Narrator] For years, Dunn researched the Great Pyramid

and determined that the structure was designed

to generate massive amounts of energy.

In 1998, he published his theory

in a book called The Giza Power Plant.

He proposes that the Great Pyramid

would actually harness energy from the Earth,

and there would be chemicals and other reactions

taking place in it,

and this would actually produce energy.

[Narrator] In his book, Dunn proposed

the Great Pyramid was connected

to other pyramids and obelisks

to create a massive power grid.

[Childress] It has been suggested that the pyramids

of Egypt were energy devices.

This is high tech stuff

built thousands of years ago.

So, this indicates a very high technological civilization.

Could that civilization have been ETs?

[Narrator] Do the ruins, writings and illustrations

left behind by the ancient Egyptians

serve as a record

of extraterrestrial contact and technology,

much like the mythology

and rituals preserved by other African cultures?

Ancient astronaut theorists yes,

and suggest that fossils recently discovered

in northern Africa

could rewrite

human history.

[Narrator] Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. 2017.

A team of European and Moroccan scientists

discover the fossil remains of five individuals

who they believe are the most ancient humans ever found.

The bones are dated to be more than 315,000 years old,

and would push back the emergence of Homo sapiens

by over 100,000 years.

And the find also indicates to archaeologists

that for more than a third of our history,

humans may have existed only in Africa.

[Tsoukalos] Now, some experts

are saying that ancient humans

may have occupied Africa

for more than 100,000 years

before migrating to the other parts of the world.

This would radically change

our understanding of human origins.

[Henry] The team that discovered the fossils in Morocco

were led by an anthropologist named Jean-Jacques Hublin.

Hublin was later quoted as saying is that

if there was a Garden of Eden, it would be in Africa.

Now, he's speaking metaphorically,

but it is fascinating

to think that for thousands upon thousands of years

humans exclusively lived in Africa

and then moved out into other regions of the world.

Therefore,

it's very important that we pay attention to their stories,

and also the remarkable discoveries there.

[Narrator] From new fossil evidence of human ancestors

to prehistoric stone circles

and mysterious relics of ancient Egypt,

amazing discoveries are being made in Africa all the time.

But could the so-called mother continent even be hiding proof

that the birthplace of humanity

was also a point of first contact,

with visitors from other worlds?

[Ekhaya] In Africa, there have been many sightings

and many stories that have been told over time

where people have acknowledged that there are

nonhuman beings that have visited Africa.

There have been stories told by Baba Credo Mutwa.

So I do believe that there have been nonhuman intelligence

that have come into Africa for many, many years.

People in South Africa believe in aliens.

And I believe, like many of my elders

and sangoma colleagues,

that there were extraterrestrial encounters

in ancient Africa.

All the evidence points to it.

And we are rediscovering that there were

extraterrestrial races or civilizations in Africa

thousands of years ago.

[Carter] These stories are so fascinating.

And I think our ancestors, on some level, knew

when they wrote these stories down,

when they told these stories

that we, today,

needed to know what it was like for them

to share this planet with off-world intelligences.

[Narrator] Do the incredible traditions,

ruins and oral histories of Africa

tell a story of otherworldly activity

in the distant past?

Were the sky gods described by numerous ancient cultures

in fact extraterrestrials

who had a hand in the development of early humans?

Perhaps in the land that gave birth to humanity,

we will find the ultimate proof,

of our alien origins.

CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS

Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0