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Narrator: They transform their appearance

right before our eyes.

Bruce fenton: They're able to go from being

totally human-looking

to dangerous beasts that tear people to pieces.

-(man screams) -david childress: They turn into bats

or a sudden mist and disappear.

(woman screams)

lynn picknett: The most terrifying thing

is they can steal

the face of a loved one

and lure you to your doom.

Narrator: Accounts of creatures able to morph

from one form into another

can be found all over the world

and throughout history.

Giorgio a. Tsoukalos: You have to ask the question,

what is the core of truth behind those legends?

Childress: When you look at all the different legends,

we have a very strong connection between

shape-shifters and extraterrestrials.

Narrator: Is it possible that earth has been infiltrated

by shape-shifting beings from another planet?

William henry: What if there are millions of extraterrestrials

that are walking amongst us and suddenly

they reveal their true appearance?

Narrator: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Narrator: 22-year-old forestry worker

travis walton

is driving home after sundown

with a group of coworkers when

suddenly a strange light appears in the sky.

I noticed, uh, some little glimmers

of light coming through the trees.

And the light seemed to be coming

from higher than where ground level would be.

It was only when we got to where

this light was crossing the road

that we had an unobstructed view of the craft.

It was a clearly visible,

clearly defined metallic object,

a disc hovering there, outlined against the sky.

I threw open the door, thinking I'd get

a closer look before it took off.

As I got closer to it, the sound it was making,

it was a sound you, you both heard and felt.

And, uh, the crew said they could

feel the vibration in the truck.

They said it seemed like

something was about to happen.

And, uh, it was. (chuckles)

that's when this energy hit me.

The crew said that it was like I'd stepped on a land mine.

Like an explosion

so violent that, uh,

they thought it, uh, it had killed me.

When this beam of energy hit me,

I felt like a physical blow, but with a sort of a...

Tingling sort of an electric shock sort

of feeling at the same time.

I don't know whether I came to soon after I was taken aboard.

But I know I was on some

kind of an elevated gurney or operating table.

I was looking straight into the-the face of this creature.

And I just flipped out.

Michael salla: He sees these

grey extraterrestrials around him,

and he panics.

And he begins to struggle very violently.

And so those grey extraterrestrials

leave that room.

And then shortly afterwards,

you have two human-looking extraterrestrials walking in.

Walton: In the case of these

human-looking ones, I started to

have serious misgivings that, that this was a rescue.

And that's when they put this mask over my face.

And I just blacked out real quickly.

Nick pope: Now the suspicion here

was that actually these weren't different aliens.

These were the same aliens, but they were capable

of shape-shifting into something else,

specifically to calm him down.

Narrator: Travis walton's story

has become one of the most famous

alien abduction cases ever reported,

and was even adapted into a movie in 1993.

But if true, was he abducted by beings

that are able to shape-shift and mimic humans?

While travis walton's account is extraordinary,

it is not entirely unique.

Salla: There are many stories of these abductees,

who see these non-human looking extraterrestrials, these greys,

who then are replaced by beings that look human.

And this seems to be extraterrestrials

using this shape-shifting ability

to make it look as though human extraterrestrials are there.

Narrator: In 2013, public policy polling

released data that showed 12 million americans believe

that shape-shifting beings live amongst us.

Fenton: One of the most intriguing conspiracies today

is that of the shape-shifting aliens.

The idea that perhaps there is a class of entities on our world

today that is able to represent itself as humans at will.

These extraterrestrials that are

hidden from the rest of the-the normal

human society around them.

Pope: There is a theory that there are aliens among us.

Aliens in human form.

That there's an advance guard, a fifth column.

Call it what you like, but the idea that

perhaps as a prelude to a full-scale alien invasion,

they infiltrate, they get their people into positions of power.

And one could be walking right past you and you wouldn't know.

People think of disclosure as being the archetypal landing

on the white house lawn, uh, spaceships in the sky.

What if it's actually not that?

What if aliens are already here?

Narrator: While the notion that

shape-shifting extraterrestrials

are living among the human race

may sound like something ripped from a science fiction movie,

this concept was actually prevalent

among people living thousands of years ago.

In ancient times,

nearly every culture across the globe

described their gods as not only descending from the sky,

but also having the ability to transform their appearance.

Jonathan young: Shape-shifting has shown up

throughout history in shamanic lore,

in the great religions--

the olympians in greece,

the hindu gods would change shape,

the egyptian gods.

There's something about this idea that

particularly the gods can change into another person

or become an animal.

Ric rader: These stories are not just here to entertain us.

They are here to make sense of our relationship

to the world and to the gods.

And that is not a world that we have a lot of control over.

And that, ultimately, is a terrifying thing,

because when they come down to our world

in whatever shape they take,

we are subject to the whims of the gods.

Narrator: Are tales of shape-shifting beings

a mere manifestation of a deep-seated fear

that we are not in control of our own reality?

Curiously, a common element

found in many of these ancient stories

is that the reason the gods changed shape

was so that they could navigate the human world undetected.

Rader: In order to traffic

in the human world, the gods have to take on a human shape

or something that exists in the human world.

Zeus, in particular, um,

wants to have sexual relations with human beings,

with, uh, with women.

Zeus takes the form of a bull, an especially beautiful bull

which attracts the interest of europa,

who was a phoenician princess.

Henry in the greek story,

europa climbs aboard this bull.

Together they cross over the mediterranean

to the island of crete.

Zeus shape-shifts back into himself as zeus the god,

impregnates europa.

So this is zeus using shape-shifting as a way

to attract a human female and ultimately to create

a new island civilization in crete.

Rader: Zeus changes himself into a bull.

Changes himself into an eagle.

Changes himself into a golden rain shower.

For practical reasons,

the gods need to disguise themselves.

Because if they show up in the human world undisguised,

then it'll wreak havoc.

And the limitation of our imagination

is that they sort of look like us.

They may not, we don't really know.

They have to take a shape that our puny mortal minds

are capable of comprehending.

Tsoukalos: Throughout history,

we have these stories of ancient gods

being able to shape-shift.

So you have to ask the question,

what is the core of truth behind those legends?

Narrator: Could there be some significance

to the fact that in story after story,

coming from all parts of the world,

gods are said to change shape to interact with humans?

Is it possible that at some point,

the ancient people actually witnessed

extraterrestrials changing shape?

Childress: We have many stories

in the past, legends and myths of shape-shifting gods.

The greeks have many stories with this.

The hindus, the sumerians.

All over the world, we have these stories.

And you have to wonder if it might have something to do

with shape-shifting extraterrestrials.

The ancient astronaut theory tries to decipher

misunderstood technology in mythological stories.

This whole idea of shape-shifting

is rooted solidly in the concept

of misunderstood technology.

Actual flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials

were able to change their appearance

with technology.

Perhaps they had an invisibility cloak...

Or they had a cloak with which they could change themselves

into whatever they wanted.

This was witnessed by the people,

and this is how these stories came into existence.

(owl hooting)

narrator: If extraterrestrials inspired

the ancient stories of shape-shifting gods,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

were they here only in the distant past,

or have they remained with us for thousands of years?

And what could be their reason for hiding among humans?

Narrator: Here, hidden along the ocean floor,

researchers discover a new and unusual creature--

the mimic octopus.

This highly intelligent cephalopod

is capable of not only instantly changing

its color and skin texture,

but it can also transform its body

to take on the form of many other creatures.

Kirsten fisher: The mimic octopus is remarkable.

It's been known to mimic flounder,

which are like flat fish that live on the bottom of the ocean.

Sea snakes, with the striping.

And then also lionfish, remarkably,

which have all these, like, feathery appendages.

It's been documented to essentially impersonate

at least 15 different marine species.

Narrator: With three hearts, nine brains,

and roughly double the number of genes of a human,

some scientists have speculated that the octopus

may well be from another planet.

In 2018, a group of 33 scientists proclaimed

in a peer-reviewed paper

that the octopus actually has alien dna

and might have originated elsewhere.

Now, when we think about that, you have to think: Well,

what might extraterrestrials actually be like?

Could they be like the octopus?

Could they in fact be shape-shifters?

We automatically assume that extraterrestrials

might be humanoid, that they might look like us,

but the fact of the matter is that they could in fact

be shape-shifters able to change their form

into anything they want to be.

Narrator: If the octopus is not indigenous to earth,

could that point to the possibility

that intelligent alien beings have also arrived here

that have the biological ability to shape-shift?

Fisher: The evolution of things

like crypsis, or the ability to camouflage oneself.

On earth,

we know the selective pressure for that

is primarily sort of predator-prey relationships.

Crypsis is basically a trait

to escape detection by a predator,

if you're an animal that gets eaten,

or to escape detection by your prey,

if you happen to be a predator.

I think that selective pressure

could certainly, um, drive the evolution of crypsis

on other planets as well.

Pope: Given that shape-shifting has

a clear evolutionary benefit,

it's certainly possible that this capability evolved

not just here on earth, but elsewhere in the universe.

It's perfectly possible there's other life out there,

including intelligent life,

civilizations that have the capability to shape-shift.

We have to wonder if...

This technology is something

that-that they just naturally have

as part of their biological dna,

or are they using some technology

that's doing this for them?

So it could be either,

and even a combination of both.

Narrator: In the animal kingdom, the ability to shape-shift

has evolved to conceal both the hunter and the hunted.

But if shape-shifting extraterrestrials

truly are hiding among us,

did they evolve as prey or predators?

A 25-year-old mother of three

is taken to a local physician

after displaying increasingly bizarre behavior.

She speaks in gibberish

and complains of being plagued by disturbing visions

and strange voices.

Her family claims she is possessed

by supernatural beings...

Known as the jinn.

Amir hussain: Jinn is an arabic term

that means "to hide," "to conceal."

the koran says that they are created of fire without smoke.

Smokeless fire.

It talks about the jinn being able to take animal form.

It talks about the jinn being able to take the form

of natural phenomena-- the wind, for example.

And so you will have people to this day in the muslim world

who will say that this person is possessed by jinn,

that they're not physically ill, they're not mentally ill.

Picknett: The jinn were allegedly created

before humankind by god.

They can take any shape to beguile you,

and to tempt you.

Because part of their role

is to test humanity.

Narrator: Encounters with the jinn

are reported frequently in certain parts of the world,

and millions of people continue to believe in their existence.

Similar shape-shifting beings can also be found

in other ancient traditions

and are so common that modern mythologists have grouped them

into a category called "trickster gods."

young: The trickster is the god of transitions, of change.

They're not always fun to encounter,

because they-they pull the rug out from under us.

They are in charge of mischief and mayhem.

In the norse tradition, we have the trickster character

known as loki.

Loki is a shape-shifter.

In some stories, he's a salmon,

sometimes a fly.

Deepak shimkhada: According to hindu mythology,

danivas are demons.

So they have special power

to change shape,

to delude others,

to confuse others,

to appear in any form they wish.

Henry: We find this in the celtic fairy lore as well,

where the fairies are able to shape-shift.

But in their deepest and darkest sense,

they're seeking to extract something from humanity.

Fenton: Some of these encounters that we hear about

with shape-shifting beings

may be extraterrestrials.

There are some good examples of this with the so-called "greys."

there's one incident where...

A large owl was seen that was about three foot high, and...

The witness just thought this could not add up,

and then suddenly it just changed back into a grey.

Very strange.

Deception runs through this whole phenomenon.

The idea that the extraterrestrials

are deceiving, seducing, tricking people.

We see it in mythology.

We see it in close encounters.

Narrator: Is it possible

that accounts of shape-shifting beings,

both in the remote past and in modern times,

are not the product of overactive imaginations...

But actual encounters with extraterrestrials?

But if so,

do they have a sinister agenda?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining stories

not of gods...

...But of monsters?

(cawing)

narrator: This picturesque transylvanian town

is the birthplace of vlad tepes,

otherwise known as vlad the impaler,

or vlad dracula.

This infamous romanian prince

was known to drink the blood of his enemies,

and inspired the title

of bram stoker's 1897 vampire novel, dracula.

In 2014, a tourist visiting a local church

came across a painting so strange

that she sent a photo of it

to the israeli extraterrestrials and ufos research organization.

Henry: In the hometown

of vlad the impaler,

upon whom the story of dracula the vampire is based,

we find the church of the dominican monastery.

And in this church is a 700-year-old painting

that clearly portrays what most would identify

as a circular craft, a ufo,

hovering over a building that is thought to be the church.

Fenton: We have this very strange jelly-mold-shaped saucer

hovering over the ancestral home of the great figure

that really has given rise to the idea of...

You know, dracula the vampire.

Now, is there a link here in some way

with this vampire legend and extraterrestrials?

Narrator: Is it possible that a 700-year-old painting

in a church in transylvania provides a connection

between vampires and aliens?

Could it be that the stories of these shape-shifting entities

that are said to morph from human form into bats,

wolves and other creatures

are based on real encounters?

While bram stoker's dracula is a work of fiction,

it is inspired by historical events.

Picknett: In the classic vampire story,

from bram stoker's dracula, the late 19th century,

he did do some research into the romanian traditions.

As I say, they're very complicated,

and they-they tend to...

To differ village from village even.

So were there ever such things,

paranormally speaking, as vampires?

For a time--

15th, 16th, 17th, into the 18th century--

in certain parts of the world, vampires did exist.

Narrator: During the construction

of a roadway just outside this small town,

a shocking discovery is made.

Workers unearth a burial ground

that provides a gruesome window into the past.

It contains four skeletons, all decapitated.

Recently in poland,

some graves were found that had unusual characteristics.

The remains had the heads removed and placed on the legs.

This was evidence of a ritual execution.

Some theorists think

these might've been suspected vampires.

Narrator: Archaeologists estimate

these burials date back to the 16th century,

and according to the traditions

that existed in poland at that time,

keeping the head separated from the body would prevent

the undead from coming back to life.

Similar vampire graves have been found throughout europe,

some even containing bodies

with stakes driven through the hearts.

When we think about vampires,

we think of bram stoker's dracula, uh,

or indeed, hollywood portrayals of vampires.

-(bats squeaking) -but for the peoples of europe,

particularly in eastern europe,

the idea of vampires was a very frightening

and very real supernatural phenomena

which was something that they had to guard themselves against,

because the vampires were shape-shifters.

And the most frightening thing about these was

that they had to sustain their existence

by drinking the blood of animals or human beings.

Narrator: While the modern concept

of the vampire was informed by european folklore,

similar shape-shifting beings

with a thirst for blood have been reported

throughout the ancient world,

like the rakshasas described in the sanskrit texts of india.

Shimkhada: In hindu scriptures,

rakshasas have special power to change shape.

Rakshasa is a flesh-eating demon.

That rakshasa loves to eat flesh.

Fenton: All across the globe, we have mythology

that represents some kind of vampiric-type entities.

There's the ekimmu in the sumerian texts.

There's the jiangshi in china.

All these classes of entities that seem to be

in some way interested in human blood.

But is there a real route to this?

You know, is there some kind of entity

that's interested in human blood?

Narrator: Could these bloodthirsty abominations

be more than just fantasy?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the centuries-old tales of vampires

bear striking similarities to a very modern phenomenon--

accounts of alien abduction.

Bill birnes: When we talk about vampire

experiences, we break them down into,

there is the sighting.

Then there is the trapping of one's own mind

and the luring of the person into the vampire.

But aliens abductions are exactly the same way.

Abductees report

they are transfixed by a light, a figure approaches them.

The figure engages with them, and the figure takes them away.

Pope: Central to alien abductions is the idea

of some sort of medical procedure.

Uh, some people say that dna is taken,

but in other cases, blood seems to have been removed.

Very often, the person is immobilized

in these abduction reports.

And yet, when you look at the vedic texts,

the chinese legends, the european legends,

one can draw these links between vampires

and ufos and abductions.

Childress: We have a very strong connection

between vampires and extraterrestrials.

Is it possible that extraterrestrials

somehow need our blood?

(hissing)

narrator: If stories of vampires

have been inspired by extraterrestrial encounters,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

might they reveal that blood plays an essential role

in the ability to shape-shift?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining humanity's own efforts

to transform life on earth

through the manipulation of dna.

Narrator: Archeologists excavating

a stone age settlement known as "star carr"

make an extraordinary discovery.

Under layers of dense peat,

they uncover a ritualistic headdress

that is 11,000 years old--

one that would have been worn by a shaman or priest.

As long as there's been people, there's been the idea

that certain people, certain special people,

can shift their shape.

And the priests of the ancient magical world, the shamans,

allegedly had the ability to shift their shape

into an animal.

Narrator: Curiously, in recent years,

the site and its surrounding region

have become renowned for reports of a horrific shape-shifter,

known... As the flixton werewolf.

A number of very odd experiences have been occurring there

over the last 50 years or so.

These include the appearance of a strange biped

with either a canine or wolf-like head.

-(growling) -in other words,

half wolf, half human.

And in addition to this,

there have been many strange sightings

of mysterious light forms and structured craft,

ufos, in the same vicinity.

We have ufo activity

and what would be werewolf activity in europe,

particularly in yorkshire.

And so, we have to wonder, is there some connection

between ufo activity and these shape-shifters?

It would seem so.

Narrator: In 2016,

nearly a dozen sightings of the flixton werewolf were reported

in the nearby town of hull, just 50 miles south of star carr.

Witnesses claimed to have seen the creature

feasting on the blood and flesh of local dogs,

leaving residents gripped by terror.

Collins: For the peoples of europe,

in the past, this was a very real threat.

It was believed that there were certain individuals

that could transform themselves, shape-shift,

into a particular animal,

-most obviously a wolf. -(howling)

and whilst these individuals were in the form of a werewolf,

it was believed that to sustain their existence,

they had to have the blood and life force

of either animals or human beings.

Narrator: Among the many stories

of shape-shifting beings-- from vampires

to werewolves and even modern alien abduction accounts--

a recurring theme is the need for blood.

And as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

it's very possible that these beings need something contained

within the blood in order to shape-shift--

dna.

Fenton: Now, could it be that in some way,

this shape-shifting ability could be harnessed

by blending of the genes of a species

to just morph into whatever

you need to look like instantaneously?

Howe: The priority is genetic harvesting,

because they can mix and match genes

at a sophisticated level,

and make any body container that they want,

and then, they can use it as camouflage.

And so one of our greatest questions is,

"who walks around on our planet, looks human, but is not?"

narrator: If there really are

alien shape-shifters here on earth,

might they require dna in order to mimic a human or animal form?

Over the past 30 years,

advances in gene-splicing technology

have allowed humanity to begin experimenting with cloning

and transforming earthly creatures.

In 2019, researchers in china announced

they had created the first hybrid embryos

that are part human and part monkey.

Similar experiments have been done around the world,

crossing human dna with pigs, sheep,

and soon, mice and rats.

Amy teitel: We are seeing modern technology

able to create these kinds of cross-species.

So what geneticists are able

to do is actually clip pieces of a dna strand,

insert a new strand in to complete the sequence, and then,

put that back into a cell.

When it's able to grow and become an embryo,

and then grow into a full being,

it has this different dna sequence in it.

Michael dennin: When you think about what

we already know about gene editing,

first of all, you know, the technology's possible.

So it is certainly well within the realm of possibility

that an advanced civilization, an alien civilization,

would have skills in gene editing

far surpassing what we have now,

and could really do things that are actually unimaginable

and outside the scope of what we're thinking.

Narrator: Could it be that the genetic modifications

that scientists are now able to achieve in a laboratory

were perfected thousands of years ago by extraterrestrials?

For ancient astronaut theorists, this possibility

raises another intriguing question--

could they similarly alter the dna

of humans?

Narrator: The southwest region of France is home

to some of the earliest examples of prehistoric art

ever discovered.

The caves of lascaux,

niaux, and pech merle

all contain rock paintings

that date back more than 15,000 years.

But among the ancient cave art, one image stands apart.

Tucked inside the trois-frères cave is the depiction

of a mysterious figure known simply as "the sorcerer."

young: In the south of France, a cave

was discovered with an image, believed to be something

like 15,000 years old.

This might be the very earliest image we have of a deity.

It's a stag, but it's a human inside,

so it seems to depict a shamanic ritual leader

channeling animal powers.

Collins: It has the body of a deer,

uh, it has the eyes of an owl,

it has the tail possibly of a horse,

but it's quite clearly standing on human legs

and has humanlike arms.

And although it's been interpreted

perhaps as the first god,

more likely is that it represents a shaman,

who has transformed, uh, into one or more animals,

to move through the supernatural realms

that the shaman is thought to have taken.

Narrator: While there is no written record

to definitively identify cave art from 15,000 years ago,

in the american southwest, the notion of shamans

transforming themselves into shape-shifters

is still prevalent today.

This 500-acre expanse has been plagued

by reports of strange phenomena for decades.

Phenomena that include both

ufo sightings and accounts of a shape-shifting monster.

Any paranormal activity

that you can imagine has happened, allegedly,

at this skinwalker ranch.

You've seen ufos.

They have seen different creatures.

They have seen weird things happening up in the sky.

There is a history that not only goes back

over the past 100 years, but over the past 1,000 years

of activity happening in that area,

some of which is connected to navajo legends.

Tales of shape-shifters called

skinwalkers have existed

since time immemorial.

Narrator: In the oral traditions of both

the local navajo and ute populations,

the shape-shifter for which skinwalker ranch is named

has inhabited the area for centuries.

But the story behind this creature

is different from that of other shape-shifters.

According to the navajo, the skinwalker is a human,

who has attained the ability to transform his body.

A "skinwalker" is the name that is given

to a navajo shaman or witch

when they are in a supernatural form.

Very often a skinwalker will be a wolf,

but it can be other animals as well.

The native tradition concerning the skinwalkers

is that these are actual people that,

uh, have gained a certain type of power.

They were given certain abilities

and shape-changing and magic.

Narrator: When it comes to how the skinwalker is able

to change shape, the navajo have a similar notion

to that of ancient astronaut theorists.

They believe it is connected to dna.

Dover: Our view on it

is that they're manipulating the dna of their own body.

They do change shape.

And it's usually an animal that they have the skin for.

And they'll use the skin and with a-a combination of chants,

actually turn into that animal.

And interestingly enough,

in navajo tradition,

you are taught early on as a child,

you don't leave your fingernail clippings,

you don't spit on the ground and not cover it up.

All of this has to do with the transmission of dna.

Narrator: If extraterrestrials are

harvesting dna in order to shape-shift,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

is it possible that they could also bestow humans

with this same ability?

And might the skinwalker be evidence of alien intervention?

While it may sound farfetched,

former navajo police officer jonathan dover

is certain that the being called the skinwalker is real.

I spent, uh, 31 years in law enforcement.

We've had many, many incidences where people have seen them

chasing their vehicles as their vehicles are traveling

at 60, 65 miles an hour,

and having a human figure running behind you.

(crickets chirping)

I've had police officers arrest people

and had them in handcuffs, they get to the station,

they hadn't stopped anywhere and the person is gone.

Whether we have an alien presence,

we don't know for sure, but there's enough

information there that I would say

don't take it lightly just because

it's a different culture.

Narrator: Is the strange figure that was

depicted on a cave wall in France 15,000 years ago

alive and well in the american southwest?

Have there always been shape-shifters among us,

both alien and human?

And is it possible that new scientific developments

are leading towards a future in which we could become...

The shape-shifters?

Narrator: Scientists developing shape-shifting technology

announce their latest and most incredible creation--

lattices that can transform in response

to changes in temperature.

When researchers demonstrate

the material's remarkable metamorphosis,

as if by magic, the flat mesh morphs

into a three-dimensional face

of 19th century mathematician

carl friedrich gauss.

This has been used to take a flat sort of structure

and turn it to look like a human face or other interesting

sort of three-dimensional shape.

When you talk about

shape-shifting technologies, what you're seeing

right now is our ability to control materials

is really at a transformative point.

Narrator: In the near future,

shape-shifting materials like this

could be utilized in many ways,

from constructing smart fabrics and self-repairing electronics

to ushering in the next generation of robotics

and high-tech medical equipment.

But ancient astronaut theorists

see an even more profound possibility.

That these advancements

combined with our growing understanding

of dna manipulation will unlock the potential for humans

to harness the power of shape-shifting.

In science fiction, one of the-the great ideas

was the idea of being able to-to shape-shift.

To change the color of your skin or

to change your form to turn into something else.

And now high-tech companies are actually working on this today.

Fenton: In nature we see animals that can

suddenly shift colors, change their shapes.

Could it be that in some way this ability could be harnessed

and used in technologies?

Or perhaps in even a-a cybernetic blending

of the genes of a species like this with a technology,

allowing us to have these rapid shape-shifts, to just

morph into whatever you need to look like instantaneously?

Human technology is advancing here by leaps and bounds.

By all accounts, we already have pretty much

optical invisibility, or certainly camouflage so good

that it's-it's almost indistinguishable.

I mean, some of this is, of course, so classified,

we won't get to hear about it for years, but...

But if you're reading hints about it here and there,

you can bet that it already exists.

We now have technology that is equal to what we see

the gods using in these ancient stories.

And now we're faced with a new reality.

What if suddenly we realize that there are,

are thousands, hundreds of thousands,

maybe millions of extraterrestrials that are

walking amongst us and suddenly

they reveal themselves for their true appearance?

Narrator: As humanity begins to harness the extraordinary abilities

that ancient peoples associated with the gods,

will we awaken to an incredible new reality?

One in which we will not only

achieve the power to shape-shift,

but in the process, will discover that humans

are not the only intelligent species on earth?

Perhaps a reunion with our alien ancestors

will only happen when we are finally

able to open our eyes and see

that they are all around us.

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