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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,761 --> 00:00:06,732 NARRATOR: Volcanic eruptions... 2 00:00:07,633 --> 00:00:11,033 NOORY: It will cover the sun for years. 3 00:00:11,134 --> 00:00:13,701 NARRATOR: Devastating earthquakes and tsunamis... 4 00:00:13,737 --> 00:00:16,104 And it's possible the extraterrestrials themselves are 5 00:00:16,206 --> 00:00:19,607 influencing some of these events. 6 00:00:19,709 --> 00:00:23,778 NARRATOR: And asteroids smashing the Earth, causing 7 00:00:23,880 --> 00:00:25,380 massive extinctions. 8 00:00:25,415 --> 00:00:29,784 What you're seeing is that this is done on purpose. 9 00:00:29,886 --> 00:00:33,254 NARRATOR: Have the world's worst global disasters been the 10 00:00:33,323 --> 00:00:35,923 result of nature's fury? 11 00:00:35,992 --> 00:00:40,128 Or have they been triggered by more supernatural forces? 12 00:00:40,230 --> 00:00:43,097 I don't think we can rule out the idea that this is the work 13 00:00:43,166 --> 00:00:46,934 of highly advanced, technological aliens seeking to 14 00:00:47,003 --> 00:00:49,304 obliterate the human race. 15 00:00:50,140 --> 00:00:53,808 NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe we have 16 00:00:53,910 --> 00:00:58,279 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 17 00:00:58,314 --> 00:01:00,815 What if it were true? 18 00:01:00,917 --> 00:01:05,586 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 19 00:01:05,622 --> 00:01:08,990 And could there be an extraterrestrial connection to 20 00:01:09,092 --> 00:01:12,827 some of the world's mega-disasters? 21 00:01:30,092 --> 00:01:33,292 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 22 00:01:44,293 --> 00:01:46,194 NARRATOR: Japan. 23 00:01:46,296 --> 00:01:49,697 Friday, March 11, 2011. 24 00:01:51,300 --> 00:01:56,204 43 miles off the northeast coast, a massive 8.9 magnitude 25 00:01:56,306 --> 00:02:02,009 earthquake produces an explosive upheaval of the seafloor. 26 00:02:03,846 --> 00:02:09,884 200 miles away, in Tokyo, buildings shake violently. 27 00:02:13,055 --> 00:02:17,024 Within half an hour of the earthquake, a powerful 30-foot 28 00:02:17,093 --> 00:02:20,895 tsunami strikes the northern coast of Japan... 29 00:02:23,899 --> 00:02:27,201 and sweeps across the landscape, reaching six miles 30 00:02:27,270 --> 00:02:31,239 inland, destroying everything in its path. 31 00:02:31,341 --> 00:02:33,741 (panicked shouts) 32 00:02:36,712 --> 00:02:41,382 Local officials estimate that over 19,000 lives were lost in 33 00:02:41,417 --> 00:02:43,851 the rapidly rising tide. 34 00:02:47,956 --> 00:02:50,858 MICHAEL DENNIN: Tsunamis are basically the name for a giant 35 00:02:50,894 --> 00:02:54,829 sea wave that's fairly coherent, has a lot of energy and will 36 00:02:54,931 --> 00:02:56,964 travel over a large distance. 37 00:02:57,000 --> 00:02:59,834 And it's really a matter of scale more than anything else. 38 00:02:59,936 --> 00:03:04,005 It's huge enough to cause huge amounts of damage when it hits the shore. 39 00:03:04,107 --> 00:03:07,308 These have to be generated by a large pulse of energy being put 40 00:03:07,343 --> 00:03:08,643 into the ocean. 41 00:03:08,678 --> 00:03:12,146 And the most common source of that is a massive earthquake 42 00:03:17,887 --> 00:03:21,656 of the world, but the fact that they had such little time, they 43 00:03:21,724 --> 00:03:23,824 just couldn't get away from it. 44 00:03:23,893 --> 00:03:28,195 So you can be a very sophisticated, first-world, 45 00:03:28,298 --> 00:03:32,366 developed country, you can be a superpower, and still have these 46 00:03:32,468 --> 00:03:35,103 kind of mega-disasters come your way. 47 00:03:39,474 --> 00:03:42,977 NARRATOR: According to Japan's Kyodo News Agency, in 48 00:03:43,012 --> 00:03:47,848 the days following the devastation, thousands of UFO's 49 00:03:47,917 --> 00:03:50,052 were sighted over Japan. 50 00:03:51,921 --> 00:03:56,121 If true, what might this mean? 51 00:03:56,259 --> 00:03:57,892 DAVID CHILDRESS: It's interesting to note that when 52 00:03:57,994 --> 00:04:03,898 the tsunami occurred, there was suddenly an increase of UFO 53 00:04:04,000 --> 00:04:07,001 sightings in that area of Japan. 54 00:04:07,003 --> 00:04:10,905 So you have to think, well, are the extraterrestrials 55 00:04:11,007 --> 00:04:15,376 particularly interested in what happens to us in certain 56 00:04:15,445 --> 00:04:21,382 catastrophes and life-changing events that are occurring on 57 00:04:21,451 --> 00:04:23,017 this planet? 58 00:04:23,186 --> 00:04:25,186 And it's possible the extraterrestrials themselves are 59 00:04:25,221 --> 00:04:27,790 influencing some of these events. 60 00:04:29,459 --> 00:04:33,027 NARRATOR: But is it really possible, as ancient astronaut 61 00:04:33,062 --> 00:04:37,064 theorists believe, that otherworldly forces could 62 00:04:37,133 --> 00:04:40,101 provoke such deadly disasters? 63 00:04:43,038 --> 00:04:44,405 Crete. 64 00:04:44,474 --> 00:04:48,409 Located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, it is the 65 00:04:48,478 --> 00:04:50,411 largest of the Greek Islands. 66 00:04:52,247 --> 00:04:58,085 Here, in 365 AD, this once- quiet province of the Byzantine 67 00:04:58,121 --> 00:05:01,956 Empire was destroyed by a devastating underwater 68 00:05:02,058 --> 00:05:06,260 earthquake and subsequent tsunami. 69 00:05:11,299 --> 00:05:16,237 According to Roman historians, the tsunami also hit Alexandria, 70 00:05:16,272 --> 00:05:20,908 Egypt, and other cities along the Mediterranean coast, causing 71 00:05:20,943 --> 00:05:23,644 great destruction. 72 00:05:23,746 --> 00:05:27,948 MARK A. WILSON: The Crete earthquake of 365 was one of the 73 00:05:28,017 --> 00:05:30,985 great natural disasters of the Mediterranean world. 74 00:05:31,087 --> 00:05:33,821 So this was an earthquake that was probably an eight on the 75 00:05:33,923 --> 00:05:35,923 Richter scale. 76 00:05:35,925 --> 00:05:37,825 So it was very large. 77 00:05:37,927 --> 00:05:43,798 It produced a tsunami, and it raised the isle of Crete by nine meters. 78 00:05:43,833 --> 00:05:47,068 So it was an extraordinary event. 79 00:05:51,273 --> 00:05:54,008 NARRATOR: The ancient Greeks attributed earthquakes to the 80 00:05:54,110 --> 00:05:57,311 god of the sea, Poseidon. 81 00:05:57,380 --> 00:06:01,148 According to Greek myths, Poseidon was known as the "Earth 82 00:06:01,217 --> 00:06:06,987 Shaker" because of his power to provoke earthquakes, sea storms 83 00:06:07,056 --> 00:06:08,989 and tidal waves. 84 00:06:11,226 --> 00:06:14,395 WILSON: Ancient peoples would have ascribed natural disasters 85 00:06:14,464 --> 00:06:20,201 to the gods... as a really logical answer, because at first 86 00:06:20,303 --> 00:06:24,171 these events are deadly, so their lives depend upon 87 00:06:24,240 --> 00:06:30,112 trying to appease or please gods who control those things. 88 00:06:32,014 --> 00:06:36,150 PHILLIP COPPENS: Crete was said to be the home of the gods. 89 00:06:36,185 --> 00:06:40,221 There are caves today in Crete which we can visit which are 90 00:06:40,323 --> 00:06:43,657 identified as being the place where Zeus was raised from 91 00:06:43,693 --> 00:06:45,659 a baby to an infant. 92 00:06:45,695 --> 00:06:49,330 And so when you find that something is happening in Crete 93 00:06:49,365 --> 00:06:52,700 in early Christian times, you really have to ask whether this 94 00:06:52,735 --> 00:06:56,437 is somehow going to change the future of mankind. 95 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:02,910 CHILDRESS: This may be the wrath of Poseidon, because what 96 00:07:03,012 --> 00:07:07,014 was happening at that time was the early Christians were 97 00:07:07,049 --> 00:07:11,719 struggling against a resurgence of paganism... 98 00:07:13,688 --> 00:07:20,261 and that tsunami came... to destroy, finally, all the 99 00:07:20,363 --> 00:07:24,231 pagan religion in the area. 100 00:07:24,233 --> 00:07:28,235 And so, modern Christianity became dominant. 101 00:07:31,306 --> 00:07:35,042 NARRATOR: But was the god Poseidon merely a figure of myth 102 00:07:35,077 --> 00:07:36,877 and legend? 103 00:07:36,913 --> 00:07:41,215 Or might this supernatural being have had a more otherworldly 104 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:47,121 origin, as ancient astronaut theorists believe. 105 00:07:47,223 --> 00:07:52,893 CHILDRESS: Poseidon was always depicted as holding this 106 00:07:52,929 --> 00:07:56,297 weapon or instrument, his trident. 107 00:07:56,399 --> 00:08:01,302 And this trident could cause earthquakes and tsunamis. 108 00:08:01,404 --> 00:08:05,606 He could control the oceans with his trident. 109 00:08:05,675 --> 00:08:10,845 You have to wonder if this trident wasn't some high-tech, 110 00:08:10,913 --> 00:08:13,948 extraterrestrial device. 111 00:08:16,218 --> 00:08:19,653 MICHAEL CREMO: The weapons used by these Greek gods can be 112 00:08:19,722 --> 00:08:25,594 compared in some ways to modern weaponry. 113 00:08:26,696 --> 00:08:30,965 It's interesting that the United States Navy developed nuclear 114 00:08:31,033 --> 00:08:37,305 missiles for its submarines with the names "Poseidon" and "Trident." 115 00:08:37,974 --> 00:08:41,709 CHILDRESS: Perhaps this was Poseidon carrying out some sort 116 00:08:41,744 --> 00:08:47,114 of wrath on ancient Crete for finally rejecting him as a god. 117 00:08:50,285 --> 00:08:53,287 NARRATOR: Is it really possible that mega-disasters 118 00:08:53,389 --> 00:08:57,057 caused by earthquakes and tsunamis could be triggered by 119 00:08:57,093 --> 00:09:03,931 alien technology, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe? 120 00:09:04,066 --> 00:09:08,269 And if so, might such catastrophic events have been 121 00:09:08,337 --> 00:09:12,673 provoked to change the course of human history? 122 00:09:12,742 --> 00:09:18,842 Perhaps further evidence can be found in modern military technology 123 00:09:18,845 --> 00:09:25,214 designed to use the weather as a weapon of mass destruction. 124 00:09:32,099 --> 00:09:36,836 NARRATOR: Haiti, January 12, 2010. 125 00:09:39,006 --> 00:09:42,575 (rumbling, debris clattering) 126 00:09:48,182 --> 00:09:54,554 At 4:53 p.m., a fierce 7.0 magnitude earthquake slams into 127 00:09:54,589 --> 00:09:59,790 the Haitian capital of Port Au Prince, causing massive destruction. 128 00:10:01,296 --> 00:10:05,932 It is the country's most severe earthquake in over 200 years. 129 00:10:07,534 --> 00:10:09,869 BILLINGSLEY: An earthquake that doesn't affect anyone is a 130 00:10:09,904 --> 00:10:11,070 natural hazard. 131 00:10:11,139 --> 00:10:15,575 When that natural hazard makes landfall, and affects a 132 00:10:15,643 --> 00:10:19,780 population, that is when it becomes a natural disaster. 133 00:10:20,882 --> 00:10:25,151 When it's a huge system that affects a lot of people with 134 00:10:25,220 --> 00:10:30,057 death and destruction, then we term it a mega-disaster. 135 00:10:34,928 --> 00:10:37,997 NARRATOR: According to local news reports, missionaries in 136 00:10:38,066 --> 00:10:42,635 Haiti videotaped a strange ball of light floating in the sky, 137 00:10:42,737 --> 00:10:47,974 less than 24 hours before the earthquake. 138 00:10:47,976 --> 00:10:51,244 WILLIAM BRAMLEY: UFOs have been reported throughout 139 00:10:51,279 --> 00:10:53,613 history, connected to earthquakes. 140 00:10:53,648 --> 00:10:56,949 Scientists used to disregard the idea of earthquake lights 141 00:10:56,985 --> 00:10:58,784 up until the 1960s, when they were actually photographed 142 00:10:58,820 --> 00:11:00,620 in Japan. 143 00:11:00,822 --> 00:11:03,856 Finally, they had to take notice that, yeah, there 144 00:11:03,925 --> 00:11:07,794 are strange aerial phenomena that go along with earthquakes. 145 00:11:08,830 --> 00:11:10,963 NARRATOR: Often referred to as earthquake weather, 146 00:11:10,999 --> 00:11:14,867 scientists have linked this strange phenomena to the 147 00:11:14,936 --> 00:11:19,672 geophysical activity that precedes an earthquake. 148 00:11:19,674 --> 00:11:22,041 DENNIN: Earthquakes are basically when the plates on the 149 00:11:22,110 --> 00:11:24,877 surface of the Earth move relative to each other in a 150 00:11:24,946 --> 00:11:26,279 sudden fashion. 151 00:11:26,314 --> 00:11:30,616 This sudden motion releases a lot of energy. 152 00:11:30,618 --> 00:11:33,119 BRAMLEY: If they were simply tectonic plates that gave off 153 00:11:33,154 --> 00:11:36,289 light, for example, a discharge into the air, they 154 00:11:36,324 --> 00:11:38,558 would burn out pretty quickly. 155 00:11:38,626 --> 00:11:42,996 But we are talking about bright lights that hover and linger. 156 00:11:45,131 --> 00:11:47,500 NARRATOR: Could the sudden discharge of immense energy 157 00:11:47,535 --> 00:11:51,671 really have produced strange lights in the skies above 158 00:11:51,706 --> 00:11:54,106 earthquake zones? 159 00:11:54,942 --> 00:11:57,510 Or might the lights and the apparent natural disasters 160 00:11:57,579 --> 00:12:01,945 have had a more technological origin? 161 00:12:05,786 --> 00:12:10,890 In 1996, the United States Air Force commissioned a secret 162 00:12:10,925 --> 00:12:14,560 study called the "2025 Report." 163 00:12:14,629 --> 00:12:18,531 In it, the military examined the feasibility of combat 164 00:12:18,566 --> 00:12:23,469 capabilities and tactics in the year 2025. 165 00:12:23,771 --> 00:12:25,905 NICK REDFERN: One of the areas that was seen as ripe for 166 00:12:26,007 --> 00:12:29,709 research, exploitation, and development, was the 167 00:12:29,777 --> 00:12:33,346 modification of the weather as a tool of warfare. 168 00:12:33,548 --> 00:12:36,282 People might think the idea that we can weaponize the weather is 169 00:12:36,351 --> 00:12:38,451 something just straight out of science fiction. 170 00:12:38,519 --> 00:12:40,786 The idea that we could pulverize whole nations just by 171 00:12:40,855 --> 00:12:44,690 modifying and exploiting the weather, and this is a 172 00:12:44,726 --> 00:12:48,627 verifiable report that is now in the public domain. 173 00:12:48,663 --> 00:12:51,464 So we do know that government and military bodies are 174 00:12:51,532 --> 00:12:55,803 significantly researching weaponizing the weather. 175 00:12:57,205 --> 00:12:59,905 MIKE BARA: Well, one of the big advantages of using weather 176 00:12:59,974 --> 00:13:01,641 as a weapon is that it's really 177 00:13:01,709 --> 00:13:04,275 difficult to prove who attacked you. 178 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,814 The other thing is that weather itself can cause a heck of a lot 179 00:13:08,883 --> 00:13:10,483 more damage than weapons can. 180 00:13:10,551 --> 00:13:13,486 You could have, for instance, a powerful thunderstorm that could 181 00:13:13,554 --> 00:13:15,988 go all the way across the U.S. 182 00:13:16,057 --> 00:13:19,925 and cause basically nuclear- level destruction all the way 183 00:13:19,961 --> 00:13:22,595 across a huge swath. 184 00:13:22,997 --> 00:13:25,665 WILSON: There have been many attempts to control the weather 185 00:13:25,733 --> 00:13:29,268 during warfare, and one of the most famous attempts was in 186 00:13:29,304 --> 00:13:30,970 Vietnam. 187 00:13:34,775 --> 00:13:38,511 In which there was a real effort to seed the clouds over the 188 00:13:38,579 --> 00:13:42,515 Ho Chi Minh Trail, and create torrential rains. 189 00:13:42,583 --> 00:13:46,952 By flooding the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply lines, it 190 00:13:47,021 --> 00:13:50,956 would reduce their utility and choke off supplies to guerillas 191 00:13:50,992 --> 00:13:53,092 in the south. 192 00:13:53,127 --> 00:13:56,863 So, certainly we've had success in seeding clouds. 193 00:13:58,032 --> 00:14:00,800 NARRATOR: If the weather can be manipulated by the military 194 00:14:00,835 --> 00:14:07,106 to produce powerful storms, and even catastrophes, is this only 195 00:14:07,141 --> 00:14:11,711 a recent innovation, or is there evidence of the weaponized use 196 00:14:11,779 --> 00:14:15,214 of weather in the ancient past? 197 00:14:20,620 --> 00:14:24,557 Tales of a great flood destroying the world can be 198 00:14:24,625 --> 00:14:26,158 found in the earliest myths of 199 00:14:26,194 --> 00:14:30,327 many ancient cultures across the globe. 200 00:14:31,132 --> 00:14:35,234 Both the Hebrew Bible and the Islamic Koran describe an epic 201 00:14:35,303 --> 00:14:38,471 flood in the tale of Noah's Ark. 202 00:14:38,473 --> 00:14:40,573 JONATHAN YOUNG: God was unhappy with the people for 203 00:14:40,641 --> 00:14:45,177 their sinful ways, and as a kind of punishment and also an act of 204 00:14:45,246 --> 00:14:48,879 purification, sent the Great Deluge. 205 00:14:49,684 --> 00:14:51,417 Most living things would die in 206 00:14:51,486 --> 00:14:54,285 this except for a few birds and fish, 207 00:14:54,454 --> 00:14:57,588 but he told Noah very specifically how to build a 208 00:14:57,592 --> 00:15:00,291 craft that could survive the storm. 209 00:15:01,395 --> 00:15:03,562 WILSON: Noah is to collect pairs of the air-breathing 210 00:15:03,631 --> 00:15:07,566 animals on Earth, and he packs these animals and his family 211 00:15:07,635 --> 00:15:11,804 into the ark, and then it rains for 40 days and 40 nights 212 00:15:11,872 --> 00:15:15,573 and floods the entire Earth. 213 00:15:16,342 --> 00:15:20,546 And all air-breathing animals and people are killed. 214 00:15:24,517 --> 00:15:25,417 NARRATOR: In Ancient 215 00:15:25,486 --> 00:15:29,385 Mesopotamia, a similar story of a catastrophic flood 216 00:15:29,386 --> 00:15:33,691 was chiseled into clay tablets dating to 2,000 BC. 217 00:15:33,860 --> 00:15:38,163 Known as the "Epic of Gilgamesh ," this early Sumerian 218 00:15:38,198 --> 00:15:42,267 poem describes angry gods that send a great flood to destroy 219 00:15:42,336 --> 00:15:48,373 mankind while allowing only a chosen few to survive. 220 00:15:48,409 --> 00:15:52,044 BRAMELY: The gods had created humanity to perform whatever 221 00:15:52,112 --> 00:15:55,013 labor they were supposed to do, but what happened was, according 222 00:15:55,049 --> 00:15:58,350 to the old Mesopotamian stories, human beings just started 223 00:15:58,385 --> 00:16:00,218 causing too much trouble. 224 00:16:00,254 --> 00:16:01,286 They became noisy. 225 00:16:01,355 --> 00:16:03,288 They became rebellious. 226 00:16:03,357 --> 00:16:06,725 And it was just time to wipe them out. 227 00:16:07,194 --> 00:16:10,696 And that's actually what's reported in those old creation 228 00:16:10,731 --> 00:16:11,731 stories. 229 00:16:16,536 --> 00:16:19,404 NARRATOR: But did such stories of great floods 230 00:16:19,473 --> 00:16:23,408 engulfing the world merely spring from man's imagination, 231 00:16:23,444 --> 00:16:27,446 or were they real? 232 00:16:28,215 --> 00:16:32,718 If so, might such devastation have had an otherworldly origin, 233 00:16:32,753 --> 00:16:36,722 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 234 00:16:37,391 --> 00:16:40,258 REDFERN: If the human race in the early 21st century is now 235 00:16:40,327 --> 00:16:43,895 weaponizing the weather, why shouldn't aliens from some 236 00:16:43,931 --> 00:16:48,266 faraway world have already developed it? 237 00:16:48,335 --> 00:16:52,070 If ancient aliens were able to weaponize the weather, then I 238 00:16:52,106 --> 00:16:55,240 don't think we can rule out the idea that possibly some of these 239 00:16:55,275 --> 00:16:58,410 great ancient floods may not have been the work of gods, but 240 00:16:58,445 --> 00:17:01,446 could have been the work of highly-advanced technological 241 00:17:01,515 --> 00:17:05,684 aliens actually seeking to potentially obliterate the human 242 00:17:05,753 --> 00:17:07,686 race. 243 00:17:10,123 --> 00:17:12,924 GRAHAM HANCOCK: There are more than a thousand different 244 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:15,927 flood myths from cultures all around the world, and the 245 00:17:15,963 --> 00:17:21,900 tendency has been for archeologists to say that 246 00:17:21,935 --> 00:17:25,237 that's simply because people's fantasies work in the same way. 247 00:17:25,272 --> 00:17:30,275 But I honestly think there's a much simpler explanation for why 248 00:17:30,344 --> 00:17:34,446 the flood myth is so universal. 249 00:17:34,448 --> 00:17:37,849 I think it's a memory of what happened at the end of the 250 00:17:37,918 --> 00:17:39,251 Ice Age. 251 00:17:39,286 --> 00:17:43,422 What's much more mysterious is that coupled with these memories 252 00:17:43,457 --> 00:17:48,460 of global devastation, there are also memories of almost godlike 253 00:17:48,529 --> 00:17:51,963 beings with incredible powers and abilities who were caught up 254 00:17:52,032 --> 00:17:55,967 in that cataclysm. 255 00:17:56,036 --> 00:18:00,439 BRAMLEY: The deluge stories are really very interesting. 256 00:18:00,474 --> 00:18:03,642 What they all say is that the angels, the gods, whatever we 257 00:18:03,677 --> 00:18:06,945 want to call them today... they basically just got tired of 258 00:18:06,980 --> 00:18:11,883 humanity, where there's a wanton intention to wipe out, or thin 259 00:18:11,952 --> 00:18:14,319 out, the human race. 260 00:18:14,321 --> 00:18:17,656 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Right there we have a perfect example 261 00:18:17,691 --> 00:18:23,628 that maybe the extraterrestrials were unhappy with Homo sapiens, 262 00:18:23,664 --> 00:18:28,066 and it is possible that they then created some type of a 263 00:18:28,135 --> 00:18:32,637 catastrophe, some flood to eliminate mankind. 264 00:18:32,673 --> 00:18:39,244 But it's also possible that benevolent extraterrestrials 265 00:18:39,313 --> 00:18:44,983 warned us about an impending catastrophe so that not everyone 266 00:18:45,018 --> 00:18:47,419 would be destroyed. 267 00:18:47,488 --> 00:18:51,156 NARRATOR: Could the mythic floods of the ancient past 268 00:18:51,191 --> 00:18:55,794 really have been the result of extraterrestrial influence? 269 00:18:56,263 --> 00:18:59,865 Or is it possible, as some ancient astronaut theorists 270 00:18:59,933 --> 00:19:04,503 contend, that aliens may have actually helped mankind survive 271 00:19:04,538 --> 00:19:06,739 nature's fury? 272 00:19:07,508 --> 00:19:11,610 Perhaps further evidence can be found near one of Earth's most 273 00:19:11,678 --> 00:19:16,549 dangerous places... active volcanoes. 274 00:19:20,660 --> 00:19:25,497 NARRATOR: The Republic of Indonesia, Southeast Asia. 275 00:19:25,566 --> 00:19:32,571 This archipelago, encompassing over 17,000 islands, is home to 276 00:19:32,639 --> 00:19:36,641 129 active volcanoes. 277 00:19:36,677 --> 00:19:44,082 Here, in April 1815, the Mount Tambora volcano exploded in a 278 00:19:44,151 --> 00:19:48,753 cataclysm of fire, smoke and ash. 279 00:19:48,822 --> 00:19:53,625 The amount of material discharged into the atmosphere... 280 00:19:53,660 --> 00:19:58,463 estimated to have been 120 cubic tons... makes the event the 281 00:19:58,498 --> 00:20:02,234 largest volcanic eruption in recorded history. 282 00:20:04,170 --> 00:20:09,674 With a death toll of nearly 71,000 people, it was the 283 00:20:09,743 --> 00:20:11,643 world's deadliest eruption. 284 00:20:15,147 --> 00:20:18,650 ROSALY LOPEZ: It had quite an effect worldwide. 285 00:20:18,685 --> 00:20:23,188 The year of 1816 was known as the year without a summer. 286 00:20:23,257 --> 00:20:27,425 And the reason is because very large volcanic eruptions inject 287 00:20:27,494 --> 00:20:31,196 a lot of ash and aerosols in the atmosphere, and they can 288 00:20:31,265 --> 00:20:36,935 actually lower the global average temperature. 289 00:20:37,004 --> 00:20:41,006 WILSON: A volcano on its own is not the disaster, but when it 290 00:20:41,041 --> 00:20:44,943 erupts and affects large groups of people, it certainly is. 291 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:54,219 And volcanic eruptions have killed millions of people over time. 292 00:20:57,290 --> 00:21:00,959 NARRATOR: According to local religious traditions, volcanoes 293 00:21:01,028 --> 00:21:03,028 are considered sacred. 294 00:21:03,063 --> 00:21:06,231 And the Mount Tambora eruption is thought to have been the work 295 00:21:06,300 --> 00:21:07,866 of the gods. 296 00:21:07,901 --> 00:21:10,635 But why? 297 00:21:10,704 --> 00:21:14,205 Researchers believe answers can be found near the most volatile 298 00:21:14,241 --> 00:21:20,645 volcano in Indonesia today... Mount Merapi... a site believed 299 00:21:20,714 --> 00:21:25,050 by Java mysticism to be the center of the world. 300 00:21:25,085 --> 00:21:29,654 (rumbling) 301 00:21:29,723 --> 00:21:35,427 Strangely, this revered volcano is located just 29 miles from a 302 00:21:35,495 --> 00:21:39,931 mysterious ancient Buddhist temple called Borobudur. 303 00:21:39,933 --> 00:21:43,234 COPPENS: Whenever we are confronted with certain temple 304 00:21:43,270 --> 00:21:46,905 sites, some of them are obviously more interesting than others. 305 00:21:46,940 --> 00:21:50,842 But in this case, we have a very interesting location, because it 306 00:21:50,911 --> 00:21:54,813 is said that this mountain is the center of the universe. 307 00:21:54,881 --> 00:21:57,415 And you will always find that this is linked somehow in 308 00:21:57,484 --> 00:22:01,986 mythology with the ascent or the descent of a very important god, 309 00:22:02,055 --> 00:22:06,491 sometimes a creator deity or somebody else. 310 00:22:06,493 --> 00:22:09,728 NARRATOR: Built during the eighth and ninth centuries, the 311 00:22:09,763 --> 00:22:13,832 Borobudur temple was designed in the form of a stepped pyramid, 312 00:22:13,900 --> 00:22:19,504 and features a large round dome on top, encircled by 72 statues 313 00:22:19,573 --> 00:22:23,608 of Buddha, each seated in a bell-shaped enclosure called 314 00:22:23,677 --> 00:22:26,578 a stupa. 315 00:22:26,613 --> 00:22:30,615 Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, 316 00:22:30,684 --> 00:22:34,719 that the temple and stupas were built to honor otherworldly 317 00:22:34,755 --> 00:22:38,923 beings and their spacecraft that arrived at Mount Merapi in the 318 00:22:38,992 --> 00:22:41,493 ancient past? 319 00:22:41,495 --> 00:22:45,063 TSOUKALOS: There is no question that Borobudur was a 320 00:22:45,098 --> 00:22:52,737 place of pilgrimage that was built only because something 321 00:22:52,773 --> 00:22:59,441 significant happened in the remote past, in that specific area. 322 00:22:59,845 --> 00:23:04,949 The volcano was so huge for them, so incomprehensible, that 323 00:23:05,018 --> 00:23:12,424 they, over time, built stupas, all directed to the sky. 324 00:23:12,459 --> 00:23:18,096 Because each stupa, on that complex, represents a chariot of 325 00:23:18,131 --> 00:23:25,437 the gods, with which to actually reach outer space. 326 00:23:25,439 --> 00:23:28,440 COPPENS: This is a very specific shape for a temple. 327 00:23:28,475 --> 00:23:31,776 It's almost as if it is a flat-topped pyramid with 328 00:23:31,812 --> 00:23:37,782 something sticking on top there, as if something has landed. 329 00:23:37,818 --> 00:23:40,718 And then the question is, why did they construct it so 330 00:23:40,787 --> 00:23:41,886 specifically? 331 00:23:41,955 --> 00:23:45,990 Was it something which was visually remembering as to what 332 00:23:46,059 --> 00:23:47,625 had happened there, or what was 333 00:23:47,661 --> 00:23:50,593 still happening on a regular interval? 334 00:23:53,066 --> 00:23:56,501 CHILDRESS: All over the world, volcanoes often have some 335 00:23:56,570 --> 00:24:02,073 god associated with them who's controlling the volcano, causing 336 00:24:02,142 --> 00:24:05,643 earthquakes, causing devastating eruptions. 337 00:24:05,679 --> 00:24:09,581 And in fact, in Indonesia, the people there believe that there 338 00:24:09,649 --> 00:24:15,820 is an entire city of gods inside Mount Merapi. 339 00:24:17,991 --> 00:24:21,493 TSOUKALOS: When I read stories about ancient volcano 340 00:24:21,528 --> 00:24:28,600 gods descending or ascending from and into volcanoes, then I 341 00:24:28,668 --> 00:24:32,837 think to myself, are we really talking about something here 342 00:24:32,873 --> 00:24:36,107 that's a figment of our ancestors' imagination? 343 00:24:36,176 --> 00:24:40,544 Or is there some truth behind these stories? 344 00:24:40,580 --> 00:24:41,779 And the answer is yes. 345 00:24:41,848 --> 00:24:48,686 It was not some type of spiritual event, but it was 346 00:24:48,722 --> 00:24:51,789 where extraterrestrials descended from the sky in 347 00:24:51,858 --> 00:24:55,494 nuts-and-bolts spaceships. 348 00:24:56,696 --> 00:24:59,964 NARRATOR: But what is it about volcanoes that seem to 349 00:25:00,033 --> 00:25:02,700 attract celestial visitors? 350 00:25:02,736 --> 00:25:08,371 And might they have had the power to trigger volcanic eruptions? 351 00:25:08,408 --> 00:25:10,141 (explosion rumbling) 352 00:25:14,413 --> 00:25:16,881 Hawaii. 353 00:25:16,917 --> 00:25:23,285 Here, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, lies Mount Kilauea. 354 00:25:25,557 --> 00:25:30,495 Spewing lava almost continuously since 1983, it is the most 355 00:25:30,564 --> 00:25:33,833 active volcano in the world. 356 00:25:39,772 --> 00:25:44,576 According to ancient Hawaiian legends, the volcano is home to 357 00:25:44,611 --> 00:25:49,881 Pele, the goddess of lightning and fire. 358 00:25:51,683 --> 00:25:53,750 YOUNG: She lives in the enormous volcano on the Big 359 00:25:53,818 --> 00:25:56,587 Island in her crater, and I've been up there. 360 00:25:56,588 --> 00:25:57,821 It's a big crater, and you can 361 00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:00,256 imagine a powerful goddess could live there. 362 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:05,028 She has come from a place of the clouds, a place in the sky. 363 00:26:05,097 --> 00:26:05,997 And that's mysterious. 364 00:26:05,998 --> 00:26:07,566 We don't know where that is. 365 00:26:09,535 --> 00:26:13,103 NARRATOR: Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists 366 00:26:13,138 --> 00:26:17,541 believe, that the origin of the Pele legend can be traced to 367 00:26:17,610 --> 00:26:20,512 contact with extraterrestrial beings? 368 00:26:25,149 --> 00:26:28,118 CHILDRESS: Just like the American military has hollowed 369 00:26:28,153 --> 00:26:32,789 out Cheyenne Mountain, near Colorado Springs, to create a 370 00:26:32,825 --> 00:26:36,827 secret and virtually impenetrable military base 371 00:26:36,895 --> 00:26:42,799 inside of a mountain, we have, in a sense, similar stories of 372 00:26:42,835 --> 00:26:46,903 ancient gods or extraterrestrials doing this to 373 00:26:46,972 --> 00:26:49,973 volcanoes, using them as bases. 374 00:26:50,009 --> 00:26:55,512 And if there was some danger of people discovering it, or people 375 00:26:55,581 --> 00:27:01,585 were building their homes or cities too close, these aliens 376 00:27:01,654 --> 00:27:03,920 could have their volcano erupt. 377 00:27:07,525 --> 00:27:11,595 TSOUKALOS: Is there something extraterrestrial behind those 378 00:27:11,664 --> 00:27:14,498 stories of volcano gods? 379 00:27:14,533 --> 00:27:18,669 Absolutely yes, because all around the world, our ancestors 380 00:27:18,704 --> 00:27:20,604 worshiped nature. 381 00:27:20,673 --> 00:27:23,106 There was a god of thunder... 382 00:27:25,510 --> 00:27:29,948 there was a god of rain, and even a god of a volcano. 383 00:27:32,017 --> 00:27:38,121 However, there was a fine line between worshiping nature and 384 00:27:38,190 --> 00:27:39,956 worshiping something else. 385 00:27:40,025 --> 00:27:44,061 And that something else was extraterrestrials. 386 00:27:44,630 --> 00:27:48,799 They were space travelers that came here from another planetary 387 00:27:48,867 --> 00:27:49,401 system. 388 00:27:50,736 --> 00:27:54,571 NARRATOR: Might some of the planet's most active volcanoes 389 00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:59,042 really have been home to extraterrestrial forces, as some 390 00:27:59,078 --> 00:28:01,679 ancient astronaut theorists contend? 391 00:28:02,548 --> 00:28:06,817 Researchers believe further clues can be found in one of the 392 00:28:06,885 --> 00:28:11,421 driest and deadliest places on Earth. 393 00:28:18,936 --> 00:28:20,972 NARRATOR: The Sahara Desert. 394 00:28:22,241 --> 00:28:26,776 Stretching across Northern Africa and covering nearly 395 00:28:26,811 --> 00:28:32,148 three-and-a-half-million square miles, it is one of the hottest 396 00:28:32,217 --> 00:28:35,152 and most formidable places on Earth. 397 00:28:38,322 --> 00:28:42,892 With an average rainfall of only half an inch per year, humans 398 00:28:42,961 --> 00:28:46,062 have fought a relentless battle to adapt to the harsh 399 00:28:46,131 --> 00:28:48,500 environment or die. 400 00:28:50,802 --> 00:28:53,903 CHILDRESS: Historians have often looked at the Sahara 401 00:28:53,972 --> 00:28:59,809 Desert and wondered what it is that created this particularly 402 00:28:59,844 --> 00:29:03,147 inhospitable desolate area of the planet. 403 00:29:04,116 --> 00:29:07,450 NARRATOR: But in the Algerian Sahara, in the region of Tassili 404 00:29:07,519 --> 00:29:11,955 n'Ajjer, numerous cave paintings, some estimated to 405 00:29:11,956 --> 00:29:14,458 date back as far as 8,000 BC, 406 00:29:15,527 --> 00:29:19,829 depict a time when the land was lush and teeming with life. 407 00:29:19,864 --> 00:29:22,967 But if so, what happened? 408 00:29:23,869 --> 00:29:27,303 CHILDRESS: The scenes that you see at Tassili n'Ajjer are 409 00:29:27,372 --> 00:29:29,873 totally bizarre. 410 00:29:29,908 --> 00:29:34,544 They're showing a Sahara that was once fertile with giraffes 411 00:29:34,579 --> 00:29:40,083 and antelope and other animals we find only in Central Africa really. 412 00:29:40,418 --> 00:29:46,756 And combined with them are these bizarre pictures of what even 413 00:29:46,825 --> 00:29:50,728 the archeologists have called the Martians and the spacemen. 414 00:29:51,597 --> 00:29:56,030 They have strange helmets on and suits. 415 00:29:56,034 --> 00:30:00,000 They look exactly like extraterrestrials. 416 00:30:01,072 --> 00:30:06,810 TSOUKALOS: The petroglyphs that we find there are incredible. 417 00:30:06,878 --> 00:30:09,312 They look like modern-day astronauts 418 00:30:10,880 --> 00:30:15,752 with suits, with helmets, with visors, and 419 00:30:15,787 --> 00:30:20,256 according to the legends of the Tassili region, the natives were 420 00:30:20,325 --> 00:30:27,364 visited at a time when a climate change was about to happen. 421 00:30:27,933 --> 00:30:31,601 So is it possible that the reason why we have these 422 00:30:31,636 --> 00:30:38,041 depictions of these ancient aliens is because they assisted 423 00:30:38,109 --> 00:30:42,779 the native population at the time of climate change to move 424 00:30:42,814 --> 00:30:46,449 into a new area of habitation? 425 00:30:50,487 --> 00:30:55,627 NARRATOR: Did alien beings visit this region thousands of years ago? 426 00:30:57,395 --> 00:31:00,997 And if so, might they have warned the local population of 427 00:31:01,066 --> 00:31:07,103 an enormous climate change, one that would trigger a vast migration? 428 00:31:07,472 --> 00:31:12,009 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer is yes. 429 00:31:13,078 --> 00:31:15,645 (drum playing) 430 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,813 (singing) 431 00:31:16,848 --> 00:31:20,750 And for evidence, they point to the ancient oral traditions of a 432 00:31:20,819 --> 00:31:24,489 Western African tribal people known as the Dogon. 433 00:31:26,458 --> 00:31:29,459 CHILDRESS: According to the Dogon themselves, they were 434 00:31:29,494 --> 00:31:35,365 guided by their alien fish god the Nommo, to this area near the 435 00:31:35,433 --> 00:31:39,369 Niger River where there's a lot more water. 436 00:31:39,437 --> 00:31:44,374 So they had to transit across the inhospitable Sahara to find 437 00:31:44,442 --> 00:31:48,311 their homeland... 438 00:31:50,214 --> 00:31:52,715 and their own explanation is that alien gods led them 439 00:31:52,784 --> 00:31:59,990 to this fertile area where they could establish their civilization. 440 00:32:00,792 --> 00:32:03,960 JASON MARTELL: The Nommos describe coming down in some 441 00:32:03,995 --> 00:32:05,395 type of flying craft. 442 00:32:05,463 --> 00:32:09,532 The Dogon Tribe gave some very interesting details, which sound 443 00:32:09,567 --> 00:32:13,403 like a UFO... large spinning disc that made 444 00:32:13,471 --> 00:32:17,307 a lot of sound and wind as it descended to Earth and the 445 00:32:17,342 --> 00:32:18,474 Nommos appear. 446 00:32:18,543 --> 00:32:21,344 So, this is a very interesting story, which was replicated by 447 00:32:21,413 --> 00:32:24,647 many different cultures of seeing beings descending from 448 00:32:24,683 --> 00:32:25,982 the heavens to Earth. 449 00:32:26,017 --> 00:32:29,186 Were they gods, or were they extraterrestrials? 450 00:32:30,655 --> 00:32:31,821 (drums playing, chanting) 451 00:32:31,856 --> 00:32:35,258 NARRATOR: Even today, the Dogon believe they are the 452 00:32:35,327 --> 00:32:39,595 children of the Nommo, strange gods who came here from the 453 00:32:39,664 --> 00:32:41,598 Sirius star system. 454 00:32:42,667 --> 00:32:47,503 NOORY: The Dogon Tribe look up at the star system of Sirius, 455 00:32:47,539 --> 00:32:52,342 and they are convinced that they were visited here, and they were 456 00:32:52,377 --> 00:32:57,347 told about a star system, a binary system that we didn't 457 00:32:57,382 --> 00:33:00,950 know about for years later. 458 00:33:01,019 --> 00:33:04,087 I mean, how did these people know this? 459 00:33:04,456 --> 00:33:07,957 COPPENS: The Dogon have always been focused upon in the 460 00:33:08,026 --> 00:33:12,228 sense that they have this story, this information about their 461 00:33:12,297 --> 00:33:16,599 ancestors who somehow had this contact with this non-human 462 00:33:16,634 --> 00:33:17,633 intelligence. 463 00:33:17,702 --> 00:33:20,270 Now the question is, how did they attain this? 464 00:33:20,405 --> 00:33:23,973 It really might come from the Sahara Desert, from specifically 465 00:33:24,042 --> 00:33:27,810 culture pockets like Tassili n'Ajjer, and that the Dogon are 466 00:33:27,879 --> 00:33:30,280 descendants from these people. 467 00:33:30,882 --> 00:33:34,550 NARRATOR: Could the Tassili n'Ajjer cave paintings and the 468 00:33:34,586 --> 00:33:40,556 legends of the Dogon tribe really be proof of alien contact 469 00:33:40,592 --> 00:33:45,597 in the distant past, as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 470 00:33:47,966 --> 00:33:53,269 Perhaps additional evidence can be found half a hemisphere away 471 00:33:53,338 --> 00:33:58,841 at an archeological site near the city of Chifeng in China. 472 00:33:58,910 --> 00:34:03,813 Here, scholars have found 5,000-year-old stone carvings 473 00:34:03,848 --> 00:34:07,517 and other artifacts believed to have been engraved by a 474 00:34:07,585 --> 00:34:11,521 Neolithic people known as the Hongshan. 475 00:34:11,689 --> 00:34:17,860 CHILDRESS: The Hongshan people in China are known to 476 00:34:17,929 --> 00:34:23,833 have strange carvings, jade statuettes, showing long headed 477 00:34:23,868 --> 00:34:29,174 people looking very much like extraterrestrials. 478 00:34:31,810 --> 00:34:34,710 NARRATOR: But the most curious among the Hongshan's 479 00:34:34,779 --> 00:34:41,317 ancient carvings is this one... an image of what many scholars 480 00:34:41,386 --> 00:34:44,787 and archaeologists believe to be the depiction of a massive comet 481 00:34:44,856 --> 00:34:51,561 or meteor, similar to the one that did, in fact, strike this 482 00:34:51,629 --> 00:34:55,231 region around 3,000 BC. 483 00:35:00,739 --> 00:35:02,738 SEAN-DAVID MORTON: The evidence that we have that there 484 00:35:02,807 --> 00:35:05,641 was a massive catastrophe at that time, approximately between 485 00:35:05,677 --> 00:35:09,980 3113 and about 3116 BC, is so fascinating. 486 00:35:10,482 --> 00:35:12,815 A whole team at Harvard and Princeton took a look, 487 00:35:12,851 --> 00:35:15,651 scientifically, at the Peruvian ice shelves there in the Andes 488 00:35:15,687 --> 00:35:19,522 Mountains, and they dug down, and they said there was a 489 00:35:19,591 --> 00:35:23,259 massive, planet-wide glaciation of the Earth, a gigantic 490 00:35:23,294 --> 00:35:27,196 catastrophe that froze wooly mammoths with tropical 491 00:35:27,265 --> 00:35:32,967 vegetation in their mouths, froze the entire planet at that time. 492 00:35:33,738 --> 00:35:36,539 NARRATOR: But how is it possible that these ancient 493 00:35:36,608 --> 00:35:40,176 people could have known of a catastrophic meteor strike that 494 00:35:40,211 --> 00:35:45,011 wouldn't occur for another 116 years? 495 00:35:45,149 --> 00:35:47,550 CHILDRESS: It seems like they were possibly warned by their 496 00:35:47,619 --> 00:35:52,455 extraterrestrial gods of this coming catastrophe and were able 497 00:35:52,490 --> 00:35:56,370 to leave and relocate somewhere else. 498 00:35:56,461 --> 00:36:01,297 TSOUKALOS: If we argue that this carving was done before the 499 00:36:01,332 --> 00:36:07,203 event took place, then somebody must have given them this 500 00:36:07,238 --> 00:36:10,740 knowledge, and in the ancient astronaut opinion, that 501 00:36:10,775 --> 00:36:14,477 knowledge was given to the Hongshan culture by 502 00:36:14,546 --> 00:36:17,781 extraterrestrials. 503 00:36:20,051 --> 00:36:23,319 COPPENS: The question whether this is by coincidence 504 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,388 or somehow by some intelligence who's pulling the string of 505 00:36:26,457 --> 00:36:29,624 these meteorites and comets, our ancestors were absolutely 506 00:36:29,693 --> 00:36:33,029 convinced that there was an intelligence behind it. 507 00:36:33,531 --> 00:36:35,764 You might have certain comets which are programmed to bring 508 00:36:35,833 --> 00:36:36,765 life. 509 00:36:36,834 --> 00:36:39,234 You might also have certain comets which are programmed to 510 00:36:39,303 --> 00:36:40,137 bring destruction. 511 00:36:42,406 --> 00:36:46,007 NARRATOR: Might the Hongshan people, like the ancient 512 00:36:46,076 --> 00:36:50,011 ancestors of the Dogon tribe, really have received warnings of 513 00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,416 impending catastrophes from extraterrestrial beings, as many 514 00:36:54,485 --> 00:36:58,420 ancient astronaut theorists believe? 515 00:36:58,455 --> 00:37:00,589 If so, why? 516 00:37:00,657 --> 00:37:04,359 Did ancient visitors really want to save the lives of Earth's 517 00:37:04,428 --> 00:37:06,528 human inhabitants? 518 00:37:06,597 --> 00:37:10,365 Or were they trying to achieve something more, something that 519 00:37:10,434 --> 00:37:15,905 might forever change the course of human history? 520 00:37:23,119 --> 00:37:26,388 NARRATOR: November 8, 2011. 521 00:37:26,423 --> 00:37:31,493 A massive asteroid, a quarter mile in diameter, narrowly 522 00:37:31,562 --> 00:37:35,330 misses the Earth while passing by inside the orbit of the moon. 523 00:37:35,399 --> 00:37:40,233 It is known as a Near-Earth Object. 524 00:37:43,174 --> 00:37:44,740 MORRISON: It's a kind of wake-up call. 525 00:37:44,775 --> 00:37:47,009 It tells us that indeed these objects are real. 526 00:37:47,077 --> 00:37:50,679 They come very close, and someday, they may come so close 527 00:37:50,748 --> 00:37:53,749 that they would hit. 528 00:37:53,751 --> 00:37:56,852 There are probably a million near-Earth asteroids that are 529 00:37:56,921 --> 00:38:00,455 large enough that they could do significant destruction, by 530 00:38:00,524 --> 00:38:04,193 which I mean, if they hit a city, they would destroy it. 531 00:38:04,261 --> 00:38:08,030 They could kill millions of people. 532 00:38:10,866 --> 00:38:14,869 NOORY: An asteroid strike of significance, something big, 533 00:38:14,938 --> 00:38:17,871 could be devastating for the planet. 534 00:38:18,775 --> 00:38:23,511 It will cover the sun for years, and we'll go into an ice age, 535 00:38:23,580 --> 00:38:25,216 and we'll all starve to death. 536 00:38:28,351 --> 00:38:31,185 NARRATOR: According to mainstream science, one such 537 00:38:31,221 --> 00:38:37,258 object, an asteroid six miles in diameter, smashed into the Earth 538 00:38:37,327 --> 00:38:42,597 65 million years ago, triggering a global catastrophe that 539 00:38:42,632 --> 00:38:47,869 forever changed the history of our planet. 540 00:38:47,937 --> 00:38:52,206 WILSON: The Chicxulub Crater is in Yucatan, Mexico, and it's 541 00:38:52,242 --> 00:38:55,577 the largest impact crater on Earth. 542 00:38:56,579 --> 00:38:59,547 And this crater is 180 kilometers in diameter. 543 00:38:59,582 --> 00:39:04,218 It's absolutely ginormous, and it represents an event that 544 00:39:04,287 --> 00:39:07,488 occurred at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million 545 00:39:07,557 --> 00:39:12,395 years ago, and that's coincident with a mass extinction. 546 00:39:14,597 --> 00:39:17,231 And that's the mass extinction that took out many animals and 547 00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:18,233 plants... 548 00:39:20,837 --> 00:39:23,470 most particularly, the dinosaurs. 549 00:39:25,475 --> 00:39:27,742 MORRISON: Many scientists are still studying the details of 550 00:39:27,811 --> 00:39:34,415 the impact that produced the dinosaur extinction. 551 00:39:34,451 --> 00:39:39,420 They discovered the actual crater, the smoking gun, the 552 00:39:39,489 --> 00:39:43,257 remnant of that impact. 553 00:39:43,326 --> 00:39:48,429 From the size of the crater, we can infer how much energy. 554 00:39:48,498 --> 00:39:55,837 It was 100 million megatons of TNT equivalent. 555 00:39:55,872 --> 00:39:59,407 We don't have any other example that's that clean, but there 556 00:39:59,442 --> 00:40:02,610 must have been impacts like that throughout the history of the 557 00:40:02,645 --> 00:40:03,412 Earth. 558 00:40:06,648 --> 00:40:09,117 NARRATOR: Was such a devastating collision the 559 00:40:09,185 --> 00:40:13,188 result of chance, an intergalactic accident? 560 00:40:14,357 --> 00:40:18,192 Or might it have been a planned event, as some ancient astronaut 561 00:40:18,228 --> 00:40:20,528 theorists believe? 562 00:40:20,597 --> 00:40:22,864 And if so, why? 563 00:40:25,334 --> 00:40:27,635 CHILDRESS: The reason that some kind of alien force would 564 00:40:27,670 --> 00:40:31,272 want to create the extinction of dinosaurs and other large 565 00:40:31,307 --> 00:40:35,209 animals would be to make the Earth safer for people. 566 00:40:35,211 --> 00:40:39,380 The idea of tidal waves and earthquakes, catastrophes 567 00:40:39,415 --> 00:40:42,884 causing mass extinctions, the Earth becomes a better place to 568 00:40:42,919 --> 00:40:44,686 live. 569 00:40:45,588 --> 00:40:49,557 We're able to have our civilization in a much more 570 00:40:49,592 --> 00:40:52,894 protected manner without having to worry about giant animals 571 00:40:52,929 --> 00:40:56,500 crashing into our house all the time. 572 00:40:58,935 --> 00:41:01,736 TSOUKALOS: One can ask the question, why would 573 00:41:01,804 --> 00:41:03,438 extraterrestrials do this? 574 00:41:03,940 --> 00:41:05,373 Well, the answer is very simple. 575 00:41:05,408 --> 00:41:07,241 We are their product. 576 00:41:07,277 --> 00:41:08,943 We are their offspring. 577 00:41:11,580 --> 00:41:14,749 WILLIAM HENRY: They treat us as creator beings, and we are 578 00:41:14,817 --> 00:41:18,352 their offspring, and they're able to make decisions about 579 00:41:18,421 --> 00:41:21,623 humanity based on their needs. 580 00:41:24,626 --> 00:41:27,094 So, perhaps their needs were satisfied, and they decided they 581 00:41:27,130 --> 00:41:29,564 didn't want humankind around anymore, so it's just as easy to 582 00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,266 wipe them out as it is to continue to perpetuate their 583 00:41:32,335 --> 00:41:33,402 existence. 584 00:41:34,504 --> 00:41:36,604 REDFERN: If aliens are visiting us, you know, and 585 00:41:36,639 --> 00:41:39,273 they're not necessarily hostile, but the very fact that there 586 00:41:39,342 --> 00:41:45,680 have been UFO sightings during earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, 587 00:41:45,748 --> 00:41:49,784 tornadoes... Is this a concern? 588 00:41:49,819 --> 00:41:52,186 VON DANIKEN: If you look at us humans from the religious 589 00:41:52,222 --> 00:41:55,289 side, or if you look at the humans from the scientific side, 590 00:41:55,325 --> 00:41:58,125 we look at us as the greatest. 591 00:41:58,194 --> 00:42:02,129 Something so gigantic and wonderful like humans does not 592 00:42:02,165 --> 00:42:04,799 exist somewhere in the universe out there. 593 00:42:05,401 --> 00:42:09,203 I could imagine that the extraterrestrials, one day, they 594 00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,941 have enough of our arrogance and ignorance, and they say we tried 595 00:42:13,977 --> 00:42:19,213 to teach now since centuries, but you still believe you are 596 00:42:19,282 --> 00:42:21,449 the greatest thing out there in the universe. 597 00:42:21,485 --> 00:42:24,420 So we have enough, and we punish you again. 598 00:42:25,788 --> 00:42:29,323 CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if extraterrestrials, with their 599 00:42:29,392 --> 00:42:33,327 super technology, haven't been involved in some of these 600 00:42:33,363 --> 00:42:38,399 catastrophes, actually creating them to change history. 601 00:42:38,901 --> 00:42:42,336 COPPENS: We know that our ancestors survived some of the 602 00:42:42,405 --> 00:42:43,838 greatest disasters. 603 00:42:44,540 --> 00:42:47,675 And on each occasion, there is always an intelligence out there 604 00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:52,179 who's willing to tell us and help us in making sure that we 605 00:42:52,248 --> 00:42:56,183 survive, and the question is, if something is going to happen in 606 00:42:56,252 --> 00:43:00,354 the future, are we going to be relying once again on the 607 00:43:00,390 --> 00:43:02,489 nonhuman intelligence to help us? 608 00:43:06,728 --> 00:43:11,267 NARRATOR: Devastating earthquakes and deadly floods, 609 00:43:12,935 --> 00:43:18,608 catastrophic eruptions and planet-crushing collisions... 610 00:43:20,843 --> 00:43:24,412 Are Earth's mega-disasters simply the consequence of 611 00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,547 natural events? 612 00:43:26,883 --> 00:43:31,751 Or is mankind simply a pawn in the great cosmic experiment, 613 00:43:31,887 --> 00:43:35,855 one engineered by otherworldly forces? 614 00:43:37,893 --> 00:43:40,861 Might alien beings be manipulating human history, in 615 00:43:40,897 --> 00:43:45,697 an effort to test us, to make us stronger? 616 00:43:45,902 --> 00:43:51,304 Or are they paving the way for Earth's future, a future 617 00:43:51,372 --> 00:43:55,505 where humans would no longer exist? 618 00:43:55,605 --> 00:43:58,705 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 619 00:43:58,755 --> 00:44:03,305 Repair and Synchronization by Easy Subtitles Synchronizer 1.0.0.0 54522

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