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NARRATOR: Volcanic eruptions...
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NOORY: It will cover
the sun for years.
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NARRATOR: Devastating
earthquakes and tsunamis...
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And it's possible the
extraterrestrials themselves are
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influencing some of these events.
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NARRATOR: And asteroids
smashing the Earth, causing
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massive extinctions.
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What you're seeing is that
this is done on purpose.
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NARRATOR: Have the world's worst
global disasters been the
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result of nature's fury?
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Or have they been triggered
by more supernatural forces?
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I don't think we can rule out
the idea that this is the work
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of highly advanced,
technological aliens seeking to
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obliterate the human race.
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NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
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And could there be an
extraterrestrial connection to
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some of the world's mega-disasters?
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NARRATOR: Japan.
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Friday, March 11, 2011.
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43 miles off the northeast
coast, a massive 8.9 magnitude
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earthquake produces an explosive
upheaval of the seafloor.
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200 miles away, in Tokyo,
buildings shake violently.
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Within half an hour of the
earthquake, a powerful 30-foot
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tsunami strikes the
northern coast of Japan...
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and sweeps across the
landscape, reaching six miles
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inland, destroying
everything in its path.
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(panicked shouts)
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Local officials estimate that
over 19,000 lives were lost in
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the rapidly rising tide.
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MICHAEL DENNIN: Tsunamis are
basically the name for a giant
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sea wave that's fairly coherent,
has a lot of energy and will
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travel over a large distance.
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And it's really a matter of
scale more than anything else.
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It's huge enough to cause huge amounts
of damage when it hits the shore.
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These have to be generated by a
large pulse of energy being put
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into the ocean.
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And the most common source of
that is a massive earthquake
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of the world, but the fact that
they had such little time, they
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just couldn't get away from it.
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So you can be a very
sophisticated, first-world,
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developed country, you can be a
superpower, and still have these
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kind of mega-disasters come your way.
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NARRATOR: According to Japan's
Kyodo News Agency, in
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the days following the
devastation, thousands of UFO's
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were sighted over Japan.
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If true, what might this mean?
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DAVID CHILDRESS: It's
interesting to note that when
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the tsunami occurred, there was
suddenly an increase of UFO
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sightings in that area of Japan.
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So you have to think, well,
are the extraterrestrials
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particularly interested in
what happens to us in certain
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catastrophes and life-changing
events that are occurring on
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this planet?
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And it's possible the
extraterrestrials themselves are
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influencing some of these events.
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NARRATOR: But is it really
possible, as ancient astronaut
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theorists believe, that
otherworldly forces could
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provoke such deadly disasters?
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Crete.
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Located in the middle of the
Mediterranean Sea, it is the
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largest of the Greek Islands.
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Here, in 365 AD, this once-
quiet province of the Byzantine
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Empire was destroyed by a
devastating underwater
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earthquake and subsequent tsunami.
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According to Roman historians,
the tsunami also hit Alexandria,
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Egypt, and other cities along the
Mediterranean coast, causing
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great destruction.
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MARK A. WILSON: The Crete
earthquake of 365 was one of the
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great natural disasters of
the Mediterranean world.
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So this was an earthquake that
was probably an eight on the
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Richter scale.
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So it was very large.
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It produced a tsunami, and it raised
the isle of Crete by nine meters.
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So it was an extraordinary event.
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NARRATOR: The ancient Greeks
attributed earthquakes to the
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god of the sea, Poseidon.
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According to Greek myths,
Poseidon was known as the "Earth
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Shaker" because of his power to
provoke earthquakes, sea storms
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and tidal waves.
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WILSON: Ancient peoples would
have ascribed natural disasters
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to the gods... as a really
logical answer, because at first
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these events are deadly,
so their lives depend upon
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trying to appease or please
gods who control those things.
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PHILLIP COPPENS: Crete was said
to be the home of the gods.
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There are caves today in Crete
which we can visit which are
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identified as being the place
where Zeus was raised from
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a baby to an infant.
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And so when you find that
something is happening in Crete
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in early Christian times, you
really have to ask whether this
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is somehow going to change
the future of mankind.
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CHILDRESS: This may be the wrath
of Poseidon, because what
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was happening at that time was
the early Christians were
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struggling against a
resurgence of paganism...
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and that tsunami came...
to destroy, finally, all the
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pagan religion in the area.
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And so, modern Christianity
became dominant.
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NARRATOR: But was the god
Poseidon merely a figure of myth
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and legend?
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Or might this supernatural being
have had a more otherworldly
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origin, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe.
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CHILDRESS: Poseidon was always
depicted as holding this
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weapon or instrument, his trident.
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And this trident could cause
earthquakes and tsunamis.
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He could control the
oceans with his trident.
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You have to wonder if this
trident wasn't some high-tech,
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extraterrestrial device.
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MICHAEL CREMO: The weapons used
by these Greek gods can be
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compared in some ways
to modern weaponry.
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It's interesting that the United
States Navy developed nuclear
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missiles for its submarines with the
names "Poseidon" and "Trident."
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CHILDRESS: Perhaps this was
Poseidon carrying out some sort
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of wrath on ancient Crete for
finally rejecting him as a god.
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NARRATOR: Is it really
possible that mega-disasters
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caused by earthquakes and
tsunamis could be triggered by
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alien technology, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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And if so, might such
catastrophic events have been
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provoked to change the
course of human history?
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Perhaps further evidence can be
found in modern military technology
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designed to use the weather as
a weapon of mass destruction.
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NARRATOR: Haiti, January 12, 2010.
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(rumbling, debris clattering)
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At 4:53 p.m., a fierce 7.0
magnitude earthquake slams into
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the Haitian capital of Port Au
Prince, causing massive destruction.
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It is the country's most severe
earthquake in over 200 years.
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BILLINGSLEY: An earthquake that
doesn't affect anyone is a
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natural hazard.
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When that natural hazard makes
landfall, and affects a
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population, that is when it
becomes a natural disaster.
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When it's a huge system that
affects a lot of people with
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death and destruction, then
we term it a mega-disaster.
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NARRATOR: According to local
news reports, missionaries in
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Haiti videotaped a strange ball
of light floating in the sky,
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less than 24 hours
before the earthquake.
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WILLIAM BRAMLEY: UFOs have
been reported throughout
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history, connected to earthquakes.
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Scientists used to disregard
the idea of earthquake lights
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up until the 1960s, when they
were actually photographed
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in Japan.
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Finally, they had to take
notice that, yeah, there
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are strange aerial phenomena
that go along with earthquakes.
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NARRATOR: Often referred
to as earthquake weather,
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scientists have linked this
strange phenomena to the
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geophysical activity that
precedes an earthquake.
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DENNIN: Earthquakes are basically
when the plates on the
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surface of the Earth move
relative to each other in a
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sudden fashion.
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This sudden motion
releases a lot of energy.
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BRAMLEY: If they were simply
tectonic plates that gave off
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light, for example, a
discharge into the air, they
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would burn out pretty quickly.
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But we are talking about bright
lights that hover and linger.
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NARRATOR: Could the sudden
discharge of immense energy
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really have produced strange
lights in the skies above
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earthquake zones?
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Or might the lights and the
apparent natural disasters
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have had a more technological origin?
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In 1996, the United States Air
Force commissioned a secret
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study called the "2025 Report."
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In it, the military examined
the feasibility of combat
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capabilities and tactics
in the year 2025.
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NICK REDFERN: One of the areas
that was seen as ripe for
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research, exploitation,
and development, was the
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modification of the weather
as a tool of warfare.
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People might think the idea that
we can weaponize the weather is
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something just straight
out of science fiction.
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The idea that we could pulverize
whole nations just by
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modifying and exploiting
the weather, and this is a
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verifiable report that is
now in the public domain.
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So we do know that government
and military bodies are
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significantly researching
weaponizing the weather.
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MIKE BARA: Well, one of the big
advantages of using weather
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as a weapon is that it's really
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difficult to prove who attacked you.
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The other thing is that weather
itself can cause a heck of a lot
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more damage than weapons can.
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You could have, for instance, a
powerful thunderstorm that could
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go all the way across the U.S.
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and cause basically nuclear-
level destruction all the way
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across a huge swath.
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WILSON: There have been many
attempts to control the weather
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during warfare, and one of the
most famous attempts was in
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Vietnam.
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In which there was a real effort
to seed the clouds over the
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Ho Chi Minh Trail, and
create torrential rains.
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By flooding the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong supply lines, it
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would reduce their utility and
choke off supplies to guerillas
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in the south.
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So, certainly we've had
success in seeding clouds.
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NARRATOR: If the weather can
be manipulated by the military
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to produce powerful storms, and
even catastrophes, is this only
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a recent innovation, or is there
evidence of the weaponized use
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of weather in the ancient past?
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Tales of a great flood
destroying the world can be
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found in the earliest myths of
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many ancient cultures across the globe.
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Both the Hebrew Bible and the
Islamic Koran describe an epic
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flood in the tale of Noah's Ark.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: God was
unhappy with the people for
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their sinful ways, and as a kind
of punishment and also an act of
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purification, sent the Great Deluge.
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Most living things would die in
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this except for a few birds and fish,
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but he told Noah very
specifically how to build a
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craft that could survive the storm.
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WILSON: Noah is to collect
pairs of the air-breathing
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animals on Earth, and he packs
these animals and his family
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into the ark, and then it rains
for 40 days and 40 nights
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and floods the entire Earth.
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And all air-breathing animals
and people are killed.
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NARRATOR: In Ancient
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Mesopotamia, a similar story
of a catastrophic flood
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was chiseled into clay
tablets dating to 2,000 BC.
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Known as the "Epic of Gilgamesh
," this early Sumerian
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poem describes angry gods that
send a great flood to destroy
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mankind while allowing only
a chosen few to survive.
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BRAMELY: The gods had created
humanity to perform whatever
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labor they were supposed to do,
but what happened was, according
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to the old Mesopotamian stories,
human beings just started
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causing too much trouble.
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They became noisy.
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They became rebellious.
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And it was just time to wipe them out.
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And that's actually what's
reported in those old creation
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stories.
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NARRATOR: But did such
stories of great floods
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engulfing the world merely
spring from man's imagination,
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or were they real?
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If so, might such devastation
have had an otherworldly origin,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
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REDFERN: If the human race in
the early 21st century is now
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weaponizing the weather, why
shouldn't aliens from some
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faraway world have
already developed it?
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If ancient aliens were able to
weaponize the weather, then I
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don't think we can rule out the
idea that possibly some of these
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great ancient floods may not
have been the work of gods, but
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could have been the work of
highly-advanced technological
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aliens actually seeking to
potentially obliterate the human
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race.
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GRAHAM HANCOCK: There are more
than a thousand different
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flood myths from cultures all
around the world, and the
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tendency has been for
archeologists to say that
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that's simply because people's
fantasies work in the same way.
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But I honestly think there's a
much simpler explanation for why
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the flood myth is so universal.
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I think it's a memory of what
happened at the end of the
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Ice Age.
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What's much more mysterious is
that coupled with these memories
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of global devastation, there are
also memories of almost godlike
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beings with incredible powers and
abilities who were caught up
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in that cataclysm.
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BRAMLEY: The deluge stories
are really very interesting.
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What they all say is that the
angels, the gods, whatever we
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want to call them today... they
basically just got tired of
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humanity, where there's a wanton
intention to wipe out, or thin
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out, the human race.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Right
there we have a perfect example
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that maybe the extraterrestrials
were unhappy with Homo sapiens,
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and it is possible that they
then created some type of a
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catastrophe, some flood
to eliminate mankind.
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But it's also possible that
benevolent extraterrestrials
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warned us about an impending
catastrophe so that not everyone
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would be destroyed.
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NARRATOR: Could the mythic
floods of the ancient past
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really have been the result of
extraterrestrial influence?
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Or is it possible, as some
ancient astronaut theorists
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contend, that aliens may have
actually helped mankind survive
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nature's fury?
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Perhaps further evidence can be
found near one of Earth's most
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dangerous places... active volcanoes.
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NARRATOR: The Republic of
Indonesia, Southeast Asia.
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This archipelago, encompassing
over 17,000 islands, is home to
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129 active volcanoes.
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Here, in April 1815, the Mount
Tambora volcano exploded in a
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cataclysm of fire, smoke and ash.
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The amount of material
discharged into the atmosphere...
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estimated to have been 120 cubic
tons... makes the event the
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largest volcanic eruption
in recorded history.
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With a death toll of nearly
71,000 people, it was the
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world's deadliest eruption.
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ROSALY LOPEZ: It had
quite an effect worldwide.
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The year of 1816 was known as
the year without a summer.
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And the reason is because very
large volcanic eruptions inject
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a lot of ash and aerosols in
the atmosphere, and they can
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actually lower the global
average temperature.
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WILSON: A volcano on its own
is not the disaster, but when it
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erupts and affects large groups
of people, it certainly is.
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And volcanic eruptions have killed
millions of people over time.
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NARRATOR: According to local
religious traditions, volcanoes
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are considered sacred.
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And the Mount Tambora eruption
is thought to have been the work
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of the gods.
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But why?
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Researchers believe answers can
be found near the most volatile
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volcano in Indonesia today...
Mount Merapi... a site believed
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by Java mysticism to be
the center of the world.
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(rumbling)
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Strangely, this revered volcano
is located just 29 miles from a
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mysterious ancient Buddhist
temple called Borobudur.
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COPPENS: Whenever we are
confronted with certain temple
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sites, some of them are obviously
more interesting than others.
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But in this case, we have a very
interesting location, because it
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is said that this mountain is
the center of the universe.
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And you will always find that
this is linked somehow in
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mythology with the ascent or the
descent of a very important god,
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sometimes a creator
deity or somebody else.
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NARRATOR: Built during the
eighth and ninth centuries, the
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Borobudur temple was designed in
the form of a stepped pyramid,
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and features a large round dome
on top, encircled by 72 statues
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of Buddha, each seated in a
bell-shaped enclosure called
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a stupa.
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Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,
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that the temple and stupas were
built to honor otherworldly
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beings and their spacecraft that
arrived at Mount Merapi in the
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ancient past?
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TSOUKALOS: There is no
question that Borobudur was a
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place of pilgrimage that was
built only because something
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significant happened in the remote
past, in that specific area.
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The volcano was so huge for
them, so incomprehensible, that
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they, over time, built stupas,
all directed to the sky.
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Because each stupa, on that
complex, represents a chariot of
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the gods, with which to
actually reach outer space.
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COPPENS: This is a very
specific shape for a temple.
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It's almost as if it is a
flat-topped pyramid with
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something sticking on top there,
as if something has landed.
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And then the question is, why
did they construct it so
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specifically?
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Was it something which was
visually remembering as to what
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had happened there, or what was
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still happening on a regular interval?
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CHILDRESS: All over the
world, volcanoes often have some
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god associated with them who's
controlling the volcano, causing
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earthquakes, causing
devastating eruptions.
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And in fact, in Indonesia, the
people there believe that there
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is an entire city of gods
inside Mount Merapi.
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TSOUKALOS: When I read
stories about ancient volcano
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gods descending or ascending
from and into volcanoes, then I
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think to myself, are we really
talking about something here
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that's a figment of our
ancestors' imagination?
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Or is there some truth
behind these stories?
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And the answer is yes.
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It was not some type of
spiritual event, but it was
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where extraterrestrials
descended from the sky in
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nuts-and-bolts spaceships.
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NARRATOR: But what is it
about volcanoes that seem to
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attract celestial visitors?
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And might they have had the power
to trigger volcanic eruptions?
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(explosion rumbling)
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Hawaii.
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Here, in the middle of the Pacific
Ocean, lies Mount Kilauea.
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Spewing lava almost continuously
since 1983, it is the most
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active volcano in the world.
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According to ancient Hawaiian
legends, the volcano is home to
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Pele, the goddess of
lightning and fire.
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YOUNG: She lives in the
enormous volcano on the Big
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Island in her crater,
and I've been up there.
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It's a big crater, and you can
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imagine a powerful
goddess could live there.
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She has come from a place of the
clouds, a place in the sky.
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And that's mysterious.
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We don't know where that is.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists
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believe, that the origin of the
Pele legend can be traced to
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contact with extraterrestrial beings?
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CHILDRESS: Just like the
American military has hollowed
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out Cheyenne Mountain, near
Colorado Springs, to create a
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secret and virtually
impenetrable military base
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inside of a mountain, we have,
in a sense, similar stories of
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ancient gods or
extraterrestrials doing this to
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volcanoes, using them as bases.
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And if there was some danger of
people discovering it, or people
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were building their homes or
cities too close, these aliens
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could have their volcano erupt.
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TSOUKALOS: Is there something
extraterrestrial behind those
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stories of volcano gods?
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Absolutely yes, because all
around the world, our ancestors
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worshiped nature.
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There was a god of thunder...
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there was a god of rain,
and even a god of a volcano.
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However, there was a fine line
between worshiping nature and
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worshiping something else.
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And that something else
was extraterrestrials.
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They were space travelers that
came here from another planetary
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system.
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NARRATOR: Might some of the
planet's most active volcanoes
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really have been home to
extraterrestrial forces, as some
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ancient astronaut theorists contend?
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Researchers believe further clues
can be found in one of the
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driest and deadliest places on Earth.
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NARRATOR: The Sahara Desert.
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Stretching across Northern
Africa and covering nearly
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three-and-a-half-million square
miles, it is one of the hottest
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and most formidable places on Earth.
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With an average rainfall of only
half an inch per year, humans
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have fought a relentless
battle to adapt to the harsh
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environment or die.
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CHILDRESS: Historians have
often looked at the Sahara
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Desert and wondered what it is
that created this particularly
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inhospitable desolate
area of the planet.
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NARRATOR: But in the Algerian
Sahara, in the region of Tassili
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n'Ajjer, numerous cave
paintings, some estimated to
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date back as far as 8,000 BC,
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depict a time when the land was
lush and teeming with life.
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But if so, what happened?
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CHILDRESS: The scenes that
you see at Tassili n'Ajjer are
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totally bizarre.
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They're showing a Sahara that
was once fertile with giraffes
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and antelope and other animals we
find only in Central Africa really.
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And combined with them are these
bizarre pictures of what even
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the archeologists have called
the Martians and the spacemen.
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They have strange helmets on and suits.
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They look exactly like
extraterrestrials.
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TSOUKALOS: The petroglyphs that
we find there are incredible.
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They look like modern-day astronauts
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with suits, with helmets,
with visors, and
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according to the legends of the
Tassili region, the natives were
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visited at a time when a climate
change was about to happen.
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So is it possible that the
reason why we have these
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depictions of these ancient
aliens is because they assisted
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the native population at the
time of climate change to move
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into a new area of habitation?
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NARRATOR: Did alien beings visit
this region thousands of years ago?
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And if so, might they have
warned the local population of
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an enormous climate change, one that
would trigger a vast migration?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer is yes.
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(drum playing)
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(singing)
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And for evidence, they point to
the ancient oral traditions of a
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Western African tribal
people known as the Dogon.
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CHILDRESS: According to the
Dogon themselves, they were
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guided by their alien fish god
the Nommo, to this area near the
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Niger River where there's
a lot more water.
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So they had to transit across
the inhospitable Sahara to find
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their homeland...
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and their own explanation
is that alien gods led them
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to this fertile area where they
could establish their civilization.
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JASON MARTELL: The Nommos
describe coming down in some
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type of flying craft.
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The Dogon Tribe gave some very
interesting details, which sound
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like a UFO... large
spinning disc that made
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a lot of sound and wind as it
descended to Earth and the
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Nommos appear.
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So, this is a very interesting
story, which was replicated by
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many different cultures of
seeing beings descending from
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the heavens to Earth.
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Were they gods, or were
they extraterrestrials?
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(drums playing, chanting)
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NARRATOR: Even today, the
Dogon believe they are the
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children of the Nommo, strange
gods who came here from the
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Sirius star system.
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NOORY: The Dogon Tribe look
up at the star system of Sirius,
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and they are convinced that they
were visited here, and they were
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told about a star system, a
binary system that we didn't
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know about for years later.
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I mean, how did these
people know this?
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COPPENS: The Dogon have
always been focused upon in the
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sense that they have this story,
this information about their
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ancestors who somehow had this
contact with this non-human
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intelligence.
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Now the question is, how
did they attain this?
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It really might come from the
Sahara Desert, from specifically
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culture pockets like Tassili
n'Ajjer, and that the Dogon are
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descendants from these people.
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NARRATOR: Could the Tassili
n'Ajjer cave paintings and the
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legends of the Dogon tribe
really be proof of alien contact
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in the distant past, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
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Perhaps additional evidence can
be found half a hemisphere away
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at an archeological site near
the city of Chifeng in China.
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Here, scholars have found
5,000-year-old stone carvings
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and other artifacts believed
to have been engraved by a
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Neolithic people known
as the Hongshan.
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CHILDRESS: The Hongshan
people in China are known to
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have strange carvings, jade
statuettes, showing long headed
477
00:34:23,868 --> 00:34:29,174
people looking very much
like extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR: But the most
curious among the Hongshan's
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ancient carvings is this one...
an image of what many scholars
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and archaeologists believe to be
the depiction of a massive comet
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or meteor, similar to the one
that did, in fact, strike this
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region around 3,000 BC.
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SEAN-DAVID MORTON: The
evidence that we have that there
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was a massive catastrophe at
that time, approximately between
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3113 and about 3116 BC,
is so fascinating.
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A whole team at Harvard and
Princeton took a look,
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00:35:12,851 --> 00:35:15,651
scientifically, at the Peruvian
ice shelves there in the Andes
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Mountains, and they dug down,
and they said there was a
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massive, planet-wide glaciation
of the Earth, a gigantic
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catastrophe that froze wooly
mammoths with tropical
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vegetation in their mouths, froze
the entire planet at that time.
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NARRATOR: But how is it
possible that these ancient
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people could have known of a
catastrophic meteor strike that
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wouldn't occur for another 116 years?
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CHILDRESS: It seems like they
were possibly warned by their
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extraterrestrial gods of this
coming catastrophe and were able
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to leave and relocate somewhere else.
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00:35:56,461 --> 00:36:01,297
TSOUKALOS: If we argue that
this carving was done before the
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00:36:01,332 --> 00:36:07,203
event took place, then somebody
must have given them this
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00:36:07,238 --> 00:36:10,740
knowledge, and in the ancient
astronaut opinion, that
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00:36:10,775 --> 00:36:14,477
knowledge was given to
the Hongshan culture by
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extraterrestrials.
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00:36:20,051 --> 00:36:23,319
COPPENS: The question
whether this is by coincidence
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00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,388
or somehow by some intelligence
who's pulling the string of
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00:36:26,457 --> 00:36:29,624
these meteorites and comets,
our ancestors were absolutely
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00:36:29,693 --> 00:36:33,029
convinced that there was
an intelligence behind it.
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00:36:33,531 --> 00:36:35,764
You might have certain comets
which are programmed to bring
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00:36:35,833 --> 00:36:36,765
life.
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00:36:36,834 --> 00:36:39,234
You might also have certain
comets which are programmed to
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00:36:39,303 --> 00:36:40,137
bring destruction.
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NARRATOR: Might the Hongshan
people, like the ancient
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ancestors of the Dogon tribe,
really have received warnings of
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00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:54,416
impending catastrophes from
extraterrestrial beings, as many
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00:36:54,485 --> 00:36:58,420
ancient astronaut theorists believe?
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00:36:58,455 --> 00:37:00,589
If so, why?
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00:37:00,657 --> 00:37:04,359
Did ancient visitors really want
to save the lives of Earth's
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human inhabitants?
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00:37:06,597 --> 00:37:10,365
Or were they trying to achieve
something more, something that
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00:37:10,434 --> 00:37:15,905
might forever change the
course of human history?
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NARRATOR: November 8, 2011.
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A massive asteroid, a quarter
mile in diameter, narrowly
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00:37:31,562 --> 00:37:35,330
misses the Earth while passing
by inside the orbit of the moon.
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00:37:35,399 --> 00:37:40,233
It is known as a Near-Earth Object.
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MORRISON: It's a kind
of wake-up call.
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00:37:44,775 --> 00:37:47,009
It tells us that indeed
these objects are real.
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00:37:47,077 --> 00:37:50,679
They come very close, and
someday, they may come so close
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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
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00:37:56,921 --> 00:38:00,455
large enough that they could
do significant destruction, by
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00:38:00,524 --> 00:38:04,193
which I mean, if they hit a
city, they would destroy it.
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They could kill millions of people.
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00:38:10,866 --> 00:38:14,869
NOORY: An asteroid strike of
significance, something big,
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00:38:14,938 --> 00:38:17,871
could be devastating for the planet.
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00:38:18,775 --> 00:38:23,511
It will cover the sun for years,
and we'll go into an ice age,
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00:38:23,580 --> 00:38:25,216
and we'll all starve to death.
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NARRATOR: According to
mainstream science, one such
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00:38:31,221 --> 00:38:37,258
object, an asteroid six miles in
diameter, smashed into the Earth
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00:38:37,327 --> 00:38:42,597
65 million years ago, triggering
a global catastrophe that
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00:38:42,632 --> 00:38:47,869
forever changed the
history of our planet.
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00:38:47,937 --> 00:38:52,206
WILSON: The Chicxulub Crater
is in Yucatan, Mexico, and it's
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00:38:52,242 --> 00:38:55,577
the largest impact crater on Earth.
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00:38:56,579 --> 00:38:59,547
And this crater is 180
kilometers in diameter.
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00:38:59,582 --> 00:39:04,218
It's absolutely ginormous, and
it represents an event that
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00:39:04,287 --> 00:39:07,488
occurred at the end of the
Cretaceous Period, 65 million
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00:39:07,557 --> 00:39:12,395
years ago, and that's coincident
with a mass extinction.
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00:39:14,597 --> 00:39:17,231
And that's the mass extinction
that took out many animals and
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00:39:17,300 --> 00:39:18,233
plants...
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00:39:20,837 --> 00:39:23,470
most particularly, the dinosaurs.
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00:39:25,475 --> 00:39:27,742
MORRISON: Many scientists are
still studying the details of
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the impact that produced
the dinosaur extinction.
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00:39:34,451 --> 00:39:39,420
They discovered the actual
crater, the smoking gun, the
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00:39:39,489 --> 00:39:43,257
remnant of that impact.
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00:39:43,326 --> 00:39:48,429
From the size of the crater,
we can infer how much energy.
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00:39:48,498 --> 00:39:55,837
It was 100 million megatons
of TNT equivalent.
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00:39:55,872 --> 00:39:59,407
We don't have any other example
that's that clean, but there
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00:39:59,442 --> 00:40:02,610
must have been impacts like that
throughout the history of the
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00:40:02,645 --> 00:40:03,412
Earth.
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NARRATOR: Was such a
devastating collision the
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result of chance, an
intergalactic accident?
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Or might it have been a planned
event, as some ancient astronaut
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00:40:18,228 --> 00:40:20,528
theorists believe?
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00:40:20,597 --> 00:40:22,864
And if so, why?
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CHILDRESS: The reason that
some kind of alien force would
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want to create the extinction
of dinosaurs and other large
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00:40:31,307 --> 00:40:35,209
animals would be to make the
Earth safer for people.
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The idea of tidal waves and
earthquakes, catastrophes
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00:40:39,415 --> 00:40:42,884
causing mass extinctions, the
Earth becomes a better place to
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00:40:42,919 --> 00:40:44,686
live.
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We're able to have our
civilization in a much more
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00:40:49,592 --> 00:40:52,894
protected manner without having
to worry about giant animals
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00:40:52,929 --> 00:40:56,500
crashing into our house all the time.
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00:40:58,935 --> 00:41:01,736
TSOUKALOS: One can ask
the question, why would
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extraterrestrials do this?
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00:41:03,940 --> 00:41:05,373
Well, the answer is very simple.
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We are their product.
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We are their offspring.
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WILLIAM HENRY: They treat us
as creator beings, and we are
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00:41:14,817 --> 00:41:18,352
their offspring, and they're
able to make decisions about
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00:41:18,421 --> 00:41:21,623
humanity based on their needs.
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00:41:24,626 --> 00:41:27,094
So, perhaps their needs were
satisfied, and they decided they
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00:41:27,130 --> 00:41:29,564
didn't want humankind around
anymore, so it's just as easy to
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00:41:29,599 --> 00:41:32,266
wipe them out as it is to
continue to perpetuate their
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00:41:32,335 --> 00:41:33,402
existence.
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REDFERN: If aliens are
visiting us, you know, and
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00:41:36,639 --> 00:41:39,273
they're not necessarily hostile,
but the very fact that there
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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?
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00:41:49,819 --> 00:41:52,186
VON DANIKEN: If you look at
us humans from the religious
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00:41:52,222 --> 00:41:55,289
side, or if you look at the
humans from the scientific side,
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00:41:55,325 --> 00:41:58,125
we look at us as the greatest.
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00:41:58,194 --> 00:42:02,129
Something so gigantic and
wonderful like humans does not
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00:42:02,165 --> 00:42:04,799
exist somewhere in the
universe out there.
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00:42:05,401 --> 00:42:09,203
I could imagine that the
extraterrestrials, one day, they
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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
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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.
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00:42:25,788 --> 00:42:29,323
CHILDRESS: You have to wonder
if extraterrestrials, with their
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00:42:29,392 --> 00:42:33,327
super technology, haven't been
involved in some of these
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00:42:33,363 --> 00:42:38,399
catastrophes, actually creating
them to change history.
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00:42:38,901 --> 00:42:42,336
COPPENS: We know that our
ancestors survived some of the
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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
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00:42:47,710 --> 00:42:52,179
who's willing to tell us and
help us in making sure that we
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00:42:52,248 --> 00:42:56,183
survive, and the question is, if
something is going to happen in
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00:42:56,252 --> 00:43:00,354
the future, are we going to
be relying once again on the
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00:43:00,390 --> 00:43:02,489
nonhuman intelligence to help us?
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00:43:06,728 --> 00:43:11,267
NARRATOR: Devastating
earthquakes and deadly floods,
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00:43:12,935 --> 00:43:18,608
catastrophic eruptions and
planet-crushing collisions...
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00:43:20,843 --> 00:43:24,412
Are Earth's mega-disasters
simply the consequence of
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00:43:24,480 --> 00:43:26,547
natural events?
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00:43:26,883 --> 00:43:31,751
Or is mankind simply a pawn in
the great cosmic experiment,
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00:43:31,887 --> 00:43:35,855
one engineered by otherworldly forces?
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00:43:37,893 --> 00:43:40,861
Might alien beings be
manipulating human history, in
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00:43:40,897 --> 00:43:45,697
an effort to test us,
to make us stronger?
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00:43:45,902 --> 00:43:51,304
Or are they paving the way
for Earth's future, a future
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00:43:51,372 --> 00:43:55,505
where humans would no longer exist?
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