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NARRATOR: Evidence of a cataclysmic event...

ANDREW COLLINS: You can see it here, that this event

took place. NARRATOR: Written accounts

describing lost cities... SABINA MAGLIOCCO: Atlantis

had a great advanced civilization.

NARRATOR: And mythic tales of gods punishing humanity...

DAVID CHILDRESS: They decided that they would destroy all

these civilizations. NARRATOR: In ancient

cultures throughout the world, there are numerous

stories of mankind nearly being destroyed by a great flood.

But could such an event have actually taken place?

And might it have been caused by an otherworldly force?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: One has to ask the question: "What if Noah

was one of the extraterrestrials?"

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world believe

we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true? Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history? And if so, might we find

evidence in the stories of "The Great Flood"?

NARRATOR: It is one of the best-known stories of the Bible,

and variations of this ancient tale can be found in cultures

throughout the world. From ancient Hindu teachings and

Mesopotamian legends to Mesoamerican myths, it is

written that the gods sent a powerful flood to wipe out all

of humanity... MAGLIOCCO: God is angry at

human beings, because human beings have not been behaving

properly; they have been violating God's laws.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: Certainly the most famous of

these is the legend of Noah. In Genesis, God becomes so

disgusted with the behavior of His creation that He says He

"repenteth of making them..." ...and He brings forth the

deluge. JONATHAN YOUNG: In stories

much older than the story of Noah, in the story of

Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend, the council of gods brought

the flood. In Plato's writing,

Zeus brought the flood. DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: In

Hinduism, God had instructed that, one day, the whole Earth

will be flooded. When that happens, you build a

boat and you gather the people, some animals, and then I will

save you. NARRATOR: The story of the

Great Flood is often considered to be mythological.

But similar stories of a cataclysmic flood can be found

in approximately 1,200 different cultures around the world,

and many anthropologists say that because these stories are

so numerous and date back thousands of years, it is

unlikely that they originated from a single source.

MAGLIOCCO: When we find similar myths all over the

world, like the myth of the flood, then we have to ask

ourselves are these things that human beings came up with

independently, because let's say there was a great flood in

ancient history, that has been memorialized in people's

mythologies, because it was such a cataclysmic event that people

looked for a religious explanation for it.

TSOUKALOS: The fact that there are ancient stories that

speak of the same flood, it almost leads into that

direction that, at some point, some cataclysm happened that

not just affected one geographic area of the world, but the

entire planet. NARRATOR: If a cataclysmic

flood really did occur, killing most life on the planet,

what could have caused it? And is there any

physical evidence to suggest that it actually happened?

Scientists say answers to both questions may be buried deep

beneath the sea. The Indian Ocean.

According to the five scientists who make up the Holocene Impact

Working Group, this area-- 900 miles southeast of

Madagascar-- is where an enormous asteroid struck the

Earth, thousands of years ago. This impact may have been so

large that it triggered enormous tsunamis that flooded inland

areas across the region-- an event the local inhabitants

would have perceived as a great flood.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Since so many ancient cultures have a flood

story or a flood mythology, this is probably based in some

sort of real event... and an asteroid landing in

the ocean, in the right place, triggering a tsunami, would then

lead to one of these major floods.

NARRATOR: The Holocene Group says evidence for a

catastrophic asteroid strike lies in what they believe is an

18-mile-wide crater on the floor of the Indian Ocean,

just west of the island of Madagascar.

Holocene Group scientists believe further evidence

supporting their theory also lies in what are called

"chevrons"-- ancient deposits of sediment and fossils in both

Madagascar and Australia. BOB FRISBEE: What was so out

of place and unusual about the chevrons was that they

weren't land-based debris. But, rather, it was the

kind of debris you get from an ocean sea bottom, things like

marine animals, marine fossils. They've also found what's really

the smoking gun of any asteroid or comet impact, and that's

micro-beads. The only way they are formed

is by the extreme heat of an impact melting the rock,

the rock being thrown into the air, or water, and cooling

into these nice little spheres. NARRATOR: Similar marine

fossils have also been found on the other side of the world,

at the ancient temple complex of Puma Punku,

in modern-day Bolivia. If the Holocene Group's initial

findings prove true, they could be definitive evidence that

a cosmic strike caused large-scale flooding thousands

of years ago. But if an asteroid really was

responsible for a worldwide flood, scientists say it would

have to have been as large as the one that led to the

extinction of the dinosaurs, which measured eight miles

wide and struck the Earth with a force five billion times more

powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

COLLINS: There are many ancient texts that tell us

that there wasn't just a flood, but there was also a

conflagration, a period of fire, when the Earth was bombarded

with firestorms, the gods bringing them down, and that

this period was then followed by a flood.

And it would seem that fragments of this comet

vaporized the ice sheets that had been covering large parts

of the northern hemisphere for tens of thousands of years,

sending all of the water up into the atmosphere,

which then rained down. Perhaps even for 40 days,

40 nights, like the Bible tells us.

NARRATOR: According to those scientists who subscribe to this

theory, the fires that might have occurred just before the

flood would have left behind an ash layer in the Earth, all over

the world. This distinctive ash layer--

which scientists call the Usselo Horizon-- could be the

ultimate proof that the Great Flood really occurred.

And researchers believe they may have discovered it.

Just outside the small Belgian town of Lommel, author and

researcher Andrew Collins follows local archeologist

Ferdi Geerts to the site of a mysterious black layer of soil

excavated by a mining company. COLLINS: I can already see a

black layer, um, in the soil here.

It's about just under a-a meter down, um, three to four feet,

um, and, um, are we looking here at the Usselo Horizon?

GEERTS: Yes. COLLINS: Is this, is this it?

GEERTS: At the end of the ditch we see, uh, a peat layer.

COLLINS: Yeah. GEERTS: At the top of the

peat layer, there is, uh, some charcoal.

COLLINS: Right. So, can-can we go down and look at this?

GEERTS: Yes. NARRATOR: Collins and Geerts

get a closer look, which allows them to determine that this dark

layer of soil seems to date to the end of the last ice age,

about the same time the Usselo Horizon is supposed to have

formed. COLLINS: If we come down from

the, from the-the surface here, which is obviously the modern

day, there is this accumulation of sand over a period of around

13,000 years, that takes us back to this point here.

GEERTS: The black is a layer, eh?

COLLINS: Yeah. GEERTS: And the-the white is

sand. We call that a soil horizon.

COLLINS: Yeah. Okay. NARRATOR: According to

Geerts, this black layer dates back to the time period when a

global flood may have devastated Earth.

But what is it made of? Collins and Geerts dig into the

soil and discover that it is, indeed, charcoal.

This is the Usselo Horizon, and to Collins, it's confirmation

that the catastrophe described in the Bible was real.

COLLINS: This is physical evidence of that flood,

of that conflagration. This is your absolute evidence

that this event took place. This is the evidence of the

cataclysm. NARRATOR: Could the Usselo

Horizon, a possible impact crater in the Indian Ocean and

sea fossils at Puma Punku all be proof that the ancient story

of a great flood is not a myth, but that it is based on actual

events? And if so, could the rest of the

story, in which God sent a flood to annihilate the human

race, be true as well? DAVID WILCOCK: This suggests

that a great flood did, in fact, happen; that it was real.

But then it also presents us with an intriguing possibility.

It is entirely possible that there is an extraterrestrial

origin to this terrible flood. NARRATOR: Could it be that

the Great Flood described in so many ancient texts really did

occur at the end of the last Ice Age?

And if so, could it have been brought on by extraterrestrial

beings? Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and claim that evidence of this can be found at the top of

one of the world's most sacred mountains.

NARRATOR: Laurel, Maryland. October 2014.

At Johns Hopkins University, top scientists from all over the

world gather for the first International Asteroid Impact

Deflection Assessment Workshop. The focus of this event is to

demonstrate the latest technology designed for

diverting the course of asteroids headed for a collision

with Earth. The proposed method involves

launching a spacecraft to collide with the asteroid at a

velocity nine times faster than the speed of a bullet fired from

an AK-47. TSOUKALOS: If we look at

the dinosaurs, for example, 65 million years ago-- they were

wiped out due to the impact of a giant rock that wiped out

everything on planet Earth at the time.

And so, right now, scientists around the globe are working

tirelessly to redirect asteroids from possible collisions with Earth.

NARRATOR: In addition to

using direct impact to knock an asteroid off course, scientists

have also looked into the possibility of creating a

gravity tractor that could actually manipulate the

trajectory of the object. But if we are close to

developing this kind of technology today, is it possible

that extraterrestrials who visited Earth in the distant

past already possessed the ability to redirect asteroids?

And if so, might they have used this technology not to deflect

an asteroid away from Earth... but towards it?

TSOUKALOS: We are talking about technology that equals

ours today, or as some have said, that it actually surpasses

whatever it is that we've achieved so far in our modern

age. And so, if we can control

the trajectories of asteroids, to direct them away from Earth,

then it's certainly possible that highly advanced

extraterrestrials could have had the technology to direct an

asteroid towards Earth. ARIEL BAR TZADOK: It's

interesting how the legends described how the flood came.

It is stated that a great meteor or comet or something was to

swing around from behind the sun, and as such, rip the oceans

out of their bodies. The flood was clearly contrived.

It was sent by higher powers to correct things here on Earth.

They had an intent and a purpose for Experiment Earth, which they

believe had become corrupted, and therefore the flood was sent

as an attack, an assault upon humanity.

NARRATOR: If the Great Flood was a real, historical event,

could it have been deliberately caused by otherworldly beings

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

But if so, why? What might they have been trying

to destroy? Mount Hermon, Lebanon.

1869. Exploring the top of this

historic mountain range, British archeologist General Sir Charles

Warren discovers the sacred temple of Qasr Antar-- believed

to be the highest place of worship in the biblical world.

CHILDRESS: Sir Charles Warren hiked up to the top of

Mount Hermon. The ruins of this temple are

there. And there he found an ancient

stele and he broke this stele into two pieces and brought it

back to the British Museum. NARRATOR: When scholars

translated the Greek text, it read: "According to the command

of the greatest and holy God, those who take an oath proceed

from here." The inscription's significance

was lost on archeologists for more than a century, until

biblical scholar George Nicklesburg connected it to an

oath mentioned in the ancient Book of Enoch.

According to Enoch, Mount Hermon is where a band of renegade

angels known as the Watchers descended from the heavens in

the distant past and took an oath before meeting with humans.

YOUNG: In the time before time, the sons of God came down

to Earth. They were the shining ones, the

Enohim, or fallen angels. And they found the women very

attractive and they married the women or bonded with the women.

NARRATOR: The offspring of these unnatural unions between

angels and humans were said to produce giant hybrid beings

called the Nephilim, and God was so disgusted by their existence

that he decided to send a great flood to cleanse the Earth of

them. But how is it that human women

were able to be impregnated by angels?

Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that the Book of Enoch is not actually describing angels, but

rather a different kind of otherworldly being?

CHILDRESS: You've got to wonder what was really going on

here? Are extraterrestrials coming

and now breeding with humans, which was somehow forbidden and

wrong, but they did it anyway? So the other extraterrestrials

decided, "This is a big mistake. Now we've got to destroy all these people."

NARRATOR: Could the story of

the Great Flood actually be describing extraterrestrials

coming to Earth long ago, and interbreeding with human women

to create a mutant race of giants?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim further evidence

can be found by examining ruins that are believed to date back

thousands of years before our earliest known civilizations.

NARRATOR: The Gulf of Khambhat, India. 2001.

Scientists working some 25 miles

from shore, and 125 feet below the surface, stumble across

something extraordinary: what appears to be the signs of an

ancient civilization. SHIMKHADA: Recently,

the marine archeologists of India have discovered two cities

in the Bay of Khambhat. They are still working on it,

uh, you know, going down there and archiving it and taking

photographs and videos. CHILDRESS: They think that

these cities were destroyed in a geological change that

happened many thousands of years ago.

But you have to wonder, yourself, if there are not more

sunken cities all around India. Their own legends and myths say

exactly that. NARRATOR: The ruins found

beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Khambhat are thought to date

back at least 9,000 years, to the time when some researchers

believe a comet struck the Earth and caused a global deluge.

Could these submerged cities not only be evidence that the Great

Flood really did occur, but also that it wiped out an advanced

society that existed long before the earliest known human

civilization? Scientists say further evidence

can be found in archeological sites around the world that date

back to end of the last ice age. In southeastern Turkey lies

Gobekli Tepe, an extraordinary series of circular stone

structures with intricately carved pillars weighing as much

as 50 tons. Radiocarbon dating indicates

parts of the complex were built about 10,000 BC, and at least

one archeologist believes there are signs it may have been

destroyed by a flood. ROBERT SCHOCH: We have

evidence there of catastrophic destruction; of pillars being

knocked over at the end of the last ice age; that things were

very severe, people were trying to rebuild it at the time.

Eventually, they effectively gave up and covered over the

entire site, maybe to come back later to uncover it, maybe to

simply bury it for posterity. NARRATOR: In the rain forests

of Indonesia is a series of terraces, walls and steps on a

hill that the locals call Gunung Padang.

When scientists drilled into the Earth to determine its age, they

discovered the site dates back to at least 9700 BC.

SCHOCH: Very interestingly, one of the layers of Gunung

Padang that's been exposed seismically shows that there was

an entrance to a cave at about 9700 or so BC that was

subsequently covered over. Again, I think this ties in with

the events at the end of the last ice age.

People were going into caves, they had to escape, and then

things were covered over after that.

NARRATOR: Are these ruins that are found across the world

evidence of an advanced civilization that existed before

a global deluge? And if so, might we find mention

of it in ancient myths? MAGLIOCCO: If we go back to

ancient Greece, one of the myths, one of the sacred

narratives that Plato preserves is the narrative that there used

to be a great continent, which he calls Atlantis.

And Atlantis had a great, advanced civilization.

Atlantis was one of the continents that was destroyed by

the Great Flood. SCHOCH: When does he date

Atlantis? To 9600 BC, which is very close

to the modern date of the end of the last ice age.

So all this, I believe, ties together that we had an earlier

cycle of civilization. It was devastated at the end of

the last ice age by natural catastrophes.

Humanity was driven into a dark age that lasted thousands and

thousands of years, until civilization reemerged about

5,000 years ago. NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the story of Atlantis is really describing a civilization that

existed before 10,000 BC, when the Great Flood and the end of

the ice age are said to have happened?

Did Atlantis suffer the same fate as Gobekli Tepe, Gunung

Padang and many other ancient structures that appear to have

been hit by some catastrophic event?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that the most

compelling evidence can be found not with what was destroyed,

but with what survived.

NARRATOR: Qumran, Palestine.

1946. In the desert, ten miles east of

Jerusalem, a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock of sheep and

goats to look for a stray. Walking along the cliffs, the

shepherd spots a cave in the distance.

ROBERT MULLINS: He threw a stone into a cave and

he heard the crack of breaking pottery...

so he went in to investigate, and found jars that contained

ancient manuscripts. McGOWAN COPPENS: The Bedouin

shepherd's find led to a discovery of 11 caves

that contained the most extraordinary cache of

literature, arguably, in human history-- the Dead Sea Scrolls.

There are 800 pieces of literature found in these

11 caves and it tells us so much about the ancient world.

One of the amazing revelations is the story about Noah that we

don't see in the Old Testament, and the story is that when Noah

is born, he's an extraordinary baby with a strange complexion

and the ability to light up the room with his eyes.

ROBERT CARGILL: What's interesting is that you

actually have Noah's father, Lamech, questioning whether or

not Noah is his son. And this is due to the fact that

we have this story about these fallen angels that came down and

had sex with women. Lamech confronts his wife,

Batenosh, "Is it my son or is it, is it one of theirs?"

TSOUKALOS: Noah's exterior is described as very foreign.

His eyes are described to be glowing like sunbeams; his skin

is glowing, as well. Now that's a very bizarre

description, and so, one has to ask the question: "What if

Noah was one of the extraterrestrials?"

NARRATOR: Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that the Biblical figure of Noah was, in fact,

an alien being? Is this the reason he is

described as having a strange complexion and glowing eyes?

BARRY DOWNING: The key thing that's going on with Noah is

that he is pure in God's sight, and so is his family.

And this purity seems to be genetic, as much as what you

might call spiritual. And so, when God makes plans to

wipe out the rest of humanity, what he's wiping out is the

extraterrestrial dimension of humanity that has come about

through the pollution of human genetics.

NARRATOR: Could extraterrestrials have sent

the Great Flood to cleanse the Earth of genetic mistakes,

and make Noah the father of a new version of humankind?

According to ancient stories, the world that Noah's

descendants were born into was very different from the one that

existed in pre-flood times, when gods, giants, fairies, and

other creatures were said to share the planet with humans.

MULLINS: The flood does seem to serve as a demarcation point.

In the Bible, we read about how, before the flood, people had

longer lives, but then, after the flood, shorter lives.

We see the same thing in Mesopotamian tradition,

with the Sumerian King List, where, before the flood, we have

kings that ruled in Mesopotamia, with extraordinarily long lives.

After the flood, the lengths of reigns of these kings becomes

much shorter. YOUNG: The other thing that

happened before this Great Demarcation is that the

gods were present among us. There was a close interaction

between the human and the sacred.

The gods would guide us and they would be tempted.

There would be interaction, the god might marry a mortal

and then there would be descendants of the gods.

Now the gods seem so far away. So, there are these theories

that this was the big shifting point in human history.

JASON MARTELL: It is really interesting to note that the

interaction with these higher beings seems to only be located

in the past. All these depictions of "there

were giants upon the Earth." Or a time when man interacted

with the gods. Where are the gods today?

We only seem to have subtle interactions.

ROB SIMONE: It's curious to think why that might have been.

What was it about this Great Flood, this dividing line

in history, that caused the separation of god and man?

It could be that our evolution depended upon a natural

upbringing, an upbringing that was not contaminated by this

notion that we're not alone in the universe.

It could be a necessary part of the human development.

NARRATOR: Uzengili, Turkey. 1997.

More than 7,000 feet up, near the country's eastern

border, an American explorer searching for Noah's Ark, named

David Allen Deal, stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient

settlement. McGOWAN COPPENS: There is an

extraordinary archaeological site in the Anatolian plateau,

in Turkey, called Naxuan, and Naxuan comes from an ancient

word that means "Noah's Zion," the city of God that Noah built.

Mount Ararat, which is the legendary resting place of

Noah's Ark, is very close by, so it makes a lot of sense

that this could have been the landing site of the ark and

then this city would have been built by Noah.

NARRATOR: The ancient Armenian historian Moses of

Choren called Naxuan, "the place of first descent

where Noah and his family emerged from the ark and built

the first city or town after the flood."

Could this be the first settlement in the post-flood

world, the place where Noah lived and died?

Today, this remote area is largely uninhabited, but

according to explorer David Deal, a recent archeological dig

reportedly uncovered something remarkable:

the region may contain as many as a million graves.

McGOWAN COPPENS: There is evidence that people came

from all over the world to bury their dead here,

for 10,000 years. The idea is that if you are

brought here to be buried in the site of this extraordinary

prophet, this man who was chosen by God to be the survivor of the

deluge, that you, too, would be resurrected because you were in

such holy company.

NARRATOR: According to some researchers, if this is indeed

the place where Noah began the repopulation of the Earth, then

the Ark must be nearby as well. MULLINS: In the Book of

Genesis, we read about how God commanded Noah to build an ark.

And the measurements of this ark are quite large.

The dimensions usually given are about 450 feet long by 75 feet

wide by about 45 feet high. Such a boat of these dimensions

was never seen in the ancient world, and in fact, not until

the 19th century was there ever a boat of this size.

NARRATOR: In 2009, a Dutchman named Johan Huibers started

building a full-size version of Noah's ark using the

instructions laid out in the Bible.

It took him three years and more than a million dollars

to complete the project. But while the ship seems

perfectly designed to ride out a torrential storm, many say it's

still far too small to literally hold two of every animal species

on the planet. DOWNING: It would seem pretty

clear that Noah did not scoop up every form of life on Earth and

put it into the Ark. And so as a means of saving all

life-forms on Earth, uh, this is not possible, not believable.

NARRATOR: But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

there might be another way in which the ark was able to

preserve two of every creature on Earth, as stated in the

Bible. TSOUKALOS: Let's look at it

from a technological perspective.

The only way that you can create an ark like Noah created,

according to what we can read in the Old Testament, is if you

collect DNA samples. So, what if the ark was a

metaphor or a symbol for some type of a DNA bank?

NARRATOR: Did the ark described in the story of Noah

really exist? And if so, might it have been

not a vessel to carry two of every animal species, but a DNA

bank, built to hold the genetic information of all life on our planet?

CHILDRESS: What one might

read into this is that some kind of special DNA bank was to be

created; that animal DNA, plant DNA, and human DNA for that

matter, were all to be preserved somehow in an ark that

was to float through the flood and this catastrophe.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that all of humanity is descended

from Noah's genetic lineage-- a new species that replaced the

indigenous people who once existed on Earth?

And all that remains of this once great society are the giant

slabs of rock that were too big to be washed away by the flood?

And if so, might we be destined to suffer the same fate?

Perhaps further clues can be found by looking at our own

modern-day version of Noah's Ark.

NARRATOR: Spitsbergen, Norway.

On this remote archipelago, not far from the Arctic Ocean, lies

the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Known as the "doomsday vault,"

this repository for the DNA of plants, animals, and humans can

withstand nearly any cataclysm, including a flood, an

earthquake, or a nuclear blast.

KIRSTEN FISHER: The Svalbard

Seed Bank is a structure or a facility that's sunk into the

permafrost. It's essentially an

international effort to deposit as many seeds, and particularly

seeds of crop plant varieties, to help to preserve genetic diversity.

NARRATOR: With the doomsday

vault, are we creating our own modern-day ark...

one that, instead of housing two of every living creature on

Earth, will house the seeds of every kind of plant life?

FISHER: The Svalbard Seed Vault has been designed with

some sort of cataclysm in mind. The idea is that in the event of

some catastrophic event, it would still stay cold and

preserve seeds for thousands of years.

It's sort of this last hope. NARRATOR: The Svalbard is

just one of several biological storehouses located around the

world. England's Millennium Seed Bank

is even larger, while the U.S. federal government has built a

similar facility in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Scientists say one reason for these repositories is that

another large asteroid-- similar to the one that is believed to

have caused the Great Flood-- will eventually strike Earth.

It's just a matter of time. FRISBEE: You always have the

risk, and of course we've seen it here on Earth, of having

large asteroids or comets hit the planet and cause tremendous

ecological damage. Right now, all our genetic eggs

are in one basket. Whether it's a comet or asteroid

hitting us, we are in jeopardy. NARRATOR: In February of

2013, an asteroid large enough to take out all of New York City

came within 18,000 miles of Earth.

Another has been predicted to strike the Earth sometime in the

next 20 years. But if a great flood or some

other global catastrophe were to occur today, are we prepared

to survive it? And if there really are

extraterrestrial beings watching over the Earth, are they likely

to be the cause of such a cataclysm?

Or will they simply be observers, sitting quietly by

and letting nature take its course?

CHILDRESS: If extraterrestrial gods are there

watching us and, either aware of future catastrophes or are

capable of making them themselves, then perhaps we need

to be prepared for that. We live in a precarious point

where, at any time, we could go through another catastrophe.

And you have to ask yourself if the extraterrestrials themselves

may not create that. WILLIAM HENRY: One of the

explanations for why extraterrestrials might seek to

destroy humankind is because they treat us as their property.

They treat us as their offspring.

And they're able to make decisions about humanity based

on their needs. So perhaps their needs were

satisfied and they decided they didn't want humankind around

anymore, so it's just as easy to wipe them out as it is to

continue to perpetuate their existence.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: The evolution of humans on this

planet has been completely and totally an experiment on the

part of extraterrestrials. If survival is the bottom line,

they are trying to get us over some kind of a finish line when

we're still alive. TSOUKALOS: Our survival

was ensured by extraterrestrials, way back in

the remote past, because we are their direct offspring.

We are their product. They, in fact, have a vested

interest in our survival. NARRATOR: Are we the

descendants of an extraterrestrial ancestor named

Noah, who was sent to repopulate the Earth after the Great

Flood? And if so, are there

extraterrestrials watching over us, even to this day?

Not to destroy us, but simply to see if we can prevail over

the Earth's next great cataclysm?

It is a question we may not have much time to think about

except to consider how much or how many will survive.

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