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Every action is being monitored.

There are millions and millions of cameras everywhere you go.

Every conversation is recorded.

Cell phones are actually sending information

about who we're communicating with on a daily basis.

And every secret is exposed.

We are headed into this direction

where, with a stroke of a key,

you can figure out anything you want about a person.

As technology advances, information about everything- and everyone- is

becoming more accessible than ever before.

But in this age of unlimited access, should we be asking not

only who is watching us, but from where?

These Watchers, who are extraterrestrials, were all over

the Earth in ancient times.

Watching people on Earth,

watching civilization grow, and

you have to wonder- isn't this still happening today?

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 they be among us today?

Aliens Among Us

June 5, 2013.

The British daily newspaper The Guardian reveals that

classified documents from the

United States National Security Agency have been leaked.

Among them is an order from the

Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court requiring

Verizon to hand over metadata

from millions of Americans'

phone calls to the FBI and NSA.

Four days later, Edward Snowden,

a former cyber security expert

for the Central Intelligence Agency, comes forward to

identify himself as the source of the leak.

When asked to explain his

actions, Snowden states, "I can

get your e-mails, passwords,

phone records, credit cards.

I do not want to live in a

world where everything I do and say is recorded."

The NSA is the National Security Agency or, as some

people call it, the National Spying Agency, which is in

control of monitoring the communication systems throughout

the world- every form of electronic communication,

supposedly for the purposes of national security to identify

and neutralize any threats to America.

One of the documents that Edward Snowden released was about a

Project Mystic, which has the capability to record the actual

audio of every conversation in

an entire country, if not the planet.

Technology is really interesting, as it enhances our life in so many ways.

But with each of those enhancements, there's also

something potentially taken away, depending on how you see it.

For example, our privacy is changing or is, uh, actually

getting reduced almost daily.

We've never experienced

a society where there are so many microphones, millions and

millions of cameras everywhere you go.

We are moving our entire lives into what is known as the Cloud.

We are headed into this direction where, with a stroke

of a key, you can figure out anything you want about a person.

As technology continues to advance at an

ever-increasing rate, we gain greater access to information

both from and about each other,

becoming interconnected unlike any other time in our history.

There are those who believe that this evolution of technology is

not entirely of our own making, but that we have been guided by

visitors that first came to Earth thousands of years ago.

From the perspective that I look at it

all is that a long time ago, extraterrestrials provided the

basic tools, the basic knowledge with the idea that ultimately we

would turn or become the society that we are today.

So is it possible that we are still being observed?

And the answer is a resounding yes.

Ancient astronaut theorists contend that it is by

extraterrestrial design that we have become so technologically

interconnected, and that we are being watched not only by

agencies of the government, but by beings from beyond our world.

They also claim that they set us

on this course in the ancient past, and that we can find

evidence of their existence in the stories of a group of

ancient aliens known as the Watchers.

In the fourth chapter of the Hebrew Bible's Book of Daniel,

the Watchers are described as a

group of divine overseers, later associated with angels.

The Watchers are essentially messengers.

And so this is why many scholars

understand the Watchers to be a class of angels, since angels

were understood to be messengers in the Bible.

They're tasked with managing the

Earth and watching over humans.

And some of these are said to be good Watchers.

They do their jobs dutifully.

And others are said to be bad Watchers.

It is said about the Watchers that nothing

happens on Earth that is not ordained by their hand and

executed by their agents.

Who are they?

What are they?

Well, Daniel doesn't necessarily go into greater detail.

But there were numerous other

texts that teach more about that

which is recorded in the Biblical books.

One of the most famous, of course, is the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch, containing the firsthand

account of the great-grandfather

of Noah, was stricken from the

Bible's Old Testament at the

Council of Laodicea in the 4th century AD.

In the third book of this apocryphal text, Enoch says an

angel- known as a "Watcher"- took him aboard a fiery

chariot that ascended to Heaven.

Enoch is brought up into outer space, into "Heaven."

It's fascinatingly detailed, and

the reports of crystal walls

with light coming out of them

and crystal rooms sounds like

someone with primitive language

skills trying to explain going

into a super-high-fidelity science-fiction reality.

In many ways, when you read the Book of Enoch, he

is an abductee by extraterrestrials and they're

taking him into a spaceship, they're showing him the Earth,

they're giving him special instructions.

The Book Of Enoch also states that 200 Watchers

descended to Earth to oversee

humankind and aid in our advancement.

The Watchers were said to have taught mankind

many different arts and sciences

that had previously only been known to the "angels" of Heaven.

And these included astronomy, metrology, the use of weapons.

Enoch is talking about flesh-and-blood beings

who came, saw potential for mankind and imparted knowledge.

Those are who the Watchers were.

Could it be that the Watchers described in the

Book of Enoch are extraterrestrials that came to

Earth and taught early humans in the distant past?

Did they plant the seeds of knowledge that would lead us to

this point in our technological evolution?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and suggest that evidence

for this can be found in every corner of the world.

Around the world, we find stories that are

strikingly similar to that of the Watchers coming to Earth and

giving humanity forbidden

knowledge, especially the secrets of Heaven.

Inca legend states that the god Viracocha created

humans and taught them

astronomy, agriculture and other advanced arts.

The Maya civilization believed

their supreme god Kukulkan taught humans writing,

mathematics and science.

And in ancient Chinese legend, the divine ruler Huang Di

introduced numerous advancements

such as the wheel, weaving and writing.

In Egypt, you have the god Osiris revealing the

wisdom to mortal kind on how

they could construct civilization.

And you find this again and again, um, within the-the

Eurasian continent, in Africa,

but also obviously within Southwest Asia.

You have the stories of the Anunnaki.

Stories of the Anunnaki or the Watchers or

the-the gods in the Greek pantheon or any of the ancient

gods were based on physical visitations.

They are all the same group, the same extraterrestrials.

They just have received different names among the tribes

and among the continents.

If extraterrestrials really did come here to Earth to assist

humanity, what happened to them?

Perhaps the answer can be found with one of the ancient world's

most powerful secret societies, which still exists today.

The Netherlands.

March 24, 2014.

58 world leaders gather at the

World Forum in The Hague for the

third biannual Nuclear Security Summit.

In the center of the room is a

giant spinning hologram of a pyramid with three smaller

upside-down pyramids inside it.

This symbol, which is also worn

as a pin by the delegates, is

the summit's official logo.

But there are some who claim it

represents something else, the

all-seeing eye of the Illuminati.

Conspiracy theorists suggest

that this centuries-old secret

society is alive and well in the

21st century, as evidenced by

symbols flashed by celebrities,

industry moguls and even heads of state.

The modern-day Illuminati was organized by Adam

Weishaupt in Germany.

He formulated plans so that his

group could infiltrate all the

key powers of society, the political sphere, the banking

sphere, the media sphere back in the late 1700s.

When we're talking about the

Illuminati today, we're talking

about, essentially, the most powerful secret society.

These are the people that pull

the strings from behind the scenes.

Is this just paranoia, or might the

Illuminati still be around

today, embedded in the highest levels of society?

And if so, what is their agenda?

Some say the answer can be found

with a much older secret

society, which may have been the

precursor to the Illuminati, the Knights Templar.

This band of warrior monks was

formed in 1118 AD to protect

pilgrims traveling to Jerusalem during the Crusades.

But many claim that their true purpose was to find lost

religious relics hidden at the Temple Mount.

And during their time in Jerusalem, they rose from

relative obscurity to being the

most powerful order of the Crusades.

So far-reaching was their

influence that it became widely

rumored they were in league with demons.

Jacques de Molay, the leading figure in the

history of the Knights Templar,

was brought up on charges of

treason and heresy for something

like devil worship, somehow worshipping the dark side.

And this was the charge brought

against not only de Molay but

the Knights Templars in general.

Is it possible the Knights Templar really were in

contact with otherworldly

entities they encountered at the Temple Mount?

And if so, just what were these so-called demons?

We are taught that these shedim, demons, in

many ways, they are like human beings.

And in many ways, they're like the angels.

Some are evil.

Many are good.

Rumor has it that the Templar Knights endeavored to

communicate with these spiritual entities.

This concept of demons is very

different from the way we think of demons today.

Essentially what a demon was, was an otherworldly being,

a being that was not of this Earth, potentially an

extraterrestrial being, with the

word "extraterrestrial" meaning "not of this Earth."

Could the Templars really have been influenced by

aliens that they misinterpreted as spiritual beings?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

say that the Knights Templar

were in contact with the same

extraterrestrials that were

known in biblical times as the Watchers.

And as evidence, they point to one of the Templars' most

prominent symbols, the same symbol that some say was

virtually present at the Nuclear the all-seeing eye.

This symbol- which is sometimes

just an eye, but often an eye

within a pyramid- was used by

the ancient Egyptians, the Knights Templar, the

Rosicrucians, the Freemasons,

the Illuminati, and is even

incorporated into the great seal of the United States.

It is a symbol that is most commonly interpreted to mean

that someone, or something, is watching us.

The Eye of Providence symbolizes the idea

of an omniscient, intelligent

universe that is overseeing all

of the affairs that we have here on Earth.

For many, the Eye of Providence was a symbol

that God was watching over us,

but others believed that it had

a much deeper meaning and actually extended well beyond

many other cultures- possibly

even connected to extraterrestrials.

Could the symbol of the all seeing eye be secretly

telling us that the Watchers are

still here on Earth, working behind the scenes in secret

societies and even the top levels of government?

Curiously, the Book of Enoch

tells of the Watchers' arrival,

but it never tells of their departure.

We have the records, as described in the

Book of Enoch and other literature, that when the

Watchers came down, corrupted the human gene pool.

Introducing hidden technologies,

centuries before they were meant to be introduced.

Things we off track.

It was then ordained by whatever

heavenly powers that we had to start from scratch.

A flood was to come.

But yet, what happened to the Watchers?

They were not human, and

therefore they were not subject to a human decree.

Or could they be susceptible to human death?

Well, the Bible doesn't say what happened to them.

But the other legends do.

In the mystical legends, it is

taught that a good number of them escaped the flood by

escaping to secret hidden places.

Is it possible that ancient aliens called the

Watchers actually survived the

cataclysm known as the Great Flood?

And could they not only have

survived, but managed to live

among us in secret for thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and claim that proof can be

found deep beneath the Earth.

Nevsehir Province, Central Turkey.

Hidden 60 meters belowground

lies Derinkuyu, an ancient subterranean city that

archaeologists believe once

housed more than 20,000 people.

First discovered in 1963, some

ancient astronaut theorists contend the once

fully-functioning underground

city is evidence that ancient people really were forced

underground by a great cataclysmic event...

...and that they may have had

help from more advanced beings, like the Watchers.

The amazing thing about Derinkuyu is that it was

built around 9000 BC, just before the last Ice Age.

And you have to ask, is it possible that it was built by

the Watchers as a refuge for

themselves, or perhaps as a refuge for humanity?

Archaeologists in the Middle East have surmised

that around 5000 BC, there

was a huge flood throughout the

Middle East, and it destroyed

and flooded much of Sumeria and Anatolia.

This is the same time where the

city of Derinkuyu was being occupied underground.

So, we might surmise that this

was one of the refuges of the Watchers.

Is it really possible that the underground

city of Derinkuyu was constructed with the help of

extraterrestrials to provide shelter from a great flood?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest that Derinkuyu is just

one of numerous locations where

it appears someone or something

built a fortification to serve

as a refuge from a great cataclysm.

In a remote area of the Himalayan mountain range in

Nepal, at an elevation of 14,000

feet, over 10,000 manmade caves

have been found carved into sheer cliffs.

Archaeologists believe they

could date back more than 3,000

years, and struggle to explain

how ancient people would have

been able to access these caves, let alone create them.

It's not easy to get up there at all.

It's not known, why would people

take the trouble to climb up a

vertical cliff in the middle of the Himalayas?

It suggests that whoever built

them might have had some sort of

flying craft technology.

Perhaps even more baffling are the Huashan Grottos

in the Anhui Province of China.

They are the largest ancient

manmade caves in the country,

containing stone rooms, bridges and pavilions.

Archaeologists have no idea how

they were built, by whom or why.

Could these ancient sites that

defy explanation have been built

by alien visitors in order to survive the Great Flood?

Ancient astronaut theorists

contend that perhaps the strongest proof that the

Watchers survived the flood can

be found not in the Middle

East, Asia or India, but in the American Southwest.

Northeastern Arizona.

Sprawled across this desolate

and arid region lie the three mesas- settlements of the

Native American Hopi tribe that

some have long believed align

with the stars of Orion's Belt-

Alnilam, Alnitak and Mintaka.

In addition to their strong ties

to the constellation of Orion,

the Hopi also have numerous

legends of the Ant People, an

advanced race of beings that came to the aid of mankind.

I've seen some of these carvings on the rock

cliffs in Arizona.

The Ant People helped the Hopi

survive two major cataclysms:

the destruction of the first world by fire...

some kind of asteroid strike...

...and the second world by ice, maybe a pole shift.

But each time, the Ant People

led the Hopi down into caverns

and helped them survive in a subterranean world.

This story is strikingly similar to that of

the Watchers, who sought to

protect the humans that they had interacted with.

You have to wonder- are the

Ant People somehow related to,

if not the same as, the Watchers of the biblical story?

But what ancient astronaut theorists find most

fascinating about the story of

the Ant People is what they are called in Hopi.

The Hopi word for "ant" is "anu," and the Hopi

word for "friend" is "nnaki."

So, you put the two together,

the Anunnaki, the ant friend

that the Hopi have interacted

with for centuries and millennia.

And this ties in with the Bible

and with Sumerian mythology.

It's all tied in together.

These Ant People are pervasive in human history.

According to Sumerian texts, the Anunnaki,

much like the Watchers, were

beings who came down from the sky, and helped mankind's

earliest civilization to develop

writing, medicine and irrigation.

Could the Hopi stories of the

Ant People actually be describing the same star

travelers that the Sumerians

called the Anunnaki, and that

the Bible refers to as the Watchers?

Might the Ant People have been

extraterrestrials that took refuge in the caves of the

American Southwest to survive the Great Flood?

But if the Watchers really did remain here on Earth, did they

also continue to manipulate the evolution of human society?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and claim the evidence can be found with the strange

cave-dwelling entities known as the Jinn.

Muscat, Oman.

Here, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, lies one of the

world's ten largest caves Majlis al Jinn, or "meeting place of the Jinn."

According to Islamic texts,

the Jinn are beings from a higher realm.

But they are not angels.

They have free will, and they disobey Allah, just as the

Watchers are said to have

disobeyed God in the Book of Enoch.

And many Muslims believe this 14-acre cavern is still

inhabited by these otherworldly beings.

In Islam, there is a class of beings known as Jinn.

The Jinn are angelic, and yet

they are not of the ethereal realm.

They are of the earthly realm.

They're neither good nor evil.

They're shape shifters.

They can help you.

They can also trick you.

They are supposed to have had magic abilities,

supernatural powers.

And humans greatly feared the Jinn.

They are just exiled beings who crossed over a forbidden

boundary and now find themselves

trapped in the earth plane.

In the Islamic texts, the Jinn appear only

when they want to be seen, often influencing humans by

whispering instructions to them while invisible.

In order to understand the nature of these

entities, we must understand

that in many ways they are the intermediary race.

Like human beings, they eat and drink.

Like human beings, they sexually procreate.

But, like the angels, they can

shape-shift, fly and know the future.

Stories of encounters with the Jinn

can be found throughout the Muslim world.

But could they be true?

And if so, are these the same

otherworldly entities that are

said to have descended to Earth

before the time of the Great

Flood, known as the Watchers?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and claim that further

evidence can be found with the

stories of similar strange

beings found all over the world.

In Africa, there are stories of

the Orisha- demigods who came

down from the sky that are said

to speak every language and

secretly influence events on Earth.

In Japan, the Tengu are birdlike

creatures that are said to hide

out in the mountains and change

form to manipulate humans.

But if the Watchers were active

on Earth hundreds of years ago,

could they still be living among us even to this day?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and for proof, they suggest

we look no further than recent

accounts of alien abductions.

January 25, 1967.

South Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

30-year-old Betty Andreasson is

in her kitchen after dinner while her mother, father and

seven children are in the living room.

Suddenly, the power goes out.

And when it comes back on a moment later, a beam of red

light shoots through the window.

We saw a flashing reddish orange light

coming through the pantry window.

Five beings entered my home

right through the wooden door.

They had large black eyes,

tiny nose, thin slit mouth, tiny holes for ears.

A large, bulbous head.

And I was quite shocked,

wondering, who or what is this, you know?

At that point, I was taken up into the craft.

Betty ends up going with them to

someplace that she thinks is their world.

And she said it was more vivid than life itself.

Betty Andreasson's

reports are very detailed and thorough.

There's lots and lots of

specific drawings that she makes

of technology on these ships.

This is before the era that

anybody was talking about this

stuff, so it was a totally unique experience for her.

A devout Christian, Andreasson describes her

abduction as a religious experience.

The only thing I could think of- that

they must be angels, for them to

be able to pass through the door

like that and to take me through that door the same way.

But for ancient astronaut theorists, this

encounter is most significant

because of how these strange

beings identified themselves.

They said that they were the Watchers.

But if extraterrestrial beings known as

Watchers are still living among us today, why?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining other cases of extraterrestrial abductions

and by examining whether the Watchers are watching us

or if there are other beings watching them.

June 1, 1990.

UFO investigator Raymond Fowler

publishes The Watchers, an

unprecedented inside look at the Betty Andreasson case.

After years of hypnosis, psych

exams and interviews, Fowler concludes that the strange

beings Andreasson encountered that called themselves the

Watchers were the same entities

that are commonly identified today as Grey aliens.

It's very interesting, this word "Watchers," because

when you talk with so many

people, you begin to hear patterns.

And even if you're not sitting

across from a man or a woman or

a child who says, "I was taken

by a Watcher," what you hear is

the abductees knew that they

were dealing with something that

knew everything about them-

again, the Watcher idea, whether

you use that name or not.

According to Betty's account, the

extraterrestrials who took her

aboard their craft subjected her to medical examination.

And I was floated to a table.

And as he was examining me, he

said they were going to have to measure me physically.

And at that point, they started

to take this needlelike thing

and thrust it into my navel.

And I could feel it going round and round inside me.

As incredible as Betty Andreasson's abduction

story sounds, it is not unique.

Many alleged alien abductees give very similar accounts.

In 1961, Betty and Barney Hill

of Lancaster, New Hampshire

made one of the earliest alien

abduction reports when they

claimed that they had been taken aboard a ship...

placed naked on examination

tables and probed by what they described as Grey aliens.

Linda Porter of Covina, California reported that in

1963 she, too, was taken aboard

a ship where she witnessed strange-looking creatures

examining humans held in states of suspended animation.

But if these accounts are true,

what is it that's being done to these abductees?

Watchers have two key

areas of interest as concerned to humanity.

One is genetics and the other is

technology, and both are found

in the phenomena of alien abductions.

So one idea would be that the

purpose of the abductions is to

continue to tweak the human body

to assist humanity in climbing

the evolutionary ladder, so to speak.

Is it possible that the Watchers that were described

in the Bible and the Book of

Enoch really are responsible for

the modern alien abduction phenomenon, and that they are

continuing to alter our genetic makeup?

Or might there be another explanation?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

suggest it is possible that

modern alien abductions are not

the work of those same Watchers

that survived the Great Flood,

but that instead, they are

carried out by another group of extraterrestrials.

Watchers that have returned to

Earth in search of those who stayed behind.

All of the people that I've interviewed, they would

tell you the same thing.

These Watchers, they're not all of the same mind.

There seems to be conflict about

what the future of humanity on this planet will be.

The legends teach us that the Watchers fight

amongst themselves, and that they will each manipulate

segments of humanity so as to

express their own agendas, and therefore it is they who

influence nations to go to war

and to fight for their purposes

and not necessarily for our own betterment.

And you have to wonder if many of the modern-day

abductions, such as Betty Andreasson, are really

extraterrestrials who are searching for the Watchers.

Could it be that extraterrestrials are abducting

humans because they are actually

looking for other alien beings hiding among us?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest that the answer may be

found by taking a closer look at

the United States government's most secret projects.

San Francisco, California.

June 6, 2011.

At the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference,

Steve Jobs introduces the world to his

latest technological breakthrough... iCloud.

This new service allows users to

store all of their digital

data- such as music, e-mail, contacts, documents,

photos and Internet search history- on pools of remote

servers collectively known as the Cloud.

This revolutionary technology

takes off so fast that within

two years there are over 300

million people on the Cloud.

And because it is built into

every Apple device, some people

use the Cloud without even realizing it.

But while Apple assures its

customers that their personal

files are secure, in August of

2014, explicit personal photos

of female celebrities begin to pop up online.

The Cloud has been hacked.

All of your information is now on the Cloud.

It's now somewhere else.

Sure, you can always potentially access it and read that

information back, but that also

means someone else now has access to your data.

That data could be your e-mails. It could be your messages.

It could be phone calls. It could be voice mails.

It's incredible because you're literally just handing

your data over to an unknown location run by who knows who.

Many people see very big security issues with these.

You're no longer personally

having control of your own data on your own hard drive.

You're just sending it off into

the ether, uh, to who knows where.

When Edward Snowden revealed in 2013 the extent to

which our privacy has been

compromised, it drew public outrage.

But as the march of technology moves forward, are we adapting

to the notion that nothing is sacred or secret?

And is it possible that extraterrestrials who have been

watching us for thousands of

years actually led us to this point?

Could it be that our increased

reliance on computers, cell phones, tablets and anything

else connected to the Internet is the product of

extraterrestrial design, giving

the Watchers greater access to us than ever before?

We're living in a day and age now where everybody is

carrying literally a camera and

a microphone in their hand or in their pocket that can be

remotely activated by the NSA or various number of

intelligence agencies or even hackers.

The Webcams in all laptops and the microphones can

be easily remotely activated.

It really seems that because of technology these

extraterrestrials step up their

monitoring and watch every little detail of what goes on.

And they want to see our planet

nurture certain civilizations

that are technologically minded.

But there are some who believe the highly

interconnected society we now

live in provides for even more shocking implications.

They say that extraterrestrials may actually be in league with

world leaders, monitoring each and every one of us in an effort

to root out the Watchers who

have been hiding among us for thousands ofears.

The United States government has proof that at

least three competing geopolitical, territorial

extraterrestrial groups that are

in conflict with each other have been on this planet.

The intervention may actually

be positive for humans going forward.

But we are also presented the idea that we are dealing with

intelligences that may actually

want to do harm, and have done harm.

It is as if there were political parties in the cosmos.

Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists

contend, that the Watchers really do exist, and are still

here on Earth watching over us?

Could we be under surveillance

by not one group of Watchers, but several?

And might a secret conglomeration of the world's

most powerful leaders have actually taken a side in this

extraterrestrial conflict?

Perhaps very soon we will discover that aliens have been

among us all along- watching us... and guiding us.

Not only in the interest of our own future, but also theirs.

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