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NARRATOR: Strange symbols found on opposite sides of the Earth.

DAVID CHILDRESS: What a mandala is doing in remote

desert of Peru is very interesting.

NARRATOR: Binary code appearing in crop formations.

ANDREW COLLINS: Can we see it as a reply?

Indeed, it was.

NARRATOR: And geographical alignments that defy explanation.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: These settlements that are 5,000 years

old, how are they all lined up?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that throughout the world there are

messages concealed within ancient texts, symbols and structures?

And if so, might they have been left for us to uncover by

extraterrestrial beings?

KATHLEEN McGOWAN COPPENS: These messages were left to us a

long, long time ago so that we could remember who we are.

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 the proof in alien messages?

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Ancient Aliens Season 7

Episode 12 Alien Messages

NARRATOR: Arecibo Observatory. Puerto Rico.

November 16, 1974.

Early pioneers of SETI the Search for Extraterrestrial

Intelligence aim the world's

largest radio telescope at a cluster of stars 25,000

light-years away to send a transmission out into the cosmos.

The coded signal consists of binary digits zeros and ones

that form a message designed to

notify other potentially advanced beings of our existence.

SETH SHOSTAK: This message into space, it was encoded in

what's called binary code,

cause it's the simplest around.

Listen, we're trying to send a message to the aliens, and

because you don't know anything about them, you have to make

this as obvious as possible.

Now, here's the message over here that was actually sent in

1974, and it starts off with teaching the ABC's to the aliens.

Well, not ABC's, the 1-2-3's.

Because right up here are the numbers from one to ten, but in binary.

And anybody who has thought about binary should be

able to figure that out, including the aliens.

Right underneath that is... this funny thing here has the numbers

one, six, seven and so forth.

Those are the atomic numbers of the elements that make up our

bodies hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.

NARRATOR: The coded message also contained information about our DNA...

the figure of a human... a graphic of the solar system...

and a graphic of a radio telescope.

For decades, SETI scientists wondered if their cosmic message

would ever be received, or answered.

Then, nearly 27 years later, there appeared to be a response.

Hampshire, England. August 2001.

Next to the Chilbolton Radio Observatory, two crop formations appeared in a field.

Both are unlike any other ever found.

WILLIAM HENRY: They were both pixilated, meaning that when

you're on the ground, you couldn't perceive what the

crop circle was, but once from the air you could readily

identify the pattern.

COLLINS: One of the crop formations that appeared at

Chilbolton in 2001 was a face, but the other one was far, far

more interesting, because it

greatly resembled the message

that had been sent in 1974.

There were very, very subtle differences between the two.

They looked identical, but when you actually looked at them, the

differences gave a key that

seemed to be, uh, almost like

an answer.

HUGH NEWMAN: One of them was the fact that the human being

that we sent out, when it came back, it had what appeared to

look like some kind of grey alien with a large head and a small body.

It also had a different system

of planets, which is suggesting it's a different solar system.

And it also had a different DNA sequence as well.

And so just these three things really caught my attention,

because either it was a brilliant hoax or it was

actually a message that came back and was a response to that

original SETI message way back in the 1970s.

COLLINS: And all of these suggested to the crop circle

community, and the media, that we really had received a reply

to the Arecibo message of 1974.

Can we see it as a reply?

Yes, indeed, it was.

But actually who created it, and their exact purpose, will remain a mystery.

NARRATOR: Some think the reply may have been to tell us

that we're on the right track,

communicating in the universal language of the cosmos binary code.

A German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz, is credited

with defining binary code in the 17th century.

In turn, Leibniz is said to have credited his inspiration to the

5,000-year-old Chinese text of I Ching, an ancient oracle code

used to communicate divine guidance.

DOMINIC STEAVU-BALINT: The I Ching is a kind of cryptic

oracular inscription that you're supposed to decipher, and it was

heavily used in divination in early China.

The numerical symbols, or values, are actually tied to a

semi-mythical figure by the name of Fu Xi...

who is perhaps the earliest legendary ruler of China.

TSOUKALOS: The history, or origin, of the I Ching is very

interesting because it is said that this knowledge was imparted

on Fu Xi by an otherworldly being.

NARRATOR: According to ancient Chinese myth, Fu Xi lived around 3000 B.C.

He and his sister were the sole survivors of a great flood, and

together they repopulated the Earth.

COLLINS: And it was said that one day he was on the Yellow

River, um, and a water dragon appeared to him, and that on

the back of this water dragon was revealed to him the eight trigrams.

NARRATOR: These eight trigrams are the foundation of the I Ching.

They are made up of a series of broken and unbroken lines, a

distinct binary code.

CHILDRESS: Fu Xi was given the information of the I Ching,

what was essentially a binary code.

It's basically proven that this kind of mathematical binary code

is what is going to drive all computers in the future.

And this is something that extraterrestrials on other

planets and other galaxies must also be using.

TSOUKALOS: Some have surmised that the idea for the binary

code was gleaned from the I Ching.

It's a very curious thing.

Especially the idea that the basics of the I Ching was

imparted by another type of being.

NARRATOR: Could the I Ching have been an attempt by

extraterrestrials to set up a common communication language

with mankind?

Might this also support the notion that the crop circles in

Chilbolton are an actual alien response to the signal that SETI

sent out into the cosmos in 1974?

And have extraterrestrials been leaving messages here on Earth

for us to discover for thousands of years, as ancient astronaut

theorists contend?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining other

mysterious symbols that have been discovered carved into

rock all over the world.

NARRATOR: Washington, D.C., May 2014.

NASA researchers, in conjunction with SETI scientists, publish a

manual enlisting archaeologists and anthropologists in the

search for evidence of extraterrestrial communication.

The 330-page document, entitled "Archaeology,

Anthropology and Interstellar Communication,"

details means and methods, beyond binary code and radio

signals, that scientists should consider as potential

communication from extraterrestrials.

Singled out in the document are rock art and carvings, including

the Neolithic petroglyphs of Northumberland, England.

Although the document does not directly attribute the art to

extraterrestrials, it does propose the possibility that it

could be tied to otherworldly communication.

CHILDRESS: There are petroglyphs and other rock art

that are actually quite similar all over the Earth.

We have to wonder if there's not some parallel that's going on.

TSOUKALOS: I think that we have to start looking at these

symbols and ask, how did it originate and from where?

NARRATOR: Roswell, New Mexico.

September 4, 2004.

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While tracking deer in the desert, just 11 miles from the

famous Roswell crash site, Robert Ridge came across an

object sticking out of the sand a small,

triangular-shaped rock that is completely uniform in color and

has a circular design on top of it that isn't etched into the

rock, but actually protrudes from it.

ROBERT RIDGE: Thought it was really cool when I first picked it up.

Um, then got it to the truck,

brushed it off, and then I was, like, you know, in awe.

You know, I was, like, pinching myself.

What is this?

I thought it was very unique and very special right off the

get-go, and I still do.

NARRATOR: The Roswell Rock, as it has come to be known,

measures roughly one-and-a-half inches thick by two inches wide.

Meticulously etched out of the face of the triangular stone are

circles, and crescents.

Robert Ridge is convinced that this symbol is meant to convey a

message, and after studying the rock, he discovered an uncanny

correlation between the symbols and the magnetism of the stone.

RIDGE: We found the rock has magnetic properties.

A friend of mine kept hounding me about it, and he finally

brought a magnet of his own, and said, "Here, do this."

So, we did, and we found out

that it has, uh...

It's pretty cool.

NARRATOR: But with all the strange qualities that the

Roswell Rock possesses, what researchers find most

fascinating is that the design protruding from its surface has

also been found in England, nearly 5,000 miles away.

DAVID WILCOCK: The pattern of the sun and moon inside the

circle that we see on the rock is precisely the same as what we

see in a crop circle formation dating to 1996 in southern England.

NARRATOR: The crop circle appeared eight years before

Robert Ridge discovered the Roswell Rock, a fact that has

led some to suggest the rock is simply a manmade copy.

RIDGE: One of my best friends said it looks like a hippie

made it and threw it out in the desert.

So I wanted to examine it.

We did a 3-D CAT scan of the rock, and that's how we found

out it hasn't been painted.

This hasn't been stuck to the top of the rock.

It's not an appliqu?.

It's part of the rock.

It doesn't have a magnet inside.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists also contend that if

someone had made the rock as a hoax, it's unlikely they would

have left it half-buried in the middle of the desert where it may never be found.

But what has truly convinced Robert, and many others, that

the rock is not a manmade fabrication is a comparison

that was done under a microscope

between the Roswell Rock and a sandblasted replica.

RIDGE: We started looking at it under magnification.

It blew me away.

And I was like, wow! What is this?

It's proven to be everything I thought it was so far.

In my opinion.

NARRATOR: One of the first researchers to investigate the

connection between the Roswell Rock and the crop circle in

England was investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe.

She is convinced that within the design is a message.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE: If we are dealing with advanced

intelligences and you assume that throughout the universe,

all solar systems, all galaxies,

there have to be some, we'll call them baselines.

Moons, suns and skies would be the common denominator.

Something is trying to teach us humans about astronomy.

The moon and the sun and the tracking of the symbols, this is

reflecting past, present and future.

And that comes back to, what is on that rock?

Well, some people would say that that is a date.

NARRATOR: A date? But why?

Could there be a message encoded

in the design on the Roswell Rock that reveals some

significant turning point that lies ahead for mankind?

WILCOCK: It could be that the extraterrestrials responsible for

making crop circles which is... I-I believe that's what's

happening actually generated

this rock, created this near the

Roswell crash so as to get us

asking the right questions.

A little bread crumb here and a

little bread crumb there, and

we're being brought closer and

closer to the truth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the design that appears on

the Roswell Rock and in the crop formation in England is

actually an attempt by extraterrestrials to communicate with humankind?

Might this message be trying to

tell us something about our

future, and possibly even

reveal the date on which these

alien visitors plan to return?

Perhaps further clues can be

found by examining the geometry

of one of the world's most

mysterious sites.

NARRATOR: Nazca.

The Ica region of Peru.

High in this arid desert, there is a series of precise

geoglyphic formations that have mystified people since their

modern discovery in the 1920s.

They are called the Nazca Lines.

These geoglyphs appear in many shapes and sizes.

Some are figures of animals.

Others are plants.

And a few even appear to be depicting humans or human-like beings.

And all of them were made on a scale to be seen from above.

TSOUKALOS: The only true way with which you can

appreciate the entire scope is from the sky.

And so the stories behind them

as well, to this day, are maintained very clearly.

It's not meant to be seen from the ground, only by the gods,

and the gods dwell up in the skies.

NARRATOR: But for some ancient astronaut theorists,

even more fascinating is what lies 100 miles to the north on

the Cajamarquilla plain.

Here, thousands of holes of varying dimensions and depths

have been dug into a mountain range in a pattern that runs

north and south for almost two miles.

This mysterious formation has baffled archeologists for

decades, and like the Nazca Lines, the holes can only be

appreciated in their entirety from high above the ground.

TSOUKALOS: In the mountains of Peru, we have what's commonly

referred to as the Band of Holes.

It is one of the coolest places in relation to the ancient

astronaut theory, because who in their right mind would go ahead

and dig all these holes?

For what?

ROBERT SCHOCH: They're an incredible mystery, a very long-lived mystery.

Some people think it looks like some kind of machine was running

over the territory.

Some people think it was some kind of systematic mining operation.

Some people say it was just pothunters, you know, looting,

looking for burials.

None of the explanations make good sense.

NARRATOR: While the Band of Holes continues to defy

explanation, some ancient astronaut theorists believe it

may represent a type of message.

A message that can also be found at another site 6,000 miles away.

The northwest coast of France.

Here, just south of Brittany, lie the legendary Carnac stones.

An arrangement of over 3,000 megalithic rocks that stretch

for more than two miles across the countryside.

NEWMAN: The megaliths of Carnac in Brittany are just amazing.

Some of them stand about 30 or 40 feet tall.

There are multiple avenues of stones going right over hills.

And no one's really worked out exactly what their purpose is.

NARRATOR: Like the Band of Holes in Peru,

the Carnac stones continue to defy explanation.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the clue to

understanding both mysterious sites might be found by

comparing them side by side.

The Band of Holes runs for approximately two miles.

So do the Carnac stones.

The width of the Band of Holes measures eight

holes across, occasionally deviating by one or two holes.

This too is the case with the Carnac stones.

And when viewed from high above, the layout of the two sites is eerily similar.

CHILDRESS: It would appear, in my mind,

that there's some connection that's between

Carnac, France and Peru, and a special code put there for us to

find at-at a future time when we could understand these codes.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists have even gone

so far as to suggest that the Band of Holes may have once

held some sort of standing totems, similar to what is

believed to have existed at Stonehenge.

And that those totems may have disappeared because they were

disappeared because they were made of wood.

WILCOCK: There are a series of post-holes that were found

all around Stonehenge, in which you can stick sticks in the holes.

But they degraded over time and it gradually crumbled away, and

perhaps the same thing happened in the Nazca Plain in Peru with these holes.

NARRATOR: Could there really be a connection between the

Carnac stones in France and the Band of Holes in Peru, as

ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, is it meant to convey a message?

WILCOCK: If you look at the stones at Carnac, you see curious alignments.

And these alignments actually duplicate the Pythagorean triangle.

But this appears to have happened as much as 3,000 years

before Pythagoras allegedly invented the Pythagorean triangle.

What you're seeing is remarkable mathematical symbolism and

encoding messages that seem to suggest somebody wanted us to

know it was built with technology far in excess of what we have now.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: Some thousands of years in the past,

the extraterrestrials who visited our planet left a proof behind.

They knew that in the far future the humans will see these stone patterns.

They will realize that this is high geometry.

And sooner or later, the questions comes up, have we

maybe been visited by beings from outer space?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that these two ancient sites are both

conveying a message left behind by extraterrestrials?

And was it their intention that it would one day be deciphered by mankind?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and claim that further

evidence can be found with another alien message, one that

is encoded in the Bible.

NARRATOR: London, England. 1971.

After years of studying ancient

philosophical teachings relating to the Egyptian mystery schools,

author John Michell unearths evidence of an ancient code.

A numerical and geometric code seemingly embedded not only in

the sacred structures of ancient Egypt, but also in the Hebrew

world, and in the plans for the heavenly city of New Jerusalem.

McGOWAN: John Michell was a scholar, he was a mystic, he was

a genius and a very, very prolific author.

He had an incredible understanding of Earth geometry and geography.

But what John Michell is most famous for is the New Jerusalem diagram.

NARRATOR: By carefully examining the physical

description of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21, Michell uncovered a sacred design.

At the core of Michell's diagram is the squaring of the circle,

and the division of the circle into equal sectors a Zodiac wheel.

And the positioning of 12 gates to the heavenly city three on

each side of the square, representing the 12 tribes of Israel.

CHILDRESS: This is also a geometric figure, and John

Michell claimed that this would be, uh, how the New Jerusalem

was to be built in the future.

And that all this was encoded in Revelations in a mathematical

geometric way.

NARRATOR: In his book The Dimensions of Paradise, Michell

proposed that this sacred geometry represented the order of the universe.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that this exact same

geometrical concept can be found halfway around the world in Nazca, Peru.

Here in the desert, among the many plant and animal glyphs,

is a geometric design that looks much different from

the rest of the Nazca lines.

It is called the Sun-Star and Cross.

CHILDRESS: The Nazca Sun-Star glyph is one of the most

interesting glyphs to be seen at Nazca.

And, in fact, because it's in a remote area, the Palpa Valley,

it's not actually seen by many tourists.

But it is by far, uh, the strangest and most

mathematically precise of all of the-the diagrams at Nazca.

NARRATOR: The Sun-Star and Cross glyph is a precisely

formed star polygon made of two squares surrounding a perfect

circle, all sharing the same center and diameter.

Inside the grid are wheels within wheels and squares within squares.

The design mirrors not only New Jerusalem's sacred geometry, but

also offers up yet another connection.

CHILDRESS: When you look at it, it's very

obviously what is called a "mandala."

Or a "yantra" in ancient India or Tibet.

What a mandala, yantra glyph is

doing in remote desert of Peru is very interesting.

TSOUKALOS: It's a very sacred symbol.

It's this idea of being connected with the realm of the gods.

And then we have to once again ask ourselves, well, what was

the realm of the gods?

It's very interesting to note that, seen from the sky, it is

very similar, not identical but very similar to, for example,

the layout of the temples at Borobudur.

NARRATOR: The Buddhist temple of Borobudur lies over

11,000 miles west of Nazca in Indonesia, and is laid out with

a series of precise circles within a platform of perfect squares.

TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder if somehow all these sites are

the ancient astronaut theory excels in, that people in our

ancient past were not isolated.

They had contact with each other.

In the end, there is an extraterrestrial connection.

COLLINS: Is this something that was taught by the ancients from

one culture to the rest and they incorporated these divine

cities, these New Jerusalems?

Or is this something that may have been given to us by some

divine intelligence?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the New Jerusalem design, the

Sun-Star and Cross of Nazca, the Temple of Borobudur, and other

geometric structures around the world are encoded with similar

mathematic and geometric principles?

And if so, are they part of an alien message that is meant not

only to inform us of our celestial origins, but to guide

us towards a reconnection?

Perhaps a key to understanding the relevance of this sacred

code can be found by examining the astrological alignments of

mysterious sites throughout the world.

NARRATOR: Isolated in the Pacific Ocean, more

than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile,

lies one of the most mysterious places on Earth Easter Island.

This tiny landmass is home to nearly 900 monolithic stone

statues carved out of volcanic rock.

2,564 miles to the East, isolated 7,000

feet above sea level, are the ruins of a

mysterious lost city of the Inca, called Macchu Pichu.

And 10,742 miles away, on the opposite side of the world,

lies Mohenjo-daro, a site where ancient astronaut theorists

believe a nuclear explosion may have occurred in the distant past.

Curiously, as discovered by researcher Jim Alison, these three

sites fall in a straight line around the center of the Earth.

And with just a minor margin of error, it also runs through a

number of other mysterious ancient sites.

McGOWAN: We have the Giza plateau,

we have Nazca, we have Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

All of these extraordinarily important, powerful, sacred

places were all built in a straight line.

Now, this cannot be an accident.

This cannot be a coincidence.

NARRATOR: The line also encompasses the ancient Sumerian

city of Ur; the ruins of Petra,

Jordan; and Persepolis, the capital city of ancient Persia.

TSOUKALOS: There are all these different sites that seem

to line up, even if it's a minute degree of deviation, it's

never a massive distance from that line.

NARRATOR: How is it that so many important ancient

sites across the globe all follow this line?

What could possibly explain this coincidence?

TSOUKALOS: This is bizarre because only a people capable of

flight, or at least being able

to look at maps, would be able to do such a thing.

Could it be because some of those points were in fact

places where our ancestors made contact with extraterrestrials?

McGOWAN: There has to be something important in the

location and the geography, in the geometry that indicated to

our ancestors that this is sacred ground, that this is a

powerful place to put these sacred sites.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists say evidence of

extraterrestrial intervention can also be found by looking at

how early humans aligned their most important sites with the stars.

At the Giza Plateau in Egypt, the layout of the three Great

Pyramids aligns perfectly with the belt stars of the

constellation Orion.

ROBERT BAUVAL: Orion's Belt is made up of two bright stars

and a third dimmer star, which is offset a bit to the left.

It's exactly what you see on the ground two large pyramids in

alignment with a third pyramid offset.

It looks like they wanted to build stars on the ground, if you like.

NARRATOR: Also aligned with these stars are the ancient city

of Teotihuac?n in Central Mexico...

the Hopi villages in the American Southwest...

and the Thornborough Henges, a Neolithic landscape complex in

Northern England.

Could it be merely coincidence that so many ancient cultures

throughout the world, that presumably had no contact with

each other, all built their most important sites by using celestial alignments?

WILCOCK: Look, this is not something that can be explained

away as a coincidence.

It's time for us to responsibly take a look at what we're really

seeing and understand that there is a worldwide, intelligent,

highly mathematically precise plan behind these designs.

CHILDRESS: The idea that even ancient buildings' alignments

are encoded with information and that where they sit on the

planet is also part of an intricate code is a

fascinating idea, and one that we're just beginning to understand.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the curious location and

alignments of ancient sacred sites were actually meant to

serve as a form of communication?

And might the purpose have been to leave behind a hidden message

for future generations to discover?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that

otherworldly messages can be found not only hidden throughout

the globe, but even within the human body.

NARRATOR: The University of Cambridge, England.

March 1953.

American biologist James Watson

and English physicist Francis Crick discover the

three-dimensional double-helix shape of DNA.

This scientific breakthrough is a giant leap forward in

unraveling the mystery of mankind's origins.

But our genetic code proves to be so complex that Francis Crick

proposes it did not develop by chance, and also that it is not

of this Earth.

CHILDRESS: Sir Francis Crick said that the human genome

is-is not something that could have occurred randomly, and that

therefore, we were somehow programmed specifically by

extraterrestrials, it would seem, many thousands of years ago.

HENRY: The message is, is that our DNA didn't come from Earth.

In fact, their research suggests that our DNA is billions of

years old, and that we were in fact seeded from the stars.

WILCOCK: The DNA molecule itself is the equivalent of the

entire Encyclopedia Britannica being dropped out of a

helicopter, chopped up into individual words and then as the

words fall out of the helicopter like confetti, that they all

arrange into the correct order that they were in.

That's the madness that is required to even speculate that

DNA could have evolved randomly on Earth.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that DNA is an intelligently designed code?

And if so, might there be even more information imbedded

within our genetic makeup than scientists have yet to find?

ANTONIS ROKAS: As an information molecule, I think

DNA is much more attractive than radio signals and so on.

It lives longer, it has the ability to self-replicate, and

it has an astronomically tiny error rate.

And so these three properties make DNA a unique storage device.

So, if you want to store a secret or a stamp of the maker,

DNA would be your choice.

NARRATOR: Could it be that there are messages

actually imprinted right in our genetic makeup?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and contend that part of

that message may be contained within the universal

structure of DNA, which consists of a series of three molecule

combinations known as codons or triplets.

They say that it is much more than coincidence that

three is also the number of stars in Orion's belt...

the number of pyramids on the Giza Plateau that line up with those stars...

and the basic geometry behind the pyramid shape itself.

WILCOCK: We have a very fascinating connection to data

points saying the same thing.

Number three is where you begin building geometry.

The DNA molecule has an underlying geometry to it.

Geometry is intrinsic to the design of the universe, and that

the number three builds the triangle, the triangle being

the building block of all other geometry.

Maybe we'll learn some very interesting things once we can

correctly decipher the message.

NARRATOR: Are there alien messages all around us, hidden

within elaborate designs, embedded in geographical

alignments, carved in rock,

etched into the landscape, and even encoded in our DNA?

And if so, might there be some significance to the fact that we

are just now beginning to discover these messages?

REVEREND MICHAEL CARTER: In the Book of Daniel, there's a chapter

that tells Daniel to seal up the prophecies of the Hebrew scriptures.

And it will be opened again in the days when human beings are

running to and fro and knowledge will increase.

Well, we could argue that we're living in those days that Daniel

was writing about.

McGOWAN: So much of what we know about ancient culture,

ancient architecture, ancient technology is encoded.

There are codes in literature.

We see in the New Jerusalem diagram that there is encoding,

again in geometry, in the architecture.

These codes were left to us a long, long time ago so that we

could find our way, so that we could remember who we are.

CHILDRESS: Is it some kind of message for us from the past

that we're to decode when we have reached a higher state of

civilization and knowledge that we can figure all this out?

It would seem that we are only just now reaching a point of

knowledge and technology that we can understand these codes

and find the hidden meaning that's there.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the answers to mankind's

greatest questions where did we come from,

why are we here, and where are we headed

are actually all around us, hidden in alien messages,

waiting to be deciphered?

Perhaps the key to decoding it all lies in an ancient script,

our own DNA, or something we have yet to discover.

And once we crack the code, we will find that the answers to

these questions are far more profound than we ever imagined.

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