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>> NARRATOR: Highly advanced

humans living thousands

of years ago...

unidentified DNA in

the human genome...

and ancient chronicles

describing heavenly

interventions on Earth.

Did humans really evolve

from apes?

Or is our intelligence the

result of an otherworldly

design?

>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: What

are humans made of?

Why do we evolve the way we do,

grow the way we do,

think the way we do?

>> PHIL IMBROGNO: There's no

explanation for human beings.

They shouldn't be here

on this planet.

>> NICK REDFERN: Science and the

world of history, even in

archaeology, is still

scrambling around for answers.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: We should

finally come to grips with the

idea that extraterrestrials had

something to do with

our development.

>> 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 evidence of

alien contact help to unlock the

mystery behind the

creation of man?

>> NARRATOR: South Africa.

25 miles northwest of

Johannesburg lie the

Malapa Caves.

Here, in August of 2008,

paleoanthropologist Lee Berger

and his nine‐year‐old son

Mathew discover several

fossilized skeletal remains of

two‐million‐year‐old early

humans, including a female adult

and male child, perhaps a

mother and son.

The size and shape of the bones

indicate that the individuals

walked upright and had

modern hands.

Over the past several decades,

scientists have unearthed the

remains of nearly two dozen

different types of early human

ancestors, all known

as hominids.

>> IAN TATTERSALL: We have

an extremely good fossil record

of ancient hominids, and

I think the picture emerging

from it is pretty clear

that in earlier days,

before Homo sapiens came

along, there were typically many

different kinds of hominids

coexisting in the world.

>> CRAIG STANFORD: We have a

hard time getting our

minds around this now because,

of course, there's just one kind

of human on Earth today and

there's seven billion of us, but

at one time, within the last few

hundred‐thousand years, you

could find two or even three

species of hominid living in

the same area at the same time.

>> NARRATOR: Most mainstream

scholars tell us hominids

evolved from an ape ancestor

nearly six million years ago

through what is referred to as

natural selection.

This theory of evolution was

first popularized by English

anthropologist Charles Darwin in

his 1859 book On the Origin

of Species.

>> TATTERSALL: Darwin's

mechanism of evolution was

natural selection.

That is to say a

long‐term process whereby

better‐adapted individuals

reproduce more successfully.

>> FIORELLA TERENZI: Darwin's

theory of evolution by natural

selection explain that organism

with certain traits, such as

mutation, turn out to be

actually beneficial, turn out to

be of advantage in the struggle

for reproduction.

So mutation allow

organism to survive and

to pass on to the next

generation these mutation.

>> NARRATOR: Darwin speculated

that over time, hominids walking

on two feet used their hands

to make tools.

This, in turn,

made them smarter.

Then, approximately 200,000

years ago, hominids evolved into

Homo sapiens... or modern man.

But many scholars dispute

Darwin's findings.

>> REDFERN: We don't see

dolphins building cars.

We don't see elephants

building houses.

That might sound trite, but it's

a fact that these animals just

simply haven't progressed and

advanced in the way we have.

And the big question is,

why is that?

Why should that happen?

Why should we be so unique?

>> STANFORD: Tool use doesn't

really come into play for

several million years after the

first earliest humans began to

walk upright.

And then brain size

doesn't really begin to

expand and really mushroom in

size until the last several

hundred thousand years.

So, actually six million years

of human evolution, there are

millions of years separating

each of those major features:

upright posture, tool use,

brain expansion.

So Darwin was wrong because he

couldn't possibly have known the

chronology in his day.

>> NARRATOR: In 1967, British

zoologist Desmond Morris argued

against Darwin's theories on

evolution in his book

The Naked Ape.

In it, Morris wrote that there

was no reason why man stood

alone from other species in

terms of his nudity.

>> TATTERSALL: Well, of course,

as Homo sapiens we still

continue to have a coating of

hair, but that hair is very

much reduced over most of our

bodies, and that reduction

probably goes back way beyond

Homo sapiens in time.

It probably goes back to the

time when the very first early

bipedal hominids came out of the

forests in Africa into the

savannahs where they had more

sun and more thermal radiation

to cope with.

>> STANFORD: In places like

Europe, Northern Europe, why we

lost body hair is the chicken

and egg question.

Did we lose our body hair

because we began to wear

clothing to keep us warm or was

there some other factor at work

that caused us to lose

our body hair?

Perhaps women didn't find body

hair on men attractive, and so

it was lost because they didn't

choose those men as mates.

There's no way to ever answer

that question.

>> TSOUKALOS: If we were to

subscribe 100% to the idea of

survival of the fittest, isn't

it illogical to think that all

of a sudden we're completely

naked and we're losing all

of our fur?

I mean, that makes absolutely no

sense because right after we

shed our fur, we had to wear

furs to keep warm.

Had we not worn any furs, we

would have frozen to death,

we would have died.

So the whole idea that we shed

all of our hair in order to

survive because we were

stronger, logically makes

no sense.

>> NARRATOR: But if Darwin's

theory of natural selection

cannot account for the

appearance of intelligent

hairless Homo sapiens, what can?

Might the transition of hominids

to modern human beings have been

the result of an otherworldly

design, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

Alfred Russel Wallace, a

colleague of Darwin, called it

the intelligence evolution.

>> TATTERSALL: Darwin believed

that the human brain had

been driven into existence by

natural selection, but Wallace

couldn't quite see how this

could be so.

What Wallace perceived was that

the way that humans think, their

intellectual faculties are

qualitatively different from

anything that had preceded them,

and he couldn't quite see how

this enormous gap could be

bridged by natural selection.

So he invoked another

explanation for the evolution,

the arrival of modern human

cognitive abilities.

His choice was a spiritual

explanation.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Alfred

believed there was an unseen

creative spirit that was behind

all life on our planet.

And he believed that this unseen

creative spirit had interceded

three times in this planet.

The first was to create life

from inorganic matter.

And then the second time was

when animals achieved some kind

of consciousness.

And the third time was when

humans suddenly were able to

have the mental abilities that

we have today.

But he felt that it wasn't just

random selection like Charles

Darwin thought.

He believed that all of these

changes had a creative

intelligence behind it.

>> REDFERN: The view that I have

is that because the rest of

nature hasn't changed that much,

that arguably, we shouldn't.

So that suggests to me we're

seeing something potentially

that has gone against nature,

and if it's gone against nature,

maybe that means because

somebody has been manipulating

nature.

>> IMBROGNO: There's no

explanation for human beings.

They shouldn't be here on this

planet.

If we were evolved and changed

by an extraterrestrial source

from our early primate

ancestors, that's the only way

really you can account for the

human species, unless you of

course, put God in the equation.

And who knows who the gods may

have been.

>> NARRATOR: Did the evolution

of modern humans really receive

a jump start by extraterrestrial

beings, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

And, if so, might there be

tangible evidence?

>> NARRATOR: Chicago, Illinois.

December 2004.

Researchers at the Howard Hughes

Medical Institute of the

University of Chicago publish

the results of a study that

claims the sophistication of the

human brain was the result of a

so‐called special event.

They said mankind's intelligence

was not only the result of

evolution, and that around

50,000 years ago, the genes of

ancient humans went through an

intense amount of change in a

relatively short amount of

time‐‐ what some refer to as

the big bang of the brain.

>> IMBROGNO: No one really knows

how human beings developed so

fast in such a short period of

time.

I don't believe it was done

naturally.

>> TATTERSALL: It's very clear

that fully modern intellectual

function is a very recent

acquisition in our lineage.

It's not an improvement upon

what was there before.

It's a new kind of manipulation

of information in the mind.

>> HOWE: There's no other animal

creature on the planet that has

such a comparative point, and

that's why they call it the

Big Brain Event.

>> REDFERN: People talk about

the missing link.

Where is the link between going

from apes, monkeys, gorillas,

etcetera, to being able to

develop atomic weaponry and fly

in space?

>> PHILIP COPPENS: When we're

looking at the origins of man,

we realize that 50,000 years

ago, we really went where no

creature on Earth had gone

before.

We have become human.

>> NARRATOR: But what was the

spark that spurred human

intelligence?

Was it a genetic mutation

brought about by the natural

selection process of evolution,

as many mainstream scientists

contend?

Or could it have been a genetic

modification produced by

extraterrestrial beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

>> STANFORD: There is the idea

that there was a gene or genes

that popped up sometime in our

ancestors randomly, that may

have given us the ability

to symbolically represent

objects in our environment or be

abstract.

Those are things that, for

instance, chimpanzees have a

great deal of trouble with, even

when they're taught language.

>> TATTERSALL: Homo sapiens

emerging from Africa started

to behave symbolically.

They started to manipulate

information in their mind in a

way in which their predecessors

had never done before.

They disassembled the world

around them into a vocabulary of

discreet symbols, and recombined

them so they could imagine new

kinds of worlds.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Long, long

time ago, extraterrestrials

arrived on this planet.

They realized that the planet

was full of life, and one of

them was the most advanced form,

was one of our ancestors.

They took the DNA out, and then,

changed the basic information in

the DNA.

This is what our genetics are

doing every day.

Now the cell was changed.

The product you plant into the

womb of a female of the same

species.

This female will give birth to a

child approximately after nine

months, but because of this

artificial mutation, that's

different, because it was made

artificially by the

extraterrestrials.

>> BILL BIRNES: What if, as part

of the genetic updates human

beings were getting from

extraterrestrials, one of those

genetic updates involved a

software download, a biological

download to differentiate the

different hemispheres of the

brain to allow human society

toolmaking, fire, social

organization to be created, and

from that, that particular

species of hominid became the

human being we are today?

>> DR. LYLE ARMSTRONG: If alien

species out there could fly

across interstellar space, then

in all probability, they would

have similar DNA recombinant

technology.

Of course, it would depend on

their own genetic composition

being similar to ours.

But if they understood

sufficient chemistry and

physical principles from their

own experience of the physical

world model, then in all

probability, manipulating our

DNA would be simple.

>> NARRATOR: But if alien beings

created humans by genetically

altering our primitive

ancestors, might various

versions of hominids have been

the result of experiments at

creating intelligent life on

Earth, as ancient astronaut

theorists contend?

>> COPPENS: This is one of the

greatest unanswered questions.

The ancient records do not say

that we are part of a social

experiment.

The ancient records say that we

were bestowed upon this gift.

The gods gave us the gift of

intellect.

And it is for us to use it.

So yes, we might actually be

part of an experiment, but it

might be an experiment in

intelligence.

It might actually be a game, a

kind of the greatest reality TV

show, whereby the entire human

species is watched by ancient

aliens who have been watching

the show for maybe 50,000 years.

>> TSOUKALOS: Fox P2 is a gene

that was found in our

nucleotides, and it is something

that sets us completely apart

from any other animal.

And scientists have suggested

that that gene alone is

responsible for language.

And there is absolutely no

evidence of origin or that this

thing somehow mutated from the

animal kingdom towards us.

So this gene exists out of

nowhere without any origin.

So my question is, is it

possible that this gene was

given to us, or grafted into us,

by extraterrestrials in the

remote past?

And the answer is yes.

>> NARRATOR: Might the evidence

of our alien origins really have

been passed down to us implanted

in our genetic code, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found, not by scientists, but

by religious scholars, that

claim Adam and Eve really did

exist.

>> NARRATOR: The Hebrew Bible.

In it, the Book of Genesis

describes how God created the

first two humans, Adam and Eve,

in the Garden of Eden and told

them to "go forth and multiply."

For centuries, scientists and

theologians have debated whether

this story of the Creation of

Man was mere myth or historical

fact.

>> JONATHAN YOUNG: The Torah

mentions that humanity is made

out of the dust of the Earth,

and that God breathed life into

this to make us animated.

Here is the breath of soul,

the breath of vitality, the

divine breath, which suggests

that the spark, the life force

that makes a human body tick is

divine in its nature.

>> NARRATOR: In 1987, scholarly

disagreements over the Origin of

Man intensified with the

discovery that the genetic

lineage of every living person

could be traced back to a single

woman who once lived in Africa.

>> TATTERSALL: It is pretty well

established by now, particularly

from the molecular, the DNA

record, that Homo sapiens did

originate at one place in Africa

and after having become fully

modern in the sense of

intellectually modern, spread

out to occupy Europe, to occupy

eastern Asia and the old world

in general.

>> STANFORD: It's sometimes

called the Eve model, not

meaning that we're all descended

from the same woman, but it does

mean that there was a woman in

that early human population

migrating out of Africa, who was

the only female who ultimately

left her genes in every modern

person.

>> NARRATOR: But is it possible

that mainstream science, and

the Book of Genesis, are both

pointing to the same moment

in ancient time, when modern man

first appeared on Earth?

>> NOORY: The myth of Adam and

Eve, I think, is not a myth.

I think it's a true story.

I think Adam and Eve were on

this planet.

They were the first human beings

that we know of.

And they helped populate this

planet.

What is the Garden of Eden?

I think it just happened to be

the area that the genetically

manipulated human being, Adam

and Eve, were placed.

That's where they lived.

That's where they started to

breed.

And that's where the populations

of the planet started to grow.

>> NARRATOR: If Adam and Eve

actually had existed, as

described in the Hebrew Bible,

might this also mean that a

serpent really did tempt them to

eat from the Tree of Knowledge?

And, if so, might this account

have been an effort to describe

the sudden awakening of the

modern human mind, when man

first became an intelligent

being?

>> PETER FIEBAG (translated): In

the Bible it says that if you

eat from this tree you will be

like God.

Satan, in the form of a snake,

tempts Adam and Eve and promises

them that they will be like God.

The knowledge that Adam and Eve

acquire, as well as humanity in

general, gives man the ability

to eventually carry out genetic

manipulations.

>> CHILDRESS: So what was this

Tree of Knowledge?

Is the Tree of Knowledge in fact

the helical DNA sequencing in

our own bodies... that was

genetically engineered

by extraterrestrials 50,000

years ago, so that we would have

the abilities that we have

today?

In my mind, it's our DNA itself

that is the Tree of Knowledge.

But why was this suddenly a bad

thing?

It would seem that the aliens...

some of them wanted us to have

this knowledge, to be like the

gods, but others said no, no.

Man is not to have all of this

knowledge.

This is also the same story of

the Greek god Prometheus, who,

against the orders of the other

gods, comes down to Earth and

gives mankind the knowledge of

fire.

But because of this gift to

mankind, he himself, as a god,

is, like Satan, he's

banished from the Earth.

And why?

Because he helped mankind to

have greater knowledge.

>> TSOUKALOS: The whole idea or

concept of Satan is based on a

misunderstood visit by

extraterrestrials in the remote

past.

According to the ancient

astronaut theory, the reason why

we have the idea of a Satan

today is because there might

have been some type of a mutiny

between good and bad

extraterrestrial factions in the

remote past.

And so the mutineers were cast

out by the commander and they

became known as the evil fallen

angels, which they never were.

>> NARRATOR: If, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

extraterrestrials were

responsible for providing humans

with intelligence, might they

have also given man the ability

to speak?

>> IMBROGNO: Our voice box, our

larynx is so different than the

apes‐‐ even the chimpanzee who's

our closest cousin‐‐ that we're

able to produce sounds and

produce language.

To a scientist today that's

almost like it was genetically

designed so that we can say

words and sing.

>> REDFERN: There really isn't

anything more advanced than the

human language‐‐ so many

different cultures, dialects,

languages around the world.

And the very fact that we can

communicate on such a deep,

extensive level‐‐ that really

sets us apart from all other

animals.

Who invented language?

Where did that come from?

Was that something instilled in

us?

I think these are mysteries

that, to a large degree, science

and the world of history, even

in archaeology, are still

scrambling around for answers.

Maybe we shouldn't be looking

down here for answers.

Maybe we should be looking up

there.

>> COPPENS: We are told, in the

Bible, that we are made into the

image of God.

What does that mean?

Does it mean that we were made

physically in somebody's image?

And so therefore, the question

namely whether we are

descended from apes and other

creatures on this planet, or

whether we truly have been

engineered, can be answered by

mythology.

Mythology is able to say that we

are not descending from the ape,

but that something happened on

this Earth and an alien

intervention came and we were

the end result of this.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: In my

opinion, the extraterrestrials,

by an artificial mutation, they

created the intelligence of

humans.

Then the extraterrestrial

disappeared.

And some of our ancestors had,

again, sex with their ancestor,

with ape‐like beings.

And that was called into

mythology, "original sin."

Then they return again,

the gods, they realized what

happened...

(thunder booming)

...and they decided to destroy

the whole race by a great flood,

and to restart the experiment

again with what we call

in mythology, Noah.

That's all text.

That's the way it is.

>> CHILDRESS: It would appear

that extraterrestrials came

here, used great apes, other

early hominids, created what

would be Neanderthal man, or

Homo erectus, somebody similar

to us, and then refined that

hominid until they came up with

Homo sapien...

and then the other early

hominids were destroyed.

>> NARRATOR: Might the biblical

account of Adam and Eve and

Noah's Ark really be the

retelling of extraterrestrial

events, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

Perhaps further evidence can be

found in the archeological

remnants and eyewitness

accounts from man's earliest

known civilization.

>> NARRATOR: Northern Iraq.

Along the east bank of the

Tigris River, opposite the city

of Mosul, lie the ruins of the

ancient city of Nineveh, a

place originally inhabited

by the Sumerians of Mesopotamia.

Here, in 1842, British

archaeologist Austen Henry

Layard unearthed the ruins of

the great library of

Assurbanipal, a royal archive

containing thousands of clay

tablets with cuneiform

inscriptions.

Dating to 3000 BC, the messages

carved into stone are considered

to be the world's first written

accounts.

>> IMBROGNO: Sumerian tablets

are probably one of the oldest

form of a written record that

we have.

They've been translated, and

they tell exciting stories about

how gods intermingled with human

beings and actually had a hand

in the creation of human beings.

Whether or not it's just

mythology or if it's fact,

no one really knows.

>> NARRATOR: According to

interpretations of the Sumerian

tablets, the gods were called

the Anunnaki.

>> JASON MARTELL: What we're

looking at here is a Sumerian

tablet that actually shows the

Tree of Life flanked by

divine beings.

You can see here the Anunnaki

on each side.

We also see the winged disc,

a symbolic reference that the

Anunnaki had the power of

flight.

They actually had necklaces with

astronomical references‐‐

a moon, a star, various symbols,

which even could be symbolized

as a wristwatch‐‐

technology being used 6,000

years ago.

>> NARRATOR: The written

accounts etched into stone

suggest the Annunaki were

giant beings, standing eight

feet tall, who came to Earth in

search of gold for

their home planet.

>> MARTELL: When the Sumerian

gods, the Anunnaki, realized the

toll it was taking to mine the

gold themselves, they decided

to fashion a worker being, a

slave to mine the gold for them.

And they explain in the Sumerian

creation tales that this was an

arduous process.

So it's very possible that our

genetic evolution was a process

done by the Anunnaki to create

us in their image and

after their likeness.

>> NOORY: They created man

according to the Sumerian texts.

They created Adam and Eve.

How interesting that the Bible

will echo the story... but talk

about it in terms of God.

>> REDFERN: It's almost like

these highly advanced creatures

were acting as teachers.

And certainly, Sumerian culture

and mythology is full of stories

of, you know, receiving

visitations from these

mysterious higher entities that,

you know, bestowed wisdom, and

fantastic ideas and concepts.

And, you know, you have to

wonder‐‐ is this just down to

myth, or was somebody coming

down and really trying to give

us a push, if you like?

>> NARRATOR: Ancient chronicles

of sky beings creating human

life are common in early

cultures found all over

the world.

But while mainstream scholars

often dismiss this evidence,

might such tangible historical

accounts provide proof of alien

intervention in man's evolution,

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

>> TSOUKALOS: The Sumerians are

not the only culture that talks

about this.

Also in the Koran, it says that

language was given to us by

Allah, or God.

The Maya Popol Vuh says that

language was given to us

by the gods.

The ancient Egyptian texts are

saying the exact same thing.

It doesn't matter what ancient

culture we look at, they all say

the same, that language was a

gift from the gods.

We should finally come to grips

with the idea that

extraterrestrials had something

to do with our development.

>> NARRATOR: Prior to the use of

early systems of writing,

ancient people carved symbolic

communication into stone.

Called petroglyphs, the oldest

date to about 10,000 to 12,000

years ago.

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, petroglyphs located

in the American Southwest link

the prehistoric ancestors of the

Zuni and Hopi tribes with

star beings.

>> FIEBAG (translated): The

first graphic expressions by

humans were petroglyphs.

That means symbols or figures

scratched into stone.

The Hopi Indians, for example,

scratched petroglyphs into their

rock faces that show people with

radiating wreaths, gods that

descend from the sky.

The Hopi Indians say that these

beings are Kachinas‐‐

beings from space who came to

Earth in aircraft, who were not

gods, but who brought them

knowledge from another planet.

We have the same phenomenon in

Europe, in Valcamonica.

We have it in Asia.

We have it in Brazil.

>> REDFERN: When we look at the

fact that all around the world

we hear similar legends of

people from the stars coming

down and having a profound

impact on the people of this

country or that particular

culture, all embroiled in

similar time frames, you know,

we're seeing a pattern

developing, and it's difficult

to dismiss that that pattern is

suggestive.

In our ancient past, creatures

came down, interacted with us,

and maybe manipulated us to

become the people we are today.

>> NOORY: Why are so many past

civilizations all saying similar

things?

I think the simple answer is,

is that the same thing happened

and they know the story.

And the story is that

extraterrestrials came to this

planet, genetically made and

manipulated whatever creatures

were here at the time, and

helped jump‐start society.

The bottom line is, every

civilization talks about

the existence of man through the

eyes of a god, and if you think

of the eyes of the god as

ETs, it all makes sense.

>> REDFERN: Back then, this was

the way they communicated events

that were significant to them.

And so when we have this imagery

of the so‐called star people on

petroglyphs and things like

that, they're clearly

chronicling something real, to

my mind at least, that occurred

in their history.

The big question is, what?

>> NARRATOR: But while the

evidence of contact between

alien beings and early humans is

compelling, what if life did not

begin here on Earth, but

arrived from somewhere else?

>> NARRATOR: Huntsville,

Alabama.

NASA's Marshall Space Flight

Center.

Here, in March of 2011,

astrobiologist Richard Hoover

reports the extraordinary news

that he found microfossil

organisms‐‐ or ancient

bacteria‐‐ inside rare

meteorites that are more than

four billion years old, dating

back to the birth of our solar

system.

Until recently, scientists did

not believe life could survive

the rigors of space travel.

But Hoover's finding suggests

that live bacteria made it to

Earth and may have even taken

root here.

>> TERENZI: Microorganism

trapped inside comets can

survive the travel through

interplanetary space and

interstellar space.

And the reason is that the

microorganism are trapped in the

rocky core.

Around, you have a thick shield

of icy material.

And on top, you have a

stratification of dust.

Dust is highly effective in

shielding the microorganism from

ultraviolet light.

So comet are an excellent

vehicle to transport

microorganism, single‐cell life,

amino acid in the vastness

of space.

>> REDFERN: Instead of aliens

coming to the Earth in UFOs in

classic Hollywood terms, a

microbial piece of life comes to

the Earth, say on a meteorite,

survives entry into our

atmosphere, crashes on the

planet and begins to thrive.

>> NARRATOR: The theory that

life on Earth began with alien

organisms landing here from

other parts of the universe is

controversial.

Called panspermia, one of the

most vocal proponents of this

theory was Sir Francis Crick, a

British scientist who

codiscovered DNA in 1953.

>> FIEBAG (translated): Francis

Crick, codiscoverer of the

double helix in cells, said that

all this can't happen by chance,

but has to have been engineered.

One of his arguments is that the

rotation of the DNA is in the

same direction for all living

things.

Had DNA developed on Earth, it

would probably have had a 50‐50

distribution, and that's exactly

what we don't have.

>> NOORY: One of the reasons why

I think the theory of panspermia

is so incredible is that it

tells you that there's life

throughout the universe.

If panspermia is correct, life

came here on comets or

meteorites, and we're being

seeded, not only on this planet,

but other planets as well.

And it could be part of the

great design.

>> BIRNES: It is the

intentional‐‐ the deliberate‐‐

colonization of other planets,

other worlds, by an intelligent

race of beings using not flying

saucers landing in the desert

somewhere or in the middle of a

city, but the best way to

colonize a planet‐‐ you colonize

it with your own DNA and let the

DNA sprout into your own

species.

>> REDFERN: In terms of our

science and technology today, we

have the ability to extract

cells and DNA at a genetic level

and save them.

That's how we have so‐called

test tube babies for couples

who can't have babies.

We preserve the materials for

when they need it.

And the day may well come when

we send into outer space the

equivalent of, like, Noah's Ark,

but instead of sending literal

animals, we send their essence‐‐

their DNA, their genetic makeup.

I don't rule out the idea that

we could seed a whole new world.

>> NARRATOR: Today, scientists

know that only about five

percent of the DNA contained in

our genes is used to reproduce

human beings.

The remainder is an

undecipherable code, once

referred to as junk DNA.

But is it really possible that

so much of our DNA is

unnecessary?

Or might the majority of our DNA

be decoded sometime in the

future?

And when it is, what might our

DNA reveal about the origin of

modern man?

>> TSOUKALOS: Just because we

cannot decipher 95% of our

genetic material doesn't

necessarily mean that that 95%

is, in fact, useless.

Nature is extremely efficient.

DNA is the most powerful storage

device in the universe.

Not even with all the

supercomputers combined in the

world could we store as much

information as we could store

on DNA.

So I'm suggesting that the

ultimate proof of

extraterrestrial life will not

be found in a crashed spaceship

or in a text, but it will be

found within our own genes.

>> CHILDRESS: We have so much

to learn from studying our

own DNA.

We're only just now beginning to

decode the human DNA sequence.

And as we do that, what we may

discover is that

extraterrestrial DNA is built

into our own genetics.

>> NOORY: Whatever is out there

created the universe, this

planet, and other planets

and life.

And I strongly believe that this

tie‐in with whether gods and ETs

were one of the same might very

well be the case.

It does not take away from the

fact that there's a god, that

there's a higher power, that

there's some creation out there

that made the ETs, but I think

that layer between God and man

is right in the middle,

and that's extraterrestrials

from other planets.

>> VON DANIKEN: We have to learn

that most of our knowledge in

religion is wrong, except one

thing: there is creation.

There is what we call God in

all respect.

And we have to learn by religion

we are very teeny, little beings

in this gigantic universe and

why God is absolutely

unexpressible.

It's so gigantic.

It's so wonderful.

So we would never lose God when

we continue to think of

extraterrestrials.

God becomes bigger.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible that humans evolved

from bacteria growing in some

sort of primordial ooze?

Or were we intelligently

designed by a higher power‐‐

of extraterrestrial origin‐‐

as ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

Perhaps the answer lies within

the very essence of what makes

us human.

And with this knowledge, we may

yet discover our rightful place

in the universe.

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