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NARRATOR: Giants...
MAN: They found up to 40 or 50 people
inside this cave.
One was allegedly 7 feet, 7 inches tall.
NARRATOR: Grey-skinned creatures...
An essential humanoid,
but with disproportionately large heads
and huge black almond-shaped eyes.
NARRATOR: And beings with god-like powers.
This was a person who was a little more than human.
NARRATOR: Throughout history, there have been stories
of strange beings and fantastic creatures.
But could they be more than just myth?
TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, these people were misinterpreted
flesh and blood space travelers.
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 proof
by examining the faces of the gods?
Cahuachi, Peru.
Two-thousand years ago, this ancient settlement
served as the religious and cultural capital
of the Nazca people.
But sometime around 500 A.D.,
the Nazca mysteriously disappeared,
leaving Cahuachi to fall into disarray.
1,400 years later, in 1910,
anthropologist Ales Hrdlicka came to Cahuachi
to study the ancient Nazca civilization.
During a dig, he unearthed some of the most surprising
and shocking artifacts he had ever seen.
They were skulls...
with enormous elongated craniums.
Where did they come from?
How did they get there?
And were they human?
CHILDRESS: In Peru, we find these weird elongated skulls,
and they're bizarre-looking.
I mean, and these people look like aliens.
SCHOCH: One may say, "OK. Aliens."
But another aspect that we have to consider
is that skull and cranial deformation,
forming elongated heads, is a practice that's known
throughout much of the ancient world.
NARRATOR: In 1870, the process of skull deformation
was well chronicled by a German botanist and explorer
named Georg Schweinfurth.
While exploring the African Congo,
he came in contact with a tribe called the Mangbetu.
They routinely performed a ritual of cranial binding
that allowed them to physically alter the shape of human skulls.
CHILDRESS: They took infants' skulls
and compressed them and bound them,
and they forced the cranium out and elongated,
and in many cases, they doubled the size.
SCHOCH: And a big question is why was this being done?
It may have been a way to distinguish the elite perhaps
from the everyday people.
It may have been a social stratification type of issue.
Something that also appeals to me
is that it may have been a way to express physically
and maybe try to achieve physically
greater levels of consciousness
or higher levels of mental ability.
TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, they did this
in order to mimic the gods,
and those gods were physical beings
because if they were just a figment
of our ancestors' imagination,
I don't think that's a compelling enough reason
to expose your children to such a ritual
to achieve that type of look, and in my opinion,
these people were misinterpreted flesh-and-blood space travelers.
SCHOCH: Some people have suggested
aliens had elongated skulls, and apparently ancient peoples
are mimicking those skulls.
The old saying is that imitation
is the sincerest form of flattery.
NARRATOR: Although there have been many images
that attempt to depict what aliens might actually look like,
one in particular has come to dominate the public perception.
It, too, features an elongated cranium
and is associated with an extraterrestrial race
that many refer to as the Greys.
POPE: In terms of entities,
one very common description are the so-called Greys,
3 1/2, 4 feet tall, essentially humanoid,
but very spindly with disproportionately large heads
and huge black almond-shaped eyes.
NARRATOR: But would someone in a primitive society
really want to replicate this look and deform their skull?
Some archaeologists have a different perspective.
They point to artistic self-expression
as an explanation of these customs.
There are all kinds of people that...
that either worship the body or use the body as art,
be it a tattoo or a piercing of some sort
or tribes that put things in their ears or in their lips
to try to grow parts of their body.
Some societies we know practiced binding parts of the body,
feet or heads, and try to make certain shapes,
and this was done for whatever reason.
We know today that this isn't usually
the most healthy thing to do,
but it doesn't mean people don't do it.
People are always trying to change their body
to make it look a certain way.
NARRATOR: Whatever the explanation may be
for these rituals, they are not just found
in Peru and the African Congo.
NARRATOR: Skull deformation is a global phenomenon.
CHILDRESS: What's really strange
is that this is found all over the world,
and this is something
that archaeologists cannot easily explain
because for people on remote islands,
for people in South America or Malta or in Africa
to suddenly independently do
this cranial deformation like this seems incredible.
I mean, this is something that had to be learned,
something that was taught to them.
SCHOCH: We seem to have basic similarities,
as if there was one civilization
or at least one type of culture
that was influencing people around the world.
I find it more and more difficult to believe
what I was taught as an undergraduate,
that all these different cultures
just coincidentally came up with the same concepts
independently of each other.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the elongated skulls
found throughout the world are really the result
of ancient humans trying to emulate
the appearance of other-worldly visitors?
Or could they really be the skulls of extraterrestrials?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe further clues
can be found by examining other strange bones and relics,
relics that may provide proof of giants.
Lovelock, Nevada. In the early 1800's,
local legends passed down by the Paiute Indians
told of a race of giants
who were exterminated by their tribe.
It was said this was done by trapping the giants in a cave,
shooting arrows at them, and then starting a large fire
at the mouth of the cave.
Evidence of the slaughter lay undisturbed
until the early 20th century.
CHILDRESS: Lovelock Cave was first discovered
by local ranchers who were looking for bat guano
to use in their fields.
NARRATOR: In need of fertilizer for their crops,
the ranchers removed nearly 10 feet of guano-enriched soil
from the surface of the cave.
CHILDRESS: And then they began finding human remains.
They found up to 40 or 50 people inside this cave.
One was allegedly 7 feet, 7 inches tall.
They all had long red hair and were literal giants.
NARRATOR: If these skeletons were the remains
of the legendary Red Haired Giants,
were they visitors from distant continents?
CHILDRESS: Throughout the 19th century,
many giant skeletons were allegedly discovered
in the Midwest, also in parts of California
and around Death Valley,
and the skeletons here found at Lovelock
are one of the few that were really excavated
by an accredited university.
NARRATOR: Archaeologists from the Nevada Historical Society
and the University of California
believe the cave was occupied from approximately 1,500 B.C.
until a few hundred years before white men appeared
in the Nevada territory.
75 miles from the cave site,
a local museum has preserved several skulls
that some believe are recovered remains of the giants.
CHILDRESS: Inside this cabinet here
are 3 skulls from the Lovelock caves.
When you first see these skulls,
they seem to be pretty much normal-looking skulls.
However, it's when we really start to compare the jawbones
with this modern dental impression
of a normal adult male that we see that
these jawbones are unusually large,
and these are really the skulls of giant people
who were perhaps 7, even 8 feet tall.
One of the odd things with these skulls
is that they're not actually put on display here at the museum,
and they're kept hidden in this cabinet.
Now, we don't know if that's really just out of, um...
respect for the Native Americans
or whether there's really something unusual
about these giant skulIs that they don't want them to display.
NARRATOR: Are the Nevada bones evidence of a race of giants
that existed all through early human history?
If so, could the giants be
the descendants of extraterrestrials?
According to the Hebrew Testament,
one such giant appeared in the Valley of Elah
2,500 years ago.
Each morning for 40 days,
a Philistine giant over 9 feet tall
challenged the Israelites to a fight.
His name was Goliath.
David and Goliath is one of those episodes in the Bible
where you wonder what is going on.
Is it just a metaphor,
or are we dealing with a fundamental interpretation?
And in that sense, Goliath has to be a giant creature.
The question then is, he cannot be human.
What is he?
NARRATOR: David's stunning triumph over Goliath
was considered a mere fable
until archaeologists turned up evidence that suggests
this confrontation really did happen.
On the outskirts of Tel El-Safi, Israel,
scientists discovered a moat
that may have once protected the Philistine fortress.
Nearby they found shards of pottery
inscribed with the name Goliath.
Tests indicate the pottery is from the same time period
as described in the Bible.
Ancient astronaut theorists claim
this is unmistakable evidence of extraterrestrial giants
in Biblical times.
COPPENS: Are we dealing with metaphors,
or are we dealing with hard evidence?
Are these physical creatures which somehow roamed the Earth?
And I think on volume,
We have to accept that some of these were real.
The question then is how did these genetic freaks come about?
TSOUKALOS: One of the main tenets
of ancient astronaut theory suggests
that a long time ago, extraterrestrials
changed our genetic makeup through a targeted mutation
of our genes, essentially in the lab.
So they took a couple of human beings,
altered their DNA, then reinserted those people
back into the population, so through procreation,
those people would pass on those new genetic alterations
to the entire population.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
the evidence points to one conclusion--
that aliens changed the genetics of early human DNA.
COPPENS: For an alien being to work with DNA is so easy
that just creating a new type is not at all that difficult.
Even today we have the capability
to create new types of animals.
The question is, were we created as such as well?
NARRATOR: Did giants really walk the Earth
thousands of years ago, and if so,
could they have been from another world
or perhaps the result of alien experimentation with human DNA?
Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the stories
of yet another type of other-worldly being--
winged creatures that descended from the sky as angels.
[Bells tolling]
NARRATOR: Rome, Italy.
Stored in the treasury of St. Peter's Basilica
is the Vatican is the sarcophagus
of Junius Bassus.
Constructed in 359 A.D.,
the sarcophagus features what some believe to be
the earliest known depiction of winged angels
in all of Christianity.
In the centuries that followed,
angels were almost always depicted as having wings.
But Why?
Especially since the actual Biblical texts
rarely describe angels as having birdlike appendages.
CARTER: The vast majority
of the stories in the Old Testament,
angels aren't described as having wings at all.
Some of them, they look human.
When the angel comes to visit Abraham,
this angel does not have wings. He looks like a man.
Abraham bows to him, which is interesting.
How did Abraham know?
If he looks like a human being,
what was it that gave Abraham the clue
to run over and bow down to him?
And so there's a supernatural quality,
there's a superhuman quality that they acknowledge
that this was a person who was a little more than human.
RADER: The concept of the angel as such
comes directly out of the Greco-Roman tradition,
stories of Hermes and Iris kind of coming down
and giving messages.
Envisioning them as beings, like human beings,
kind of looking like human beings
and being benevolent.
There are plenty of other beings
which have these beautiful wings,
these kind of forms and shapes,
but all of these beings, however they are conceived of,
are a way of telling us
that we have a hard time understanding
what it is that separates us from them, from the gods.
They have to be these kind of weird beings who have wings.
MARTELL: Angels show up in various cultures
as probably misidentified technology.
If they saw someone, a human being or a humanoid,
flying in the skies, they could only give it a natural review,
giving it wings.
I don't think they actually had wings.
It was ancient man's way of saying
they had the power of flight.
CARTER: The angels have wings that we're used to seeing
depicted in pictures of the Bible and what have you,
and basically the wings say these beings can fly.
So we believe in angels,
and the Native Americans talk about the star people.
The Egyptians talk about the gods
coming to and from the Earth.
So I believe this is the basis, this is the template
for the civilizations of the Earth's religious practices.
I believe that.
For centuries, religious tradition
has perpetuated the notion of birdlike wings
to explain an angel's mode of travel.
But is such a concept even scientifically plausible?
[Bells tolling]
In 2009, a study at University College London
compared classic depictions of winged angels
with actual bird physiology.
DENNIN: You have to be able to both flap down and flap up,
and you really need a separate muscle to do each of these.
On the way down, you're generating the lift,
and you actually have to rotate the wings slightly
and get a different angle as you come up,
and then they actually generate their thrust.
Otherwise, if you just went up and down
in the same straight pattern, you'd be making lift one way,
but when you went back the other way,
you'd just push yourself back down.
So when you look at the classic pictures of angels,
the wings are centered on their back very close together,
whereas the birds, with the wings on the side,
can have longer muscles with great strength
that go into moving them up and down.
With the wings on the back, they're gonna look like
they're gonna flap more like this than up and down.
NARRATOR: Researchers also concluded that angels,
given their humanoid interpretation,
would be simply too heavy for flight.
DENNIN: We're not designed aerodynamically,
and we're quite heavy.
I mean, we're solid bone, solid muscle.
So those two features you have to overcome.
NARRATOR: But if angels could not have possessed actual wings,
how would they have managed to travel to and from the heavens?
Angels were never described to fly around like Superman,
but they sort of had a vertical ascent into the sky,
or when they descended, it was a vertical descent.
How was that possible?
NARRATOR: In 1953, Bell Aerosystems developed
the rocket belt, the precursor to today's workable jet pack.
Designed to lift individuals vertically into the air
and glide them across the skies,
today's jet packs can reach altitudes of over 8,000 feet
and travel at speeds of up to 60 miles per hour.
TSOUKALOS: If you look at a modern jet pack,
humans are ascending and descending
in a vertical position.
Now, imagine if that picture was shown to our ancestors.
How would they react?
Obviously they will say,
"Wow. This creature must be divine.
"This creature must be some type of a god
"because they've got the capability of flight.
"They're like birds.
Not even the sky is the limit to them."
NARRATOR: Did our ancestors try to explain
an ancient alien technology by suggesting
that extraterrestrial visitors were heavenly visitors
with birdlike wings?
If the answer is yes,
the implications are both profound
and potentially disturbing.
For if angels are actual visitors from other worlds,
then what is their mission?
Are they simply watching us, or is there perhaps...
a more sinister purpose?
Oaxaca, Mexico.
Situated on a low mountain range rising above the central plain
lie the ancient ruins of Monte Alban.
Here, around 100 B.C., researchers believe
the Zapotec Indians worshipped a bloodthirsty Mayan god
with the body of a man and the head of a bat.
They called him Camazotz.
The iconography is rather striking,
the image of a half man, half bat,
a man with the head of a bat and wing-like cloaks spread out
with crosses of bones in the lining.
The Zapotec people in the Oaxaca area of Mexico
believe that winged creatures, bat-like creatures,
come in the night.
They will attack, and they will drink blood
and disappear without ever being noticed.
CURRAN: This is simply a sort of anthropomorphic bat
which was worshipped by the sacrifice
of libations of blood.
So what they did was they cut themselves
and poured it into a bowl and offered it to the god.
WYATT: Blood was a very important substance to the Maya.
That is what gave humans life-- blood and breath...
was what the essence of life was.
That's where this "kahul," this divine essence resided,
in blood and in breath.
When you would die, you entered into the underworld.
It was called Xibalba.
Then, if you defeated the lords of death,
you would then ascend into the heavens
and become one of the revered ancestors.
The blood is the thing that reconnects
the world that we live in with the world of the dead.
Some of the earliest archaeological evidence
shows that blood rituals were present
as far back as we can search.
NARRATOR: Legends and myths of supernatural beings
with traits similar to vampires
are a part of nearly every ancient culture.
In Hindu folklore, for example,
the Vetala was known as an evil spirit
that took demonic possession of corpses.
The Indian goddess Kali was also intimately linked
with blood sacrifices.
CURRAN: Kali becomes The Destroyer,
and she is portrayed as a hag-like woman
with a whole number of arms...
Each carrying a sword.
She is the goddess of death and destruction.
Her eyes are red, and she drips blood from her mouth.
She's known to take infants from their crib
and drink their blood.
NARRATOR: In North America,
early Cherokees believed in a bloodthirsty creature
that slaughtered humans, drank their blood,
and ate their livers, known as the U'tlun'ta.
This demon was said to possess eternal life
while feeding on the living.
The notion of the thing from the spirit world
traveling through the various Indian nations was a great fear
among not only the Cherokee but also the Sioux and Arapaho.
NARRATOR: But who or what are these mysterious creatures?
And where did they come from?
Might they be, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,
extraterrestrial beings abandoned here on Earth?
In the ancient Jewish Talmud,
the Genesis story set in the Garden of Eden
includes Adam and Eve but also a woman called Lilith.
SKAL: In Jewish folklore,
Lilith was the first wife of Adam.
She was created from the same earth as Adam,
not from his rib, as Eve was.
But she proved to be very disobedient and uncontrollable
and had to be banished.
NARRATOR: According to the Talmud,
when Lilith refused to obey Adam,
God sent 3 angels to convince her
to submit to his authority,
but when Lilith refused for the final time,
God condemned her to live on Earth for eternity.
SKAL: In a sense, Lilith was
the first vampire to wander the Earth.
She shared all of the characteristics
of female vampires.
YOUNG: Lilith had the head and breasts of a woman,
the body of a snake, and the wings of a bird.
She's a terrifying creature.
COOGAN: In Jewish tradition,
Lilith has been a kind of night demon
against whom incantations and prayers have to be offered
because she will come and snatch away
an infant sleeping in its crib
or at least snatch away its soul and cause it to die.
NARRATOR: But why are tales of bloodsucking creatures
so prevalent throughout the ancient world?
Might blood and the unique chemistry of it
serve as a kind of cosmic fuel,
one that connects the living to the dead,
the human to the inhuman,
the earthly to the other-worldly?
CHILDRESS: Blood is the life force of humans,
and it was very important to extraterrestrials, too.
And there are some things very special about our blood.
So we have to think that if these blood sacrifices
aren't some distortion of what was originally...
just extraterrestrials showing us
how important our blood was.
NARRATOR: Angels, demons, the Greys...
are they all various interpretations
of one type of extraterrestrial species,
a species that has been visiting our planet
for thousands of years?
Or are they descriptions
of several different alien visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
further clues can be found by examining
the ancient Greek stories of fish people.
Cape Sounion, Greece.
Perched on the headland,
surrounded on 3 sides by the sea,
lies the ruins of the temple of Poseidon, built in 440 B.C.
The second son of the Titan king Cronus,
Poseidon was worshipped throughout Greece,
almost as much as his younger brother Zeus.
Poseidon was the god of the sea.
He was also the god of earthquakes
and strangely, horses.
When Poseidon was in a good mood,
he created new lands out of the sea,
he gave calm waters for good voyages.
When he was in a bad mood,
he destroyed ships and brought storms.
[Thunder]
RADER: Poseidon does rule over the kingdom of the sea.
It is envisioned as a kind of a place where people live,
and when he comes out of that place,
yes, he rides this spectacular kind of like water chariot
that is driven by dolphins,
and he holds onto a really big trident.
NARRATOR: In Greek mythology,
Cronus eats all of his children except for Zeus,
who eventually rescues his siblings, including Poseidon,
from the belly of his father.
YOUNG: A potion is prepared
that makes him heave up all the other siblings of Zeus,
and these become the gods of Olympus.
NARRATOR: But ancient astronaut theorists
believe this Greek myth is actually a metaphor
for an extraterrestrial event.
They believe the notion
of gods being vomited up from the belly of their father
actually describes mutinous aliens
being expelled from the mother ship.
Any being which is swallowed up into a living creature
will not be able to survive for 3 days.
It will die from suffocation and will begin to decay.
Now, what we have here is not a creature,
but something else.
It could have been an object
which was clearly of a man-made or extraterrestrial origin.
A mutiny took place.
Some of the extraterrestrials, they had sex
with wonderful earthly females, women.
They were not allowed to do this.
So one of these extraterrestrials
who were not allowed to go back with the mother spaceship
had the name of Poseidon.
Poseidon fell in love with a beautiful human girl,
and he made her pregnant.
RADER: Poseidon is married, right? He's got a child.
He's got some grandchildren, right?
There's the whole cast of sea nymphs as well.
All of them presumably, like, live in this place.
YOUNG: Poseidon has the power of the deep,
the unseen place.
If you look out at the sea, you see a surface,
and you're aware there's a whole world below that,
suggesting powers beyond that which meet the eye.
NARRATOR: Among the mythical creatures
associated with Poseidon
are the Telchines, a race of advanced fish children.
These human-like beings could live both in and out of water.
They are masters of technology
and seem to match up with the fish gods of ancient Sumeria,
who worked for Enki,
the great god of alchemy and technology and smithcraft.
RADER: The Telchines are also kind of
in this shadowy territory of God/human/monster things.
They're just these kind of figures
who are not gods but were like human beings.
There's one story about the Roman version of Zeus, Jupiter,
trying to destroy them.
Now, we don't know whether they are actually all destroyed,
but it's possibly because of their relationship to the magic.
NARRATOR: In Greek legend,
the Telchines were also metallurgists.
They were said to have created Poseidon's magical trident
and to have cast the first bronze statues
of the gods of Olympus.
And according to some historians,
the Telchines may not have been creatures of myth,
but were beings who actually existed.
RADER: There were people called Telchines.
We do actually have evidence of these beings.
They were an actual ancient race
who had specific tasks and trades,
like metallurgy, like smithing, and so on,
and so you could see how it is that a being like Telchines,
that these things could, in fact, not just be
these mythological beings, but, like, actual people.
So the way that we look at the ancient Greeks and Romans
would have been the way
that they would have looked at the stories
that are being told about the Iliad.
TSOUKALOS: We've got the stories of the Telchines,
and they were able to survive underwater
for unlimited amounts of time.
Now, how is such a thing possible
unless you have access to some type of technology?
An Israeli company is currently developing
a human artificial gill system that allows humans
to take oxygen from surrounding water
without the need of oxygen tanks.
You potentially can remain underwater
for unlimited amounts of time.
All the technology that we are discovering today
is, in fact, old news.
It's been around before.
NARRATOR: Could the ancient Greek myths
really be based on actual events?
And if so, were the Telchines early humans
in possession of alien technology,
or could they themselves have been other-worldly beings?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by exploring the Middle Eastern stories of shape shifters
known as the jinn.
Temple Mount, Old City Jerusalem.
It was here that many Biblical stories reportedly occurred,
including the binding of Isaac from Genesis 22.
In this story, God asks Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac
on Mount Moriah.
Abraham sets out to obey God's command.
But after binding his son and preparing for the sacrifice,
he is stopped at the last minute by an angel.
Conventional interpretations of the story usually conclude
that God only wanted to test Abraham's faith,
but ancient astronaut theorists suggest
the tale has another interpretation.
In my opinion, God God would never ask such a question.
So is it possible that it was
a fallen angel/ alien extraterrestrial
who posed as God?
RADER: God never demands human sacrifice.
Human sacrifice is totally anathema to Christianity,
and it's totally anathema to God as a creator.
The French philosopher Sartre very famously wrote,
"if an angel were to tell me I needed to sacrifice my son,
I'd ask for some I.D."
COPPENS: Maybe somebody else impersonating a god,
and do we then have somebody stepping in
to actually prevent this from happening?
Are we, in fact, maybe confronted
with two warring civilizations trying to control
what is happening in the stories of the Bible?
Just like there are good people and bad people here on Earth,
there's good and bad extraterrestrials out there.
Good and evil permeates the entire universe.
Yin and yang. There's a balance.
NARRATOR: Deep inside the Middle Eastern country of Oman,
a mysterious cavern lies hidden far beneath the surface.
Called Majlis al Jinn,
or "meeting place of the jinn,"
it stretches more than 14 acres underground
and is one of the world's 10 largest caves.
Many Omanis still believe this cavern and others like it
are actually inhabited by supernatural creatures
of Islamic folklore called jinn or genies,
mystical creatures that are usually invisible to man.
YOUNG: One interesting aspect of the jinns
is an element of free will.
They're like angels, but we think of angels in the West
as under the direct command of the divine powers.
But the jinn can make some decisions for themselves,
and some of them are a little contrary or curious
in their way of being.
NARRATOR: According to Islamic theology,
genies often reveal themselves to humans with messages,
which can be either benevolent or deceptive.
But is it possible that genies actually exist?
If so, where did they come from?
TSOUKALOS: When we talk about genie, genie in a bottle,
it's very interesting because you rub the bottle,
and then the genie comes out of it
and then fulfills your wishes.
Well, let's look at this from a modern-day perspective.
If you have a little container, and you push a button
and a hologram comes out,
then could that be a genie in a bottle?
And according to the ancient astronaut theory,
that is exactly what happened,
where extraterrestrials used holograms
in order to relay messages.
That is essentially a genie in a bottle.
NARRATOR: Like angels, jinn are said to be able
to appear and disappear at will
and are sometimes only heard as disembodied voices.
But while some ancient astronaut theorists believe
this behavior resembles that of extraterrestrials,
others claim that angels, jinn, and other supernatural creatures
have origins right here on Earth.
They call these beings ultraterrestrial.
Ultraterrestrials are possible beings
that travel and visit us from other dimensions.
We know that we all vibrate in the 3-dimensional space
at a certain frequency.
It's very possible that other beings vibrate
at a higher frequency and are able to pass
more easily into other dimensions.
The ultraterrestrial theory would also explain
the folkloric creatures, the angelic creatures,
any sort of experience of a strange, supernatural,
or alien being that's occurred throughout history.
NARRATOR: Angels and demons...
giants and genies...
did they actually exist,
and if so, could they have come here
from somewhere out of this world?
But Why?
Were they sent here to shape mankind's past
or its future?
Did they mean to do us harm or good?
Perhaps even more importantly, could they still be here,
living among us undetected?
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