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HUGH NEWMAN:
The supreme deity

lived inside Newgrange.

NARRATOR:
Strange statues in Japan.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
They are in what

literally look like space suits.

NARRATOR:
And a mysterious African tribe.

BILL BIRNES:
They didn't see themselves
as earthlings.

They saw themselves as aliens.

NARRATOR:
All connected by a single sound.

WILLIAM HENRY:
We have this repeated story

of these beings that said
they came from the stars

and they introduced themselves
always with the same phonetics.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
You have Dogon,

you have dogu,

you have Dagda.

What's the commonality here?

Because we have not similar
but identical stories.

NARRATOR:
Could a simple syllable reveal

the identity
of extraterrestrial visitors

from thousands of years ago?

JASON MARTELL:
There's, across cultures,

a reference of some type
of an amphibious creature

that they thought of as a god.

NARRATOR:
And might they provide new clues

about mankind's very origins?

TSOUKALOS:
All these cultures were visited

by the same people.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

♪ ♪

Mali, Africa.

1931.

French anthropologist
Marcel Griaule

treks through
the forbidding desert

in search
of the mysterious Dogon tribe.

When he finds them,

he becomes fascinated
by their culture and traditions.

As Griaule starts collecting
Dogon legends,

he notices an eerie similarity

to ancient tales
found across the globe,

tales of amphibious gods‐‐

in this case, called Nommo,

who came from the sky,

lived in the sea,

and helped mankind.

They described these Nommos
as being

very, like, mermaid‐
or mermen‐like

but bequeathing lots
of knowledge of astronomy,

math and science
to this ancient race.

The Dogon would say
that the Nommo

were these
extraterrestrial gods.

But they needed
a watery environment to live in,

though they could come on land.

NARRATOR:
Griaule learns
that their arrival is known

as the Day of the Fish.

The Dogon actually said,

"Well, this was
our creator god, Nommo,

"who descended from the sky

"in a loud whirlwind of a storm

of thunder, smoke,
and lightning."

NARRATOR:
But what struck Griaule
and shocked the world

weren't the Dogon legends
themselves

but where they said
their amphibious gods came from,

a star that no one on Earth
knew existed until 1862,

long after the Dogon claimed
they knew of its existence.

CHILDRESS:
In the 1930s,

when French anthropologists
were first discussing the Nommo

with these Dogon priests,

the Dogon priests said
that the Nommo were coming

from the star system of Sirius.

Well, the French anthropologists
were amazed at that

and were confused as well.

NARRATOR:
According to the Dogon,

their gods didn't come
from Sirius A,

a star that is clearly visible
in the evening sky,

but from its tiny companion,

a dying star called Sirius B

that can only be seen
with advanced,

high‐powered telescopes.

Sirius A is the brightest star
in the sky,

because it is very luminous

and it is also fairly close
to the Earth.

In astronomy,
it is a known fact

that there is a Sirius A
and a Sirius B.

Sirius A can be seen.

And Sirius B, for us,

is invisible,

because it's just too small.

Now, the Dogon knew

about the invisible
companion star to Sirius.

How did they know?

NARRATOR:
For thousands of years,

Sirius A has played
an outsized role

in the imagination
of Greeks, Persians,

Hindus, Romans,

Polynesians
and countless others.

The Egyptians even based
their calendar on Sirius A,

and some believe
they aligned the Giza pyramids

to Orion's Belt,

which points to Sirius A.

Villages along the Nile

and along the Euphrates,

ancient Mesopotamia,

they lined up
their village dwellings

to mimic the constellation
in which Sirius sat.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
Sirius is one

of the closest stars to us.

It's 8.6 light‐years away.

Unlike the Sun,

which has
a beautiful golden color,

Sirius is a bluish white color,

indicating it's much hotter
than the surface of the Sun,

and that corresponds to it being
more massive than the Sun

and burning hotter.

It'll have a shorter lifespan.

NARRATOR:
But how could the Dogon

have known about the existence
of Sirius B?

Could they have,
at one time,

been in possession
of advanced technology?

Or could there be another,
even more profound explanation?

The Dogon had an amazing degree
of knowledge

about the Sirius system.

They knew that the orbits
of the two stars

were about 50 years' period

and that the invisible star
was very dense

and past its prime.

They also knew
that the brighter one

was a larger star than the Sun.

NARRATOR:
The Dogon also knew

that Sirius B
is about the size of Earth

and spins on its axis.

GEORGE NOORY:
There is no logical explanation

for why the Dogon tribe knew

about the Sirius star system
naturally.

We didn't have telescopes
in those days.

How did they know this?

It's as if an ET came here

and just told 'em all
about that.

It's an amazing story.

MICHIO KAKU:
One theory is

maybe the aliens gave them
this knowledge.

It can't be ruled out.

That's one possibility,

because they got it right
on the dot.

NARRATOR:
But if a race of amphibious
Nommo came from Sirius B

and gave the Dogon
such gifts of knowledge,

did they only visit
this one desert tribe?

Or did they visit other peoples
in other lands?

TSOUKALOS:
It would be one thing if there's

only one legend
of a fish‐man worldwide,

but the Nommo is

one story of dozens

of amphibious bringers
of knowledge

to our ancestors.

The ancient Hindus
talk about this.

The ancient Greeks.

They all had
these fish people that,

during the day,
taught mankind,

and then, at night,

they wandered back
into the ocean

to just emerge the next day.

NARRATOR:
If the Nommo from Sirius B

visited
numerous ancient cultures,

is it possible

that some physical evidence
survived?

Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

(gunfire, explosions)

As civil war rages
across the country,

rebels begin forcing villagers
to mine

so‐called blood diamonds.

But from deep within the earth
emerges a vast treasure

they weren't expecting...

...mysterious figures ranging
from five to ten inches tall,

often with reptilian
or amphibian features.

CHILDRESS:
They're very strange statues.

Some are clay.

Some are of granite
or limestone.

They are humans

and human figures
with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists date the statues,

known as the Nomoli,

to around 500 years old,

when Europeans
first came into contact

with the people of Sierra Leone.

But researchers point out that
the statues were found buried

as much as 150 feet deep,

which would suggest
they are extremely ancient.

Normally, the deeper you go,

the more ancient things are.

That indicates great antiquity.

BEN VONDERHEIDE:
We know that Angelo Pitoni

was able to date the strata

to 17,000 years old.

We ask the chiefs

and they'll tell us
they could be even older.

NARRATOR:
17,000 years old?

If true, it would make
the Nomoli statues

among the oldest man‐made
artifacts ever found

and date them to 12,000 years

before the first known
civilizations on Earth.

But for ancient astronaut
theorists,

even more interesting
is a strange similarity

between tales of the Nomoli

and the stories
of the Dogon tribe

and their Nommo gods,

1,200 miles away in Mali,

a similarity
that could reveal the identity

of mankind's
extraterrestrial ancestors.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR
In the early 1990s,
mysterious figurines

were unearthed
in Sierra Leone, Africa,

that were buried in a strata
of the earth so deep,

it suggests they could be
as much as 17,000 years old.

They are believed to represent
gods called the Nomoli

that have been revered by the
native people for centuries.

They are also similar
to the stories

of the Dogon tribe of Mali who,

although located
some 1,200 miles away,

worship gods called the Nommo,

who descended to the Earth
in a whirlwind.

VONDERHEIDE:
They were forced to come down
here and live on Earth.

Their eyes were so bright that
you could not look into them

because they shone like the Sun.

And their voices were so
powerful that when they spoke

in one village, you could hear
them in the next village.

MARTELL:
They're actually here on Earth
as guides helping humanity.

So this is a very interesting
tale that we see across cultures

where they actually have some
interaction with beings

that come down from the sky
and teach them knowledge.

NARRATOR
Like the Nommo, the Nomoli gods

are depicted as having
amphibious traits,

and are often shown
entwined with crocodiles.

BIRNES:
The Nommo and the Nomoli,
could it be

that the creatures
that came to Earth

hundreds of thousands
of years ago

were somehow aquatic creatures?

NOORY:
It's very conceivable

that ET races that came here
many, many, many years ago

looked like maybe an
alligator standing upright.

Who knows?

It's very conceivable
that's what they saw.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
Could the Nomoli and the Nommo

represent the same
extraterrestrial visitors?

And could those visitors
have come from Sirius B?

HENRY:
Words are thought of
as thought fossils.

They are a record
into themselves,

and when we begin
to compare words,

we find some
very interesting things.

In Sierra Leone, we learn
of statues called Nomoli.

Then we flip over to the Dogon,

and we find that they worshipped
a god called Nommo.

Is there a linkage
between these two cultures

that are supposed
to be entirely separate?

Linguists would argue
that there is.

NARRATOR:
Perhaps the most enticing clue

as to the Nomoli's true origins

was discovered
in the early 1990s,

when one of the mysterious
Nomoli figurines

was found to contain
a chromium sphere.

TSOUKALOS:
Inside of it they found

a sphere made of chromium.

The fascinating thing
about this is that chromium

was not isolated by us
until 1797.

NARRATOR:
But how is it possible

that this sphere
was placed inside a statue

made 17,000 years before
scientists isolated chromium?

VONDERHEIDE:
There are two schools
of thought.

One would be that there
were ancient civilizations

which were far advanced
in that area,

which have been absorbed
back into the jungle.

And the second one is
that there was an influence

from some extraterrestrial
beings that came from the sky.

BRANDENBURG:
This is absolutely inexplicable

in present paleontology.

You have to assume
that there was a contact

with an advanced technology.

NARRATOR:
But if this chromium sphere

was produced by extraterrestrial
visitors to Earth,

what was the purpose of placing
it inside a Nomoli statue?

Some believe the answer may lie

in a further examination
of Sirius B.

MARTELL:
We have to wonder
if this isn't some type

of representation of Sirius B.

The Sirius system is always
thought of

as one of
the best possible places

for where we would find
intelligent life.

Could Sirius B be one of
the home places of gods

that came from that star system
and brought ancient knowledge?

NARRATOR:
Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a sacred syllable
that ties the Dogon

to a civilization thousands
of miles away.

Paris, France.

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

that housed in the Louvre
is an unlikely clue

to the mystery
of the Dogon tribe of Mali.

It's a carved stone
made of basalt

with a depiction
of the Babylonian King Hammurabi

speaking with a divine being.

Below them, carved in cuneiform,

is perhaps the most significant
legal text in the ancient world,

the Code of Hammurabi.

TSOUKALOS:
King Hammurabi ruled
ancient Babylon

in the 18th century BC,

and he devised the world's
first known set of laws.

For example,
this is where we get the idea

of an eye for an eye.

But what's fascinating to me

is that, according
to King Hammurabi himself,

this was dictated to him by
a being that came from the sky.

In my mind, King Hammurabi

was documenting
exactly what happened:

he was advised
by an extraterrestrial.

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that not only

were the Babylonian gods
extraterrestrials

who instructed King Hammurabi,
but that one of them provides

an intriguing connection
to the Dogon of Africa

and their amphibious visitors
from Sirius B.

That god‐‐ the chief god
of the Babylonians‐‐

was called Dagon.

CHILDRESS:
They have a god named Dagon.

And, it, too, is
an amphibious human god.

NARRATOR:
The Babylonian god Dagon

sounds eerily similar
to the Dogon tribe,

who claim they were visited
by beings from Sirius B.

Is that because the Dogon named
themselves after the same god?

The ancient Babylonians
had a god‐‐

half‐human, half‐fish‐‐
called Dagon.

Is there a relationship between
the Dogon and the Dagon,

and the deity of the Babylonians

that brought civilization
to Earth?

Absolutely there could be
a relationship.

♪ ♪

NARRATOR:
The Babylonians worshipped Dagon

in a temple called E‐Mul,
or the "House of the Star."

Could this be Sirius B?

Did inhabitants
of this distant star visit both

the Dogon in Africa and the
Babylonians in the Middle East

and leave their name‐‐
perhaps Dag or Dog‐‐

embedded in both places?

TSOUKALOS:
What if, when
the extraterrestrials visited,

our ancestors listened
to their language‐‐

words with dag, dog, something

that was the most prevalent term
that they just heard?

So the idea that we have
these cultures

where the root word is the same
indicates to me

all these ancient cultures were
visited by the same people.

NARRATOR:
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

the extraterrestrials implanted
evidence of their visitation

within the traditions of
the cultures they encountered.

And further proof of this
can be found

by examining
another early civilization

on the opposite side
of the planet.

NARRATOR:
The Imperial Palace.

Tokyo, Japan.

New Year's Day, 2019.

Citing age and ill health,

Emperor Akihito abdicates
before a crowd

of more than 90,000 well‐wishers
and family members,

including his eldest son
Crown Prince Naruhito.

Four months later,
Naruhito succeeds his father

and ascends
to the Chrysanthemum Throne,

carrying on a tradition of the
oldest royal family on Earth,

stretching back
over 2,500 years to 660 BC.

According to legend,
the Japanese Imperial family

is descended
from divine amphibious beings,

who, like
the Babylonian god Dagon

and the Dogon gods of Mali,

came from the sky
and lived in the sea.

The Japanese name
for these beings is Doragun.

In English we call them dragons.

Emperor Jimmu,
who is the founder

of the Japanese imperial line,

was supposedly a descendant
of the Dragon King.

And the Dragon King lived
in a underwater palace

that was massive
and‐and very prosperous.

And through successive
marriages,

eventually his descendants
became rulers of Japan.

CHILDRESS:
Early myths indicated

that the dragon was also

an amphibious water‐type animal.

Also, in some ways, a half‐man,
half‐amphibious type.

He later morphed into
a flying serpent, as we know.

NARRATOR:
The Japanese language
is unique to Japan,

and also isn't connected
to any other language,

not even other Asian languages
such as Korean and Chinese.

Yet the Japanese word for this
creature is strikingly similar

to words embedded in languages
all over the world.

Doragun in Japanese.

Dragon in English.

Dregan in India.

Dragoni in Swahili.

Drakontion in ancient Greek.

And Dragoi in the Basque
language found in Europe,

which is also unconnected
to any other language.

So once again we have
that similar word:

Dogon. Dagon. Dragon.

So perhaps all of these words
are indicating these half‐human,

half‐amphibious
extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Do these linguistic similarities
suggest that the Japanese

were visited by the same beings
from Sirius B

that were encountered
by the Dogon in Mali,

the people of Sierra Leone,
and the Babylonians?

Ancient astronaut theorists say
yes and suggest that

actual physical evidence
of the connection also exists

in the form of strange figurines
found buried all over Japan.

Tokyo National Museum, Japan.

The country's oldest national
museum is home to a collection

of mysterious clay statues
that date as far back

as 10,000 years.

More than 18,000 of these
figurines have been found

throughout the Japanese islands.

And again, their name is
eerily familiar.

They are called the dogu.

The dogu are
small clay figurines

that are usually about
15 to 30 centimeters in height,

and they date from one
of the earliest periods

of Japanese history,
from about 14,000 BC

to 1000 BC.

NARRATOR:
Much like the similarly‐sized
Nomoli figurines

in Sierra Leone,
more than 8,000 miles away,

the dogu were also found
buried deep in the earth.

STEAVU:
When one buries something, one
is expressing reverence for it.

So if you find something that's
buried with a lot of care

and ritual preparation,
it means it could be

some kind of sacred item.

NARRATOR:
But perhaps the strangest thing
about the dogu

is what they're wearing.

So, here we have a replica
of a dogu statue,

which is life‐size.

You have patterns that are
represented here

that look almost technological
in nature.

And if we focus
on goggle features

of the dogu statues that have
led many people to speculate

that this, in fact, might be
some kind of helmet

that's part of a space suit.

You really have to wonder
what's going on here because,

in the case of the dogu,
if you look at this

from a modern‐day perspective,
in my opinion,

those are people in some type
of space suits.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
even more intriguing

than the appearance of these
figurines is their name... dogu,

once again echoing divine names
found across multiple cultures.

HENRY:
Here we are talking
about a civilization

on the island of Japan
that is entirely separate,

far across the ocean,
a vast distance

from Africa and Egypt
and Mesopotamia,

yet they worship a deity with
the very same name phonetically.

Is it the same being?

Common sense tell us
we have to at least

consider that as a possibility.

NARRATOR:
If uncanny cultural
and linguistic similarities

found in different parts
of the world are the result

of extraterrestrial visitation,

wouldn't there be
physical evidence as well?

Some alien artifact left behind
that could prove our ancestors

had contact with beings
from another world?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists, there is.

From the mysterious statues
of Sierra Leone...

...to the Dogon tribe of Mali...

and the Babylonian worship
of Dagon...

to the Japanese stories
of dragons

and the curious dogu figures...

according
to ancient astronaut theorists,

there are eerie similarities
between ancient cultures

that indicate
they were all visited

by the same
extraterrestrial beings...

...from Sirius B.

If there were beings
from the Sirius star system...

...they may have come
for a short period of time.

They may have been
harvesting metals.

They may have been harvesting
genetic material,

and then they go.

NARRATOR:
But is there
any physical evidence?

For some, the presence of a
chromium sphere inside a statue

estimated to be 17,000 years old

and ancient figurines that
appear to depict space suits

are proof enough.

But could there also be actual
artifacts from another world?

NARRATOR:
Among the people
of Sierra Leone,

local legend has it
that when their Nomoli gods

fell from heaven,
part of the sky turned to stone

and rained down with them.

These strange blue stones,
called sky stones,

have been found
with the statues.

And at first
archaeologists thought,

"Okay, it's just blue stones."

But when they analyzed it,
they couldn't figure out

how these had been made, too.

Although the people in Sierra
Leone felt that they were

actually pieces of the blue sky
that fell with the Nomoli.

NARRATOR:
If these mysterious blue stones
are really connected

to the legend of the sky turning
to stone and raining down

on the Earth with the arrival of
the Nomoli, what could they be?

Some type of protective covering
for an alien spacecraft?

Pieces of a heat shield,
perhaps, like the tiles that

covered the bottom
of the space shuttle?

And if so, might further
scientific examination of them

support the idea
that the Nomoli were actually

extraterrestrial visitors,

perhaps from the Sirius
star system?

Seattle, Washington.

March 6, 2019.

In search of further evidence
that the Nomoli statues

may have
an extraterrestrial connection,

ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress has arranged

to meet up
with sky stone collector

‐and researcher Jared Collins.
‐Okay, wow.

NARRATOR:
Jared has in his possession

a number
of the mysterious blue stones

that were found
near the statues.

Jared has been collecting
sky stones

since he first heard about them
in 2013.

He became fascinated
by their enigmatic nature,

betraying neither obvious
mineral nor man‐made origin.

So, how was it that these stones
were actually discovered

in modern time?

This was actually discovered
in 1991

by a man named David Leadbetter.

He was in Sierra Leone
on a mining concession,

looking for gold and diamonds.

And when he was having
his crew dig,

occasionally these stones
would appear.

And interestingly, David went
to the village chief

to ask if he'd ever seen
any of these stones before.

And the chief said that
when these stones are found,

large amounts of gold
and diamonds usually follow

shortly thereafter.

What do other geologists say
about stones like this?

Are they able to identify them?

We've sent these now
to 12 different labs.

There is not one piece
of consensus in here.

Everybody has
a different opinion.

We still don't know, actually,

if these are natural
or man‐made.

‐So maybe
it's from another planet.
‐I don't know.

I really wish I did,
and I would love a chance

to actually be able to get this
in front of somebody else

who could look at it again.

I've got some friends
at the University of Washington,

and I think we can set this up

‐and have another test done.
‐That would be fantastic.

I would love to get
some consensus on this

to understand
what this actually is.

NARRATOR:
While tests conducted
on the stones found

with the Nomoli statues have
so far produced conflicting

and sometimes
even confounding results,

David is eager to have them
tested for himself.

At the University of Washington,
David and Jared meet

with renowned geologist
Professor Peter Ward.

Hi, I'm David Childress.

‐David.
‐I talked to you on the phone.

It's good to meet you.

And this is Jared Collins.

Thank you so much
for seeing us today.

Jared, both of you guys,

welcome to the University
of Washington IsoLab.

So, what do we have
in this beautiful box?

Well, we're sort of hoping
that you can tell us.

Well, well, well,
what are these beauties?

We have been through
many tests on these,

and no one can identify them.

They cannot tell us whether
these are natural or artificial,

what's causing the blue color,
if this is ancient or modern.

So, they've been checked

for the common blue minerals,
I take it.

One thing that we know for sure
is that this is not turquoise,

this is not lapis,
this is not erinite.

WARD:
The fact that it's
so unbelievably light

really suggests that there's
an organic component to it.

Anything that goes blue,
generally, is much heavier.

So this is‐‐
This is really a mystery.

I should mention also
that this only comes

from one very specific part,
from one very specific village.

It has never been found
anywhere else in the world.

Well, let's do a test
that removes any doubt

about them being partly organic.

So, Erin is gonna
take this rock,

and she's gonna scrape it
into these tiny little tin cups.

The tin cups themselves

we'll load
into our mass spectrograph.

They will then be heated
to 1,000 degrees centigrade.

Everything inside will combust
and turn to gas.

And those individual gas
molecules will then be sampled,

and we can examine if there are
any truly organic molecules

in this rock.

Was there some life process that
was involved in its formation?

NARRATOR:
Will the tests performed
on the so‐called sky stones

reveal that they contain
previously undiscovered

organic material,
possibly from a different world?

And if so, could it mean
that both the sky stones

and the Nomoli statues
are evidence

of an extraterrestrial event

that occurred on Earth
centuries ago?

NARRATOR:
Sedona, Arizona, March 2019.

Two weeks after bringing
the so‐called sky stones

found in Sierra Leone

to the University of Washington
for examination,

David Childress
received an e‐mail

from geologist Dr. Peter Ward.

In the e‐mail, Dr. Ward wrote
that the results

were so strange,
they ran the tests three times,

thinking it was a machine error,

and added,
"This gives me the creeps."

To learn more,
Childress contacted Dr. Ward

through video chat.

Hi, Dr. Ward.

So I wanted to learn
about the results.

Yeah, it's pretty cool.
I mean, it was much stranger

than we thought.

There really seems to be some
sort of organic aspect to this.

It's got element nitrogen in it
in really high concentrations.

Having this high amount of
nitrogen puts it into a, "Wow,

that's a very peculiar rock"
category.

We were looking for a possible
extraterrestrial origin.

Is it possibly a meteorite
or even part

of a spaceship that exploded?

(laughs) Let's just say
that there's a possibility

that it came from off the Earth.

As we scientists say,
it's worth more study.

Thanks again
for doing these tests

and letting us use your lab.

Yeah, no problem. See you later.

NARRATOR:
Although the sky stones
are still a mystery,

David and Jared have confirmed

that they are unlike
any other stone ever examined.

Could they have arrived on Earth
with the strange beings

that are depicted
in the Nomoli statues?

Is this perhaps
physical evidence

that the linguistic similarities
found across the globe‐‐

Dogon, Dagon, dragon, dogu‐‐

point to some sort of
extraterrestrial intervention?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and they claim that in yet
another earthly location

may be found the most
significant evidence of all,

a possible alien home base.

County Meath, Ireland.

Here in the Boyne River Valley,

a large circular mound
rises out of the earth,

the Newgrange Passage Tomb,
built around 3200 BC.

It was constructed
with over 200,000 tons of stone

quarried 75 miles away,
and contains one passageway

that leads
to a centralized chamber.

NEWMAN:
Newgrange is one of the most
important sites

in all of Europe.

It was possibly a stone circle
with 36 or 37 stones,

only 12 of these still remain,
and after that,

a huge mound
made of stone and earth

was built within
the stone circle itself.

Within this,
we have a huge chamber

which is a cruciform shape,
or a cross.

It's got some beautiful carvings
on the 97 curbstones

that go around the edge, as well
as on the main entrance stone,

and within the chamber itself,

mainly zigzags and spirals
and most notably a triple spiral

at the back of the main chamber
within the actual site itself.

NARRATOR:
Newgrange was designed to honor
the winter solstice,

but according to a book
published in 2012

called
The Newgrange Sirius Mystery,

the entire mound was also built

to align with the star Sirius A
in the night sky.

NEWMAN:
The declination of Sirius
is the same

as the winter solstice sunrise
moving across the sky,

and through the lightbox,
which is a rectangular area

just above the main entrance,

this is where you witness

not only the sunlight
coming through

but also later in the day,

Sirius light coming through
as well.

NARRATOR:
The Dogon of Mali
in West Africa claimed

that their gods came to Earth
from the star Sirius B.

Ancient astronaut theorists
connect these visitors

to gods with similar names
all over the world.

But they also point out
an intriguing connection

to Newgrange in Ireland.

In addition to being in line
with the star Sirius,

legend says that this megalith
was built by a Celtic god

with a name that sounds,
by now, eerily familiar:

the god Dagda.

CHILDRESS: The main god
that's associated with Newgrange

is called Dagda.

So here, once again,
we have this same word

that appears to mean something
about gods coming from Sirius.

HENRY: The dwellers
of the British Isles

worshipped a god named Dagda.

That cannot be by coincidence.

NARRATOR:
The god known as Dagda was said
to be the leader of a group

of otherworldly beings
called the Tuatha Dé Danann.

NEWMAN:
The Tuatha Dé Danann were
this renowned fairy race

that arrived mysteriously
in Ireland

many thousands of years ago.

The supreme deity of the Tuatha
Dé Danann was Dagda, Dagda Mul.

And he was a renowned god.

He was said to have built
and lived inside Newgrange.

They had very advanced weaponry

and different types
of what sounds like machinery.

But also they taught
the high arts of civilization,

and they were said to be almost
like the Shining Ones

of the biblical tradition.

It's almost like
a science fiction movie

when you start looking
at these ancient Irish myths.

(wind whooshing)

NARRATOR:
Could Newgrange have once been
an alien outpost on Earth?

Was Dagda the supreme leader
of a race

of highly advanced
extraterrestrials

that came to Earth
and left a lasting influence

on our ancestors?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the Dog Star.

NARRATOR
Across the world,

ancient people claimed they were
visited by amphibious beings

from Sirius who gave the gift
of knowledge and technology.

The Dogon of Mali.

Dagon of the Babylonians.

The dogu of Japan.

Dagda of Ireland.

And the dragon, whose name
echoes in languages

all over the world.

You have to wonder,
is it possible

that all the root words

come from the same visitors?

And my answer to that
is a resounding yes.

NARRATOR:
But what about
the English language?

Is there any connection
in English

between the ancient syllable Dog
or Dag and the star Sirius?

Experts say the answer
is hiding in plain sight.

KAKU:
Sirius is the Dog Star.

Tonight, when you go outside,

look for the three stars
that make up Orion,

and Orion's belt has an arrow
that points right to Sirius.

So you can see Sirius,
the Dog Star, tonight.

In fact, today,

the reason we talk
about the dog days of summer

is that those are the days
that Sirius is overhead.

It's very interesting
that these beings said

they came from Sirius,

which we call the Dog Star,
because when etymologists

try to trace the origins
of the English word "dog,"

it's non‐attributable,
they can't find

the origin of that word.

NARRATOR:
The word "dog"
is one of the strangest

in the English language, because
no one knows where it came from.

English is mostly derived
from German, Latin, and French.

The German word for dog
is "hund,"

the Latin word is "canis,"
and the French word is "chien."

So where do we get "dog"?

Is it possible that some being
from the Dog Star

or from this system

gave that type of vocabulary
of Dagon, Dogon, dogu,

and all of these similarities
are speaking of one race

that visited ancient man?

I think in this particular case,

whatever came down here
at the time,

or what group
of extraterrestrials

came down here at the time,
they were referred to as this,

and then other civilizations

just carried it
and picked up on it.

We have to at least ask
the question, is this, in fact,

the name of these god beings?
I believe it is.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that ancient
statues unearthed in West Africa

represent the opening chapter
in the story of humankind?

Do they depict advanced beings
that traveled to our planet

from the Sirius star system
to create the first humans

and ignite civilization
on Earth?

And did these extraterrestrials
leave behind evidence

of their visitation
for future generations to find?

Perhaps these clues point
not only to their home planet

but to where we must travel
in order to reunite

with our alien ancestors.

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