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NARRATOR: Ancient manuscripts
deliberately destroyed.

Those books were
the history of our planet.

NARRATOR:
Otherworldly encounters

removed from religious texts.

The Book of Enoch describes

one of the first
abduction accounts.

MICHAEL CARTER:
This type of information

could not be put into the Bible.

It is too controversial.

NARRATOR:
And technological insights

misinterpreted as mythology.

You have this
solar-powered ion thruster,

and it's described
in the Sanskrit texts.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that written accounts

of humanity's
extraterrestrial past

have been intentionally hidden?

And could there be signs

that our true history
is about to come to light?

ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
Ancient prophecy said that all of these secrets

would be brought back to us,
and the truth will be revealed.

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.

NARRATOR:
The Tigray highlands, Ethiopia.

Here, 7,000 feet above sea level

and clinging to the side
of a mountain,

stands the
Abba Garima Monastery.

This church is home
to one of Christianity's

most ancient
and spectacular treasures:

the Garima Gospels.

Consisting of two
beautifully illustrated volumes,

it has been dated
to the sixth century AD,

making it one of the oldest and
most complete Bibles on Earth.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
There is the very earliest Christian churches in Ethiopia.

So there is this strong
connection to the ancient roots

of Western civilization,
Western religion, in Ethiopia.

NARRATOR:
Ethiopia's biblical connections

- date back nearly 3,000 years.
- (rhythmic clapping)

In the tenth century BC,
King Solomon,

the builder of
the First Temple in Jerusalem

and the keeper
of the Ark of the Covenant,

was visited by Queen Makeda
of Ethiopia,

also known
as the Queen of Sheba.

YOUNG:
The Queen of Sheba, it is said,

had a relationship with Solomon
and had a son.

When he came of age,
he wanted to meet his father,

and his mother
blessed this journey

up to Israel to meet Solomon.

And he stayed for some time.

And then some, uh, leaders
of the Jewish nation

went back with him to Ethiopia.

Because of this connection

between the Queen of Sheba
and Solomon,

there's a large
Jewish population in Ethiopia.

There are many returnees
to the Holy Land, to Israel,

from Ethiopia and other
nearby areas in Africa.

Ethiopia is
an unusually holy place.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, the Bible used by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

differs from that of
other Christian denominations.

Its version of the Old Testament

includes a controversial text
known as the Book of Enoch.

The Book of Enoch,
a very, very interesting,

very ancient document,
which, uh, is only found

in the language of Ge'ez,

which is a sort of
Ethiopian early language,

and has over a hundred chapters
in the full form.

So in the Ethiopian Church,

Enoch is considered an--
a canonical text.

In other Christian traditions,
it is not.

NARRATOR:
The author of the book,

according to the text,
is the Jewish patriarch Enoch,

the great-grandfather of Noah.

Enoch is a biblical figure
mentioned

in the Book of Genesis,
chapter five.

What's interesting about Enoch

is a tradition arose
that he never died.

And this is because,
in Genesis 5:24,

the text says that
Enoch walked with God,

and then was no more
because God took him.

NARRATOR:
But where the Hebrew Bible only mentions Enoch briefly,

the Book of Enoch,

which consists of
more than 100 chapters,

greatly expands on his story.

In it is a curious passage

that details
Enoch's ascent to heaven.

ERICH VON D ÄNIKEN:
According to the Book of Enoch,

he says he was 12 years old.

The whole community
of his village wanted to sleep,

but then they hear
the noise in the sky.

(rumbling)

Two angels
came down from the sky.

One of the two beings said to
Enoch, "Don't be afraid, human."

Then they went up
to the so-called heaven.

WILLIAM HENRY:
And in the Book of Enoch, we learn

Enoch himself is taken into
the heavens in a fiery chariot.

VON D ÄNIKEN:
Enoch goes up to the so-called sky,

and there, Enoch sees
something over the Earth

which he cannot describe.

He has no word like
"spaceship" or something.

He says it looked like
houses of crystal.

(rumbling)

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It is described that he sees

planet Earth underneath him.

He actually describes
his arrival,

how he has to walk through
these different rooms,

where he sees jewels

and he sees shiny surfaces
and blinking lights.

It is an eyewitness account.

It's: "I, Enoch, did this.

I, Enoch saw that."

The Book of Enoch is one of
the first abduction accounts

written down
by a fellow human being.

NARRATOR:
Does the Book of Enoch

really describe
an actual abduction event?

One that took place
thousands of years ago?

And if so, might this
incredible close encounter

be documenting communication
with otherworldly beings?

CARGILL:
Enoch, he was said to be at the right hand of God.

In fact, Enoch was said to be
God's scribe in later tradition.

So, God would decree things,

and Enoch was the one
who recorded

everything that went on.

So, Enoch was the keeper
of all knowledge of heaven.

HENRY:
This is one the reasons why the Book of Enoch

is so controversial.

He's taken up
into the heavenly realms,

to the throne of God,
where he is given

powerful universal knowledge
by angelic beings,

or extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the Book of Enoch is one of
the most compelling texts

ever written documenting
extraterrestrial visitation.

But it is far from unique.

They say that similar encounters
were documented

by many other ancient cultures,
lending support to the notion

that Enoch's experiences
were genuine.

We can find ancient texts
that speak of people

ascending to heaven
and then coming back down.

For example, in ancient Greece,
you have the story of Ganymede

that was taken up
by Zeus's eagle.

Also, in ancient China

and in ancient Sumeria

and, also, in ancient Egypt

are there stories of people
having been visited

or having gone up to the sky

to visit with
the so-called gods, lowercase G.

NARRATOR:
While these other accounts tell a similar story,

none contain
the incredible detail

found within the Book of Enoch.

And some researchers believe

that it was because of
this controversial content

that the text was omitted
from most versions of the Bible.

Not only do-do these texts
infer quite strongly,

uh, the possibility
of extraterrestrial life,

but they also show
a very different side of God.

This type of information,
uh, these type of texts,

this could not be
put into the Bible.

TZADOK:
The sages of the time considered

the teachings
of the Book of Enoch,

if you will, too hot to handle.

And therefore,
it fell along by the wayside,

concealed and hidden.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible the teachings of Enoch reveal

that not all angelic encounters
were of a divine nature?

Is this the secret
that has been kept alive

in the Ethiopian version
of the Bible?

For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Book of Enoch

lies at the heart
of an extraterrestrial agenda

that has been shaping human
history for thousands of years.

And they suggest that
nowhere is this more evident

than in the book's descriptions
of beings called the watchers.

NARRATOR:
London, England. 1604.

To end a dispute
in the Anglican Church,

King James I orders the creation
of a standardized English Bible.

Today, more than four centuries
after its creation,

the King James Version

remains the most famous Bible
in history

and one of the most published
books of all time.

Interestingly,
while it contains 66 books,

the Catholic Bible has 73,

and the Ethiopian Orthodox
version is comprised of 81.

But why were so many texts,

including the Book of Enoch,
edited out?

There has always been
accepted literature,

which becomes the foundation
of orthodoxy,

and then there's
other literature

that the accepted orthodoxy
rejects.

Books that don't make it
into the collection

of the Bible,
both the Hebrew Bible

and the New Testament,
are the Apocrypha.

JULYE BIDMEAD:
The word "apocrypha" means hidden things,

and that's probably from

the ancients
hiding these texts away

from the general public
because they could be dangerous.

NARRATOR:
Dangerous?

Is it possible
that the Book of Enoch

was omitted because it exposed
truths about human history

that were considered too risky
for the public to know?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest insight can be found

by examining a passage
in the Old Testament.

We know from the Book of Daniel,

in chapter four, that there is
a group of angelic entities,

whose job, whose role it is
as ordained by God,

to direct the affairs
of humanity.

These angelic forces
look over our world

and control the direction
of civilization.

NARRATOR:
While this passage is brief,

these beings serve
as the primary focus

of the Book of Enoch,

where they are described
as divine overseers

known as the watchers.

VON D ÄNIKEN:
Enoch calls them, in the English version,

"guardians of the sky,"
or "watchers of the sky."

In the German version,
they are called angels.

No. It was simply an other time.

Now we have a new time.

Now we must translate it
with new words.

Change the word of "angel."

Scratch it out
and write "extraterrestrial."

TZADOK:
These angels were not spiritual beings.

They were physical beings.

That is something very clear

about the identity
of biblical angels.

They're not of this world,

and therefore,
they are not terrestrial,

and therefore,
they are extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch,

a total of 200 watchers
descended to Earth.

Enoch gives us
some of the names,

but we know they were ruled
by Samyaza and Aza-- Azazel.

Azazel was later known
as Lucifer.

HUGH NEWMAN:
The watchers had a very bright appearance,

and one of their names
was "the Shining Ones,"

and even Enoch, when he wrote
about them, he even said

he could barely look at them
because they were so bright.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the idea that the watchers
were alien visitors

is most strongly corroborated
by the stories

of the prophet Elijah.

TZADOK:
Aside from Enoch,

there was one other
we know from the Bible

who did ascend to heaven
in chariots of fire,

whatever that is meaning,

and this, of course,
is the famous prophet Elijah.

Elijah was a powerful,
powerful prophet

who had abilities apparently far
beyond those of other prophets.

Elijah possessed
a power cloak or a garment

that gave him the-the ability
to heal the sick

and even to raise the dead.

And then, one day, he used
that power cloak or garment

to ascend upon a fiery chariot.

A chariot of the gods.

And when Elijah ascended,
there were 50 prophets

that witnessed his ascension.

TZADOK:
The Bible calls it "chariot of fire."

Now, what is this chariot?

Was it some type
of a technological

transportation device,

which in ancient times
would not have been understood

as anything else
but a chariot of fire?

NARRATOR:
Curiously, while the idea

of the soul ascending to heaven

is a key component
of Judeo-Christian traditions,

there are a number
of instances in the Bible

where it is said
that a person ascends bodily.

In addition to Enoch and Elijah,

this is also the case with both
Jesus and his mother Mary.

But why?

If heaven is a spiritual realm,

why is it written that certain
individuals ascended bodily?

Neither Enoch nor Elijah

ever claimed
that they were prophets.

It was
the biblical writers later

who claimed
that they're prophets.

The reason why Enoch
ended up being called a prophet

is because of
the experiences he had.

He was taken up into space
by extraterrestrials.

And we have
a similar story with Elijah.

Enoch, Elijah, it-it's all part

of the big concept
of misunderstood technology.

NARRATOR:
If the watchers were, in fact, extraterrestrials,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

did they have an agenda
for humankind?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining another
ancient text attributed to Enoch

that was almost entirely
destroyed: the Book of Giants.

NARRATOR:
Qumran, Israel. 1947.

20 miles east of Jerusalem,

at this ancient site
in the Judean Desert,

Bedouin shepherds stumble upon
an extraordinary discovery.

BIDMEAD:
The Dead Sea is surrounded by caves.

And as young teenage boys
would do,

they threw a rock into the cave,

heard the sound
of breaking pots.

Came back the next day,
climbed into the cave,

and what did they find?

They found huge clay jars.

ANDREW COLLINS:
Inside these storage jars

were ancient texts,

which, very quickly,
they came to realize

that these were
incredibly important.

CARGILL:
In these scrolls,

we find biblical manuscripts,

copies of the Bible
that are a thousand years older

than any previously known copy
of the Bible,

as well as a treasure trove
of documents

that we had never seen before.

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists were surprised to find

that whoever collected
the Dead Sea Scrolls

considered the Book of Enoch
to be of vital importance,

preserving
11 different manuscripts,

including versions
never seen in modern times.

Also found were
fragments of another work

attributed to Enoch:
the Book of Giants.

Some parts of this text
included in the Dead Sea Scrolls

had been lost for centuries,
and many scholars believe

the stories contained
within the Book of Giants

were written before
even the Book of Genesis.

It expounds on Genesis 6,
verses one through four,

when the story is-is begun

that the watchers
descended upon Earth

and took wives from Earth women,
from human women,

and their offspring were giants.

COLLINS:
The Book of Giants is about the Nephilim,

the sons of the watchers.

It's about their lives,
uh, their conversations,

and they realize
that they are evil.

NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Giants,

the Nephilim were guilty
of horrific crimes,

including slaughtering humans
and feasting on their flesh.

God ultimately decides
the Earth must be cleansed,

and chooses one man
to restart humanity anew:

Noah, the great-grandson
of Enoch.

In the Bible,

Noah, the son of a shepherd
named Lamech

and his wife Betenos,
was chosen by God

because of his blameless piety.

But when the Dead Sea Scrolls
were discovered,

religious scholars were shocked
to find a much different

and potentially older version
of the story of Noah.

The Lamech Scroll documents
that Noah became the chosen one

before he was born,
and his father was not Lamech.

When Noah was born, the father
Lamech was gone at the time.

However, the wife of Lamech
knew immediately

something was up with Noah,

because he didn't look like
a normal human being.

- (crying softly)
- CARTER: He is described

as having skin so white
it was radiant.

His hair was white like wool.

His father Lamech says

he has the ways of the watchers.

When he blinked,
his eyes lit up the whole house.

This does not sound like
a human being.

The boy looked
completely different

than Lamech's other children,

and Lamech said
to his wife Betenos,

"This can't be my son,
because I was away too long."

You know, "It doesn't fit
with the nine months."

And Lamech goes for advice
to his father,

who was the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah goes to his father,
which is Enoch.

Enoch says,
"The guardians of the sky

"have inseminated Betenos
without touching her sexually.

"He should accept this boy
as his own

"and should give him
the name of Noah,

"because the guardians
of the sky have decided

Noah is the father
of the coming generation."

So in that case,
proved in the Dead Sea Scrolls,

we know for sure there was
an artificial insemination.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the Dead Sea Scrolls

contain the true story of Noah?

Was he not a pious man
chosen by God

but a genetically altered human

created by extraterrestrials
to reboot life on Earth?

While further details
about Enoch and Noah

may have existed
in the Book of Giants,

only fragments
of the full text have survived.

But now, new technology
may bring to light

even more incredible
revelations.

NARRATOR:
Santa Barbara, California.

February 18, 2020.

Rabbi Ariel Bar Tzadok
and Giorgio Tsoukalos travel

to MegaVision to meet with

imaging expert Ken Boydston.

Ken.

- Hey.
- Good to see you.

NARRATOR:
Ken recently invented

a revolutionary type of camera
that takes pictures using

a technology called
"multispectral imaging."

Giorgio and Ariel are
intrigued by the implications

of this technology, and they are
eager to find out just how far

it can go in retrieving lost
passages from the Book of Enoch.

Ken, can you explain to me
the multispectral

imaging system
that you have invented?

Well, multispectral, simply put,

it's taking a lot of pictures
under different colors of light.

And we don't want to see
the light that's on the object.

We want to only see
the light that the object

is producing in response
to that light coming in.

What we're doing
is just listening

with light to the object.

What story do you have
to tell us?

The camera can see
what the human eye cannot see,

and therein lies the magic
and some of the mystery

and some of
the great excitement,

because we are able
to discover things

that have been hidden
for generations or ages.

Mm-hmm.

NARRATOR:
Incredibly, Ken's camera is able to retrieve script

that has become eroded
with time,

script that was purposely
scrubbed from parchment

and written over,
and even script within scrolls

that cannot be opened because
they are too fragile to handle.

Many of these scrolls
might be thousands of years old,

and as you know,
we can't just open them up

- and read them
because they will deteriorate. - Right.

- Very similar
like the Dead Sea Scrolls. - Yes.

So, can you show us
how this works?

Yeah, let's just kind of go
through a little bit of stuff.

NARRATOR:
To demonstrate the power of this technology,

Ken is going to apply
spectral imaging

to a document that has been
burned so badly

much of the text is completely
undetectable to the naked eye.

During World War II,
the Nazis burned

- vast quantities of documents.
- (sighs)

So we are recovering
the partially burned texts.

- Amazing.
- And so, we're ready to do it.

Lights.

Each time the light flashes,

the shutter clicks,
another picture is captured.

So you're seeing a little
tiny bit of light right now,

but the camera is seeing
lots of light because this is

down into the infrared.

All right.

So out of the visible light
pictures that we just took,

those individual ones,
the computer put them together,

and lo and behold,
there's a perfect color picture

of that object, which would be
just what our eyes see.

- TSOUKALOS: Look at this.
- BOYDSTON: Which, there it is.

- TSOUKALOS: There you go. Wow.
- BOYDSTON: There it is.

All of that text right there.

And we can enhance that
a little bit.

We can, uh, we can push

the contrast up
a little bit on that.

- TSOUKALOS: That word
says "semeron." - BOYDSON: There we go.

- It means "today."
- So, um...

- "Arios."
...that's a little demonstration

of what, what the technology
can do.

Uh, just a very quick
and, uh, compelling, really.

This is extraordinary, really.
Wow.

So, just imagine, uh, if you
have thousands and thousands

of these pages where, uh,

no one has been able to read
them since they were destroyed.

In front of our eyes,
long-lost knowledge

that has been thought
to have been completely

and utterly destroyed

has been resurrected
with the power of light.

An ancient prophecy said
that towards the coming

of what we will call disclosure,
all of these secrets,

these ancient secrets
would be brought back to us.

We never understood how,
but now it's actually

happening in front of our eyes.

What if there are references

to extraterrestrials
that we've never seen before?

There definitely are.

So it's a corroboration
of what we're already doing.

I mean, this is sensational.

NARRATOR:
In 2018, the Israel Antiquities Authority,

studying the Dead Sea Scrolls,

announced that multispectral
analysis had uncovered writings

on a fragment that points to
a previously unknown manuscript.

Once it's discovered, what will
this missing manuscript reveal?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

there could be
numerous lost texts of Enoch

that will come to light.

Texts that were hidden
in secure locations

so that they would survive
a devastating global cataclysm:

- the Great Flood.
- (thunder cracks)

(thunder crashing)

NARRATOR:
The Book of Genesis.

In chapters six through nine,
it is described that

God had become deeply troubled

by the wickedness
of the human race

and decided
to bring it to an end

by sending a Great Flood
upon the Earth.

Only Noah and his family
would survive,

and it was God himself
who gave Noah instructions

for building the ark
that would save both them

and two of
every earthly creature.

The Book of Enoch
tells the same story,

but with
significant differences.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
One of the differences is that in the Book of Enoch,

the Flood washes away
these rebellious angels.

And it washes away the Nephilim,

as opposed to
the traditional Flood story,

which washes away people

who have been
rebellious and sinful.

God is protecting us
in the Book of Enoch.

It is a very different God
than the spiteful, wrathful God

that we see
in the Genesis account.

NARRATOR:
Another key difference in Enoch's account

is that Noah is
not given instructions

to build the ark by God
but by the angel Uriel.

HENRY:
The archangel Uriel is the one who warned Noah

about the impending Flood,

and who told him about
humanity's future

and the possibility
of this cataclysm.

What we're witnessing here
is an extraordinary story

of an extraterrestrial being
having a tremendous, in fact,

incalculable influence
on human affairs.

NARRATOR:
Does Enoch's account of the Great Flood reveal

that it is not a story
of God punishing humankind

but of extraterrestrials

directing the course
of humanity?

As far as many religious
scholars are concerned,

both the biblical version
and the Enochian version

of the Great Flood
are simply allegorical tales.

But an increasing number
of archaeologists and historians

now believe that this global
cataclysm actually happened.

Üzengili, Turkey. 1997.

After years of research,

American explorer
David Allen Deal

has become convinced that
the biblical story of Noah

is, in fact, historical,

and is on the hunt to find
the remnants of the ark.

At an elevation of more than
7,000 feet, near Mount Ararat--

where the Bible says
Noah's ark eventually landed--

he stumbles upon the ruins
of an ancient settlement.

What he discovered is
what's known as

the lost city of... of Noah,
or-or Naxuan.

And this is an area

that's near a strange
geological formation

that some people think
is actually Noah's ark.

NARRATOR:
The ancient Armenian historian Moses of Chorene

identified Naxuan as the place
of Noah's first descent.

Could this be
the first settlement

in a post-Flood world?

A recent archeological dig
reportedly uncovered

something remarkable.

The region may contain
millions of graves.

CHILDRESS:
Because Noah's tomb is said to be here,

a huge cemetery has grown up
around this lost city of Noah.

And people from
all over the Middle East,

in ancient times, uh, insisted
on being buried in this area.

NARRATOR:
Researchers suggest that Naxuan

is just one of many points of
evidence that support the notion

of a historical Great Flood.

What we now know from
incredible amount of evidence

coming from every part
of the world

is that around 10,800 BC,

the world was devastated
by some kind of impact event.

And this devastated
every part of the landscape.

What today we might refer to
as a nuclear winter

that blotted out the Sun,
the Moon and the stars.

There's something called
the Usselo horizon

that's been found
all over the world.

It's like a layer of black ash.

This suggests there was
a great conflagration

that took place,
great fires and burning,

and it left this layer
all around the world.

And it dates to between
11,000 and 13,000 years ago.

So this does suggest

something very serious
took place at this time.

NARRATOR:
Could this layer of ash,

found roughly 50 feet deep
in the Earth's soil,

be evidence of
a devastating global event?

According to geologist
Dr. Robert Schoch,

a worldwide cataclysm,
and the resulting layer of ash,

was likely created
by a solar flare,

a sudden flash of
increased brightness on the sun.

SCHOCH:
Based on my analysis of the evidence,

is that there was a major,
major solar outburst.

The sun essentially erupted.

This caused, in a flash,

the glaciers to melt
virtually instantaneously.

It caused evaporation of water.

This not only led
to the rising sea levels,

flooding the coastal areas,
and torrential rains.

We have physical evidence of
this in the geological record.

NARRATOR:
Could the Book of Enoch overturn everything we know

about the history
of life on our planet?

Did Enoch intend
to make a record

of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth

for future generations
of humans to discover?

And if so,
have these descriptions

been deliberately withheld
from sacred texts,

as ancient astronaut theorists
propose?

Perhaps further insight
can be found by examining

extraordinary events
surrounding the destruction

of the ancient world's
greatest library.

NARRATOR:
Egypt, 391 AD.

The Great Library of Alexandria,

which houses perhaps
the most extensive collection

of knowledge
in the ancient world,

is set aflame.

(people screaming)

It is burned by decree
of Emperor Theodosius I,

who has deemed many of the works
contained at the library

unorthodox and heretical.

Built by the Egyptians
in the 3rd century BC,

the Library of Alexandria
was said to contain

as many as a million scrolls
on a wide variety of topics,

including astronomy,

mathematics, physics,

medicine and philosophy.

YOUNG:
The Library at Alexandria was

the greatest library
of the ancient world.

Thousands and thousands
of scrolls,

all of the ancient science,
all of the ancient wisdom,

the occult lore, the literature.

But as regimes changed,

there was a fear
that perhaps there were

heresies in those volumes.

MAGLIOCCO:
As Christianity grew and became a more powerful religion,

they began to see
some of the learning

that was part of
ancient civilization as evil.

So all of the astronomy, all
of the technological knowledge,

all of the philosophy,
had to be destroyed.

There was ancient technologies
that were lost.

We know this
from modern historical record.

Technologies working with

systems like magnetism,
crystals, energy.

like the Ark of the Covenant.

We know these things existed,
but we don't know

what was the nature
of their existence.

Some of those books
were the history of our planet

going back
to 100,000 years even.

So when these books
were all destroyed,

it was a way of setting
the knowledge back to zero.

NARRATOR:
Of the volumes once held by the vast library,

researchers have estimated
that 95%

of the knowledge that was
recorded there was incinerated,

plunging humanity back thousands
of years in its evolution.

But why?

Was the Library of Alexandria
burned down

simply because
the Catholic Church considered

some of its contents
to be heretical?

Ancient astronaut theorists

suggest there may have
been another,

perhaps extraterrestrial agenda
behind its destruction.

According to
an official NASA document

published in 2007 titled
"Unidentified Flying Objects

in Classical Antiquity,"

there were a remarkable number
of mysterious encounters

during the rise and fall
of the Roman Empire.

They didn't use the term "UFO"
or "flying saucer"

back in-in the times
of the Romans and the Greeks,

but they spoke about things
like sky armies, shields, ships,

and, I mean, this is history.

BRAMLEY:
There's a very interesting report by Cicero.

And what that was is that
there was a sphere in the sky,

which then divided
into smaller spheres.

This reflects
the classic UFO reports

that we get today where
there's just one big object,

usually a sphere, and
then suddenly it breaks apart

and these smaller subsets
go flying around.

NARRATOR:
This report from the first century BC

was just one of
over 100 unexplained sightings

recorded during
the Roman Empire.

There's one remarkable story
after another

in the Roman Empire
of the appearance of

spaceships influencing battles.

And it leaves
the appearance that these

extraterrestrial beings
had a direct bearing

on the outcome of some of
these battles and these wars.

NARRATOR:
Of all the unexplained sightings, the most famous was

reported by
Emperor Constantine the Great

on October 27, 312 AD,

at the Battle
of the Milvian Bridge,

which would win him the throne

and change
Western civilization forever.

(crowd clamoring)

MAGLIOCCO:
The real moment of truth for Constantine came

when he was engaged
in the midst of a great battle.

He claimed to have seen
a cross appear

in the sky over the battlefield.

At that point,
he made a vow to Christ

that if he won the battle,

he would convert
to Christianity for good

and he would make Christianity

the state religion
of the Roman Empire.

BRAMLEY:
The vision of Constantine was extremely significant.

They thought it was
some kind of message.

Fight this battle and establish
this form of Christianity.

NARRATOR:
Shortly after Constantine became emperor of Rome,

religious wars broke out

between the Christians,
Jews and pagans.

It was during these wars
that the first attacks were made

on the Library of Alexandria,

ultimately leading to
its total destruction in 391 AD.

If extraterrestrial beings
were responsible

for Constantine's vision
at the Milvian Bridge,

as ancient astronaut theorists
propose,

could they have also
played a role

in the burning
of the library's archives?

POPE:
The Roman Empire, in many ways, was ahead of its time.

Now, was this something
that caught

the attention of
intelligent extraterrestrials?

Did it give them
cause for concern?

Were these UFO sightings
at the time of the Roman Empire

a monitoring process
and maybe humanity was just

pegged back a little bit?

NARRATOR:
Is it possible the alleged UFO sightings

throughout the Roman Empire
indicate that there is

an extraterrestrial agenda
for humanity?

Could it be that the scientific

and technological information
destroyed with the burning

of the Library of Alexandria
is lost forever?

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

much like the rediscovery
of the Book of Enoch

and other stricken texts,
this advanced knowledge

may have been safeguarded
and can still be found today

within the ancient
Vedic scriptures of India.

NARRATOR:
India.

Home to over 1.3 billion people,

it is the second most
populous nation in the world.

Although it is home to some of
mankind's oldest civilizations,

India has, in recent years,

also undergone
rapid modernization.

The city of Bangalore,
for example,

is the headquarters
of literally thousands

of information technology
companies,

and has been ranked

as one of the most
high-tech cities in the world.

But these advancements
also coexist

with the country's
ancient origins.

Roughly 80% of the Indian
population practices Hinduism.

And for the Hindu faithful,
their gods are not

mythological creatures but
are real flesh and blood beings

that have at times
been present here on Earth.

For the Indian people,
the basis of their religion

is essential
to the fabric of their lives.

YOUNG:
Many of the faithful to this day see these accounts

not as fanciful but as history.

They take it literally

that the gods walked among human
beings and conveyed knowledge.

MOHAN:
In the Hindu tradition, these ancient gods

are not considered just
symbolic or mythical beings.

They are considered as
flesh and blood beings

that came down from the sky
and existed in real life.

NARRATOR:
The foundation of Hinduism is carefully preserved

in India's most ancient texts.

And according
to their traditions,

these texts are accounts given
directly by the gods themselves,

and only transcribed by humans.

This collection
includes the Vedas,

or Hindu scriptures,
as well as other manuscripts

written in
the early Sanskrit language.

Vedic scholars suggest knowledge
pertaining to architecture,

science, technology,

weaponry and medicine

are preserved in meticulous
detail in these works.

The origins of the Vedic texts
goes back to cosmic time.

They have been around for

thousands and thousands
of years.

It is believed
that the knowledge

came directly from gods.

DAVID WILCOCK:
We are seeing a handbook of the gods.

We are looking at an endowment
from some superior intelligence

that appears to have been given
to us as a very practical guide

in ways that benefit humankind
all across the board.

NARRATOR:
But if the ancient texts of India

are truly attributable
to the extraterrestrial gods,

just what information
do they contain?

Sirpur, India.

The Surang Tila temple.

This structure, which dates back
to the 7th century AD,

was recently unearthed
after being buried

by a powerful earthquake that
occurred in the 11th century.

Although the rest of the area
was completely leveled,

the structure itself
remained largely intact.

Archaeologists suggest
that this is due

to the advanced
construction techniques,

known as Ayurvedic
or Vedic architecture,

utilized by its builders.

The principles they used
are derived

from the ancient science of
design that can be traced back

to the ancient Indian texts.

In March 2017,

researcher and ancient astronaut
theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

traveled to India to meet

with archaeologist
Dr. Arun Sharma,

who headed the dig.

TSOUKALOS:
This is beautiful.

Really? Now, is this considered

Ayurvedic architecture
right here?

That's amazing. Huh.

TSOUKALOS:
Okay.

NARRATOR:
Although much of the site has been renovated

using modern concrete,
blocks held together

by the Ayurvedic paste
can still be found.

It seems to be almost like
some type of glue.

NARRATOR:
The glue-like substance is said to form a bond

that is at least 20 times
stronger than concrete.

But modern builders
have been unwilling

to entertain the notion
that such an ancient concoction

could be superior
to today's building materials.

Wow, look at this. Beautiful.

NARRATOR:
The detailed instructions for making this paste can be found

in an ancient Indian text
known as the Mayamatam,

a manuscript dedicated
to construction techniques.

The information contained within
the document is understood

to have been passed down
to humans from Mayasura,

the ancient king of the demigods
who was said to oversee

various construction projects
on Earth,

including cities in the sky.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, there is a more astounding

earthquake-proof feature
at the site which indicates

that advanced knowledge
was used in its construction.

Located at key points
within the Surang Tila temple

are several 80-foot-long shafts
designed to form air pockets

that can dissipate
the impact of seismic events.

Yes, please.

All right.

Wow.

Oh, wow.

This is big. It's a huge book.

And-and this text
has been around

for 4,500 years?

In your opinion, where
did this knowledge come from?

Uh-huh.

And you think
that this knowledge

originated from the stars?

That's amazing.

NARRATOR:
According to the Hindu faithful, the construction techniques

used at the Surang Tila temple
are just one example of

advanced technology detailed
in the ancient Sanskrit texts.

Other works are said
to contain information

far beyond the scope
of early man.

Perhaps even providing
concrete proof

of extraterrestrial activity
on Earth.

NARRATOR:
The Indus Valley,

Northwest India and Pakistan.

June 2011.

Paleontologists discover
a 4,300-year-old skull

featuring multiple
drilled holes in it.

Remarkably, they conclude
these are signs

that brain surgery
was performed.

And it even appears

that the operation
was successful,

as the wound showed signs
of advanced healing.

NOORY:
In ancient India, they performed

incredible kinds of medicine and
surgical procedures on people,

things like
operating on the skull.

What's fascinating
about this is,

is this kind of advanced
medical knowledge goes way back.

Way back.

And they were able to use
those techniques to heal people.

NARRATOR: Vedic scholars
suggest that not only

were the ancient Hindus
able to perform brain surgery

but other advanced procedures
as well.

And much of
this medical knowledge

was set to record
in a Sanskrit text

dating back to 800 BC
known as the Sushruta Samhita.

In 2017, at a local library

in Mahabalipuram, India,
Giorgio Tsoukalos meets

with fellow ancient astronaut
theorist Praveen Mohan

to take a closer look
at the text.

Now, this is a, uh,

vast medical text
that contains information

about more than
11,000 illnesses.

Uh, it talks about
700 medicinal plants,

64 preparations
from mineral resources,

57 preparations
from animal resources,

and it's considered
the foundation of Ayurveda,

the traditional Indian medicine.

Oh, so this is the basis
for Ayurvedic medicine

- right here?
- Yes, yes.

I was able to find a passage.

I thought you might find it,
you know, interesting.

- TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
- Right here.

Now, you can see, it says that

surgical operations
are of eight types.

They are incising,

excising, scraping,

puncturing, probing,

extracting, secreting fluids,

and even suturing.

- So, imagine,
we had suturing 2,600 years ago. - Mm-hmm.

And this book was written
more than a hundred years

before Hippocrates,
the father of modern medicine.

That is amazing. And how was
this information obtained?

Like, what's the story
behind this?

Well, the title
"Sushruta Samhita" means

that the author Sushruta
is not really the author.

He did not write this book.

He got this information

from a character
called Dhanvantari,

who was an otherworldly being.

NARRATOR:
Dhanvantari is believed

to be the physician to the gods

and the father
of Ayurvedic medicine.

SHIMKHADA:
Dhanvantari itself has a divine origin

associated with
the churning of the milky ocean.

The churning of the milk of sea

refers to perhaps,
uh, the Milky Way.

Dhanvantari came out of that,

and then he was
the god of medicine.

And he then gave this knowledge
of medicine to human beings.

TSOUKALOS:
Dhanvantari was said to have originated from the Milky Way.

And so, all of a sudden,

you have a connection
with this deity

arriving from the Milky Way--
well, what more do you want?

The knowledge contained
in this document known as

the Sushruta Samhita
was brought here

by an extraterrestrial visitor.

NARRATOR:
Ayurvedic medicine is considered one of

the world's oldest and
most detailed healing sciences.

Is it possible that it was
really handed down to mankind

by alien sources?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest that
other texts clearly reveal

this extraterrestrial
connection.

Mumbai University.

Kalina, India.

January 2015.

The Indian Science Congress
presents talks

on various technical disciplines

to an audience of
some of India's top engineers.

Included in the list of
presentations is a lecture

on ancient Indian
aviation technology

given by retired pilot
and flight instructor

Captain Anand J. Bodas.

In his lecture,
Captain Anand Bodas

told young engineers
that they should recreate

what is given
in ancient Vedic texts,

because in the field
of aviation,

there are
much more advanced devices

mentioned than
what we have today.

NOORY:
This was a very controversial talk,

because you had one camp
that thought

that the ancient civilizations
of India possessed

incredible flying technology,
yet you then had that other camp

that said this is crazy,
it's nonsense.

But something was going on

many, many, many,
many thousands of years ago.

And they presented evidence
and documented facts

that they had flying machines

that were capable of doing
incredible things.

How did they know this?

NARRATOR:
Captain Bodas is just the latest

in a long line
of researchers to suggest

that the ancient texts contain

actual information
about lost technology

pertaining to aerial vehicles,

often referred to
in the texts as "vimanas."

In 1895, a full eight years
before the Wright brothers

successfully launched
their flying machine,

Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade
tested an aircraft he fashioned

based solely on information

gleaned from
the ancient Indian writings.

BRANDENBURG:
Talpade, in India, was a student

of the Vedic scriptures.

And he decided to try
and construct

one of the vimana flying craft

that were seen
in the, um, Vedic scriptures.

MOHAN:
The first aircraft of Talpade was called "Marutsakha,"

which means
"friend of the wind."

He was able to fly this aircraft

in front of thousands of people
in Mumbai Beach.

TAYLOR:
The legend has it that he flew for,

like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.

The Wright brothers only went
120 feet for 12 seconds.

If this is true, that changes
aviation history dramatically.

But even more exciting
is that he based his design

on something written
thousands of years

before mankind even thought
flying was possible.

NARRATOR:
In 2017, Kavya Vaddadi, an aircraft design engineer

in Delhi, India, was able
to recreate the Marutsakha

as a digital 3D model,
utilizing the same information

contained in the texts
that Talpade studied.

She shared her digital file
with aerospace systems engineer

Travis Taylor,
so he could 3D print it

in order to test its aerodynamic
properties in a wind tunnel.

But just how would
this ancient design hold up

when put to the test?

NARRATOR: University
of California at Irvine.

April 2017.

Aerospace engineer Travis Taylor
has obtained

a model of an aircraft
whose design specifications

are based solely
on information gleaned

from ancient Indian texts
that are believed

to have been formally
set to writing in 500 BC.

He is going to subject it
to wind tunnel analysis

to determine if it is
a viable flying machine.

So explain to me what we've set
up here with that wind tunnel.

Okay, so this is
our aerospace vehicle model.

It's connected to this boom.

The armature
has a force gauge on it.

We're gonna have airflow
go past it

at about 50 miles per hour
or so.

And then we're gonna
measure forces against it

to determine if, uh,
if it's gonna fly or not.

And so what are the signs
that you're looking for

in order to determine
whether this is,

in fact, aerodynamically sound?

Right, so we're gonna measure
the, uh, normal force.

And the normal force is
up or down.

Uh, if it starts to move up,
then that'll be exciting,

because it's actually
going to be rising

and that's how you get flight.

You know,
when the airplane turns up

and it starts to move,
it's because it's getting lift.

Uh, the other thing is,
I don't want to see it

going real bad side to side,

or-or real bad chatter
up and down,

because that would mean
it's unstable.

All right, well, let's do it.

Let's fire her up
and see what happens.

Yeah, let's do it.

(beep)

(whirring)

The flow is coming up to speed.

Yep.

NARRATOR:
While being subjected to 50-mile-an-hour winds,

the craft exhibits
a slight lift upwards

yet remains relatively steady.

No side to side wobble.

Okay.

NARRATOR:
Sensors record the measurements

of various forces,
as well as torque and pitch

to determine just
how aerodynamic the body is.

It looks very stable.

All right.
So let's look at the results.

So what happened during the test
was the normal force,

which is where we measure
the lift,

it was positive between .03
and .06 pounds of force.

That means
we were measuring lift.

So our vehicle
in the wind tunnel experiment

was showing positive lift
like an aircraft would.

Did you expect these results
from a shape that's like that?

Well, the shape looks like
a lifting body to me.

But you never know until
you actually do the experiment.

And we have experimental results
now that says it is.

So that's the exciting part.

And-and what do you say
to anyone,

uh, who questions the idea
that this information

has been taken from
a text that's at least

1,800 years old?

The only thing you can say is

we performed
a good scientific experiment,

and the results were
that the shape made

from those texts is
a viable aerodynamic structure.

NARRATOR:
The aircraft model created using details garnered

from the ancient Indian texts
has proven to be flight-worthy.

Is it possible that by studying

the ancient Indian texts,
we may be able to recreate

advanced technology that existed
thousands of years ago in India?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the texts

may also contain details
for advanced spacecraft.

Hindu scholars point out
that stories of space travel

can be found
throughout the pages

of the ancient Sanskrit texts.

There are even detailed accounts
of humans entering flying crafts

and being transported
to other solar systems.

MOHAN:
In the ancient texts of Vishnu Purana,

Lord Vishnu decides to take
Dhruva, a human being,

through an interstellar journey.

We know this because
it is specifically stated

that Dhruva
would be taken beyond

planets like Mercury, Venus,

and even beyond
some other stars.

CHILDRESS:
According to the text,

he went past seven planetary
systems in a physical craft

and eventually he reached
the solar system

and planet of Vishnuloka,

the planet that Vishnu
is said to have come from.

So here we have
the story of extraterrestrials

taking a human
to another solar system.

NARRATOR:
Although few details exist of the craft

Dhruva was transported in,
scholars have noted

that highly specific
descriptions

of space vehicles can be found
throughout the texts.

In 2014, in an article

in the Journal of Engineering
and Innovative Technology

titled "Vedic Ion Engine,"

a team of aerospace scientists
posed the theory

that what is being described
in a thousand-year-old text

called the
Samarangana Sutradhara

is a modern ion mercury vortex
engine used for space travel.

TAYLOR:
In the Samarangana Sutradhara text,

there's a description
of an engine that uses mercury,

and the mercury swirls
in a vortex,

and it uses the heat from
perhaps solar power to create

some type of flying capability.

My thought on this
is it sounds a lot like

an ion engine.

It puts out a small amount of
thrust but for a very long time.

And that's why ion engines are

uniquely perfect
for interspace travel.

NARRATOR:
In 2007, NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft,

which used a conventional
multistage chemical rocket

to blast off from Earth,

but then switched
to an ion engine

for its journey
through deep space.

Crucial to that mission
was an ion thruster.

And it gets its energy
from solar panels.

So here, you have this
solar-powered ion thruster

with this vortex
in the middle of it

going out to the asteroid belt,

and it's described
in the Sanskrit texts.

NARRATOR:
If information detailing previously lost technology

was purposely left
for humans to rediscover,

are we now sufficiently advanced
to successfully replicate it?

And if so, are there
any other developments,

beyond ancient space travel,

that scientists
have been able to exploit?

NARRATOR:
Mahabalipuram, India.

While at a local library

with fellow ancient astronaut
theorist Praveen Mohan,

Giorgio Tsoukalos gets
a firsthand look

at early copies
of some of India's

most important ancient texts.

MOHAN:
And now, let me show you the other book.

This is the Bhagavad Gita.

NARRATOR:
Among the most influential

is the Bhagavad Gita,

part of the 13,000-page epic
called the Mahabharata,

which contains
19 individual books.

MOHAN:
Historians think this text was written

around 500 BC,
so this book is 2,500 years old.

- Okay.
- But according to "mythology,"

this was supposed to be written
at least 10,000 years ago.

(chuckles):
Okay.

It's a very popular book,
and some people even say

atomic science
is hidden in this book.

Not just regular people
but modern physicists.

So the argument can be made
that the knowledge of,

- for example, the atom...
- Mm-hmm.

...is contained in a book...

- Yes.
- ...that is at least 2,500 years old.

And some stories say
that it was given

- by an otherworldly being.
- Yes.

- Okay.
- Even Robert Oppenheimer,

- who is the father
of atomic bomb... - Mm-hmm.

...uh, was fascinated
by this book.

- Really? Wow, okay.
- Yes.

TSOUKALOS:
That's interesting.

NARRATOR:
Jornada del Muerto desert.

New Mexico. July 16, 1945.

In the middle of the barren

Alamogordo Bombing
and Gunnery Range,

scientists detonate the first
man-made nuclear weapon.

The destruction was comparable
to no other weapon known to man.

The father of the atomic bomb
was J. Robert Oppenheimer,

the leader
of the Manhattan Project,

a secret government program
created to develop

such a weapon.

Oppenheimer, when he saw
the successful nuclear test

and realized what a terrible
weapon he was unleashing...

...he quoted
the Bhagavad Gita's,

"I am become death,
the destroyer of worlds."

NARRATOR:
Oppenheimer's interest in ancient Sanskrit literature

began while he was a professor

at the University
of California, Berkeley,

and was introduced to the texts

by renowned scholar
Arthur W. Ryder.

Under Ryder's tutelage,

Oppenheimer extensively studied
the Vedic scriptures

and became proficient
in Sanskrit.

According to his biographers,
he kept a hardcover

of the Bhagavad Gita
on his bookshelf

and was known to give copies
away to his friends as gifts.

BRANDENBURG:
One of the ideas that's deep within the Vedic scriptures,

the Bhagavad Gita,
is the idea of duty.

He felt it was his duty
to do this,

even though it would be
a terrible thing, he realized,

to develop
this new nuclear weapon.

So he believed he was
part of a cosmic cycle,

and we had to do this
to advance.

Perhaps he knew that,
by developing the atomic bomb,

we were actually reconnecting
with technologies

that we had been exposed to
many thousands of years before.

NARRATOR:
One of the key ideas found

within the Indian texts

is the concept of the
cyclical nature of existence,

that once we complete
a cosmic cycle,

it just begins once more.

Oppenheimer himself came to see

that he was, in a sense,
fulfilling some ancient destiny,

and that this weapon
could ultimately be used

to stop a major war,
which is exactly what happened.

It totally broke the momentum
of World War II.

In that sense,
he was seeing that he was,

in some way,
fulfilling a destiny

that came to him from
a seemingly supernatural source,

i.e., extraterrestrial gods
who influenced ancient India.

NARRATOR:
If Oppenheimer's work on the atomic bomb

was inspired
by the ancient Indian texts,

could this mean
that similar weapons

actually existed on Earth
thousands of years ago?

Thar Desert.

Rajasthan, India. 1992.

Engineers conducting
soil sampling at a site

where a housing development
was to be built

discover a heavy layer of
radioactive ash under the soil.

Further examination reveals
the contamination stretches

across a three-square-mile
area of the desert.

MOHAN:
After cordoning off the area,

scientists unearthed a city with
completely demolished buildings.

HENRY:
Scientists have discovered a radioactive ash

that they believe dates
to 8,000 to 12,000 years ago,

that shows evidence of a
nuclear blast in ancient times.

This is very interesting
because the Sanskrit texts

describe exactly
this type of occurrence

in this era in ancient times.

NARRATOR:
In the Ramayana,

one of the major
ancient Sanskrit epics,

a mighty weapon
of the god Brahma,

called the Brahmastra,
is described

as a weapon of immense power

intended to rain down
destruction from above.

Brahma provided this weapon
to the hero Rama

as a last resort after all
conventional means of warfare

failed in his battle
against the demon king.

SHIMKHADA:
The Brahmastra is the deadliest weapon there is

in the history of humankind.

It is like a nuclear,
uh, device,

uh, that can be detonated,

and then it would have
a very devastating effect.

Once it was fired, its effect

fell on a lot of animals,
and then they dropped dead,

and, also, people,
they started losing their nails,

their hair,
and they could not breathe.

Rama fires the Brahmastra
weapon upon Drumatulya.

It is commonly accepted

that this is in Rajasthan
in Pakistan.

It's the 19th largest desert
in the world.

NARRATOR:
Does the layer of radioactive ash

recently discovered
in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan

provide proof that the stories

recorded in the ancient
scriptures have merit?

Nuclear warfare,

space travel, flying craft.

Might there be greater truth
about our technological past

revealed in
the ancient Indian texts?

And if so, are they simply
a guide to move us forward,

or might they serve as a warning
for mankind's impending fate?

New Delhi, India.

Scholars at the National
Mission of Manuscripts

set out to translate
and preserve

what they estimate to be over
four million rare ancient texts

related to various disciplines,
including ancient science.

Many of these texts
had been preserved

on palm leaves,
and are believed to be scattered

in obscure locations
throughout the subcontinent.

Currently, less than ten percent

of the ancient writings
of India have been published,

and no one is certain
what secrets lie hidden

in these remaining
undeciphered manuscripts.

Is it possible
that the road map for our future

is yet to be revealed

by studying
these ancient Indian texts?

BRANDENBURG:
These texts should be consulted

as we evolve into a world

that's-- is full of
so many unknowns,

and the Vedic scriptures are
a vast storehouse of knowledge.

And by not consulting them,
who knows?

We may be missing
something vital.

HENRY:
We would be well served to go back to the Hindu texts,

and recognize that perhaps
we've been here before.

The Vedic text offers
the key to us to move forward.

Conversely, it could well be
that ignoring it

will be at our own peril,

and that we could, in fact,
face our end.

CHILDRESS:
What I really think is important here

is that we pay more attention
to these ancient texts,

and try to learn
what we can from them,

because this is the gods,
the extraterrestrials,

giving us this information.

NARRATOR:
Do the voices of the gods,

as written in the pages
of India's ancient texts,

really contain information
left for us to discover?

And if so, is it possible
that this information

has been securely hidden away,

awaiting the moment when humans
are ready to learn the truth?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest
there are still chapters

of the Book of Enoch
we have yet to uncover.

Chapters that may be hidden
within the Great Pyramid.

NARRATOR:
Cairo, Egypt.

Here, on the Giza Plateau,

stands the oldest of the seven
wonders of the ancient world,

the Great Pyramid.

But ancient astronaut
theorists suspect

this awesome structure
is even older

than Egyptologists
have proposed.

Mainstream archaeologists date
the Great Pyramid to 2500 BC,

and suggest it was built
as a tomb for the pharaoh Khufu.

However, according
to a 14th century account

written by Islamic historian
Ibrahim al-Maqrizi,

the Pyramid of Giza was built
thousands of years earlier,

before the event described
in both the Hebrew Bible

and the Book of Enoch
as the Great Flood.

VON D ÄNIKEN:
Now what is very, very astonishing,

there are many other
old historian books--

especially Arabian historians--

which nobody knows
in the Western world.

They say the Great Pyramid
was constructed

before the Great Flood,
by a pharaoh

with the name of Surid,

and they precisely say Surid
is the same figure

which the Hebrew community
calls Enoch.

NARRATOR:
Enoch, the builder of the Great Pyramid?

Could such an incredible notion
be true?

The Islamic text
goes on to detail

the pyramid's construction,

which it says was made possible
by otherworldly beings.

TSOUKALOS:
According to al-Maqrizi,

the pyramids were built
in order to preserve knowledge

that was given to the Egyptians
by the so-called gods,

the so-called watchers,
the guardians of the sky.

These blocks were levitated,

and essentially walked
themselves into position.

NARRATOR:
Was the Great Pyramid actually built by Enoch

using extraterrestrial
technology?

While it may sound far-fetched,

the notion
that the pharaoh Khufu

was behind the construction
of the pyramid

has come under great scrutiny.

In 1837, a British colonel
who became an archeologist

named Richard Howard Vyse
used dynamite

to get up into the King's
Chamber of the Great Pyramid.

This was something
that had not been entered

by other archeologists before.

When he got into
these upper chambers,

he then apparently claimed
that he found,

uh, some hieroglyphic cartouches

that mentioned
the pharaoh Khufu.

Egyptologists knew
when Khufu lived.

He lived 2500, roughly, BC.

And because of that,
by extension,

that became
the timeline and the date

of the Great Pyramid's
construction,

according to mainstream
Egyptology.

NARRATOR:
Colonel Vyse's expedition to the Great Pyramid

cost $1.3 million,

a figure equal
to $35 million today.

Due to the cost, Vyse was under
tremendous pressure

to make a major discovery,

like finding hard evidence
of who commissioned

the building of the pyramid.

But new evidence has been found
that some believe

puts Vyse's discovery
into question.

Recently,
it has been discovered,

by going through, uh,
Vyse's journals,

that he, in his journals,
actually says

that there were no hieroglyphs
within this chamber.

And so, it is suspected
that Vyse did, in fact,

forge this cartouche
of the pharaoh Khufu.

NARRATOR:
Egyptologists have also pointed out

that during the time of Khufu,

cartouches were
written vertically,

but the cartouche Colonel Vyse
claimed to have discovered

was written horizontally.

And no mummy was ever found
inside the Great Pyramid.

VON D ÄNIKEN:
Especially in Egyptology,

many archeologists believe
that they know everything,

and that their knowledge
is a true base.

In reality, there are
thousands of open questions,

starting with the builder
of the Great Pyramid.

NARRATOR:
In March 2016,

the Great Pyramid of Giza
presented researchers

with yet another mystery.

Archeologists examining
the ancient structure

with a new technology
known as muography

made a shocking discovery:

a mysterious chamber
inside the structure

that is as large
as the Statue of Liberty.

CHILDRESS:
It's always exciting

when Egyptologists
are making new discoveries

inside, uh, the Great Pyramid
or other pyramids.

And now they're saying
that there is a 30-meter void

inside the pyramid.

So, the whole idea
that these pyramids

are just simple tombs
for a pharaoh,

Egyptologists now realize that
they're far more complicated.

This new room
is only the beginning of it.

I'm sure, within the next
months, or at least two years,

they will discover more rooms
in the Great Pyramid.

I personally think
that the Great Pyramid in Egypt

holds some sort of time capsule.

In my opinion,
we will find mummies in there.

Mummies of before
the Great Flood.

And we will find writings
in there.

Writings of Enoch
who tell us how it all was.

Enoch knew
that all these writings

would be found
in the far future.

NARRATOR:
A time capsule

hidden within
the Great Pyramid of Giza?

When the Great Pyramid of Egypt
is fully excavated,

could it be found to hold
undeniable proof

that the Book of Enoch documents

extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?

And might it reveal
even more profound truths

about the history of humankind?

The Book of Enoch, chapter 91.

After journeying through
the heavenly realm

and returning to Earth,
Enoch is preparing

to be taken back up
into the heavens once again.

Before he leaves, Enoch gathers
together his family,

and shares with them
a startling prophecy.

He assembles the whole family.

The oldest of his son
was Methuselah,

the biblical Methuselah.

Methuselah asked his father,

"Enoch, will I see you again?"

And Enoch said,
"The guardians of the sky

"told me I will return
to this planet,

"but thousands of years
will have passed.

So, we will not see
each other again."

NARRATOR:
The concept of a divine figure

leaving and returning to Earth

is echoed across
almost every major religion.

HUSSAIN:
In the Jewish tradition,

there's the expectation
the Prophet Elijah

will return before the messiah

and bring in this age of peace
and righteousness

that ushers in the end of time.

In the Christian tradition,
the return of Jesus,

who, for Christians,
is the messiah.

In the Islamic tradition,
you know,

it's either the al-Mahdi,
the divinely guided one,

or it's Muhammad
who will return.

In a sense,
this ushers in a brand-new age,

a brand-new
relationship with god,

a brand-new way
of existing in the world.

LITTLE:
There's a body of Hindu scriptures

known as the Puranas
and these tell

about the tenth
and final incarnation

of the god Vishnu

that comes at the end
of this present cycle of time.

These prophecies speak
of this messianic figure

riding upon the clouds of heaven

accompanied by the armies
of heaven.

This suggests
that we're talking about

some kind of
a vehicle or a craft.

TSOUKALOS:
This whole concept of the return of the gods,

well, who are we waiting for?

It will not be any of
these ancient "saintly figures"

or-or "holy figures," but
it will be extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that some of humankind's
most sacred religious writings

document alien intervention
on Earth?

And if so,
did our ancient ancestors,

or perhaps the extraterrestrials
themselves,

deem it necessary to conceal
certain mysterious texts?

It is very, very evident from
other literature that we know

that there were secrets lost,
secrets of our ancient past,

secret of our connections
with other worlds

and other realities.

Does this speak about
our ancient alien connection?

Very, very possible.

There is no reason
to question that at all.

Because ultimately,
the truth is out there,

and the truth will be revealed.

NARRATOR:
Does the Book of Enoch

and other Apocrypha texts

contain profound revelations
about humankind's true history?

And might other
ancient manuscripts,

religious texts
and world mythologies

contain within them
undeniable evidence

of an extraterrestrial influence
on Earth in the distant past?

Evidence that someone
or something

may have chosen to share
with only a select few?

Perhaps, as many religious
traditions prophesize,

there will come a day
when we are reunited

with our creators and will learn

the full truth
about our otherworldly origins.

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