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NARRATOR:
Dramatic and unexplainable leaps in human evolution.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
We don't have the step-by-step changes

DAVID CHILDRESS: We don't have
the step-by-step changes that we were expecting to find.

that we were expecting to find.

It's like humans are
straight out of the incubator.

NARRATOR:
Evidence of tampering in the genetic code.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
We became humans not due to an accident

but a deliberate,
artificial change of our DNA.

NARRATOR:
And new generations being born with supernatural abilities.

NARRATOR:
And new generations being born with supernatural abilities.

There is genetic
evidence to prove

that humans are evolving
at a rapid rate of speed.

NARRTOR:
Has mankind's development been orchestrated

by an extraterrestrial hand?

If so,
what evolutionary upgrades

If so,
what evolutionary upgrades may be next for the human race?

may be next for the human race?

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
What humanity might become for spacefaring purposes

is more like these gray aliens.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

It demands
we question everything we have ever been taught.

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future
is right before our eyes.

The future
is right before our eyes. We are not alone.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Temple University,
Philadelphia.

1992.

History professor
Dr. David Jacobs

releases his book Secret Life.

After over 30 years of
collecting research data

and interviewing
hundreds of individuals claiming

to have been
abducted by extraterrestrials,

Jacobs became convinced
that aliens were using Earth

as a genetic laboratory

to create a new species
of alien-human hybrids.

I've looked at about 1,150,

1,175 different
abduction events.

And I became convinced
that this was the real item,

that the people
actually were being abducted.

And they all say
the same thing, and it's global.

They're put on a table.

There are procedures
that are applied to them.

Men have sperm taken from them.

Women have eggs taken from them.

Very often, they're taken
into other rooms

Very often, they're taken into other rooms
where they see babies who look odd.

where they see
babies who look odd.

They look sort of like a cross
between human and alien babies.

The question is:
Are humans being manipulated

The question is: Are humans being manipulated
to become a hybrid species themselves?

to become
a hybrid species themselves?

NARRATOR:
Although critics acknowledge that

Dr. Jacobs' research
is meticulous and methodical,

they continue to dismiss the
abduction phenomenon entirely.

But could it be that
extraterrestrials are actually

using human DNA to add a new
branch to the evolutionary tree?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest that

alien intervention
in human development

has been happening since
the beginning of mankind.

And clues may be found
in other humanlike species

with whom
we once shared the Earth.

(wildlife chirping, calling)

(hooting)

Recreational spelunkers unearth
a trove of humanlike fossils

deposited deep inside a cavern

known as the Rising Star cave.

Paleoanthropologists determine
that the bones are remarkably

distinctive from any previously
found early human remains

and, upon further examination,

decide that they are
actually not human at all,

adding a startling new piece
to the evolutionary puzzle.

They call this new species
Homo naledi to correspond

with the Dinaledi chamber
it was discovered in,

which translates
to "chamber of stars."

What is remarkable
about these hominids

is that they are a distinctive
mix of both primitive

and more advanced
hominid characteristics.

So there are
some elements of Homo naledi,

like the shape of the skull,
the size of the teeth,

the feet, the ankles,
that are very humanlike.

There are other characteristics,
like the brain size, only about

500 CCs, so about a third
of modern human brain size,

and also aspects of
the shoulder and the trunk

and also aspects of
the shoulder and the trunk that are much more primitive,

that are much more primitive,

much more similar to
our earlier hominid ancestors.

PETER WARD:
The original thought is this might be really

the first humans of Africa,

seven to
three million years ago.

seven to
three million years ago. But this cave seemed newer.

But this cave seemed newer.

The way the bodies were placed
seemed almost too regular.

It looked as if
there was at least ceremony

to what was being done.

And that of course suggests
this would be a fairly well-on

evolutionary advanced creature.

NARRATOR:
Finding the Homo naledi bones is considered

the most astonishing
human fossil discovery

of the last 50 years,

as it adds a baffling new branch
to the human family tree.

This is
a tremendously exciting time.

Both the fossil
and the genetic evidence

really underscore that there is

much more diversity
in human forms

in our evolutionary past
than we previously recognized.

NARRATOR:
The hominin, or hominid,

NARRATOR:
The hominin, or hominid, branch of the evolutionary tree

branch of the evolutionary tree

includes modern humans
as well as the extinct

human predecessors,
such as Neanderthal,

Homo habilis, Homo erectus,

and other early, intelligent
standing primates

that have long since vanished.

And despite many years
of thinking otherwise,

scientists are now discovering

that many of these species
coexisted.

What we're seeing, really,
is something, like, out of

The Lord of the Rings,
where we have all kinds

of different humanoids

who are tall and short,

who have different color skins,

who have different color skins,
different types of hair; even their brains

different types of hair;
even their brains

are slightly different.

Some are more animals or apes.

Some are more animals or apes.
Others are more refined.

Others are more refined.

NARRATOR:
Some researchers suggest

that these recent discoveries

may require a retooling
of Darwin's theory of evolution,

which was first proposed
in 1859.

In his work,
On the Origin of Species,

Darwin laid out the foundation
for evolutionary theory

by proposing that gradual
multigenerational changes,

occurring
due to natural selection,

would result in the modification
of existing species.

If the theory
of evolution is correct,

we should see
a steady, slow progression.

We're actually not seeing that.

We're seeing
the sudden surfacing

of early humans who are actually

very highly evolved.

The scientific community
explains everything away

by nothing else but natural
selection and coincidence.

by nothing else but natural
selection and coincidence. And the intelligent design camp

And the intelligent design camp

suggests everything
was done by God.

What if this external force
did in fact exist?

But it may have been
an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the evolution of humans,

and even prehuman hominin,

might not be entirely
what Darwin proposed?

Might there be an even more
profound explanation

for the different species
of intelligent hominin

for the different species
of intelligent hominin that once existed on Earth?

that once existed on Earth?

that once existed on Earth?
Perhaps clues can be found by exploring

Perhaps clues
can be found by exploring

the details contained
within some of

humanity's earliest stories
of our creation.

We have this notion
that the people

that were the earliest examples
of a civilization

were not the first attempts.

That there were failures
that came before,

and finally they would
come up with something better,

and that would be the prototype
that became the people.

Sumerian texts speak of
deformed humans created by

Enki and the mother goddess
Ninkhursag in the course

of their efforts to fashion
a perfect person.

In all six,
protohumans were made before

they came up with
what they wanted.

In the Mayan text the Popol Vuh,
the book of the people,

it is said that there were
three attempts to make people.

NARRATOR:
Could the stories of gods creating

NARRATOR: Could the stories of
gods creating multiple versions of man,

multiple versions of man,

which can be found
in the Mayan Popol Vuh,

the ancient Sumerian texts
and other writings,

be accounts of
what actually happened on Earth

be accounts of
what actually happened on Earth in the distant past?

in the distant past?

And if so,
just who were these gods?

There's a very good chance
that early humans were possibly

genetically manipulated
by advanced extraterrestrials

trying to formulate and create
the ultimate human species.

What if, at the heart of it,

is the concept

that the planet itself has been

an experimental lab,
an experimental garden,

an experimental lab, an experimental garden,
and that all of these different models getting to Homo sapien,

and that all of these different
models getting to Homo sapien,

that there had been
all kinds of models,

all for different reasons,
all part of tests,

all done by DNA manipulation

by nonhumans in
the extraterrestrial category?

NARRATOR:
Could the widespread mythologies about the creation

of various human prototypes
be real accounts

of an extraterrestrial
experiment,

an experiment that continues
to this day?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

the fossil discovery
of real-life hobbits.

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NARRATOR:
The Indonesian island of Flores,

just north of Australia.

September 6, 2003.

Archaeologists seeking
evidence for the first

Homo sapiens migration
to Indonesia

come upon what they believe

is the skull of a human child
embedded in the earth

20 feet beneath the surface
of Liang Bua cave.

After several days
of careful excavation,

enough of the cranium
and mandible are exposed

to reveal that the teeth

belonged not to a child
but to a fully-grown adult.

The skull, along with
the skeletal remains

that were recovered weeks later,
belong to an ancient hominin

that stood only
three and a half feet tall.

Scientists name the species
Homo floresiensis,

but they are more commonly
referred to as "the Hobbits."

The Flores hominids date to

The Flores hominids date to
16,000 to 18,000 years ago,

16,000 to 18,000 years ago,

a time period when we thought

only anatomically
modern humans existed.

What is remarkable
about the Flores remains

is their tiny, tiny body size.

And, as well, at least one of
the specimens has a brain size

that is only about the size
of a chimpanzee,

that is only about the size
of a chimpanzee, 300 to 400 ccs.

300 to 400 ccs.

And yet, you have tools
that are consistent

with anatomically modern humans.

How to reconcile that
is still an open question.

CHILDRESS:
The recent discoveries of these Hobbits

on the island of Flores
in Indonesia

has really rocked
the anthropological world.

has really rocked the anthropological world.
And anthropologists were really not aware

And anthropologists were
really not aware

and didn't think
that there would be

this miniature type of person,

who's a distinct species
from Homo sapiens.

NARRATOR:
Prehistoric stone tools found on the island of Flores

suggest that these
so-called Hobbits

may have arrived there
800,000 years prior.

How did this species
get to the island?

So, there are two options
how this could've happened.

So, there are two options
how this could've happened. One is that these Hobbit people

One is that these Hobbit people

arrived there on boats
or they were planted there

by extraterrestrials
in the remote past.

Some people even have
suggested that this island

served as some type of a petri
dish because of its isolation.

NARRATOR:
Seven years after the initial Flores discovery,

archaeologists stumble across
yet another new species,

8,000 miles away
in the remote Altai Mountains

of Siberia.

Isolated in a cave
at an elevation

over 2,400 feet above sea level,

scientists discover
a finger bone fragment

and tooth of
a previously unknown prehuman

that existed at least
40,000 years ago.

They name the species
Denisovan after the name

of the cave that the bones
were found in.

It's particularly fascinating
that, when we look at

the geographical distribution
of the early humans,

they're in different parts
of the world.

We have the Denisovans
in Siberia and Russia.

We have Homo floresiensis
on the island

of Flores, and the list goes on.

It begs the question:
How would that happen?

Why would it not be
the case that multiple

different types of human
would appear in multiple areas?

But they had their own
geographical locations.

NARRATOR:
Discoveries made in just the last two decades

paint a picture of at least
four distinct groups of

intelligent hominins existing in
isolated pockets of the world.

Homo floresiensis isolated
on the island of Flores,

Denisovans being found in
the Altai Mountains of Siberia,

Neanderthal found occupying
Western Europe,

and anatomically modern humans
evolving in Africa.

Scientists don't
entirely understand

the role
of geographic isolation,

but what we know from studies
of island populations

of both humans and nonhuman
species today is that

isolated environments
are fertile ground

for producing unique
and distinctive adaptations

and also extremes in body size.

NARRATOR:
In 1972,

renowned evolutionary theorist
Dr. Stephen Jay Gould

proposed a modification

to the standard model
of evolution.

His punctuated equilibrium
theory addressed evidence

that changes in the fossil
record came not as

a steady process
of gradual evolution,

as proposed by Darwin,

as proposed by Darwin,
but rather in fits and starts.

but rather in fits and starts.

And these rapid changes
seemed to primarily occur

And these rapid changes
seemed to primarily occur in situations of isolation.

in situations of isolation.

His theory continues to be
considered controversial,

as it also suggested
that there must have been

an unknown mechanism at play,

but his research stops short

of defining
what this could have been.

CHILDRESS:
We don't have the step-by-step changes

that we were expecting to find.

So, we have to ask ourselves:
Is there really this slow,

random evolution,

or are there sudden leaps,

where suddenly there is
a new kind of species

that's just come
straight out of the incubator?

And so, it's like we have these
different species of humans

And so, it's like we have these different species of humans
that are being developed in isolation

that are being developed
in isolation

in different parts of the world.

GEORGE NOORY:
I've always said that Earth is a planet of experimentation.

I keep thinking of
The Island of Doctor Moreau,

where you're sequestered
in a certain area,

and you can conduct your work
in quiet and in privacy.

And there would be no reason
why they wouldn't want

to do this same thing here,

rather than just
simply take people

and take them
to a different planet

and play around,
which I think they do.

Extraterrestrials
would use islands

for one experiment,

tops of mountains
for another experiment.

But they would control what
they were doing by keeping

their different experiments
separated from each other.

their different experiments
separated from each other. Oceans, mountains,

Oceans, mountains,

islands, peninsulas.

TSOUKALOS:
If you subscribe to the zoo hypothesis,

which suggests that
this entire planet

is nothing else
but an experiment

for extraterrestrial entities,
then one has to wonder:

Could this be an experiment
by extraterrestrials where,

in the end,
only Homo sapiens survived?

NARRATOR:
Could Earth have really served as an extraterrestrial

incubation site for
the development of early man?

If so, was it limited
to the creation of species?

Or did the experimentation
continue?

Perhaps further clues can
be found by taking a closer look

at curious evolutionary leaps
that further shaped

the human race.

[music playing]

A Stanford University study
published in the journal eLife

reveals a remarkable finding
that dramatically changes

our understanding
of human evolution.

The study reports that, since
modern humans first emerged

from earlier primates,
roughly one-third of

their evolutionary adaptations
have been caused

not by means of natural
selection but by viruses.

KIRSTEN FISHER:
We have genes in our own genome

that were derived
from a retrovirus

at some point in our history.

And some actually have
important functions

for our development as humans.

This suggests that
there has been some kind of

symbiotic relationship
with viruses

since the beginning
of life itself.

Sometimes viruses
help human evolution.

NARRATOR:
According to another study,

one important human adaptation
that resulted from a virus

is a special layer
of the human placenta

that prevents a fetus from being
rejected by the mother's body.

The genes that create this
tissue are called syncytins,

and they were not originally
found in human ancestors.

FISHER:
They were acquired at a couple different points

in our history, about
25 and 40 million years ago.

And they're important
for the connection

between the mother
and the fetus.

NARRATOR:
Some scientists now believe that viral genes like this

were as important for human
evolution as natural selection.

RICHARD HOOVER:
I think that horizontal gene transfer

being carried out
by viruses or phages

was probably the primary
mechanism whereby changes

in species and major changes
within a species occurred.

NARRATOR:
Was it by pure chance that viruses helped to create

a species as sophisticated
as humans,

or might this viral evolution

have been intelligently directed
by beings from outer space?

Anthropologists are telling us
that humans evolved

Anthropologists are telling us
that humans evolved over time out of Africa,

over time out of Africa,

and that we had
certain, uh, genetic leaps

where we were suddenly smarter,

our communication skills,
uh, became greater.

And so, these
genetic leaps throughout

evolutionary history might have
just been a-a natural thing,

but they could've been
engineered as well.

TSOUKALOS:
There is no doubt in my mind that

viruses that have
originated from space

somehow had to do with
our development here on Earth.

However, it is very clear

that the ancient astronaut
theory proposes

that the one reason
why we became

humans as we are today
is not due to an accident

by some natural virus
from outer space,

but a deliberate,
artificial change of our DNA.

NARRATOR:
Could humans be the subject of a bioengineering project

by extraterrestrials,
who use viruses from space

to alter our evolution?

And if so, could those viruses

have been delivered to Earth
in comets?

Ancient astronaut theorists
point to a curious event

Ancient astronaut theorists
point to a curious event in our evolutionary history,

in our evolutionary history,

the moment humans
almost went extinct.

Around 75,000 years ago,

there was a bottleneck
in human evolution.

It's suggested
that the human population

actually went down from millions

down to just a few thousand.

This is certainly something
that genetics backs up.

And we have to ask ourselves:
What was going on at this time?

PHIL IMBROGNO:
Originally, geologists believe that

that bottleneck of humanity

was caused by the super volcano
in Sumatra exploding.

Now, recent finds have indicated

that's not the case,
and they're leaning more towards

a virus, a plague
that was genetically programed

for early humans, wipe them out.

NARRATOR:
One controversial theory is that the cause

of this bottleneck event
was not just a virus

but a virus that was
brought to Earth on a comet.

According to this theory,
a comet slammed into the planet

with such devastating force

that it created
a nuclear winter,

killing almost all
human life on Earth.

Almost, because those
that could survive

both the nuclear winter
and the alien virus emerged

as a profoundly altered
and improved species.

It was immediately
following this event

that humans first began to leave
evidence of symbolic thinking:

art, music
and advanced language.

Somehow, human beings reached

another stage of evolution.

It was the transformation
of the human brain.

Could it be--
and we believe it did happen--

that alien viruses
infected planet Earth

at this inflection point

of the extinction
of the human species?

They implanted viruses
in the human species

They implanted viruses
in the human species that changed the brain.

that changed the brain.

NARRATOR:
The human brain, unlike the brains of animals,

contains a large neocortex,
the region responsible

for language, logical reasoning
and consciousness.

In 2015, researchers
in Germany determined that

the human neocortex
only developed

after it was activated
by a single gene.

Our neocortex
was mysteriously switched on,

and nobody knows how.

Of course,
ancient astronaut theory

says it's extraterrestrials.

That beings came from elsewhere
and tweaked our DNA.

NARRATOR:
If microbes from outer space were responsible

for this profound change
in human evolution,

could it be that it was

could it be that it was
a deliberately orchestrated event,

a deliberately
orchestrated event,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

the ingenuity of
our nearest evolutionary cousin,

the Neanderthal.

[music playing]

NARRATOR:
Archaeologists unearth a prehistoric grave

containing three individuals

buried side-by-side
with their arms folded

in a ritualistic fashion.

Because of the manner
of their burial,

the archaeologists assume
the remains are human,

but are surprised to discover
that they are

actually our evolutionary
cousin, Neanderthal.

It takes a good deal of
imagination to prepare the dead.

It suggests some kind
of notion of an afterlife.

If there is that,
there is usually a notion

of a deity of some kind.

That is fairly complicated
religious thinking,

suggesting that
the Neanderthals had a capacity

for symbolic reasoning
and the formation of culture.

This suggests
a level of civilization,

or at least the proto-culture,

that is further along
than we used to think.

Neanderthals, unfortunately,
because of early discoveries

that made them look
like a brutish caveman;

not intelligent, that they're
very, very different from us.

They were shorter and stockier,
but they had huge brains.

They clearly had clothing.

They cared for
their sick and elderly.

They were very intelligent.

NARRATOR:
In 2014,

scientists analyzed materials

from 40 different archaeological
sites to determine a reliable

from 40 different archaeological sites to determine a reliable
extinction date for Neanderthals.

extinction date
for Neanderthals.

The date they came up with
is 40,000 years ago,

suggesting they coexisted
with Homo sapiens

suggesting they coexisted
with Homo sapiens for at least 1,000 years.

for at least 1,000 years.

for at least 1,000 years.
But just why did they die off?

But just why did they die off?

At this point,
we don't know exactly why

these other species died off.

Certainly, it does
broadly coincide with

the expansion
of anatomically modern humans

to all parts of the globe.

But contrary to our notions
from the past,

it doesn't look like it was

a lack of intelligence
that led to

the demise of Neanderthals.

NARRATOR:
Although Neanderthals are long extinct,

in 2013,
evolutionary geneticists

discovered select
modern human populations

carry genomes from both
Neanderthal and Denisovans,

suggesting that, at some point,
interbreeding occurred.

Neanderthal genetic markers
are concentrated in

populations in Europe
and parts of the Middle East.

populations in Europe and parts of the Middle East.
Denisovan markers can be found in

Denisovan markers
can be found in

the mainland Asian populations,
as well as Pacific Islanders,

New Guineans
and Australian Aborigines.

According to some
ancient astronaut theorists,

this interbreeding may have led
to the early demise

of an extraterrestrial
experiment with protohumans,

leaving only Homo sapiens
as the sole survivors.

Consider the possibility

that these different
hominid strains were meant

to be kept geologically
separated from each other,

across tracts of land that were
considered to be too vast

for them to ultimately come
into contact with one another.

Is it possible that
interbreeding was frowned upon,

and that once interbreeding

with Neanderthals
started to take place,

it was damaging the very
essence of the experiment?

And because of that, Neanderthal
strain had to be terminated

or removed from the planet
to stop this from happening.

REDFERN:
When we look at ancient texts,

particularly religious texts,
from millennia ago,

what we find is the idea
of the gods, or a god,

wanting to create
a human that was pure,

sort of physically and morally.

What we also find
are accounts where

the wrath of God or the wrath of
the gods hammered down on us

for essentially going off
the rails, so to speak.

And we could make a case
that this was some example of

extraterrestrial intervention
to essentially try

and purify again the species,
and that might have involved

and purify again the species,
and that might have involved wiping out significant portions

wiping out significant portions

of early humans
and starting over.

NARRATOR:
Could interbreeding between different groups of early man

have disrupted an alien
experiment with human evolution?

And if so,
did extraterrestrials have

a hand in choosing
which species would survive?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say it's plausible

Ancient astronaut theorists
say it's plausible and point to stories of

and point to stories of

unexpected interbreeding of
humans and nonhumans

unexpected interbreeding of humans and nonhumans
that can be found in sacred texts

that can be found
in sacred texts

that describe a time when humans
shared the Earth with giants.

Stories of giants
can be found in the traditions

of ancient cultures
throughout the world.

Native tribes of
the American Southwest

told of a race
of red-haired giants,

curiously similar
to the accounts of

the Celtic people of Europe,

who described red-haired giants
called the Tuatha D� Danann.

In India, early Sanskrit texts

portray Buddha
as a nine-foot-tall

blue-skinned giant.

And on Easter Island,
local traditions have it that

the enormous stone moai statues
were erected by giants.

In the Book of Genesis,
it says that the sons of God

came into the daughters of men.

They created a hybrid offspring

who are called the Nephilim,
or the fallen ones.

They're referred to
as the giants

or the mighty ones,
and some believed

they were between
eight and 15 feet tall.

they were between
eight and 15 feet tall. ERICH VON D�NIKEN:

ERICH VON D�NIKEN:
This is handed down not only in the Bible.

This is also handed down
in Sumerian languages

that some of the gods
had sex with humans,

and the offsprings were giants.

Mythology is full of giants,

and we have to look at these
old myths with modern languages,

change the word of "angel"
into "extraterrestrial."

In the beginning of time,

In the beginning of time,
extraterrestrials had sex with humans,

extraterrestrials
had sex with humans,

and the product of this
sexual contact were giants.

NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch,

NARRATOR:
According to the Book of Enoch, these hybrid offspring

these hybrid offspring

built a glittering
high-tech civilization.

But God considered them
an abomination

and sent a great flood
to wipe them out.

REV. BARRY H. DOWNING:
When God makes plans to wipe out humanity,

what he's wiping out is

the extraterrestrial
dimension of humanity

that has come about through
the pollution of human genetics.

HENRY:
Going back 5,000 years,

we have sacred texts
that tell us

there was
an antediluvian civilization.

There was a great flood,
and that there were survivors.

The Mesopotamians speak of this
in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

The Egyptians speak of this
in the Edfu Creation text.

According to some traditions,

some of the Nephilim
survived the flood.

These hybrid children
still knew how to build

megalithic monuments
aligned with the stars,

megalithic monuments
aligned with the stars, and that's what they did.

and that's what they did.

CHILDRESS:
We have to ask ourselves:

Is it possible
that the Nephilim were

the actual builders of
Stonehenge and other megaliths?

And, in fact, uh, that
may well have been the case.

NARRATOR:
Could a race of giant hybrid beings

have once roamed the Earth, as
described in the ancient texts?

And might evidence
of these giants be found among

the massive stone constructions
whose origins remain a mystery?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

a startling new genetic study
indicating that

a startling new genetic study
indicating that almost immediately after

almost immediately after

one ancient megalithic site
was constructed,

its builders suddenly
and mysteriously vanished.

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NARRATOR:
In a groundbreaking genetic study published

in the journal Nature,
Harvard researchers announce

a stunning discovery
about ancient human DNA.

It reveals that,
immediately after

Stonehenge was built,
the people who built it,

Stonehenge was built, the people who built it,
the ancient inhabitants of Britain,

the ancient inhabitants
of Britain,

suddenly and almost totally
vanished from the British Isles.

suddenly and almost totally vanished from the British Isles.
They left behind virtually no DNA

They left behind
virtually no DNA

in the modern
British population.

What the 2018 study suggests
is that the genetic signature of

the Neolithic inhabitants
of the British Isles,

it vanishes shortly after

the period in which
they built Stonehenge

and is largely replaced
by an entirely new

human culture
in a very short amount of time.

The Harvard study
is an absolute bombshell.

An entire civilization
just disappears

without a trace,
vanishes into thin air?

It's easily the most surprising

and most shocking conclusion
you can imagine.

NARRATOR:
The study used a revolutionary new technique

that samples DNA
from ancient human bones

and then compares it to the DNA

of modern people
in the same place.

of modern people in the same place.
Scientists then determine what percentage of

Scientists then determine
what percentage of

the modern population
is descended

from the ancient group.

So, the new
genetic data are really

providing an example
of population replacement,

in which the genetic markers
that characterize one population

is almost entirely replaced
in a relatively short

amount of time by the genetic
signature that characterizes

another population from
a different part of the world.

NARRATOR:
The strange disappearance of the Stonehenge builders

NARRATOR:
The strange disappearance of the Stonehenge builders

remains a profound
historical mystery.

Might it point
to a deliberate cleansing

of the human genetic line,
as ancient astronaut theorists

and the flood myths
found worldwide suggest?

Perhaps further evidence
of this can be found

with the recent discovery
of a confounding genetic lineage

that has proven
nearly impossible to trace.

Emory University.

Emory University.
Atlanta, Georgia. 1998.

Atlanta, Georgia. 1998.

Researchers analyze
DNA data collected

from various
Native American populations

in an effort to trace back
their ancestral descent

in an effort to trace back
their ancestral descent through the Bering Strait.

through the Bering Strait.

The lineages are categorized

The lineages are categorized
into four haplogroups: A, B, C or D.

into four haplogroups:
A, B, C or D.

Each line representing
a different migration

off the Asian continent between
20,000 to 30,000 years ago.

But what they also find
is that a small portion

of the Native population

falls completely outside any
previously known genetic group.

They can trace
the ancestry back 36,000 years,

but not to the Bering Strait.

Scientists dub it the X lineage.

Among human haplogroups,
one stands out, the X lineage,

Among human haplogroups, one stands out, the X lineage,
which is found in about 2.5% of some

which is found
in about 2.5% of some

Native American groups,
and also in a small population

of northern Europeans
and the Middle East.

And there's no connection
between these groups.

We couldn't understand
why they're so different,

We couldn't understand
why they're so different, the-these X haplogroups.

the-these X haplogroups.

NOORY:
Isn't it amazing that you have a group of people

indigenous, we think,
to this planet,

and you really can't trace
what their ancestry was?

Scientists throw up their hands,
and they simply say,

Scientists throw up their hands,
and they simply say, "I don't know how this can be."

"I don't know how this can be."

Because these people aren't
somehow related to these people.

How can this be?

NARRATOR:
While the source of this X lineage remains a mystery,

some ancient astronaut theorists
believe it might be connected

to a lost race of people
that were said to have existed

throughout the world,
including North America.

CHILDRESS:
It's possible that

this X lineage gene
is related to the giants

that were reported
throughout the world.

Starting in
the mid-1800s in America,

archaeologists began
excavating skeletons

of giants who were seven to
eight feet tall in many cases.

NARRATOR:
In the 1800s, Smithsonian archaeologists unearthed

dozens of
oversized skeletons contained

within the burial mounds of
the ancient Adena Indian tribe.

The highest concentration
of which were found

The highest concentration of which were found
in the Kanawha Valley of West Virginia,

in the Kanawha Valley
of West Virginia,

an area known to researchers
as the "Valley of the Giants."

Author and researcher
William Henry

is meeting up with a local Adena
Indian researcher,

Jason Jarrell,

to have a look at
one of these ancient earthworks.

This is the Criel Mound,
and this mound was excavated

by the Smithsonian Institution
in November of 1883.

The Smithsonian sank a circular
shaft from the top of this mound

down through
the center to the bottom.

Wow.

JARRELL:
And that's where they found an elaborate tomb.

This structure
contained 11 burials.

Ten of these burials
were arranged

in a semicircular fashion
around a central personage.

So, you have ten people
around a central figure.

What was significant
about this central figure?

What was significant
about this central figure? According to A.R. Sines,

According to A.R. Sines,

who assisted in
the excavation of this mound,

the central burial,
when measured in the tomb,

was six-foot-eight
and three quarters.

Now, the skull had been
pulverized by the excavation,

so a complete measurement
wasn't possible.

So, in all likelihood,
this individual

was probably around
seven feet tall.

- That's a giant.
- It's a gigantic humanoid.

HENRY:
So, we're saying the Smithsonian came here in 1883

and discovered a giant?

That's correct.
In fact, they discovered giants

in many of the mounds
here in Charleston.

- There were originally 50 burial
mounds in this valley. - Wow.

And I've actually got
some documentation

- here to show you.
- Let's see.

- here to show you. - Let's see.
This is the manuscript of the agent

This is the manuscript
of the agent

of the Smithsonian
who excavated these mounds,

and this represents
his day-to-day journal

and this represents
his day-to-day journal of his excavations,

of his excavations,

including the one
that's mentioned on this page,

which is measured as
seven foot six inches in length.

Incredible. So, wait a minute,
this is a government worker...

- (laughs) who's out
doing a job... - Correct.

...excavating a mound,
and he discovers giants?

...excavating a mound,
and he discovers giants? Multiple gigantic skeletons.

Multiple gigantic skeletons.

Multiple gigantic skeletons.
The ones in this valley being between

The ones in this valley
being between

The ones in this valley
being between seven and eight feet tall.

seven and eight feet tall.

seven and eight feet tall.
That is incredible.

That is incredible.

So, why don't
we all know about it?

So, why don't we all know about it?
How come it's not in history books?

How come it's not
in history books?

Well, the policy of denial
of the discovery

of gigantic
human skeletons actually

wasn't enacted until about 1920.

wasn't enacted until about 1920.
Uh, before that time period,

Uh, before that time period,

the Smithsonian
acknowledged these giants

- in their own reports.
- Absolutely amazing.

For years,
I've been hearing stories,

Native American legends
about giants.

It appears that
we've unearthed evidence,

proof of their existence
here in West Virginia,

but, for whatever reason,
that proof was suppressed.

It probably has to do with
the fact that it doesn't fit

with our model
of human evolution.

We have to ask: Is there
an extraterrestrial connection?

CHILDRESS:
You have these biblical stories of the Watchers

and the Sons of God
coming to Earth,

breeding with humans to create
this new race of giants,

the Nephilim.

These giant skeletons
seem to be evidence of-of

the Watchers and the Nephilim.

We have to ask ourselves
who these

seven-, eight-foot giants were.

Were they somehow the vestiges
of these giants of the Bible?

It's a mystery that
archeologists have yet to solve.

And part of the answer
may be extraterrestrial DNA

And part of the answer
may be extraterrestrial DNA that's part of these giants.

that's part of these giants.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the remains of a giant-sized population

were discovered on
the North American continent

were discovered on
the North American continent over 100 years ago?

over 100 years ago?

If so, were these beings
a variation of Homo sapiens,

If so, were these beings
a variation of Homo sapiens, an ancient intelligent hominin

an ancient intelligent hominin

or an otherworldly species
altogether?

Perhaps further clues can
be found by examining the rarest

and most mysterious
human blood type on Earth.

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NARRATOR:
Houston, Texas. 2010.

Doctors at
the Texas Heart Institute

examine a 59-year-old man
complaining of chest pains

and make
an astounding discovery.

The patient has
a three-chambered heart,

similar to that of a reptile.

Researchers attributed
the rare condition

to an evolutionary phenomenon
called atavism,

when a lost trait
of a distant ancestor

reemerges in a modern organism.

GAGE CRUMP:
So, the idea is if you look at where we evolve from,

GAGE CRUMP: So, the idea is if you look at
where we evolve from, we were first fish.

we were first fish.

Fish have a two-chambered heart,
and then we came on land.

We're more like a reptile that
has a three-chambered heart.

And then, eventually,
a four-chambered heart

as we became mammals
and then humans.

So, interestingly,
during development,

that same sequence of evolution
is played out again as embryos.

So, if there's any sort of
defect in the embryo

along the way,
it could get stalled out

at that earlier state.

And now this man has a heart
that's more typical

of our distant ancestors,

the reptiles.

NARRATOR:
While the discovery of a human with a reptilian heart

is incredibly rare,
other genetic conditions

have been found that suggest
a link with reptiles.

have been found that suggest
a link with reptiles. Since the 1800s, over 100 cases

Since the 1800s, over 100 cases

of human tails have been
reported in medical journals.

People with the disease
ichthyosis

have dry, scaly skin.

And people with the diseases
called syndactyly

and ectrodactyly have fused
fingers and clawlike hands.

But if such anatomical
irregularities are a link

to our ancient ancestors,
as some scientists suggest,

could it be that they are
not the remnants of

a reptilian stage in
human development, but instead

reveal that the human genome
was comingled with

that of
the so-called reptilians.

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and believe that proof

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and believe that proof
of alien hybrid experimentation can also

of alien hybrid
experimentation can also

be found in other unusual
anomalies that appear to mirror

the descriptions of divine
beings from ancient texts.

Millions of infants are born
with blue patches of skin

Millions of infants are born
with blue patches of skin called Mongolian spots,

called Mongolian spots,

evoking the blue-skinned gods
common to India and Egypt.

There have also been many cases
of gigantism throughout history,

bringing to mind biblical
stories of the Nephilim,

giants that were said
to be the hybrid offspring

of humans and divine beings
called the Watchers.

Within us is the whole
evolutionary development

of humankind,
as well as the other species

that humans developed from:
reptiles, fish and so forth.

Extrapolating this idea,
if extraterrestrials

had a hand in retooling our DNA,

had a hand in retooling our DNA,
then do we also carry

then do we also carry

their genetic makeup
within us, as we would?

JASON MARTELL:
We know today that our DNA contains

a lot of junk DNA that
we still don't understand.

So, when we see these
genetic anomalies surface

in physical form in children,

it could be
that it's not an anomaly.

It's actually a lost
extraterrestrial gene,

a marker that's now resurfacing
at the right time.

NARRATOR:
Could there be extraterrestrial genes

NARRATOR: Could there be
extraterrestrial genes lying dormant in human DNA,

lying dormant in human DNA,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

And if so, might a closer
examination of bloodlines,

passed down from
our earliest ancestors,

provide further evidence
of this connection?

Located between the border
of Spain and France

is the Pyrenees mountain range.

The people that occupy
this isolated region

are known as the Basque,

and they have long confounded
anthropologists and historians.

The language spoken by
the enclave is not related

to any other
in that part of the world.

And the population also has
the highest concentration

And the population also has the highest concentration
of Rh negative blood type on Earth.

of Rh negative
blood type on Earth.

Up to 35% of Basque people
have Rh negative blood.

And Rh negative blood is one
of the most unusual blood types.

And it's the one blood type
that is least likely to mutate

or interact
with other blood types.

NARRATOR:
Human blood types are grouped into four distinct designations

that include O, A, B and AB.

Additionally,
there is another variance

between blood types
known as the Rh factor,

or Rhesus factor,
which is a measure

of rhesus-based antigens
in the blood.

of rhesus-based antigens in the blood.
The name comes from a monkey from India

The name comes from
a monkey from India

and other parts of Asia,
which is the rhesus macaque.

and other parts of Asia, which is the rhesus macaque.
And this monkey was used in experiments

And this monkey
was used in experiments

looking at blood transfusions.

How blood was received
from recipients varied.

And it was discovered that

the Rhesus factor could be
positive or negative.

Most humans in the world
are Rhesus positive.

NARRATOR:
85% of humans in the world

are Rh positive and have
no issues receiving blood

are Rh positive and have no issues receiving blood
from positive or negative donors.

from positive
or negative donors.

But for the Rh negative
population,

receiving Rh positive blood
may be fatal,

as the body will try to destroy
the foreign antigens.

And for women
that are Rh negative,

mating with
an Rh positive partner

could be detrimental
to the fetus.

If a Rhesus positive and
a Rhesus negative, uh, parents

were to have an offspring,
there is a potential danger

to the offspring
because these two blood types

can't interbreed, basically.

can't interbreed, basically.
Medical intervention is needed.

Medical intervention is needed.

It's why, actually,
in the past, people had to have

a blood test before they were
allowed to get married.

REDFERN:
The very fact that an Rh negative mother,

her body would actually
try to kill an Rh positive baby

generates bizarre scenarios.

How on earth could this happen?

It suggests,
somewhere in our lineage,

that the Rh negatives
and the Rh positives

are perceived as being
profoundly different.

And also, studies
of Rh negatives suggest

that they have lower than
normal blood pressure,

lower than normal pulse,
in a number of cases,

they have an extra vertebra
in their back.

WILL HART:
Rh negative is very rare.

WILL HART:
Rh negative is very rare. Most of the world didn't have it

Most of the world didn't have it

until colonization started
in the 15th century.

Rh negative didn't exist
in the Americas,

and it didn't exist
in-in southern Africa.

It didn't exist in Asia.

It was only in Europe,
so it spread out from there.

Out of Africa,
that theory has it that

all human beings originated
in Africa, southern Africa,

sub-Sahara,
they're all Rh positive.

They don't have any Rh negative.

Where did Rh negative
evolve, then?

NOORY:
15% of the humans have Rh negative blood.

Fifteen percent.

And scientists have no idea
where it came from.

What they do believe is that, if
you have that, you may have been

evolved from a different kind of
species on this planet.

Now, was that species put here,
genetically altered?

Or was it just
a natural formation

of the planet
in its evolutionary stage?

Who knows?

Who knows?
But the fact is that Rh negative people--

But the fact is
that Rh negative people--

and again, there's 15% of them
on this planet--

may have come from
outside sources.

NARRATOR:
Could the Rh negative blood type

offer evidence of a vastly
different prehuman evolution

than what we are led to believe
in our history books?

Might it offer
indisputable proof

of extraterrestrial intervention
in the remote past?

But, if so,
is the experimentation

with intelligent hominin over,

or is it still taking place?

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NARRATOR:
A decade and a half after Dr. David Jacobs wrote his book

proposing that aliens
are experimenting on humans,

anthropologist
Dr. John Hawks publishes

research suggesting
that humans have inexplicably

experienced an accelerated
evolution in recent history.

Humanity entered
into a supercharged

Humanity entered
into a supercharged period of evolution.

period of evolution.

If you look at DNA
from a human walking around

in 3,000 B.C., and you compare
it to what we have today,

it is seven percent different.

What is this telling us?

It could be that
extraterrestrials are

involved in that process,

shepherding our genetic change
through contact,

through genetic work
that they are doing.

NOORY:
Millions of people report being abducted.

NOORY: Millions of people
report being abducted. They can't all be wrong.

They can't all be wrong.

Something is happening
to these people.

And if you assume
for a moment that we may be

the test tube of the universe,

where they experiment
and genetically manipulate

where they experiment
and genetically manipulate and change things,

and change things,

it's very possible
that the experiment continues.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the world, there are children who possess

NARRATOR: Throughout the world,
there are children who possess astonishing abilities.

astonishing abilities.

In 2002, Sho Yano
graduated summa cum laude

from Loyola University Chicago
at the age of 12.

Six years later,
he received a PhD

in molecular genetics
and cell biology.

In 2006, six-year-old
Ainan Celeste Cawley

of Singapore, who spoke his
first words at two weeks old,

gave a science lecture
about acid and alkaloids.

And in 2013, Adam Kirby
became the youngest member

of British Mensa
at just two years old,

scoring 141 on an IQ test
and reading books

by the age of ten months.

Highly gifted children often

know things
that they shouldn't know.

They often surprise us

with the things they're able to
understand at very young ages.

And they're able to bring
together disparate pieces

of information from history,
scientific discovery,

and their own experiences
and heightened intuitive sense.

NARRATOR:
Throughout human history,

there have been children
who stand out

for their advanced knowledge
and incredible abilities.

But are these uniquely talented
and intelligent children

simply the product
of good genetics?

Or could there be
another explanation for why

some children display abilities
far beyond their years?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe there are children
born here on Earth

who have a connection to beings
from beyond our world.

They call them Star Children.

When we see these Star Children,
these children who are gifted

with extraordinary
human function,

born seeming
to know things already,

show that there is some sort of
interaction going on

with a nonphysical intelligence.

DAVID WEATHERLY:
The concept is that children are being born with

a higher level of awareness.

a higher level of awareness.
These kids, many people believe,

These kids, many people believe,

are being born in order to help
usher in a true new age,

a time of peace,
a time of greater consciousness

and greater prosperity
for the planet.

What is commonly termed the
Star Children has always been

with the American Indian people
throughout the ages.

And, uh, these are
special children.

They're the ones that
can heal with their hands.

These Star Children are said to
have lots of special qualities.

Their psychic abilities
are quite enhanced.

And so, these Star Children,
in a way, are some new race

that's living amongst us
right now.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that some of the world's most gifted children

really have
an otherworldly connection,

a connection that endows them
with special gifts

and the power
to transform society?

Today, there is evidence
that a higher number

of unusually gifted children
are being born than ever before.

WILCOCK:
There is genetic evidence to prove that

humans are evolving
at a rapid rate of speed.

Every decade, we're getting
smarter and smarter and smarter.

NARRATOR:
But those who have studied the Star Children phenomenon

say that these
unusually gifted children

display more than
just superior intelligence.

RICHARD BOYLAN:
Star kids are advanced in several departments.

These kids
are much brighter than

the old school child
of a previous generation.

They are very sensitive.

They are compassionate.
They have a mission sense.

They're using, uh, special gifts
they have as advanced Star Kids.

For example,
in the area of telepathy.

They can pick up on things

that somebody else
is thinking or sensing.

Parents of Star Children

know that their children
are different.

Maybe their child is psychic
and talking about

Maybe their child is psychic and talking about
seeing things that other people can't see

seeing things that
other people can't see

or hearing things
other people can't hear

or knowing things that
other people don't know.

Some of the Star Children
have very high energy.

They can go long periods without
sleeping, without eating.

It's just not your normal,
typical child.

NARRATOR:
According to Nikki Pattillo,

her daughter Maddy
has told her that her home

is in the sky

and has displayed numerous
astonishing abilities,

like telekinesis
and psychic visions.

But could ten-year-old
Maddy Pattillo

really have
superhuman abilities?

In 1982, the Chinese government
launched a nationwide search

for children
with extraordinary abilities.

Some of the talents they
looked for were psychic powers,

telekinesis and the ability
to manipulate time and space.

There was one girl who could
wave her hands over a bush

that had buds of flowers on it
and spontaneously

accelerate time
so that the flower buds

popped open right in front
of everyone's eyes.

YOUNG:
Some could read while blindfolded.

Some could move objects
telepathically.

We don't know what became
of these children

because this was
some years ago now.

BARA:
The question then becomes:

Where does this extra
human function come from?

Is it some part of our
extraterrestrial DNA that's been

activated by the process that
the Chinese put them through?

Could we actually see
a new higher functioning,

more advanced, superior
human being in our future?

NARRATOR:
In total, the Chinese identified

more than
100,000 children who had

what researchers refer to
as extra human function, or EHF.

Is it possible, as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that this is evidence

that the Star Children
phenomenon is real?

A lot of people believe
that these Star Children that

are coming into our world
actually vibrate

at a higher level of existence
than most humans do.

It's a higher level of
connectivity, a higher level

of sensitivity that allows them
to connect into

the collective consciousness
in a way

that most of us
have forgotten how to do.

The potential of
these children is exciting,

and the possibilities
are unlimited.

NARRATOR:
There are those who believe

NARRATOR: There are those who believe
that human beings are going through

that human beings
are going through

an evolutionary leap,
and that some children

are being born today
with special abilities

that future generations
will eventually all possess.

But could they have also been
sent here with a profound plan,

perhaps one where we take over
the task of preparing ourselves

for our own
extraterrestrial future?

VALLE:
All right, you want to go to Mars?

TAYLOR:
Sure, let's go to Mars.

NARRATOR: At the Johnson Space
Center in Houston, Texas,

aerospace engineer
Dr. Travis Taylor

meets with Paul Valle,
the project manager for

the Active Response
Gravity Offload System,

otherwise known as ARGOS.

Travis is eager
to experience firsthand

how space colonists will
be trained in order to survive

in reduced gravity environments.

- And now you are on Mars.
- So this is what Mars is like?

- And now you are on Mars. - So this is what Mars is like?
- Yep. - I can jump--

- Yep.
- I can jump--

oh!-- a lot higher.

So if I were gonna try
and walk across Mars...

TAYLOR:
The ARGOS simulator is amazing in giving me

some insight and realizing
it's not easy to work on

a planet that isn't
the planet I came from.

If I was on Mars or
the moon or anywhere else,

I'd have to completely
retrain my mind

- and body for working there.
- Yeah.

- and body for working there. - Yeah.
- (laughs) - Wow.

- (laughs)
- Wow.

Whoa. Getting up
is the hard part.

- (both laugh)
- TAYLOR: So if any civilizations

have done that, they would've

had to do the same
type of training,

or when they got here,
they'd be extremely clumsy.

or when they got here, they'd be extremely clumsy.
NARRATOR: March 2, 2016.

NARRATOR:
March 2, 2016.

Kazakhstan.

Kazakhstan.
American astronaut Scott Kelly

American astronaut Scott Kelly

returns to Earth
after a record-setting

360-day mission aboard
the International Space Station.

The duration of the mission
was intended to help researchers

understand how
prolonged periods of time

in zero-gravity
can affect the human body.

Scott's identical
twin brother, Mark,

also an astronaut,
served as a control subject.

Because of his twin's DNA,
which is, in theory,

Because of his twin's DNA, which is, in theory,
identical to his, they could then determine

identical to his,
they could then determine

what kind of DNA changes
had happened to him.

And what they discovered
was that

about seven percent of his DNA
had been altered.

NARRATOR:
Extensive post-mission lab tests

confirmed the astonishing
changes that had taken place.

Genes related to
Scott Kelly's immune system,

DNA repair,

bone formation networks,
his bloodstream

and numerous other systems
have all been altered.

The startling results
prompt scientists

around the world to ask:
What are the implications for

humans who leave Earth
permanently?

The University of Tennessee.

2012.

Forensic anthropologists
examining human skulls

dating from the mid-1800s
to the mid-1980s find that,

in the past 100 years,
human skulls have become larger,

taller and narrower.

Although exactly why
these changes have occurred

is still being debated,
many scientists believe that

even more rapid changes will
take place when future humans

spend more and more
of their lives

living in outer space.

According to them,
the human head will continue

to grow wider
as brain mass increases.

Decreased access to sunlight
could lead to

the development of larger eyes.

And nostrils might elongate,
in order to facilitate breathing

in dusty environments,
like that of Mars.

Scientists have suggested that,
if beings like us were to

go into space and spend
long periods in space,

without normal gravity and such,

that our muscles
would begin to atrophy.

Uh, we would have much more
longer spindly arms.

And this is how, sometimes,

extraterrestrials are
described as well.

If I say that, somehow
or other, life on Earth came

from an extraterrestrial source,
your first thought

is immediately,
"Oh, little green men

or little Grey aliens with big
bug eyes or whatever did that."

But it's an interesting parallel

when you hear people talk
about humans' evolution.

Is it possible that that's
what humanity might become,

for spacefaring purposes,
is more like these Grey aliens?

NARRATOR:
As humanity sets off

to explore the universe,

might we become
a true spacefaring race?

And if so,
could it ultimately result

in another leap
for Homo sapiens,

one that is both evolutionary
and self-directed?

I did a lot of my early medical
work and medical research on

how the human body adopts to
space as you go up into orbit.

So, we are gonna begin
to speciate and form subspecies

of humans as we head off
towards the stars.

Perhaps we should
genetically modify ourselves

to thrive in outer space.

to thrive in outer space.
We're gonna have to modify ourselves

We're gonna
have to modify ourselves

to adjust to
different atmospheres,

cosmic rays, radiation,
you name it.

DIAMANDIS:
Do we want to use gene editing technology to evolve ourselves

and modify our DNA,
modify our bodies to meet

and modify our DNA, modify our bodies to meet
the needs of space as the human race

the needs of space
as the human race

is moving irreversibly
off the planet?

NARRATOR: Maverick geneticist
Dr. George Church

of Harvard University
makes an announcement

that sounds like something
out of a Hollywood movie.

Using a genome editing tool
called CRISPR-Cas9,

he and his team have combined
DNA from an Asian elephant

with genetic material
from a species

that's been extinct
for nearly 4,000 years.

With the substitution
of 45 sections of

the elephant's genome with
the DNA of a woolly mammoth,

they insist that a creature
from ancient times

could soon be, once again,
walking the Earth.

Once you have the technology
to completely decode DNA

and-and recode it, you also
have the technology then

to genetically alter

any human being
or any animal or plant.

And so, therefore, you're able
to genetically engineer

a humanoid species that will be
better adapted to space travel,

better adapted to life
on a different planet.

Extraterrestrials coming here
in the ancient past

could've easily have done
exactly the same thing.

NARRATOR:
Could extraterrestrials,

in possession of this same
DNA-altering knowledge,

have used it to aid
their colonization efforts

here on Earth
thousands of years ago?

An idea which once
seemed absurd now seems

remarkably and eerily plausible.

TAYLOR:
Could you go back in time and look at something like

the prehuman creatures
and genetically modify them

and create what has
become Homo sapiens?

and create what has
become Homo sapiens? With our technology today,

With our technology today,

we could pick
a near-sentient creature

and start doing
genetic modifications on it

and create a new sentient race.

NARRATOR:
Has the evolution of Homo sapiens from

primitive hominids
to modern humans

been directed
by otherworldly beings?

While many scientists
find it curious

that humans have become
so much more sophisticated

than any other creature
in the animal kingdom,

perhaps even more mysterious

is that from,
a physiological standpoint,

we are not ideally suited
for conditions on Earth.

And according to some
researchers, it actually appears

that the human race
was designed to thrive

in an environment similar
to conditions that once existed

on Mars.

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NARRATOR: Noted ecologist
Dr. Ellis Silver publishes

his book
Humans Are Not From Earth.

In it, he proposes that humans
possess a multitude of

physical vulnerabilities, such
as slower childhood development,

a heightened susceptibility
to illness,

spinal problems
and difficulty giving birth.

He concludes that
they most likely evolved

on another planet.

There are a lot of
indications that mankind

and the human race actually did
not evolve on the planet Earth.

For one thing,
you know, if we go out

in the sun too long,
we get sunburned.

And that doesn't make
a lot of sense

unless the conditions
on planet Earth have changed

very dramatically
in the last few thousand years.

You have to wear
sunglasses outdoors.

That also indicates
that our eyes are not

That also indicates
that our eyes are not properly adapted to the planet.

properly adapted to the planet.

Some recent studies in
sports medicine have shown us

that the human body
creates two types of fat.

One isn't a good type of fat,
and the other one is.

And, interestingly enough,
studies show that if you bring

the temperature down to
about 67 degrees Fahrenheit,

you create the good fat
and not the bad fat.

Near the equator on Mars
in the summertime,

it's about
67 degrees Fahrenheit.

Now, that's Mars today
with very little atmosphere.

Imagine in the past
where Mars had an atmosphere,

the average temperature
on the surface

might be around 67 degrees.

BARA:
Another factor is that

when astronauts
actually go into space,

when astronauts actually go into space,
their circadian rhythms, their body clocks,

their circadian rhythms,
their body clocks,

change from 24-hour days
to a 24.9-hour day,

and that happens to be
the exact rotational period

of a single day
on the planet Mars.

Given the fact that
our body clocks are tuned

to the planet Mars,
not to the planet Earth,

that indicates to me that we
actually came here from there.

NARRATOR:
While the notion that humans could've originated

on the lifeless, barren surface
of Mars may sound farfetched,

scientists are now certain that,

in the distant past,
the Red Planet was once blue

in the distant past, the Red Planet was once blue
and boasting a more robust atmosphere.

and boasting
a more robust atmosphere.

One of the most fantastic things
that we've discovered with

our orbiters and our rovers
on Mars is about its history.

And a number of
really spectacular surprises

have come out.

The first one is that Mars,

at one time in its past,
looked more like the Earth.

at one time in its past,
looked more like the Earth. It was a blue ocean world

It was a blue ocean world

with a significant amount
of water.

We know for a fact that,
billions of years ago,

when we were first
getting started here on Earth,

then Mars was
a much more clement place.

We know that it had
a thick atmosphere

to shield
and blanket the planet.

And it would've had
organic molecules,

the building blocks of
all life as we know it.

So, it stands to reason
that maybe Mars had

its own genesis,
its own origin of life.

NARRATOR:
If the human species was

genetically engineered
by extraterrestrials,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

is it possible
that it was designed

for the environmental conditions
of its original home on Mars?

for the environmental conditions
of its original home on Mars? And if so, what might've caused

And if so, what might've caused

our ancient ancestors to come
to Earth so many years ago?

At some point,
billions of years ago, Mars...

it suffered a kind of
environmental catastrophe.

Its atmosphere started
bleeding away into outer space

'cause it had no magnetic field
to help shield the planet.

Some have suggested that,
at some point,

Some have suggested that,
at some point, Mars had an atmosphere,

Mars had an atmosphere,

and due to some
cataclysmic events on Mars,

the Martians had to find a new
home within our solar system,

and they came to Earth.

and they came to Earth.
So, what if we are the Martians?

So, what if we are the Martians?

NARRATOR:
In 1976,

author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin

proposed that a 12th planet
once existed in our solar system

just beyond Mars
that was somehow destroyed.

Although his declaration
was based on his study of

ancient Sumerian texts,
it was largely dismissed by

the academic community,
who thought the idea absurd.

But recent physical evidence
has come to light that may prove

Sitchin more correct
than even he believed possible.

An 80-ton asteroid
enters the Earth's atmosphere

and explodes 23 miles above
the Nubian Desert in Sudan.

That day,
an estimated 600 meteorites

That day, an estimated 600 meteorites
literally showered the landscape.

literally showered
the landscape.

But when examined,
the meteorites were found

to contain something
incredible: diamonds.

They also contained
something else:

evidence that they came from
what scientists now believe

to have been a lost planet
in our solar system,

one which was destroyed
thousands of years ago.

The asteroid belt
in our solar system,

it's a strange thing.

And some have suggested
that these are the remnants

of a planet that exploded
at some point.

And the inhabitants of
that planet either went to Mars

or they came to Earth.

I am convinced that
the reason why there's

such a huge fascination
with space travel is because

that's where we come from.

NARRATOR:
If there really were an additional planet

in our solar system that was
destroyed by a cosmic collision,

as Zecharia Sitchin suggested,

could its displacement
have had a calamitous effect

on other nearby planets,
perhaps Mars?

And how would the ancient
Sumerians have known about it?

Between Mars and Jupiter today

we have the asteroid belt,
and the asteroid belt,

in my opinion, was once
a planet which exploded.

Which exploded
because there was a war.

There was a war in space,
a war in heaven.

Many mythologies speak about
this war in heaven,

including
our Christian religion,

where they speak that
the archangel Lucifer

fighted against
the archangel Michael.

Greek mythology,
every mythology around the world

begins with the war in space,
the war in heaven.

In my opinion,
Mars was inhabited.

NARRATOR:
Could the human race actually be populated

by the descendants
of refugees from Mars?

And if so,
have extraterrestrials

continued to direct
the course of our evolution,

so that we are prepared
for the day

when we may need to seek out
a new home once again?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest

recent scientific developments
indicate that humankind

is on the cusp of taking
the next great leap

to the stars.

NARRATOR:
Beijing, China.

November 5, 2017.

During a video presentation
at the Tencent WE Summit,

Dr. Stephen Hawking warns that,
in order to ensure

the survival of the human race,

we must work to develop
the means to leave planet Earth.

But ancient astronaut theorists
ask: Is it possible

that the evolution of mankind
has been directed

toward this goal
from the very beginning?

And if so, has
the genetic upgrade of humanity

continued to this day
in preparation

for a future existence
on another planet?

for a future existence
on another planet? We're constantly discovering

We're constantly discovering

We're constantly discovering
new ancestors to-to humans.

new ancestors to-to humans.

Just when we think
we've got it all figured out

and who our early ancestors are,
they find somebody new.

And you have to wonder
just why are there so many

different ancestors of humans,

and are we being genetically
engineered ultimately

and are we being genetically
engineered ultimately until the perfect vehicle

until the perfect vehicle

that the extraterrestrials
want has been created.

So, in theory,
then we'll be ready to be

a spacefaring race,

ready to go into the stars,

to return to the stars
and to join

these other
extraterrestrial races

that are watching us right now.

NARRATOR:
From an ancient past, when multiple intelligent hominins

competed for survival,

to alien viruses
dramatically altering

the course of human development,

to the sudden emergence
of new blood types

and highly gifted children,

could it be that every point
in our evolution

has been directed towards
one day leaving planet Earth

has been directed towards one day leaving planet Earth
and becoming like our alien creators?

and becoming
like our alien creators?

HENRY:
In the creation mythologies,

there's a-a plan that emerges,

and this plan is for people
to become more like the gods,

so that we could be reunited
with them in the stars.

We are on the cusp of,

or perhaps even
in the middle of right now,

this tremendous transformation

that will connect us
with extraterrestrial beings.

HOWE:
A Gallup poll was done to ask questions of

the populations that would

indicate whether or not
they had had interactions with

biological entities
that were not human.

And that Gallup poll

came to the conclusion
that three to four percent

of the current population

of our planet
have had an interaction

with something that's
in the nonhuman category.

So, are the nonhumans
waiting for a specific moment

in which they will say
the human experiment

is beginning to grow up?

We want to go out and explore.

We want to go out and explore.
And we think it's the beginning.

And we think it's the beginning.

It's not the beginning.

HENRY:
I don't think it's coincidental that, at this moment,

we are recording mass sightings
of extraterrestrial craft,

we're understanding
the ancient world

and how they interacted
with extraterrestrials,

science is advancing
to understand this,

communications
are being put in place.

I think all of this
is leading to this moment

where we're gonna peak,
where we're gonna experience

this disclosure,
this convergence, this return,

and it will forever
change humanity.

NARRATOR:
Is the human species the result of a directed evolution,

one that is part of
an extraterrestrial experiment

that continues to this very day?

Have we been genetically
manipulated and steered toward

a future that will give rise
to a new version of humankind?

Perhaps it has always been our
destiny to continually evolve

in order to assure not only
our survival on Earth

in order to assure not only our survival on Earth
but also that we will be perfectly suited

but also that we will be
perfectly suited

to join our alien ancestors
in the stars.

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