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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 �NIKEN: 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 �NIKEN: 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 �NIKEN: 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.

�zengili, 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 �NIKEN: 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 �NIKEN: 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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