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NARRATOR:
Legendary weapons
of mass destruction.
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Incredible technology
bestowed by otherworldly forces.
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And modern military capabilities
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that mirror the arsenal
of the gods.
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For nearly two decades,
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Ancient Aliens
has traveled the globe,
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exploring towering
megalithic structures,
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mysterious artifacts
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and stories
of otherworldly beings
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in a quest for evidence
that might reveal the truth
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of our extraterrestrial origins.
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People thousands of years ago
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would have never known
about heat-seeking missiles
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and stealth bombers.
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NARRATOR:
Now we take a look back
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through
the Ancient Aliens archives
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to the show's very origins
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to examine the evidence
that we are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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โช โช
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As we look back at our vast
Ancient Aliens library,
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one of the things we talked
about in every episode
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is technology. Because according
to the ancient astronaut theory,
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the extraterrestrials
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shared their technology
with our ancestors.
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And with technology
comes weaponry.
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-Right.
-And that means harnessing fire
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to work with metals.
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And before that, we were maybe
hitting each other with sticks
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and stones or something.
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But once we could harness fire
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and work with metals, that meant
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we could make swords.
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And not only did
our ancestors say
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that fire was a gift
from the gods but,
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all around the globe, people
started to develop metallurgy
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at about the same time.
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How do you explain that?
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They weren't supposed to be
in contact with one another.
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We covered this
in a season three episode
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called "Aliens
and Deadly Weapons."
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โช โช
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NARRATOR:
Earth.
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4.5 billion years ago.
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Molten hot magma spews
from beneath the ground.
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Lightning cracks down
in bursts from the sky.
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And rivers of lava
flow across the land.
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Ever since the dawn of time,
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our planet has been changing,
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evolving,
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and ripped apart
by the awesome forces of nature.
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And it's the harnessing
of that nature
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that has offered mankind
its most formidable challenge
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and greatest accomplishment.
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Mankind achieving
the ability to manipulate fire
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is probably the most historical
event that ever happened.
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When we achieved
the ability to master fire,
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everything changed for mankind.
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NARRATOR:
But how did our ancestors
learn to re-create
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and harness this most volatile
and ultimately essential
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of the Earth's elements?
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Was it simply a part
of our intellectual evolution?
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Or is it possible
that the knowledge came
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from another,
more otherworldly origin?
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When we look at fire,
we imagine this idea
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that somehow our ancestors are
rubbing some sticks together.
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But each culture always says
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that fire is a gift
from the gods.
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SOUTHWELL:
In Native American traditions,
quite often
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its fire was stolen
from the world above.
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In Maori legends, again,
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we see the theft of fire
from the gods.
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In the Greek legends,
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it's Prometheus
stealing fire from the gods.
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NARRATOR:
How is it
that such similar myths exist
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about fire being given
to man by the gods?
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According to
ancient astronaut theorists,
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this eerie similarity may
actually be evidence that gods,
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or perhaps
extraterrestrial beings,
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really do exist.
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And if so, it might also reveal
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how mankind eventually used fire
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to create deadlier
and more sophisticated weapons.
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SOUTHWELL:
If we are talking about
ancient aliens having an impact,
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where would we expect
to see that impact?
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I would expect
to see it in metalworking.
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And do we actually see
hard and fast evidence
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of mankind making sudden
huge leaps in metalworking?
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Yes, we do.
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TSOUKALOS: We go
from attaching sharp stones
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to the ends of sticks
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and then, all of a sudden,
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we have actual swords.
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NARRATOR:
According to archaeologists,
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the first human work
with metal weaponry
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began in the Bronze Age,
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beginning around 3300 BC
in the Near East.
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Most of the swords at one time
were either copper or iron.
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MICHAEL DENNIN:
If you think about it, the ages,
we started first with bronze,
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nickel, softer things
that are easier to work with.
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The reason we don't have iron
as our first example
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is because it's
a much harder material.
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You have to get much hotter fire
to be able to work with it,
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and it's just a tougher material
to work with.
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RAFAEL KOSCHE:
They were fighting, bashing
each other with these swords.
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They wanted a tough sword,
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which means
it was not always very sharp.
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When these people were fighting,
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when they're hacking
each other's heads and arms off,
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they were ripping
each other's heads and arms off
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with blunt pieces of metal.
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(yelling)
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NARRATOR:
Approximately 1,000 years
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after the development of iron
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came another,
even greater breakthrough.
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The invention of steel.
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IMBROGNO:
No one really knows when people
first started making steel.
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Some say it only dates, uh,
1000 BC.
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To make a steel sword in ancient
times was not an easy task.
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You would have to get
high-quality iron.
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And most of the time,
they could not get that iron
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mined from the earth.
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And meteorites were obtained,
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which were pure iron,
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which made
the best steel swords.
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These were considered
magic swords.
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And it was usually
a guarded secret,
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and villages would have
one or two steel swords.
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And there's tales about warlords
who had one purpose in mind.
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To find all the steel swords
that were made...
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...and take them for their army.
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There's no doubt that cultures
that were able to obtain steel
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usually became
masters of the world.
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(yelling)
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NARRATOR:
But where the forging of iron
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requires a relatively
unsophisticated knowledge
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of metallurgy,
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the creation of steel
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is a more complex
scientific process.
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So who or what was responsible
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for this incredible
evolutionary innovation?
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IMBROGNO:
In the Book of Enoch,
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we see some type of interaction
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between celestial beings
and human beings.
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What did they give us?
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They gave us steel.
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And the legend goes
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not only from the Bible
and from Enoch
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but it goes to Sumerian times,
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where the gods had steel.
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
The making of the sword
is a magical process.
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Back in the time
before modern metallurgy,
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the ability to take
natural material
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and make a sword out of it was
considered the work of a wizard.
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(speaking German, translated):
You mustn't look the village
blacksmith
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in the eyes,
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because people are frightened
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of being killed by his gaze.
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A blacksmith isn't allowed
to live in the village
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because of his magical powers.
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NARRATOR:
The notion of metalworking
being a dark and magical process
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was so prevalent
in the ancient world
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that, in Greek mythology,
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even Zeus looked
upon his son Hephaestus,
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the god of metallurgy,
with suspicion.
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RICHARD RADER:
Hephaestus is responsible for
making armature for the gods.
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But the real miracle
that he does
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is for this shield for Achilles.
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And it's got
the whole universe on it.
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What's amazing about this thing
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is that it's not just
a static shield.
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It's alive.
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This is not something
that a human being makes.
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This is terrifying
and this is scary
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and this thing will kill you,
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just in its own kind of
metaphysical beauty.
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And so he has this weird ability
to kind of endow metal
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with a kind of life of its own.
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So, Zeus is in fact
very suspicious of this guy
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and just tries
to get rid of him.
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So, Zeus picks him up
and slings him
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and he just falls and falls
and falls and falls and falls
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until he crash-lands
on the island of Lemnos.
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There is a little city
on the island of Lemnos
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called Hephaestia.
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So there's a place that is named
specifically after Hephaestus.
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NARRATOR:
3,000 years ago,
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Hephaestia was one of the
most important cities in Greece.
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And according to
the ancient stories,
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Hephaestus actually lived here
among the people of Lemnos.
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The Greeks worshipped
this divine blacksmith
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and built monuments to him.
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But could
this mythological being
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have actually been present
in ancient Greece?
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And if so,
might he have been not a god...
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...but an ancient alien visitor?
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RADER:
Greek mythology,
you conceive of gods
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as kind of like human beings.
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We have lots of literature
which deals with the whole range
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of interactions that
human beings can have with gods.
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It is very clearly stated
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that the knowledge
for making swords
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was given directly by the gods.
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And those gods weren't figments
of our ancestors' imagination
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but they were physical beings.
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NARRATOR:
Is it really possible
that our ancestors' ability
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to forge metals and make weapons
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was aided
by extraterrestrial beings?
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And might stories of swords
imbued with magical powers
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be something more
than mere works of fiction?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer
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can be found half a world away,
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in Japan.
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NARRATOR:
Japan, 700 AD.
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Here, according to legend,
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the swordsmith Amakuni
and his son Amakura
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sealed themselves away
in their blacksmith shop
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in an effort to forge
the perfect weapon.
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For seven days and seven nights,
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they prayed to the Shinto gods
to guide them.
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Thirty-one days later,
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they emerged
from their isolation
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with a curved,
single-edged sword
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resembling no blade
ever made before.
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KOSCHE:
At that time,
the swords that they used
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were these double-edged
Chinese design,
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clunky, heavy, unwieldy swords.
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And Amakuni
started reestablishing
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and learning everything
that he knew about metallurgy.
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And after about a month,
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he finally emerged
from his forge,
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and he had
this single-edged blade
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with a curvature to it.
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Every swordsmith in the area
ridiculed him,
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everybody laughed at him,
they thought he was ridiculous,
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they didn't know
what he was doing.
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"That's not the way you do it."
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Well, the next time the emperor
went off into battle...
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(shouting)
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...when he came back,
Amakuni stood on his front porch
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and he started
counting the blades--
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two, ten, 15, 20,
100, 200 blades--
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none of them were broken.
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And the emperor
praised him and said,
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"You are the greatest
swordsmith ever."
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Ever since then,
they have followed that design.
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NARRATOR:
But what was the secret
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behind Amakuni's
radical new design?
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And what, or who,
inspired him to deviate
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from the one that had been used
for more than a thousand years?
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Was he simply ahead of his time?
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Or could he really have
received otherworldly guidance
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during the seven days and nights
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he and his son prayed
to the Shinto gods?
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KOSCHE:
The history
of the Japanese sword
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is a long and varied history,
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all the way back
to mythological beliefs
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that Omikami the sun goddess,
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gave her grandson a sword
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when she sent him down
to rule over the Earth.
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NARRATOR:
According to the beliefs
of the samurai,
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higher beings called kami
began human life.
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But in order for humans
to experience
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the divine nature of the kami,
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they must undergo
purification rituals,
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which were always performed
when making a new blade.
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KOSCHE:
Before you even begin,
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you bathe yourself
and you put on clean clothes.
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All your assistants
give prayers,
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and they solicit the help
from the gods.
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And, in fact,
there are swordsmiths
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that will actually chant
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as they're hammering
on the blade...
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...because every hammer,
as it compacts the metal,
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is also including
their chant into it.
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NARRATOR:
Could the sword maker Amakuni
and his son Amakura
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have actually come in contact
with the kami?
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And might these Buddhist gods
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have come not
from a spiritual realm
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but from
an extraterrestrial one,
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as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
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Might alien beings
have chosen Amakuni,
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the greatest sword maker
of his time,
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to hold the knowledge
of this new technology?
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COPPENS:
When you give certain,
very powerful objects to people,
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you need to have extremely
intelligent people to use them.
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And so, what we find,
everywhere,
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is that even if
the gods had given
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the most extraordinary machine,
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including fire or any other
piece of technology,
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you would have to have
somebody able
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to operate it,
a highly-trained human being.
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NARRATOR:
Another example
of Amakuni's work--
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the Kogarasu Maru blade,
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the most legendary sword
in Japanese history--
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resides in the Japanese
Imperial Collection.
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But modern scholars
and scientists
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have had difficulty
in figuring out the secret
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to its amazing strength.
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DENNIN:
The famous stories
are always, of course,
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the Japanese steel
used for the samurai blades.
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It's been very hard to reproduce
because some of these processes
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can be incredibly sensitive
to the exact detail
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of the temperature.
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Some of its features
are just its flexibility
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and the way they were able
to fold it over and over,
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and its incredible strength
and its resistance to oxidation,
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which is what you really need
to keep something sharp.
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NARRATOR:
Could the fact
that modern sword makers
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have been unable
to achieve the same quality
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as Amakuni's blades
be further evidence
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that he was trained by
a more advanced race of beings?
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And might these ancient swords
have held some technology
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we have yet to discover?
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KOSCHE:
In Shingon Buddhism,
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the sword has a life of its own.
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It's not that the samurai
selects the blade.
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Is the samurai,
more appropriately,
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good enough for the blade?
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Does the blade choose him?
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NARRATOR:
Is the philosophy
of Shingon Buddhism--
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that the blade
chooses its owner--
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simply an example
of early humans' tendency
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to project
spiritual consciousness
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onto inanimate objects?
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Or might ancient swordsmiths
like Amakuni
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really have possessed
some otherworldly knowledge?
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A knowledge that swords,
like other deadly weapons,
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come not from man
but from a divine
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or extraterrestrial origin?
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According to legend,
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one such sword may have existed
in 15th century France--
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the sword of Joan of Arc.
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KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
When Joan of Arc
was arrested and brought
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to what we now know of
as her condemnation trial,
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her inquisitors were determined
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to get information
about her sword.
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Her inquisitors were obsessed
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with finding out
about her sword,
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and that is because
Joan of Arc's sword
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was reputed to have
legendary power, divine power.
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Joan claimed that her voices,
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her angelic voices,
led her to this sword.
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COPPENS:
She's said to have found it,
as it was,
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hidden behind an altar
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dedicated to
Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois.
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It is said that the sword itself
was forged
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by the archangel Saint Michael.
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And that whoever possessed it
was invincible.
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McGOWAN:
And that was certainly true
when Joan wielded this sword,
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carried it with her
into the battle of Orlรฉans...
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...which was the decisive battle
which allowed them
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to put King Charles VII
on the throne of France.
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NARRATOR:
Could Joan of Arc
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really have been given
her invincible sword
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by extraterrestrials
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who had an interest
in the future of France?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe such a thing
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is not only possible but likely.
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And they point
to the legendary story
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of King Arthur
as evidence of their claim.
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CHILDRESS:
King Arthur had two swords.
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The sword in the stone,
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that showed that he was
to be king, is one sword.
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TSOUKALOS:
When I hear a story
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about this magnificent sword
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that's encased in this stone
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with only the handle
sticking out,
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and only King Arthur has
the capability to pull it out,
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well, then I start thinking
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about some type of
a biometric security system...
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...where, today, we now have
guns
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that can only be fired
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if the handle recognizes
your fingerprint.
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Is it possible
that the sword in the stone
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was calibrated specifically
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to King Arthur's biometrics?
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I think yes.
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I know it sounds crazy.
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We're merely saying that what
today is being discovered
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is a rediscovery
of what already took place
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thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR:
According to the stories
of King Arthur,
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the sword that he is said
to have pulled from the stone
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was never used in battle.
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His weapon was
the legendary Excalibur.
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CHILDRESS:
The Excalibur sword came to him
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from the Lady in the Lake,
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where a hand came up
and handed him a magical sword.
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And according
to the ancient chronicles,
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this sword shone
with the light of 30 suns
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and blinded his enemies.
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FIEBAG
(speaking German, translated):
This sword of King Arthur
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was said to have radiated
lightning and energy
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when he fought against monsters.
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So, we have swords
as magical objects,
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but here, also, is the suspicion
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that a misunderstood technology
could exist.
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NARRATOR:
Although historians still
debate whether the stories
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of King Arthur
have a basis in fact,
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in 1998, archeologists found
a sixth century piece of slate
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inscribed with his name
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at his reputed birthplace,
Tintagel, England.
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00:21:31,667 --> 00:21:34,417
But if King Arthur
really existed,
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might the legends of his
incredible swords also be true?
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And if so, might that suggest
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that extraterrestrial visitors
did, in fact,
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provide humans with weapons
not of this world?
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00:21:49,708 --> 00:21:53,250
Perhaps the answer
can be found in ancient Rome,
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and by examining
a legendary battle,
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one involving a much-witnessed
phenomenon in the sky.
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When we look at ancient stories
from around the world,
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sometimes the gods
are teaching us humans
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skills that they can use
to develop our own weapons.
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00:22:13,708 --> 00:22:15,458
Other times,
it's like they're giving us
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their own alien weapons.
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-Right.
-CHILDRESS: A great example
of this
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is what
the ancient Romans called
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-Greek fire.
-Mm-hmm.
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Which they said
was given to us by angels.
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-Right.
-And it's this intense fire
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that would burn underwater.
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TSOUKALOS:
Right, and even historians
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say that this was
a real weapon at some point.
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The problem is,
we can't figure out what it was
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and also, we cannot replicate it
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with modern technology.
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NARRATOR:
Rome, October 27th, 312 AD.
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At the Milvian Bridge
on the north side of the city,
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deposed emperor Constantine
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prepares to reclaim his throne
from Maxentius.
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In the sky, he witnesses
what he will later describe
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as a cross hovering above him.
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He interprets this vision as
a sign from the Christian God.
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(shouting)
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The next day,
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Constantine and his army
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bear the image of the Chi-Rho
on their shields and flags,
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one of the earliest cruciform
symbols used by Christians.
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When they emerge victorious,
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Christianity becomes
the official religion
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of the Roman Empire,
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and the world
is changed forever.
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But was the cross-shaped object
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Constantine claimed
to have seen in the sky
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really a sign from God?
447
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Or might it have been
some other extraordinary force?
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BRAMLEY:
It looked like they were
in the shape of a cross,
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but the shape of a cross could
have been airplane-type objects,
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because the fuselage and
the wings will look like a cross
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to somebody who's looking up.
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And of course,
they had no concept
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of these things back then.
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There were other signs
and portents
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that were seen
around the same time
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that were described
as a crucifix in the sky.
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If these were to appear
in the sky today,
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we would describe them
quite differently.
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TSOUKALOS:
Is it possible that Constantine,
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instead of actually having seen
a cross floating in the sky,
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actually saw a type
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of an extraterrestrial craft?
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Is it possible
that Constantine won
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because the extraterrestrials
were siding with Constantine
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and thus altering
mankind's history forever?
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NARRATOR:
But according
to ancient astronaut theorists,
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even stronger evidence exists
that Emperor Constantine
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had a genuine alien encounter.
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00:25:00,208 --> 00:25:03,042
Shortly after
the Battle of Milvian Bridge,
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he was said to have acquired
a powerful new weapon.
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Known as Greek fire,
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it was the most devastating
weapon of the time.
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And it was said to have been
given to Constantine by angels.
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IMBROGNO:
It was said to burn
so violently and so hot,
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it was said that even
in the greatest of rainstorms,
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the fire would not go out.
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And when projected out to sea,
when it sunk into the water,
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it would still burn
on the bottom of the ocean.
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(speaking German, translated):
In one battle, Byzantium was
attacked
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by 1,800 Persian ships.
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Only 15 escaped.
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All the others were destroyed
by the so-called Greek fire.
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And Prince Igor, who attacked
Byzantium in the year 941 AD,
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attacked with a fleet
of 1,000 ships.
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Only ten ships made it home.
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NARRATOR:
But perhaps even more astounding
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than the incredible power
of Greek fire
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is the fact that scientists
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have not been able
to reproduce it,
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even after 1,600 years.
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Scientists have been
trying to identify
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what Greek fire is
for decades, if not centuries.
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Nobody has come up
with a satisfying answer.
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The most logical answer
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00:26:36,833 --> 00:26:39,042
is that it might be,
somehow, petroleum,
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because it is known that
petroleum continues to burn
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when in contact with water.
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00:26:43,333 --> 00:26:46,583
I think it has to do
with phosphorus and magnesium,
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because when they are
mixed in with water,
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they tend to explode.
501
00:26:54,542 --> 00:26:56,125
NARRATOR:
The formula for Greek fire
502
00:26:56,333 --> 00:26:59,333
was not even known to most
of those who'd used the weapon,
503
00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:04,208
as the delivery system required
multiple people to operate it.
504
00:27:04,375 --> 00:27:06,125
What's interesting
about Greek Fire
505
00:27:06,292 --> 00:27:08,333
is that it only worked
506
00:27:08,542 --> 00:27:10,792
when all the different
components
507
00:27:10,958 --> 00:27:15,167
worked together as one piece.
508
00:27:15,375 --> 00:27:18,833
Each component was operated
by a different person,
509
00:27:19,042 --> 00:27:22,167
so if somebody was captured,
they couldn't give away
510
00:27:22,292 --> 00:27:25,083
the quote-unquote
"secret of Greek fire."
511
00:27:27,042 --> 00:27:29,750
NARRATOR:
But what was
this mysterious weapon?
512
00:27:29,875 --> 00:27:34,375
And more importantly,
where did it come from?
513
00:27:34,542 --> 00:27:37,500
TSOUKALOS:
One story goes that Greek fire
514
00:27:37,708 --> 00:27:42,167
was given to Constantine
by an angel.
515
00:27:42,333 --> 00:27:46,417
Now, angels are supposed to be
these friendly creatures
516
00:27:46,542 --> 00:27:48,500
that instill peace and love,
517
00:27:48,625 --> 00:27:52,958
and all of a sudden, we have
this one quote-unquote "angel"
518
00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:56,000
that gives one of the most
sophisticated weapons
519
00:27:56,167 --> 00:27:59,625
in mankind's history
to Constantine?
520
00:27:59,833 --> 00:28:03,792
Replace the word "angel"
with "extraterrestrial,"
521
00:28:03,958 --> 00:28:07,042
and we have
a very different story.
522
00:28:09,667 --> 00:28:12,167
NARRATOR:
Could Greek fire
really have been a type
523
00:28:12,375 --> 00:28:15,833
of advanced alien technology
given to Constantine
524
00:28:16,042 --> 00:28:18,917
to ensure the success
of the Roman Empire?
525
00:28:19,083 --> 00:28:21,875
If so, wouldn't there
be evidence
526
00:28:22,042 --> 00:28:27,208
of extraterrestrial influence
during other Earthly conflicts?
527
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,542
(speaking German, translated):
Hannibal, who crossed the Alps
528
00:28:32,708 --> 00:28:34,042
and attacked Rome,
529
00:28:34,208 --> 00:28:36,542
was said to have had
a chemical explosive.
530
00:28:36,708 --> 00:28:39,292
We don't know where
the knowledge came from
531
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:40,917
in these cases,
532
00:28:41,042 --> 00:28:43,250
but there could definitely
be a connection
533
00:28:43,375 --> 00:28:45,333
to other weapons of the gods.
534
00:28:47,333 --> 00:28:50,000
NARRATOR:
The explosive weapon
Hannibal allegedly used
535
00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:53,250
against ancient Rome
in the third century BC
536
00:28:53,458 --> 00:28:56,708
predated gunpowder
by over a thousand years.
537
00:28:59,375 --> 00:29:03,792
And some believe even gunpowder
itself may have been a discovery
538
00:29:03,958 --> 00:29:08,458
inspired by otherworldly beings
back in the ninth century.
539
00:29:08,625 --> 00:29:11,458
Ironically,
this deadly invention
540
00:29:11,583 --> 00:29:13,792
was discovered
by Chinese alchemists
541
00:29:13,958 --> 00:29:17,375
attempting to create
an elixir of immortality.
542
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:21,833
Alchemy has a long history
in China.
543
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,833
And the alchemist Tze
had been seeking
544
00:29:24,958 --> 00:29:27,042
elixir of immortality.
545
00:29:27,208 --> 00:29:30,167
The medicine, for example,
to live forever.
546
00:29:30,333 --> 00:29:33,875
So, they were experimenting
for many centuries,
547
00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:36,542
and mixed all kind
of things and
548
00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:41,208
it was not until
around the 850 Common Era,
549
00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:44,875
and we have records to show
550
00:29:45,042 --> 00:29:48,375
the disastrous impact
of this mixing.
551
00:29:51,708 --> 00:29:53,542
NARRATOR:
Though the Chinese emperors
552
00:29:53,708 --> 00:29:56,792
never achieved
this elixir for immortality,
553
00:29:56,958 --> 00:30:00,458
they ended up with something
almost as valuable:
554
00:30:00,625 --> 00:30:05,667
a weapon more powerful than
anything that had come before.
555
00:30:05,875 --> 00:30:07,500
SUN:
The Chinese gunpowder technology
556
00:30:07,708 --> 00:30:12,167
led to this important political
and this geographical changes
557
00:30:12,375 --> 00:30:15,500
in China, in Vietnam,
in Southeast Asia.
558
00:30:15,667 --> 00:30:20,125
It led to the-- even the rise
and the fall of dynasties.
559
00:30:20,292 --> 00:30:24,333
NARRATOR:
But where did such
an incendiary ability come from?
560
00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:30,500
Was the formula given to us
by extraterrestrials
561
00:30:30,667 --> 00:30:33,667
or did somebody
discover it by accident?
562
00:30:33,833 --> 00:30:35,583
No one really knows.
563
00:30:35,750 --> 00:30:38,208
Gunpowder was made of charcoal,
564
00:30:38,375 --> 00:30:41,208
which they burnt trees
and ground down the charcoal.
565
00:30:41,375 --> 00:30:44,667
Sulfur, they would get
from volcanoes,
566
00:30:44,875 --> 00:30:48,500
and sodium or potassium nitrate
567
00:30:48,708 --> 00:30:50,958
is not readily available.
568
00:30:51,083 --> 00:30:55,083
So how would they know
to get those nitrates
569
00:30:55,208 --> 00:30:58,333
and mix them all together
in the right proportions?
570
00:31:00,042 --> 00:31:02,083
NARRATOR:
Could the formula for gunpowder
571
00:31:02,208 --> 00:31:05,542
really have
extraterrestrial origins?
572
00:31:05,708 --> 00:31:10,167
And if deadly technologies
like gunpowder and Greek fire
573
00:31:10,375 --> 00:31:15,167
really were handed down
to humans by an alien race, why?
574
00:31:15,375 --> 00:31:18,375
Might they have been trying
to shape our future?
575
00:31:25,208 --> 00:31:26,917
When you talk about aliens
giving knowledge to mankind,
576
00:31:27,083 --> 00:31:29,500
you have to ask
how they would do that.
577
00:31:29,625 --> 00:31:31,000
And one answer is
578
00:31:31,208 --> 00:31:32,917
that they would chose
certain individuals
579
00:31:33,042 --> 00:31:34,000
to give them knowledge
580
00:31:34,208 --> 00:31:36,583
that would help advance mankind.
581
00:31:36,792 --> 00:31:39,000
Right, and one
of the great examples
582
00:31:39,125 --> 00:31:41,958
of a story like this
can be found in the Bible
583
00:31:42,125 --> 00:31:43,875
with the story of Enoch,
584
00:31:44,042 --> 00:31:47,167
who was taken up
in a fiery chariot
585
00:31:47,375 --> 00:31:49,667
and then he was
imparted information
586
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:51,542
which he then later shared
587
00:31:51,708 --> 00:31:52,958
-with humanity.
-HENRY: Yeah.
588
00:31:53,125 --> 00:31:53,917
And then you have
the great inventors
589
00:31:54,125 --> 00:31:55,583
like Leonardo da Vinci.
590
00:31:55,750 --> 00:31:57,125
He said he received ideas
591
00:31:57,292 --> 00:31:59,292
by staring
into a flickering candle.
592
00:31:59,458 --> 00:32:00,500
Futuristic weapons
593
00:32:00,625 --> 00:32:02,667
like machine guns and tanks.
594
00:32:02,833 --> 00:32:04,167
We covered this
in a season two episode
595
00:32:04,333 --> 00:32:06,417
called "Alien Devastations."
596
00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:10,417
NARRATOR:
2005.
597
00:32:10,583 --> 00:32:12,833
Florence, Italy.
598
00:32:13,042 --> 00:32:15,125
Beyond a hidden staircase
599
00:32:15,250 --> 00:32:18,083
in the Santissima
Annunziata convent,
600
00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:22,292
researchers from Italy's
Military Geographical Institute
601
00:32:22,500 --> 00:32:26,917
discover the secret workshop
of Leonardo da Vinci.
602
00:32:28,167 --> 00:32:30,667
WILCOCK:
He was the true
archetypal Renaissance man.
603
00:32:30,833 --> 00:32:33,875
Brilliant painter,
brilliant inventor,
604
00:32:34,042 --> 00:32:37,333
brilliant poet,
ambidextrous, could write
605
00:32:37,500 --> 00:32:39,667
with his left hand and his
right hand at the same time.
606
00:32:39,875 --> 00:32:41,708
Wrote backwards
instead of forwards.
607
00:32:41,875 --> 00:32:43,500
A very interesting guy.
608
00:32:44,500 --> 00:32:47,292
NARRATOR:
Though da Vinci is renowned
for his public paintings
609
00:32:47,417 --> 00:32:50,542
like the Mona Lisa
and The Last Supper,
610
00:32:50,750 --> 00:32:53,917
ancient astronaut theorists
are more intrigued
611
00:32:54,042 --> 00:32:57,542
by his private notebooks
that contain sketches
612
00:32:57,750 --> 00:33:00,708
of futuristic
military technology,
613
00:33:00,875 --> 00:33:02,750
including machine guns,
614
00:33:02,917 --> 00:33:05,833
tanks, helicopters
615
00:33:05,958 --> 00:33:07,833
and even submarines.
616
00:33:08,875 --> 00:33:11,417
WILCOCK:
It clearly seems
that Leonardo da Vinci was
617
00:33:11,583 --> 00:33:15,542
privy to a series of secrets
that had been handed down
618
00:33:15,708 --> 00:33:19,292
for many,
many thousands of years.
619
00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:22,833
Da Vinci may also have
actually been contacted
620
00:33:23,000 --> 00:33:25,833
by humanlike extraterrestrials
621
00:33:26,042 --> 00:33:28,250
who either
spoke to him in person
622
00:33:28,375 --> 00:33:30,167
or perhaps telepathically
623
00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:33,250
and inspired him to do
so many different things.
624
00:33:35,042 --> 00:33:36,375
BRAMLEY:
We do know, for example,
625
00:33:36,542 --> 00:33:39,208
that one of his inventions
was a circular car.
626
00:33:39,375 --> 00:33:42,000
Looks kind of like a UFO.
627
00:33:42,167 --> 00:33:44,792
Now, he's also
into inventing weapons.
628
00:33:44,958 --> 00:33:47,792
And did that come
from the fact that
629
00:33:47,875 --> 00:33:49,583
the UFO has demonstrated,
630
00:33:49,750 --> 00:33:52,125
basically, some aggressiveness,
631
00:33:52,292 --> 00:33:56,000
and did some of that maybe
in some way rub off on him?
632
00:33:56,208 --> 00:33:58,458
WILCOCK:
Were they trying
to give him weapons
633
00:33:58,625 --> 00:34:01,542
that could be used
to destroy life on Earth?
634
00:34:01,708 --> 00:34:02,667
That could have been possible.
635
00:34:05,458 --> 00:34:07,917
NARRATOR:
But if Leonardo da Vinci
did have knowledge
636
00:34:08,042 --> 00:34:09,667
of advanced weaponry,
637
00:34:09,875 --> 00:34:13,750
might he have learned of it
through observation and study?
638
00:34:13,958 --> 00:34:16,708
Or was this knowledge
given to him by another,
639
00:34:16,917 --> 00:34:19,667
perhaps extraterrestrial source?
640
00:34:22,167 --> 00:34:24,417
TSOUKALOS:
There is this book
of prophecies,
641
00:34:24,625 --> 00:34:26,833
which is a very rare book,
642
00:34:27,042 --> 00:34:29,875
and in there are some type
of descriptions
643
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:33,042
that could indicate some type
644
00:34:33,208 --> 00:34:35,667
of an extraterrestrial
visitation.
645
00:34:35,833 --> 00:34:40,167
There are references
in which da Vinci himself says
646
00:34:40,375 --> 00:34:42,667
that he's had these encounters,
647
00:34:42,833 --> 00:34:46,000
these visions of God and angels.
648
00:34:46,167 --> 00:34:47,417
And of course,
649
00:34:47,542 --> 00:34:49,458
according to the ancient
astronaut hypothesis,
650
00:34:49,625 --> 00:34:52,167
that wasn't God,
it wasn't angels.
651
00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:55,167
They were extraterrestrials.
652
00:34:57,167 --> 00:34:59,958
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that over the centuries,
653
00:35:00,125 --> 00:35:01,875
extraterrestrials
have been partnering
654
00:35:02,042 --> 00:35:03,583
with human collaborators?
655
00:35:04,750 --> 00:35:06,125
Human beings entrusted
656
00:35:06,250 --> 00:35:08,458
with the kind of advanced
scientific knowledge
657
00:35:08,667 --> 00:35:10,750
that would allow mankind
658
00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:14,292
to leap over centuries of normal
intellectual evolution?
659
00:35:15,333 --> 00:35:17,167
To ancient astronaut theorists,
660
00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:20,458
the fact that mankind had gone
from the horse and buggy
661
00:35:20,583 --> 00:35:23,667
to the moon
in less than 100 years
662
00:35:23,833 --> 00:35:25,083
makes such a notion
663
00:35:25,250 --> 00:35:28,667
not only possible
but entirely probable.
664
00:35:29,667 --> 00:35:32,667
In our development,
all of a sudden
665
00:35:32,875 --> 00:35:35,167
we've made a quantum leap
666
00:35:35,333 --> 00:35:39,083
where we were sitting in caves
munching on bananas
667
00:35:39,208 --> 00:35:42,125
and the next thing we do
is we're building pyramids.
668
00:35:42,292 --> 00:35:43,917
Virtually overnight.
669
00:35:44,083 --> 00:35:47,333
And so that quantum leap
can be explained
670
00:35:47,542 --> 00:35:52,125
with a direct extraterrestrial
intervention of our past.
671
00:35:52,292 --> 00:35:55,125
And the visitors are the ones
who are revered as gods,
672
00:35:55,292 --> 00:35:57,708
who seem to come
on flying shields
673
00:35:57,833 --> 00:35:59,042
or silver boats
674
00:35:59,208 --> 00:36:00,833
or any of the various
descriptions
675
00:36:01,042 --> 00:36:02,542
of extraterrestrial technology
676
00:36:02,667 --> 00:36:05,250
that you see
in these ancient legends.
677
00:36:05,417 --> 00:36:08,542
And they consistently are
trying to cultivate humanity
678
00:36:08,708 --> 00:36:11,292
in a direction that's
beneficial for everyone.
679
00:36:11,458 --> 00:36:13,125
NARRATOR:
There are many who believe
680
00:36:13,292 --> 00:36:15,792
extraterrestrial visitors
might have provided
681
00:36:15,917 --> 00:36:20,000
intellectual inspiration
to men like Albert Einstein,
682
00:36:20,125 --> 00:36:22,833
whose theories of relativity
opened the door
683
00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:24,917
for the possibility
of future travels
684
00:36:25,042 --> 00:36:27,042
through space and time.
685
00:36:27,208 --> 00:36:29,458
J. Robert Oppenheimer,
686
00:36:29,667 --> 00:36:32,500
whose research in the field
of theoretical physics
687
00:36:32,708 --> 00:36:35,833
resulted in the development
of atomic weapons.
688
00:36:38,083 --> 00:36:40,417
Wernher von Braun,
whose innovations
689
00:36:40,583 --> 00:36:42,625
in advanced rocket technology
690
00:36:42,792 --> 00:36:46,375
led to the modern-day
space program.
691
00:36:46,542 --> 00:36:48,500
COPPENS:
When we look into the lives
and the motivations
692
00:36:48,708 --> 00:36:51,167
as to Wernher von Braun
and to why he wanted
693
00:36:51,375 --> 00:36:53,792
to take mankind
into outer space,
694
00:36:53,958 --> 00:36:55,500
we're confronted with the fact
695
00:36:55,667 --> 00:36:59,375
that he was absolutely convinced
that we had gone there before
696
00:36:59,542 --> 00:37:03,542
or that an ancient civilization
had come from there to Earth.
697
00:37:05,333 --> 00:37:08,167
These people were
motivated and, specifically,
698
00:37:08,375 --> 00:37:11,583
they wanted to take us to space
because they were convinced
699
00:37:11,708 --> 00:37:13,667
that somehow
they would find something
700
00:37:13,875 --> 00:37:16,458
which would completely
change planet Earth.
701
00:37:17,792 --> 00:37:20,333
NARRATOR:
Then there is Nikola Tesla,
702
00:37:20,500 --> 00:37:22,667
whose experiments
with electricity
703
00:37:22,750 --> 00:37:25,000
led to everything
from satellite technology
704
00:37:25,208 --> 00:37:26,833
and robotics
705
00:37:27,042 --> 00:37:29,625
to what some would term
a death ray.
706
00:37:31,250 --> 00:37:33,083
DAVID SEREDA:
But the Tesla death ray,
707
00:37:33,208 --> 00:37:37,375
Tesla said could annihilate an
army of 100,000 soldiers at once
708
00:37:37,542 --> 00:37:39,208
and could melt
an aircraft engine
709
00:37:39,375 --> 00:37:41,292
from 250 miles away.
710
00:37:41,458 --> 00:37:43,958
When the FBI investigated
Tesla's murder,
711
00:37:44,125 --> 00:37:46,167
they found documentation
712
00:37:46,292 --> 00:37:48,750
that the Tesla death ray
was in development
713
00:37:48,875 --> 00:37:53,208
at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base in 1943.
714
00:37:53,375 --> 00:37:56,167
Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, 1943?
715
00:37:56,375 --> 00:37:58,500
Where was the Roswell
flying saucer taken?
716
00:37:58,667 --> 00:38:00,083
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
717
00:38:00,250 --> 00:38:02,625
So, we have a connection
to that weapon.
718
00:38:04,542 --> 00:38:06,000
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
719
00:38:06,208 --> 00:38:08,833
that Nikola Tesla's
scientific achievements
720
00:38:09,000 --> 00:38:12,500
could have been influenced
by alien intelligence?
721
00:38:12,625 --> 00:38:16,167
Might other human geniuses
throughout time
722
00:38:16,333 --> 00:38:18,250
have served as human gateways,
723
00:38:18,375 --> 00:38:20,542
allowing extraterrestrials
to jump-start
724
00:38:20,708 --> 00:38:23,208
our technological advances?
725
00:38:24,208 --> 00:38:28,750
If the answer is yes, then
what are we being prepared for?
726
00:38:29,833 --> 00:38:33,542
And might there be a connection
between mankind's intellectual
727
00:38:33,708 --> 00:38:36,042
and scientific advancements
728
00:38:36,208 --> 00:38:39,250
and the otherworldly
weapons of warfare
729
00:38:39,458 --> 00:38:42,792
that existed
in our ancient past?
730
00:38:48,750 --> 00:38:49,583
When talking about
the ancient accounts
731
00:38:49,583 --> 00:38:50,500
of the weapons of the gods,
732
00:38:50,958 --> 00:38:53,500
what stands out to me are
the numerous descriptions
733
00:38:53,667 --> 00:38:56,375
of what sounds like the use
of atomic or nuclear weapons.
734
00:38:56,542 --> 00:38:59,250
And we have the ancient
Vedic texts of India,
735
00:38:59,375 --> 00:39:00,833
which talk about
the Brahma weapon
736
00:39:01,000 --> 00:39:03,333
that could level entire cities.
737
00:39:03,458 --> 00:39:05,000
And the evidence for this is
738
00:39:05,208 --> 00:39:07,792
the massive explosion
at Mohenjo Daro,
739
00:39:07,958 --> 00:39:11,250
which vitrified the brick walls
with intense heat.
740
00:39:11,417 --> 00:39:12,458
Yeah, and it's also fascinating
741
00:39:12,667 --> 00:39:15,000
that the creator
of the atom bomb,
742
00:39:15,167 --> 00:39:16,583
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,
743
00:39:16,708 --> 00:39:20,583
is known to have studied
the ancient Vedic texts.
744
00:39:20,750 --> 00:39:25,333
In fact, we covered this
in season one of Ancient Aliens.
745
00:39:28,625 --> 00:39:31,875
NARRATOR:
Alamogordo, New Mexico.
746
00:39:32,042 --> 00:39:36,750
White Sands proving ground.
July 16, 1945.
747
00:39:38,875 --> 00:39:40,500
Early in the morning,
748
00:39:40,667 --> 00:39:44,292
a number of U.S. military
officers and scientists gather
749
00:39:44,375 --> 00:39:47,542
to watch a powerful
new weapon being tested.
750
00:39:47,708 --> 00:39:51,625
Some believe the device
will be a complete failure.
751
00:39:51,833 --> 00:39:56,708
Others think it might destroy
the entire State of New Mexico.
752
00:39:56,875 --> 00:39:59,583
As a precaution,
viewing stations are placed
753
00:39:59,750 --> 00:40:02,667
from ten to 20 miles away
from the test site.
754
00:40:02,875 --> 00:40:06,500
At precisely
5:29 and 45 seconds,
755
00:40:06,625 --> 00:40:10,083
the first atomic bomb
is detonated.
756
00:40:10,292 --> 00:40:13,542
MAN:
Three, two, one,
757
00:40:13,708 --> 00:40:14,917
fire.
758
00:40:22,042 --> 00:40:26,458
The blast emits a fireball
over 600 feet wide
759
00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:31,542
and produces an explosion
equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.
760
00:40:32,542 --> 00:40:36,708
The mushroom cloud reaches
over seven miles in height
761
00:40:36,875 --> 00:40:41,500
and the reverberations can be
felt nearly 100 miles away.
762
00:40:42,542 --> 00:40:45,333
The world had a new weapon:
763
00:40:45,542 --> 00:40:48,917
one so terrifying it left
even its creator,
764
00:40:49,042 --> 00:40:52,708
Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,
shocked and shaken.
765
00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:55,667
OPPENHEIMER:
Few people laughed.
766
00:40:57,250 --> 00:40:59,208
Few people cried.
767
00:40:59,375 --> 00:41:01,083
Most people were silent.
768
00:41:02,792 --> 00:41:04,542
NARRATOR:
For the first time
in its history,
769
00:41:04,708 --> 00:41:07,875
the Earth had been assaulted
by a man-made weapon
770
00:41:08,083 --> 00:41:09,708
of incredible power.
771
00:41:10,625 --> 00:41:13,417
But what if it had
all happened before?
772
00:41:13,583 --> 00:41:15,542
What if an explosion
773
00:41:15,750 --> 00:41:18,500
of even greater force
and destructiveness
774
00:41:18,708 --> 00:41:21,417
had long ago shaped
the Earth's history?
775
00:41:23,208 --> 00:41:24,333
Some people have suggested
776
00:41:24,542 --> 00:41:26,958
on the basis of a number
of lines of evidence
777
00:41:27,125 --> 00:41:30,708
that there may have been
atomic warfare, atomic bombs,
778
00:41:30,833 --> 00:41:34,708
atomic explosions,
in the very distant past.
779
00:41:34,875 --> 00:41:38,667
NARRATOR:
Atomic warfare
among ancient civilizations
780
00:41:38,875 --> 00:41:41,500
may sound like something
out of a science fiction novel,
781
00:41:41,625 --> 00:41:45,458
but descriptions
of similar deadly occurrences
782
00:41:45,625 --> 00:41:48,000
can be found
in the very same text
783
00:41:48,167 --> 00:41:52,208
Dr. Oppenheimer quoted after
the New Mexico atomic test.
784
00:41:52,333 --> 00:41:56,167
OPPENHEIMER:
I remembered the line
from the Hindu scripture,
785
00:41:56,292 --> 00:41:58,500
the Bhagavad Gita.
786
00:41:58,667 --> 00:42:02,458
"Now I am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds."
787
00:42:06,042 --> 00:42:08,000
โช โช
788
00:42:12,208 --> 00:42:14,500
NARRATOR:
Part of an ancient
Hindu scripture
789
00:42:14,708 --> 00:42:16,667
known as the Mahabharata,
790
00:42:16,875 --> 00:42:19,208
the Bhagavad Gita
was written sometime
791
00:42:19,417 --> 00:42:22,792
between the fifth
and second century BC.
792
00:42:22,958 --> 00:42:25,667
This massive 100,000-verse text
793
00:42:25,875 --> 00:42:29,500
contains stories about
the ancient empire of Rama,
794
00:42:29,708 --> 00:42:33,625
which, it is said,
existed over 12,000 years ago
795
00:42:33,833 --> 00:42:36,667
or roughly 5,000 years before
796
00:42:36,875 --> 00:42:40,667
the earliest recorded
civilization in Mesopotamia.
797
00:42:42,583 --> 00:42:45,875
TSOUKALOS:
If you read
the ancient Indian epics,
798
00:42:46,042 --> 00:42:49,208
they read like modern-day
science fiction,
799
00:42:49,375 --> 00:42:51,583
yet they're thousands
of years old
800
00:42:51,750 --> 00:42:54,750
with references
not only of flying chariots
801
00:42:54,917 --> 00:42:57,500
and of these gods that had
802
00:42:57,667 --> 00:43:00,625
these incredible
technological capabilities,
803
00:43:00,792 --> 00:43:02,833
but incredible weapons
804
00:43:03,042 --> 00:43:06,292
that they used
in those epic battles.
805
00:43:06,458 --> 00:43:11,167
NANCY RED STAR:
They had what was called
a Brahma weapon.
806
00:43:14,292 --> 00:43:17,083
There were many people
that were singed and burned
807
00:43:17,250 --> 00:43:19,792
and melted by the Brahma weapon.
808
00:43:22,125 --> 00:43:24,083
NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
809
00:43:24,250 --> 00:43:27,000
the Brahma weapon
was an early nuclear device
810
00:43:27,167 --> 00:43:30,792
because the descriptions
of its deadly aftereffects
811
00:43:30,875 --> 00:43:32,750
are eerily similar
to the effects
812
00:43:32,917 --> 00:43:35,542
of exposure
to intense radiation.
813
00:43:35,708 --> 00:43:39,000
It is a theory
largely discounted
814
00:43:39,167 --> 00:43:40,667
by conventional science.
815
00:43:40,833 --> 00:43:42,292
There is no evidence
816
00:43:42,458 --> 00:43:43,917
that a nuclear bomb
was described
817
00:43:44,125 --> 00:43:46,125
in the Mahabharata,
the Bhagavad Gita.
818
00:43:48,375 --> 00:43:50,250
It describes a battle.
819
00:43:51,917 --> 00:43:53,875
In battles,
there are explosions.
820
00:43:57,583 --> 00:44:01,333
It's one thing about suggesting
821
00:44:01,458 --> 00:44:03,833
that, you know,
battles have explosions.
822
00:44:04,000 --> 00:44:07,875
But that's not really
what we're looking at.
823
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:11,750
You got to look
at the whole picture.
824
00:44:14,042 --> 00:44:16,125
One reference
that we have, for example,
825
00:44:16,250 --> 00:44:18,917
speaks of these explosions
826
00:44:19,083 --> 00:44:22,333
that were brighter
than a thousand suns.
827
00:44:22,542 --> 00:44:25,667
And when these blasts occurred,
828
00:44:25,833 --> 00:44:27,833
the suns
were twirling in the air,
829
00:44:27,958 --> 00:44:30,542
trees went up in flames
830
00:44:30,708 --> 00:44:33,042
and there was just
this mass destruction.
831
00:44:34,250 --> 00:44:37,250
After those blasts,
people who survive
832
00:44:37,417 --> 00:44:41,958
start to lose their hair
and nails start to fall out.
833
00:44:42,125 --> 00:44:44,750
I mean, right there,
we have a concise reference
834
00:44:44,917 --> 00:44:48,000
to radiation poisoning,
nuclear fallout.
835
00:44:48,125 --> 00:44:51,333
And those texts
are thousands of years old.
836
00:44:54,833 --> 00:44:58,083
NARRATOR:
But if the Mahabharata
is based on fact,
837
00:44:58,250 --> 00:45:00,542
wouldn't archaeologists
have uncovered
838
00:45:00,708 --> 00:45:03,333
physical
or radiological evidence?
839
00:45:05,875 --> 00:45:10,083
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they have.
840
00:45:13,458 --> 00:45:16,917
The Indus Valley,
Southern Pakistan.
841
00:45:19,375 --> 00:45:21,708
In 1922,
842
00:45:21,875 --> 00:45:25,042
an officer with an Indian
archeological survey group
843
00:45:25,208 --> 00:45:28,042
discovered the ruins
of an ancient city
844
00:45:28,208 --> 00:45:31,083
known as Mohenjo Daro.
845
00:45:31,208 --> 00:45:33,792
According
to mainstream archeologists,
846
00:45:33,958 --> 00:45:36,708
the city, whose name means
"mound of the dead,"
847
00:45:36,875 --> 00:45:41,833
had flourished
between 2600 and 1900 BC.
848
00:45:42,042 --> 00:45:44,667
However, scientists in Pakistan
849
00:45:44,792 --> 00:45:49,042
have suggested
Mohenjo Daro is much older.
850
00:45:49,250 --> 00:45:53,292
Mainstream archeologists
believe the city was abandoned
851
00:45:53,417 --> 00:45:58,625
as a result of climatic changes,
or possibly a decrease in trade.
852
00:45:58,792 --> 00:46:00,708
But when
the ruins of Mohenjo Daro
853
00:46:00,917 --> 00:46:04,000
were discovered in the 1920s...
854
00:46:05,333 --> 00:46:09,250
...44 skeletons were found
lying face down in the street,
855
00:46:09,417 --> 00:46:11,958
many holding hands.
856
00:46:13,000 --> 00:46:15,292
Their faces and body positioning
857
00:46:15,500 --> 00:46:19,750
suggested they suffered
a sudden, violent death.
858
00:46:21,542 --> 00:46:23,500
COPPENS:
You have a culture of people
who literally
859
00:46:23,708 --> 00:46:25,500
were lying dead in the street.
860
00:46:25,708 --> 00:46:27,333
Archaeologists have found
human remains.
861
00:46:27,542 --> 00:46:29,625
And something big
has happened to these people.
862
00:46:30,708 --> 00:46:35,500
NARRATOR:
What, in fact, did happen
to the people of Mohenjo Daro?
863
00:46:35,708 --> 00:46:38,125
Why is there evidence
that wild animals
864
00:46:38,250 --> 00:46:40,875
avoided
scavenging their remains?
865
00:46:41,042 --> 00:46:44,542
And why,
even after thousands of years,
866
00:46:44,708 --> 00:46:47,250
had their bones not decayed?
867
00:46:48,083 --> 00:46:51,500
TSOUKALOS:
In certain areas of that site,
868
00:46:51,667 --> 00:46:54,750
you find increased
levels of radiation.
869
00:46:54,875 --> 00:46:59,000
And radiation exists
all over the place.
870
00:46:59,083 --> 00:47:01,958
When, all of a sudden, you have
higher levels of radiation
871
00:47:02,125 --> 00:47:04,333
in certain areas of the world,
872
00:47:04,542 --> 00:47:08,000
the question arises: why?
873
00:47:13,208 --> 00:47:15,958
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that Mohenjo Daro
874
00:47:16,167 --> 00:47:19,958
was one of the cities
mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita?
875
00:47:20,125 --> 00:47:22,708
A city that
suffered the equivalent
876
00:47:22,917 --> 00:47:25,042
of a sudden atomic attack?
877
00:47:28,708 --> 00:47:31,042
In his 1979 book,
878
00:47:31,167 --> 00:47:35,000
Atomic Destruction in 2000 BC,
879
00:47:35,125 --> 00:47:37,250
British researcher
David Davenport
880
00:47:37,417 --> 00:47:40,750
claimed to have found
a 50-yard-wide epicenter
881
00:47:40,917 --> 00:47:43,875
at Mohenjo Daro
where everything appeared
882
00:47:44,042 --> 00:47:46,542
to have been fused through
a transformative process
883
00:47:46,708 --> 00:47:48,833
known as vitrification.
884
00:47:49,042 --> 00:47:52,708
TSOUKALOS:
Vitrification is a process
885
00:47:52,875 --> 00:47:56,542
in which regular type stone
886
00:47:56,667 --> 00:47:59,792
gets molten into a magma state
887
00:47:59,958 --> 00:48:03,208
and then it hardens again.
888
00:48:03,375 --> 00:48:06,208
But once the stone
is hardened again,
889
00:48:06,375 --> 00:48:09,250
it feels like glass.
890
00:48:09,375 --> 00:48:13,750
At Mohenjo Daro, we find
evidence of vitrification,
891
00:48:13,917 --> 00:48:15,958
which could have
only been achieved
892
00:48:16,125 --> 00:48:20,458
if the material
was exposed to extreme heat
893
00:48:20,667 --> 00:48:22,875
by some type of a blast.
894
00:48:24,542 --> 00:48:28,000
NARRATOR:
Could the strange ruins
found in the Indus Valley
895
00:48:28,125 --> 00:48:32,167
really contain evidence
of an ancient atomic explosion?
896
00:48:32,375 --> 00:48:36,125
If so, where did these
powerful weapons come from?
897
00:48:36,292 --> 00:48:39,875
Who was using them? And why?
898
00:48:44,542 --> 00:48:45,417
I've written about the weapons
899
00:48:45,500 --> 00:48:46,458
described
in the ancient Vedic texts
900
00:48:46,542 --> 00:48:47,167
in many of my books.
901
00:48:47,625 --> 00:48:49,875
And what amazes me
is that these descriptions
902
00:48:50,042 --> 00:48:52,083
of these weapons
are very similar
903
00:48:52,250 --> 00:48:55,792
to what our modern military
is using today.
904
00:48:55,958 --> 00:48:58,708
Yeah, like heat-seeking missiles
and stealth bombers.
905
00:48:58,875 --> 00:49:00,833
I mean, it goes without saying
that people
906
00:49:01,000 --> 00:49:02,458
from thousand years ago
907
00:49:02,667 --> 00:49:04,417
would have never
known about this
908
00:49:04,583 --> 00:49:08,375
unless they witnessed some sort
of advanced civilization.
909
00:49:08,542 --> 00:49:11,167
Right. So, you have to be
open to ask the question.
910
00:49:11,375 --> 00:49:13,583
Were they describing
some kind of alien technology?
911
00:49:13,708 --> 00:49:17,083
-It's pronounced
some "koind," William.
-HENRY: Oh, right.
912
00:49:17,250 --> 00:49:19,583
Some "koind"
of alien technology.
913
00:49:19,750 --> 00:49:21,750
That's the alien pronunciation.
914
00:49:21,958 --> 00:49:24,042
(laughing)
915
00:49:25,083 --> 00:49:27,625
NARRATOR: An unmanned
aerial vehicle
916
00:49:27,792 --> 00:49:29,542
hurtles across the sky.
917
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,833
It travels at supersonic speeds,
918
00:49:34,042 --> 00:49:36,500
spitting fire,
919
00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:40,000
launching deadly missiles,
920
00:49:40,125 --> 00:49:43,292
programmed to seek and destroy.
921
00:49:44,708 --> 00:49:46,958
The effect is devastating,
922
00:49:47,083 --> 00:49:51,583
high-tech warfare
at its most lethal.
923
00:49:51,708 --> 00:49:53,083
But what could be a page
924
00:49:53,292 --> 00:49:56,708
stolen from a U.S. military
black project
925
00:49:56,875 --> 00:49:59,667
is actually
a description written down
926
00:49:59,750 --> 00:50:02,542
over 2,500 years ago
927
00:50:02,708 --> 00:50:04,667
in the sacred Hindu text
928
00:50:04,875 --> 00:50:07,667
known as the Mahabharata.
929
00:50:08,750 --> 00:50:11,083
COPPENS:
When it comes
to the ancient Indian accounts,
930
00:50:11,250 --> 00:50:13,167
they're really
eyewitness testimony
931
00:50:13,292 --> 00:50:15,167
of the gods fighting.
932
00:50:17,167 --> 00:50:19,958
CHILDRESS:
When you read
the ancient Hindu epics,
933
00:50:20,125 --> 00:50:23,708
they talk about
horrific weapons:
934
00:50:23,875 --> 00:50:28,375
missiles and atomic weapons.
935
00:50:29,875 --> 00:50:32,000
Massive laser weapons
936
00:50:32,167 --> 00:50:35,250
that are melting
and devastating entire cities.
937
00:50:36,542 --> 00:50:40,000
TSOUKALOS:
I refuse to think
that our ancestors
938
00:50:40,208 --> 00:50:42,958
came up with these stories
out of thin air.
939
00:50:43,167 --> 00:50:45,583
When writing was first invented,
940
00:50:45,708 --> 00:50:48,250
they wrote down their history.
941
00:50:49,625 --> 00:50:52,500
The first things
that were ever written down
942
00:50:52,667 --> 00:50:54,625
were actual events.
943
00:50:56,208 --> 00:50:58,167
NARRATOR:
How is it
that some of the earliest
944
00:50:58,333 --> 00:51:00,167
written accounts of warfare
945
00:51:00,375 --> 00:51:02,625
describe sophisticated weaponry
946
00:51:02,833 --> 00:51:04,833
that humans wouldn't develop
947
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:07,042
for thousands of years?
948
00:51:07,167 --> 00:51:11,167
For the answer,
ancient astronaut theorists
949
00:51:11,375 --> 00:51:14,208
point to numerous descriptions
of deadly weapons
950
00:51:14,417 --> 00:51:17,667
found throughout
the Mahabharata--
951
00:51:17,875 --> 00:51:23,375
many strikingly similar to those
used by the military today.
952
00:51:24,917 --> 00:51:27,583
One example
are the incendiary weapons
953
00:51:27,750 --> 00:51:31,208
wielded by Vishnu,
954
00:51:31,375 --> 00:51:34,792
which are specially equipped
to find their targets.
955
00:51:34,958 --> 00:51:40,000
SHIMKADA:
Vishnu has a flying guided
missile, the Narayanastra.
956
00:51:40,167 --> 00:51:41,958
And once it is launched,
957
00:51:42,125 --> 00:51:45,042
it will destroy
everything that is moving.
958
00:51:45,208 --> 00:51:47,792
So, you know,
according to the description,
959
00:51:47,917 --> 00:51:52,167
it is a motion-detecting weapon,
960
00:51:52,333 --> 00:51:55,458
which is pretty much
like our modern weaponry.
961
00:51:56,708 --> 00:52:00,667
There is also a weapon
that is heat-seeking.
962
00:52:01,917 --> 00:52:04,583
ROBERT DICKMAN:
Heat-seeking is a very effective
way of finding something.
963
00:52:04,750 --> 00:52:07,333
You would fire a missile
from behind one aircraft
964
00:52:07,458 --> 00:52:09,375
at an aircraft in front of you,
965
00:52:09,500 --> 00:52:11,667
specifically targeted
against the hot engine.
966
00:52:12,708 --> 00:52:16,708
And then you were able to move
off from behind the airplane
967
00:52:16,917 --> 00:52:19,375
and the heat-seeker would still
be able to find the target.
968
00:52:22,083 --> 00:52:23,667
I am aware
969
00:52:23,875 --> 00:52:26,750
that there are forces of nature.
970
00:52:29,042 --> 00:52:30,625
You've got thunder, lightning,
971
00:52:30,792 --> 00:52:32,333
earthquakes.
972
00:52:32,542 --> 00:52:35,417
But how would you go
from witnessing that
973
00:52:35,583 --> 00:52:39,167
to a description
of heat-seeking missiles?
974
00:52:41,667 --> 00:52:43,542
NARRATOR:
In addition to guided missiles,
975
00:52:43,667 --> 00:52:46,583
the Mahabharata
is filled with accounts
976
00:52:46,750 --> 00:52:50,542
of other sophisticated weapons
wielded by the gods.
977
00:52:50,667 --> 00:52:52,500
In the Mahabharata,
978
00:52:52,708 --> 00:52:55,250
46 different types
of weapon are described.
979
00:52:56,333 --> 00:52:58,542
And each one has
a specific function.
980
00:52:59,792 --> 00:53:02,375
The Pashupatastra is a weapon
that actually multiplies
981
00:53:02,542 --> 00:53:04,417
into seven different arrows.
982
00:53:04,583 --> 00:53:07,625
So then it hits seven different
targets at the same time.
983
00:53:08,667 --> 00:53:10,750
Salwa is an anti-god.
984
00:53:11,500 --> 00:53:14,208
He can make
his vehicle disappear.
985
00:53:14,375 --> 00:53:18,167
So, we're talking about
a flying object that is stealth.
986
00:53:19,208 --> 00:53:21,708
He also can put people
into sleep.
987
00:53:22,750 --> 00:53:25,333
So we're perhaps
talking about nerve gas.
988
00:53:26,458 --> 00:53:29,292
CHILDRESS:
They talk about weapons
that are so high tech
989
00:53:29,417 --> 00:53:33,250
that it could only be
from extraterrestrials.
990
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:38,375
NARRATOR:
But of all the weapons
described in the Mahabharata,
991
00:53:38,500 --> 00:53:42,458
perhaps the most deadly was
a device called the Brahmastra.
992
00:53:42,583 --> 00:53:47,333
A weapon that the texts
warned was never to be used.
993
00:53:47,458 --> 00:53:51,167
Brahmastra is described
as the ultimate weapon.
994
00:53:51,375 --> 00:53:53,167
Once it is launched,
995
00:53:53,375 --> 00:53:56,000
it will simply burn everything.
996
00:53:56,208 --> 00:53:58,958
So it will incinerate
the entire universe.
997
00:54:03,583 --> 00:54:06,667
We're talking
about a nuclear blast
998
00:54:06,833 --> 00:54:09,458
100-fold magnitude
of the bomb that we have seen
999
00:54:09,583 --> 00:54:11,958
or experienced in our own times.
1000
00:54:12,167 --> 00:54:13,500
So, never be used.
1001
00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:16,708
And yet, someone
was going to make
1002
00:54:16,875 --> 00:54:18,833
use of that Brahmastra.
1003
00:54:19,042 --> 00:54:21,167
So, that's the dilemma
1004
00:54:21,375 --> 00:54:24,750
that the books talks
about in the Mahabharata.
1005
00:54:26,125 --> 00:54:28,667
India now has a rocket program,
1006
00:54:28,875 --> 00:54:31,708
and one of their rockets
is called Shakti.
1007
00:54:32,875 --> 00:54:35,000
Shakti means "goddess energy."
1008
00:54:35,167 --> 00:54:38,333
This is also
another divine weapon.
1009
00:54:39,375 --> 00:54:41,500
Indians are now sort
of going back to their text
1010
00:54:41,667 --> 00:54:44,000
or their mythology
and they're reliving it
1011
00:54:44,167 --> 00:54:46,458
by their modern technology.
1012
00:54:50,583 --> 00:54:53,833
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that alien beings
visiting the earth
1013
00:54:54,042 --> 00:54:55,583
thousands of years ago
1014
00:54:55,750 --> 00:54:59,125
dealt with the same issues
of nuclear annihilation
1015
00:54:59,292 --> 00:55:01,625
that humans
are dealing with today?
1016
00:55:03,333 --> 00:55:05,542
And might
the deadly weapons currently
1017
00:55:05,750 --> 00:55:07,875
being deployed
by the world's military
1018
00:55:08,042 --> 00:55:12,000
really be recreations of weapons
first used on Earth
1019
00:55:12,208 --> 00:55:15,042
by extraterrestrials
in the ancient past?
1020
00:55:16,875 --> 00:55:18,125
Perhaps.
1021
00:55:18,292 --> 00:55:20,500
But then it should
also be possible
1022
00:55:20,667 --> 00:55:23,458
to predict
mankind's military future
1023
00:55:23,583 --> 00:55:26,833
by searching through
still more ancient texts.
1024
00:55:32,875 --> 00:55:34,333
NARRATOR: Dwarka.
1025
00:55:34,500 --> 00:55:38,042
Northwest India, 1983.
1026
00:55:41,083 --> 00:55:44,125
Marine archeologist Dr. S.R. Rao
1027
00:55:44,292 --> 00:55:48,083
begins a ten-year underwater
exploration just off the coast
1028
00:55:48,250 --> 00:55:50,375
of this ancient fishing town.
1029
00:55:51,708 --> 00:55:54,458
And what he finds is stunning.
1030
00:55:56,500 --> 00:55:59,292
Starting at 20 feet
beneath the surface of the ocean
1031
00:55:59,458 --> 00:56:01,958
are sandstone walls,
1032
00:56:02,125 --> 00:56:04,250
cobblestone streets,
1033
00:56:04,417 --> 00:56:07,167
and further evidence
of what once was
1034
00:56:07,375 --> 00:56:10,458
a prosperous seaport.
1035
00:56:11,417 --> 00:56:14,583
At Dwarka,
what has been found so far
1036
00:56:14,708 --> 00:56:17,500
under the ocean
is incredibly tantalizing.
1037
00:56:17,625 --> 00:56:20,083
For instance,
there's this huge wall,
1038
00:56:20,250 --> 00:56:23,167
estimated about 580 meters long.
1039
00:56:23,333 --> 00:56:25,125
So, this is not insignificant.
1040
00:56:25,292 --> 00:56:27,333
And this would suggest
that this was
1041
00:56:27,458 --> 00:56:30,583
a sophisticated dwelling area.
1042
00:56:33,042 --> 00:56:35,000
NARRATOR:
Further underwater excavations
1043
00:56:35,167 --> 00:56:37,375
and geological evidence indicate
1044
00:56:37,542 --> 00:56:41,458
the ruins are part of a city
that suddenly became
1045
00:56:41,625 --> 00:56:45,042
submerged in 1443 BC.
1046
00:56:46,917 --> 00:56:50,833
The discovery of these ruins
is a major archeological find.
1047
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:54,250
But for some,
even more significant
1048
00:56:54,417 --> 00:56:57,125
is where the ruins were found.
1049
00:57:02,583 --> 00:57:05,917
For centuries,
the modern-day city of Dwarka
1050
00:57:06,042 --> 00:57:09,667
was thought by many Hindus
to be the Dwarka described
1051
00:57:09,875 --> 00:57:12,333
in the Mahabharata
as the ancient kingdom
1052
00:57:12,458 --> 00:57:14,583
of the god Krishna.
1053
00:57:15,875 --> 00:57:19,167
According to the text,
during the Kurukshetra War,
1054
00:57:19,250 --> 00:57:22,667
a rival to Krishna, Lord Salwa,
1055
00:57:22,833 --> 00:57:25,667
attacked Dwarka
from a flying chariot,
1056
00:57:25,875 --> 00:57:28,417
raining down weapons
of mass destruction
1057
00:57:28,583 --> 00:57:30,125
that lit up the sky.
1058
00:57:31,708 --> 00:57:35,917
He actually flew over Dwarka
1059
00:57:36,042 --> 00:57:37,917
using his chariot,
1060
00:57:38,125 --> 00:57:40,792
and he started
bombarding the city of Dwarka,
1061
00:57:40,958 --> 00:57:43,500
throwing down
all kinds of weapons.
1062
00:57:45,042 --> 00:57:47,750
Finally, Krishna employs
his own incredible weapon
1063
00:57:47,958 --> 00:57:50,667
and blows the thing
out of the sky.
1064
00:57:54,333 --> 00:57:56,167
It says in the scripture
1065
00:57:56,292 --> 00:57:59,083
that Lord Salwa's
flying craft itself
1066
00:57:59,250 --> 00:58:01,125
comes smoldering out of the sky
1067
00:58:01,208 --> 00:58:03,375
and crashes to the earth.
1068
00:58:03,542 --> 00:58:05,500
This suggests
that there was machines
1069
00:58:05,667 --> 00:58:08,708
involved in the war,
machines that could fly.
1070
00:58:10,792 --> 00:58:14,042
Shortly after the great war,
Krishna is killed.
1071
00:58:15,042 --> 00:58:17,583
And the city--
this magnificent city
1072
00:58:17,708 --> 00:58:21,167
built on land that
came out of the sea--
1073
00:58:21,375 --> 00:58:24,500
sank back into the ocean again.
1074
00:58:24,625 --> 00:58:28,458
It only existed during the time
that Krishna lived there.
1075
00:58:34,333 --> 00:58:38,750
NARRATOR:
Most historians dismiss this
"war of the gods" as folklore.
1076
00:58:40,458 --> 00:58:43,250
But could these underwater ruins
be evidence
1077
00:58:43,417 --> 00:58:47,875
that the ancient Hindu texts
are based in actual history?
1078
00:58:50,417 --> 00:58:52,667
And it seems to confirm
the ancient myths,
1079
00:58:52,792 --> 00:58:54,333
the ancient legends.
1080
00:58:54,542 --> 00:58:57,000
They have a basis in reality.
1081
00:58:59,875 --> 00:59:02,667
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
1082
00:59:02,833 --> 00:59:06,500
further evidence can be found
at Mahabalipuram,
1083
00:59:06,708 --> 00:59:08,458
an ancient port city
1084
00:59:08,583 --> 00:59:11,958
located along India's
southeastern coast.
1085
00:59:13,667 --> 00:59:16,000
According to ancient stories,
1086
00:59:16,167 --> 00:59:18,500
six of seven pagodas
that once stood
1087
00:59:18,708 --> 00:59:21,708
at Mahabalipuram were lost
1088
00:59:21,875 --> 00:59:25,167
due to a great deluge
sent to destroy the city
1089
00:59:25,333 --> 00:59:27,875
by the Hindu god Indra.
1090
00:59:30,542 --> 00:59:32,708
Just as in the case of Dwarka,
1091
00:59:32,875 --> 00:59:35,125
historians and archeologists
1092
00:59:35,250 --> 00:59:37,417
dismissed the story
of the missing six temples
1093
00:59:37,583 --> 00:59:39,750
as myth.
1094
00:59:42,708 --> 00:59:46,000
But on December 26, 2004,
1095
00:59:46,167 --> 00:59:48,958
a massive tsunami
caused water levels
1096
00:59:49,167 --> 00:59:51,125
to temporarily drop,
1097
00:59:51,250 --> 00:59:55,500
exposing a number
of mysterious-looking formations
1098
00:59:55,625 --> 00:59:57,833
along the shoreline.
1099
00:59:59,375 --> 01:00:01,667
Upon closer inspection,
they were found
1100
01:00:01,875 --> 01:00:03,875
to be man-made structures.
1101
01:00:04,875 --> 01:00:07,292
And quite possibly the ruins
1102
01:00:07,417 --> 01:00:10,708
of the lost pagodas
of Mahabalipuram.
1103
01:00:13,542 --> 01:00:16,125
Archeologists went diving
1104
01:00:16,250 --> 01:00:18,708
into this area
and also found that there was,
1105
01:00:18,833 --> 01:00:21,625
basically, a sunken city there.
1106
01:00:21,750 --> 01:00:25,333
And so this would indicate
that the legends
1107
01:00:25,500 --> 01:00:28,333
are really correct
about this place.
1108
01:00:28,458 --> 01:00:32,625
That, in fact, it was destroyed
in some kind of a flood,
1109
01:00:32,750 --> 01:00:35,083
just as the legends said.
1110
01:00:38,250 --> 01:00:41,208
NARRATOR: If recent
archeological finds have proven
1111
01:00:41,375 --> 01:00:45,333
that the city of Krishna and the
Seven Pagodas of Mahabalipuram
1112
01:00:45,500 --> 01:00:47,000
really did exist,
1113
01:00:47,208 --> 01:00:50,000
then might that mean
that the stories
1114
01:00:50,167 --> 01:00:54,125
of these sites being attacked
from the sky are true as well?
1115
01:00:55,417 --> 01:00:57,667
Perhaps the answer can be found
1116
01:00:57,875 --> 01:01:00,458
by examining the many
ancient stone structures
1117
01:01:00,583 --> 01:01:03,875
of Mahabalipuram called rathas.
1118
01:01:06,167 --> 01:01:09,500
All over Mahabalipuram there are
these towerlike structures.
1119
01:01:09,625 --> 01:01:11,083
They're called rathas.
1120
01:01:12,542 --> 01:01:14,500
"Rathas" can be translated with
1121
01:01:14,583 --> 01:01:18,000
"sky city," "house of the gods"
1122
01:01:18,167 --> 01:01:20,042
or even "sky ship."
1123
01:01:22,917 --> 01:01:25,083
LAYNE LITTLE:
These are temples.
1124
01:01:25,250 --> 01:01:28,417
But, simultaneously,
they are seen as being
1125
01:01:28,542 --> 01:01:31,208
movable vehicles in which
1126
01:01:31,375 --> 01:01:32,958
the gods can come to Earth,
1127
01:01:33,083 --> 01:01:35,000
can come to the presence
of the worshippers.
1128
01:01:35,167 --> 01:01:38,167
You'll see that
there are all these little--
1129
01:01:38,333 --> 01:01:39,875
they're called kudo.
1130
01:01:40,042 --> 01:01:42,917
They're little windows
that are shaped like horseshoes.
1131
01:01:43,083 --> 01:01:45,667
And even in those
little windows, you'll see,
1132
01:01:45,833 --> 01:01:48,083
peering out,
the faces of the gods.
1133
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:53,833
In many temples throughout India
1134
01:01:53,958 --> 01:01:56,292
you'll actually see
gigantic wheels
1135
01:01:56,417 --> 01:01:59,375
added as a motif
on the base of these temples
1136
01:01:59,542 --> 01:02:03,667
just to remind the worshippers
that these are moving chariots.
1137
01:02:03,875 --> 01:02:06,250
They were
the vimanas of the gods.
1138
01:02:06,417 --> 01:02:09,667
The stone structures
themselves are replicas
1139
01:02:09,875 --> 01:02:13,042
of the machines
that our ancestors witnessed.
1140
01:02:20,208 --> 01:02:24,833
NARRATOR:
Do the ruins off the coast
of Dwarka and Mahabalipuram,
1141
01:02:25,000 --> 01:02:29,167
along with the stone temples and
carvings found throughout India,
1142
01:02:29,333 --> 01:02:33,042
provide a physical record
of the advanced warfare
1143
01:02:33,208 --> 01:02:36,458
described in
the ancient Hindu texts?
1144
01:02:36,583 --> 01:02:39,167
And if so, were these wars
1145
01:02:39,375 --> 01:02:45,167
waged between opposing factions
of extraterrestrial beings?
1146
01:02:45,292 --> 01:02:48,542
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
1147
01:02:48,708 --> 01:02:53,250
the historical records
of ancient Mesopotamia.
1148
01:02:59,042 --> 01:03:00,417
One interesting thing
we see in ancient stories
1149
01:03:00,417 --> 01:03:02,167
is weather manipulation.
1150
01:03:02,333 --> 01:03:04,833
And we have stories of the gods
creating earthquakes
1151
01:03:05,042 --> 01:03:08,792
and tornados and great storms
that turn the tide of a battle.
1152
01:03:08,917 --> 01:03:10,542
TSOUKALOS:
And floods.
1153
01:03:10,708 --> 01:03:12,417
I mean, one of the most
famous ancient stories
1154
01:03:12,583 --> 01:03:15,208
of weather being used
as a weapon
1155
01:03:15,375 --> 01:03:18,667
has to be the account
of the great flood in the Bible.
1156
01:03:18,875 --> 01:03:21,167
And by the way,
there are some geologists
1157
01:03:21,375 --> 01:03:25,000
who now believe that
that was a historical event.
1158
01:03:25,167 --> 01:03:27,667
Right, and we talked about
weather manipulation
1159
01:03:27,875 --> 01:03:31,875
back in 2012 in
"Aliens and Mega-Disasters."
1160
01:03:35,458 --> 01:03:37,583
NARRATOR:
In 1996,
1161
01:03:37,750 --> 01:03:40,875
the United States Air Force
commissioned a secret study
1162
01:03:41,042 --> 01:03:44,167
called the 2025 Report.
1163
01:03:44,333 --> 01:03:47,417
In it, the military
examined the feasibility
1164
01:03:47,583 --> 01:03:52,958
of combat capabilities
and tactics in the year 2025.
1165
01:03:53,125 --> 01:03:56,292
One of the areas that was seen
as ripe for research,
1166
01:03:56,458 --> 01:04:00,000
exploitation and development
was the modification
1167
01:04:00,167 --> 01:04:02,083
of the weather
as a tool of warfare.
1168
01:04:02,250 --> 01:04:04,083
People might think the idea
1169
01:04:04,250 --> 01:04:05,958
that we can weaponize
the weather is something
1170
01:04:06,083 --> 01:04:08,000
just straight out
of science fiction,
1171
01:04:08,167 --> 01:04:10,208
the idea we could
pulverize whole nations
1172
01:04:10,333 --> 01:04:13,833
just by modifying
and exploiting the weather.
1173
01:04:14,000 --> 01:04:15,833
But this is a verifiable report
1174
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:17,708
that is now
in the public domain.
1175
01:04:17,875 --> 01:04:20,542
So we do know that government
and military bodies
1176
01:04:20,708 --> 01:04:25,542
are significantly researching
weaponizing the weather.
1177
01:04:27,542 --> 01:04:30,167
Well, one of the big advantages
of using weather as a weapon
1178
01:04:30,375 --> 01:04:33,375
is that it's really difficult
to prove who attacked you.
1179
01:04:35,583 --> 01:04:37,250
The other thing is
that weather itself can cause
1180
01:04:37,375 --> 01:04:39,833
a heck of a lot of more damage
than weapons can.
1181
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:42,250
You could have, for instance,
a powerful thunderstorm
1182
01:04:42,417 --> 01:04:44,458
that could go all the way
across the U.S.
1183
01:04:46,417 --> 01:04:49,167
And cause, basically,
nuclear-level destruction
1184
01:04:49,292 --> 01:04:52,000
all the way across a huge swath.
1185
01:04:53,333 --> 01:04:54,917
There have been
many attempts to control
1186
01:04:55,042 --> 01:04:57,167
the weather during warfare,
1187
01:04:57,292 --> 01:05:00,125
and one of the most
famous attempts was in Vietnam.
1188
01:05:04,583 --> 01:05:07,958
In which there was a real effort
to seed the clouds
1189
01:05:08,042 --> 01:05:12,417
over the Ho Chi Minh trail
and create torrential rains.
1190
01:05:12,583 --> 01:05:17,042
By flooding the North Vietnamese
and Viet Cong supply lines,
1191
01:05:17,250 --> 01:05:20,000
it would reduce their utility
and choke off supplies
1192
01:05:20,208 --> 01:05:22,458
to guerillas in the south.
1193
01:05:22,542 --> 01:05:27,167
So certainly, we've had
success in seeding clouds.
1194
01:05:27,333 --> 01:05:29,167
NARRATOR:
If the weather
can be manipulated
1195
01:05:29,375 --> 01:05:33,292
by the military
to produce powerful storms
1196
01:05:33,458 --> 01:05:35,792
and even catastrophes,
1197
01:05:35,958 --> 01:05:38,833
is this only
a recent innovation?
1198
01:05:39,042 --> 01:05:41,500
Or is there evidence
of the weaponized use
1199
01:05:41,708 --> 01:05:44,292
of weather in the ancient past?
1200
01:05:50,542 --> 01:05:53,833
Tales of a great flood
destroying the world
1201
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:56,000
can be found
in the earliest myths
1202
01:05:56,208 --> 01:06:00,417
of many ancient cultures
across the globe.
1203
01:06:00,583 --> 01:06:03,917
Both the Hebrew Bible
and the Islamic Quran
1204
01:06:04,125 --> 01:06:08,208
describe an epic flood
in the tale of Noah's Ark.
1205
01:06:08,375 --> 01:06:11,250
God was unhappy with the people
for their sinful ways,
1206
01:06:11,375 --> 01:06:13,667
and as a kind of punishment
1207
01:06:13,833 --> 01:06:15,583
and, also,
an act of purification,
1208
01:06:15,708 --> 01:06:18,083
sent the great deluge.
1209
01:06:18,208 --> 01:06:20,167
Most living things
1210
01:06:20,375 --> 01:06:24,042
would die in this,
except for a few birds and fish.
1211
01:06:24,167 --> 01:06:25,958
But he told Noah
very specifically
1212
01:06:26,083 --> 01:06:30,000
how to build a craft
that could survive the storm.
1213
01:06:30,208 --> 01:06:32,042
WILSON:
Noah is to collect pairs
1214
01:06:32,208 --> 01:06:34,500
of the air-breathing animals
on Earth,
1215
01:06:34,667 --> 01:06:38,250
and he packs these animals
and his family into the Ark,
1216
01:06:38,417 --> 01:06:41,667
and then it rains
for 40 days and 40 nights
1217
01:06:41,750 --> 01:06:45,000
and floods the entire Earth,
1218
01:06:45,208 --> 01:06:49,458
and all air-breathing animals
and people are killed.
1219
01:06:53,833 --> 01:06:55,917
NARRATOR:
In ancient Mesopotamia,
1220
01:06:56,083 --> 01:06:58,500
a similar story
of a catastrophic flood
1221
01:06:58,667 --> 01:07:03,625
was chiseled into clay tablets
dating to 2000 BC.
1222
01:07:03,833 --> 01:07:06,042
Known as the Epic of Gilgamesh,
1223
01:07:06,208 --> 01:07:09,708
this early Sumerian poem
describes angry gods
1224
01:07:09,875 --> 01:07:12,833
that send a great flood
to destroy mankind
1225
01:07:13,000 --> 01:07:17,500
while allowing
only a chosen few to survive.
1226
01:07:17,708 --> 01:07:20,417
BRAMLEY:
The gods-- they'd
created humanity to perform
1227
01:07:20,583 --> 01:07:22,625
whatever labor
they were supposed to do,
1228
01:07:22,750 --> 01:07:24,000
but what happened was that,
1229
01:07:24,208 --> 01:07:26,250
according to the old
Mesopotamian stories,
1230
01:07:26,375 --> 01:07:29,250
human beings just started
causing too much trouble.
1231
01:07:29,375 --> 01:07:33,167
They became noisy,
they became rebellious,
1232
01:07:33,333 --> 01:07:36,000
and it was just time
to wipe them out.
1233
01:07:37,833 --> 01:07:39,000
And that's actually
what's reported
1234
01:07:39,208 --> 01:07:41,500
in those old creation stories.
1235
01:07:46,583 --> 01:07:50,417
NARRATOR:
But did such stories of
great floods engulfing the world
1236
01:07:50,583 --> 01:07:53,833
merely spring
from man's imagination?
1237
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,292
Or were they real?
1238
01:07:57,500 --> 01:08:02,792
If so, might such devastation
have had an otherworldly origin,
1239
01:08:02,958 --> 01:08:06,833
as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?
1240
01:08:07,000 --> 01:08:09,583
REDFERN:
If the human race
in the early 21st century
1241
01:08:09,750 --> 01:08:11,375
is now weaponizing the weather,
1242
01:08:11,542 --> 01:08:14,042
why shouldn't aliens
from some faraway world
1243
01:08:14,208 --> 01:08:16,167
have already developed it?
1244
01:08:17,458 --> 01:08:19,000
If ancient aliens were able
1245
01:08:19,208 --> 01:08:20,458
to weaponize the weather,
1246
01:08:20,625 --> 01:08:23,208
then I don't think
we can rule out the idea
1247
01:08:23,333 --> 01:08:26,042
that, possibly, some
of these great ancient floods
1248
01:08:26,167 --> 01:08:28,000
may not have been
the work of gods
1249
01:08:28,167 --> 01:08:30,833
but could have been the work
of highly-advanced
1250
01:08:31,000 --> 01:08:33,125
technological aliens
actually seeking
1251
01:08:33,292 --> 01:08:36,333
to potentially obliterate
the human race.
1252
01:08:39,750 --> 01:08:42,125
GRAHAM HANCOCK:
There are more than a thousand
different flood myths
1253
01:08:42,333 --> 01:08:45,333
from cultures
all around the world.
1254
01:08:45,458 --> 01:08:51,000
And the tendency has been
for archaeologists to say
1255
01:08:51,208 --> 01:08:53,167
that that's simply
because people's fantasies
1256
01:08:53,333 --> 01:08:55,083
work in the same way.
1257
01:08:55,250 --> 01:08:59,500
But I honestly think there's
a much simpler explanation
1258
01:08:59,667 --> 01:09:04,208
for why the flood myth
is so universal.
1259
01:09:04,375 --> 01:09:06,000
I think it's a memory
of what happened
1260
01:09:06,125 --> 01:09:08,167
at the end of the Ice Age.
1261
01:09:08,292 --> 01:09:10,250
What's much more mysterious
1262
01:09:10,417 --> 01:09:14,000
is that, coupled with these
memories of global devastation,
1263
01:09:14,208 --> 01:09:18,083
there are also memories
of almost godlike beings
1264
01:09:18,250 --> 01:09:20,083
with incredible powers
and abilities
1265
01:09:20,250 --> 01:09:22,875
who were caught up
in that cataclysm.
1266
01:09:24,875 --> 01:09:28,375
The deluge stories
are really very interesting.
1267
01:09:30,042 --> 01:09:32,042
What they all say
is that the angels,
1268
01:09:32,250 --> 01:09:34,417
the gods, whatever
we want to call them today--
1269
01:09:34,542 --> 01:09:36,917
they basically
just got tired of humanity,
1270
01:09:37,125 --> 01:09:40,125
where there's a wanton
intention to wipe out
1271
01:09:40,292 --> 01:09:42,417
or thin out, the human race.
1272
01:09:44,208 --> 01:09:47,167
Right there,
we have a perfect example
1273
01:09:47,333 --> 01:09:50,333
that maybe the extraterrestrials
1274
01:09:50,500 --> 01:09:53,125
were unhappy with Homo sapiens,
1275
01:09:53,250 --> 01:09:56,167
and it is possible
that they then created
1276
01:09:56,333 --> 01:09:58,292
some type of a catastrophe,
1277
01:09:58,500 --> 01:10:02,167
some flood,
to eliminate mankind.
1278
01:10:02,375 --> 01:10:04,042
But it's also possible
1279
01:10:04,208 --> 01:10:07,958
that benevolent
extraterrestrials
1280
01:10:08,125 --> 01:10:11,917
warned us about
an impending catastrophe
1281
01:10:12,083 --> 01:10:15,917
so that not everyone
would be destroyed.
1282
01:10:17,917 --> 01:10:20,208
NARRATOR:
Could the mythic floods
of the ancient past
1283
01:10:20,375 --> 01:10:25,500
really have been the result
of extraterrestrial influence?
1284
01:10:25,667 --> 01:10:27,000
Or is it possible,
1285
01:10:27,167 --> 01:10:29,542
as some ancient astronaut
theorists contend,
1286
01:10:29,750 --> 01:10:34,792
that aliens may have actually
helped mankind survive?
1287
01:10:40,542 --> 01:10:41,958
When we talk about weapons,
1288
01:10:41,958 --> 01:10:43,708
we have to remember,
weapons can be used to attack,
1289
01:10:43,708 --> 01:10:45,375
but they can also
be used to defend.
1290
01:10:45,542 --> 01:10:48,500
So, when we carry a sword,
we also carry a shield.
1291
01:10:48,708 --> 01:10:51,333
Right, and the essence
of the ancient astronaut theory
1292
01:10:51,500 --> 01:10:54,833
is that the extraterrestrials
want us humans to thrive.
1293
01:10:54,958 --> 01:10:57,083
So, in my opinion,
1294
01:10:57,250 --> 01:10:59,125
these technologies
that were given to us
1295
01:10:59,292 --> 01:11:02,000
could be used both
for protection
1296
01:11:02,208 --> 01:11:03,625
and our benefit.
1297
01:11:03,750 --> 01:11:05,208
And, you know,
scientists have discovered
1298
01:11:05,375 --> 01:11:07,375
some bizarre things out in space
1299
01:11:07,542 --> 01:11:09,542
that are actually
protecting our planet.
1300
01:11:09,708 --> 01:11:11,917
And we talked about this
in an Ancient Aliens episode
1301
01:11:12,083 --> 01:11:14,458
from 2015.
1302
01:11:14,667 --> 01:11:17,083
LAUNCH CONTROL:
Five, four, three,
1303
01:11:17,250 --> 01:11:19,875
two, one.
1304
01:11:20,042 --> 01:11:22,375
Ignition sequence start
and liftoff.
1305
01:11:24,792 --> 01:11:28,500
NARRATOR:
Cape Canaveral
Air Force Station, Florida.
1306
01:11:28,708 --> 01:11:32,250
August 30, 2012.
1307
01:11:33,333 --> 01:11:36,667
NASA launches
two probes into space
1308
01:11:36,875 --> 01:11:41,000
in order to study
the Van Allen radiation belts
1309
01:11:41,167 --> 01:11:46,542
a pair of donut-shaped particle
zones that surround the Earth.
1310
01:11:48,542 --> 01:11:51,333
After two years
of collecting data,
1311
01:11:51,500 --> 01:11:55,958
NASA scientists discover
a surprising phenomenon:
1312
01:11:56,042 --> 01:12:00,667
the Van Allen belts are
operating as a protective dome,
1313
01:12:00,833 --> 01:12:04,542
shielding the Earth
from dangerous radiation.
1314
01:12:06,917 --> 01:12:08,292
Our planet is constantly
flooded with particles
1315
01:12:08,500 --> 01:12:09,833
from space that are charged
1316
01:12:09,958 --> 01:12:11,625
that, if they made it
through the atmosphere,
1317
01:12:11,792 --> 01:12:14,042
would actually be quite
damaging radiation to life.
1318
01:12:14,208 --> 01:12:15,667
But because of
the Van Allen belt
1319
01:12:15,875 --> 01:12:17,583
and the combination
of magnetic fields
1320
01:12:17,750 --> 01:12:19,625
and charged particles
already there,
1321
01:12:19,792 --> 01:12:22,667
incoming charged particles
are sent on curved paths
1322
01:12:22,833 --> 01:12:26,167
that safely protect the Earth
and we don't get hit by them.
1323
01:12:26,292 --> 01:12:28,667
The Van Allen radiation belt is
1324
01:12:28,833 --> 01:12:32,542
one of the most phenomenal
scientific phenomena
1325
01:12:32,708 --> 01:12:34,708
to be discovered
in recent times.
1326
01:12:35,792 --> 01:12:38,083
One of the things
that's so shocking about it
1327
01:12:38,250 --> 01:12:41,333
is that it's changing
and mutating
1328
01:12:41,500 --> 01:12:44,500
as if it's
intelligently directed.
1329
01:12:45,500 --> 01:12:48,667
The Van Allen belts may be
an advanced technology
1330
01:12:48,833 --> 01:12:50,833
that we still
don't really understand.
1331
01:12:51,917 --> 01:12:54,583
A technology
that actually is blocking
1332
01:12:54,708 --> 01:12:57,292
not just natural
cosmic particles
1333
01:12:57,458 --> 01:12:58,875
from the sun from coming in...
1334
01:13:00,292 --> 01:13:02,042
...but potentially
protecting the Earth
1335
01:13:02,250 --> 01:13:04,292
from extraterrestrial weapons
1336
01:13:04,458 --> 01:13:06,708
that might use some sort
of particle beam technology,
1337
01:13:06,917 --> 01:13:09,875
from ever being able
to make its way in here.
1338
01:13:14,208 --> 01:13:15,583
NARRATOR:
Were the Van Allen belts
1339
01:13:15,792 --> 01:13:18,500
designed
by extraterrestrial beings
1340
01:13:18,667 --> 01:13:23,042
to protect mankind from other
hostile alien factions?
1341
01:13:26,292 --> 01:13:27,583
Might there really be
1342
01:13:27,708 --> 01:13:30,125
an extraterrestrial
defense system
1343
01:13:30,292 --> 01:13:32,750
protecting the Earth
from attack?
1344
01:13:34,708 --> 01:13:37,458
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
1345
01:13:37,625 --> 01:13:41,542
and suggest further evidence
that there is an alien faction
1346
01:13:41,708 --> 01:13:44,583
policing Earth's airspace
can be found
1347
01:13:44,708 --> 01:13:48,500
by examining
modern-day UFO crashes.
1348
01:13:52,375 --> 01:13:54,333
In 2005,
1349
01:13:54,458 --> 01:13:58,292
UFO researcher Ryan Wood
published a book
1350
01:13:58,458 --> 01:14:01,667
chronicling 74 instances
of strange objects
1351
01:14:01,875 --> 01:14:06,792
falling from the sky
dating back to 1897.
1352
01:14:10,708 --> 01:14:13,333
As proof that
these crashes took place,
1353
01:14:13,542 --> 01:14:17,500
he cites official documents,
eyewitness reports,
1354
01:14:17,667 --> 01:14:19,958
and even physical evidence.
1355
01:14:22,208 --> 01:14:25,292
PAUL HELLYER:
In Ryan Woods book
Majic Eyes Only,
1356
01:14:25,458 --> 01:14:27,667
he lists all of these crashes,
1357
01:14:27,833 --> 01:14:30,542
and I think that the U.S.
has been involved
1358
01:14:30,708 --> 01:14:33,500
in the retrieval
of the vast majority,
1359
01:14:33,667 --> 01:14:35,750
doesn't matter where they are.
1360
01:14:37,042 --> 01:14:41,167
We had one crash north
of Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada,
1361
01:14:41,292 --> 01:14:43,750
and our regular people that go
1362
01:14:43,917 --> 01:14:46,667
and investigate aerial crashes
went out there
1363
01:14:46,833 --> 01:14:50,000
and were greeted
with American troops
1364
01:14:50,167 --> 01:14:52,042
pointing guns at them.
1365
01:14:52,208 --> 01:14:53,917
And they contacted Ottawa
1366
01:14:54,083 --> 01:14:56,917
and were told, "Well,
let the Americans have it."
1367
01:14:57,083 --> 01:15:00,708
NOORY:
We've had some
great stories of crashes.
1368
01:15:00,833 --> 01:15:03,292
Roswell,
Cape Girardeau, Missouri,
1369
01:15:03,458 --> 01:15:04,542
they're all over the place.
1370
01:15:04,667 --> 01:15:05,833
And you say to yourself,
1371
01:15:06,000 --> 01:15:07,417
"How could they crash
when they have
1372
01:15:07,583 --> 01:15:08,833
that kind of technology?"
1373
01:15:09,875 --> 01:15:12,625
CHILDRESS:
You've got to wonder
how extraterrestrials,
1374
01:15:12,792 --> 01:15:16,292
with all of their
advanced super technology
1375
01:15:16,458 --> 01:15:18,625
would then just crash.
1376
01:15:20,083 --> 01:15:21,333
It would seem that
1377
01:15:21,500 --> 01:15:23,583
something else
is really going on here.
1378
01:15:23,792 --> 01:15:26,000
Perhaps we have
the extraterrestrials
1379
01:15:26,083 --> 01:15:30,000
themselves battling it out
over our skies.
1380
01:15:30,208 --> 01:15:33,542
Is it possible that even now,
warring factions
1381
01:15:33,708 --> 01:15:36,667
of extraterrestrial
so-called "gods" are,
1382
01:15:36,833 --> 01:15:41,000
in fact, duking it out
over what happens on Earth?
1383
01:15:42,000 --> 01:15:44,833
And wars that we see
in ancient texts,
1384
01:15:45,000 --> 01:15:48,542
like the Mahabharata
or the Bible
1385
01:15:48,708 --> 01:15:52,792
could be still playing out
in our skies as we speak.
1386
01:15:56,583 --> 01:15:58,333
NARRATOR:
Could we really be at the center
1387
01:15:58,500 --> 01:16:00,417
of an extraterrestrial conflict
1388
01:16:00,583 --> 01:16:03,250
that dates back
to before the dawn
1389
01:16:03,417 --> 01:16:06,042
of human civilization on Earth?
1390
01:16:07,625 --> 01:16:12,292
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
1391
01:16:12,458 --> 01:16:14,500
that our survival
may be dependent
1392
01:16:14,708 --> 01:16:16,708
upon an ancient defense system
1393
01:16:16,875 --> 01:16:20,167
that has existed
for thousands of years
1394
01:16:20,333 --> 01:16:22,792
right beneath our feet.
1395
01:16:28,000 --> 01:16:32,208
NARRATOR:
Yakutia, Russia. 1854.
1396
01:16:34,333 --> 01:16:37,208
In a desolate region of Siberia
1397
01:16:37,375 --> 01:16:39,083
known as the Valley of Death...
1398
01:16:40,750 --> 01:16:42,667
...geographer
and natural scientist
1399
01:16:42,833 --> 01:16:46,833
Richard Karl Maak leads
a scientific expedition
1400
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,333
of the Russian
Geographical Society
1401
01:16:49,500 --> 01:16:51,583
into the Vilyuy River basin.
1402
01:16:52,833 --> 01:16:56,792
In his journal, Maak writes
that he and his team encountered
1403
01:16:56,917 --> 01:17:00,333
several large
and mysterious metallic objects
1404
01:17:00,542 --> 01:17:02,000
embedded in the Earth
1405
01:17:02,167 --> 01:17:06,333
that the local hunters
referred to as "cauldrons."
1406
01:17:07,083 --> 01:17:09,750
Additional accounts
were reported
1407
01:17:09,917 --> 01:17:13,875
throughout the late 19th
and early 20th centuries.
1408
01:17:16,833 --> 01:17:18,417
According to descriptions,
1409
01:17:18,583 --> 01:17:21,875
these large metallic domes
that protrude from the ground
1410
01:17:22,042 --> 01:17:26,583
each measure between
20 and 30 feet in diameter.
1411
01:17:28,667 --> 01:17:31,042
Their existence
is also supported
1412
01:17:31,167 --> 01:17:34,583
by the legends
of the local Yakut people,
1413
01:17:34,750 --> 01:17:36,667
who say that over the years,
1414
01:17:36,875 --> 01:17:40,042
the cauldrons would
periodically open up and send
1415
01:17:40,208 --> 01:17:42,167
fireballs into the sky.
1416
01:17:45,583 --> 01:17:48,458
STONEHILL:
What happens is
that an object would fly out
1417
01:17:48,625 --> 01:17:51,667
from under the ground
and intercept
1418
01:17:51,750 --> 01:17:53,875
an incoming celestial body...
1419
01:17:56,375 --> 01:17:57,958
...be it a bolide,
1420
01:17:58,167 --> 01:18:02,792
a meteor, anything that can
really damage our planet.
1421
01:18:02,917 --> 01:18:04,667
It's like somebody put in
1422
01:18:04,875 --> 01:18:09,000
an automatic station
programmed to take out
1423
01:18:09,167 --> 01:18:13,542
a celestial body that can
cause us tremendous damage
1424
01:18:13,750 --> 01:18:16,292
and maybe to end life on Earth.
1425
01:18:19,625 --> 01:18:22,083
NARRATOR:
On June 30, 1908,
1426
01:18:22,250 --> 01:18:25,375
a fireball was seen
streaking across the sky
1427
01:18:25,583 --> 01:18:28,792
over the Tunguska River
in rural Siberia
1428
01:18:28,917 --> 01:18:31,083
followed by a massive explosion.
1429
01:18:35,375 --> 01:18:36,667
It was the same area
1430
01:18:36,833 --> 01:18:39,000
where these mysterious
sunken cauldrons
1431
01:18:39,208 --> 01:18:41,042
are said to be located.
1432
01:18:42,167 --> 01:18:43,167
Twenty years later,
1433
01:18:43,333 --> 01:18:46,042
when the Soviet military
examined the area,
1434
01:18:46,208 --> 01:18:48,708
they reported finding
flattened trees
1435
01:18:48,917 --> 01:18:51,917
for miles around the blast site,
1436
01:18:52,083 --> 01:18:53,833
but no crater.
1437
01:18:56,208 --> 01:18:59,583
STONEHILL:
A Soviet military officer
came up with an idea,
1438
01:18:59,750 --> 01:19:03,333
Aleksandr Kazantsev, in 1940s,
1439
01:19:03,500 --> 01:19:05,542
that this was an alien ship,
1440
01:19:05,708 --> 01:19:07,500
a UFO that came
into the atmosphere
1441
01:19:07,625 --> 01:19:09,542
of our planet and exploded.
1442
01:19:09,708 --> 01:19:11,583
Others took up this idea.
1443
01:19:11,750 --> 01:19:13,167
But where he came up with it,
1444
01:19:13,375 --> 01:19:14,500
it's very hard to say,
1445
01:19:14,708 --> 01:19:16,250
because secrecy
is all over Russia.
1446
01:19:18,208 --> 01:19:20,292
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
the cauldrons serve
1447
01:19:20,458 --> 01:19:25,125
as a type of antiaircraft weapon
against space-based threats?
1448
01:19:26,333 --> 01:19:29,125
It's possible that the Earth
has been equipped
1449
01:19:29,208 --> 01:19:31,500
with some sort
of hyper-advanced technology
1450
01:19:31,667 --> 01:19:34,125
that is actually
keeping us all safe.
1451
01:19:34,250 --> 01:19:37,125
And that whoever won these
ancient extraterrestrial wars--
1452
01:19:37,292 --> 01:19:39,833
who may in fact
be our progenitors--
1453
01:19:39,958 --> 01:19:41,750
put that there
so that their offspring
1454
01:19:41,875 --> 01:19:44,833
would be protected from whoever
their enemies had been
1455
01:19:44,958 --> 01:19:46,500
many thousands of years ago.
1456
01:19:51,250 --> 01:19:53,667
NARRATOR:
Some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
1457
01:19:53,833 --> 01:19:55,667
that if there is
an extraterrestrial
1458
01:19:55,875 --> 01:19:58,208
conflict over humanity,
1459
01:19:58,375 --> 01:19:59,958
it may be due to the fact
1460
01:20:00,125 --> 01:20:04,333
that certain alien factions
consider humans a threat.
1461
01:20:05,458 --> 01:20:09,000
They propose that the point
mankind has reached today
1462
01:20:09,167 --> 01:20:12,542
is predicted
in the same Sanskrit texts
1463
01:20:12,708 --> 01:20:16,167
that documented
these ancient alien wars.
1464
01:20:16,958 --> 01:20:19,042
CHILDRESS:
The ancient Hindu texts tell us
1465
01:20:19,208 --> 01:20:21,958
that we are in the very last
1466
01:20:22,083 --> 01:20:25,917
of four stages of the planet.
1467
01:20:27,708 --> 01:20:30,833
And that stage
is called Kali Yuga.
1468
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,542
And Kali Yuga
is a time of strife
1469
01:20:34,708 --> 01:20:39,292
and terrible activities,
and of evil.
1470
01:20:39,875 --> 01:20:41,583
And it may be
that the extraterrestrials
1471
01:20:41,708 --> 01:20:44,167
are really monitoring us
1472
01:20:44,375 --> 01:20:49,083
to see how we can handle
this very stressful period.
1473
01:20:52,333 --> 01:20:55,167
HELLYER:
There are conflicts
in the skies.
1474
01:20:55,292 --> 01:20:59,000
There are different species
with different agendas.
1475
01:20:59,917 --> 01:21:04,208
I'm sure that we are regarded
as a potential threat.
1476
01:21:04,375 --> 01:21:07,625
They would assume that
eventually we'll be traveling
1477
01:21:07,792 --> 01:21:09,542
around the cosmos
1478
01:21:09,708 --> 01:21:13,958
and it's something that must go
through their collective minds,
1479
01:21:14,083 --> 01:21:17,333
that these are warlike people
1480
01:21:17,500 --> 01:21:20,333
and consequently we're gonna
have to keep an eye on them.
1481
01:21:20,542 --> 01:21:23,125
Now, for the first time,
1482
01:21:23,292 --> 01:21:25,833
I think that the future
of the species
1483
01:21:26,042 --> 01:21:27,750
is at stake.
1484
01:21:27,875 --> 01:21:30,250
That's how deeply I feel.
1485
01:21:31,792 --> 01:21:33,750
There are lessons to be learned.
1486
01:21:33,958 --> 01:21:35,917
And we have to learn them now,
1487
01:21:36,083 --> 01:21:38,500
we have to learn them
very, very quickly.
1488
01:21:41,375 --> 01:21:44,792
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that extraterrestrial beings
1489
01:21:44,917 --> 01:21:46,958
have been fighting
for control of planet Earth
1490
01:21:47,125 --> 01:21:49,875
for thousands of years?
1491
01:21:51,875 --> 01:21:53,875
And could the outcome
of this dispute
1492
01:21:54,042 --> 01:21:56,042
ultimately be determined,
1493
01:21:56,208 --> 01:22:00,292
not by the alien combatants
but by humans?
1494
01:22:01,542 --> 01:22:03,167
Perhaps we are on the verge
1495
01:22:03,375 --> 01:22:06,875
of reaching a defining moment
in our evolution,
1496
01:22:07,083 --> 01:22:09,167
a turning point that will lead
1497
01:22:09,292 --> 01:22:14,417
either to our ascension
or our extermination.
1498
01:22:16,708 --> 01:22:19,500
It seems like
our modern military is
1499
01:22:19,708 --> 01:22:21,750
just catching up
with these weapons
1500
01:22:21,917 --> 01:22:23,125
described in these
ancient texts.
1501
01:22:23,292 --> 01:22:25,333
And then, this whole idea
1502
01:22:25,542 --> 01:22:28,000
of what's happened in the past
is happening again.
1503
01:22:28,125 --> 01:22:31,333
So, we have these great wars
in ancient times.
1504
01:22:31,542 --> 01:22:34,375
And it's like we're
repeating history.
1505
01:22:34,542 --> 01:22:37,542
And it's as if we're not
learning from history at all.
1506
01:22:37,708 --> 01:22:39,208
And look at us,
1507
01:22:39,417 --> 01:22:42,667
we're doing the exact
same thing as 5,000 years ago.
1508
01:22:42,792 --> 01:22:46,167
And it may be that this is part
of an extraterrestrial test.
1509
01:22:47,875 --> 01:22:49,125
We're gonna give you
this technology.
1510
01:22:49,292 --> 01:22:51,250
Now we want to see
what you do with it.
1511
01:22:51,417 --> 01:22:54,333
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