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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,083 --> 00:00:04,417 NARRATOR: Legendary weapons of mass destruction. 2 00:00:04,583 --> 00:00:09,833 Incredible technology bestowed by otherworldly forces. 3 00:00:10,042 --> 00:00:12,750 And modern military capabilities 4 00:00:12,875 --> 00:00:16,500 that mirror the arsenal of the gods. 5 00:00:18,917 --> 00:00:20,167 For nearly two decades, 6 00:00:20,333 --> 00:00:22,417 Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe, 7 00:00:22,583 --> 00:00:25,958 exploring towering megalithic structures, 8 00:00:26,125 --> 00:00:27,917 mysterious artifacts 9 00:00:28,083 --> 00:00:32,167 and stories of otherworldly beings 10 00:00:32,375 --> 00:00:34,667 in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth 11 00:00:34,833 --> 00:00:38,000 of our extraterrestrial origins. 12 00:00:38,167 --> 00:00:40,500 People thousands of years ago 13 00:00:40,667 --> 00:00:43,125 would have never known about heat-seeking missiles 14 00:00:43,292 --> 00:00:44,583 and stealth bombers. 15 00:00:44,750 --> 00:00:46,833 NARRATOR: Now we take a look back 16 00:00:47,042 --> 00:00:49,083 through the Ancient Aliens archives 17 00:00:49,208 --> 00:00:51,958 to the show's very origins 18 00:00:52,083 --> 00:00:56,125 to examine the evidence that we are not alone. 19 00:00:56,292 --> 00:00:58,833 We have never been alone. 20 00:00:58,958 --> 00:01:01,083 โ™ช โ™ช 21 00:01:06,417 --> 00:01:10,708 As we look back at our vast Ancient Aliens library, 22 00:01:10,875 --> 00:01:13,750 one of the things we talked about in every episode 23 00:01:13,875 --> 00:01:17,583 is technology. Because according to the ancient astronaut theory, 24 00:01:17,708 --> 00:01:19,167 the extraterrestrials 25 00:01:19,375 --> 00:01:23,000 shared their technology with our ancestors. 26 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:25,333 And with technology comes weaponry. 27 00:01:25,542 --> 00:01:28,000 -Right. -And that means harnessing fire 28 00:01:28,208 --> 00:01:29,833 to work with metals. 29 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,792 And before that, we were maybe hitting each other with sticks 30 00:01:32,958 --> 00:01:35,167 and stones or something. 31 00:01:35,292 --> 00:01:36,542 But once we could harness fire 32 00:01:36,750 --> 00:01:38,458 and work with metals, that meant 33 00:01:38,625 --> 00:01:40,167 we could make swords. 34 00:01:40,292 --> 00:01:41,500 And not only did our ancestors say 35 00:01:41,708 --> 00:01:43,625 that fire was a gift from the gods but, 36 00:01:43,792 --> 00:01:46,875 all around the globe, people started to develop metallurgy 37 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:48,125 at about the same time. 38 00:01:48,333 --> 00:01:49,833 How do you explain that? 39 00:01:50,042 --> 00:01:51,917 They weren't supposed to be in contact with one another. 40 00:01:52,042 --> 00:01:54,000 We covered this in a season three episode 41 00:01:54,167 --> 00:01:56,500 called "Aliens and Deadly Weapons." 42 00:01:56,625 --> 00:01:59,583 โ™ช โ™ช 43 00:01:59,708 --> 00:02:01,000 NARRATOR: Earth. 44 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:04,417 4.5 billion years ago. 45 00:02:06,208 --> 00:02:09,625 Molten hot magma spews from beneath the ground. 46 00:02:11,708 --> 00:02:15,292 Lightning cracks down in bursts from the sky. 47 00:02:16,625 --> 00:02:20,875 And rivers of lava flow across the land. 48 00:02:22,875 --> 00:02:24,917 Ever since the dawn of time, 49 00:02:25,083 --> 00:02:27,833 our planet has been changing, 50 00:02:28,000 --> 00:02:29,458 evolving, 51 00:02:29,625 --> 00:02:34,000 and ripped apart by the awesome forces of nature. 52 00:02:34,167 --> 00:02:36,250 And it's the harnessing of that nature 53 00:02:36,417 --> 00:02:39,708 that has offered mankind its most formidable challenge 54 00:02:39,875 --> 00:02:41,833 and greatest accomplishment. 55 00:02:43,167 --> 00:02:47,750 Mankind achieving the ability to manipulate fire 56 00:02:47,958 --> 00:02:51,667 is probably the most historical event that ever happened. 57 00:02:51,875 --> 00:02:55,000 When we achieved the ability to master fire, 58 00:02:55,208 --> 00:02:57,458 everything changed for mankind. 59 00:03:00,583 --> 00:03:03,583 NARRATOR: But how did our ancestors learn to re-create 60 00:03:03,708 --> 00:03:07,958 and harness this most volatile and ultimately essential 61 00:03:08,125 --> 00:03:10,292 of the Earth's elements? 62 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:15,167 Was it simply a part of our intellectual evolution? 63 00:03:15,375 --> 00:03:17,917 Or is it possible that the knowledge came 64 00:03:18,083 --> 00:03:21,625 from another, more otherworldly origin? 65 00:03:23,667 --> 00:03:26,625 When we look at fire, we imagine this idea 66 00:03:26,750 --> 00:03:30,167 that somehow our ancestors are rubbing some sticks together. 67 00:03:31,375 --> 00:03:33,292 But each culture always says 68 00:03:33,458 --> 00:03:35,833 that fire is a gift from the gods. 69 00:03:38,958 --> 00:03:40,500 SOUTHWELL: In Native American traditions, quite often 70 00:03:40,708 --> 00:03:43,000 its fire was stolen from the world above. 71 00:03:43,167 --> 00:03:45,333 In Maori legends, again, 72 00:03:45,542 --> 00:03:48,792 we see the theft of fire from the gods. 73 00:03:48,958 --> 00:03:50,250 In the Greek legends, 74 00:03:50,458 --> 00:03:53,208 it's Prometheus stealing fire from the gods. 75 00:03:57,042 --> 00:04:00,042 NARRATOR: How is it that such similar myths exist 76 00:04:00,208 --> 00:04:03,333 about fire being given to man by the gods? 77 00:04:05,125 --> 00:04:07,542 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 78 00:04:07,708 --> 00:04:12,042 this eerie similarity may actually be evidence that gods, 79 00:04:12,208 --> 00:04:14,583 or perhaps extraterrestrial beings, 80 00:04:14,750 --> 00:04:16,458 really do exist. 81 00:04:17,375 --> 00:04:20,333 And if so, it might also reveal 82 00:04:20,458 --> 00:04:22,833 how mankind eventually used fire 83 00:04:23,042 --> 00:04:27,042 to create deadlier and more sophisticated weapons. 84 00:04:27,208 --> 00:04:30,750 SOUTHWELL: If we are talking about ancient aliens having an impact, 85 00:04:30,875 --> 00:04:33,333 where would we expect to see that impact? 86 00:04:33,542 --> 00:04:35,417 I would expect to see it in metalworking. 87 00:04:35,583 --> 00:04:38,458 And do we actually see hard and fast evidence 88 00:04:38,625 --> 00:04:42,667 of mankind making sudden huge leaps in metalworking? 89 00:04:42,792 --> 00:04:43,708 Yes, we do. 90 00:04:45,583 --> 00:04:48,667 TSOUKALOS: We go from attaching sharp stones 91 00:04:48,833 --> 00:04:50,708 to the ends of sticks 92 00:04:50,875 --> 00:04:52,167 and then, all of a sudden, 93 00:04:52,375 --> 00:04:54,625 we have actual swords. 94 00:04:57,542 --> 00:04:59,417 NARRATOR: According to archaeologists, 95 00:04:59,583 --> 00:05:01,833 the first human work with metal weaponry 96 00:05:02,042 --> 00:05:04,125 began in the Bronze Age, 97 00:05:04,208 --> 00:05:08,625 beginning around 3300 BC in the Near East. 98 00:05:08,792 --> 00:05:12,167 Most of the swords at one time were either copper or iron. 99 00:05:12,333 --> 00:05:15,250 MICHAEL DENNIN: If you think about it, the ages, we started first with bronze, 100 00:05:15,417 --> 00:05:17,875 nickel, softer things that are easier to work with. 101 00:05:18,042 --> 00:05:20,000 The reason we don't have iron as our first example 102 00:05:20,208 --> 00:05:22,667 is because it's a much harder material. 103 00:05:22,750 --> 00:05:25,625 You have to get much hotter fire to be able to work with it, 104 00:05:25,792 --> 00:05:28,333 and it's just a tougher material to work with. 105 00:05:31,208 --> 00:05:34,292 RAFAEL KOSCHE: They were fighting, bashing each other with these swords. 106 00:05:34,417 --> 00:05:35,708 They wanted a tough sword, 107 00:05:35,917 --> 00:05:38,000 which means it was not always very sharp. 108 00:05:38,208 --> 00:05:39,583 When these people were fighting, 109 00:05:39,708 --> 00:05:41,917 when they're hacking each other's heads and arms off, 110 00:05:42,083 --> 00:05:43,542 they were ripping each other's heads and arms off 111 00:05:43,750 --> 00:05:45,292 with blunt pieces of metal. 112 00:05:45,458 --> 00:05:47,583 (yelling) 113 00:05:48,667 --> 00:05:50,333 NARRATOR: Approximately 1,000 years 114 00:05:50,542 --> 00:05:52,333 after the development of iron 115 00:05:52,542 --> 00:05:55,333 came another, even greater breakthrough. 116 00:05:56,250 --> 00:05:59,000 The invention of steel. 117 00:06:02,375 --> 00:06:05,708 IMBROGNO: No one really knows when people first started making steel. 118 00:06:05,875 --> 00:06:08,958 Some say it only dates, uh, 1000 BC. 119 00:06:09,167 --> 00:06:13,208 To make a steel sword in ancient times was not an easy task. 120 00:06:13,375 --> 00:06:15,792 You would have to get high-quality iron. 121 00:06:16,000 --> 00:06:18,792 And most of the time, they could not get that iron 122 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:20,000 mined from the earth. 123 00:06:21,208 --> 00:06:23,167 And meteorites were obtained, 124 00:06:23,333 --> 00:06:25,000 which were pure iron, 125 00:06:25,125 --> 00:06:27,125 which made the best steel swords. 126 00:06:28,625 --> 00:06:31,042 These were considered magic swords. 127 00:06:31,167 --> 00:06:33,167 And it was usually a guarded secret, 128 00:06:33,375 --> 00:06:36,167 and villages would have one or two steel swords. 129 00:06:37,208 --> 00:06:41,708 And there's tales about warlords who had one purpose in mind. 130 00:06:42,958 --> 00:06:46,500 To find all the steel swords that were made... 131 00:06:46,625 --> 00:06:48,625 ...and take them for their army. 132 00:06:49,667 --> 00:06:53,500 There's no doubt that cultures that were able to obtain steel 133 00:06:53,708 --> 00:06:55,792 usually became masters of the world. 134 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:58,125 (yelling) 135 00:07:00,542 --> 00:07:02,333 NARRATOR: But where the forging of iron 136 00:07:02,542 --> 00:07:05,167 requires a relatively unsophisticated knowledge 137 00:07:05,375 --> 00:07:06,417 of metallurgy, 138 00:07:06,625 --> 00:07:08,333 the creation of steel 139 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:11,917 is a more complex scientific process. 140 00:07:12,083 --> 00:07:14,833 So who or what was responsible 141 00:07:15,000 --> 00:07:18,542 for this incredible evolutionary innovation? 142 00:07:22,208 --> 00:07:23,458 IMBROGNO: In the Book of Enoch, 143 00:07:23,625 --> 00:07:25,500 we see some type of interaction 144 00:07:25,667 --> 00:07:29,125 between celestial beings and human beings. 145 00:07:29,333 --> 00:07:30,833 What did they give us? 146 00:07:30,958 --> 00:07:32,667 They gave us steel. 147 00:07:34,458 --> 00:07:35,708 And the legend goes 148 00:07:35,875 --> 00:07:39,333 not only from the Bible and from Enoch 149 00:07:39,458 --> 00:07:42,292 but it goes to Sumerian times, 150 00:07:42,458 --> 00:07:45,000 where the gods had steel. 151 00:07:46,167 --> 00:07:48,500 JONATHAN YOUNG: The making of the sword is a magical process. 152 00:07:48,708 --> 00:07:51,708 Back in the time before modern metallurgy, 153 00:07:51,875 --> 00:07:54,667 the ability to take natural material 154 00:07:54,875 --> 00:07:57,958 and make a sword out of it was considered the work of a wizard. 155 00:08:01,208 --> 00:08:03,833 (speaking German, translated): You mustn't look the village blacksmith 156 00:08:03,958 --> 00:08:05,000 in the eyes, 157 00:08:05,208 --> 00:08:06,458 because people are frightened 158 00:08:06,625 --> 00:08:08,167 of being killed by his gaze. 159 00:08:08,292 --> 00:08:11,292 A blacksmith isn't allowed to live in the village 160 00:08:11,417 --> 00:08:14,125 because of his magical powers. 161 00:08:16,250 --> 00:08:20,500 NARRATOR: The notion of metalworking being a dark and magical process 162 00:08:20,667 --> 00:08:23,333 was so prevalent in the ancient world 163 00:08:23,542 --> 00:08:25,292 that, in Greek mythology, 164 00:08:25,417 --> 00:08:27,833 even Zeus looked upon his son Hephaestus, 165 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,000 the god of metallurgy, with suspicion. 166 00:08:31,167 --> 00:08:35,292 RICHARD RADER: Hephaestus is responsible for making armature for the gods. 167 00:08:35,417 --> 00:08:37,167 But the real miracle that he does 168 00:08:37,375 --> 00:08:40,417 is for this shield for Achilles. 169 00:08:40,625 --> 00:08:43,583 And it's got the whole universe on it. 170 00:08:44,542 --> 00:08:46,333 What's amazing about this thing 171 00:08:46,542 --> 00:08:48,792 is that it's not just a static shield. 172 00:08:48,958 --> 00:08:50,500 It's alive. 173 00:08:50,667 --> 00:08:53,625 This is not something that a human being makes. 174 00:08:54,542 --> 00:08:55,667 This is terrifying and this is scary 175 00:08:55,875 --> 00:08:57,708 and this thing will kill you, 176 00:08:57,875 --> 00:09:00,542 just in its own kind of metaphysical beauty. 177 00:09:00,708 --> 00:09:04,792 And so he has this weird ability to kind of endow metal 178 00:09:04,958 --> 00:09:07,667 with a kind of life of its own. 179 00:09:07,875 --> 00:09:10,417 So, Zeus is in fact very suspicious of this guy 180 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:12,250 and just tries to get rid of him. 181 00:09:12,375 --> 00:09:15,125 So, Zeus picks him up and slings him 182 00:09:15,292 --> 00:09:18,500 and he just falls and falls and falls and falls and falls 183 00:09:18,708 --> 00:09:21,875 until he crash-lands on the island of Lemnos. 184 00:09:23,583 --> 00:09:25,458 There is a little city on the island of Lemnos 185 00:09:25,625 --> 00:09:27,125 called Hephaestia. 186 00:09:27,333 --> 00:09:30,625 So there's a place that is named specifically after Hephaestus. 187 00:09:34,250 --> 00:09:35,875 NARRATOR: 3,000 years ago, 188 00:09:36,042 --> 00:09:40,083 Hephaestia was one of the most important cities in Greece. 189 00:09:41,833 --> 00:09:43,958 And according to the ancient stories, 190 00:09:44,125 --> 00:09:48,167 Hephaestus actually lived here among the people of Lemnos. 191 00:09:50,750 --> 00:09:53,708 The Greeks worshipped this divine blacksmith 192 00:09:53,875 --> 00:09:56,500 and built monuments to him. 193 00:09:56,708 --> 00:09:58,875 But could this mythological being 194 00:09:59,042 --> 00:10:01,958 have actually been present in ancient Greece? 195 00:10:02,125 --> 00:10:05,250 And if so, might he have been not a god... 196 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:08,750 ...but an ancient alien visitor? 197 00:10:08,875 --> 00:10:10,625 RADER: Greek mythology, you conceive of gods 198 00:10:10,792 --> 00:10:12,667 as kind of like human beings. 199 00:10:12,792 --> 00:10:15,958 We have lots of literature which deals with the whole range 200 00:10:16,167 --> 00:10:19,167 of interactions that human beings can have with gods. 201 00:10:21,417 --> 00:10:23,625 It is very clearly stated 202 00:10:23,792 --> 00:10:26,333 that the knowledge for making swords 203 00:10:26,542 --> 00:10:29,917 was given directly by the gods. 204 00:10:30,083 --> 00:10:35,667 And those gods weren't figments of our ancestors' imagination 205 00:10:35,833 --> 00:10:38,833 but they were physical beings. 206 00:10:42,208 --> 00:10:45,292 NARRATOR: Is it really possible that our ancestors' ability 207 00:10:45,458 --> 00:10:47,958 to forge metals and make weapons 208 00:10:48,125 --> 00:10:51,333 was aided by extraterrestrial beings? 209 00:10:53,958 --> 00:10:57,167 And might stories of swords imbued with magical powers 210 00:10:57,333 --> 00:11:00,833 be something more than mere works of fiction? 211 00:11:03,667 --> 00:11:06,667 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer 212 00:11:06,833 --> 00:11:10,167 can be found half a world away, 213 00:11:10,333 --> 00:11:11,958 in Japan. 214 00:11:17,792 --> 00:11:21,375 NARRATOR: Japan, 700 AD. 215 00:11:21,542 --> 00:11:23,792 Here, according to legend, 216 00:11:23,958 --> 00:11:27,667 the swordsmith Amakuni and his son Amakura 217 00:11:27,833 --> 00:11:29,792 sealed themselves away in their blacksmith shop 218 00:11:29,958 --> 00:11:33,917 in an effort to forge the perfect weapon. 219 00:11:34,917 --> 00:11:37,042 For seven days and seven nights, 220 00:11:37,250 --> 00:11:40,458 they prayed to the Shinto gods to guide them. 221 00:11:40,625 --> 00:11:42,917 Thirty-one days later, 222 00:11:43,125 --> 00:11:45,375 they emerged from their isolation 223 00:11:45,542 --> 00:11:47,625 with a curved, single-edged sword 224 00:11:47,792 --> 00:11:50,917 resembling no blade ever made before. 225 00:11:53,333 --> 00:11:55,000 KOSCHE: At that time, the swords that they used 226 00:11:55,167 --> 00:11:58,750 were these double-edged Chinese design, 227 00:11:58,917 --> 00:12:02,833 clunky, heavy, unwieldy swords. 228 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:05,750 And Amakuni started reestablishing 229 00:12:05,917 --> 00:12:08,167 and learning everything that he knew about metallurgy. 230 00:12:08,333 --> 00:12:09,833 And after about a month, 231 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:13,667 he finally emerged from his forge, 232 00:12:13,833 --> 00:12:15,542 and he had this single-edged blade 233 00:12:15,708 --> 00:12:17,750 with a curvature to it. 234 00:12:17,917 --> 00:12:19,792 Every swordsmith in the area ridiculed him, 235 00:12:19,917 --> 00:12:21,667 everybody laughed at him, they thought he was ridiculous, 236 00:12:21,750 --> 00:12:22,917 they didn't know what he was doing. 237 00:12:23,125 --> 00:12:25,000 "That's not the way you do it." 238 00:12:25,208 --> 00:12:27,917 Well, the next time the emperor went off into battle... 239 00:12:28,083 --> 00:12:29,375 (shouting) 240 00:12:32,375 --> 00:12:35,500 ...when he came back, Amakuni stood on his front porch 241 00:12:35,708 --> 00:12:37,417 and he started counting the blades-- 242 00:12:37,583 --> 00:12:41,292 two, ten, 15, 20, 100, 200 blades-- 243 00:12:41,458 --> 00:12:43,375 none of them were broken. 244 00:12:44,708 --> 00:12:45,875 And the emperor praised him and said, 245 00:12:46,042 --> 00:12:49,042 "You are the greatest swordsmith ever." 246 00:12:49,208 --> 00:12:52,417 Ever since then, they have followed that design. 247 00:12:54,000 --> 00:12:55,500 NARRATOR: But what was the secret 248 00:12:55,667 --> 00:12:58,083 behind Amakuni's radical new design? 249 00:12:59,958 --> 00:13:02,917 And what, or who, inspired him to deviate 250 00:13:03,042 --> 00:13:06,625 from the one that had been used for more than a thousand years? 251 00:13:06,792 --> 00:13:09,958 Was he simply ahead of his time? 252 00:13:10,167 --> 00:13:13,500 Or could he really have received otherworldly guidance 253 00:13:13,708 --> 00:13:15,625 during the seven days and nights 254 00:13:15,792 --> 00:13:18,542 he and his son prayed to the Shinto gods? 255 00:13:22,250 --> 00:13:25,792 KOSCHE: The history of the Japanese sword 256 00:13:25,958 --> 00:13:29,167 is a long and varied history, 257 00:13:29,292 --> 00:13:32,000 all the way back to mythological beliefs 258 00:13:32,125 --> 00:13:34,833 that Omikami the sun goddess, 259 00:13:34,917 --> 00:13:37,333 gave her grandson a sword 260 00:13:37,542 --> 00:13:39,917 when she sent him down to rule over the Earth. 261 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:43,833 NARRATOR: According to the beliefs of the samurai, 262 00:13:44,000 --> 00:13:48,167 higher beings called kami began human life. 263 00:13:48,333 --> 00:13:50,667 But in order for humans to experience 264 00:13:50,750 --> 00:13:52,292 the divine nature of the kami, 265 00:13:52,375 --> 00:13:56,000 they must undergo purification rituals, 266 00:13:56,208 --> 00:14:00,917 which were always performed when making a new blade. 267 00:14:01,083 --> 00:14:02,667 KOSCHE: Before you even begin, 268 00:14:02,875 --> 00:14:06,208 you bathe yourself and you put on clean clothes. 269 00:14:07,250 --> 00:14:09,333 All your assistants give prayers, 270 00:14:09,500 --> 00:14:12,000 and they solicit the help from the gods. 271 00:14:12,167 --> 00:14:14,625 And, in fact, there are swordsmiths 272 00:14:14,792 --> 00:14:16,875 that will actually chant 273 00:14:17,042 --> 00:14:18,500 as they're hammering on the blade... 274 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:24,000 ...because every hammer, as it compacts the metal, 275 00:14:24,208 --> 00:14:27,083 is also including their chant into it. 276 00:14:28,792 --> 00:14:32,667 NARRATOR: Could the sword maker Amakuni and his son Amakura 277 00:14:32,833 --> 00:14:35,500 have actually come in contact with the kami? 278 00:14:37,167 --> 00:14:38,875 And might these Buddhist gods 279 00:14:39,083 --> 00:14:41,250 have come not from a spiritual realm 280 00:14:41,375 --> 00:14:44,125 but from an extraterrestrial one, 281 00:14:44,208 --> 00:14:47,875 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 282 00:14:48,042 --> 00:14:51,125 Might alien beings have chosen Amakuni, 283 00:14:51,292 --> 00:14:53,667 the greatest sword maker of his time, 284 00:14:53,833 --> 00:14:58,083 to hold the knowledge of this new technology? 285 00:14:58,250 --> 00:15:01,583 COPPENS: When you give certain, very powerful objects to people, 286 00:15:01,750 --> 00:15:04,917 you need to have extremely intelligent people to use them. 287 00:15:05,083 --> 00:15:07,292 And so, what we find, everywhere, 288 00:15:07,458 --> 00:15:09,500 is that even if the gods had given 289 00:15:09,667 --> 00:15:11,500 the most extraordinary machine, 290 00:15:11,625 --> 00:15:14,250 including fire or any other piece of technology, 291 00:15:14,417 --> 00:15:16,167 you would have to have somebody able 292 00:15:16,333 --> 00:15:19,417 to operate it, a highly-trained human being. 293 00:15:22,458 --> 00:15:25,333 NARRATOR: Another example of Amakuni's work-- 294 00:15:25,458 --> 00:15:27,333 the Kogarasu Maru blade, 295 00:15:27,542 --> 00:15:30,375 the most legendary sword in Japanese history-- 296 00:15:30,542 --> 00:15:34,250 resides in the Japanese Imperial Collection. 297 00:15:34,375 --> 00:15:37,250 But modern scholars and scientists 298 00:15:37,417 --> 00:15:40,542 have had difficulty in figuring out the secret 299 00:15:40,708 --> 00:15:42,417 to its amazing strength. 300 00:15:42,542 --> 00:15:44,125 DENNIN: The famous stories are always, of course, 301 00:15:44,333 --> 00:15:46,708 the Japanese steel used for the samurai blades. 302 00:15:46,875 --> 00:15:50,000 It's been very hard to reproduce because some of these processes 303 00:15:50,208 --> 00:15:52,625 can be incredibly sensitive to the exact detail 304 00:15:52,792 --> 00:15:54,417 of the temperature. 305 00:15:54,542 --> 00:15:58,083 Some of its features are just its flexibility 306 00:15:58,250 --> 00:16:00,333 and the way they were able to fold it over and over, 307 00:16:00,500 --> 00:16:04,167 and its incredible strength and its resistance to oxidation, 308 00:16:04,333 --> 00:16:06,917 which is what you really need to keep something sharp. 309 00:16:08,542 --> 00:16:11,042 NARRATOR: Could the fact that modern sword makers 310 00:16:11,208 --> 00:16:13,667 have been unable to achieve the same quality 311 00:16:13,875 --> 00:16:17,083 as Amakuni's blades be further evidence 312 00:16:17,208 --> 00:16:21,083 that he was trained by a more advanced race of beings? 313 00:16:21,250 --> 00:16:25,500 And might these ancient swords have held some technology 314 00:16:25,708 --> 00:16:28,083 we have yet to discover? 315 00:16:29,042 --> 00:16:31,042 KOSCHE: In Shingon Buddhism, 316 00:16:31,250 --> 00:16:34,000 the sword has a life of its own. 317 00:16:34,208 --> 00:16:37,750 It's not that the samurai selects the blade. 318 00:16:37,917 --> 00:16:39,958 Is the samurai, more appropriately, 319 00:16:40,125 --> 00:16:41,667 good enough for the blade? 320 00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:44,083 Does the blade choose him? 321 00:16:47,375 --> 00:16:50,125 NARRATOR: Is the philosophy of Shingon Buddhism-- 322 00:16:50,250 --> 00:16:53,250 that the blade chooses its owner-- 323 00:16:53,375 --> 00:16:56,625 simply an example of early humans' tendency 324 00:16:56,833 --> 00:16:58,667 to project spiritual consciousness 325 00:16:58,833 --> 00:17:01,708 onto inanimate objects? 326 00:17:01,875 --> 00:17:04,583 Or might ancient swordsmiths like Amakuni 327 00:17:04,750 --> 00:17:08,542 really have possessed some otherworldly knowledge? 328 00:17:08,708 --> 00:17:12,458 A knowledge that swords, like other deadly weapons, 329 00:17:12,625 --> 00:17:15,583 come not from man but from a divine 330 00:17:15,750 --> 00:17:18,500 or extraterrestrial origin? 331 00:17:22,250 --> 00:17:24,083 According to legend, 332 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:29,000 one such sword may have existed in 15th century France-- 333 00:17:29,208 --> 00:17:33,000 the sword of Joan of Arc. 334 00:17:33,208 --> 00:17:35,000 KATHLEEN McGOWAN: When Joan of Arc was arrested and brought 335 00:17:35,208 --> 00:17:38,917 to what we now know of as her condemnation trial, 336 00:17:39,083 --> 00:17:41,000 her inquisitors were determined 337 00:17:41,083 --> 00:17:43,292 to get information about her sword. 338 00:17:44,958 --> 00:17:47,000 Her inquisitors were obsessed 339 00:17:47,125 --> 00:17:48,417 with finding out about her sword, 340 00:17:48,542 --> 00:17:50,708 and that is because Joan of Arc's sword 341 00:17:50,833 --> 00:17:55,125 was reputed to have legendary power, divine power. 342 00:17:57,750 --> 00:18:00,083 Joan claimed that her voices, 343 00:18:00,250 --> 00:18:04,292 her angelic voices, led her to this sword. 344 00:18:08,458 --> 00:18:12,042 COPPENS: She's said to have found it, as it was, 345 00:18:12,208 --> 00:18:13,833 hidden behind an altar 346 00:18:14,042 --> 00:18:17,333 dedicated to Sainte-Catherine-de-Fierbois. 347 00:18:17,458 --> 00:18:20,167 It is said that the sword itself was forged 348 00:18:20,375 --> 00:18:22,583 by the archangel Saint Michael. 349 00:18:24,458 --> 00:18:28,583 And that whoever possessed it was invincible. 350 00:18:28,750 --> 00:18:31,708 McGOWAN: And that was certainly true when Joan wielded this sword, 351 00:18:31,875 --> 00:18:34,458 carried it with her into the battle of Orlรฉans... 352 00:18:37,625 --> 00:18:40,333 ...which was the decisive battle which allowed them 353 00:18:40,500 --> 00:18:44,583 to put King Charles VII on the throne of France. 354 00:18:45,792 --> 00:18:47,167 NARRATOR: Could Joan of Arc 355 00:18:47,292 --> 00:18:49,792 really have been given her invincible sword 356 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,500 by extraterrestrials 357 00:18:51,708 --> 00:18:55,500 who had an interest in the future of France? 358 00:18:55,708 --> 00:18:58,042 Ancient astronaut theorists believe such a thing 359 00:18:58,208 --> 00:19:01,083 is not only possible but likely. 360 00:19:03,583 --> 00:19:05,292 And they point to the legendary story 361 00:19:05,458 --> 00:19:09,500 of King Arthur as evidence of their claim. 362 00:19:09,667 --> 00:19:11,833 CHILDRESS: King Arthur had two swords. 363 00:19:11,958 --> 00:19:14,500 The sword in the stone, 364 00:19:14,708 --> 00:19:17,167 that showed that he was to be king, is one sword. 365 00:19:17,375 --> 00:19:19,958 TSOUKALOS: When I hear a story 366 00:19:20,167 --> 00:19:22,875 about this magnificent sword 367 00:19:23,042 --> 00:19:25,125 that's encased in this stone 368 00:19:25,292 --> 00:19:27,208 with only the handle sticking out, 369 00:19:27,375 --> 00:19:32,375 and only King Arthur has the capability to pull it out, 370 00:19:32,542 --> 00:19:34,792 well, then I start thinking 371 00:19:34,958 --> 00:19:38,667 about some type of a biometric security system... 372 00:19:40,042 --> 00:19:42,208 ...where, today, we now have guns 373 00:19:42,375 --> 00:19:45,042 that can only be fired 374 00:19:45,208 --> 00:19:49,667 if the handle recognizes your fingerprint. 375 00:19:51,583 --> 00:19:55,125 Is it possible that the sword in the stone 376 00:19:55,333 --> 00:19:58,042 was calibrated specifically 377 00:19:58,208 --> 00:20:01,167 to King Arthur's biometrics? 378 00:20:01,333 --> 00:20:03,583 I think yes. 379 00:20:03,708 --> 00:20:07,500 I know it sounds crazy. 380 00:20:07,625 --> 00:20:11,208 We're merely saying that what today is being discovered 381 00:20:11,375 --> 00:20:15,208 is a rediscovery of what already took place 382 00:20:15,375 --> 00:20:18,875 thousands of years ago. 383 00:20:19,042 --> 00:20:21,500 NARRATOR: According to the stories of King Arthur, 384 00:20:21,667 --> 00:20:24,167 the sword that he is said to have pulled from the stone 385 00:20:24,375 --> 00:20:27,125 was never used in battle. 386 00:20:27,292 --> 00:20:30,875 His weapon was the legendary Excalibur. 387 00:20:32,750 --> 00:20:34,833 CHILDRESS: The Excalibur sword came to him 388 00:20:34,958 --> 00:20:36,750 from the Lady in the Lake, 389 00:20:36,875 --> 00:20:41,042 where a hand came up and handed him a magical sword. 390 00:20:41,208 --> 00:20:43,000 And according to the ancient chronicles, 391 00:20:43,208 --> 00:20:46,958 this sword shone with the light of 30 suns 392 00:20:47,167 --> 00:20:49,333 and blinded his enemies. 393 00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:54,375 FIEBAG (speaking German, translated): This sword of King Arthur 394 00:20:54,500 --> 00:20:57,167 was said to have radiated lightning and energy 395 00:20:57,333 --> 00:20:59,500 when he fought against monsters. 396 00:21:00,833 --> 00:21:04,000 So, we have swords as magical objects, 397 00:21:04,167 --> 00:21:06,167 but here, also, is the suspicion 398 00:21:06,333 --> 00:21:09,208 that a misunderstood technology could exist. 399 00:21:12,042 --> 00:21:15,167 NARRATOR: Although historians still debate whether the stories 400 00:21:15,375 --> 00:21:18,000 of King Arthur have a basis in fact, 401 00:21:18,208 --> 00:21:23,667 in 1998, archeologists found a sixth century piece of slate 402 00:21:23,833 --> 00:21:26,583 inscribed with his name 403 00:21:26,708 --> 00:21:31,500 at his reputed birthplace, Tintagel, England. 404 00:21:31,667 --> 00:21:34,417 But if King Arthur really existed, 405 00:21:34,542 --> 00:21:39,000 might the legends of his incredible swords also be true? 406 00:21:39,208 --> 00:21:41,542 And if so, might that suggest 407 00:21:41,708 --> 00:21:45,250 that extraterrestrial visitors did, in fact, 408 00:21:45,417 --> 00:21:49,500 provide humans with weapons not of this world? 409 00:21:49,708 --> 00:21:53,250 Perhaps the answer can be found in ancient Rome, 410 00:21:53,417 --> 00:21:56,667 and by examining a legendary battle, 411 00:21:56,792 --> 00:22:01,667 one involving a much-witnessed phenomenon in the sky. 412 00:22:07,542 --> 00:22:08,500 When we look at ancient stories from around the world, 413 00:22:08,583 --> 00:22:10,875 sometimes the gods are teaching us humans 414 00:22:11,083 --> 00:22:13,542 skills that they can use to develop our own weapons. 415 00:22:13,708 --> 00:22:15,458 Other times, it's like they're giving us 416 00:22:15,625 --> 00:22:18,167 their own alien weapons. 417 00:22:18,375 --> 00:22:19,500 -Right. -CHILDRESS: A great example of this 418 00:22:19,667 --> 00:22:21,000 is what the ancient Romans called 419 00:22:21,208 --> 00:22:23,208 -Greek fire. -Mm-hmm. 420 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:25,417 Which they said was given to us by angels. 421 00:22:25,583 --> 00:22:27,417 -Right. -And it's this intense fire 422 00:22:27,583 --> 00:22:29,792 that would burn underwater. 423 00:22:29,958 --> 00:22:31,542 TSOUKALOS: Right, and even historians 424 00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:35,625 say that this was a real weapon at some point. 425 00:22:35,792 --> 00:22:39,208 The problem is, we can't figure out what it was 426 00:22:39,417 --> 00:22:41,792 and also, we cannot replicate it 427 00:22:41,958 --> 00:22:44,333 with modern technology. 428 00:22:45,750 --> 00:22:50,708 NARRATOR: Rome, October 27th, 312 AD. 429 00:22:52,417 --> 00:22:56,125 At the Milvian Bridge on the north side of the city, 430 00:22:56,250 --> 00:22:58,500 deposed emperor Constantine 431 00:22:58,625 --> 00:23:01,875 prepares to reclaim his throne from Maxentius. 432 00:23:03,875 --> 00:23:07,958 In the sky, he witnesses what he will later describe 433 00:23:08,125 --> 00:23:10,625 as a cross hovering above him. 434 00:23:10,833 --> 00:23:15,000 He interprets this vision as a sign from the Christian God. 435 00:23:16,333 --> 00:23:18,125 (shouting) 436 00:23:19,458 --> 00:23:20,958 The next day, 437 00:23:21,125 --> 00:23:22,833 Constantine and his army 438 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,667 bear the image of the Chi-Rho on their shields and flags, 439 00:23:26,833 --> 00:23:31,250 one of the earliest cruciform symbols used by Christians. 440 00:23:31,417 --> 00:23:33,167 When they emerge victorious, 441 00:23:33,375 --> 00:23:35,417 Christianity becomes the official religion 442 00:23:35,583 --> 00:23:37,667 of the Roman Empire, 443 00:23:37,833 --> 00:23:40,958 and the world is changed forever. 444 00:23:41,167 --> 00:23:43,500 But was the cross-shaped object 445 00:23:43,667 --> 00:23:46,208 Constantine claimed to have seen in the sky 446 00:23:46,375 --> 00:23:48,542 really a sign from God? 447 00:23:48,708 --> 00:23:52,875 Or might it have been some other extraordinary force? 448 00:23:53,042 --> 00:23:54,875 BRAMLEY: It looked like they were in the shape of a cross, 449 00:23:55,042 --> 00:23:57,875 but the shape of a cross could have been airplane-type objects, 450 00:23:58,042 --> 00:24:00,292 because the fuselage and the wings will look like a cross 451 00:24:00,458 --> 00:24:01,833 to somebody who's looking up. 452 00:24:02,000 --> 00:24:03,333 And of course, they had no concept 453 00:24:03,542 --> 00:24:05,125 of these things back then. 454 00:24:05,292 --> 00:24:07,583 There were other signs and portents 455 00:24:07,750 --> 00:24:09,917 that were seen around the same time 456 00:24:10,083 --> 00:24:14,375 that were described as a crucifix in the sky. 457 00:24:14,542 --> 00:24:16,417 If these were to appear in the sky today, 458 00:24:16,542 --> 00:24:18,833 we would describe them quite differently. 459 00:24:21,542 --> 00:24:24,167 TSOUKALOS: Is it possible that Constantine, 460 00:24:24,292 --> 00:24:28,500 instead of actually having seen a cross floating in the sky, 461 00:24:28,708 --> 00:24:31,292 actually saw a type 462 00:24:31,458 --> 00:24:34,458 of an extraterrestrial craft? 463 00:24:34,667 --> 00:24:38,000 Is it possible that Constantine won 464 00:24:38,208 --> 00:24:42,667 because the extraterrestrials were siding with Constantine 465 00:24:42,833 --> 00:24:46,792 and thus altering mankind's history forever? 466 00:24:50,250 --> 00:24:52,958 NARRATOR: But according to ancient astronaut theorists, 467 00:24:53,125 --> 00:24:56,667 even stronger evidence exists that Emperor Constantine 468 00:24:56,875 --> 00:25:00,042 had a genuine alien encounter. 469 00:25:00,208 --> 00:25:03,042 Shortly after the Battle of Milvian Bridge, 470 00:25:03,208 --> 00:25:06,792 he was said to have acquired a powerful new weapon. 471 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,458 Known as Greek fire, 472 00:25:09,625 --> 00:25:12,625 it was the most devastating weapon of the time. 473 00:25:12,833 --> 00:25:16,875 And it was said to have been given to Constantine by angels. 474 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:22,625 IMBROGNO: It was said to burn so violently and so hot, 475 00:25:22,750 --> 00:25:27,167 it was said that even in the greatest of rainstorms, 476 00:25:27,375 --> 00:25:29,708 the fire would not go out. 477 00:25:29,875 --> 00:25:33,833 And when projected out to sea, when it sunk into the water, 478 00:25:33,958 --> 00:25:36,625 it would still burn on the bottom of the ocean. 479 00:25:39,458 --> 00:25:42,167 (speaking German, translated): In one battle, Byzantium was attacked 480 00:25:42,333 --> 00:25:45,000 by 1,800 Persian ships. 481 00:25:46,167 --> 00:25:48,833 Only 15 escaped. 482 00:25:49,042 --> 00:25:53,167 All the others were destroyed by the so-called Greek fire. 483 00:25:57,375 --> 00:26:02,667 And Prince Igor, who attacked Byzantium in the year 941 AD, 484 00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:05,542 attacked with a fleet of 1,000 ships. 485 00:26:07,708 --> 00:26:10,042 Only ten ships made it home. 486 00:26:12,625 --> 00:26:14,792 NARRATOR: But perhaps even more astounding 487 00:26:14,917 --> 00:26:17,667 than the incredible power of Greek fire 488 00:26:17,750 --> 00:26:19,542 is the fact that scientists 489 00:26:19,708 --> 00:26:22,000 have not been able to reproduce it, 490 00:26:22,208 --> 00:26:25,625 even after 1,600 years. 491 00:26:27,542 --> 00:26:29,458 Scientists have been trying to identify 492 00:26:29,625 --> 00:26:32,167 what Greek fire is for decades, if not centuries. 493 00:26:32,292 --> 00:26:34,500 Nobody has come up with a satisfying answer. 494 00:26:34,708 --> 00:26:36,625 The most logical answer 495 00:26:36,833 --> 00:26:39,042 is that it might be, somehow, petroleum, 496 00:26:39,208 --> 00:26:41,167 because it is known that petroleum continues to burn 497 00:26:41,292 --> 00:26:43,167 when in contact with water. 498 00:26:43,333 --> 00:26:46,583 I think it has to do with phosphorus and magnesium, 499 00:26:46,750 --> 00:26:49,208 because when they are mixed in with water, 500 00:26:49,375 --> 00:26:51,833 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 โ™ช โ™ช 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 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS 120338

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