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>> The Bible is one of the most referenced books in the world.

Over the last few decades, an intense religious

and scientific debate has been building around the idea of ETs

in the Bible.

In 2014, the Center for Theological Inquiry,

a research institute in New Jersey,

was awarded $1.1 million by NASA to study, quote,

"the societal implications of astrobiology" unquote.

In other words, what would the overall impact

be on religions if they were to discover we're not alone

in the universe.

Is it possible that a distant race

of ancient aliens once inhabited the lands of the Bible?

And if so, are we part of their legacy?

>> When we're reading the Bible, we always have to look

to the first page to see which version of the Bible are you

reading--

the New International version, the New New International

version, the King James version, the St. Jerome version?

Which version are you reading, because the language

is going to be different.

If we were to write, for example, the ET version

of the Bible, we'd go back to every story where it says

"and the heavens opened" and realize they're

talking about a stargate.

What else could be the heavens opening but a rip

in the fabric of space-time?

And so this is a way we can start

to connect with what the ancients were actually

seeing or experiencing.

Their language was different from ours.

They would say "the heavens opened."

We would say, "oh, a stargate opened."

It's as much a function of language

that separates us from true understanding

as it is anything else.

>> There are so many references of extraterrestrial contact

in the Bible.

There are 70 verses describing clouds

as vehicles, 15 verses describing pillars,

10 verses describing dwellings as vehicles,

160 verses describing the light and fires as vehicles.

There are 17 verses describing spinning wheels

and also 22 verses describing dark

and shining objects as vehicles.

There's also 37 verses of various objects in the Bible

that describe UFOs as flying furnaces and burning bushes.

So as you can see, based off of the vocabulary

of the people of those times, they

can only use words that would help them describe what

we would call nowadays UFOs.

The Bible begins with the Book of Genesis

and it ends with the Book of Revelations.

In between are dozens of stories that reference

what many scholars suggest may be extraterrestrial phenomena.

4 describes the sons of God

coming and bearing children with the daughters of man.

This begs the question, who were the sons of God?

>> The ultimate example of an extraterrestrial intervention

in the Bible is Genesis chapter 6.

This is where the fallen angels, the watcher angels, descend

onto the earth plane, take on physical incarnation,

and have sex with human females creating a hybrid offspring

referred to as the Nephilim.

These are described as the mighty men of renown.

Why is that?

What does it mean to say that they're mighty men?

What distinguishes a mighty man from an ordinary human?

And the answer is that these fallen angels are considered

to be equivalent to, if not the same as, the Anunnaki

of Sumeria.

The Anunnaki possessed a cloak or a garment called

the that gave them superpowers.

So what this is saying is that the Nephilim

were the mighty humans who possessed this cloak

or garment of the Anunnaki.

And just like the Anunnaki, when they had the

on, they're radiant, they're shining, they're luminous.

And they have superpowers.

So this is another hidden reference to technology

in the Bible.

>> That kind of interaction actually talks about

the Nephilim actually interbreeding with human women.

That's a pretty big influence.

>> Inside of our DNA, there's a programming language there.

It's been left by our progenitors.

When we crack this code and when we figure out who we are

and where we're going, we'll realize that our destiny

is in the stars.

Therefore we have to ask ourselves

if we go back to the Genesis story,

were these a very advanced group of geneticists that

made us as a hybrid species?

>> There are accounts like this that have appeared--

the former that I was referring to actually in the Bible

itself, but other sources of ancient origins

like that such as the tablets that Zecharia was translating--

that seemed to be indicative of accounts

of these other beings interacting with us.

>> Walter Mattfield states in his book "Eden's Serpent--

Its Mesopotamian origins" that the Garden of Eden

belonged to the Anunnaki, lending

more credence to the serpent not just being a biblical creature

but a member of the Anunnaki.

>> Let's think of the serpent in the Garden of Eden.

This is some type of a reptilian type

of being that we've been taught to be afraid of.

It's a wisdom bearer.

In the Gnostic Gospels, they describe it

as this bright snake, this illuminated snake,

taking on a humanoid form.

We have the winged serpents that are described in the Bible,

angels as winged serpents, humanoid beings with serpentine

faces.

They can spin their bodies into whirlwinds

and can change their form.

They can shape shift right before your eyes.

These are clearly another class of beings.

So I think what's going to have to happen

here is we're going to have to broaden

our perspective on the possibility of what

other creatures could actually look like or be like.

>> The Garden of Eden story also appears in the Book of Ezekiel

where over the course of 12 different verses,

there is mention of possible extraterrestrial encounters.

>> One of the all time great extraterrestrial craft

references in the Bible is Ezekiel 1:1-28.

Ezekiel is one of these wise men from the Temple of Solomon

who's been deported to Babylon.

He's sitting by the River Chebar.

And he describes, in his own words, the heavens open.

The heavens open.

OK, this is a rip in the fabric of space-time.

And he next describes something absolutely phenomenal.

He says there's a cloud with this brightness about it.

And it's flashing like lightning.

>> He actually saw this vessel not only to land,

but he actually got inside of it and he took off with it with

people.

He thought that it was God.

And they even said to him, no, we're not God.

We're here to take you somewhere to meet

somebody very important.

So basically it was a very, very good, recorded account of a UFO

that landed and that somebody got inside

of and took off and went to another location

to meet another being.

And these beings, according to the writings, were not God.

So it's very interesting to know that there's

a lot of talk about, not only UFOs in the Bible, but even

people taking off.

>> When examining the Old Testament account of Ezekiel,

perhaps one of the most fascinating perspectives

to consider comes from Erich Von Daniken,

author of "Chariots of the Gods."

>> My God, in my opinion, in my dreams,

does not need a vehicle in which to move around.

God is omnipresent.

God is like the spirit.

He is always there.

Now in the Bible, the prophet Ezekiel

describes a strange story.

He says all of a sudden, he heard a noise in the sky.

All the slaves looked up there.

Then he sees an object coming down from the sky.

Then he realizes that the object makes a tremendous noise.

He compares the noise with the thundering of a waterfall.

Or he compares it with fighting wagons.

So a terrible noise this object made.

All the slaves looking there.

The object comes down.

The sand is blown up.

Ezekiel is high priest by profession.

So he believes in the beginning, it must be God.

He fells on his nose to pray to the Lord.

And then he realize this is not God.

And then he describes exactly what he sees.

The wings move.

When the wings move, that the tremendous noise

started to be there again.

When the wings stood still, they were hanging down.

He describes the leg.

He clearly sees the legs were out of metal.

Then he describes the wheel.

And the wheel shocked him totally

because the wheel of his times can go forward and backward.

But the wheel which he sees here,

they go also forward and backward,

but at the same time left and right without making a steering

movement.

Ezekiel sees a wheel which goes forward, backward, right,

and left without making a steering movement.

This shocks him so he cannot understand it.

He describes it four times.

Some 30 years ago, I had a secret speech

at the headquarter at NASA in Huntsville

in the United States.

On this speech, I also talk about five minutes

about Ezekiel.

And after the speech, we had the dinner together.

And there was the Chief of the Department

of Construction, an ex-German.

His name was Josef Blumrich who came to me

and said that was very interesting.

But Mr. Von Daniken in the Bible,

we never found technology.

The Bible this is imagination.

These are dreamings, visions, but not technology.

He started to read Ezekiel and finally he

realized that whatever Ezekiel described is real.

And he started to reconstruct Ezekiel's description.

The outcome was a book with the English title "The Spaceships

of Ezekiel."

And in the foreword of it, Mr. Josef Blumrich,

the ex-chief of the construction department at NASA

said, I absolutely started this work

to disprove Erich Von Daniken's story of Ezekiel,

but it was absolutely sensational what comes out.

Ezekiel did saw extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Now Ezekiel's spaceship is not a mother spaceship with which

you can move from star to star.

Ezekiel's spaceship is only an object which today we

would call space shuttle.

You have to have a mother spaceship.

And from the mother spaceship, a smaller vehicle

comes down to the earth.

So that's what it was.

Now this is very important.

I knew the original Ezekiel.

I read it first in Hebrew.

I did not learn special Hebrew, but we

had the Latin translation.

And in the original Ezekiel, the word "God"

never appears, never.

Ezekiel says it was "the splendorness of the highest."

The word God in the Bible only comes in later

by the translators that translated.

"The splendor of the highest," he means God.

In the original, the word God is never mentioned.

So he continues in the Book of Ezekiel

and he says that "the splendorness of the highest

arrived a second time.

And this time, the hand of the highest put him on the throne."

In my view, he was sitting in the co-pilot's chair.

And then he describes how they started.

He says, "And the hand of the highest pressed upon my chest,"

because he feels the gravity when starting.

He does not know where the trip goes

because he says they brought me on a very, very high mountain.

He doesn't know where he is.

He looks down.

And he sees under him something like a city, a small city

or a big village.

And in the center of it, something like a temple.

The splendorness of the Lord comes to a standstill

over the temple.

Slowly, slowly, he sinks inside the so-called temple.

And Ezekiel realized at that moment

that the noise of the wings were at this time higher and louder

than what he had heard before in the desert, because now

the echo comes back from the walls of the so-called temple.

Then it comes to a standstill.

Ezekiel gets out, gets out of the space shuttle.

And of a sudden, a glittering being

appears again, one of the strangers.

And he says to Ezekiel, oh, humans, you humans, you

have eyes to see but you see nothing.

And you have ears to hear, but you hear nothing.

And then that man in glittering suit

gives Ezekiel a measuring device.

And all the thing to measure this whole building,

the so-called temple.

Ezekiel in the meantime he understands that this

has nothing to do with God.

So he has courage.

He asked back to the glittering man, why?

Why should I measure this temple?

And the other one says that's the reason why we brought you

here, humans.

So Ezekiel starts to measure length, and wide,

and how many stairs, et cetera.

All this you can read in the Bible.

All the measurements of this so-called temple.

Now in Germany we had a German engineer,

his name is Hans Herbert Beier.

And he read these measurements and he asked himself,

is this a true building or is it just imagination and fantasy?

And he started to calculate exactly according

to Ezekiel's measurement.

And out comes a building which looks today like a stadium,

like a football stadium.

And then this German engineer came to me.

And I saw his calculations, absolutely precise.

I asked him, have you ever heard of NASA, of Mr. Blumrich's

reconstruction?

Because NASA did only reconstruct the splendorness

of the highest, which means the shuttle,

while the German engineer was only reconstructing

the so-called temple.

So one have the splendors of the highest and the temple.

So I brought the two men together-- the German engineer

and the NASA engineer.

And the space shuttle fit perfectly into the temple

by every centimeter.

The so-called temple was nothing else

but the base station for the extraterrestrial shuttle.

It was not God.

It was simply the space shuttle of the extraterrestrials.

>> That's God's throne chariot, his celestial chariot.

That's the terminology they would use.

But we today would say, well, that's a spacecraft that

just came out of a stargate or a wormhole

and is suddenly manifested on the earth plane.

So it's a dramatic example of what

we think of as an extraterrestrial encounter

in the Bible.

>> Not only do these celestial-type beings appear

in the Book of Ezekiel, but they're also referenced

in other passages from the Bible.

If this ancient text is as much a historical document

as it is a religious one, might these

be clues of a deeper story to our human history?

>> If you look into the other account of Enoch,

Enoch had a designated time where he would get into a UFO

to lift off with these beings.

So much so that he even gave his son the records, and the time,

and the date, and everything else that he would be leaving.

And he took off.

And Enoch was a very, very important person in the Bible.

He's mentioned in the Bible several times,

even though they omitted his book.

And the reason why they omitted his book from the Bible,

the Book of Enoch, is because it talks

about people coming from space and interacting and engaging

with mankind.

>> If we consider that advanced beings came with technologies

from space and engaged with mankind,

might we see evidence of this in the biblical book of Joshua?

It is written that the walls of Jericho

fell after the Israelites marched around the city blowing

their trumpets.

They were carrying with them the Ark of the Covenant.

Some scholars suggest that Moses and the Israelites

acquired a supernatural source of energy

at Mount Sinai when they were given the commandments that

were later placed within the Ark of the Covenant.

Could the Ark have contained an energy source so powerful

that it could amplify Joshua's horns and radiate

enough sonic frequency to bring down those walls?

And if so, what other examples show

evidence of this power source?

>> When we're talking about possible extraterrestrial

technology, of course, we have to talk about the Ark

of the Covenant.

A device that was transmitted, the blueprint was transmitted,

by God to an Israelite craftsman, Bezaleel,

who crafts this device.

But before he does, God gives him

all the wisdom of the universe to build a simple golden box?

No.

This is an extraordinary piece of extraterrestrial technology.

In fact we're told that there isn't just

one Ark of the Covenant, there's one on the Earth

and there's one at the throne of God.

They must be connected.

And what this opens up is the possibilities

that the Ark of the Covenant is just

not a simple container for the tablets of the law,

and the rod of Aaron, and the flask of manna,

and the cruise of anointing oil, as we're told.

That, in fact, the Ark of the Covenant

is a far more profound device.

That, in fact, it could, in fact, be a portal device.

This is based on the eyewitness accounts of it

in operation in the Holy of Holies of Solomon's temple

where eyewitnesses like Isaiah report seeing luminous

humanoid beings suddenly manifested

between the wings of the cherubim

guarding the Ark of the Covenant.

So it's a profound technology that we're

talking about with the Ark of the Covenant.

>> And in the Book of Samuel it says everyone who came too

close to the Ark of the Covenant died.

And they described how they died.

Their skin becomes pale.

Their nails and fingers and feet fell out.

They were blind, et cetera.

So they were afraid of the Ark of the Covenant.

And freely, by free will, they brought it back to Israel.

The Israelites the next morning saw

that the Ark of the Covenant were here again.

With four horses, the horses were already near,

the children of Israel were dancing

around the Ark of the Covenant praying to the Lord

that the Ark of the Covenant is back finally

from the land of the enemy.

And at that morning, so says the Bible,

72 of the Israelites died, including children.

What have these children done wrong?

The only thing they were too close to the Ark

of the Covenant, because the Ark of the Covenant

was absolutely dangerous.

>> Humans had no business being around the Ark of the Covenant.

It was carried on ring posts, for one thing for protection.

And those who did carry it reported,

what we today would readily interpret as radiation affects,

their hair, their teeth fell out.

Whole populations of the Philistines

were wiped out by something emanating

from the Ark of the Covenant because

of its radioactive qualities.

>> Found in the Book of Exodus is a bush engulfed in flames

that does not singe or calcinate and where God appears with

a message for Moses etched in stone.

Could this be a reference to visitors

using advanced technology?

>> If you look at the story of Moses,

he supposedly climbed the mountain and he then met with

the Lord who was represented as a burning bush.

It's very, very easy nowadays for us

to understand that that burning bush may

have been some type of technology

that he just didn't have the vocabulary to explain.

And during this interaction with him

and this quote unquote "deity," he

was then given the Ten Commandments,

which were etched into stone.

The only thing that could do that

nowadays would be technology.

We have laser etching technology.

We have different types of technology

that can literally etch into stone.

So I think that this may be a representation

of some type of technology that etched

these commandments into stone.

And these commandments themselves

were given out many thousands of years earlier

in the Egyptian Book of the Dead,

which then made their way into the story of Moses, which

is just a reduced version of the 42 laws of Ma'at, which

may have been something much easier for him

to bring down to the people and get

them to obey and understand.

>> Throughout the Bible, we hear all these stories.

Isaiah has one about beings on clouds.

What is the cloud?

Well the cloud is a method of transportation

used by these beings.

Perhaps, again, it's a language thing where people are looking

and saying, oh, this being is riding upon a cloud

but it's actually maybe some kind

of a merkabah throne chariot or an actual technological

spacecraft.

That's very interesting.

In fact, in the Book of Acts, there's another reference

to this where two angels dressed in white are walking over

and these men of Galilee just after the ascension of Jesus

are looking up.

The angels say to the men of Galilee, why do you look up?

Jesus will return to you on a cloud

exactly the same way that he left.

And so it's clear that the cloud is not a puffy white thing

that we see in our atmosphere.

The cloud is some kind of method of conveyance

between Earth and the heavens.

So when you're in the Bible and you're seeing a reference to,

oh, I saw a being riding on a cloud,

we know that's a reference to some form of a craft.

>> In the United States, the Pentagon has publicly confirmed

that recent videos of unidentified aerial phenomena

were authentic and admitted they don't know how the technology

worked.

Even the Vatican has put resources

into the discovery of potential extraterrestrial life.

>> The Vatican has been very interested in extraterrestrial

life for a long time.

They invested millions of dollars

into an observatory in Arizona, of all places,

looking for extraterrestrial life in our universe.

>> A father, Gabriel Funes who was the director of the Vatican

Observatory at the time who said that just

as there's a multiplicity of creatures on the earth,

why can't there be a multiplicity of creatures out

in the cosmos?

That God created other intelligent beings.

Who are we to limit God's creativity?

>> Because of my having been Chief Counsel of the Jesuit

National Headquarters in their National Social Ministry Office

for 10 years in Washington, DC, I had access to Father Funes.

So I reached out to him right away

and actually went to visit him, and sat down,

and had this face to face conversation with him.

And in less than three minutes, he

was acknowledging that what he was really talking about

was not just microscopic life elsewhere, or even little

insects or anything on some other planet,

he was talking about another highly intelligent, highly

technologically developed, but categorically

non-human species elsewhere in our galaxy.

And that was extraordinarily important.

The implications are that implied teachings of not

only the Church, but virtually every human institution

down through the ages have all been

rooted in the kind of unconscious premise

that our human species is at the apex

of all evolved, sentient evolution in the universe.

And for us to discover that isn't true,

dethrones us from the apex of the pyramid

of life in the universe.

Pope Francis, when he was confronted

with this question about what the beliefs of the Church

were with regard to the existence

of extraterrestrial beings, saying that,

well, he would see no problem at all

in baptizing our brethren from an extraterrestrial

civilization, because all life forms are children of God.

The, I guess, inertia of the institutional church

is causing them to think that the people are a lot more

ignorant and dumber than they really are.

And so when you say something like the pope

would be willing to baptize, well, then you

say, well, what makes you think that they want to be baptized

by the Catholic church?

You know?

I mean it's like we go down we find

a whole tribe of chimpanzees.

And they're talking about being willing to train us

on how to eat a banana.

You know?

I mean you've got to get on to a higher level.

>> While the discovery of advanced intelligent life

elsewhere in the universe may seem like a contradiction

to conventional religious doctrine,

what might the implications be if the highest representatives

of the Church and other religious institutions

acknowledge extraterrestrials in the Bible?

>> So what are the implications of ET interaction in the Bible

for us today?

I think what it tells us is that, one, extraterrestrials

have been here for a very long time

and have a definite interest in the evolution of humanity.

What is the purpose?

Well, ultimately in these stories,

it's about showing humanity how to become

better versions of ourselves.

That we can actually become like the gods.

That through our interaction with these beings,

we, too, can ascend to the heavens,

whether that means in a spiritual form

or traveling in the stars in some form of a craft

or through a stargate.

Either way, these beings have been here.

And most of these stories where we're

talking about an interaction with extraterrestrials

involved humans somehow going into the stars,

going to other places, and sometimes even returning.

>> I believe that when you look at some of the accounts

of ancient craft and UFOs and maybe even potentially aliens

in the modern-day Bible, you look forward to a future where

we're moving in the direction of the ancients.

We're moving in a direction where

we are now obtaining technologies

that make us look godlike.

I believe that right now, the way

we're moving forward in technology,

it's going to allow human beings to operate

on a telepathic level.

We can share information wirelessly, like Wi-Fi devices.

And I also do believe that our space frame technology is going

to give us the ability to do things like beam people

from one place to another.

We are already working on beaming things

through the teleportation devices in laboratories

on Earth right now.

So the future is going to look much

like the things being described in the modern-day Bible,

except we'll know that it's really advanced technology.

>> Everything is going to change.

Everything is going to change.

The interpretation of all information on our planet

is going to change.

We're going to be in a completely new paradigm.

And so that we're going to have to view

these reports in biblical times of encounters with beings

from some other dimension, some other spiritual plane, vehicles

or encounters like in Ezekiel of this whirling

light ship of some sort, all of these things

are going to have to be reinterpreted in light of this.

>> Many of our modern day Abrahamic religions are now

being re-examined and their doctrines reshaped based

on the idea that we're not alone in the universe.

There's a new type of spirituality emerging,

because the old ways are not as relevant as they once were.

More than half of American adults

and 75% of young Americans believe

we've had contact with some sort of intelligent extraterrestrial

life.

This level of belief rivals that even of a belief in God.

But one day we might discover that the Bible

is one of the greatest extraterrestrial contact

documents ever written.

>> As we conclude Season 3 of "Deep Space,"

consider the following--

if a distant race of ancient aliens

once inhabited the lands of the Bible,

and these were real-life events and not merely visions,

then a new paradigm awaits us where science, spirituality,

and open contact is the next scripture about to be written.