Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Closer Encounters - full transcript
From The History Channel : "Reports of encounters with strange beings and sightings of mysterious objects in the sky have occurred throughout history. A 13th century historical book, Otia Imperialia, includes an account of a creat...
President Thomas Jefferson...
Christopher Columbus...
Crusaders in the Middle Ages...
What did they have in common?
They either experienced or believed in
the possibility of alien encounters.
And the fact is there have been
so many descriptions by various
chroniclers talking about a strange
cloud in the sky that glowed red.
Columbus, on his first voyage, he
noted in the log, a glowing object
rise out of the water and
head off into the atmosphere.
Could alien beings have been responsible
for biblical floods, medieval
plagues, and even ancient
nuclear attacks?
Visitations occurred since before
recorded history all the way to today.
Millions of people around the world believe
we have been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And what if these visitations
didn't only occur thousands
of years ago, but much more recently?
Might there be evidence of
real-life close encounters?
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Alamogordo, New Mexico.
White Sands Proving
Ground, July 16, 1945.
Early in the morning, a number of U.
S. military officers and
scientists gather to watch a
powerful new weapon being tested.
Some believe the device will
be a complete failure, others
think it might destroy the
entire state of New Mexico.
As a precaution, viewing
stations are placed from ten
to 20 miles away from the test site.
At precisely 5:29 and 45 seconds,
the first atomic bomb is detonated.
>> Three, two, one...
Fire!
The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet
wide and produces an explosion equal
to 20,000 tons of TNT.
The mushroom cloud reaches over
reverberations can be felt
nearly 100 miles away.
The world had a new weapon;
one so terrifying it left even its creator, Dr.
Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and
shaken.
A few people laughed.
A few people cried.
Most people were silent.
For the first time in its history, the
Earth had been assaulted by a manmade
weapon of incredible power.
But what if it had
all happened before?
What if an explosion of even greater
force and destructiveness had long ago
shaped the Earth's history?
Some people have suggested on the basis
of a number of lines of evidence
that there may have been
atomic warfare, atomic bombs,
atomic explosions, in
the very distant past.
Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations
may sound like something out of a
science fiction novel, but
descriptions of similar deadly
occurrences can be found in the
very same text Dr. Oppenheimer
quoted after the New
Mexico atomic test.
I remembered the line from the Hindu
scripture, the Bhagavad Gita,
"Now I am become death,
the destroyer of worlds."
Part of an ancient Hindu scripture
known as The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad
Gita was written sometime between
the fifth and second century B.C.
This massive 100,000-verse text
contains stories about the
ancient empire OJ Rama, which
it is said existed over 12,000
years ago, or roughly 5,000 years before
the earliest recorded civilization
in Mesopotamia.
If you read the ancient Indian
epics, they read like modern-day
science fiction.
Yet they are thousands of
years old with references
not only of flying chariots and
of these gods that had these
incredible technological
capabilities, but incredible
weapons that they used
in those epic battles.
They had what was
called a Brahma weapon.
There were many people that were
singed and burned and melted
by the Brahma weapon.
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Brahma weapon was an early nuclear
device because the descriptions
of its deadly aftereffects are
eerily similar to the effects of
exposure to intense radiation.
It is a theory largely discounted
by conventional science.
There is no evidence that a nuclear
bomb was described in The Mahabharata,
the Bhagavad Gita.
It describes a battle.
In battles there are
explosions, big explosions.
It's one thing about suggesting that,
you know, battles have explosions, but
that's not really what
we're looking at.
You've got to look at
the whole picture.
One reference that we have,
for example, speaks of these
explosions that were brighter
than a thousand suns.
And when these blasts occurred,
the suns were twirling in the
air, trees went up in flames and there
was just this mass destruction.
After those blasts, people who
survive start to lose their hair
and nails start to fall out.
I mean, right there, we have a
concise reference to radiation
poisoning, nuclear fallout.
And those texts are
thousands of years old.
But if The Mahabharata is based
on fact, wouldn't archaeologists
have uncovered physical
or radiological evidence?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they have.
The Indus Valley, Southern Pakistan.
In 1922, an officer with an
Indian archeological survey
group discovered the ruins of an
ancient city known as Mohenjo-Daro.
According to mainstream
archeologists, the city, whose
name means "mound of the dead,"
had flourished between
2600 and 1900 B.C.
However, scientists in Pakistan have
suggested Mohenjo-Daro is much older.
Mainstream archeologists
believe the city was abandoned
as a result of climatic changes
or possibly a decrease in trade.
But when the ruins of
Mohenjo-Daro were discovered in
the 1920s, 44 skeletons were
found lying face down in the
street, many holding hands.
Their faces and body positioning
suggested they suffered
a sudden, violent death.
You have a culture of people who
literally were lying dead in the street.
Archaeologists have found human
remains, and something big
has happened to these people.
What, in fact, did happen to
the people of Mohenjo-Daro?
Why is there evidence that wild animals
avoided scavenging their remains?
And why, even after thousands of
years, had their bones not decayed?
In certain areas of that site, you
find increased levels of radiation.
And radiation exists
all over the place.
When, all of a sudden, you have
higher levels of radiation
in certain areas of the world,
the question, arises, "Why?"
Is it possible that Mohenjo-Daro was
one of the cities mentioned in the
Bhagavad Gita-- a city that suffered the
equivalent of a sudden atomic attack?
In his 1979 book, Atomic
Destruction in 2000 B.C.,
British researcher David
Davenport claimed to have found
a 50-yard-wide epicenter
at Mohenjo-Daro where everything
appeared to have been fused
through a transformative process
known as "vitrification."
Vitrification is
a process in which regular-type
stone gets molten into a magma
state and then it hardens again.
But once the stone is hardened
again, it feels like glass.
At Mohenjo-Daro, we find
evidence of vitrification, which
could have only been achieved
if the material was exposed to
extreme heat by some type of
a blast.
When British
and Indian and Pakistani
archeologists began doing
excavations in the Sian Desert,
on the borders of India and
Pakistan, in the late 1940s and
early 1950s, what they found in
these cities-- Mohenjo-Daro,
Harrapa, Kot Diji-- was
archeological evidence to show
there were apparently atomic
weapons.
Only it happened in ancient
times.
There's other evidence in parts
of Africa and the Middle East,
where it would seem to be like
some sort of atomic explosion
had taken place there, and had
turned the desert sand
into glass.
And that's exactly what happened
at Alamogordo, in New Mexico,
when they detonated the first
atom bomb in the desert.
Could the strange
ruins found in the Indus Valley
really contain evidence of an
ancient atomic explosion?
If so, where did these powerful
weapons come from?
Who was using them?
And why?
In the ancient
Indian texts themselves it says,
and I quote, "At one point,
three giant cities were orbiting
the Earth."
And those giant cities were
often described as being made
of gleaming metal and iron.
And at one point, those three
cities went to war with each
other.
And it's described how the gods
threw weapons at each other,
destroying those cities,
they all went up in flames
and fire came raining down onto
Earth.
So, when you read those
passages, the question I ask is:
What is it that our ancestors
tried to describe here?
And I think that it was some
type of a technology that was
witnessed, yet our ancestors,
while being highly intelligent,
didn't understand the nuts and
bolts aspects behind that
technology.
And so they created something
divine out of it, something
supernatural, yet it never was
divine.
It never was supernatural.
If, in fact,
The Mahabharata is describing
historical events, might we
also find similar accounts
in other ancient writings?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
we need look no further than in
the pages of the Holy Bible.
According to one of the stories contained
in the book of Genesis, angels were
sent by God to destroy the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
because of the sins
of their inhabitants.
Only a righteous man named Lot, along
with his family, was to be spared.
But while making their escape,
Lot's wife ignores the angels'
warning not to look back, and
upon gazing at the horror and
devastation, is turned
into a pillar of salt.
When you are at a nuclear testing range
and you witness a nuclear blast, you're
told to look away and not to
look straight into the blast.
And here we have a similar
description in ancient biblical
text where instructions were
given, "Whatever you do, don't
look back because you will die."
And sure enough, it
happened to Lot's wife.
Could it be that the story of Sodom and
Gomorrah is really a description of a
nuclear explosion, similar to the one
described in the Hindus' Mahabharata?
Do the stories of The Mahabharata and
the Bible represent actual historical
events?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a resounding "yes."
And they believe the so-called
"angels" who brought forth the
devastation were, in fact,
beings from another planet--
alien visitors armed
with advanced weaponry.
September, 2000.
The Black Sea, Turkey.
Marine archaeologist Robert
Ballard and his team of
underwater scientists discover
what appears to be a farmhouse
some 330 feet below the surface.
Estimates suggest the submerged dwelling
to be approximately 7,500 years old.
Ballard and other scholars
speculated that rising ocean
levels could have caused the
Mediterranean Sea to burst
through a natural dam, creating
a flood so great it drowned
an estimated 58,000 square
miles under 500 feet of water.
But more than finding the ruins
of an ancient dwelling, had
Ballard actually discovered
proof that the biblical story
of Noah and the great flood was true?
Those villages, of course,
weren't built underwater.
So Ballard concluded that the
Black Sea, as we know it, was
only created some eight,
9,000 years ago.
That is exactly what we're
talking about with Noah's Ark
and the flood, the same area
where all that happened.
And in fact, mainstream
archeologists know that in the
Mediterranean there are over
200 known sunken cities.
Those cities, too, were somehow
flooded the same time that the
Black Sea was flooded.
Also written in the book of Genesis, the
story of Noah tells how God "saw that
the wickedness of man was great ," and
decided to destroy all of creation.
Only Noah, his family, and the
animals aboard the ark were
allowed to survive and
repopulate the planet.
But is this the whole story?
Was Noah selected only for his virtue?
Or was there another reason he
was chosen to save the planet?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Bible doesn't tell the whole story.
In the late 1940s and early
1950s, a series of ancient
texts known as the Dead Sea
Scrolls were discovered in a
cave located in what is
now Israel's West Bank.
Among the ancient writings are
various stories not found in
the traditional Hebrew Bible.
One such story tells of Noah and
his strange, miraculous birth.
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls is
called "The Lamech Scroll."
What is Lamech?
Lamech was a shepherd.
And one day, Lamech, his
woman was pregnant.
And he said to her,
"This is impossible.
I was not here for months."
But his woman with the name Bathenosh
swears, "No one touched me."
But Lamech doesn't believe his
wife, Bathenosh, and he goes to
his father, which was Methuselah.
And Methuselah says to
Lamech, "I can't help you.
I don't understand this.
I believe your woman, Bathenosh, "that
nobody touched her, and I believe you.
What shall I do?"
So Methuselah goes to his father,
the grandfather now of Lamech.
His name is Enoch.
Now Enoch tells to Methuselah
that the guardians of the sky
have made an artificial insemination
into the womb of Bathenosh, the wife.
And he should accept this child,
because this child will be
the father of a new human generation.
And in the Bible, this is Noah.
What if, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,
the story of Lamech is true
and the guardians of the sky
described in the story
are, in fact, aliens?
Does this mean that Noah was
the product of an artificial
insemination, a genetic experiment
performed by extraterrestrials?
If so, what was the reason
for the great flood?
Well, the reason for the flood,
and we need to understand this.
What it tells us is that Noah was
pure in all of his generations.
What does that mean?
You know, why would the account,
you know, specify "pure in all
his generations"?
According to the Bible, God sent the
flood because of man's wickedness and
corruption.
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe the flood was actually
a means of ridding the Earth
of biological imperfections.
By using Noah and his family,
they could repopulate the
planet with a genetically
superior species.
Part of this human society is, again,
genetically backward, closer
to the animal.
What can we do?
These humans were spread
out over the planet.
So they said, "We have to mill
them all by a great flood, and
then we have to restart again."
Another familiar element in the story
of Noah involves the collection of
animals brought aboard the ark.
In the Bible, God commanded
Noah to collect two of every
kind of living creature--
animal, bird and insect.
But many biblical scholars and
theologians agree that such
a task would have been both physically
and biologically impossible.
Could there be another more
scientific explanation?
The story of Noah's Ark is pretty
implausible, if you think about it.
You have two animals of each
creature on planet Earth on a boat.
Not only would the boat have to
be huge, but how are you going
to collect every animal on the
planet and put it on that ship?
So, could it be possible that
Noah's Ark was once again
misunderstood technology, and
Noah's Ark was a DNA bank?
Could it be a story?
Could it be technology somehow
gathering up all living things
as in a DNA bank of some kind?
It fits together.
Hard to imagine, uh, how that
would happen so far back, but
if it did happen, it would need
to be told as a story, and the
to be told as a story, and the
story of a boat works.
Perhaps this is really an
extraterrestrial DNA bank as well.
The extraterrestrials need plants and
animals and minerals on this planet, too.
Just like when we go to Mars
or something, we'll be using
what we can use on that planet.
So, extraterrestrials coming here
would want to do that as well.
And if they knew that some
cataclysm was coming, they, too,
would want to preserve certain
kinds of animals and plant life,
and create, you know, what
we think of as Noah's Ark.
An alien DNA bank?
Is there any evidence that
such a thing is even possible?
In 2008, on the Arctic island
of Svalbard, a vault was built
to store the seeds of hundreds
of thousands of plants in the
event of a global catastrophe.
Elsewhere, similar efforts are
reportedly underway to store
animal and human DNA as well.
Cutting-edge science or merely
history repeating itself?
The Frozen Ark Project is a program that
was initiated by the London Natural
History Museum.
What they've done is they started to store
DNA of endangered species for future
generations, for preservation.
And, as of today, over a
thousand species have been
preserved in small little vials.
So, the question arises,
could it be possible that
Noah's Ark wasn't necessarily a
boat made out of wood, but what
if Noah's Ark was some type of a
DNA storage facility that was
used in order to preserve all
the species on planet Earth?
If each species can be held in
a tiny vile like this, then
it all becomes very logical.
And, once again, we have to look
at it from a perspective, "What
did our ancestors try to describe?
What did they witness?"
Aliens artificially inseminating humans...
Ancient DNA banks...
Could such ideas really help our
understanding of the Bible?
And is it possible that extraterrestrials
have influenced the development of
mankind?
There are many who claim that
the proof can be found in some
astonishing places.
For those who believe that close
encounters with alien beings have helped
shape Earth's history, it is
important to remember that it
isn't only ancient history
that has been so influenced.
There have been literally
hundreds of credible accounts
of strange creatures, UFO
sightings and otherworldly
phenomena that took place, even
in the so-called Dark Ages.
There have been sightings all over the
world throughout the Middle Ages.
There are stories going from Scotland
to England to Italy to the Crusades.
Remember the Crusades took
place over hundreds of years.
And at certain points in the
battle, in some cases over
Turkey, in some cases over
Jerusalem, there are images
captured in writing by various
chroniclers talking about
"a strange cloud in the
sky that glowed red.
A strange image coming out
of a cloud in the sky."
Why would we say this is a UFO?
Because, traditionally, UFOs
mask themselves by forming
a cloud around themselves.
And it's a cloud that's going
through the sky-- that's their
invisibility cloak.
In his 13th century historical
work titled Otto
Imperialia, Gervase of Tilbury
wrote about an aerial craft
over the city of Bristol,
England, which caught an
anchor in a church steeple.
He uses specifically
the term "anchor."
Now, we don't know what
kind of anchor that is.
But a creature, a man, climbs
out of this craft and tries
to free the anchor from the steeple.
And all the people in the
village start stoning him,
thinking he's some sort of evil demon.
But for ancient astronaut theorists,
evidence of an alien presence during the
Middle Ages isn't only
found in literature.
All throughout the Middle Ages, there
are some magnificent paintings...
...and in certain areas of the painting,
there are what looks like to be UFOs.
They're always floating up in
the sky-- usually above the
Virgin Mary or above Jesus on
the crucifix-- or somewhere we
have sceneries that Pict
what looks like UFOs.
One very interesting painting
is where Jesus sits up in the
clouds with quote, unquote "God
," and they're holding onto
the antennae of what looks like
Sputnik; and theologians say
what is depicted here is
nothing else but the Earth.
But why would Earth have two
antennae sticking out of it?
And why would it be round?
Because the mainstream viewpoint at
the time was that the Earth was flat.
Here are pictures of the crucifixion
dated around 1350 from Kosovo.
Here are, presumably, vehicles
with people driving them in
attendance at the crucifixion.
Could this be a crude-- an
attempt on the part of the
artist drawing on a tradition--
obviously, he wasn't there--
drawing on a tradition?
Could he be reflecting the folklore?
Possibly.
The people of the Middle Ages depicted
devils and angels frequently,
in their art.
They did not depict what we today
consider aliens, specifically.
But angels are heavenly creatures
that come from outside
of our sphere, aren't they?
Did the medieval artists include strange
creatures and flying spacecraft
in their paintings because they
had seen them in real life?
Or were they trying to
communicate their belief that
the miraculous events of the New
Testament had otherworldly origins?
The most famous painting that
resolved any doubt in my mind
depict a UFO with its laser
beam, was made by Crivelli in
1486-- The Annunciation to Mary.
In medieval art, in The
Annunciation, when Mary is
told that she will have a child,
but she will still be a virgin,
and the angels tell her this, over
Mary's head is a space capsule.
But what's a UFO, or a space
capsule, doing over Mary?
Maybe the artist saw it and he's
putting it in the painting to
bring together his own vision of
a UFO, the annunciation from the
Bible, and the mystery of salvation
that there could be a virgin birth.
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the UFO-shaped objects found in
medieval paintings aren't the
only evidence of an alien
presence during the era.
In his book, The Gods of Eden,
author William Bramley cites
private journals and other
publications throughout
Europe which contain accounts
of cigar-shaped flying objects
emitting noxious mists.
The first reports of this kind
began during the mid-14th
century, closely corresponding
to the outbreak of the worst
health epidemic in human
history-- the Black Plague.
The Black
Plague, back in the 1300s, many
have said was caused by a virus
from a rodent-- bitten by fleas.
This disease that wiped out
75-plus million people on the
planet at the time.
But there's another theory by
a fellow by the name of William
Bramley who says that the Black
Plague was created by ETs, that
they wanted to eradicate human
beings, for whatever horrible
reason.
We know that
plague can be spread by rodents.
But there weren't that many
rodent infestations being
reported back then, at least not
enough to account for all of the
breakouts that we had.
So what you find in the
literature from that time are
numerous reports of bright
lights moving through the sky,
emitting gas, or what they call
"mists."
And we find them in China, you
find them in Europe.
There are similar reports
from the Justinian plague from
earlier in history, and even
later plagues, the cholera
epidemics.
You find similar stories of
mists that are the cause of the
Plague.
We have weapons like that--
biological warfare.
As for the motive as to why
this happened, I can only kind
of scratch my head, because in
the UFO phenomena, we see
certain consistent patterns, but
we don't always understand the
motive.
Italian historian
Matteo Villani, who both
chronicled the Black Death and
died from it in the 14th
century, wrote of pestilential
fogs reported by travelers from Asia.
He even wrote that people were
convinced they could actually
see the plague coming
through the streets.
But what some ancient astronaut
believers find to be even
stronger evidence of alien involvement,
are the numerous reports of mysterious
black-cloaked creatures who
would appear on the outskirts
of villages just before
plague broke out.
Contemporary accounts describe
them as having "terrifying
faces" and "waving long, scythe-like
objects dispensing noxious mists."
It's the image we know
today as the Grim Reaper.
These figures in black would appear
usually on the outskirts of a town.
They were carrying these long
devices that looks like scythes.
These figures in black would
start sweeping in the fields as
though they were cutting
down the wheat.
Then immediately there would
be an outbreak of the plague.
Although ancient astronaut theorists
are divided on Bramley's proposal that
aliens we behind the plague,
his research, like the artwork
of the time, has led to
one important conclusion.
What is evidenced is the fact that
visitations occurred since before recorded
history all the way to today.
It's not like ancient astronauts
only happened thousands of years
ago, and then all of a
sudden we have Roswell.
The fact alone, that these
visitations have been going on
for all this time, thousands
of years, that's sensational.
Flying cylinders spreading
plague from the sky?
Black-clad aliens looking
to destroy humans?
But even if possible, why?
And, if true, wouldn't there
continue to be evidence of even
more close encounters-- encounters that
would take place much closer to home?
When Columbus and his men first set foot
in what to the Europeans was the "New
World," the indigenous people had
never encountered anyone like them.
Their skin was pale.
They wore strange clothes made of
bright, often shiny materials.
They arrived in massive ships
and had powerful weapons.
To the natives, the visitors were truly
aliens from a strange, faraway world--
powerful beings who might just as
well have been sent from the heavens.
Columbus wrote in his journal that
the inhabitants eagerly came out
to see their ships, and asked them
if they had come from the heavens.
And despite the fact that
Columbus and his men indicated,
"No, we didn't come from the
heavens," they called out to
the people still on the shore,
"Come out and see the people
who've come from the heavens."
Certainly, it seems interesting
to wonder why it is that
instead of thinking that
possibly they came from some
other part of the sea, that
they'd come from the sky.
But there is more to the story.
Less well-known is that
Columbus had an alien encounter
of his own, one reported in
his log just days before he
reached the shores of the New World.
p.m. on the 11th of October, 1492, the
anxious explorer was on the deck of the
Santa Maria when he saw a
"light glimmering at
a great distance."
Columbus wrote, "The admiral, standing
on the quarterdeck saw a light.
Calling to Pedro Gutierrez, he
told him he saw a light, and
bid him look that way,
which he did and saw it.
The admiral again perceived it
once or twice, appearing like
the light of a wax candle
moving up and down."
Summoning another member of the
crew, the two watched as the
light vanished and
reappeared repeatedly.
Seeing lights in the water
isn't really an anomaly.
We all know that certain kinds of
underwater life give off lights.
But this light actually
traveled along with the ship.
Columbus noted in the log a glowing object
rise out of the water, and head off
into the atmosphere.
What did Columbus see?
A phosphorescent sea creature?
An hallucination?
Or was it something more?
Something from out of this world?
What did Columbus'
men see?
What they saw was a luminous
object, that upon breaking
the water's surface, became a UFO.
To UFO researchers like
Bill Birnes, Columbus'
sighting is significant, not only because
of when it occurred, but also because
the object was spotted coming
out of the sea, ruling out the
possibility that what he saw was
a comet or a shooting star.
What's intriguing is that this was in
what we cal- today the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle, that
area, particularly off of
Bimini, the Bahamas, may in
fact be-- and I'm way out on a
limb here-- Colony
headquarters underneath that.
Your UFO goes down into the water
and then into a subterranean.
What better position would
be to monitor South America,
Middle America, Egypt
than the Caribbean?
Many people believe that
it's possible that UFOs
could have established
bases on the seafloor.
To some extent, it's true
that we know more about the
Moon or some parts of outer
space than we do about the
deepest parts of our own oceans.
This event is extremely important
because it is the world's first
recorded event that illustrate
the appearance of UFO as object
emerging from the water.
If Columbus sighting was so extraordinary,
why do we only find record of it
in his log?
Some believe another account
of this event exists in the
official records of the
Spanish Inquisition.
UFO researcher Maximillien De Lafayette
claims that Columbus' shipmate, Pedro
Gutierrez, reported him to the
Inquisition after hearing
Columbus describe the lights in the
sky as resembling the Jewish menorah.
When they went back to Spain,
Gutierrez went directly to the
infamous Inquisition.
This is the Catholic organization
created by the Vatican to persecute and
kill the infidels.
The infidels means the Jews, the Muslims
and Christians who are not Catholic.
The Inquisition called him
for explanation, deposition.
"Did you say that you saw menorah?
Why did you say menorah?
Oh, so you are a Jew."
He said, "I'm not a Jew."
In the deposition, which is
lengthy, you find more details,
meticulous details of what
Columbus saw above the water.
The file of the Inquisition is
in the vault of the Vatican.
And good luck if you can go
to the secret file of the
Vatican and try to dig for
document as explosive as this one.
Secret files of the
Spanish Inquisition?
UFOs and alien sightings
in the time of Columbus?
Farfetched, perhaps.
But to proponents of ancient
astronaut theory, these
precolonial close encounters are
considered commonplace events.
For them, it offers additional
proof that we are not alone.
They have several sightings of
what we would call UFOs today
along the discovery of America,
during the conquest of America.
Columbus was not the only one.
Also on the trip of Magellan.
Fernando De Magellan, the
discoverer of the Strait,
who circumnavigate the
world after Columbus.
He have also sightings.
Seafarers often encounter strange
lights both in the sky and below the
surface of the ocean.
Skeptics argue that Columbus'
sighting, like many others, was
simply a natural phenomenon.
At night, there are all kinds
of things, for example bolides.
Bolides are these very large
comets, and they're spectacular.
It's just like this enormous
bright light with a trail that
just arcs through the sky.
But we can tell the difference.
When you have a meteor like that or a
bolide, the characteristics are very
different than the
ones of genuine UFOs.
As far back as the 19th century,
people have speculated about what that
light could've been.
Explanations have centered
around the possibility that it
could've been a light or a torch being
carried by an island inhabitant.
They were in fact more than
35 miles away from any land,
which makes that impossible.
The other possibility is that
it was a meteor traveling
very close to the horizon, and that the
movement of the ship is actually what
made the light appear to
be moving up and down.
But what if conventional science
is wrong and the ancient astronaut
theorists are correct?
What if Columbus, Magellan and the early
explorers really did see evidence of
extraterrestrial creatures
visiting our planet?
What does this say about our past?
Our history?
And our future?
Germany, April
14, 1561.
At dawn, the citizens of
Nuremberg awoke to what was
described in a local news flier
as "a very frightful spectacle."
Various strange objects
were spotted in the sky...
engaged in what appeared
to be an aerial battle.
Could they have been
witnessing a close encounter?
They see this incredible sight
as the sun is coming up.
They see what they describe as
cigar-shaped objects, circles
in the air, and crosses;
flying crosses.
And suddenly, these shapes
begin emitting other shapes.
The spheres and discs were seen for
a long time, as they apparently
were fighting in some kind
of a battle over the city.
In fact, the battle was so
evident that the people in
Nuremberg were actually able to
perceive which side was winning.
Some of the objects were seen
to crash into the ground
and disappear in a cloud
of smoke or steam.
Other objects were seen to fly off and
disappear in the direction of the sun.
This entire event becomes
memorialized in a broadsheet.
Now a broadsheet in the 16th
century was literally a newspaper.
And that broadsheet exists
today in Zurich, Switzerland.
The Zurich Central Library to this day
retains a copy not only of the famous
woodcut that shows the 1561
sighting over Nuremberg, but
also a 1566 woodcut showing a
sighting from that year that
was quite similar in
Basel, Switzerland.
What's fascinating is it's
a very similar event.
People saw a bunch of
circles in the air.
In fact, a proliferation
of circles in the air.
They didn't necessarily
interpret that as a battle in
the air, but they did interpret
it as some kind of heavenly sign.
The broadsheets that were distributed
both in Nuremberg and in Basel five
years later, advised people to
"repent for their sins" and
interpreted these extraordinary
events as signs from God.
In old time, everything paranormal,
extra, extra-- hyphen--
ordinary belongs the realm
of divinity, of Gods.
"God's doing this!
God is punishing us!
God is blessing us!
Go repent!
Go to church!"
It's interesting to read the Nuremberg
description because it is written with
religious iconography in mind.
They talk about crosses seen
in the sky on the previous day
during that sighting.
Now what we might think of as a
fuselage with wings, might've
appeared as a cross to people
who saw religious symbolism
constantly in their everyday life.
It's difficult to imagine
how these things might have
appeared, but it's certainly
possible that if these were to
appear in the sky today, we would
describe them quite differently.
Could the people of Nuremberg have
actually witnessed a battle between
warring alien factions; an event
eerily similar to the one
written about in the Bhagavad
Gita over 3,000 years earlier?
And if not, what else would
explain the vivid accounts of
luminous globes and blood-red
crosses appearing in the sky?
Throughout the Middle Ages,
visions of strange happenings
were often attributed to God
or to the supernatural.
But moving into what is known
as the early modern period of
the 17th century, people began
to look more and more toward
science and the stars for answers.
And with the invention of the
refracting telescope in 1608,
there would be more eyes trained
on the stars than ever before.
Ironically, the first report of
a UFO witnessed through this
new device came from colonial
America's best-known Puritan
minister, Cotton Mather.
There was an incredible sighting that
the very famous New England preacher
Cotton Mather had.
Cotton Mather said that he was
looking through a telescope at
the Moon, and in the telescope
he saw a flying light over the
surface of the moon.
Well, how did this get recorded?
By none other than NASA.
And people can find it themselves.
Go to the NASA report on lunar
anomalies over 500 years,
and they will find Cotton
Mather's sighting of a UFO
over the surface of the Moon.
There are a vast number of natural
atmospheric phenomena that can appear as
bright lights in the night sky.
Certainly, uh, meteors
are a possibility.
Even certain kinds of terrestrial phenomena
do materialize as glowing balls of
light that, seen from a distance,
may appear to be a star.
And it's incredibly difficult
to judge the distance of a
point source of light in the night.
So he may have thought that it
was on the surface of the Moon,
or-or hundreds of miles away,
when in reality, it could've
been quite close to where he was.
Though it is uncertain what Cotton
Mather saw, ancient astronaut theorists
find it significant that a
prominent religious figure would
report such a sighting not as a vision
from God, but as an astronomical event.
They see it as a sign, not only
of the sighting's authenticity,
but that views on the
possibility of extraterrestrial
life were starting to shift, even
within the Christian church.
Cotton Mather was known as a
fire and brimstone preacher.
But there's a rational part
of Cotton Mather as well...
because this was the very beginning;
the dawn of the industrial revolution.
And in this context, people were
thinking about science, they
were thinking about machines, and
really thinking about, could
there be something in space?
Although sightings like Cotton Mather's
were still rare in the 1700s, the
increasing interest in
astronomy sparked a new debate
over a centuries-old theory
called "the plurality of
worlds;" the idea that life might exist
elsewhere throughout the universe.
By the end of the 18th century, the
majority of people, at least of educated
people, were convinced that all
throughout the solar system
on Jupiter, on Mars, on Saturn.
All of them had extraterrestrials.
Very possibly the Moon would
have intelligent beings on it.
I once did a tally of the
leading intellectuals in the
18th century; over half
of them included ideas of
extraterrestrial life
in their publications.
The premier 18th- century astronomer
William Herschel also supported the
theory that life existed
on other planets.
So did Thomas Paine, one of
America's Founding Fathers,
along with many religious
leaders of the time.
Preachers were preaching about extraterrestrials
as a proof of God's goodness.
That's the idea that if there
is a good and beneficent
God, he would populate all
the planets, all the stars.
Though there was open
debate about the existence
of extraterrestrial life in the
1700s, the discussion did not
often extend to the idea
of aliens visiting Earth.
But in 1731, a series of
sightings occurred across
Europe that were so compelling, the
possibility could no longer be ignored.
In modern UFO sightings, the
communications about UFOs are instant;
it's on the Internet, it's on YouTube.
But what about some of these
18th-century or Renaissance sightings?
Here's something incredible.
In 1731 over Kilkenny, Ireland,
there was a sighting of
a luminous object coming
out of a red cloud.
That same sighting is reported in the
span of a week over the rest of Europe,
particularly over Romania
in Eastern Europe.
Now, here are two countries that are
not communicating with each other.
Newspapers don't go back and
forth, they don't speak the
same language, there's no radio
and there's no television.
Yet a UFO was spotted traveling
from the Irish Sea, across
Europe all the way to Eastern
Europe and towards Asia, and
is spotted in different
places as it goes.
Independent observations
that don't cross-pollinate.
Could these nearly identical
reports of a strange
object passing through the
sky be mere coincidence?
And if it was an alien craft,
is it possible that earlier
sightings simply weren't
reported because they were
interpreted as signs from God?
In colonial America, the idea
that aliens were visiting Earth
was gaining ground.
And in the 1800s, this
controversial theory would even
make its way to the White House.
The United States officially declared
its independence from Great Britain
in 1776... and just 14 years
later, a report of the first UFO
sighting in American history
appeared in the newly published
journals of John Winthrop, the second
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His journals, which are now
known as "A History of New
England, 1630-1649," are still
considered the preeminent record
for that period in American history.
When the journals were finally
published in 1790, over
140 years after Winthrop's
death, they were found to
contain an alarming account of a
possible close encounter over
Boston's Muddy River.
One night in March of 1639,
James Everall, who is
described as being a "sober and
discreet man," and two of his
companions, boarded a little boat
in the Muddy River of Boston.
As they paddled along the river,
they saw a great bright
light that hovered in the sky.
As they watched, the light
flared up and then contracted
into what they described
as the figure of a swine.
It's difficult to imagine
anybody seriously reporting a
sighting of a glowing, flying pig.
Looking at the sighting, one
can't help but wonder if they
were struggling to describe an
oval-shaped fuselage and four
short, what we might now call
landing struts or landing gear,
in a way that made sense
in the 17th century.
Winthrop's account states that the
object moved swift as an arrow, jetting
back and forth as well as up and
down for two to three hours.
And when it finally disappeared, the
three passengers in the boat, who had
been drifting downstream the
entire time, were astonished to
find themselves back at the point
where they began their trip.
What Winthrop describes in his journal
is really difficult to explain.
Certainly, it seems hard to
fathom that, for two or three
hours, three men in a boat
watched a bright light moving
around in the sky over
the city of Boston.
And it seems almost inconceivable that
their boat could've been drawn back
against the tide without
their noticing it.
These type of strange and
inexplicable phenomenon are now
associated with the phenomena
that's called "alien abduction."
As abduction cases evolved, you heard
people say all of a sudden everything
around them was slowing way, way down.
And they associate the slowing
way, way down with whatever
this event is that we call the
"human abduction syndrome."
Could this event at Muddy
River be not only North
America's first documented UFO
sighting, but also the first
account of an alien abduction?
Those who believe the account!
in Winthrop's journals was an
actual alien encounter point to
the last line of his report
which states, "other credible
persons saw the same light."
By the time Winthrop's history
was published in 1790, the
debate over the possibility of
extraterrestrial life was more
heated than ever before.
In fact, the question of
whether life existed on other
planets had become so hotly
contested, it caused one of
America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine,
to be unofficially exiled to Europe.
Thomas Paine enters the extraterrestrial
life debate in a very dramatic way.
He was an Englishman, but
famous American patriot.
Thomas Paine publishes a book
called The Age of Reason.
And in The Age of Reason, he
makes one of the most vigorous
attacks on Christianity ever made.
The bottom line on it is, he says, you
must believe in extraterrestrials if you
know any modern astronomy.
The idea of God made the entire universe
going from planet to planet redeeming
people is just impossible to believe.
That creates a sensation.
Thousands of copies of
the book were sold.
In December of 1793, Thomas Paine was
arrested in France as a result of
supporting a political party
that was no longer in power.
When the American ambassador
refused to speak on his behalf,
Paine believed that George Washington had
abandoned him because of his writings
supporting the idea of extraterrestrial
life and refuting traditional
Christianity.
In 1802, he was invited back to
America by the third president,
Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson, an intellectual, was
considered a genius by many in
his time, both for his skill as a
statesman and his scientific aptitude.
And some believe he was
also a proponent, like his
contemporaries Ben Franklin and
John Adams, in the concept of
the plurality of worlds.
The concept of a plurality of worlds was
a very widely accepted concept in the
18th century.
People like John Adams and Thomas Paine
didn't view extraterrestrial life as a
possibility but rather as a matter of
fact that everybody knew to be true.
The new rationality in
science changed the way that
these Founding Fathers
talked about religion.
1825: Thomas Jefferson is hiring faculty
for the University of Virginia.
And John Adams writes to him and gives
him advice on how to do that hiring.
He says, "Do not hire any
European professors.
If you hire a European
professor, they are liable to
believe in Christianity, and
that is a very dangerous
doctrine that we should
stay far away from."
Other Founding Fathers also agreed with
this view, which included a belief
in the existence of
life on other planets.
Benjamin Franklin wondered if
there were different gods for
every sun that harbored
intelligent life.
Many of them felt it was clear
that there were intelligent
beings conceivably through
the whole universe, and that
the notion that God came
to this planet as a person
who was spit on and persecuted,
simply was ridiculous.
And they rejected that long-
held traditional belief, which
was a very radical thing at the time.
America's Founding Fathers defending
the concept of extraterrestrial life
against Christianity?
A revolutionary idea to be certain...
but perhaps not so
revolutionary to the country's
Earlie inhabitants, who long
before claimed to have met
visitors from the sky.
In northwestern New Mexico lies a
vast concentration of ancient ruins
known today as Chaco Canyon.
Built from sandstone blocks and
timber between 900 and 1150
A.D., the 15 major complexes
of Chaco Canyon contained
four-story structures with
hundreds of rooms that required
thousands of man-hours to construct.
Until the 19th century, they were the
largest buildings in North America.
Chaco Canyon was a center of activity
for a lot of different Indian
tribes, Pueblo tribes.
Archeologists, anthropologists have a
lot of theories about what that was.
But what I have studied and
what I can tell by just some of
the chants from our own tribe,
and other Pueblo tribes, is
that this would've been a big center of
activity for technological-spiritual
activities.
There's a lot of places on there that has
direct bearings up into the universe.
When archeologists first excavated these
ruins in 1896, they marveled at their
architectural precision.
But even more astonishing was
the fact that many of these
ancient structures-- like those
found in Egypt, England and
South America-- suggested the
inhabitants had a sophisticated
knowledge of astronomy.
A number of devices designed for
tracking solar events were found.
And at Fajada Butte, which sits
at the entrance of the canyon,
three giant slabs of rock are positioned
near two spiral petroglyphs etched on
a cliff wall.
During the solstice and the
equinox, these rocks catch the
sun in such a way as to shine
daggers of light on different
areas of the petroglyphs.
But why would early Native
Americans spend so much time
building the structures at Chaco
Canyon along such precise
astronomical alignments?
And why build them in such a
desolate area of the country?
It is one of those sites which has been
posing so many questions, and which
science is only slowly
beginning to explain.
But really, there are more questions than
answers at this moment in time about
Chaco Canyon.
In his 2006 book
The Orion Zone,
archaeo-astronomer Gary David
proposed that the geographical
layout of Hopi ruins in the
American Southwest precisely
mirrors the star patterns of a
number of constellations.
When you look at
where the ancestral Pueblan
major ceremonial sites are
actually located, Gary David
has identified that when you
just map these, you actually
find that they depict
constellations, specifically,
Orion is very important.
Orion's Belt points
to the brightest star in the
sky-- Sirius.
If one looks at the Hopi mesas
as the stars of Orion's Belt,
they also point to an important
location-- Chaco Canyon.
But why Orion?
And could it be merely a
coincidence that this
constellation pattern has been
found at other important sites
around the world, and always
with the belt pointing
towards a place of significance?
Ancient astronaut theorists
have discovered the
constellation of Orion lining
up with the Mayan complexes
along The Street of the Dead in
Mexico City.
And here, Orion's Belt points
to Cholula, the largest pyramid
in the world.
They also find it at the Giza
Pyramids in Egypt, with the
belt pointing toward the city
of Heliopolis; a place of
worship for ancient Egyptians.
The one thing we
know about Orion's Belt is that
this is a theme which is
recurring in Mayan mythology.
It's also actually a theme
which is occurring in Egyptian
mythology.
Orion's Belt, and the stars
around it, were seen as the
heart of creation; it is where
everything began.
And it's probably not
coincidental that the Hopis
see the place where they are
living as the heart of the
world.
These are ancient
people.
All they had to go by were the
stars.
And so, they believed-- as
astrologists believe today--
that the stars have certain
powers over what goes on on
planet Earth.
According to their
legends, the Hopi believe there
were three worlds that preceded
the one we are in today.
Each of those worlds was wiped
out when guardians of the sky
called to the Creator to tell
him that his finest creation,
humans, were no longer living
according to his plan.
And they called to him by
setting off a warning through
the Earth's axis, a vibration
strong enough to shift the
balance of the planet.
Is it possible the structures
at Chaco Canyon were built along
precise celestial alignments so
that the Hopi could predict the
periods of Earth's devastation
and renewal?
Could the guardians of the sky
have led them here so they could
monitor the position of the sun?
Why in the
world people settled at that
location wasn't... wasn't
something that they did on their
own.
There's no running water there.
There was no reason to live
there.
There's no good soil.
They did that because their
guardian told them to live
there.
During the times of
the summer and winter solstices,
as well as the spring and fall
equinoxes, the people at Chaco
Canyon could gauge the Earth's
balance by watching the path of
the sun daggers at Fajada Butte.
If the daggers did not pierce
the petroglyphs at the same
points as the previous year,
they would know that the Earth
was out of balance.
And since the Earth fell out of
balance at the end of the
previous three worlds, this
could mean the end was coming
once again.
Scientists from NASA determined
the earthquake that hit Chile
on February 27, 2010 shifted
the Earth's axis by three
inches.
Would the ancestral Pueblo
people have Se this as a sign
from the guardians above?
Well, do you think
that's going to show up at Chaco
Canyon on that dagger stick that
comes down at the time of the
solstice?
Do you think the Indians were
watching that?
It's what the
Hopi call koyaanisqatsi.
We are living in koyaanisqatsi
right now.
We are living in a life that's
out of balance.
Could these Native
American legends be more than
just myth?
Is it possible that these
stories, along with the ancient
texts of India and the stories
of the Bible, are all describing
alien visitations?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is yes, and the proof
may lie on a small, uninhabited
island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1795, three Nova Scotia farm boys set
out to explore nearby Oak Island after
witnessing strange green lights
coming from its shore in the
middle of the night.
As they came to the island, they saw
that there was one little, you know, pit
that they thought, "Well, this
is very odd," so they started
to dig in that particular spot.
They came across different
platforms made out of wood,
especially out of oak, and the
deeper they dug, they also came
across a mat made of coconut
fiber, and they came across a
stone slab that had very
bizarre writing on it.
One thing is crystal clear:
Canada does not have any
coconut trees, so the mat made
of coconut fiber-- where
did it come from?
That's a very intriguing question-- how
all these different levels were made.
The initial excavation
stopped at a depth of feet.
But since that time, over a
dozen professional excavations
have been attempted and funded
by everyone from actors
John Wayne and Errol Flynn to Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Mining and excavation companies have
dug multiple shafts surrounding the
whole Money Pit with the hopes
of achieving or reaching
whatever is buried down there.
They've even tried to dig in
sideways, and even that didn't work.
Based on the findings from numerous
excavations, the Money Pit
contains a series of oak
platforms starting at a depth of
ten feet and recurring every ten feet
thereafter, going at least 200 feet down.
In between these platforms
are slabs of flagstone-- not
indigenous to the island--
and layers of puddle clay.
Efforts to reach the bottom
of the pit have proven so
dangerous, six people
have died in the attempt.
Its underground is covered with
canals-- flooding canals that
lead seawater into the system.
Each time there seemed to be a
progress, underground floods in
the canals would make further
searches impossible.
So, this is what we know:
many centuries ago, someone
constructed a giant hydraulic
system under this island.
It couldn't have been pirates.
It had to be someone with great expertise
for architecture and hydraulics.
We still haven't been able to access
whatever is down there because of the
incredible flooding system.
These treasure hunters poured
red paint into one of these
shafts, and not only did it come
out on one side of the island,
but also on the other side.
Up to three shafts
have been discovered.
I mean, it's ingenious.
But who-- or what-- constructed
this elaborately booby-trapped pit?
And, perhaps more importantly, what-- if
anything-- lies hidden at the bottom?
Some have speculated that it
might be the crown jewels of
England, pirate treasure, Viking
hoards and even the original
manuscripts of Shakespeare.
But perhaps the most audacious
theory of all is that the Money
Pit is the hiding place for one of the
most sacred objects in the world.
There is a possibility that the Ark of
the Covenant, with its contents, has
been hidden on Oak Island.
The Ark of the Covenant?
The most sacred object in
all of Judeo-Christianity?
The gold chest that is supposed
to contain the tablets on which
the Hebrew God wrote
the Ten Commandments?
Why would this religious relic
be placed at the bottom of an
elaborately booby-trapped
pit in Northeastern Canada?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the Ark may have been
hidden because of the powers it
held-- powers from out of this world.
According to the ancient astronaut
hypothesis, the Ark of the Covenant housed
an extraterrestrial device which
was given to the Israelites
during their 40-year wandering
through the desert.
When you go back to the biblical
descriptions, it becomes a weapon.
It rises up into the air.
It rushes towards the
enemies of Israel.
When the Philistines briefly
capture it, um, they make the
mistake of opening it
and filing past it.
Suddenly, thousands of
people start to die.
The biblical account states
quite clearly that the cause of
death was cancerous tumors.
This is a very mysterious
and puzzling thing.
What kind of object could
have these almost machinelike
attributes and cause deaths that
sound like radiation sickness?
What powers the Ark held is the subject
of wide speculation, but an even bigger
mystery is what happened to the Ark
and where it might be located today.
One legend says that it was
taken during the Crusades by an
elite band of monk-like warriors
known as the Knights Templar.
The cover story-- and it feels like a
cover story-- is that they were to
protect pilgrims on the route between the
coast and Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
But they don't ever seem
to have done any of that.
Um, right soon after they were
founded, they took possession
of the Temple Mount, uh, in Jerusalem.
And, uh, for the best part of
80 or 90 years, they devoted
themselves to what looked like
an archaeological expedition on
the Temple Mount.
And I'm pretty certain they were
looking for the Ark of the Covenant.
The legend tells of the
Knights taking the Ark to
Scotland, where they formed an alliance
with the powerful Sinclair family.
Some historians believe William
Sinclair may have taken the Ark
to Oak Island in Nova Scotia in the 1400s
to protect it from English invasion.
Here, Sinclair and his men could
have built what might be the
most impenetrable vault ever
made-- the notorious Money Pit.
But, if so, where is the evidence?
In the 1990s, some scientists were
able to send cameras down into one of
the shafts.
There, they discovered strange objects
that had a rounded, tubular shape.
Their C-14 values were diverse
and their radiometric age
ranged from very old to futuristic.
Now, that is basically impossible.
However, there is some chance that that
effect could be caused by some kind of
radioactivity.
That's why we suspect that a
nuclear reactor may have been
taken there and hidden inside this
ingenious hydraulic system...
...so that it would
be kept safe forever.
What would it mean if the Ark of the
Covenant really was discovered at the
bottom of the Money Pit?
Would it provide the proof of
alien intervention-- the very
proof that ancient astronaut
theorists have been waiting for?
If the Ark of the Covenant is found at
the bottom of the Money Pit, well...
story's over.
Perhaps.
But an even greater
question persists: why?
Has mankind been helped by the
intervention of beings from
other worlds, as ancient
astronaut proponents contend?
Or was there a more ominous intention?
Could the Ark, if discovered,
be a sort of Pandora's box
that, once opened, would reveal
more about our origins than we
would ever want to know?
As the 20th century dawned, the
industrial revolution suggested that
nothing conceived by man
could be impossible.
We could now ride through the
countryside in horseless carriages...
...sail the seas in huge ocean liners...
fly through the sky in airships.
Even the idea of building
rockets and flying them to the
Moon, Mars and beyond seemed
well within our grasp.
It was the era of science
fiction writers like H.G. Wells
and inventors like Einstein,
Tesla, Edison and Ford.
In 1896, there were widespread
reports of strange airships
hovering over various locations
in the American West.
Coincidence or consequence?
There were sightings throughout
history, and of course, there were a
large number of sightings
in the 19th century.
But it wasn't until 1896 that
there were waves of sightings.
Thousands of people in 1896 and
1897 in the United States saw
phantom airships, the origin
of which was never explained.
These reports were catalogued,
discussed in newspapers.
There were sightings
in 1896, 1897, 1898.
And in fact, we kind of know,
from newspaper reports from the
Southwest, that people were
seeing craft with wings.
And the Wright Brothers didn't
fly an airplane until 1903.
So what were these craft?
Well, on the one hand, people were
flying balloons in the 19th century.
So balloons were not high technology.
What was high technology back
then was affixing a gasoline
engine to the gondola of a balloon.
That whole airship mystery--
my guess is that some
of those were just dirigibles
that people were flying around.
On the other hand, during that
time, we also find reports of
objects that moved really too
quickly to be dirigibles.
And some were maybe too shiny
really to be the types of
balloons that they were
making at that time.
The prevalence of these balloons powered
by gasoline engines flying around
in the late 1890s in the turn
of the century probably opened
up people's minds to the
possibility that there could be
literally unidentified flying objects.
People began, to put it
bluntly, looking up.
So it could be said that modern
UFO history began with these
mysterious airships of the 1890s.
It certainly seems possible, if we
believe that the airship sightings were
sightings of extraterrestrial
spaceships, that perhaps the
aliens were interested in human
activity at the time because of
the rapid increases being
made in technology.
Some people have suggested that aliens
have been interfering with the lives of
human beings for thousands of years.
And because they were always
here at significant points in
human history, they introduced
various kinds of technologies
to spur development
along a certain line.
Could the same alien presence that
some believe had been visiting the
Earth for centuries have been
responsible for inspiring our
great leap into the modern age?
Or could the increased close
encounters with UFOs-- which
would persist through the next
century-- be a sign that we
were in danger of going too far?
A very common idea that we have today
is that, as we develop technologically,
we're going to see an increase
in UFO phenomena-- that UFOs are
basically monitoring us.
Decades ago, we saw a lot of
UFO activity around air bases,
around atomic bases and also
UFOs following airplanes and
maybe following our aircraft.
I would say that certainly, as
we keep developing, we will
continue to see that
monitoring aspect to the UFOs.
Especially as we continue going
to space, we're going to
continue seeing more UFO activity.
Whether it's for our benefit
or not, that's hard to say.
Our history, the history of human
beings on planet Earth-- whether we
ourselves are the aliens seeded
from another planet or that
the aliens created us, as the
stories of the Anunnaki say--
regardless, it may be that human
beings are being directed
toward a certain end.
In the 20th century, the inhabitants
of planet Earth were capable of
blasting off and touching the stars.
We were also capable of
harnessing the atom... >> Fire.
...and using it to inflict the
deadliest of devastations.
We would send satellites into orbit,
land on the Moon and reach Mars.
But what would we find?
A barren, empty universe of
dead planets or something else?
In the 1960s, mainstream scientists
were already exploring the question
of whether or not we're
alone in the universe.
And there was only a handful
of scientists who actually
proposed the idea that, yes, there
are other civilizations out there.
Now fast-forward 50 years.
You'd be very hard-pressed to
find any scientist today saying
that we're alone in the universe.
What we're coming up to now,
in the 21st century, is
going to be a redefinition.
Our entire history may have to
be revised, in the context of
nonhuman intelligences
coming and going.
And what else is out there in
this incredible universe of
which we humans are a part?
Perhaps the dawn of the space age was a
signal to whatever or whoever was out
there that, after centuries of
writing on cave walls, building
temples and mapping the skies,
the inhabitants of planet Earth
were at last ready.
Ready for their return.
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Christopher Columbus...
Crusaders in the Middle Ages...
What did they have in common?
They either experienced or believed in
the possibility of alien encounters.
And the fact is there have been
so many descriptions by various
chroniclers talking about a strange
cloud in the sky that glowed red.
Columbus, on his first voyage, he
noted in the log, a glowing object
rise out of the water and
head off into the atmosphere.
Could alien beings have been responsible
for biblical floods, medieval
plagues, and even ancient
nuclear attacks?
Visitations occurred since before
recorded history all the way to today.
Millions of people around the world believe
we have been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And what if these visitations
didn't only occur thousands
of years ago, but much more recently?
Might there be evidence of
real-life close encounters?
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Alamogordo, New Mexico.
White Sands Proving
Ground, July 16, 1945.
Early in the morning, a number of U.
S. military officers and
scientists gather to watch a
powerful new weapon being tested.
Some believe the device will
be a complete failure, others
think it might destroy the
entire state of New Mexico.
As a precaution, viewing
stations are placed from ten
to 20 miles away from the test site.
At precisely 5:29 and 45 seconds,
the first atomic bomb is detonated.
>> Three, two, one...
Fire!
The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet
wide and produces an explosion equal
to 20,000 tons of TNT.
The mushroom cloud reaches over
reverberations can be felt
nearly 100 miles away.
The world had a new weapon;
one so terrifying it left even its creator, Dr.
Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and
shaken.
A few people laughed.
A few people cried.
Most people were silent.
For the first time in its history, the
Earth had been assaulted by a manmade
weapon of incredible power.
But what if it had
all happened before?
What if an explosion of even greater
force and destructiveness had long ago
shaped the Earth's history?
Some people have suggested on the basis
of a number of lines of evidence
that there may have been
atomic warfare, atomic bombs,
atomic explosions, in
the very distant past.
Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations
may sound like something out of a
science fiction novel, but
descriptions of similar deadly
occurrences can be found in the
very same text Dr. Oppenheimer
quoted after the New
Mexico atomic test.
I remembered the line from the Hindu
scripture, the Bhagavad Gita,
"Now I am become death,
the destroyer of worlds."
Part of an ancient Hindu scripture
known as The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad
Gita was written sometime between
the fifth and second century B.C.
This massive 100,000-verse text
contains stories about the
ancient empire OJ Rama, which
it is said existed over 12,000
years ago, or roughly 5,000 years before
the earliest recorded civilization
in Mesopotamia.
If you read the ancient Indian
epics, they read like modern-day
science fiction.
Yet they are thousands of
years old with references
not only of flying chariots and
of these gods that had these
incredible technological
capabilities, but incredible
weapons that they used
in those epic battles.
They had what was
called a Brahma weapon.
There were many people that were
singed and burned and melted
by the Brahma weapon.
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Brahma weapon was an early nuclear
device because the descriptions
of its deadly aftereffects are
eerily similar to the effects of
exposure to intense radiation.
It is a theory largely discounted
by conventional science.
There is no evidence that a nuclear
bomb was described in The Mahabharata,
the Bhagavad Gita.
It describes a battle.
In battles there are
explosions, big explosions.
It's one thing about suggesting that,
you know, battles have explosions, but
that's not really what
we're looking at.
You've got to look at
the whole picture.
One reference that we have,
for example, speaks of these
explosions that were brighter
than a thousand suns.
And when these blasts occurred,
the suns were twirling in the
air, trees went up in flames and there
was just this mass destruction.
After those blasts, people who
survive start to lose their hair
and nails start to fall out.
I mean, right there, we have a
concise reference to radiation
poisoning, nuclear fallout.
And those texts are
thousands of years old.
But if The Mahabharata is based
on fact, wouldn't archaeologists
have uncovered physical
or radiological evidence?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, they have.
The Indus Valley, Southern Pakistan.
In 1922, an officer with an
Indian archeological survey
group discovered the ruins of an
ancient city known as Mohenjo-Daro.
According to mainstream
archeologists, the city, whose
name means "mound of the dead,"
had flourished between
2600 and 1900 B.C.
However, scientists in Pakistan have
suggested Mohenjo-Daro is much older.
Mainstream archeologists
believe the city was abandoned
as a result of climatic changes
or possibly a decrease in trade.
But when the ruins of
Mohenjo-Daro were discovered in
the 1920s, 44 skeletons were
found lying face down in the
street, many holding hands.
Their faces and body positioning
suggested they suffered
a sudden, violent death.
You have a culture of people who
literally were lying dead in the street.
Archaeologists have found human
remains, and something big
has happened to these people.
What, in fact, did happen to
the people of Mohenjo-Daro?
Why is there evidence that wild animals
avoided scavenging their remains?
And why, even after thousands of
years, had their bones not decayed?
In certain areas of that site, you
find increased levels of radiation.
And radiation exists
all over the place.
When, all of a sudden, you have
higher levels of radiation
in certain areas of the world,
the question, arises, "Why?"
Is it possible that Mohenjo-Daro was
one of the cities mentioned in the
Bhagavad Gita-- a city that suffered the
equivalent of a sudden atomic attack?
In his 1979 book, Atomic
Destruction in 2000 B.C.,
British researcher David
Davenport claimed to have found
a 50-yard-wide epicenter
at Mohenjo-Daro where everything
appeared to have been fused
through a transformative process
known as "vitrification."
Vitrification is
a process in which regular-type
stone gets molten into a magma
state and then it hardens again.
But once the stone is hardened
again, it feels like glass.
At Mohenjo-Daro, we find
evidence of vitrification, which
could have only been achieved
if the material was exposed to
extreme heat by some type of
a blast.
When British
and Indian and Pakistani
archeologists began doing
excavations in the Sian Desert,
on the borders of India and
Pakistan, in the late 1940s and
early 1950s, what they found in
these cities-- Mohenjo-Daro,
Harrapa, Kot Diji-- was
archeological evidence to show
there were apparently atomic
weapons.
Only it happened in ancient
times.
There's other evidence in parts
of Africa and the Middle East,
where it would seem to be like
some sort of atomic explosion
had taken place there, and had
turned the desert sand
into glass.
And that's exactly what happened
at Alamogordo, in New Mexico,
when they detonated the first
atom bomb in the desert.
Could the strange
ruins found in the Indus Valley
really contain evidence of an
ancient atomic explosion?
If so, where did these powerful
weapons come from?
Who was using them?
And why?
In the ancient
Indian texts themselves it says,
and I quote, "At one point,
three giant cities were orbiting
the Earth."
And those giant cities were
often described as being made
of gleaming metal and iron.
And at one point, those three
cities went to war with each
other.
And it's described how the gods
threw weapons at each other,
destroying those cities,
they all went up in flames
and fire came raining down onto
Earth.
So, when you read those
passages, the question I ask is:
What is it that our ancestors
tried to describe here?
And I think that it was some
type of a technology that was
witnessed, yet our ancestors,
while being highly intelligent,
didn't understand the nuts and
bolts aspects behind that
technology.
And so they created something
divine out of it, something
supernatural, yet it never was
divine.
It never was supernatural.
If, in fact,
The Mahabharata is describing
historical events, might we
also find similar accounts
in other ancient writings?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
we need look no further than in
the pages of the Holy Bible.
According to one of the stories contained
in the book of Genesis, angels were
sent by God to destroy the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
because of the sins
of their inhabitants.
Only a righteous man named Lot, along
with his family, was to be spared.
But while making their escape,
Lot's wife ignores the angels'
warning not to look back, and
upon gazing at the horror and
devastation, is turned
into a pillar of salt.
When you are at a nuclear testing range
and you witness a nuclear blast, you're
told to look away and not to
look straight into the blast.
And here we have a similar
description in ancient biblical
text where instructions were
given, "Whatever you do, don't
look back because you will die."
And sure enough, it
happened to Lot's wife.
Could it be that the story of Sodom and
Gomorrah is really a description of a
nuclear explosion, similar to the one
described in the Hindus' Mahabharata?
Do the stories of The Mahabharata and
the Bible represent actual historical
events?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a resounding "yes."
And they believe the so-called
"angels" who brought forth the
devastation were, in fact,
beings from another planet--
alien visitors armed
with advanced weaponry.
September, 2000.
The Black Sea, Turkey.
Marine archaeologist Robert
Ballard and his team of
underwater scientists discover
what appears to be a farmhouse
some 330 feet below the surface.
Estimates suggest the submerged dwelling
to be approximately 7,500 years old.
Ballard and other scholars
speculated that rising ocean
levels could have caused the
Mediterranean Sea to burst
through a natural dam, creating
a flood so great it drowned
an estimated 58,000 square
miles under 500 feet of water.
But more than finding the ruins
of an ancient dwelling, had
Ballard actually discovered
proof that the biblical story
of Noah and the great flood was true?
Those villages, of course,
weren't built underwater.
So Ballard concluded that the
Black Sea, as we know it, was
only created some eight,
9,000 years ago.
That is exactly what we're
talking about with Noah's Ark
and the flood, the same area
where all that happened.
And in fact, mainstream
archeologists know that in the
Mediterranean there are over
200 known sunken cities.
Those cities, too, were somehow
flooded the same time that the
Black Sea was flooded.
Also written in the book of Genesis, the
story of Noah tells how God "saw that
the wickedness of man was great ," and
decided to destroy all of creation.
Only Noah, his family, and the
animals aboard the ark were
allowed to survive and
repopulate the planet.
But is this the whole story?
Was Noah selected only for his virtue?
Or was there another reason he
was chosen to save the planet?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe the
Bible doesn't tell the whole story.
In the late 1940s and early
1950s, a series of ancient
texts known as the Dead Sea
Scrolls were discovered in a
cave located in what is
now Israel's West Bank.
Among the ancient writings are
various stories not found in
the traditional Hebrew Bible.
One such story tells of Noah and
his strange, miraculous birth.
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls is
called "The Lamech Scroll."
What is Lamech?
Lamech was a shepherd.
And one day, Lamech, his
woman was pregnant.
And he said to her,
"This is impossible.
I was not here for months."
But his woman with the name Bathenosh
swears, "No one touched me."
But Lamech doesn't believe his
wife, Bathenosh, and he goes to
his father, which was Methuselah.
And Methuselah says to
Lamech, "I can't help you.
I don't understand this.
I believe your woman, Bathenosh, "that
nobody touched her, and I believe you.
What shall I do?"
So Methuselah goes to his father,
the grandfather now of Lamech.
His name is Enoch.
Now Enoch tells to Methuselah
that the guardians of the sky
have made an artificial insemination
into the womb of Bathenosh, the wife.
And he should accept this child,
because this child will be
the father of a new human generation.
And in the Bible, this is Noah.
What if, as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,
the story of Lamech is true
and the guardians of the sky
described in the story
are, in fact, aliens?
Does this mean that Noah was
the product of an artificial
insemination, a genetic experiment
performed by extraterrestrials?
If so, what was the reason
for the great flood?
Well, the reason for the flood,
and we need to understand this.
What it tells us is that Noah was
pure in all of his generations.
What does that mean?
You know, why would the account,
you know, specify "pure in all
his generations"?
According to the Bible, God sent the
flood because of man's wickedness and
corruption.
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe the flood was actually
a means of ridding the Earth
of biological imperfections.
By using Noah and his family,
they could repopulate the
planet with a genetically
superior species.
Part of this human society is, again,
genetically backward, closer
to the animal.
What can we do?
These humans were spread
out over the planet.
So they said, "We have to mill
them all by a great flood, and
then we have to restart again."
Another familiar element in the story
of Noah involves the collection of
animals brought aboard the ark.
In the Bible, God commanded
Noah to collect two of every
kind of living creature--
animal, bird and insect.
But many biblical scholars and
theologians agree that such
a task would have been both physically
and biologically impossible.
Could there be another more
scientific explanation?
The story of Noah's Ark is pretty
implausible, if you think about it.
You have two animals of each
creature on planet Earth on a boat.
Not only would the boat have to
be huge, but how are you going
to collect every animal on the
planet and put it on that ship?
So, could it be possible that
Noah's Ark was once again
misunderstood technology, and
Noah's Ark was a DNA bank?
Could it be a story?
Could it be technology somehow
gathering up all living things
as in a DNA bank of some kind?
It fits together.
Hard to imagine, uh, how that
would happen so far back, but
if it did happen, it would need
to be told as a story, and the
to be told as a story, and the
story of a boat works.
Perhaps this is really an
extraterrestrial DNA bank as well.
The extraterrestrials need plants and
animals and minerals on this planet, too.
Just like when we go to Mars
or something, we'll be using
what we can use on that planet.
So, extraterrestrials coming here
would want to do that as well.
And if they knew that some
cataclysm was coming, they, too,
would want to preserve certain
kinds of animals and plant life,
and create, you know, what
we think of as Noah's Ark.
An alien DNA bank?
Is there any evidence that
such a thing is even possible?
In 2008, on the Arctic island
of Svalbard, a vault was built
to store the seeds of hundreds
of thousands of plants in the
event of a global catastrophe.
Elsewhere, similar efforts are
reportedly underway to store
animal and human DNA as well.
Cutting-edge science or merely
history repeating itself?
The Frozen Ark Project is a program that
was initiated by the London Natural
History Museum.
What they've done is they started to store
DNA of endangered species for future
generations, for preservation.
And, as of today, over a
thousand species have been
preserved in small little vials.
So, the question arises,
could it be possible that
Noah's Ark wasn't necessarily a
boat made out of wood, but what
if Noah's Ark was some type of a
DNA storage facility that was
used in order to preserve all
the species on planet Earth?
If each species can be held in
a tiny vile like this, then
it all becomes very logical.
And, once again, we have to look
at it from a perspective, "What
did our ancestors try to describe?
What did they witness?"
Aliens artificially inseminating humans...
Ancient DNA banks...
Could such ideas really help our
understanding of the Bible?
And is it possible that extraterrestrials
have influenced the development of
mankind?
There are many who claim that
the proof can be found in some
astonishing places.
For those who believe that close
encounters with alien beings have helped
shape Earth's history, it is
important to remember that it
isn't only ancient history
that has been so influenced.
There have been literally
hundreds of credible accounts
of strange creatures, UFO
sightings and otherworldly
phenomena that took place, even
in the so-called Dark Ages.
There have been sightings all over the
world throughout the Middle Ages.
There are stories going from Scotland
to England to Italy to the Crusades.
Remember the Crusades took
place over hundreds of years.
And at certain points in the
battle, in some cases over
Turkey, in some cases over
Jerusalem, there are images
captured in writing by various
chroniclers talking about
"a strange cloud in the
sky that glowed red.
A strange image coming out
of a cloud in the sky."
Why would we say this is a UFO?
Because, traditionally, UFOs
mask themselves by forming
a cloud around themselves.
And it's a cloud that's going
through the sky-- that's their
invisibility cloak.
In his 13th century historical
work titled Otto
Imperialia, Gervase of Tilbury
wrote about an aerial craft
over the city of Bristol,
England, which caught an
anchor in a church steeple.
He uses specifically
the term "anchor."
Now, we don't know what
kind of anchor that is.
But a creature, a man, climbs
out of this craft and tries
to free the anchor from the steeple.
And all the people in the
village start stoning him,
thinking he's some sort of evil demon.
But for ancient astronaut theorists,
evidence of an alien presence during the
Middle Ages isn't only
found in literature.
All throughout the Middle Ages, there
are some magnificent paintings...
...and in certain areas of the painting,
there are what looks like to be UFOs.
They're always floating up in
the sky-- usually above the
Virgin Mary or above Jesus on
the crucifix-- or somewhere we
have sceneries that Pict
what looks like UFOs.
One very interesting painting
is where Jesus sits up in the
clouds with quote, unquote "God
," and they're holding onto
the antennae of what looks like
Sputnik; and theologians say
what is depicted here is
nothing else but the Earth.
But why would Earth have two
antennae sticking out of it?
And why would it be round?
Because the mainstream viewpoint at
the time was that the Earth was flat.
Here are pictures of the crucifixion
dated around 1350 from Kosovo.
Here are, presumably, vehicles
with people driving them in
attendance at the crucifixion.
Could this be a crude-- an
attempt on the part of the
artist drawing on a tradition--
obviously, he wasn't there--
drawing on a tradition?
Could he be reflecting the folklore?
Possibly.
The people of the Middle Ages depicted
devils and angels frequently,
in their art.
They did not depict what we today
consider aliens, specifically.
But angels are heavenly creatures
that come from outside
of our sphere, aren't they?
Did the medieval artists include strange
creatures and flying spacecraft
in their paintings because they
had seen them in real life?
Or were they trying to
communicate their belief that
the miraculous events of the New
Testament had otherworldly origins?
The most famous painting that
resolved any doubt in my mind
depict a UFO with its laser
beam, was made by Crivelli in
1486-- The Annunciation to Mary.
In medieval art, in The
Annunciation, when Mary is
told that she will have a child,
but she will still be a virgin,
and the angels tell her this, over
Mary's head is a space capsule.
But what's a UFO, or a space
capsule, doing over Mary?
Maybe the artist saw it and he's
putting it in the painting to
bring together his own vision of
a UFO, the annunciation from the
Bible, and the mystery of salvation
that there could be a virgin birth.
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
the UFO-shaped objects found in
medieval paintings aren't the
only evidence of an alien
presence during the era.
In his book, The Gods of Eden,
author William Bramley cites
private journals and other
publications throughout
Europe which contain accounts
of cigar-shaped flying objects
emitting noxious mists.
The first reports of this kind
began during the mid-14th
century, closely corresponding
to the outbreak of the worst
health epidemic in human
history-- the Black Plague.
The Black
Plague, back in the 1300s, many
have said was caused by a virus
from a rodent-- bitten by fleas.
This disease that wiped out
75-plus million people on the
planet at the time.
But there's another theory by
a fellow by the name of William
Bramley who says that the Black
Plague was created by ETs, that
they wanted to eradicate human
beings, for whatever horrible
reason.
We know that
plague can be spread by rodents.
But there weren't that many
rodent infestations being
reported back then, at least not
enough to account for all of the
breakouts that we had.
So what you find in the
literature from that time are
numerous reports of bright
lights moving through the sky,
emitting gas, or what they call
"mists."
And we find them in China, you
find them in Europe.
There are similar reports
from the Justinian plague from
earlier in history, and even
later plagues, the cholera
epidemics.
You find similar stories of
mists that are the cause of the
Plague.
We have weapons like that--
biological warfare.
As for the motive as to why
this happened, I can only kind
of scratch my head, because in
the UFO phenomena, we see
certain consistent patterns, but
we don't always understand the
motive.
Italian historian
Matteo Villani, who both
chronicled the Black Death and
died from it in the 14th
century, wrote of pestilential
fogs reported by travelers from Asia.
He even wrote that people were
convinced they could actually
see the plague coming
through the streets.
But what some ancient astronaut
believers find to be even
stronger evidence of alien involvement,
are the numerous reports of mysterious
black-cloaked creatures who
would appear on the outskirts
of villages just before
plague broke out.
Contemporary accounts describe
them as having "terrifying
faces" and "waving long, scythe-like
objects dispensing noxious mists."
It's the image we know
today as the Grim Reaper.
These figures in black would appear
usually on the outskirts of a town.
They were carrying these long
devices that looks like scythes.
These figures in black would
start sweeping in the fields as
though they were cutting
down the wheat.
Then immediately there would
be an outbreak of the plague.
Although ancient astronaut theorists
are divided on Bramley's proposal that
aliens we behind the plague,
his research, like the artwork
of the time, has led to
one important conclusion.
What is evidenced is the fact that
visitations occurred since before recorded
history all the way to today.
It's not like ancient astronauts
only happened thousands of years
ago, and then all of a
sudden we have Roswell.
The fact alone, that these
visitations have been going on
for all this time, thousands
of years, that's sensational.
Flying cylinders spreading
plague from the sky?
Black-clad aliens looking
to destroy humans?
But even if possible, why?
And, if true, wouldn't there
continue to be evidence of even
more close encounters-- encounters that
would take place much closer to home?
When Columbus and his men first set foot
in what to the Europeans was the "New
World," the indigenous people had
never encountered anyone like them.
Their skin was pale.
They wore strange clothes made of
bright, often shiny materials.
They arrived in massive ships
and had powerful weapons.
To the natives, the visitors were truly
aliens from a strange, faraway world--
powerful beings who might just as
well have been sent from the heavens.
Columbus wrote in his journal that
the inhabitants eagerly came out
to see their ships, and asked them
if they had come from the heavens.
And despite the fact that
Columbus and his men indicated,
"No, we didn't come from the
heavens," they called out to
the people still on the shore,
"Come out and see the people
who've come from the heavens."
Certainly, it seems interesting
to wonder why it is that
instead of thinking that
possibly they came from some
other part of the sea, that
they'd come from the sky.
But there is more to the story.
Less well-known is that
Columbus had an alien encounter
of his own, one reported in
his log just days before he
reached the shores of the New World.
p.m. on the 11th of October, 1492, the
anxious explorer was on the deck of the
Santa Maria when he saw a
"light glimmering at
a great distance."
Columbus wrote, "The admiral, standing
on the quarterdeck saw a light.
Calling to Pedro Gutierrez, he
told him he saw a light, and
bid him look that way,
which he did and saw it.
The admiral again perceived it
once or twice, appearing like
the light of a wax candle
moving up and down."
Summoning another member of the
crew, the two watched as the
light vanished and
reappeared repeatedly.
Seeing lights in the water
isn't really an anomaly.
We all know that certain kinds of
underwater life give off lights.
But this light actually
traveled along with the ship.
Columbus noted in the log a glowing object
rise out of the water, and head off
into the atmosphere.
What did Columbus see?
A phosphorescent sea creature?
An hallucination?
Or was it something more?
Something from out of this world?
What did Columbus'
men see?
What they saw was a luminous
object, that upon breaking
the water's surface, became a UFO.
To UFO researchers like
Bill Birnes, Columbus'
sighting is significant, not only because
of when it occurred, but also because
the object was spotted coming
out of the sea, ruling out the
possibility that what he saw was
a comet or a shooting star.
What's intriguing is that this was in
what we cal- today the Bermuda Triangle.
The Bermuda Triangle, that
area, particularly off of
Bimini, the Bahamas, may in
fact be-- and I'm way out on a
limb here-- Colony
headquarters underneath that.
Your UFO goes down into the water
and then into a subterranean.
What better position would
be to monitor South America,
Middle America, Egypt
than the Caribbean?
Many people believe that
it's possible that UFOs
could have established
bases on the seafloor.
To some extent, it's true
that we know more about the
Moon or some parts of outer
space than we do about the
deepest parts of our own oceans.
This event is extremely important
because it is the world's first
recorded event that illustrate
the appearance of UFO as object
emerging from the water.
If Columbus sighting was so extraordinary,
why do we only find record of it
in his log?
Some believe another account
of this event exists in the
official records of the
Spanish Inquisition.
UFO researcher Maximillien De Lafayette
claims that Columbus' shipmate, Pedro
Gutierrez, reported him to the
Inquisition after hearing
Columbus describe the lights in the
sky as resembling the Jewish menorah.
When they went back to Spain,
Gutierrez went directly to the
infamous Inquisition.
This is the Catholic organization
created by the Vatican to persecute and
kill the infidels.
The infidels means the Jews, the Muslims
and Christians who are not Catholic.
The Inquisition called him
for explanation, deposition.
"Did you say that you saw menorah?
Why did you say menorah?
Oh, so you are a Jew."
He said, "I'm not a Jew."
In the deposition, which is
lengthy, you find more details,
meticulous details of what
Columbus saw above the water.
The file of the Inquisition is
in the vault of the Vatican.
And good luck if you can go
to the secret file of the
Vatican and try to dig for
document as explosive as this one.
Secret files of the
Spanish Inquisition?
UFOs and alien sightings
in the time of Columbus?
Farfetched, perhaps.
But to proponents of ancient
astronaut theory, these
precolonial close encounters are
considered commonplace events.
For them, it offers additional
proof that we are not alone.
They have several sightings of
what we would call UFOs today
along the discovery of America,
during the conquest of America.
Columbus was not the only one.
Also on the trip of Magellan.
Fernando De Magellan, the
discoverer of the Strait,
who circumnavigate the
world after Columbus.
He have also sightings.
Seafarers often encounter strange
lights both in the sky and below the
surface of the ocean.
Skeptics argue that Columbus'
sighting, like many others, was
simply a natural phenomenon.
At night, there are all kinds
of things, for example bolides.
Bolides are these very large
comets, and they're spectacular.
It's just like this enormous
bright light with a trail that
just arcs through the sky.
But we can tell the difference.
When you have a meteor like that or a
bolide, the characteristics are very
different than the
ones of genuine UFOs.
As far back as the 19th century,
people have speculated about what that
light could've been.
Explanations have centered
around the possibility that it
could've been a light or a torch being
carried by an island inhabitant.
They were in fact more than
35 miles away from any land,
which makes that impossible.
The other possibility is that
it was a meteor traveling
very close to the horizon, and that the
movement of the ship is actually what
made the light appear to
be moving up and down.
But what if conventional science
is wrong and the ancient astronaut
theorists are correct?
What if Columbus, Magellan and the early
explorers really did see evidence of
extraterrestrial creatures
visiting our planet?
What does this say about our past?
Our history?
And our future?
Germany, April
14, 1561.
At dawn, the citizens of
Nuremberg awoke to what was
described in a local news flier
as "a very frightful spectacle."
Various strange objects
were spotted in the sky...
engaged in what appeared
to be an aerial battle.
Could they have been
witnessing a close encounter?
They see this incredible sight
as the sun is coming up.
They see what they describe as
cigar-shaped objects, circles
in the air, and crosses;
flying crosses.
And suddenly, these shapes
begin emitting other shapes.
The spheres and discs were seen for
a long time, as they apparently
were fighting in some kind
of a battle over the city.
In fact, the battle was so
evident that the people in
Nuremberg were actually able to
perceive which side was winning.
Some of the objects were seen
to crash into the ground
and disappear in a cloud
of smoke or steam.
Other objects were seen to fly off and
disappear in the direction of the sun.
This entire event becomes
memorialized in a broadsheet.
Now a broadsheet in the 16th
century was literally a newspaper.
And that broadsheet exists
today in Zurich, Switzerland.
The Zurich Central Library to this day
retains a copy not only of the famous
woodcut that shows the 1561
sighting over Nuremberg, but
also a 1566 woodcut showing a
sighting from that year that
was quite similar in
Basel, Switzerland.
What's fascinating is it's
a very similar event.
People saw a bunch of
circles in the air.
In fact, a proliferation
of circles in the air.
They didn't necessarily
interpret that as a battle in
the air, but they did interpret
it as some kind of heavenly sign.
The broadsheets that were distributed
both in Nuremberg and in Basel five
years later, advised people to
"repent for their sins" and
interpreted these extraordinary
events as signs from God.
In old time, everything paranormal,
extra, extra-- hyphen--
ordinary belongs the realm
of divinity, of Gods.
"God's doing this!
God is punishing us!
God is blessing us!
Go repent!
Go to church!"
It's interesting to read the Nuremberg
description because it is written with
religious iconography in mind.
They talk about crosses seen
in the sky on the previous day
during that sighting.
Now what we might think of as a
fuselage with wings, might've
appeared as a cross to people
who saw religious symbolism
constantly in their everyday life.
It's difficult to imagine
how these things might have
appeared, but it's certainly
possible that if these were to
appear in the sky today, we would
describe them quite differently.
Could the people of Nuremberg have
actually witnessed a battle between
warring alien factions; an event
eerily similar to the one
written about in the Bhagavad
Gita over 3,000 years earlier?
And if not, what else would
explain the vivid accounts of
luminous globes and blood-red
crosses appearing in the sky?
Throughout the Middle Ages,
visions of strange happenings
were often attributed to God
or to the supernatural.
But moving into what is known
as the early modern period of
the 17th century, people began
to look more and more toward
science and the stars for answers.
And with the invention of the
refracting telescope in 1608,
there would be more eyes trained
on the stars than ever before.
Ironically, the first report of
a UFO witnessed through this
new device came from colonial
America's best-known Puritan
minister, Cotton Mather.
There was an incredible sighting that
the very famous New England preacher
Cotton Mather had.
Cotton Mather said that he was
looking through a telescope at
the Moon, and in the telescope
he saw a flying light over the
surface of the moon.
Well, how did this get recorded?
By none other than NASA.
And people can find it themselves.
Go to the NASA report on lunar
anomalies over 500 years,
and they will find Cotton
Mather's sighting of a UFO
over the surface of the Moon.
There are a vast number of natural
atmospheric phenomena that can appear as
bright lights in the night sky.
Certainly, uh, meteors
are a possibility.
Even certain kinds of terrestrial phenomena
do materialize as glowing balls of
light that, seen from a distance,
may appear to be a star.
And it's incredibly difficult
to judge the distance of a
point source of light in the night.
So he may have thought that it
was on the surface of the Moon,
or-or hundreds of miles away,
when in reality, it could've
been quite close to where he was.
Though it is uncertain what Cotton
Mather saw, ancient astronaut theorists
find it significant that a
prominent religious figure would
report such a sighting not as a vision
from God, but as an astronomical event.
They see it as a sign, not only
of the sighting's authenticity,
but that views on the
possibility of extraterrestrial
life were starting to shift, even
within the Christian church.
Cotton Mather was known as a
fire and brimstone preacher.
But there's a rational part
of Cotton Mather as well...
because this was the very beginning;
the dawn of the industrial revolution.
And in this context, people were
thinking about science, they
were thinking about machines, and
really thinking about, could
there be something in space?
Although sightings like Cotton Mather's
were still rare in the 1700s, the
increasing interest in
astronomy sparked a new debate
over a centuries-old theory
called "the plurality of
worlds;" the idea that life might exist
elsewhere throughout the universe.
By the end of the 18th century, the
majority of people, at least of educated
people, were convinced that all
throughout the solar system
on Jupiter, on Mars, on Saturn.
All of them had extraterrestrials.
Very possibly the Moon would
have intelligent beings on it.
I once did a tally of the
leading intellectuals in the
18th century; over half
of them included ideas of
extraterrestrial life
in their publications.
The premier 18th- century astronomer
William Herschel also supported the
theory that life existed
on other planets.
So did Thomas Paine, one of
America's Founding Fathers,
along with many religious
leaders of the time.
Preachers were preaching about extraterrestrials
as a proof of God's goodness.
That's the idea that if there
is a good and beneficent
God, he would populate all
the planets, all the stars.
Though there was open
debate about the existence
of extraterrestrial life in the
1700s, the discussion did not
often extend to the idea
of aliens visiting Earth.
But in 1731, a series of
sightings occurred across
Europe that were so compelling, the
possibility could no longer be ignored.
In modern UFO sightings, the
communications about UFOs are instant;
it's on the Internet, it's on YouTube.
But what about some of these
18th-century or Renaissance sightings?
Here's something incredible.
In 1731 over Kilkenny, Ireland,
there was a sighting of
a luminous object coming
out of a red cloud.
That same sighting is reported in the
span of a week over the rest of Europe,
particularly over Romania
in Eastern Europe.
Now, here are two countries that are
not communicating with each other.
Newspapers don't go back and
forth, they don't speak the
same language, there's no radio
and there's no television.
Yet a UFO was spotted traveling
from the Irish Sea, across
Europe all the way to Eastern
Europe and towards Asia, and
is spotted in different
places as it goes.
Independent observations
that don't cross-pollinate.
Could these nearly identical
reports of a strange
object passing through the
sky be mere coincidence?
And if it was an alien craft,
is it possible that earlier
sightings simply weren't
reported because they were
interpreted as signs from God?
In colonial America, the idea
that aliens were visiting Earth
was gaining ground.
And in the 1800s, this
controversial theory would even
make its way to the White House.
The United States officially declared
its independence from Great Britain
in 1776... and just 14 years
later, a report of the first UFO
sighting in American history
appeared in the newly published
journals of John Winthrop, the second
governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
His journals, which are now
known as "A History of New
England, 1630-1649," are still
considered the preeminent record
for that period in American history.
When the journals were finally
published in 1790, over
140 years after Winthrop's
death, they were found to
contain an alarming account of a
possible close encounter over
Boston's Muddy River.
One night in March of 1639,
James Everall, who is
described as being a "sober and
discreet man," and two of his
companions, boarded a little boat
in the Muddy River of Boston.
As they paddled along the river,
they saw a great bright
light that hovered in the sky.
As they watched, the light
flared up and then contracted
into what they described
as the figure of a swine.
It's difficult to imagine
anybody seriously reporting a
sighting of a glowing, flying pig.
Looking at the sighting, one
can't help but wonder if they
were struggling to describe an
oval-shaped fuselage and four
short, what we might now call
landing struts or landing gear,
in a way that made sense
in the 17th century.
Winthrop's account states that the
object moved swift as an arrow, jetting
back and forth as well as up and
down for two to three hours.
And when it finally disappeared, the
three passengers in the boat, who had
been drifting downstream the
entire time, were astonished to
find themselves back at the point
where they began their trip.
What Winthrop describes in his journal
is really difficult to explain.
Certainly, it seems hard to
fathom that, for two or three
hours, three men in a boat
watched a bright light moving
around in the sky over
the city of Boston.
And it seems almost inconceivable that
their boat could've been drawn back
against the tide without
their noticing it.
These type of strange and
inexplicable phenomenon are now
associated with the phenomena
that's called "alien abduction."
As abduction cases evolved, you heard
people say all of a sudden everything
around them was slowing way, way down.
And they associate the slowing
way, way down with whatever
this event is that we call the
"human abduction syndrome."
Could this event at Muddy
River be not only North
America's first documented UFO
sighting, but also the first
account of an alien abduction?
Those who believe the account!
in Winthrop's journals was an
actual alien encounter point to
the last line of his report
which states, "other credible
persons saw the same light."
By the time Winthrop's history
was published in 1790, the
debate over the possibility of
extraterrestrial life was more
heated than ever before.
In fact, the question of
whether life existed on other
planets had become so hotly
contested, it caused one of
America's Founding Fathers, Thomas Paine,
to be unofficially exiled to Europe.
Thomas Paine enters the extraterrestrial
life debate in a very dramatic way.
He was an Englishman, but
famous American patriot.
Thomas Paine publishes a book
called The Age of Reason.
And in The Age of Reason, he
makes one of the most vigorous
attacks on Christianity ever made.
The bottom line on it is, he says, you
must believe in extraterrestrials if you
know any modern astronomy.
The idea of God made the entire universe
going from planet to planet redeeming
people is just impossible to believe.
That creates a sensation.
Thousands of copies of
the book were sold.
In December of 1793, Thomas Paine was
arrested in France as a result of
supporting a political party
that was no longer in power.
When the American ambassador
refused to speak on his behalf,
Paine believed that George Washington had
abandoned him because of his writings
supporting the idea of extraterrestrial
life and refuting traditional
Christianity.
In 1802, he was invited back to
America by the third president,
Thomas Jefferson.
Jefferson, an intellectual, was
considered a genius by many in
his time, both for his skill as a
statesman and his scientific aptitude.
And some believe he was
also a proponent, like his
contemporaries Ben Franklin and
John Adams, in the concept of
the plurality of worlds.
The concept of a plurality of worlds was
a very widely accepted concept in the
18th century.
People like John Adams and Thomas Paine
didn't view extraterrestrial life as a
possibility but rather as a matter of
fact that everybody knew to be true.
The new rationality in
science changed the way that
these Founding Fathers
talked about religion.
1825: Thomas Jefferson is hiring faculty
for the University of Virginia.
And John Adams writes to him and gives
him advice on how to do that hiring.
He says, "Do not hire any
European professors.
If you hire a European
professor, they are liable to
believe in Christianity, and
that is a very dangerous
doctrine that we should
stay far away from."
Other Founding Fathers also agreed with
this view, which included a belief
in the existence of
life on other planets.
Benjamin Franklin wondered if
there were different gods for
every sun that harbored
intelligent life.
Many of them felt it was clear
that there were intelligent
beings conceivably through
the whole universe, and that
the notion that God came
to this planet as a person
who was spit on and persecuted,
simply was ridiculous.
And they rejected that long-
held traditional belief, which
was a very radical thing at the time.
America's Founding Fathers defending
the concept of extraterrestrial life
against Christianity?
A revolutionary idea to be certain...
but perhaps not so
revolutionary to the country's
Earlie inhabitants, who long
before claimed to have met
visitors from the sky.
In northwestern New Mexico lies a
vast concentration of ancient ruins
known today as Chaco Canyon.
Built from sandstone blocks and
timber between 900 and 1150
A.D., the 15 major complexes
of Chaco Canyon contained
four-story structures with
hundreds of rooms that required
thousands of man-hours to construct.
Until the 19th century, they were the
largest buildings in North America.
Chaco Canyon was a center of activity
for a lot of different Indian
tribes, Pueblo tribes.
Archeologists, anthropologists have a
lot of theories about what that was.
But what I have studied and
what I can tell by just some of
the chants from our own tribe,
and other Pueblo tribes, is
that this would've been a big center of
activity for technological-spiritual
activities.
There's a lot of places on there that has
direct bearings up into the universe.
When archeologists first excavated these
ruins in 1896, they marveled at their
architectural precision.
But even more astonishing was
the fact that many of these
ancient structures-- like those
found in Egypt, England and
South America-- suggested the
inhabitants had a sophisticated
knowledge of astronomy.
A number of devices designed for
tracking solar events were found.
And at Fajada Butte, which sits
at the entrance of the canyon,
three giant slabs of rock are positioned
near two spiral petroglyphs etched on
a cliff wall.
During the solstice and the
equinox, these rocks catch the
sun in such a way as to shine
daggers of light on different
areas of the petroglyphs.
But why would early Native
Americans spend so much time
building the structures at Chaco
Canyon along such precise
astronomical alignments?
And why build them in such a
desolate area of the country?
It is one of those sites which has been
posing so many questions, and which
science is only slowly
beginning to explain.
But really, there are more questions than
answers at this moment in time about
Chaco Canyon.
In his 2006 book
The Orion Zone,
archaeo-astronomer Gary David
proposed that the geographical
layout of Hopi ruins in the
American Southwest precisely
mirrors the star patterns of a
number of constellations.
When you look at
where the ancestral Pueblan
major ceremonial sites are
actually located, Gary David
has identified that when you
just map these, you actually
find that they depict
constellations, specifically,
Orion is very important.
Orion's Belt points
to the brightest star in the
sky-- Sirius.
If one looks at the Hopi mesas
as the stars of Orion's Belt,
they also point to an important
location-- Chaco Canyon.
But why Orion?
And could it be merely a
coincidence that this
constellation pattern has been
found at other important sites
around the world, and always
with the belt pointing
towards a place of significance?
Ancient astronaut theorists
have discovered the
constellation of Orion lining
up with the Mayan complexes
along The Street of the Dead in
Mexico City.
And here, Orion's Belt points
to Cholula, the largest pyramid
in the world.
They also find it at the Giza
Pyramids in Egypt, with the
belt pointing toward the city
of Heliopolis; a place of
worship for ancient Egyptians.
The one thing we
know about Orion's Belt is that
this is a theme which is
recurring in Mayan mythology.
It's also actually a theme
which is occurring in Egyptian
mythology.
Orion's Belt, and the stars
around it, were seen as the
heart of creation; it is where
everything began.
And it's probably not
coincidental that the Hopis
see the place where they are
living as the heart of the
world.
These are ancient
people.
All they had to go by were the
stars.
And so, they believed-- as
astrologists believe today--
that the stars have certain
powers over what goes on on
planet Earth.
According to their
legends, the Hopi believe there
were three worlds that preceded
the one we are in today.
Each of those worlds was wiped
out when guardians of the sky
called to the Creator to tell
him that his finest creation,
humans, were no longer living
according to his plan.
And they called to him by
setting off a warning through
the Earth's axis, a vibration
strong enough to shift the
balance of the planet.
Is it possible the structures
at Chaco Canyon were built along
precise celestial alignments so
that the Hopi could predict the
periods of Earth's devastation
and renewal?
Could the guardians of the sky
have led them here so they could
monitor the position of the sun?
Why in the
world people settled at that
location wasn't... wasn't
something that they did on their
own.
There's no running water there.
There was no reason to live
there.
There's no good soil.
They did that because their
guardian told them to live
there.
During the times of
the summer and winter solstices,
as well as the spring and fall
equinoxes, the people at Chaco
Canyon could gauge the Earth's
balance by watching the path of
the sun daggers at Fajada Butte.
If the daggers did not pierce
the petroglyphs at the same
points as the previous year,
they would know that the Earth
was out of balance.
And since the Earth fell out of
balance at the end of the
previous three worlds, this
could mean the end was coming
once again.
Scientists from NASA determined
the earthquake that hit Chile
on February 27, 2010 shifted
the Earth's axis by three
inches.
Would the ancestral Pueblo
people have Se this as a sign
from the guardians above?
Well, do you think
that's going to show up at Chaco
Canyon on that dagger stick that
comes down at the time of the
solstice?
Do you think the Indians were
watching that?
It's what the
Hopi call koyaanisqatsi.
We are living in koyaanisqatsi
right now.
We are living in a life that's
out of balance.
Could these Native
American legends be more than
just myth?
Is it possible that these
stories, along with the ancient
texts of India and the stories
of the Bible, are all describing
alien visitations?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is yes, and the proof
may lie on a small, uninhabited
island in Nova Scotia, Canada.
In 1795, three Nova Scotia farm boys set
out to explore nearby Oak Island after
witnessing strange green lights
coming from its shore in the
middle of the night.
As they came to the island, they saw
that there was one little, you know, pit
that they thought, "Well, this
is very odd," so they started
to dig in that particular spot.
They came across different
platforms made out of wood,
especially out of oak, and the
deeper they dug, they also came
across a mat made of coconut
fiber, and they came across a
stone slab that had very
bizarre writing on it.
One thing is crystal clear:
Canada does not have any
coconut trees, so the mat made
of coconut fiber-- where
did it come from?
That's a very intriguing question-- how
all these different levels were made.
The initial excavation
stopped at a depth of feet.
But since that time, over a
dozen professional excavations
have been attempted and funded
by everyone from actors
John Wayne and Errol Flynn to Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
Mining and excavation companies have
dug multiple shafts surrounding the
whole Money Pit with the hopes
of achieving or reaching
whatever is buried down there.
They've even tried to dig in
sideways, and even that didn't work.
Based on the findings from numerous
excavations, the Money Pit
contains a series of oak
platforms starting at a depth of
ten feet and recurring every ten feet
thereafter, going at least 200 feet down.
In between these platforms
are slabs of flagstone-- not
indigenous to the island--
and layers of puddle clay.
Efforts to reach the bottom
of the pit have proven so
dangerous, six people
have died in the attempt.
Its underground is covered with
canals-- flooding canals that
lead seawater into the system.
Each time there seemed to be a
progress, underground floods in
the canals would make further
searches impossible.
So, this is what we know:
many centuries ago, someone
constructed a giant hydraulic
system under this island.
It couldn't have been pirates.
It had to be someone with great expertise
for architecture and hydraulics.
We still haven't been able to access
whatever is down there because of the
incredible flooding system.
These treasure hunters poured
red paint into one of these
shafts, and not only did it come
out on one side of the island,
but also on the other side.
Up to three shafts
have been discovered.
I mean, it's ingenious.
But who-- or what-- constructed
this elaborately booby-trapped pit?
And, perhaps more importantly, what-- if
anything-- lies hidden at the bottom?
Some have speculated that it
might be the crown jewels of
England, pirate treasure, Viking
hoards and even the original
manuscripts of Shakespeare.
But perhaps the most audacious
theory of all is that the Money
Pit is the hiding place for one of the
most sacred objects in the world.
There is a possibility that the Ark of
the Covenant, with its contents, has
been hidden on Oak Island.
The Ark of the Covenant?
The most sacred object in
all of Judeo-Christianity?
The gold chest that is supposed
to contain the tablets on which
the Hebrew God wrote
the Ten Commandments?
Why would this religious relic
be placed at the bottom of an
elaborately booby-trapped
pit in Northeastern Canada?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the Ark may have been
hidden because of the powers it
held-- powers from out of this world.
According to the ancient astronaut
hypothesis, the Ark of the Covenant housed
an extraterrestrial device which
was given to the Israelites
during their 40-year wandering
through the desert.
When you go back to the biblical
descriptions, it becomes a weapon.
It rises up into the air.
It rushes towards the
enemies of Israel.
When the Philistines briefly
capture it, um, they make the
mistake of opening it
and filing past it.
Suddenly, thousands of
people start to die.
The biblical account states
quite clearly that the cause of
death was cancerous tumors.
This is a very mysterious
and puzzling thing.
What kind of object could
have these almost machinelike
attributes and cause deaths that
sound like radiation sickness?
What powers the Ark held is the subject
of wide speculation, but an even bigger
mystery is what happened to the Ark
and where it might be located today.
One legend says that it was
taken during the Crusades by an
elite band of monk-like warriors
known as the Knights Templar.
The cover story-- and it feels like a
cover story-- is that they were to
protect pilgrims on the route between the
coast and Jerusalem in the Holy Land.
But they don't ever seem
to have done any of that.
Um, right soon after they were
founded, they took possession
of the Temple Mount, uh, in Jerusalem.
And, uh, for the best part of
80 or 90 years, they devoted
themselves to what looked like
an archaeological expedition on
the Temple Mount.
And I'm pretty certain they were
looking for the Ark of the Covenant.
The legend tells of the
Knights taking the Ark to
Scotland, where they formed an alliance
with the powerful Sinclair family.
Some historians believe William
Sinclair may have taken the Ark
to Oak Island in Nova Scotia in the 1400s
to protect it from English invasion.
Here, Sinclair and his men could
have built what might be the
most impenetrable vault ever
made-- the notorious Money Pit.
But, if so, where is the evidence?
In the 1990s, some scientists were
able to send cameras down into one of
the shafts.
There, they discovered strange objects
that had a rounded, tubular shape.
Their C-14 values were diverse
and their radiometric age
ranged from very old to futuristic.
Now, that is basically impossible.
However, there is some chance that that
effect could be caused by some kind of
radioactivity.
That's why we suspect that a
nuclear reactor may have been
taken there and hidden inside this
ingenious hydraulic system...
...so that it would
be kept safe forever.
What would it mean if the Ark of the
Covenant really was discovered at the
bottom of the Money Pit?
Would it provide the proof of
alien intervention-- the very
proof that ancient astronaut
theorists have been waiting for?
If the Ark of the Covenant is found at
the bottom of the Money Pit, well...
story's over.
Perhaps.
But an even greater
question persists: why?
Has mankind been helped by the
intervention of beings from
other worlds, as ancient
astronaut proponents contend?
Or was there a more ominous intention?
Could the Ark, if discovered,
be a sort of Pandora's box
that, once opened, would reveal
more about our origins than we
would ever want to know?
As the 20th century dawned, the
industrial revolution suggested that
nothing conceived by man
could be impossible.
We could now ride through the
countryside in horseless carriages...
...sail the seas in huge ocean liners...
fly through the sky in airships.
Even the idea of building
rockets and flying them to the
Moon, Mars and beyond seemed
well within our grasp.
It was the era of science
fiction writers like H.G. Wells
and inventors like Einstein,
Tesla, Edison and Ford.
In 1896, there were widespread
reports of strange airships
hovering over various locations
in the American West.
Coincidence or consequence?
There were sightings throughout
history, and of course, there were a
large number of sightings
in the 19th century.
But it wasn't until 1896 that
there were waves of sightings.
Thousands of people in 1896 and
1897 in the United States saw
phantom airships, the origin
of which was never explained.
These reports were catalogued,
discussed in newspapers.
There were sightings
in 1896, 1897, 1898.
And in fact, we kind of know,
from newspaper reports from the
Southwest, that people were
seeing craft with wings.
And the Wright Brothers didn't
fly an airplane until 1903.
So what were these craft?
Well, on the one hand, people were
flying balloons in the 19th century.
So balloons were not high technology.
What was high technology back
then was affixing a gasoline
engine to the gondola of a balloon.
That whole airship mystery--
my guess is that some
of those were just dirigibles
that people were flying around.
On the other hand, during that
time, we also find reports of
objects that moved really too
quickly to be dirigibles.
And some were maybe too shiny
really to be the types of
balloons that they were
making at that time.
The prevalence of these balloons powered
by gasoline engines flying around
in the late 1890s in the turn
of the century probably opened
up people's minds to the
possibility that there could be
literally unidentified flying objects.
People began, to put it
bluntly, looking up.
So it could be said that modern
UFO history began with these
mysterious airships of the 1890s.
It certainly seems possible, if we
believe that the airship sightings were
sightings of extraterrestrial
spaceships, that perhaps the
aliens were interested in human
activity at the time because of
the rapid increases being
made in technology.
Some people have suggested that aliens
have been interfering with the lives of
human beings for thousands of years.
And because they were always
here at significant points in
human history, they introduced
various kinds of technologies
to spur development
along a certain line.
Could the same alien presence that
some believe had been visiting the
Earth for centuries have been
responsible for inspiring our
great leap into the modern age?
Or could the increased close
encounters with UFOs-- which
would persist through the next
century-- be a sign that we
were in danger of going too far?
A very common idea that we have today
is that, as we develop technologically,
we're going to see an increase
in UFO phenomena-- that UFOs are
basically monitoring us.
Decades ago, we saw a lot of
UFO activity around air bases,
around atomic bases and also
UFOs following airplanes and
maybe following our aircraft.
I would say that certainly, as
we keep developing, we will
continue to see that
monitoring aspect to the UFOs.
Especially as we continue going
to space, we're going to
continue seeing more UFO activity.
Whether it's for our benefit
or not, that's hard to say.
Our history, the history of human
beings on planet Earth-- whether we
ourselves are the aliens seeded
from another planet or that
the aliens created us, as the
stories of the Anunnaki say--
regardless, it may be that human
beings are being directed
toward a certain end.
In the 20th century, the inhabitants
of planet Earth were capable of
blasting off and touching the stars.
We were also capable of
harnessing the atom... >> Fire.
...and using it to inflict the
deadliest of devastations.
We would send satellites into orbit,
land on the Moon and reach Mars.
But what would we find?
A barren, empty universe of
dead planets or something else?
In the 1960s, mainstream scientists
were already exploring the question
of whether or not we're
alone in the universe.
And there was only a handful
of scientists who actually
proposed the idea that, yes, there
are other civilizations out there.
Now fast-forward 50 years.
You'd be very hard-pressed to
find any scientist today saying
that we're alone in the universe.
What we're coming up to now,
in the 21st century, is
going to be a redefinition.
Our entire history may have to
be revised, in the context of
nonhuman intelligences
coming and going.
And what else is out there in
this incredible universe of
which we humans are a part?
Perhaps the dawn of the space age was a
signal to whatever or whoever was out
there that, after centuries of
writing on cave walls, building
temples and mapping the skies,
the inhabitants of planet Earth
were at last ready.
Ready for their return.
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