Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 12, Episode 12 - The Animal Agenda - full transcript
Extraterrestrials are usually depicted with bodies like humans, but what if they actually look more like animals? Many past civilizations revered certain animals as if they were gods. Could these animals originate from other worlds?
Tom is our insect wrangler,
who's gonna help us set up
a demonstration
on one of the coolest animals
on Earth, the bombardier beetle.
This animal is
a chemical warrior.
This guy has a couple of
chemicals in his abdomen,
and it's able to shoot out
boiling hot streams
of a really toxic liquid
that have the same sort of mix
as rocket fuel.
- GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow.
- PETER WARD: There it goes.
TSOUKALOS: How cool.
You can actually see the
squirts, the mist, the vapor.
What was the evolutionary
process of this beetle
for that defense mechanism
to even exist?
It defies evolution.
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NARRATOR: Houston, Texas.
December 11, 1992.
In one of the strangest alien
abduction cases on record,
eight different people report
being taken
onto an extraterrestrial
spacecraft.
Even stranger is the fact
that the same eight people
were allegedly abducted again
three days later.
Derrel Sims, a former U.S.
intelligence operative,
is the first to investigate
these separate cases
as a single event.
DERREL SIMS:
All these people came back
with the same
identical information.
Exact same story, same location,
same entity, same everything.
I was just absolutely amazed
at the clarity
of their information.
These people were kept separate
and apart from each other.
No one had any knowledge
of any mass abduction.
NARRATOR: Each of the
self-described abductees
reported being taken aboard
a small craft
that transported them
to a much larger spaceship.
And once inside,
they encountered other abductees
that were not human.
They were all led out through
this massive hallway.
It looked like a museum.
They seem to have collected
species, animals, people,
all kinds of things.
This room that they found
themselves in
that was straight out of
a science fiction movie
with these glass tubes
and glass cases.
And according to their
eyewitness reports,
in these glass cases,
they saw creatures that they
had never seen before,
but also creatures
from planet Earth.
When we look out into the cosmos
we have to ask,
is it filled with beings
of different kinds
of-of types of
animalistic characteristics?
Bird-headed beings,
other animal-headed beings
that exist within the cosmos.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Thousands of abductees
have given us information
on a wide variety of
extraterrestrial beings
in all kinds of shapes
and forms.
And so we would think, really,
that in this universe there are
extraterrestrial entities
of every form, size and shape
that we can possibly imagine.
Insectoid, octopoid,
looking like giant cats
or birds.
Is there some actual
genetic connection
with some of these
extraterrestrials
being of a lineage from animals
that we have here on Earth?
NARRATOR: Could the accounts
given by the eight people
who were abducted in Houston,
and numerous other reports
of encounters
with animal-like aliens,
point to the possibility
that humans
are not the only life-form
on Earth
to have been
captured and examined
by extraterrestrial visitors?
In 1859,
biologist Charles Darwin
introduced the world
to the theory of evolution,
with his book,
On the Origin of Species.
In it, he proposed that gradual
multi-generational changes,
occurring due to
natural selection,
had resulted in the modification
of all existing species.
While scientists agree that this
process does, in fact,
take place to some extent,
in recent years,
evidence has been presented
that suggests evolution alone
cannot account for all
of the species present
in the animal kingdom.
WARD:
There's one species of dog,
but look at it... from
Chihuahuas to St. Bernards,
to bulldogs,
everything in between.
And all that has happened in
less than a few thousand years.
This is crazy.
This is like going from this
generalized wolf-like creature
into this huge variety of dogs.
JOHN BRANDENBURG:
There are fossils of giraffes
with short necks,
and then we have the present.
And there's no
intermediate form.
If you suddenly give a giraffe
a much longer neck
than it had before,
a lot of things have to change.
Its blood pressure regulation
has to change.
It's got to have
a different heart.
It's going to be eating
different things
with a long neck.
All of that software for the
animal has to be rewritten.
And you're telling me
this all happens overnight.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists propose
that if some,
or possibly all of
the life-forms on Earth
cannot be explained
as the product of natural
selection, or evolution,
it may, in fact, offer proof,
of not only intelligent design,
but also what they believe to be
extraterrestrial intervention.
And they say the overwhelming
evidence can be found
by examining the practices
of ancient cultures
all over the world.
Manchester, England.
September 2015.
Researchers from the
University of Manchester
use the latest medical
imaging technology
to reveal the first look inside
more than 800 mummies
from ancient Egypt.
The deceased are not humans,
but crocodiles,
cats, baboons, birds,
and numerous other species
painstakingly preserved
for thousands of years.
When we think of mummies,
we tend to think of people
being mummified.
But what we actually find out
is that Egyptians
also mummified
a tremendous amount
of cats, dogs, alligators...
All sorts of things were being
mummified in ancient Egypt.
NARRATOR: The mummification
of animals was so pervasive
that in 2015,
archaeologists discovered
that a catacomb underneath
a temple dedicated to Anubis,
the canine god of the dead,
held a staggering eight million
dog mummies.
The dogs were thought to have
a direct connection with Anubis,
the lord of the underworld.
That was the jackal-headed god,
so when a dog died,
it could carry a message.
NARRATOR: It is believed that as
many as 70 million animals
were mummified at sites like
this throughout Egypt,
which is roughly the same as
the number of human mummies
that have been found.
70 million is just the ones
that have been found, right?
Some presumably have
gotten lost, have decomposed.
So the fact that there's
that many
means that this practice
was widespread,
and also that it continued
over a long period of time.
This went on for the whole
2,000 to 3,000 years
of ancient
Egyptian civilization.
NARRATOR: But why did
the ancient Egyptians
mummify their animals?
RAMY ROMANY: In Saqqara,
you see thousands
of birds mummified
right next to each other,
thousands of them.
The reason that huge amount of
animals were mummified in Egypt
was because they believed
those animals were sacred.
They are the equivalent
to lighting a candle
when you go to a church.
You bring a mummified animal
that the god would employ.
Historians believe
that the reason for this
is that Egyptian people
originally were animist.
In other words,
they saw the entire universe
around them as filled with life.
And they attributed deity,
divinity,
to the animals
in their universe.
NARRATOR: But it wasn't just
in ancient Egypt
where animals
were so highly revered.
Similar practices
of animal worship
can be found among
the ancient Sumerians,
the Maya and Aztec of
Mesoamerica,
and the Australian aborigines,
just to name a few.
And in each of these separate
cultures can be found stories
in which animals are involved in
encounters with alien visitors,
otherwise known as gods.
Animals have always played
a very interesting role
in the Bible.
One of the races
of angels themselves
who was witnessed by Ezekiel in
his famous chariot vision
are in Hebrew called chayot,
which translates as "animals."
And indeed,
they had the faces of animals.
Lions, eagles and the like.
So, in all these
parallel cultures,
we have a crossover
of-of spiritual beings,
and extraterrestrial beings,
manifesting in these forms
that's repeated
over and over again.
Could it be that these were
the same extraterrestrial beings
that were visiting each of these
cultures at different times?
NARRATOR: If cultures all across
the world revered animals
as having a connection with gods
that came down from the sky,
could this be evidence
that certain Earthly creatures
possess a link
to extraterrestrial entities?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
that some of the planet's
non-human life forms
may even be directly related
to mankind's
ancient alien ancestors.
NARRATOR: Luxor, Egypt.
Within the Mortuary Temple
of Hatshepsut,
one of the few female pharaohs
of ancient Egypt,
is a carving
of the bull god Apis,
depicted with a solar disk
above his head.
Although
he is little known today
among the pantheon
of Egyptian deities,
historians suggest
Apis was the very first god
to be worshipped in Egypt,
emerging around 3,000 B.C.
He was considered
to be the creator of humanity.
Animals were so important
in ancient Egypt
that one of the creation myths
starts with a bull.
The bull
that comes out of nowhere,
the bull
that comes out of the sky,
that appears in the middle
of the endless ocean,
is the one
that creates humanity.
That bull is the father
of all humanity.
In many, many mythic traditions,
it is an animal
or sometimes a council
of animal that creates people.
And different cultures
have different animals
that played very,
very formative roles.
Sometimes this is a particular
ancestor to humankind.
Sometimes it's an ancestor
to a particular tribe
or a group of people.
We find this very commonly
in the Northwest coast
Native American groups,
where you'd have different clans
that would have
different lineages
sacredly founded
by different animals.
The Wolf Clan, the Bear Clan,
the Frog Clan.
And you can even
see this reflected
in their totem poles
of those groups.
(woman speaking
in native language over P.A.)
NARRATOR: Many ancient cultures
throughout the world
not only had stories that humans
were created by animals,
but also depicted their gods
with animal features.
JONATHAN YOUNG:
Ganesh, the Indian Hindu god,
the one with the head
of an elephant,
could intervene and solve
problems for the faithful.
The monkey god Hanuman
was a bit of a trickster,
but he could be seen interacting
with human beings,
walking among us.
In Aboriginal stories
from Australia,
the creator of the universe
was a rainbow serpent.
Many of the animal gods
were described
as descending from the sky.
The Egyptians believed in Thoth,
a god with a head of an ibis
who taught science,
philosophy and magic.
Khepri had the head of a scarab
and played a major role
in the creation of the world.
ROMANY:
Most of the gods were depicted
with the animal head
and a human body because
ancient Egyptians knew
that the head had the wisdom.
NARRATOR: If the ancient stories
of flying monkeys
and animal-headed gods
are literal accounts
of what our ancestors witnessed,
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
is this evidence
that humankind was created
by otherworldly beings
that are genetically connected
to animals
that still roam the Earth today?
Or did the extraterrestrials
disguise themselves as animals
to appear more friendly
and acceptable to early humans?
HENRY: We could be dealing
with extraterrestrials,
extraterrestrials
who chose to incarnate
as cats and dogs
and other animals,
in order to guide humans,
and also
to disguise their true form,
to manifest on Earth in a form
that would be perhaps
more palatable to humans.
Zeus is one
of our most well-known gods
from the Greek Pantheon.
And we have Zeus transforming
himself into a bull,
which is part of the story
of how the people
of Europe were formed or Europa.
We have Zeus transforming
himself into a swan,
Zeus and Leda.
In the traditions
of West Africa,
the voudon traditions, Papa
Legba as he's sometimes called,
very often appears
as a variety of animals.
In the Native American
Pawnee culture,
the sky god, the creator god,
the Great Spirit,
would never come in direct form,
but use animal forms,
many different animals,
as a way to communicate
with the humans.
NARRATOR:
In the Pawnee tradition,
young men entering adulthood
would go out on vision quests.
They would isolate themselves
from the tribe,
perform ritual prayers and fast.
Through this process, they would
enter a trance-like state
in hopes of communicating
with these intelligent animals.
TOK THOMPSON: A bear might
come up to you and say hi.
It might be a caterpillar,
it might be a squirrel.
But at some point,
something interacted with you.
Some animal actually interacted
with you.
And that was held
to be very, very profound
in terms of your own identity,
in terms
of your own spirituality.
So the idea is
that each animal, therefore,
is connected to their own
sort of animal spirit.
So that a singular caribou
is in part in touch
with this sort of
larger caribou spirit.
So, in terms
of the vision quest,
you might figure out
who your guardian spirit was.
NARRATOR: Similarly, in India,
the prophets known as "rishis"
would describe animal encounters
after extensive meditation.
- (singing in native language)
- And in Mesoamerican
and Pueblan cultures,
shamans would use powerful
psychedelic plants
to not only communicate
with otherworldly creatures,
but in some cases, transform
into the animals themselves.
In all these traditions,
the encounters are taken
very seriously.
These animal energies
are very real and tangible,
and the wisdom
is extremely valuable.
NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose
that while extraterrestrials may
disguise themselves as animals,
they may also have
a real physiological relation
to certain creatures on Earth.
And they suggest
that those creatures
were put on this planet
- with a very specific purpose...
- (growling)
- (bird screeching)
- one that is vital
to the advancement of humanity.
NARRATOR:
Thousand Oaks, California.
May 2017.
Ancient Astronaut theorist
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS
visits the Ventura BioCenter
to examine one of Earth's
most curious creatures...
The bombardier beetle.
This little bug is
a marvel of evolution,
or, some say,
intelligent design.
- Peter, good to see you.
- GIORGIO, nice to see you.
- How are you? All right.
- And this is Tom.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Hello, Tom.
Pleasure. How's it going?
Tom is our insect wrangler,
who's going to help us
set up a demonstration
on one of the coolest animals
on Earth, the bombardier beetle.
TSOUKALOS: That's fantastic,
because about a year ago,
Erich Von DANIKEN gave me
his latest manuscript
for his newest book.
And we all know that there are
these multiple creatures
that seem
to defy Darwinian evolution.
And one creature
that jumped out at me
that I hadn't heard before
was this beetle right here.
This beetle is fascinating from
an evolutionary point of view.
And in fact, it's been used
by many people
to suggest that evolution
doesn't work at all, and
the reason is the enormous
complexity of this thing.
This animal is
a chemical warrior.
It's able to shoot out
boiling hot streams
of a really toxic liquid
that had the same sort of mix
as rocket fuel.
- TSOUKALOS: That's amazing.
- WARD: And it can shoot
over 500 of these bursts
per second.
- Wow.
- But the process happens
so fast, it's almost
in the blink of an eye.
So we have a high-speed camera
over here
that can shoot
about 2,500 frames per second,
and with that camera,
we can slow down this process,
and in seeing that process,
we could work out
the exact sequence of events.
So let's set this up with Tom
and watch this take place.
Let's do it.
Okay, guys, so what I've got is
some non-toxic,
very mild adhesive.
And I'm just going to touch it
to the beetle's back,
and that will suspend him
in the air.
We're gonna give him
a little bit
of stimulation
with these forceps.
It simulates the predator
and makes him feel defensive.
Oop, there it was.
NARRATOR: While it is almost
imperceptible to the naked eye,
with the high-speed camera,
the beetle can be seen
blasting rapid-fire streams
of deadly chemicals directed
at any would-be predator.
- TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow! How cool!
- PETER: There it goes!
Projected it in that
particular direction. -Right.
TSOUKALOS: You can actually
see the squirts,
the mist, the vapor!
The appendage which allows this
to happen can rotate.
It can move back and forth,
so it can shoot this
- in lots of different directions.
- TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
This is really awesome.
NARRATOR: Dr. Ward has set up
- a computer-generated...
- So here he is.
Model of the bombardier beetle
to show GIORGIO
the incredible process
that is taking place
inside its body.
WARD: You've got
the organs that produce
the chemicals, and two separate
chemicals are being made.
We've got this hydroquinone,
which is actually a makeup
of the organics of the creature.
It's part of his
external skeleton.
The second one is a chemical
called hydrogen peroxide,
which is rocket fuel.
Now if we combine these two
together in a chamber,
what we can do is build
this chemical material
that's gonna get really hot and
blast out the back of the bug.
So one of the coolest things
about this whole system,
it's got a one-way valve.
Once this chemical concoction
that's getting really hot
starts reacting,
the last thing you want
is having it blast back
into the interior of your body.
So it can direct it,
squirts out this super hot,
super toxic material
into that predator's face.
TSOUKALOS:
And one has to wonder,
what was the evolutionary
process of this beetle
for that defense mechanism
to even exist?
WARD: Yeah, that's
the critical question.
If evolution takes place
step-by-step,
what's the intermediate?
How does this thing
not blow itself up
as it's experimenting
through time?
How do you go from just
a garden-variety beetle
- to a super beetle like this?
- Mm-hmm.
TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder
if this creature perhaps
was brought here
in its finished form,
or at least the genetic material
for this creature
came here as a finished product.
NARRATOR: Could the physiology
of the bombardier beetle
be proof
that there are animals
on this planet
of extraterrestrial design?
The gases that the beetle emits
can burn the skin of humans,
and if the mechanism it holds
within its body
was constructed
on a larger scale,
it could be a very deadly
chemical weapon.
Is it possible that aliens
placed certain creatures
on this planet so that humans
could learn from them
and recreate their abilities?
KIRSTEN FISHER: Throughout
the animal kingdom
there are other organisms that
also have tremendous abilities.
The dung beetle
is able to pull upwards of
1,100 times its body weight.
The mantis shrimp,
they can see things like
polarized light,
UV, infrared light.
Squids and octopus
basically change their-their
body coloration,
and the patterns, and even
the texture of their skin
as they move across
different substrates,
which is just incredible.
NARRATOR: Many advances
in human technology
have been inspired
by the animal world,
an approach scientists
refer to as biomimicry.
Airplanes were designed
to imitate the winged flight
of birds.
(bird screeches)
Military camouflage evolved
out of observing
the way squid, octopuses,
and chameleons
take on the appearance
of their surroundings.
Sonar used in the navigation
of submarines and ships
is a skill taken from dolphins,
whales, and bats,
who emit sound waves
to locate both prey
and predators.
WARD: We have stolen
so many attributes of animals
in the past
for our own technologies.
We're taking on this world-view
of what an animal can do,
and using technology
to rebuild it.
WILCOCK: We're taking clues
from the natural world
in order to develop
technologies.
This may be part
of a greater hidden
extraterrestrial initiative,
perhaps for a seeding
of a technological
and human revolution that we're
just starting to see now.
NARRATOR:
Could extraterrestrial beings
have intended for mankind to
study the other animals of Earth
in order to advance
our technology,
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?
And if so, is this the
continuation of an experiment
that they have been conducting
with different life-forms
on Earth for thousands of years?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining
the recent discovery
that humans have not always been
the most intelligent animal
on the planet.
NARRATOR: Barcelona, Spain.
July 2016.
Researchers studying the genome
of indigenous Australians
living in the Andaman Islands
uncover a mysterious strand
of DNA
dating back 40,000 years...
A strand that is not human.
Although they do not know what
species this DNA belongs to,
they theorize
that if it co-mingled
with the DNA of humans,
it would likely add one more
name to the ever-growing list
of intelligent hominid species
that lived alongside
our ancestors.
To date, archaeologists
have discovered
that at least eight other
intelligent human-like species
have existed on Earth.
One of the surprises of really
the last decade
has been that now that we can
break into bones
and extract ancient DNA,
is... surprise, surprise...
That we seem to have been
interbreeding
with creatures
that are not of our species.
We've got pieces of DNA,
these foreign, if you will,
non-Homo sapiens DNA within us.
HENRY: This discovery adds
to the ever-growing list
of hominid species
that were roaming around the
planet in the ancient world.
And it brings up the question:
Just how many other intelligent
species were there out there,
that humans, as we know them,
were interacting with?
Perhaps we're gonna discover
fossils of other versions
of humanity that were mated,
or hybrid versions
of other animals
that we have yet to discover.
NARRATOR: How is it
that there were so many
other intelligent
human-like species
that inhabited the planet
thousands of years ago,
but only humans remain today?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that Earth may have acted
as a laboratory,
in which extraterrestrials
experimented
with various life-forms,
and as evidence,
point to the numerous ancient
stories of hybrid creatures.
YOUNG: Hybrid creatures
abound in mythology.
All over the world
we get animals
that are partly one thing,
partly another.
In ancient Greek we hear about
the Cerberus,
a terrifying three-headed dog
who was the guardian of
the portal to the underworld.
The Greeks also had the centaur,
half human, half horse,
a large and impressive creature.
In Hindu mythology,
we have the Naga.
These are strange-looking
characters.
Serpentine at the bottom,
human torsos
and heads and faces.
Even in the Qur'an,
the horse that was said
to have flown Muhammad
from Mecca to Jerusalem
was a flying horse
with a human face.
Either it's all fantasy
or our ancestors
witnessed these things,
and if they witnessed them,
there's two options to that.
Either these creatures
actually came here
or whatever extraterrestrials
were here created them.
And it's a huge, huge question,
because both possibilities,
in my opinion, are possible.
NARRATOR: If the hybrid
creatures described
in ancient mythologies
really did exist
alongside humans
and other intelligent hominids,
is it possible that
Charles Darwin's theory
of natural selection
played a role
in the rise of humans after all?
Could it be a case of
alien intervention on Earth
creating numerous species
that were then forced to fight
for survival?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining stories
of an ancient cataclysm
often referred to
as the Great Flood.
The Bible teaches us
an ancient legend
that there was a global flood.
We all know that the sins
of the people
would cause God to intervene.
But yet, the legends tell us
that the actual problem
that occurred at this time
was an
extraterrestrial involvement
and manipulation
of human genetics.
The Bible speaks in Genesis,
chapter six,
of the sons of God
who came down from heaven
and took the daughters
of men as wives
from which were born
a race of titans.
Gibborim is the Hebrew word.
And that they unleashed terror,
havoc upon the world.
The Books of Enoch teach us
that these sons of God
were the angels
who came down from heaven.
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
The development was going
the wrong direction.
And then they decided to start
the whole experiment again.
They decided to create
a great flood.
(lightning cracks,
thunder rumbles)
We have stories
of the Great Flood
practically all over the world.
Not only in the Bible,
not only in the Gilgamesh epics,
not only in the Enûma Eli.
From the Sumerian.
We have it in Central America
among the Mayans.
We have it in South America
among the Kogi Indians.
They live in Colombia.
Always the Great Flood story.
But in every case,
there was a so-called god
who give instructions
to construct a ship.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: And
this is where ancient legends
get very interesting,
because while Noah
was building his ark
and saving his animals,
other legends say
that others of his generation
took other precautions.
Some building
other types of ships,
which were to go to the stars.
And what is also interesting
is that the legends tell us
that not all animals
were included on Noah's ark.
NARRATOR: Does the story
of the Great Flood
provide evidence
that extraterrestrials
have been experimenting
with different life-forms
on Earth
for thousands of years?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that such experimentation
continues to this day,
but that it is now
being directed
by humans.
NARRATOR: Rapallo, Italy.
1988.
While studying marine life
off the coast of Italy,
German biology student
Christian Sommer
discovers a microscopic species
with an incredible ability:
It never dies.
The animal, a jellyfish
called Turritopsis dohrnii,
repeatedly reverts back
to its earliest polyp state
and begins its life cycle
over and over again.
WILCOCK: Now, there's
something strange going on here.
There's something
that doesn't appear to happen
in any other life-form
that we've ever identified
in the millions and millions
of different creatures
that live on Earth.
There is no theoretical limit
to how much this creature
is able to recycle itself.
That completely defies all
known scientific laws of biology
as we now see them.
NARRATOR: Scientists
have nicknamed the species
"the immortal jellyfish"
and are attempting to unlock
its biological secrets
in the hopes
that they may hold the key
to increasing
the lifespan of humans.
But how
did such an incredible creature
come to exist
in the first place?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that extraterrestrials
may still be seeding our planet
with new life-forms
to help direct
the path of mankind's evolution.
The idea that life on Earth
may have an otherworldly origin
has fascinated mankind
for thousands of years.
It was first proposed
in the fifth century BC
by Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.
He believed
that all living things
came from cosmic seeds
scattered
throughout the universe.
He called the concept
panspermia.
Significant thinkers
throughout the ages
have considered
this possibility:
Anaxagoras in ancient Greece,
Lord Kelvin, Fred Hoyle,
Francis Crick,
the co-discoverer of DNA...
Who, by the way, thought
that it was too complicated
to have been developed
on Earth alone...
Up to Stephen Hawking,
in our time,
have considered this idea
that life came
from beyond the planet.
WILCOCK: Is it also possible
that what we're looking at
is a series of ETs
that might
have been visiting Earth
for hundreds
of thousands of years
and have been
systematically dropping off
some of their favorite creatures
from other biological worlds
very similar to our own
that have certain
special ingredients
so that once we reached
a certain level of technology,
we could adapt those qualities
into our own life.
NARRATOR: Is humanity
still under the influence
of animals introduced to Earth
by otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest
that we are beginning to become
like our alien ancestors,
playing a hand in the evolution
of life on Earth.
WARD: One of the cutting edges
of biology now
is we are taking
human stem cells, putting them
into embryos of animals
and then hoping that it becomes
a human organ itself.
So, this is a lot
of experimentation.
We can take a DNA molecule
within an animal
and knock out specific genes.
We've been able to do that
for a while.
But now we're able
to replace them
with specific genes
for the very first time,
which is unleashing
lots of Frankenstein monsters.
Right now, what we've seen,
the most interesting and, to me,
scary example of this
comes from China,
where they have taken
a single gene,
inserted it into a beagle
and caused that beagle
to have twice the musculature
than it otherwise would have.
These things
are, like, super beagles.
And that begs the question:
If you can do it to a beagle,
can you do it to a human?
Absolutely.
WILCOCK:
This could be the first step
of a revolution in biology
that leads to us starting
to have the type of abilities
that are commonly reported
in the ancient lore
of extraterrestrial gods
visiting Earth.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that mankind is beginning
to reach the level
of our alien ancestors,
as ancient astronaut theorists
propose?
And do they continue
to assist us in this process,
secretly introducing
incredible new life-forms
on Earth?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining
a new scientific endeavor
to seed Earth life
on other planets.
NARRATOR: Frankfurt, Germany.
September 2016.
German physicist
Dr. Claudius Gros
of the Institute of Theoretical
Physics at Goethe University
introduces a new theory
titled the Genesis Project,
which proposes that mankind
should not simply search
for life on distant planets,
but create it.
CLAUDIUS GROS:
So, in exoplanetary research,
we have realized now
that there will be planets
which will be habitable
but lifeless.
And normally, people believe,
well, that is bad luck
because we are looking
for a second Earth.
But it offers us
a new opportunity
maybe to bring life
to these planets.
NARRATOR: The Genesis Project
calls for depositing
single-cell living organisms
onto lifeless planets.
WARD: If you really want
to kick-start this thing,
you find
an already oxygenated world.
And then you can put out
cells such as ours
that have a big nucleus
that can move directly
into an animal grade,
which is multicellular.
CHILDRESS:
In a sense, this kind of seeding
that Professor Gros
is wanting to do
in the near future
is exactly the kind of thing
that extraterrestrials
would have probably have done
in the remote past.
NARRATOR:
In planning to transmit life
to other planets,
are humans today
replicating what
extraterrestrials did on Earth?
Are we continuing a cycle
that has been taking place
throughout the universe
for many millions of years?
The fossil record,
while it's there,
doesn't necessarily correspond
to Darwinian evolution
because you don't see
the transitional creatures
in between whatever evolution
there may have been.
So this suggests, to me,
an outside influence,
whether it was panspermia,
direct panspermia
or, later, the artificial
mutation of our genes
by extraterrestrials.
I think, in fact, it may be
a combination of all three.
JASON MARTELL:
It's very possible
that there have been
lost cultures and species
that have literally evolved
and left the planet.
When we look at the various
races of extraterrestrials
that are possibly
visiting us today,
there could be some connection
to various species
here on Earth.
With all
of these incredible stories
of ancient human-animal hybrids
and strange creatures
coming from the stars
coupled with modern stories
of people
that have had experiences
with animalistic-type
extraterrestrials,
we have to ask if Earth
is some kind of a laboratory
where extraterrestrials
are experimenting
with various species,
trying to come up
with different beings.
When we look out into
the cosmos, we have to ask:
Is it filled with beings
of different
animalistic characteristics?
And as we begin
to meet these beings,
are we meeting
with past versions of ourselves
or perhaps future versions
of ourselves?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
seeded the Earth
and continue to use it
as a genetic laboratory
in which humans are just one
of many experiments?
If so,
could there be another species
destined to overtake us?
Or are we in the process
of merging other animals
with ourselves
to become
more like our alien ancestors?
Perhaps one day soon,
we will learn
that such genetic manipulation
is happening not only on Earth,
but throughout the universe.
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who's gonna help us set up
a demonstration
on one of the coolest animals
on Earth, the bombardier beetle.
This animal is
a chemical warrior.
This guy has a couple of
chemicals in his abdomen,
and it's able to shoot out
boiling hot streams
of a really toxic liquid
that have the same sort of mix
as rocket fuel.
- GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow.
- PETER WARD: There it goes.
TSOUKALOS: How cool.
You can actually see the
squirts, the mist, the vapor.
What was the evolutionary
process of this beetle
for that defense mechanism
to even exist?
It defies evolution.
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NARRATOR: Houston, Texas.
December 11, 1992.
In one of the strangest alien
abduction cases on record,
eight different people report
being taken
onto an extraterrestrial
spacecraft.
Even stranger is the fact
that the same eight people
were allegedly abducted again
three days later.
Derrel Sims, a former U.S.
intelligence operative,
is the first to investigate
these separate cases
as a single event.
DERREL SIMS:
All these people came back
with the same
identical information.
Exact same story, same location,
same entity, same everything.
I was just absolutely amazed
at the clarity
of their information.
These people were kept separate
and apart from each other.
No one had any knowledge
of any mass abduction.
NARRATOR: Each of the
self-described abductees
reported being taken aboard
a small craft
that transported them
to a much larger spaceship.
And once inside,
they encountered other abductees
that were not human.
They were all led out through
this massive hallway.
It looked like a museum.
They seem to have collected
species, animals, people,
all kinds of things.
This room that they found
themselves in
that was straight out of
a science fiction movie
with these glass tubes
and glass cases.
And according to their
eyewitness reports,
in these glass cases,
they saw creatures that they
had never seen before,
but also creatures
from planet Earth.
When we look out into the cosmos
we have to ask,
is it filled with beings
of different kinds
of-of types of
animalistic characteristics?
Bird-headed beings,
other animal-headed beings
that exist within the cosmos.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Thousands of abductees
have given us information
on a wide variety of
extraterrestrial beings
in all kinds of shapes
and forms.
And so we would think, really,
that in this universe there are
extraterrestrial entities
of every form, size and shape
that we can possibly imagine.
Insectoid, octopoid,
looking like giant cats
or birds.
Is there some actual
genetic connection
with some of these
extraterrestrials
being of a lineage from animals
that we have here on Earth?
NARRATOR: Could the accounts
given by the eight people
who were abducted in Houston,
and numerous other reports
of encounters
with animal-like aliens,
point to the possibility
that humans
are not the only life-form
on Earth
to have been
captured and examined
by extraterrestrial visitors?
In 1859,
biologist Charles Darwin
introduced the world
to the theory of evolution,
with his book,
On the Origin of Species.
In it, he proposed that gradual
multi-generational changes,
occurring due to
natural selection,
had resulted in the modification
of all existing species.
While scientists agree that this
process does, in fact,
take place to some extent,
in recent years,
evidence has been presented
that suggests evolution alone
cannot account for all
of the species present
in the animal kingdom.
WARD:
There's one species of dog,
but look at it... from
Chihuahuas to St. Bernards,
to bulldogs,
everything in between.
And all that has happened in
less than a few thousand years.
This is crazy.
This is like going from this
generalized wolf-like creature
into this huge variety of dogs.
JOHN BRANDENBURG:
There are fossils of giraffes
with short necks,
and then we have the present.
And there's no
intermediate form.
If you suddenly give a giraffe
a much longer neck
than it had before,
a lot of things have to change.
Its blood pressure regulation
has to change.
It's got to have
a different heart.
It's going to be eating
different things
with a long neck.
All of that software for the
animal has to be rewritten.
And you're telling me
this all happens overnight.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists propose
that if some,
or possibly all of
the life-forms on Earth
cannot be explained
as the product of natural
selection, or evolution,
it may, in fact, offer proof,
of not only intelligent design,
but also what they believe to be
extraterrestrial intervention.
And they say the overwhelming
evidence can be found
by examining the practices
of ancient cultures
all over the world.
Manchester, England.
September 2015.
Researchers from the
University of Manchester
use the latest medical
imaging technology
to reveal the first look inside
more than 800 mummies
from ancient Egypt.
The deceased are not humans,
but crocodiles,
cats, baboons, birds,
and numerous other species
painstakingly preserved
for thousands of years.
When we think of mummies,
we tend to think of people
being mummified.
But what we actually find out
is that Egyptians
also mummified
a tremendous amount
of cats, dogs, alligators...
All sorts of things were being
mummified in ancient Egypt.
NARRATOR: The mummification
of animals was so pervasive
that in 2015,
archaeologists discovered
that a catacomb underneath
a temple dedicated to Anubis,
the canine god of the dead,
held a staggering eight million
dog mummies.
The dogs were thought to have
a direct connection with Anubis,
the lord of the underworld.
That was the jackal-headed god,
so when a dog died,
it could carry a message.
NARRATOR: It is believed that as
many as 70 million animals
were mummified at sites like
this throughout Egypt,
which is roughly the same as
the number of human mummies
that have been found.
70 million is just the ones
that have been found, right?
Some presumably have
gotten lost, have decomposed.
So the fact that there's
that many
means that this practice
was widespread,
and also that it continued
over a long period of time.
This went on for the whole
2,000 to 3,000 years
of ancient
Egyptian civilization.
NARRATOR: But why did
the ancient Egyptians
mummify their animals?
RAMY ROMANY: In Saqqara,
you see thousands
of birds mummified
right next to each other,
thousands of them.
The reason that huge amount of
animals were mummified in Egypt
was because they believed
those animals were sacred.
They are the equivalent
to lighting a candle
when you go to a church.
You bring a mummified animal
that the god would employ.
Historians believe
that the reason for this
is that Egyptian people
originally were animist.
In other words,
they saw the entire universe
around them as filled with life.
And they attributed deity,
divinity,
to the animals
in their universe.
NARRATOR: But it wasn't just
in ancient Egypt
where animals
were so highly revered.
Similar practices
of animal worship
can be found among
the ancient Sumerians,
the Maya and Aztec of
Mesoamerica,
and the Australian aborigines,
just to name a few.
And in each of these separate
cultures can be found stories
in which animals are involved in
encounters with alien visitors,
otherwise known as gods.
Animals have always played
a very interesting role
in the Bible.
One of the races
of angels themselves
who was witnessed by Ezekiel in
his famous chariot vision
are in Hebrew called chayot,
which translates as "animals."
And indeed,
they had the faces of animals.
Lions, eagles and the like.
So, in all these
parallel cultures,
we have a crossover
of-of spiritual beings,
and extraterrestrial beings,
manifesting in these forms
that's repeated
over and over again.
Could it be that these were
the same extraterrestrial beings
that were visiting each of these
cultures at different times?
NARRATOR: If cultures all across
the world revered animals
as having a connection with gods
that came down from the sky,
could this be evidence
that certain Earthly creatures
possess a link
to extraterrestrial entities?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
that some of the planet's
non-human life forms
may even be directly related
to mankind's
ancient alien ancestors.
NARRATOR: Luxor, Egypt.
Within the Mortuary Temple
of Hatshepsut,
one of the few female pharaohs
of ancient Egypt,
is a carving
of the bull god Apis,
depicted with a solar disk
above his head.
Although
he is little known today
among the pantheon
of Egyptian deities,
historians suggest
Apis was the very first god
to be worshipped in Egypt,
emerging around 3,000 B.C.
He was considered
to be the creator of humanity.
Animals were so important
in ancient Egypt
that one of the creation myths
starts with a bull.
The bull
that comes out of nowhere,
the bull
that comes out of the sky,
that appears in the middle
of the endless ocean,
is the one
that creates humanity.
That bull is the father
of all humanity.
In many, many mythic traditions,
it is an animal
or sometimes a council
of animal that creates people.
And different cultures
have different animals
that played very,
very formative roles.
Sometimes this is a particular
ancestor to humankind.
Sometimes it's an ancestor
to a particular tribe
or a group of people.
We find this very commonly
in the Northwest coast
Native American groups,
where you'd have different clans
that would have
different lineages
sacredly founded
by different animals.
The Wolf Clan, the Bear Clan,
the Frog Clan.
And you can even
see this reflected
in their totem poles
of those groups.
(woman speaking
in native language over P.A.)
NARRATOR: Many ancient cultures
throughout the world
not only had stories that humans
were created by animals,
but also depicted their gods
with animal features.
JONATHAN YOUNG:
Ganesh, the Indian Hindu god,
the one with the head
of an elephant,
could intervene and solve
problems for the faithful.
The monkey god Hanuman
was a bit of a trickster,
but he could be seen interacting
with human beings,
walking among us.
In Aboriginal stories
from Australia,
the creator of the universe
was a rainbow serpent.
Many of the animal gods
were described
as descending from the sky.
The Egyptians believed in Thoth,
a god with a head of an ibis
who taught science,
philosophy and magic.
Khepri had the head of a scarab
and played a major role
in the creation of the world.
ROMANY:
Most of the gods were depicted
with the animal head
and a human body because
ancient Egyptians knew
that the head had the wisdom.
NARRATOR: If the ancient stories
of flying monkeys
and animal-headed gods
are literal accounts
of what our ancestors witnessed,
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest,
is this evidence
that humankind was created
by otherworldly beings
that are genetically connected
to animals
that still roam the Earth today?
Or did the extraterrestrials
disguise themselves as animals
to appear more friendly
and acceptable to early humans?
HENRY: We could be dealing
with extraterrestrials,
extraterrestrials
who chose to incarnate
as cats and dogs
and other animals,
in order to guide humans,
and also
to disguise their true form,
to manifest on Earth in a form
that would be perhaps
more palatable to humans.
Zeus is one
of our most well-known gods
from the Greek Pantheon.
And we have Zeus transforming
himself into a bull,
which is part of the story
of how the people
of Europe were formed or Europa.
We have Zeus transforming
himself into a swan,
Zeus and Leda.
In the traditions
of West Africa,
the voudon traditions, Papa
Legba as he's sometimes called,
very often appears
as a variety of animals.
In the Native American
Pawnee culture,
the sky god, the creator god,
the Great Spirit,
would never come in direct form,
but use animal forms,
many different animals,
as a way to communicate
with the humans.
NARRATOR:
In the Pawnee tradition,
young men entering adulthood
would go out on vision quests.
They would isolate themselves
from the tribe,
perform ritual prayers and fast.
Through this process, they would
enter a trance-like state
in hopes of communicating
with these intelligent animals.
TOK THOMPSON: A bear might
come up to you and say hi.
It might be a caterpillar,
it might be a squirrel.
But at some point,
something interacted with you.
Some animal actually interacted
with you.
And that was held
to be very, very profound
in terms of your own identity,
in terms
of your own spirituality.
So the idea is
that each animal, therefore,
is connected to their own
sort of animal spirit.
So that a singular caribou
is in part in touch
with this sort of
larger caribou spirit.
So, in terms
of the vision quest,
you might figure out
who your guardian spirit was.
NARRATOR: Similarly, in India,
the prophets known as "rishis"
would describe animal encounters
after extensive meditation.
- (singing in native language)
- And in Mesoamerican
and Pueblan cultures,
shamans would use powerful
psychedelic plants
to not only communicate
with otherworldly creatures,
but in some cases, transform
into the animals themselves.
In all these traditions,
the encounters are taken
very seriously.
These animal energies
are very real and tangible,
and the wisdom
is extremely valuable.
NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose
that while extraterrestrials may
disguise themselves as animals,
they may also have
a real physiological relation
to certain creatures on Earth.
And they suggest
that those creatures
were put on this planet
- with a very specific purpose...
- (growling)
- (bird screeching)
- one that is vital
to the advancement of humanity.
NARRATOR:
Thousand Oaks, California.
May 2017.
Ancient Astronaut theorist
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS
visits the Ventura BioCenter
to examine one of Earth's
most curious creatures...
The bombardier beetle.
This little bug is
a marvel of evolution,
or, some say,
intelligent design.
- Peter, good to see you.
- GIORGIO, nice to see you.
- How are you? All right.
- And this is Tom.
- Hi. Nice to meet you.
- Hello, Tom.
Pleasure. How's it going?
Tom is our insect wrangler,
who's going to help us
set up a demonstration
on one of the coolest animals
on Earth, the bombardier beetle.
TSOUKALOS: That's fantastic,
because about a year ago,
Erich Von DANIKEN gave me
his latest manuscript
for his newest book.
And we all know that there are
these multiple creatures
that seem
to defy Darwinian evolution.
And one creature
that jumped out at me
that I hadn't heard before
was this beetle right here.
This beetle is fascinating from
an evolutionary point of view.
And in fact, it's been used
by many people
to suggest that evolution
doesn't work at all, and
the reason is the enormous
complexity of this thing.
This animal is
a chemical warrior.
It's able to shoot out
boiling hot streams
of a really toxic liquid
that had the same sort of mix
as rocket fuel.
- TSOUKALOS: That's amazing.
- WARD: And it can shoot
over 500 of these bursts
per second.
- Wow.
- But the process happens
so fast, it's almost
in the blink of an eye.
So we have a high-speed camera
over here
that can shoot
about 2,500 frames per second,
and with that camera,
we can slow down this process,
and in seeing that process,
we could work out
the exact sequence of events.
So let's set this up with Tom
and watch this take place.
Let's do it.
Okay, guys, so what I've got is
some non-toxic,
very mild adhesive.
And I'm just going to touch it
to the beetle's back,
and that will suspend him
in the air.
We're gonna give him
a little bit
of stimulation
with these forceps.
It simulates the predator
and makes him feel defensive.
Oop, there it was.
NARRATOR: While it is almost
imperceptible to the naked eye,
with the high-speed camera,
the beetle can be seen
blasting rapid-fire streams
of deadly chemicals directed
at any would-be predator.
- TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow! How cool!
- PETER: There it goes!
Projected it in that
particular direction. -Right.
TSOUKALOS: You can actually
see the squirts,
the mist, the vapor!
The appendage which allows this
to happen can rotate.
It can move back and forth,
so it can shoot this
- in lots of different directions.
- TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
This is really awesome.
NARRATOR: Dr. Ward has set up
- a computer-generated...
- So here he is.
Model of the bombardier beetle
to show GIORGIO
the incredible process
that is taking place
inside its body.
WARD: You've got
the organs that produce
the chemicals, and two separate
chemicals are being made.
We've got this hydroquinone,
which is actually a makeup
of the organics of the creature.
It's part of his
external skeleton.
The second one is a chemical
called hydrogen peroxide,
which is rocket fuel.
Now if we combine these two
together in a chamber,
what we can do is build
this chemical material
that's gonna get really hot and
blast out the back of the bug.
So one of the coolest things
about this whole system,
it's got a one-way valve.
Once this chemical concoction
that's getting really hot
starts reacting,
the last thing you want
is having it blast back
into the interior of your body.
So it can direct it,
squirts out this super hot,
super toxic material
into that predator's face.
TSOUKALOS:
And one has to wonder,
what was the evolutionary
process of this beetle
for that defense mechanism
to even exist?
WARD: Yeah, that's
the critical question.
If evolution takes place
step-by-step,
what's the intermediate?
How does this thing
not blow itself up
as it's experimenting
through time?
How do you go from just
a garden-variety beetle
- to a super beetle like this?
- Mm-hmm.
TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder
if this creature perhaps
was brought here
in its finished form,
or at least the genetic material
for this creature
came here as a finished product.
NARRATOR: Could the physiology
of the bombardier beetle
be proof
that there are animals
on this planet
of extraterrestrial design?
The gases that the beetle emits
can burn the skin of humans,
and if the mechanism it holds
within its body
was constructed
on a larger scale,
it could be a very deadly
chemical weapon.
Is it possible that aliens
placed certain creatures
on this planet so that humans
could learn from them
and recreate their abilities?
KIRSTEN FISHER: Throughout
the animal kingdom
there are other organisms that
also have tremendous abilities.
The dung beetle
is able to pull upwards of
1,100 times its body weight.
The mantis shrimp,
they can see things like
polarized light,
UV, infrared light.
Squids and octopus
basically change their-their
body coloration,
and the patterns, and even
the texture of their skin
as they move across
different substrates,
which is just incredible.
NARRATOR: Many advances
in human technology
have been inspired
by the animal world,
an approach scientists
refer to as biomimicry.
Airplanes were designed
to imitate the winged flight
of birds.
(bird screeches)
Military camouflage evolved
out of observing
the way squid, octopuses,
and chameleons
take on the appearance
of their surroundings.
Sonar used in the navigation
of submarines and ships
is a skill taken from dolphins,
whales, and bats,
who emit sound waves
to locate both prey
and predators.
WARD: We have stolen
so many attributes of animals
in the past
for our own technologies.
We're taking on this world-view
of what an animal can do,
and using technology
to rebuild it.
WILCOCK: We're taking clues
from the natural world
in order to develop
technologies.
This may be part
of a greater hidden
extraterrestrial initiative,
perhaps for a seeding
of a technological
and human revolution that we're
just starting to see now.
NARRATOR:
Could extraterrestrial beings
have intended for mankind to
study the other animals of Earth
in order to advance
our technology,
as ancient astronaut theorists
suggest?
And if so, is this the
continuation of an experiment
that they have been conducting
with different life-forms
on Earth for thousands of years?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining
the recent discovery
that humans have not always been
the most intelligent animal
on the planet.
NARRATOR: Barcelona, Spain.
July 2016.
Researchers studying the genome
of indigenous Australians
living in the Andaman Islands
uncover a mysterious strand
of DNA
dating back 40,000 years...
A strand that is not human.
Although they do not know what
species this DNA belongs to,
they theorize
that if it co-mingled
with the DNA of humans,
it would likely add one more
name to the ever-growing list
of intelligent hominid species
that lived alongside
our ancestors.
To date, archaeologists
have discovered
that at least eight other
intelligent human-like species
have existed on Earth.
One of the surprises of really
the last decade
has been that now that we can
break into bones
and extract ancient DNA,
is... surprise, surprise...
That we seem to have been
interbreeding
with creatures
that are not of our species.
We've got pieces of DNA,
these foreign, if you will,
non-Homo sapiens DNA within us.
HENRY: This discovery adds
to the ever-growing list
of hominid species
that were roaming around the
planet in the ancient world.
And it brings up the question:
Just how many other intelligent
species were there out there,
that humans, as we know them,
were interacting with?
Perhaps we're gonna discover
fossils of other versions
of humanity that were mated,
or hybrid versions
of other animals
that we have yet to discover.
NARRATOR: How is it
that there were so many
other intelligent
human-like species
that inhabited the planet
thousands of years ago,
but only humans remain today?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that Earth may have acted
as a laboratory,
in which extraterrestrials
experimented
with various life-forms,
and as evidence,
point to the numerous ancient
stories of hybrid creatures.
YOUNG: Hybrid creatures
abound in mythology.
All over the world
we get animals
that are partly one thing,
partly another.
In ancient Greek we hear about
the Cerberus,
a terrifying three-headed dog
who was the guardian of
the portal to the underworld.
The Greeks also had the centaur,
half human, half horse,
a large and impressive creature.
In Hindu mythology,
we have the Naga.
These are strange-looking
characters.
Serpentine at the bottom,
human torsos
and heads and faces.
Even in the Qur'an,
the horse that was said
to have flown Muhammad
from Mecca to Jerusalem
was a flying horse
with a human face.
Either it's all fantasy
or our ancestors
witnessed these things,
and if they witnessed them,
there's two options to that.
Either these creatures
actually came here
or whatever extraterrestrials
were here created them.
And it's a huge, huge question,
because both possibilities,
in my opinion, are possible.
NARRATOR: If the hybrid
creatures described
in ancient mythologies
really did exist
alongside humans
and other intelligent hominids,
is it possible that
Charles Darwin's theory
of natural selection
played a role
in the rise of humans after all?
Could it be a case of
alien intervention on Earth
creating numerous species
that were then forced to fight
for survival?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining stories
of an ancient cataclysm
often referred to
as the Great Flood.
The Bible teaches us
an ancient legend
that there was a global flood.
We all know that the sins
of the people
would cause God to intervene.
But yet, the legends tell us
that the actual problem
that occurred at this time
was an
extraterrestrial involvement
and manipulation
of human genetics.
The Bible speaks in Genesis,
chapter six,
of the sons of God
who came down from heaven
and took the daughters
of men as wives
from which were born
a race of titans.
Gibborim is the Hebrew word.
And that they unleashed terror,
havoc upon the world.
The Books of Enoch teach us
that these sons of God
were the angels
who came down from heaven.
ERICH VON DANIKEN:
The development was going
the wrong direction.
And then they decided to start
the whole experiment again.
They decided to create
a great flood.
(lightning cracks,
thunder rumbles)
We have stories
of the Great Flood
practically all over the world.
Not only in the Bible,
not only in the Gilgamesh epics,
not only in the Enûma Eli.
From the Sumerian.
We have it in Central America
among the Mayans.
We have it in South America
among the Kogi Indians.
They live in Colombia.
Always the Great Flood story.
But in every case,
there was a so-called god
who give instructions
to construct a ship.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK: And
this is where ancient legends
get very interesting,
because while Noah
was building his ark
and saving his animals,
other legends say
that others of his generation
took other precautions.
Some building
other types of ships,
which were to go to the stars.
And what is also interesting
is that the legends tell us
that not all animals
were included on Noah's ark.
NARRATOR: Does the story
of the Great Flood
provide evidence
that extraterrestrials
have been experimenting
with different life-forms
on Earth
for thousands of years?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that such experimentation
continues to this day,
but that it is now
being directed
by humans.
NARRATOR: Rapallo, Italy.
1988.
While studying marine life
off the coast of Italy,
German biology student
Christian Sommer
discovers a microscopic species
with an incredible ability:
It never dies.
The animal, a jellyfish
called Turritopsis dohrnii,
repeatedly reverts back
to its earliest polyp state
and begins its life cycle
over and over again.
WILCOCK: Now, there's
something strange going on here.
There's something
that doesn't appear to happen
in any other life-form
that we've ever identified
in the millions and millions
of different creatures
that live on Earth.
There is no theoretical limit
to how much this creature
is able to recycle itself.
That completely defies all
known scientific laws of biology
as we now see them.
NARRATOR: Scientists
have nicknamed the species
"the immortal jellyfish"
and are attempting to unlock
its biological secrets
in the hopes
that they may hold the key
to increasing
the lifespan of humans.
But how
did such an incredible creature
come to exist
in the first place?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that extraterrestrials
may still be seeding our planet
with new life-forms
to help direct
the path of mankind's evolution.
The idea that life on Earth
may have an otherworldly origin
has fascinated mankind
for thousands of years.
It was first proposed
in the fifth century BC
by Greek philosopher Anaxagoras.
He believed
that all living things
came from cosmic seeds
scattered
throughout the universe.
He called the concept
panspermia.
Significant thinkers
throughout the ages
have considered
this possibility:
Anaxagoras in ancient Greece,
Lord Kelvin, Fred Hoyle,
Francis Crick,
the co-discoverer of DNA...
Who, by the way, thought
that it was too complicated
to have been developed
on Earth alone...
Up to Stephen Hawking,
in our time,
have considered this idea
that life came
from beyond the planet.
WILCOCK: Is it also possible
that what we're looking at
is a series of ETs
that might
have been visiting Earth
for hundreds
of thousands of years
and have been
systematically dropping off
some of their favorite creatures
from other biological worlds
very similar to our own
that have certain
special ingredients
so that once we reached
a certain level of technology,
we could adapt those qualities
into our own life.
NARRATOR: Is humanity
still under the influence
of animals introduced to Earth
by otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and suggest
that we are beginning to become
like our alien ancestors,
playing a hand in the evolution
of life on Earth.
WARD: One of the cutting edges
of biology now
is we are taking
human stem cells, putting them
into embryos of animals
and then hoping that it becomes
a human organ itself.
So, this is a lot
of experimentation.
We can take a DNA molecule
within an animal
and knock out specific genes.
We've been able to do that
for a while.
But now we're able
to replace them
with specific genes
for the very first time,
which is unleashing
lots of Frankenstein monsters.
Right now, what we've seen,
the most interesting and, to me,
scary example of this
comes from China,
where they have taken
a single gene,
inserted it into a beagle
and caused that beagle
to have twice the musculature
than it otherwise would have.
These things
are, like, super beagles.
And that begs the question:
If you can do it to a beagle,
can you do it to a human?
Absolutely.
WILCOCK:
This could be the first step
of a revolution in biology
that leads to us starting
to have the type of abilities
that are commonly reported
in the ancient lore
of extraterrestrial gods
visiting Earth.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that mankind is beginning
to reach the level
of our alien ancestors,
as ancient astronaut theorists
propose?
And do they continue
to assist us in this process,
secretly introducing
incredible new life-forms
on Earth?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining
a new scientific endeavor
to seed Earth life
on other planets.
NARRATOR: Frankfurt, Germany.
September 2016.
German physicist
Dr. Claudius Gros
of the Institute of Theoretical
Physics at Goethe University
introduces a new theory
titled the Genesis Project,
which proposes that mankind
should not simply search
for life on distant planets,
but create it.
CLAUDIUS GROS:
So, in exoplanetary research,
we have realized now
that there will be planets
which will be habitable
but lifeless.
And normally, people believe,
well, that is bad luck
because we are looking
for a second Earth.
But it offers us
a new opportunity
maybe to bring life
to these planets.
NARRATOR: The Genesis Project
calls for depositing
single-cell living organisms
onto lifeless planets.
WARD: If you really want
to kick-start this thing,
you find
an already oxygenated world.
And then you can put out
cells such as ours
that have a big nucleus
that can move directly
into an animal grade,
which is multicellular.
CHILDRESS:
In a sense, this kind of seeding
that Professor Gros
is wanting to do
in the near future
is exactly the kind of thing
that extraterrestrials
would have probably have done
in the remote past.
NARRATOR:
In planning to transmit life
to other planets,
are humans today
replicating what
extraterrestrials did on Earth?
Are we continuing a cycle
that has been taking place
throughout the universe
for many millions of years?
The fossil record,
while it's there,
doesn't necessarily correspond
to Darwinian evolution
because you don't see
the transitional creatures
in between whatever evolution
there may have been.
So this suggests, to me,
an outside influence,
whether it was panspermia,
direct panspermia
or, later, the artificial
mutation of our genes
by extraterrestrials.
I think, in fact, it may be
a combination of all three.
JASON MARTELL:
It's very possible
that there have been
lost cultures and species
that have literally evolved
and left the planet.
When we look at the various
races of extraterrestrials
that are possibly
visiting us today,
there could be some connection
to various species
here on Earth.
With all
of these incredible stories
of ancient human-animal hybrids
and strange creatures
coming from the stars
coupled with modern stories
of people
that have had experiences
with animalistic-type
extraterrestrials,
we have to ask if Earth
is some kind of a laboratory
where extraterrestrials
are experimenting
with various species,
trying to come up
with different beings.
When we look out into
the cosmos, we have to ask:
Is it filled with beings
of different
animalistic characteristics?
And as we begin
to meet these beings,
are we meeting
with past versions of ourselves
or perhaps future versions
of ourselves?
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that extraterrestrials
seeded the Earth
and continue to use it
as a genetic laboratory
in which humans are just one
of many experiments?
If so,
could there be another species
destined to overtake us?
Or are we in the process
of merging other animals
with ourselves
to become
more like our alien ancestors?
Perhaps one day soon,
we will learn
that such genetic manipulation
is happening not only on Earth,
but throughout the universe.
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