Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 18, Episode 7 - Alien Air Force - full transcript
Since 2017, the Navy has been releasing photos and videos of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena--and Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest the incredible images are nearly identical to accounts from centuries ago. Could flying pyramids. bell-shaped craft and cylindrical objects represent alien craft that have been roaming Earth's skies for thousands of years?
NARRATOR:
A detailed description
of a highly advanced
aircraft appears
in a 3,000-year-old text.
JONATHAN YOUNG:
There are tales
of flying craft
that could fly
at extraordinary speeds
that defy the laws of physics.
NARRATOR:
Ancient stories depict a vehicle
that travels both
in the sky and underwater.
WILLIAM HENRY: In Sumeria
and in Babylon, they talked about
Oannes who emerged
from the sea in a winged disc.
NARRATOR: And the
oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs
reference strange objects
descending to Earth.
We have depictions
in ancient times
of flying craft that seem to be
in the form of pyramids.
NARRATOR: Now,
military personnel
are capturing footage
of nearly identical
objects in the sky.
Are we encountering
the same extraterrestrials
that have occupied Earth
for thousands of years?
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NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the
promise of truth.
It demands we
question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right
before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: July 2019.
San Clemente Island, California.
68 nautical miles
west of San Diego.
Nine U.S. warships
belonging to an
elite Navy unit called
Carrier Strike Group 9
are performing nighttime
training exercises
in restricted waters.
The Navy was
undertaking an exercise
with Strike Force 9.
This is an integrated crew
centered on an aircraft carrier,
but with multiple other
U.S. Navy vessels,
and jets really testing how
the U.S. military would respond
in a war-fighting situation,
so everything has
to be seamless.
And then,
into the middle of all of this,
suddenly and unexpectedly,
the exercise is interrupted
by an unknown presence.
NARRATOR: The ships are swarmed
by what the Navy
refers to as UAVs,
or Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.
The UAVs fly for
prolonged periods of time
in low-visibility conditions,
performing brazen
maneuvers over the warships
near a sensitive
military training range.
Make no mistake about it,
something is penetrating
the sophisticated
air defense network.
JEREMY CORBELL:
That swarm series
of UFOs around Navy ships
is one of the most
important bodies of evidence
ever documented and
put out to the public
because it involved
so many ships.
There were a
strategic coordination
of these unidentifieds.
NARRATOR: The
Photographic Interpretation
and Examination team
aboard the USS Russell
captured a compelling
18-second night vision video
of multiple UAVs hovering
just 700 feet above the ship.
CORBELL: The USS
Russell was swarmed by UFOs
like other ships,
but this was different.
These were flying pyramids
without any control
surfaces, wings,
rudders, tails, plumes,
or exhaust. Nothing.
How did these things move?
How were they able to get past
one of our nation's
greatest defense systems?
This was something that we
couldn't even defend against.
NARRATOR: In December 2017,
just 18 months
prior to this incident,
The New York Times
exposed the U.S. government's
secret program to investigate
unidentified aerial phenomena.
Since that bombshell revelation,
numerous photographs
and videos have surfaced
of Navy encounters with
different types of UAPs.
And as far as ancient
astronaut theorists
are concerned,
the video captured
from the USS Russell may
be the most extraordinary of all.
Not because there were so
many objects seen in the sky,
but because of the
UAP's very unique shape.
TSOUKALOS: The fact that
there are pyramid-shaped objects
that have been
filmed by the Navy
is beyond interesting to me
because we have
similar depictions
in ancient times of flying craft
that seem to be in
the form of pyramids.
Clearly, what we see
in this footage of today
is pyramid-shaped,
three-dimensionally.
It's not flat.
It's a three-dimensional pyramid
floating in the sky.
Providing that
the footage is real,
providing it is
extraterrestrial,
then one could argue
that the same visitors
that we've had back then
are showing themselves again.
NARRATOR: On display
in the Egyptian Museum
and Royal Mummies' Hall
is an artifact from the
pyramid of Amenemhat III,
called a Benben stone.
In ancient Egypt, similar
pyramid-shaped capstones
were placed on the top of giant
standing stones called obelisks.
The first of these Benben stones
predate the earliest pyramids.
The obelisk pointed
up toward the heavens,
so it is an object of worship,
and that capstone,
that Benben stone,
was the meeting place.
That was the portal
to other worlds
where human energy lifted up
and made contact with the gods.
HUGH NEWMAN: The
shape of the Benben stone
is like a classic pyramid shape.
And, uh, you know, apparently,
the design of pyramids
was based on the
Benben stone itself,
and these are like
giant versions of it.
DAVID CHILDRESS: The
Benben stone was not just, uh,
symbolizing a
connection to the heavens,
it was actually memorializing
an extraterrestrial visitation.
TSOUKALOS: In ancient
Egypt, it's chock-full of references
of celestial beings
descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge
to our ancestors.
One of the origin stories says
that a Benben stone
descended from the sky,
out of which the first
creator gods emerged
and started
Egyptian civilization.
It was a flying craft.
NARRATOR: Could the pyramidal
capstones found atop Egypt's obelisks,
and even the
pyramids themselves,
have been inspired by an
extraterrestrial visitation?
And if so,
is it possible that
similar alien craft
were captured on video
above the USS Russell?
What we're seeing
from the USS Russell,
these kind of objects
flying around in the sky
were an identical shape
and there was multiple
ones witnessed and filmed.
And so, is there a connection?
Is this what was witnessed
from the USS Russell?
CHILDRESS: It's a
fascinating idea that, perhaps,
extraterrestrials first arrived
in Egypt in these small,
pyramid-shaped craft,
like we're seeing in this video.
And, in fact, many of the UAPs
that have been
reported in modern times
and that we see in
the recent Navy videos
are very reminiscent
of ancient accounts
of strange objects in the sky,
accounts that you can find
in many ancient
cultures around the world.
NARRATOR: Did people
living thousands of years ago
encounter the very
same objects in the sky
that appear in recent
videos and photographs
taken by the U.S. Navy?
And if so, could this
indicate that humans
have been sharing planet
Earth with another race
of intelligent beings
since our earliest history?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
and suggest further evidence
can be found in India,
within the pages
of one of the world's
oldest texts.
NARRATOR: The coast
of Florida. January 2015.
The crew of a
Navy F-18 fighter jet
fly into restricted air
space and encounter
an airborne object
directly in their flight path.
They aim their forward-looking
infrared camera at the object
and capture it in flight.
F-18s were chasing this
thing, and they couldn't catch it.
The UAP is doing things
that modern aerodynamic
vehicles can't do.
NARRATOR: According to
the aviator's official report,
the craft descended
from altitudes
of 60,000 feet to 50 feet
in a matter of seconds,
hovering for short
periods of time
and departing
at high velocities.
One of the impressive
aspects of it,
is that it's moving
against the wind,
and you can hear
the pilot say this.
CORBELL: It doesn't
lose speed, and it rotates
mechanically against the wind.
This gimbal footage
is one of the rare pieces
of physical evidence
that is corroborated directly
by individuals who are
out there on the East Coast
documenting these things.
It is highly impressive.
Now, modern-day
aircraft can yaw and pitch,
and they can roll,
but they can't simply
pitch straight up
and continue to move
forward into the line of flight.
This thing does that.
It's moving extremely fast,
and it's accelerating much
faster than the F-18s can.
So that, in itself,
is a feat that mankind
has yet to accomplish.
CORBELL: We tried to
vet this for a long time.
What's uncomfortable is
that we haven't figured it out.
That we don't know
whose technology this is.
If you can't identify someone
that's far more advanced
than you technologically,
Houston, we have a problem.
NARRATOR: Navy video
of the incredible encounter
was made public
in December 2017,
and the object was
dubbed "GIMBAL"
due to its ability
to rotate on an axis.
But for ancient
astronaut theorists,
just as intriguing as the way
it moves is the object's shape.
The craft itself is an
acorn-shaped craft.
Immediately, that's reminiscent
of the what the ancient
Indian text described as
the vimana, which
were acorn-shaped craft.
TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata,
and at many of the ancient Vedic texts,
they speak about
the so-called vimanas.
The vimanas were flying vehicles
with which to reach
the celestial realm.
NARRATOR: In the ancient
Sanskrit epics of India
there are highly detailed
descriptions of the vimana,
which carried the gods
and other important figures
through the sky
and sometimes to other planets.
The acorn-shaped craft
were even incorporated at the
very top of many Hindu temples,
and some researchers believe
they also inspired
similar Buddhist structures
called stupa.
TSOUKALOS: If we go to
Indonesia and look at Borobudur,
where we have 194 stupas
sitting in concentric circles,
each stupa, in my opinion,
represents a
type of flying craft.
Because "stupa" actually
means "celestial chariot,"
or a way with which to
reach the celestial realm.
And they are in the shape
of the so-called vimanas.
NARRATOR: Often, the vimana
were described as war machines,
armed with incredible weapons.
There are tales of flying craft
that could defy gravity
and fly at extraordinary speeds
that defy the laws of physics.
These were military in usage,
had powerful engines
and powerful weapons.
In these battles,
missiles would fire that
could wipe out cities.
These were the earliest stories
we have of flying
military craft.
HENRY: In the Indian text,
the vimanas are the
chariots or craft of the gods.
They were clearly a
method of transportation
that could take the
gods from place to place,
country to country, or
even to other planets.
They're sometimes
described as bright clouds.
Some of them are
seven stories tall.
NARRATOR: In 1895,
Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade
decided to fashion an aircraft
based solely on information
gleaned from the
ancient Indian writings
about the vimana.
While the story
is hotly disputed,
he allegedly tested the craft
in front of an audience
of thousands of people
on a beach in Bombay.
TAYLOR: The legend
has it that he flew for,
like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.
The Wright brothers only
went 120 feet for 12 seconds.
But even more exciting
is that this is technology
based on a scripture written
thousands of years before
mankind ever had the idea
of heavier-than-air flight.
How is this possible?
NARRATOR: According
to the Hindu text,
the crafts were mind-controlled,
able to change
direction and pitch
and travel at high speeds,
defying our current knowledge
of aeronautical physics.
What's really cool is that
these modern-day UFO videos
show that these vehicles
are capable of
ridiculous maneuvers.
That they can accelerate
at the drop of a dime,
or they can just stop or
change direction immediately
at g-forces
that we could not survive.
In the Vaimanika Shastra, which
describes what these vimanas
were capable of doing,
the exact same
descriptions exist.
The fact that we have
similar stories in ancient times
illustrates to me something
similar has happened.
NARRATOR: Could it be
that the ancient Sanskrit texts
are describing
extraterrestrial vehicles
even more advanced
than the U.S. military's
most sophisticated fighter jets?
And if so, are we seeing
the same alien technology
on display in the recent videos
released by the
United States Navy?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and suggest that this technology
may also be depicted on the wall
of an Egyptian temple that
dates back thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Dendera, Egypt.
Roughly one and a
half miles southeast
of this ancient city lies
the Temple of Hathor,
one of the most impressive
and well-preserved
archeological
sites in all of Egypt.
Among the vast hieroglyphs that
cover the columns of the temple
are numerous depictions
of pharaohs standing
on mysterious ships
and purportedly
traveling through the stars.
HENRY: At the Temple of Hathor,
we see a remarkable depiction
of a resurrected pharaoh
standing on what the
ancient Egyptians called
the Ship of Eternity.
This is a-a craft that
was created by Ptah,
the ancient Egyptian
god of technology,
who the Egyptians
connected with the star Sirius.
In ancient Egypt, we learn of
pharaohs, gods who travelled
the stars riding these craft.
NARRATOR: According
to William Henry,
who has spent decades studying
the ancient Egyptian
iconography,
an important detail found
in some of the depictions
at Dendera and elsewhere
is that the pharaoh is shown
within a circle or bubble.
HENRY: In another
remarkable example,
we see a Pharaoh
sitting on a throne
with Isis and Nephthys
on either side of him,
and he's sitting in a blue
bubble or magic bubble.
NARRATOR: The so-called
"magic bubble" imagery
is found in artwork
throughout the ancient world.
And some researchers speculate
that the repeated connection
between the bubble
shape and ascension
may indicate that it represents
a common experience
describing space travel.
Throughout the ancient world,
we find other very
compelling examples
of beings surrounded
by a bubble.
For example, in Tibet we find
Padmasambhava who
sits on a lotus throne
surrounded by
rainbow-colored light
with a thin line symbolizing
some form of a bubble.
When you see the
earliest examples of Jesus
ascending into the heavens,
he's sitting on a throne
surrounded by concentric rings
that form a bubble
around his body.
These are supposed to represent
what the Book of Acts
says he ascended in
and will return riding upon.
TSOUKALOS: There
are countless paintings
of saints and other
celestial beings
that happen to be shown
in some type of an
energetic bubble.
What if people saw something
that surpassed their
technological intellect,
and thus drew it in that way?
NARRATOR: Mainstream
historians interpret the bubble shape
found in religious art as
simply symbols of divinity.
But could the repetition of this
iconic imagery across traditions
suggest it was something
our ancestors witnessed?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and believe further
evidence may be found
by taking a closer look at the
recently released GIMBAL video
captured by Navy jets in 2015.
When aerospace
engineer Dr. Travis Taylor
examined the GIMBAL video,
he noticed a very
curious anomaly:
a halo of light
surrounding the craft.
TAYLOR: After further
analysis of the video,
what we can see is
there is a bubble region
that sort of
surrounds this craft.
This is something
that you don't see
when you look through
the same instrument
at, say, an F-18 or
an F-22 or an F-35.
Black is hot on their
forward-looking infrared camera.
And if black is hot,
then white is cooler,
so this is a colder
region around the vehicle.
So, maybe
this is a warp bubble
or some sort of
propellant-less propulsion field
that someone has discovered.
NARRATOR: The
concept of a warp bubble
was introduced in 1994
by Mexican physicist
Miguel Alcubierre,
as part of a hypothetical model
for traveling faster
than the speed of light.
MICHIO KAKU: I once
asked Miguel Alcubierre
how he came up with the
idea of the Alcubierre drive.
He told me that he
was watching Star Trek.
And in Star Trek, they,
well, compress the space
in front of them and expand
the space behind them
and would rocket faster
than the speed of light.
And then he said,
"Well, wait a minute.
I think I can duplicate that."
NARRATOR: In
Alcubierre's theoretical model,
the warp drive vehicle is
surrounded by an energy bubble
within space-time.
KAKU: You need
energy to create a bubble,
what's called a warp bubble,
surrounding your starship.
Then you need what is
called negative energy
to drive it faster than
the speed of light,
while inside, you
feel almost nothing.
HENRY: When we look at the idea
of a warp bubble
that could surround
a spacecraft,
in the video,
engineers are seeing
exactly that
principle in action.
As far as ancient
astronaut theorists
are concerned, warp
bubble technology
could be on display not
only in the GIMBAL video,
but also in artwork
created centuries ago,
like the pharaoh's blue bubble,
the Tibetan lotus throne,
the ascension of Christ,
and countless
other sacred images
that seemingly show
identical phenomena.
TSOUKALOS: So,
you have to wonder,
what is it that the artist
tried to depict here?
It's just like Arthur
C. Clarke said,
"Any advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
HENRY: These are
powerful examples
that are suggesting
ascended beings
who traveled the
stars in magic bubbles
that precisely matches
the Alcubierre warp
bubble concept.
TAYLOR: Could these
ancient drawings be showing us
the same thing that
we're seeing today
in these modern-day
infrared cameras?
NARRATOR: Is it
possible that depictions
of figures encompassed
by bubbles found
throughout history
and all around the world
represent an alien technology?
Perhaps further
clues can be found
by examining another
extraordinary Navy video
and its direct connection
to the ancient world.
NARRATOR: Veteran
journalist George Knapp
and documentary
filmmaker Jeremy Corbell
publish astonishing video they
acquired from the USS Omaha
that shows a mysterious
spherical object
flying at speeds approaching
160 miles per hour
before disappearing
into the ocean.
The USS Omaha is one of
the central pieces of evidence
that I've put forward to the
American and global public.
There were objects that were
swarming this Navy warship,
and one in particular
appears to transcend
between the space
of air and into sea.
They call that a
trans-medium vehicle,
a vehicle that can
operate equally as well
from in the air and
under the water.
Now, this was suspected,
but when they went
to go look for this craft
under the water,
or for wreckage,
none was found.
NARRATOR: Tennessee
representative Tim Burchett,
an outspoken proponent for
disclosure of UFO sightings,
was one of the first members of
Congress to review the footage.
TIM BURCHETT: To
me, i-it's pretty astounding
when they showed
that craft actually
going in and it popping up.
It looked like it didn't
even slow down.
There wasn't any friction at all
when it hit the water, so,
to me, that's something
that we can't even begin
to understand, I don't think.
I've read the mathematical
equations of friction
and things like that, and
it just defies all of that.
TAYLOR: How could a vehicle
fly into the water at
100 miles per hour?
Well, that suggests either
the surface of this vehicle
is frictionless,
and it wouldn't
have any interaction
with any material it
was flying through,
or it's not frictionless,
it's actually a warp bubble
where the spacecraft
or craft is inside it.
The stresses and strains by
flying through the atmosphere
in outer space and then
plunging into the oceans
would be enough to rupture
any of our known aircraft.
POPE: These reports of USOs,
unidentified submerged
or submersible objects,
are much more common
than people might suppose.
In 1991,
Jing Yu Xian, a fisherman
was at Fuxian Lake
when he encountered
this strange craft
in the waters of the lake.
He described it
as a shining disc.
This UFO was so
close and so powerful
that it actually tossed
the boat around.
And then rapidly this craft
just disappeared up into the sky.
Over the years, there have
been many, many cases
of UFOs seen over the water,
disappearing under the water,
and in some cases,
emerging from under the water.
CHILDRESS: On December 29, 2020,
a very curious thing
happened off of the coast
of Hawaii.
People could see a
huge cigar-shaped craft
hovering off the coast
and took photos of it, and,
eventually, this craft then
plunged into the ocean.
And the Navy went
out there to also
look for possible
wreckage of some craft
crashing into the
ocean and found nothing.
POPE: One theory about
this trans-medium travel
and these USOs is
that what we're seeing
is evidence of underwater bases.
Now, this makes a
good deal of sense.
I mean, the distance involved
for interstellar travel
means that it's much
easier to have a base
on the location that
you're interested in
than to constantly
travel there and back.
But what if that presence
goes back millennia?
They're operating here,
but under the oceans,
right under our noses.
HENRY: When we see the
spherical object in the video taken by
the USS Omaha
hovering for a time
and then descending
into the water,
this opens up some
really interesting concepts
in relation to the
ancient world.
For example, in
Sumeria and in Babylon,
they talked about a god
being named Oannes
who lived in the sea,
who emerged from the
sea wearing a fish cloak.
He was, uh, an
initiator of humanity,
who taught writing and
science and-and other concepts.
What's amazing about
this is that Oannes
also founded a priesthood
of beings called
Apkallu priests,
who also wore fish cloaks.
And in Sumerian cylinder seals,
we see these Apkallu priests
on either side of a
luminous or radiant tree of life
with a winged disc
hovering above.
The inference is-is that
this craft came from the sea
because these are
priests of a sea being.
And so, here's an
example of an ancient being
emerging from the sea
and connected with a craft.
NARRATOR: Oannes belonged
to a group of powerful beings
known in ancient
Mesopotamia as the Anunnaki.
The term Anunnaki means
"those who from
the heavens came,"
and refers to beings
descending from the
sky, imparting knowledge.
That is the most important
thing that we can read and learn
about the Anunnaki, that
they were our teachers.
So, I think it's very possible
that what the ancient
people tried to record
was an extraterrestrial
visitation.
NARRATOR: For
ancient astronaut theorists,
perhaps the most compelling
evidence of an alien presence
that traverses Earth's oceans
can be found in an
account from 1492,
recorded by
Christopher Columbus.
CHILDRESS: It's a famous
story about Christopher Columbus,
and he wrote
this in his journals,
that as he was moving
west across the Atlantic
towards the Caribbean
in his first voyage,
he saw a light out in the ocean
to the west hovering
over the water,
and this light then
descended into the water,
but Columbus felt that
this light was guiding him
towards his destination.
So, if this glowing object
that Columbus saw did,
you know, go into the water,
he's perhaps one of the
first witnesses to describe
a trans-medium craft like this,
which could hover,
uh, above the water
and then disappear
into it like a submarine.
NARRATOR: Could the
account of Christopher Columbus
and the ancient
Babylonian stories of Oannes
have a profound connection
to the object recorded
from the USS Omaha?
Do they provide further evidence
that the same crafts witnessed
in the distant past are still
visiting Earth in the present?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and believe the
ultimate proof of this
can be found in
the Hebrew Bible.
NARRATOR: Just
outside the Capitol Building,
Congressman Tim
Burchett of Tennessee
speaks with a reporter
about the much-anticipated
government UAP report,
due to be released in
less than two weeks.
To the surprise of many,
he suggests that UFOs
have been around
for all of human history,
and can even be found
in the Bible's Book of Ezekiel.
POPE: I was intrigued
when I heard that
Congressional representative
Tim Burchett had
talked about these UFOs
and said, "Well, this is
straight out of the Bible.
This is the Book of Ezekiel."
And I thought, "My goodness,
he's an ancient
astronaut theorist."
CORBELL: We have seen
a lot of unsolicited comments
by congressmen, politicians,
uh, even heads of the CIA
have come forward and
given opinions about UFOs.
This has been such a shocking
and revelatory few
years about UFOs
that you're now seeing
people go back to the Bible
and trying to understand
if those events
are similar to the events
that we're having today.
NARRATOR: Congressman
Burchett's bold assertion
that UFOs can be
found in the Bible
was a conclusion he
came to after careful study
of the Book of Ezekiel.
According to this text,
the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel
describes a fiery chariot
coming down from the sky
drawn by four living creatures.
Each creature is flanked
by a metallic object,
a wheel within a wheel,
that Ezekiel observes
as it descends in a whirlwind
making tremendous noise.
BURCHETT: It's pretty clear
what's going on in the Bible,
what he's describing, to me.
I've read it many
times. You got to realize,
Ezekiel was in sixth century BC,
but he basically describes
what I would say was what
people describe as a UFO.
I mean, it's a wheel
within a wheel,
there's fire, there's
landing gear.
To me, it sounds like
there's a craft landing,
and there are
smaller craft around it
that are providing
protection for it.
And, you know, it's what we see
when you see the
president land in a helicopter.
There's not just one helicopter,
there's multiple helicopters.
So, to me, it sounds like
Ezekiel saw something that
he could not accurately describe,
and he used things around him
that he would see
in a day-to-day basis
to describe what he saw.
The closest thing he has is a
wheel because that was the, uh,
pinnacle of technology
at that time, was a wheel.
NARRATOR: To Congressman
Burchett and many others,
the Navy videos indicate
that crafts like those
seen by Ezekiel
are still with us
in the present.
BURCHETT: I think it's the same
type of thing that's being depicted,
in olden times that's
being depicted today
in some of those Navy tapes.
There's just too much
similarity for it not to be.
If you heard those Navy pilots,
they're the sharpest we've got.
BURCHETT: You
can tell they're excited,
and they're trying to
explain what they're seeing,
much like Ezekiel would try
to define what he was seeing.
And so, I think that,
um, that it-it proves that
we're definitely not alone.
NARRATOR: To
many UFO researchers,
the only difference
between ancient sightings
like Ezekiel's and modern
21st-century encounters
is that, today, people
have the technology
- to record them.
- [camera shutter clicks]
CORBELL: We have
seen throughout history
that individuals will testify
to seeing in the sky,
you know, shields on fire,
or things that just
are not aerodynamic.
Now, because of the-the
nature of our technology
and our corroborative evidence,
we have more information to say,
"Yes, this happened exactly
like this witness said it happened."
We just didn't have
that 150 years ago.
We just didn't
have that capability.
The difference now is that we
are able to artificially capture
these craft and these
objects to a precise measuring
of the rotation and the speeds.
That is just something
we did not have before.
We did not have it before,
but we have it now, so it's...
I mean, kind of an exciting
time to be alive. [chuckles]
TSOUKALOS: Countless times
our ancestors referred to these things
up in the sky as flying shields
or flying furnaces.
Today, we actually
refer to that as flying craft,
flying machines, unidentified
aerial phenomena.
Back then, people
didn't have those words.
And so, in my opinion,
there is a clear
connection between
the sightings that we have today
and the sightings that
we have in the past
because if we would
not have the vocabulary,
what we see in those Navy videos
can be described
as a flying shield.
These kinds of images
have been with us
throughout our entire history,
and they're all
telling the same thing,
that the ancient
astronauts never left.
The same visitors that
we've had back then
are showing themselves again,
and this time publicly.
It's incredible.
NARRATOR: As the
photographic and video
evidence of UFOs
continues to grow,
so, too, does the
number of people
who believe that
governments around the world
know more than
they are disclosing.
POPE: The idea that there's
an alien presence, and the idea
that the U.S. government,
amongst others,
knows about all this
is coming out of the fringe
and into the mainstream.
Now, you hear of people
in Congress talk about it.
We do not need to fear
these-these airborne
unidentified objects.
They would've shown
themselves to be dangerous
a long time ago by
now if they were a threat.
BURCHETT: I wished
our intelligence community
would release everything
they have on that.
The higher-ups put
out a lot that some
of these recent tapes were just
sort of a joke, was an anomaly,
but we sure have had a
heck of a lot of anomalies.
I think there's a lot
more going on to this.
I've talked to
military and people
that, when something like
this happens, they are generally
told not to bring it up.
They can have psych evaluations,
they can have things
put in their records,
and they're encouraged not
to bring these kind of things up.
NARRATOR: If the
United States government
and other governments
around the world
were to reveal all the evidence
they have concerning UFOs,
would it show irrefutable proof
that there is an alien
air force on Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suspect the truth is
even more incredible,
and that hidden away
in top-secret facilities
around the globe
are recovered
extraterrestrial craft.
NARRATOR: NASA's
Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab,
known as the
"Eagleworks Project,"
announces that, based
on their latest experiments,
they now believe it is possible
to create an actual warp drive
and a spacecraft that can travel
faster than the speed of light.
TAYLOR: The team
at NASA's Eagleworks
has been trying to
reproduce a warp field, and
the results have
been right at the edge
of experimental error right now.
So, they're not ready to go
build the Starship Enterprise,
but it's possible that
they can do an experiment
that says we could build
the Starship Enterprise
if we put enough work into it.
NARRATOR: While some believe
that such a
revolutionary technology
is purely the result
of human ingenuity,
others maintain that such
advances are possible
because secret government
agencies possess,
and are able to study,
crashed alien vehicles.
It is a theory that goes
back to the famous
Roswell crash of 1947.
BURCHETT: Roswell happened
in '47. Roswell, New Mexico.
They put out, you
know, UFO crash,
and it was on the
headlines of the papers.
Then, the next day,
they came back and said,
"No, in fact, it was
a weather balloon."
And it just contradicted
everything everybody had said.
NARRATOR: Many have
alleged that the U.S. government
secretly retrieved
an alien spacecraft
from Roswell.
In 1989,
a scientist named Bob Lazar
even came forward to say
that he worked for
the U.S. government
reverse engineering crashed
extraterrestrial vehicles,
divulging incredible details
about the secret project
in the years that followed.
The government is holding,
uh, nine alien spacecraft,
um, that are propelled by, um,
a modified gravity generator.
Uh...
It's being... the work
is being conducted
15 miles south of Groom Lake.
CORBELL: The only
reason you know about UFOs
and Area 51
and that connection is
because of Bob Lazar.
He was faced with a lot
of adversity through this.
But, in my eyes,
he's telling you the truth,
and it's backed up
time and time again.
NARRATOR: For decades,
the U.S. government
denied Lazar's claims,
as well as the
existence of the facility
where he said the alien
craft were being held,
Area 51.
But in 2013,
a Freedom of
Information Act request
finally forced
officials to admit
that Area 51 is real.
BURCHETT: For
the government to say
the things they say
and to hold back
on these reports,
it goes back to Roswell
or any of those other...
spots. It's just,
um, nobody trusts
the government. They
don't trust government,
and they really,
frankly, they shouldn't.
We-we don't keep
our word on anything.
NARRATOR: The United
States isn't the only country
accused of covering up
attempts to study alien craft.
Many believe the Russians
have a similar UFO program
at a site called Kapustin Yar,
often nicknamed
the Russian Area 51.
HENRY: Kapustin Yar was
one of the former Soviet Union's
most secretive air bases.
The rumor is, is they
were reverse engineering
UFO technology
that could be as much
as 1,000 years in advance
of what we have today.
NARRATOR: Recovered alien
vehicles are also rumored to be held
at the Pine Gap
military base in Australia,
at a mysterious desert airfield
in the Xinjiang region of China,
and at Rudloe Manor in England.
With these craft coming
from other planets
and other solar systems,
this is clearly a very
advanced technology,
and we are now
trying to catch up
to these extraterrestrials
and have the same
kind of technology
that they already have.
BURCHETT: It's clear
that there's something
we don't understand,
and we're not sure
where it comes from,
and I just wish
they'd just say that.
They think that the
American public can't handle it,
and they can, in fact,
handle it, I think, very well.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the sensational footage
recently released
by the U.S. Navy
features the same
type of aerial vehicles
that were documented
by our ancestors?
Do we now have
overwhelming evidence
that alien craft not only exist,
but have been present
on planet Earth
for thousands of years?
Perhaps, when we
discover just who
is behind the UFO phenomenon,
we will uncover
an even more profound truth,
that extraterrestrials
have been living among us
all along.
A detailed description
of a highly advanced
aircraft appears
in a 3,000-year-old text.
JONATHAN YOUNG:
There are tales
of flying craft
that could fly
at extraordinary speeds
that defy the laws of physics.
NARRATOR:
Ancient stories depict a vehicle
that travels both
in the sky and underwater.
WILLIAM HENRY: In Sumeria
and in Babylon, they talked about
Oannes who emerged
from the sea in a winged disc.
NARRATOR: And the
oldest Egyptian hieroglyphs
reference strange objects
descending to Earth.
We have depictions
in ancient times
of flying craft that seem to be
in the form of pyramids.
NARRATOR: Now,
military personnel
are capturing footage
of nearly identical
objects in the sky.
Are we encountering
the same extraterrestrials
that have occupied Earth
for thousands of years?
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NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the
promise of truth.
It demands we
question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right
before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
NARRATOR: July 2019.
San Clemente Island, California.
68 nautical miles
west of San Diego.
Nine U.S. warships
belonging to an
elite Navy unit called
Carrier Strike Group 9
are performing nighttime
training exercises
in restricted waters.
The Navy was
undertaking an exercise
with Strike Force 9.
This is an integrated crew
centered on an aircraft carrier,
but with multiple other
U.S. Navy vessels,
and jets really testing how
the U.S. military would respond
in a war-fighting situation,
so everything has
to be seamless.
And then,
into the middle of all of this,
suddenly and unexpectedly,
the exercise is interrupted
by an unknown presence.
NARRATOR: The ships are swarmed
by what the Navy
refers to as UAVs,
or Unidentified Aerial Vehicles.
The UAVs fly for
prolonged periods of time
in low-visibility conditions,
performing brazen
maneuvers over the warships
near a sensitive
military training range.
Make no mistake about it,
something is penetrating
the sophisticated
air defense network.
JEREMY CORBELL:
That swarm series
of UFOs around Navy ships
is one of the most
important bodies of evidence
ever documented and
put out to the public
because it involved
so many ships.
There were a
strategic coordination
of these unidentifieds.
NARRATOR: The
Photographic Interpretation
and Examination team
aboard the USS Russell
captured a compelling
18-second night vision video
of multiple UAVs hovering
just 700 feet above the ship.
CORBELL: The USS
Russell was swarmed by UFOs
like other ships,
but this was different.
These were flying pyramids
without any control
surfaces, wings,
rudders, tails, plumes,
or exhaust. Nothing.
How did these things move?
How were they able to get past
one of our nation's
greatest defense systems?
This was something that we
couldn't even defend against.
NARRATOR: In December 2017,
just 18 months
prior to this incident,
The New York Times
exposed the U.S. government's
secret program to investigate
unidentified aerial phenomena.
Since that bombshell revelation,
numerous photographs
and videos have surfaced
of Navy encounters with
different types of UAPs.
And as far as ancient
astronaut theorists
are concerned,
the video captured
from the USS Russell may
be the most extraordinary of all.
Not because there were so
many objects seen in the sky,
but because of the
UAP's very unique shape.
TSOUKALOS: The fact that
there are pyramid-shaped objects
that have been
filmed by the Navy
is beyond interesting to me
because we have
similar depictions
in ancient times of flying craft
that seem to be in
the form of pyramids.
Clearly, what we see
in this footage of today
is pyramid-shaped,
three-dimensionally.
It's not flat.
It's a three-dimensional pyramid
floating in the sky.
Providing that
the footage is real,
providing it is
extraterrestrial,
then one could argue
that the same visitors
that we've had back then
are showing themselves again.
NARRATOR: On display
in the Egyptian Museum
and Royal Mummies' Hall
is an artifact from the
pyramid of Amenemhat III,
called a Benben stone.
In ancient Egypt, similar
pyramid-shaped capstones
were placed on the top of giant
standing stones called obelisks.
The first of these Benben stones
predate the earliest pyramids.
The obelisk pointed
up toward the heavens,
so it is an object of worship,
and that capstone,
that Benben stone,
was the meeting place.
That was the portal
to other worlds
where human energy lifted up
and made contact with the gods.
HUGH NEWMAN: The
shape of the Benben stone
is like a classic pyramid shape.
And, uh, you know, apparently,
the design of pyramids
was based on the
Benben stone itself,
and these are like
giant versions of it.
DAVID CHILDRESS: The
Benben stone was not just, uh,
symbolizing a
connection to the heavens,
it was actually memorializing
an extraterrestrial visitation.
TSOUKALOS: In ancient
Egypt, it's chock-full of references
of celestial beings
descending from the sky
and imparting knowledge
to our ancestors.
One of the origin stories says
that a Benben stone
descended from the sky,
out of which the first
creator gods emerged
and started
Egyptian civilization.
It was a flying craft.
NARRATOR: Could the pyramidal
capstones found atop Egypt's obelisks,
and even the
pyramids themselves,
have been inspired by an
extraterrestrial visitation?
And if so,
is it possible that
similar alien craft
were captured on video
above the USS Russell?
What we're seeing
from the USS Russell,
these kind of objects
flying around in the sky
were an identical shape
and there was multiple
ones witnessed and filmed.
And so, is there a connection?
Is this what was witnessed
from the USS Russell?
CHILDRESS: It's a
fascinating idea that, perhaps,
extraterrestrials first arrived
in Egypt in these small,
pyramid-shaped craft,
like we're seeing in this video.
And, in fact, many of the UAPs
that have been
reported in modern times
and that we see in
the recent Navy videos
are very reminiscent
of ancient accounts
of strange objects in the sky,
accounts that you can find
in many ancient
cultures around the world.
NARRATOR: Did people
living thousands of years ago
encounter the very
same objects in the sky
that appear in recent
videos and photographs
taken by the U.S. Navy?
And if so, could this
indicate that humans
have been sharing planet
Earth with another race
of intelligent beings
since our earliest history?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
and suggest further evidence
can be found in India,
within the pages
of one of the world's
oldest texts.
NARRATOR: The coast
of Florida. January 2015.
The crew of a
Navy F-18 fighter jet
fly into restricted air
space and encounter
an airborne object
directly in their flight path.
They aim their forward-looking
infrared camera at the object
and capture it in flight.
F-18s were chasing this
thing, and they couldn't catch it.
The UAP is doing things
that modern aerodynamic
vehicles can't do.
NARRATOR: According to
the aviator's official report,
the craft descended
from altitudes
of 60,000 feet to 50 feet
in a matter of seconds,
hovering for short
periods of time
and departing
at high velocities.
One of the impressive
aspects of it,
is that it's moving
against the wind,
and you can hear
the pilot say this.
CORBELL: It doesn't
lose speed, and it rotates
mechanically against the wind.
This gimbal footage
is one of the rare pieces
of physical evidence
that is corroborated directly
by individuals who are
out there on the East Coast
documenting these things.
It is highly impressive.
Now, modern-day
aircraft can yaw and pitch,
and they can roll,
but they can't simply
pitch straight up
and continue to move
forward into the line of flight.
This thing does that.
It's moving extremely fast,
and it's accelerating much
faster than the F-18s can.
So that, in itself,
is a feat that mankind
has yet to accomplish.
CORBELL: We tried to
vet this for a long time.
What's uncomfortable is
that we haven't figured it out.
That we don't know
whose technology this is.
If you can't identify someone
that's far more advanced
than you technologically,
Houston, we have a problem.
NARRATOR: Navy video
of the incredible encounter
was made public
in December 2017,
and the object was
dubbed "GIMBAL"
due to its ability
to rotate on an axis.
But for ancient
astronaut theorists,
just as intriguing as the way
it moves is the object's shape.
The craft itself is an
acorn-shaped craft.
Immediately, that's reminiscent
of the what the ancient
Indian text described as
the vimana, which
were acorn-shaped craft.
TSOUKALOS: In the Mahabharata,
and at many of the ancient Vedic texts,
they speak about
the so-called vimanas.
The vimanas were flying vehicles
with which to reach
the celestial realm.
NARRATOR: In the ancient
Sanskrit epics of India
there are highly detailed
descriptions of the vimana,
which carried the gods
and other important figures
through the sky
and sometimes to other planets.
The acorn-shaped craft
were even incorporated at the
very top of many Hindu temples,
and some researchers believe
they also inspired
similar Buddhist structures
called stupa.
TSOUKALOS: If we go to
Indonesia and look at Borobudur,
where we have 194 stupas
sitting in concentric circles,
each stupa, in my opinion,
represents a
type of flying craft.
Because "stupa" actually
means "celestial chariot,"
or a way with which to
reach the celestial realm.
And they are in the shape
of the so-called vimanas.
NARRATOR: Often, the vimana
were described as war machines,
armed with incredible weapons.
There are tales of flying craft
that could defy gravity
and fly at extraordinary speeds
that defy the laws of physics.
These were military in usage,
had powerful engines
and powerful weapons.
In these battles,
missiles would fire that
could wipe out cities.
These were the earliest stories
we have of flying
military craft.
HENRY: In the Indian text,
the vimanas are the
chariots or craft of the gods.
They were clearly a
method of transportation
that could take the
gods from place to place,
country to country, or
even to other planets.
They're sometimes
described as bright clouds.
Some of them are
seven stories tall.
NARRATOR: In 1895,
Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade
decided to fashion an aircraft
based solely on information
gleaned from the
ancient Indian writings
about the vimana.
While the story
is hotly disputed,
he allegedly tested the craft
in front of an audience
of thousands of people
on a beach in Bombay.
TAYLOR: The legend
has it that he flew for,
like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.
The Wright brothers only
went 120 feet for 12 seconds.
But even more exciting
is that this is technology
based on a scripture written
thousands of years before
mankind ever had the idea
of heavier-than-air flight.
How is this possible?
NARRATOR: According
to the Hindu text,
the crafts were mind-controlled,
able to change
direction and pitch
and travel at high speeds,
defying our current knowledge
of aeronautical physics.
What's really cool is that
these modern-day UFO videos
show that these vehicles
are capable of
ridiculous maneuvers.
That they can accelerate
at the drop of a dime,
or they can just stop or
change direction immediately
at g-forces
that we could not survive.
In the Vaimanika Shastra, which
describes what these vimanas
were capable of doing,
the exact same
descriptions exist.
The fact that we have
similar stories in ancient times
illustrates to me something
similar has happened.
NARRATOR: Could it be
that the ancient Sanskrit texts
are describing
extraterrestrial vehicles
even more advanced
than the U.S. military's
most sophisticated fighter jets?
And if so, are we seeing
the same alien technology
on display in the recent videos
released by the
United States Navy?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and suggest that this technology
may also be depicted on the wall
of an Egyptian temple that
dates back thousands of years.
NARRATOR: Dendera, Egypt.
Roughly one and a
half miles southeast
of this ancient city lies
the Temple of Hathor,
one of the most impressive
and well-preserved
archeological
sites in all of Egypt.
Among the vast hieroglyphs that
cover the columns of the temple
are numerous depictions
of pharaohs standing
on mysterious ships
and purportedly
traveling through the stars.
HENRY: At the Temple of Hathor,
we see a remarkable depiction
of a resurrected pharaoh
standing on what the
ancient Egyptians called
the Ship of Eternity.
This is a-a craft that
was created by Ptah,
the ancient Egyptian
god of technology,
who the Egyptians
connected with the star Sirius.
In ancient Egypt, we learn of
pharaohs, gods who travelled
the stars riding these craft.
NARRATOR: According
to William Henry,
who has spent decades studying
the ancient Egyptian
iconography,
an important detail found
in some of the depictions
at Dendera and elsewhere
is that the pharaoh is shown
within a circle or bubble.
HENRY: In another
remarkable example,
we see a Pharaoh
sitting on a throne
with Isis and Nephthys
on either side of him,
and he's sitting in a blue
bubble or magic bubble.
NARRATOR: The so-called
"magic bubble" imagery
is found in artwork
throughout the ancient world.
And some researchers speculate
that the repeated connection
between the bubble
shape and ascension
may indicate that it represents
a common experience
describing space travel.
Throughout the ancient world,
we find other very
compelling examples
of beings surrounded
by a bubble.
For example, in Tibet we find
Padmasambhava who
sits on a lotus throne
surrounded by
rainbow-colored light
with a thin line symbolizing
some form of a bubble.
When you see the
earliest examples of Jesus
ascending into the heavens,
he's sitting on a throne
surrounded by concentric rings
that form a bubble
around his body.
These are supposed to represent
what the Book of Acts
says he ascended in
and will return riding upon.
TSOUKALOS: There
are countless paintings
of saints and other
celestial beings
that happen to be shown
in some type of an
energetic bubble.
What if people saw something
that surpassed their
technological intellect,
and thus drew it in that way?
NARRATOR: Mainstream
historians interpret the bubble shape
found in religious art as
simply symbols of divinity.
But could the repetition of this
iconic imagery across traditions
suggest it was something
our ancestors witnessed?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and believe further
evidence may be found
by taking a closer look at the
recently released GIMBAL video
captured by Navy jets in 2015.
When aerospace
engineer Dr. Travis Taylor
examined the GIMBAL video,
he noticed a very
curious anomaly:
a halo of light
surrounding the craft.
TAYLOR: After further
analysis of the video,
what we can see is
there is a bubble region
that sort of
surrounds this craft.
This is something
that you don't see
when you look through
the same instrument
at, say, an F-18 or
an F-22 or an F-35.
Black is hot on their
forward-looking infrared camera.
And if black is hot,
then white is cooler,
so this is a colder
region around the vehicle.
So, maybe
this is a warp bubble
or some sort of
propellant-less propulsion field
that someone has discovered.
NARRATOR: The
concept of a warp bubble
was introduced in 1994
by Mexican physicist
Miguel Alcubierre,
as part of a hypothetical model
for traveling faster
than the speed of light.
MICHIO KAKU: I once
asked Miguel Alcubierre
how he came up with the
idea of the Alcubierre drive.
He told me that he
was watching Star Trek.
And in Star Trek, they,
well, compress the space
in front of them and expand
the space behind them
and would rocket faster
than the speed of light.
And then he said,
"Well, wait a minute.
I think I can duplicate that."
NARRATOR: In
Alcubierre's theoretical model,
the warp drive vehicle is
surrounded by an energy bubble
within space-time.
KAKU: You need
energy to create a bubble,
what's called a warp bubble,
surrounding your starship.
Then you need what is
called negative energy
to drive it faster than
the speed of light,
while inside, you
feel almost nothing.
HENRY: When we look at the idea
of a warp bubble
that could surround
a spacecraft,
in the video,
engineers are seeing
exactly that
principle in action.
As far as ancient
astronaut theorists
are concerned, warp
bubble technology
could be on display not
only in the GIMBAL video,
but also in artwork
created centuries ago,
like the pharaoh's blue bubble,
the Tibetan lotus throne,
the ascension of Christ,
and countless
other sacred images
that seemingly show
identical phenomena.
TSOUKALOS: So,
you have to wonder,
what is it that the artist
tried to depict here?
It's just like Arthur
C. Clarke said,
"Any advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
HENRY: These are
powerful examples
that are suggesting
ascended beings
who traveled the
stars in magic bubbles
that precisely matches
the Alcubierre warp
bubble concept.
TAYLOR: Could these
ancient drawings be showing us
the same thing that
we're seeing today
in these modern-day
infrared cameras?
NARRATOR: Is it
possible that depictions
of figures encompassed
by bubbles found
throughout history
and all around the world
represent an alien technology?
Perhaps further
clues can be found
by examining another
extraordinary Navy video
and its direct connection
to the ancient world.
NARRATOR: Veteran
journalist George Knapp
and documentary
filmmaker Jeremy Corbell
publish astonishing video they
acquired from the USS Omaha
that shows a mysterious
spherical object
flying at speeds approaching
160 miles per hour
before disappearing
into the ocean.
The USS Omaha is one of
the central pieces of evidence
that I've put forward to the
American and global public.
There were objects that were
swarming this Navy warship,
and one in particular
appears to transcend
between the space
of air and into sea.
They call that a
trans-medium vehicle,
a vehicle that can
operate equally as well
from in the air and
under the water.
Now, this was suspected,
but when they went
to go look for this craft
under the water,
or for wreckage,
none was found.
NARRATOR: Tennessee
representative Tim Burchett,
an outspoken proponent for
disclosure of UFO sightings,
was one of the first members of
Congress to review the footage.
TIM BURCHETT: To
me, i-it's pretty astounding
when they showed
that craft actually
going in and it popping up.
It looked like it didn't
even slow down.
There wasn't any friction at all
when it hit the water, so,
to me, that's something
that we can't even begin
to understand, I don't think.
I've read the mathematical
equations of friction
and things like that, and
it just defies all of that.
TAYLOR: How could a vehicle
fly into the water at
100 miles per hour?
Well, that suggests either
the surface of this vehicle
is frictionless,
and it wouldn't
have any interaction
with any material it
was flying through,
or it's not frictionless,
it's actually a warp bubble
where the spacecraft
or craft is inside it.
The stresses and strains by
flying through the atmosphere
in outer space and then
plunging into the oceans
would be enough to rupture
any of our known aircraft.
POPE: These reports of USOs,
unidentified submerged
or submersible objects,
are much more common
than people might suppose.
In 1991,
Jing Yu Xian, a fisherman
was at Fuxian Lake
when he encountered
this strange craft
in the waters of the lake.
He described it
as a shining disc.
This UFO was so
close and so powerful
that it actually tossed
the boat around.
And then rapidly this craft
just disappeared up into the sky.
Over the years, there have
been many, many cases
of UFOs seen over the water,
disappearing under the water,
and in some cases,
emerging from under the water.
CHILDRESS: On December 29, 2020,
a very curious thing
happened off of the coast
of Hawaii.
People could see a
huge cigar-shaped craft
hovering off the coast
and took photos of it, and,
eventually, this craft then
plunged into the ocean.
And the Navy went
out there to also
look for possible
wreckage of some craft
crashing into the
ocean and found nothing.
POPE: One theory about
this trans-medium travel
and these USOs is
that what we're seeing
is evidence of underwater bases.
Now, this makes a
good deal of sense.
I mean, the distance involved
for interstellar travel
means that it's much
easier to have a base
on the location that
you're interested in
than to constantly
travel there and back.
But what if that presence
goes back millennia?
They're operating here,
but under the oceans,
right under our noses.
HENRY: When we see the
spherical object in the video taken by
the USS Omaha
hovering for a time
and then descending
into the water,
this opens up some
really interesting concepts
in relation to the
ancient world.
For example, in
Sumeria and in Babylon,
they talked about a god
being named Oannes
who lived in the sea,
who emerged from the
sea wearing a fish cloak.
He was, uh, an
initiator of humanity,
who taught writing and
science and-and other concepts.
What's amazing about
this is that Oannes
also founded a priesthood
of beings called
Apkallu priests,
who also wore fish cloaks.
And in Sumerian cylinder seals,
we see these Apkallu priests
on either side of a
luminous or radiant tree of life
with a winged disc
hovering above.
The inference is-is that
this craft came from the sea
because these are
priests of a sea being.
And so, here's an
example of an ancient being
emerging from the sea
and connected with a craft.
NARRATOR: Oannes belonged
to a group of powerful beings
known in ancient
Mesopotamia as the Anunnaki.
The term Anunnaki means
"those who from
the heavens came,"
and refers to beings
descending from the
sky, imparting knowledge.
That is the most important
thing that we can read and learn
about the Anunnaki, that
they were our teachers.
So, I think it's very possible
that what the ancient
people tried to record
was an extraterrestrial
visitation.
NARRATOR: For
ancient astronaut theorists,
perhaps the most compelling
evidence of an alien presence
that traverses Earth's oceans
can be found in an
account from 1492,
recorded by
Christopher Columbus.
CHILDRESS: It's a famous
story about Christopher Columbus,
and he wrote
this in his journals,
that as he was moving
west across the Atlantic
towards the Caribbean
in his first voyage,
he saw a light out in the ocean
to the west hovering
over the water,
and this light then
descended into the water,
but Columbus felt that
this light was guiding him
towards his destination.
So, if this glowing object
that Columbus saw did,
you know, go into the water,
he's perhaps one of the
first witnesses to describe
a trans-medium craft like this,
which could hover,
uh, above the water
and then disappear
into it like a submarine.
NARRATOR: Could the
account of Christopher Columbus
and the ancient
Babylonian stories of Oannes
have a profound connection
to the object recorded
from the USS Omaha?
Do they provide further evidence
that the same crafts witnessed
in the distant past are still
visiting Earth in the present?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes
and believe the
ultimate proof of this
can be found in
the Hebrew Bible.
NARRATOR: Just
outside the Capitol Building,
Congressman Tim
Burchett of Tennessee
speaks with a reporter
about the much-anticipated
government UAP report,
due to be released in
less than two weeks.
To the surprise of many,
he suggests that UFOs
have been around
for all of human history,
and can even be found
in the Bible's Book of Ezekiel.
POPE: I was intrigued
when I heard that
Congressional representative
Tim Burchett had
talked about these UFOs
and said, "Well, this is
straight out of the Bible.
This is the Book of Ezekiel."
And I thought, "My goodness,
he's an ancient
astronaut theorist."
CORBELL: We have seen
a lot of unsolicited comments
by congressmen, politicians,
uh, even heads of the CIA
have come forward and
given opinions about UFOs.
This has been such a shocking
and revelatory few
years about UFOs
that you're now seeing
people go back to the Bible
and trying to understand
if those events
are similar to the events
that we're having today.
NARRATOR: Congressman
Burchett's bold assertion
that UFOs can be
found in the Bible
was a conclusion he
came to after careful study
of the Book of Ezekiel.
According to this text,
the Hebrew prophet Ezekiel
describes a fiery chariot
coming down from the sky
drawn by four living creatures.
Each creature is flanked
by a metallic object,
a wheel within a wheel,
that Ezekiel observes
as it descends in a whirlwind
making tremendous noise.
BURCHETT: It's pretty clear
what's going on in the Bible,
what he's describing, to me.
I've read it many
times. You got to realize,
Ezekiel was in sixth century BC,
but he basically describes
what I would say was what
people describe as a UFO.
I mean, it's a wheel
within a wheel,
there's fire, there's
landing gear.
To me, it sounds like
there's a craft landing,
and there are
smaller craft around it
that are providing
protection for it.
And, you know, it's what we see
when you see the
president land in a helicopter.
There's not just one helicopter,
there's multiple helicopters.
So, to me, it sounds like
Ezekiel saw something that
he could not accurately describe,
and he used things around him
that he would see
in a day-to-day basis
to describe what he saw.
The closest thing he has is a
wheel because that was the, uh,
pinnacle of technology
at that time, was a wheel.
NARRATOR: To Congressman
Burchett and many others,
the Navy videos indicate
that crafts like those
seen by Ezekiel
are still with us
in the present.
BURCHETT: I think it's the same
type of thing that's being depicted,
in olden times that's
being depicted today
in some of those Navy tapes.
There's just too much
similarity for it not to be.
If you heard those Navy pilots,
they're the sharpest we've got.
BURCHETT: You
can tell they're excited,
and they're trying to
explain what they're seeing,
much like Ezekiel would try
to define what he was seeing.
And so, I think that,
um, that it-it proves that
we're definitely not alone.
NARRATOR: To
many UFO researchers,
the only difference
between ancient sightings
like Ezekiel's and modern
21st-century encounters
is that, today, people
have the technology
- to record them.
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CORBELL: We have
seen throughout history
that individuals will testify
to seeing in the sky,
you know, shields on fire,
or things that just
are not aerodynamic.
Now, because of the-the
nature of our technology
and our corroborative evidence,
we have more information to say,
"Yes, this happened exactly
like this witness said it happened."
We just didn't have
that 150 years ago.
We just didn't
have that capability.
The difference now is that we
are able to artificially capture
these craft and these
objects to a precise measuring
of the rotation and the speeds.
That is just something
we did not have before.
We did not have it before,
but we have it now, so it's...
I mean, kind of an exciting
time to be alive. [chuckles]
TSOUKALOS: Countless times
our ancestors referred to these things
up in the sky as flying shields
or flying furnaces.
Today, we actually
refer to that as flying craft,
flying machines, unidentified
aerial phenomena.
Back then, people
didn't have those words.
And so, in my opinion,
there is a clear
connection between
the sightings that we have today
and the sightings that
we have in the past
because if we would
not have the vocabulary,
what we see in those Navy videos
can be described
as a flying shield.
These kinds of images
have been with us
throughout our entire history,
and they're all
telling the same thing,
that the ancient
astronauts never left.
The same visitors that
we've had back then
are showing themselves again,
and this time publicly.
It's incredible.
NARRATOR: As the
photographic and video
evidence of UFOs
continues to grow,
so, too, does the
number of people
who believe that
governments around the world
know more than
they are disclosing.
POPE: The idea that there's
an alien presence, and the idea
that the U.S. government,
amongst others,
knows about all this
is coming out of the fringe
and into the mainstream.
Now, you hear of people
in Congress talk about it.
We do not need to fear
these-these airborne
unidentified objects.
They would've shown
themselves to be dangerous
a long time ago by
now if they were a threat.
BURCHETT: I wished
our intelligence community
would release everything
they have on that.
The higher-ups put
out a lot that some
of these recent tapes were just
sort of a joke, was an anomaly,
but we sure have had a
heck of a lot of anomalies.
I think there's a lot
more going on to this.
I've talked to
military and people
that, when something like
this happens, they are generally
told not to bring it up.
They can have psych evaluations,
they can have things
put in their records,
and they're encouraged not
to bring these kind of things up.
NARRATOR: If the
United States government
and other governments
around the world
were to reveal all the evidence
they have concerning UFOs,
would it show irrefutable proof
that there is an alien
air force on Earth?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suspect the truth is
even more incredible,
and that hidden away
in top-secret facilities
around the globe
are recovered
extraterrestrial craft.
NARRATOR: NASA's
Advanced Propulsion Physics Lab,
known as the
"Eagleworks Project,"
announces that, based
on their latest experiments,
they now believe it is possible
to create an actual warp drive
and a spacecraft that can travel
faster than the speed of light.
TAYLOR: The team
at NASA's Eagleworks
has been trying to
reproduce a warp field, and
the results have
been right at the edge
of experimental error right now.
So, they're not ready to go
build the Starship Enterprise,
but it's possible that
they can do an experiment
that says we could build
the Starship Enterprise
if we put enough work into it.
NARRATOR: While some believe
that such a
revolutionary technology
is purely the result
of human ingenuity,
others maintain that such
advances are possible
because secret government
agencies possess,
and are able to study,
crashed alien vehicles.
It is a theory that goes
back to the famous
Roswell crash of 1947.
BURCHETT: Roswell happened
in '47. Roswell, New Mexico.
They put out, you
know, UFO crash,
and it was on the
headlines of the papers.
Then, the next day,
they came back and said,
"No, in fact, it was
a weather balloon."
And it just contradicted
everything everybody had said.
NARRATOR: Many have
alleged that the U.S. government
secretly retrieved
an alien spacecraft
from Roswell.
In 1989,
a scientist named Bob Lazar
even came forward to say
that he worked for
the U.S. government
reverse engineering crashed
extraterrestrial vehicles,
divulging incredible details
about the secret project
in the years that followed.
The government is holding,
uh, nine alien spacecraft,
um, that are propelled by, um,
a modified gravity generator.
Uh...
It's being... the work
is being conducted
15 miles south of Groom Lake.
CORBELL: The only
reason you know about UFOs
and Area 51
and that connection is
because of Bob Lazar.
He was faced with a lot
of adversity through this.
But, in my eyes,
he's telling you the truth,
and it's backed up
time and time again.
NARRATOR: For decades,
the U.S. government
denied Lazar's claims,
as well as the
existence of the facility
where he said the alien
craft were being held,
Area 51.
But in 2013,
a Freedom of
Information Act request
finally forced
officials to admit
that Area 51 is real.
BURCHETT: For
the government to say
the things they say
and to hold back
on these reports,
it goes back to Roswell
or any of those other...
spots. It's just,
um, nobody trusts
the government. They
don't trust government,
and they really,
frankly, they shouldn't.
We-we don't keep
our word on anything.
NARRATOR: The United
States isn't the only country
accused of covering up
attempts to study alien craft.
Many believe the Russians
have a similar UFO program
at a site called Kapustin Yar,
often nicknamed
the Russian Area 51.
HENRY: Kapustin Yar was
one of the former Soviet Union's
most secretive air bases.
The rumor is, is they
were reverse engineering
UFO technology
that could be as much
as 1,000 years in advance
of what we have today.
NARRATOR: Recovered alien
vehicles are also rumored to be held
at the Pine Gap
military base in Australia,
at a mysterious desert airfield
in the Xinjiang region of China,
and at Rudloe Manor in England.
With these craft coming
from other planets
and other solar systems,
this is clearly a very
advanced technology,
and we are now
trying to catch up
to these extraterrestrials
and have the same
kind of technology
that they already have.
BURCHETT: It's clear
that there's something
we don't understand,
and we're not sure
where it comes from,
and I just wish
they'd just say that.
They think that the
American public can't handle it,
and they can, in fact,
handle it, I think, very well.
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the sensational footage
recently released
by the U.S. Navy
features the same
type of aerial vehicles
that were documented
by our ancestors?
Do we now have
overwhelming evidence
that alien craft not only exist,
but have been present
on planet Earth
for thousands of years?
Perhaps, when we
discover just who
is behind the UFO phenomenon,
we will uncover
an even more profound truth,
that extraterrestrials
have been living among us
all along.