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ATOR: The mass destruction
of an ancient culture.
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JONATHAN YOUNG:
Their art, their philosophy,
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their scientific findings...
He burned the whole thing.
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NARRATOR: Lost texts that
could have offered evidence
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of extraterrestrial contact
from across the globe.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
Literally, people were coming
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from all over the world
to Mexico at this time.
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PRAVEEN MOHAN:
Here we are in the middle
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of South America
in a remote site
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that looks exactly like
Hindu carvings.
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- How is that possible?
- It's amazing.
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NARRATOR: Could the Vatican
still be hiding proof
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of mankind's ancient alien
origins?
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GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
I predict thousands
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as-of-yet undiscovered sites
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will finally show
that our ancestors
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made contact
with extraterrestrials.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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NARRATOR:
The Yucatán Peninsula.
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1549.
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A fleet
of Spanish galleons arrive
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on the coast of the New World.
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And with them is a small army
of Roman Catholic priests,
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who, during what is the height
of the Inquisition,
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are determined to rescue
the pagan souls
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of the natives for Almighty God.
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And leading them...
Direct from the Vatican...
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Is the fanatical Franciscan
friar Diego de Landa.
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During the Spanish
colonial period
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in what we call Mexico Yucatán,
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the cradle of Mayan
civilization,
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it was the priests who had a lot
of power because the Vatican
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was one of the most powerful
nations on the Earth.
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JASON MARTELL:
Diego de Landa came over
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wanting to teach
Christian understandings
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and principles to the Mayans,
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but was probably intimidated
by the vast wealth of knowledge
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that he actually saw
that they had tapped into.
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NARRATOR: The Mayan civilization
that Friar Diego de Landa came upon
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had thrived
in the rain-drenched jungles
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and fertile plains
of Central America
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for more than 2,000 years.
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ERICH VON DANIKEN: The Spanish
conquerors found pyramids,
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they found temples,
they found paved roads
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and they found thousands and
thousands of Maya handwritings,
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thousands of it.
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MARTELL: We have a lot of
very interesting information
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that comes out of this culture
we call the Maya.
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They have been revered for many
things in their knowledge base,
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especially around time and
concepts of math and science,
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and the movements
of the solar system.
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NARRATOR: But while the Maya were
in many ways culturally advanced,
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their religious beliefs
were notoriously bloodthirsty.
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They believed
in human sacrifice,
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and as far as Friar Diego
de Landa was concerned,
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did so at the expense
of their eternal souls.
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It was a clash of cultures
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that would not end well
for the Maya people.
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Diego de Landa, later,
when he was back in Spain again,
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he wrote down, "We found
thousands of handwritings
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"of the Indians.
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But they all contained
just a Devil's thing."
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YOUNG: A new teaching,
a new religion comes into a place
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where there is a very strong
adherence to a body of ideas.
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We have a competitive situation.
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One maneuver is to destroy
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as much evidence of the old way
as you can,
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and that will help
reduce its grip.
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"It's not sacred anymore,
this is just stuff,
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so we can burn it
with impunity."
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NARRATOR:
On July 12, 1562,
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the Catholic priests,
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with the armed assistance
of the Spanish military,
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executed what was known
during the Inquisition
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as an auto-da-fé,
or "act of faith,"
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whereby the Maya population
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was forced to declare
their religious conversion
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to Christianity
or be put to death.
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It was also a day that
reportedly saw the destruction
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of all of the Maya
sacred scrolls
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and more than
5,000 priceless images,
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an entire historical record.
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YOUNG: There were thousands
of books called codices,
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probably scrolls, burned.
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All their art, their philosophy,
their scientific findings,
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the accumulative knowledge
of this great civilization,
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they burned the whole thing.
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NARRATOR: But by burning the
vast knowledge accumulated
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by the Maya,
did Friar Diego de Landa
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also destroy something of
even greater historical value?
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Might he have erased all traces
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of the Maya's
extraterrestrial ancestors?
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There's very interesting
information told to us
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by the Mayan elders
that still exist today.
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They speak of a time
that they were led to this land
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by the sky people.
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Could they be referencing
some type of lost race,
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even possibly
extraterrestrial in nature?
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They seemed to have knowledge
of math and science,
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which we can't explain
how they got this information.
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When you ask them,
"How did they gain
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all of this
amazing information?"
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they always reference, "We
learned it from the sky people."
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HUGH NEWMAN: There were
traditions in ancient Mexico
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of a great teacher
arriving on the Gulf Coast.
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And when he arrived,
he brought with him
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the arts of civilization.
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We know the tradition
may have originated
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with a great civilization
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who were around
long before the Maya,
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but no one knows
who they really were,
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or where they really came from.
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NARRATOR:
Tres Zapotes, Mexico,
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1938.
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Archeologist Matthew Stirling,
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chief of the Smithsonian's
Bureau of American Ethnology,
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follows up on a report
that had gone unexamined
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for more than 70 years,
the discovery by a local farmer
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of an ancient
megalithic sculpture.
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Stirling's investigation
results in a remarkable find:
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A giant stone head
buried in the ground.
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It was the first in what,
to date,
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has become a total
of 17 such heads,
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each weighing
a staggering eight tons,
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and all estimated
to be some 3,000 years old.
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It is a date which suggests
that the heads were carved
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not by the Maya,
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but by an even older
civilization, the Olmecs.
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STEPHEN JETT:
The Olmecs, uh,
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they're often called the mother
culture of Mesoamerica.
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They are the first
complex culture
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of any size and significance
in that part of the world.
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ANDREW COLLINS: The Olmec people
come into existence
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probably about 1400 BC
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in the Tabasco region
of what is today Mexico.
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But then, very suddenly,
you have the rise
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of a full-blown society
and civilization.
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And the question becomes
"Where did the Olmec come from?"
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The controversy is that many of
the beautifully carved statues
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and stelae
seemed to show African men.
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JETT: They appear to be not
native to the New World,
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but are native
to sub-Saharan Africa.
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This is not scientific
physical anthropology,
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but just the appearance of these
things is pretty suggestive.
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NEWMAN: And they also show Chinese,
Vietnamese, possibly Polynesian
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and even Caucasian people
carved into solid rock.
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So, there's big mystery
about the Olmecs.
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CHILDRESS: Where are all
these people coming from?
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Early archeologists were
dumbfounded by all of these
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different racial characteristics
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that we're seeing in the Olmec
figurines and statues.
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Literally, people were coming
from all over the world
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to Mexico at this time.
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And how did they do that?
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NARRATOR:
Do the Olmec heads and artifacts
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present evidence
that this ancient civilization
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had its genetic origins
not in South America,
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as many mainstream
archaeologists believe,
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but thousands of miles away, and
on the other side of the Earth?
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But how?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
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the answer may be found
after a careful examination
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of a number
of extraordinary Olmec artifacts
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found in La Venta, Mexico.
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TSOUKALOS:
In La Venta, we have carvings
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that show the Olmecs
in very bizarre scenes.
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One of them
is this plumed serpent,
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this snake that appears
to be floating in the sky,
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and then down below,
you actually see a person
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sitting inside
this flying snake.
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And so you have to wonder
if somehow the Olmecs
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had access
to aviation technology,
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and I personally think they did,
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because at the Museum of Natural
History in New York City,
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there is a Olmec figurine.
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He is clearly wearing
some type of a pressurized suit.
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He has some type of controls
with tubes on his chest.
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On the side, you have six wings
coming out of him.
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In my opinion, it is
the smoking gun of our ancestors
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having access
to aviation technology
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thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the ancestors of the Olmec people
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had come to South America
from far across the ocean?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and believe the way
they got there
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may not have been in ships,
but across the skies,
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in extraterrestrially-designed
spacecraft.
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NARRATOR:
San Agustín, Colombia.
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March 27, 2019.
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Ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress
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has come to this
remote mountain town
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to explore and study a site
that has baffled
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the scientific community
for decades.
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Joining him is Hindu historian
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Praveen Mohan.
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- CHILDRESS: Hello, Praveen.
- Hi, David.
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- Welcome to Colombia.
- I know.
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- CHILDRESS: Jump on in here.
- Sure.
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CHILDRESS:
You know, Praveen,
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I was here
a number of years ago.
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And I thought,
"All right, there's a lot
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of Hindu influence here."
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And, so, that's when I thought
that I need some expert
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on Hinduism, like you,
to come here to San Agustín
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and-and see it for themselves.
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Yeah, when I got the call
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about a place like this
in Colombia,
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I was surprised.
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A Hindu site in South America?
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My heart is actually pounding
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- to see the site.
- (chuckles)
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NARRATOR: Located deep
within the Andean foothills
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of southern Colombia,
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the San Agustín
Archaeological Park is home
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to more than 500
megalithic stone statues
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of unknown origin.
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First discovered
by a Spanish monk
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in the mid-18th century,
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they appear to be the work
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of the region's
earliest civilizations
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and are thought to date back
as many as 2,000 years.
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So, this is the main gate here.
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We've got a bit of a walk
through the jungle.
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And this is a very remote spot,
even today.
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So high in the mountains.
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You wonder how people got
to this site,
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why they would have
even chosen this.
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- Here it is.
- Wow.
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- Check it out.
- Yeah, let's see.
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NARRATOR:
David Childress
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has been researching this area
for many years.
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He is convinced
that many of the statues
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show strong connections
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to the Olmec statues
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that were first discovered
in Mexico
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more than 1,600 miles
to the north
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in the 1800s.
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CHILDRESS:
We know that the Olmecs
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were in Mexico
and also in Central America,
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but evidence of the Olmecs
in South America
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has been elusive until now.
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Here at San Agustín,
we have that evidence.
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This would be one
of the earliest Olmec sites
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because it's thought
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that San Agustín started
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as early as 3000 BC,
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and other Olmec sites in Mexico
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are only dated
to around 1000 BC,
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so this is
an extremely important site.
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What I really wanted
to show you is,
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what I think is Hindu things,
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- which are right over here.
- Okay.
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- Wow!
- NARRATOR: It is David Childress' belief
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that the stone sculptures
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of the San Agustín
Archaeological Park
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not only show
strong similarities
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to the Olmec carvings
found in Mexico,
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but also show
even more profound connections
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to Hindu carvings
and artwork found in India
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and Southeast Asia.
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I think you'll be
interested in this.
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MOHAN: Oh, a figure holding a
skull flanked by two other figures.
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That is so Hindu.
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And these two doorkeepers...
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see how they're holding weapons
to protect the main deity?
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We can see a central deity
holding a skull.
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And two guardian doorkeepers
holding tools.
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This is typical
South Indian architecture.
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This is exactly what's portrayed
in these temples.
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This is amazing because I've
never seen anything like this
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in South America.
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What's really interesting to me,
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is that the main deity
is shown with fangs.
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That's typical of South India;
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In Tamil Nadu,
Shiva is shown with fangs.
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CHILDRESS:
You think that's maybe Shiva,
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- right there in the middle?
- MOHAN: Yes.
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NARRATOR: Shiva?
Also known as "The Destroyer"?
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Is it possible that evidence
of this uniquely Hindu deity
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has been found
in South America...
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and on ancient megalithic
stone carvings
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dating back some 2,000 years?
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So how bout these
right here, huh?
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Wow, yeah,
these are, uh, lingams.
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These are symbols of Shiva.
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And we can see these lingams
have more and more
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details on them.
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And look... here
it even has a face.
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- CHILDRESS: Yeah, how bout that?
- MOHAN: You see this...
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is a classic mukhalingam.
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It is a lingam
with a face on top.
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- A mukhalingam?
- Yeah.
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The word mukha means face,
and the lingam means
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a cylindrical structure.
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And this is
classic Hindu iconography,
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and you can see this
in many ancient temples.
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So here, have a look
at this one here.
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I think you'll find this
pretty interesting.
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Wow!
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An eagle holding a snake
in its beaks,
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and then it's also
holding the snake
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on its talons.
I mean, this is
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classic Hindu iconography.
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This is Garuda holding the Naga.
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So Garuda is always depicted
as a giant bird,
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and then typically,
he's holding a snake...
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- Yeah.
- In his beak and his talons.
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I've seen something very similar
to this in Vietnam,
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in a place called Champa.
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I can show you
a picture of this.
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CHILDRESS: So the snake that he's
holding in his beak and talons
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- is a Naga snake, is that right?
- Yes. Yes.
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In Hindu text, we don't see
the Garuda as an animal
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or the snake as an animal.
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There are two different races;
One is the Garuda,
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which actually comes from
a planet up above the sky.
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The Nagas are reptilian,
snake-like shape-shifting beings
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which live underground.
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CHILDRESS: Now that's an interesting
story, because that's
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on the flag of Mexico today.
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- MOHAN: Oh, really?
- Yeah, how bout that?
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MOHAN:
Oh, wow, wow!
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CHILDRESS: So the Garuda is in
some ways a symbol of the airships,
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- the spaceships...
- Absolutely.
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- And the flight that they would use.
- Yes.
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Here we are in the middle
of South America,
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in a remote site that looks
exactly like Hindu carvings.
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I mean, without any connection,
how is that possible?
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Well, do you think, then,
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that these Hindu demigods
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are, are flying
in-in spaceships,
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even scouting, they're
creating a place like this?
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It's all so strange, but it's,
it's so obvious that
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some kind of high, technical
civilization was here.
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- Yes. Mm-hmm.
- It's... it's amazing.
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NARRATOR:
Ancient Hindus?
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Traveling across the Pacific
Ocean in flying aircraft?
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But even if
such an incredible feat
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was possible...
where is the evidence?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the evidence not only exists,
but has been tested.
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And it confirms the likelihood
that extraterrestrial visitors
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came here to Earth
thousands of years ago.
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NARRATOR: At the San Agustín
In Archaeological Park
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in Colombia, South America,
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ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress
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and Hindu expert Praveen Mohan
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are investigating
what they believe to be
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conclusive evidence
that Hindu explorers
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migrated to this area
more than 2,000 years ago.
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So here, have a look
at this dolmen here.
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- What do you see?
- Wow, there's a, uh,
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central deity
flanked by two doorkeepers.
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But these doorkeepers
are not human or even humanoid.
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You can see the scales
on the body,
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you know, see the lines.
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And what's
even more interesting...
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I mean, it seems almost like
they have a hood
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on top of them,
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which is characteristic
of cobras,
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and cobras don't exist
in Americas.
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How did this motif get here?
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And believe it or not,
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we still have
this same depiction
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in many
Southeast Asian countries.
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In fact, I have pictures of it.
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- CHILDRESS: Right.
- MOHAN: Yeah, this is a temple.
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This is in Thailand.
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You can see that this is being
guarded by two Nagas.
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CHILDRESS: I see that,
and they have their ribs, uh,
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on their stomach,
just like this.
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MOHAN: Yeah,
the-the scales on the bodies.
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CHILDRESS:
Yeah, that's fascinating.
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MOHAN:
And you know, there's yet
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another characteristic feature
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that you would really love.
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These are feathered serpents
like Kukulkan.
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CHILDRESS: The feathered serpent of Kukulkan?
- Yes.
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MOHAN:
And flanking on the pyramid.
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NARRATOR:
Kukulkan?
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The Mayan god
that is most famously depicted
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on the temple of El Castillo
in Chichen Itza?
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The one described
as a feathered serpent
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that descended to Earth
from the sky?
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But as far as
many ancient astronaut theorists
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are concerned, depictions
of the god Kukulkan
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are not merely depictions
of a flying serpent,
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as many mainstream
archaeologists believe,
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but of a spaceman.
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And they cite
the presence of a humanoid face,
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often seen emerging
from the mouth of the serpent,
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as really a depiction
of a helmeted astronaut
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piloting a large,
flying spacecraft,
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similar to what is known
as a "vimana"
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in the Hindu tradition.
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In the Mahbharata, we can see
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very advanced flying machines,
which are called vimanas.
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It is clearly established
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that the gods come down
from the sky using vimanas.
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It is also talked about
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in Mayan culture.
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There are several types
of vimanas that
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- you yourself have published.
- Uh-huh.
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And there is a type of vimana
which has tail fins, correct?
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Yeah, the Chicuna vimana
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- has wings...
- Yeah, yeah.
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While other vimanas were discoid
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and other vimanas were,
like, tubular,
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- cigar-shaped ships.
- Yes, yeah.
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And what's really
fascinating is that,
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in the Gold Museum in Bogotá,
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we have the same vimanas
made of gold,
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- correct? These discoid...
- We have the-the gold airplanes there.
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NARRATOR:
In the early 1900s,
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tomb robbers came upon
a grave site
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along Colombia's Magdalena River
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dating back an estimated
1,500 years.
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Inside, they discovered hundreds
of small gold figurines.
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TSOUKALOS: Hundreds of these small,
gold objects have been found,
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many of which are rooted
in the animal kingdom.
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17 eerily look like
modern-day airplanes.
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The wings are attached
at the bottom.
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Birds, they have
their wings attached
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where we have our shoulders,
like this.
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So no formation in the
animal kingdom exists
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in the form of these
Quimbaya artifacts.
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And, in 1996, two engineers
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took a couple of these
ancient artifacts,
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blew them up to this size,
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put a propeller inside,
threw it up in the air,
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and it flew.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible that
among the Quimbaya figurines
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found in Colombia
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are representations of what
the Hindu people
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on the other side of the world
described as vimanas?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer can be found
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by examining a character
from the ancient Hindu texts:
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A character who bears
the name "Maya."
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The word "Maya" itself
is a Hindu word.
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It means "illusion"
or "god of illusion."
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And this was the name
given to the king of Asuras,
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and he's known as Maya
because he's able to create
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these magical illusions.
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DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: Maya,
he was born of divine god Brahma.
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He was a great architect,
he was a great magician,
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and he invented
the flying machine.
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He was not of the Earth because
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he was not born on Earth,
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so he was obviously
extraterrestrial.
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MOHAN: Maya actually
traveled out of India,
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and he might've gone to Mexico.
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Now, interestingly,
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Mayans have a book
called Popul Vuh.
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In that book,
they talk about how
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a specific god
came from the east,
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and I think this
is the same god that
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both these cultures
are talking about.
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NARRATOR: If the divine
King Maya was a real being,
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as millions of Hindus believe,
is it possible
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that the Mayan civilization
of Central America
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adopted his name?
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According to ancient astronaut
theorist David Childress,
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the answer is a resounding yes,
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and he believes that at
San Agustín there is a sculpture
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that doesn't only
support his theory,
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but may also be a depiction
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of an actual alien visitor.
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Would you like to see,
perhaps, a spaceman?
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- (chuckling): A spaceman?
- Yes.
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- There's one more site.
- Yeah, absolutely!
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NARRATOR: San Agustín
Archaeological Park in Colombia
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is located along the west bank
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of the Magdalena River,
near a place where it converges
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with two other rivers.
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It is a location that ancient
astronaut theorists believe
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has a startling and
not accidental significance.
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MOHAN: They could've set
up this site anywhere,
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but why did they choose
San Agustín in Colombia?
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In India, we have this place
called Triveni Sangam
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where three great rivers meet,
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and that site is chosen
as a sacred site.
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We have a lot of temples
in this place.
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Whoever came from India to here
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chose this place
because this is where
493
00:26:09,860 --> 00:26:12,280
all these three rivers meet.
494
00:26:12,410 --> 00:26:14,700
And to find a place like this,
495
00:26:14,830 --> 00:26:17,500
you needed to have
aerial survey.
496
00:26:19,540 --> 00:26:22,080
They were using the vimanas,
which is why
497
00:26:22,210 --> 00:26:25,170
they set up this ancient
Shiva temple here.
498
00:26:25,290 --> 00:26:28,300
NARRATOR:
Vimanas?
499
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,420
The extraterrestrial
flying machines
500
00:26:30,550 --> 00:26:32,510
that are described
in the Mahabharata,
501
00:26:32,640 --> 00:26:35,260
the ancient Hindu text?
502
00:26:35,390 --> 00:26:37,470
Is it possible
that Hindu explorers
503
00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:40,520
made the journey from India
to South America,
504
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:44,190
and then settled in this region
centuries ago?
505
00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:46,230
And could they have made
that journey,
506
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:50,690
a distance of some 12,000 miles,
by means of a vimana?
507
00:26:56,580 --> 00:26:58,660
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
508
00:26:58,790 --> 00:27:00,700
and they believe that the answer
509
00:27:00,830 --> 00:27:02,460
to what compelled them
to come there
510
00:27:02,580 --> 00:27:06,540
can be found by examining
one of the ancient stone statues
511
00:27:06,670 --> 00:27:10,380
located in San Agustín
Archeological Park.
512
00:27:13,680 --> 00:27:18,260
This was the final statue
that I wanted you to look at.
513
00:27:18,390 --> 00:27:20,350
- Pretty curious, huh?
- Yeah.
514
00:27:20,470 --> 00:27:21,930
CHILDRESS:
I-I don't know what to call this
515
00:27:22,060 --> 00:27:24,520
e-except a spaceman.
516
00:27:24,650 --> 00:27:28,150
You can see that he's wearing
some kind of a helmet.
517
00:27:28,270 --> 00:27:29,980
It looks like he has
a visor, he's got
518
00:27:30,110 --> 00:27:32,530
two rectangular eyes
and a rectangular mouth,
519
00:27:32,650 --> 00:27:33,950
he has no nose.
520
00:27:34,070 --> 00:27:35,450
He's holding this,
521
00:27:35,570 --> 00:27:39,160
what they call a-a power staff.
522
00:27:39,290 --> 00:27:41,750
But what's really
fascinating about that is
523
00:27:41,870 --> 00:27:45,370
he's holding that long cylinder,
and, if you look carefully,
524
00:27:45,500 --> 00:27:48,340
it's going even below his feet.
525
00:27:48,460 --> 00:27:50,130
He's using that cylinder
526
00:27:50,250 --> 00:27:53,840
to go into the ground.
Now this is very interesting
527
00:27:53,970 --> 00:27:56,930
because, in Hindu culture,
there's a god
528
00:27:57,050 --> 00:28:01,060
called Swarna Kala Bhairava,
and he's the god of gold,
529
00:28:01,180 --> 00:28:04,140
and he uses a tool called keyla,
530
00:28:04,270 --> 00:28:08,770
and he uses it to go
into the ground and mine gold.
531
00:28:08,900 --> 00:28:11,860
It could be a special probe
that you can put in the ground
532
00:28:11,980 --> 00:28:15,610
and detect gold and minerals,
533
00:28:15,740 --> 00:28:18,990
so perhaps he is
the extraterrestrial
534
00:28:19,120 --> 00:28:22,370
that is guiding them.
535
00:28:22,490 --> 00:28:25,540
He's a spaceman
in a spacesuit with his
536
00:28:25,660 --> 00:28:27,750
gold mining tools.
537
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,670
NARRATOR:
A spaceman mining gold?
538
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:37,090
In 1976, author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin
539
00:28:37,220 --> 00:28:39,800
published a book called
The 12th Planet,
540
00:28:39,930 --> 00:28:41,220
in which he translated
541
00:28:41,350 --> 00:28:42,930
and interpreted the writings
542
00:28:43,060 --> 00:28:45,480
of humanity's earliest
known civilization,
543
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:48,190
the Sumerians.
According to Sitchin,
544
00:28:48,310 --> 00:28:52,360
the beings described
in the texts, the Anunnaki,
545
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:56,320
were, in fact,
visitors from another planet.
546
00:28:56,450 --> 00:29:00,160
They created humankind as slaves
that could be forced to mine
547
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,540
the gold the Anunnaki needed
to power their spacecraft.
548
00:29:04,660 --> 00:29:06,910
CHILDRESS:
San Agustín is still
549
00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,960
a remote mountain area today,
550
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,130
and coming here in ancient times
551
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:15,050
would've been
extremely difficult,
552
00:29:15,170 --> 00:29:18,010
but this was
a gold-bearing area,
553
00:29:18,130 --> 00:29:21,010
and if you're looking for gold,
this is the place to come.
554
00:29:23,310 --> 00:29:25,560
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the strange carvings
555
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,350
found in the area can be proof
556
00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:31,150
that Sitchin's
incredible theory is true?
557
00:29:31,270 --> 00:29:33,230
And that an ancient race
of people
558
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,230
traveled from Asia
to South America
559
00:29:35,360 --> 00:29:36,570
in pursuit of a metal
560
00:29:36,690 --> 00:29:38,400
they had been taught to consider
561
00:29:38,530 --> 00:29:41,910
not just essential, but sacred?
562
00:29:42,030 --> 00:29:45,950
When you talk about how
this place was used for gold,
563
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:49,670
you know, how they were mining
gold as offerings to gods,
564
00:29:49,790 --> 00:29:52,920
that's exactly what Hindus do,
even today.
565
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,630
And Colombia, right here,
566
00:29:55,750 --> 00:29:58,130
in-in this remote spot,
is land of gold.
567
00:29:58,260 --> 00:29:59,970
So much of the gold
in South America
568
00:30:00,090 --> 00:30:01,890
- came from right here.
- Mm-hmm.
569
00:30:02,010 --> 00:30:03,470
So this is what they
were looking for, gold,
570
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:04,760
and they came here,
and they found it.
571
00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:05,970
They're flying here,
572
00:30:06,100 --> 00:30:06,930
they're creating
a place like this,
573
00:30:07,060 --> 00:30:08,390
they're also sending ships
574
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,310
across the Pacific Ocean.
575
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,520
- They're bringing power tools.
- Mm-hmm.
576
00:30:13,650 --> 00:30:15,770
And when they're not mining,
577
00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:17,690
they're creating these
amazing statues, that...
578
00:30:17,820 --> 00:30:19,610
And there are hundreds of them
all over here.
579
00:30:19,740 --> 00:30:22,740
MOHAN: Your theory
about people and Mayans
580
00:30:22,870 --> 00:30:25,330
moving from South India
and-and coming here
581
00:30:25,450 --> 00:30:26,830
all the way to South America,
582
00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:29,160
this is all tying together.
583
00:30:29,290 --> 00:30:32,330
We have an extraterrestrial god
584
00:30:32,460 --> 00:30:35,750
who comes down
and he mines for gold,
585
00:30:35,880 --> 00:30:38,510
and he builds
an entire civilization.
586
00:30:38,630 --> 00:30:40,050
I think that makes
a lot of sense.
587
00:30:40,170 --> 00:30:43,720
CHILDRESS:
When it comes to San Agustín,
588
00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:47,140
the Spanish did not know
about this ancient site,
589
00:30:47,260 --> 00:30:48,770
and if they had known about it,
590
00:30:48,890 --> 00:30:50,680
they probably
would've destroyed it.
591
00:30:50,810 --> 00:30:54,270
So throughout Colombia
and Mesoamerica,
592
00:30:54,400 --> 00:30:57,980
we have ruins
of ancient civilizations
593
00:30:58,110 --> 00:30:59,940
still undiscovered,
594
00:31:00,070 --> 00:31:02,320
and with the discoveries
at San Agustín
595
00:31:02,450 --> 00:31:05,570
in the last hundred years,
we now have a chance
596
00:31:05,700 --> 00:31:08,490
to rewrite
South American history.
597
00:31:08,620 --> 00:31:11,710
NARRATOR: Do the stone
statues at San Agustín
598
00:31:11,830 --> 00:31:14,500
provide compelling evidence,
599
00:31:14,630 --> 00:31:16,920
not only that there was
interaction between the peoples
600
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:18,670
of Asia
and those of South America
601
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:22,840
centuries ago, but also
that this interaction
602
00:31:22,970 --> 00:31:24,890
was made possible as the result
603
00:31:25,010 --> 00:31:28,060
of extraterrestrial
intervention?
604
00:31:28,180 --> 00:31:30,970
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
605
00:31:31,100 --> 00:31:33,560
and they suggest
further proof can be found
606
00:31:33,690 --> 00:31:37,020
locked away in the secret vaults
607
00:31:37,150 --> 00:31:38,980
of the Vatican Library.
608
00:31:42,990 --> 00:31:45,030
NARRATOR:
Southeast Asia.
609
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:47,280
2000 BC.
610
00:31:47,410 --> 00:31:50,240
An ethnically diverse
civilization
611
00:31:50,370 --> 00:31:52,910
of seafaring explorers emerges
612
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:55,580
in the area
of modern-day Vietnam.
613
00:31:55,710 --> 00:31:57,630
At roughly the same time
614
00:31:57,750 --> 00:32:00,130
the Olmec appear in Mesoamerica.
615
00:32:02,340 --> 00:32:04,260
The Cham were an Austronesian
616
00:32:04,380 --> 00:32:06,340
and are
an Austronesian-speaking group.
617
00:32:06,470 --> 00:32:10,760
In, uh, central Vietnam,
Austronesian languages include
618
00:32:10,890 --> 00:32:13,100
Polynesian, Indonesian
and so forth.
619
00:32:13,230 --> 00:32:18,400
And they are closely associated
with highly maritime people.
620
00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,020
The word "Cham" represents
a race that extended
621
00:32:21,150 --> 00:32:24,110
from Egypt to India
to Southeast Asia.
622
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:25,780
The ancient Cham were Hindu.
623
00:32:25,900 --> 00:32:29,410
I believe
there was a Cham migration
624
00:32:29,530 --> 00:32:31,410
to South and Central America.
625
00:32:31,540 --> 00:32:33,450
This was ultimately
a partnership
626
00:32:33,580 --> 00:32:36,120
between advanced
human civilizations
627
00:32:36,250 --> 00:32:37,880
and extraterrestrials.
628
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,670
That's why you see
all of the the diversity
629
00:32:40,790 --> 00:32:44,090
in these artifacts
and these giant structures
630
00:32:44,210 --> 00:32:45,720
that defy logic.
631
00:32:47,970 --> 00:32:49,510
NARRATOR:
If the giant Olmec heads
632
00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,510
and artifacts
found in Mexico resemble
633
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,060
a community made up
of multiple ethnicities...
634
00:32:55,180 --> 00:32:58,940
Ethnicities that were
not previously believed
635
00:32:59,060 --> 00:33:01,610
to have been present
in Central or South America
636
00:33:01,730 --> 00:33:03,690
until the 15th century...
637
00:33:03,820 --> 00:33:06,450
Then is it possible
that these people
638
00:33:06,570 --> 00:33:09,780
were among a wave of migrants
who traveled to South America
639
00:33:09,910 --> 00:33:12,660
from various parts of Southern
and Southeast Asia
640
00:33:12,780 --> 00:33:16,370
thousands of years ago?
641
00:33:16,500 --> 00:33:17,870
JETT:
It has occurred to me
642
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,920
that the Cham
might conceivably have been
643
00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,340
involved as the
sort of middle persons
644
00:33:23,460 --> 00:33:26,420
in maritime transactions
645
00:33:26,550 --> 00:33:29,130
between Southeast Asia
and the New World,
646
00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:32,800
particularly, perhaps,
northwestern South America.
647
00:33:32,930 --> 00:33:34,890
Modern DNA mapping,
648
00:33:35,020 --> 00:33:38,060
what we call, uh,
molecular DNA study,
649
00:33:38,190 --> 00:33:41,060
has been revolutionizing
the understanding
650
00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:43,110
of human migrations
over the globe.
651
00:33:44,940 --> 00:33:46,820
COLLINS:
What this is very clearly
652
00:33:46,940 --> 00:33:48,990
stating again and again
653
00:33:49,110 --> 00:33:52,820
is there was a relationship
between the peoples
654
00:33:52,950 --> 00:33:55,410
of Southern India,
655
00:33:55,540 --> 00:33:59,120
places like Sri Lanka,
Southeast Asia,
656
00:33:59,250 --> 00:34:02,420
Australia, Micronesia,
Melanesia,
657
00:34:02,540 --> 00:34:06,000
through Polynesia
and particularly
658
00:34:06,130 --> 00:34:09,970
into South America
and Mesoamerica.
659
00:34:11,640 --> 00:34:13,260
NARRATOR:
But if hundreds,
660
00:34:13,390 --> 00:34:16,060
perhaps thousands of people
migrated from Southern
661
00:34:16,180 --> 00:34:18,640
and Southeast Asia
to South America,
662
00:34:18,770 --> 00:34:20,310
how did they get there?
663
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,150
Was it by sailing ship?
664
00:34:23,270 --> 00:34:26,360
Or was it by means
of an alien-inspired aircraft
665
00:34:26,480 --> 00:34:28,110
known as vimana,
666
00:34:28,240 --> 00:34:31,740
as many ancient astronaut
theorists believe?
667
00:34:31,860 --> 00:34:34,490
MOHAN:
We hear this story
668
00:34:34,620 --> 00:34:37,790
time and time again
in Mahabharata.
669
00:34:37,910 --> 00:34:40,210
Some vimanas have
these huge wings
670
00:34:40,330 --> 00:34:45,790
and they have, like, a tail fin,
like a modern-day aircraft.
671
00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,800
Almost all these machines
were mentioned
672
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,260
5,000 years ago in Mahabharata.
673
00:34:53,180 --> 00:34:54,510
NARRATOR:
But if mass migration
674
00:34:54,640 --> 00:34:56,890
on a large scale
had been taking place
675
00:34:57,010 --> 00:35:01,390
centuries ago and with the help
of extraterrestrial technology,
676
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,060
then why has no evidence
been found
677
00:35:04,190 --> 00:35:06,980
to support
this incredible theory?
678
00:35:07,110 --> 00:35:10,360
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
679
00:35:10,490 --> 00:35:13,030
the answer dates back
to the bloody persecutions
680
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,870
of the Maya by the Spanish
in the 16th century,
681
00:35:16,990 --> 00:35:20,040
and the deliberate destruction
of hundreds of years
682
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:23,290
of the Maya's written history
by Friar Diego de Landa.
683
00:35:23,420 --> 00:35:27,590
A destruction that many ancient
astronaut theorists suggest
684
00:35:27,710 --> 00:35:30,380
was not as thorough
as we were made to believe.
685
00:35:32,470 --> 00:35:34,260
CHILDRESS:
Catholic Church was trying
686
00:35:34,380 --> 00:35:37,680
to destroy the old religion
and they-they made a big show
687
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,310
of having huge bonfires of books
688
00:35:41,430 --> 00:35:43,520
and destroying them,
689
00:35:43,640 --> 00:35:46,100
but at the same time,
the Catholic Church
690
00:35:46,230 --> 00:35:47,900
was trying
to accumulate knowledge.
691
00:35:50,030 --> 00:35:51,570
TSOUKALOS:
It would also not surprise me
692
00:35:51,690 --> 00:35:56,450
if Diego de Landa
did not burn everything.
693
00:35:56,570 --> 00:36:00,160
And maybe some of these texts
694
00:36:00,290 --> 00:36:03,080
did make it back to the Vatican.
695
00:36:03,210 --> 00:36:06,380
People often say, "Oh, but the
Vatican just destroys stuff."
696
00:36:06,500 --> 00:36:09,420
Actually...
they don't, on the whole.
697
00:36:10,630 --> 00:36:13,970
What they do is they hide it.
698
00:36:14,090 --> 00:36:16,760
What kind of other
organization in the world
699
00:36:16,890 --> 00:36:18,800
is known to have
700
00:36:18,930 --> 00:36:21,600
an archive that's actually
called "the Secret Archive"?
701
00:36:21,720 --> 00:36:25,270
It's quite possible that while,
on the surface,
702
00:36:25,390 --> 00:36:27,980
the Catholic Church was trying
to destroy everything,
703
00:36:28,110 --> 00:36:31,780
this knowledge that
they're gathering in North
704
00:36:31,900 --> 00:36:34,950
and South America
can benefit the Catholic Church
705
00:36:35,070 --> 00:36:36,910
in the future
and that's what they thought.
706
00:36:37,030 --> 00:36:38,740
PICKNETT:
It might molder away,
707
00:36:38,870 --> 00:36:41,790
but at least they have
control of it.
708
00:36:41,910 --> 00:36:44,000
That's the important thing.
709
00:36:44,120 --> 00:36:47,210
The Vatican
is always about control.
710
00:36:47,330 --> 00:36:49,380
Knowledge is power.
711
00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:51,550
The Vatican
has always known this.
712
00:36:51,670 --> 00:36:53,710
The Vatican has always
known secrets
713
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:56,300
it doesn't want
the average person to know.
714
00:36:57,930 --> 00:36:59,680
NARRATOR:
Did the Catholic Church appear
715
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:03,100
to destroy the Maya histories
and sacred scrolls
716
00:37:03,220 --> 00:37:04,850
only to have hidden them away
in the Vatican's
717
00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:07,190
notorious secret archive?
718
00:37:07,310 --> 00:37:10,730
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
719
00:37:10,860 --> 00:37:12,820
the answer... is yes.
720
00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:15,280
And the Church's motives
may not have been
721
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:17,900
to simply steal
valuable ancient knowledge,
722
00:37:18,030 --> 00:37:20,870
but something far more profound.
723
00:37:20,990 --> 00:37:24,160
They believe the real reason
was to hide the proof
724
00:37:24,290 --> 00:37:26,830
that the origins
of the Maya civilization
725
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:29,960
and those that existed
thousands of years earlier
726
00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:33,210
couldn't only be traced
to other continents,
727
00:37:33,340 --> 00:37:35,170
but to other planets.
728
00:37:41,090 --> 00:37:44,180
NARRATOR:
Giant megalithic stone heads...
729
00:37:44,310 --> 00:37:48,270
figurines of what appear
to be flying craft...
730
00:37:48,390 --> 00:37:50,940
and statues that evoke cultures
731
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,400
found on the other side
of the world.
732
00:37:55,110 --> 00:37:57,030
According to ancient astronaut
theorists,
733
00:37:57,150 --> 00:37:59,990
it is this information
that the Catholic Church
734
00:38:00,110 --> 00:38:02,990
sought to suppress
when they attempted to destroy
735
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:07,160
all traces of the Maya culture
nearly 500 years ago.
736
00:38:07,290 --> 00:38:09,460
MARTELL:
Now, what's interesting is,
737
00:38:09,580 --> 00:38:11,170
all these great ancient
cultures,
738
00:38:11,290 --> 00:38:13,080
including the Mayan,
seemed to have
739
00:38:13,210 --> 00:38:16,630
knowledge of math and science,
which we can't explain
740
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,550
how they got this information.
741
00:38:18,670 --> 00:38:21,220
When you ask them,
they always tell you
742
00:38:21,340 --> 00:38:23,890
it came from the gods.
743
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:26,970
NARRATOR:
If the proof existed,
744
00:38:27,100 --> 00:38:29,310
not only
of cross-Pacific migration,
745
00:38:29,430 --> 00:38:32,310
but also extraterrestrial
visitation,
746
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,810
many ancient astronaut
theorists believe
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it would have posed
a serious threat
748
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:39,440
to a Catholic hierarchy
steeped in
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the bigotry and intolerance
of the Inquisition.
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00:38:42,990 --> 00:38:46,580
But if this incredible theory
is true,
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00:38:46,700 --> 00:38:50,080
what then happened to
the extraterrestrial visitors?
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00:38:50,210 --> 00:38:54,080
Why did they come here
only to leave or go into hiding?
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00:38:57,130 --> 00:38:58,420
CHILDRESS:
Because of various
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00:38:58,550 --> 00:39:01,720
wars going on, cataclysms,
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00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,800
eventually, these civilizations
began to collapse.
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00:39:05,930 --> 00:39:07,760
As civilizations do.
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00:39:07,890 --> 00:39:12,310
And what happened in the end
was the, the airships,
758
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:15,150
they stopped coming.
And then,
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00:39:15,270 --> 00:39:18,400
the extraterrestrial demigods
pulled their technology back.
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00:39:18,530 --> 00:39:20,820
So we don't know
what happened there
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00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:22,280
with the extraterrestrials
and where they went.
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00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:24,110
And so you have to wonder
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00:39:24,240 --> 00:39:27,280
if they don't want us
to know that they are here.
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The extraterrestrials
may have just decided, "Okay.
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00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:33,330
"Humans on planet Earth
have, have got
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00:39:33,460 --> 00:39:34,870
"the seeds of civilization.
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00:39:35,000 --> 00:39:36,880
"Let's just stand back
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00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:38,340
and see what they do."
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00:39:40,760 --> 00:39:43,880
NARRATOR: As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,
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00:39:44,010 --> 00:39:47,600
the proof of extraterrestrial
visitation is still out there,
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00:39:47,720 --> 00:39:51,470
much of it buried beneath
centuries of dirt and rocks.
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00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,100
But every day,
the truth is being revealed.
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00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:00,320
In February 2018
through March 2019,
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00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:04,200
archeologists made a number
of incredible discoveries
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00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:06,870
just in the area
of Mexico alone.
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00:40:06,990 --> 00:40:10,740
Mayan artifacts were discovered
in Teotihuacan,
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00:40:10,870 --> 00:40:13,250
a location previously thought
to have been
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00:40:13,370 --> 00:40:16,120
inhabited only by the Aztecs.
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00:40:16,250 --> 00:40:20,090
200 more artifacts were found
in a hidden cave
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00:40:20,210 --> 00:40:23,670
under the Mayan site
of Chichen Itza.
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00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:26,640
And beneath dense jungles
near Lake Pátzcuaro,
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00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,220
LiDAR scanning
uncovered an ancient city
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00:40:29,350 --> 00:40:31,180
the size of Manhattan.
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00:40:33,430 --> 00:40:36,850
TSOUKALOS:
In the early 1990s,
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00:40:36,980 --> 00:40:39,310
there were these
science fiction stories
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00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,480
that one day we'll be able
to somehow look
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00:40:42,610 --> 00:40:45,570
underneath the overgrown jungle.
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00:40:45,700 --> 00:40:49,570
And sure enough, here we are,
20, 25 years later,
789
00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:52,410
and that technology now exists.
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00:40:52,540 --> 00:40:56,210
Satellites are now able to look
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00:40:56,330 --> 00:40:59,920
through the soil
into the ground to see
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00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,710
if other structures exist.
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00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,260
And guess what? They do.
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00:41:06,050 --> 00:41:09,390
We have only now begun a new era
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00:41:09,510 --> 00:41:13,310
of discovery and I predict
thousands as-of-yet
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00:41:13,430 --> 00:41:17,270
undiscovered sites will finally
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00:41:17,390 --> 00:41:19,230
see the light of day.
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00:41:19,350 --> 00:41:23,020
If you have a puzzle
with a thousand pieces,
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00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:26,070
in order to see
the final picture,
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00:41:26,190 --> 00:41:29,860
you don't need to lay down
all 1,000 pieces.
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00:41:29,990 --> 00:41:34,660
If you lay down 980 pieces,
I guarantee you,
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00:41:34,790 --> 00:41:36,580
you will see the big picture.
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00:41:38,580 --> 00:41:41,840
NARRATOR: Is mankind on an
incredible threshold of discovery?
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00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:45,260
One that will confirm that
extraterrestrial visitation
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00:41:45,380 --> 00:41:49,510
has occurred all over
the world and for centuries?
806
00:41:49,630 --> 00:41:53,890
Perhaps beneath the ruins of a
newly discovered site in Mexico,
807
00:41:54,010 --> 00:41:57,270
archeologists will uncover
the ultimate evidence
808
00:41:57,390 --> 00:42:00,520
of alien contact
809
00:42:00,650 --> 00:42:03,980
and proof of humanity's
true origins.