1 00:00:02,116 --> 00:00:04,116 NARRATOR: An Irish legend... 2 00:00:04,140 --> 00:00:05,580 HUGH NEWMAN: The supreme deity 3 00:00:05,760 --> 00:00:07,650 lived inside Newgrange. 4 00:00:07,830 --> 00:00:10,710 NARRATOR: Strange statues in Japan. 5 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:11,790 DAVID CHILDRESS: They are in what 6 00:00:11,970 --> 00:00:15,390 literally look like space suits. 7 00:00:15,480 --> 00:00:18,180 NARRATOR: And a mysterious African tribe. 8 00:00:18,270 --> 00:00:20,340 BILL BIRNES: They didn’t see themselves as earthlings. 9 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:24,120 They saw themselves as aliens. 10 00:00:24,210 --> 00:00:26,460 NARRATOR: All connected by a single sound. 11 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:27,900 WILLIAM HENRY: We have this repeated story 12 00:00:27,990 --> 00:00:30,600 of these beings that said they came from the stars 13 00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:34,200 and they introduced themselves always with the same phonetics. 14 00:00:34,380 --> 00:00:36,450 GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: You have Dogon, 15 00:00:36,540 --> 00:00:37,710 you have dogu, 16 00:00:37,890 --> 00:00:39,690 you have Dagda. 17 00:00:39,870 --> 00:00:41,850 What’s the commonality here? 18 00:00:41,940 --> 00:00:45,450 Because we have not similar but identical stories. 19 00:00:45,540 --> 00:00:47,430 NARRATOR: Could a simple syllable reveal 20 00:00:47,520 --> 00:00:50,670 the identity of extraterrestrial visitors 21 00:00:50,850 --> 00:00:52,290 from thousands of years ago? 22 00:00:52,380 --> 00:00:54,270 JASON MARTELL: There’s, across cultures, 23 00:00:54,450 --> 00:00:56,790 a reference of some type of an amphibious creature 24 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:58,590 that they thought of as a god. 25 00:00:58,770 --> 00:01:00,570 NARRATOR: And might they provide new clues 26 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:03,180 about mankind’s very origins? 27 00:01:03,270 --> 00:01:05,610 TSOUKALOS: All these cultures were visited 28 00:01:05,790 --> 00:01:07,320 by the same people. 29 00:01:12,270 --> 00:01:14,430 NARRATOR: There is a doorway 30 00:01:14,520 --> 00:01:17,310 in the universe. 31 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,190 Beyond it is the promise of truth. 32 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:23,970 It demands we question everything 33 00:01:24,060 --> 00:01:26,310 we have ever been taught. 34 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:30,630 The evidence is all around us. 35 00:01:30,720 --> 00:01:34,050 The future is right before our eyes. 36 00:01:34,140 --> 00:01:36,750 We are not alone. 37 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:40,440 We have never been alone. 38 00:01:51,420 --> 00:01:52,950 Mali, Africa. 39 00:01:53,130 --> 00:01:56,010 1931. 40 00:01:56,190 --> 00:01:59,160 French anthropologist Marcel Griaule 41 00:01:59,250 --> 00:02:01,500 treks through the forbidding desert 42 00:02:01,590 --> 00:02:04,560 in search of the mysterious Dogon tribe. 43 00:02:04,740 --> 00:02:06,450 When he finds them, 44 00:02:06,630 --> 00:02:10,410 he becomes fascinated by their culture and traditions. 45 00:02:10,500 --> 00:02:13,830 As Griaule starts collecting Dogon legends, 46 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:16,890 he notices an eerie similarity 47 00:02:16,980 --> 00:02:19,500 to ancient tales found across the globe, 48 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,740 tales of amphibious gods-- 49 00:02:22,920 --> 00:02:24,810 in this case, called Nommo, 50 00:02:24,900 --> 00:02:26,340 who came from the sky, 51 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:27,690 lived in the sea, 52 00:02:27,780 --> 00:02:31,470 and helped mankind. 53 00:02:31,650 --> 00:02:33,990 They described these Nommos as being 54 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:37,050 very, like, mermaid- or mermen-like 55 00:02:37,230 --> 00:02:40,380 but bequeathing lots of knowledge of astronomy, 56 00:02:40,470 --> 00:02:43,800 math and science to this ancient race. 57 00:02:43,890 --> 00:02:46,140 The Dogon would say that the Nommo 58 00:02:46,230 --> 00:02:48,750 were these extraterrestrial gods. 59 00:02:48,840 --> 00:02:52,350 But they needed a watery environment to live in, 60 00:02:52,530 --> 00:02:55,590 though they could come on land. 61 00:02:55,680 --> 00:02:58,110 NARRATOR: Griaule learns that their arrival is known 62 00:02:58,200 --> 00:02:59,910 as the Day of the Fish. 63 00:03:00,090 --> 00:03:02,880 The Dogon actually said, 64 00:03:02,970 --> 00:03:05,130 "Well, this was our creator god, Nommo, 65 00:03:05,310 --> 00:03:07,200 "who descended from the sky 66 00:03:07,290 --> 00:03:10,620 "in a loud whirlwind of a storm 67 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:14,310 of thunder, smoke, and lightning." 68 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:18,180 NARRATOR: But what struck Griaule and shocked the world 69 00:03:18,360 --> 00:03:21,150 weren’t the Dogon legends themselves 70 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:25,110 but where they said their amphibious gods came from, 71 00:03:25,290 --> 00:03:30,870 a star that no one on Earth knew existed until 1862, 72 00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:35,190 long after the Dogon claimed they knew of its existence. 73 00:03:35,280 --> 00:03:36,990 CHILDRESS: In the 1930s, 74 00:03:37,170 --> 00:03:40,500 when French anthropologists were first discussing the Nommo 75 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:42,660 with these Dogon priests, 76 00:03:42,750 --> 00:03:45,630 the Dogon priests said that the Nommo were coming 77 00:03:45,720 --> 00:03:47,970 from the star system of Sirius. 78 00:03:48,150 --> 00:03:52,110 Well, the French anthropologists were amazed at that 79 00:03:52,290 --> 00:03:55,440 and were confused as well. 80 00:03:55,530 --> 00:03:56,790 NARRATOR: According to the Dogon, 81 00:03:56,970 --> 00:03:59,400 their gods didn’t come from Sirius A, 82 00:03:59,490 --> 00:04:03,000 a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky, 83 00:04:03,180 --> 00:04:05,520 but from its tiny companion, 84 00:04:05,610 --> 00:04:08,310 a dying star called Sirius B 85 00:04:08,490 --> 00:04:10,740 that can only be seen with advanced, 86 00:04:10,830 --> 00:04:12,990 high-powered telescopes. 87 00:04:13,080 --> 00:04:17,040 Sirius A is the brightest star in the sky, 88 00:04:17,130 --> 00:04:19,650 because it is very luminous 89 00:04:19,830 --> 00:04:23,970 and it is also fairly close to the Earth. 90 00:04:24,150 --> 00:04:26,490 In astronomy, it is a known fact 91 00:04:26,580 --> 00:04:29,730 that there is a Sirius A and a Sirius B. 92 00:04:29,820 --> 00:04:32,340 Sirius A can be seen. 93 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:34,860 And Sirius B, for us, 94 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:36,120 is invisible, 95 00:04:36,210 --> 00:04:37,830 because it’s just too small. 96 00:04:37,920 --> 00:04:40,800 Now, the Dogon knew 97 00:04:40,890 --> 00:04:44,220 about the invisible companion star to Sirius. 98 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:46,650 How did they know? 99 00:04:49,350 --> 00:04:51,060 NARRATOR: For thousands of years, 100 00:04:51,150 --> 00:04:54,030 Sirius A has played an outsized role 101 00:04:54,210 --> 00:04:57,630 in the imagination of Greeks, Persians, 102 00:04:57,630 --> 00:04:59,610 Hindus, Romans, 103 00:04:59,790 --> 00:05:02,760 Polynesians and countless others. 104 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:07,440 The Egyptians even based their calendar on Sirius A, 105 00:05:07,620 --> 00:05:10,320 and some believe they aligned the Giza pyramids 106 00:05:10,410 --> 00:05:12,120 to Orion’s Belt, 107 00:05:12,300 --> 00:05:14,820 which points to Sirius A. 108 00:05:14,910 --> 00:05:17,430 Villages along the Nile 109 00:05:17,610 --> 00:05:19,950 and along the Euphrates, 110 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,020 ancient Mesopotamia, 111 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:26,790 they lined up their village dwellings 112 00:05:26,790 --> 00:05:31,200 to mimic the constellation in which Sirius sat. 113 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:33,000 JOHN BRANDENBURG: Sirius is one 114 00:05:33,090 --> 00:05:34,530 of the closest stars to us. 115 00:05:34,710 --> 00:05:36,960 It’s 8.6 light-years away. 116 00:05:37,050 --> 00:05:38,760 Unlike the Sun, 117 00:05:38,850 --> 00:05:40,650 which has a beautiful golden color, 118 00:05:40,830 --> 00:05:43,620 Sirius is a bluish white color, 119 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:47,670 indicating it’s much hotter than the surface of the Sun, 120 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:51,090 and that corresponds to it being more massive than the Sun 121 00:05:51,270 --> 00:05:52,440 and burning hotter. 122 00:05:52,440 --> 00:05:54,690 It’ll have a shorter lifespan. 123 00:05:57,750 --> 00:05:59,460 NARRATOR: But how could the Dogon 124 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:02,970 have known about the existence of Sirius B? 125 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:06,120 Could they have, at one time, 126 00:06:06,300 --> 00:06:09,000 been in possession of advanced technology? 127 00:06:09,180 --> 00:06:13,230 Or could there be another, even more profound explanation? 128 00:06:13,410 --> 00:06:16,380 The Dogon had an amazing degree of knowledge 129 00:06:16,470 --> 00:06:17,910 about the Sirius system. 130 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:20,970 They knew that the orbits of the two stars 131 00:06:21,150 --> 00:06:23,220 were about 50 years’ period 132 00:06:23,310 --> 00:06:26,820 and that the invisible star was very dense 133 00:06:26,910 --> 00:06:29,790 and past its prime. 134 00:06:29,970 --> 00:06:32,580 They also knew that the brighter one 135 00:06:32,670 --> 00:06:35,010 was a larger star than the Sun. 136 00:06:35,190 --> 00:06:37,440 NARRATOR: The Dogon also knew 137 00:06:37,530 --> 00:06:40,680 that Sirius B is about the size of Earth 138 00:06:40,860 --> 00:06:44,190 and spins on its axis. 139 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:48,060 GEORGE NOORY: There is no logical explanation 140 00:06:48,150 --> 00:06:49,770 for why the Dogon tribe knew 141 00:06:49,950 --> 00:06:52,290 about the Sirius star system naturally. 142 00:06:52,380 --> 00:06:54,540 We didn’t have telescopes in those days. 143 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:56,430 How did they know this? 144 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:58,410 It’s as if an ET came here 145 00:06:58,500 --> 00:07:00,300 and just told ’em all about that. 146 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:03,270 It’s an amazing story. 147 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,970 MICHIO KAKU: One theory is 148 00:07:06,060 --> 00:07:08,940 maybe the aliens gave them this knowledge. 149 00:07:09,030 --> 00:07:10,380 It can’t be ruled out. 150 00:07:10,470 --> 00:07:12,090 That’s one possibility, 151 00:07:12,180 --> 00:07:14,160 because they got it right on the dot. 152 00:07:14,340 --> 00:07:18,480 NARRATOR: But if a race of amphibious Nommo came from Sirius B 153 00:07:18,660 --> 00:07:21,270 and gave the Dogon such gifts of knowledge, 154 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,690 did they only visit this one desert tribe? 155 00:07:26,490 --> 00:07:30,540 Or did they visit other peoples in other lands? 156 00:07:30,630 --> 00:07:32,430 TSOUKALOS: It would be one thing if there’s 157 00:07:32,610 --> 00:07:35,760 only one legend of a fish-man worldwide, 158 00:07:35,850 --> 00:07:38,370 but the Nommo is 159 00:07:38,460 --> 00:07:41,070 one story of dozens 160 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:44,400 of amphibious bringers of knowledge 161 00:07:44,490 --> 00:07:46,470 to our ancestors. 162 00:07:46,560 --> 00:07:48,720 The ancient Hindus talk about this. 163 00:07:48,900 --> 00:07:50,520 The ancient Greeks. 164 00:07:50,610 --> 00:07:54,570 They all had these fish people that, 165 00:07:54,750 --> 00:07:56,640 during the day, taught mankind, 166 00:07:56,730 --> 00:07:58,080 and then, at night, 167 00:07:58,260 --> 00:08:00,330 they wandered back into the ocean 168 00:08:00,420 --> 00:08:02,130 to just emerge the next day. 169 00:08:02,310 --> 00:08:05,370 NARRATOR: If the Nommo from Sirius B 170 00:08:05,460 --> 00:08:07,440 visited numerous ancient cultures, 171 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:08,970 is it possible 172 00:08:09,150 --> 00:08:11,580 that some physical evidence survived? 173 00:08:13,110 --> 00:08:16,530 Sierra Leone, Africa. 174 00:08:16,620 --> 00:08:19,950 The early 1990s. 175 00:08:23,010 --> 00:08:25,890 As civil war rages across the country, 176 00:08:25,980 --> 00:08:28,950 rebels begin forcing villagers to mine 177 00:08:29,130 --> 00:08:32,010 so-called blood diamonds. 178 00:08:32,100 --> 00:08:34,890 But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure 179 00:08:34,980 --> 00:08:37,590 they weren’t expecting... 180 00:08:39,480 --> 00:08:43,980 ...mysterious figures ranging from five to ten inches tall, 181 00:08:43,980 --> 00:08:49,380 often with reptilian or amphibian features. 182 00:08:49,560 --> 00:08:52,440 CHILDRESS: They’re very strange statues. 183 00:08:52,620 --> 00:08:53,880 Some are clay. 184 00:08:54,060 --> 00:08:56,490 Some are of granite or limestone. 185 00:08:56,580 --> 00:08:58,920 They are humans 186 00:08:59,010 --> 00:09:02,610 and human figures with lizard heads. 187 00:09:02,790 --> 00:09:05,400 There are hundreds of them. 188 00:09:05,580 --> 00:09:08,370 NARRATOR: Archaeologists date the statues, 189 00:09:08,460 --> 00:09:09,900 known as the Nomoli, 190 00:09:09,990 --> 00:09:12,240 to around 500 years old, 191 00:09:12,420 --> 00:09:15,030 when Europeans first came into contact 192 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:18,540 with the people of Sierra Leone. 193 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:22,770 But researchers point out that the statues were found buried 194 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:25,830 as much as 150 feet deep, 195 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:30,150 which would suggest they are extremely ancient. 196 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:33,300 Normally, the deeper you go, 197 00:09:33,480 --> 00:09:35,730 the more ancient things are. 198 00:09:35,910 --> 00:09:39,690 That indicates great antiquity. 199 00:09:39,780 --> 00:09:42,750 BEN VONDERHEIDE: We know that Angelo Pitoni 200 00:09:42,840 --> 00:09:45,810 was able to date the strata 201 00:09:45,990 --> 00:09:48,960 to 17,000 years old. 202 00:09:49,050 --> 00:09:50,670 We ask the chiefs 203 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:53,370 and they’ll tell us they could be even older. 204 00:09:53,550 --> 00:09:56,880 NARRATOR: 17,000 years old? 205 00:09:58,680 --> 00:10:01,740 If true, it would make the Nomoli statues 206 00:10:01,830 --> 00:10:05,790 among the oldest man-made artifacts ever found 207 00:10:05,880 --> 00:10:08,490 and date them to 12,000 years 208 00:10:08,670 --> 00:10:12,180 before the first known civilizations on Earth. 209 00:10:12,270 --> 00:10:15,690 But for ancient astronaut theorists, 210 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:18,750 even more interesting is a strange similarity 211 00:10:18,840 --> 00:10:20,730 between tales of the Nomoli 212 00:10:20,910 --> 00:10:22,620 and the stories of the Dogon tribe 213 00:10:22,710 --> 00:10:24,420 and their Nommo gods, 214 00:10:24,600 --> 00:10:28,920 1,200 miles away in Mali, 215 00:10:29,010 --> 00:10:32,610 a similarity that could reveal the identity 216 00:10:32,790 --> 00:10:36,750 of mankind’s extraterrestrial ancestors. 217 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:47,190 NARRATOR In the early 1990s, mysterious figurines 218 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:50,430 were unearthed in Sierra Leone, Africa, 219 00:10:50,610 --> 00:10:53,580 that were buried in a strata of the earth so deep, 220 00:10:53,670 --> 00:10:58,350 it suggests they could be as much as 17,000 years old. 221 00:10:58,530 --> 00:11:02,310 They are believed to represent gods called the Nomoli 222 00:11:02,490 --> 00:11:06,450 that have been revered by the native people for centuries. 223 00:11:06,540 --> 00:11:09,600 They are also similar to the stories 224 00:11:09,690 --> 00:11:11,940 of the Dogon tribe of Mali who, 225 00:11:12,030 --> 00:11:15,180 although located some 1,200 miles away, 226 00:11:15,270 --> 00:11:18,420 worship gods called the Nommo, 227 00:11:18,510 --> 00:11:21,480 who descended to the Earth in a whirlwind. 228 00:11:21,570 --> 00:11:23,460 VONDERHEIDE: They were forced to come down here and live on Earth. 229 00:11:23,640 --> 00:11:26,700 Their eyes were so bright that you could not look into them 230 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:29,940 because they shone like the Sun. 231 00:11:30,030 --> 00:11:32,100 And their voices were so powerful that when they spoke 232 00:11:32,190 --> 00:11:34,800 in one village, you could hear them in the next village. 233 00:11:34,980 --> 00:11:39,480 MARTELL: They’re actually here on Earth as guides helping humanity. 234 00:11:39,570 --> 00:11:42,630 So this is a very interesting tale that we see across cultures 235 00:11:42,810 --> 00:11:45,420 where they actually have some interaction with beings 236 00:11:45,510 --> 00:11:48,300 that come down from the sky and teach them knowledge. 237 00:11:50,550 --> 00:11:52,890 NARRATOR Like the Nommo, the Nomoli gods 238 00:11:53,070 --> 00:11:55,590 are depicted as having amphibious traits, 239 00:11:55,680 --> 00:11:59,460 and are often shown entwined with crocodiles. 240 00:12:01,890 --> 00:12:05,130 BIRNES: The Nommo and the Nomoli, could it be 241 00:12:05,310 --> 00:12:07,290 that the creatures that came to Earth 242 00:12:07,380 --> 00:12:09,450 hundreds of thousands of years ago 243 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:11,610 were somehow aquatic creatures? 244 00:12:11,700 --> 00:12:14,940 NOORY: It’s very conceivable 245 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:18,540 that ET races that came here many, many, many years ago 246 00:12:18,630 --> 00:12:21,870 looked like maybe an alligator standing upright. 247 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:23,850 Who knows? 248 00:12:23,940 --> 00:12:26,370 It’s very conceivable that’s what they saw. 249 00:12:28,620 --> 00:12:30,870 NARRATOR: Could the Nomoli and the Nommo 250 00:12:31,050 --> 00:12:33,840 represent the same extraterrestrial visitors? 251 00:12:33,930 --> 00:12:38,970 And could those visitors have come from Sirius B? 252 00:12:39,060 --> 00:12:42,930 HENRY: Words are thought of as thought fossils. 253 00:12:43,110 --> 00:12:45,540 They are a record into themselves, 254 00:12:45,720 --> 00:12:47,610 and when we begin to compare words, 255 00:12:47,700 --> 00:12:49,680 we find some very interesting things. 256 00:12:49,770 --> 00:12:52,740 In Sierra Leone, we learn of statues called Nomoli. 257 00:12:52,920 --> 00:12:55,530 Then we flip over to the Dogon, 258 00:12:55,620 --> 00:12:58,680 and we find that they worshipped a god called Nommo. 259 00:12:58,860 --> 00:13:02,010 Is there a linkage between these two cultures 260 00:13:02,100 --> 00:13:04,350 that are supposed to be entirely separate? 261 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:06,510 Linguists would argue that there is. 262 00:13:06,600 --> 00:13:09,120 NARRATOR: Perhaps the most enticing clue 263 00:13:09,210 --> 00:13:11,100 as to the Nomoli’s true origins 264 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,340 was discovered in the early 1990s, 265 00:13:14,430 --> 00:13:16,500 when one of the mysterious Nomoli figurines 266 00:13:16,590 --> 00:13:20,010 was found to contain a chromium sphere. 267 00:13:20,100 --> 00:13:22,620 TSOUKALOS: Inside of it they found 268 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:26,310 a sphere made of chromium. 269 00:13:26,490 --> 00:13:29,910 The fascinating thing about this is that chromium 270 00:13:30,000 --> 00:13:34,500 was not isolated by us until 1797. 271 00:13:34,590 --> 00:13:37,380 NARRATOR: But how is it possible 272 00:13:37,470 --> 00:13:40,260 that this sphere was placed inside a statue 273 00:13:40,350 --> 00:13:45,930 made 17,000 years before scientists isolated chromium? 274 00:13:46,020 --> 00:13:48,000 VONDERHEIDE: There are two schools of thought. 275 00:13:48,180 --> 00:13:50,250 One would be that there were ancient civilizations 276 00:13:50,340 --> 00:13:52,320 which were far advanced in that area, 277 00:13:52,500 --> 00:13:57,540 which have been absorbed back into the jungle. 278 00:13:57,630 --> 00:14:00,780 And the second one is that there was an influence 279 00:14:00,870 --> 00:14:04,560 from some extraterrestrial beings that came from the sky. 280 00:14:06,450 --> 00:14:08,250 BRANDENBURG: This is absolutely inexplicable 281 00:14:08,430 --> 00:14:11,220 in present paleontology. 282 00:14:11,310 --> 00:14:13,740 You have to assume that there was a contact 283 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:15,720 with an advanced technology. 284 00:14:15,810 --> 00:14:19,230 NARRATOR: But if this chromium sphere 285 00:14:19,410 --> 00:14:22,560 was produced by extraterrestrial visitors to Earth, 286 00:14:22,650 --> 00:14:27,150 what was the purpose of placing it inside a Nomoli statue? 287 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:30,300 Some believe the answer may lie 288 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:34,710 in a further examination of Sirius B. 289 00:14:34,890 --> 00:14:37,050 MARTELL: We have to wonder if this isn’t some type 290 00:14:37,140 --> 00:14:40,380 of representation of Sirius B. 291 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:42,810 The Sirius system is always thought of 292 00:14:42,990 --> 00:14:44,610 as one of the best possible places 293 00:14:44,700 --> 00:14:46,230 for where we would find intelligent life. 294 00:14:47,940 --> 00:14:51,450 Could Sirius B be one of the home places of gods 295 00:14:51,630 --> 00:14:55,050 that came from that star system and brought ancient knowledge? 296 00:14:56,940 --> 00:14:59,640 NARRATOR: Perhaps further clues can be found 297 00:14:59,730 --> 00:15:03,690 by examining a sacred syllable that ties the Dogon 298 00:15:03,870 --> 00:15:08,280 to a civilization thousands of miles away. 299 00:15:12,150 --> 00:15:15,030 Paris, France. 300 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,090 Ancient astronaut theorists believe 301 00:15:18,270 --> 00:15:20,880 that housed in the Louvre is an unlikely clue 302 00:15:20,970 --> 00:15:24,120 to the mystery of the Dogon tribe of Mali. 303 00:15:26,010 --> 00:15:28,350 It’s a carved stone made of basalt 304 00:15:28,530 --> 00:15:31,320 with a depiction of the Babylonian King Hammurabi 305 00:15:31,410 --> 00:15:35,820 speaking with a divine being. 306 00:15:35,910 --> 00:15:37,800 Below them, carved in cuneiform, 307 00:15:37,980 --> 00:15:41,490 is perhaps the most significant legal text in the ancient world, 308 00:15:41,580 --> 00:15:45,090 the Code of Hammurabi. 309 00:15:45,180 --> 00:15:47,250 TSOUKALOS: King Hammurabi ruled ancient Babylon 310 00:15:47,340 --> 00:15:49,860 in the 18th century BC, 311 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,650 and he devised the world’s first known set of laws. 312 00:15:52,830 --> 00:15:54,990 For example, this is where we get the idea 313 00:15:55,080 --> 00:15:56,610 of an eye for an eye. 314 00:15:56,700 --> 00:15:59,310 But what’s fascinating to me 315 00:15:59,490 --> 00:16:02,370 is that, according to King Hammurabi himself, 316 00:16:02,460 --> 00:16:06,510 this was dictated to him by a being that came from the sky. 317 00:16:08,220 --> 00:16:10,560 In my mind, King Hammurabi 318 00:16:10,650 --> 00:16:13,530 was documenting exactly what happened: 319 00:16:13,620 --> 00:16:17,220 he was advised by an extraterrestrial. 320 00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:22,530 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that not only 321 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:25,050 were the Babylonian gods extraterrestrials 322 00:16:25,230 --> 00:16:29,370 who instructed King Hammurabi, but that one of them provides 323 00:16:29,460 --> 00:16:33,060 an intriguing connection to the Dogon of Africa 324 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:36,570 and their amphibious visitors from Sirius B. 325 00:16:36,660 --> 00:16:40,530 That god-- the chief god of the Babylonians-- 326 00:16:40,620 --> 00:16:43,680 was called Dagon. 327 00:16:43,860 --> 00:16:47,730 CHILDRESS: They have a god named Dagon. 328 00:16:47,820 --> 00:16:52,140 And, it, too, is an amphibious human god. 329 00:16:52,320 --> 00:16:56,010 NARRATOR: The Babylonian god Dagon 330 00:16:56,100 --> 00:16:58,890 sounds eerily similar to the Dogon tribe, 331 00:16:59,070 --> 00:17:03,840 who claim they were visited by beings from Sirius B. 332 00:17:03,930 --> 00:17:09,060 Is that because the Dogon named themselves after the same god? 333 00:17:10,950 --> 00:17:13,560 The ancient Babylonians had a god-- 334 00:17:13,740 --> 00:17:17,970 half-human, half-fish-- called Dagon. 335 00:17:18,060 --> 00:17:23,370 Is there a relationship between the Dogon and the Dagon, 336 00:17:23,460 --> 00:17:25,170 and the deity of the Babylonians 337 00:17:25,350 --> 00:17:27,060 that brought civilization to Earth? 338 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,950 Absolutely there could be a relationship. 339 00:17:31,200 --> 00:17:32,910 NARRATOR: The Babylonians worshipped Dagon 340 00:17:33,090 --> 00:17:36,690 in a temple called E-Mul, or the "House of the Star." 341 00:17:36,780 --> 00:17:40,200 Could this be Sirius B? 342 00:17:40,290 --> 00:17:43,530 Did inhabitants of this distant star visit both 343 00:17:43,710 --> 00:17:47,760 the Dogon in Africa and the Babylonians in the Middle East 344 00:17:47,940 --> 00:17:51,450 and leave their name-- perhaps Dag or Dog-- 345 00:17:51,540 --> 00:17:54,060 embedded in both places? 346 00:17:54,150 --> 00:17:58,020 TSOUKALOS: What if, when the extraterrestrials visited, 347 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,260 our ancestors listened to their language-- 348 00:18:01,350 --> 00:18:04,950 words with dag, dog, something 349 00:18:05,130 --> 00:18:09,720 that was the most prevalent term that they just heard? 350 00:18:09,900 --> 00:18:13,500 So the idea that we have these cultures 351 00:18:13,590 --> 00:18:16,920 where the root word is the same indicates to me 352 00:18:17,010 --> 00:18:20,790 all these ancient cultures were visited by the same people. 353 00:18:20,970 --> 00:18:24,750 NARRATOR: According to ancient astronaut theorists, 354 00:18:24,930 --> 00:18:28,890 the extraterrestrials implanted evidence of their visitation 355 00:18:28,980 --> 00:18:31,860 within the traditions of the cultures they encountered. 356 00:18:31,950 --> 00:18:35,190 And further proof of this can be found 357 00:18:35,280 --> 00:18:38,610 by examining another early civilization 358 00:18:38,700 --> 00:18:41,670 on the opposite side of the planet. 359 00:18:48,420 --> 00:18:49,500 NARRATOR: The Imperial Palace. 360 00:18:49,590 --> 00:18:52,380 Tokyo, Japan. 361 00:18:52,470 --> 00:18:55,350 New Year’s Day, 2019. 362 00:18:57,690 --> 00:18:59,850 Citing age and ill health, 363 00:18:59,940 --> 00:19:02,730 Emperor Akihito abdicates before a crowd 364 00:19:02,820 --> 00:19:06,600 of more than 90,000 well-wishers and family members, 365 00:19:06,690 --> 00:19:10,920 including his eldest son Crown Prince Naruhito. 366 00:19:11,100 --> 00:19:15,600 Four months later, Naruhito succeeds his father 367 00:19:15,690 --> 00:19:18,480 and ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne, 368 00:19:18,570 --> 00:19:21,990 carrying on a tradition of the oldest royal family on Earth, 369 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:27,660 stretching back over 2,500 years to 660 BC. 370 00:19:27,750 --> 00:19:31,710 According to legend, the Japanese Imperial family 371 00:19:31,890 --> 00:19:34,680 is descended from divine amphibious beings, 372 00:19:34,770 --> 00:19:37,290 who, like the Babylonian god Dagon 373 00:19:37,470 --> 00:19:39,450 and the Dogon gods of Mali, 374 00:19:39,540 --> 00:19:42,870 came from the sky and lived in the sea. 375 00:19:43,050 --> 00:19:47,550 The Japanese name for these beings is Doragun. 376 00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,520 In English we call them dragons. 377 00:19:52,860 --> 00:19:55,830 Emperor Jimmu, who is the founder 378 00:19:56,010 --> 00:19:58,440 of the Japanese imperial line, 379 00:19:58,530 --> 00:20:02,400 was supposedly a descendant of the Dragon King. 380 00:20:02,580 --> 00:20:06,000 And the Dragon King lived in a underwater palace 381 00:20:06,090 --> 00:20:09,870 that was massive and-and very prosperous. 382 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,570 And through successive marriages, 383 00:20:12,750 --> 00:20:17,880 eventually his descendants became rulers of Japan. 384 00:20:17,970 --> 00:20:20,850 CHILDRESS: Early myths indicated 385 00:20:21,030 --> 00:20:23,100 that the dragon was also 386 00:20:23,190 --> 00:20:27,510 an amphibious water-type animal. 387 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,190 Also, in some ways, a half-man, half-amphibious type. 388 00:20:32,370 --> 00:20:38,130 He later morphed into a flying serpent, as we know. 389 00:20:38,310 --> 00:20:42,720 NARRATOR: The Japanese language is unique to Japan, 390 00:20:42,810 --> 00:20:45,870 and also isn’t connected to any other language, 391 00:20:45,960 --> 00:20:50,370 not even other Asian languages such as Korean and Chinese. 392 00:20:50,550 --> 00:20:54,780 Yet the Japanese word for this creature is strikingly similar 393 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,110 to words embedded in languages all over the world. 394 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,900 Doragun in Japanese. 395 00:21:00,990 --> 00:21:04,320 Dragon in English. 396 00:21:04,410 --> 00:21:07,020 Dregan in India. 397 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:11,160 Dragoni in Swahili. 398 00:21:11,250 --> 00:21:14,670 Drakontion in ancient Greek. 399 00:21:14,850 --> 00:21:17,640 And Dragoi in the Basque language found in Europe, 400 00:21:17,730 --> 00:21:21,870 which is also unconnected to any other language. 401 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:24,930 So once again we have that similar word: 402 00:21:25,110 --> 00:21:29,070 Dogon. Dagon. Dragon. 403 00:21:29,250 --> 00:21:34,200 So perhaps all of these words are indicating these half-human, 404 00:21:34,290 --> 00:21:36,900 half-amphibious extraterrestrials. 405 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:43,290 NARRATOR: Do these linguistic similarities suggest that the Japanese 406 00:21:43,380 --> 00:21:47,340 were visited by the same beings from Sirius B 407 00:21:47,430 --> 00:21:49,860 that were encountered by the Dogon in Mali, 408 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:54,180 the people of Sierra Leone, and the Babylonians? 409 00:21:54,270 --> 00:21:58,770 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest that 410 00:21:58,860 --> 00:22:02,550 actual physical evidence of the connection also exists 411 00:22:02,730 --> 00:22:07,410 in the form of strange figurines found buried all over Japan. 412 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,800 Tokyo National Museum, Japan. 413 00:22:13,890 --> 00:22:17,220 The country’s oldest national museum is home to a collection 414 00:22:17,400 --> 00:22:20,640 of mysterious clay statues that date as far back 415 00:22:20,730 --> 00:22:23,160 as 10,000 years. 416 00:22:23,250 --> 00:22:26,670 More than 18,000 of these figurines have been found 417 00:22:26,850 --> 00:22:28,920 throughout the Japanese islands. 418 00:22:29,100 --> 00:22:32,160 And again, their name is eerily familiar. 419 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:34,950 They are called the dogu. 420 00:22:37,020 --> 00:22:40,170 The dogu are small clay figurines 421 00:22:40,260 --> 00:22:44,400 that are usually about 15 to 30 centimeters in height, 422 00:22:44,580 --> 00:22:47,100 and they date from one of the earliest periods 423 00:22:47,190 --> 00:22:51,420 of Japanese history, from about 14,000 BC 424 00:22:51,510 --> 00:22:53,220 to 1000 BC. 425 00:22:55,290 --> 00:22:57,900 NARRATOR: Much like the similarly-sized Nomoli figurines 426 00:22:57,990 --> 00:23:01,950 in Sierra Leone, more than 8,000 miles away, 427 00:23:02,130 --> 00:23:06,270 the dogu were also found buried deep in the earth. 428 00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:10,320 STEAVU: When one buries something, one is expressing reverence for it. 429 00:23:10,500 --> 00:23:15,090 So if you find something that’s buried with a lot of care 430 00:23:15,270 --> 00:23:18,600 and ritual preparation, it means it could be 431 00:23:18,690 --> 00:23:21,570 some kind of sacred item. 432 00:23:21,570 --> 00:23:24,090 NARRATOR: But perhaps the strangest thing about the dogu 433 00:23:24,270 --> 00:23:26,340 is what they’re wearing. 434 00:23:26,430 --> 00:23:29,040 So, here we have a replica of a dogu statue, 435 00:23:29,130 --> 00:23:31,110 which is life-size. 436 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,540 You have patterns that are represented here 437 00:23:33,720 --> 00:23:35,790 that look almost technological in nature. 438 00:23:35,970 --> 00:23:39,120 And if we focus on goggle features 439 00:23:39,210 --> 00:23:42,810 of the dogu statues that have led many people to speculate 440 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,150 that this, in fact, might be some kind of helmet 441 00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:47,040 that’s part of a space suit. 442 00:23:47,220 --> 00:23:50,730 You really have to wonder what’s going on here because, 443 00:23:50,820 --> 00:23:54,240 in the case of the dogu, if you look at this 444 00:23:54,330 --> 00:23:57,660 from a modern-day perspective, in my opinion, 445 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:01,530 those are people in some type of space suits. 446 00:24:04,860 --> 00:24:08,010 NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists, even more intriguing 447 00:24:08,190 --> 00:24:12,330 than the appearance of these figurines is their name... dogu, 448 00:24:12,420 --> 00:24:18,180 once again echoing divine names found across multiple cultures. 449 00:24:18,360 --> 00:24:20,520 HENRY: Here we are talking about a civilization 450 00:24:20,610 --> 00:24:23,490 on the island of Japan that is entirely separate, 451 00:24:23,670 --> 00:24:26,550 far across the ocean, a vast distance 452 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:30,600 from Africa and Egypt and Mesopotamia, 453 00:24:30,690 --> 00:24:35,100 yet they worship a deity with the very same name phonetically. 454 00:24:35,190 --> 00:24:37,080 Is it the same being? 455 00:24:37,260 --> 00:24:39,150 Common sense tell us we have to at least 456 00:24:39,240 --> 00:24:40,860 consider that as a possibility. 457 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:46,890 NARRATOR: If uncanny cultural and linguistic similarities 458 00:24:47,070 --> 00:24:49,860 found in different parts of the world are the result 459 00:24:49,950 --> 00:24:52,200 of extraterrestrial visitation, 460 00:24:52,290 --> 00:24:55,620 wouldn’t there be physical evidence as well? 461 00:24:55,800 --> 00:25:00,570 Some alien artifact left behind that could prove our ancestors 462 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:04,980 had contact with beings from another world? 463 00:25:05,070 --> 00:25:08,490 According to ancient astronaut theorists, there is. 464 00:25:13,710 --> 00:25:17,310 From the mysterious statues of Sierra Leone... 465 00:25:18,570 --> 00:25:21,360 ...to the Dogon tribe of Mali... 466 00:25:21,540 --> 00:25:25,230 and the Babylonian worship of Dagon... 467 00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,020 to the Japanese stories of dragons 468 00:25:28,110 --> 00:25:32,700 and the curious dogu figures... 469 00:25:32,880 --> 00:25:35,130 according to ancient astronaut theorists, 470 00:25:35,310 --> 00:25:38,550 there are eerie similarities between ancient cultures 471 00:25:38,640 --> 00:25:40,530 that indicate they were all visited 472 00:25:40,710 --> 00:25:42,870 by the same extraterrestrial beings... 473 00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:47,190 ...from Sirius B. 474 00:25:47,280 --> 00:25:51,060 If there were beings from the Sirius star system... 475 00:25:53,220 --> 00:25:55,740 ...they may have come for a short period of time. 476 00:25:55,830 --> 00:25:58,620 They may have been harvesting metals. 477 00:25:58,710 --> 00:26:00,960 They may have been harvesting genetic material, 478 00:26:01,050 --> 00:26:02,040 and then they go. 479 00:26:05,910 --> 00:26:08,250 NARRATOR: But is there any physical evidence? 480 00:26:08,430 --> 00:26:13,380 For some, the presence of a chromium sphere inside a statue 481 00:26:13,470 --> 00:26:16,710 estimated to be 17,000 years old 482 00:26:16,890 --> 00:26:20,400 and ancient figurines that appear to depict space suits 483 00:26:20,490 --> 00:26:22,380 are proof enough. 484 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:27,780 But could there also be actual artifacts from another world? 485 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,380 NARRATOR: Among the people of Sierra Leone, 486 00:26:31,470 --> 00:26:33,990 local legend has it that when their Nomoli gods 487 00:26:34,170 --> 00:26:38,130 fell from heaven, part of the sky turned to stone 488 00:26:38,220 --> 00:26:41,640 and rained down with them. 489 00:26:41,730 --> 00:26:46,230 These strange blue stones, called sky stones, 490 00:26:46,410 --> 00:26:49,470 have been found with the statues. 491 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,360 And at first archaeologists thought, 492 00:26:51,540 --> 00:26:53,700 "Okay, it’s just blue stones." 493 00:26:53,790 --> 00:26:56,670 But when they analyzed it, they couldn’t figure out 494 00:26:56,850 --> 00:26:59,820 how these had been made, too. 495 00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:02,610 Although the people in Sierra Leone felt that they were 496 00:27:02,700 --> 00:27:07,830 actually pieces of the blue sky that fell with the Nomoli. 497 00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:12,330 NARRATOR: If these mysterious blue stones are really connected 498 00:27:12,510 --> 00:27:16,830 to the legend of the sky turning to stone and raining down 499 00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,150 on the Earth with the arrival of the Nomoli, what could they be? 500 00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:26,010 Some type of protective covering for an alien spacecraft? 501 00:27:26,190 --> 00:27:29,790 Pieces of a heat shield, perhaps, like the tiles that 502 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:31,860 covered the bottom of the space shuttle? 503 00:27:31,950 --> 00:27:36,450 And if so, might further scientific examination of them 504 00:27:36,540 --> 00:27:39,510 support the idea that the Nomoli were actually 505 00:27:39,690 --> 00:27:41,670 extraterrestrial visitors, 506 00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,910 perhaps from the Sirius star system? 507 00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:48,330 Seattle, Washington. 508 00:27:48,420 --> 00:27:52,200 March 6, 2019. 509 00:27:52,290 --> 00:27:56,070 In search of further evidence that the Nomoli statues 510 00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,410 may have an extraterrestrial connection, 511 00:27:58,590 --> 00:28:02,370 ancient astronaut theorist David Childress has arranged 512 00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:04,800 to meet up with sky stone collector 513 00:28:04,980 --> 00:28:07,770 -and researcher Jared Collins. -Okay, wow. 514 00:28:07,860 --> 00:28:09,570 NARRATOR: Jared has in his possession 515 00:28:09,660 --> 00:28:12,090 a number of the mysterious blue stones 516 00:28:12,270 --> 00:28:14,340 that were found near the statues. 517 00:28:15,870 --> 00:28:18,210 Jared has been collecting sky stones 518 00:28:18,390 --> 00:28:21,900 since he first heard about them in 2013. 519 00:28:21,990 --> 00:28:25,770 He became fascinated by their enigmatic nature, 520 00:28:25,950 --> 00:28:29,280 betraying neither obvious mineral nor man-made origin. 521 00:28:32,070 --> 00:28:33,780 So, how was it that these stones were actually discovered 522 00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:35,220 in modern time? 523 00:28:35,310 --> 00:28:38,460 This was actually discovered in 1991 524 00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,260 by a man named David Leadbetter. 525 00:28:40,350 --> 00:28:43,500 He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession, 526 00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:45,300 looking for gold and diamonds. 527 00:28:45,390 --> 00:28:49,170 And when he was having his crew dig, 528 00:28:49,260 --> 00:28:52,590 occasionally these stones would appear. 529 00:28:52,680 --> 00:28:56,370 And interestingly, David went to the village chief 530 00:28:56,460 --> 00:28:59,250 to ask if he’d ever seen any of these stones before. 531 00:28:59,340 --> 00:29:01,950 And the chief said that when these stones are found, 532 00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:04,920 large amounts of gold and diamonds usually follow 533 00:29:05,100 --> 00:29:07,530 shortly thereafter. 534 00:29:07,620 --> 00:29:10,410 What do other geologists say about stones like this? 535 00:29:10,500 --> 00:29:12,480 Are they able to identify them? 536 00:29:12,660 --> 00:29:14,820 We’ve sent these now to 12 different labs. 537 00:29:14,910 --> 00:29:17,430 There is not one piece of consensus in here. 538 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:18,690 Everybody has a different opinion. 539 00:29:18,870 --> 00:29:21,120 We still don’t know, actually, 540 00:29:21,210 --> 00:29:22,920 if these are natural or man-made. 541 00:29:23,010 --> 00:29:24,810 -So maybe it’s from another planet. -I don’t know. 542 00:29:24,900 --> 00:29:26,970 I really wish I did, and I would love a chance 543 00:29:27,150 --> 00:29:29,040 to actually be able to get this in front of somebody else 544 00:29:29,220 --> 00:29:30,660 who could look at it again. 545 00:29:30,750 --> 00:29:33,180 I’ve got some friends at the University of Washington, 546 00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:35,070 and I think we can set this up 547 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:36,870 -and have another test done. -That would be fantastic. 548 00:29:36,960 --> 00:29:39,480 I would love to get some consensus on this 549 00:29:39,570 --> 00:29:41,910 to understand what this actually is. 550 00:29:42,090 --> 00:29:44,880 NARRATOR: While tests conducted on the stones found 551 00:29:44,970 --> 00:29:48,300 with the Nomoli statues have so far produced conflicting 552 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,900 and sometimes even confounding results, 553 00:29:51,990 --> 00:29:55,770 David is eager to have them tested for himself. 554 00:30:00,540 --> 00:30:04,320 At the University of Washington, David and Jared meet 555 00:30:04,500 --> 00:30:08,100 with renowned geologist Professor Peter Ward. 556 00:30:08,190 --> 00:30:09,450 Hi, I’m David Childress. 557 00:30:09,630 --> 00:30:10,890 -David. -I talked to you on the phone. 558 00:30:11,070 --> 00:30:11,970 It’s good to meet you. 559 00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:13,140 And this is Jared Collins. 560 00:30:13,230 --> 00:30:15,210 Thank you so much for seeing us today. 561 00:30:15,390 --> 00:30:16,650 Jared, both of you guys, 562 00:30:16,830 --> 00:30:19,260 welcome to the University of Washington IsoLab. 563 00:30:19,350 --> 00:30:22,230 So, what do we have in this beautiful box? 564 00:30:22,320 --> 00:30:24,750 Well, we’re sort of hoping that you can tell us. 565 00:30:28,530 --> 00:30:31,590 Well, well, well, what are these beauties? 566 00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,110 We have been through many tests on these, 567 00:30:34,290 --> 00:30:36,180 and no one can identify them. 568 00:30:36,270 --> 00:30:39,150 They cannot tell us whether these are natural or artificial, 569 00:30:39,330 --> 00:30:42,210 what’s causing the blue color, if this is ancient or modern. 570 00:30:42,300 --> 00:30:43,650 So, they’ve been checked 571 00:30:43,740 --> 00:30:46,080 for the common blue minerals, I take it. 572 00:30:46,170 --> 00:30:48,690 One thing that we know for sure is that this is not turquoise, 573 00:30:48,870 --> 00:30:51,570 this is not lapis, this is not erinite. 574 00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:54,450 WARD: The fact that it’s so unbelievably light 575 00:30:54,540 --> 00:30:58,410 really suggests that there’s an organic component to it. 576 00:30:58,590 --> 00:31:01,380 Anything that goes blue, generally, is much heavier. 577 00:31:01,470 --> 00:31:03,720 So this is-- This is really a mystery. 578 00:31:03,900 --> 00:31:06,240 I should mention also that this only comes 579 00:31:06,330 --> 00:31:09,750 from one very specific part, from one very specific village. 580 00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:11,910 It has never been found anywhere else in the world. 581 00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:15,150 Well, let’s do a test that removes any doubt 582 00:31:15,330 --> 00:31:17,490 about them being partly organic. 583 00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:21,090 So, Erin is gonna take this rock, 584 00:31:21,270 --> 00:31:26,040 and she’s gonna scrape it into these tiny little tin cups. 585 00:31:26,130 --> 00:31:27,390 The tin cups themselves 586 00:31:27,570 --> 00:31:30,450 we’ll load into our mass spectrograph. 587 00:31:30,630 --> 00:31:33,150 They will then be heated to 1,000 degrees centigrade. 588 00:31:33,240 --> 00:31:36,300 Everything inside will combust and turn to gas. 589 00:31:36,480 --> 00:31:39,000 And those individual gas molecules will then be sampled, 590 00:31:39,090 --> 00:31:43,140 and we can examine if there are any truly organic molecules 591 00:31:43,320 --> 00:31:45,570 in this rock. 592 00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:49,440 Was there some life process that was involved in its formation? 593 00:31:49,530 --> 00:31:53,580 NARRATOR: Will the tests performed on the so-called sky stones 594 00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,630 reveal that they contain previously undiscovered 595 00:31:57,720 --> 00:32:02,940 organic material, possibly from a different world? 596 00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:07,080 And if so, could it mean that both the sky stones 597 00:32:07,260 --> 00:32:09,870 and the Nomoli statues are evidence 598 00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:12,300 of an extraterrestrial event 599 00:32:12,390 --> 00:32:16,980 that occurred on Earth centuries ago? 600 00:32:21,570 --> 00:32:27,150 NARRATOR: Sedona, Arizona, March 2019. 601 00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:30,120 Two weeks after bringing the so-called sky stones 602 00:32:30,300 --> 00:32:32,010 found in Sierra Leone 603 00:32:32,190 --> 00:32:35,160 to the University of Washington for examination, 604 00:32:35,250 --> 00:32:37,950 David Childress received an e-mail 605 00:32:38,130 --> 00:32:40,740 from geologist Dr. Peter Ward. 606 00:32:40,830 --> 00:32:44,340 In the e-mail, Dr. Ward wrote that the results 607 00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,400 were so strange, they ran the tests three times, 608 00:32:47,580 --> 00:32:50,190 thinking it was a machine error, 609 00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,340 and added, "This gives me the creeps." 610 00:32:53,430 --> 00:32:56,940 To learn more, Childress contacted Dr. Ward 611 00:32:57,030 --> 00:32:58,200 through video chat. 612 00:32:58,380 --> 00:33:00,180 Hi, Dr. Ward. 613 00:33:00,270 --> 00:33:02,520 So I wanted to learn about the results. 614 00:33:02,610 --> 00:33:04,140 Yeah, it’s pretty cool. I mean, it was much stranger 615 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:06,210 than we thought. 616 00:33:06,390 --> 00:33:09,450 There really seems to be some sort of organic aspect to this. 617 00:33:09,540 --> 00:33:13,950 It’s got element nitrogen in it in really high concentrations. 618 00:33:14,130 --> 00:33:17,910 Having this high amount of nitrogen puts it into a, "Wow, 619 00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,700 that’s a very peculiar rock" category. 620 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,660 We were looking for a possible extraterrestrial origin. 621 00:33:24,750 --> 00:33:27,360 Is it possibly a meteorite or even part 622 00:33:27,540 --> 00:33:30,150 of a spaceship that exploded? 623 00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,850 Let’s just say that there’s a possibility 624 00:33:33,030 --> 00:33:34,740 that it came from off the Earth. 625 00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:39,600 As we scientists say, it’s worth more study. 626 00:33:39,690 --> 00:33:41,580 Thanks again for doing these tests 627 00:33:41,670 --> 00:33:43,920 and letting us use your lab. 628 00:33:44,100 --> 00:33:45,810 Yeah, no problem. See you later. 629 00:33:45,900 --> 00:33:49,230 NARRATOR: Although the sky stones are still a mystery, 630 00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,660 David and Jared have confirmed 631 00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,170 that they are unlike any other stone ever examined. 632 00:33:55,350 --> 00:33:59,040 Could they have arrived on Earth with the strange beings 633 00:33:59,130 --> 00:34:01,380 that are depicted in the Nomoli statues? 634 00:34:01,470 --> 00:34:04,260 Is this perhaps physical evidence 635 00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:07,410 that the linguistic similarities found across the globe-- 636 00:34:07,500 --> 00:34:13,080 Dogon, Dagon, dragon, dogu-- 637 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:16,860 point to some sort of extraterrestrial intervention? 638 00:34:16,950 --> 00:34:20,550 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 639 00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:24,150 and they claim that in yet another earthly location 640 00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:27,660 may be found the most significant evidence of all, 641 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:31,440 a possible alien home base. 642 00:34:33,870 --> 00:34:37,200 County Meath, Ireland. 643 00:34:37,290 --> 00:34:40,170 Here in the Boyne River Valley, 644 00:34:40,260 --> 00:34:43,500 a large circular mound rises out of the earth, 645 00:34:43,590 --> 00:34:48,990 the Newgrange Passage Tomb, built around 3200 BC. 646 00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:53,130 It was constructed with over 200,000 tons of stone 647 00:34:53,310 --> 00:34:58,620 quarried 75 miles away, and contains one passageway 648 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,860 that leads to a centralized chamber. 649 00:35:01,950 --> 00:35:04,650 NEWMAN: Newgrange is one of the most important sites 650 00:35:04,830 --> 00:35:06,720 in all of Europe. 651 00:35:06,810 --> 00:35:10,770 It was possibly a stone circle with 36 or 37 stones, 652 00:35:10,950 --> 00:35:13,830 only 12 of these still remain, and after that, 653 00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,880 a huge mound made of stone and earth 654 00:35:17,970 --> 00:35:20,670 was built within the stone circle itself. 655 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:23,460 Within this, we have a huge chamber 656 00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:26,070 which is a cruciform shape, or a cross. 657 00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:30,210 It’s got some beautiful carvings on the 97 curbstones 658 00:35:30,390 --> 00:35:33,450 that go around the edge, as well as on the main entrance stone, 659 00:35:33,630 --> 00:35:35,970 and within the chamber itself, 660 00:35:36,060 --> 00:35:40,920 mainly zigzags and spirals and most notably a triple spiral 661 00:35:41,100 --> 00:35:45,780 at the back of the main chamber within the actual site itself. 662 00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:50,730 NARRATOR: Newgrange was designed to honor the winter solstice, 663 00:35:50,820 --> 00:35:53,520 but according to a book published in 2012 664 00:35:53,700 --> 00:35:56,400 called The Newgrange Sirius Mystery, 665 00:35:56,490 --> 00:35:58,920 the entire mound was also built 666 00:35:59,010 --> 00:36:03,150 to align with the star Sirius A in the night sky. 667 00:36:03,330 --> 00:36:05,580 NEWMAN: The declination of Sirius is the same 668 00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,540 as the winter solstice sunrise moving across the sky, 669 00:36:09,630 --> 00:36:13,320 and through the lightbox, which is a rectangular area 670 00:36:13,500 --> 00:36:15,660 just above the main entrance, 671 00:36:15,750 --> 00:36:17,100 this is where you witness 672 00:36:17,190 --> 00:36:18,810 not only the sunlight coming through 673 00:36:18,900 --> 00:36:20,880 but also later in the day, 674 00:36:20,970 --> 00:36:23,220 Sirius light coming through as well. 675 00:36:26,730 --> 00:36:29,160 NARRATOR: The Dogon of Mali in West Africa claimed 676 00:36:29,340 --> 00:36:33,390 that their gods came to Earth from the star Sirius B. 677 00:36:33,570 --> 00:36:38,700 Ancient astronaut theorists connect these visitors 678 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,580 to gods with similar names all over the world. 679 00:36:44,370 --> 00:36:46,350 But they also point out an intriguing connection 680 00:36:46,530 --> 00:36:49,680 to Newgrange in Ireland. 681 00:36:49,770 --> 00:36:53,010 In addition to being in line with the star Sirius, 682 00:36:53,100 --> 00:36:57,060 legend says that this megalith was built by a Celtic god 683 00:36:57,240 --> 00:37:01,560 with a name that sounds, by now, eerily familiar: 684 00:37:01,740 --> 00:37:04,170 the god Dagda. 685 00:37:04,350 --> 00:37:07,320 CHILDRESS: The main god that’s associated with Newgrange 686 00:37:07,410 --> 00:37:09,030 is called Dagda. 687 00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,910 So here, once again, we have this same word 688 00:37:12,000 --> 00:37:16,770 that appears to mean something about gods coming from Sirius. 689 00:37:16,860 --> 00:37:18,840 HENRY: The dwellers of the British Isles 690 00:37:19,020 --> 00:37:21,720 worshipped a god named Dagda. 691 00:37:21,810 --> 00:37:24,330 That cannot be by coincidence. 692 00:37:24,510 --> 00:37:27,930 NARRATOR: The god known as Dagda was said to be the leader of a group 693 00:37:28,020 --> 00:37:32,160 of otherworldly beings called the Tuatha Dé Danann. 694 00:37:32,250 --> 00:37:36,570 NEWMAN: The Tuatha Dé Danann were this renowned fairy race 695 00:37:36,750 --> 00:37:39,000 that arrived mysteriously in Ireland 696 00:37:39,090 --> 00:37:40,890 many thousands of years ago. 697 00:37:41,070 --> 00:37:46,380 The supreme deity of the Tuatha Dé Danann was Dagda, Dagda Mul. 698 00:37:46,470 --> 00:37:49,620 And he was a renowned god. 699 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,850 He was said to have built and lived inside Newgrange. 700 00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:56,370 They had very advanced weaponry 701 00:37:56,550 --> 00:38:00,510 and different types of what sounds like machinery. 702 00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:03,660 But also they taught the high arts of civilization, 703 00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,630 and they were said to be almost like the Shining Ones 704 00:38:06,720 --> 00:38:08,970 of the biblical tradition. 705 00:38:09,060 --> 00:38:10,770 It’s almost like a science fiction movie 706 00:38:10,950 --> 00:38:14,010 when you start looking at these ancient Irish myths. 707 00:38:16,530 --> 00:38:20,310 NARRATOR: Could Newgrange have once been an alien outpost on Earth? 708 00:38:20,400 --> 00:38:23,280 Was Dagda the supreme leader of a race 709 00:38:23,460 --> 00:38:26,250 of highly advanced extraterrestrials 710 00:38:26,340 --> 00:38:28,680 that came to Earth and left a lasting influence 711 00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:30,750 on our ancestors? 712 00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:33,810 Perhaps the answer can be found 713 00:38:33,900 --> 00:38:37,320 by examining the Dog Star. 714 00:38:45,060 --> 00:38:46,680 NARRATOR Across the world, 715 00:38:46,770 --> 00:38:49,920 ancient people claimed they were visited by amphibious beings 716 00:38:50,100 --> 00:38:54,600 from Sirius who gave the gift of knowledge and technology. 717 00:38:54,690 --> 00:38:56,940 The Dogon of Mali. 718 00:38:57,030 --> 00:39:00,180 Dagon of the Babylonians. 719 00:39:00,360 --> 00:39:02,610 The dogu of Japan. 720 00:39:02,700 --> 00:39:05,400 Dagda of Ireland. 721 00:39:05,490 --> 00:39:08,280 And the dragon, whose name echoes in languages 722 00:39:08,460 --> 00:39:10,620 all over the world. 723 00:39:12,780 --> 00:39:15,030 You have to wonder, is it possible 724 00:39:15,120 --> 00:39:16,920 that all the root words 725 00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:19,980 come from the same visitors? 726 00:39:19,980 --> 00:39:24,480 And my answer to that is a resounding yes. 727 00:39:24,570 --> 00:39:28,530 NARRATOR: But what about the English language? 728 00:39:28,620 --> 00:39:30,780 Is there any connection in English 729 00:39:30,960 --> 00:39:35,460 between the ancient syllable Dog or Dag and the star Sirius? 730 00:39:35,550 --> 00:39:40,050 Experts say the answer is hiding in plain sight. 731 00:39:40,140 --> 00:39:43,650 KAKU: Sirius is the Dog Star. 732 00:39:43,830 --> 00:39:45,270 Tonight, when you go outside, 733 00:39:45,360 --> 00:39:47,700 look for the three stars that make up Orion, 734 00:39:47,790 --> 00:39:52,920 and Orion’s belt has an arrow that points right to Sirius. 735 00:39:53,100 --> 00:39:56,340 So you can see Sirius, the Dog Star, tonight. 736 00:39:56,430 --> 00:39:58,140 In fact, today, 737 00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:01,200 the reason we talk about the dog days of summer 738 00:40:01,290 --> 00:40:05,610 is that those are the days that Sirius is overhead. 739 00:40:05,700 --> 00:40:08,580 It’s very interesting that these beings said 740 00:40:08,670 --> 00:40:10,470 they came from Sirius, 741 00:40:10,650 --> 00:40:13,530 which we call the Dog Star, because when etymologists 742 00:40:13,620 --> 00:40:16,680 try to trace the origins of the English word "dog," 743 00:40:16,770 --> 00:40:19,380 it’s non-attributable, they can’t find 744 00:40:19,470 --> 00:40:22,170 the origin of that word. 745 00:40:22,350 --> 00:40:25,590 NARRATOR: The word "dog" is one of the strangest 746 00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:30,360 in the English language, because no one knows where it came from. 747 00:40:30,540 --> 00:40:35,310 English is mostly derived from German, Latin, and French. 748 00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,550 The German word for dog is "hund," 749 00:40:38,730 --> 00:40:43,500 the Latin word is "canis," and the French word is "chien." 750 00:40:43,590 --> 00:40:47,730 So where do we get "dog"? 751 00:40:47,820 --> 00:40:51,060 Is it possible that some being from the Dog Star 752 00:40:51,240 --> 00:40:53,040 or from this system 753 00:40:53,130 --> 00:40:57,270 gave that type of vocabulary of Dagon, Dogon, dogu, 754 00:40:57,450 --> 00:41:00,330 and all of these similarities are speaking of one race 755 00:41:00,420 --> 00:41:02,490 that visited ancient man? 756 00:41:03,660 --> 00:41:05,820 I think in this particular case, 757 00:41:05,910 --> 00:41:08,250 whatever came down here at the time, 758 00:41:08,430 --> 00:41:11,310 or what group of extraterrestrials 759 00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,640 came down here at the time, they were referred to as this, 760 00:41:14,730 --> 00:41:16,080 and then other civilizations 761 00:41:16,260 --> 00:41:19,320 just carried it and picked up on it. 762 00:41:19,410 --> 00:41:22,650 We have to at least ask the question, is this, in fact, 763 00:41:22,830 --> 00:41:26,160 the name of these god beings? I believe it is. 764 00:41:26,250 --> 00:41:31,290 NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient statues unearthed in West Africa 765 00:41:31,380 --> 00:41:35,970 represent the opening chapter in the story of humankind? 766 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:39,750 Do they depict advanced beings that traveled to our planet 767 00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,900 from the Sirius star system to create the first humans 768 00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:46,950 and ignite civilization on Earth? 769 00:41:47,040 --> 00:41:50,280 And did these extraterrestrials leave behind evidence 770 00:41:50,370 --> 00:41:54,870 of their visitation for future generations to find? 771 00:41:55,050 --> 00:41:59,460 Perhaps these clues point not only to their home planet 772 00:41:59,550 --> 00:42:03,960 but to where we must travel in order to reunite 773 00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:06,930 with our alien ancestors.