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NARRATOR:
A mysterious Egyptian pharaoh

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who altered the religion
of an entire empire.

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Extraordinary engineers
who lived in the sea.

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And a cosmic visitor

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who worked for
the United States military.

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Throughout history, humankind
has received guidance

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from otherworldly beings.

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Now, Ancient Aliens examines
ten of the most

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intriguing influencers
in history.

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Teachers that just
might have been

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visitors from another world.

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There is a major misconception

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that the ancient astronaut
theory

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credits all the accomplishments

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of our ancestors
entirely to extraterrestrials.

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But this is not the case.

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What it suggests is that
our ancestors had teachers.

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We can find countless
examples throughout history

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of beings who came from the sky
and imparted knowledge

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that led to the building
of incredible structures,

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or changed the course
of history.

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And one of the most
compelling accounts

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describes no less than
200 otherworldly teachers

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who had an impact
of biblical proportions.

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At number ten on
our countdown of

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the top ten alien influencers:
the Watchers.

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NARRATOR:
Qumran, Israel, 1949.

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A team of archaeologists
unearth hundreds of ancient

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scrolls that are more than
2,000 years old.

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Known as the Dead Sea Scrolls,
these documents contain

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the oldest versions of
the Bible ever discovered,

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as well as a controversial
text called The Book of Enoch,

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which tells the tale
of a group of otherworldly

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influencers known as
the Watchers.

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WILLIAM HENRY:
The Watchers are
a group of these 200 angels.

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The Book of Enoch says
they came from God's throne.

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They're the highest order of
angels who were sent to Earth,

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to give humanity knowledge.

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The Watchers are a group
of angels who are dispatched

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to watch humans
and to help humans.

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Now, the Watchers are
very interesting because

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they are angels
who interact with humans.

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NARRATOR:
The Book of Enoch is
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the biblical patriarch's
encounter with the Watchers.

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Enoch was taken into the heavens

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aboard a fiery chariot,
where he is given

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powerful universal knowledge
by angelic beings.

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They taught advanced knowledge
of metalworking, of astronomy.

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But the most amazing thing is
that the Watchers taught Enoch

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the secrets of heaven.

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NARRATOR:
When Enoch returned
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he shared this knowledge
with his fellow humans.

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And as far as ancient astronaut
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the account of Enoch
and the Watchers

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is a compelling example
of an otherworldly influence

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on human development.

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The Book of Enoch is very clear

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that the Watchers
are celestial beings.

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We call them extraterrestrials.

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There's no question they didn't
come from this planet.

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However they got here,
the stories are clear.

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It's that they were here
to assist humanity

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in scaling
the evolutionary ladder.

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Our next alien influencers
are celestial beings

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who number not in the hundreds,
but in the thousands.

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And they are believed
to visit Japan to this very day.

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At number nine: the kami.

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NARRATOR:
Ise, Japan.

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In the center of this remote
coastal city is a massive

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complex of 125
individual Shinto shrines.

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They are dedicated
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otherworldly beings
known as the kami.

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The kami are these
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able to inhabit basically
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to an animal,
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So on the one hand, they're
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but then,
they also describe them

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as having come down
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palace in the sky,
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There are over eight million
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the Shinto tradition, and each
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offerings that they like,
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They also will
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if they are disregarded
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So, all of them have
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and certain likes
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According to ancient astronaut
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the kami are not only
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but have had a major influence
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Evidence of which can be
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which according
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is the home of the supreme
kami, the goddess Amaterasu.

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Amaterasu is the principal
goddess

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and principal god of Shinto.

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All emperors
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have claimed descent
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All of them trace their lineage
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all the way down to
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the first emperor
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According to Japan's
oldest text, the "Kojiki,"

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Emperor Jimmu united
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in the sixth century BC.

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It is written that his victory
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not only by Amaterasu,
but also by a kami that took

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the form of a large
three-legged crow.

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This so-called "crow"
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and advised him in military
matters to ensure his success.

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And when you look at ancient
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it is often depicted inside some
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this circular disc.

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So if you look at that,
you have to ask,

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what, exactly, were the ancient
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Because this, to me, sounds
more like he was being guided

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by some kind of a flying craft
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NARRATOR: Could Japan's
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and the imperial family today,
be direct descendants

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of extraterrestrial beings
known as the kami?

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And might the three-legged crow
really have been an alien craft?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and as far as followers
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the kami still influence
earthly events to this very day.

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Many Japanese actually have
Shinto shrines

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in their homes,

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so there's a daily
interaction with the kami.

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And they will do
daily prayers or daily rituals

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devoted to the kami,
and this benefits them

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directly through long life
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The Japanese archipelago
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81,000 shrines that are devoted
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The Japanese people will
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of the kami with the belief
that they are actually praying

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to an extraterrestrial being
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On the opposite side
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in the American Southwest,

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you will find similar legends
of mysterious teachers

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who descended from the heavens.

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The native Hopi people
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humanoid figures with
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Number eight on our countdown

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of alien influencers:
the kachinas.

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NARRATOR:
Black Mesa.
Northeastern Arizona.

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The Native American Hopi tribe
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sacred for more than
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According to their mythology,
this is where they were

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visited by sky beings
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The kachinas, in Hopi tradition,

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are related to the star people.

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All Native American tribes
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oral histories that people came
from the stars to visit them.

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It's universal, all across
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that these gods, as we call
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and visited to provide
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TSOUKALOS:
The translation for
the word kachina is very simple.

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It means "teacher."

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The Hopi refer to the kachinas

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arriving in these
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Orange, glowing shields, as
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They would touch down on Earth,
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teach them, give them knowledge,
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quote-unquote shields
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And that's interesting that
the Hopi are very clear in

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relaying that the kachinas were
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but that they happened to
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NARRATOR:
According to Hopi mythology,
the kachina arrived to share

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knowledge about agriculture,
astronomy and medicine.

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To this day, the Hopi celebrate
the influence of the kachina

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with rituals to connect them
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Central to these are
sacred objects

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that are believed to be
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CLIFFORD MAHOOTY:
The kachina is a representation

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of the actual gods
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into the villages eons ago.

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Some of them are warriors.

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Most of them are
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and they come from different
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TSOUKALOS:
The Hopi are very clear
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that the kachinas were
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that imparted knowledge.

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that's exactly what it talks
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imparted by beings
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on our list
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descended from the heavens.

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Sometimes,
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Like a group
of mysterious beings

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who taught
the ancient Greeks metallurgy,

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and were described
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with fish-like features.

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At number seven on our countdown

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of the top ten
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the Telchines.

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The Aegean Sea.

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On the eastern edge
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lies the picturesque island
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Today, it is home
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But according
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it was once inhabited
by a mysterious group

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of advanced beings
known as the Telchines.

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The Telchines
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of this early Greek mythology.

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They are, in some cases,

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described as having dog heads
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RADER:
The Telchines were known

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for that reason
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They had their special
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technologically advanced beings

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who are greater than humans.

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They were bigger, they're
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TSOUKALOS:
It's very interesting
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were very, very clear
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what they looked like.

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The Telchines are amphibious.

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During the day,
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but at night,
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and then reemerge
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NARRATOR:
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the Telchines were
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They were said to have created
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and to have cast
the first bronze statues

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of the gods of Olympus.

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The Telchines were known
for their, uh, ability

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in metalsmithing,
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or highly technological
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And they came up with
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So, they were represented
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if you will.

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According to mythology,

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the Telchines shared the secrets
of their advanced smithcraft

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with the ancient Greeks.

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TSOUKALOS:
The Telchines are the ones

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who taught the local population

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about metallurgy,
how to make swords

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and how to forge them in fire,
and things like that.

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You have to remember that,
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these things were not invented,

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so all of a sudden,
these new things are there,

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and when you look
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how or why our ancestors
came up with this--

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our ancestors are telling us,

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"And then we were taught by,"
in this case,

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"the Telchines how to make iron,
how to make metal."

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The reason why this ties into
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is because the entire
Greek pantheon of gods

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is based on
an extraterrestrial idea

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that the ancient gods
of Greece were

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visiting extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
While the idea that the Greeks

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could have been influenced
by amphibious metalsmiths

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may sound like science fiction,
there is historical evidence

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that a group called
the Telchines truly did exist.

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RADER:
We do actually have
evidence of these beings.

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They were actual ancient Greeks

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who had specific tasks
and trades like,

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uh, metallurgy,
like smithing, and so on.

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And so, the Telchines
could, in fact, not just be

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these mythological beings
but actual people.

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HENRY:
And if that is the case,
then that opens up the question

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of whether or not
extraterrestrials

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lived in the sea.

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This is a-a common theme
that we find around the world,

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of great civilizer gods
that emerged from the sea,

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and from time to time,
they will come to the surface

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as influencers of humankind,

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or as instruments
of advancement for humanity.

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Curiously, in West Africa,

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there are also accounts
of mysterious teachers

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who had a fish-like appearance.

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And according
to the Dogon tribe,

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these alien influencers
didn't come out of the sea

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but traveled to Earth
from an invisible star.

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At number six on our countdown:
the Nommo.

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NARRATOR:
Mali, Africa, 1931.

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French anthropologist
Marcel Griaule

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treks through
the forbidden desert

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in search of the mysterious
Dogon tribe.

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When he finds them,
he becomes fascinated

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by their culture and traditions,

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including the tale of mysterious
teachers called the Nommo.

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According to Dogon mythology,
the Nommo came from the sky,

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had a fish-like appearance
and aided

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in the development of humankind.

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They described
these Nommos as being

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very, like, mermaid
or merman-like,

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but bequeathing lots
of knowledge of astronomy,

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math and science
to this ancient race.

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The Dogon actually said, "Well,

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"this was our creator god Nommo,

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"who descended from the sky
in a loud whirlwind

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of a storm of thunder,
smoke and lightning."

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And their knowledge
of everything

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was given to them by that being.

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According to the Dogon,

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the Nommo not only taught them
about agriculture,

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math and medicine, but shared

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advanced astronomical
information.

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The Dogon priests said
that the Nommo

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were coming from
the star system of Sirius,

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but they said that their star

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was a different,
smaller star in Sirius,

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and the Nommo planet went around
this secondary star.

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Well, the French anthropologists
were amazed at that,

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and were confused as well.

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Because that companion star
to Sirius

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had not really been officially
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HENRY:
How is it possible
that they have this knowledge

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unless that knowledge
was given to them

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by beings who came
from that star system?

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But you have to ask,
did the Nomo

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come from the stars?

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Were they extraterrestrial
beings that came to Earth

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as great teachers,
as influencers of human culture?

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g

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to ancient astronaut theorists,
is the country of Australia,

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because for thousands of years,
the Aboriginal people

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have been passing down stories

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of their celestial ancestors.

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And one of the most
compelling tales

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involves a mysterious teacher

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who descended from the heavens
in a flying canoe.

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Number five on our countdown

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of the top ten
alien influencers:

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a visitor known as Baiame.

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NARRATOR:
The Aboriginal people
have lived here

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for more than 60,000 years,

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making them the most ancient
continuous culture in the world.

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For tens of thousands of years,

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they have preserved
the sacred knowledge

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of their earliest ancestors,

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passed down through art
and detailed oral histories.

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And there is one figure
who is said

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to have had a greater influence
on Aboriginal traditions

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than any other:

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a mysterious teacher
named Baiame.

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Baiame is our god creator,
who came from the Morning Star.

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And Baiame arrived here
to Mother Earth a long time ago.

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We say our ways of life
that are passed down

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from generation after generation
have been given to us by Baiame.

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TSOUKALOS:
Baiame is a deity

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that helped
the local population,

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gave knowledge
and showed people,

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in various
scientific disciplines.

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Essentially, it was a teacher.

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Oh, wow.

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NARRATOR:
In 2016,

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ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos

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traveled to the Brisbane Water
National Park in Australia.

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There he met with Aboriginal
Elder Kevin Gavi Duncan,

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and was eager to learn more
about Baiame

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and the story
of his otherworldly origins.

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So, what are we looking at here?

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So, this image
is an actual image of Baiame.

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-That's what our people believe.
-Okay.

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DUNCAN:
This site is considered around
8,000 to 10,000 years old.

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TSOUKALOS:
Wow.

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Baiame came from what-- a place

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that we call the Morning Star,
within the Mirrabooka,

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-Mm-hmm.
-"Mirra" means "stars"
and "booka" means river.

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It is the Milky Way
that flows across the,

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-the night sky.
-No kidding. Okay.

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TSOUKALOS:
And so, he is one
of those sky heroes

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that has descended
from the Milky Way?

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DUNCAN:
Yes, he's a sky hero.

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And this is the canoe.

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This was his vessel

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that he sailed through
the Milky Way.

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When he landed,
they said the fire

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came from his feet and it burnt
the top of the mountain

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and all around it
every time he landed.

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-TSOUKALOS: This is incredible.
-People interpret that

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as a spaceship of some kind,
as coming and going.

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This is the way we simply
interpret Baiame's spaceship.

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-Right, but it's because
the vocabulary...
-Right, yeah.

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...didn't exist at the time.

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Yes.

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NARRATOR:
According to
the oral traditions,

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when Baiame arrived, he created
the Earth for humans

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and then showed them
how to survive.

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Teachings that continue
to influence Aboriginal society.

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We believe,
as Aboriginal people,

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that Baiame walked
across the Earth

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and basically, the land
was prepared for us

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before life was started here.

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We say, "Baiame,
teach us how we should

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"equally have this
balance of life

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between us
as human beings and the Earth."

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The Aboriginals have
all kinds of ancient stories

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of sky gods who manipulated
the continent

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and created the rivers
and mountains

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and then they left.

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These are probably
some of the oldest stories

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of extraterrestrial intervention

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that we have on planet Earth.

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Our people had much

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ancient knowledge
of the star system,

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and the constellation
of the stars.

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The wisdom and knowledge that
have been given to us by Baiame.

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NARRATOR:
It's said that Baiame

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taught the ancient
Aboriginal people

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astronomy, medicine
and various skills

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to survive off the land,

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including how to
make Australia's

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most iconic hunting tool.

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DUNCAN:
Baiame had given us
the spirit of technology.

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We invented the boomerang,
which is aerodynamics.

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It's something that's, you know,
influenced the technology

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of today like airplanes and
helicopters, and other things.

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And, we say that knowledge

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of how to create these
things was given by Baiame.

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NARRATOR:
Was Baiame
an otherworldly visitor

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who bequeathed knowledge
that continues to influence

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Aboriginal people to this day?

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For elders like
Gary Simon Jagamarra

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and many who share
the traditional beliefs

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of their ancestors,

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the answer
is a resounding "yes."

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JAGAMARRA:
We all have stories
of people in crafts

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coming from the stars,
going to the stars, and so on.

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In order to keep them,
pass them down

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to next generation,
we carved them,

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we painted them,
we sang them.

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We danced them in stories

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to guarantee
that they passed down.

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So, when the visitors left,
we didn't forget about them

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and we never forget
about the things

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that they passed down to us and
the knowledge they passed down.

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s

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to investigate is Egypt.

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Its mythology is
a treasure trove of evidence

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for the ancient
astronaut theory,

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including accounts of UFOs,
advanced technology

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and the story
of a mysterious man

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who received his knowledge
from the stars.

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Number four on our list of the
top ten alien influencers:

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Imhotep.

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NARRATOR:
Saqqara, Egypt.

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Located just 15 miles
south of the Giza Plateau

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stands what mainstream
archaeologists suggest

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is the oldest pyramid in Egypt:

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the Step Pyramid of King Djoser.

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Constructed in
the 27th century BC,

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this monument was designed

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by a mysterious figure
named Imhotep.

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ROMANY:
Imhotep was a commoner,

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but he became the high
engineer, the main architect.

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And he came out of nowhere.

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We don't know his history,
we know that he

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came into power,

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ascended the ranks,

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and became the closest man
to the king.

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And he came up with
the idea of a pyramid.

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YOUNG:
It was a step pyramid.
And if you look at it,

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it's sometimes described
as "stairway to the gods,"

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these enormous steps
up into the sky.

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And it was the first time
a stone ceiling was suspended.

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It is an amazing breakthrough
pioneer architectural moment,

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and the beginning of
the making of pyramids in Egypt.

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NARRATOR:
Imhotep designed
the Djoser Pyramid

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to be the most impressive
monument in Egypt.

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The six-tier,
four-sided structure

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originally stood 205 feet tall,

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with a base measuring 358 feet

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by 397 feet.

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It was an engineering
achievement so extraordinary

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that it enshrined Imhotep in
the annals of Egyptian history.

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Remarkably, the iconic
structure was not

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Imhotep's sole accomplishment.

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Imhotep was a high priest.
He also was a high physician

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and the most ancient
medical document

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ever found in the world

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was a papyrus written by Imhotep

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that explains
how to treat trauma.

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NARRATOR:
But of greater interest to
ancient astronaut theorists

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is what influenced Imhotep's
incredible accomplishments.

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ROMANY:
You go to look back
at Imhotep

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and how he gained
that knowledge.

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And what's written is puzzling

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because it says Imhotep received

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the book that fell from the sky.

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NARRATOR:
Did Imhotep really
gain his knowledge

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from an otherworldly source?

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Or, is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

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that there is a more
profound explanation?

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There are great mysteries
about who Imhotep was,

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where he came from.

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This is interesting because
later on, Imhotep is deified.

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And what's fascinating
is the depictions of him.

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He looks like he's
got this oversize head.

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He's got strange-looking hands.
He almost looks nonhuman.

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what we appear to be
dealing with here

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00:27:24,042 --> 00:27:26,500
is possibly
an extraterrestrial being

492
00:27:26,708 --> 00:27:29,125
who took on a human existence.

493
00:27:31,250 --> 00:27:34,792
The story of Imhotep
is fascinating,

494
00:27:34,958 --> 00:27:38,833
but he wasn't the only alien
influencer in ancient Egypt.

495
00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:42,833
One of the most intriguing
was a controversial pharaoh

496
00:27:43,042 --> 00:27:46,792
who worshipped a mysterious
disc-shaped deity

497
00:27:46,917 --> 00:27:50,125
and was depicted
with an elongated skull.

498
00:27:50,333 --> 00:27:54,917
At number three: Akhenaten.

499
00:27:57,750 --> 00:28:00,208
NARRATOR:
Of the many pharaohs
of ancient Egypt,

500
00:28:00,333 --> 00:28:03,500
none are more mysterious
and controversial

501
00:28:03,667 --> 00:28:05,208
than Akhenaten.

502
00:28:05,375 --> 00:28:09,458
He ruled from 1353 BC

503
00:28:09,625 --> 00:28:13,083
until his death 17 years later.

504
00:28:13,250 --> 00:28:16,917
His reign was
dominated by controversy

505
00:28:17,042 --> 00:28:19,958
when he abandoned the pantheon
of old Egyptian gods

506
00:28:20,125 --> 00:28:22,708
and instead demanded
that his subjects

507
00:28:22,875 --> 00:28:26,958
worship a single deity:
the sun god Aten.

508
00:28:27,083 --> 00:28:32,208
Akhenaten was
the most unique king

509
00:28:32,375 --> 00:28:34,083
in all of ancient Egypt.

510
00:28:34,208 --> 00:28:38,375
At a time where Egypt
was most prosperous,

511
00:28:38,542 --> 00:28:40,500
he decided to change everything.

512
00:28:40,708 --> 00:28:44,375
To change Egypt's
most strongest beliefs.

513
00:28:44,500 --> 00:28:46,333
To change religion.

514
00:28:46,542 --> 00:28:50,125
YOUNG:
Akhenaten announces
there will be one god,

515
00:28:50,208 --> 00:28:53,333
they will be
a monotheistic people.

516
00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,333
Aten, the sun god,

517
00:28:55,542 --> 00:28:59,292
would be the one divinity
they all worshipped.

518
00:28:59,458 --> 00:29:01,917
The image is the sun disc.

519
00:29:02,042 --> 00:29:06,083
It shook the empire
in really terrible ways.

520
00:29:06,250 --> 00:29:09,875
NARRATOR:
Unlike the pantheon
of anthropomorphic gods

521
00:29:10,042 --> 00:29:11,917
that had been
worshipped for centuries,

522
00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:15,583
the god Aten
was simply represented

523
00:29:15,708 --> 00:29:17,667
by a disc-shaped object.

524
00:29:17,875 --> 00:29:20,167
The Egyptian aristocracy

525
00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:23,625
was so confused and angered
by Akhenaten's installation

526
00:29:23,792 --> 00:29:25,833
of this abstract deity,

527
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,167
that after his death,

528
00:29:28,333 --> 00:29:32,333
they went to extreme lengths
to obliterate his legacy.

529
00:29:32,500 --> 00:29:35,292
HENRY:
The ancient Egyptians
did not want us to know

530
00:29:35,458 --> 00:29:38,167
anything about Akhenaten.
You can only wonder,

531
00:29:38,333 --> 00:29:41,250
was it in fact to protect
an even darker secret?

532
00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:45,292
NARRATOR:
What secret could have
inspired Akhenaten

533
00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:47,125
to make such drastic changes

534
00:29:47,333 --> 00:29:50,250
during a time
of tremendous prosperity?

535
00:29:50,417 --> 00:29:53,000
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

536
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:55,667
there may have been
an otherworldly influence,

537
00:29:55,833 --> 00:29:58,292
and as evidence,

538
00:29:58,458 --> 00:30:01,667
point not only to the
disc-shaped god he worshipped,

539
00:30:01,875 --> 00:30:05,250
but also to the way
he and his wife, Nefertiti,

540
00:30:05,375 --> 00:30:08,208
were depicted
by artists of the time.

541
00:30:08,333 --> 00:30:11,500
CHILDRESS:
He, and Nefertiti
and their children

542
00:30:11,667 --> 00:30:13,958
all had elongated heads

543
00:30:14,125 --> 00:30:16,917
as we see all around the world

544
00:30:17,083 --> 00:30:21,000
and is often associated
with extraterrestrials.

545
00:30:21,167 --> 00:30:24,875
Akhenaten has been
suggested as possibly

546
00:30:25,042 --> 00:30:27,958
being an extraterrestrial
or part extraterrestrial.

547
00:30:28,125 --> 00:30:31,792
TSOUKALOS:
One has to wonder
if Akhenaten may have been

548
00:30:31,875 --> 00:30:34,292
some type of
an extraterrestrial hybrid.

549
00:30:35,625 --> 00:30:38,667
And perhaps that sun-disc Aten

550
00:30:38,875 --> 00:30:40,458
that Akhenaten prayed to

551
00:30:40,625 --> 00:30:43,083
wasn't a sun in the sky at all,

552
00:30:43,208 --> 00:30:45,542
but it could have been
an extraterrestrial

553
00:30:45,708 --> 00:30:48,958
that instructed Akhenaten.

554
00:30:53,833 --> 00:30:56,750
of otherworldly guidance
unt

555
00:30:56,917 --> 00:30:58,750
occurred in the distant past.

556
00:30:58,917 --> 00:31:01,333
In fact, one alien influencer

557
00:31:01,500 --> 00:31:05,333
allegedly crash-landed
on Earth in the 1950s

558
00:31:05,542 --> 00:31:09,042
and then shared the secrets
of his technology

559
00:31:09,208 --> 00:31:11,417
with members
of the U.S. military.

560
00:31:11,583 --> 00:31:15,542
Number two on our countdown
of the top ten

561
00:31:15,708 --> 00:31:19,417
alien influencers: J-Rod.

562
00:31:22,625 --> 00:31:24,083
NARRATOR:
Groom Lake, Nevada.

563
00:31:24,250 --> 00:31:26,833
Hidden within
a ring of mountains,

564
00:31:27,042 --> 00:31:31,333
this dry lakebed is
the location of Area 51,

565
00:31:31,500 --> 00:31:35,083
the nation's most infamous
military installation.

566
00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:38,500
For decades
rumors have swirled that this

567
00:31:38,708 --> 00:31:41,333
top secret facility is hiding

568
00:31:41,500 --> 00:31:43,833
not only
extraterrestrial technology,

569
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,000
but a living alien being
known as "J-Rod."

570
00:31:48,875 --> 00:31:50,000
J-Rod is an alien

571
00:31:50,208 --> 00:31:53,417
who allegedly worked at Area 51

572
00:31:53,583 --> 00:31:57,708
over a period of years
to help reverse engineer

573
00:31:57,833 --> 00:31:59,750
extraterrestrial technology.

574
00:32:00,792 --> 00:32:02,875
NARRATOR:
A number of
government whistleblowers

575
00:32:03,042 --> 00:32:06,000
have come forward with
the story that J-Rod

576
00:32:06,208 --> 00:32:08,708
was first discovered
inside the cockpit

577
00:32:08,875 --> 00:32:11,458
of a downed alien craft.

578
00:32:12,708 --> 00:32:14,500
According to their accounts,

579
00:32:14,667 --> 00:32:17,375
on May 21, 1953,

580
00:32:17,542 --> 00:32:22,083
government officials secretly
gathered a team of scientists

581
00:32:22,208 --> 00:32:25,125
to investigate the crash
of an unidentified flying object

582
00:32:25,292 --> 00:32:28,708
on the outskirts of
Kingman, Arizona.

583
00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:31,833
There were 40 engineers
that boarded a bus,

584
00:32:32,042 --> 00:32:34,042
and they took a long
three and a half hour ride

585
00:32:34,208 --> 00:32:36,500
from Phoenix to Kingman.

586
00:32:38,208 --> 00:32:40,625
When they got there,
it was nighttime.

587
00:32:41,625 --> 00:32:44,667
There were MPs on
all corners of the craft.

588
00:32:44,833 --> 00:32:47,292
It's about a 40-foot diameter
disc-shaped craft

589
00:32:47,458 --> 00:32:51,042
that was perfectly intact,
there wasn't a scratch on it.

590
00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:54,792
There were four beings
associated with this craft.

591
00:32:54,958 --> 00:32:56,542
And they shipped it
to Groom Lake.

592
00:32:57,667 --> 00:33:00,875
DOLAN: Groom Lake is
the Area 51 region in Nevada.

593
00:33:01,042 --> 00:33:03,458
When Area 51
was just bare bones,

594
00:33:03,625 --> 00:33:05,958
they took the craft
and the aliens

595
00:33:06,125 --> 00:33:08,125
out to that location in
the middle of the Nevada desert,

596
00:33:08,292 --> 00:33:09,750
because it was so remote,

597
00:33:09,917 --> 00:33:12,167
and around that,
they built Area 51.

598
00:33:13,917 --> 00:33:17,000
This is where the story
of J-Rod originates.

599
00:33:18,583 --> 00:33:20,958
J-Rod survived
and worked directly

600
00:33:21,125 --> 00:33:22,958
with our own government.

601
00:33:23,125 --> 00:33:24,958
What's very interesting here
is here we have

602
00:33:25,125 --> 00:33:29,667
an extraterrestrial
in government custody,

603
00:33:29,833 --> 00:33:31,917
and he could certainly have

604
00:33:32,083 --> 00:33:33,667
all kinds of
information to reveal,

605
00:33:33,792 --> 00:33:37,667
and what they are apparently
talking about is technology

606
00:33:37,833 --> 00:33:42,250
and the reverse engineering
of extraterrestrial technology.

607
00:33:42,375 --> 00:33:45,708
NARRATOR:
One man who claimed to
have worked with J-Rod

608
00:33:45,875 --> 00:33:50,250
is Captain Bill Uhouse,
a former Air Force test pilot,

609
00:33:50,417 --> 00:33:55,042
who was assigned to Area 51
in the mid-1960s.

610
00:33:56,083 --> 00:33:59,000
We had a long period
of introduction

611
00:33:59,167 --> 00:34:00,917
into meeting,

612
00:34:01,083 --> 00:34:02,833
you know, an alien.

613
00:34:03,042 --> 00:34:05,125
And I called him J-Rod.

614
00:34:05,333 --> 00:34:07,125
That's the name
that the linguists gave him.

615
00:34:07,292 --> 00:34:09,667
And he talked, he would talk,

616
00:34:09,875 --> 00:34:10,958
but he'd sound just like,

617
00:34:11,167 --> 00:34:13,167
if you spoke,
he'd sound like you.

618
00:34:13,333 --> 00:34:15,500
You know, he's like
one of these, uh,

619
00:34:15,625 --> 00:34:17,333
a parrot. (chuckles)

620
00:34:17,500 --> 00:34:20,167
But he'd try and answer
your question, you know?

621
00:34:20,333 --> 00:34:22,292
Basically, it was only

622
00:34:22,458 --> 00:34:24,625
engineering advice
or science advice.

623
00:34:25,958 --> 00:34:28,000
DENNET: Bill Uhouse said
he met this being

624
00:34:28,125 --> 00:34:30,917
at least ten times
over a period of years,

625
00:34:31,083 --> 00:34:34,458
and he learned
it was J-Rod's mission

626
00:34:34,667 --> 00:34:37,167
to help reverse engineer

627
00:34:37,292 --> 00:34:40,125
technology that was

628
00:34:40,250 --> 00:34:45,500
apparently from
the 1953 Kingman UFO crash.

629
00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:48,125
NARRATOR:
While the sensational account

630
00:34:48,250 --> 00:34:51,500
of Captain Bill Uhouse
strikes many as outlandish,

631
00:34:51,583 --> 00:34:54,333
shortly after he came forward,

632
00:34:54,500 --> 00:34:56,833
a microbiologist
named Dan Burisch

633
00:34:57,000 --> 00:34:59,167
confirmed the claim.

634
00:34:59,375 --> 00:35:02,375
There's another whistleblower
by the name of Dan Burisch.

635
00:35:03,375 --> 00:35:05,042
And Dan Burisch
said that he was hired

636
00:35:05,208 --> 00:35:09,750
as a microbiologist to,
basically, care for J-Rod,

637
00:35:09,958 --> 00:35:11,667
ensuring that he
remained healthy.

638
00:35:11,792 --> 00:35:14,333
And, uh, this went on
for years and years and years.

639
00:35:14,500 --> 00:35:18,750
NARRATOR:
According to Dan Burisch
and Bill Uhouse,

640
00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:22,000
J-Rod was housed in
a special underground chamber

641
00:35:22,208 --> 00:35:23,750
at Area 51.

642
00:35:23,917 --> 00:35:27,750
And J-Rod was not
the only extraterrestrial

643
00:35:27,875 --> 00:35:31,000
believed to be working with
the United States government.

644
00:35:31,125 --> 00:35:32,917
ROJAS:
There's a lot of stories

645
00:35:33,083 --> 00:35:35,417
that we've worked with
aliens at Area 51,

646
00:35:35,542 --> 00:35:38,000
and that they worked
at the White House

647
00:35:38,208 --> 00:35:40,708
uh, and the Pentagon
as advisors,

648
00:35:40,875 --> 00:35:44,500
helping us to better our world,

649
00:35:44,667 --> 00:35:47,833
and they have been
sharing information

650
00:35:48,042 --> 00:35:50,708
for us to
enhance our technologies.

651
00:35:51,750 --> 00:35:56,708
TSOUKALOS:
This idea that actual,
physical extraterrestrials

652
00:35:56,875 --> 00:36:00,542
could potentially be influencing

653
00:36:00,708 --> 00:36:02,750
the course of the world

654
00:36:02,917 --> 00:36:05,125
is a possibility.

655
00:36:05,250 --> 00:36:08,042
I am sure
there's envoys out there

656
00:36:08,208 --> 00:36:10,292
that do the same thing,

657
00:36:10,458 --> 00:36:11,833
not just on a planet,

658
00:36:12,042 --> 00:36:15,458
but in entire planetary systems.

659
00:36:17,375 --> 00:36:18,958
We're just moments away

660
00:36:19,125 --> 00:36:22,583
from revealing the top alien
influencer on our countdown,

661
00:36:22,750 --> 00:36:25,333
and we've saved
the best for last

662
00:36:25,458 --> 00:36:28,375
because this one
has had an impact

663
00:36:28,542 --> 00:36:31,208
across the whole world.

664
00:36:34,708 --> 00:36:36,625
end n

665
00:36:36,792 --> 00:36:39,750
of the top ten
alien influencers,

666
00:36:39,875 --> 00:36:41,750
and this last one has led to

667
00:36:41,875 --> 00:36:44,792
a seismic shift in
beliefs and attitudes

668
00:36:44,958 --> 00:36:46,500
towards the possibility

669
00:36:46,708 --> 00:36:49,125
that extraterrestrials
are visiting Earth.

670
00:36:49,292 --> 00:36:52,833
At number one on our countdown:

671
00:36:52,958 --> 00:36:55,375
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena.

672
00:37:02,375 --> 00:37:04,375
NARRATOR:
The New York Times releases

673
00:37:04,542 --> 00:37:08,458
three videos that were
recorded by U.S. fighter jets.

674
00:37:08,625 --> 00:37:11,667
The footage, which appears
to show encounters between

675
00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:15,417
U.S. Navy aircraft and
unidentified flying objects,

676
00:37:15,583 --> 00:37:18,833
was brought to them by
government whistleblower

677
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:20,417
Luis Elizondo.

678
00:37:21,833 --> 00:37:25,125
DOLAN:
Luis Elizondo is a former
intelligence officer

679
00:37:25,292 --> 00:37:26,833
in the Department of Defense.

680
00:37:27,042 --> 00:37:28,417
From everything
that we can see,

681
00:37:28,625 --> 00:37:30,667
he had a very stellar career,
very fine career.

682
00:37:31,750 --> 00:37:35,750
And, in 2007, he was selected
to run the AATIP program.

683
00:37:35,917 --> 00:37:39,042
So that's the Advanced Aerospace
Threat Identification Program,

684
00:37:39,250 --> 00:37:40,917
the UFO program.

685
00:37:41,083 --> 00:37:44,792
NARRATOR:
The release of the videos
not only sparked

686
00:37:44,958 --> 00:37:48,542
a wave of interest about
UFOs across the country,

687
00:37:48,708 --> 00:37:52,417
but forced lawmakers on
Capitol Hill to take notice.

688
00:37:52,542 --> 00:37:54,667
CHILDRESS:
This was a real turning point

689
00:37:54,875 --> 00:37:58,625
in the United States
because The New York Times

690
00:37:58,833 --> 00:38:01,250
basically said that, yeah,
there are UFOs out there.

691
00:38:01,375 --> 00:38:02,958
The government's
looking at them.

692
00:38:04,375 --> 00:38:07,958
It's actually
an important investigation.

693
00:38:08,042 --> 00:38:10,000
This really shows that

694
00:38:10,208 --> 00:38:12,625
UFOs and the study of UFOs

695
00:38:12,750 --> 00:38:15,542
and the investigation
has entered the mainstream.

696
00:38:15,708 --> 00:38:17,875
NARRATOR:
The influence of the videos

697
00:38:18,042 --> 00:38:21,333
released by Elizondo
emboldened other whistleblowers

698
00:38:21,458 --> 00:38:24,458
to come forward
with evidence of UFOs.

699
00:38:25,417 --> 00:38:28,167
Including Navy pilot
David Fravor

700
00:38:28,375 --> 00:38:32,583
and former Area 51 engineer
Bob Lazar.

701
00:38:33,375 --> 00:38:36,375
And in June, 2023,

702
00:38:36,542 --> 00:38:39,458
former intelligence officer
David Grusch

703
00:38:39,625 --> 00:38:43,667
testified before Congress
about a covert military program

704
00:38:43,833 --> 00:38:47,000
that has craft
of non-human origin.

705
00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:51,500
I was informed in the course
of my official duties

706
00:38:51,708 --> 00:38:55,417
of a multi-decade
UAP crash retrieval

707
00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:57,917
and reverse engineering program.

708
00:38:58,083 --> 00:39:02,000
NARRATOR:
The impact of the testimony
of these whistleblowers

709
00:39:02,167 --> 00:39:03,500
has brought the idea of

710
00:39:03,625 --> 00:39:05,917
extraterrestrials visiting Earth

711
00:39:06,083 --> 00:39:08,417
into mainstream conversation.

712
00:39:08,583 --> 00:39:11,500
But, as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

713
00:39:11,667 --> 00:39:14,083
this is no accident.

714
00:39:15,208 --> 00:39:18,792
They suggest that the dramatic
influence the whistleblowers

715
00:39:18,917 --> 00:39:21,208
have had on the public
is part of a plan

716
00:39:21,375 --> 00:39:24,125
by extraterrestrials.

717
00:39:24,292 --> 00:39:27,917
TSOUKALOS:
What's really fascinating
is that in the 1960s,

718
00:39:28,042 --> 00:39:31,875
Erich Von Däniken proposed
in Chariots of the Gods?

719
00:39:32,042 --> 00:39:36,750
that aliens would show up
when Earth civilization

720
00:39:36,875 --> 00:39:40,458
would reach a certain
level of technology.

721
00:39:40,583 --> 00:39:43,792
And with everything
that's going on right now,

722
00:39:43,958 --> 00:39:48,792
this may be the time
when we will make contact.

723
00:39:49,958 --> 00:39:51,583
ERICH VON DÄNIKEN:
Some thousands of years ago,

724
00:39:51,750 --> 00:39:54,042
the extraterrestrials
promised to return

725
00:39:54,208 --> 00:39:55,958
in a faraway future.

726
00:39:56,125 --> 00:40:00,625
And we have good reasons to
believe that now they are back.

727
00:40:00,833 --> 00:40:04,208
More and more of
these proven UFO cases

728
00:40:04,375 --> 00:40:05,833
appear to the public.

729
00:40:06,042 --> 00:40:08,125
Before, it was never
shown to the public.

730
00:40:08,208 --> 00:40:11,042
We know we are not alone.

731
00:40:11,208 --> 00:40:13,333
We are under observation,

732
00:40:13,542 --> 00:40:15,042
and it must be extraterrestrials

733
00:40:15,208 --> 00:40:17,583
because they show a technology
which we do not have.

734
00:40:18,958 --> 00:40:21,167
NARRATOR:
For the first time in history,

735
00:40:21,333 --> 00:40:23,833
members of Congress, senators,

736
00:40:24,042 --> 00:40:25,458
and the U.S. military

737
00:40:25,625 --> 00:40:27,833
are openly talking about
the possibility of

738
00:40:28,042 --> 00:40:31,583
an extraterrestrial presence
on Earth.

739
00:40:31,708 --> 00:40:34,750
TSOUKALOS:
All of a sudden, since 2017,

740
00:40:34,917 --> 00:40:39,667
these stories have become
front-page news.

741
00:40:39,875 --> 00:40:42,292
And it clearly shows
that there was

742
00:40:42,375 --> 00:40:45,292
a type of a paradigm shift

743
00:40:45,458 --> 00:40:47,667
that's happened
over the past 25 years.

744
00:40:47,875 --> 00:40:51,458
And, for someone like me,
it's-it's incredible.

745
00:40:54,417 --> 00:40:56,917
The idea that extraterrestrials

746
00:40:57,083 --> 00:40:59,500
are deliberately
revealing themselves to us

747
00:40:59,708 --> 00:41:01,542
is truly thrilling.

748
00:41:01,708 --> 00:41:04,875
But what's clear to
ancient astronaut theorists

749
00:41:05,042 --> 00:41:08,000
is that we've had contact
with alien influencers

750
00:41:08,167 --> 00:41:10,292
for thousands of years.

751
00:41:10,458 --> 00:41:13,625
From heavenly beings
described in the Bible

752
00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:16,667
to strange amphibious creatures

753
00:41:16,833 --> 00:41:19,167
and even mysterious visitors

754
00:41:19,333 --> 00:41:21,167
seen in our skies today.

755
00:41:22,333 --> 00:41:24,333
Perhaps the next
alien influencer

756
00:41:24,542 --> 00:41:26,917
will finally reveal the truth

757
00:41:27,083 --> 00:41:30,292
about humankind's
extraterrestrial past.

758
00:41:30,458 --> 00:41:33,125
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