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[Narrator] Ancient knowledge
that defies explanation...

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[Travis Taylor] How in the world
did ancient people

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understand the age of the Earth

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thousands of years ago?

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[Narrator] ...stories
of otherworldly visitors...

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[David Childress] Hindu
mythology

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is filled with powerful beings

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who have advanced technology.

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[Narrator] ...and links
to an extraordinary society

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forgotten by history.

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[Andrew Collins] The Indus
Valley Civilization

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was incredibly complex
and advanced.

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And yet,
we knew nothing about it.

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[Narrator] Could it be

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that the earliest writings
of India

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contain the secrets
of our alien past?

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[Giorgio A. Tsoukalos] All
of these ancient stories

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are rooted in reality.

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They didn't write it down
because it was ordinary,

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they wrote it down
because it was extraordinary.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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Home to more than
1.4 billion people,

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it is the world's
most populous country.

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And roughly 80%
of the people living here

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belong to the world's
oldest surviving religion...

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...Hinduism.

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[Amir Hussain] There's
a huge diversity

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within the Hindu tradition.

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There's no one way to be Hindu.

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There's ideas
that are important in Hinduism.

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One of the things
that distinguishes Hinduism

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from other religions is there's
not just one life to live,

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there are multiple lives.

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You're born, you live,

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you die, you're reborn.

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[Sravana Borkataky-Varma] We
believe in the continuous cycle

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of birth and death.

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So, this life is not about
just the actions here.

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I have carried something
from the past to this life.

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[Narrator] The spiritual goal
of all Hindus is to gain freedom

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from the endless cycle
of reincarnation.

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This occurs
by following the concepts

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of dharma and karma.

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[Hussain] People know
the term karma and dharma

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in Hinduism.

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The idea that,
you know, every energy

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releases a particular action,
that's karma.

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Dharma, everyone has
a particular duty,

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something to follow, uh,
in their lives.

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How you live affects how you're
reborn in the world to come

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or the next life or
the next life or the next life.

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A lot of it
is about human action,

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what is it that
you're supposed to do?

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This is a way to gain liberation

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from the cycle
of death and rebirth.

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[Narrator] Exactly when
and where

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the Hindu religion originated
is a mystery,

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but the oldest known source
is a collection

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of Sanskrit texts
called the Vedas.

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[Dominic Steavu] The word Veda
means "knowledge" in Sanskrit.

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And so, there is
this close association

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with a special type
of, uh, wisdom or knowledge

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that is transmitted
through the Vedas.

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[Narrator] The Vedas teach
that the information

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contained within them
was communicated directly

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from the gods
to people known as seers.

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[Deepak Shimkhada] The seers
were the conduits,

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and once they were able
to download the information,

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they passed it on
to their disciples,

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and that's how
we got to know about

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the mysteries of the universe.

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[Narrator] In addition
to concepts

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like reincarnation and karma,

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the Vedas describe a vast
pantheon of Hindu deities.

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Among them are
the three major gods:

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Brahma,

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Vishnu and Shiva.

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Brahma is the god of creation,

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often depicted with four heads
and four arms, riding a swan.

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The blue-skinned Vishnu

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is the preserver
and protector of the universe.

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And Shiva is both the god
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depicted with a third eye.

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But they are just three

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of literally millions
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[Shimkhada] Hinduism has

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330 million gods.

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There are equal number
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So, it has many, many gods
and goddesses.

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[Narrator] According
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at various times in history,
these powerful beings

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have lived alongside humans.

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[Praveen Mohan] The gods show

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various emotions
of intelligent life.

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They get angry,
they get depressed,

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they go to war...

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...and cause great destruction.

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They fall in love
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to human beings
and give birth to demigods.

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[Narrator] When they are
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the gods reside
in other realms called lokas.

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[Borkataky-Varma] Lokas are
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There are seven worlds above us

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and then there are
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that would make it 15.

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And different worlds have
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[Narrator] While there are
millions of gods

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in the Hindu pantheon,

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many people choose just one
specific god to venerate.

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Idols of these beings are
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and treated
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And the idea
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dates back thousands of years.

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In the ancient stories
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the gods interact with humans,

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guide them and are vital in
the development of civilization.

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[William Henry] In
the Hindu tradition,

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the gods came to Earth

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and influenced human affairs.

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And what's fascinating
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we find exactly the same story

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in ancient Mesopotamia,

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where we're told
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taught us the basics
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We find this
in other cultures, as well--

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Ancient Egypt, for example.

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Mesoamerica, we find sky beings

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who came to Earth,
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So, what we're seeing here
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that we find in traditions
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[Narrator] Today, the more than
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maintain a strong relationship
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described in the ancient
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[Mohan] In the Hindu tradition,

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these ancient gods
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just symbolic
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They are considered
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that came down from the sky
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[Tsoukalos] According to
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all of these ancient stories
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are rooted in a type of reality

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that they,
at some point, witnessed.

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[Narrator] A key tenet
of the ancient astronaut theory

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is that religious traditions
around the world were inspired

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by interactions
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with extraterrestrial visitors.

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And Hinduism is perhaps
the most compelling of all...

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...because the stories
of the gods

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read like accounts
of otherworldly beings

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with advanced technology.

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[Childress] Hindu mythology
really reads like

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the wildest
science fiction of today.

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It is filled
with all kinds of demigods

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who had airships
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and very sophisticated weapons

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that would destroy
whole cities if need be.

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[Narrator] While most
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regard these stories
as metaphorical,

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many Hindu faithful regard them
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[Henry] We have to be open
to the possibility

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that the Vedas describe

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eyewitness accounts
of these strange beings

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that came out of the sky
thousands of years ago.

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[Narrator] Could the Vedas
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provide a historical record

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of extraterrestrial contact
in the distant past?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and suggest
further evidence can be found

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by examining
the incredible technology

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of the gods.

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[Narrator] For more than
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the foundation of Hinduism
has been carefully preserved

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in India's most ancient
Sanskrit texts.

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The oldest are the four books
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but there are
additional manuscripts

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that expand on these teachings.

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[Hussain] In addition
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you have the epics.

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And the two great epics
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literally,
"the-the great story of Bharat."

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Bharat's an ancient name
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Then you've got the Ramayana.

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[Narrator] Many of the events
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feature the Hindu gods,
who are divided up

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into separate classes.

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The highest are the devas,

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that include the trinity
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as well as other
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like Ganesha, Hanuman and Indra.

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[Henry] When we look
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of the ancient Hindus,
they describe

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humanity's interaction
with the devas,

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and that they then begin
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all kinds of things,
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and astronomy and the stars
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[Narrator] Curiously,
Hindu accounts of the devas

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are nearly identical
to a race of divine beings

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found in mythological texts
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In Sanskrit, devas
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or "the shining ones."

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This immediately brings to mind
stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann,

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who are a divine race of beings
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Like the devas,
the Tuatha Dé Danann

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are described as light beings

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who descended from the sky
in whirlwinds

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and brought with them the arts
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Also, the Anunnaki,
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of the ancient Sumerians,
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as having a luminous appearance.

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So, we have to ask the question,
is it possible

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that the beings
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are the same beings
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visited numerous cultures
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and this is exactly
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recorded throughout time?

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[Narrator] For ancient
astronaut theorists,

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one of the most compelling
aspects of the Hindu stories

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is that the gods travel in
flying machines called vimana,

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which are described
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[Tsoukalos] The vimanas are
aerial vehicles that were able

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to travel faster
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or they could cloak themselves
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To me, those are not
spiritual vehicles.

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Why would God need a vehicle

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with which to move
from point A to point B?

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But they're, in fact,
technological vehicles.

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Vehicles that our ancestors saw
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and tried to describe
what they witnessed.

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[Childress] These were machines

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that could fly, they would
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there were pilots.

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The vimanas themselves
would have weapons,

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just like modern
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and bombers
and things like that.

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And the vimanas
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and that's talked about
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that people would see
giant lights in the sky.

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There's a number of Vedic texts
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and some get very technical,
in fact.

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One of the things
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that has mercury in it.

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[Taylor] There's been a lot of

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speculative physics work
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flowing baths of mercury
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where it's spinning around,

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and you put it in the right
electromagnetic field

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and it creates strange torsions

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such that you could create
a propulsive force.

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And I find it really intriguing
that the vimanas,

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the way-- some of them
are described for flying in air,

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some of them are-are described
as being used in water.

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A lot of this reminds me
of videos that I've analyzed

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of modern UAP.

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[Tsoukalos] Modern-day
UFO videos show vehicles

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that can just stop
or change direction immediately,

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at g-forces
that we could not survive.

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In the ancient Vedic texts,

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the exact same
descriptions exist.

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They are not only
aerial vehicles

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but also vehicles with which
to reach the realm of the gods.

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And you have to ask yourself,
"Well, wait a second,

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what did they try
to describe here?"

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The answer is
that the ancient Hindus tell us

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that they were actual,
physical machines.

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For all intents and purposes,
they describe modern-day UFOs.

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[Narrator] Could it be
that UFOs witnessed today

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are the same
otherworldly aircraft

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described in writings that
date back more than 3,000 years?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and suggest further clues
can be found

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in passages
of the Sanskrit texts

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that describe
highly advanced weaponry.

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[Shimkhada] In the Mahabharata,
there are listed

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47 different types of weapons.

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Agneyastra is a weapon
that releases extreme fire,

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and burns everything
in front of it.

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Sudarshana Chakra is a weapon
held by Vishnu himself.

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It is a total guided missile.

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It never misses the target.

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Indra is the god of the storms,

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no different than Zeus.

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Indra has the vajra--

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it's like
the thunderbolt of Zeus--

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that can destroy anything
that it's unleashed on.

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[Childress] If these weapons
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where did they originate?

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The extraterrestrials
would naturally have

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this kind
of advanced technology.

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[Narrator] If the foundational
texts of Hinduism

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describe real encounters
with extraterrestrials

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that took place
thousands of years ago,

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the question remains:

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Who were the people
that witnessed these events

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and wrote them down?

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While the authors of the Vedas
and epics are still unknown,

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many experts suggest
important clues can be found

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within the ruins
of an incredible

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lost civilization.

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[Narrator] The Punjab Province
of British India, 1921.

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Indian archaeologists are
conducting a survey

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in the Indus River Valley,

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an area that today is
largely uninhabited desert

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and considered one of the most
inhospitable places on Earth.

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While exploring the area,

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the archaeologists are
astonished to find the ruins

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of ancient mudbrick buildings
emerging from the soil.

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And what they discover
hidden beneath the earth

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is more extraordinary than
they ever would have expected.

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[Shimkhada] As they dug,
they saw some pottery,

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some structures and buildings.

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It was discovered that
it was an archaeological site,

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and it's a very advanced
civilization.

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[Narrator] Over
the next two years,

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two lost cities are unearthed
in the Indus Valley

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that date to as far back
as 3300 BC,

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predating the earliest known
civilizations in India

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by almost 2,000 years.

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Archaeologists name
the first city Harappa,

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after a nearby town,

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but the second city
they call Mohenjo Daro,

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or "Mound of the Dead Men."

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The ancient city is strewn
with the skeletons of people

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who seem to have died suddenly
from some unknown catastrophe.

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But what surprises
archaeologists even more

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is how advanced
these cities were.

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[Childress] Mohenjo Daro
and Harappa were

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incredibly sophisticated,

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much more than what early
archaeologists ever expected.

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The streets were very well
laid out and planned.

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They had indoor plumbing.

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They had what we would call
a modern sewage system.

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They had communal baths
that were extremely well made.

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[Collins] Archaeologists
gradually revealed

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this incredibly complex

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society that had existed
during the third millennia BC,

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one which rivaled anything

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that you would have had

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in Sumeria or Egypt
at this time.

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And yet,
we knew nothing about it.

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[Narrator] Researchers
determined that Harappa

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and Mohenjo Daro were part
of an advanced civilization

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that spanned
the entire Indus Valley.

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At its peak,
the Indus Valley civilization

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had more than
one thousand cities,

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and was home
to over five million people.

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[Shimkhada] There is the ruins
from Harappa all the way

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to Lothal down there
in Arabian Sea.

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So the whole area was
a very advanced civilization.

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They made a lot of

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artifacts, tools,

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potteries.

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And they were exported all
the way to the Middle East.

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So it was very successful.

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[Narrator] The culture thrived
for at least 1,400 years

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before it suddenly collapsed
around 1900 BC.

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But what happened to
the Indus Valley civilization?

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And who were the people
who lived there?

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We don't know
what language they spoke.

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We don't know
when they actually got there,

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where exactly they came from,

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because they didn't leave
a record saying,

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"Hi. We came from this place,

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we spoke this language,

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and we built this
at this point in time."

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[Narrator] While
very little is known

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about the Indus Valley
civilization,

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many experts have come
to believe

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that the inhabitants were
the authors of the Vedas.

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[Borkataky-Varma] We don't
necessarily know

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who the people were.

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But here is where

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the scholars have kind
of stitched this history.

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Given the period,
given the geographical region,

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given what we have discovered
in the archaeology,

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it is understood
that the Vedas has some degree

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of dotted-line continuity to
the Indus Valley civilization.

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[Narrator] Could it be
that the foundational texts

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of Hinduism were written
by the people

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of this lost civilization?

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Over the years,
researchers seeking evidence

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that the Vedas are based
in real history

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have found numerous
archaeological sites

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that match locations described
in the ancient stories.

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[Shimkhada] Today,
Indian archaeologists are

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working vigorously,

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you know, digging up
the ancient cities

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and the places mentioned in the
Ramayana, in the Mahabharata.

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They're all in North India,
where the original inhabitants

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of Indus Valley lived.

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So, there is
the real places and

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the historical facts
that can be corroborated

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with some artifacts.

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[Narrator] As far as
ancient astronaut theorists

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are concerned,
if the Vedas originated

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in the Indus Valley
civilization,

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it begs the question:

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Are they historical accounts
of real events?

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[Henry] When we look
at this civilization

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and then its crossover
into ancient Sanskrit texts,

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it becomes abundantly clear
we have to be open

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to the possibility
that the Indus Valley people

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were interacting
with extraterrestrials.

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They actually
witnessed the gods.

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They saw the vimana.

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And what that means, then,

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is that the very powerful
traditions of Hinduism

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are actually remnants of
the Indus Valley civilization.

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[Narrator] Is it possible
that Hinduism--

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the world's
third largest religion--

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was inspired by alien contact

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that occurred
more than 4,000 years ago?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and point to a discovery
at Mohenjo Daro

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that many believe
depicts a visitor...

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from another world.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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[Narrator] British archeologist
Ernest Mackay

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undertakes
an extensive excavation

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of the ancient Indus Valley
city of Mohenjo Daro.

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Over the next few years, Mackay
and his team unearth artifacts

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that reveal the sophistication
of the people who lived here,

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such as finely detailed pottery,

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elaborate jewelry
and bronze statues.

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But of all the artifacts
uncovered during the excavation,

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the one Mackay considers
most extraordinary

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is a small stone tablet
that he estimates

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to be more
than 4,000 years old.

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[Henry] It depicts a figure
sitting in a lotus pose

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and wearing a horned headdress.

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He appears to have three faces.

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One looking to the left,
one looking to the right

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and one straight ahead.

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This is a common motif
you see in Hindu art

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that depicts the gods
as being all-knowing.

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Now, Ernest Mackay is
amazed by this seal

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because he believes
it depicts the Hindu god Shiva.

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[Narrator] Shiva is one
of the three primary Hindu gods,

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known as both a destroyer
and creator.

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If the carving found
at Mohenjo Daro depicts Shiva,

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as many experts believe,

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it would be
an extraordinary discovery,

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because it would mean
that Hinduism is centuries older

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than previously thought.

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[Henry] The seal dates
to before

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2000 BC, and most
mainstream scholars say

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the Hindu religion didn't emerge
until centuries later.

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So, when we see artifacts

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from Mohenjo Daro
depicting Shiva,

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what that means, then, is that
the very powerful traditions

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of Hinduism
are actually remnants

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of the Indus Valley
civilization.

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[Narrator] For many researchers,

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the mysterious carving
that resembles Lord Shiva

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provides a compelling link

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between
the Indus Valley civilization

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and the Vedic texts.

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But along with
the intriguing artifact,

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archaeologists at Mohenjo Daro
were also confronted

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by a disturbing sight.

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[Henry] As they're excavating
the city, layer

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by layer, and they got down
to the street level,

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people were just lying dead
in the streets.

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It's like some doom
just took over the city,

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and everyone was dead,

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and then, eventually,
the desert winds buried it

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for thousands of years.

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[Collins] What they discovered
was quite shocking.

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There were
a number of human bodies

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that looked like they had
been killed very suddenly.

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I mean, some of
the skeletons looked like

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they had fallen together
and had died instantaneously.

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And this led archaeologists

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to the conclusion that something
terrible had gone on here.

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[Narrator] Exactly what caused
the sudden devastation

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at Mohenjo Daro has divided
historians for decades.

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But if Hinduism was practiced by
the Indus Valley civilization,

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as many experts now suspect,

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might the foundational
Vedic texts provide clues

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about what happened
at Mohenjo Daro?

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In 1977, British researcher
David Davenport

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posed this same question,
and set out

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to conduct his own investigation
of the ancient city.

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[Collins] David Davenport

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spent 12 years at Mohenjo Daro,
researching it,

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working with the excavators,

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asking all the right questions,

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looking at the artifacts
that were discovered,

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going around the remains
of the streets,

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and what he discovered was
that there seemed

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to be absolute evidence

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of intense heat

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that had melted pottery,
made it incredibly brittle.

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The sides of some buildings seem
to be virtually vitrified.

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[Narrator] Davenport also
read reports that claimed

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00:28:42,846 --> 00:28:45,724
one of the skeletons
at Mohenjo Daro had high levels

499
00:28:45,891 --> 00:28:47,726
of radiation.

500
00:28:47,893 --> 00:28:51,229
Intrigued, he decided
to search in the pages

501
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,315
of the ancient Sanskrit epics

502
00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:55,609
to see if they might contain
any mention

503
00:28:55,776 --> 00:28:57,819
of a catastrophic event.

504
00:28:58,862 --> 00:29:01,531
What he found instead
was a description

505
00:29:01,698 --> 00:29:04,910
of a powerful weapon
called the Brahmastra.

506
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:06,995
[Hussain] Brahmastras

507
00:29:07,162 --> 00:29:10,123
are these really
superpowerful weapons.

508
00:29:10,290 --> 00:29:13,961
It's literally the astra--
the weapon-- of Brahma.

509
00:29:15,003 --> 00:29:18,006
Brahma is one of the key gods
in the Vedic tradition.

510
00:29:18,173 --> 00:29:23,178
And so, the Brahmastra
is this horrific weapon

511
00:29:23,387 --> 00:29:25,555
that destroys gods.

512
00:29:29,017 --> 00:29:31,478
[Narrator] The Brahmastra
weapon features prominently

513
00:29:31,645 --> 00:29:33,772
in the story of the god Rama.

514
00:29:33,939 --> 00:29:37,067
Rama mobilizes an army
to rescue his wife

515
00:29:37,234 --> 00:29:40,529
who is held captive
in the kingdom of Lanka.

516
00:29:40,696 --> 00:29:45,158
In the ensuing battle,
Rama unleashes the Brahmastra...

517
00:29:46,535 --> 00:29:48,870
...and Lanka is destroyed.

518
00:29:50,956 --> 00:29:53,750
[Henry] David Davenport looks
at the Ramayana

519
00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:57,337
and realizes that the effects
of what he sees in Mohenjo Daro

520
00:29:57,546 --> 00:30:00,007
precisely match
what is told in this epic

521
00:30:00,173 --> 00:30:02,426
about this blinding
flash of light

522
00:30:02,592 --> 00:30:04,553
that destroys the civilization.

523
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:07,764
What David Davenport proposed is

524
00:30:07,931 --> 00:30:10,851
that Lanka is Mohenjo Daro.

525
00:30:11,018 --> 00:30:13,020
And in all ways
and shape and form,

526
00:30:13,228 --> 00:30:14,980
this Brahmastra has all
of the hallmarks

527
00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:17,190
of an atomic weapon.

528
00:30:20,110 --> 00:30:23,363
[Narrator] Is it possible
that Mohenjo Daro was destroyed

529
00:30:23,488 --> 00:30:27,200
by a nuclear explosion,
as David Davenport suggests?

530
00:30:28,285 --> 00:30:31,163
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

531
00:30:31,329 --> 00:30:34,082
and believe further evidence
to support this notion

532
00:30:34,207 --> 00:30:37,419
can be found in passages
of the Sanskrit epics

533
00:30:37,627 --> 00:30:39,671
that describe a war

534
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:41,548
between the gods.

535
00:30:45,177 --> 00:30:47,054
[Narrator] In 1979,

536
00:30:47,220 --> 00:30:49,473
British researcher
David Davenport

537
00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:51,224
published his incredible theory

538
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:53,518
that Mohenjo Daro is, in fact,

539
00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:57,189
a city described
in the ancient Sanskrit texts

540
00:30:57,355 --> 00:31:00,067
that was destroyed
by a devastating weapon.

541
00:31:02,069 --> 00:31:05,739
In addition to radiated
skeletons and vitrified stone,

542
00:31:05,947 --> 00:31:09,367
he pointed to a 50-yard crater
in the center of the city

543
00:31:09,534 --> 00:31:12,079
as evidence
of a massive explosion.

544
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:16,083
[Collins] David Davenport
suggested

545
00:31:16,249 --> 00:31:18,627
that what had
gone on here related

546
00:31:18,794 --> 00:31:23,298
to what the ancient Hindu texts
were referring to

547
00:31:23,507 --> 00:31:25,884
as some kind of weapon
of mass destruction.

548
00:31:26,051 --> 00:31:30,138
It could create flashes
as bright as the sun.

549
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:34,351
It could lay waste to armies.

550
00:31:34,518 --> 00:31:37,604
And this led Davenport
to the conclusion

551
00:31:37,771 --> 00:31:40,857
that Mohenjo Daro
had been destroyed

552
00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:43,276
by an atomic weapon.

553
00:31:46,488 --> 00:31:48,990
[Narrator] Could nuclear weapons
really have been deployed

554
00:31:49,157 --> 00:31:52,786
on Earth
thousands of years ago?

555
00:31:52,953 --> 00:31:54,579
As incredible as it sounds,

556
00:31:54,788 --> 00:31:57,040
ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

557
00:31:57,165 --> 00:32:00,293
the evidence is too overwhelming
to dismiss.

558
00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:05,549
Is it possible that some type
of a nuclear weapon was deployed

559
00:32:05,715 --> 00:32:07,217
at Mohenjo Daro?

560
00:32:07,425 --> 00:32:09,177
And the answer to that is yes.

561
00:32:09,386 --> 00:32:14,641
Because not only do you have
higher levels of radiation,

562
00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:17,561
but you have fused glass.

563
00:32:17,686 --> 00:32:22,065
You have people
that just died instantaneously.

564
00:32:22,232 --> 00:32:26,987
And then you also have
references in ancient texts

565
00:32:27,154 --> 00:32:31,616
where they say that right after
these weapons were deployed,

566
00:32:31,783 --> 00:32:34,119
people started
to have boils on their skin.

567
00:32:34,244 --> 00:32:36,288
Their hair started to fall out.

568
00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:38,748
Their fingernails started
to fall out.

569
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:42,669
Well, those are all results
of radiation poisoning.

570
00:32:42,836 --> 00:32:44,921
Nuclear fallout.

571
00:32:46,131 --> 00:32:48,133
[Narrator] According
to some experts,

572
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:50,177
it wasn't just Mohenjo Daro,

573
00:32:50,343 --> 00:32:52,846
but the entire
Indus Valley civilization--

574
00:32:53,013 --> 00:32:55,599
made up of more
than a thousand cities--

575
00:32:55,724 --> 00:32:58,018
that suddenly collapsed.

576
00:32:58,226 --> 00:33:01,021
And ancient astronaut theorists
point out

577
00:33:01,229 --> 00:33:04,774
that this once again lines up
with the Sanskrit texts,

578
00:33:04,941 --> 00:33:09,529
where numerous devastating wars
are waged between the gods.

579
00:33:12,490 --> 00:33:13,950
[Childress] There were
these horrific wars

580
00:33:14,117 --> 00:33:17,078
that are talked about
in the Vedas themselves.

581
00:33:17,204 --> 00:33:18,997
There are essentially

582
00:33:19,164 --> 00:33:22,542
very powerful beings
who have powerful weapons.

583
00:33:22,709 --> 00:33:25,003
And they're all fighting

584
00:33:25,170 --> 00:33:27,631
and destroying,
you know, each other.

585
00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:33,345
[Martell] The gods had
these aerial battles, so,

586
00:33:33,511 --> 00:33:35,388
it's very possible
that the civilization

587
00:33:35,555 --> 00:33:38,225
in the Indus Valley had
firsthand interaction

588
00:33:38,391 --> 00:33:40,977
with some of the events
that took place.

589
00:33:41,144 --> 00:33:42,646
[Tsoukalos] This whole idea

590
00:33:42,812 --> 00:33:44,689
that there were these wars

591
00:33:44,856 --> 00:33:47,901
within the Vedas,
to me, is interesting

592
00:33:48,109 --> 00:33:52,614
because this is not just
restricted to ancient India.

593
00:33:52,781 --> 00:33:56,326
You have wars in Heaven
in the Old Testament.

594
00:33:56,493 --> 00:33:58,954
-You have the ancient Greeks.
-[thunder crashes]

595
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:03,792
You have ancient Scandinavian
gods fighting with each other.

596
00:34:03,959 --> 00:34:05,335
So, in my opinion,

597
00:34:05,502 --> 00:34:07,754
those were all
misinterpretations

598
00:34:07,921 --> 00:34:10,257
of flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials

599
00:34:10,422 --> 00:34:11,841
who fought with one another.

600
00:34:13,009 --> 00:34:14,844
[Martell] In lots of
these ancient stories,

601
00:34:15,011 --> 00:34:18,181
there were various gods that
are all squabbling over Earth.

602
00:34:18,389 --> 00:34:21,184
And right
over the Indus Valley,

603
00:34:21,351 --> 00:34:25,522
this ET battle might have taken
place and could have ended

604
00:34:25,688 --> 00:34:27,399
in some type of catastrophe

605
00:34:27,524 --> 00:34:29,943
that wiped out the civilization
in the Indus Valley.

606
00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:33,405
[Narrator] When David Davenport
proposed a link

607
00:34:33,571 --> 00:34:38,243
between Mohenjo Daro and
the Vedic texts in the 1970s,

608
00:34:38,368 --> 00:34:41,621
he was widely dismissed
by mainstream scholars.

609
00:34:41,830 --> 00:34:45,583
But today,
more and more experts believe

610
00:34:45,750 --> 00:34:47,877
at least some
of the ancient stories are based

611
00:34:48,003 --> 00:34:49,879
on real events,

612
00:34:50,005 --> 00:34:53,382
and that those events occurred
in the Indus Valley.

613
00:35:13,403 --> 00:35:16,031
[Childress] When you look
at the Indus Valley,

614
00:35:16,197 --> 00:35:19,242
you have to wonder what happened
to this civilization.

615
00:35:19,409 --> 00:35:24,247
And archaeologists, when
they excavate these cities,

616
00:35:24,414 --> 00:35:27,208
they fit perfectly
into the Vedic stories

617
00:35:27,375 --> 00:35:28,835
of these ancient wars.

618
00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:31,796
So could it be
that it was destroyed

619
00:35:31,963 --> 00:35:33,923
by terrific weapons,

620
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:37,135
and, essentially,
ceased to exist?

621
00:35:37,302 --> 00:35:40,889
That's exactly what
the Vedic stories are saying.

622
00:35:42,724 --> 00:35:45,310
[Narrator] If the foundational
Sanskrit texts of Hinduism

623
00:35:45,477 --> 00:35:49,522
can solve the mystery of what
happened to Mohenjo Daro,

624
00:35:49,689 --> 00:35:52,108
might they also reveal
that the ancient people

625
00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:54,778
of the Indus Valley
really did interact

626
00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:57,113
with otherworldly beings?

627
00:35:58,782 --> 00:36:01,493
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

628
00:36:01,660 --> 00:36:03,953
and suggest additional
evidence can be found

629
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,290
by examining the passages
within the Vedas

630
00:36:07,457 --> 00:36:10,377
that describe
advanced knowledge

631
00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,588
that came from the stars.

632
00:36:17,217 --> 00:36:19,552
[Narrator reads on-screen text]

633
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:23,014
On the campus
of the University of Kerala

634
00:36:23,181 --> 00:36:25,475
is the Oriental
Research Institute.

635
00:36:25,642 --> 00:36:28,645
It maintains one of
the largest collections

636
00:36:28,812 --> 00:36:30,939
of ancient Indian literature,

637
00:36:31,147 --> 00:36:36,027
including more than 40,000
rare palm leaf manuscripts.

638
00:36:36,194 --> 00:36:39,364
Among them are versions
of the Ramayana,

639
00:36:39,531 --> 00:36:42,534
and some of earliest known
copies of the Vedas--

640
00:36:42,701 --> 00:36:45,286
the oldest religious documents
in existence.

641
00:37:10,603 --> 00:37:14,482
[Borkataky-Varma] We don't
necessarily know

642
00:37:14,607 --> 00:37:16,860
who the people were
that wrote them.

643
00:37:17,068 --> 00:37:21,448
But we're talking about
oral transmission, oral history.

644
00:37:21,614 --> 00:37:23,825
And we're talking
about thousands of years

645
00:37:23,992 --> 00:37:25,869
of transmission.

646
00:37:26,035 --> 00:37:29,330
[Narrator] These mysterious
texts have fascinated people

647
00:37:29,497 --> 00:37:32,208
for centuries
with their incredible stories

648
00:37:32,375 --> 00:37:34,878
of gods
and other celestial beings.

649
00:37:35,003 --> 00:37:37,255
And in the modern world,

650
00:37:37,422 --> 00:37:41,217
their significance has become
even more profound,

651
00:37:41,426 --> 00:37:44,679
because the Vedas contain
incredible knowledge

652
00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:48,767
that seems to line up perfectly
with today's science.

653
00:37:48,892 --> 00:37:50,894
[Henry] The Vedas describe
the universe

654
00:37:51,060 --> 00:37:53,480
as originally being
a single point

655
00:37:53,605 --> 00:37:56,232
of consciousness that expanded,

656
00:37:56,399 --> 00:37:59,235
out of which
all of creation emerged.

657
00:37:59,402 --> 00:38:02,322
This is virtually identical
to what modern science

658
00:38:02,447 --> 00:38:04,991
refers to
as the big bang theory,

659
00:38:05,158 --> 00:38:09,204
the idea that all of creation
was once a single point of light

660
00:38:09,370 --> 00:38:11,873
that exploded
and expanded into space.

661
00:38:13,625 --> 00:38:16,377
[Narrator] The Hindu scriptures
also state the age of the Earth

662
00:38:16,586 --> 00:38:18,838
with remarkable accuracy.

663
00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:21,508
[Taylor] The ancient
Vedic texts,

664
00:38:21,674 --> 00:38:24,093
they discuss a concept
called the day of Brahma.

665
00:38:24,260 --> 00:38:27,972
And it's a discussion
about the age of the Earth.

666
00:38:28,139 --> 00:38:29,724
It actually says the Earth

667
00:38:29,891 --> 00:38:31,976
is 4.3 billion years old.

668
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:33,853
How in the world
do they know this? Because

669
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:37,065
our modern, technological
assessment suggests

670
00:38:37,232 --> 00:38:40,068
that the Earth is
about 4.5 billion years old.

671
00:38:40,235 --> 00:38:42,237
So, how in the world

672
00:38:42,403 --> 00:38:45,323
did they understand
the age of the Earth

673
00:38:45,490 --> 00:38:47,116
thousands of years ago?

674
00:38:48,868 --> 00:38:52,205
[Narrator] The ancient Sanskrit
texts even contain concepts

675
00:38:52,372 --> 00:38:56,960
eerily similar to Einstein's
theory of relative physics.

676
00:38:57,126 --> 00:38:58,795
[Childress] In the Vedas,
they have the concept

677
00:38:58,962 --> 00:39:00,713
that time travels differently
in different realms,

678
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:02,715
and that is the same as

679
00:39:02,882 --> 00:39:04,884
Einstein's concept
of relativity,

680
00:39:05,051 --> 00:39:07,804
where time is relative
to where you are

681
00:39:07,971 --> 00:39:10,765
and what realm you are in
and that kind of a thing.

682
00:39:10,932 --> 00:39:12,725
So, once again, we can see

683
00:39:12,892 --> 00:39:16,396
how astonishingly advanced
Vedic thought is.

684
00:39:17,397 --> 00:39:19,148
[Henry] We have
to seriously consider

685
00:39:19,315 --> 00:39:21,985
that this knowledge was
extraterrestrial in origin,

686
00:39:22,151 --> 00:39:25,280
that it was taught
to these ancient seers.

687
00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:28,199
It was something that was
offered to them wholesale

688
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:31,327
by beings who already knew
the secrets of the universe.

689
00:39:33,413 --> 00:39:36,082
[Tsoukalos] They knew that
the universe was expanding.

690
00:39:36,249 --> 00:39:41,087
They knew that other dimensions
and other universes existed.

691
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:43,923
So how did they know this?
Well,

692
00:39:44,048 --> 00:39:45,717
in the opinion
of the ancient astronaut theory,

693
00:39:45,884 --> 00:39:50,388
the knowledge was imparted
by visiting extraterrestrials.

694
00:39:51,848 --> 00:39:53,725
[Narrator] When considering
the advanced knowledge

695
00:39:53,892 --> 00:39:58,104
that exists within the Vedas--
alongside the Vedic stories

696
00:39:58,271 --> 00:40:01,107
that seem to line up
with ancient ruins--

697
00:40:01,274 --> 00:40:03,276
could it be
that these writings were,

698
00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:06,779
in fact, inspired
by extraterrestrials?

699
00:40:07,989 --> 00:40:10,116
And if so, were they witnessed

700
00:40:10,283 --> 00:40:12,493
by the people
of the Indus Valley?

701
00:40:13,745 --> 00:40:15,830
The Indus Valley civilization
is still a mystery,

702
00:40:15,997 --> 00:40:17,290
but the evidence
they've left us,

703
00:40:17,457 --> 00:40:19,417
as far as their footprint,

704
00:40:19,626 --> 00:40:20,835
with an understanding
of technology,

705
00:40:21,002 --> 00:40:22,420
an understanding of the cosmos,

706
00:40:22,629 --> 00:40:24,422
this shows
that they could have come up

707
00:40:24,589 --> 00:40:27,800
with some of these advanced
concepts we see in the Vedas.

708
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:30,887
[Childress] What I really think
is important here is

709
00:40:31,054 --> 00:40:34,682
that we pay more attention
to these ancient texts

710
00:40:34,807 --> 00:40:36,768
and try to learn
what we can from them,

711
00:40:36,935 --> 00:40:42,315
because it's clear that modern
Hindu civilization in India

712
00:40:42,482 --> 00:40:46,152
goes back to
the Indus Valley civilization.

713
00:40:46,319 --> 00:40:50,698
But does the Indus Valley
civilization go back

714
00:40:50,907 --> 00:40:55,203
to, possibly, early
extraterrestrial visitors?

715
00:40:55,370 --> 00:40:57,288
That is the question.

716
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:00,083
They have
the exact same stories,

717
00:41:00,249 --> 00:41:02,418
as, for example,
the Sumerians had,

718
00:41:02,627 --> 00:41:05,672
who talk about physical deities

719
00:41:05,838 --> 00:41:10,760
that descended from the sky
and imparted knowledge.

720
00:41:10,885 --> 00:41:12,762
Now, the Indus Valley
civilization

721
00:41:12,887 --> 00:41:14,722
is the exact same way.

722
00:41:14,889 --> 00:41:20,019
And the most ancient of Vedic
texts had scientific knowledge

723
00:41:20,228 --> 00:41:24,190
that far surpassed,
at the time, what was known.

724
00:41:25,316 --> 00:41:27,652
[Narrator] Was ancient India
an epicenter

725
00:41:27,819 --> 00:41:30,697
of extraterrestrial contact?

726
00:41:30,863 --> 00:41:34,659
Do the incredible
mythological tales of the Vedas

727
00:41:34,867 --> 00:41:38,329
tell the story
of humankind's true history?

728
00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,625
And if so,
could the extraordinary ruins

729
00:41:42,792 --> 00:41:45,003
of the Indus Valley
reveal new information

730
00:41:45,128 --> 00:41:46,963
about our interaction

731
00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,550
with extraterrestrials
in the distant past?

732
00:41:50,717 --> 00:41:54,387
Perhaps written among
the secrets of the Vedas

733
00:41:54,554 --> 00:41:59,017
is the ultimate proof
of our alien origins.

734
00:41:59,183 --> 00:42:02,520
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