[Narrator] Ancient tales of a war in heaven...
Across continents and millennia,
civilizations have told of cosmic battles
in the skies above the Earth.
[Narrator] ...gods who wield extraordinary weapons.
In the Vedic texts,
they describe a weapon that can destroy
anything in its path.
[Narrator] ...and archaeological evidence
of extreme devastation.
[Andrew Collins] Human bodies were discovered
that looked like
they had been killed very suddenly.
[Narrator] Could ancient ruins bear the scars
of devastating battles
fought by extraterrestrials?
[David Childress] What the archaeological record
tends to indicate and what the ancient texts
talk about are powerful beings
fighting these horrific wars.
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[Narrator reads on-screen text]
Eight miles north of the Dead Sea,
an artificial hill rises from the landscape.
It stands at the center of the ruins of an ancient city
that thrived more than 3,500 years ago,
known today as Tell el-Hammam.
The Bronze Age culture of Tell el-Hammam
dates back to around 1650 BC,
and it housed thousands of people at one time.
[Narrator] Archaeologists believe Tell el-Hammam
was once a thriving city of 50,000 residents.
What it was called and who lived there
has been lost to history.
But in recent years, some archaeologists
have suggested that Tell el-Hammam
might be the ruins of the biblical city of Sodom.
You have these cities, Sodom and Gomorrah,
and there's wickedness, there's inequity,
and God wants to destroy these cities.
[Michael Carter] In orthodox Christianity,
the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
are examples of what will happen
when there are no morals at all.
They were godless cities,
and so they had to be destroyed.
God tells the people of Sodom,
"You're not living the right way."
Angels come down
and tell inhabitants, including Abraham's nephew Lot,
that, "You need to leave now."
And sure enough, that whole civilization
is completely decimated.
[Robert Cargill] God rains down fire and sulfur,
fire and brimstone, right, from the heavens,
to destroy everything.
[Narrator] Until recently, many scholars thought
the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was only a myth.
So, why do some experts now believe
that Tell el-Hammam could be the ruins of Sodom?
[Collins] In the early 2000s, archaeological work
revealed something very, very peculiar.
And that was evidence
that this ancient city had been struck,
possibly by a very, very large meteorite,
around 1650 BC.
And the evidence of this
was a layer of ash that contained
fractured quartz, so-called spherules,
which are melted glass
which can only be created in temperatures
in excess of around 1,500 degrees centigrade.
[Hugh Newman] They've actually found
what looks like molten glass,
and different artifacts have been melted
to an extremely high degree.
There's also blistered bricks and other evidence
that extreme heat took place at the site.
[Narrator] Along with the physical evidence,
archaeologists also matched the location of Tell el-Hammam
with descriptions of Sodom from the Bible.
In 2021, an archaeological paper was written that suggested
that Tell el-Hammam was actually the site
of Sodom of the Bible.
[Narrator] Could the ruins of Tell el-Hammam
provide evidence that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah
was based on a real event?
One of the first to suggest this audacious notion
was Swiss author Erich von Däniken
in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods?
The controversial work that popularized
the ancient astronaut theory
proposed that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah,
and many other events described in the Bible,
could have an extraterrestrial explanation.
[Erich von Däniken] I was educated as a Christian,
and when I was a boy, I was told,
"If we live correctly,
then, when we die, we will go to heaven."
I was told heaven is the place of absolute happiness.
Heaven is the place of peace.
But then, I learned that there was a war in heaven.
And angels were killers.
They destroyed, in the second Book of the Kings,
185,000 Assyrians.
So, what kind of angels are this?
Change the word "angel" into the word "extraterrestrial."
[Narrator] Could biblical stories of war and devastation
be based on encounters that were not divine
but extraterrestrial?
If so, might this explain what happened to Sodom?
Perhaps further clues can be found by more closely examining
the story of the city's destruction.
[Cargill] The story of Sodom and Gomorrah
picks up in Genesis 19,
where you have these two angels that look like men
who travel down to visit Lot, who's living down in Sodom.
They want to rescue Lot and his family from Sodom.
So, the angels grab Lot and his family,
and they say, "We got to go now.
We got to leave because God's going to destroy this city."
And as they're leaving, he gives them the command,
"Don't even look back.
"You don't want anything to do with this city.
Just leave."
And Lot's wife turned and looked back at the city,
and she turns into a pillar of salt.
[Narrator] To ancient astronaut theorists,
this account sounds like a description
of advanced technology.
All we have to do is read the old books
with our modern feeling, with our modern knowledge.
Before Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed,
something like a countdown was running,
because without the countdown,
the two angels would not have said,
"We can do nothing if you don't leave the city now."
Someone started the countdown,
and the two angels were helpless.
Now definitely, this was technology.
With our modern knowledge, we know what they meant.
No doubt, we were visited
thousands of years by extraterrestrials.
[Narrator] Could the archaeological findings
at Tell el-Hammam provide physical proof
that the story of Sodom and Gomorrah
is a real account of a city destroyed
by advanced alien technology?
And if so, can evidence of extraterrestrial conflicts
be found at other ancient ruins around the world?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and point to a site in India where signs of devastation
may corroborate accounts of a powerful weapon...
...deployed by the gods.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
Today, this region,
located on the border of India and Pakistan,
is largely uninhabited desert
and considered one of the most inhospitable places on Earth.
But for centuries, this arid landscape
concealed an extraordinary chapter of human history.
In 1922, archaeologists discovered
the vast 4,500-year-old ruins of Mohenjo-daro,
an ancient city that was built
with a remarkably modern urban design.
[Newman] When Mohenjo-daro was officially discovered
in the 1920s,
it did cause quite a sensation, because it showed
a level of sophistication
on par with ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia.
Very advanced, very sophisticated culture
existing in an area where people didn't realize
there was anything quite like that.
[Collins] Mohenjo-daro had this incredible grid plan.
Architecture was incredibly advanced.
There was underground water systems, drainage.
They were incredibly advanced in metalwork
and in their art and design.
And yet, this civilization
was destroyed,
strangely, probably around 1900 BC.
[Narrator] While excavating Mohenjo-daro,
archaeologists not only found a sophisticated city
but also evidence of its destruction.
Strewn among the ruins were the remains of people
who appeared to have been desperately fleeing
some horrific event.
[Collins] Human bodies were discovered
either in the streets
or trying to escape upstairs
or in mass pits...
...that looked like they had been killed very suddenly.
[Childress] It's like some doom had taken over this city.
And then, on top of that,
there were also bricks and clay pots that were melted,
and they couldn't explain that either.
[Narrator] What could have caused the sudden devastation
that seemingly occurred at Mohenjo-daro?
It's a question that has divided archaeologists for decades.
But in 1977,
British researcher David Davenport
made a curious discovery
that may point to an extraordinary answer.
[Collins] David Davenport
spent 12 years at Mohenjo-daro,
researching it, working with the excavators,
asking all the right questions,
looking at the artifacts that were discovered,
going around the remains of the streets.
And what he discovered was that
there seemed to be absolute evidence of intense heat,
that some buildings seem to be virtually vitrified.
[Narrator] In 1979, Davenport published evidence
of what he believed to be a visible
50-yard epicenter of destruction at Mohenjo-daro.
And according to his research, the source of this devastation
was truly incredible.
Davenport suggested that
Mohenjo-daro had been destroyed by an atomic bomb.
[Narrator] An atom bomb dropped more than 4,000 years ago?
While the idea strikes many as far-fetched,
Davenport reached his conclusion
after studying the ancient Sanskrit epics of India
and coming across passages
that described battles between the gods.
[Childress] There were these horrific wars
that are talked about called the Kurukshetra Wars.
And they were using powerful weapons
that create massive explosions.
[Deepak Shimkhada] In the Mahabharata,
there are listed
47 different types of weapons.
We're not talking about the bow and arrow
or, you know, sword or dagger.
They were all divine weapons given by gods.
Brahmastra is the most lethal weapon there is.
Brahmastra explodes like a bomb.
And total devastation.
It causes extreme heat
and a wind that it causes to blow.
[Giorgio A. Tsoukalos] In the Mahabharata,
after these Brahmastra weapons were deployed,
people would have boils on their hands
and their nails started to fall out.
Well, only one thing does that,
and that's radiation poisoning.
And so, perhaps the Brahmastra was some type of nuclear weapon.
[Henry] David Davenport
realizes that the effects of what he sees in Mohenjo-daro
precisely match what is told in this epic
about this blinding flash of light
that destroys this civilization.
And suddenly, it's as if there's a perfect match here
between what is told in this epic story
and the evidence on the ground in Mohenjo-daro.
[Narrator] Is it possible that, thousands of years ago,
our ancestors witnessed a nuclear war
waged between visitors from other worlds?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and claim that the evidence lies not only
in the Sanskrit texts
but can also be found in many other ancient cultures.
Across continents and millennia,
civilizations have told a common story.
There are cosmic battles in the skies above the Earth
that involve godlike beings,
what we would today think of as extraterrestrials.
They fight in craft.
They have enormously powerful weapons.
In Sumerian mythology, it's riddled
with lots of aerial battles between the gods.
You have different factions that are warring over
some type of control over Earth.
Also, the Mayans had the epic story
of these hero twins who descend into Xibalba
and conquer the forces of darkness.
Xibalba is now identified as the Milky Way.
This becomes a cosmic battle where the hero twins
journeyed into the Milky Way Galaxy itself.
In Egyptian mythology,
Osiris comes from the star system Orion.
He's here to lift humanity even to the level of the gods,
and he's challenged at every step for his kingship by Set.
This is a battle between two forces
for control of the Earth
and ultimately the destiny of humanity.
[Tsoukalos] You have to ask the question:
was that all a figment
of our ancestors' imagination,
or did they witness something?
Well, in the case of Mohenjo-daro and Tell el-Hammam,
you have the signature of the events.
[Narrator] Do ruins around the world
hold evidence of ancient extraterrestrial conflicts?
And were descriptions of incredible high-tech weaponry
documented by our ancestors?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining a mysterious megalithic structure in Greece
that, according to local mythology,
was built by a god.
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[Narrator] Euboea, Greece.
Towering above this small Greek island stands Mount Ochi.
This rocky peak rises to an elevation
of nearly 5,000 feet.
And dotting its slopes are ancient buildings
referred to as Drakospita, or dragon houses.
[Robert Stephan] The Drakospita are these very large
stone structures.
And as a result of this style of construction,
they're incredibly difficult to kind of figure out
the actual purpose of these things.
Most people today think that the Drakospita
date to around the fifth century BC,
so right in the heart of ancient Greek culture.
But there's still quite a bit of debate
on the side of scholars
as to the actual use in Greek antiquity.
[Narrator] While more than 20 Drakospita
dot this rugged landscape,
of particular interest to ancient astronaut theorists
is the one located at the mountain's summit.
[Tsoukalos] The Drakospita
is at the very top of Mount Ochi...
...and it is one of the largest megalithic structures
in all of Greece.
Archaeologists to this day have a hard time explaining
why it was even built there.
Because we are talking of an altitude
of almost 5,000 feet,
we are above the natural timberline
and there is nothing up there.
So, anything and everything, construction materials,
had to be brought from down below up.
[Stephan] The location of Drakospita
is one of the most interesting aspects.
These are massive stones.
In addition to
actually having to quarry those stones,
or get them out of the ground,
now you've got to get them up the mountain
and articulate them to actually form the structure.
[Narrator] But what's most intriguing
to ancient astronaut theorists
is that the largest blocks in the dragon house
were used for the ceiling.
[Tsoukalos] We have this gigantic
megalithic ceiling that contains blocks
that are up to ten feet long,
two feet thick.
How was that done?
[Childress] Most megalithic structures have giant walls,
but the dragon house at the top of Mount Ochi
has these massive slabs for the ceilings.
Moving these giant stones and actually lifting them up
and then placing them across the walls would be difficult.
And so, you have to wonder, you know,
why they're using such large stones for the ceiling.
[Narrator] Some mainstream historians suggest
the dragon house at the top of Mount Ochi
was built as a hut
-for shepherds. -[sheep bleats]
But could shepherds living in the fifth century BC
transport megalithic blocks that weigh up to ten tons each
to the top of a mountain?
And if so, what would be the purpose
of building a massive stone shelter
in such a remote and desolate location?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe that instead,
the true origins of the Drakospita
can be found in Greek mythology.
[Tsoukalos] Mount Ochi comes from the word "ochevare,"
which means to descend and to drive.
And so, this is interesting because, according to legend,
the reason why the dragon house exists at the top of Mount Ochi
is because Zeus allegedly descended from the heavens
on top of that mountain.
[Narrator] Zeus, the god of thunder,
was the most powerful figure in the Greek pantheon.
Like many of the Greek gods,
he often came down from the sky and intermingled with humans.
[Tsoukalos] The Greek pantheon of gods were not gods
as we think of them today.
They descended from the sky
and interacted with our ancestors.
They were incredibly human.
They had human tendencies,
they were lusting after earthly women.
They committed heinous crimes.
So, are we really talking about bona fide gods
in ancient Greece?
I think it had something to do
with extraterrestrial visitations in the remote past.
You have to wonder if the Drakospita of Mount Ochi
were places of contact back in the day.
[Narrator] In ancient Greece, the word "dragon,"
or "drako," referred not to winged, fire-breathing beasts
but giants and other humanlike beings
with superhuman powers.
Legend has it that a drako built the megalithic structure
at the top of Mount Ochi for Zeus.
But if so, for what purpose?
Ancient astronaut theorists believe
it may have been built as a fortification during a war
described in Greek mythology as the Titanomachy.
[Stephan] The Titanomachy was one of these primordial battles
for the ancient Greek cosmos.
Essentially, this was the battle between the Titans
and their own children, the Olympians.
[Narrator] The Olympians were 12 powerful gods led by Zeus.
According to the story, after a ten-year war,
the Olympians defeated the Titans
using a vast arsenal of devastating weapons.
[Stephan] Zeus's thunderbolt is one of the most
powerful weapons in all of Greek mythology.
Not only does it have the power to shake something
with the force of thunder,
but it then has the lightning aspect as well,
which is able to burn its enemies.
[Tsoukalos] Poseidon's trident was able to vanquish
entire fleets with just one single zap.
Now, when I hear stories like that, I wonder
if the Olympians had access to some type of technology.
[Narrator] Were the Titans and the Olympians not mythical gods
but warring factions of extraterrestrials?
Could the dragon house have been built as a fortress
to protect against aerial attacks?
And if so, might there be other ancient sites
that served the same purpose?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining an astonishing city in central Turkey
that is entirely underground.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
In the small town of Derinkuyu,
a local man performing home renovations
knocks down a basement wall and discovers a hidden tunnel.
Upon further exploration,
he learns that this man-made tunnel
leads to more tunnels, and chambers,
that are all part of a vast underground city,
one that is thousands of years old
and extends nearly 280 feet beneath the earth.
[Childress] I've been to Derinkuyu
a number of times, and it's-it's very impressive.
I mean, it's going 12 stories underground
with all of these rooms and passages.
It had huge wheels as doors which were made out of stone
so they could seal themselves off from the outside world.
There were ventilation shafts that brought fresh air
even down to the very bottom, basement part of this city.
[Narrator] Archaeologists concluded
that the structure could support as many as 20,000 people.
Inside, they found evidence of storerooms,
religious centers,
winepresses
and stables for livestock.
At Derinkuyu, you really had everything you need to survive
for weeks or months underground.
It was like an ancient bomb shelter.
[Collins] One Turkish archaeologist
by the name of Ömer Demir,
who was actually a curator of Derinkuyu
found artifacts that accurately dated
to around 10,800 BC.
The importance of this information
is that it tells us
that there were technologies that we had,
that are now completely lost,
to create these structures.
[Narrator] Just who built this massive underground city?
And what mysterious force
compelled them to live underground?
While archaeologists haven't been able to determine
when the structure was built...
...ancient astronaut theorists suggest
clues about its age can be found
in the ancient scriptures of Zoroastrianism,
one of the world's first religions.
[Henry] Zoroastrianism is the religion
of ancient Persia.
It was founded around the sixth century BC
by a prophet named Zoroaster.
It's basically the worship of the god of light Ahura Mazda.
[Narrator] According to Zoroastrian scripture,
Ahura Mazda warned a young priest named Yima
about a cataclysmic event that was soon to come.
Yima is told to build an underground city
and to take, uh, two of every animal,
and to take, you know, seeds and things like that
and a select group of people into this underground city
to live there for 100 years.
[Henry] This story sounds very much like what we find
in the biblical book of Genesis and the story of Noah,
only here, instead of building an ark,
he's told to go underground.
[Childress] When we look at the story of Yima
and his underground city, and it seems so fantastic
and almost unbelievable,
but yet, here we have Derinkuyu,
and it's totally real,
and it completely matches the story of Yima.
So, here we have ancient legend...
...being proven by a real place.
[Narrator] Is it possible that Derinkuyu is, in fact,
the underground city that Yima was instructed to build?
And if so, then who or what was the god Ahura Mazda?
[Henry] When we see depictions of Ahura Mazda
at places like Persepolis and elsewhere,
he's easily identifiable because he's the one
that's flying around in a winged ring,
and it's very clear to modern eyes
that he's in some sort of a craft.
[Narrator] Could it be that the story of Ahura Mazda
is a real account of an alien visitor
who instructed humans to build an underground shelter?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest further clues can be found in cuneiform tablets
that describe an otherworldly conflict.
In 2014, Dr. Irving Finkel of the British Museum
published a translation of a Sumerian tablet
that describes a great flood.
Now, anybody who's ever read the Book of Genesis
and knows about the flood there, with an ark and Noah,
is astonished when they read the Sumerian text
for the first time because they are the same story.
But this tablet is at least 1,000 years older
than the story in the Bible.
[Narrator] But while the great flood of the Bible
was caused by an almighty God wanting to rid the world of sin,
the Sumerian texts say the cataclysm
was the result of a fight between celestial beings
known as the Anunnaki.
[Henry] The Sumerian stories
tell us about two gods,
half brothers Enki and Enlil,
who are constantly in conflict with one another.
Enlil is anti-human.
Enki is an advocate for the advancement of humankind.
The battles escalate.
They're hurling stones that boil waters.
They have weapons that are described as thunderous,
that emit these bright lights.
To destroy humanity, Enlil sends a massive flood.
But Enki takes aside one of the human beings
and tells him to build an ark
and to take his family and take them to safety.
All over the world, we have ancient stories of cataclysms.
But if we look at the Sumerian version,
it seems to be the oldest of all of these flood myths.
Therefore, it's probably the most accurate as well.
So, you know, it's possible that there was a cosmic battle
going on between the gods.
[Narrator] Could it be that a 3,700-year-old Sumerian text
describes a war waged by otherworldly beings
with advanced technology?
And if so, might the vast underground city in Turkey
have served as a shelter
for the humans who witnessed this event?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest further evidence
of an alien conflict can be found by looking
at mysterious anomalies that exist not on Earth
but in the nearby cosmos.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
After a five-and-a-half-month journey,
the Mariner 9 spacecraft
successfully enters orbit around Mars.
Its mission is to create
the world's first comprehensive map of the Red Planet.
When scientists begin receiving images from the Mariner,
they make an unexpected discovery.
Cutting across the Martian surface
is an enormous canyon
that is four miles deep and over 2,500 miles long.
They name it Valles Marineris.
[Brandenburg] The Valles Marineris stretches
the same distance from New York to, like, L.A.
It's an enormous scar in the Martian surface.
[Michio Kaku] Most geologists would say that, well,
on Earth we have tectonic activity
that could go across thousands of miles.
Maybe something like that
has created the Grand Canyon of Mars.
But in the entire solar system of planets,
we don't see anything like that
anywhere else but on Mars.
[Brandenburg] There are many hypotheses
as to how this formed.
One of the very interesting ones is that there was some kind of
lightning bolt that struck Mars...
...and created this scar.
[Kaku] Maybe a thunderbolt, a cosmic thunderbolt
from outer space caused it.
But I personally don't think so, because thunderbolts are
localized, they're small.
[Narrator] If Valles Marineris
was not caused by tectonic activity
or a lightning strike,
just what could have created this massive chasm?
In recent years, scientists have found compelling evidence
that life once thrived on Mars in the distant past,
and some researchers wonder if Valles Marineris was formed
not by a natural event but by alien technology.
[Tsoukalos] Some have proposed that long ago,
there was an earthlike-type atmosphere on Mars
and a highly advanced civilization.
And that, you know, gash on Mars is the result
of some sort of energy weapon or something like that,
which I find highly fascinating.
Ancient texts talk about weapons capable of something like this.
For example, in ancient Greece,
there's Zeus with his thunderbolt.
In the Vedic texts,
they describe a weapon called the Vajra
which projects a lightning bolt
that can destroy anything in its path.
Was this some sort of technology?
Maybe this is exactly what happened on Mars.
[Narrator] Was the Valles Marineris
actually created by an extraterrestrial weapon?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and point to a compelling discovery
made by Dr. John Brandenburg in 2014.
Writing in the Journal of Cosmology,
Brandenburg noted something unusual
in the thin atmosphere of the Red Planet.
[Brandenburg] The Martian atmosphere shows
a very strong component of a-a special isotope
called xenon-129.
The only place you find xenon-129 in such levels
is supernova explosions...
...or hydrogen bomb explosions.
So this is strong evidence
that indicate probably about 300 million years ago,
Mars was racked
by two enormous thermonuclear explosions.
Imagine
hydrogen bombs as big as the Empire State Building
dropped from space and exploding.
[Narrator] Could the mysterious radiation signature on Mars
be the result of an extraterrestrial conflict
that occurred in the distant past?
Does this suggest that powerful alien adversaries
were locked in a battle that spanned multiple worlds?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining another intriguing celestial anomaly.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
Johann Daniel Titius, a professor of physics
at the University of Wittenberg, is studying the planets
when he makes an intriguing observation.
He notes that the distances of each planet from the Sun
can be measured with a simple mathematical formula,
with one notable exception.
Between Mars and Jupiter,
where the formula shows there should be a planet,
there is an enormous gap millions of miles wide.
It's a very simple mathematical sequence,
and it predicts the planets' orbits
all the way out to Uranus with astonishing accuracy.
The main mystery of the solar system
is the big gap between Mars and Jupiter.
Using this sequence, there should be
a planet there, but there isn't.
[Narrator] It wasn't until the 1850s
that astronomers discovered the asteroid belt
in the region Titius predicted a planet should be.
[Henry] Where did all this debris come from,
and why is there not a planet here?
It may very well be that there was a planet here
and it was destroyed by the same kind of weapons
that created Valles Marineris on Mars
and the destruction we see at ancient sites on Earth.
But in this case,
the extraterrestrials were successful
in destroying an entire planet.
[Narrator] Could it be that the asteroid belt,
along with the massive tear on the surface of Mars,
are the results of battles
between highly advanced alien races?
And if so, what might this mean for planet Earth?
Perhaps clues can be found
in alarming footage that shows the U.S. military
engage with a UAP.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
During a congressional hearing
on sightings of unidentified aerial phenomena,
Congressman Eric Burlison of Missouri
presents an extraordinary video.
The footage, captured by an MQ-9 Reaper drone,
shows U.S. forces engaging a UAP.
[Nick Pope] This was genuine
U.S. military footage showing an object--
UAP-- and a Hellfire missile is fired at this thing,
and apparently it didn't destroy it.
[Travis Taylor] In fact, the missile goes through the object,
doesn't explode,
and then the object just continues along.
Now, it was moving too fast to be a balloon.
I'm not saying it wasn't a balloon, I'm not saying
it wasn't an alien spacecraft.
There is not enough data
to tell us exactly what this object was.
Whatever it was,
it was state-of-the-art technologies or beyond.
Is it something that somebody here on this planet
has generated, or is it from somewhere else?
[Representative Anna Paulina Luna] Every single individual
of the military that has seen that footage
cannot explain what that is.
This tech is not any tech
that any government has currently.
[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,
the sensational video raises an intriguing question.
If we are seeing things in our skies today
that we can't explain,
is it not also possible that ancient people
witnessed similarly strange phenomena
and perhaps even beings
and tried to explain these encounters through mythology?
[Von Däniken] Our ancestors, at that time,
were Stone Age people, primitives.
They could not understand what was going on.
So they believed erroneously
that these beings are gods.
And they worshiped the gods, they adored the gods,
they did everything from the gods.
[Carter] Our ancestors
are telling us, in oral narratives
and in written narratives, what it was like
to share this planet
with beings from another world.
To worship them, to fight for them
and possibly against them.
That's what these stories are telling us.
[Narrator] Could it be that with the recent uptick
in UAP sightings,
we are entering an age in which we will once again
share the planet with extraterrestrials?
And if so, will we find that there are, in fact,
multiple alien races with competing agendas
concerning the fate of our planet
and the future of humankind?
[Henry] When we look
at the ancient stories
of extraterrestrial involvement in human affairs,
even if they're described as myths,
it's very clear that Earth is contested.
And if there were opposing factions or ETs
battling over the fate of the Earth and humankind,
it begs the question: could this conflict be ongoing even today?
[Tsoukalos] Perhaps we are not the landlords of planet Earth.
Maybe somebody else is in charge.
Yet we are still here, and I ask the question: Why?
And the answer to that is:
someone ensured our survival.
[Narrator] Has planet Earth been a battleground
for warring factions of extraterrestrials
going back thousands of years?
And if so,
could it be that at the heart of this conflict
is the human race?
Perhaps one day soon we will learn
that ancient stories about a war in heaven
are not merely fanciful tales
but accounts of a very real fight
over the fate of humanity
that is rapidly approaching its conclusion.
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