[Narrator] It is a land of stunning beauty
and home to some of the world's greatest mysteries.
[Michael Tellinger] There are about four and a half thousand
of these stone circle ruins
in Africa generating energy.
[Narrator] Ancestral stories describe incredible technology.
[William Henry] Ancient African myths described
thunderous vehicles with flames coming out of them.
[Narrator] And the Indigenous people
talk of otherworldly origins.
[Gogo Ekhaya] There is an ancestral connection
to the Amakhosi, or the kings and queens of the stars.
[Narrator] Could it be that Africa
holds the ultimate secrets
of our extraterrestrial past?
[Giorgio Tsoukalos] You have to wonder if maybe
this is where first contact took place.
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[Narrator reads on-screen text]
The second largest continent on Earth
is known for its striking landscapes,
mysterious ancient structures,
and vibrant cultural traditions
that date back thousands of years.
[Henry] Africa is truly a remarkable place.
It immediately conjures up images of majestic creatures,
like lions, elephants.
You think of striking vistas, the Great Rift Valley,
the Congo, the Sahara, the Nile River.
Africa gave rise to ancient Egypt,
one of history's greatest and most iconic civilizations.
And today, it boasts thriving metropolises like Cairo
and Johannesburg.
[Narrator] Africa is also considered
the birthplace of humanity,
and is the most genetically
and culturally diverse continent on Earth.
But what makes it intriguing to ancient astronaut theorists
is that, all across this vast continent,
the native people share similar traditions regarding
visitors from the stars.
[Sabata-Mpho Mokae] The different ethnic groups
in Africa do share beliefs.
And they see God almost a similar way.
Their beliefs are common in the sense that
they believe in this higher, superior being,
but also they believe in people who came before
coming down to Africa from another planet.
[Rev. Michael Carter] All of these different cultures,
tribes have stories
of beings who come down from the sky
and to interact with human beings.
Some as intermediaries, some as messengers.
[Narrator] African traditional religions,
such as those of the Igbo,
Akan, Shona, and Zulu share common stories
of celestial teachers.
[Andrew Collins] What you have
are whole collections of gods,
of celestial beings,
of great ancestors that are venerated
by each different tribal group.
There's such a diverse area of knowledge
and wisdom relating to this.
This is something that has been preserved
all the way down to the present day.
[Narrator] For thousands of years,
cultures across Africa
have kept these mythologies alive through oral traditions,
elaborate ceremonies, and by carving them into stone.
In Egypt, hieroglyphs at the Temple of Edfu
describe the god Horus descending from the sky.
[Giorgio Tsoukalos] Horus was a celestial sky god.
Horus did not originate here on Earth,
and the ancient Egyptians were very, very concise in stating
that he was a physical being that came from the stars.
[Narrator] The Yoruba,
one of the largest ethnic groups in West Africa,
worship supreme beings called the orisha.
[Carter] The Yoruba people talked about beings
who were called orishas.
Who descended to Earth
and have a hand, even now,
into what goes on on this planet.
And this is what they use, even to this day,
to explain the world that they live in.
[Narrator] According to the Yoruba,
these deities came down from the sky
and moved between human and divine realms.
One of the most prominent is a figure named Eshu.
[Tsoukalos] What's interesting is that Eshu
descended from the sky, and he decides
who is allowed to communicate with the other realm.
[Jonathan Young] Of the many African divinities,
Eshu stands out. A kindly, but
a troublemaking, playful god
and would make people happy,
but would intentionally cause confusion.
Artistic representations of Eshu often show him
with an elongated head.
Sometimes about a third of the body shape is head.
[Tsoukalos] He's this interesting looking guy
with this elongated head, and very large eyes.
From a modern-day perspective,
he looks like how we would depict an extraterrestrial.
[Narrator] Might representations
of Eshu reveal that the sky gods described
in numerous African traditions were, in fact,
otherworldly visitors
encountered by the ancient people?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
it is an intriguing possibility,
and they suggest more compelling clues
can be found on the outskirts of the Sahara Desert.
Central Mali. 1931.
French anthropologist Marcel Griaule
treks through the rugged Bandiagara Escarpment
in search of the mysterious Dogon tribe.
When he finds them, he becomes fascinated
by their culture and traditions.
Including the tale of mysterious teachers called the Nommo.
[Tsoukalos] The Dogon claim that these
Nommo descended from the sky in physical form,
and they brought knowledge.
They first taught the local population about agriculture,
mathematics, buildings, and astronomy.
[Narrator] Once every 60 years, the Dogon
commemorate the arrival of the Nommo with a celebration
called the Sigui festival.
[Henry] The Dogon people of Mali
told incredible stories about their teacher beings
that landed on Earth in spinning craft
that made a thunderous sound as they were landing.
And when the craft landed,
they created this pool of water around the craft.
[Tsoukalos] These Nommo--
not only did they descend in physical form,
but they allegedly had these suits
that made them look like fish,
and they would actually live inside the water overnight.
[Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists find it intriguing
that the Dogon describe amphibious beings,
because the Yoruba people who live nearby
seem to depict their gods with amphibious features.
[Henry] What we're seeing here is artwork
that precisely matches the ancient stories
of encounters with a nonhuman amphibious species.
But one of the most intriguing details that the Dogon
left for us is they claimed that the Nommo
came from the Sirius star system.
[Narrator] According to the Dogon,
their gods didn't come from Sirius A--
a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky--
but instead from its tiny companion,
a dying star called Sirius B
that is invisible to the naked eye.
[Henry] The Dogon specifically identified a star
that modern science and astronomy did not
even know about until 1862.
[Tsoukalos] When the anthropologists asked,
"Well, who taught you this?"
They were like, "Well, our teacher gods,"
and they happened to arrive from Sirius B.
[Narrator] Might the Dogon have been given knowledge of Sirius B
by alien beings who came to Africa thousands of years ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and as further evidence,
they point to the wooden masks the Dogon people wear
during the Sigui festival to represent the Nommo.
[Tsoukalos] These masks have been carbon-dated.
And so we know that
some of these masks go back at least 600 years.
Meaning they knew about Sirius B
already 600 years ago.
And the only way that somebody can know
about an invisible star system
is if somebody tells you
that there's something there.
And so, with the Dogon, they are very clear
in stating that the Nommo,
visiting celestial beings, gave them that knowledge.
It's fascinating that, in Africa,
we find all these stories
of otherworldly beings,
teachers coming down from the sky,
and imparting early humans with knowledge.
And you have to wonder
if maybe this is where first contact took place.
[Narrator] Do the traditions
of Indigenous peoples, like the Dogon,
the Yoruba, and the ancient Egyptians
reveal that Africa was a place of extraterrestrial visitation
in the distant past?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining Zulu teachings that describe ancestors
from other worlds.
[Narrator] Johannesburg, South Africa. 1964.
Zulu author Credo Mutwa
publishes the groundbreaking book Indaba, My Children,
which chronicles the tribal history, legends,
customs and religious beliefs of the Zulu people,
the largest ethnic group in South Africa.
Mutwa's book contains a comprehensive collection
of Zulu oral history and mythologies
dating back centuries.
With the publication of his book,
many of these stories become public for the first time.
Credo Mutwa was a high Sanusi or high elder
in the sangoma tradition from Southern Africa.
And he helped to popularize Southern African spirituality
and religion to the world.
[David Childress] Indaba is a Zulu word that means
"listen to me," essentially.
So the title of his book was kind of, you know,
"Listen to me, my children."
[Narrator] In 1964, social tensions in apartheid
South Africa were approaching a boiling point.
It was amidst this backdrop of unrest
that Credo Mutwa endeavored to publish his book
and preserve his people's history.
We need to remember that most of our mythologies
in Africa have been passed down orally
from generation to generation,
and had not been recorded on paper.
We had not had that kind of literature before.
But here was somebody who was contributing towards
how the world understood
Africans, African religions, traditions, beliefs,
for the very first time in history.
[Childress] Credo Mutwa actually got into trouble
with other Zulu elders,
because he was revealing
all kinds of, basically,
kind of secrets of the shamans.
And they didn't like that.
He was
reporting all of these things that,
in their minds, should be kept secret.
[Ekhaya] A lot of the Zulu community
wasn't on board with the release of this sacred information,
but Credo Mutwa saw that
if he wasn't able to tell the stories, then it would dissolve
at some point in the future.
[Narrator] According to Mutwa, the knowledge shared in his book
was passed down to him by Zulu elders
when he was initiated as a sangoma.
A sangoma is a traditional healer
from the Southern African region.
Sangomas are diviners
connected to the ancient wisdom of the ancestors.
[Carter] These stories were passed down to Credo Mutwa.
His grandfather was an old-school
shaman.
And so when Credo was initiated,
these stories were passed down to him.
But they were kept secret. And he broke that oath
in order to get those stories out.
He wanted to decolonize
this Eurocentric mindset
that Africa had nothing to offer the world.
[Narrator] For the next three decades,
Mutwa continued to share his knowledge
of Zulu folklore and published numerous books.
And in a 1996 book entitled
Song of the Stars: the Lore of a Zulu Shaman,
he captured the public's attention
when he revealed new details
about the Zulu gods.
Mutwa claimed that the beings described
in the sacred stories were otherworldly visitors
who were encountered by the ancient people of Africa.
[Carter] He is saying
they are not gods.
That they are flesh and blood like you and I.
And at the same time, he also says
that people who kept the old ways
believe these people came from the sky.
[Henry] Mutwa tells how the ancient Africans
believed that their creator gods came from the sky.
They descended in shining vehicles
with flames coming out of them,
sometimes described as thunderous.
The beings themselves are described as
flaming beings or fire beings.
The word "Zulu" means "people from the heavens."
There is an ancestral connection
from the sky, the stars.
And in the tradition, there's a lot of songs,
there's a lot of prayer to the amakhosi,
or the kings and queens of the stars.
[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,
particularly intriguing
is that the ancient visitors Mutwa describes
and illustrates in his books are similar to extraterrestrials
that people have claimed to encounter in modern times.
Among them are descriptions of tall, peaceful creatures
called the Muncwi,
gray-skinned beings with large, black eyes
known as the Mantindane,
serpent-like visitors called the Kontombile,
and the Muzungu,
tall white figures who bear a striking resemblance
to modern accounts of beings known as Nordics.
The Nordics are often described as being
tall and slender with
radiant eyes and long, white hair.
So Credo Mutwa's book is
talking about, essentially, the same thing, in a sense.
[Narrator] Like the Dogon of Mali,
the Zulu stories shared by Mutwa
also describe powerful beings associated with water.
There were these water beings
that Baba Credo Mutwa talked about.
The water beings are very much a part of
the sangoma tradition and the Zulu people.
[Childress] Credo Mutwa was trained at an early age
to know these stories.
So we have to think that there's certainly something
to these stories,
in the sense that they're genuine
Zulu myths.
[Narrator] Do the ancient Zulu stories told by Credo Mutwa
reveal that Africa was not only the cradle of humanity
but also a place of early extraterrestrial visitation?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest even more compelling evidence can be found
by comparing the ancient mythology of Africa
to Sumerian stories of celestial visitors
called the Anunnaki.
[Narrator reads on-screen text]
[Narrator] Author Credo Mutwa publishes
Africa's Hidden History,
sharing more of the ancient Zulu stories.
In this book, he focusses on a group
of otherworldly visitors called the Chitauri.
[John Lockley] The Chitauri
was an ancient race that
came thousands of years ago,
and they were very tall, very powerful
and very manipulative in some ways.
[Henry] According to Mutwa, the Chitauri
landed on Earth in what are described
as thunderous vehicles that are emitting fire
and creating all this noise.
They're described as reptilian in nature.
They have yellow eyes. They have a tail.
[Narrator] According to Mutwa,
the Chitauri didn't just visit our planet,
but had a hand in human evolution.
[Mokae] Credo Mutwa tells us the Chitauri
came from outside planet Earth.
They had powers that we didn't have.
They came here when we had no power
of speech, when we had
no ability to speak
to one another in words
and sentences as we do,
and that's what they imparted to us.
[Childress] Credo Mutwa is saying that the Chitauri
were teaching humanity,
and that these extraterrestrials had actually
genetically manipulated mankind
to create the modern humans that we are.
[Narrator] For ancient astronaut theorists,
the stories of the Chitauri
bear a striking resemblance to the writings of the Sumerians.
Considered the world's first known civilization,
the Sumerians are responsible for dozens
of innovations that are essential to modern society.
And they credited these achievements
to powerful beings who came from the sky.
[Tsoukalos] The Sumerians are
the first ones to create cities.
They're the first ones to create the plow.
They're the first to have a language
that was written down.
And they're also very clear
that this was all imparted to them by the teachers
from the sky, the Anunnaki.
[Jason Martell] The story goes that the Anunnaki
took their genetic marker
and made us in their image and after their likeness.
And this is exactly mirrors what we hear with the Chitauri.
Mutwa described the Chitauri
as having some type of a genetic play on us.
Basically being involved in our creation.
[Narrator] According to Mutwa, the Chitauri
not only influenced human evolution
but anointed the first human rulers.
[Henry] Mutwa describes African myths that say
that monarchy was something that was imported to Earth
by the extraterrestrials.
That's fascinating because we find exactly the same story
in ancient Mesopotamia,
where we're told that the Anunnaki gods
lowered kingship to Earth.
There's strong crossover between
what Chitauri were doing and what the Anunnaki were doing.
[Narrator] As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, separate cultures
telling similar stories about encounters with their gods
constitutes some of the strongest evidence
for ET visitation in the distant past.
And one of the most compelling examples
involves a Sumerian god who resembles descriptions
of not only the Zulu water deities
but also the Dogon stories of the Nommo.
In the third millennium BC, the Babylonian historian Berossus
told a story about an amazing sea creature called Oannes.
He's depicted as half human, half fish,
and he's considered to be a great teacher for humanity.
He is also, we're told, sent by the Sumerian god Enki.
He's one of what are called the Apkallu,
who are the wise sages sent by Enki to instruct humanity.
[Tsoukalos] The earliest of culture-bringers
to planet Earth
was Oannes, with the ancient Sumerians.
And there, too, it is described
how this fish being descended from the sky
and, in physical form, imparted knowledge
to the Babylonians and the first Sumerians.
And at night,
this Oannes guy would walk into the water,
and not eat anything, but that's where he would live.
And then, you know, to re-emerge the next day,
to impart more knowledge to the local population.
[Childress] He has a fish head, but with a human head
underneath it. And then there's a fish body
with a fish tail, but he has human feet as well.
And he teaches science
and technology
and medicine and agriculture.
So he's very similar to the Nommo of the Dogon,
in many ways. And he's an amphibious god.
Vishnu, too, is also sometimes depicted
as a kind of a amphibious fish god.
And you have that in Japan.
In cultures all over the world,
we have these stories of these amphibious gods
who are coming, they're teaching the people.
And they're coming from, you know, dissimilar cultures,
but they have very similar stories.
And so, you have to wonder
if this has to do with, you know, real,
extraterrestrial amphibious gods
who are, um, instructing people all over the world.
[Narrator] Could it be that the stories passed down
by the early people of Africa
resemble the mythology of the Sumerians
and other ancient civilizations
because these cultures
all experienced real encounters
with otherworldly visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they suggest further evidence
of extraterrestrial contact in Africa can be found
not only in oral traditions
but in mysterious ancient ruins.
[Narrator] Every year,
over 1 million visitors
travel to the border of South Africa and Zimbabwe
for a chance to see lions,
elephants
and rhinos.
But this picturesque savanna
is also home to an enduring mystery.
The landscape is dotted with thousands of ancient ruins
that stand roughly four feet tall
and are often described as stone circles.
[Hugh Newman] These are not classic stone circles.
They're not like megaliths
arranged in a certain configuration.
These are built up of walls of smaller stones,
but creating these very specific shapes and geometries,
often with avenues coming out from them,
often going for many miles.
[Collins] The structures
that are found in South Africa
are individually referred to as kraals,
and this is probably a corruption of the word "corral,"
which means the place or pen that you put animals in,
but they're more than simply animal pens.
The stone circle ruins were first spoken about
by the Portuguese,
when they came across these ruins.
And they asked the locals,
"Are these your structures?"
And they were told, "No, these are not our structures."
That's the first time we read about it.
But the first time we really, really start
to hear about the stone circles is around 1891
when Theodore Bent, a British archaeologist,
was here in South Africa.
And he estimated that there are
about four and a half thousand
of these stone circle ruins in southern Africa.
[Narrator] The builders of these strange formations
remain a mystery, as does the date of their creation.
Artifacts found at these sites
suggest the circles could be several thousand years old.
And recently, with the benefit of satellite imagery,
researchers have discovered that these ruins
span almost 4,000 square miles.
[Newman] We're talking
not just tens of thousands, there's potentially
hundreds of thousands of them.
And so, they may be ancient structures
built as some kind of
network across the whole of South Africa.
[Narrator] Could the mysterious circular structures
found throughout southern Africa
be remnants of a lost civilization?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
an ancient stone circle of a very different kind.
The Mpumalanga Province of South Africa.
2003.
Pilot Johan Heine is flying over the Highveld plateau
when he sees something unusual.
It is the remnants of what appears to be a circle
made with standing stones
with two towering monoliths at its center.
[Tellinger] Johan immediately realized
that's not a natural arrangement of stones.
And he came back that same day
in the afternoon to come and investigate.
[Narrator] Over the next four years,
Heine conducted his own examination of the unusual site.
He then brought his findings
to fellow researcher Michael Tellinger.
[Tellinger] When Johan took me there for the first time,
he showed me all the measurements
that he'd been doing all these years
since he discovered it in 2004,
and all the time and effort he put into it,
analyzing it, checking out the cardinal point alignments,
north, south, east, west,
and the solstices and equinoxes,
and realized that this
is an ancient calendar site.
As the sun moves from solstice to solstice,
the shadow moves on the calendar stone.
And the calendar is still accurate.
[Narrator] After his initial investigation,
Tellinger began to suspect
that the mysterious stone circle might be very ancient,
and named it Adam's Calendar,
for the first human in the Bible's Book of Genesis.
[Tellinger] How old is Adam's Calendar
and what evidence do we have for its age?
That is a very difficult question to answer,
so you have to look at every possible thing.
We've looked at the geology.
We've looked at erosion. We've looked at lichen growth.
[Narrator] According to Tellinger,
the analysis he performed
indicated that Adam's Calendar
could be the oldest stone circle on Earth,
dating back tens of thousands of years.
Curiously, as Tellinger continued
to investigate the site, he began to notice
unusual phenomena.
[Tellinger] The first way we noticed it is that
the moment you enter the site,
the GPS stops working.
Even a magnetic compass
moves around and keeps changing directions.
[Newman] Now, this is intriguing. This is very much
in association with the British stone circles
or the European megaliths in general,
that they kind of have this energetic signature.
[Tellinger] We measured electromagnetic fields
moving vertically from the sky into the ground.
The frequencies that come out of the ground
are amplified between the stones,
so it generates the energy and it amplifies it
very, very powerfully.
So the conclusion is that Adam's calendar
is not only a calendar,
it is a machine.
[Narrator] A machine?
Is it possible that the stones at Adam's Calendar
are arranged to produce energy?
And if so, who built it?
[Tellinger] I believe it is a very powerful ancient machine
that generates amazing amounts of energy
unimaginable to us today.
And it does so by using frequencies
of the Earth that it amplifies.
And I suspect it was built
by these advanced beings, these ETs
with an advanced technology.
[Narrator] Could it be that Adam's Calendar
was created by an extraterrestrial civilization
to generate energy?
It is a controversial claim,
and like many of the other great mysteries of Africa,
no written record exists to document
the true purpose of Adam's Calendar
or the thousands of other ancient circular structures
spread across the landscape.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that information on what was happening in Africa
in the distant past
can be found in the extensive written
and pictorial records created by
the Egyptians.
[Narrator] Of all the wonders of Africa,
perhaps none have captured the imagination more
than the great empire that emerged along the Nile River.
Ancient Egypt stands
as the longest-lasting continuous civilization
in human history,
rising in the third millennium BC
and lasting roughly 3,000 years.
Its colossal structures,
mysterious mummification rituals
and depictions of strange hybrid beings
have long fascinated ancient astronaut theorists.
And what they find particularly intriguing
is that while the stories of many of
the ancient peoples of Africa were preserved
only in oral traditions,
the Egyptians left an extensive written and pictorial record
of contact with otherworldly beings.
[Collins] Hieroglyphs are the written language
of ancient Egypt.
The dynastic pharaohs.
But what's so interesting about them
is that they were known as the language of the gods,
and the entire hieroglyphic system essentially turns up,
ready-made, around 5,200 years ago,
at the very beginning of dynastic Egypt.
And you have to ask yourself where did they come from?
Where is their precedent?
It's said that the god Thoth
actually presented them to humankind wholesale.
[Tsoukalos] Some of the earliest Egyptian texts
refer to a time when the so-called gods mingled
with human beings.
And it is said that these guardians of the sky,
these so-called gods,
were the ones that imparted knowledge
such as city planning, writing,
medicine, engineering,
astronomy, agriculture.
The Egyptians describe their gods as teachers,
just as the Zulu and the Dogon did.
[Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
what the Egyptians documented in hieroglyphs and artwork
provides a record of otherworldly visitation
similar to what was happening
throughout the continent of Africa.
And much like the Dogon and Zulu,
the Egyptians described contact with beings
who arrived in a thunderous craft,
which they depicted as the Benben stone.
[Tsoukalos] According to the ancient Egyptian texts,
this Benben stone descended from the sky
in physical form,
and it landed in front of the ancient Egyptians.
And then a hatch opened on this Benben stone
and people walked out in order to impart knowledge.
Now, people may say that this is all fantasy,
but any ancient mythology
is rooted in some sort of a reality.
And what's so interesting about the Benben stone
is that it is considered a vehicle of the gods.
The ancient astronaut theory suggests that the Benben stone
is a form of misunderstood technology
where the ancient Egyptians tried to describe a ship
in the shape of a pyramidion.
We think of the Benben as a craft because
the myth says it came from the stars.
And when the god Atum arrived on Earth in the Benben,
he descended from the stars.
And when he left the Earth,
he rose into the stars upon the Benben.
[Narrator] Is it possible that the pyramid shape
that dominates the iconography of ancient Egypt
was inspired by an alien craft?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they suggest even stronger evidence
of extraterrestrial contact can be found
by examining the pyramids themselves.
Archaeologists and Egyptologists claim
that the pyramids were tombs for the pharaohs,
but we have never found any Egyptian pharaoh in a pyramid.
Egyptologists have no real explanation
for what the pyramids were really built for.
[Narrator] According to aerospace engineer Chris Dunn,
the Giza Pyramids served a far more profound purpose
than merely commemorating the dead.
This idea came to him while examining the interior
of the Great Pyramid in 1995.
[Christopher Dunn] Inside the Great Pyramid,
you have all these various shafts
and passageways and chambers.
And when you look at it, as a schematic,
for me, it looks like a machine.
And so,
then the question becomes,
well, if that's the case,
what did this machine do?
[Narrator] For years, Dunn researched the Great Pyramid
and determined that the structure was designed
to generate massive amounts of energy.
In 1998, he published his theory
in a book called The Giza Power Plant.
He proposes that the Great Pyramid
would actually harness energy from the Earth,
and there would be chemicals and other reactions
taking place in it,
and this would actually produce energy.
[Narrator] In his book, Dunn proposed
the Great Pyramid was connected
to other pyramids and obelisks
to create a massive power grid.
[Childress] It has been suggested that the pyramids
of Egypt were energy devices.
This is high tech stuff
built thousands of years ago.
So, this indicates a very high technological civilization.
Could that civilization have been ETs?
[Narrator] Do the ruins, writings and illustrations
left behind by the ancient Egyptians
serve as a record
of extraterrestrial contact and technology,
much like the mythology
and rituals preserved by other African cultures?
Ancient astronaut theorists yes,
and suggest that fossils recently discovered
in northern Africa
could rewrite
human history.
[Narrator] Jebel Irhoud, Morocco. 2017.
A team of European and Moroccan scientists
discover the fossil remains of five individuals
who they believe are the most ancient humans ever found.
The bones are dated to be more than 315,000 years old,
and would push back the emergence of Homo sapiens
by over 100,000 years.
And the find also indicates to archaeologists
that for more than a third of our history,
humans may have existed only in Africa.
[Tsoukalos] Now, some experts
are saying that ancient humans
may have occupied Africa
for more than 100,000 years
before migrating to the other parts of the world.
This would radically change
our understanding of human origins.
[Henry] The team that discovered the fossils in Morocco
were led by an anthropologist named Jean-Jacques Hublin.
Hublin was later quoted as saying is that
if there was a Garden of Eden, it would be in Africa.
Now, he's speaking metaphorically,
but it is fascinating
to think that for thousands upon thousands of years
humans exclusively lived in Africa
and then moved out into other regions of the world.
Therefore,
it's very important that we pay attention to their stories,
and also the remarkable discoveries there.
[Narrator] From new fossil evidence of human ancestors
to prehistoric stone circles
and mysterious relics of ancient Egypt,
amazing discoveries are being made in Africa all the time.
But could the so-called mother continent even be hiding proof
that the birthplace of humanity
was also a point of first contact,
with visitors from other worlds?
[Ekhaya] In Africa, there have been many sightings
and many stories that have been told over time
where people have acknowledged that there are
nonhuman beings that have visited Africa.
There have been stories told by Baba Credo Mutwa.
So I do believe that there have been nonhuman intelligence
that have come into Africa for many, many years.
People in South Africa believe in aliens.
And I believe, like many of my elders
and sangoma colleagues,
that there were extraterrestrial encounters
in ancient Africa.
All the evidence points to it.
And we are rediscovering that there were
extraterrestrial races or civilizations in Africa
thousands of years ago.
[Carter] These stories are so fascinating.
And I think our ancestors, on some level, knew
when they wrote these stories down,
when they told these stories
that we, today,
needed to know what it was like for them
to share this planet with off-world intelligences.
[Narrator] Do the incredible traditions,
ruins and oral histories of Africa
tell a story of otherworldly activity
in the distant past?
Were the sky gods described by numerous ancient cultures
in fact extraterrestrials
who had a hand in the development of early humans?
Perhaps in the land that gave birth to humanity,
we will find the ultimate proof,
of our alien origins.
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