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[ Man Narrating]
Evidence of a cataclysmic event.
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You can see it here
that this event took place.
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[ Narrator]
Written accounts describing lost cities.
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Atlantis had a great advanced civilization.
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[ Narrator] And mythic tales
of gods punishing humanity.
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They decided that they would destroy
all these civilizations.
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[ Narrator]
In ancient cultures throughout the world...
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there are numerous stories of mankind...
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nearly being destroyed by a great flood.
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But could such an event
have actually taken place?
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And might it have been caused
by an otherworldly force?
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[ Man ]
One has to ask the question...
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“What if Noah was
one of the extraterrestrials?”
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[ Narrator] Millions of people
around the world believe...
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we have been visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
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And if so,
might we find evidence...
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in the stories of the great flood?
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[ Narrator] It is one of
the best-known stories of the Bible...
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and variations of this ancient tale...
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can be found in cultures
throughout the world.
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From ancient Hindu teachings
and Mesopotamian legends...
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to Mesoamerican myths...
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it is written that the gods sent a powerful
flood to wipe out all of humanity.
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God is angry at human beings...
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because human beings have
not been behaving properly.
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They have been violating God's laws.
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[Woman ] Certainly the most famous
of these is the legend of Noah.
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In Genesis, God becomes so disgusted
with the behavior of his creation...
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that he says he repenteth
of making them...
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and he brings forth the deluge.
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In stories much older
than the story of Noah...
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in the story of Gilgamesh,
the Sumerian legend...
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the council of gods brought the flood.
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In Plato's writing,
Zeus brought the flood.
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[Man] In Hinduism,
God had instructed that one day...
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the whole Earth will be flooded.
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When that happens,
you build a boat...
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and you gather the people,
some animals...
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and then I will save you.
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[ Narrator]
The story of the great flood...
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is often considered to be mythological.
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Bu! Similar stories
of a cataclysmic flood can be found...
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in approximately 1,200
different cultures around the world.
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And many anthropologists say...
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that because these stories
are so numerous...
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and date back thousands of years...
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it is unlikely that they originated
from a single source.
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[ MAGLIOCCO ] When we find
similar myths all over the world...
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like the myth of the flood,
then we have to ask ourselves...
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are these things that human beings
came up with independently?
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Because, let's say, there was
a great flood in ancient history...
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that has been memorialized
in people's mythologies...
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because it was
such a cataclysmic event...
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that people looked for
a religious explanation for it.
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[ Man ] The fact that there are ancient
stories that speak of the same flood...
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it almost leads into that direction...
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that at some point,
some cataclysm happened...
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that not just affected
one geographic area of the world...
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but the entire planet.
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[ Narrator] If a cataclysmic flood really did
occur, killing most life on the planet...
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what could have caused it?
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And is there
any physical evidence to suggest...
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that it actually happened?
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Scientists say answers
to both questions...
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may be buried deep
beneath the sea.
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[ Narrator] The Indian Ocean.
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According to the five scientists who make
up the Holocene Impact Working Group...
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this area,
900 miles southeast of Madagascar...
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is where an enormous asteroid
struck the Earth thousands of years ago.
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This impact may have been so large...
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that it triggered enormous tsunamis that
flooded inland areas across the region-
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an event the local inhabitants
would have perceived as a great flood.
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Since so many ancient cultures
have a flood story or a flood mythology...
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this is probably based in
some sort of real event.
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And an asteroid landing in the ocean
in the right place, triggering a tsunami...
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would then lead to
one of these major floods.
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[ Narrator] The Holocene Group says evidence
for a catastrophic asteroid strike...
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lies in what they believe is
an 18-mile-wide crater...
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on the floor of the Indian Ocean,
just west of the island of Madagascar.
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Holocene Group scientists believe
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also lies in what are called chevrons-
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ancient deposits of sediment and fossils
in both Madagascar and Australia.
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What was so out of place
and unusual about the chevrons...
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was that they weren't
land-based debris.
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But, rather, it was the kind of debris
you get from an ocean sea bottom-
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things like marine animals,
marine fossils.
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They've also found what's really
the smoking gun...
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of any asteroid or comet impact...
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and that's micro-beads.
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The only way they're formed is by...
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the extreme heat of an impact
melting the rock...
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the rock being thrown
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and cooling into
these nice little spheres.
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[ Narrator] Similar marine fossils have also
been found on the other side of the world-
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at the ancient temple complex of
Puma Punku, in modern-day Bolivia.
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If the Holocene Group's
initial findings prove true...
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they could be definitive evidence
that a cosmic strike...
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caused large-scale flooding
thousands of years ago.
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Bu! If an asteroid really was
responsible for a worldwide flood...
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scientists say it would
have to have been as large...
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as the one that led to
the extinction of the dinosaurs...
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which measured eight miles wide...
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and struck the Earth with a force
five billion times more powerful...
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than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
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[ Man ]
There are many ancient texts...
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that tell us that there
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but there was also a conflagration,
a period of fire...
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when the Earth was bombarded with
firestorms, the gods bringing them down...
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and that this period
was then followed by a flood.
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And it would seem that
fragments of this comet...
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vaporized the ice sheets...
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that had been covering large parts
of the northern hemisphere...
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for tens of thousands of years...
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sending all of the water up into
the atmosphere, which then rained down...
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perhaps even for 4O days, 4O nights,
like the Bible tells us.
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[ Narrator] According to those
scientists who subscribe to this theory...
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the fires that might have occurred
just before the flood...
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would have left behind an ash layer
in the earth all over the world.
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This distinctive ash layer,
which scientists call the Usselo horizon...
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could be the ultimate proof
that the great flood really occurred...
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and researchers believe
they may have discovered it.
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Just outside the small
Belgian town of Lommel...
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author and researcher Andrew Collins...
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follows local archaeologist Ferdi Geerts...
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to the site of a mysterious black layer
of soil excavated by a mining company.
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I can already see a black layer
in the soil here.
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It's about just under a meter down,
three to four feet.
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And are we looking here
at the Usselo horizon?
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- Is this it?
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At the end of the ditch,
we see a peat layer.
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At the top of the peat layer,
there is some charcoal.
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- Right. Can we go down and look at this?
- Yes.
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[ Narrator]
Collins and Geerts get a closer look...
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which allows them to determine
that this dark layer of soil...
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seems to date to
the end of the last ice age-
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about the same time the Usselo horizon
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If we come down from the surface here,
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there is this accumulation of sand...
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over a period of around 13,000 years...
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that takes us back to this point here.
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- The black is a layer, and the white is sand.
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- We call that a soil horizon.
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[ Narrator] According to Geerts,
this black layer dates back...
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to the time period when a global flood
may have devastated Earth.
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But what is it made of?
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Collins and Geerts dig into the soil...
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and discover that it is, indeed, charcoal.
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This is the Usselo horizon,
and to Collins...
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it's confirmation that the catastrophe
described in the Bible was real.
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This is physical evidence...
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of that flood, of that conflagration.
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This is your absolute evidence...
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that this event took place.
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This is the evidence of the cataclysm.
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[ Narrator]
Could the Usselo horizon...
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a possible impact crater
in the Indian Ocean...
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and sea fossils at Puma Punku
all be proof...
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that the ancient story of a great flood
is not a myth-..
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But that it is based on actual events?
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And if so, could the rest of the story-
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In which God' sent' a flood
to annihilate the human race-
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be true as well?
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This suggests that a great flood
did in fact happen, that it was real.
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But then it also presents us
with an intriguing possibility.
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It is entirely possible that...
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there is an extraterrestrial
origin to this terrible flood.
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[ Narrator] Could it be that the great flood
described in so many ancient texts...
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really did occur
at the end of the last ice age?
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And if so, could it have been brought on
by extraterrestrial beings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and claim that evidence of this
can be found...
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at the top of one of the world's
most sacred mountains.
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[ Narrator]
Laurel, Maryland. October, 2014.
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At Johns Hopkins University,
top scientists from all over the world...
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gather for the first International Asteroid
Impact Deflection Assessment Workshop.
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The focus of this event is to demonstrate
the latest technology designed...
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for diverting the course of asteroids
headed for a collision with Earth.
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The proposed method involves
launching a spacecraft...
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to collide with the asteroid
at a velocity nine times faster...
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than the speed of a bullet
fired from an AK -47.
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If we look at the dinosaurs,
for example, 65 million years ago...
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they were wiped out
due to the impact of a giant rock...
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that wiped out everything
on planet Earth at the time.
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And so, right now, scientists
around the globe are working tirelessly...
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to redirect asteroids from
possible collisions with Earth.
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[ Narrator] In addition to using direct
impact to knock an asteroid off course...
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scientists have also looked
into the possibility...
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of creating a gravity tractor...
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that could actually manipulate
the trajectory of the object.
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But if we are close to developing
this kind of technology today...
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is it possible that extraterrestrials
who visited Earth in the distant past...
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already possessed the ability
to redirect asteroids?
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And if so,
might they have used this technology...
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not to deflect an asteroid
away from Earth...
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but towards it?
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We are talking about technology
that equals ours today...
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or as some have said,
that it actually surpasses...
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whatever it is that we've achieved
so far in our modern age.
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And so, if we can control
the trajectories of asteroids...
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to direct them away from Earth...
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then it's certainly possible that
highly advanced extraterrestrials...
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could have had the technology
to direct an asteroid towards Earth.
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It's interesting how the legends
described how the flood came.
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It is stated that...
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a great meteor or comet or something
was to swing around from behind the sun...
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and as such,
rip the oceans out of their bodies.
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The flood was clearly contrived.
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It was sent by higher powers...
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to correct things here on Earth.
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They had an intent and a purpose
for Experiment Earth...
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which they believed
had become corrupted...
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and, therefore,
the flood was sent as an attack...
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an assault upon humanity.
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[ Narrator] If the great flood
was a real, historical event...
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could it have been deliberately caused
by otherworldly beings...
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as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
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But if so, why?
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What might they have been
trying to destroy?
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[ Narrator]
Mount Hermon, Lebanon. 1869.
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Exploring the top of
this historic mountain range...
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British archaeologist
General Sir Charles Warren...
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discovers the sacred
temple of Qasr Antar...
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believed to be highest place
of worship in the biblical world.
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[ Man ] Sir Charles Warren
hiked up to the top of Mount Hermon.
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The ruins of this temple are there,
and there he found an ancient stele...
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and he broke this stele into two pieces...
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and brought it back to the British Museum.
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[ Narrator] When scholars translated
the Greek text, it read:
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“According to the command
of the greatest and holy God...
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those who take an oath proceed from here.”
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The inscription's significance was lost on
archaeologists for more than a century...
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until biblical scholar
George Nickelsburg connected it...
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to an oath mentioned
in the ancient Book of Enoch.
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According to Enoch, Mount Hermon
is where a band of renegade angels...
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known as the Watchers...
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descended from the heavens
in the distant past...
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and took an oath
before meeting with humans.
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In the time before time,
the sons of God came down to Earth.
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They were the shining ones,
the Elohim.
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Those are fallen angels, and they
found the women very attractive...
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and they married the women
or bonded with the women.
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[ Narrator] The offspring of these unnatural
unions between angels and humans...
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were said to produce
giant hybrid beings catted the Nephilim...
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and God was so disgusted
by their existence...
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that he decided to send a great flood
to cleanse the Earth of them.
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But how is it that human women
were able to be impregnated by angels?
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Could it be, as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest...
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that the Book of Enoch
is not actually describing angels...
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but rather a different kind
of otherworldly being?
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[ CHILDRESS ] You've got to wonder
what was really going on here.
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Are extraterrestrials coming
and now breeding with humans?
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Which was somehow forbidden,
and wrong, but they did it anyway.
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So the other extraterrestrials
decided this is a big mistake.
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Now we've got to destroy
all these people.
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[ Narrator]
Could the story of the great flood...
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actually be describing extraterrestrials
coming to Earth long ago...
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and interbreeding with human women
to create a mutant race of giants?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and claim further evidence
can be found by examining ruins...
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that are believed to date back
thousands of years before...
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our earliest known civilizations.
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[ Narrator]
The Gulf of Khambhat, India, 2001.
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Scientists working
some 25 miles from shore...
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and 125 feet below the surface...
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stumble across something extraordinary-
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what appears to be the signs
of an ancient civilization.
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[Shimkhada ] Recently,
the marine archaeologists of India...
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have discovered two cities
in the Bay of Khambhat.
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They are still working on it-
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going down there and archiving it
and taking photographs and videos.
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[ CHILDRESS ] They think that these cities
were destroyed in a geological change...
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that happened
many thousands of years ago.
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But you have to wonder yourself...
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if there are not
more sunken cities all around India.
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Their own legends and myths
say exactly that.
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[ Narrator] Ruins found beneath
the ocean in the Gulf of Khambhat...
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are thought to date back
at least 9,000 years...
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to the time when
some researchers believe...
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a comet struck the Earth...
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and caused a global deluge.
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Could these submerged cities
not only be evidence...
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that the great flood really did occur...
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but also that it wiped out
an advanced society...
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that existed long before
the earliest known human civilization?
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Scientists say further evidence
can be found...
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in archaeological sites
around the world...
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that date back
to end of the last ice age.
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In southeastern Turkey
lies Gobekli Tepe-
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an extraordinary series
of circular stone structures...
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with intricately carved pillars
weighing as much as 50 tons.
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Radiocarbon dating indicates...
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parts of the complex were built
about 10,000 BC...
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and at least one archaeologist
believes there are signs...
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it may have been destroyed by a flood.
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[ Man ] We have evidence there
of catastrophic destruction...
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of pillars being knocked over
at the end of the last ice age...
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that things were very severe-people
were trying to rebuild it at the time.
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Eventually they effectively gave up
and covered over the entire site...
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maybe to come back later
to uncover it...
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maybe to simply bury it for posterity.
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[ Narrator]
In the rain forests of Indonesia...
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is a series of terraces,
walls and steps on a hill...
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that the locals call Gunung Padang.
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When scientists drilled
into the earth to determine its age...
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they discovered the site
dates back to at least 9700 BC.
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Very interestingly,
one of the layers of Gunung Padang...
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that's been exposed seismically...
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shows that there was an entrance
to a cave at about 9700 or so BC...
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that was subsequently covered over.
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Again, I think this ties in with
the events of the end of the last ice age.
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People were going into caves.
They had to escape.
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And then things
were covered over after that.
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[ Narrator] Are these ruins
that are found across the world...
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evidence of an advanced civilization
that existed before a global deluge?
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And if so, might we find mention of it
in ancient myths?
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[ MAGLIOCCO] if we go back
to ancient Greece, one of the myths...
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one of the sacred narratives
that Plato preserves...
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is the narrative that there used to be a
great continent, which he calls Atlantis...
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and Atlantis had
a great, advanced civilization.
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Atlantis was one of the continents
that was destroyed by the great flood.
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[SCHOCH ] When does he date Atlantis?
To 9600 BC...
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which is very close to the modern date
of the end of the last ice age.
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So all this, I believe, ties together that
we had an earlier cycle of civilization.
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It was devastated at the end of
the last ice age by natural catastrophes.
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Humanity was driven into a dark age
that lasted thousands of years...
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until civilization reemerged
about 5,000 years ago.
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[ Narrator] Is it possible
that the story of Atlantis...
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is really describing a civilization
that existed before 70, 000 BC...
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when the great flood and the end of
the ice age are said to have happened?
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Did Atlantis suffer the same fate
as Gobekli Tepe...
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Gunung Padang,
and many other ancient structures...
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that appear to have been hit
by some catastrophic event?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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and suggest that the most compelling
evidence can be found...
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not with what was destroyed,
but with what survived.
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[ Narrator]
Qumran, Palestine, 1946.
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In the desert,
70 miles east of Jerusalem...
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a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock
of sheep and goats to look for a stray.
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Walking along the cliffs,
the shepherd spots a cave in the distance.
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[ Man ]
He threw a stone into a cave...
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and he heard the crack
of breaking pottery.
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[Clattering ]
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So he went in to investigate...
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and found jars that contained
ancient manuscripts.
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The Bedouin shepherd's find
led to a discovery of 11 caves...
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that contained the most
extraordinary cache of literature...
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arguably in human history-
the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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There are 800 pieces of literature
found in these 11 caves...
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and it tells us so much
about the ancient world.
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One of the amazing revelations
is a story about Noah...
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that we don't see
in the Old Testament.
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And the story is that when Noah is born,
he's an extraordinary baby...
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with a strange complexion and the ability
to light up the room with his eyes.
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What's interesting is that
you actually have Noah's father, Lamech...
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questioning whether or not
Noah is his son.
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And this is due to the fact that we have
this story about these fallen angels...
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that came down and had sex with women.
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Lamech confronts his wife, Batenosh-
“Is it my son or is it one of theirs?”
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[TSOUKALOS ] Noah's exterior
is described as very foreign.
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His eyes are described to be
glowing like sunbeams.
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His skin is glowing as well.
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Now, that's a very bizarre description.
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And so one has to ask the question...
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“What if Noah was one
of the extraterrestrials?”
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[ Narrator] Could it be,
as ancient astronaut theorists suggest...
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that the biblical figure of Noah
was, in fact, an alien being?
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Is this the reason he is described...
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as having a strange complexion
and glowing eyes?
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The key thing
that's going on with Noah...
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is that he is pure in God's sight,
and so is his family.
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And this purity seems to be genetic,
as much as what you might call spiritual.
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And so, when God makes plans
to wipe out the rest of humanity...
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what he's wiping out is the
extraterrestrial dimension of humanity...
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that has come about through
the pollution of human genetics.
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[ Narrator] Could extraterrestrials
have sent the great flood...
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to cleanse the earth
of genetic mistakes...
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and make Noah the father
of a new version of humankind?
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According to ancient stories...
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the world that Noah's
descendants were born into...
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was very different from the one
that existed in pre-flood times...
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when gods, giants, fairies...
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and other creatures were said
to share the planet with humans.
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The flood does seem to serve
as a demarcation point.
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In the Bible, we read about how
before the flood...
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people had longer lives,
but then after the flood, shorter lives.
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We see the same thing in Mesopotamian
tradition, with the Sumerian King List...
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where before the flood, we have kings
that ruled in Mesopotamia...
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with extraordinarily long lives.
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After the flood, the lengths of reigns
of these kings becomes much shorter.
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The other thing that happened
before this great demarcation...
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is that the gods
were present among us.
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There was a close interaction
between the human and the sacred.
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The gods would guide us,
and they would be tempted.
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There would be interaction-
the god might marry a mortal...
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and then there would be
descendants of the gods.
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Now the gods seem so far away.
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So, there are these theories that this was
the big shifting point in human history.
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It is really interesting to note that
the interaction with these higher beings...
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seems to only be located in the past.
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All these depictions of,
“There were giants upon the Earth.”
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Or a time when
man interacted with the gods.
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Where are the gods today?
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We only seem to have
subtle interactions.
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[ Man ] it's curious to think
why that might have been.
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What was it about this great flood,
this dividing line in history...
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that caused the separation
of God and man?
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It could be that our evolution
depended upon a natural upbringing...
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an upbringing that was not
contaminated by this notion...
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that we're not alone in the universe.
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It could be a necessary part
of the human development.
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[ Narrator]
Could it be that the great flood...
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removed not only
most living creatures from the Earth...
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but also any trace of the alien beings
that gave birth to our species?
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Perhaps additional clues
can be found...
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by further examining the story
of Noah and how he survived.
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[ Narrator]
Uzengili, Turkey, 1997.
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More than 7,000 feet up,
near the country's eastern border...
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an American explorer
searching for Noah's Ark...
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named David Allen Deal...
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stumbles upon the ruins
of an ancient settlement.
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There is an extraordinary
archaeological site...
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in the Anatolian plateau in Turkey,
called Naxuan.
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And Naxuan comes from an ancient word
that means “Noah's Zion”-
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the city of God that Noah built.
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Mount Ararat, which is the legendary resting
place of Noah's Ark, is very close by.
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So it makes a lot of sense that this could
have been the landing site of the ark...
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and then this city would have
been built by Noah.
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[ Narrator] The ancient Armenian
historian Moses of Choren...
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called Naxuan
“the place of first descent”...
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where Noah and his family
emerged from the ark...
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and built the first city or town
after the flood.
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Could this be the first settlement
in the post-flood world?
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The place where Noah lived and died?
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Today, this remote area
is largely uninhabited.
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But according to explorer David Deal...
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a recent archaeological dig reportedly
uncovered something remarkable-
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the region may contain
as many as a million graves.
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There is evidence that people
came from all over the world...
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to bury their dead here
for 10,000 years.
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The idea is that
if you are brought here...
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to be buried in the site
of this extraordinary prophet-
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this man who was chosen by God
to be the survivor of the deluge-
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that you too would be resurrected
because you were in such holy company.
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[ Narrator]
If the story of Noah is true...
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could this patch of earth
be the final resting place...
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of the father of all of humanity?
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[Young ]
When the floods ended, God said...
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“Go forward, be fruitful,
multiply, populate the Earth.”
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And then it says, “God will create
the descendants of Noah in God's image.”
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We have the presence of the divine in our
lineage, and it all goes back to Noah.
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[ Narrator]
According to some researchers...
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if this is indeed the place where Noah
began the re-population of the Earth...
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then the ark must be nearby as well.
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[ Mullins]
In the Book of Genesis...
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we read about how
God commanded Noah to build an ark...
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and the measurements of this ark
are quite large.
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00:34:09.966 --> 00:34:15.722
The dimensions usually given are
about 450 feet long by 75 feet wide...
460
00:34:15.805 --> 00:34:18.725
by about 45 feet high.
461
00:34:18.808 --> 00:34:23.980
Such a boat of these dimensions
was never seen in the ancient world...
462
00:34:24.630 --> 00:34:29.235
and, in fact, not until the 19th century
was there ever a boat of this size.
463
00:34:31.654 --> 00:34:35.241
[ Narrator] In 2009,
a Dutchman named Johan Huibers...
464
00:34:35.324 --> 00:34:37.994
started building
a full-size version of Noah's Ark...
465
00:34:38.578 --> 00:34:42.810
using the instructions laid out
in the Bible.
466
00:34:42.165 --> 00:34:47.670
It took him three years and more than
a million dollars to complete the project.
467
00:34:47.754 --> 00:34:52.425
But while the ship seems perfectly designed
to ride out a torrential storm...
468
00:34:52.508 --> 00:34:55.470
many say it's still far too small...
469
00:34:55.553 --> 00:35:00.516
to literally hold two
of every animal species on the planet.
470
00:35:02.351 --> 00:35:04.353
[ Downing ]
it would seem pretty clear that Noah...
471
00:35:04.437 --> 00:35:09.609
did not scoop up every form
of life on Earth and put it in the ark.
472
00:35:09.692 --> 00:35:14.864
And so as a means of saving
all life-forms on Earth...
473
00:35:14.947 --> 00:35:18.242
this is not possible,
not believable.
474
00:35:19.535 --> 00:35:22.246
[ Narrator] But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest...
475
00:35:22.330 --> 00:35:26.292
there might be another way
in which the ark was able to preserve...
476
00:35:26.375 --> 00:35:30.922
two of every creature on Earth,
as stated in the Bible.
477
00:35:31.500 --> 00:35:34.258
Let's look at it
from a technological perspective.
478
00:35:35.468 --> 00:35:40.560
The only way that
you can create an ark...
479
00:35:40.139 --> 00:35:44.310
like Noah created according to
what we can read in the Old Testament...
480
00:35:44.393 --> 00:35:48.220
is if you collect DNA samples.
481
00:35:49.982 --> 00:35:52.318
So what if the ark...
482
00:35:52.401 --> 00:35:57.573
was a metaphor or a symbol
for some type of a DNA bank?
483
00:35:59.700 --> 00:36:04.163
[ Narrator] Did the ark described
in the story of Noah really exist?
484
00:36:04.247 --> 00:36:09.710
And if so, might it have been not a vessel
to carry two of every animal species...
485
00:36:09.794 --> 00:36:11.838
but a DNA bank...
486
00:36:11.921 --> 00:36:16.259
built to hold the genetic information
of all life on our planet?
487
00:36:17.900 --> 00:36:21.848
[ CHILDRESS ] What one might
read into this is that...
488
00:36:21.931 --> 00:36:25.935
some kind of special DNA bank
was to be created...
489
00:36:26.561 --> 00:36:30.690
that animal DNA, plant DNA...
490
00:36:30.773 --> 00:36:33.109
and human DNA, for that matter...
491
00:36:33.192 --> 00:36:36.112
were all to be preserved somehow...
492
00:36:36.195 --> 00:36:42.118
in an ark that was to float
through the flood and this catastrophe.
493
00:36:43.870 --> 00:36:49.166
[ Narrator] Is it possible that all of humanity
is descended from Noah's genetic lineage-
494
00:36:49.250 --> 00:36:54.460
a new species that replaced the indigenous
people who once existed on Earth?
495
00:36:55.131 --> 00:36:58.217
And all that remains of
this once-great society...
496
00:36:58.301 --> 00:37:03.139
are the giant slabs of rock that' were
too big to be washed away by the flood?
497
00:37:04.560 --> 00:37:08.895
And if so, might we be destined
to suffer the same fate?
498
00:37:09.604 --> 00:37:11.856
Perhaps further clues can be found...
499
00:37:11.939 --> 00:37:14.692
by looking at our own
modern-day version...
500
00:37:15.860 --> 00:37:18.154
of Noah's Ark.
501
00:37:25.828 --> 00:37:28.331
[ Narrator] Spitsbergen, Norway.
502
00:37:30.833 --> 00:37:34.754
On this remote archipelago,
not far from the Arctic Ocean...
503
00:37:36.880 --> 00:37:38.966
lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
504
00:37:47.990 --> 00:37:49.600
Known as the Doomsday Vault...
505
00:37:49.143 --> 00:37:53.856
this repository for the DNA
of plants, animals and humans...
506
00:37:53.940 --> 00:37:56.609
can withstand nearly any cataclysm...
507
00:37:56.692 --> 00:38:01.280
including a flood, an earthquake
or a nuclear blast.
508
00:38:10.581 --> 00:38:13.209
[Woman ]
The Svalbard Seed Bank is a structure...
509
00:38:13.292 --> 00:38:16.837
or a facility that's sunk
into the permafrost.
510
00:38:18.464 --> 00:38:21.926
It's essentially an international effort
to deposit as many seeds-
511
00:38:22.900 --> 00:38:24.553
particularly seeds
of crop plant varieties-
512
00:38:25.304 --> 00:38:28.570
to help to preserve genetic diversity.
513
00:38:36.816 --> 00:38:41.988
[ Narrator] With the Doomsday Vault,
are we creating our own modern-day ark?
514
00:38:42.710 --> 00:38:45.866
One that instead of housing
two of every living creature on Earth...
515
00:38:45.950 --> 00:38:49.745
will house the seeds
of every kind of plant life?
516
00:38:49.829 --> 00:38:52.248
[ Fisher] The Svalbard Seed Vault
has been designed...
517
00:38:52.331 --> 00:38:54.458
with some sort of cataclysm in mind.
518
00:38:55.668 --> 00:38:58.379
The idea is that in the event
of some catastrophic event...
519
00:38:58.462 --> 00:39:01.924
it would still stay cold and
preserve seeds for thousands of years.
520
00:39:02.800 --> 00:39:05.553
It's sort of this last hope
for genetic diversity.
521
00:39:07.304 --> 00:39:09.390
[ Narrator]
The Svalbard is just one...
522
00:39:09.473 --> 00:39:13.769
of several biological storehouses
located around the world.
523
00:39:14.770 --> 00:39:18.107
England's Millennium Seed Bank
is even larger...
524
00:39:18.190 --> 00:39:24.155
while the US federal government has built a
similar facility in Fort' Collins, Colorado.
525
00:39:25.865 --> 00:39:29.535
Scientists say one reason
for these repositories...
526
00:39:29.618 --> 00:39:31.579
is that another large asteroid...
527
00:39:31.662 --> 00:39:35.207
similar to the one that is believed
to have caused the great flood...
528
00:39:35.291 --> 00:39:37.543
will eventually strike Earth.
529
00:39:37.626 --> 00:39:39.754
It's just a matter of time.
530
00:39:39.837 --> 00:39:41.338
[Frisbee]
You always have the risk...
531
00:39:41.422 --> 00:39:43.966
and, of course, we've seen it
here on Earth...
532
00:39:44.500 --> 00:39:47.720
of having large asteroids
or comets hit the planet...
533
00:39:47.803 --> 00:39:50.681
and cause tremendous
ecological damage.
534
00:39:51.766 --> 00:39:56.145
Right now all our genetic eggs
are in one basket.
535
00:39:56.228 --> 00:40:01.567
Whether it's a comet or asteroid
hitting us, we are in jeopardy.
536
00:40:05.290 --> 00:40:07.740
[ Narrator]
In February of 2013...
537
00:40:07.823 --> 00:40:11.911
an asteroid large enough to take
out all of New York City...
538
00:40:11.994 --> 00:40:15.206
came within 18,000 miles of Earth.
539
00:40:16.874 --> 00:40:22.254
Another has been predicted to strike
the Earth sometime in the next 20 years.
540
00:40:25.257 --> 00:40:30.429
But if a great flood, or some other
global catastrophe, were to occur today...
541
00:40:30.513 --> 00:40:32.973
are we prepared to survive it?
542
00:40:33.599 --> 00:40:38.479
And if there really are extraterrestrial
beings watching over the Earth...
543
00:40:38.562 --> 00:40:42.566
are they likely to be the cause
of such a cataclysm?
544
00:40:42.650 --> 00:40:46.700
Or will they simply be observers...
545
00:40:46.153 --> 00:40:49.448
sitting quietly by and letting nature
take its course?
546
00:40:49.532 --> 00:40:54.203
If extraterrestrial gods
are there watching us...
547
00:40:54.286 --> 00:40:57.206
and either aware
of future catastrophes...
548
00:40:57.289 --> 00:41:01.168
or are capable of making them
themselves...
549
00:41:01.252 --> 00:41:05.214
then perhaps we need
to be prepared for that.
550
00:41:07.967 --> 00:41:10.594
We live in a precarious point...
551
00:41:10.678 --> 00:41:14.515
where at any time we could
go through another catastrophe.
552
00:41:17.143 --> 00:41:19.190
And you have to ask yourself...
553
00:41:19.103 --> 00:41:22.640
if the extraterrestrials themselves
may not create that.
554
00:41:25.192 --> 00:41:27.820
[ Man ] One of the explanations
for why extraterrestrials...
555
00:41:27.903 --> 00:41:29.989
might seek to destroy humankind...
556
00:41:30.720 --> 00:41:32.908
is because they treat us
as their property.
557
00:41:34.493 --> 00:41:36.579
They treat us as their offspring.
558
00:41:36.662 --> 00:41:42.251
And they're able to make decisions
about humanity based on their needs.
559
00:41:42.334 --> 00:41:44.837
So perhaps their needs were
satisfied and they decided...
560
00:41:44.920 --> 00:41:47.673
they didn't want humankind around
anymore, so it's just as easy...
561
00:41:47.756 --> 00:41:51.930
to wipe 'em out as it is to continue
to perpetuate their existence.
562
00:41:52.303 --> 00:41:54.597
[Woman ] The evolution
of humans on this planet...
563
00:41:54.680 --> 00:41:59.268
has been completely and totally an
experiment on the part of extraterrestrials.
564
00:42:00.686 --> 00:42:03.814
If survival is the bottom line...
565
00:42:03.898 --> 00:42:06.358
they are trying to get us...
566
00:42:06.442 --> 00:42:10.487
over some kind of a finish line
when we're still alive.
567
00:42:12.907 --> 00:42:17.536
Our survival was ensured
by extraterrestrials...
568
00:42:17.620 --> 00:42:19.538
way back in the remote past...
569
00:42:19.622 --> 00:42:22.791
because we are
their direct offspring.
570
00:42:24.293 --> 00:42:26.670
We are their product.
571
00:42:26.754 --> 00:42:31.759
They, in fact, have a vested
interest in our survival.
572
00:42:35.888 --> 00:42:40.601
[ Narrator] Are we the descendants of
an extraterrestrial ancestor named Noah...
573
00:42:40.684 --> 00:42:45.356
who was sent to repopulate
the Earth after the great flood?
574
00:42:45.439 --> 00:42:47.149
And if so...
575
00:42:47.233 --> 00:42:51.904
are there extraterrestrials
watching over us even to this day...
576
00:42:52.696 --> 00:42:55.241
not to destroy us, but simply...
577
00:42:55.324 --> 00:42:59.745
to see if we can prevail
over the Earth's next great cataclysm?
578
00:43:01.163 --> 00:43:05.251
It is a question we may not have
much time to think about...
579
00:43:05.334 --> 00:43:10.464
except to consider how much
or how many will survive.