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NARRATOR: For centuries,
Native Americans have kept alive
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some of the oldest traditions
on Earth.
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Through oral history
and sacred sites,
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the story is told to Indigenous
people for thousands of years.
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NARRATOR: Their incredible
history is carved into the landscape.
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This is sensational.
Look at that guy right there.
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They represent those gods
that came to Earth.
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NARRATOR: And their sacred
rituals display a reverence for the land
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and for the ancestors
from the stars.
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They're the keepers of the upper
world, which means space.
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ALFREDO FIGUEROA:
We don't use the word "gods."
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We use the word "creator."
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(speaks Native language)
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NARRATOR: Do the stories
of America's Indigenous people
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reveal a long history of contact
with otherworldly visitors?
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JON DOVER: All Native
American tribes have oral histories
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that people came from the stars
to visit them.
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I know they're out there.
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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
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in the universe.
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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
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It demands
we question everything
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we have ever been taught.
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The evidence is all around us.
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The future is
right before our eyes.
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We are not alone.
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We have never been alone.
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Collinsville, Illinois.
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15 miles east of St. Louis.
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Towering over the flat
local terrain is Monks Mound,
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the remains
of a massive earthen pyramid.
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Built more than 1,000 years ago,
it was the centerpiece
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of the ancient Native American
city of Cahokia.
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Monks Mound
is the largest building
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of the ancient North America
north of Mexico.
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It was called that
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because Trappist French monks
lived nearby it.
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It stands 100 feet tall today.
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It was probably taller
in its heyday.
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It comprises of about 22 million
cubic feet of dirt,
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which was millions and millions
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of buckets of dirt
brought one at a time.
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Its circumference
on the bottom is larger
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than the Temple of the Sun
just north of Mexico City.
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NARRATOR: Monks Mound and
other ancient ruins across the Americas
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offer clues about
how Native people once lived
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in vast, thriving communities.
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Yet very little is known
about the inhabitants of Cahokia
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and many Native cultures
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since most of their history
and traditions
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were passed down orally rather
than through written records.
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The Native Americans
traditionally use
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a oral tradition.
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Everything is spoken.
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The oral traditions actually
go back thousands of years.
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It's just the way it was.
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And we've maintained
that tradition even to this day.
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(jangling)
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NARRATOR: It is unknown
what the Native Americans
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who inhabited Cahokia
called themselves.
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Anthropologists refer to them
as the Mississippians,
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a name used to describe
a wide variety of Native peoples
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that lived east of the
Mississippi in North America.
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And although much about Cahokia
remains a mystery,
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what is known is that it thrived
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centuries before Europeans ever
stepped foot in the Americas,
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as did countless other cities.
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BARNHART:
Around 1050,
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the city swells
to a population of 15,000,
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and including the satellite
communities around it,
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almost 30,000.
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There were a number
of these cities
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all around the eastern part
of what's now the United States.
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The general picture of Native
America before European contact
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is that it's some sort
of just nomadic life,
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that they were living
in small bands and camps.
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The truth is that there were
thousands of people
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living in the same place,
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very much the way
the Europeans were.
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NARRATOR:
Across North America,
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vast differences existed
between the Native peoples
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in terms of language, customs
and cultural practices.
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Yet many tribes
shared the tradition
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of worshipping a powerful being
known as the Bird Man.
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(hawk cries)
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When excavations were performed
at Cahokia in the 20th century,
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this motif was found
to be abundant.
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The most remarkable example
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was connected to the burial
of a man believed to have been
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an early Cahokian ruler.
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His body had been placed
on an elevated platform
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covered by a bed of more than
20,000 marine shell disc beads
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arranged in the shape
of a falcon,
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with the bird's head
appearing beneath
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and beside the man's head
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and its wings and tail
beneath his arms and legs.
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The Bird Man of Cahokia
is a burial
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that was found under a mound
in the center of the city.
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And it's called the Bird Man
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because there's
this arrangement of shells
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that appear to be
in the shape of a bird.
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And it makes sense because
we know that the Mississippians
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had a supernatural being
who may or may not be a god.
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But he's
a very powerful creature
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that lives up in the sky.
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We see depictions
on also stone tablets.
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JONATHAN YOUNG: Native people believed
in the power deity called the Bird Man.
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There are a number
of depictions in the remains
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of these cultures
of this powerful creature
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who could fly and could move
among the different realms
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and was essentially the ruling,
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- (hawk cries) - NARRATOR:
Various descriptions of the Bird Man
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can be found
from one tradition to the next,
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and some also feature
a similar celestial being
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called the thunderbird.
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The thunderbird, uh, in Zuni
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is described as a being
that came from the sky
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that could create lightning.
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It could create a lot of noise.
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And it was represented
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as a being with wings
made out of knives.
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Now, the thunderbird
could have been a vehicle.
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But way back then, the Indians
had no other reference.
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So they just said...
(stammers) it is a bird.
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(bird cries)
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One could argue
that this is a representation
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of misunderstood technology
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that could illustrate
some type of a flying craft.
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Because if you don't have
the terminology for a plane,
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well, of course
you're gonna call it a bird.
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I mean, pilots even today
call their planes birds.
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MAHOOTY: The Mound Builders,
I believe, were those Indian tribes
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that had contact
with the extraterrestrials,
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the teachers.
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The star ancestors taught
the American Indians
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about where they came from,
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their different star system,
constellations,
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and how they're supposed
to carry out their rituals,
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by referring
to their star system,
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whether it be Pleiades,
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whether it be the Milky Way,
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whether it be the Big Dipper.
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We don't use the word "gods."
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We use the word "creator."
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(speaks Native language)
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He who has no name
and has all the names.
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He's the eye
that oversees everybody.
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PATTI ROBLES: The creation
story, if you understand it correctly,
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we are all from the cosmos.
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Our ancestors
were extraterrestrial.
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The story is told
to Indigenous people
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for thousands of years
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through oral history
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and through
the petroglyphs and pictographs
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and the sacred sites
that continue to be part
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of our Native
cultural traditions.
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DOVER:
In talking about star people,
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all Native American tribes
have these, uh, traditional
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oral histories that people came
from the stars to visit them.
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And it's universal,
all across the United States,
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that these gods,
as we call them today,
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came to Earth and visited
to provide knowledge.
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The Cherokee talked about,
uh, the star seeds
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and the people coming
from the sky.
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The Zunis and the Hopis talk
about the star people coming,
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and the Mississippi mound people
had the Bird Man culture.
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So, here we have these cultures,
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and their legends
and lores are about
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star ancestors coming down,
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giving them information, showing
them science and medicine.
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TSOUKALOS: Native American
people have been very clear
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when they speak of celestial
beings that imparted knowledge.
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And if you compare that
to the ancient astronaut theory,
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that's exactly what
it talks about,
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that the knowledge was imparted
by beings who visited us.
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NARRATOR: Could the stories
of the Bird Men and star people
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provide an oral history
of alien visitation
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among early
Native American tribes?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
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and propose that, while
the Indigenous communities
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kept no written records,
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a historical account
of exactly what they encountered
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can be found
carved into the landscape
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at an ancient petroglyph site
in Arizona.
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NARRATOR:
In the American Southwest
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is a region
known as the Four Corners,
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where the boundaries
of Arizona, New Mexico,
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Colorado and Utah meet.
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Most of this region belongs
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to semiautonomous
Native American nations,
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including the Navajo,
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Hopi, Zuni,
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Ute and dozens of other
Native American peoples.
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They are all thought
to be descendants
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of people frequently called the
Ancestral Pueblo, or Anasazi.
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DOVER:
The Anasazi, or the old ones,
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as we like to refer to them,
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were here
in the Four Corners region,
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uh, for thousands of years.
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And they suddenly, around
1070 AD, just up and disappear.
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Their cities are abandoned,
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their structures, everything.
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Pottery is left.
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They don't know what
happened to them.
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NARRATOR: Archaeological evidence
shows that, between 1275 and 1300 AD,
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the Pueblo people
stopped building entirely
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and the land was left empty.
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DOVER: They were
a people that inhabited
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this Four Corners region
for thousands of years.
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It's still a mystery today,
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and it's one
of the big mysteries
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in the American Southwest.
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NARRATOR: Similar to the
Mississippian tribes to the east,
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the Pueblo nations
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also described contact
with visitors from the stars
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and performed rituals
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to connect with sky beings
called the kachina.
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There were objects--
We call them dolls--
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But they were sacred objects
that would be similar
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to the costumes worn by
the dancers and imagined to be
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the appearance
of these celestial beings.
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DOVER:
If you look at the kachinas,
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there are
so many different types--
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Different headdresses,
different feathers on them,
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different ways of painting them
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to distinguish them
one from another.
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And that tells me
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that there were a lot
of different types of beings
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that were interacting
with early Natives,
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much more than we even,
uh, think.
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TSOUKALOS: The kachinas
were their first teachers,
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the ones
that imparted the knowledge.
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The Hopi are very clear
in suggesting
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that the kachinas
were physical beings.
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MAHOOTY:
The kachina is a representation
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of the actual gods that used to
come into the villages eons ago.
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Some of them are warriors.
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Most of them
are priesthood-type kachinas,
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and they come
from different parts--
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In my opinion,
different parts of the universe.
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But they actually have
certain places on this planet
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that they call it home.
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Ours is west of here,
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and of course
a lot of other pueblos
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have their own specific place.
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And even to this day,
some of them are here.
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NARRATOR: The story of strange
humanoid beings assisting Native peoples
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has been recounted for centuries
among the Pueblo nations.
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Not only is it a central part
of their oral traditions,
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these encounters
were so significant
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they were carved in stone.
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DOVER: I believe that these
visitations have been documented
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in pictographs and petroglyphs.
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They're not art, actually,
for art's sake.
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The petroglyphs
have been done this way
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for basically thousands
of years.
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NARRATOR: Do petroglyphs
found throughout North America
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tell a story of ancient
extraterrestrial contact?
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In July 2021,
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ancient astronaut theorists
Giorgio Tsoukalos
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and William Henry traveled
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to Rock Art Ranch
in Winslow, Arizona,
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to investigate one
of North America's
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most extensive collections
of petroglyphs.
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Joining them is esteemed
Navajo Tribal Ranger Jon Dover.
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It's so great to meet you
because 31 years,
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you've been a Tribal Navajo
Ranger, is that correct?
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Yes, uh, I started in 1980,
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uh, to 2011.
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And, uh, worked,
uh, most of, uh,
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- the reservation up there, 27,000 square miles.
- Wow.
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This ranch is very unique
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because there is
so much archaeology here.
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Well, we're sure excited to be
here to get eyes on it with you.
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- Okay, well, let's go take a look.
- All right.
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NARRATOR: Rock Art Ranch's
5,000 acres are home to nearly
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3,000 ancient petroglyphs,
and on nearly every panel
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are figures that the Navajo
identify as star people.
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This is sensational.
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Look at that guy right there.
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- They call that the birthing mother, right?
- That's right.
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Very fascinating
because I'm looking at that
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and immediately
my mind goes around the world.
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- TSOUKALOS: This is a depiction of a mother goddess.
- Yep.
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TSOUKALOS: It's like
those big giant statues
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- that were found over in Europe...
- Right.
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but it also reminds me
of Dogu statues of Japan.
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- HENRY: Yeah.
- And also, the Wandjinas.
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- HENRY: Right.
- Very similar.
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NARRATOR: In the Northwest
Kimberly region of Australia,
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ancient cave art depicts
beings called the Wandjina,
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the sky heroes of one
of Australia's Indigenous clans.
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The stories behind
the Wandjinas goes
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that they descended from the sky
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and gave knowledge
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and jumpstarted civilization
in Australia
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thousands and thousands
of years ago.
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And the Wandjinas are incredible
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because they have
these gigantic heads
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and these long bodies
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and these arms.
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It seems as if they're inside
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some sort of a pressurized suit.
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There are similar figures
all around the world--
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Big bulbous heads, big bodies
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floating up in the sky.
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In Japan we have
the same things,
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in Africa...
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in Europe...
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in North and South America.
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So my suggestion is
that the extraterrestrials
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that came to Earth thousands
and thousands of years ago
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didn't just visit Australia.
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They visited each
and every continent on Earth.
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And that is why we have
the similar motifs.
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Look at the concentric rings
up there.
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That's the portal symbol.
There's two of them.
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And there's guys
around the portal,
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- on the lower one. Yeah.
- Interesting, yeah.
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Tell me, Jon,
petroglyphs are regarded
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as picture books
that tell a story all at once.
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That's right, and also en-en...
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- enmeshed in all this are religious symbols.
- Mm-hmm.
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Things that tell you something
about how they worshipped.
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- Pictures of gods.
- Mm-hmm.
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TSOUKALOS:
And when you say
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- "gods..."
- Gods, right.
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what, in your culture...
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- what does that mean?
- It could be anything from
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somebody coming to them
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and meeting with them
and imparting knowledge.
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And in the case of the Navajo,
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that's what
the Yeibichai represent.
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In the case of the Hopis, the
kachinas represent those gods...
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- HENRY: Right.
- that came to Earth
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to give them knowledge.
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And could one make the argument
that these may have been
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visitations by flesh-and-blood
extraterrestrials
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- in ancient times?
- Oh, definitely.
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From what we understand,
there's many different
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races of alien
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that are coming
to-to this world.
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- That's amazing.
- In the case of some tribes
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down in Southern Arizona,
you even have
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a mountain range called
the Estrella Mountains.
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In the language of the people
in that area, "Estrella"
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means "stargate."
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HENRY: Absolutely.
Estrella-- star people.
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Am I correct to assume that this
is only the tip of the iceberg,
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and that there are so many more
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panels like this that the world
doesn't even know about?
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On the Navajo reservation alone,
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there are 300,000 sites
that are recorded.
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I mean, we're talking
at least 4000 BC,
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- right?
- That's right.
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Well, this is great, but I'm
just looking on the other side,
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and there is more.
I mean, there's more everywhere.
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So let's go check out
the other ones,
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- as well.
- Sure thing.
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NARRATOR: Giorgio Tsoukalos
and William Henry
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have been granted special access
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to Rock Art Ranch
in Winslow, Arizona,
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where Navajo Tribal elder
Jon Dover is guiding them
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through the ancient
petroglyph panels.
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- Wow.
- Look at this.
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I mean, look at the hollow
body with the star inside.
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- HENRY: Mm-hmm.
- One hand pointing to the sky,
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the other down to Earth.
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And just beneath that,
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look at-- that is a Grey alien.
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TSOUKALOS: That
triangular head, very strange.
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HENRY:
That is a-- Yeah, it is.
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DOVER:
You have all kinds
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of different types of figures,
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- different representations of gods.
- Right.
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I mean, what we have to fill in
with our imagination
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is that these beings
off the wall, 3D,
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- walking amongst the people.
- (laughs) Yeah.
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- They're interacting with these beings.
- Right.
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We don't know
if it's the same time.
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- Right.
- Or could be different times.
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HENRY:
That's mind-blowing.
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I'm so intrigued by
that double helix up there, too,
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beside the trapezoidal figure.
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- I mean...
- TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm, as if to indicate,
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because of the creature
on the left, DNA,
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- you know, had something to do with this.
- Right.
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- That's right.
- Giorgio, uh, when you see
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- the guy with the trapezoidal body...
- Mm-hmm.
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and you see
the curvy lines on the body,
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- that always symbolizes, like, vibration.
- Okay.
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The-the Anunnaki wore cloaks
that had those kind of
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- curvy lines all over.
- Right.
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And so here we have a clear,
clear symbolic connection
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with-with the Anunnaki
on this figure.
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The Anunnaki were powerful
deities worshipped more than
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5,000 years ago by the ancient
Sumerians who inhabited
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Mesopotamia, an area
that is now modern-day Iraq.
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According to the Sumerian
writings, the Anunnaki
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descended upon a mountain,
shining like the sun,
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and shared profound wisdom
with the human race.
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Look at all the different types
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of beings here, and then
all the way across there,
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y-you've still got
even more variety.
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I mean, this is almost
like a meeting place
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of all these different worlds
and different beings.
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So, you know, you have giants,
you have little people.
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And the giants and the little
people are talked about
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in the other world
that they came from
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before they came to this world.
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So, and this is the same
with Sego Canyon up in Utah.
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You have these massive,
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massive carvings
and petroglyphs.
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So the fact that we have these
virtually identical motifs,
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to me, suggests they were all
taught by the same teachers.
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And the guy here with the horns,
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which could be rays,
right next to the Grey alien.
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He's got horns or rays
coming off of his head.
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- We see that at Valcamonica in Italy.
- TSOUKALOS: Yes, you do.
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HENRY: You see it all kinds
of different places, but then
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pointing to the idea
these could be luminous
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or radiant beings
that they're portraying.
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TSOUKALOS:
And seeing creatures here
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- having, for example, three fingers...
- HENRY: Mm-hmm.
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You know, as far as I know, uh,
except for a couple of reptiles,
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there aren't
any three-fingered creatures.
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- Yeah.
- You know? So, and especially nothing humanoid.
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- Right.
- So, again, our ancestors
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had impeccable powers
of observation.
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That's all they did all day.
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They, they observed.
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And so your estimation then,
too,
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is that this was not
a bunch of kids,
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you know, on a Saturday night
not knowing what to do.
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Absolutely not.
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These were people that came
here with a purpose...
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- HENRY: Mm-hmm.
- and the purpose was to put
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their history on the wall
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showing where they came from,
where they were going.
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Jon, this is incredible,
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and what I love the most
is the access.
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I mean, I've never been
face-to-face like this.
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There's a lot of places
nobody's allowed to go
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except for archaeologists,
medicine men,
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-and Rangers.
-HENRY: It's spectacular. It's one thing to see
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images in a book
or on a... online,
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but to-to come face-to-face
with it, feel the energy,
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see it, spectacular.
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I came away with this deep sense
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that this is meant for us
to discover
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throughout the ages, that it was
super important to the ancients
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to record this information,
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to tell us
that these beings were here.
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They had a hand in our evolution
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and they're probably
still visiting us today.
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TSOUKALOS: What I think is
important in this whole thing is that
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Jon said these are our stories
of the star people.
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And when First Nation
cultures say
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that someone visited from
the sky and imparted knowledge,
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I think it's time
that we start to listen.
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NARRATOR: Do the petroglyphs
at Rock Art Ranch provide
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an historical record
of extraterrestrial visitation
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in North America?
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And if so, why does there
seem to be such a strong
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connection
between Native Americans
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and otherworldly beings?
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Perhaps further clues can
be found within oral traditions
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that describe strange beings
known as...
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the ant men.
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NARRATOR: In the desolate high
desert of the American Southwest
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stand the ruins of the most
important ceremonial site
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of the ancient Pueblo people.
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Constructed around 900 AD,
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the central feature
of this vast complex
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is the Great Kiva.
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A kiva is basically,
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um, a Native American version
of a church.
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It is a circular structure.
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Chaco Canyon has
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an absolutely giant one
that's located there.
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When you enter one you're
literally entering another world
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to commune
with the gods from before.
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In ancient Pueblo culture,
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every place you went had
a small kiva of some kind.
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But they would get together
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maybe eight or nine
different kivas,
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small ones,
into a larger great kiva,
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and the great kivas were huge.
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When the Spanish came in
in the 1600s,
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00:26:49,016 --> 00:26:51,424
they took their church
and interposed it
492
00:26:51,518 --> 00:26:53,093
on top of the kiva.
493
00:26:53,112 --> 00:26:55,279
So everywhere
in these Hopi villages,
494
00:26:55,430 --> 00:26:59,783
in the Pueblo villages
that you see a Catholic church,
495
00:27:00,010 --> 00:27:03,103
it's usually
on the high point of land
496
00:27:03,122 --> 00:27:05,681
where the kiva was destroyed
and the church
497
00:27:05,774 --> 00:27:08,083
was built over the top of it.
498
00:27:09,870 --> 00:27:13,297
NARRATOR: Every kiva
includes a feature called a sipapu.
499
00:27:13,524 --> 00:27:17,693
In some kivas,
the sipapu is a small hole
500
00:27:17,711 --> 00:27:19,695
in the subterranean wall.
501
00:27:19,713 --> 00:27:21,713
In kivas that are enclosed,
502
00:27:21,807 --> 00:27:25,125
it is often represented
by a hole in the roof.
503
00:27:25,144 --> 00:27:29,554
In both cases, it is the most
important part of the structure,
504
00:27:29,707 --> 00:27:33,725
symbolizing the entrance
to a subterranean world.
505
00:27:33,878 --> 00:27:37,655
All of the Pueblos share a story
506
00:27:37,882 --> 00:27:41,307
in which humankind
began under the earth.
507
00:27:41,327 --> 00:27:44,903
And we slowly,
over generations, crawled up
508
00:27:45,055 --> 00:27:47,647
and out of a hole called sipapu.
509
00:27:47,667 --> 00:27:53,153
And the kivas have this little
hole in it symbolizing that.
510
00:27:53,172 --> 00:27:56,322
NARRATOR: The descendants
of the Ancestral Pueblo
511
00:27:56,342 --> 00:27:59,067
share the belief
that Earth was populated
512
00:27:59,086 --> 00:28:02,921
three separate times
before the era of modern humans,
513
00:28:03,015 --> 00:28:05,683
with each previous age
514
00:28:05,834 --> 00:28:08,352
ending
in a devastating cataclysm.
515
00:28:08,503 --> 00:28:10,913
HENRY: The Pueblo Indians
believe that
516
00:28:10,931 --> 00:28:13,916
there in fact were three worlds,
or epochs, before ours.
517
00:28:14,009 --> 00:28:15,842
And they were all destroyed.
518
00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:19,679
The first by fire,
the second by ice,
519
00:28:19,773 --> 00:28:22,274
and the third by water.
520
00:28:22,368 --> 00:28:25,703
In each instance,
they tell us that it was due
521
00:28:25,854 --> 00:28:28,688
to mistreatment of the Earth,
and so that tells us
522
00:28:28,782 --> 00:28:33,118
that there could have been
previous examples of humanity
523
00:28:33,270 --> 00:28:35,879
that were destroyed
who knows how long ago.
524
00:28:37,550 --> 00:28:40,459
CHILDRESS: We're living
now in the fourth world.
525
00:28:40,611 --> 00:28:43,128
And the Zunis and Hopis believe
526
00:28:43,222 --> 00:28:46,890
our fourth world will also end
in a cataclysm.
527
00:28:48,469 --> 00:28:51,729
HENRY: Their prophecy
says that there would be a,
528
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,398
a gourd of ashes
that would come from the sky.
529
00:28:54,549 --> 00:28:57,142
That's interpreted
as nuclear warfare.
530
00:28:57,294 --> 00:29:01,146
TSOUKALOS: The Hopi suggest
that there were previous worlds
531
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:05,409
or civilizations before,
and this is interesting because
532
00:29:05,636 --> 00:29:07,745
there are other cultures,
ancient cultures,
533
00:29:07,972 --> 00:29:10,873
around the world,
who speak of similar stories.
534
00:29:12,493 --> 00:29:14,159
HENRY: The Kabbalah
teaches that there were previous
535
00:29:14,311 --> 00:29:15,902
advanced human civilizations.
536
00:29:15,921 --> 00:29:17,904
A number of them.
537
00:29:17,998 --> 00:29:20,983
The Hindus teach
about the Yugas,
538
00:29:21,001 --> 00:29:23,168
where civilization advances
539
00:29:23,320 --> 00:29:27,914
to a very high place and then
descends and then re-ascends.
540
00:29:27,933 --> 00:29:30,509
It, too, is divided
into four different ages.
541
00:29:30,603 --> 00:29:34,663
So all of these traditions
corresponds directly
542
00:29:34,681 --> 00:29:38,183
with what the Native American
tradition is teaching.
543
00:29:38,335 --> 00:29:41,111
NARRATOR: Could the
Native American tradition
544
00:29:41,338 --> 00:29:45,282
describing previous ages
of humankind be true?
545
00:29:45,509 --> 00:29:48,844
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
546
00:29:48,937 --> 00:29:51,271
and suggest that these stories
547
00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:54,958
also contain evidence of
extraterrestrial intervention.
548
00:29:56,778 --> 00:30:01,465
The Hopis of Northern Arizona
have a very curious myth
549
00:30:01,692 --> 00:30:05,469
of surviving
the third of the cataclysms
550
00:30:05,620 --> 00:30:10,215
by going underground and living
with what they call the ant men.
551
00:30:10,367 --> 00:30:14,961
HENRY: The stories the Hopi tell
us that the ant people rescued them
552
00:30:15,055 --> 00:30:19,057
from cataclysm by taking them
underground, literally,
553
00:30:19,151 --> 00:30:21,985
and helping the Hopi
to survive underground,
554
00:30:22,137 --> 00:30:25,322
and then once it was safe
to return to the surface
555
00:30:25,473 --> 00:30:28,717
of the Earth, the Hopi were
taken up through the sipapu
556
00:30:28,735 --> 00:30:32,663
by the ant people
and repopulated the Earth.
557
00:30:32,814 --> 00:30:35,223
But in all instances,
the ant people are described
558
00:30:35,242 --> 00:30:37,668
as having a special
relationship with the Hopi,
559
00:30:37,819 --> 00:30:41,229
and also of having a connection
with the star realms.
560
00:30:41,323 --> 00:30:45,734
NARRATOR: Despite their name,
ant men are described not as insects
561
00:30:45,752 --> 00:30:49,162
but rather
as small humanoid figures.
562
00:30:49,181 --> 00:30:52,182
The reason they call
these creatures "ant men"
563
00:30:52,409 --> 00:30:55,018
is that they lived
under the earth,
564
00:30:55,170 --> 00:30:58,413
and they would emerge much like
ants crawling out of a hive.
565
00:30:58,432 --> 00:31:01,433
So they called them ant men,
but what they were,
566
00:31:01,585 --> 00:31:03,418
were extraterrestrials.
567
00:31:03,437 --> 00:31:06,605
They were entering
our world through the portal.
568
00:31:06,757 --> 00:31:10,942
CHILDRESS: The ant men
were underground dwellers who
569
00:31:11,036 --> 00:31:13,778
had a high technology
and looked very similar
570
00:31:13,873 --> 00:31:16,707
apparently to what
we would call Grey aliens.
571
00:31:16,858 --> 00:31:19,935
So this is something
of a mystery,
572
00:31:20,028 --> 00:31:22,604
of-of who these ant men were.
573
00:31:22,623 --> 00:31:26,717
Many Hopis and the Zunis
have similar belief that,
574
00:31:26,944 --> 00:31:28,886
yes, the ant men
were extraterrestrials.
575
00:31:31,039 --> 00:31:32,872
MAHOOTY:
There were beings that are
576
00:31:32,966 --> 00:31:35,208
of extraterrestrial origin
577
00:31:35,227 --> 00:31:38,878
that were...
were part of that whole
578
00:31:38,972 --> 00:31:41,139
emergence mythology.
579
00:31:41,291 --> 00:31:43,358
The entrance
to the fourth world.
580
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:47,237
Could it be
that the story of the ant men
581
00:31:47,389 --> 00:31:49,297
is a genuine account
582
00:31:49,316 --> 00:31:52,058
of extraterrestrials
helping humanity survive
583
00:31:52,152 --> 00:31:54,578
a global cataclysm?
584
00:31:54,805 --> 00:31:57,748
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
585
00:31:57,899 --> 00:32:00,659
and suggest further clues
can be found
586
00:32:00,811 --> 00:32:02,902
by comparing
the Native American traditions
587
00:32:02,922 --> 00:32:05,756
to accounts
of a legendary lost continent
588
00:32:05,907 --> 00:32:08,759
called Atlantis.
589
00:32:16,936 --> 00:32:20,829
NARRATOR: In his famous
dialogues, Timaeus and Critias,
590
00:32:20,922 --> 00:32:22,922
the Greek philosopher
Plato writes
591
00:32:22,942 --> 00:32:25,091
about a lost continent
592
00:32:25,185 --> 00:32:28,336
that existed 9,000 years
before his time
593
00:32:28,355 --> 00:32:32,616
and was home to
a highly advanced civilization.
594
00:32:32,767 --> 00:32:36,954
Called Atlantis, it was founded
by the Greek god Poseidon,
595
00:32:37,181 --> 00:32:41,349
and the inhabitants possessed
sophisticated technology.
596
00:32:41,443 --> 00:32:45,036
But Atlantis was ultimately
destroyed
597
00:32:45,130 --> 00:32:49,449
by a terrible cataclysm, and
according to some researchers,
598
00:32:49,468 --> 00:32:52,877
the story of its destruction
is strikingly similar
599
00:32:53,030 --> 00:32:55,714
to Native American traditions
detailing the end
600
00:32:55,866 --> 00:32:58,366
of the third world.
601
00:32:58,385 --> 00:33:01,294
HENRY: The Hopi and other
Pueblo Indians tell us
602
00:33:01,313 --> 00:33:03,722
that their devastating cataclysm
603
00:33:03,874 --> 00:33:06,875
was due to human greed
and wandering away
604
00:33:06,968 --> 00:33:09,544
from the-the spiritual truths
of our creator.
605
00:33:09,637 --> 00:33:13,231
What's interesting
about this is that this idea
606
00:33:13,325 --> 00:33:16,401
is echoed in Plato's story
of the destruction of Atlantis.
607
00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:19,812
The Atlanteans were
also created by gods.
608
00:33:19,832 --> 00:33:23,166
As soon as humanity
wandered off into materialism,
609
00:33:23,393 --> 00:33:27,395
that's when Atlantis was
destroyed by water.
610
00:33:27,489 --> 00:33:30,248
A perfect correspondence
with what the Hopi said
611
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,175
happened at the end
of the third world.
612
00:33:32,327 --> 00:33:34,494
NARRATOR:
Could there be a connection
613
00:33:34,513 --> 00:33:37,163
between the ancient Greek tale
of Atlantis
614
00:33:37,257 --> 00:33:39,999
and Native American
origin stories?
615
00:33:40,093 --> 00:33:42,853
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
616
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,339
another story told
by early Native Americans
617
00:33:46,358 --> 00:33:49,509
bears striking similarities
to Atlantis--
618
00:33:49,603 --> 00:33:54,013
The legend of the lost city
of Aztlán, which appears
619
00:33:54,107 --> 00:33:56,033
in the traditions of the Aztecs
620
00:33:56,260 --> 00:33:57,850
and numerous
Native American groups
621
00:33:57,944 --> 00:33:59,703
throughout the Southwest.
622
00:34:13,944 --> 00:34:17,846
of the Hopis, so we have
all these oral histories also...
623
00:34:24,137 --> 00:34:27,046
There's debate among scholars
as to exactly
624
00:34:27,066 --> 00:34:29,382
what Aztlán looked like.
625
00:34:29,401 --> 00:34:33,737
And we know that the Aztecs say
626
00:34:33,964 --> 00:34:37,056
that their capital
of Tenochtitlán
627
00:34:37,076 --> 00:34:40,985
was made in the image of Aztlán.
628
00:34:41,138 --> 00:34:43,729
And from that capital,
629
00:34:43,824 --> 00:34:47,158
we get a backwards projection
that their origin place
630
00:34:47,311 --> 00:34:51,171
is an island
surrounded by water.
631
00:34:52,833 --> 00:34:55,908
They actually built
Tenochtitlán up
632
00:34:56,002 --> 00:34:58,578
into the lake
and put causeways out
633
00:34:58,672 --> 00:35:01,823
so that it looks
very much like Atlantis.
634
00:35:01,916 --> 00:35:04,826
NARRATOR:
According to the Aztecs,
635
00:35:04,845 --> 00:35:08,921
the god Huitzilopochtli
was the founder of Tenochtitlán,
636
00:35:08,941 --> 00:35:11,850
which as far
as ancient astronaut theorists
637
00:35:12,002 --> 00:35:14,778
are concerned, provides yet
another intriguing connection
638
00:35:14,929 --> 00:35:18,690
to Plato's
description of Atlantis.
639
00:35:18,842 --> 00:35:22,435
Tenochtitlán was
a place made artificially.
640
00:35:22,529 --> 00:35:25,956
Compare it to Atlantis.
641
00:35:26,183 --> 00:35:29,442
In both cases,
a god was the ruler of it.
642
00:35:29,461 --> 00:35:32,129
In Atlantis, we have Poseidon.
643
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:34,965
Now, Poseidon was
an extraterrestrial.
644
00:35:35,192 --> 00:35:39,544
Not everyone should
have access to Atlantis.
645
00:35:39,696 --> 00:35:43,381
The same thing
in Aztlán or Tenochtitlán.
646
00:35:43,533 --> 00:35:45,475
They wanted to be separated.
647
00:35:45,627 --> 00:35:48,311
They had a certain technology
there which was
648
00:35:48,538 --> 00:35:52,131
a hidden technology, and it was
not for the general public.
649
00:35:52,225 --> 00:35:53,817
See, it's the same thing.
650
00:35:54,044 --> 00:35:56,135
TSOUKALOS:
The fact that we have stories
651
00:35:56,229 --> 00:35:58,471
that are not just similar
but identical
652
00:35:58,490 --> 00:36:01,974
leads me to think that perhaps
653
00:36:01,994 --> 00:36:03,976
these ancient cultures
were visited
654
00:36:03,996 --> 00:36:06,888
by the same extraterrestrials.
655
00:36:06,907 --> 00:36:10,074
NARRATOR:
While mainstream academics
656
00:36:10,227 --> 00:36:13,653
consider the stories
of these lost civilizations
657
00:36:13,672 --> 00:36:16,748
and their destruction
to be mythological,
658
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,751
the recent discovery
of vast sunken landmasses
659
00:36:19,903 --> 00:36:21,920
such as Doggerland,
660
00:36:22,072 --> 00:36:26,424
located just east
of the British Isles in 2012,
661
00:36:26,518 --> 00:36:31,079
and Zealandia,
found near New Zealand in 2017,
662
00:36:31,097 --> 00:36:34,749
may offer proof
that a catastrophic water event
663
00:36:34,768 --> 00:36:38,195
did, in fact,
change the face of the Earth.
664
00:36:38,422 --> 00:36:41,531
CHILDRESS: So here
we have authentic legends
665
00:36:41,683 --> 00:36:45,927
of lost lands that were
destroyed in cataclysms.
666
00:36:45,946 --> 00:36:49,539
Mainstream historians,
you know, still
667
00:36:49,691 --> 00:36:52,283
pretty much reject this,
feel that it's all myths.
668
00:36:52,436 --> 00:36:55,453
But it would seem
really that all kinds
669
00:36:55,605 --> 00:36:58,940
of civilizations could have
come and gone on our planet.
670
00:36:58,959 --> 00:37:01,443
We know that there are over 200
671
00:37:01,461 --> 00:37:04,370
known submerged cities
in the Mediterranean.
672
00:37:04,389 --> 00:37:06,872
There's just so much
on our planet
673
00:37:06,892 --> 00:37:08,808
that we have yet to find out.
674
00:37:10,562 --> 00:37:12,637
YOUNG: In the Native
American Indigenous teaching,
675
00:37:12,731 --> 00:37:15,123
there are cycles
of destruction and rebirth.
676
00:37:15,141 --> 00:37:17,792
The interesting part is that
this is parallel
677
00:37:17,811 --> 00:37:19,552
to other great world teachings.
678
00:37:19,571 --> 00:37:22,239
In the story of Noah,
679
00:37:22,466 --> 00:37:24,407
the sons of God came down
to Earth.
680
00:37:24,634 --> 00:37:26,892
And they were teaching
the humans evil ways,
681
00:37:26,987 --> 00:37:29,729
and God decided to intervene
682
00:37:29,748 --> 00:37:32,474
and brought this great flood.
683
00:37:32,567 --> 00:37:35,977
In the story of Gilgamesh,
the Sumerian legend,
684
00:37:36,070 --> 00:37:39,481
the council of gods
brought the flood.
685
00:37:39,574 --> 00:37:43,927
The Inca god Viracocha created
the great flood.
686
00:37:44,154 --> 00:37:46,763
HENRY:
So all of these traditions
687
00:37:46,914 --> 00:37:50,174
correspond directly with
the Hopi four worlds tradition
688
00:37:50,327 --> 00:37:52,677
about previous civilizations
689
00:37:52,771 --> 00:37:55,013
destroyed by the gods.
690
00:37:55,107 --> 00:37:56,831
The story is always the same.
691
00:37:56,850 --> 00:37:58,441
This speaks to the idea
692
00:37:58,593 --> 00:38:01,278
of extraterrestrial intervention
in human affairs.
693
00:38:01,429 --> 00:38:04,447
ROBLES: I believe there
are ancient civilizations
694
00:38:04,599 --> 00:38:08,860
that some people
refuse to write about.
695
00:38:08,954 --> 00:38:11,863
But ancient civilizations are
696
00:38:12,015 --> 00:38:14,791
coming to surface
because the time has come
697
00:38:14,942 --> 00:38:19,129
to tell the truth
about human origin.
698
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,114
NARRATOR: Could it be
that Native American stories
699
00:38:22,208 --> 00:38:25,302
of star people
and of lost civilizations
700
00:38:25,529 --> 00:38:28,454
so closely resembles
other ancient traditions
701
00:38:28,473 --> 00:38:31,123
from around the globe
because they all encountered
702
00:38:31,217 --> 00:38:34,311
the same otherworldly visitors?
703
00:38:34,538 --> 00:38:37,722
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and suggest
704
00:38:37,816 --> 00:38:41,300
the Native Americans'
knowledge of star people
705
00:38:41,394 --> 00:38:43,711
comes not only
from the distant past
706
00:38:43,805 --> 00:38:46,639
but from
the extraterrestrial activity
707
00:38:46,733 --> 00:38:50,243
that occurs over
Native lands even today.
708
00:39:00,580 --> 00:39:02,822
NARRATOR: According to
Zuni elder Clifford Mahooty,
709
00:39:02,841 --> 00:39:06,158
above this steep mesa
on the Zuni Reservation,
710
00:39:06,252 --> 00:39:09,846
strange lights are seen
in the sky nearly every night.
711
00:39:10,073 --> 00:39:14,425
The UFO activity here
is very, very,
712
00:39:14,578 --> 00:39:16,928
uh, prevalent because
713
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:19,247
of the religious system
714
00:39:19,340 --> 00:39:22,083
that we practice every day.
715
00:39:22,102 --> 00:39:25,937
So all around
the whole Zuni reservation
716
00:39:26,031 --> 00:39:29,699
you can look up
in the sky and they're up there.
717
00:39:29,926 --> 00:39:33,761
And they're not stars.
They're not planets.
718
00:39:33,855 --> 00:39:35,763
There's a lot of our people
719
00:39:35,782 --> 00:39:37,540
that, here in Zuni,
have seen them.
720
00:39:39,119 --> 00:39:41,211
TSOUKALOS: When you talk
to many Native Americans,
721
00:39:41,362 --> 00:39:43,955
they'll tell you
that UFO sightings are common
722
00:39:44,049 --> 00:39:45,548
on their Native lands.
723
00:39:45,775 --> 00:39:48,051
And you have to ask,
why is that?
724
00:39:48,278 --> 00:39:50,461
Is it because they have had
these traditions
725
00:39:50,555 --> 00:39:53,965
of the star people
and the star ancestors?
726
00:39:54,059 --> 00:39:57,802
Maybe places like the Zuni
territory and Hopi mesas
727
00:39:57,896 --> 00:40:00,563
have been visited
for thousands of years.
728
00:40:02,216 --> 00:40:04,901
NARRATOR:
Today, more UFO incidents
729
00:40:05,052 --> 00:40:09,054
are being reported and captured
on camera than ever before.
730
00:40:09,074 --> 00:40:11,408
But while this recent activity
731
00:40:11,635 --> 00:40:13,468
has captured
the public's imagination
732
00:40:13,561 --> 00:40:16,988
and inspired
sensational headlines,
733
00:40:17,140 --> 00:40:21,476
for many Native Americans, it
is nothing out of the ordinary.
734
00:40:21,494 --> 00:40:26,147
In my time working
as a Navajo Ranger,
735
00:40:26,240 --> 00:40:29,834
we had incidences of, uh, UFOs
736
00:40:29,986 --> 00:40:31,911
coming and going all the time.
737
00:40:31,930 --> 00:40:34,989
When we talk to people,
they tell us,
738
00:40:35,082 --> 00:40:36,749
"Oh, yeah,
they're here all the time."
739
00:40:36,843 --> 00:40:39,084
So they just accept it.
740
00:40:39,179 --> 00:40:41,420
And as such, with the knowledge
741
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,183
that I have
and the experiences I've had,
742
00:40:45,335 --> 00:40:47,092
I know they're out there--
I've seen them
743
00:40:47,187 --> 00:40:48,836
numerous, numerous times.
744
00:40:48,930 --> 00:40:52,097
And, uh, it's
just a fact of life.
745
00:40:52,192 --> 00:40:54,951
ROBLES:
We must reestablish
746
00:40:55,178 --> 00:40:58,179
the connection
between our star ancestors
747
00:40:58,198 --> 00:41:01,440
by educating and creating
an awareness among the,
748
00:41:01,534 --> 00:41:03,201
the humans on Earth.
749
00:41:03,353 --> 00:41:05,520
We have to establish
750
00:41:05,538 --> 00:41:08,131
an urgency
protecting the sacred sites
751
00:41:08,358 --> 00:41:10,300
and telling the story
of what they mean.
752
00:41:10,527 --> 00:41:12,117
This is the history
of the world.
753
00:41:12,212 --> 00:41:13,887
We are star beings.
754
00:41:15,456 --> 00:41:17,974
MAHOOTY: As far as being
connected with the star elders,
755
00:41:18,201 --> 00:41:20,643
they gave us
this knowledge, and ours
756
00:41:20,795 --> 00:41:24,296
is a direct relationship
with the...
757
00:41:24,316 --> 00:41:26,983
entities
throughout the universe.
758
00:41:28,561 --> 00:41:31,379
NARRATOR:
Could contact with star people
759
00:41:31,397 --> 00:41:34,657
as described
in the ancient sacred traditions
760
00:41:34,809 --> 00:41:38,328
still be happening in Native
American communities today?
761
00:41:38,479 --> 00:41:41,072
And if so,
might it be the beginning
762
00:41:41,224 --> 00:41:43,558
of the next Earth cycle?
763
00:41:43,576 --> 00:41:47,912
And a profound new chapter
in the human story?
764
00:41:48,064 --> 00:41:50,915
Perhaps as we learn the truth
765
00:41:51,067 --> 00:41:53,084
about the mysterious objects
in the sky,
766
00:41:53,236 --> 00:41:56,087
we will discover
that the star ancestors
767
00:41:56,181 --> 00:41:59,331
are not merely ancient
figures carved on rocks
768
00:41:59,351 --> 00:42:02,185
but an extraterrestrial presence
769
00:42:02,412 --> 00:42:04,687
that has
been guiding us all along.
770
00:42:04,914 --> 00:42:08,024
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