This design has been taken
from a text that's at least 1,800 years old.
Our vehicle was showing positive lift,
like an aircraft would.
So the information contained
in the ancient texts is indeed accurate.
Now, this is a vast medical text
and it's considered the foundation
of traditional Indian medicine.
Oh, so this is the basis for Ayurvedic medicine?
Yes. This book was written
more than a 100 years before Hippocrates,
the father of modern medicine.
Incredible.
There is information about science,
technology, and medicine
preserved in ancient India.
Where did the ancestors receive this information?
Aliens. People from other planet.
India.
Home to over 1.3 billion people.
It is the second most populous nation in the world.
Although it is home
to some of mankind's oldest civilizations,
India has, in recent years,
also undergone rapid modernization.
The city of Bangalore, for example,
is the headquarters of literally thousands
of information technology companies,
and has been ranked as one of the most high-tech cities
in the world.
But these advancements also coexist
with the country's ancient origins.
Roughly 80% of the Indian population
practices Hinduism.
And for the Hindu faithful,
their gods are not mythological creatures,
but are real flesh-and-blood beings
that have, at times, been present here on Earth.
For the Indian people,
the basis of their religion is essential
to the fabric of their lives.
Many of the faithful, to this day,
see these accounts not as fanciful, but as history.
They take it literally
that the gods walked among human beings
and conveyed knowledge.
In the Hindu tradition,
these ancient gods are not considered
just symbolic or mythical beings.
They are considered as flesh-and-blood beings
that came down from the sky and existed in real life.
The foundation of Hinduism
is carefully preserved in India's most ancient texts.
And according to their traditions,
these texts are accounts
given directly by the gods themselves,
and only transcribed by humans.
This collection includes the Vedas,
or Hindu scriptures, as well as other manuscripts
written in the early Sanskrit language.
Vedic scholars suggest knowledge
pertaining to architecture, science,
technology, weaponry, and medicine
are preserved in meticulous detail in these works.
The origins of the Vedic text
goes back to cosmic time.
They have been around
for thousands of thousands of years.
It is believed that the knowledge
came directly from gods.
We are seeing a handbook of the gods.
We are looking at an endowment from some superior intelligence
that appears to have been given to us as a very practical guide
in ways that benefit humankind
all across the board.
But if the ancient texts of India
are truly attributable to the extraterrestrial gods,
just what information do they contain?
Sirpur, India.
The Surang Tila Temple.
This structure,
which dates back to the seventh century AD,
was recently unearthed after being buried
by a powerful earthquake
that occurred in the 11th century.
Although the rest of the area
was completely leveled, the structure itself
remained largely intact.
Archaeologists suggest
that this is due to the advanced construction techniques,
known as Ayurvedic or Vedic architecture,
utilized by its builders.
The principles they used are derived
from the ancient science of design
that can be traced back to the ancient Indian texts.
In March 2017,
researcher and ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to India
to meet with archaeologist Dr. Arun Sharma,
who headed the dig.
This is beautiful.
Mm-hmm.
Really?
Now, is this considered
Ayurvedic architecture, right here?
That's amazing. Huh.
Okay.
Although much of the site
has been renovated using modern concrete,
blocks held together by the Ayurvedic paste
can still be found.
It seems to be almost like a... s-some type of glue.
The glue-like substance is said to form a bond
that is at least 20 times stronger than concrete.
But modern builders have been unwilling
to entertain the notion that such an ancient concoction
could be superior to today's building materials.
Wow, look at this.
Beautiful.
The detailed instructions
for making this paste can be found
in an ancient Indian text known as the Mayamatam...
A manuscript dedicated to construction techniques.
The information contained within the document
is understood to have been passed down to humans
from Mayasura, the ancient king of the demigods,
who was said to oversee
various construction projects on Earth,
including cities in the sky.
This, right here?
Curiously, there is a more astounding
earthquake-proof feature at the site
which indicates that advanced knowledge
was used in its construction.
Located at key points within the Surang Tila Temple
are several 80-foot long shafts
designed to form air pockets
that can dissipate the impact of seismic events.
Yes, please.
All right.
Wow.
Oh, wow, this is big.
It's a huge book.
And-and this text has been around for 4,500 years?
In your opinion, where did this knowledge come from?
Uh-huh.
And you think that this knowledge
originated from the stars?
That's amazing.
According to the Hindu faithful,
the construction techniques used
at the Surang Tila Temple
are just one example of advanced technology
detailed in the ancient Sanskrit texts.
Other works are said to contain information
far beyond the scope of early man...
Perhaps even providing concrete proof
of extraterrestrial activity on Earth.
The Indus Valley. Northwest India and Pakistan.
June 2011.
Paleontologists discover a 4,300-year-old skull
featuring multiple drilled holes in it.
Remarkably, they conclude
these are signs that brain surgery was performed.
And it even appears that the operation was successful,
as the wound showed signs of advanced healing.
In ancient India, they performed
incredible kinds of medicine
and surgical procedures on people.
Things like operating on the skull.
What's fascinating about this is...
is this kind of advanced medical knowledge
goes way back, way back.
And they were able to use those techniques
to heal people.
Vedic scholars suggest that not only
were the ancient Hindus able to perform brain surgery,
but other advanced procedures as well.
And much of this medical knowledge
was set to record in a Sanskrit text
dating back to 800 BC,
known as the Sushruta Samhita.
In 2017 at a local library in Mahabalipuram, India,
Giorgio Tsoukalos
meets with fellow ancient astronaut theorist
Praveen Mohan to take a closer look at the text.
Now this is a, uh, vast medical text
that contains information
about more than 11,000 illnesses.
Uh, it talks about 700 medicinal plants,
64 preparations from mineral resources,
57 preparations from animal resources,
and it's considered the foundation of Ayurveda,
the traditional Indian medicine.
Oh, so this is the basis
for Ayurvedic medicine right here. -Yes, yes.
I was able to find a passage. I thought you might find it,
- you know, interesting. - Mm-hmm.
Right here.
Now you can see where it says
that surgical operations are of eight types.
They are incising, excising, scraping, puncturing,
probing, extracting,
secreting fluids, and even suturing.
So imagine, we had suturing 2,600 years ago. -Mm-hmm.
And this book was written
more than a hundred years before Hippocrates,
the father of modern medicine.
That is amazing. And how was this information obtained?
Like, what's the story behind this?
Well, the title Sushruta Samhita
means that the author Sushruta
is not really the author.
He did not write this book.
He got this information from a character called Dhanvantari,
who was an otherworldly being.
Dhanvantari is believed
to be the physician to the gods
and the father of Ayurvedic medicine.
Dhanvantari himself has a divine origin
associated with the churning of the milky ocean.
The churning of the milk of sea
refers to, perhaps, uh, the Milky Way.
Dhanvantari came out of that
and then he was the god of medicine.
And he, then, gave this knowledge of medicine
to human beings.
Dhanvantari was said
to have originated from the Milky Way.
And so, all of a sudden, you have a connection
with this deity arriving from the Milky Way.
Well, what more do you want?
The knowledge contained in this document,
known as the Sushruta Samhita, was brought here
by an extraterrestrial visitor.
Ayurvedic medicine is considered
one of the world's oldest and most detailed healing sciences.
Is it possible that it was really handed down to mankind
by alien sources?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest that other texts clearly reveal
this extraterrestrial connection.
Mumbai University.
Kalina, India.
January 2015.
The Indian Science Congress
presents talks on various technical disciplines
to an audience of some of India's top engineers.
Included in the list of presentations
is a lecture on "Ancient Indian Aviation Technology"
given by retired pilot and flight instructor
Captain Anand J. Bodas.
In his lecture, Captain Anand Bodas told young engineers
that they should recreate what is given in ancient Vedic texts,
because in the field of aviation,
there are much more advanced devices mentioned
than what we have today.
This was a very controversial talk
because you had one camp that thought
that the ancient civilizations of India
possessed incredible flying technology,
yet you then had that other camp
that said this is crazy, it's nonsense.
But something was going on
many, many, many, many thousands of years ago,
and they presented evidence and documented facts
that they had flying machines
that were capable of doing incredible things.
How did they know this?
Captain Bodas is just the latest
in a long line of researchers to suggest
that the ancient texts contained actual information
about lost technology pertaining to aerial vehicles,
often referred to in the texts as "vimanas."
In 1895, a full eight years before
the Wright Brothers successfully launched their flying machine,
Sanskrit scholar Shivkar Talpade
tested an aircraft he fashioned based solely on information
gleaned from the ancient Indian writings.
Talpade, in India,
was a student of the Vedic scriptures.
And he decided to try and construct
one of the vimana flying craft
that were seen in the, um, Vedic scriptures.
The first aircraft of Talpade
was called, "Marutsakha,"
which means, "friend of the wind."
He was able to fly this aircraft
in front of thousands of people in Mumbai Beach.
The legend has it that he flew for,
like, 30 seconds at 1,500 feet.
The Wright brothers only went 120 feet for 12 seconds.
If this is true, that changes aviation history dramatically.
But even more exciting is that he based his design
on something written thousands of years
before mankind even thought flying was possible.
In 2017, Kavya Vaddadi,
an aircraft design engineer in Delhi, India,
was able to re-create the Marutsakha
as a digital 3D model utilizing the same information contained
in the texts that Talpade studied.
She shared her digital file
with aerospace systems engineer Travis Taylor,
so he could 3D print it in order to test
its aerodynamic properties in a wind tunnel.
But just how would this ancient design hold up
when put to the test?
University of California at Irvine.
April 2017.
Aerospace engineer Travis Taylor
has obtained a model of an aircraft
whose design specifications are based solely
on information gleaned
from ancient Indian texts that are believed
to have been formally set to writing in 500 BC.
He is going to subject it to wind tunnel analysis
to determine if it is a viable flying machine.
So explain to me what we've set up here with that wind tunnel.
Okay, so this is our aerospace vehicle model.
It's connected to this boom.
The armature has a force gauge on it.
But we're gonna have airflow go past it
at about 50 miles per hour or so. -Okay.
And then we're gonna measure forces against it
to determine if, uh, if it's gonna fly or not.
And so, what are the signs that you're looking for
in order to determine whether this is,
- in fact, aerodynamically sound? - Right.
So we're gonna measure the, uh, normal force.
And the normal force is up or down.
Uh, if it starts to move up, then that'll be exciting,
because it's actually going to be rising
and that's how you get flight. You know, when the airplane
turns up, and it starts to move, it's because it's getting lift.
Uh, the other thing is, I don't want to see it
going real bad side to side,
or real bad chatter up and down,
because that would mean it's unstable.
All right. Well, let's do it.
Let's fire her up and see what happens.
Yeah, let's do it.
- The flow's coming up to speed. - Yep.
While being subjected to 50-mile-an-hour winds,
the craft exhibits a slight lift upwards
yet remains relatively steady.
No side-to-side wobble.
Okay.
Sensors record the measurements of various forces,
as well as torque and pitch, to determine
just how aerodynamic the body is.
It looks very stable.
All right.
So let's look at the results.
So what happened during the test was the normal force,
which is where we measure the lift,
it was positive between .03 and .06 pounds of force.
That means we were measuring lift. -Okay.
So our vehicle in the wind tunnel experiment
was showing positive lift like an aircraft would.
Did you expect these results from a shape that's like that?
Well, the shape looks like a lifting body to me.
But you never know until you actually do the experiment.
And we have experimental results now that says it is.
So that's the exciting part.
And-and what do you say to anyone who questions
the idea that this information has been taken
from a text that's at least 1,800 years old?
The only thing you can say is
we performed a good scientific experiment.
And the results were
that the shape made from those texts
is a viable aerodynamic structure.
The aircraft model created
using details garnered from the ancient Indian texts
has proven to be flight-worthy.
Is it possible that, by studying the ancient Indian texts,
we may be able to recreate advanced technology
that existed thousands of years ago in India?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the texts may also contain details
for advanced spacecraft.
Hindu scholars point out that stories of space travel
can be found throughout the pages
of the ancient Sanskrit texts.
There are even detailed accounts
of humans entering flying crafts
and being transported to other solar systems.
In the ancient text of Vishnu Purana,
Lord Vishnu decides to take Dhruva, a human being,
through an interstellar journey.
We know this because it is specifically stated
that Dhruva would be taken beyond
planets like Mercury, Venus,
and even beyond some other stars.
According to the text,
he went past seven planetary systems
in a physical craft,
and eventually he reached the solar system
and planet of Vishnu Loka,
the planet that Vishnu is said to have come from.
So here we have the story of extraterrestrials taking
a human to another solar system.
Although few details exist
of the craft Dhruva was transported in,
scholars have noted that highly specific descriptions
of space vehicles can be found throughout the texts.
In 2014,
in an article in the Journal of Engineering
and Innovative Technology
titled "Vedic lon Engine,"
a team of aerospace scientists posed the theory
that what is being described in a 1,000-year-old text
called the Samarangana Sutradhara
is a modern ion mercury vortex engine
used for space travel.
In the Samarangana Sutradhara text,
there's a description of an engine that uses mercury,
and the mercury swirls in a vortex
and it uses the heat from, perhaps, solar power
to create some type of flying capability.
My thought on this is it sounds a lot like an ion engine.
The concept for ion engines has actually been around
for more than 100 years.
Now, the way it works is xenon gas,
which is like helium or neon but heavier,
is introduced into a chamber here.
And it's ionized, which means it's given an electric charge.
And once it has an electric charge, a voltage
applied between this grid and one just behind it
causes the xenon to shoot out of the engine.
Well, the action of the xenon going out this direction
causes a reaction that pushes the spacecraft
in the other direction.
And that's how the ion thruster propels the spacecraft.
You heat the ions up,
and then you accelerate them out the back end of the spacecraft.
It puts out a small amount of thrust,
but for a very long time.
And that's why ion engines are uniquely perfect
for interspace travel.
In 2007, NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft,
which used a conventional multistage chemical rocket
to blast off from Earth,
but then switched to an ion engine
for its journey through deep space.
Crucial to that mission was an ion thruster.
And it gets its energy from solar panels.
So here you have this solar-powered ion thruster
with this vortex in the middle of it going out
to the asteroid belt,
and it's described in Sanskrit texts.
If information detailing
previously lost technology was purposely left
for humans to rediscover,
are we now sufficiently advanced to successfully replicate it?
And if so, are there any other developments beyond
ancient space travel that scientists have been able
to exploit?
Mahabalipuram, India.
While at a local library
with fellow ancient astronaut theorist Praveen Mohan,
Giorgio Tsoukalos gets a firsthand look at early copies
of some of India's most important ancient texts.
And now let me show you the other book.
This is the Bhagavad Gita.
Among the most influential is the Bhagavad Gita,
part of the 13,000-page epic
called the Mahabharata,
which contains 19 individual books.
Historians think this text was written around 500 BC,
so this book is 2,500 years old.
- Okay. - But according to "mythology,"
this was supposed to be written at least 10,000 years ago.
Okay.
It's a very popular book, and some people even say
atomic science is hidden in this book.
Not just regular people, but modern physicists.
So the argument can be made that the knowledge of,
for example, the atom is contained in a book -Mm-hmm.
Yes. -...that is at least 2,500 years old?
And some stories say
that it was given by an otherworldly being. -Yes.
- Okay. - Even Robert Oppenheimer,
who is the father of atomic bomb,
uh, was fascinated by this book. -Mm-hmm.
- Really? Wow. - Yes.
Okay, that's interesting.
Jornada del Muerto Desert, New Mexico.
July 16, 1945.
In the middle of the barren Alamogordo Bombing
and Gunnery Range,
scientists detonate the first man-made nuclear weapon.
The destruction was comparable to no other weapon known to man.
The father of the atomic bomb was J. Robert Oppenheimer,
the leader of the Manhattan Project,
a secret government program created
to develop such a weapon.
Oppenheimer, when he saw the successful nuclear test
and realized what a terrible weapon he was unleashing,
he quoted the Bhagavad Gita's
"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."
Oppenheimer's interest in ancient Sanskrit literature
began while he was a professor
at the University of California, Berkeley
and was introduced to the texts
by renowned scholar Arthur W. Ryder.
Under Ryder's tutelage,
Oppenheimer extensively studied the Vedic scriptures
and became proficient in Sanskrit.
According to his biographers,
he kept a hardcover of the Bhagavad Gita on his bookshelf
and was known to give copies away to his friends as gifts.
One of the ideas that's deep
within the Vedic scriptures, the Bhagavad Gita,
is the idea of duty.
He felt it was his duty to do this,
even though it would be a terrible thing, he realized,
to develop this new nuclear weapon.
So he believed he was part of a cosmic cycle
and we had to do this to advance.
Perhaps he knew that by developing the atomic bomb,
we were actually reconnecting with technologies
that we had been exposed to many thousands of years before.
One of the key ideas found within the Indian texts
is the concept of the cyclical nature of existence,
that once we complete a cosmic cycle,
it just begins once more.
Oppenheimer himself came to see
that he was, in a sense, fulfilling some ancient destiny
and that this weapon could ultimately be used
to stop a major war, which is exactly what happened.
It totally broke the momentum of World War II.
In that sense, he was seeing that he was, in some way,
fulfilling a destiny that came to him
from a seemingly supernatural source,
i.e. extraterrestrial gods who influenced ancient India.
If Oppenheimer's work on the atomic bomb
was inspired by the ancient Indian texts,
could this mean that similar weapons actually existed
on Earth thousands of years ago?
Thar Desert.
Rajasthan, India. 1992.
Engineers conducting soil sampling at a site
where a housing development was to be built
discover a heavy layer of radioactive ash under the soil.
Further examination reveals the contamination stretches
across a three-square-mile area of the desert.
After cordoning off the area,
scientists unearthed a city
with completely demolished buildings.
Scientists have discovered a radioactive ash
that they believe dates to 8,000 to 12,000 years ago
that shows evidence of a nuclear blast in ancient times.
This is very interesting because the Sanskrit texts
describe exactly this type of occurrence in this era
in ancient times.
In the Ramayana,
one of the major ancient Sanskrit epics,
a mighty weapon of the god Brahma called the Brahmastra
is described as a weapon of immense power
intended to rain down destruction from above.
Brahma provided this weapon to the hero Rama
as a last resort after all conventional means of warfare
failed in his battle against the demon king.
The Brahmastra is the deadliest weapon there is
in the history of humankind.
It is like a nuclear device, uh, that can be detonated,
and then it will have a very devastating effect.
Once it was fired, its effect fell on a lot of animals,
and then they dropped dead.
And also, people started losing their nails,
their hair, and they could not breathe.
Rama fires the Brahmastra weapon upon Dhrumatulya.
It is commonly accepted that this is in Rajasthan,
in Pakistan.
It's the 19th-largest desert in the world.
Does the layer of radioactive ash,
recently discovered in the Thar Desert of Rajasthan,
provide proof that the stories recorded
in the ancient scriptures have merit?
Nuclear warfare, space travel, flying craft...
might there be greater truth about our technological past
revealed in the ancient Indian texts?
And if so, are they simply a guide
to move us forward, as a warning
for mankind's impending fate?
Ranakpur, India.
The Chaumukha Jain Temple.
Built in the 15th century AD, this place of worship
is dedicated to the Jains' first teacher god, Rishabhanatha,
who is credited with the task of civilizing human beings
and teaching them writing, mathematics,
science and agriculture.
Jainism is an ancient Indian religion
that predates Hinduism.
Jains and Hindus hold a similar belief system
relating to the cyclical nature of the Universe, karma,
and reincarnation, yet worship different gods.
For Jains, the quest for knowledge is essential
for their spiritual liberation.
And the iconography of the temple is meant to symbolize
Rishabhanatha's attainment of cosmic enlightenment.
The most uncanny feature in the Temple of Ranakpur
is not on the ground, it's not on the walls,
but it is on the ceiling.
The ceiling is almost identical to images
of the Large Hadron Collider,
a particle accelerator in Switzerland.
If you look at the carving on the ceiling,
you're seeing something that has a curious radial structure.
It's circular. There's bands within bands.
And then you have all of these lines that go
towards the center.
Now, there is a more-than-passing similarity
between the carving and what we're actually seeing
in the Large Hadron Collider.
The 17-mile-long Large Hadron Collider,
or LHC, is the world's largest and most powerful
particle accelerator.
It was created to smash tiny protons together
at speeds of nearly 670 million miles per hour,
roughly the speed of light.
The total energy produced by the collisions is believed
to reproduce similar states to those that existed
moments after the Big Bang,
the event that many scientists believe was responsible
for the creation of the cosmos.
By examining these collisions, scientists can attempt to answer
the question of just how the universe began.
The Hadron supercollider:
its purpose is to duplicate, basically,
conditions of the Big Bang,
when the universe was first created.
But one of the concerns is that since we're recreating
conditions like the Big Bang at the beginning of the universe,
some of the things running around
at the beginning of the universe
we don't want to encounter.
And this is a very difficult thing,
to face so many unknowns.
Work on this subatomic realm, or quantum mechanics,
can be traced to two scientific pioneers...
Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger,
and German physicist Werner Heisenberg.
According to biographers, both Schrodinger and Heisenberg
were highly influenced by the ancient Indian texts.
Heisenberg is on record saying
quantum theory will not look so unusual to anyone
who is a student of the Vedanta,
the Hindu sacred scriptures.
Well, why would he say something like that?
The Hindus had a very interesting way
of looking at the world, including this concept
of a quantum reality through what they call "trutis,"
which appear to be magnificently tiny particles that ultimately
make up all of physical reality as we know it.
It is fascinating how these very old texts
are still relevant today,
and, in fact, may be largely responsible for the progress
in quantum mechanics in the early 20th century.
This suggests that the culture
that wrote those texts
had knowledge of quantum mechanics.
The Hindu texts in some ways mirrors,
or foreshadows, things that will come later.
Perhaps these people were being guided by extraterrestrials
to protect that knowledge, so that in our time we would
look back at that and notice the similarity.
And we have to look at the possibility
that this is an endowment that has been given to us
by these extraterrestrials for a greater divine purpose.
The texts could serve as a window into our future,
and a warning that if we don't alter the course that we're on,
it could be catastrophic.
If extraterrestrials instructed our ancestors
to record lost advanced technological knowledge
and principles,
was it meant to serve as a guidebook
to our scientifically enlightened age?
Or might it, instead, be a warning
to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of the past?
If so, what do the texts say
about where mankind is headed next?
New Delhi, India.
Scholars at the National Mission of Manuscripts
set out to translate and preserve
what they estimate to be over four million
rare ancient texts related to various disciplines,
including ancient science.
Many of these texts have been preserved on palm leaves,
and are believed to be scattered in obscure locations
throughout the subcontinent.
Currently, less than ten percent of the ancient writings
of India have been published.
And no one is certain what secrets lie hidden
in these remaining undeciphered manuscripts.
Is it possible that the road map for our future
is yet to be revealed by studying
these ancient Indian texts?
These texts should be consulted
as we evolve into a world that is full of so many unknowns,
and the Vedic scriptures are a vast storehouse of knowledge.
And by not consulting them, who knows...
We may be missing something vital.
We would be well served
to go back to the Hindu texts
and recognize that perhaps we've been here before.
The Vedic text offers the key to us to move forward.
Conversely, it could well be that ignoring it
will be at our own peril,
and that we could, in fact, face our end.
What I really think is important here
is that we pay more attention to these ancient texts,
and try to learn what we can from them,
because this is the gods, the extraterrestrials,
giving us this information.
Do the voices of the gods,
as written in the pages of India's ancient texts,
really contain information left for us to discover,
or do they convey knowledge
that we were meant to avoid?
For ancient astronaut theorists,
one fact is certain...
That mankind's extraterrestrial past
provides the key to its future.
A future that will either see us successfully avoid
the mistakes of our ancestors,
or warn us of the deadly mistakes
we are destined... to repeat.
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