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Legends of Ant Men.
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They have antenna.
They have elongated skulls.
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Beetles buried with Egyptian mummies.
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The scarab was critical
for the resurrection.
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And swarms of locusts targeting humans.
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It's almost as if the locusts themselves
were programmed.
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In cultures throughout the world...
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...insects have been worshiped, feared,
and even thought of as gods.
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But might these strange creatures...
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...that have inhabited Earth
for hundreds of millions of years...
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...provide a link
to extraterrestrial beings?
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The idea that insect aliens
are coming here to this planet...
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...interacting with humans
may well be based on something real.
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Millions of people around the world...
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...believe we have been visited
in the past by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really helped
to shape our history?
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And if so, is there any connection
between aliens and insects?
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The Nile Delta, Egypt.
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A small centimeters-wide trail
is cut in the desert floor...
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...by the rolling cocoon of a dung beetle.
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This strange-looking 2-inch long insect,
also called a scarab...
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...uses the dung
as both a source of nourishment...
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...and a place for storing its eggs.
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It will roll the ball in a straight line
despite all obstacles.
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It is the only insect on Earth...
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...known to navigate by following
the light of the Milky Way Galaxy.
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Biologists just made this discovery
in 2013.
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But 5,000 years ago...
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...with presumably no knowledge of this
unique connection to the stars...
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...the ancient Egyptians
held the scarab as a sacred symbol...
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...representing a link to the gods.
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Interesting that a great civilisation...
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...could pay so much attention
to a little bug.
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But it appears constantly
throughout Egyptian temples...
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...and hieroglyphics.
It's a very frequent image.
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At the temple of Karnak,
overlooking the Sacred Lake,
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where the Pharaohs
received their coronation,
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a giant scarab beetle stands watch,
representing the Egyptian god, Khepri.
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The Egyptians saw the sun
moving across the sky during the day.
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Also, around the desert sands,
you'd see beetles, moving balls of dung.
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And so the Egyptians thought...
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...that the force that moved
the sun across the sky...
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...was a giant scarab beetle god, Khepri.
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And they believed that the sun
was what is known as the Eye of Ra,
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which was Ra's chariot
or his flying machine.
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And the thing that moved it,
they believed...
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...was the scarab-headed god, Khepri.
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And the scarab represented Khepri,
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the pilot, if you like, of Ra's sun ship
or barge.
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He was basically a pilot to the gods.
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But could there be another explanation...
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...for why the Egyptians
regarded Khepri as a pilot?
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Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest...
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...that the representation
of Khepri as a scarab...
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...and sometimes as a human
with a scarab head...
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...may have been inspired
by actual contact the Egyptians had...
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...with an otherworldly being.
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One has to wonder whether or not
these beings actually existed.
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Because the ancient Egyptians
were incredibly proud...
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...in carving their history
into countless of walls.
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And according
to the Ancient Astronaut Theory...
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...we all came about through a deliberate
mutation of our genes.
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And so it is entirely possible,
in my opinion,
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that some of those creatures that we
see depicted in reliefs and in carvings...
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...might have actually
existed in the past.
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Is it possible the ancient Egyptians
could have encountered alien beings...
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...that had an insect-like appearance?
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Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes...
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...and as further evidence,
point to the fact...
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...that the Egyptians' obsession
with the scarab...
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...also extended
to their funerary rituals.
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The Valley of the Kings.
Egypt, November 1922.
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Archaeologist Howard Carter
discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamun.
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Among the treasure trove of artefacts
is the young Pharaoh's breastplate...
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...which features a scarab
as the centrepiece.
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The scarab is made of a yellow silica
glass stone procured from the Sahara...
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...originally formed
28 million years ago...
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...when the sand was superheated
by a comet strike.
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But why would the ancient Egyptians
place a scarab...
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...and one sculpted from material
produced by a cosmic event...
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...at the centre of their pharaoh's
funerary breastplate?
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Curiously, scarabs always
played an integral role...
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...in the Egyptians'
mummification process...
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...often included
during the wrapping of the body.
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In between those wrappings,
the Egyptians put a number of charms,
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which served not just a preservation
function, but a magical function.
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There was a heart scarab,
which was placed on the body.
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We also find other scarabs sometimes
knitted into the linen of the deceased.
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The scarab was thought
to be critical for the resurrection...
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...because of its power
and necessity for it to be present...
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...when the sun rose in the morning.
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The idea was is that the soul or even the
body of the person that had departed...
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...was carried by scarab beetles...
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...along the path to the next life,
to the next dimension.
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It's almost as if the scarab beetle
was some kind of device, not an insect...
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...but a device that actually allows
travel from one place to another.
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Where did the Egyptians
get the idea of resurrection...
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...and this idea that we could be reborn
as star beings?
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It seems as if they were given this idea
by Khepri.
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Could the inclusion of scarab-shaped
objects in the mummification process...
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...have been inspired by an actual
encounter with the scarab god Khepri?
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To some Ancient Astronaut Theorists,
it's not just the presence of scarabs...
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...that suggests the Egyptians
made a connection...
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...between insects and the afterlife.
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They say the mummification process
also mimics insect metamorphosis itself.
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The similarities between mummification
and the cocooning process...
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...that a caterpillar goes through
before it becomes a moth...
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...are really quite incredible.
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I think what the Egyptians were trying to
do is actually cocoon the human being...
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...so that when he emerged
into the next life at the next level up...
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...he would be transformed into
something greater, more powerful...
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...and epically more beautiful.
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This does mimic in nature what we
would see with a pupa or a chrysalis...
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...in which the caterpillar actually
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creates a hard outer
shell around itself...
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...and the material of the caterpillar's
body actually turns into a broth...
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...before it reconstitutes into what
ultimately emerges as a butterfly.
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While most people associate
metamorphosis...
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...with the caterpillar
transforming into a butterfly...
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...beetles like the scarab undergo
a complete metamorphosis as well.
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The hatched larva
inside the ball of dung...
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...emerges fully developed
and capable of flight.
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To the ancient Egyptians,
it seemed the sacred scarab...
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...had miraculously regenerated
inside its cocoon.
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The actual scarab beetle
in ancient Egyptian was called...
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something that means "He
that comes from nowhere..."
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...which is basically what
the name Khepri means.
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He comes from nowhere.
He can make himself exist.
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Much like the scarab
emerging from its cocoon...
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...the Egyptians believed a mummified body
could rise from its sarcophagus...
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...as a transformed being
and live once again.
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Part of the soul
was inexorably attached to the body.
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So in order for that part of the soul
to live on in the afterlife...
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...the body had to be preserved
as closely as possible...
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...to the way that it had existed in life.
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The idea of the Egyptian soul
is so alien from our own...
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...that it's difficult
to put parallels on.
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For example, the Egyptians concert
of the soul had five parts,
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the Ba and the Ka are two in particular.
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And part of their mythology
was that the Ba must return to the body,
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enter the body,
so that the body can rise and live again.
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It's possible
that the mummification process...
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...was some kind of replication...
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...of this process that the
extraterrestrials went through.
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And even the possibility
that the mummies themselves...
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...were going into some kind of larval
stage and suspended animation...
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...where they would emerge eventually
into some kind of new body...
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...like the extraterrestrials did.
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While the scarab
dominates Egyptian symbolism...
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...another beetle common to this part
of the world, the buprestid beetle...
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...has a direct tie to the Egyptians'
most important god, Osiris.
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Buprestid beetles,
when bothered by a predator...
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...actually tuck their legs up
and lie perfectly still.
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And the way they hold their limbs
is very similar to the way Osiris...
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...would be represented in
some tomb paintings.
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Well, it turns out the buprestid beetle
is found in the tamarisk wood,
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and that is the wood that comes from a
tree that was part of the Osiris legend,
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actually becomes the Djed pillar.
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And when Isis split this pillar,
she found Osiris inside...
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...and this beautiful beetle inside.
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And so, it's quite possible
that this beetle...
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...may have a relationship
to the mummification process.
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But does the Ancient Egyptian
worship of a beetle...
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...really suggest an encounter
with insect-like extraterrestrials?
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Could they be mimicking
misunderstood technology?
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Or might there be another explanation?
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Perhaps further clues can be found in the
numerous ancient stories of Ant People.
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Cambridge University, England. 2013.
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Using a high-speed camera
with intense magnification...
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...scientists
from the Department of Zoology...
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...record the movement
of a plant-hopping insect called Issus.
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Examining the footage,
they make a shocking discovery.
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The movement of the Issus
is powered by mechanical gears.
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It is the world's first evidence
of mechanical gearing...
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...in a biological structure.
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This natural cog mechanism allows
the Issus to make powerful jumps,
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with the gear teeth
on the opposing hindlegs...
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...locking together like
those in the gearbox of a car,
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ensuring almost complete
synchronicity of leg movement.
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But how did a biological entity
that has develop a mechanisms...
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...that appear man-made?
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Insects are essentially
evolution's tinker toy set.
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Insects were the first animal group...
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...to evolve the ability to fly
on their own power.
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Insects have an exoskeleton,
which is almost like a living armour.
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In terms of sheer numbers...
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...insects are by far, the most
dominant life-form on Earth.
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And with over 1 million different species,
they also remain the most mysterious.
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Insects appeared on the Earth...
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...over 400 million years
before humans appeared on the Earth.
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They were incredibly successful...
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...well before the age of the dinosaurs
and a long time before humans.
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About half of the living creatures on the
planet belong to the group of insects.
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They've really found ways to inhabit just
about every ecological niche in nature.
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They have compound eyes,
which, in some cases...
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...they can see into the ranges
that humans cannot, like ultraviolet.
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They have a very sophisticated
sensory system...
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...that makes them different
from what we can perceive.
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For example, insects taste, smell,
and feel with the hairs on their body.
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When they land on you,
they're smelling you...
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...they're tasting you,
they're feeling you.
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There are upwards of a million species
of insects evolved so far.
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So we may think of ourselves
as being special,
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but, in reality, insects
are the most successful animal group...
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...that's ever evolved.
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In the more than 400 million years that
insects are believed to have existed...
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...no bug has thrived more than the ant.
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Ants are among the most successful
animal groups...
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...that we see on the face of the Earth.
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One out of every four individual animals
on the face of the Earth is an ant.
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Ants are incredible insects;
And they're highly evolved.
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In size and appearance, ants and humans
could not be more different.
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But interestingly, in many ways
these tiny bugs are more like us...
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...than any other creatures
in the animal kingdom.
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Ants have a social system
where they have a division of labour.
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You have a reproductive queen.
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You have males
that will mate with the queen.
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You have sub reproductives that can leave
the colony and start new colonies.
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Then, you've got a series of workers.
And then there are specialised workers.
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There are soldiers that can protect
the colony if they're under attack.
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So, they're rather intriguing
with regard to their behaviour.
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But how is that the behaviour of ants
mirrors that of humans in so many ways?
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Is it simply coincidence?
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Or could ants and humans
be more closely related than we think?
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Ancient Greece.
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In both Homer's "Iliad"
and Ovid's "Metamorphoses,"
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...there is a group of warriors
known as the Myrmidon...
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...who are born of mysterious origins.
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According to the "Ovid..."
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King Aeacus of Aegina
pleads with the god Zeus...
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...to repopulate
his plague-ravaged country.
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That night, he dreams that ants fall from
the branch of a tree and turn into men.
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He awakes the next morning
to find his dream has come true.
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The story of the Myrmidons
is that they were ants made into warriors.
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They were said to have fought
with Achilles at Troy...
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...and they were very effective.
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The descriptions of the ant
people are very, very accurate...
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...in terms of the behaviour
of the insect, the ant itself.
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They were very loyal.
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They moved together as one,
almost at a hive mentality.
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The Myrmidons were thought to
be the first to develop ships...
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...and to sail under their own power.
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This ability to be
organised like an army...
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...comes from ants marching
in a nice linear fashion.
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The idea about being the first to sail
comes from the ant's ability to raft.
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Ants will get on the surface tension
of water and lock legs.
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Other ants will climb on top...
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...and this little mound of ants will
float around on the surface of water.
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In the case of the Myrmidons,
these were fierce warriors.
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They were well-trained;
They were organised just like ants.
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These descriptions are
so vivid and so accurate...
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...in terms of the ant's behaviour
that what Zeus seems to have done...
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...is actually some sort of genetic cross
breeding between humans and insects...
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...in order to create
this army of ant people.
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You're dealing with an extremely
advanced technology...
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...that really, really understands
how to use genetic manipulation...
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...to create new species.
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Is it possible that the Myrmidons
depicted in the ancient Greek stories...
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...were actually some type
of ant and human hybrid...
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...manufactured by an alien being?
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Ancient Astronaut Theorists
claim further evidence...
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...that ants may have a connection
to extraterrestrials...
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...can be found in stories
throughout numerous cultures.
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In the Muslim holy book, the Quran, there
is a story of ants speaking like humans.
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In parts of Africa, ants are considered
to be the messengers of the gods.
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And Native American tribes
like the Hopi and Zuni...
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...tell stories of the Ant People
who emerge from beneath the Earth.
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The ant people
is a very interesting subject...
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...when it comes to looking
at the Hopi belief system.
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The Ant People, number one,
are caretakers of the Earth.
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Unlike the Myrmidons of Greek mythology,
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the Ant People of the Native American
stories don't just behave like ants,
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they resemble them as well.
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They have spindly arms,
they have antenna.
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They have elongated skulls.
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These are clearly a merging
of the human and the insect.
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They are not simply a fable or a parable.
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If one explores the question
of insectoid alien life,
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then my question is, why not?
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Because if life is pervasive
throughout the entire universe,
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then that life comes in all shape,
size and colour.
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So, the idea that insectoid aliens
might exist...
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...is very possible to me.
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However, I think the idea came
from our ancestors...
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...witnessing physical features...
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...that made them look like ants
or could be best described as ants.
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If we look at the face of an ant,
we look at the head of an ant,
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we see large buggy eyes...
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...widely spaced on the face,
and a large head.
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So this could be an illustration
of people seeing...
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...beings like what we now call
the Greys,
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and associating it with something
that's familiar to them.
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Is it possible that the Ant People...
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...that appear in both Greek
and Native American mythology...
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...were grey aliens?
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Or might they even be
human-insect hybrids...
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...engineered by otherworldly beings?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
in the accounts of those who claim...
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...to have been victims
of alien abductions.
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The Kalahari Desert, South Africa.
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The indigenous people of this area
called the San...
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...represent one of the oldest
existing populations on Earth,
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with a culture that dates back
approximately 80,000 years.
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According to the origin story
of this ancient society,
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the first humans were created
not by traditional gods but by insects.
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According to the San people...
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...the origin of humans
lies with the praying mantis.
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There once was a bee
who was asked by a praying mantis...
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...to carry him across a raging river.
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And the bee did so.
He carried the praying mantis...
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...across the river
and deposited him on a leaf.
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But before leaving...
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...the exhausted bee left an egg
inside the praying mantis...
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...and that egg is the source
of all human beings.
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But where did the San people
get the idea...
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...that humans were created
by a praying mantis?
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Curiously, the San tradition
also holds that a praying mantis...
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...gave early humans the gifts
of language and fire.
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And one of their most important gods,
Cagn, the creator of the world...
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...often took the form of a mantis.
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The San people of South Africa
had a fascinating theology.
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Their god was known as Cagn,
and Cagn was a trickster god.
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He could shape-shift,
and appear in a number of different forms.
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But was very fond of appearing
as a praying mantis.
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Cagn has a lot of struggles
on the planet Earth.
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There were many wars that were fought...
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...and eventually he left the Earth
by means of going up into the sky.
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Another interesting thing about Cagn is
that it's said that he created the moon.
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And the San people do their planting
because of phases of the moon.
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So you've got to wonder,
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is this praying mantis extraterrestrial
god just some mythical figure,
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or is he really a representation
of some kind of real praying mantis...
334
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...insectoid alien that's come to Earth?
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Could the prominence
of the praying mantis in San mythology...
336
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...suggest that their ancestors
actually encountered...
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...such beings in the distant past?
338
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Although most anthropologists
regard these stories as fables...
339
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...some ancient astronaut theorists
find it curious...
340
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...that the praying mantis
is also a recurring image...
341
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...in reports of alien abduction.
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Covina, California. 1963.
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In the small farming town
on the outskirts of Los Angeles...
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17-year-old Linda Porter awakens
to find herself aboard a strange craft.
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From what she is able to recall later
under hypnosis...
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...a small creature
that appeared to be a grey alien...
347
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...led her towards a light-filled room...
348
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...where she encountered
another type of being...
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...one much taller, and with the features
of a praying mantis.
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Very stand-alone, very odd case.
351
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The fact that this occurred in 1963
is very intriguing,
352
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because it's before the abduction
phenomenon became popularized.
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There have been depictions throughout
various abduction scenarios...
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...that include the grey aliens...
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...and this larger, tall insectesoid
being, very praying-mantis like.
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Linda Porter claims
that throughout her teens and 20s...
357
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she experienced numerous other
encounters with these alien beings.
358
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But it wasn't until the age of 45
that she finally reached out...
359
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...to investigative journalist Linda
Moulton Howe to tell her story.
360
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I received a letter carefully written
from Linda Porter.
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And this led up to her sending me
a whole lot of drawings.
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These drawings appear in Linda Moulton
Howe's book "Glimpses of Other Realities."
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One of the drawings was
of a praying mantis about 8-feet tall,
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in a room that was very odd,
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had a cylindrical object,
and sparkles of light.
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There have been quite a number
of different types of aliens seen...
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...allegedly, by contactees.
368
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But the ones that are really peculiar
and very rare...
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...are these very scary, skinny...
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...large, basically intelligent insects
that have been reported.
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People have drawn parallels between...
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...the aliens that are reported
on board UFOs...
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...and insects, particularly bees.
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The greys, for instance...
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...could be equated in some way
to the drone or the worker bee.
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The so-called praying mantis type
could be seen perhaps as the queen bee,
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larger than the others, more intelligent.
378
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They're taller than a person,
8 or even 9-feet tall.
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And the grey aliens may handle the person
who is being abducted,
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but in the background
there's this praying mantis type...
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...that seems to be calling the shots.
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According to Porter,
she is part of a larger experiment...
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...one in which these aliens appear
concerned with her soul.
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She said whatever we humans are,
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we have an animus, a soul,
that is mysterious to them,
386
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and they are trying to find out
where does the soul spirit go...
387
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...at the moment of death.
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And that the non-humans were studying
the recycling of the souls...
389
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...in and out of containers.
390
00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,040
She talked about being shown
three cylinders.
391
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Contained in each cylinder
was a human being...
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...in kind of like a state
of suspended animation.
393
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,680
Numerous alleged alien
abduction victims...
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...have reported seeing
cocoon-like containers.
395
00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,360
But if these accounts are real,
396
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,960
might there be another explanation
behind this technology?
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00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,800
Could it be as some
Ancient Astronaut Theorists contend...
398
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,880
...that aliens are performing
genetic experimentation?
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00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,190
Linda Porter came away...
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00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,470
...from her two or three decades
of interaction with these non-humans,
401
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including the at first terrifying
praying mantis,
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00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,120
that these are extraterrestrial
biological entities...
403
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,600
...that have taken a deep interest
in the evolution of life forms here,
404
00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,280
that they have manipulated DNA
in already evolving primates,
405
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,720
that they have created
a whole series of different models.
406
00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,800
Might the numerous accounts
of mantis-like beings...
407
00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,280
...reported by alleged alien
abduction victims...
408
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,640
...along with the ancient San story
of a praying mantis god...
409
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:48,280
...be evidence that an otherworldly race
of insectoids really does exist?
410
00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,480
And if so, could they be conducting
genetic experiments with humans...
411
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,360
...to make us more like them?
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Ancient Astronaut Theorists say further
clues revealing the connection...
413
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...between insects and aliens
can be found in the Holy Bible.
414
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,320
Pi-Ramesses, Egypt. The 15th Century BC.
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00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,720
Most archaeologists believe
this ancient city...
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...to be the site of the 10 Plagues...
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...as described in the Bible's
Book of Exodus.
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According to the scripture,
God brought these plagues upon Egypt...
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...when the Pharaoh refused
to release the Israelites from slavery.
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Three of them involved insects.
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The third was a plague of gnats,
which came up from the ground...
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...and infested both man and animal.
423
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,280
The fourth was flies,
that attacked only the Egyptians,
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sparing the Israelites.
425
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And the eighth was a plague of locusts.
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Locusts are grasshoppers...
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...that have had an unusual change
in their biology and behaviour.
428
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They will start to move
in the same direction.
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They will land, eat.
430
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,040
Other locusts flying over them
will land, and eat, and so on, and so on,
431
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,200
wiping out all the vegetation
in a given area,
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and destroying all the crops
that people might have planted.
433
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,960
And for every one million locusts,
they can eat a ton of food.
434
00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,840
But an even more incredible
story of locusts...
435
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,360
...can be found in the Bible's New
Testament Book of Revelation.
436
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,000
Rising from deep pits within the earth,
437
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,960
these locusts form waves
of scorpion-tailed warhorses,
438
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protected by iron breastplates.
439
00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,840
And unlike the locusts
from the Book of Exodus,
440
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the target isn't the crops.
441
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,720
The locusts themselves
actually didn't eat any crops,
442
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,470
they didn't clear any fields.
They only attacked people.
443
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,200
They only ate up
and devoured and damaged people.
444
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,600
It's almost as if the locusts themselves
were programmed.
445
00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,440
The locusts that appear
out of the smoke...
446
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...have some type of ability to sting
people with a scorpion-like sting.
447
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,760
Now, locusts are known not to have
any type of way of harming people,
448
00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,960
so these locusts were special in origin.
449
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,520
These locusts only sought out humans...
450
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,840
...who did not have the seal of God
on their foreheads.
451
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,390
And it makes you wonder
if these locusts...
452
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,280
...are in fact some kind of an advanced
extraterrestrial technology...
453
00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,600
...that was sent to seek
specific human beings.
454
00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,440
Is it possible that what is described
in the Book of Revelation...
455
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...is not the plant-eating locust
we have today...
456
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,880
...but some type of advanced weaponry
wielded by an extraterrestrial being?
457
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,310
Now, if an extraterrestrial
was fighting a war,
458
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,190
a weapon that you could use
would be mechanical devices...
459
00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,160
...that basically were like
little nanotechnology...
460
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,720
...that would attack certain
very specific targets.
461
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,760
There are, in fact, such weapons
in use today.
462
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,200
DARPA Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia.
463
00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,280
This is the US Military's visionary
toy shop,
464
00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,680
where the blueprints for the weaponry
of tomorrow are drawn up.
465
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,240
Here, stealth technology
and GPS were conceived.
466
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,880
Now, according to sources,
a new arms race is underway,
467
00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,720
one focused not on the biggest
weapons, but the smallest.
468
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,510
Insects are one of the most
amazingly designed creatures...
469
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,560
...that exist on planet Earth.
I mean, they're extraordinary.
470
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:45,800
It's no surprise that the United States
military is interested in insects.
471
00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,200
It's absolutely logical.
472
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,520
Why not send a small insect
or a crawling beetle...
473
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,000
...into a war zone,
into a place to gather intelligence?
474
00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,400
That's exactly what we see happening now.
475
00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,590
At DARPA,
scientists have been experimenting...
476
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,640
...with electronically modifying
beetles...
477
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,160
...so they can manipulate their flight.
478
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,560
Threading thin wires
into the base of the beetles' optic lobes,
479
00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,680
they can control
the region of the brain...
480
00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,160
...that makes the beetles
start and stop flying.
481
00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,960
With another pair of wires
in the wing muscles,
482
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,160
they can also make the beetle
veer to the right or to the left...
483
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,600
...by remote control.
484
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,200
And scientists working
with nanotechnology...
485
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,120
...are not only looking for ways
to control insects...
486
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,520
...but to actually recreate them.
487
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,520
Thomas Vaneck at Physical Sciences
Incorporated...
488
00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,600
...is currently developing flying
robots based on insects.
489
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,760
Instant Eye is a very small aerial robot
about the size of a pie plate.
490
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,040
It's relatively simple,
yet it can do amazing things.
491
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,440
Just about any insect you can imagine
is being studied by somebody.
492
00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,400
Hornets, dragon flies, mosquitoes,
493
00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,000
all are said to be potential
models for the next generation...
494
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,800
...of bio-mimetic weapons,
495
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,120
robots that could one day
be indistinguishable from actual insects.
496
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,670
Right now, probably the smallest
insect-inspired robot...
497
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,750
...that we can make is about
the size of a hummingbird.
498
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,600
They're from the technologies
that are available to us today.
499
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,040
The driving force there is energy storage,
500
00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,360
because we just don't have a
battery that stores enough energy.
501
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,920
We're going to figure it out.
502
00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,680
I can easily envision that you're going
to have a robot the size of a fruit fly.
503
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,320
And if it landed on the wall,
in some terrorist's house,
504
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,430
he probably wouldn't know.
505
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,640
And we're able to fit so much
into such a small space now.
506
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,150
We keep the weight down.
We can give it wings...
507
00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:46,840
...and the average person would
just try to swat it away.
508
00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,870
In the not-too-distant future,
you're going to sit there and go,
509
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,040
“Wow, what a beautiful insect.”
Maybe it's not an insect at all.
510
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,400
But if we can produce
insect drones today,
511
00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,960
is it possible that the Biblical stories
of locusts sent by God...
512
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,000
...are really accounts
of alien technology in the ancient past?
513
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,880
And could this be the reason why insects
are feared by humans even to this day?
514
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,200
Some Ancient Astronaut Theorists...
515
00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,920
...believe such an incredible
notion is possible.
516
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,320
And for proof,
point to a mysterious area in Nevada...
517
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,120
...simply known as Area 51.
518
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,400
Kingman, Arizona. May, 1953.
519
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,840
At the height of the Cold War,
520
00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,680
an unidentified object
reportedly crashed in the desert sands.
521
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,640
What remained was allegedly sent
to America's most top-secret facility,
522
00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,720
Area 51.
523
00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,560
But it wasn't until 45 years later,
in 1998...
524
00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,520
...that a retired military
engineer named Bill Uhouse
525
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,840
...came forward to make a stunning claim.
526
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,520
The military didn't just have
the extraterrestrial technology.
527
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,480
They had an actual living alien.
528
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,840
Uhouse claimed that he worked
at a secret laboratory,
529
00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,920
supposedly in the Papoose Mountains
of Area 51 in Nevada.
530
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:37,350
And that since 1953, the American
government had an insectoid alien...
531
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,680
...that was working with them.
His name was J-Rod.
532
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:49,200
J-Rod supposedly assisted the military
in understanding and duplicating...
533
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,310
...the incredible power systems
and futuristic technology...
534
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,400
...that was combined and created
for the Kingman craft.
535
00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,080
Shortly after Bill Uhouse told the story,
536
00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,320
microbiologist Dan Burisch
came forward to confirm his claim.
537
00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,480
But according to Dan Burisch,
J-Rod claimed that he was not an alien.
538
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,400
What he revealed was something
even more shocking.
539
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:24,200
This insectoid alien J-Rod said that
he had actually come from our future,
540
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,760
and that at some time
in the near future to us...
541
00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,360
...there is a catastrophe on this planet.
542
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,280
And much of mankind is destroyed.
543
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,280
And that mankind splits
into two different species.
544
00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,360
And one of these species
goes and lives underground.
545
00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,840
And while underground,
they develop these insectoid traits.
546
00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:07,600
Which is exactly what the Hopi and Zuni
and even Navajo legends say,
547
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,760
that during the transition period
between the third and the fourth worlds,
548
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,840
this above world of today
was not habitable,
549
00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,030
and they had to go underground...
550
00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,680
...and live for some time
with what they call the Ant People.
551
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,880
And you have to wonder if perhaps J-Rod...
552
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:32,960
...is actually an insectoid human being
from our own future.
553
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,080
Could the accounts of J-Rod confirm
that the Hopi stories of Ant People...
554
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,040
...were more than just mythology.
555
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,920
And if the so-called insectoids
really could exist,
556
00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:52,000
is it possible that they are not aliens
but humans from the future?
557
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:59,590
Aliens appear to be a part of our
human evolution over thousands of years.
558
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,390
A lot of it has to do
with our reproductive systems.
559
00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,630
Maybe they're actually trying
to create a new race possibly,
560
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:09,310
that will be able to withstand
atmospheric changes here on Earth,
561
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400
or potentially lead us to a point
where we have to leave the planet.
562
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,040
But if humans are someday
forced underground...
563
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,560
...by a cataclysmic event,
564
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,320
does it make scientific sense...
565
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,280
...that we would evolve to have
insect-like characteristics?
566
00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,680
According to some scientists,
we are part insect already.
567
00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,790
The work on the human genome has
indicated that possibly up to half...
568
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,160
...of our DNA may be the result
of transposons.
569
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200
That's a fancy word for jumping genes,
570
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,040
genes that can jump from one species
to another.
571
00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,160
Recently, it was shown that rhodnius,
572
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,880
this is the sucking insect
that spreads Chagas disease,
573
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,680
not only can spread the trypanosome,
the disease-causing agent,
574
00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,600
from organism to organism,
575
00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,920
it also can spread its own genes
to those organisms.
576
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,840
Humans get Chagas disease.
577
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:08,680
So far, they have not tested
humans for this insect DNA.
578
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,280
Odds are, we do have some
of these insect genes in our system.
579
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,840
We know some of these transposon
probably came from diseases we caught...
580
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,080
...when our ancestors were
bitten by insects.
581
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,960
Could the studies on Horizontal Gene
Transfer one day prove...
582
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,520
...that we really do have insect DNA
in our genetic makeup?
583
00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:37,040
And if so, might it be not by chance,
but by some extraterrestrial design?
584
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,160
Is it possible
that evolution is being guided...
585
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,120
...by some sort of greater galactic
or universal intelligence?
586
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,360
Could it be possible that
certain circumstances...
587
00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,000
...insects could be the dominant species
that ultimately becomes sentient...
588
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,080
...and develops hominid characteristics?
589
00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:04,200
The contactee reports are consistent.
Some people are seeing beings like this.
590
00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,120
Communicating with them intelligently
and for benevolent purpose.
591
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,360
The whole idea of mixing
these life forms together is fascinating,
592
00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,960
making hybrids of the two of them.
593
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,630
Throughout history,
people have honoured...
594
00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:24,520
...and even worshipped insects,
built temples to them.
595
00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:30,350
It's quite possible that there is
a insectoid type life on other planets...
596
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,280
...that actually have intelligence
beyond our own.
597
00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,240
Is it possible that there really is
a connection between insects and aliens?
598
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,600
Are they related to beings
from beyond our world...
599
00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,440
...as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists
suggest?
600
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,040
And if so, what if they had a secret
purpose we have yet to discover?
601
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,440
Perhaps one day we'll find...
602
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,880
that alien beings don't only inhabit
the furthest reaches of space...
603
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,440
...but that there are in fact
billions already here on Earth,
604
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,960
and most of them right under our feet.