1 00:00:05,507 --> 00:00:08,426 [ Man Narrating] Evidence of a cataclysmic event. 2 00:00:09,260 --> 00:00:13,264 You can see it here that this event took place. 3 00:00:14,099 --> 00:00:17,268 [ Narrator] Written accounts describing lost cities. 4 00:00:18,186 --> 00:00:21,690 Atlantis had a great advanced civilization. 5 00:00:21,773 --> 00:00:25,694 [ Narrator] And mythic tales of gods punishing humanity. 6 00:00:25,777 --> 00:00:29,698 They decided that they would destroy all these civilizations. 7 00:00:29,781 --> 00:00:32,367 [ Narrator] In ancient cultures throughout the world... 8 00:00:32,450 --> 00:00:35,036 there are numerous stories of mankind... 9 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:38,081 nearly being destroyed by a great flood. 10 00:00:38,164 --> 00:00:42,043 But could such an event have actually taken place? 11 00:00:42,794 --> 00:00:46,381 And might it have been caused by an otherworldly force? 12 00:00:46,464 --> 00:00:48,883 [ Man ] One has to ask the question... 13 00:00:48,967 --> 00:00:52,554 “What if Noah was one of the extraterrestrials?” 14 00:00:53,722 --> 00:00:56,474 [ Narrator] Millions of people around the world believe... 15 00:00:56,558 --> 00:01:00,395 we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 16 00:01:01,146 --> 00:01:03,148 What if it were true? 17 00:01:03,982 --> 00:01:07,944 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 18 00:01:09,320 --> 00:01:11,740 And if so, might we find evidence... 19 00:01:11,823 --> 00:01:15,326 in the stories of the great flood? 20 00:01:47,358 --> 00:01:50,695 [ Narrator] It is one of the best-known stories of the Bible... 21 00:01:51,696 --> 00:01:54,282 and variations of this ancient tale... 22 00:01:54,365 --> 00:01:57,660 can be found in cultures throughout the world. 23 00:01:58,912 --> 00:02:02,457 From ancient Hindu teachings and Mesopotamian legends... 24 00:02:02,540 --> 00:02:04,167 to Mesoamerican myths... 25 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:09,923 it is written that the gods sent a powerful flood to wipe out all of humanity. 26 00:02:11,216 --> 00:02:13,384 God is angry at human beings... 27 00:02:13,468 --> 00:02:17,222 because human beings have not been behaving properly. 28 00:02:17,305 --> 00:02:19,516 They have been violating God's laws. 29 00:02:21,643 --> 00:02:24,604 [Woman ] Certainly the most famous of these is the legend of Noah. 30 00:02:25,605 --> 00:02:30,026 In Genesis, God becomes so disgusted with the behavior of his creation... 31 00:02:30,109 --> 00:02:33,738 that he says he repenteth of making them... 32 00:02:35,615 --> 00:02:37,992 and he brings forth the deluge. 33 00:02:41,037 --> 00:02:43,331 In stories much older than the story of Noah... 34 00:02:43,414 --> 00:02:46,835 in the story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend... 35 00:02:46,918 --> 00:02:50,755 the council of gods brought the flood. 36 00:02:51,589 --> 00:02:55,552 In Plato's writing, Zeus brought the flood. 37 00:02:55,635 --> 00:02:58,847 [Man] In Hinduism, God had instructed that one day... 38 00:02:58,930 --> 00:03:01,015 the whole Earth will be flooded. 39 00:03:01,099 --> 00:03:04,018 When that happens, you build a boat... 40 00:03:04,102 --> 00:03:07,772 and you gather the people, some animals... 41 00:03:07,856 --> 00:03:09,774 and then I will save you. 42 00:03:13,945 --> 00:03:16,030 [ Narrator] The story of the great flood... 43 00:03:16,114 --> 00:03:19,701 is often considered to be mythological. 44 00:03:19,784 --> 00:03:23,580 Bu! Similar stories of a cataclysmic flood can be found... 45 00:03:23,663 --> 00:03:28,209 in approximately 1,200 different cultures around the world. 46 00:03:28,293 --> 00:03:30,753 And many anthropologists say... 47 00:03:30,837 --> 00:03:33,631 that because these stories are so numerous... 48 00:03:33,715 --> 00:03:36,259 and date back thousands of years... 49 00:03:36,342 --> 00:03:40,013 it is unlikely that they originated from a single source. 50 00:03:41,639 --> 00:03:44,267 [ MAGLIOCCO ] When we find similar myths all over the world... 51 00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:48,229 like the myth of the flood, then we have to ask ourselves... 52 00:03:48,313 --> 00:03:52,150 are these things that human beings came up with independently? 53 00:03:52,233 --> 00:03:57,238 Because, let's say, there was a great flood in ancient history... 54 00:03:57,322 --> 00:03:59,824 that has been memorialized in people's mythologies... 55 00:03:59,908 --> 00:04:02,702 because it was such a cataclysmic event... 56 00:04:02,785 --> 00:04:08,917 that people looked for a religious explanation for it. 57 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:13,671 [ Man ] The fact that there are ancient stories that speak of the same flood... 58 00:04:13,755 --> 00:04:17,091 it almost leads into that direction... 59 00:04:17,175 --> 00:04:20,345 that at some point, some cataclysm happened... 60 00:04:20,428 --> 00:04:25,099 that not just affected one geographic area of the world... 61 00:04:25,183 --> 00:04:26,851 but the entire planet. 62 00:04:28,478 --> 00:04:33,191 [ Narrator] If a cataclysmic flood really did occur, killing most life on the planet... 63 00:04:33,274 --> 00:04:35,485 what could have caused it? 64 00:04:35,568 --> 00:04:38,279 And is there any physical evidence to suggest... 65 00:04:38,363 --> 00:04:40,865 that it actually happened? 66 00:04:40,949 --> 00:04:43,952 Scientists say answers to both questions... 67 00:04:44,035 --> 00:04:47,038 may be buried deep beneath the sea. 68 00:04:50,375 --> 00:04:52,585 [ Narrator] The Indian Ocean. 69 00:04:54,003 --> 00:04:58,716 According to the five scientists who make up the Holocene Impact Working Group... 70 00:04:58,800 --> 00:05:02,720 this area, 900 miles southeast of Madagascar... 71 00:05:02,804 --> 00:05:08,142 is where an enormous asteroid struck the Earth thousands of years ago. 72 00:05:08,226 --> 00:05:11,813 This impact may have been so large... 73 00:05:11,896 --> 00:05:16,901 that it triggered enormous tsunamis that flooded inland areas across the region- 74 00:05:16,985 --> 00:05:21,406 an event the local inhabitants would have perceived as a great flood. 75 00:05:22,407 --> 00:05:27,495 Since so many ancient cultures have a flood story or a flood mythology... 76 00:05:27,578 --> 00:05:30,081 this is probably based in some sort of real event. 77 00:05:32,166 --> 00:05:36,879 And an asteroid landing in the ocean in the right place, triggering a tsunami... 78 00:05:36,963 --> 00:05:39,632 would then lead to one of these major floods. 79 00:05:40,341 --> 00:05:44,429 [ Narrator] The Holocene Group says evidence for a catastrophic asteroid strike... 80 00:05:44,512 --> 00:05:48,266 lies in what they believe is an 18-mile-wide crater... 81 00:05:48,349 --> 00:05:53,104 on the floor of the Indian Ocean, just west of the island of Madagascar. 82 00:05:54,022 --> 00:05:58,609 Holocene Group scientists believe further evidence supporting their theory... 83 00:05:58,693 --> 00:06:01,529 also lies in what are called chevrons- 84 00:06:01,612 --> 00:06:06,951 ancient deposits of sediment and fossils in both Madagascar and Australia. 85 00:06:08,578 --> 00:06:13,041 What was so out of place and unusual about the chevrons... 86 00:06:13,124 --> 00:06:17,128 was that they weren't land-based debris. 87 00:06:17,211 --> 00:06:22,258 But, rather, it was the kind of debris you get from an ocean sea bottom- 88 00:06:22,341 --> 00:06:26,471 things like marine animals, marine fossils. 89 00:06:26,554 --> 00:06:29,891 They've also found what's really the smoking gun... 90 00:06:29,974 --> 00:06:32,894 of any asteroid or comet impact... 91 00:06:32,977 --> 00:06:34,979 and that's micro-beads. 92 00:06:35,063 --> 00:06:37,398 The only way they're formed is by... 93 00:06:37,482 --> 00:06:41,444 the extreme heat of an impact melting the rock... 94 00:06:41,527 --> 00:06:44,405 the rock being thrown into the air or water... 95 00:06:44,489 --> 00:06:47,575 and cooling into these nice little spheres. 96 00:06:51,871 --> 00:06:57,210 [ Narrator] Similar marine fossils have also been found on the other side of the world- 97 00:06:57,293 --> 00:07:02,465 at the ancient temple complex of Puma Punku, in modern-day Bolivia. 98 00:07:05,093 --> 00:07:08,513 If the Holocene Group's initial findings prove true... 99 00:07:08,596 --> 00:07:11,974 they could be definitive evidence that a cosmic strike... 100 00:07:12,058 --> 00:07:15,937 caused large-scale flooding thousands of years ago. 101 00:07:17,814 --> 00:07:21,943 Bu! If an asteroid really was responsible for a worldwide flood... 102 00:07:22,944 --> 00:07:26,072 scientists say it would have to have been as large... 103 00:07:26,155 --> 00:07:29,784 as the one that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs... 104 00:07:29,867 --> 00:07:32,036 which measured eight miles wide... 105 00:07:32,120 --> 00:07:36,707 and struck the Earth with a force five billion times more powerful... 106 00:07:36,791 --> 00:07:39,877 than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. 107 00:07:44,090 --> 00:07:46,217 [ Man ] There are many ancient texts... 108 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:50,721 that tell us that there wasn't just a flood... 109 00:07:50,805 --> 00:07:55,268 but there was also a conflagration, a period of fire... 110 00:07:55,351 --> 00:08:00,314 when the Earth was bombarded with firestorms, the gods bringing them down... 111 00:08:00,398 --> 00:08:04,360 and that this period was then followed by a flood. 112 00:08:05,486 --> 00:08:08,489 And it would seem that fragments of this comet... 113 00:08:08,573 --> 00:08:10,533 vaporized the ice sheets... 114 00:08:10,616 --> 00:08:14,078 that had been covering large parts of the northern hemisphere... 115 00:08:14,162 --> 00:08:16,831 for tens of thousands of years... 116 00:08:16,914 --> 00:08:22,503 sending all of the water up into the atmosphere, which then rained down... 117 00:08:22,587 --> 00:08:26,924 perhaps even for 4O days, 4O nights, like the Bible tells us. 118 00:08:31,345 --> 00:08:34,932 [ Narrator] According to those scientists who subscribe to this theory... 119 00:08:35,016 --> 00:08:38,186 the fires that might have occurred just before the flood... 120 00:08:38,269 --> 00:08:42,648 would have left behind an ash layer in the earth all over the world. 121 00:08:43,941 --> 00:08:48,571 This distinctive ash layer, which scientists call the Usselo horizon... 122 00:08:48,654 --> 00:08:53,492 could be the ultimate proof that the great flood really occurred... 123 00:08:53,576 --> 00:08:57,330 and researchers believe they may have discovered it. 124 00:09:01,459 --> 00:09:04,879 Just outside the small Belgian town of Lommel... 125 00:09:04,962 --> 00:09:07,924 author and researcher Andrew Collins... 126 00:09:08,007 --> 00:09:11,010 follows local archaeologist Ferdi Geerts... 127 00:09:11,093 --> 00:09:15,765 to the site of a mysterious black layer of soil excavated by a mining company. 128 00:09:17,600 --> 00:09:22,730 I can already see a black layer in the soil here. 129 00:09:22,813 --> 00:09:28,361 It's about just under a meter down, three to four feet. 130 00:09:29,695 --> 00:09:34,283 And are we looking here at the Usselo horizon? 131 00:09:34,367 --> 00:09:35,868 - Is this it? - [ Man ] Yes. 132 00:09:35,952 --> 00:09:39,830 At the end of the ditch, we see a peat layer. 133 00:09:39,914 --> 00:09:43,251 At the top of the peat layer, there is some charcoal. 134 00:09:43,334 --> 00:09:46,128 - Right. Can we go down and look at this? - Yes. 135 00:09:48,589 --> 00:09:50,925 [ Narrator] Collins and Geerts get a closer look... 136 00:09:51,008 --> 00:09:54,595 which allows them to determine that this dark layer of soil... 137 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:58,099 seems to date to the end of the last ice age- 138 00:09:58,182 --> 00:10:02,770 about the same time the Usselo horizon ls supposed to have formed. 139 00:10:03,354 --> 00:10:08,025 If we come down from the surface here, which is obviously the modern day... 140 00:10:08,109 --> 00:10:10,987 there is this accumulation of sand... 141 00:10:11,070 --> 00:10:14,532 over a period of around 13,000 years... 142 00:10:14,615 --> 00:10:17,576 that takes us back to this point here. 143 00:10:17,660 --> 00:10:21,789 - The black is a layer, and the white is sand. - Yeah. 144 00:10:21,872 --> 00:10:24,292 - We call that a soil horizon. - Yeah. Okay. 145 00:10:25,793 --> 00:10:29,297 [ Narrator] According to Geerts, this black layer dates back... 146 00:10:29,380 --> 00:10:33,551 to the time period when a global flood may have devastated Earth. 147 00:10:33,634 --> 00:10:35,469 But what is it made of? 148 00:10:36,345 --> 00:10:38,889 Collins and Geerts dig into the soil... 149 00:10:38,973 --> 00:10:42,643 and discover that it is, indeed, charcoal. 150 00:10:42,727 --> 00:10:45,980 This is the Usselo horizon, and to Collins... 151 00:10:46,063 --> 00:10:51,485 it's confirmation that the catastrophe described in the Bible was real. 152 00:10:51,569 --> 00:10:55,239 This is physical evidence... 153 00:10:55,323 --> 00:10:59,785 of that flood, of that conflagration. 154 00:10:59,869 --> 00:11:03,414 This is your absolute evidence... 155 00:11:03,497 --> 00:11:05,833 that this event took place. 156 00:11:05,916 --> 00:11:08,586 This is the evidence of the cataclysm. 157 00:11:10,421 --> 00:11:11,941 [ Narrator] Could the Usselo horizon... 158 00:11:12,006 --> 00:11:15,593 a possible impact crater in the Indian Ocean... 159 00:11:16,510 --> 00:11:19,930 and sea fossils at Puma Punku all be proof... 160 00:11:20,014 --> 00:11:24,727 that the ancient story of a great flood is not a myth-.. 161 00:11:24,810 --> 00:11:27,730 But that it is based on actual events? 162 00:11:28,689 --> 00:11:32,234 And if so, could the rest of the story- 163 00:11:32,318 --> 00:11:35,488 In which God' sent' a flood to annihilate the human race- 164 00:11:35,571 --> 00:11:38,282 be true as well? 165 00:11:38,366 --> 00:11:43,996 This suggests that a great flood did in fact happen, that it was real. 166 00:11:45,414 --> 00:11:49,460 But then it also presents us with an intriguing possibility. 167 00:11:49,543 --> 00:11:51,712 It is entirely possible that... 168 00:11:51,796 --> 00:11:56,967 there is an extraterrestrial origin to this terrible flood. 169 00:12:01,305 --> 00:12:05,559 [ Narrator] Could it be that the great flood described in so many ancient texts... 170 00:12:05,643 --> 00:12:09,730 really did occur at the end of the last ice age? 171 00:12:09,814 --> 00:12:14,527 And if so, could it have been brought on by extraterrestrial beings? 172 00:12:16,028 --> 00:12:18,989 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 173 00:12:19,073 --> 00:12:21,659 and claim that evidence of this can be found... 174 00:12:21,742 --> 00:12:25,704 at the top of one of the world's most sacred mountains. 175 00:12:33,629 --> 00:12:38,426 [ Narrator] Laurel, Maryland. October, 2014. 176 00:12:39,593 --> 00:12:43,848 At Johns Hopkins University, top scientists from all over the world... 177 00:12:43,931 --> 00:12:49,812 gather for the first International Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment Workshop. 178 00:12:51,689 --> 00:12:56,527 The focus of this event is to demonstrate the latest technology designed... 179 00:12:56,610 --> 00:13:01,031 for diverting the course of asteroids headed for a collision with Earth. 180 00:13:04,535 --> 00:13:08,038 The proposed method involves launching a spacecraft... 181 00:13:08,122 --> 00:13:12,460 to collide with the asteroid at a velocity nine times faster... 182 00:13:12,543 --> 00:13:16,422 than the speed of a bullet fired from an AK -47. 183 00:13:21,635 --> 00:13:24,930 If we look at the dinosaurs, for example, 65 million years ago... 184 00:13:26,557 --> 00:13:31,395 they were wiped out due to the impact of a giant rock... 185 00:13:31,479 --> 00:13:35,232 that wiped out everything on planet Earth at the time. 186 00:13:37,818 --> 00:13:43,449 And so, right now, scientists around the globe are working tirelessly... 187 00:13:43,532 --> 00:13:47,536 to redirect asteroids from possible collisions with Earth. 188 00:13:51,749 --> 00:13:56,337 [ Narrator] In addition to using direct impact to knock an asteroid off course... 189 00:13:56,420 --> 00:14:00,007 scientists have also looked into the possibility... 190 00:14:00,090 --> 00:14:02,510 of creating a gravity tractor... 191 00:14:02,593 --> 00:14:06,764 that could actually manipulate the trajectory of the object. 192 00:14:08,182 --> 00:14:11,727 But if we are close to developing this kind of technology today... 193 00:14:12,895 --> 00:14:17,858 is it possible that extraterrestrials who visited Earth in the distant past... 194 00:14:17,942 --> 00:14:22,238 already possessed the ability to redirect asteroids? 195 00:14:22,321 --> 00:14:25,908 And if so, might they have used this technology... 196 00:14:25,991 --> 00:14:29,161 not to deflect an asteroid away from Earth... 197 00:14:30,079 --> 00:14:31,622 but towards it? 198 00:14:33,207 --> 00:14:38,796 We are talking about technology that equals ours today... 199 00:14:38,879 --> 00:14:42,925 or as some have said, that it actually surpasses... 200 00:14:43,008 --> 00:14:47,137 whatever it is that we've achieved so far in our modern age. 201 00:14:48,556 --> 00:14:53,018 And so, if we can control the trajectories of asteroids... 202 00:14:53,102 --> 00:14:55,646 to direct them away from Earth... 203 00:14:55,729 --> 00:15:00,317 then it's certainly possible that highly advanced extraterrestrials... 204 00:15:00,401 --> 00:15:05,072 could have had the technology to direct an asteroid towards Earth. 205 00:15:06,407 --> 00:15:10,160 It's interesting how the legends described how the flood came. 206 00:15:10,244 --> 00:15:12,538 It is stated that... 207 00:15:12,621 --> 00:15:17,209 a great meteor or comet or something was to swing around from behind the sun... 208 00:15:17,293 --> 00:15:22,923 and as such, rip the oceans out of their bodies. 209 00:15:23,424 --> 00:15:26,010 The flood was clearly contrived. 210 00:15:26,093 --> 00:15:29,847 It was sent by higher powers... 211 00:15:29,930 --> 00:15:33,434 to correct things here on Earth. 212 00:15:33,517 --> 00:15:37,771 They had an intent and a purpose for Experiment Earth... 213 00:15:37,855 --> 00:15:40,149 which they believed had become corrupted... 214 00:15:40,232 --> 00:15:45,446 and, therefore, the flood was sent as an attack... 215 00:15:45,529 --> 00:15:48,324 an assault upon humanity. 216 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:55,039 [ Narrator] If the great flood was a real, historical event... 217 00:15:55,122 --> 00:15:58,959 could it have been deliberately caused by otherworldly beings... 218 00:15:59,043 --> 00:16:01,420 as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 219 00:16:02,129 --> 00:16:04,965 But if so, why? 220 00:16:05,049 --> 00:16:08,344 What might they have been trying to destroy? 221 00:16:13,891 --> 00:16:17,895 [ Narrator] Mount Hermon, Lebanon. 1869. 222 00:16:19,229 --> 00:16:22,524 Exploring the top of this historic mountain range... 223 00:16:22,608 --> 00:16:25,986 British archaeologist General Sir Charles Warren... 224 00:16:26,070 --> 00:16:30,324 discovers the sacred temple of Qasr Antar... 225 00:16:30,407 --> 00:16:34,828 believed to be highest place of worship in the biblical world. 226 00:16:38,248 --> 00:16:41,418 [ Man ] Sir Charles Warren hiked up to the top of Mount Hermon. 227 00:16:41,502 --> 00:16:46,006 The ruins of this temple are there, and there he found an ancient stele... 228 00:16:46,090 --> 00:16:49,093 and he broke this stele into two pieces... 229 00:16:49,176 --> 00:16:52,429 and brought it back to the British Museum. 230 00:16:53,722 --> 00:16:57,226 [ Narrator] When scholars translated the Greek text, it read: 231 00:16:57,309 --> 00:17:00,896 “According to the command of the greatest and holy God... 232 00:17:00,979 --> 00:17:04,149 those who take an oath proceed from here.” 233 00:17:04,942 --> 00:17:09,988 The inscription's significance was lost on archaeologists for more than a century... 234 00:17:10,072 --> 00:17:13,909 until biblical scholar George Nickelsburg connected it... 235 00:17:13,992 --> 00:17:16,829 to an oath mentioned in the ancient Book of Enoch. 236 00:17:17,996 --> 00:17:22,668 According to Enoch, Mount Hermon is where a band of renegade angels... 237 00:17:22,751 --> 00:17:24,044 known as the Watchers... 238 00:17:24,128 --> 00:17:26,964 descended from the heavens in the distant past... 239 00:17:27,047 --> 00:17:30,092 and took an oath before meeting with humans. 240 00:17:31,802 --> 00:17:35,973 In the time before time, the sons of God came down to Earth. 241 00:17:36,974 --> 00:17:38,976 They were the shining ones, the Elohim. 242 00:17:39,059 --> 00:17:43,647 Those are fallen angels, and they found the women very attractive... 243 00:17:43,731 --> 00:17:46,316 and they married the women or bonded with the women. 244 00:17:48,026 --> 00:17:52,573 [ Narrator] The offspring of these unnatural unions between angels and humans... 245 00:17:52,656 --> 00:17:56,744 were said to produce giant hybrid beings catted the Nephilim... 246 00:17:58,162 --> 00:18:01,206 and God was so disgusted by their existence... 247 00:18:02,249 --> 00:18:06,170 that he decided to send a great flood to cleanse the Earth of them. 248 00:18:09,631 --> 00:18:15,179 But how is it that human women were able to be impregnated by angels? 249 00:18:15,262 --> 00:18:19,016 Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 250 00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:22,936 that the Book of Enoch is not actually describing angels... 251 00:18:23,020 --> 00:18:26,607 but rather a different kind of otherworldly being? 252 00:18:29,026 --> 00:18:31,987 [ CHILDRESS ] You've got to wonder what was really going on here. 253 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:36,450 Are extraterrestrials coming and now breeding with humans? 254 00:18:36,533 --> 00:18:41,413 Which was somehow forbidden, and wrong, but they did it anyway. 255 00:18:42,122 --> 00:18:45,876 So the other extraterrestrials decided this is a big mistake. 256 00:18:45,959 --> 00:18:48,504 Now we've got to destroy all these people. 257 00:18:58,639 --> 00:19:00,724 [ Narrator] Could the story of the great flood... 258 00:19:00,808 --> 00:19:05,479 actually be describing extraterrestrials coming to Earth long ago... 259 00:19:05,562 --> 00:19:10,442 and interbreeding with human women to create a mutant race of giants? 260 00:19:11,819 --> 00:19:14,738 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 261 00:19:14,822 --> 00:19:19,076 and claim further evidence can be found by examining ruins... 262 00:19:19,159 --> 00:19:22,830 that are believed to date back thousands of years before... 263 00:19:22,913 --> 00:19:25,457 our earliest known civilizations. 264 00:19:34,508 --> 00:19:38,262 [ Narrator] The Gulf of Khambhat, India, 2001. 265 00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:44,434 Scientists working some 25 miles from shore... 266 00:19:44,518 --> 00:19:47,396 and 125 feet below the surface... 267 00:19:47,479 --> 00:19:49,731 stumble across something extraordinary- 268 00:19:51,275 --> 00:19:54,695 what appears to be the signs of an ancient civilization. 269 00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:58,532 [Shimkhada ] Recently, the marine archaeologists of India... 270 00:19:58,615 --> 00:20:02,619 have discovered two cities in the Bay of Khambhat. 271 00:20:02,703 --> 00:20:04,621 They are still working on it- 272 00:20:04,705 --> 00:20:09,042 going down there and archiving it and taking photographs and videos. 273 00:20:11,628 --> 00:20:16,300 [ CHILDRESS ] They think that these cities were destroyed in a geological change... 274 00:20:16,383 --> 00:20:19,469 that happened many thousands of years ago. 275 00:20:19,553 --> 00:20:21,388 But you have to wonder yourself... 276 00:20:21,471 --> 00:20:25,392 if there are not more sunken cities all around India. 277 00:20:26,602 --> 00:20:30,105 Their own legends and myths say exactly that. 278 00:20:31,899 --> 00:20:35,402 [ Narrator] Ruins found beneath the ocean in the Gulf of Khambhat... 279 00:20:35,485 --> 00:20:39,197 are thought to date back at least 9,000 years... 280 00:20:39,281 --> 00:20:41,783 to the time when some researchers believe... 281 00:20:42,826 --> 00:20:44,578 a comet struck the Earth... 282 00:20:46,830 --> 00:20:49,333 and caused a global deluge. 283 00:20:55,297 --> 00:20:58,258 Could these submerged cities not only be evidence... 284 00:20:58,342 --> 00:21:00,677 that the great flood really did occur... 285 00:21:00,761 --> 00:21:04,097 but also that it wiped out an advanced society... 286 00:21:04,181 --> 00:21:08,518 that existed long before the earliest known human civilization? 287 00:21:09,269 --> 00:21:12,064 Scientists say further evidence can be found... 288 00:21:12,147 --> 00:21:14,524 in archaeological sites around the world... 289 00:21:14,608 --> 00:21:18,570 that date back to end of the last ice age. 290 00:21:20,405 --> 00:21:23,867 In southeastern Turkey lies Gobekli Tepe- 291 00:21:23,951 --> 00:21:27,454 an extraordinary series of circular stone structures... 292 00:21:27,537 --> 00:21:31,208 with intricately carved pillars weighing as much as 50 tons. 293 00:21:32,292 --> 00:21:34,461 Radiocarbon dating indicates... 294 00:21:34,544 --> 00:21:38,674 parts of the complex were built about 10,000 BC... 295 00:21:38,757 --> 00:21:41,969 and at least one archaeologist believes there are signs... 296 00:21:42,052 --> 00:21:45,138 it may have been destroyed by a flood. 297 00:21:51,144 --> 00:21:54,940 [ Man ] We have evidence there of catastrophic destruction... 298 00:21:55,023 --> 00:21:59,277 of pillars being knocked over at the end of the last ice age... 299 00:21:59,861 --> 00:22:04,408 that things were very severe-people were trying to rebuild it at the time. 300 00:22:04,491 --> 00:22:09,579 Eventually they effectively gave up and covered over the entire site... 301 00:22:09,663 --> 00:22:12,165 maybe to come back later to uncover it... 302 00:22:12,249 --> 00:22:14,793 maybe to simply bury it for posterity. 303 00:22:17,921 --> 00:22:19,923 [ Narrator] In the rain forests of Indonesia... 304 00:22:21,174 --> 00:22:25,262 is a series of terraces, walls and steps on a hill... 305 00:22:25,345 --> 00:22:28,348 that the locals call Gunung Padang. 306 00:22:28,432 --> 00:22:31,643 When scientists drilled into the earth to determine its age... 307 00:22:31,727 --> 00:22:37,107 they discovered the site dates back to at least 9700 BC. 308 00:22:38,442 --> 00:22:42,946 Very interestingly, one of the layers of Gunung Padang... 309 00:22:43,030 --> 00:22:44,990 that's been exposed seismically... 310 00:22:45,073 --> 00:22:51,663 shows that there was an entrance to a cave at about 9700 or so BC... 311 00:22:51,747 --> 00:22:54,249 that was subsequently covered over. 312 00:22:57,127 --> 00:23:01,590 Again, I think this ties in with the events of the end of the last ice age. 313 00:23:04,092 --> 00:23:06,887 People were going into caves. They had to escape. 314 00:23:08,263 --> 00:23:11,058 And then things were covered over after that. 315 00:23:13,310 --> 00:23:16,521 [ Narrator] Are these ruins that are found across the world... 316 00:23:16,605 --> 00:23:22,444 evidence of an advanced civilization that existed before a global deluge? 317 00:23:23,487 --> 00:23:27,908 And if so, might we find mention of it in ancient myths? 318 00:23:29,659 --> 00:23:34,164 [ MAGLIOCCO] if we go back to ancient Greece, one of the myths... 319 00:23:34,247 --> 00:23:37,959 one of the sacred narratives that Plato preserves... 320 00:23:38,043 --> 00:23:43,090 is the narrative that there used to be a great continent, which he calls Atlantis... 321 00:23:44,591 --> 00:23:49,012 and Atlantis had a great, advanced civilization. 322 00:23:51,807 --> 00:23:57,062 Atlantis was one of the continents that was destroyed by the great flood. 323 00:23:58,271 --> 00:24:01,316 [SCHOCH ] When does he date Atlantis? To 9600 BC... 324 00:24:01,942 --> 00:24:06,154 which is very close to the modern date of the end of the last ice age. 325 00:24:07,155 --> 00:24:12,953 So all this, I believe, ties together that we had an earlier cycle of civilization. 326 00:24:13,036 --> 00:24:17,916 It was devastated at the end of the last ice age by natural catastrophes. 327 00:24:17,999 --> 00:24:23,797 Humanity was driven into a dark age that lasted thousands of years... 328 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:28,260 until civilization reemerged about 5,000 years ago. 329 00:24:30,470 --> 00:24:33,056 [ Narrator] Is it possible that the story of Atlantis... 330 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:38,019 is really describing a civilization that existed before 70, 000 BC... 331 00:24:38,103 --> 00:24:42,065 when the great flood and the end of the ice age are said to have happened? 332 00:24:43,233 --> 00:24:47,362 Did Atlantis suffer the same fate as Gobekli Tepe... 333 00:24:47,445 --> 00:24:51,116 Gunung Padang, and many other ancient structures... 334 00:24:51,199 --> 00:24:54,327 that appear to have been hit by some catastrophic event? 335 00:24:55,620 --> 00:24:57,914 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes... 336 00:24:58,999 --> 00:25:02,627 and suggest that the most compelling evidence can be found... 337 00:25:02,711 --> 00:25:07,591 not with what was destroyed, but with what survived. 338 00:25:17,350 --> 00:25:21,521 [ Narrator] Qumran, Palestine, 1946. 339 00:25:22,939 --> 00:25:25,692 In the desert, 70 miles east of Jerusalem... 340 00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:31,281 a Bedouin shepherd leaves his flock of sheep and goats to look for a stray. 341 00:25:33,200 --> 00:25:37,162 Walking along the cliffs, the shepherd spots a cave in the distance. 342 00:25:39,164 --> 00:25:41,958 [ Man ] He threw a stone into a cave... 343 00:25:42,042 --> 00:25:44,628 and he heard the crack of breaking pottery. 344 00:25:44,711 --> 00:25:46,254 [Clattering ] 345 00:25:46,338 --> 00:25:48,465 So he went in to investigate... 346 00:25:48,548 --> 00:25:52,552 and found jars that contained ancient manuscripts. 347 00:25:55,472 --> 00:25:59,351 The Bedouin shepherd's find led to a discovery of 11 caves... 348 00:25:59,434 --> 00:26:03,271 that contained the most extraordinary cache of literature... 349 00:26:03,355 --> 00:26:06,149 arguably in human history- the Dead Sea Scrolls. 350 00:26:07,734 --> 00:26:11,988 There are 800 pieces of literature found in these 11 caves... 351 00:26:12,072 --> 00:26:15,116 and it tells us so much about the ancient world. 352 00:26:17,118 --> 00:26:20,080 One of the amazing revelations is a story about Noah... 353 00:26:20,163 --> 00:26:22,916 that we don't see in the Old Testament. 354 00:26:24,501 --> 00:26:28,129 And the story is that when Noah is born, he's an extraordinary baby... 355 00:26:28,213 --> 00:26:33,593 with a strange complexion and the ability to light up the room with his eyes. 356 00:26:34,261 --> 00:26:39,057 What's interesting is that you actually have Noah's father, Lamech... 357 00:26:39,140 --> 00:26:42,352 questioning whether or not Noah is his son. 358 00:26:45,605 --> 00:26:51,278 And this is due to the fact that we have this story about these fallen angels... 359 00:26:51,361 --> 00:26:54,698 that came down and had sex with women. 360 00:26:56,992 --> 00:27:02,747 Lamech confronts his wife, Batenosh- “Is it my son or is it one of theirs?” 361 00:27:03,290 --> 00:27:07,794 [TSOUKALOS ] Noah's exterior is described as very foreign. 362 00:27:07,877 --> 00:27:12,132 His eyes are described to be glowing like sunbeams. 363 00:27:12,215 --> 00:27:15,552 His skin is glowing as well. 364 00:27:17,846 --> 00:27:20,056 Now, that's a very bizarre description. 365 00:27:20,140 --> 00:27:23,643 And so one has to ask the question... 366 00:27:23,727 --> 00:27:27,439 “What if Noah was one of the extraterrestrials?” 367 00:27:29,816 --> 00:27:32,652 [ Narrator] Could it be, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 368 00:27:32,736 --> 00:27:38,491 that the biblical figure of Noah was, in fact, an alien being? 369 00:27:39,617 --> 00:27:41,619 Is this the reason he is described... 370 00:27:41,703 --> 00:27:45,373 as having a strange complexion and glowing eyes? 371 00:27:46,416 --> 00:27:48,960 The key thing that's going on with Noah... 372 00:27:49,044 --> 00:27:53,506 is that he is pure in God's sight, and so is his family. 373 00:27:53,590 --> 00:27:57,927 And this purity seems to be genetic, as much as what you might call spiritual. 374 00:28:00,013 --> 00:28:04,017 And so, when God makes plans to wipe out the rest of humanity... 375 00:28:04,100 --> 00:28:09,314 what he's wiping out is the extraterrestrial dimension of humanity... 376 00:28:09,397 --> 00:28:12,442 that has come about through the pollution of human genetics. 377 00:28:15,987 --> 00:28:19,032 [ Narrator] Could extraterrestrials have sent the great flood... 378 00:28:19,115 --> 00:28:21,910 to cleanse the earth of genetic mistakes... 379 00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,956 and make Noah the father of a new version of humankind? 380 00:28:29,542 --> 00:28:31,544 According to ancient stories... 381 00:28:31,628 --> 00:28:34,297 the world that Noah's descendants were born into... 382 00:28:34,381 --> 00:28:38,385 was very different from the one that existed in pre-flood times... 383 00:28:38,885 --> 00:28:41,805 when gods, giants, fairies... 384 00:28:41,888 --> 00:28:45,683 and other creatures were said to share the planet with humans. 385 00:28:46,768 --> 00:28:50,146 The flood does seem to serve as a demarcation point. 386 00:28:52,941 --> 00:28:56,236 In the Bible, we read about how before the flood... 387 00:28:56,319 --> 00:29:01,116 people had longer lives, but then after the flood, shorter lives. 388 00:29:01,199 --> 00:29:05,495 We see the same thing in Mesopotamian tradition, with the Sumerian King List... 389 00:29:05,578 --> 00:29:09,666 where before the flood, we have kings that ruled in Mesopotamia... 390 00:29:09,749 --> 00:29:11,751 with extraordinarily long lives. 391 00:29:12,836 --> 00:29:18,758 After the flood, the lengths of reigns of these kings becomes much shorter. 392 00:29:18,842 --> 00:29:21,344 The other thing that happened before this great demarcation... 393 00:29:21,428 --> 00:29:23,513 is that the gods were present among us. 394 00:29:23,596 --> 00:29:27,809 There was a close interaction between the human and the sacred. 395 00:29:27,892 --> 00:29:30,937 The gods would guide us, and they would be tempted. 396 00:29:31,020 --> 00:29:33,982 There would be interaction- the god might marry a mortal... 397 00:29:34,065 --> 00:29:36,359 and then there would be descendants of the gods. 398 00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:38,736 Now the gods seem so far away. 399 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:43,658 So, there are these theories that this was the big shifting point in human history. 400 00:29:44,659 --> 00:29:48,371 It is really interesting to note that the interaction with these higher beings... 401 00:29:48,455 --> 00:29:51,040 seems to only be located in the past. 402 00:29:51,124 --> 00:29:54,294 All these depictions of, “There were giants upon the Earth.” 403 00:29:54,377 --> 00:29:57,255 Or a time when man interacted with the gods. 404 00:29:57,338 --> 00:29:58,798 Where are the gods today? 405 00:29:58,882 --> 00:30:02,135 We only seem to have subtle interactions. 406 00:30:02,218 --> 00:30:06,014 [ Man ] it's curious to think why that might have been. 407 00:30:06,097 --> 00:30:10,894 What was it about this great flood, this dividing line in history... 408 00:30:10,977 --> 00:30:14,314 that caused the separation of God and man? 409 00:30:16,149 --> 00:30:21,362 It could be that our evolution depended upon a natural upbringing... 410 00:30:21,446 --> 00:30:25,825 an upbringing that was not contaminated by this notion... 411 00:30:25,909 --> 00:30:28,369 that we're not alone in the universe. 412 00:30:28,453 --> 00:30:31,623 It could be a necessary part of the human development. 413 00:30:38,171 --> 00:30:40,173 [ Narrator] Could it be that the great flood... 414 00:30:40,256 --> 00:30:44,302 removed not only most living creatures from the Earth... 415 00:30:44,385 --> 00:30:49,766 but also any trace of the alien beings that gave birth to our species? 416 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,936 Perhaps additional clues can be found... 417 00:30:53,019 --> 00:30:58,024 by further examining the story of Noah and how he survived. 418 00:31:10,370 --> 00:31:14,123 [ Narrator] Uzengili, Turkey, 1997. 419 00:31:14,707 --> 00:31:19,295 More than 7,000 feet up, near the country's eastern border... 420 00:31:19,379 --> 00:31:22,715 an American explorer searching for Noah's Ark... 421 00:31:22,799 --> 00:31:24,467 named David Allen Deal... 422 00:31:24,551 --> 00:31:28,429 stumbles upon the ruins of an ancient settlement. 423 00:31:29,055 --> 00:31:31,307 There is an extraordinary archaeological site... 424 00:31:31,391 --> 00:31:35,103 in the Anatolian plateau in Turkey, called Naxuan. 425 00:31:36,229 --> 00:31:40,483 And Naxuan comes from an ancient word that means “Noah's Zion”- 426 00:31:40,567 --> 00:31:43,027 the city of God that Noah built. 427 00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:50,827 Mount Ararat, which is the legendary resting place of Noah's Ark, is very close by. 428 00:31:50,910 --> 00:31:54,872 So it makes a lot of sense that this could have been the landing site of the ark... 429 00:31:54,956 --> 00:31:57,458 and then this city would have been built by Noah. 430 00:32:02,005 --> 00:32:05,258 [ Narrator] The ancient Armenian historian Moses of Choren... 431 00:32:05,341 --> 00:32:08,928 called Naxuan “the place of first descent”... 432 00:32:09,012 --> 00:32:12,181 where Noah and his family emerged from the ark... 433 00:32:12,265 --> 00:32:15,602 and built the first city or town after the flood. 434 00:32:18,271 --> 00:32:21,774 Could this be the first settlement in the post-flood world? 435 00:32:21,858 --> 00:32:24,444 The place where Noah lived and died? 436 00:32:26,904 --> 00:32:30,575 Today, this remote area is largely uninhabited. 437 00:32:30,658 --> 00:32:33,453 But according to explorer David Deal... 438 00:32:33,536 --> 00:32:38,541 a recent archaeological dig reportedly uncovered something remarkable- 439 00:32:40,126 --> 00:32:44,589 the region may contain as many as a million graves. 440 00:32:46,549 --> 00:32:49,636 There is evidence that people came from all over the world... 441 00:32:49,719 --> 00:32:53,348 to bury their dead here for 10,000 years. 442 00:32:55,308 --> 00:32:57,977 The idea is that if you are brought here... 443 00:32:58,061 --> 00:33:01,731 to be buried in the site of this extraordinary prophet- 444 00:33:01,814 --> 00:33:06,402 this man who was chosen by God to be the survivor of the deluge- 445 00:33:06,486 --> 00:33:10,990 that you too would be resurrected because you were in such holy company. 446 00:33:13,326 --> 00:33:15,495 [ Narrator] If the story of Noah is true... 447 00:33:15,578 --> 00:33:18,665 could this patch of earth be the final resting place... 448 00:33:18,748 --> 00:33:21,918 of the father of all of humanity? 449 00:33:28,966 --> 00:33:31,469 [Young ] When the floods ended, God said... 450 00:33:31,552 --> 00:33:35,223 “Go forward, be fruitful, multiply, populate the Earth.” 451 00:33:35,306 --> 00:33:40,353 And then it says, “God will create the descendants of Noah in God's image.” 452 00:33:40,436 --> 00:33:45,191 We have the presence of the divine in our lineage, and it all goes back to Noah. 453 00:33:48,653 --> 00:33:50,613 [ Narrator] According to some researchers... 454 00:33:50,697 --> 00:33:55,243 if this is indeed the place where Noah began the re-population of the Earth... 455 00:33:55,326 --> 00:33:58,538 then the ark must be nearby as well. 456 00:33:59,455 --> 00:34:00,957 [ Mullins] In the Book of Genesis... 457 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:04,711 we read about how God commanded Noah to build an ark... 458 00:34:04,794 --> 00:34:08,840 and the measurements of this ark are quite large. 459 00:34:09,966 --> 00:34:15,722 The dimensions usually given are about 450 feet long by 75 feet wide... 460 00:34:15,805 --> 00:34:18,725 by about 45 feet high. 461 00:34:18,808 --> 00:34:23,980 Such a boat of these dimensions was never seen in the ancient world... 462 00:34:24,063 --> 00:34:29,235 and, in fact, not until the 19th century was there ever a boat of this size. 463 00:34:31,654 --> 00:34:35,241 [ Narrator] In 2009, a Dutchman named Johan Huibers... 464 00:34:35,324 --> 00:34:37,994 started building a full-size version of Noah's Ark... 465 00:34:38,578 --> 00:34:42,081 using the instructions laid out in the Bible. 466 00:34:42,165 --> 00:34:47,670 It took him three years and more than a million dollars to complete the project. 467 00:34:47,754 --> 00:34:52,425 But while the ship seems perfectly designed to ride out a torrential storm... 468 00:34:52,508 --> 00:34:55,470 many say it's still far too small... 469 00:34:55,553 --> 00:35:00,516 to literally hold two of every animal species on the planet. 470 00:35:02,351 --> 00:35:04,353 [ Downing ] it would seem pretty clear that Noah... 471 00:35:04,437 --> 00:35:09,609 did not scoop up every form of life on Earth and put it in the ark. 472 00:35:09,692 --> 00:35:14,864 And so as a means of saving all life-forms on Earth... 473 00:35:14,947 --> 00:35:18,242 this is not possible, not believable. 474 00:35:19,535 --> 00:35:22,246 [ Narrator] But ancient astronaut theorists suggest... 475 00:35:22,330 --> 00:35:26,292 there might be another way in which the ark was able to preserve... 476 00:35:26,375 --> 00:35:30,922 two of every creature on Earth, as stated in the Bible. 477 00:35:31,005 --> 00:35:34,258 Let's look at it from a technological perspective. 478 00:35:35,468 --> 00:35:40,056 The only way that you can create an ark... 479 00:35:40,139 --> 00:35:44,310 like Noah created according to what we can read in the Old Testament... 480 00:35:44,393 --> 00:35:48,022 is if you collect DNA samples. 481 00:35:49,982 --> 00:35:52,318 So what if the ark... 482 00:35:52,401 --> 00:35:57,573 was a metaphor or a symbol for some type of a DNA bank? 483 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:04,163 [ Narrator] Did the ark described in the story of Noah really exist? 484 00:36:04,247 --> 00:36:09,710 And if so, might it have been not a vessel to carry two of every animal species... 485 00:36:09,794 --> 00:36:11,838 but a DNA bank... 486 00:36:11,921 --> 00:36:16,259 built to hold the genetic information of all life on our planet? 487 00:36:17,009 --> 00:36:21,848 [ CHILDRESS ] What one might read into this is that... 488 00:36:21,931 --> 00:36:25,935 some kind of special DNA bank was to be created... 489 00:36:26,561 --> 00:36:30,690 that animal DNA, plant DNA... 490 00:36:30,773 --> 00:36:33,109 and human DNA, for that matter... 491 00:36:33,192 --> 00:36:36,112 were all to be preserved somehow... 492 00:36:36,195 --> 00:36:42,118 in an ark that was to float through the flood and this catastrophe. 493 00:36:43,870 --> 00:36:49,166 [ Narrator] Is it possible that all of humanity is descended from Noah's genetic lineage- 494 00:36:49,250 --> 00:36:54,046 a new species that replaced the indigenous people who once existed on Earth? 495 00:36:55,131 --> 00:36:58,217 And all that remains of this once-great society... 496 00:36:58,301 --> 00:37:03,139 are the giant slabs of rock that' were too big to be washed away by the flood? 497 00:37:04,056 --> 00:37:08,895 And if so, might we be destined to suffer the same fate? 498 00:37:09,604 --> 00:37:11,856 Perhaps further clues can be found... 499 00:37:11,939 --> 00:37:14,692 by looking at our own modern-day version... 500 00:37:15,860 --> 00:37:18,154 of Noah's Ark. 501 00:37:25,828 --> 00:37:28,331 [ Narrator] Spitsbergen, Norway. 502 00:37:30,833 --> 00:37:34,754 On this remote archipelago, not far from the Arctic Ocean... 503 00:37:36,088 --> 00:37:38,966 lies the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 504 00:37:47,099 --> 00:37:49,060 Known as the Doomsday Vault... 505 00:37:49,143 --> 00:37:53,856 this repository for the DNA of plants, animals and humans... 506 00:37:53,940 --> 00:37:56,609 can withstand nearly any cataclysm... 507 00:37:56,692 --> 00:38:01,280 including a flood, an earthquake or a nuclear blast. 508 00:38:10,581 --> 00:38:13,209 [Woman ] The Svalbard Seed Bank is a structure... 509 00:38:13,292 --> 00:38:16,837 or a facility that's sunk into the permafrost. 510 00:38:18,464 --> 00:38:21,926 It's essentially an international effort to deposit as many seeds- 511 00:38:22,009 --> 00:38:24,553 particularly seeds of crop plant varieties- 512 00:38:25,304 --> 00:38:28,057 to help to preserve genetic diversity. 513 00:38:36,816 --> 00:38:41,988 [ Narrator] With the Doomsday Vault, are we creating our own modern-day ark? 514 00:38:42,071 --> 00:38:45,866 One that instead of housing two of every living creature on Earth... 515 00:38:45,950 --> 00:38:49,745 will house the seeds of every kind of plant life? 516 00:38:49,829 --> 00:38:52,248 [ Fisher] The Svalbard Seed Vault has been designed... 517 00:38:52,331 --> 00:38:54,458 with some sort of cataclysm in mind. 518 00:38:55,668 --> 00:38:58,379 The idea is that in the event of some catastrophic event... 519 00:38:58,462 --> 00:39:01,924 it would still stay cold and preserve seeds for thousands of years. 520 00:39:02,008 --> 00:39:05,553 It's sort of this last hope for genetic diversity. 521 00:39:07,304 --> 00:39:09,390 [ Narrator] The Svalbard is just one... 522 00:39:09,473 --> 00:39:13,769 of several biological storehouses located around the world. 523 00:39:14,770 --> 00:39:18,107 England's Millennium Seed Bank is even larger... 524 00:39:18,190 --> 00:39:24,155 while the US federal government has built a similar facility in Fort' Collins, Colorado. 525 00:39:25,865 --> 00:39:29,535 Scientists say one reason for these repositories... 526 00:39:29,618 --> 00:39:31,579 is that another large asteroid... 527 00:39:31,662 --> 00:39:35,207 similar to the one that is believed to have caused the great flood... 528 00:39:35,291 --> 00:39:37,543 will eventually strike Earth. 529 00:39:37,626 --> 00:39:39,754 It's just a matter of time. 530 00:39:39,837 --> 00:39:41,338 [Frisbee] You always have the risk... 531 00:39:41,422 --> 00:39:43,966 and, of course, we've seen it here on Earth... 532 00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:47,720 of having large asteroids or comets hit the planet... 533 00:39:47,803 --> 00:39:50,681 and cause tremendous ecological damage. 534 00:39:51,766 --> 00:39:56,145 Right now all our genetic eggs are in one basket. 535 00:39:56,228 --> 00:40:01,567 Whether it's a comet or asteroid hitting us, we are in jeopardy. 536 00:40:05,029 --> 00:40:07,740 [ Narrator] In February of 2013... 537 00:40:07,823 --> 00:40:11,911 an asteroid large enough to take out all of New York City... 538 00:40:11,994 --> 00:40:15,206 came within 18,000 miles of Earth. 539 00:40:16,874 --> 00:40:22,254 Another has been predicted to strike the Earth sometime in the next 20 years. 540 00:40:25,257 --> 00:40:30,429 But if a great flood, or some other global catastrophe, were to occur today... 541 00:40:30,513 --> 00:40:32,973 are we prepared to survive it? 542 00:40:33,599 --> 00:40:38,479 And if there really are extraterrestrial beings watching over the Earth... 543 00:40:38,562 --> 00:40:42,566 are they likely to be the cause of such a cataclysm? 544 00:40:42,650 --> 00:40:46,070 Or will they simply be observers... 545 00:40:46,153 --> 00:40:49,448 sitting quietly by and letting nature take its course? 546 00:40:49,532 --> 00:40:54,203 If extraterrestrial gods are there watching us... 547 00:40:54,286 --> 00:40:57,206 and either aware of future catastrophes... 548 00:40:57,289 --> 00:41:01,168 or are capable of making them themselves... 549 00:41:01,252 --> 00:41:05,214 then perhaps we need to be prepared for that. 550 00:41:07,967 --> 00:41:10,594 We live in a precarious point... 551 00:41:10,678 --> 00:41:14,515 where at any time we could go through another catastrophe. 552 00:41:17,143 --> 00:41:19,019 And you have to ask yourself... 553 00:41:19,103 --> 00:41:22,064 if the extraterrestrials themselves may not create that. 554 00:41:25,192 --> 00:41:27,820 [ Man ] One of the explanations for why extraterrestrials... 555 00:41:27,903 --> 00:41:29,989 might seek to destroy humankind... 556 00:41:30,072 --> 00:41:32,908 is because they treat us as their property. 557 00:41:34,493 --> 00:41:36,579 They treat us as their offspring. 558 00:41:36,662 --> 00:41:42,251 And they're able to make decisions about humanity based on their needs. 559 00:41:42,334 --> 00:41:44,837 So perhaps their needs were satisfied and they decided... 560 00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:47,673 they didn't want humankind around anymore, so it's just as easy... 561 00:41:47,756 --> 00:41:51,093 to wipe 'em out as it is to continue to perpetuate their existence. 562 00:41:52,303 --> 00:41:54,597 [Woman ] The evolution of humans on this planet... 563 00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:59,268 has been completely and totally an experiment on the part of extraterrestrials. 564 00:42:00,686 --> 00:42:03,814 If survival is the bottom line... 565 00:42:03,898 --> 00:42:06,358 they are trying to get us... 566 00:42:06,442 --> 00:42:10,487 over some kind of a finish line when we're still alive. 567 00:42:12,907 --> 00:42:17,536 Our survival was ensured by extraterrestrials... 568 00:42:17,620 --> 00:42:19,538 way back in the remote past... 569 00:42:19,622 --> 00:42:22,791 because we are their direct offspring. 570 00:42:24,293 --> 00:42:26,670 We are their product. 571 00:42:26,754 --> 00:42:31,759 They, in fact, have a vested interest in our survival. 572 00:42:35,888 --> 00:42:40,601 [ Narrator] Are we the descendants of an extraterrestrial ancestor named Noah... 573 00:42:40,684 --> 00:42:45,356 who was sent to repopulate the Earth after the great flood? 574 00:42:45,439 --> 00:42:47,149 And if so... 575 00:42:47,233 --> 00:42:51,904 are there extraterrestrials watching over us even to this day... 576 00:42:52,696 --> 00:42:55,241 not to destroy us, but simply... 577 00:42:55,324 --> 00:42:59,745 to see if we can prevail over the Earth's next great cataclysm? 578 00:43:01,163 --> 00:43:05,251 It is a question we may not have much time to think about... 579 00:43:05,334 --> 00:43:10,464 except to consider how much or how many will survive.