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[Narrator] It is one of the
most unexplored places on Earth.

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The majority of the Amazon

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is still completely untouched
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[Narrator] But now,
the long-held secrets

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of the Amazon are finally
coming to light.

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[Andrew Collins] We have
pyramid platforms,

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plazas that show
an incredibly advanced

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culture that
completely went missing.

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So where exactly did
all of this come from?

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[Hugh Newman] All across
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they talk about these sky beings

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coming down to Earth

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and sharing knowledge
about civilization.

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[Narrator] Could the dense
jungle canopy of the Amazon

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be hiding an alien presence?

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[William Henry] Perhaps
it's going to reveal

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the greatest understanding
of extraterrestrial contact

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anywhere in the world.

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[Narrator] Stretching over
two million square miles

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across South America
is Amazonia,

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a region of dense jungle,

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mighty rivers,

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and mysterious phenomena.

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More commonly referred to
as simply the Amazon,

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this vast rainforest
covers nine nations

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and is home to more than
30 million people.

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The Amazon is huge.

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It's actually an area
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the entire United States.

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In terms of trees, there are

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16,000 different varieties.

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Insects, 2.5 million.

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And the flora and fauna there

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is more diverse than
any other forest on the planet.

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It's almost impossible
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exactly how vast
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It's very dense.
It's very dangerous.

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It's got rushing waters
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It's got violent waterfalls,

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trees that are so tall

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they're hard to climb
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[Narrator] The extreme
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make much of it nearly
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As a result, less than 15%

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of this mysterious landscape
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mapped, or extensively studied
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But despite its inaccessibility,

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the Amazon is home to hundreds
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many of which have never made
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Just within the Amazon itself

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are over 400 Indigenous tribes,

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and we know of 300 distinct
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These people may have been
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so we have
an incredible resource here.

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We have a window
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[Narrator] Many of the
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claim to have
inhabited the areas

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they live in for centuries.

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Like the Asháninka,

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one of Peru's largest
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According to the Asháninka,

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their ancestors
were taught how to live

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in harmony with the rainforest

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by celestial visitors
who came down from the sky.

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The Asháninka say that
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involved star beings

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that came down and taught humans

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essential things like farming.

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This particular group

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does sustainable farming
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and they credit these star
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[Narrator] Similarly,
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Colombia, and Peru

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hold annual ceremonies to honor
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who gave their culture
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to build a civilization.

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[Barnhart] The Ticuna people
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through ceremonies in which
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body paint that tells the story
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who came down, and those people
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Throughout the Amazon,
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Indigenous tales
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that came into the area
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and then ultimately left,

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and perhaps
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have these annual festivals
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to remember these things
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of a real event,
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that happened hundreds,
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[Narrator] As far
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Indigenous peoples
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share similar traditions
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encountered the same
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But is there
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that this could be true?

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For decades,
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that only small,
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had ever existed
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But in the 21st century,
new technology

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has proven this notion
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The National Institute
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an extensive survey
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using lidar to penetrate
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and create precise 3D mapping
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Nine years later, in 2024,

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archaeologists published
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which reveal a staggering
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of sophisticated settlements

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that may have formed
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We have at least 6,000
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that have been found in total.

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We have major, major structures

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comparable to
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[David Cheetham] There is
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in this setting
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And you have agriculture
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all in a symbiotic
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[David Childress] In the
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we also have
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of canals and grids
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And this is a flood-prone area
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they were designed, you know,
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[Collins] It was suggested
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that nothing could've built up

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from a cultural perspective
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but now we know that lidar

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is slowly revealing
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we didn't even know existed
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and that's quite incredible.

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[Narrator] Around the same time

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that these
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were being made
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other lidar surveys
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and uncovered additional
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[Barnhart] In the Amazon part
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they have now found--
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over 415 discrete sites,

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and these are big sites.

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They're not just
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They have architecture
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[Collins] The Llanos de Moxos is
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that has recently revealed,
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pyramid platforms,

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plazas, earthworks,

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agricultural areas
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a structured society
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They're speculating that there
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living in that region,
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They had a technological
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any expectations,
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what we see of the Indigenous
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[Henry] These discoveries
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of our previous view
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So, we have to ask the question,
where did these people

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get this extraordinary
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We know almost nothing
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however, the myths and legends
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speak of these sky beings
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told came down
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and brought
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[Narrator] Could the
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that vast cities existed

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in the Amazon rainforest
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indicate that the stories of
the Indigenous people are true?

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Were their ancestors able to
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not only by their own ingenuity
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assistance from
otherworldly visitors?

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Perhaps further clues
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by examining
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held in Brazil
centered around a figure who,

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according to local tradition,
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wearing a space suit.

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Along the banks
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lives an Indigenous tribe
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and had no contact
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Known as the Kayapo,
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their ancient traditions passed
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The Kayapo people have some
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that relate to their cosmology.

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The men can often be seen
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covered in feathers
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And they wear long ropes
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the ropes their ancestors used
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[Narrator] Kayapo legend says
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lived far away in the place
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until one day, they climbed
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through a hole in the sky.

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After arriving in the Amazon,
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an otherworldly being
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[Henry] To this day,
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a ceremony where young boys
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as Bep-Kororoti and reenact what
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Bep-Kororoti was a knowledge
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who delivered laws,
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about agriculture,
about navigation, and then left

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in a thunderous rise
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[Barnhart] The myth
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among these folks
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from the heavens to give
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of how to do agriculture
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He came down in a very strong,
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and he had a very warrior ethos.

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Bep-Kororoti means
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Now, according to the Kayapo,

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Bep-Kororoti descended
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emerged in this bulky suit
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and he spoke their language
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"Don't be afraid.
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He was their first teacher.

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He looks very similar to, like,
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with, you know,
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The story of Bep-Kororoti
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of the ancient astronaut theory

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because it could be interpreted
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with an extraterrestrial

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whom our ancestors
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as having divine powers

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because they misunderstood,
well, the technology.

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[Narrator] Could
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of Bep-Kororoti reveal
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was a place of extraterrestrial
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As with other parts
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recent lidar surveys have
revealed lost ancient structures

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along the same Xingu River
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[Schoch] What we're finding

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is that the Amazon
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Especially thousands
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The Indigenous people
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It's really tantalizing.

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And what I would say now is,
we're just really

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hitting the tip
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as far as
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How sophisticated were they?

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[Childress] We've discovered,
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roads, mounds, and pyramids.

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And with all of this landscape
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you have to wonder,

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where did they learn
this sophistication?

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Where did they get
the knowledge to do this?

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When you look
at the Kayapo stories,

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it would seem that it has to do
with extraterrestrial activity.

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[Narrator] As far as
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are concerned,
the lidar findings in Brazil

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help to corroborate
the Kayapo story

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that says their ancestors

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encountered
an extraterrestrial visitor.

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And they suggest further
evidence of otherworldly contact

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can be found
in the stories of other

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Indigenous Brazilian peoples.

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1,200 miles west
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the 652-mile-long Vaupés River

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winds through dense rainforest

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along the border
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are the many communities
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[Newman] The Tukano are almost

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entirely isolated
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But their society is made up
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that speak
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But what is interesting is
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are strongly interconnected
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According to their legends,
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otherworldly beings
descending from the sky

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in canoes of light
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The canoes are interesting
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as being serpent-like,

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and they would travel through
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seeding different cultures
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[Barnhart] When we're talking
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and they're describing

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their worldview to us,

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the translation is kind of lost
in translation.

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So they'll talk about things
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but it's not necessarily
a light source.

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It glows as if
it's from another place.

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So that's what the Tukano
canoes are envisioned as.

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They have a glow. They have
a spectral light about them.

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[Tsoukalos] Now, we all know
that canoes do not fly,

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so why do we have stories
of flying canoes?

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Once again, according to
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we have an ancient description
of modern-day technology.

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These descriptions of these
ancient aerial vehicles

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were-were not derived
out of fantasy

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but because our ancestors
witnessed these flying machines.

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[Narrator] Do the stories
of the Tukano and the Kayapo

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provide further evidence
that extraterrestrials

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made contact with ancient
civilizations in the Amazon?

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Could the recently discovered
ruins hidden underneath

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the dense jungle hold evidence

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of interactions
with otherworldly beings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and they suggest that
an alien presence in the Amazon

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was not only experienced
centuries ago,

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it's continuing even today.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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Local police stations
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are flooded by a series
of extraordinary reports

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of mysterious flying objects.

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The reports continue
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and on November 17th,
the newspaper O Liberal

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published the account
of a seven-year-old boy

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who was attacked
by an orb of light.

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[Henry] The villagers
reported these

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glowing orbs of light
that were shooting

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what appeared to be
laser beams at them.

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They called them "chupa-chupas"
because they were painful

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when they hit the skin,
and the people thought that

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they were sucking their energy
or their blood out of them.

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[Narrator] The very next day,
November 18th,

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local newspaper
O Estado do Pará

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ran a story that the orbs
had been terrorizing

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neighborhoods across the region.

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[Tsoukalos] Usually,

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UFO incidents,

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you know, happen
to a single person

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or to two people,
and often people wonder,

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"Well, you know,
was the story made up?"

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But if you have an event
that was witnessed

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and experienced by a group
of people, and sometimes

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by people not even
in the same group,

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well, then you really
have to start listening.

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And in the case
of the 1977 account,

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something really strange

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affected a lot of people.

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[Narrator] Then,
on November 19th,

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newspaper A Província do Pará

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featured interviews
with four women

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who claimed they were attacked
by the phenomena.

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[Narrator] The reports
continued for months,

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and the event
came to be considered

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one of Brazil's
most famous UFO incidents.

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It got to the point
where the villagers

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wouldn't go out at night.

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Fishermen wouldn't go out
into the seas at night.

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They were terrified
by what they were experiencing.

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[Narrator] As sightings
increased, the mayor of Colares

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asked the Brazilian Air Force

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to help put an end
to the violent encounters.

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[Narrator] Known as
Operation Prato--

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or Operation Saucer in English--

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the Brazilian Air Force

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studied the phenomena
for almost six months.

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Then the investigation
was abruptly canceled

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by military higher-ups,

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who claimed they were concerned
about sparking a public panic.

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This operation was rapidly
shut down after the military

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came in and took photos,
after they took surveys.

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And they completely locked down
any reference to this story.

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What actually
did they find there?

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Was it something so terrifying

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that they couldn't reveal it
to the people,

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or was it direct evidence

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of extraterrestrial contact?

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[Narrator] In the years since
Operation Saucer was shut down,

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independent researchers have
been searching for the evidence

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collected by the Air Force.

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[Narrator] Could the research
and photographic evidence

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collected by Operation Saucer

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be in the possession
of the United States?

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While the source of the 1977
incident remains a mystery,

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it is not the only account

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of disturbing UFO activity
in the region.

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Hundreds of similar accounts
can be found

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throughout the 20th century,

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many investigated
by local authorities.

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One such case occurred
in April of 1980,

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when a Peruvian
Air Force lieutenant

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encountered
an unidentified aircraft

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during a routine flight
over a military base.

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[Narrator] As far as
ufologists are concerned,

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the Amazon has proven
to be a UFO hot spot.

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But could these modern-day
sightings be connected

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to ancient stories of visitors
who came down from the sky?

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[Childress] It would seem that
there's been UFO activity

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in the Amazon
for thousands of years.

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The Amazon itself
is such a vast area,

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and it's mainly
water and jungle,

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but this would be a good place

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to, you know, have, say,
an extraterrestrial base.

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[Narrator] As far as
ancient astronaut theorists

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are concerned,
the incidents in Peru and Brazil

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could reveal
that an alien presence

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has persisted
in the Amazon for centuries.

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And while it has been
more than 40 years

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since the Colares incident,

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reports continue
of unexplainable

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and shocking alien activity.

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[Narrator] Northern Brazil.

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In July 2024,
Brazilian documentary filmmaker

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Rony Vernet traveled
deep into the rainforest

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to investigate
a series of recent encounters

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between local villagers
and mysterious orbs of light.

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[Henry] People reported
that these orbs of light

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would fly through walls that
would enter into their homes,

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and when they were shot
with these laser beams,

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they experienced
dizziness, fatigue,

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apparent radiation sickness,
burns.

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[Narrator] Vernet,
a computer scientist by trade,

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took a particular interest
in these reports

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because of his own encounters

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with strange lights
in the sky over Brazil.

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[Narrator] Vernet documented
his trip to the Yawanawá village

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in a film titled
Phenomena in the Amazon,

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which featured
numerous eyewitness accounts

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of strange events in the sky.

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-[speaking foreign language]
-[translator] People had been

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watching it
for about three days.

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I went out to see
if I could see it, and I did.

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It was standing there,
and really low.

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And then we started saying,
"It is here. Here it goes."

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And it moved over there
and passed.

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Then it went up a little more

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and then it went
in that direction.

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And after about
20 minutes passed,

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it lit up again,
went out, and then is gone.

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[Narrator] For Vernet, the most
alarming stories he documented

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were those in which witnesses

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reported feeling paralyzed
during an encounter.

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[speaking foreign language]

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[translator] I saw
this orange ball like this,

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at a height of about 30,
40 meters

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illuminating a yard there.

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Until then, we didn't have
this understanding.

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I was going to try to shoot it,

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but I was paralyzed
and I couldn't move.

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And that orange light
disappeared from my sight.

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[Narrator] What could explain

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these mysterious sightings
in the Amazon?

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To find out, Vernet enlisted
the help of the locals

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to set up several 4K cameras
throughout the village.

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One night,
as he monitored the footage,

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he noticed something
extraordinary.

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[Narrator] Just as intriguing
as the orbs' erratic movement

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is where they were observed
coming from.

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According to Vernet,
the UFO seemed to emerge

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from deep in the jungle.

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[Narrator] When Vernet
approached the local people

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about what he saw,

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they said that not only have
they witnessed similar phenomena

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for hundreds of years
but they also believe

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these lights are coming
from a portal in the forest.

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[Narrator] Could
the Amazon rainforest

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contain portals to other worlds?

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According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

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it's a distinct possibility.

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[Henry] The Amazon basin is
a site of immense fascination.

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These orbs of light
that fly through the trees,

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that dive into the rivers
match up with other orbs

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seen around the world,
suggesting that perhaps

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the Amazon
is a place of contact.

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It's a hideout
for some of these beings

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that we still have
no awareness of.

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[Narrator] Is an
otherworldly presence

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hidden within the dense
rainforest of Brazil?

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And perhaps even portals
to other parts

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of the cosmos
or alternate dimensions?

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Curiously,
in the very same region

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where Rony Vernet
recorded strange orbs of light,

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archaeologists have uncovered
a much older mystery--

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massive ancient earthworks
that can only be seen

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from the sky.

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[Narrator] Acre, Brazil,
the 1980s.

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As logging companies
begin to cut down trees

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in the Amazon rainforest,

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enormous areas
of the forest floor

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are exposed for the first time.

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And at one clearing,
a massive series of circles

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and squares carved
into the landscape is revealed.

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Known as Jacó Sá,
these earthworks, or geoglyphs,

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are over 900 feet wide.

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These are several hundred meters
in diameter.

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Which is an incredible,
incredible task to undertake.

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It would have been the task
of the whole village

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to carve and to dig
and to separate

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these earthworks, create mounds.

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And these geoglyphs
are possibly 2,000 years old.

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So, quite, quite old.

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[Cheetham] In this area,
there's over 450 of these.

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Sometimes they're squares,
sometimes rectangles,

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sometimes squares
with circles in the middle,

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and the actual function of these
things remains, uh, unknown.

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[Narrator] Archaeologists have
determined that the earthworks

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served no practical purpose,
such as corralling animals.

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And according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

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the mysterious
geometric figures displayed

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in some of these
massive geoglyphs

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appear to contain
a coded message.

499
00:33:08,528 --> 00:33:11,323
[Whitehill] These are perfect
squares and perfect circles.

500
00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:13,325
It speaks to a level
of engineering excellence,

501
00:33:13,491 --> 00:33:15,452
and it speaks to a level
of intention.

502
00:33:16,536 --> 00:33:19,206
That one is a square, and one
is a circle inside of a square.

503
00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:22,417
Is one an entrance,
and one is an exit?

504
00:33:22,584 --> 00:33:24,961
[Henry] The squaring
of the circle is,

505
00:33:25,086 --> 00:33:27,923
throughout cultures
around the world, a symbol

506
00:33:28,048 --> 00:33:29,716
of the unity
of heaven and earth,

507
00:33:29,883 --> 00:33:32,219
which is an incredibly
abstract concept

508
00:33:32,427 --> 00:33:34,721
for them to be modeling
in this geoglyph.

509
00:33:35,889 --> 00:33:37,515
[Narrator] The geoglyphs
are located

510
00:33:37,682 --> 00:33:39,935
in the same region
of the Brazilian rainforest

511
00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:42,938
where the Indigenous
Yawanawá people have reported

512
00:33:43,146 --> 00:33:45,732
mysterious orbs of light.

513
00:33:45,899 --> 00:33:49,819
And a recent study proposes
that these earthworks

514
00:33:50,028 --> 00:33:53,198
were designed
with an otherworldly purpose.

515
00:33:54,449 --> 00:33:59,579
In 2017, researchers
at the University of São Paulo

516
00:33:59,788 --> 00:34:03,208
and the University of Helsinki
suggested that the geoglyphs

517
00:34:03,375 --> 00:34:06,002
of the Amazon served as doorways

518
00:34:06,127 --> 00:34:07,587
through which ancient shamans

519
00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,382
would communicate
with other realms.

520
00:34:11,382 --> 00:34:15,762
[Barnhart] In the Amazon,
shamans are considered

521
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:19,808
intermediaries between
the physical world of us humans

522
00:34:19,975 --> 00:34:21,601
and the spirit world.

523
00:34:21,726 --> 00:34:24,980
The spirit world is really
what's pulling our strings,

524
00:34:25,188 --> 00:34:26,648
but we don't see it.

525
00:34:26,815 --> 00:34:28,565
It's an invisible world.

526
00:34:28,733 --> 00:34:32,237
The shamans are the link
between this world and that.

527
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:33,571
[Collins] There's no question

528
00:34:33,737 --> 00:34:35,031
that shamanism is

529
00:34:35,197 --> 00:34:39,244
one of the most ancient,
enduring mechanisms

530
00:34:39,411 --> 00:34:42,998
in the Amazon for communication
with the other world.

531
00:34:44,081 --> 00:34:48,295
This type of communication is
something that's been going on

532
00:34:48,460 --> 00:34:51,922
for a very, very long time,
as much as 10,000 years

533
00:34:52,090 --> 00:34:54,592
and arguably
even earlier than that.

534
00:34:55,635 --> 00:34:58,430
[Newman] The shaman would
actually use geoglyphs

535
00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:01,141
as a place to kind of go
into meditation

536
00:35:01,349 --> 00:35:04,436
to communicate
with ancestors and spirits

537
00:35:04,603 --> 00:35:07,772
and even otherworldly beings,
according to their traditions.

538
00:35:09,274 --> 00:35:11,318
[Barnhart] The modern Amazonians
don't mess

539
00:35:11,484 --> 00:35:13,194
with these geoglyphs.

540
00:35:14,487 --> 00:35:16,239
They honor them.
They protect them.

541
00:35:16,364 --> 00:35:19,117
They don't farm on them.
They don't build in them again.

542
00:35:19,284 --> 00:35:22,912
They see them as part
of the group of spirits

543
00:35:23,079 --> 00:35:25,373
that the shamans
are connecting to.

544
00:35:28,043 --> 00:35:30,253
[Narrator] Could it be
that the giant earthworks

545
00:35:30,420 --> 00:35:31,963
discovered in the Amazon

546
00:35:32,130 --> 00:35:35,467
were made to communicate
with celestial beings?

547
00:35:35,634 --> 00:35:39,429
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

548
00:35:39,596 --> 00:35:42,432
and suggest the geoglyphs
were not only made

549
00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:47,020
for shamanic rituals but also
to directly signal visitors

550
00:35:47,228 --> 00:35:50,482
looking down on the Earth
from high above.

551
00:35:50,607 --> 00:35:53,735
[Henry] When you think about
the creation of these geoglyphs,

552
00:35:53,902 --> 00:35:57,322
we're talking about people that
are devoted to leaving a message

553
00:35:57,447 --> 00:35:59,282
that can only be seen
from the sky.

554
00:36:00,325 --> 00:36:02,369
[Childress] We find geoglyphs
all over the world.

555
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:05,205
In Kazakhstan,
in the Atacama Desert,

556
00:36:05,372 --> 00:36:08,124
the American Southwest.

557
00:36:08,291 --> 00:36:13,588
The famous lines and figures
on the Nazca plain in Peru.

558
00:36:13,755 --> 00:36:17,258
And now we have
this area of the Amazon

559
00:36:17,467 --> 00:36:19,344
that's got geoglyphs in it.

560
00:36:19,511 --> 00:36:21,012
So are they trying to contact

561
00:36:21,179 --> 00:36:23,932
sky gods, extraterrestrials?

562
00:36:25,141 --> 00:36:26,559
[Tsoukalos] Why were they built?

563
00:36:26,685 --> 00:36:29,562
And in my opinion,
it's to signal somebody, as in,

564
00:36:29,688 --> 00:36:32,565
"Hey, we are down here,
come and visit."

565
00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:35,735
Or essentially, "Come back."

566
00:36:37,028 --> 00:36:39,030
[Collins] It's beyond
coincidence

567
00:36:39,197 --> 00:36:41,449
that you have here
these geoglyphs

568
00:36:41,616 --> 00:36:45,787
exactly where
all of these glowing orbs

569
00:36:45,954 --> 00:36:49,374
were encountered by the
Indigenous peoples to this day.

570
00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:52,252
We obviously don't know,
but what we can say is that

571
00:36:52,419 --> 00:36:56,131
we are dealing with entities
from somewhere else.

572
00:36:57,716 --> 00:37:00,093
[Narrator] Could it be
that there is a connection

573
00:37:00,260 --> 00:37:03,722
between the ancient geoglyphs
found in Acre, Brazil

574
00:37:03,847 --> 00:37:08,601
and the orbs of light witnessed
in the very same region today?

575
00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:13,064
Might this be evidence
of an extraterrestrial presence

576
00:37:13,231 --> 00:37:17,569
that has persisted in the Amazon
for thousands of years?

577
00:37:18,653 --> 00:37:21,281
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

578
00:37:21,406 --> 00:37:24,451
and suggest that,
with new exploration

579
00:37:24,617 --> 00:37:26,578
taking place in the rainforest,

580
00:37:26,745 --> 00:37:31,624
many long-held secrets
may soon be revealed.

581
00:37:38,590 --> 00:37:41,176
[Narrator] The Alto Mayo
landscape, Peru.

582
00:37:41,342 --> 00:37:44,179
This region
of the Amazon rainforest

583
00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:47,557
spans almost 3,000 square miles,

584
00:37:47,724 --> 00:37:50,685
an area roughly the size
of Delaware.

585
00:37:50,852 --> 00:37:56,441
In 2022, a team of scientists
from Conservation International

586
00:37:56,608 --> 00:37:59,360
surveyed the area,
and discovered

587
00:37:59,486 --> 00:38:04,282
27 new species of animals,
plants, and insects.

588
00:38:05,325 --> 00:38:10,371
It's amazing just how many
new species were discovered

589
00:38:10,538 --> 00:38:15,752
over a area
of 3,000 square miles

590
00:38:15,919 --> 00:38:20,131
over just such a short period
of 38 days.

591
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:24,594
And you just have to wonder
how many more new species

592
00:38:24,761 --> 00:38:28,223
are out there just waiting
to be discovered.

593
00:38:28,431 --> 00:38:32,268
[Skinner] We're finding
such an amazing amount each day

594
00:38:32,435 --> 00:38:33,853
and each year.

595
00:38:34,020 --> 00:38:36,481
We know more now in probably

596
00:38:36,606 --> 00:38:40,193
the last ten, 20 years
than we have in the last 100.

597
00:38:42,111 --> 00:38:43,780
[Narrator] The discovery
of new species

598
00:38:43,988 --> 00:38:45,949
is just one more indication

599
00:38:46,115 --> 00:38:50,411
that the Amazon hides many
secrets still to be uncovered.

600
00:38:50,578 --> 00:38:53,498
And ancient astronaut theorists
believe that,

601
00:38:53,706 --> 00:38:56,292
as we continue to plumb
the depths of the jungle,

602
00:38:56,459 --> 00:38:59,671
we will one day find
the ultimate proof

603
00:38:59,838 --> 00:39:02,841
of an extraterrestrial presence
on this planet.

604
00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:06,886
[Henry] The Amazon
is a perfect hiding place.

605
00:39:07,053 --> 00:39:10,890
It's a treasure house of ancient
civilizations and secrets

606
00:39:11,057 --> 00:39:13,309
that have long been hidden
by the canopy of the jungle.

607
00:39:14,310 --> 00:39:16,396
[Childress] You know,
when we think of the vastness

608
00:39:16,563 --> 00:39:19,065
of the Amazon
and the huge rivers

609
00:39:19,232 --> 00:39:20,608
and forests that are there,

610
00:39:20,775 --> 00:39:22,694
this is a pretty good place
to hide.

611
00:39:22,861 --> 00:39:26,072
I mean, even today,
many parts of the Amazon

612
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,157
are just so incredibly remote,

613
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:29,868
and they're unexplored.

614
00:39:31,661 --> 00:39:34,122
[Narrator] According
to ancient astronaut theorists,

615
00:39:34,247 --> 00:39:37,292
the notion of an alien presence
in the Amazon

616
00:39:37,458 --> 00:39:41,588
is not mere speculation
but a reality that is

617
00:39:41,754 --> 00:39:43,298
well-documented by the stories

618
00:39:43,506 --> 00:39:47,719
and traditions
of the Indigenous people.

619
00:39:47,886 --> 00:39:49,637
[Newman] What's so interesting
is that

620
00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:53,391
discoveries have been found
in the whole Amazon region

621
00:39:53,558 --> 00:39:55,310
which were quite astonishing,
in my opinion.

622
00:39:55,476 --> 00:39:59,647
And it really does show a level
of sociopolitical organization

623
00:39:59,814 --> 00:40:02,191
really reaching
a whole other level.

624
00:40:02,358 --> 00:40:03,610
There's also traditions

625
00:40:03,776 --> 00:40:05,612
throughout the Amazon of gods

626
00:40:05,778 --> 00:40:08,406
or sky beings
who would descend to Earth.

627
00:40:08,573 --> 00:40:12,869
They would bring social order,
provide ritual knowledge

628
00:40:13,036 --> 00:40:15,413
and other such things
to these societies.

629
00:40:15,580 --> 00:40:18,458
So there's this
interesting connection

630
00:40:18,666 --> 00:40:21,044
between these myths and stories
that come out of the Amazon

631
00:40:21,210 --> 00:40:25,214
and what we're finding here
under the jungle canopy.

632
00:40:26,257 --> 00:40:28,760
[Tsoukalos] What's fascinating
is, there are examples

633
00:40:28,885 --> 00:40:31,971
from different tribes
of the Amazon that talk about

634
00:40:32,138 --> 00:40:35,350
a celestial visitor
imparting knowledge

635
00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:37,477
or building the first schools.

636
00:40:37,644 --> 00:40:42,690
And they have these remembrance
festivals one time each year

637
00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:44,484
so people don't forget.

638
00:40:46,110 --> 00:40:48,529
[Henry] When we put all the
pieces together in the Amazon--

639
00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:50,657
the geometric earthworks,

640
00:40:50,823 --> 00:40:54,494
the sky beings that
the ancient Amazonians told

641
00:40:54,661 --> 00:40:56,162
came down out of the heavens,

642
00:40:56,329 --> 00:40:59,082
when we look
at what lidar has revealed

643
00:40:59,207 --> 00:41:02,293
in terms of understanding
of the complexity

644
00:41:02,460 --> 00:41:04,212
of these ancient civilizations--

645
00:41:04,379 --> 00:41:07,131
what we're finally realizing
is that the Amazon basin

646
00:41:07,298 --> 00:41:09,801
was a place of contact
in the ancient world,

647
00:41:09,968 --> 00:41:12,637
and perhaps it's going to reveal

648
00:41:12,804 --> 00:41:15,306
the greatest understanding
of extraterrestrial contact

649
00:41:15,473 --> 00:41:16,766
anywhere in the world.

650
00:41:18,267 --> 00:41:20,979
[Narrator] Is it possible
the Amazon rainforest

651
00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:23,898
hides evidence
of otherworldly activity

652
00:41:24,107 --> 00:41:27,151
that we are only just
beginning to unearth?

653
00:41:28,444 --> 00:41:31,656
Could the shared mythology
of the Amazon peoples

654
00:41:31,823 --> 00:41:36,411
that describe powerful beings
descending from the sky be true?

655
00:41:36,577 --> 00:41:39,205
And if so, does there continue

656
00:41:39,372 --> 00:41:44,043
to be an alien presence
in the region to this very day?

657
00:41:45,128 --> 00:41:48,673
Perhaps as we continue
to explore the dense jungle,

658
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:52,885
we will uncover
not only ancient settlements

659
00:41:53,052 --> 00:41:55,638
but the ultimate evidence

660
00:41:55,763 --> 00:41:59,809
of our extraterrestrial origins.

661
00:41:59,976 --> 00:42:02,937
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