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[Narrator] It is a land
of stunning beauty

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and home to some of the world's
greatest mysteries.

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[Michael Tellinger] There are
about four and a half thousand

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of these stone circle ruins

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in Africa generating energy.

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[Narrator] Ancestral stories
describe incredible technology.

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[William Henry] Ancient African
myths described

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thunderous vehicles
with flames coming out of them.

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[Narrator] And the
Indigenous people

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talk of otherworldly origins.

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[Gogo Ekhaya] There is
an ancestral connection

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to the Amakhosi, or the kings
and queens of the stars.

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[Narrator] Could it be
that Africa

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holds the ultimate secrets

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of our extraterrestrial past?

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[Giorgio Tsoukalos] You have to
wonder if maybe

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this is where first contact
took place.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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The second largest
continent on Earth

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is known for its
striking landscapes,

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mysterious ancient structures,

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and vibrant cultural traditions

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that date back
thousands of years.

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[Henry] Africa is truly
a remarkable place.

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It immediately conjures up
images of majestic creatures,

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like lions, elephants.

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You think of striking vistas,
the Great Rift Valley,

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the Congo, the Sahara,
the Nile River.

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Africa gave rise
to ancient Egypt,

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one of history's greatest
and most iconic civilizations.

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And today, it boasts thriving
metropolises like Cairo

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and Johannesburg.

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[Narrator] Africa
is also considered

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the birthplace of humanity,

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and is the most genetically

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and culturally diverse
continent on Earth.

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But what makes it intriguing
to ancient astronaut theorists

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is that, all across
this vast continent,

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the native people share
similar traditions regarding

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visitors from the stars.

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[Sabata-Mpho Mokae] The
different ethnic groups

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in Africa do share beliefs.

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And they see God
almost a similar way.

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Their beliefs are common
in the sense that

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they believe
in this higher, superior being,

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but also they believe
in people who came before

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coming down to Africa
from another planet.

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[Rev. Michael Carter] All of
these different cultures,

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tribes have stories

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of beings
who come down from the sky

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and to interact
with human beings.

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Some as intermediaries,
some as messengers.

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[Narrator] African
traditional religions,

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such as those of the Igbo,

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Akan, Shona, and Zulu
share common stories

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of celestial teachers.

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[Andrew Collins] What you have

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are whole collections of gods,

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of celestial beings,

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of great ancestors
that are venerated

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by each different tribal group.

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There's such a diverse
area of knowledge

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and wisdom relating to this.

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This is something
that has been preserved

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all the way down
to the present day.

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[Narrator] For thousands
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cultures across Africa

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have kept these mythologies
alive through oral traditions,

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elaborate ceremonies,
and by carving them into stone.

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In Egypt, hieroglyphs
at the Temple of Edfu

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describe the god Horus
descending from the sky.

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[Giorgio Tsoukalos] Horus was
a celestial sky god.

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Horus did not originate
here on Earth,

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and the ancient Egyptians were
very, very concise in stating

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that he was a physical being
that came from the stars.

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[Narrator] The Yoruba,

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one of the largest
ethnic groups in West Africa,

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worship supreme beings
called the orisha.

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[Carter] The Yoruba people
talked about beings

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who were called orishas.

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Who descended to Earth

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and have a hand, even now,

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into what goes on
on this planet.

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And this is what they use,
even to this day,

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to explain the world
that they live in.

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[Narrator] According
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these deities
came down from the sky

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and moved between
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One of the most prominent
is a figure named Eshu.

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[Tsoukalos] What's interesting
is that Eshu

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descended from the sky,
and he decides

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who is allowed to communicate
with the other realm.

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[Jonathan Young] Of the many
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Eshu stands out. A kindly, but

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a troublemaking, playful god

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and would make people happy,

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but would intentionally
cause confusion.

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Artistic representations
of Eshu often show him

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with an elongated head.

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Sometimes about a third
of the body shape is head.

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[Tsoukalos] He's this
interesting looking guy

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with this elongated head,
and very large eyes.

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From a modern-day perspective,

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he looks like how we would
depict an extraterrestrial.

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[Narrator] Might representations

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of Eshu reveal that
the sky gods described

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in numerous African traditions
were, in fact,

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otherworldly visitors

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encountered
by the ancient people?

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For ancient astronaut theorists,

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it is an intriguing
possibility,

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and they suggest
more compelling clues

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can be found on the outskirts
of the Sahara Desert.

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Central Mali. 1931.

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French anthropologist
Marcel Griaule

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treks through the rugged
Bandiagara Escarpment

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in search of
the mysterious Dogon tribe.

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When he finds them,
he becomes fascinated

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by their culture
and traditions.

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Including the tale of mysterious
teachers called the Nommo.

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[Tsoukalos] The Dogon
claim that these

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Nommo descended from the sky
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and they brought knowledge.

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They first taught the local
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mathematics, buildings,
and astronomy.

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[Narrator] Once every 60 years,
the Dogon

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commemorate the arrival
of the Nommo with a celebration

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called the Sigui festival.

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[Henry] The Dogon people of Mali

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told incredible stories
about their teacher beings

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that landed on Earth
in spinning craft

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that made a thunderous sound
as they were landing.

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And when the craft landed,

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they created this pool
of water around the craft.

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[Tsoukalos] These Nommo--

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not only did they descend
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but they allegedly
had these suits

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that made them look like fish,

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and they would actually live
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[Narrator] Ancient astronaut
theorists find it intriguing

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that the Dogon describe
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because the Yoruba people
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seem to depict their gods
with amphibious features.

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[Henry] What we're seeing here
is artwork

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that precisely matches
the ancient stories

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of encounters with
a nonhuman amphibious species.

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But one of the most intriguing
details that the Dogon

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left for us is they
claimed that the Nommo

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came from
the Sirius star system.

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[Narrator] According
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their gods didn't come
from Sirius A--

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a star that is clearly visible
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but instead from
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a dying star called Sirius B

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that is invisible
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[Henry] The Dogon
specifically identified a star

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that modern science
and astronomy did not

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even know about until 1862.

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[Tsoukalos] When
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"Well, who taught you this?"

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They were like,
"Well, our teacher gods,"

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and they happened to arrive
from Sirius B.

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[Narrator] Might the Dogon have
been given knowledge of Sirius B

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by alien beings who came to
Africa thousands of years ago?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

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and as further evidence,

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they point to the wooden masks
the Dogon people wear

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during the Sigui festival
to represent the Nommo.

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[Tsoukalos] These masks
have been carbon-dated.

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And so we know that

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some of these masks go back
at least 600 years.

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Meaning they knew about Sirius B

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already 600 years ago.

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And the only way
that somebody can know

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about an invisible star system

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is if somebody tells you

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that there's something there.

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And so, with the Dogon,
they are very clear

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in stating that the Nommo,

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visiting celestial beings,
gave them that knowledge.

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It's fascinating that,
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we find all these stories

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of otherworldly beings,

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teachers coming down
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and imparting early humans
with knowledge.

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And you have to wonder

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if maybe this is where
first contact took place.

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[Narrator] Do the traditions

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of Indigenous peoples,
like the Dogon,

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the Yoruba,
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reveal that Africa was a place
of extraterrestrial visitation

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in the distant past?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining Zulu teachings
that describe ancestors

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from other worlds.

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[Narrator] Johannesburg,
South Africa. 1964.

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Zulu author Credo Mutwa

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publishes the groundbreaking
book Indaba, My Children,

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which chronicles
the tribal history, legends,

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customs and religious beliefs
of the Zulu people,

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the largest ethnic group
in South Africa.

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Mutwa's book contains
a comprehensive collection

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of Zulu oral history
and mythologies

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dating back centuries.

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With the publication
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many of these stories become
public for the first time.

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Credo Mutwa was
a high Sanusi or high elder

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in the sangoma tradition
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And he helped to popularize
Southern African spirituality

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and religion to the world.

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[David Childress] Indaba
is a Zulu word that means

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"listen to me," essentially.

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So the title of his book
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"Listen to me, my children."

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[Narrator] In 1964,
social tensions in apartheid

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South Africa were
approaching a boiling point.

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It was amidst
this backdrop of unrest

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that Credo Mutwa
endeavored to publish his book

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and preserve
his people's history.

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We need to remember
that most of our mythologies

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in Africa have
been passed down orally

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from generation to generation,

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and had not
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We had not had
that kind of literature before.

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But here was somebody
who was contributing towards

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how the world understood

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Africans, African religions,
traditions, beliefs,

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for the very
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[Childress] Credo Mutwa
actually got into trouble

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with other Zulu elders,

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because he was revealing

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all kinds of, basically,

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kind of secrets of the shamans.

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reporting all of
these things that,

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in their minds,
should be kept secret.

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[Ekhaya] A lot of
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wasn't on board with the release
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but Credo Mutwa saw that

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if he wasn't able to tell the
stories, then it would dissolve

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at some point in the future.

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[Narrator] According to Mutwa,
the knowledge shared in his book

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was passed down
to him by Zulu elders

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when he was
initiated as a sangoma.

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A sangoma is
a traditional healer

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from the Southern
African region.

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Sangomas are diviners

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connected to the ancient
wisdom of the ancestors.

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[Carter] These stories were
passed down to Credo Mutwa.

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His grandfather was
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And so when Credo was initiated,

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these stories
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But they were kept secret.
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in order to get
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He wanted to decolonize

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this Eurocentric mindset

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that Africa had nothing
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[Narrator] For
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Mutwa continued
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of Zulu folklore
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And in a 1996 book entitled

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Song of the Stars:
the Lore of a Zulu Shaman,

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he captured
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when he revealed new details

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about the Zulu gods.

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Mutwa claimed
that the beings described

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in the sacred stories
were otherworldly visitors

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who were encountered by
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[Carter] He is saying

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they are not gods.

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That they are flesh
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And at the same time,
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that people
who kept the old ways

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believe these people
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[Henry] Mutwa tells how
the ancient Africans

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believed that their creator
gods came from the sky.

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They descended
in shining vehicles

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with flames coming out of them,

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sometimes described
as thunderous.

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The beings themselves
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flaming beings or fire beings.

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The word "Zulu" means
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There is an ancestral connection

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from the sky, the stars.

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there's a lot of songs,

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there's a lot of prayer
to the amakhosi,

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or the kings
and queens of the stars.

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[Narrator] For ancient
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particularly intriguing

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is that the ancient
visitors Mutwa describes

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and illustrates in his books
are similar to extraterrestrials

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that people have claimed
to encounter in modern times.

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Among them are descriptions
of tall, peaceful creatures

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called the Muncwi,

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gray-skinned beings
with large, black eyes

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known as the Mantindane,

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serpent-like visitors
called the Kontombile,

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and the Muzungu,

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tall white figures
who bear a striking resemblance

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to modern accounts
of beings known as Nordics.

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The Nordics are often
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tall and slender with

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radiant eyes
and long, white hair.

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So Credo Mutwa's book is

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talking about, essentially,
the same thing, in a sense.

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[Narrator] Like
the Dogon of Mali,

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the Zulu stories shared by Mutwa

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also describe powerful beings
associated with water.

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There were these water beings

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that Baba Credo Mutwa
talked about.

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The water beings
are very much a part of

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the sangoma tradition
and the Zulu people.

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[Childress] Credo Mutwa
was trained at an early age

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to know these stories.

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So we have to think that
there's certainly something

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to these stories,

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in the sense
that they're genuine

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Zulu myths.

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[Narrator] Do the ancient Zulu
stories told by Credo Mutwa

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reveal that Africa was not
only the cradle of humanity

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but also a place of early
extraterrestrial visitation?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

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and suggest even more
compelling evidence can be found

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by comparing the ancient
mythology of Africa

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to Sumerian stories
of celestial visitors

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called the Anunnaki.

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[Narrator reads on-screen text]

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[Narrator] Author
Credo Mutwa publishes

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Africa's Hidden History,

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sharing more of
the ancient Zulu stories.

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In this book,
he focusses on a group

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of otherworldly visitors
called the Chitauri.

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[John Lockley] The Chitauri

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was an ancient race that

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came thousands of years ago,

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and they were very tall,
very powerful

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and very manipulative
in some ways.

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[Henry] According
to Mutwa, the Chitauri

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landed on Earth
in what are described

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as thunderous vehicles
that are emitting fire

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and creating all this noise.

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They're described
as reptilian in nature.

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They have yellow eyes.
They have a tail.

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[Narrator] According to Mutwa,

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the Chitauri didn't
just visit our planet,

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but had a hand
in human evolution.

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[Mokae] Credo Mutwa
tells us the Chitauri

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came from outside planet Earth.

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They had powers
that we didn't have.

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They came here
when we had no power

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of speech, when we had

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no ability to speak

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to one another in words

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and sentences as we do,

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and that's what
they imparted to us.

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[Childress] Credo Mutwa
is saying that the Chitauri

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were teaching humanity,

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and that these
extraterrestrials had actually

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genetically manipulated mankind

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to create the modern
humans that we are.

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[Narrator] For ancient
astronaut theorists,

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the stories of the Chitauri

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bear a striking resemblance to
the writings of the Sumerians.

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Considered the world's
first known civilization,

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the Sumerians are
responsible for dozens

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of innovations that are
essential to modern society.

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And they credited
these achievements

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to powerful beings
who came from the sky.

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[Tsoukalos]
The Sumerians are

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the first ones to create cities.

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They're the first ones
to create the plow.

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They're the first
to have a language

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that was written down.

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And they're also very clear

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that this was all imparted
to them by the teachers

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from the sky, the Anunnaki.

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[Jason Martell] The story
goes that the Anunnaki

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took their genetic marker

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and made us in their image
and after their likeness.

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And this is exactly mirrors
what we hear with the Chitauri.

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Mutwa described the Chitauri

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as having some type
of a genetic play on us.

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Basically being
involved in our creation.

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[Narrator] According
to Mutwa, the Chitauri

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not only
influenced human evolution

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but anointed
the first human rulers.

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[Henry] Mutwa describes
African myths that say

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that monarchy was something
that was imported to Earth

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by the extraterrestrials.

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That's fascinating because
we find exactly the same story

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in ancient Mesopotamia,

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where we're told
that the Anunnaki gods

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lowered kingship to Earth.

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There's strong crossover between

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what Chitauri were doing and
what the Anunnaki were doing.

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[Narrator] As far as
ancient astronaut theorists

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are concerned, separate cultures

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telling similar stories about
encounters with their gods

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constitutes some of
the strongest evidence

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for ET visitation
in the distant past.

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And one of the most
compelling examples

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involves a Sumerian god
who resembles descriptions

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of not only
the Zulu water deities

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but also the Dogon
stories of the Nommo.

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In the third millennium BC, the
Babylonian historian Berossus

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told a story about an amazing
sea creature called Oannes.

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He's depicted as
half human, half fish,

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and he's considered to be
a great teacher for humanity.

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He is also, we're told,
sent by the Sumerian god Enki.

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He's one of what
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who are the wise sages sent
by Enki to instruct humanity.

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[Tsoukalos] The earliest
of culture-bringers

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to planet Earth

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was Oannes,
with the ancient Sumerians.

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And there, too, it is described

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how this fish being
descended from the sky

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and, in physical form,
imparted knowledge

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to the Babylonians
and the first Sumerians.

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And at night,

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this Oannes guy
would walk into the water,

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and not eat anything,
but that's where he would live.

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And then, you know,
to re-emerge the next day,

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to impart more knowledge
to the local population.

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[Childress] He has a fish
head, but with a human head

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underneath it.
And then there's a fish body

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with a fish tail,
but he has human feet as well.

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And he teaches science

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and technology

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and medicine and agriculture.

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So he's very similar
to the Nommo of the Dogon,

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in many ways.
And he's an amphibious god.

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Vishnu, too, is also
sometimes depicted

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as a kind of a amphibious
fish god.

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And you have that in Japan.

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In cultures all over the world,

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we have these stories
of these amphibious gods

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who are coming, they're
teaching the people.

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And they're coming from,
you know, dissimilar cultures,

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but they have very
similar stories.

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And so, you have to wonder

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if this has to do with,
you know, real,

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extraterrestrial amphibious gods

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who are, um, instructing
people all over the world.

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[Narrator] Could it be that
the stories passed down

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by the early people of Africa

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resemble the mythology
of the Sumerians

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and other ancient civilizations

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because these cultures

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all experienced real encounters

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with otherworldly visitors?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and they suggest
further evidence

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of extraterrestrial contact
in Africa can be found

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not only in oral traditions

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but in mysterious ancient ruins.

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[Narrator] Every year,

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over 1 million visitors

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travel to the border
of South Africa and Zimbabwe

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for a chance to see lions,

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elephants

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and rhinos.

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But this picturesque savanna

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is also home
to an enduring mystery.

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The landscape is dotted
with thousands of ancient ruins

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that stand
roughly four feet tall

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and are often
described as stone circles.

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[Hugh Newman] These are
not classic stone circles.

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They're not like megaliths

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arranged in
a certain configuration.

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These are built up of
walls of smaller stones,

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but creating these very
specific shapes and geometries,

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often with avenues
coming out from them,

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often going for many miles.

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[Collins] The structures

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that are found in South Africa

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are individually
referred to as kraals,

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and this is probably a
corruption of the word "corral,"

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which means the place or pen
that you put animals in,

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but they're more
than simply animal pens.

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The stone circle ruins
were first spoken about

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by the Portuguese,

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when they came
across these ruins.

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And they asked the locals,

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"Are these your structures?"

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And they were told, "No,
these are not our structures."

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That's the first time
we read about it.

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But the first time
we really, really start

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to hear about the stone
circles is around 1891

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when Theodore Bent,
a British archaeologist,

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was here in South Africa.

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And he estimated that there are

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about four and a half thousand

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of these stone circle ruins
in southern Africa.

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[Narrator] The builders
of these strange formations

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remain a mystery, as does
the date of their creation.

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Artifacts found at these sites

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suggest the circles could
be several thousand years old.

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And recently, with the benefit
of satellite imagery,

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researchers have discovered
that these ruins

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span almost 4,000 square miles.

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[Newman] We're talking

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not just tens of thousands,
there's potentially

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00:26:29,129 --> 00:26:30,672
hundreds of thousands of them.

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00:26:30,839 --> 00:26:34,510
And so, they may be
ancient structures

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00:26:34,676 --> 00:26:36,678
built as some kind of

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00:26:36,804 --> 00:26:39,598
network across
the whole of South Africa.

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[Narrator] Could the
mysterious circular structures

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00:26:43,227 --> 00:26:45,145
found throughout southern Africa

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00:26:45,312 --> 00:26:48,440
be remnants of
a lost civilization?

513
00:26:49,691 --> 00:26:53,112
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

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00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:56,990
an ancient stone circle
of a very different kind.

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00:27:00,327 --> 00:27:03,664
The Mpumalanga Province
of South Africa.

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00:27:03,831 --> 00:27:05,165
2003.

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00:27:06,291 --> 00:27:10,337
Pilot Johan Heine is flying
over the Highveld plateau

518
00:27:10,546 --> 00:27:12,464
when he sees something unusual.

519
00:27:13,549 --> 00:27:16,385
It is the remnants of
what appears to be a circle

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00:27:16,552 --> 00:27:18,178
made with standing stones

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00:27:18,387 --> 00:27:22,099
with two towering monoliths
at its center.

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00:27:22,266 --> 00:27:23,642
[Tellinger] Johan
immediately realized

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00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:27,020
that's not a natural
arrangement of stones.

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00:27:27,229 --> 00:27:28,689
And he came back that same day

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00:27:28,856 --> 00:27:30,607
in the afternoon
to come and investigate.

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00:27:31,692 --> 00:27:33,443
[Narrator] Over
the next four years,

527
00:27:33,610 --> 00:27:37,406
Heine conducted his own
examination of the unusual site.

528
00:27:37,573 --> 00:27:39,491
He then brought his findings

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00:27:39,658 --> 00:27:42,160
to fellow researcher
Michael Tellinger.

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00:27:43,871 --> 00:27:46,123
[Tellinger] When Johan took me
there for the first time,

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he showed me
all the measurements

532
00:27:47,916 --> 00:27:49,835
that he'd been doing
all these years

533
00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:52,004
since he discovered it in 2004,

534
00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:55,090
and all the time
and effort he put into it,

535
00:27:55,257 --> 00:27:58,093
analyzing it, checking out
the cardinal point alignments,

536
00:27:58,260 --> 00:27:59,761
north, south, east, west,

537
00:27:59,928 --> 00:28:02,556
and the solstices and equinoxes,

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00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:04,349
and realized that this

539
00:28:04,516 --> 00:28:06,560
is an ancient calendar site.

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00:28:07,644 --> 00:28:10,898
As the sun moves
from solstice to solstice,

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the shadow moves
on the calendar stone.

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00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:15,277
And the calendar
is still accurate.

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00:28:16,904 --> 00:28:18,989
[Narrator] After his
initial investigation,

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00:28:19,156 --> 00:28:20,991
Tellinger began to suspect

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00:28:21,158 --> 00:28:23,911
that the mysterious stone
circle might be very ancient,

546
00:28:24,077 --> 00:28:26,663
and named it Adam's Calendar,

547
00:28:26,872 --> 00:28:30,042
for the first human in
the Bible's Book of Genesis.

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00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:32,294
[Tellinger] How old
is Adam's Calendar

549
00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:35,213
and what evidence
do we have for its age?

550
00:28:35,380 --> 00:28:38,008
That is a very
difficult question to answer,

551
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:41,011
so you have to look
at every possible thing.

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00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:43,680
We've looked at the geology.

553
00:28:43,805 --> 00:28:46,558
We've looked at erosion.
We've looked at lichen growth.

554
00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:49,686
[Narrator] According
to Tellinger,

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00:28:49,853 --> 00:28:51,229
the analysis he performed

556
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:53,357
indicated that Adam's Calendar

557
00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:56,944
could be the oldest
stone circle on Earth,

558
00:28:57,110 --> 00:29:00,489
dating back
tens of thousands of years.

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00:29:03,283 --> 00:29:05,369
Curiously, as
Tellinger continued

560
00:29:05,535 --> 00:29:08,080
to investigate the site,
he began to notice

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00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:10,540
unusual phenomena.

562
00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:13,377
[Tellinger] The first way
we noticed it is that

563
00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:16,338
the moment you enter the site,

564
00:29:16,546 --> 00:29:17,756
the GPS stops working.

565
00:29:17,923 --> 00:29:20,217
Even a magnetic compass

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00:29:20,425 --> 00:29:22,886
moves around and
keeps changing directions.

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00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:25,722
[Newman] Now, this is
intriguing. This is very much

568
00:29:25,889 --> 00:29:28,392
in association with
the British stone circles

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00:29:28,558 --> 00:29:31,561
or the European
megaliths in general,

570
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:34,439
that they kind of have
this energetic signature.

571
00:29:36,525 --> 00:29:38,235
[Tellinger] We measured
electromagnetic fields

572
00:29:38,402 --> 00:29:41,279
moving vertically from
the sky into the ground.

573
00:29:42,489 --> 00:29:44,449
The frequencies
that come out of the ground

574
00:29:44,616 --> 00:29:46,451
are amplified
between the stones,

575
00:29:46,618 --> 00:29:48,745
so it generates the energy
and it amplifies it

576
00:29:48,912 --> 00:29:50,455
very, very powerfully.

577
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:53,750
So the conclusion is
that Adam's calendar

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00:29:53,917 --> 00:29:55,502
is not only a calendar,

579
00:29:55,669 --> 00:29:57,087
it is a machine.

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00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:00,507
[Narrator] A machine?

581
00:30:00,674 --> 00:30:03,677
Is it possible that
the stones at Adam's Calendar

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00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:06,096
are arranged to produce energy?

583
00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:09,307
And if so, who built it?

584
00:30:10,434 --> 00:30:13,562
[Tellinger] I believe it is
a very powerful ancient machine

585
00:30:13,729 --> 00:30:17,232
that generates amazing
amounts of energy

586
00:30:17,399 --> 00:30:18,817
unimaginable to us today.

587
00:30:19,901 --> 00:30:22,279
And it does
so by using frequencies

588
00:30:22,404 --> 00:30:25,407
of the Earth that it amplifies.

589
00:30:25,574 --> 00:30:28,243
And I suspect it was built

590
00:30:28,368 --> 00:30:31,246
by these
advanced beings, these ETs

591
00:30:31,413 --> 00:30:33,081
with an advanced technology.

592
00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:37,044
[Narrator] Could it be
that Adam's Calendar

593
00:30:37,210 --> 00:30:40,464
was created by an
extraterrestrial civilization

594
00:30:40,630 --> 00:30:41,923
to generate energy?

595
00:30:42,090 --> 00:30:45,385
It is a controversial claim,

596
00:30:45,552 --> 00:30:48,138
and like many of the other
great mysteries of Africa,

597
00:30:48,346 --> 00:30:51,224
no written record
exists to document

598
00:30:51,391 --> 00:30:54,061
the true purpose
of Adam's Calendar

599
00:30:54,269 --> 00:30:57,397
or the thousands of other
ancient circular structures

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00:30:57,522 --> 00:30:59,483
spread across the landscape.

601
00:30:59,649 --> 00:31:02,819
But ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

602
00:31:03,028 --> 00:31:05,697
that information on what
was happening in Africa

603
00:31:05,906 --> 00:31:07,532
in the distant past

604
00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,077
can be found
in the extensive written

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00:31:10,243 --> 00:31:13,163
and pictorial records created by

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00:31:13,288 --> 00:31:15,082
the Egyptians.

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00:31:19,169 --> 00:31:21,671
[Narrator] Of all
the wonders of Africa,

608
00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:24,800
perhaps none have
captured the imagination more

609
00:31:24,925 --> 00:31:29,346
than the great empire that
emerged along the Nile River.

610
00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:31,973
Ancient Egypt stands

611
00:31:32,140 --> 00:31:34,726
as the longest-lasting
continuous civilization

612
00:31:34,893 --> 00:31:37,521
in human history,

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00:31:37,646 --> 00:31:40,315
rising in
the third millennium BC

614
00:31:40,482 --> 00:31:43,527
and lasting roughly 3,000 years.

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00:31:44,945 --> 00:31:47,280
Its colossal structures,

616
00:31:47,405 --> 00:31:50,367
mysterious
mummification rituals

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00:31:50,534 --> 00:31:53,537
and depictions
of strange hybrid beings

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00:31:53,745 --> 00:31:57,415
have long fascinated
ancient astronaut theorists.

619
00:31:57,582 --> 00:32:01,002
And what they find
particularly intriguing

620
00:32:01,169 --> 00:32:03,004
is that while
the stories of many of

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00:32:03,171 --> 00:32:05,549
the ancient peoples
of Africa were preserved

622
00:32:05,715 --> 00:32:07,634
only in oral traditions,

623
00:32:07,801 --> 00:32:12,389
the Egyptians left an extensive
written and pictorial record

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00:32:12,556 --> 00:32:16,518
of contact
with otherworldly beings.

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00:32:17,644 --> 00:32:19,896
[Collins] Hieroglyphs
are the written language

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00:32:20,105 --> 00:32:21,773
of ancient Egypt.

627
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:25,652
The dynastic pharaohs.

628
00:32:25,819 --> 00:32:27,612
But what's
so interesting about them

629
00:32:27,779 --> 00:32:31,950
is that they were known
as the language of the gods,

630
00:32:32,117 --> 00:32:36,580
and the entire hieroglyphic
system essentially turns up,

631
00:32:36,788 --> 00:32:41,418
ready-made,
around 5,200 years ago,

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00:32:41,626 --> 00:32:45,630
at the very beginning
of dynastic Egypt.

633
00:32:45,797 --> 00:32:48,842
And you have to ask yourself
where did they come from?

634
00:32:49,009 --> 00:32:50,385
Where is their precedent?

635
00:32:50,552 --> 00:32:53,722
It's said that the god Thoth

636
00:32:53,889 --> 00:32:58,435
actually presented them
to humankind wholesale.

637
00:32:59,853 --> 00:33:01,980
[Tsoukalos] Some of
the earliest Egyptian texts

638
00:33:02,189 --> 00:33:06,234
refer to a time when
the so-called gods mingled

639
00:33:06,401 --> 00:33:08,403
with human beings.

640
00:33:08,570 --> 00:33:11,323
And it is said that
these guardians of the sky,

641
00:33:11,448 --> 00:33:12,699
these so-called gods,

642
00:33:12,908 --> 00:33:16,536
were the ones
that imparted knowledge

643
00:33:16,745 --> 00:33:20,248
such as city planning, writing,

644
00:33:20,415 --> 00:33:23,251
medicine, engineering,

645
00:33:23,418 --> 00:33:27,088
astronomy, agriculture.

646
00:33:27,255 --> 00:33:30,091
The Egyptians describe
their gods as teachers,

647
00:33:30,258 --> 00:33:33,720
just as the Zulu
and the Dogon did.

648
00:33:36,556 --> 00:33:38,683
[Narrator] Ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

649
00:33:38,808 --> 00:33:42,479
what the Egyptians documented
in hieroglyphs and artwork

650
00:33:42,646 --> 00:33:46,107
provides a record of
otherworldly visitation

651
00:33:46,274 --> 00:33:47,817
similar to what was happening

652
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:49,945
throughout
the continent of Africa.

653
00:33:50,111 --> 00:33:53,240
And much like
the Dogon and Zulu,

654
00:33:53,365 --> 00:33:56,409
the Egyptians described
contact with beings

655
00:33:56,576 --> 00:33:58,954
who arrived
in a thunderous craft,

656
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,957
which they depicted
as the Benben stone.

657
00:34:03,041 --> 00:34:05,418
[Tsoukalos] According to
the ancient Egyptian texts,

658
00:34:05,627 --> 00:34:08,964
this Benben stone
descended from the sky

659
00:34:09,130 --> 00:34:10,924
in physical form,

660
00:34:11,091 --> 00:34:13,802
and it landed in front
of the ancient Egyptians.

661
00:34:13,969 --> 00:34:17,304
And then a hatch opened
on this Benben stone

662
00:34:17,472 --> 00:34:21,559
and people walked out
in order to impart knowledge.

663
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:25,438
Now, people may say
that this is all fantasy,

664
00:34:25,563 --> 00:34:27,065
but any ancient mythology

665
00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:30,277
is rooted in some
sort of a reality.

666
00:34:31,402 --> 00:34:33,571
And what's so interesting
about the Benben stone

667
00:34:33,737 --> 00:34:37,867
is that it is considered
a vehicle of the gods.

668
00:34:39,077 --> 00:34:42,205
The ancient astronaut theory
suggests that the Benben stone

669
00:34:42,371 --> 00:34:45,458
is a form of
misunderstood technology

670
00:34:45,667 --> 00:34:50,213
where the ancient Egyptians
tried to describe a ship

671
00:34:50,380 --> 00:34:52,799
in the shape of a pyramidion.

672
00:34:53,757 --> 00:34:56,553
We think of the Benben
as a craft because

673
00:34:56,719 --> 00:34:58,555
the myth says
it came from the stars.

674
00:34:58,722 --> 00:35:03,018
And when the god Atum
arrived on Earth in the Benben,

675
00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:04,853
he descended from the stars.

676
00:35:05,937 --> 00:35:07,564
And when he left the Earth,

677
00:35:07,731 --> 00:35:10,859
he rose into the stars
upon the Benben.

678
00:35:12,569 --> 00:35:14,613
[Narrator] Is it possible
that the pyramid shape

679
00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:17,574
that dominates
the iconography of ancient Egypt

680
00:35:17,741 --> 00:35:20,952
was inspired by an alien craft?

681
00:35:22,996 --> 00:35:25,749
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

682
00:35:25,915 --> 00:35:28,835
and they suggest
even stronger evidence

683
00:35:29,002 --> 00:35:31,880
of extraterrestrial
contact can be found

684
00:35:32,005 --> 00:35:34,841
by examining
the pyramids themselves.

685
00:35:35,884 --> 00:35:37,844
Archaeologists
and Egyptologists claim

686
00:35:38,011 --> 00:35:41,598
that the pyramids
were tombs for the pharaohs,

687
00:35:41,723 --> 00:35:46,853
but we have never found any
Egyptian pharaoh in a pyramid.

688
00:35:47,020 --> 00:35:49,439
Egyptologists have
no real explanation

689
00:35:49,564 --> 00:35:51,983
for what the pyramids
were really built for.

690
00:35:53,526 --> 00:35:56,529
[Narrator] According to
aerospace engineer Chris Dunn,

691
00:35:56,696 --> 00:36:00,241
the Giza Pyramids served
a far more profound purpose

692
00:36:00,367 --> 00:36:02,369
than merely
commemorating the dead.

693
00:36:02,535 --> 00:36:06,289
This idea came to him
while examining the interior

694
00:36:06,456 --> 00:36:10,001
of the Great Pyramid in 1995.

695
00:36:11,044 --> 00:36:12,837
[Christopher Dunn] Inside
the Great Pyramid,

696
00:36:12,962 --> 00:36:15,715
you have all these
various shafts

697
00:36:15,882 --> 00:36:19,844
and passageways and chambers.

698
00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:22,847
And when you look at it,
as a schematic,

699
00:36:23,014 --> 00:36:24,766
for me, it looks like a machine.

700
00:36:24,933 --> 00:36:26,226
And so,

701
00:36:26,393 --> 00:36:27,602
then the question becomes,

702
00:36:27,769 --> 00:36:29,062
well, if that's the case,

703
00:36:29,229 --> 00:36:31,398
what did this machine do?

704
00:36:32,816 --> 00:36:36,277
[Narrator] For years, Dunn
researched the Great Pyramid

705
00:36:36,444 --> 00:36:39,322
and determined
that the structure was designed

706
00:36:39,447 --> 00:36:42,659
to generate
massive amounts of energy.

707
00:36:42,867 --> 00:36:45,829
In 1998, he published his theory

708
00:36:45,995 --> 00:36:48,331
in a book called
The Giza Power Plant.

709
00:36:49,332 --> 00:36:51,876
He proposes that
the Great Pyramid

710
00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:54,713
would actually harness
energy from the Earth,

711
00:36:54,879 --> 00:36:57,465
and there would be chemicals
and other reactions

712
00:36:57,632 --> 00:36:59,509
taking place in it,

713
00:36:59,676 --> 00:37:01,970
and this would
actually produce energy.

714
00:37:04,013 --> 00:37:05,724
[Narrator] In his book,
Dunn proposed

715
00:37:05,890 --> 00:37:07,851
the Great Pyramid was connected

716
00:37:08,017 --> 00:37:10,145
to other pyramids and obelisks

717
00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:12,772
to create a massive power grid.

718
00:37:13,815 --> 00:37:15,900
[Childress] It has been
suggested that the pyramids

719
00:37:16,109 --> 00:37:18,278
of Egypt were energy devices.

720
00:37:18,403 --> 00:37:21,030
This is high tech stuff

721
00:37:21,197 --> 00:37:23,575
built thousands of years ago.

722
00:37:23,742 --> 00:37:28,621
So, this indicates a very high
technological civilization.

723
00:37:28,830 --> 00:37:32,167
Could that civilization
have been ETs?

724
00:37:33,710 --> 00:37:36,588
[Narrator] Do the ruins,
writings and illustrations

725
00:37:36,755 --> 00:37:38,840
left behind
by the ancient Egyptians

726
00:37:38,965 --> 00:37:41,092
serve as a record

727
00:37:41,259 --> 00:37:44,345
of extraterrestrial contact
and technology,

728
00:37:44,512 --> 00:37:46,556
much like the mythology

729
00:37:46,723 --> 00:37:49,726
and rituals preserved
by other African cultures?

730
00:37:51,561 --> 00:37:53,688
Ancient astronaut
theorists yes,

731
00:37:53,855 --> 00:37:57,484
and suggest that fossils
recently discovered

732
00:37:57,650 --> 00:37:59,152
in northern Africa

733
00:37:59,319 --> 00:38:01,154
could rewrite

734
00:38:01,321 --> 00:38:03,406
human history.

735
00:38:08,536 --> 00:38:12,791
[Narrator] Jebel Irhoud,
Morocco. 2017.

736
00:38:12,957 --> 00:38:16,586
A team of European
and Moroccan scientists

737
00:38:16,753 --> 00:38:19,714
discover the fossil
remains of five individuals

738
00:38:19,881 --> 00:38:23,927
who they believe are the most
ancient humans ever found.

739
00:38:25,011 --> 00:38:29,390
The bones are dated to
be more than 315,000 years old,

740
00:38:29,557 --> 00:38:33,520
and would push back
the emergence of Homo sapiens

741
00:38:33,645 --> 00:38:36,606
by over 100,000 years.

742
00:38:37,690 --> 00:38:40,276
And the find also
indicates to archaeologists

743
00:38:40,443 --> 00:38:42,445
that for more than
a third of our history,

744
00:38:42,612 --> 00:38:46,366
humans may have existed
only in Africa.

745
00:38:47,659 --> 00:38:48,993
[Tsoukalos] Now, some experts

746
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:51,955
are saying that ancient humans

747
00:38:52,121 --> 00:38:53,665
may have occupied Africa

748
00:38:53,832 --> 00:38:55,667
for more than 100,000 years

749
00:38:55,834 --> 00:38:58,962
before migrating to
the other parts of the world.

750
00:38:59,128 --> 00:39:01,339
This would radically change

751
00:39:01,548 --> 00:39:04,175
our understanding
of human origins.

752
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:07,095
[Henry] The team that discovered
the fossils in Morocco

753
00:39:07,262 --> 00:39:11,266
were led by an anthropologist
named Jean-Jacques Hublin.

754
00:39:11,432 --> 00:39:14,185
Hublin was later quoted
as saying is that

755
00:39:14,352 --> 00:39:16,855
if there was a Garden of Eden,
it would be in Africa.

756
00:39:18,231 --> 00:39:19,649
Now, he's
speaking metaphorically,

757
00:39:19,816 --> 00:39:21,526
but it is fascinating

758
00:39:21,693 --> 00:39:23,820
to think that for thousands
upon thousands of years

759
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:26,281
humans exclusively
lived in Africa

760
00:39:26,406 --> 00:39:28,157
and then moved out into
other regions of the world.

761
00:39:28,283 --> 00:39:30,076
Therefore,

762
00:39:30,243 --> 00:39:32,161
it's very important that we
pay attention to their stories,

763
00:39:32,287 --> 00:39:35,707
and also the remarkable
discoveries there.

764
00:39:37,834 --> 00:39:41,087
[Narrator] From new fossil
evidence of human ancestors

765
00:39:41,254 --> 00:39:44,465
to prehistoric stone circles

766
00:39:44,632 --> 00:39:48,094
and mysterious relics
of ancient Egypt,

767
00:39:48,261 --> 00:39:52,807
amazing discoveries are being
made in Africa all the time.

768
00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:57,520
But could the so-called mother
continent even be hiding proof

769
00:39:57,645 --> 00:40:00,189
that the birthplace of humanity

770
00:40:00,356 --> 00:40:03,318
was also a point
of first contact,

771
00:40:03,443 --> 00:40:06,321
with visitors from other worlds?

772
00:40:07,488 --> 00:40:10,408
[Ekhaya] In Africa,
there have been many sightings

773
00:40:10,575 --> 00:40:13,244
and many stories
that have been told over time

774
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:16,581
where people have
acknowledged that there are

775
00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:20,043
nonhuman beings
that have visited Africa.

776
00:40:20,168 --> 00:40:22,921
There have been stories
told by Baba Credo Mutwa.

777
00:40:23,046 --> 00:40:27,800
So I do believe that there
have been nonhuman intelligence

778
00:40:27,926 --> 00:40:32,597
that have come into Africa
for many, many years.

779
00:40:34,265 --> 00:40:37,852
People in South Africa
believe in aliens.

780
00:40:38,019 --> 00:40:43,066
And I believe,
like many of my elders

781
00:40:43,232 --> 00:40:45,026
and sangoma colleagues,

782
00:40:45,193 --> 00:40:48,738
that there were
extraterrestrial encounters

783
00:40:48,947 --> 00:40:51,950
in ancient Africa.

784
00:40:52,116 --> 00:40:54,369
All the evidence points to it.

785
00:40:54,535 --> 00:40:57,205
And we are rediscovering
that there were

786
00:40:57,330 --> 00:41:01,751
extraterrestrial races
or civilizations in Africa

787
00:41:01,918 --> 00:41:03,962
thousands of years ago.

788
00:41:05,213 --> 00:41:07,757
[Carter] These stories
are so fascinating.

789
00:41:07,924 --> 00:41:11,928
And I think our ancestors,
on some level, knew

790
00:41:12,095 --> 00:41:13,763
when they wrote these
stories down,

791
00:41:13,930 --> 00:41:15,598
when they told these stories

792
00:41:15,723 --> 00:41:17,266
that we, today,

793
00:41:17,433 --> 00:41:21,104
needed to know
what it was like for them

794
00:41:21,270 --> 00:41:25,608
to share this planet
with off-world intelligences.

795
00:41:26,776 --> 00:41:28,820
[Narrator] Do the incredible
traditions,

796
00:41:29,028 --> 00:41:33,282
ruins and
oral histories of Africa

797
00:41:33,408 --> 00:41:36,160
tell a story
of otherworldly activity

798
00:41:36,285 --> 00:41:38,371
in the distant past?

799
00:41:39,414 --> 00:41:42,625
Were the sky gods described
by numerous ancient cultures

800
00:41:42,792 --> 00:41:45,920
in fact extraterrestrials

801
00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:50,258
who had a hand in
the development of early humans?

802
00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:53,803
Perhaps in the land
that gave birth to humanity,

803
00:41:53,970 --> 00:41:56,264
we will find the ultimate proof,

804
00:41:56,431 --> 00:41:59,684
of our alien origins.

805
00:41:59,851 --> 00:42:02,520
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