1 00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:02,960 Legends of Ant Men. 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:07,400 They have antenna. They have elongated skulls. 3 00:00:08,440 --> 00:00:10,520 Beetles buried with Egyptian mummies. 4 00:00:11,320 --> 00:00:13,640 The scarab was critical for the resurrection. 5 00:00:14,416 --> 00:00:17,176 And swarms of locusts targeting humans. 6 00:00:18,200 --> 00:00:21,200 It's almost as if the locusts themselves were programmed. 7 00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:23,680 In cultures throughout the world... 8 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:28,800 ...insects have been worshiped, feared, and even thought of as gods. 9 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,040 But might these strange creatures... 10 00:00:31,320 --> 00:00:34,400 ...that have inhabited Earth for hundreds of millions of years... 11 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,880 ...provide a link to extraterrestrial beings? 12 00:00:38,160 --> 00:00:42,240 The idea that insect aliens are coming here to this planet... 13 00:00:42,440 --> 00:00:47,440 ...interacting with humans may well be based on something real. 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:50,440 Millions of people around the world... 15 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:54,800 ...believe we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 16 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:57,360 What if it were true? 17 00:00:58,680 --> 00:01:02,280 Did ancient aliens really helped to shape our history? 18 00:01:03,600 --> 00:01:08,680 And if so, is there any connection between aliens and insects? 19 00:01:41,080 --> 00:01:43,400 The Nile Delta, Egypt. 20 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,800 A small centimeters-wide trail is cut in the desert floor... 21 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,600 ...by the rolling cocoon of a dung beetle. 22 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:58,280 This strange-looking 2-inch long insect, also called a scarab... 23 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:01,280 ...uses the dung as both a source of nourishment... 24 00:02:01,600 --> 00:02:03,400 ...and a place for storing its eggs. 25 00:02:04,880 --> 00:02:08,360 It will roll the ball in a straight line despite all obstacles. 26 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:10,520 It is the only insect on Earth... 27 00:02:10,760 --> 00:02:14,480 ...known to navigate by following the light of the Milky Way Galaxy. 28 00:02:16,840 --> 00:02:20,760 Biologists just made this discovery in 2013. 29 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:24,440 But 5,000 years ago... 30 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:28,240 ...with presumably no knowledge of this unique connection to the stars... 31 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,440 ...the ancient Egyptians held the scarab as a sacred symbol... 32 00:02:32,800 --> 00:02:35,080 ...representing a link to the gods. 33 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,030 Interesting that a great civilisation... 34 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:43,800 ...could pay so much attention to a little bug. 35 00:02:43,960 --> 00:02:46,790 But it appears constantly throughout Egyptian temples... 36 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:49,560 ...and hieroglyphics. It's a very frequent image. 37 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:55,640 At the temple of Karnak, overlooking the Sacred Lake, 38 00:02:56,040 --> 00:02:58,120 where the Pharaohs received their coronation, 39 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:04,080 a giant scarab beetle stands watch, representing the Egyptian god, Khepri. 40 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:11,000 The Egyptians saw the sun moving across the sky during the day. 41 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:14,920 Also, around the desert sands, you'd see beetles, moving balls of dung. 42 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:17,710 And so the Egyptians thought... 43 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:20,840 ...that the force that moved the sun across the sky... 44 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:23,680 ...was a giant scarab beetle god, Khepri. 45 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:29,840 And they believed that the sun was what is known as the Eye of Ra, 46 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:33,920 which was Ra's chariot or his flying machine. 47 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,000 And the thing that moved it, they believed... 48 00:03:37,320 --> 00:03:40,120 ...was the scarab-headed god, Khepri. 49 00:03:40,480 --> 00:03:44,040 And the scarab represented Khepri, 50 00:03:44,320 --> 00:03:48,200 the pilot, if you like, of Ra's sun ship or barge. 51 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:50,440 He was basically a pilot to the gods. 52 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:54,480 But could there be another explanation... 53 00:03:54,760 --> 00:03:58,000 ...for why the Egyptians regarded Khepri as a pilot? 54 00:04:00,200 --> 00:04:02,430 Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest... 55 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:05,120 ...that the representation of Khepri as a scarab... 56 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:08,120 ...and sometimes as a human with a scarab head... 57 00:04:09,920 --> 00:04:13,480 ...may have been inspired by actual contact the Egyptians had... 58 00:04:13,720 --> 00:04:15,960 ...with an otherworldly being. 59 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:24,480 One has to wonder whether or not these beings actually existed. 60 00:04:24,840 --> 00:04:27,840 Because the ancient Egyptians were incredibly proud... 61 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:32,680 ...in carving their history into countless of walls. 62 00:04:33,960 --> 00:04:37,080 And according to the Ancient Astronaut Theory... 63 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,280 ...we all came about through a deliberate mutation of our genes. 64 00:04:42,400 --> 00:04:45,320 And so it is entirely possible, in my opinion, 65 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:50,200 that some of those creatures that we see depicted in reliefs and in carvings... 66 00:04:50,720 --> 00:04:53,720 ...might have actually existed in the past. 67 00:04:57,760 --> 00:05:02,040 Is it possible the ancient Egyptians could have encountered alien beings... 68 00:05:02,200 --> 00:05:04,560 ...that had an insect-like appearance? 69 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:08,720 Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes... 70 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:13,270 ...and as further evidence, point to the fact... 71 00:05:13,360 --> 00:05:15,360 ...that the Egyptians' obsession with the scarab... 72 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,040 ...also extended to their funerary rituals. 73 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:30,240 The Valley of the Kings. Egypt, November 1922. 74 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,920 Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of King Tutankhamun. 75 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:42,480 Among the treasure trove of artefacts is the young Pharaoh's breastplate... 76 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:45,280 ...which features a scarab as the centrepiece. 77 00:05:47,720 --> 00:05:52,400 The scarab is made of a yellow silica glass stone procured from the Sahara... 78 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,840 ...originally formed 28 million years ago... 79 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:58,760 ...when the sand was superheated by a comet strike. 80 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,600 But why would the ancient Egyptians place a scarab... 81 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,120 ...and one sculpted from material produced by a cosmic event... 82 00:06:08,440 --> 00:06:11,200 ...at the centre of their pharaoh's funerary breastplate? 83 00:06:13,440 --> 00:06:16,870 Curiously, scarabs always played an integral role... 84 00:06:16,960 --> 00:06:19,120 ...in the Egyptians' mummification process... 85 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:22,400 ...often included during the wrapping of the body. 86 00:06:24,760 --> 00:06:28,870 In between those wrappings, the Egyptians put a number of charms, 87 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:32,320 which served not just a preservation function, but a magical function. 88 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,680 There was a heart scarab, which was placed on the body. 89 00:06:37,040 --> 00:06:40,760 We also find other scarabs sometimes knitted into the linen of the deceased. 90 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:45,320 The scarab was thought to be critical for the resurrection... 91 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:48,480 ...because of its power and necessity for it to be present... 92 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,520 ...when the sun rose in the morning. 93 00:06:52,600 --> 00:06:56,960 The idea was is that the soul or even the body of the person that had departed... 94 00:06:57,160 --> 00:06:58,960 ...was carried by scarab beetles... 95 00:06:59,240 --> 00:07:02,280 ...along the path to the next life, to the next dimension. 96 00:07:02,440 --> 00:07:05,750 It's almost as if the scarab beetle was some kind of device, not an insect... 97 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,760 ...but a device that actually allows travel from one place to another. 98 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,200 Where did the Egyptians get the idea of resurrection... 99 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:18,480 ...and this idea that we could be reborn as star beings? 100 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,240 It seems as if they were given this idea by Khepri. 101 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:31,600 Could the inclusion of scarab-shaped objects in the mummification process... 102 00:07:32,040 --> 00:07:36,400 ...have been inspired by an actual encounter with the scarab god Khepri? 103 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:42,680 To some Ancient Astronaut Theorists, it's not just the presence of scarabs... 104 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:45,280 ...that suggests the Egyptians made a connection... 105 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:47,520 ...between insects and the afterlife. 106 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:55,320 They say the mummification process also mimics insect metamorphosis itself. 107 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,320 The similarities between mummification and the cocooning process... 108 00:08:01,440 --> 00:08:03,880 ...that a caterpillar goes through before it becomes a moth... 109 00:08:04,200 --> 00:08:05,750 ...are really quite incredible. 110 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:09,360 I think what the Egyptians were trying to do is actually cocoon the human being... 111 00:08:09,480 --> 00:08:12,640 ...so that when he emerged into the next life at the next level up... 112 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,200 ...he would be transformed into something greater, more powerful... 113 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,120 ...and epically more beautiful. 114 00:08:21,400 --> 00:08:26,440 This does mimic in nature what we would see with a pupa or a chrysalis... 115 00:08:26,600 --> 00:08:28,839 ...in which the caterpillar actually 116 00:08:28,930 --> 00:08:30,920 creates a hard outer shell around itself... 117 00:08:31,040 --> 00:08:35,040 ...and the material of the caterpillar's body actually turns into a broth... 118 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:40,240 ...before it reconstitutes into what ultimately emerges as a butterfly. 119 00:08:44,280 --> 00:08:46,470 While most people associate metamorphosis... 120 00:08:46,560 --> 00:08:49,200 ...with the caterpillar transforming into a butterfly... 121 00:08:50,240 --> 00:08:54,360 ...beetles like the scarab undergo a complete metamorphosis as well. 122 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,720 The hatched larva inside the ball of dung... 123 00:08:58,920 --> 00:09:01,720 ...emerges fully developed and capable of flight. 124 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:05,920 To the ancient Egyptians, it seemed the sacred scarab... 125 00:09:06,160 --> 00:09:09,160 ...had miraculously regenerated inside its cocoon. 126 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:14,000 The actual scarab beetle in ancient Egyptian was called... 127 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:17,920 something that means "He that comes from nowhere..." 128 00:09:18,200 --> 00:09:20,880 ...which is basically what the name Khepri means. 129 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:23,960 He comes from nowhere. He can make himself exist. 130 00:09:26,920 --> 00:09:29,440 Much like the scarab emerging from its cocoon... 131 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:33,840 ...the Egyptians believed a mummified body could rise from its sarcophagus... 132 00:09:33,960 --> 00:09:36,840 ...as a transformed being and live once again. 133 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:42,280 Part of the soul was inexorably attached to the body. 134 00:09:42,560 --> 00:09:45,550 So in order for that part of the soul to live on in the afterlife... 135 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,670 ...the body had to be preserved as closely as possible... 136 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:50,720 ...to the way that it had existed in life. 137 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,750 The idea of the Egyptian soul is so alien from our own... 138 00:09:55,840 --> 00:09:57,960 ...that it's difficult to put parallels on. 139 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:00,880 For example, the Egyptians concert of the soul had five parts, 140 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:02,880 the Ba and the Ka are two in particular. 141 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,880 And part of their mythology was that the Ba must return to the body, 142 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,640 enter the body, so that the body can rise and live again. 143 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,720 It's possible that the mummification process... 144 00:10:18,080 --> 00:10:20,430 ...was some kind of replication... 145 00:10:20,520 --> 00:10:23,800 ...of this process that the extraterrestrials went through. 146 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:28,080 And even the possibility that the mummies themselves... 147 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:32,760 ...were going into some kind of larval stage and suspended animation... 148 00:10:32,960 --> 00:10:36,480 ...where they would emerge eventually into some kind of new body... 149 00:10:36,680 --> 00:10:38,120 ...like the extraterrestrials did. 150 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:43,880 While the scarab dominates Egyptian symbolism... 151 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:47,800 ...another beetle common to this part of the world, the buprestid beetle... 152 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:52,320 ...has a direct tie to the Egyptians' most important god, Osiris. 153 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:55,960 Buprestid beetles, when bothered by a predator... 154 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:58,600 ...actually tuck their legs up and lie perfectly still. 155 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,550 And the way they hold their limbs is very similar to the way Osiris... 156 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,480 ...would be represented in some tomb paintings. 157 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:08,750 Well, it turns out the buprestid beetle is found in the tamarisk wood, 158 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:12,150 and that is the wood that comes from a tree that was part of the Osiris legend, 159 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:14,080 actually becomes the Djed pillar. 160 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:21,240 And when Isis split this pillar, she found Osiris inside... 161 00:11:21,440 --> 00:11:23,040 ...and this beautiful beetle inside. 162 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,070 And so, it's quite possible that this beetle... 163 00:11:26,160 --> 00:11:28,720 ...may have a relationship to the mummification process. 164 00:11:33,200 --> 00:11:35,600 But does the Ancient Egyptian worship of a beetle... 165 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,920 ...really suggest an encounter with insect-like extraterrestrials? 166 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,320 Could they be mimicking misunderstood technology? 167 00:11:43,920 --> 00:11:46,040 Or might there be another explanation? 168 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:54,920 Perhaps further clues can be found in the numerous ancient stories of Ant People. 169 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,720 Cambridge University, England. 2013. 170 00:12:08,040 --> 00:12:11,120 Using a high-speed camera with intense magnification... 171 00:12:11,520 --> 00:12:13,800 ...scientists from the Department of Zoology... 172 00:12:14,040 --> 00:12:17,640 ...record the movement of a plant-hopping insect called Issus. 173 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:23,200 Examining the footage, they make a shocking discovery. 174 00:12:24,520 --> 00:12:27,960 The movement of the Issus is powered by mechanical gears. 175 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:33,120 It is the world's first evidence of mechanical gearing... 176 00:12:33,320 --> 00:12:35,120 ...in a biological structure. 177 00:12:36,280 --> 00:12:40,800 This natural cog mechanism allows the Issus to make powerful jumps, 178 00:12:41,240 --> 00:12:43,640 with the gear teeth on the opposing hindlegs... 179 00:12:43,880 --> 00:12:46,840 ...locking together like those in the gearbox of a car, 180 00:12:47,280 --> 00:12:50,680 ensuring almost complete synchronicity of leg movement. 181 00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,040 But how did a biological entity that has develop a mechanisms... 182 00:12:56,520 --> 00:12:58,000 ...that appear man-made? 183 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:02,920 Insects are essentially evolution's tinker toy set. 184 00:13:03,840 --> 00:13:05,310 Insects were the first animal group... 185 00:13:05,400 --> 00:13:08,200 ...to evolve the ability to fly on their own power. 186 00:13:10,520 --> 00:13:14,600 Insects have an exoskeleton, which is almost like a living armour. 187 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:18,200 In terms of sheer numbers... 188 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,840 ...insects are by far, the most dominant life-form on Earth. 189 00:13:22,880 --> 00:13:27,800 And with over 1 million different species, they also remain the most mysterious. 190 00:13:29,120 --> 00:13:30,400 Insects appeared on the Earth... 191 00:13:30,560 --> 00:13:33,480 ...over 400 million years before humans appeared on the Earth. 192 00:13:34,760 --> 00:13:36,840 They were incredibly successful... 193 00:13:36,960 --> 00:13:39,721 ...well before the age of the dinosaurs and a long time before humans. 194 00:13:40,160 --> 00:13:44,520 About half of the living creatures on the planet belong to the group of insects. 195 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:49,040 They've really found ways to inhabit just about every ecological niche in nature. 196 00:13:50,560 --> 00:13:53,150 They have compound eyes, which, in some cases... 197 00:13:53,240 --> 00:13:57,040 ...they can see into the ranges that humans cannot, like ultraviolet. 198 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:00,440 They have a very sophisticated sensory system... 199 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:02,350 ...that makes them different from what we can perceive. 200 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:06,600 For example, insects taste, smell, and feel with the hairs on their body. 201 00:14:07,240 --> 00:14:08,830 When they land on you, they're smelling you... 202 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:10,720 ...they're tasting you, they're feeling you. 203 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,160 There are upwards of a million species of insects evolved so far. 204 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:17,320 So we may think of ourselves as being special, 205 00:14:17,600 --> 00:14:20,470 but, in reality, insects are the most successful animal group... 206 00:14:20,560 --> 00:14:21,920 ...that's ever evolved. 207 00:14:25,480 --> 00:14:29,360 In the more than 400 million years that insects are believed to have existed... 208 00:14:29,800 --> 00:14:32,240 ...no bug has thrived more than the ant. 209 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:34,870 Ants are among the most successful animal groups... 210 00:14:34,960 --> 00:14:36,720 ...that we see on the face of the Earth. 211 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,240 One out of every four individual animals on the face of the Earth is an ant. 212 00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:44,960 Ants are incredible insects; And they're highly evolved. 213 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:50,720 In size and appearance, ants and humans could not be more different. 214 00:14:51,960 --> 00:14:56,670 But interestingly, in many ways these tiny bugs are more like us... 215 00:14:56,760 --> 00:14:59,240 ...than any other creatures in the animal kingdom. 216 00:15:01,240 --> 00:15:05,120 Ants have a social system where they have a division of labour. 217 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:07,480 You have a reproductive queen. 218 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,000 You have males that will mate with the queen. 219 00:15:10,880 --> 00:15:15,400 You have sub reproductives that can leave the colony and start new colonies. 220 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:19,270 Then, you've got a series of workers. And then there are specialised workers. 221 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,920 There are soldiers that can protect the colony if they're under attack. 222 00:15:23,280 --> 00:15:27,440 So, they're rather intriguing with regard to their behaviour. 223 00:15:28,640 --> 00:15:33,520 But how is that the behaviour of ants mirrors that of humans in so many ways? 224 00:15:34,600 --> 00:15:36,400 Is it simply coincidence? 225 00:15:37,000 --> 00:15:41,240 Or could ants and humans be more closely related than we think? 226 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:45,680 Ancient Greece. 227 00:15:47,120 --> 00:15:50,040 In both Homer's "Iliad" and Ovid's "Metamorphoses," 228 00:15:50,560 --> 00:15:53,240 ...there is a group of warriors known as the Myrmidon... 229 00:15:53,600 --> 00:15:55,880 ...who are born of mysterious origins. 230 00:15:57,720 --> 00:15:58,880 According to the "Ovid..." 231 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,110 King Aeacus of Aegina pleads with the god Zeus... 232 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:04,680 ...to repopulate his plague-ravaged country. 233 00:16:05,760 --> 00:16:11,000 That night, he dreams that ants fall from the branch of a tree and turn into men. 234 00:16:12,280 --> 00:16:16,440 He awakes the next morning to find his dream has come true. 235 00:16:17,600 --> 00:16:21,640 The story of the Myrmidons is that they were ants made into warriors. 236 00:16:21,960 --> 00:16:25,560 They were said to have fought with Achilles at Troy... 237 00:16:26,280 --> 00:16:27,720 ...and they were very effective. 238 00:16:29,760 --> 00:16:32,230 The descriptions of the ant people are very, very accurate... 239 00:16:32,320 --> 00:16:35,840 ...in terms of the behaviour of the insect, the ant itself. 240 00:16:37,080 --> 00:16:38,390 They were very loyal. 241 00:16:38,480 --> 00:16:41,480 They moved together as one, almost at a hive mentality. 242 00:16:43,520 --> 00:16:46,440 The Myrmidons were thought to be the first to develop ships... 243 00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:48,440 ...and to sail under their own power. 244 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,920 This ability to be organised like an army... 245 00:16:52,120 --> 00:16:54,960 ...comes from ants marching in a nice linear fashion. 246 00:16:55,880 --> 00:16:59,440 The idea about being the first to sail comes from the ant's ability to raft. 247 00:16:59,720 --> 00:17:02,280 Ants will get on the surface tension of water and lock legs. 248 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:03,800 Other ants will climb on top... 249 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:06,960 ...and this little mound of ants will float around on the surface of water. 250 00:17:09,680 --> 00:17:12,800 In the case of the Myrmidons, these were fierce warriors. 251 00:17:13,040 --> 00:17:16,440 They were well-trained; They were organised just like ants. 252 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:22,680 These descriptions are so vivid and so accurate... 253 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:26,120 ...in terms of the ant's behaviour that what Zeus seems to have done... 254 00:17:26,600 --> 00:17:30,600 ...is actually some sort of genetic cross breeding between humans and insects... 255 00:17:30,840 --> 00:17:33,440 ...in order to create this army of ant people. 256 00:17:34,040 --> 00:17:36,390 You're dealing with an extremely advanced technology... 257 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,350 ...that really, really understands how to use genetic manipulation... 258 00:17:39,440 --> 00:17:41,240 ...to create new species. 259 00:17:44,480 --> 00:17:48,280 Is it possible that the Myrmidons depicted in the ancient Greek stories... 260 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,280 ...were actually some type of ant and human hybrid... 261 00:17:51,680 --> 00:17:54,040 ...manufactured by an alien being? 262 00:17:55,720 --> 00:17:58,550 Ancient Astronaut Theorists claim further evidence... 263 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,480 ...that ants may have a connection to extraterrestrials... 264 00:18:01,640 --> 00:18:04,680 ...can be found in stories throughout numerous cultures. 265 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:11,200 In the Muslim holy book, the Quran, there is a story of ants speaking like humans. 266 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:17,080 In parts of Africa, ants are considered to be the messengers of the gods. 267 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,680 And Native American tribes like the Hopi and Zuni... 268 00:18:23,200 --> 00:18:26,800 ...tell stories of the Ant People who emerge from beneath the Earth. 269 00:18:27,960 --> 00:18:31,040 The ant people is a very interesting subject... 270 00:18:31,160 --> 00:18:34,120 ...when it comes to looking at the Hopi belief system. 271 00:18:35,360 --> 00:18:38,120 The Ant People, number one, are caretakers of the Earth. 272 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:41,960 Unlike the Myrmidons of Greek mythology, 273 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:46,680 the Ant People of the Native American stories don't just behave like ants, 274 00:18:47,640 --> 00:18:49,320 they resemble them as well. 275 00:18:49,800 --> 00:18:53,280 They have spindly arms, they have antenna. 276 00:18:54,160 --> 00:18:56,440 They have elongated skulls. 277 00:18:57,360 --> 00:19:02,560 These are clearly a merging of the human and the insect. 278 00:19:04,880 --> 00:19:09,040 They are not simply a fable or a parable. 279 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,040 If one explores the question of insectoid alien life, 280 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,080 then my question is, why not? 281 00:19:20,920 --> 00:19:24,960 Because if life is pervasive throughout the entire universe, 282 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:28,960 then that life comes in all shape, size and colour. 283 00:19:29,280 --> 00:19:34,360 So, the idea that insectoid aliens might exist... 284 00:19:34,560 --> 00:19:35,840 ...is very possible to me. 285 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,520 However, I think the idea came from our ancestors... 286 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,640 ...witnessing physical features... 287 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:48,120 ...that made them look like ants or could be best described as ants. 288 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:52,320 If we look at the face of an ant, we look at the head of an ant, 289 00:19:52,600 --> 00:19:55,680 we see large buggy eyes... 290 00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,320 ...widely spaced on the face, and a large head. 291 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,320 So this could be an illustration of people seeing... 292 00:20:03,520 --> 00:20:05,640 ...beings like what we now call the Greys, 293 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:08,201 and associating it with something that's familiar to them. 294 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:13,710 Is it possible that the Ant People... 295 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,440 ...that appear in both Greek and Native American mythology... 296 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:18,760 ...were grey aliens? 297 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:23,400 Or might they even be human-insect hybrids... 298 00:20:23,800 --> 00:20:26,280 ...engineered by otherworldly beings? 299 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:32,070 Perhaps the answer can be found in the accounts of those who claim... 300 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,360 ...to have been victims of alien abductions. 301 00:20:41,720 --> 00:20:44,560 The Kalahari Desert, South Africa. 302 00:20:46,880 --> 00:20:49,600 The indigenous people of this area called the San... 303 00:20:49,800 --> 00:20:53,480 ...represent one of the oldest existing populations on Earth, 304 00:20:54,360 --> 00:20:58,640 with a culture that dates back approximately 80,000 years. 305 00:20:59,840 --> 00:21:02,640 According to the origin story of this ancient society, 306 00:21:03,120 --> 00:21:07,680 the first humans were created not by traditional gods but by insects. 307 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,360 According to the San people... 308 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:14,840 ...the origin of humans lies with the praying mantis. 309 00:21:15,960 --> 00:21:19,870 There once was a bee who was asked by a praying mantis... 310 00:21:19,960 --> 00:21:22,600 ...to carry him across a raging river. 311 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,830 And the bee did so. He carried the praying mantis... 312 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,800 ...across the river and deposited him on a leaf. 313 00:21:30,960 --> 00:21:32,280 But before leaving... 314 00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:36,510 ...the exhausted bee left an egg inside the praying mantis... 315 00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:39,760 ...and that egg is the source of all human beings. 316 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:46,200 But where did the San people get the idea... 317 00:21:46,640 --> 00:21:49,320 ...that humans were created by a praying mantis? 318 00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:55,520 Curiously, the San tradition also holds that a praying mantis... 319 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:58,760 ...gave early humans the gifts of language and fire. 320 00:22:01,040 --> 00:22:04,960 And one of their most important gods, Cagn, the creator of the world... 321 00:22:05,360 --> 00:22:07,400 ...often took the form of a mantis. 322 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:14,000 The San people of South Africa had a fascinating theology. 323 00:22:14,440 --> 00:22:18,040 Their god was known as Cagn, and Cagn was a trickster god. 324 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:22,000 He could shape-shift, and appear in a number of different forms. 325 00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,640 But was very fond of appearing as a praying mantis. 326 00:22:30,280 --> 00:22:32,240 Cagn has a lot of struggles on the planet Earth. 327 00:22:32,600 --> 00:22:33,950 There were many wars that were fought... 328 00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,760 ...and eventually he left the Earth by means of going up into the sky. 329 00:22:44,480 --> 00:22:48,880 Another interesting thing about Cagn is that it's said that he created the moon. 330 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:54,760 And the San people do their planting because of phases of the moon. 331 00:22:56,120 --> 00:22:57,160 So you've got to wonder, 332 00:22:57,640 --> 00:23:02,480 is this praying mantis extraterrestrial god just some mythical figure, 333 00:23:03,000 --> 00:23:09,120 or is he really a representation of some kind of real praying mantis... 334 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,280 ...insectoid alien that's come to Earth? 335 00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Could the prominence of the praying mantis in San mythology... 336 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,150 ...suggest that their ancestors actually encountered... 337 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:23,320 ...such beings in the distant past? 338 00:23:25,080 --> 00:23:28,360 Although most anthropologists regard these stories as fables... 339 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:31,800 ...some ancient astronaut theorists find it curious... 340 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,880 ...that the praying mantis is also a recurring image... 341 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,080 ...in reports of alien abduction. 342 00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:46,000 Covina, California. 1963. 343 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:50,720 In the small farming town on the outskirts of Los Angeles... 344 00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:56,240 17-year-old Linda Porter awakens to find herself aboard a strange craft. 345 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,920 From what she is able to recall later under hypnosis... 346 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,040 ...a small creature that appeared to be a grey alien... 347 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,320 ...led her towards a light-filled room... 348 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:10,960 ...where she encountered another type of being... 349 00:24:12,080 --> 00:24:15,960 ...one much taller, and with the features of a praying mantis. 350 00:24:20,600 --> 00:24:23,560 Very stand-alone, very odd case. 351 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:27,520 The fact that this occurred in 1963 is very intriguing, 352 00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:30,680 because it's before the abduction phenomenon became popularized. 353 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,600 There have been depictions throughout various abduction scenarios... 354 00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:36,240 ...that include the grey aliens... 355 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:43,360 ...and this larger, tall insectesoid being, very praying-mantis like. 356 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:49,200 Linda Porter claims that throughout her teens and 20s... 357 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:53,000 she experienced numerous other encounters with these alien beings. 358 00:24:57,800 --> 00:25:01,350 But it wasn't until the age of 45 that she finally reached out... 359 00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:05,040 ...to investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe to tell her story. 360 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:11,760 I received a letter carefully written from Linda Porter. 361 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,960 And this led up to her sending me a whole lot of drawings. 362 00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,600 These drawings appear in Linda Moulton Howe's book "Glimpses of Other Realities." 363 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:27,520 One of the drawings was of a praying mantis about 8-feet tall, 364 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,480 in a room that was very odd, 365 00:25:32,040 --> 00:25:35,840 had a cylindrical object, and sparkles of light. 366 00:25:39,280 --> 00:25:42,720 There have been quite a number of different types of aliens seen... 367 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,080 ...allegedly, by contactees. 368 00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,790 But the ones that are really peculiar and very rare... 369 00:25:48,880 --> 00:25:51,280 ...are these very scary, skinny... 370 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:55,560 ...large, basically intelligent insects that have been reported. 371 00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:58,560 People have drawn parallels between... 372 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:01,800 ...the aliens that are reported on board UFOs... 373 00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,880 ...and insects, particularly bees. 374 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,320 The greys, for instance... 375 00:26:06,760 --> 00:26:10,680 ...could be equated in some way to the drone or the worker bee. 376 00:26:12,080 --> 00:26:16,320 The so-called praying mantis type could be seen perhaps as the queen bee, 377 00:26:17,320 --> 00:26:20,280 larger than the others, more intelligent. 378 00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,800 They're taller than a person, 8 or even 9-feet tall. 379 00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:29,350 And the grey aliens may handle the person who is being abducted, 380 00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:33,080 but in the background there's this praying mantis type... 381 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,080 ...that seems to be calling the shots. 382 00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,280 According to Porter, she is part of a larger experiment... 383 00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,880 ...one in which these aliens appear concerned with her soul. 384 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:53,360 She said whatever we humans are, 385 00:26:54,760 --> 00:26:59,400 we have an animus, a soul, that is mysterious to them, 386 00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:05,200 and they are trying to find out where does the soul spirit go... 387 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:07,160 ...at the moment of death. 388 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:13,790 And that the non-humans were studying the recycling of the souls... 389 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,760 ...in and out of containers. 390 00:27:19,760 --> 00:27:22,040 She talked about being shown three cylinders. 391 00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:24,910 Contained in each cylinder was a human being... 392 00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,480 ...in kind of like a state of suspended animation. 393 00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,680 Numerous alleged alien abduction victims... 394 00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,360 ...have reported seeing cocoon-like containers. 395 00:27:40,840 --> 00:27:42,360 But if these accounts are real, 396 00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:45,960 might there be another explanation behind this technology? 397 00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,800 Could it be as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists contend... 398 00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:54,880 ...that aliens are performing genetic experimentation? 399 00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,190 Linda Porter came away... 400 00:27:59,280 --> 00:28:03,470 ...from her two or three decades of interaction with these non-humans, 401 00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:07,400 including the at first terrifying praying mantis, 402 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,120 that these are extraterrestrial biological entities... 403 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:17,600 ...that have taken a deep interest in the evolution of life forms here, 404 00:28:18,560 --> 00:28:24,280 that they have manipulated DNA in already evolving primates, 405 00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:28,720 that they have created a whole series of different models. 406 00:28:32,040 --> 00:28:34,800 Might the numerous accounts of mantis-like beings... 407 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,280 ...reported by alleged alien abduction victims... 408 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:42,640 ...along with the ancient San story of a praying mantis god... 409 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:48,280 ...be evidence that an otherworldly race of insectoids really does exist? 410 00:28:49,240 --> 00:28:53,480 And if so, could they be conducting genetic experiments with humans... 411 00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:55,360 ...to make us more like them? 412 00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:01,240 Ancient Astronaut Theorists say further clues revealing the connection... 413 00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:07,080 ...between insects and aliens can be found in the Holy Bible. 414 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:17,320 Pi-Ramesses, Egypt. The 15th Century BC. 415 00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,720 Most archaeologists believe this ancient city... 416 00:29:22,120 --> 00:29:24,040 ...to be the site of the 10 Plagues... 417 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,680 ...as described in the Bible's Book of Exodus. 418 00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:31,280 According to the scripture, God brought these plagues upon Egypt... 419 00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,680 ...when the Pharaoh refused to release the Israelites from slavery. 420 00:29:35,520 --> 00:29:37,440 Three of them involved insects. 421 00:29:39,440 --> 00:29:43,040 The third was a plague of gnats, which came up from the ground... 422 00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:45,360 ...and infested both man and animal. 423 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:51,280 The fourth was flies, that attacked only the Egyptians, 424 00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,040 sparing the Israelites. 425 00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,360 And the eighth was a plague of locusts. 426 00:29:59,240 --> 00:30:00,440 Locusts are grasshoppers... 427 00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:04,920 ...that have had an unusual change in their biology and behaviour. 428 00:30:06,080 --> 00:30:08,000 They will start to move in the same direction. 429 00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:09,600 They will land, eat. 430 00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,040 Other locusts flying over them will land, and eat, and so on, and so on, 431 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,200 wiping out all the vegetation in a given area, 432 00:30:16,520 --> 00:30:19,120 and destroying all the crops that people might have planted. 433 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:24,960 And for every one million locusts, they can eat a ton of food. 434 00:30:28,360 --> 00:30:30,840 But an even more incredible story of locusts... 435 00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:34,360 ...can be found in the Bible's New Testament Book of Revelation. 436 00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,000 Rising from deep pits within the earth, 437 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,960 these locusts form waves of scorpion-tailed warhorses, 438 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:44,520 protected by iron breastplates. 439 00:30:45,160 --> 00:30:47,840 And unlike the locusts from the Book of Exodus, 440 00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,120 the target isn't the crops. 441 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,720 The locusts themselves actually didn't eat any crops, 442 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,470 they didn't clear any fields. They only attacked people. 443 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:01,200 They only ate up and devoured and damaged people. 444 00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:04,600 It's almost as if the locusts themselves were programmed. 445 00:31:05,360 --> 00:31:07,440 The locusts that appear out of the smoke... 446 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,760 ...have some type of ability to sting people with a scorpion-like sting. 447 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,760 Now, locusts are known not to have any type of way of harming people, 448 00:31:16,960 --> 00:31:18,960 so these locusts were special in origin. 449 00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,520 These locusts only sought out humans... 450 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,840 ...who did not have the seal of God on their foreheads. 451 00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,390 And it makes you wonder if these locusts... 452 00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:32,280 ...are in fact some kind of an advanced extraterrestrial technology... 453 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:35,600 ...that was sent to seek specific human beings. 454 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:40,440 Is it possible that what is described in the Book of Revelation... 455 00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:43,240 ...is not the plant-eating locust we have today... 456 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:48,880 ...but some type of advanced weaponry wielded by an extraterrestrial being? 457 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,310 Now, if an extraterrestrial was fighting a war, 458 00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:57,190 a weapon that you could use would be mechanical devices... 459 00:31:57,280 --> 00:32:00,160 ...that basically were like little nanotechnology... 460 00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,720 ...that would attack certain very specific targets. 461 00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:06,760 There are, in fact, such weapons in use today. 462 00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,200 DARPA Headquarters, Arlington, Virginia. 463 00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:15,280 This is the US Military's visionary toy shop, 464 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,680 where the blueprints for the weaponry of tomorrow are drawn up. 465 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,240 Here, stealth technology and GPS were conceived. 466 00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:29,880 Now, according to sources, a new arms race is underway, 467 00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:33,720 one focused not on the biggest weapons, but the smallest. 468 00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,510 Insects are one of the most amazingly designed creatures... 469 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,560 ...that exist on planet Earth. I mean, they're extraordinary. 470 00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:45,800 It's no surprise that the United States military is interested in insects. 471 00:32:46,120 --> 00:32:48,200 It's absolutely logical. 472 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,520 Why not send a small insect or a crawling beetle... 473 00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,000 ...into a war zone, into a place to gather intelligence? 474 00:32:57,240 --> 00:32:59,400 That's exactly what we see happening now. 475 00:33:00,920 --> 00:33:03,590 At DARPA, scientists have been experimenting... 476 00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,640 ...with electronically modifying beetles... 477 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,160 ...so they can manipulate their flight. 478 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:13,560 Threading thin wires into the base of the beetles' optic lobes, 479 00:33:13,960 --> 00:33:15,680 they can control the region of the brain... 480 00:33:15,880 --> 00:33:18,160 ...that makes the beetles start and stop flying. 481 00:33:19,640 --> 00:33:21,960 With another pair of wires in the wing muscles, 482 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,160 they can also make the beetle veer to the right or to the left... 483 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,600 ...by remote control. 484 00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,200 And scientists working with nanotechnology... 485 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,120 ...are not only looking for ways to control insects... 486 00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:35,520 ...but to actually recreate them. 487 00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:39,520 Thomas Vaneck at Physical Sciences Incorporated... 488 00:33:39,960 --> 00:33:43,600 ...is currently developing flying robots based on insects. 489 00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:48,760 Instant Eye is a very small aerial robot about the size of a pie plate. 490 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,040 It's relatively simple, yet it can do amazing things. 491 00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,440 Just about any insect you can imagine is being studied by somebody. 492 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:59,400 Hornets, dragon flies, mosquitoes, 493 00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:03,000 all are said to be potential models for the next generation... 494 00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,800 ...of bio-mimetic weapons, 495 00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:10,120 robots that could one day be indistinguishable from actual insects. 496 00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:14,670 Right now, probably the smallest insect-inspired robot... 497 00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:16,750 ...that we can make is about the size of a hummingbird. 498 00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:19,600 They're from the technologies that are available to us today. 499 00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,040 The driving force there is energy storage, 500 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:26,360 because we just don't have a battery that stores enough energy. 501 00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:27,920 We're going to figure it out. 502 00:34:28,440 --> 00:34:32,680 I can easily envision that you're going to have a robot the size of a fruit fly. 503 00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:36,320 And if it landed on the wall, in some terrorist's house, 504 00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:37,430 he probably wouldn't know. 505 00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,640 And we're able to fit so much into such a small space now. 506 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,150 We keep the weight down. We can give it wings... 507 00:34:44,240 --> 00:34:46,840 ...and the average person would just try to swat it away. 508 00:34:48,520 --> 00:34:50,870 In the not-too-distant future, you're going to sit there and go, 509 00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:54,040 “Wow, what a beautiful insect.” Maybe it's not an insect at all. 510 00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:58,400 But if we can produce insect drones today, 511 00:34:59,480 --> 00:35:02,960 is it possible that the Biblical stories of locusts sent by God... 512 00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:07,000 ...are really accounts of alien technology in the ancient past? 513 00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:12,880 And could this be the reason why insects are feared by humans even to this day? 514 00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:17,200 Some Ancient Astronaut Theorists... 515 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,920 ...believe such an incredible notion is possible. 516 00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:24,320 And for proof, point to a mysterious area in Nevada... 517 00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:28,120 ...simply known as Area 51. 518 00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,400 Kingman, Arizona. May, 1953. 519 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:40,840 At the height of the Cold War, 520 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:44,680 an unidentified object reportedly crashed in the desert sands. 521 00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,640 What remained was allegedly sent to America's most top-secret facility, 522 00:35:55,640 --> 00:35:56,720 Area 51. 523 00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:03,560 But it wasn't until 45 years later, in 1998... 524 00:36:04,400 --> 00:36:07,520 ...that a retired military engineer named Bill Uhouse 525 00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:09,840 ...came forward to make a stunning claim. 526 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,520 The military didn't just have the extraterrestrial technology. 527 00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:17,480 They had an actual living alien. 528 00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:26,840 Uhouse claimed that he worked at a secret laboratory, 529 00:36:27,040 --> 00:36:30,920 supposedly in the Papoose Mountains of Area 51 in Nevada. 530 00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:37,350 And that since 1953, the American government had an insectoid alien... 531 00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,680 ...that was working with them. His name was J-Rod. 532 00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:49,200 J-Rod supposedly assisted the military in understanding and duplicating... 533 00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:53,310 ...the incredible power systems and futuristic technology... 534 00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,400 ...that was combined and created for the Kingman craft. 535 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,080 Shortly after Bill Uhouse told the story, 536 00:37:03,440 --> 00:37:07,320 microbiologist Dan Burisch came forward to confirm his claim. 537 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,480 But according to Dan Burisch, J-Rod claimed that he was not an alien. 538 00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,400 What he revealed was something even more shocking. 539 00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:24,200 This insectoid alien J-Rod said that he had actually come from our future, 540 00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,760 and that at some time in the near future to us... 541 00:37:31,120 --> 00:37:33,360 ...there is a catastrophe on this planet. 542 00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:40,280 And much of mankind is destroyed. 543 00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:47,280 And that mankind splits into two different species. 544 00:37:48,120 --> 00:37:52,360 And one of these species goes and lives underground. 545 00:37:53,840 --> 00:37:58,840 And while underground, they develop these insectoid traits. 546 00:38:01,760 --> 00:38:07,600 Which is exactly what the Hopi and Zuni and even Navajo legends say, 547 00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,760 that during the transition period between the third and the fourth worlds, 548 00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:16,840 this above world of today was not habitable, 549 00:38:17,240 --> 00:38:19,030 and they had to go underground... 550 00:38:19,120 --> 00:38:22,680 ...and live for some time with what they call the Ant People. 551 00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,880 And you have to wonder if perhaps J-Rod... 552 00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:32,960 ...is actually an insectoid human being from our own future. 553 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:41,080 Could the accounts of J-Rod confirm that the Hopi stories of Ant People... 554 00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:43,040 ...were more than just mythology. 555 00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:46,920 And if the so-called insectoids really could exist, 556 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:52,000 is it possible that they are not aliens but humans from the future? 557 00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:59,590 Aliens appear to be a part of our human evolution over thousands of years. 558 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,390 A lot of it has to do with our reproductive systems. 559 00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:05,630 Maybe they're actually trying to create a new race possibly, 560 00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:09,310 that will be able to withstand atmospheric changes here on Earth, 561 00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:12,400 or potentially lead us to a point where we have to leave the planet. 562 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,040 But if humans are someday forced underground... 563 00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,560 ...by a cataclysmic event, 564 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:22,320 does it make scientific sense... 565 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:25,280 ...that we would evolve to have insect-like characteristics? 566 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:30,680 According to some scientists, we are part insect already. 567 00:39:32,720 --> 00:39:36,790 The work on the human genome has indicated that possibly up to half... 568 00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:39,160 ...of our DNA may be the result of transposons. 569 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,200 That's a fancy word for jumping genes, 570 00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,040 genes that can jump from one species to another. 571 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,160 Recently, it was shown that rhodnius, 572 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:52,880 this is the sucking insect that spreads Chagas disease, 573 00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,680 not only can spread the trypanosome, the disease-causing agent, 574 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:58,600 from organism to organism, 575 00:39:58,880 --> 00:40:01,920 it also can spread its own genes to those organisms. 576 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:04,840 Humans get Chagas disease. 577 00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:08,680 So far, they have not tested humans for this insect DNA. 578 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:13,280 Odds are, we do have some of these insect genes in our system. 579 00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,840 We know some of these transposon probably came from diseases we caught... 580 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,080 ...when our ancestors were bitten by insects. 581 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,960 Could the studies on Horizontal Gene Transfer one day prove... 582 00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,520 ...that we really do have insect DNA in our genetic makeup? 583 00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:37,040 And if so, might it be not by chance, but by some extraterrestrial design? 584 00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:43,160 Is it possible that evolution is being guided... 585 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:47,120 ...by some sort of greater galactic or universal intelligence? 586 00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,360 Could it be possible that certain circumstances... 587 00:40:50,840 --> 00:40:55,000 ...insects could be the dominant species that ultimately becomes sentient... 588 00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,080 ...and develops hominid characteristics? 589 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:04,200 The contactee reports are consistent. Some people are seeing beings like this. 590 00:41:04,560 --> 00:41:08,120 Communicating with them intelligently and for benevolent purpose. 591 00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:13,360 The whole idea of mixing these life forms together is fascinating, 592 00:41:13,720 --> 00:41:15,960 making hybrids of the two of them. 593 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:19,630 Throughout history, people have honoured... 594 00:41:19,720 --> 00:41:24,520 ...and even worshipped insects, built temples to them. 595 00:41:25,120 --> 00:41:30,350 It's quite possible that there is a insectoid type life on other planets... 596 00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:34,280 ...that actually have intelligence beyond our own. 597 00:41:39,360 --> 00:41:44,240 Is it possible that there really is a connection between insects and aliens? 598 00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:48,600 Are they related to beings from beyond our world... 599 00:41:48,880 --> 00:41:51,440 ...as some Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest? 600 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,040 And if so, what if they had a secret purpose we have yet to discover? 601 00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:00,440 Perhaps one day we'll find... 602 00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:04,880 that alien beings don't only inhabit the furthest reaches of space... 603 00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:09,440 ...but that there are in fact billions already here on Earth, 604 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:12,960 and most of them right under our feet.