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Flying saucers...
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It's going 20,000 miles per hour...
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...and makes a right hand turn
without decelerating.
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That isn't possible.
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...magic carpets...
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There are traditions
of King Solomon having an airship.
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...and fiery wheels
descending from the heavens.
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What Ezekiel described
in his eyewitness report...
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...it was misunderstood technology.
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In ancient cultures
throughout the world...
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there are stories
of strange sightings in the sky.
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Are they simply fiction?
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Or might they be accounts
of alien vehicles?
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You begin to have to ask yourself,
"Is something going on here?"
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"Are we missing part of the story?"
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And honestly, I think we are.
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Millions of people around the world...
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believe we have been visited
in the past...
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...by extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
to shape our history?
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And if so, might we find evidence
in ancient stories...
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...of alien transports?
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Saqqara, Egypt...
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located roughly 20 miles
south of Cairo...
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...it is home to the world famous
step pyramid of King Djoser.
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Dating back more than 4,000 years...
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...it is the oldest
of Egypt's 97 pyramids.
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Saqqara is also famous for being one
of Egypt's oldest burial grounds...
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...earning it the nickname.
City of the Dead.
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It was here, in 1891...
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that French archaeologists
unearthed an ancient tomb...
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containing the burial remains
of Pa-Di-Imen...
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...an official from the third century BC.
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Among the various items discovered
was a small, wooden model...
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...of what appeared to be a bird...
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...lying beside a papyrus...
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...bearing the inscription
"I want to fly."
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The artifact was later sent
to the Cairo Museum...
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where authorities placed it...
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alongside several other bird figurines.
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The model sat largely unnoticed,
until 1969...
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...when Egyptologist Dr Khalil Messiha
was examining the bird collection...
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...and noticed that there
was something very different...
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...about the Saqqara bird.
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It's interesting, because on one hand...
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...clearly, it should look like a bird...
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because it has eyes
and has a typical nose of a bird.
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On the other hand, the wings
are clearly not bird wings.
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To the middle of the rump...
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...you'll see this wing a bit thicker.
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In this region,
the lift-up is the highest.
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The whole thing becomes thinner
to the end of the wings...
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...and those wings are modeled down.
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And this is a very modern
aerodynamic design.
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Then the other point
is birds have no rudders...
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...because a bird
doesn't need a rudder...
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...because of its aerodynamic
architecture.
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And so there is the idea that
they are not representing birds...
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...but flying machines, or aircraft.
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Could the ancient Egyptians
have possessed the power of flight?
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In 2006, aviation and aerodynamics
expert, Simon Sanderson...
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...built a scale model
of the Saqqara bird...
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...five times larger than the original,
to test that possibility.
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We're running at a constant speed...
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...slowly increasing
the angle of attack...
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...and then measuring the forces
which it's producing...
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...that way we can learn
about its flight characteristics.
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At 10 degrees, we're producing
four times weight and lift.
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So it actually would be flying now.
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That's good.
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Tests shows the Saqqara bird
is a highly developed glider.
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And this is a design we use today.
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During the Sanderson tests,
it was discovered...
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...that the only thing preventing
the Saqqara bird...
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...from achieving flight...
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...was the lack
of a rear stabilizing rudder...
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...or elevator needed to maintain balance.
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Is it possible...
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...that the Saqqara bird ever possessed
this critical component?
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What is missing
is something like an elevator.
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But if you look at this feature here...
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...and we may interpret
that something like an elevator...
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...was connected here
but was lost during history.
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Computer models seem to confirm...
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...that the Saqqara bird
is certainly airworthy.
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But there is another problem to consider,
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launching a glider.
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Modern methods require
the use of a tow plane...
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...that pulls the glider into the air...
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...then releases it
when a proper altitude is reached.
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So, how might the ancient Egyptians
have launched the Saqqara bird?
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The scientifics of Egyptology
had told us...
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...that such a bird could be
powered off by catapults to fly.
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And we had high acceptance
by Egyptian scientists.
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The idea of using a catapult
does have a contemporary parallel.
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Many of today's glider enthusiasts
employ a bungee cord system...
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to launch their sail craft into the air.
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But if the Saqqara bird
is capable of flight...
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...where would ancient Egyptians
have acquired such technology?
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I think that people
in ancient times were visited...
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...by beings coming not from this Earth...
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...and they gave us culture
and scientific technologies...
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...to improve our life on Earth...
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...coming from the primitive
to a higher developed culture.
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It's a fact that our ancestors
were more intelligent...
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...and had more technological
superiority capabilities...
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...than our history books
give them credit for.
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You begin to have to ask yourself,
are we missing part of the story?
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And honestly, I think we are.
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I think there has been a forgotten
episode in human history...
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...and we're a species with amnesia.
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We don't really remember
who or what we are.
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I haven't been convinced
that there is evidence...
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...that supports an ancient visitation.
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But there is no reason why not.
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And I think to shut oneself
to that possibility is a mistake...
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...mainly because there are so many
anomalies that we can't explain.
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Could the Saqqara bird
really be a model...
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of an ancient flying machine?
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And if so, might this be evidence...
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...that our ancestors
witnessed alien technology?
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Perhaps further proof can be found...
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...by examining a century old
Mexican ritual...
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called the dance of the flyers.
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Veracruz, Mexico.
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Five men in ceremonial dress
ascend a 100-foot pole.
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Once at the top, one of the men
performs a sacred dance...
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...while playing a flute and drum
atop a platform.
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The other four men launch themselves off.
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It is a ritual known
as la danza de los voladores...
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...or the dance of the flyers.
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The ritual has the leader
stand on the top of the pole...
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...a tiny little platform...
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...and the four flyers wrap a cable
around that pole...
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...and then branch out and fly around
in a pyramid shape...
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...in perfect synchronous order.
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It's a stunning and daring thing to do.
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They are representing the birds.
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They are representing
the four cardinal directions.
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They are representing the elements...
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...heavily symbolic and mythic
as a powerful ritual.
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The Totanac people
who practice this ceremony today...
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...claim it is a dance
that was invented 500 years ago...
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...as a plea to the gods
to end a severe drought.
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But could this ancient ritual
have different...
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...perhaps otherworldly, origins?
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What we have here with the voladores...
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...is 100 percent living mythology.
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Something that describes
and illustrates...
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in front of our living eye...
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...the descent of the gods
from a long time ago.
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According
to ancient astronaut theorists...
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...the voladores ritual
is a re-enactment...
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...of a close encounter
with alien visitors in the distant past.
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They believe extraterrestrials...
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...descended
upon the flat mountaintops...
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...of the Palpa region in Peru
around 500 AD,
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dropping from their aircraft...
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...and gliding down to Earth
in spiraling circles.
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The voladores ritual
was very technological...
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...as in, you know, these beings
descending from the sky...
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...and the circle signifying
arrival of the gods.
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Where does that flying
or descending gods motif originate?
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Our ancestors saw something...
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...because why would you hurl yourself...
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from a 100-foot pole out of nothing
to imitate a bird?
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Birds are not that important.
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Something very significant happened.
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Could an alien encounter
really be the inspiration...
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for the voladores ritual?
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And could the Totanac people
who created the ceremony...
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really have been trying to mimic
the ancient gods' power of flight?
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As further evidence that early humans...
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...may have encountered alien visitors
equipped with the power of flight...
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...ancient astronaut theorists,
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point to various artifacts
and statues depicting ancient gods.
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One such example is the Mayan god,
Ah-Muzen-Cab...
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also known as the flying "bee god."
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Another is the most prominent god
of early Mesoamerican culture...
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...the winged deity Quetzalcoatl.
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The Mesoamericans believed
in the plumed serpent...
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...or Quetzalcoatl...
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...which came from the sky,
bringing wisdom, powered the wind...
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...and also influenced everything...
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...that happened in the daily life
of the Mayans.
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In fact, they looked to the sky
for all their answers...
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...from everything as simple
as when to plant corn...
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...to when to go to war.
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They believed all answers
in the universe came from the sky...
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...and trying to relate that
to their daily lives.
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The ancient record are loaded...
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...with fantastic examples...
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...of the gods flying around.
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These are the ancient aliens...
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...and humans are being shown
the ultimate capability of these gods.
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In my eyes...
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...because we are the sons of the gods...
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...we are the offsprings of the gods...
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...whatever humans can dream,
whatever humans think...
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...was once reality in the past
or will be reality in the future.
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July 31st, 2003.
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The English Channel.
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Felix Baumgartner
becomes the first person...
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...to cross this 22-mile
wide body of water...
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...in freefall...
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...using a specially made fiber wing.
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But the Austrian daredevil
is just one of many...
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...who have used wing suits
to simulate flying...
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...by means of a free fall.
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A wing suit is basically a jumpsuit...
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...that you put on under your rig...
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...and it's designed
to actually make you fly...
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...when you exit the plane.
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The material inflates
underneath your arms...
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...in between your legs...
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...and creates basically an airfoil
that you glide on through the air.
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It's an amazing feeling...
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...because you're actually the pilot
and the plane.
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It is total freedom.
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You feel as though you're flying.
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Though you are falling...
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...you're using the air
to maneuver your body.
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And the wing suit
helps you cover a lot of ground...
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...as you're descending.
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Some people have been exceeding
two-to-one glide ratio.
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For example, three-to-one would mean
for every foot you descend...
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...you're traveling three feet forward.
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We got these flying guys...
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...that have these wings
attached to their backs...
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...and they hurl themselves
out of planes...
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...and some even have rocket engines
attached to them.
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And so they essentially themselves
become airplanes.
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Now imagine showing that
to someone from 100 years ago.
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That person would be in complete awe
of what they're witnessing...
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...not understanding that there
is technology involved with this.
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Just using our own body, we cannot fly.
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We have no wings.
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But, of course, we have the fantasy
and we have the technology...
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...to develop wings that we can fly.
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The pursuit of flight has been one
of the most sought-after quests...
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...in all of mankind's history.
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Why?
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Because with flight...
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...you could reach, conceivably,
the realm of the gods.
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From the ancient Greek myth of Icarus...
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...fashioning wings of feathers and wax...
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...to modern daredevils
like Felix Baumgartner...
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...human beings
have been fascinated with...
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...and often frustrated by,
their desire to fly.
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But have birds really served
as mankind's inspiration?
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Or were they inspired by something else?
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Perhaps something extraterrestrial?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
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...and claim further proof can be found...
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...by examining Ancient China's
mysterious stories of dragons.
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Celestial beings coming down to Earth.
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Gods descending from the sky.
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Do similar accounts exist
in other cultures...
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...and other religions across the world?
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And if so, what is the explanation?
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We have to remind ourselves
that our ancestors...
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...were highly intelligent.
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However, their technological frame
of reference...
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...was different...
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...than our technological frame
of reference.
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So they didn't have the vocabulary
with which to describe...
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...or with which to name certain things
that they saw.
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So, what did they do?
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They used words that they
were familiar with in their time.
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And so they tried to describe
whatever they witnessed...
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...to the best of their abilities
with their vocabulary.
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Ancient China also shared
some of the same beliefs...
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...that can be found in Egyptian,
Native American and Dogon legends...
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...that deities arrived from the stars.
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According to Chinese mythology
dating back to 3,000 BC...
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...when the god named Huangdi was born...
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...there was a radiance
from the great star Chi.
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Huangdi would later emerge from the belly
of a fire-breathing dragon...
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...to become China's first emperor.
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The origins of the Han Chinese people...
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...start with a story of a great God
looking down with empathy.
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Here were people in poverty,
in a beautiful, rich country...
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...the landscape profound,
but the people were suffering.
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He took pity and decided to come down.
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Huangdi arrived on planet Earth
in a flying dragon.
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He had the power of flight.
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Huangdi could be anywhere within minutes.
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And he usually accomplished this
by hopping on his dragon...
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...and flying somewhere.
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Now this divine energy becomes human...
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...and is a great leader,
the Yellow Emperor...
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...who rules and unites the people...
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...and there's a period
of great prosperity...
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...until his work is done.
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Huangdi brought order to the chaos,
creating China's first empire.
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He is seen as a cultural hero...
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...and is credited with the invention
of the compass, acupuncture...
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...and the standardization
of Chinese writing.
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One of his greatest legacies
is the Great Wall of China.
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When the land is prosperous,
he decides its time to go...
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...and the great yellow dragon
comes back...
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...and he gets back into the belly
of the dragon...
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...and flies off forever.
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Now were these dragons truly dragons...
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...in a biological nature?
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Or were they misinterpreted
types of machines?
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Because as we all know,
dragons are always correlated...
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...with spewing fire and a lot of smoke.
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Whenever we see a modern rocket
take off, there is all this smoke.
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And sometimes the smoke is yellow
and sometimes it's red.
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So, it's very bizarre
how we have these correlations...
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...between the ancient times
and modern times today.
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Mythology is the effort
to grasp what we can't grasp...
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...to understand what is beyond us.
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In the Eastern teachings...
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...the dragons very often carry people...
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...sometimes on their back,
sometimes inside their bellies.
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So if we think of them
as, as a poet's effort...
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...to explain a vehicle
that was strange to them...
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...well, those sound like flying saucers.
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So it might just be a problem
with translation.
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Because after all, it's just a word.
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It's trying to describe something
that's very difficult to, to grasp.
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Could Chinese tales of dragons...
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...be based on ancient interpretations
of rocket ships descending to Earth?
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And if so,
could the legends of Huangdi...
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...like those of Quetzalcoatl...
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...and the Egyptian Saqqara bird...
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...be evidence of alien visitations
in the distant past?
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Perhaps the answer can be found
high on a mountaintop...
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...known as the throne of Solomon.
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In the 21st century...
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...modern transportation
and communication methods...
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...have connected the world
like never before.
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Products or ideas...
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...no matter where in the world
they may have originated...
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...can spread
to even the most remote countries.
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A hip-hop hit in Brooklyn
might make it big in Tokyo...
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...before it's even heard in Manhattan.
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This cultural interconnection
has transformed the globe...
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...but is it new?
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Mainstream archaeologists believe
ancient civilizations...
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...such as those found
in the remote Pacific Islands...
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...Asia, and South America...
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...developed independently
from each other.
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But ancient astronaut theorists contend...
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...that similarities in building styles
and beliefs...
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...found in these cultures suggest...
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...that a worldwide trade route may
have connected them to each other.
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But just like we have airports today,
around the world...
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...in ancient times, with the vimanas...
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...there would have been hangars
for the craft...
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...airports for them to land.
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And those airports
would have been situated...
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...in strategic places around the world.
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And that's exactly what we see
in remote places.
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Legends of air travel are also found
in ancient Africa...
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...and the Middle East.
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According to the Kebra Nagast,
a holy book of the Ethiopians...
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...written sometime
before the second century AD...
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...the queen of Sheba was once given
a gift of a flying carpet...
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...by King Solomon of Israel.
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The Kebra Nagast...
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...is one of the most important texts
you've never heard of.
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The Kebra Nagast means the Book of Kings.
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And it is the most sacred book
of the Ethiopians.
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In it, King Solomon, it's described...
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...he had access
to some type of a flying machine.
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And that part of the world,
the term flying carpet...
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...was always used very liberally.
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My question is, did they really mean
actual flying carpets?
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Or was it another term
with which to describe...
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...some type of a flying machine?
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This was the original
Chariots of the Gods...
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...that Erich Von Daniken talked about...
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...the flying magic carpets
of the Arabian Nights stories.
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There are traditions,
in the Middle East...
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...of King Solomon having this airship...
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...and flying to different places
in the Middle East...
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...certain mountains, which are known
as the Mountains of Solomon.
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These may have been certain airports
or landing areas for these vimanas.
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Nicholas Roerich,
famous Russian-American explorer...
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...who traveled all through
central Asia and Tibet in the 1920s.
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He, too, claimed
that Tibetans had traditions...
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...of King Solomon
flying to Tibet in this aircraft.
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The Kebra Nagast also describes...
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...how King Solomon
used his flying airship...
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...to make maps of the world.
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00:24:03,637 --> 00:24:06,461
But could these have any relation
to other ancient maps...
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00:24:06,581 --> 00:24:10,221
...some believe may have been made
by extraterrestrials?
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00:24:10,853 --> 00:24:13,021
Some of these maps show the world...
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00:24:13,141 --> 00:24:14,211
...not as it looks today...
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...but as it looked
during the last ice age.
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And this is really hard to explain.
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00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,190
Everybody's heard of the Piri Reis map...
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00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:23,960
...but they perhaps not heard
of the Oronteus Finaeus map...
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00:24:24,061 --> 00:24:28,643
...or, or the Mercator maps that
show Antarctica in great detail...
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00:24:28,733 --> 00:24:31,781
...hundreds of years before Antarctica
was even discovered.
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One of the most referenced stories
of ancient aircraft...
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00:24:36,141 --> 00:24:39,581
...is found in a surprising place,
the Bible.
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00:24:40,421 --> 00:24:41,901
In the Book of Ezekiel...
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00:24:42,021 --> 00:24:44,581
...the prophet describes
a flying chariot...
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00:24:44,677 --> 00:24:48,621
...containing wheels within wheels
and powered by angels.
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00:24:50,101 --> 00:24:54,461
Although, Bible historians suggest
Ezekiel was speaking symbolically...
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00:24:54,581 --> 00:24:57,381
...about the terrifying enemies
facing Israel...
407
00:24:57,501 --> 00:25:00,861
...could this be another example
of an alien visitation...
408
00:25:00,981 --> 00:25:04,381
...and proof
that prehistoric aircraft existed?
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00:25:04,581 --> 00:25:07,621
In the story
of Ezekiel's throne chariot...
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00:25:07,741 --> 00:25:09,061
...this flying vehicle...
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...that doesn't seem to have any means
of propulsion.
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If we thought of the word angel...
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...as representing something
like celestial energy...
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00:25:16,941 --> 00:25:20,141
...it sounds much more
like a spacecraft then.
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00:25:20,261 --> 00:25:22,461
Because some of the angels
are going back and forth.
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Well, that sounds like flames.
That sounds like propulsion.
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00:25:26,741 --> 00:25:29,741
Some of them are wheel-like.
Well, those sound like flying saucers.
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00:25:33,101 --> 00:25:35,941
Our ancestors weren't idiots.
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Ezekiel saw something
that was so frightening to him...
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...that he fell to his knees.
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Then out of the glory of God,
came this being...
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...in these bright clothes
that looked like metal...
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...and told Ezekiel...
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..."All right, man, we brought you here.
425
00:25:55,941 --> 00:25:59,541
"We want you to measure
this monument, this building."
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00:25:59,661 --> 00:26:02,821
And Ezekiel asks,
"Well, why should I do this?"
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And the being says,
"That's why we brought you here."
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00:26:07,501 --> 00:26:09,901
And then, you have 40 pages...
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00:26:10,021 --> 00:26:12,341
...in the second part
of the book of Ezekiel...
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...with measurement after measurement
after measurement...
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00:26:15,621 --> 00:26:17,541
...of this gigantic building...
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...in which, by the way,
the glory of the Lord landed.
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In the early 1970s,
NASA scientist Josef Blumrich...
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...set out to disprove the theory...
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00:26:33,061 --> 00:26:35,701
...that what Ezekiel witnessed
was a spaceship.
436
00:26:36,781 --> 00:26:40,981
Josef Blumrich
is your proverbial rocket scientist.
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00:26:41,381 --> 00:26:44,421
He worked on the moon project for NASA.
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00:26:45,021 --> 00:26:48,381
And from the mind of a rocket engineer...
439
00:26:48,781 --> 00:26:51,301
...started to look at what was written...
440
00:26:51,421 --> 00:26:54,341
...in the first part
of the Book of Ezekiel.
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00:26:54,621 --> 00:26:57,301
And after many months of research...
442
00:26:57,421 --> 00:27:00,275
Josef Blumrich came to the conclusion...
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00:27:00,781 --> 00:27:07,339
...that what Ezekiel described
in his eyewitness report,
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it was indeed a type of spacecraft.
445
00:27:13,781 --> 00:27:17,747
Josef Blumrich would go on
to write The Spaceships of Ezekiel.
446
00:27:18,501 --> 00:27:19,904
Several years later...
447
00:27:20,240 --> 00:27:23,760
...a German structural engineer
named Hans Herbert Beier,
448
00:27:24,021 --> 00:27:26,261
sketched out a blueprint
of the second section...
449
00:27:26,381 --> 00:27:27,652
...of the Book of Ezekiel...
450
00:27:27,901 --> 00:27:30,981
...where Ezekiel is told to construct
an open-topped building...
451
00:27:31,101 --> 00:27:32,730
...to house the flying chariot.
452
00:27:33,621 --> 00:27:38,004
Ezekiel's space ship fit exactly
into the temple,
453
00:27:38,329 --> 00:27:40,461
that Hans Herbert Beier recreated.
454
00:27:42,501 --> 00:27:45,215
So what we have here
is a proof by indication.
455
00:27:45,981 --> 00:27:50,006
Here we have a NASA engineer
and a structural engineer,
456
00:27:51,141 --> 00:27:52,882
they didn't know of each other's work...
457
00:27:53,741 --> 00:27:56,741
and both pieces fit together
like a puzzle.
458
00:27:57,181 --> 00:28:01,457
In any court of law,
that's evidence that would hold up.
459
00:28:03,661 --> 00:28:06,144
I think that scientists
feel uncomfortable...
460
00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:08,440
...with the notion
of the lost civilization...
461
00:28:08,699 --> 00:28:11,981
...precisely because the evidence
for it is so ambiguous.
462
00:28:12,341 --> 00:28:14,924
It's not so in your face
that it's immediately obvious.
463
00:28:15,621 --> 00:28:18,935
And you know, the result is that
science has not welcomed this idea.
464
00:28:20,301 --> 00:28:23,057
It will take much more evidence
before it's widely accepted.
465
00:28:25,101 --> 00:28:28,648
The God that I believe in
doesn't need a vehicle...
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00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,600
...in which to move around
from point A to point B.
467
00:28:33,101 --> 00:28:37,662
Whatever was described
in the Old Testament wasn't God.
468
00:28:37,901 --> 00:28:42,041
It was a misunderstood flesh
and blood extraterrestrial,
469
00:28:42,501 --> 00:28:48,557
whom our ancestor misinterpreted
as being divine and supernatural.
470
00:28:49,101 --> 00:28:52,523
And why?
Because of misunderstood technology.
471
00:28:53,141 --> 00:28:56,938
And that is the underlying thread
that applies...
472
00:28:57,501 --> 00:28:59,413
...to all of the ancient astronaut theory.
473
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,560
But while ancient texts provide
tantalizing clues to our past...
474
00:29:05,941 --> 00:29:08,673
...physical evidence
paints an even clearer picture.
475
00:29:09,301 --> 00:29:13,850
But will modern science finally
prove the ancient astronaut theory?
476
00:29:14,621 --> 00:29:17,141
Did the ancient civilizations of Earth...
477
00:29:17,261 --> 00:29:19,708
...have access to advanced technology?
478
00:29:20,421 --> 00:29:23,322
Well, it seems like
they had something going on.
479
00:29:30,582 --> 00:29:33,639
Could ancient stories
depicting flying carpets,
480
00:29:34,208 --> 00:29:37,477
fiery chariots, and even dragons...
481
00:29:37,808 --> 00:29:40,408
...really be evidence
of an otherworldly presence...
482
00:29:40,528 --> 00:29:43,074
...here on Earth in the distant past?
483
00:29:44,568 --> 00:29:47,244
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...
484
00:29:47,568 --> 00:29:51,968
...and claim that further proof of
alien craft traversing our skies...
485
00:29:52,088 --> 00:29:56,259
...can be found with the countless
reports of flying saucers.
486
00:30:01,123 --> 00:30:03,284
Guatemala, Central America.
487
00:30:04,083 --> 00:30:07,500
According to most mainstream
scholars and archaeologists,
488
00:30:08,123 --> 00:30:10,416
the earliest human settlements
in this region...
489
00:30:10,843 --> 00:30:13,721
date back over 14,000 years.
490
00:30:14,563 --> 00:30:17,473
Here can be found
numerous ancient artifacts...
491
00:30:17,763 --> 00:30:23,123
...and among them is this one
the figure of a man lying inside,
492
00:30:23,243 --> 00:30:25,911
what appears to be the shell of a turtle.
493
00:30:26,603 --> 00:30:29,406
And when I asked
the local archaeologist there...
494
00:30:30,003 --> 00:30:31,342
"What is this?"
495
00:30:32,123 --> 00:30:34,203
They said,
without the flinching of an eye,
496
00:30:34,323 --> 00:30:36,691
"Well, this is, according to legend..."
497
00:30:38,243 --> 00:30:42,882
..."the giant flying turtles
which flew around in Guatemala."
498
00:30:44,403 --> 00:30:47,927
The entire body
is aerodynamically fashioned.
499
00:30:48,883 --> 00:30:52,770
The extremities are pressed
in an aerodynamic fashion...
500
00:30:53,123 --> 00:30:55,763
...against the body of this turtle.
501
00:30:56,883 --> 00:30:58,563
And if you look closely...
502
00:31:00,043 --> 00:31:04,723
...it's as if there's some modern day
fighter pilot glasses or goggles.
503
00:31:07,963 --> 00:31:10,603
This right here
is from the same culture...
504
00:31:10,723 --> 00:31:12,003
...from the same region...
505
00:31:12,123 --> 00:31:15,323
...where they created the turtle in clay.
506
00:31:15,443 --> 00:31:18,443
So they knew exactly
what a turtle looked like.
507
00:31:18,563 --> 00:31:20,083
It looks like a snapping turtle.
508
00:31:21,123 --> 00:31:26,403
And what we have here,
that is everything but a turtle...
509
00:31:26,523 --> 00:31:28,483
...it's something else.
510
00:31:29,763 --> 00:31:34,123
In their frame of reference,
they were able to use the turtle...
511
00:31:34,243 --> 00:31:38,603
...as the best example
of what they might of seen...
512
00:31:38,723 --> 00:31:41,843
...that the gods used to fly around in.
513
00:31:44,760 --> 00:31:48,400
Halfway around the world, in 329 BC...
514
00:31:48,523 --> 00:31:53,203
...the Greek ruler Alexander the Great
planned the invasion of India.
515
00:31:53,723 --> 00:31:55,603
But according to ancient texts...
516
00:31:55,723 --> 00:32:00,723
...his army was supposedly thwarted
by a strange attack from the skies.
517
00:32:01,216 --> 00:32:03,803
As Alexander's army was getting ready...
518
00:32:03,923 --> 00:32:06,163
...to cross the Indus and invade India...
519
00:32:06,283 --> 00:32:10,883
...suddenly, in the sky
appeared these flying discs.
520
00:32:11,883 --> 00:32:16,830
And they began dive-bombing
at the war elephants...
521
00:32:17,443 --> 00:32:19,683
...that were part of Alexander's army.
522
00:32:19,803 --> 00:32:24,923
And what these flying discs did
was cause stampedes...
523
00:32:25,043 --> 00:32:28,323
...within Alexander's own war elephants...
524
00:32:28,443 --> 00:32:31,083
...who then ran amok
throughout his army...
525
00:32:31,203 --> 00:32:33,083
...tearing up the camps and everything.
526
00:32:33,203 --> 00:32:36,810
And after that,
Alexander's generals met with him...
527
00:32:36,900 --> 00:32:41,123
...and they said,
"No, we're not going into India."
528
00:32:41,243 --> 00:32:43,563
"This, this is it.
We're gonna turn back."
529
00:32:43,683 --> 00:32:46,243
And that was the end
of that war campaign.
530
00:32:47,643 --> 00:32:50,763
But whether in ancient times
or much more recently...
531
00:32:50,883 --> 00:32:53,563
...so-called flying saucers
are often described...
532
00:32:53,683 --> 00:32:57,723
...as being unaffected by gravity
or the basic laws of physics.
533
00:32:57,923 --> 00:33:00,577
You know, I know that people
who have, who have seen...
534
00:33:01,403 --> 00:33:03,603
...extraterrestrial vehicles
in modern times...
535
00:33:03,723 --> 00:33:05,963
...have said, "How in the world
could it be doing that?"
536
00:33:07,043 --> 00:33:09,683
For example,
it's moving through the sky...
537
00:33:09,803 --> 00:33:12,283
...and it's going 20,000 miles per hour...
538
00:33:12,403 --> 00:33:14,963
...and makes a right hand turn
without decelerating.
539
00:33:15,083 --> 00:33:19,311
That isn't possible
using normal aerodynamics.
540
00:33:21,266 --> 00:33:25,043
When jets have been scrambled
after flying saucers...
541
00:33:25,163 --> 00:33:26,556
...the saucers are described...
542
00:33:26,646 --> 00:33:30,083
...as suddenly turning at right angles
at super speeds...
543
00:33:30,203 --> 00:33:31,523
...and just zipping off...
544
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,960
...in what seems like impossible
aerobatic maneuvers.
545
00:33:36,643 --> 00:33:40,994
And this can be explained as the
kind of technology they're using...
546
00:33:41,084 --> 00:33:43,883
...which is an... a gravity control.
547
00:33:45,203 --> 00:33:47,363
It's artificial gravity.
548
00:33:47,643 --> 00:33:50,757
So when you're inside
of a gravitational field...
549
00:33:50,847 --> 00:33:54,363
...that you're creating yourself
around your craft...
550
00:33:54,483 --> 00:33:58,723
...the gravity of the Earth
doesn't have a force on you.
551
00:34:01,083 --> 00:34:05,363
But although aircraft propulsion
by means of gravity manipulation...
552
00:34:05,483 --> 00:34:08,163
...is beyond the limits
of current technology...
553
00:34:08,563 --> 00:34:12,163
...many scientists claim
it is theoretically possible.
554
00:34:17,080 --> 00:34:21,040
In Davis, California,
inventor Dr Paul Moller...
555
00:34:21,163 --> 00:34:23,803
...tests the boundaries
of real-life science...
556
00:34:23,920 --> 00:34:27,360
...with a recreational flying vehicle
called the Neuera.
557
00:34:32,683 --> 00:34:35,323
The Neuera
is a very simple device to fly.
558
00:34:38,043 --> 00:34:42,523
It has eight lifting ducted fans,
as we call them...
559
00:34:43,163 --> 00:34:44,963
...each one driven by its own engine.
560
00:34:46,923 --> 00:34:50,283
One of the big advantages
of this kind of round shape...
561
00:34:50,403 --> 00:34:54,883
...is that you end up with the strength
in the skin of the vehicle itself...
562
00:34:55,003 --> 00:34:56,824
...much like the shell of a beetle.
563
00:34:56,984 --> 00:34:58,963
And that gets you
a very, very strong design.
564
00:34:59,083 --> 00:35:01,363
This airframes you see over here
next to this vehicle...
565
00:35:01,483 --> 00:35:02,878
...which are similar to this...
566
00:35:02,968 --> 00:35:05,403
...weigh only 75 pounds apiece,
which is incredible.
567
00:35:05,523 --> 00:35:07,123
You get a complete airframe...
568
00:35:07,243 --> 00:35:09,403
...that's capable
of lifting 1,500 pounds...
569
00:35:09,523 --> 00:35:11,397
...with a 75-pound shell.
570
00:35:13,163 --> 00:35:17,039
But could the inherent design
strength of a disc-shaped object...
571
00:35:17,310 --> 00:35:20,403
...be the key
to overcoming the forces of gravity?
572
00:35:21,132 --> 00:35:23,843
And does the prevalence
of flying saucer sightings...
573
00:35:23,963 --> 00:35:28,203
...suggest a connection
between anti-gravity technology...
574
00:35:28,323 --> 00:35:30,883
...and extraterrestrial visitations?
575
00:35:31,883 --> 00:35:35,203
Gravity is one of the most
unknown forces in physics today.
576
00:35:35,323 --> 00:35:37,363
And when we do understand it...
577
00:35:37,483 --> 00:35:40,574
...we'll be able to find out a way
to shield ourselves from it...
578
00:35:40,763 --> 00:35:45,003
...or to provide a device,
a method, electromagnetically...
579
00:35:45,123 --> 00:35:47,803
...but with some... much greater knowledge
than we have today...
580
00:35:47,923 --> 00:35:50,843
...where we eliminate it
within the vehicle's operations.
581
00:35:53,683 --> 00:35:56,563
Are flying saucers
more than just the product...
582
00:35:56,683 --> 00:35:59,043
...of overactive imaginations?
583
00:35:59,966 --> 00:36:03,483
Might ancient cultures that wrote
of fire-breathing dragons...
584
00:36:03,603 --> 00:36:05,763
...and angels descending
from the heavens...
585
00:36:05,883 --> 00:36:07,843
...have been witnessing
earlier versions...
586
00:36:07,963 --> 00:36:09,963
...of these alien spacecraft?
587
00:36:10,519 --> 00:36:13,523
Or could there be another explanation?
588
00:36:13,883 --> 00:36:18,243
Perhaps the ultimate answer can be
found in the American southwest...
589
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:21,960
...with a mythological beast
called the Thunderbird.
590
00:36:30,559 --> 00:36:33,504
Elizabeth Lake, southern California.
591
00:36:34,099 --> 00:36:36,425
This high desert body of water...
592
00:36:36,625 --> 00:36:39,049
...sits at the junction
of the tectonic plates...
593
00:36:39,139 --> 00:36:42,530
...that form the powerful
San Andreas Fault.
594
00:36:43,160 --> 00:36:47,000
The Mexicans who colonized
California in the 1700s...
595
00:36:47,240 --> 00:36:51,640
...called it Laguna Del Diablo,
Lake of the Devil.
596
00:36:52,198 --> 00:36:54,935
And it was said
that the devil's own pet...
597
00:36:55,025 --> 00:36:57,679
...would come into this world
through a portal...
598
00:36:57,769 --> 00:36:59,486
...at the bottom of the lake.
599
00:37:00,084 --> 00:37:02,981
Local legend says that at the bottom...
600
00:37:03,071 --> 00:37:05,040
...is actually an entrance
to the underworld.
601
00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:06,876
They call it the Lake of the Devil.
602
00:37:07,076 --> 00:37:10,010
And it is said that in the middle
of the 18th century...
603
00:37:10,100 --> 00:37:12,820
...from up until about 1880 onwards...
604
00:37:12,940 --> 00:37:15,940
...something was happening there
which frightened locals.
605
00:37:17,660 --> 00:37:20,060
Some of the rich landowners
built ranches there.
606
00:37:20,180 --> 00:37:21,130
These ranchers claimed...
607
00:37:21,220 --> 00:37:23,170
...to have been harassed and tormented...
608
00:37:23,260 --> 00:37:27,580
...by some sort of monstrous beast
that would come out of the water...
609
00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:31,180
...and steal cattle and menace the locals.
610
00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:36,380
The ranchers who claimed
to have witnessed this beast...
611
00:37:36,500 --> 00:37:38,580
...called it, "The Thunderbird."
612
00:37:39,116 --> 00:37:42,260
And their description of it
was nearly identical...
613
00:37:42,439 --> 00:37:47,700
...to that of the giant bird witnessed
by cowboys in Tombstone in 1890.
614
00:37:48,327 --> 00:37:51,701
Eventually, one of the landowners,
got it in his head...
615
00:37:51,791 --> 00:37:53,780
...that he was going to hunt
this creature down...
616
00:37:53,900 --> 00:37:55,380
...and sell it to the circus.
617
00:37:55,500 --> 00:37:59,180
So according to the story
this rancher was able to actually...
618
00:37:59,300 --> 00:38:00,860
...fire a few shots at this creature...
619
00:38:00,980 --> 00:38:03,140
...which seemed to be bullet-proof
and metallic.
620
00:38:03,260 --> 00:38:04,130
The bullets bounced off.
621
00:38:04,220 --> 00:38:07,599
And after that encounter,
the bird flew east...
622
00:38:07,689 --> 00:38:09,940
...never to be seen again in California.
623
00:38:11,180 --> 00:38:13,500
Could this so called Thunderbird...
624
00:38:13,620 --> 00:38:15,500
...really have been the same creature...
625
00:38:15,620 --> 00:38:18,180
...that cowboys shot at in Tombstone?
626
00:38:18,705 --> 00:38:22,500
And why was it referred to by locals
as, "The Devil's Pet"?
627
00:38:22,724 --> 00:38:25,260
They didn't have the vocabulary
we have today...
628
00:38:25,660 --> 00:38:28,740
...so when things happened
that they couldn't explain...
629
00:38:28,860 --> 00:38:31,060
...it was called the Devil's Tower.
630
00:38:31,207 --> 00:38:33,020
It was called the Devil's Lake.
631
00:38:33,225 --> 00:38:36,780
It was called the Devil's this,
or the Devil's that.
632
00:38:37,020 --> 00:38:38,250
Take it away from legend...
633
00:38:38,340 --> 00:38:41,580
...and you might find that this was
a portal to another dimension...
634
00:38:41,752 --> 00:38:43,154
...which the locals knew about...
635
00:38:43,244 --> 00:38:45,071
...and might have something to do
with the fact...
636
00:38:45,161 --> 00:38:47,180
...that this mysterious entity
was present...
637
00:38:47,300 --> 00:38:49,180
...at that very specific location.
638
00:38:53,926 --> 00:38:57,980
If a portal to another dimension
or another part of the universe...
639
00:38:58,100 --> 00:39:01,060
...does lie at the bottom
of Elizabeth Lake...
640
00:39:01,528 --> 00:39:04,420
...might it also be possible
that the Thunderbird...
641
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:09,500
...was not really a creature at all,
but something even more incredible?
642
00:39:09,871 --> 00:39:11,420
A Thunderbird was enormous.
643
00:39:11,540 --> 00:39:13,380
It made enormous noises...
644
00:39:13,500 --> 00:39:17,020
...so the thunder part of it
could sound like a jet engine.
645
00:39:17,380 --> 00:39:21,700
Its eyes were able to literally pierce
and emanate fire.
646
00:39:22,934 --> 00:39:25,260
We have this large flying
winged creature...
647
00:39:25,380 --> 00:39:29,527
...which gives off a thunderous sound
and lights fly from its eyes.
648
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:30,614
That to me says yes...
649
00:39:30,704 --> 00:39:33,060
...we could be dealing
with some sort of craft.
650
00:39:38,396 --> 00:39:43,229
Native Indians in North America,
they know, of course, the bird.
651
00:39:43,429 --> 00:39:45,940
But now, something differently arrived.
652
00:39:46,257 --> 00:39:49,967
An object, which could fly,
which is bigger than the eagle...
653
00:39:50,067 --> 00:39:52,940
...but at the same time,
makes tremendous noise.
654
00:39:53,102 --> 00:39:55,580
So you have the creation
of the Thunderbird.
655
00:39:55,718 --> 00:39:57,580
Even when the airplanes...
656
00:39:57,756 --> 00:40:01,460
...first started going out up
in the sky here in the Southwest...
657
00:40:01,715 --> 00:40:05,820
...they referred them to as metal birds.
658
00:40:05,914 --> 00:40:07,220
As a matter of fact...
659
00:40:07,387 --> 00:40:10,620
...when the first fixed wing craft
landed in Zuni...
660
00:40:11,463 --> 00:40:13,630
the Indians over there
actually went out there...
661
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:15,791
...and worshiped the airplane.
662
00:40:16,740 --> 00:40:20,340
It makes me think of a concept
called cultural tracking...
663
00:40:20,460 --> 00:40:25,260
...which is the idea
that UFOs can mask themselves...
664
00:40:25,380 --> 00:40:27,825
...to appear as almost anything.
665
00:40:27,915 --> 00:40:31,220
And you go back to ancient China
and they talk about the flying dragons.
666
00:40:31,388 --> 00:40:34,820
You go back to the ancient Egyptians
they talk about flying boats.
667
00:40:34,940 --> 00:40:36,457
You go to the Roman times...
668
00:40:36,547 --> 00:40:38,340
...and they're talking
about flying shields.
669
00:40:38,511 --> 00:40:41,020
Perhaps that was just
their interpretation...
670
00:40:41,140 --> 00:40:43,557
...or perhaps
that's what they actually saw.
671
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,060
Have alien spacecraft really been darting
across our skies...
672
00:40:50,180 --> 00:40:52,140
...for thousands of years?
673
00:40:52,933 --> 00:40:57,780
And could stories of thunderbirds,
dragons and flying chariots...
674
00:40:57,900 --> 00:41:02,180
...be not mere legends
but the proof we have been looking for?
675
00:41:02,508 --> 00:41:04,380
Perhaps when our own technology...
676
00:41:04,500 --> 00:41:07,340
...allows us to venture
further into space...
677
00:41:07,460 --> 00:41:09,700
...we will be given the final answer.
678
00:41:09,916 --> 00:41:13,620
That aliens and mankind
share a common origin...
679
00:41:13,740 --> 00:41:17,340
...and perhaps a common destiny.