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NARRATOR:
Throughout the ancient world,

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there are tales
of fire-breathing beasts

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descending from the sky.

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No matter where we go,

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we find legends
of these beings.

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Throughout Asia,
ancient cultures reported

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dragons descending
from the sky.

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We have dragon stories
in India,

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in Indonesia,
in ancient Greece.

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NARRATOR:
These winged creatures
inspired both fear

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and veneration.

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KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
The dragon represents

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something incredibly powerful

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but also incredibly noble.

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The dragons are here

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to bring something
to their people.

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NARRATOR:
But could accounts of dragons
be based on real events?

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And might the truth
behind this mythical monster

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be more incredible
than anyone has imagined?

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The dragon that came
from the sky,

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the sons of Heaven that
came from those dragons...

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...are integral to the
foundation of civilization.

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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

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in the universe.

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Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

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It demands
we question everything

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we have ever been taught.

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The evidence is all around us.

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The future is
right before our eyes.

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We are not alone.

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We have never been alone.

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NARRATOR:
Shaanxi Province, China.

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April 6, 2019.

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In the ceremonial courtyard

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of the Mausoleum
of the Yellow Emperor,

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10,000 people gather to watch
a traditional Dragon Dance.

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The dragon dance is
an ancient ceremony

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which for thousands of years
has been a representation

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of the dragons
coming from the sky

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and returning to the sky.

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PAUL STONEHILL: This is part
of the Chinese culture,

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of the Chinese civilization,

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so it’s very important for
the Chinese to have this dance.

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The Chinese people from the very
little... from toddlers on

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know about the dragons.

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The dragons are ever present.

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Ancient China was a land

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where humans lived in tandem
with the divine beings,

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with the gods.

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And the gods rode
upon dragons.

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And so for this reason
the dragon became revered

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as a sacred symbol
throughout China.

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NARRATOR:
Here in Shaanxi,

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in what is known
as the Qingming Festival,

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the ceremony celebrates
the deity

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considered to be the father
of all Chinese people.

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The Yellow Emperor,

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also known as Huangdi,

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is a legendary ruler

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who founded Chinese civilization

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nearly 5,000 years ago.

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DOMINIC STEAVU:
the Yellow Emperor
Huangdi is this, uh,

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semi-mythical figure
in Chinese history.

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He’s an originator of Chinese
civilization and culture.

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And he is credited
with numerous inventions

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that-that came to define
Chinese civilization--

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anything from
domesticating animals

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to the calendar

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and various
astronomical sciences.

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The Yellow Emperor also
crafted a magical caldron,

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and one version of the story

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has a dragon emerging
from the caldron

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and then the Yellow Emperor
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and the dragon ascends
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JUDY CHUNGWA HO:
The Chinese would say

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we’re the descendants
of the Yellow Emperor.

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That’s one way of putting
how Chinese believe him to be,

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the v-very founder
of Chinese civilization.

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In fact, just about everything

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that you would think as the
basic elements of civilization

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is somehow associated
with the Yellow Emperor.

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(speaking Chinese)

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TRANSLATOR: We Chinese people
consider ourselves

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the descendants
of the dragon.

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So there should be
a certain connection

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between the identities
of the Chinese people

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both as the descendants
of the Yellow Emperor

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and as the descendants
of the dragon.

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NARRATOR:
At the end of
the Qingming Festival,

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the dragon is released
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symbolizing Huangdi’s
departure from Earth

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to the heavenly realm.

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The Yellow Emperor is believed

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to have flown up to the sky,

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um, and dwell, um,
in the Pole Star

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at the very center of the sky.

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And there he actually
would live forever.

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The idea of a dragon,

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a metaphysical being
who looked very real,

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had to come from somewhere.

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They could not just imagine

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a complicated being
like Chinese dragons.

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They had to see objects

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that were flying
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and the superior beings
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Now, from the ancient
astronaut perspective,

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the dragon was never a dragon.

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It was a flying craft.

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It is only natural

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that our ancestors would
describe these things

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as living creatures
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They had never seen
anything like it before.

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-(gong sounds)
-One has to wonder

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if Huangdi himself was
misinterpreted

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and that he was
an extraterrestrial

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and he arrived in
an extraterrestrial craft.

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SUN SHILI:
In China, in UFO research,

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a dragon is the symbol
of aircraft.

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There is a view
that the Yellow Emperor

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arrived in the wonderful
land of China

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through an aircraft,
and he flew back afterwards.

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NARRATOR:
Could the story of Huangdi
traveling on a dragon

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be an account
of an extraterrestrial

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traveling in a spaceship,

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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

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In the modern world,

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tales of dragons
are widely considered

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to be strictly a product
of the imagination.

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But some researchers believe
physical evidence exists

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that suggests

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the ancient stories
of dragons could be true.

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The Baian-Kara-Ula mountains,
Qinghai Province, China.

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According to an article
published in 1962

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in the German magazine
<i>Das Vegetarisches Universum,</i>

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Beijing University
archaeologist Dr. Tsum Um Nui

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was leading an expedition
here in 1936

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when he and his team
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neat rows of graves
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The archaeologists reported
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contained the corpses of small
creatures resembling humans

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but with spindly arms
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And buried with them were
hundreds of strange stone disks.

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There’s a fascinating
story in China

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where allegedly

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a cave was found
with hundreds of disks

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and these disks were
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and it seemed that they had
some type of a groove in them

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reminding of modern-day
vinyl records.

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And what’s interesting

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is that allegedly

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some of these grooves contained
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hieroglyphics or something.

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WILLIAM HENRY:
And when archeologists
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or translated this writing,

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it told this incredible story

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of extraterrestrial beings
called the Dropas

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and how they had come
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crash-landed on Earth

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and were unable
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in order to return
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NARRATOR:
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after the initial research
in the early 1960s,

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the disks, known today
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vanished.

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But mysteriously, in 1974,

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photographs surfaced

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of what were alleged
to be two Dropa Stones

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on display at the Banpo Museum
in Xian City, China.

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In 1994, a colleague
of mine, Hartwig Hausdorf

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and his colleague
Peter Krassa went to China

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to ask the whereabouts
of these stone disks.

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During the ’60s and ’70s,

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there was a big cultural
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where lots of cultural
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And that’s possibly the reason

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that two of the more
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could have found
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and to this little museum.

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my way led me also into
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where I got to speak

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with the present curator
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I showed him the photographs

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that were taken
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and he told me the former
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along with the two stone
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they have disappeared
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and up to now,
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where this lady and the two
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that most of the stone disks

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are still inside those caves

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in Baian-Kara-Ula mountains.

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NARRATOR:
Could there be
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still hidden somewhere
in the Baian-Kara-Ula mountains?

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For ancient astronaut
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another intriguing
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is that the Qinghai Province,

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which is home
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has a connection to dragons.

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What’s interesting
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is that the region they were
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to the Qinghai Lake which has
its patron as a dragon god.

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You have the fascinating story

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of the Dragon King
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the Qinghai Lake.

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And Qinghai is also
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where the Dropa stones
allegedly came from.

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Now, one of the fascinating
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is that the Dragon Kings were
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And one of the things
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in the actual translation
from the Dropa stones

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is that the Dropa people
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in their clouds from the sky.

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So this idea of
cloud breathers as dragons

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and the Dropa coming
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seems to be
potentially connected.

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Maybe the dragons and the Dropa
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NARRATOR:
Could it be that the dragon,

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which remains sacred and iconic
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commemorates
an extraterrestrial visitation

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that occurred
thousands of years ago

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and was allegedly recorded
on the Dropa stones?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining other ancient
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of dragon gods.

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Kyoto, Japan.

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An imposing statue
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guards the west gate
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known as Kiyomizu-dera.

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It is just one of the many
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and according
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every night a dragon
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to drink at the temple’s
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In Japan, dragons,
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are not only
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They are also considered

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to be the founders
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It was said in ancient Japan
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lived at the bottom
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His daughter had a daughter,

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and her child was Jimmu,
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To be descended from a dragon

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is to be from the divine
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NARRATOR:
According to legend,

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Jimmu, the great-grandson
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received three divine items
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WILLIAM HENRY:
The Imperial Regalia of Japan

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was sent
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This was composed of a jewel,
a sword and a mirror

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that was utilized by all
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and they’re still believed
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They’re considered
to be artifacts

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of such incredible power

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that ordinary people
are not allowed

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to come into contact
with them.

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TSOUKALOS:
With this celestial mirror,

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it is said that he
was able to see

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anything that goes on
on planet Earth

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without having to go anywhere.

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What are we talking about here?

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Imagine that you show
your laptop or your cell phone

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to your great-great-grandfather

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and all of a sudden

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you are showing him
a magical mirror

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because you can see
anything on a laptop.

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I think that the celestial
regalia of Jimmu

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are extraterrestrial artifacts

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that were collected
at the time

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when the celestial teachers
referred to as dragons

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were here teaching mankind,

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in this case
in the area of Japan.

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(speaking Japanese)

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TRANSLATOR: The ancestors
of the Japanese emperor

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were gods...

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...specifically gods in the sky.

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They landed on the Earth,

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and are linked to the current
Japanese imperial family.

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Which means that their family
is related to extraterrestrials.

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NARRATOR:
While the dragon is
a prominent figure

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in East Asian cultures,

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many ancient peoples
who archaeologists believe

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had no history of contact

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also revered this supposedly
mythical flying beast.

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Dragons are found throughout
Africa and in ancient Egypt.

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They were featured
in the earliest traditions

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of Persia, Greece and Rome.

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And North American folklore

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often spoke
of dragon-like creatures.

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The dragon is worldwide

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because, again,
in Central America

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in Villahermosa,

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there’s a stone called
the dragon monolith.

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You see a man sitting
inside the dragon.

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You see the form
of the dragon

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with this open mouth
like a snake,

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and you see the man
is sitting inside.

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He has a helmet on.

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He uses his hands
to manipulate control.

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So the story of the dragon

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has come around the world
from China to Central America.

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HUGH NEWMAN:
So dragons are found

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all over the world
in ancient traditions,

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and there’s always an element
of extreme power.

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They could destroy,

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but they could also
become allies.

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And they were great teachers,
of very high wisdom,

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and have extreme intelligence
as well in some cases.

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And yet this became a symbol
of different cultures

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and different leaders
around the world,

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but was this because
they’d witnessed something

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emerging from clouds,
from a fiery kind of sky

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and actually this is where

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the whole dragon mythos
really came from?

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Who were the original dragons?

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And why are they always
depicted as flying?

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NARRATOR:
For researchers of mythology,

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an equally intriguing question

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is why so many separate
cultures ended up

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calling these flying entities
by the same name.

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Many languages use exactly
the same word for dragon,

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or something very similar,
at least.

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You have got
in the Middle East,

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the Philistine god

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who looks like a dragon

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was called Dagon.

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In England
you’ve got Dragon.

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In parts of Finland
you’ve got Dragon.

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And in Eastern Europe
you’ve got Dracul.

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And then a bit further south,
you’ve got Dracu.

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NARRATOR:
In Basque,

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which is unconnected
to any other language,

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the word is Dragoi.

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In India, it’s Dregan.

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In Swahili, Dragoni.

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And in ancient Greek, Drakon.

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GRAHAM PHILLIPS:
They all have similar names.

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How can this be?
What’s behind all this?

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These people were not
in touch with each other.

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So, how does this come about?

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It’s very curious that,
no matter where we go,

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we find legends of dragons
with the exact same word

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used to describe this
creature or these beings.

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It must be that there was
a common source.

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And it makes you wonder
if it’s possible

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that these beings originally
introduced themselves

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with this name that is
something like "dragon."

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NARRATOR:
What can account

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for this supposedly
mythical creature

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appearing in dozens
of distinct traditions

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throughout the ancient world?

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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

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the ubiquity of dragon legends

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lends further support
to the notion

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that our ancestors
encountered alien vehicles

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descending from the sky.

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The reason why countless
ancient cultures

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have references to dragons

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is because many
of these ancient cultures

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were visited
by the same beings

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flying the same craft.

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They’re seeing the same thing
in all these different places,

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and what they’re seeing
is of airships

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with fire and thunder
and smoke and huge wings,

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and so they’re describing
them in-in similar ways

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in different parts of the world.

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NARRATOR:
Could the ubiquity

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of dragon worship
throughout the world,

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along with the curious
linguistic connection,

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provide further evidence
that our ancestors witnessed

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something very real
coming down from the sky?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining ancient stone
sculptures from North America

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that depict a legendary
flying serpent god

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in a humanoid form.

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NARRATOR:
Teotihuacan, Mexico.

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Dating back to at least
the first century AD,

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this ancient complex was once

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the largest city
in Mesoamerica

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with a population of 125,000.

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One of the most sacred
temples at the site

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is the Temple of
the Feathered Serpent,

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an enormous step pyramid

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dedicated to the god
Quetzalcoatl.

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Quetzalcoatl,
the feathered serpent,

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goes all the way
back to Olmec times,

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to the BCE period.

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But the first place that we
really see Quetzalcoatl

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is in Teotihuacan,

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the city just north
of modern Mexico City.

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They build a actual pyramid,
a temple of Quetzalcoatl,

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right around 250 AD.

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So, it’s probably Teotihuacan

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who really put forward

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the idea and the identity
of Quetzalcoatl as a deity

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for the rest of Mesoamerica.

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Quetzalcoatl was
a creator god.

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He was associated
with the planet Venus.

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He brought the rain.
He brought water.

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He brought civilization.
He brought the arts.

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This was the creator divinity
for the Aztec culture.

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It was a flying serpent.
It was a dragon.

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Quetzalcoatl brought peace,
harmony and high wisdom

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and very high level
of intelligence

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and teaching
to this particular land.

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He was often depicted
as a human being as well,

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that he arrived
on a raft of serpents

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and settled on these lands.

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ED BARNHART:
Quetzalcoatl also shows up

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in the post-classic Maya city
of Chichen Itza.

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But they give him a Mayan name.

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They call him Kukulkan,
which is basically

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"The holy feathered serpent"
in Maya.

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NARRATOR:
The ancient Mayan city
of Chichen Itza

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lies roughly 900 miles
east of Teotihuacan,

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and at its center stands
another massive step pyramid,

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this one dedicated

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to the Mayan version of
the flying serpent Kukulkan.

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In Chichen Itza, there we have
the pyramid of Kukulkan,

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and every year
on the 23rd of March,

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you see, when the sun
is going up,

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some lights and shadows,

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lights and shadows
like triangles

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climbing down the stairway,

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exactly the stairway
where his head is on.

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And on the 21st of September
you see the opposite.

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Kukulkan disappears,

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and it’s only made by light
and shadow of the natural sun.

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So still today
the message is clear--

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god Kukulkan has descended
to the humans.

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He teached them
for a certain period,

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and then
he disappeared again.

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So right there we have
living mythology

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in a structure
that shows this deity

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descending from the sky
in stone.

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You wonder if perhaps
a craft landed here

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and this light-shadow effect

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of a serpent making its way
descending down the staircase,

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and then emerging
through a serpent head

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is a recollection
of that original event.

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NARRATOR:
Is it possible

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that the Pyramid of Kukulkan

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was not built to honor
a mythical dragon god

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but to commemorate the arrival

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00:23:13,934 --> 00:23:16,654
of an extraterrestrial
spacecraft?

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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

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00:23:19,607 --> 00:23:23,277
and suggest this isn’t the only
dragon-themed structure

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that marks a location
of alien contact.

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The landscape of
this small Greek island

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is spotted with 25 mysterious
megalithic structures

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called dragon houses.

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TSOUKALOS:
The main dragon house
is at the very top

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of one of the tallest
mountains on the island

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called Mount Ochi.

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Mount Ochi comes
from the word "Ochevare"

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which means
to descend and to drive.

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And so this is interesting
because, according to legend,

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the reason
why the dragon house

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exists at the top
of Mount Ochi

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00:24:10,282 --> 00:24:16,042
is because Zeus allegedly
descended from the heavens

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on top of that mountain.

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NARRATOR:
According to local legend,

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these stone structures
were built by a giant dragon

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to venerate the god Zeus.

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In ancient Greece, the word
"dragon" was not only used

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to describe a flying monster

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00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:35,769
but also gods
and other figures

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that had human-like form

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but possessed
superhuman powers.

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Now, when you put
all this together,

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this sounds like
the dragon house

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is a meeting place
of Heaven and Earth.

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In UFO vernacular,
that would be a landing spot.

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TSOUKALOS:
In my opinion,

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the dragon was the craft
out of which, then,

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the creator people,
or the teachers, emerged.

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Our ancestors, basically,

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they saw a crew coming
out of an airplane.

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NARRATOR:
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

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some of the structures
themselves serve as evidence

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that this was a place
of extraterrestrial contact.

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The dragon house
on top of Mt. Ochi

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contains megalithic blocks
weighing up to ten tons

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and sits at an elevation
of almost 5,000 feet.

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TSOUKALOS:
Archaeologists
have a hard time

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explaining why
it was even built there

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because we are talking

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00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:43,120
of this gigantic
megalithic structure

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with a ceiling
that contains blocks

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00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:49,090
that are up to ten feet long,

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two feet thick,

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at an altitude of 5,000 feet.

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How was that done?

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In my opinion, this was
an extraterrestrial visitation

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00:26:00,726 --> 00:26:03,976
where Zeus may have
descended in his craft

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and built a day camp.

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NARRATOR:
Could the stone structures

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found in Greece and Mesoamerica

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00:26:11,862 --> 00:26:13,152
mark the locations

501
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:16,320
where otherworldly beings
landed on Earth

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00:26:16,450 --> 00:26:19,700
and ultimately
returned to the stars?

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00:26:21,121 --> 00:26:23,501
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

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00:26:23,624 --> 00:26:25,134
and suggest

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00:26:25,250 --> 00:26:28,460
these alien visitors
may still be here today,

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00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:30,917
pointing
to legends of dragons

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00:26:31,006 --> 00:26:33,046
that come not from the sky...

508
00:26:34,051 --> 00:26:36,301
...but from under the sea.

509
00:26:41,850 --> 00:26:45,060
NARRATOR:
Nineveh, 1849.

510
00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:48,185
British archaeologist
Austen Henry Layard

511
00:26:48,315 --> 00:26:52,395
and his team uncover a cache
of ancient clay tablets

512
00:26:52,486 --> 00:26:56,446
dating back to at least
the seventh century BC.

513
00:26:57,449 --> 00:26:58,989
The pieces contain some

514
00:26:59,076 --> 00:27:01,366
of the earliest
writings of humankind,

515
00:27:01,495 --> 00:27:04,125
including
the Epic of Gilgamesh

516
00:27:04,206 --> 00:27:06,286
and the Enuma Elis,

517
00:27:06,375 --> 00:27:10,675
the Sumerian creation story
centered around a sea dragon.

518
00:27:11,672 --> 00:27:14,762
Ancient Sumeria is
generally considered

519
00:27:14,842 --> 00:27:17,052
the earliest civilization
on Earth,

520
00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:20,637
and their early mythology
involves the Tiamat.

521
00:27:21,849 --> 00:27:23,599
Tiamat comes from the sea.

522
00:27:23,684 --> 00:27:26,604
She’s a sea serpent.
She is chaos.

523
00:27:28,355 --> 00:27:31,725
HENRY:
Dragons are most often seen
flying through the sky.

524
00:27:31,859 --> 00:27:33,939
However,
there are also examples

525
00:27:34,027 --> 00:27:37,277
of dragons that lived
in the water.

526
00:27:37,364 --> 00:27:41,034
For example, in the
Babylonian myth of Tiamat

527
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,080
and then in the Greek myth
we learn of Hydra,

528
00:27:43,203 --> 00:27:47,373
which is referred to as a dragon
that lives in the sea.

529
00:27:48,750 --> 00:27:52,550
NARRATOR:
Serpents from the sea can also
be found in Norse mythology,

530
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:55,551
in the ancient Canaanite
tradition,

531
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:59,054
as well as the Maori tales
of New Zealand.

532
00:28:00,804 --> 00:28:02,184
But of all the stories

533
00:28:02,264 --> 00:28:04,814
of sea dragons
from across the globe,

534
00:28:04,892 --> 00:28:06,982
perhaps there is none
more well-known

535
00:28:07,060 --> 00:28:09,980
than the Leviathan
of the Hebrew Bible.

536
00:28:10,063 --> 00:28:13,733
Often described as
a gigantic sea creature,

537
00:28:13,859 --> 00:28:17,489
the Leviathan wreaks chaos
on the world.

538
00:28:17,571 --> 00:28:20,701
Leviathan, in Biblical terms,

539
00:28:20,782 --> 00:28:27,002
is considered this sea monster
of behemoth proportions. Huge.

540
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,710
Now, in the Book of Job,

541
00:28:29,791 --> 00:28:33,591
the behemoth all of a sudden
is seen and witnessed.

542
00:28:33,670 --> 00:28:39,720
And the way Job describes it,
it’s not a biological entity

543
00:28:39,801 --> 00:28:42,011
that we are familiar with today.

544
00:28:42,095 --> 00:28:46,595
It is described
that it has skin of metal

545
00:28:46,683 --> 00:28:51,023
and ribs made
out of gleaming bronze,

546
00:28:51,104 --> 00:28:54,864
its limbs like bars of iron.

547
00:28:54,942 --> 00:28:59,152
Its back is made
of shields in rows

548
00:28:59,279 --> 00:29:03,619
shut up closely
as with a seal.

549
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:06,162
And then Job even describes

550
00:29:06,286 --> 00:29:11,166
that it is like
some type of an animal,

551
00:29:11,291 --> 00:29:16,631
but what animal breathes smoke
and fire and has glowing eyes?

552
00:29:18,298 --> 00:29:20,968
NARRATOR:
Might the eyewitness
account of the Leviathan

553
00:29:21,051 --> 00:29:23,091
found in the Book of Job

554
00:29:23,178 --> 00:29:24,798
actually be a description

555
00:29:24,888 --> 00:29:26,678
not of an underwater creature

556
00:29:26,807 --> 00:29:29,477
but of misunderstood
technology,

557
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:32,979
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

558
00:29:33,063 --> 00:29:36,323
In the Book of Job
we have a text line

559
00:29:36,441 --> 00:29:40,401
that says that this
creature’s outer skin

560
00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:42,907
consists of two hulls.

561
00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:47,120
So, this description
in ancient biblical times

562
00:29:47,202 --> 00:29:52,372
that we have a double-hull
object is interesting

563
00:29:52,499 --> 00:29:57,839
because we know today
that submarines have two hulls.

564
00:29:57,963 --> 00:30:00,843
And the reason why
they have two hulls is

565
00:30:00,924 --> 00:30:04,514
in order to dive
and resurface.

566
00:30:04,594 --> 00:30:09,184
And what happens is you fill
and empty the ballast tanks.

567
00:30:10,183 --> 00:30:14,563
Now, what happens when you
empty the ballast tanks?

568
00:30:14,688 --> 00:30:19,568
The submarine ejects
a whole bunch of air

569
00:30:19,693 --> 00:30:22,783
that makes the whole
surrounding area look

570
00:30:22,863 --> 00:30:26,033
as if the ocean is boiling.

571
00:30:26,908 --> 00:30:31,448
And we have exactly
this reference point in Job

572
00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:34,828
that all of a sudden,
the wake of the Leviathan,

573
00:30:34,916 --> 00:30:37,836
it looked as if
the sea was boiling.

574
00:30:37,919 --> 00:30:42,969
Job describes having seen
this thing also on land.

575
00:30:43,050 --> 00:30:47,180
It begs the question if what
we have here is an example

576
00:30:47,262 --> 00:30:49,642
of a trans-medium craft,

577
00:30:49,723 --> 00:30:52,023
a craft that operates

578
00:30:52,100 --> 00:30:55,480
both on land
and in the water.

579
00:30:56,563 --> 00:30:59,233
HENRY:
Today we have videos
of UFOs or UAPs

580
00:30:59,316 --> 00:31:02,066
that are coming
and going from the ocean.

581
00:31:02,152 --> 00:31:04,652
We call them
trans-medium craft.

582
00:31:04,738 --> 00:31:06,408
Well, this is exactly
what we see

583
00:31:06,531 --> 00:31:08,531
in these ancient myths
about the dragons.

584
00:31:08,617 --> 00:31:10,327
These are supposed to be

585
00:31:10,410 --> 00:31:12,370
dragons
or mythological creatures,

586
00:31:12,454 --> 00:31:14,334
winged creatures
that fly in the air,

587
00:31:14,414 --> 00:31:16,754
but then they also go
into the ocean.

588
00:31:16,875 --> 00:31:19,165
And it makes you wonder,
are these in fact UFOs

589
00:31:19,252 --> 00:31:20,922
that were seen
in the ancient world

590
00:31:21,046 --> 00:31:24,296
that were interpreted
or mythologized as dragons?

591
00:31:24,424 --> 00:31:25,934
I was in the Navy
for nine years,

592
00:31:26,009 --> 00:31:27,889
and we always talked
with each other

593
00:31:27,969 --> 00:31:30,349
about unidentified
submersible objects

594
00:31:30,430 --> 00:31:32,770
that are UFOs
that stay in the water

595
00:31:32,891 --> 00:31:35,271
and then bust out
of the top of the ocean

596
00:31:35,352 --> 00:31:37,982
and off they go.
It’s very widespread.

597
00:31:38,105 --> 00:31:40,485
As a matter of fact,
there’ve been reports

598
00:31:40,607 --> 00:31:44,187
of lights down in the water
following our Navy ships

599
00:31:44,277 --> 00:31:45,697
and then all of a sudden

600
00:31:45,779 --> 00:31:47,529
they bust through
the top of the ocean

601
00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:49,824
and they take off.
They’re out there.

602
00:31:49,950 --> 00:31:51,700
And it’s entirely possible

603
00:31:51,785 --> 00:31:54,875
that people who witnessed
these things a long time ago

604
00:31:54,955 --> 00:31:59,005
confused them with
creatures or real dragons.

605
00:32:00,085 --> 00:32:04,055
Could the accounts of dragons
emerging from the sea

606
00:32:04,131 --> 00:32:06,551
found in mythologies
around the world

607
00:32:06,633 --> 00:32:10,893
be descriptions of an advanced
technology capable of traveling

608
00:32:10,971 --> 00:32:15,481
not only through the sky
but also through water?

609
00:32:15,559 --> 00:32:16,979
And if so,

610
00:32:17,060 --> 00:32:18,850
might the misinterpreted craft

611
00:32:18,979 --> 00:32:21,059
our ancestors witnessed

612
00:32:21,148 --> 00:32:24,688
be the same UFOs
reportedly seen today?

613
00:32:24,818 --> 00:32:27,948
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

614
00:32:28,029 --> 00:32:31,159
the answers may be found
by examining the alignment

615
00:32:31,241 --> 00:32:33,701
of an ancient structure
to a dragon...

616
00:32:33,827 --> 00:32:35,907
in the stars.

617
00:32:41,918 --> 00:32:44,168
NARRATOR:
Northwest Cambodia.

618
00:32:45,088 --> 00:32:47,418
Just outside the city
of Siem Reap

619
00:32:47,507 --> 00:32:51,797
lies Angkor Wat, the world’s
largest religious structure,

620
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:55,177
with each side measuring
nearly a mile long.

621
00:32:56,266 --> 00:33:00,136
Mainstream archaeologists
believe the temple complex

622
00:33:00,228 --> 00:33:03,858
was likely constructed
around the 12th century AD,

623
00:33:03,982 --> 00:33:05,862
but according
to Cambodian legend,

624
00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,364
it is far older--

625
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:10,697
built in 600 BC

626
00:33:10,780 --> 00:33:13,700
by a half-human
half-divine architect

627
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:17,655
who traveled between Earth
and the realm of the gods.

628
00:33:17,746 --> 00:33:20,036
TSOUKALOS:
Angkor Wat was built

629
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:23,295
by none other
than Preah Pisnokar.

630
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:26,246
His mother is not
of this world.

631
00:33:26,379 --> 00:33:30,379
She wants to bring him
to where she comes from.

632
00:33:31,593 --> 00:33:34,263
And so she takes her son

633
00:33:34,387 --> 00:33:37,597
to what’s called
Indra’s Heaven.

634
00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:40,024
According to mythologies,

635
00:33:40,101 --> 00:33:42,771
the center part of Angkor Wat

636
00:33:42,896 --> 00:33:45,726
is a one-to-one replica

637
00:33:45,857 --> 00:33:49,487
of whatever was seen
out there.

638
00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:53,244
NARRATOR:
According to some experts,

639
00:33:53,323 --> 00:33:55,623
the layout of Angkor Wat reveals

640
00:33:55,742 --> 00:33:58,582
another intriguing
connection to the cosmos.

641
00:33:59,579 --> 00:34:01,499
In 1996,

642
00:34:01,581 --> 00:34:04,081
author and researcher
John Grigsby

643
00:34:04,209 --> 00:34:06,339
discovered
that the temple complex

644
00:34:06,419 --> 00:34:10,629
appears to align with certain
stars in the night sky.

645
00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:13,507
John Grigsby made
a brilliant discovery.

646
00:34:13,593 --> 00:34:16,763
He noticed that the entire
Angkor Wat complex

647
00:34:16,846 --> 00:34:20,096
is a mirror image
of the Draco constellation.

648
00:34:21,059 --> 00:34:24,939
In Latin, the word
Draco means dragon.

649
00:34:26,523 --> 00:34:28,113
TSOUKALOS:
If you were to take

650
00:34:28,233 --> 00:34:30,823
a constellation map of Draco

651
00:34:30,944 --> 00:34:34,574
and superimpose it
onto a map of Angkor Wat,

652
00:34:34,656 --> 00:34:39,536
there are multiple structures
at Angkor Wat that line up

653
00:34:39,619 --> 00:34:44,459
exactly to the main stars
of the constellation of Draco.

654
00:34:45,458 --> 00:34:49,298
So you have to wonder
what the connection is.

655
00:34:49,379 --> 00:34:51,799
And the answer to that,
in my opinion,

656
00:34:51,923 --> 00:34:56,723
is that if you would like
to show a local population

657
00:34:56,803 --> 00:34:59,723
where you are from...

658
00:34:59,806 --> 00:35:02,386
you have them build something

659
00:35:02,475 --> 00:35:05,225
in the constellation
of where you are from.

660
00:35:05,312 --> 00:35:07,652
To me, those are calling cards

661
00:35:07,731 --> 00:35:11,071
where our teachers
long ago came from.

662
00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:14,491
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the story

663
00:35:14,571 --> 00:35:17,821
of Angkor Wat’s
celestial origins is true

664
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:20,739
and that it was
purposely designed

665
00:35:20,827 --> 00:35:23,247
to line up
with the stars of Draco

666
00:35:23,330 --> 00:35:27,710
because this was the ancestral
home of Preah Pisnokar?

667
00:35:27,834 --> 00:35:30,094
Ancient astronaut
theorists point

668
00:35:30,170 --> 00:35:33,010
to the temple’s many depictions
of dragon-like creatures

669
00:35:33,089 --> 00:35:34,589
as further evidence

670
00:35:34,674 --> 00:35:36,764
that it has
a profound connection

671
00:35:36,843 --> 00:35:39,013
to the Draco constellation.

672
00:35:40,972 --> 00:35:42,682
DOMINIC STEAVU:
In south Asian traditions,

673
00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:45,267
nagas occupy
an important place.

674
00:35:45,352 --> 00:35:49,192
They are considered to be
very powerful creatures.

675
00:35:49,272 --> 00:35:51,192
They are shape shifters.

676
00:35:51,316 --> 00:35:54,936
And nagas share a number
of interesting similarities

677
00:35:55,028 --> 00:35:57,198
with Chinese dragons
more specifically,

678
00:35:57,322 --> 00:36:01,702
so both of them are givers
of knowledge and of wisdom.

679
00:36:03,203 --> 00:36:05,123
HENRY: In the same way
that Kukulkan seems

680
00:36:05,205 --> 00:36:07,875
to represent some sort
of a craft to the Mayans,

681
00:36:07,999 --> 00:36:11,749
we find the same thing
with the naga at Angkor Wat.

682
00:36:11,878 --> 00:36:14,378
They could represent
a craft that is utilized

683
00:36:14,506 --> 00:36:17,216
to transport people
from Earth to Draco.

684
00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:19,930
NARRATOR:
Is it possible

685
00:36:20,053 --> 00:36:22,813
that dragon traditions
throughout the globe

686
00:36:22,889 --> 00:36:25,389
originated with visitors
coming to Earth

687
00:36:25,475 --> 00:36:28,815
from a planet somewhere
within the Draco constellation?

688
00:36:30,397 --> 00:36:32,897
Curiously, Angkor Wat is not

689
00:36:32,982 --> 00:36:36,112
the only ancient site
that aligns with Draco.

690
00:36:36,236 --> 00:36:39,816
On the other side
of the world, in Ohio,

691
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:43,776
a Native American serpent
effigy known as Serpent Mound

692
00:36:43,910 --> 00:36:46,910
was positioned
to point to Draco.

693
00:36:48,498 --> 00:36:50,328
And in ancient Egypt,

694
00:36:50,417 --> 00:36:52,787
all pyramids were positioned

695
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:55,759
to have an entrance passage
geometrically aligned

696
00:36:55,839 --> 00:36:59,589
so that Draco’s primary
star, Alpha Draconis...

697
00:36:59,718 --> 00:37:02,928
would be visible at night.

698
00:37:04,180 --> 00:37:08,020
It’s interesting to think
that the constellation Draco

699
00:37:08,101 --> 00:37:11,151
may have something to do
with these dragon myths,

700
00:37:11,271 --> 00:37:13,521
with all of these
separate cultures

701
00:37:13,606 --> 00:37:16,856
around the world that are
seemingly unconnected.

702
00:37:16,943 --> 00:37:21,243
Whatever these
flying dragons are,

703
00:37:21,322 --> 00:37:24,532
perhaps they came
from a planet

704
00:37:24,617 --> 00:37:26,947
that was from
the star system Draco.

705
00:37:28,288 --> 00:37:30,998
HENRY:
Virtually every culture
has a legend about dragons

706
00:37:31,124 --> 00:37:33,464
or dragon beings
that came from the sky.

707
00:37:33,543 --> 00:37:35,803
And what we’re uncovering now
is the revelation

708
00:37:35,879 --> 00:37:37,549
that these beings
came from the sky

709
00:37:37,630 --> 00:37:40,630
because they’re
of extraterrestrial origins.

710
00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:42,679
Is it possible that today

711
00:37:42,802 --> 00:37:46,062
we’re subconsciously tapping
into hidden knowledge,

712
00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:48,019
something that has
always been there

713
00:37:48,141 --> 00:37:51,231
and is part of, like,
the thought sphere of humanity?

714
00:37:52,312 --> 00:37:54,192
NARRATOR:
Could it be

715
00:37:54,314 --> 00:37:56,904
that humankind’s long-held
fascination with dragons

716
00:37:56,983 --> 00:38:00,113
has a direct link
to the cosmos

717
00:38:00,195 --> 00:38:01,865
and possibly visitors

718
00:38:01,988 --> 00:38:04,318
from the constellation
of Draco?

719
00:38:04,449 --> 00:38:06,869
Have stories
and imagery of dragons

720
00:38:06,993 --> 00:38:08,663
persisted in modern times

721
00:38:08,745 --> 00:38:10,915
because of a deep-seated desire

722
00:38:10,997 --> 00:38:14,577
to reconnect with our
extraterrestrial past?

723
00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:17,417
Perhaps further clues
can be found

724
00:38:17,504 --> 00:38:22,094
by examining humanity’s
latest endeavors beyond Earth

725
00:38:22,175 --> 00:38:26,355
and the recent launch
of a spacecraft called <i>Dragon.</i>

726
00:38:26,429 --> 00:38:27,969
MAN:
And liftoff.

727
00:38:38,191 --> 00:38:40,991
NARRATOR:
Just off the coast
of Panama, Florida,

728
00:38:41,069 --> 00:38:47,199
the latest SpaceX cargo shuttle,
called <i>Dragon,</i> splashes down.

729
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:49,285
It’s really fascinating
what’s happening right now

730
00:38:49,369 --> 00:38:54,329
because SpaceX just named
their rocket <i>Dragon.</i>

731
00:38:55,375 --> 00:38:59,255
The Chinese named
their entire rocket fleet

732
00:38:59,379 --> 00:39:04,219
based on ancient Chinese
celestial mythology.

733
00:39:04,342 --> 00:39:06,552
It’s called
the Shengzou program,

734
00:39:06,636 --> 00:39:08,966
and Shengzou means
"heavenly chariot."

735
00:39:09,055 --> 00:39:12,265
So, to have all of a sudden

736
00:39:12,392 --> 00:39:16,692
modern cultures refer
to their celestial vehicles

737
00:39:16,771 --> 00:39:19,361
as dragons or heavenly chariot

738
00:39:19,440 --> 00:39:23,780
to me is nothing else
but a repetition of history,

739
00:39:23,903 --> 00:39:28,493
meaning we are not
the first to do this.

740
00:39:28,575 --> 00:39:32,295
JONATHAN YOUNG:
The image of the dragon still
excites our imagination.

741
00:39:32,412 --> 00:39:35,162
When Elon Musk decides
to build a spaceship

742
00:39:35,248 --> 00:39:36,538
to lift up to the stars,

743
00:39:36,624 --> 00:39:38,334
he names it <i>Dragon.</i>

744
00:39:38,418 --> 00:39:41,548
So, it’s almost like we’re
acting out mythology.

745
00:39:41,629 --> 00:39:43,839
We’re riding on
or in a dragon

746
00:39:43,923 --> 00:39:45,593
back up to the stars.

747
00:39:47,594 --> 00:39:51,064
TSOUKALOS:
Clearly, humankind
has had a love affair,

748
00:39:51,139 --> 00:39:54,849
an eternal fascination
with dragons.

749
00:39:55,351 --> 00:39:57,141
And in my opinion,

750
00:39:57,270 --> 00:40:01,690
dragons did not really exist
in a biological form,

751
00:40:01,774 --> 00:40:05,284
but perhaps
they were the result

752
00:40:05,361 --> 00:40:07,781
of an incredible event

753
00:40:07,864 --> 00:40:10,454
that happened
a long, long time ago

754
00:40:10,533 --> 00:40:12,953
in our collective unconscious.

755
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,080
It may surprise a lot of people

756
00:40:16,164 --> 00:40:18,794
to know that,
throughout the world,

757
00:40:18,917 --> 00:40:22,207
the dragon is not
a symbol of evil.

758
00:40:22,295 --> 00:40:26,885
It’s certainly not in China.

759
00:40:26,966 --> 00:40:29,386
It’s a symbol of
good luck and fortune.

760
00:40:29,469 --> 00:40:31,719
In the Middle East,

761
00:40:31,804 --> 00:40:35,814
the serpent brings knowledge
and understanding.

762
00:40:35,934 --> 00:40:41,404
Even today, we have the symbol
of a serpent, a winged snake,

763
00:40:41,481 --> 00:40:45,441
associated with knowledge
on the medical badge.

764
00:40:46,444 --> 00:40:49,744
Virtually every culture
in the known ancient world

765
00:40:49,822 --> 00:40:52,782
has some kind of dragon legend,
every single one of them.

766
00:40:52,867 --> 00:40:55,237
The dragon represents something

767
00:40:55,328 --> 00:40:59,418
incredibly powerful
but also incredibly noble.

768
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:04,038
HENRY: Dragons are something
that people are obsessed with.

769
00:41:04,170 --> 00:41:07,090
Even today
people still get tattoos

770
00:41:07,173 --> 00:41:08,513
of dragons on their bodies.

771
00:41:08,633 --> 00:41:09,973
And you wonder, why is it?

772
00:41:10,051 --> 00:41:12,261
What is the attraction
with dragons?

773
00:41:12,345 --> 00:41:13,685
Well, for one thing,

774
00:41:13,805 --> 00:41:16,275
dragons symbolize divine
and heavenly power.

775
00:41:16,349 --> 00:41:18,229
But behind that is
the realization

776
00:41:18,351 --> 00:41:21,651
that the dragons ultimately
represent our origins.

777
00:41:21,729 --> 00:41:23,939
They were the great civilizers.

778
00:41:24,023 --> 00:41:26,113
They were the founders
of civilization.

779
00:41:26,192 --> 00:41:28,572
So by connecting ourselves
with the dragons,

780
00:41:28,695 --> 00:41:32,035
we’re actually trying to tap
into the original power

781
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,816
of those divine beings.

782
00:41:36,411 --> 00:41:38,791
NARRATOR: Could it be that
traditions of dragons

783
00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,411
found all over the world

784
00:41:40,540 --> 00:41:44,210
tell the story of
humankind’s true origins?

785
00:41:45,253 --> 00:41:46,753
Is it possible

786
00:41:46,879 --> 00:41:48,879
that our celebration
of these winged beasts

787
00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:50,757
is actually commemorating

788
00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:54,393
ancient contact
with extraterrestrials?

789
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:56,222
Perhaps we will
find the answer

790
00:41:56,305 --> 00:42:00,805
as we send our own dragons
into the sky

791
00:42:00,893 --> 00:42:04,903
and reconnect
with our alien ancestors.

792
00:42:05,023 --> 00:42:08,233
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