Ancient Aliens s15e07 Episode Script
They Came from The Pleiades
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Is it possible that
humankind's true origins
lie not on Earth
but 400 light-years away?
LEONARD KAPAHULEHUA:
According to our traditions,
we are all offspring
of star people.
NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,
ancient people pointed
to the Pleiades
and called it home.
MICHIO KAKU:
References to the Pleiades
go back thousands of years
into antiquity.
In fact,
the Kepler space telescope
has found evidence of planets
in the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
Now a new discovery
provides an intriguing link
to this star system.
BRUCE FENTON:
This object seems to come
from the Pleiades star cluster,
which is quite astonishing.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It's almost like a calling card
of where the extraterrestrials
came from.
They came down
from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Scientists
at the University of Hawaii
Haleakala Observatory
detect a strange object
traveling
through our solar system.
They initially catalog it
as an asteroid,
but after further examination,
researchers observe
that the object accelerated
as it approached the Sun,
acting more like a comet
but without any other
comet-like characteristics.
The find forces astronomers
to reclassify it
as something entirely new:
An interstellar object.
KAREN MEECH: We'd
never seen anything like this
in the solar system before.
We get an estimate of its size
at about 800 meters
or half a kilometer in length.
Roughly a cigar-like shape.
It was moving very fast,
a little more
than 195,000 miles per hour.
You get a chill sometimes
when you understand
something is very important
or is really exciting,
and that's what I felt
with this object.
NARRATOR:
Our Milky Way galaxy
is estimated to consist
of 100,000 million stars,
each indicating the presence
of a solar system.
Because the distances
between them are so vast,
astronomers believed
it was impossible
for an object
from another solar system
to reach our own
until now.
It just came
from outside our solar system,
meaning it wasn't material
from our star being created.
It's from a different
star system somewhere else.
That's historic
that we've actually seen it.
We now know objects can travel
from one star system to another.
NARRATOR: Researchers
dubbed the interstellar visitor
"Oumuamua",
a Hawaiian term meaning
"a messenger from afar
arriving first."
Is it possible
that the interstellar visitor
was, in fact, a messenger?
One sent on a mission
to our solar system?
MICHAEL SALLA:
Different scientists
have analyzed the data
and deduced that
it's something very different
to an asteroid or a comet.
So the scientific data
does point to it actually being
some artificial creation.
We've had open speculation
about how this thing might be
an interstellar spacecraft.
Talk from
from a Harvard professor.
NARRATOR: The chair of
Harvard's astronomy department,
Dr. Avi Loeb,
noted that the object seemed to
follow the propulsion patterns
of a new technology
that is currently being tested
for future space missions,
known as solar sail propulsion.
Large reflective sails
capture sunlight
to propel a craft through
the vacuum of space.
You can design, essentially,
photon sails.
So the idea has been
to make a-a material
that reflects photons, which is
light, very efficiently.
You deploy this
and you basically accelerate
under starlight.
And then you just cruise.
NARRATOR: Was similar alien
technology used to propel 'Oumuamua?
FENTON: It makes you wonder,
was that a targeted mission,
some sort of probe that has been
sent in to look for life?
TAYLOR: Before man
actually went to the Moon
and walked on it,
we sent a lot of probes
around the Moon to look at it.
And it's quite likely
that some version of NASA
from some other star system
could send a probe here
to Earth.
NARRATOR: The trajectory
of the interstellar object
took it past the Sun,
where it made a turn and then
ran parallel to Earth's orbit.
It traveled
between our planet and Mars
before it began its journey
out of our solar system.
When 'Oumuamua arrived,
nobody knew where it came from.
Then in 2018,
an astronomer at the University
of Hertfordshire retraced
its movements and discovered
that it came from the Pleiades.
We have to ask,
is it possible that it was
actually sent from the Pleiades?
NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the revelation that 'Oumuamua
traveled to our solar system
from the area
of the Pleiades star cluster
is highly intriguing.
The Pleiades figures
into the creation stories
of many ancient cultures
from all around the world,
where it was taught that divine
beings came from these stars
to seed life on Earth.
If we look at the mythologies of
the Pleiades around the world,
there's some indication
that this star cluster
is in some way related to
a visitation in ancient times.
NARRATOR: Located over
400 light-years from Earth,
near the constellation
of Taurus, the Pleiades
is commonly recognized
as seven bright stars,
but actually consists
of thousands.
SETH SHOSTAK:
The Pleiades.
Everybody's heard
of the Pleiades.
They're also known
as the Seven Sisters,
'cause if you have
really good eyesight,
you can see seven stars
in a very compact configuration
in the winter sky.
And in fact, there are
a lot more stars than seven.
There are actually 3,000 stars
in the Pleiades.
KAKU: So the
Pleiades is a star cluster.
They're not separated
by huge distances,
but they occur in a small area.
That's different
from a constellation,
where the stars could be moving
in all sorts of directions
and are separated
by huge distances.
NARRATOR: The importance of this
massive star cluster to ancient peoples
is revealed not only
by their creation stories,
but also in how they orientated
their most important structures.
FENTON:
All around the world,
we find ancient structures
that have alignments
that infer a relationship
to the Pleiades.
Now, these can be found
in places like Chaco Canyon,
in Mesoamerica,
in various parts of the world.
It's clear that the ancient
people wanted to incorporate
the rising of the Pleiades
in some way
with the building
of these megastructures.
NARRATOR: Additionally,
ancient artwork and artifacts
pay homage to these same stars,
with one depiction
dating back
an incredible 18,000 years.
KAKU: Perhaps the earliest
reference to the Pleiades
is in the Lascaux caves
in France.
But these go back thousands
of years into antiquity,
even before
the written language.
The Pleiades constellation
shows up in various artifacts,
one of them even being
a Sumerian tablet relief
that shows what appears
to be some type of a god
coming out of the Pleiades
constellation.
An interesting artifact
coming out of the 1600s
is the Nebra sky disk, depicting
the constellation of Pleiades.
TSOUKALOS: Worldwide,
we find hundreds of references
having to do with the Pleiades.
Not just on one continent,
not just in one culture,
but in multiple continents,
in multiple cultures worldwide.
That to me indicates that
something happened here on Earth
having to do with someone
visiting from the Pleiades.
ANDREW COLLINS:
The seven stars
making up the star cluster
of the Pleiades
are very often represented
as human figures.
Uh, in Greek mythology,
they are seven sisters.
And in India, they are
associated with the seven rishi.
These are wise benefactors
to humanity
from some kind of
astronomical place in the sky.
We have to wonder,
why are the Pleiades
being so specifically picked
out of the night sky?
Is it possible that the Pleiades
are the place
where our sky gods
have come from?
NARRATOR: With thousands
of stars in the Pleiades,
could it be a place that
contains an Earth-like planet,
one that could have
been the home planet
for our extraterrestrial
ancestors?
The Kepler space telescope
has found evidence
of planets in the Pleiades.
So, Kepler works
by finding dips of light
as a planet passes in front
of the star that it's orbiting
relative to the Earth.
Astronomers were able to see
that there is some dimming
of stars in the Pleiades, which
is likely caused by planets.
NARRATOR: Could the
Pleiades star system be the place
where human life on Earth
first originated?
And, if so, could there be a
connection between the Pleiades
and the unusual
interstellar object
that came to our solar system
in 2017?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining a culture
that continues to call
the Pleiades home.
We are all offspring
of star people.
So they consider themselves
to be hybrids,
genetic offshoots of Pleiadian
visitors to the Earth.
(singing in Hawaiian)
NARRATOR: Indigenous Hawaiians
celebrate the annual Makahiki festival,
a four-month-long period
honoring
the Hawaiian new year
and the reappearance
of the Pleiades star cluster
in the sky.
The celebration
commemorates Lono,
the god of rain and peace,
and his arrival to Earth
in a canoe.
SALLA:
It's a time of celebration
and to acknowledge
the Hawaiians' connection
to the Pleiades star system,
'cause this is how the Hawaiians
consider
their ancestors actually having
first established
their presence on the Earth.
We have all kind of connection
with the Pleiades,
but we call it, uh, Ka po'e o ka
lani, the people of the heaven.
(woman singing in Hawaiian)
NARRATOR: The festivities
incorporate the recitation of the Kumulipo,
a sacred chant
of over 2,000 lines
passed down for centuries
solely by oral tradition.
(man singing in Hawaiian)
HUGH NEWMAN:
The chant chronicles
the creation of the first humans
and is said to go back
over 1,100 generations,
back to the very beginning
of their civilization.
SALLA: In Hawaii,
the Kumulipo is the genealogical record
of the Hawaiians.
And it goes back centuries,
if not thousands of years.
And according to the Hawaiians,
the Kumulipo actually traces
the ancestry of Hawaiians
to the Pleiades.
So they consider themselves
to be hybrids,
or genetic offshoots of
Pleiadian visitors to the Earth.
NARRATOR: The Pleiades
are the first stars ever mentioned
in ancient literature,
and play a prominent role
in the creation stories
of various cultures,
including the Siberians,
Southeast Asians,
Pacific Islanders, Australians
and Indigenous Americans.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Throughout the Pacific,
in Japan and the Philippines,
we have stories of gods coming
from the Pleiades.
And the Japanese emperor is said
to have been descended
from the Pleiades.
MICHAEL CARTER: The Cherokee
call themselves the original people.
We say we were dropped here,
the Great Spirit put us here,
and that our true home,
our ancestral home,
is in this star system.
JONATHAN YOUNG: The Mayans believed
the Pleiades was the home of the ancestors,
and their language refers to
the star system as seeds.
The seed, the source of things;
The egg from which
something grows.
So they're seeing
the star system as the source
of their civilization.
STEVEN STRONG: The original
people of Australia know so much
about their sky heroes.
They came from the stars.
The elders tell me
time after time,
"The Pleiades,
they are our people.
They are our ancestors."
NEWMAN:
The similarities are astounding.
We really have to question why
there are so many similarities
between these different cultures
and the creation stories
all around the world linked
with beings from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR: Among the many
legends expressed by Native Hawaiians,
one is that visitors from the
Pleiades came to Earth
and established the lost
continent of Lemuria,
also known as Mu.
The Land of Mu,
also called Lemuria,
is one of these lost continent
stories, like Atlantis.
But this one is thought to be
in the Pacific.
A great civilization
of high culture
and technological achievement
that vanishes under the sea.
We humans were close to the gods
and reached a very advanced
stage of culture
and civilization and technology.
And it slipped away.
There were some ideas that
the continent of Lemuria
was where humanity began.
This, then, would be the point
of origin for humanity.
(conch horn sounding)
NICK POPE: Some of the tribal
elders and other priests
in the Hawaiian native religions
believe that
all Hawaiians are Lemurian.
HENRY: The belief that the
Hawaiian Islands were originally
part of Lemuria, or Mu,
this great continent in the
Pacific Ocean
that suffered
a terrible cataclysm
and sank under the waters,
this is another connection
with the Pleiades,
because it's thought that
the Pleiadeans were
the original settlers
of Lemuria.
NARRATOR: Hawaiian oral
traditions say that Lemuria
disappeared into the sea,
but some ancient astronaut
theorists propose another
even more profound possibility.
TSOUKALOS: The common accepted
idea is that Lemuria, at some point, sank.
I actually think Lemuria,
in my opinion,
was not a landmass.
It was a craft that landed
in the sea,
and it was able to move around.
Move around
under its own propulsion.
Somebody who has no idea
about high tech
well, then, for all intents
and purposes,
that thing just disappeared,
or it sank,
because it's no longer there.
It was another example of
misunderstood technology.
Could that have been
ancient Lemuria?
(men chanting)
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Lemuria,
described by
the Native Hawaiians
as a place of high technology,
was an island made
not of earth and rock,
but of metal?
Could it have been
a massive spaceship
that ascended into the sky and
set a course for the Pleiades?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest that further
evidence can be found
embedded within human DNA.
They compared the DNA
of the bone,
and there was no comparison
with human DNA.
SALLA:
These groups shared this belief
about the Pleiades being
the origin point.
NARRATOR:
Followers of Hindu, Buddhist,
Jain and Bon faiths
consider this peak the earthly
abode of their gods.
Many pilgrims making their
ascent to the peak
stop at the Saptarishi caves
on the southern face
of the mountain.
Here, they pay their respects
to the seven great sages,
the divine benefactors
of mankind.
The Saptarishis are here
on Earth
to train, to impart their
knowledge to human beings.
And after they finished
their job,
and they went back to the sky,
they went back to heaven,
and the Pleiades are
their wives.
SALLA: The Saptarishis are
linked to the Pleiades star system.
We actually have a connection
between these ascended masters
and the Pleiades star system.
NARRATOR: Today,
many people of India, Tibet and Nepal
claim that they can trace their
genetic lineage
to the Saptarishis
powerful cosmic beings
associated with the Pleiades.
Ancient astronaut theorists say
intriguing new
scientific evidence may
actually help to prove
these stories true.
They point specifically to the
region's native mountain people
known as the Sherpas.
The Sherpas are world-renowned
for being able to survive
at very high altitudes.
This is no fluke.
They found that the Sherpas
carry a specific gene
that enables them to survive in
oxygen-starved environments.
If we were up there, we would
probably get very sick,
or even die.
NARRATOR: Geneticists have
identified a "super-athlete" gene
encoded into Sherpa DNA
that regulates oxygen in
the body much more efficiently
than other human populations.
And in July 2014, geneticists
identified exactly where
this unique gift came from.
It was passed down by
a mysterious ancient lineage
of prehumans.
In the remote Altai Mountains,
at an elevation
of over 14,000 feet,
archaeologists discover
a pinky bone
of an ancient humanoid species
that dates back 40,000 years.
VON DANIKEN: These bones have
been analyzed at the Max Planck Institute
for Anthropology in Germany.
And they are absolutely
specialized in DNA.
They compared the DNA
of the bone,
and there was no comparison
with human DNA.
NARRATOR: Anthropologists
named this new species Denisovan,
after the cave where the bone
was found.
And from this small
bone fragment,
scientists have been able
to sequence
the entire Denisovan genome.
NEWMAN:
Something incredible came out
of this DNA testing.
They found that the Denisovans
had the same super-athlete gene
found in the Sherpas of Tibet.
And not only that.
After additional testing,
they actually found
that the Denisovans passed down
this gene to them.
What we're beginning
to discover is
that human origins
are a lot more complex
than what we ever imagined.
NARRATOR: In the decade since
the Denisovans were discovered,
scientists have traced their DNA
to modern human populations
in Australia, the Americas,
the Pacific Islands,
India and Tibet.
And to this day, remarkably,
the native people
that inhabit these regions
all share a profound connection
to the Pleiades star cluster.
SALLA:
Researchers have found
these groups shared
this cultural belief
about the Pleiades
actually being the origin point,
as being critical
for the establishment
of their culture, their history.
Their lineage is somehow
attributed to the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Denisovan bone fragment
found in Siberia once belonged
to an extraterrestrial being
from the Pleiades?
Stories of visitors from this
star cluster are so widespread,
they have even been given
a name
the Pleiadeans.
We've had all kinds of guests
over the many years
I've been doing Coast to Coast
that have talked
about various star systems
and clusters,
including the Pleiades.
And they talk about how
the Pleiadeans
are primarily Nordics.
They look like us, or should
I say we look like them?
HENRY:
In eyewitness descriptions,
they are described
as light beings
and blue-skinned beings
that come from the sky.
CAROLINE CORY:
The ancient civilizations knew
that the Pleiadeans
have been in contact
with Earth
since the beginning of time.
It is possible
that the Pleiadeans seeded
the Earth with their own DNA
to upgrade the genetic material
of humanity
to ensure
that it will continue to evolve.
NARRATOR:
While the Pleiades is cited
as the ancestral home for many
cultures around the world,
historians and mythologists
point out
that there are
other star systems
like Orion and Sirius
that also figure prominently
in ancient accounts concerning
mankind's place of origin.
Different cultures imagine
they have come
from specific locations
in the constellations,
like the Pleiades or Sirius.
Orion shows up in so many
different locations.
At least in mythology,
at least the lore is claiming
there are planets there
that could be inhabited
by creatures like us.
All those stars.
What is out there?
What is our relationship
to that?
If it would only be one culture
of ancient times
describing this, fine.
But if you have
all ancient cultures,
especially the origin stories,
that talk about the same thing,
then the answer is clear.
Something else went on.
So, if we have
these ancient structures
that were built
in the form of Orion,
or the Pleiades, for example,
then what if
it's an illustration
to suggest where these
extraterrestrials came from?
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the origin stories
of ancient cultures
are not merely based
on imagination,
but were inspired by actual
historical events?
And, if so, does this mean
that aliens from more than
one star system came to Earth
in the distant past?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answer
is a resounding "yes."
And they not only point
to ancient stories as proof,
but to the various descriptions
of different types of beings
being reported by eyewitnesses,
even today.
There's a wide variety
of beings out there
that are said
to have come to Earth.
You have the Greys, you have the
Reptilians and the Pleiadeans.
The Pleiadeans then fit in
as a part of a whole roster
of different types of beings
that are visiting Earth
in the ancient world,
mating with humans,
creating hybrid offspring
and influencing
human civilization.
NARRATOR: If the Pleiadeans
were one of a number
of extraterrestrial factions
that visited Earth
from different star systems,
have they left, never to return?
Or could they still be
living amongst us
even as we speak?
They all fled into the stars
seeking protection, and there
were transformed into stars.
FENTON: Some kind of conflict
between beings from the Orion system
and another group of beings
from this Pleiades system.
Here, in what was once home
to a mysterious group
of mound builders known
as the Adena culture,
is arguably one of the most
extraordinary ancient sites
in North America: Serpent Mound.
NEWMAN: Serpent Mound
is a massive 1,400-feet-long
and three-foot-tall effigy
of a serpent.
It is the largest in the world,
and you can only really see it
from above.
Scientists can't agree
when it was originally built
or why it was built.
It really is one
of the big mysteries
of the ancient world.
NARRATOR: While archeologists
still debate the true purpose
of the Serpent Mound,
ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found
in the traditional stories of
the native people of the region.
A people whose legends
tell of a great battle
waged between a serpent
and visitors from the Pleiades.
According to the legend,
there were two entities
involved in this great battle:
A water serpent
and the thunderbird,
which represented star people
from the Pleiades culture.
So we may have had
two extraterrestrial races
battling at Serpent Mound.
Some significant things
about Serpent Mound
that gives credibility
to this story.
Core samples have revealed
there's striated crystal,
and also deposits of iridium
found in Serpent Mound.
And according to lore,
this battle involved
high-tech weapons
that may have caused
this striated crystal
or this deposit of iridium.
POPE: Not only is iridium one
of the rarest metals on Earth,
it's also one of the most
corrosion resistant.
And it can withstand
incredible heat,
which is why it's used
in a lot of high technology,
including space probes.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the iridium found at Serpent Mound
came from some sort
of extraterrestrial craft
that was engaged in battle,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
And if so,
could its presence at the site
reveal the battle's outcome?
Ancient astronaut theorists
often think
that there were several kinds
of extraterrestrials
who were coming to the planet;
And one type of extraterrestrial
was a reptilian,
serpent-type of humanoid entity.
And some people think
that they were fighting wars
over domination of planet Earth.
And it seems the reptilians
won the battle.
NARRATOR: While alien factions
battling for control of the planet
may sound like the stuff
of science fiction fantasy,
ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that strikingly similar stories
can be found in cultures
throughout the world
that also support this notion.
Dating back
more than 20,000 years,
the rock art at Walinynga,
also known as Cave Hill,
is considered
some of the most significant
on the continent, and contains
the oldest depictions
of the Pleiades.
The art represents
the so-called "Seven Sisters"
being chased by star beings
associated with
the constellation of Orion.
According to legend,
they were forced to flee
into the night sky,
where they became the Pleiades.
There is one dreaming story
that runs through the whole
of this country,
and that's the Seven Sisters
of Pleiades.
It is the same narrative
that barely changes
from place to place.
Sometimes it's Orion,
sometimes it's Southern Cross
chasing them.
But it is something
that permeates through the whole
of their religion.
NARRATOR: The details of
the stories of the original people
of Australia are eerily similar
to one found
over 8,000 miles away in Greece.
According to the mythology,
the Seven Sisters were fleeing
an earthly pursuer,
called Orion.
In the Greco-Roman tradition,
the Pleiades are the daughters
of Atlas
and a goddess, Pleione.
And they are seven daughters.
Orion is also a demigod,
as it were, a hero,
and he was chasing after them.
And as a result of it,
they all fled into the stars
seeking protection, and there
were transformed into stars.
NARRATOR:
6,000 miles from Greece,
the native Kiowa tribe
in Wyoming tells the story
that Devil's Tower
was clawed by a great bear
that was in pursuit
of seven maidens.
The Pleiades. The bright stars
that can be seen clearly
by the eye are important
in the ancient lore.
Kiowa tradition tells us
that the maidens
knelt to pray for help,
calling upon the gods.
The ground was raised
into the sky.
The bear tried to follow in vain
and clawed the side of the rock.
To protect the maidens,
the Great Spirit allowed them
to remain in the sky
as the Seven Sisters.
The Pleiades.
How can it be that cultures
separated by
such vast distances,
and indeed, time,
have an identical story?
Could it be that they're
recording real events,
that there was some
kind of conflict
between beings that originated
from the Orion system
and another group of beings
from this Pleiades system?
Could it be
that these Pleiadeans
returned to their home
in the stars?
NARRATOR: Do these
similar ancient traditions provide
a historical record
that extraterrestrials
from the Pleiades were forced
to flee the Earth?
Based on the legend
of the Native Hawaiians,
some ancient astronaut
theorists believe
there could be another, even
more incredible possibility.
SALLA: Part of Hawaiian legend
is that Lemurians used lava tubes
for safe harbor from invasion.
And I think that was a legend
that is established on a war
that occurred prior
to the last great flood.
So, this was the Lemurians
being driven underground.
Many of them remained
and some of them
returned to the Pleiades.
CHILDRESS: Throughout the Pacific,
there are also stories
that Lemuria or Mu
is now basically
underneath the ocean.
So if Lemuria was actually
some kind of a craft,
we have to wonder if it
is capable of going underwater.
And it's quite possible as well
that these extraterrestrials
are under the oceans.
NARRATOR: If the events chronicled
in numerous ancient traditions
really occurred, is it possible
that the Pleiadeans
did not retreat to their home
planet thousands of years ago,
but are still here
and can be found
somewhere deep
beneath the ocean?
POPE:
The indigenous elders
say this is where
they go to commune
with their
otherworldly ancestors.
SALLA:
He began having experiences
with these Pleiadian
star visitors.
NARR population,
distinctive rock formations
in the Blue Mountains
called the Three Sisters
are what remains
of seven stone spires
that once stood here.
Locals associate them
with the seven visible stars
of the Pleiades.
To this day, the elders
believe this area contains
a cosmic cord,
a sacred link to these stars
that allows them to make contact
with their ancestors.
And some believe it is the site
of their return.
STRONG:
There are definitely stories
of Pleiadians in contact through
the whole of that region,
Blue Mountains and Gosford.
It is where they've come down
and worked with them.
I've been with elders
who swear to this day
they have spoken
to tall blue beings,
and they've given
information to them.
POPE: In the paranormal
investigation community,
the Blue Mountains
are considered a hot spot
for extraterrestrial activity.
Since the 1950s, there have been
hundreds of UFO sightings.
This corroborates the views
of the indigenous elders
who say this is a location
where they go to commune
with their otherworldly
ancestors.
So could this mean
that these beings
they call "the ancestors"
have returned?
NARRATOR: But if
extraterrestrials from the Pleiades
have returned to Earth after
a long absence, why now?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining details
from an alleged alien abduction
event half a world away.
Engineer Enrique Castillo Rincón
is at home when a strange voice
invades his mind.
According to Rincón,
this telepathic communication
is from a cosmic being
whose origin
lies 400 light-years away,
in the Pleiades.
Rincón is instructed
to visit a specific lake
where physical contact
would be made.
NARRATOR: Once there,
he claims to have been taken aboard
a Pleiadean spacecraft.
SALLA:
Enrique Castillo Rincón
began having experiences with
these Pleiadian star visitors.
He says that he was chosen
by the Pleiadians
to be an ambassador,
where he would actually
be given a lot of information:
The history of, uh, Pleiadian
interaction with humanity
and our true history
as a species.
And how the Pleiadians
have been interacting with us
for-for many millennia.
Some of the messages
Rincón receives
talk of great changes
coming in the near future
including an imminent
Third World War.
You can imagine that this sort
of information
would be of great concern
to the authorities.
Indeed, after one of his public
appearances, Rincón claims
that government agents
took him to Washington, D.C.,
where top-level officials
interrogated him.
What made Rincón's case
fascinating
was that documentation
subsequently has come out
substantiating that the CIA
did actually
bring him to the United States
for a debriefing.
NARRATOR:
Since 1973,
other contactees
have come forward,
professing to have been given
similar information
by beings from the Pleiades.
Ancient astronaut
theorists speculate
that this increase in contact,
and the recent appearance
of 'Oumuamua, may indicate
that they are preparing humanity
for their return.
We know from
many different sources
that the Pleiadians have been
interacting with humanity
and are connected to us.
So if that is the case,
'Oumuamua could be part
of humanity's awakening
to the greater cosmic reality.
TSOUKALOS: 'Oumuamua, the first
visitor from outside the solar system.
It's almost like a calling card,
a business card of where
the extraterrestrials came from.
They came down
from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR: Are we entering
a new era of alien visitation,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
One where we will see
the return of the Pleiadians
and other
extraterrestrial races?
Perhaps further evidence
can be found
by examining a second
interstellar object
that recently entered
our solar system.
NARRATOR:
At the MARGO Observatory,
amateur astronomer
Gennadiy Borisov
detects a strange object
traveling through the sky.
It is dubbed the Borisov comet,
and becomes the second
interstellar object
ever discovered
in our solar system,
nearly two years after 'Oumuamua
traveled from the Pleiades
star cluster.
TEITEL: The Borisov comet is
the second known object we found
that has interstellar origins.
It was traveling way too fast
to have come
from our own outer solar system,
which means it has to have come
from another solar system.
Whether we are just getting
better at detecting
these objects or whether we're
seeing this new kind of thing
swinging by our Sun,
it's a really exciting time
to be looking for things
that are coming from outside
our solar system.
HENRY: This is kind of
alarming to some astronomers
because we wonder, are these
cosmic messengers coming here
bringing us warnings?
Are they signaling something?
Is this just the start
of more interstellar objects
entering into our solar system?
And if so, how many more
of these objects
are we going to start seeing?
MEECH:
In 2017, a paper was published
trying to estimate the number
of interstellar objects
that we might have.
One estimate suggests that
at any one moment, we might have
one 'Oumuamua-like object inside
the orbit of Earth at any time
that shows us new possibilities
of what's out there.
We've had a piece of something
from another solar system
delivered to us.
I think this
is inching us closer
to the discovery
of life elsewhere.
My personal belief
is there is life out there.
NARRATOR: Now,
after the historic discovery
of two interstellar objects
that were delivered
to our solar system,
could a new age be upon us?
One that will soon see the
arrival of intelligent beings
from another world?
HENRY: If 'Oumuamua
is an interstellar probe,
we know now that it comes
from the Pleiades.
Is the Borisov object also
some form of intelligently
directed interstellar object?
And are there other species
out there that are also
sending probes
that we soon will discover?
TSOUKALOS: In the
earliest of oral traditions
and the earliest of texts,
everybody is waiting
for someone to return.
I hope that we will make
official contact
within our lifetime, meaning
in the next 50 or so years.
I've always said
that the big secret will be
when the hatch opens
and they walk down the ramp,
that we'll look at each other
in the mirror,
'cause they will look
like you and me.
NARRATOR:
Throughout human history,
we have looked to the stars
to guide our ships,
to align our most
sacred monuments,
and to search for our place
in the universe.
But could we have
a far more profound connection
with these distant suns?
And if so, are we on the verge
of recovering
this lost knowledge?
Perhaps now that we are able
to detect the visitors
coming to our solar system
from the far reaches of space,
we will soon discover
that humanity's origins
lie not on Earth,
but light-years away.
Is it possible that
humankind's true origins
lie not on Earth
but 400 light-years away?
LEONARD KAPAHULEHUA:
According to our traditions,
we are all offspring
of star people.
NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,
ancient people pointed
to the Pleiades
and called it home.
MICHIO KAKU:
References to the Pleiades
go back thousands of years
into antiquity.
In fact,
the Kepler space telescope
has found evidence of planets
in the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
Now a new discovery
provides an intriguing link
to this star system.
BRUCE FENTON:
This object seems to come
from the Pleiades star cluster,
which is quite astonishing.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
It's almost like a calling card
of where the extraterrestrials
came from.
They came down
from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Scientists
at the University of Hawaii
Haleakala Observatory
detect a strange object
traveling
through our solar system.
They initially catalog it
as an asteroid,
but after further examination,
researchers observe
that the object accelerated
as it approached the Sun,
acting more like a comet
but without any other
comet-like characteristics.
The find forces astronomers
to reclassify it
as something entirely new:
An interstellar object.
KAREN MEECH: We'd
never seen anything like this
in the solar system before.
We get an estimate of its size
at about 800 meters
or half a kilometer in length.
Roughly a cigar-like shape.
It was moving very fast,
a little more
than 195,000 miles per hour.
You get a chill sometimes
when you understand
something is very important
or is really exciting,
and that's what I felt
with this object.
NARRATOR:
Our Milky Way galaxy
is estimated to consist
of 100,000 million stars,
each indicating the presence
of a solar system.
Because the distances
between them are so vast,
astronomers believed
it was impossible
for an object
from another solar system
to reach our own
until now.
It just came
from outside our solar system,
meaning it wasn't material
from our star being created.
It's from a different
star system somewhere else.
That's historic
that we've actually seen it.
We now know objects can travel
from one star system to another.
NARRATOR: Researchers
dubbed the interstellar visitor
"Oumuamua",
a Hawaiian term meaning
"a messenger from afar
arriving first."
Is it possible
that the interstellar visitor
was, in fact, a messenger?
One sent on a mission
to our solar system?
MICHAEL SALLA:
Different scientists
have analyzed the data
and deduced that
it's something very different
to an asteroid or a comet.
So the scientific data
does point to it actually being
some artificial creation.
We've had open speculation
about how this thing might be
an interstellar spacecraft.
Talk from
from a Harvard professor.
NARRATOR: The chair of
Harvard's astronomy department,
Dr. Avi Loeb,
noted that the object seemed to
follow the propulsion patterns
of a new technology
that is currently being tested
for future space missions,
known as solar sail propulsion.
Large reflective sails
capture sunlight
to propel a craft through
the vacuum of space.
You can design, essentially,
photon sails.
So the idea has been
to make a-a material
that reflects photons, which is
light, very efficiently.
You deploy this
and you basically accelerate
under starlight.
And then you just cruise.
NARRATOR: Was similar alien
technology used to propel 'Oumuamua?
FENTON: It makes you wonder,
was that a targeted mission,
some sort of probe that has been
sent in to look for life?
TAYLOR: Before man
actually went to the Moon
and walked on it,
we sent a lot of probes
around the Moon to look at it.
And it's quite likely
that some version of NASA
from some other star system
could send a probe here
to Earth.
NARRATOR: The trajectory
of the interstellar object
took it past the Sun,
where it made a turn and then
ran parallel to Earth's orbit.
It traveled
between our planet and Mars
before it began its journey
out of our solar system.
When 'Oumuamua arrived,
nobody knew where it came from.
Then in 2018,
an astronomer at the University
of Hertfordshire retraced
its movements and discovered
that it came from the Pleiades.
We have to ask,
is it possible that it was
actually sent from the Pleiades?
NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the revelation that 'Oumuamua
traveled to our solar system
from the area
of the Pleiades star cluster
is highly intriguing.
The Pleiades figures
into the creation stories
of many ancient cultures
from all around the world,
where it was taught that divine
beings came from these stars
to seed life on Earth.
If we look at the mythologies of
the Pleiades around the world,
there's some indication
that this star cluster
is in some way related to
a visitation in ancient times.
NARRATOR: Located over
400 light-years from Earth,
near the constellation
of Taurus, the Pleiades
is commonly recognized
as seven bright stars,
but actually consists
of thousands.
SETH SHOSTAK:
The Pleiades.
Everybody's heard
of the Pleiades.
They're also known
as the Seven Sisters,
'cause if you have
really good eyesight,
you can see seven stars
in a very compact configuration
in the winter sky.
And in fact, there are
a lot more stars than seven.
There are actually 3,000 stars
in the Pleiades.
KAKU: So the
Pleiades is a star cluster.
They're not separated
by huge distances,
but they occur in a small area.
That's different
from a constellation,
where the stars could be moving
in all sorts of directions
and are separated
by huge distances.
NARRATOR: The importance of this
massive star cluster to ancient peoples
is revealed not only
by their creation stories,
but also in how they orientated
their most important structures.
FENTON:
All around the world,
we find ancient structures
that have alignments
that infer a relationship
to the Pleiades.
Now, these can be found
in places like Chaco Canyon,
in Mesoamerica,
in various parts of the world.
It's clear that the ancient
people wanted to incorporate
the rising of the Pleiades
in some way
with the building
of these megastructures.
NARRATOR: Additionally,
ancient artwork and artifacts
pay homage to these same stars,
with one depiction
dating back
an incredible 18,000 years.
KAKU: Perhaps the earliest
reference to the Pleiades
is in the Lascaux caves
in France.
But these go back thousands
of years into antiquity,
even before
the written language.
The Pleiades constellation
shows up in various artifacts,
one of them even being
a Sumerian tablet relief
that shows what appears
to be some type of a god
coming out of the Pleiades
constellation.
An interesting artifact
coming out of the 1600s
is the Nebra sky disk, depicting
the constellation of Pleiades.
TSOUKALOS: Worldwide,
we find hundreds of references
having to do with the Pleiades.
Not just on one continent,
not just in one culture,
but in multiple continents,
in multiple cultures worldwide.
That to me indicates that
something happened here on Earth
having to do with someone
visiting from the Pleiades.
ANDREW COLLINS:
The seven stars
making up the star cluster
of the Pleiades
are very often represented
as human figures.
Uh, in Greek mythology,
they are seven sisters.
And in India, they are
associated with the seven rishi.
These are wise benefactors
to humanity
from some kind of
astronomical place in the sky.
We have to wonder,
why are the Pleiades
being so specifically picked
out of the night sky?
Is it possible that the Pleiades
are the place
where our sky gods
have come from?
NARRATOR: With thousands
of stars in the Pleiades,
could it be a place that
contains an Earth-like planet,
one that could have
been the home planet
for our extraterrestrial
ancestors?
The Kepler space telescope
has found evidence
of planets in the Pleiades.
So, Kepler works
by finding dips of light
as a planet passes in front
of the star that it's orbiting
relative to the Earth.
Astronomers were able to see
that there is some dimming
of stars in the Pleiades, which
is likely caused by planets.
NARRATOR: Could the
Pleiades star system be the place
where human life on Earth
first originated?
And, if so, could there be a
connection between the Pleiades
and the unusual
interstellar object
that came to our solar system
in 2017?
Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining a culture
that continues to call
the Pleiades home.
We are all offspring
of star people.
So they consider themselves
to be hybrids,
genetic offshoots of Pleiadian
visitors to the Earth.
(singing in Hawaiian)
NARRATOR: Indigenous Hawaiians
celebrate the annual Makahiki festival,
a four-month-long period
honoring
the Hawaiian new year
and the reappearance
of the Pleiades star cluster
in the sky.
The celebration
commemorates Lono,
the god of rain and peace,
and his arrival to Earth
in a canoe.
SALLA:
It's a time of celebration
and to acknowledge
the Hawaiians' connection
to the Pleiades star system,
'cause this is how the Hawaiians
consider
their ancestors actually having
first established
their presence on the Earth.
We have all kind of connection
with the Pleiades,
but we call it, uh, Ka po'e o ka
lani, the people of the heaven.
(woman singing in Hawaiian)
NARRATOR: The festivities
incorporate the recitation of the Kumulipo,
a sacred chant
of over 2,000 lines
passed down for centuries
solely by oral tradition.
(man singing in Hawaiian)
HUGH NEWMAN:
The chant chronicles
the creation of the first humans
and is said to go back
over 1,100 generations,
back to the very beginning
of their civilization.
SALLA: In Hawaii,
the Kumulipo is the genealogical record
of the Hawaiians.
And it goes back centuries,
if not thousands of years.
And according to the Hawaiians,
the Kumulipo actually traces
the ancestry of Hawaiians
to the Pleiades.
So they consider themselves
to be hybrids,
or genetic offshoots of
Pleiadian visitors to the Earth.
NARRATOR: The Pleiades
are the first stars ever mentioned
in ancient literature,
and play a prominent role
in the creation stories
of various cultures,
including the Siberians,
Southeast Asians,
Pacific Islanders, Australians
and Indigenous Americans.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
Throughout the Pacific,
in Japan and the Philippines,
we have stories of gods coming
from the Pleiades.
And the Japanese emperor is said
to have been descended
from the Pleiades.
MICHAEL CARTER: The Cherokee
call themselves the original people.
We say we were dropped here,
the Great Spirit put us here,
and that our true home,
our ancestral home,
is in this star system.
JONATHAN YOUNG: The Mayans believed
the Pleiades was the home of the ancestors,
and their language refers to
the star system as seeds.
The seed, the source of things;
The egg from which
something grows.
So they're seeing
the star system as the source
of their civilization.
STEVEN STRONG: The original
people of Australia know so much
about their sky heroes.
They came from the stars.
The elders tell me
time after time,
"The Pleiades,
they are our people.
They are our ancestors."
NEWMAN:
The similarities are astounding.
We really have to question why
there are so many similarities
between these different cultures
and the creation stories
all around the world linked
with beings from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR: Among the many
legends expressed by Native Hawaiians,
one is that visitors from the
Pleiades came to Earth
and established the lost
continent of Lemuria,
also known as Mu.
The Land of Mu,
also called Lemuria,
is one of these lost continent
stories, like Atlantis.
But this one is thought to be
in the Pacific.
A great civilization
of high culture
and technological achievement
that vanishes under the sea.
We humans were close to the gods
and reached a very advanced
stage of culture
and civilization and technology.
And it slipped away.
There were some ideas that
the continent of Lemuria
was where humanity began.
This, then, would be the point
of origin for humanity.
(conch horn sounding)
NICK POPE: Some of the tribal
elders and other priests
in the Hawaiian native religions
believe that
all Hawaiians are Lemurian.
HENRY: The belief that the
Hawaiian Islands were originally
part of Lemuria, or Mu,
this great continent in the
Pacific Ocean
that suffered
a terrible cataclysm
and sank under the waters,
this is another connection
with the Pleiades,
because it's thought that
the Pleiadeans were
the original settlers
of Lemuria.
NARRATOR: Hawaiian oral
traditions say that Lemuria
disappeared into the sea,
but some ancient astronaut
theorists propose another
even more profound possibility.
TSOUKALOS: The common accepted
idea is that Lemuria, at some point, sank.
I actually think Lemuria,
in my opinion,
was not a landmass.
It was a craft that landed
in the sea,
and it was able to move around.
Move around
under its own propulsion.
Somebody who has no idea
about high tech
well, then, for all intents
and purposes,
that thing just disappeared,
or it sank,
because it's no longer there.
It was another example of
misunderstood technology.
Could that have been
ancient Lemuria?
(men chanting)
NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Lemuria,
described by
the Native Hawaiians
as a place of high technology,
was an island made
not of earth and rock,
but of metal?
Could it have been
a massive spaceship
that ascended into the sky and
set a course for the Pleiades?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,
and suggest that further
evidence can be found
embedded within human DNA.
They compared the DNA
of the bone,
and there was no comparison
with human DNA.
SALLA:
These groups shared this belief
about the Pleiades being
the origin point.
NARRATOR:
Followers of Hindu, Buddhist,
Jain and Bon faiths
consider this peak the earthly
abode of their gods.
Many pilgrims making their
ascent to the peak
stop at the Saptarishi caves
on the southern face
of the mountain.
Here, they pay their respects
to the seven great sages,
the divine benefactors
of mankind.
The Saptarishis are here
on Earth
to train, to impart their
knowledge to human beings.
And after they finished
their job,
and they went back to the sky,
they went back to heaven,
and the Pleiades are
their wives.
SALLA: The Saptarishis are
linked to the Pleiades star system.
We actually have a connection
between these ascended masters
and the Pleiades star system.
NARRATOR: Today,
many people of India, Tibet and Nepal
claim that they can trace their
genetic lineage
to the Saptarishis
powerful cosmic beings
associated with the Pleiades.
Ancient astronaut theorists say
intriguing new
scientific evidence may
actually help to prove
these stories true.
They point specifically to the
region's native mountain people
known as the Sherpas.
The Sherpas are world-renowned
for being able to survive
at very high altitudes.
This is no fluke.
They found that the Sherpas
carry a specific gene
that enables them to survive in
oxygen-starved environments.
If we were up there, we would
probably get very sick,
or even die.
NARRATOR: Geneticists have
identified a "super-athlete" gene
encoded into Sherpa DNA
that regulates oxygen in
the body much more efficiently
than other human populations.
And in July 2014, geneticists
identified exactly where
this unique gift came from.
It was passed down by
a mysterious ancient lineage
of prehumans.
In the remote Altai Mountains,
at an elevation
of over 14,000 feet,
archaeologists discover
a pinky bone
of an ancient humanoid species
that dates back 40,000 years.
VON DANIKEN: These bones have
been analyzed at the Max Planck Institute
for Anthropology in Germany.
And they are absolutely
specialized in DNA.
They compared the DNA
of the bone,
and there was no comparison
with human DNA.
NARRATOR: Anthropologists
named this new species Denisovan,
after the cave where the bone
was found.
And from this small
bone fragment,
scientists have been able
to sequence
the entire Denisovan genome.
NEWMAN:
Something incredible came out
of this DNA testing.
They found that the Denisovans
had the same super-athlete gene
found in the Sherpas of Tibet.
And not only that.
After additional testing,
they actually found
that the Denisovans passed down
this gene to them.
What we're beginning
to discover is
that human origins
are a lot more complex
than what we ever imagined.
NARRATOR: In the decade since
the Denisovans were discovered,
scientists have traced their DNA
to modern human populations
in Australia, the Americas,
the Pacific Islands,
India and Tibet.
And to this day, remarkably,
the native people
that inhabit these regions
all share a profound connection
to the Pleiades star cluster.
SALLA:
Researchers have found
these groups shared
this cultural belief
about the Pleiades
actually being the origin point,
as being critical
for the establishment
of their culture, their history.
Their lineage is somehow
attributed to the Pleiades.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Denisovan bone fragment
found in Siberia once belonged
to an extraterrestrial being
from the Pleiades?
Stories of visitors from this
star cluster are so widespread,
they have even been given
a name
the Pleiadeans.
We've had all kinds of guests
over the many years
I've been doing Coast to Coast
that have talked
about various star systems
and clusters,
including the Pleiades.
And they talk about how
the Pleiadeans
are primarily Nordics.
They look like us, or should
I say we look like them?
HENRY:
In eyewitness descriptions,
they are described
as light beings
and blue-skinned beings
that come from the sky.
CAROLINE CORY:
The ancient civilizations knew
that the Pleiadeans
have been in contact
with Earth
since the beginning of time.
It is possible
that the Pleiadeans seeded
the Earth with their own DNA
to upgrade the genetic material
of humanity
to ensure
that it will continue to evolve.
NARRATOR:
While the Pleiades is cited
as the ancestral home for many
cultures around the world,
historians and mythologists
point out
that there are
other star systems
like Orion and Sirius
that also figure prominently
in ancient accounts concerning
mankind's place of origin.
Different cultures imagine
they have come
from specific locations
in the constellations,
like the Pleiades or Sirius.
Orion shows up in so many
different locations.
At least in mythology,
at least the lore is claiming
there are planets there
that could be inhabited
by creatures like us.
All those stars.
What is out there?
What is our relationship
to that?
If it would only be one culture
of ancient times
describing this, fine.
But if you have
all ancient cultures,
especially the origin stories,
that talk about the same thing,
then the answer is clear.
Something else went on.
So, if we have
these ancient structures
that were built
in the form of Orion,
or the Pleiades, for example,
then what if
it's an illustration
to suggest where these
extraterrestrials came from?
NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the origin stories
of ancient cultures
are not merely based
on imagination,
but were inspired by actual
historical events?
And, if so, does this mean
that aliens from more than
one star system came to Earth
in the distant past?
As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
the answer
is a resounding "yes."
And they not only point
to ancient stories as proof,
but to the various descriptions
of different types of beings
being reported by eyewitnesses,
even today.
There's a wide variety
of beings out there
that are said
to have come to Earth.
You have the Greys, you have the
Reptilians and the Pleiadeans.
The Pleiadeans then fit in
as a part of a whole roster
of different types of beings
that are visiting Earth
in the ancient world,
mating with humans,
creating hybrid offspring
and influencing
human civilization.
NARRATOR: If the Pleiadeans
were one of a number
of extraterrestrial factions
that visited Earth
from different star systems,
have they left, never to return?
Or could they still be
living amongst us
even as we speak?
They all fled into the stars
seeking protection, and there
were transformed into stars.
FENTON: Some kind of conflict
between beings from the Orion system
and another group of beings
from this Pleiades system.
Here, in what was once home
to a mysterious group
of mound builders known
as the Adena culture,
is arguably one of the most
extraordinary ancient sites
in North America: Serpent Mound.
NEWMAN: Serpent Mound
is a massive 1,400-feet-long
and three-foot-tall effigy
of a serpent.
It is the largest in the world,
and you can only really see it
from above.
Scientists can't agree
when it was originally built
or why it was built.
It really is one
of the big mysteries
of the ancient world.
NARRATOR: While archeologists
still debate the true purpose
of the Serpent Mound,
ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer may be found
in the traditional stories of
the native people of the region.
A people whose legends
tell of a great battle
waged between a serpent
and visitors from the Pleiades.
According to the legend,
there were two entities
involved in this great battle:
A water serpent
and the thunderbird,
which represented star people
from the Pleiades culture.
So we may have had
two extraterrestrial races
battling at Serpent Mound.
Some significant things
about Serpent Mound
that gives credibility
to this story.
Core samples have revealed
there's striated crystal,
and also deposits of iridium
found in Serpent Mound.
And according to lore,
this battle involved
high-tech weapons
that may have caused
this striated crystal
or this deposit of iridium.
POPE: Not only is iridium one
of the rarest metals on Earth,
it's also one of the most
corrosion resistant.
And it can withstand
incredible heat,
which is why it's used
in a lot of high technology,
including space probes.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the iridium found at Serpent Mound
came from some sort
of extraterrestrial craft
that was engaged in battle,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
And if so,
could its presence at the site
reveal the battle's outcome?
Ancient astronaut theorists
often think
that there were several kinds
of extraterrestrials
who were coming to the planet;
And one type of extraterrestrial
was a reptilian,
serpent-type of humanoid entity.
And some people think
that they were fighting wars
over domination of planet Earth.
And it seems the reptilians
won the battle.
NARRATOR: While alien factions
battling for control of the planet
may sound like the stuff
of science fiction fantasy,
ancient astronaut
theorists suggest
that strikingly similar stories
can be found in cultures
throughout the world
that also support this notion.
Dating back
more than 20,000 years,
the rock art at Walinynga,
also known as Cave Hill,
is considered
some of the most significant
on the continent, and contains
the oldest depictions
of the Pleiades.
The art represents
the so-called "Seven Sisters"
being chased by star beings
associated with
the constellation of Orion.
According to legend,
they were forced to flee
into the night sky,
where they became the Pleiades.
There is one dreaming story
that runs through the whole
of this country,
and that's the Seven Sisters
of Pleiades.
It is the same narrative
that barely changes
from place to place.
Sometimes it's Orion,
sometimes it's Southern Cross
chasing them.
But it is something
that permeates through the whole
of their religion.
NARRATOR: The details of
the stories of the original people
of Australia are eerily similar
to one found
over 8,000 miles away in Greece.
According to the mythology,
the Seven Sisters were fleeing
an earthly pursuer,
called Orion.
In the Greco-Roman tradition,
the Pleiades are the daughters
of Atlas
and a goddess, Pleione.
And they are seven daughters.
Orion is also a demigod,
as it were, a hero,
and he was chasing after them.
And as a result of it,
they all fled into the stars
seeking protection, and there
were transformed into stars.
NARRATOR:
6,000 miles from Greece,
the native Kiowa tribe
in Wyoming tells the story
that Devil's Tower
was clawed by a great bear
that was in pursuit
of seven maidens.
The Pleiades. The bright stars
that can be seen clearly
by the eye are important
in the ancient lore.
Kiowa tradition tells us
that the maidens
knelt to pray for help,
calling upon the gods.
The ground was raised
into the sky.
The bear tried to follow in vain
and clawed the side of the rock.
To protect the maidens,
the Great Spirit allowed them
to remain in the sky
as the Seven Sisters.
The Pleiades.
How can it be that cultures
separated by
such vast distances,
and indeed, time,
have an identical story?
Could it be that they're
recording real events,
that there was some
kind of conflict
between beings that originated
from the Orion system
and another group of beings
from this Pleiades system?
Could it be
that these Pleiadeans
returned to their home
in the stars?
NARRATOR: Do these
similar ancient traditions provide
a historical record
that extraterrestrials
from the Pleiades were forced
to flee the Earth?
Based on the legend
of the Native Hawaiians,
some ancient astronaut
theorists believe
there could be another, even
more incredible possibility.
SALLA: Part of Hawaiian legend
is that Lemurians used lava tubes
for safe harbor from invasion.
And I think that was a legend
that is established on a war
that occurred prior
to the last great flood.
So, this was the Lemurians
being driven underground.
Many of them remained
and some of them
returned to the Pleiades.
CHILDRESS: Throughout the Pacific,
there are also stories
that Lemuria or Mu
is now basically
underneath the ocean.
So if Lemuria was actually
some kind of a craft,
we have to wonder if it
is capable of going underwater.
And it's quite possible as well
that these extraterrestrials
are under the oceans.
NARRATOR: If the events chronicled
in numerous ancient traditions
really occurred, is it possible
that the Pleiadeans
did not retreat to their home
planet thousands of years ago,
but are still here
and can be found
somewhere deep
beneath the ocean?
POPE:
The indigenous elders
say this is where
they go to commune
with their
otherworldly ancestors.
SALLA:
He began having experiences
with these Pleiadian
star visitors.
NARR population,
distinctive rock formations
in the Blue Mountains
called the Three Sisters
are what remains
of seven stone spires
that once stood here.
Locals associate them
with the seven visible stars
of the Pleiades.
To this day, the elders
believe this area contains
a cosmic cord,
a sacred link to these stars
that allows them to make contact
with their ancestors.
And some believe it is the site
of their return.
STRONG:
There are definitely stories
of Pleiadians in contact through
the whole of that region,
Blue Mountains and Gosford.
It is where they've come down
and worked with them.
I've been with elders
who swear to this day
they have spoken
to tall blue beings,
and they've given
information to them.
POPE: In the paranormal
investigation community,
the Blue Mountains
are considered a hot spot
for extraterrestrial activity.
Since the 1950s, there have been
hundreds of UFO sightings.
This corroborates the views
of the indigenous elders
who say this is a location
where they go to commune
with their otherworldly
ancestors.
So could this mean
that these beings
they call "the ancestors"
have returned?
NARRATOR: But if
extraterrestrials from the Pleiades
have returned to Earth after
a long absence, why now?
Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining details
from an alleged alien abduction
event half a world away.
Engineer Enrique Castillo Rincón
is at home when a strange voice
invades his mind.
According to Rincón,
this telepathic communication
is from a cosmic being
whose origin
lies 400 light-years away,
in the Pleiades.
Rincón is instructed
to visit a specific lake
where physical contact
would be made.
NARRATOR: Once there,
he claims to have been taken aboard
a Pleiadean spacecraft.
SALLA:
Enrique Castillo Rincón
began having experiences with
these Pleiadian star visitors.
He says that he was chosen
by the Pleiadians
to be an ambassador,
where he would actually
be given a lot of information:
The history of, uh, Pleiadian
interaction with humanity
and our true history
as a species.
And how the Pleiadians
have been interacting with us
for-for many millennia.
Some of the messages
Rincón receives
talk of great changes
coming in the near future
including an imminent
Third World War.
You can imagine that this sort
of information
would be of great concern
to the authorities.
Indeed, after one of his public
appearances, Rincón claims
that government agents
took him to Washington, D.C.,
where top-level officials
interrogated him.
What made Rincón's case
fascinating
was that documentation
subsequently has come out
substantiating that the CIA
did actually
bring him to the United States
for a debriefing.
NARRATOR:
Since 1973,
other contactees
have come forward,
professing to have been given
similar information
by beings from the Pleiades.
Ancient astronaut
theorists speculate
that this increase in contact,
and the recent appearance
of 'Oumuamua, may indicate
that they are preparing humanity
for their return.
We know from
many different sources
that the Pleiadians have been
interacting with humanity
and are connected to us.
So if that is the case,
'Oumuamua could be part
of humanity's awakening
to the greater cosmic reality.
TSOUKALOS: 'Oumuamua, the first
visitor from outside the solar system.
It's almost like a calling card,
a business card of where
the extraterrestrials came from.
They came down
from the Pleiades.
NARRATOR: Are we entering
a new era of alien visitation,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?
One where we will see
the return of the Pleiadians
and other
extraterrestrial races?
Perhaps further evidence
can be found
by examining a second
interstellar object
that recently entered
our solar system.
NARRATOR:
At the MARGO Observatory,
amateur astronomer
Gennadiy Borisov
detects a strange object
traveling through the sky.
It is dubbed the Borisov comet,
and becomes the second
interstellar object
ever discovered
in our solar system,
nearly two years after 'Oumuamua
traveled from the Pleiades
star cluster.
TEITEL: The Borisov comet is
the second known object we found
that has interstellar origins.
It was traveling way too fast
to have come
from our own outer solar system,
which means it has to have come
from another solar system.
Whether we are just getting
better at detecting
these objects or whether we're
seeing this new kind of thing
swinging by our Sun,
it's a really exciting time
to be looking for things
that are coming from outside
our solar system.
HENRY: This is kind of
alarming to some astronomers
because we wonder, are these
cosmic messengers coming here
bringing us warnings?
Are they signaling something?
Is this just the start
of more interstellar objects
entering into our solar system?
And if so, how many more
of these objects
are we going to start seeing?
MEECH:
In 2017, a paper was published
trying to estimate the number
of interstellar objects
that we might have.
One estimate suggests that
at any one moment, we might have
one 'Oumuamua-like object inside
the orbit of Earth at any time
that shows us new possibilities
of what's out there.
We've had a piece of something
from another solar system
delivered to us.
I think this
is inching us closer
to the discovery
of life elsewhere.
My personal belief
is there is life out there.
NARRATOR: Now,
after the historic discovery
of two interstellar objects
that were delivered
to our solar system,
could a new age be upon us?
One that will soon see the
arrival of intelligent beings
from another world?
HENRY: If 'Oumuamua
is an interstellar probe,
we know now that it comes
from the Pleiades.
Is the Borisov object also
some form of intelligently
directed interstellar object?
And are there other species
out there that are also
sending probes
that we soon will discover?
TSOUKALOS: In the
earliest of oral traditions
and the earliest of texts,
everybody is waiting
for someone to return.
I hope that we will make
official contact
within our lifetime, meaning
in the next 50 or so years.
I've always said
that the big secret will be
when the hatch opens
and they walk down the ramp,
that we'll look at each other
in the mirror,
'cause they will look
like you and me.
NARRATOR:
Throughout human history,
we have looked to the stars
to guide our ships,
to align our most
sacred monuments,
and to search for our place
in the universe.
But could we have
a far more profound connection
with these distant suns?
And if so, are we on the verge
of recovering
this lost knowledge?
Perhaps now that we are able
to detect the visitors
coming to our solar system
from the far reaches of space,
we will soon discover
that humanity's origins
lie not on Earth,
but light-years away.