Narrator: Rockets capable of
destroying entire cities...
fire that burns underwater...
and fighter jets that
fly without pilots...
Throughout history, advances
in technology have lead to the
development of
powerful weapons...
Each more deadly than the last.
Giorgio Tsoukalos: We go from
attaching sharp stones to the
ends of sticks, and then all of a
sudden, we have actual swords.
Deepak Shimkada: In the
Mahabharata, 46 different
types of w*apon are described.
Bill Birnes: They're using
air-to-ground missiles, powerful
particle beam weapons.
It's astounding to read about
events from centuries ago using
weapons that are in use today.
Narrator: But were
these lethal weapons
the product of human innovation?
Or were they
developed with help
from another, more
otherworldly, source?
David Childress:
Extraterrestrials may well
have given man these weapons.
They want us to be able to advance,
and ultimately to be like them.
Narrator: Millions of
people around the world
believe we have been
visited in the past
by extraterrestrial beings.
What if it were true?
Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?
And might they have been
responsible for the development
of mankind's deadliest weapons?
Narrator: Earth.
4.5 billion years ago.
Molten-hot magma spews
from beneath the ground.
Lightning cracks down
in bursts from the sky.
And rivers of lava
flow across the land.
Ever since the dawn of time, our
planet has been changing...
evolving... and ripped apart by
the awesome forces of nature.
And it's the harnessing of that
nature that has offered mankind
its most formidable challenge
and greatest accomplishment.
David Southwell: Mankind
achieving the ability
to manipulate fire,
is probably the most
historical event
that ever happened.
When we achieved the ability to
master fire, everything
changed for mankind.
Narrator: But how
did our ancestors
learn to recreate and
harness this most volatile--
and ultimately essential--
of the earth's elements?
Was it simply a part of our
intellectual evolution?
Or is it possible that the
knowledge came from another,
more otherworldly, origin?
Philip Coppens: When we look at
fire, we imagine this idea that
somehow our ancestors are
rubbing some sticks together,
but each culture always says that
fire is a gift from the gods.
Southwell: In native American
traditions, quite often
it's fire was stolen
from the world above.
In Maori legends, again, we see
the theft of fire from the gods.
In the Greek legends,
it's Prometheus
stealing fire from the gods.
Narrator: How is it that such
similar myths exist about fire
being given to man by the gods?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, this eerie similarity
may actually be
evidence that gods,
or, perhaps, extraterrestrial
beings, really do exist.
And, if so, it might also reveal
how mankind eventually used fire
to create deadlier and more
sophisticated weapons.
Southwell: If we are talking
about ancient aliens
having an impact, where would
we expect to see that impact?
I would expect to see
it in metal working.
And do we actually see hard and
fast evidence of mankind making
sudden huge leaps
in metal working?
Yes, we do.
Tsoukalos: We go from
attaching sharp stones to the
ends of sticks, and then all of
a sudden, we have actual swords.
According to archaeologists,
the first human
work with metal weaponry
began in the bronze age,
beginning around 3,300 BC
in the near east.
Phil Imbrogno: Most of the swords were
at one time either copper or iron
if you think about the ages
we start first with bronze,
nickel, softer things
that easier to work with
the reason we don't have
iron, is the first example
is because is a much harder material
you have to get much hotter fire
to be able to work with it, and it's
just a tougher material to work with.
They were fighting, bashing
each other with these swords
they were very tough swords, which
means it wasn't always very sharp
Rafael Kosche: And these
people were fighting
when they're hacking each
other's head and arms off,
they were ripping each other's head
and arms off blood pieces of metal.
Narrator: Approximately 1,000 years
after the development of iron
came another, even
greater, breakthrough:
The invention of steel.
Imbrogno: No one really knows
when people first started making steel.
Some say it only dates 1000 B.C.
To make a steel sword in ancient
times was not an easy task.
You would have to get
high-quality iron.
And most of the time they could
not get that iron
mined from the earth.
And meteorites were obtained,
which were pure iron, which
made the best steel swords.
And these were
considered magic swords.
And they were usually a guarded
secret, and villages would have
one or two steel swords.
And there's tales about warlords
who had one purpose in mind:
To find all the steel
swords that were made
and take them for their army.
There's no doubt that the
cultures that were able to
obtain steel usually became
masters of the world.
(Grunting and shouting)
Narrator: But where the
forging of iron requires a
relatively unsophisticated
knowledge of metallurgy,
the creation of steel is a more
complex scientific process.
So who, or what, was responsible
for this incredible evolutionary innovation?
Imbrogno: In the book of
Enoch, we see some type of
interaction between celestial
beings and human beings.
What did they give us?
They gave us steel.
And the legend goes-- not only
from the Bible and from Enoch,
but it goes to sumerian times--
where the gods had steel.
Jonathan Young: The making of
sword is a magical process
back in the time before
modern metallurgy
the ability to take natural material
and make a sword out of it
it was considered the
work of a wizard
Peter Fiebag (translated): They mustn't
look the village blacksmith's in the eyes
because people are frightened
of being k*lled by his gaze.
The blacksmith isn't allowed
to live in the village
because of his magical powers.
Narrator: The notion of metal
working being a dark and magical
process was so prevalent in the
ancient world that in Greek
mythology, even Zeus looked upon
his son Hephaestus, the god of
metallurgy, with suspicion.
Richard Rader: Hephaestus is responsible
for making armature for the gods.
But the real miracle that he
does is for this shield for Achilles.
And it's got the
whole universe on it.
What's amazing about
this thing is that
it's not just a static
shield, it's alive,
this is not something
that a human being makes.
This is terrifying, this is scary,
and this thing will k*ll you,
just in its own kind
of metaphysical beauty.
And so he has this weird ability
to kind of endow metal with a
kind of life of its own.
So Zeus is, in fact, very
suspicious of this guy and just
tries to get rid of him.
So Zeus picks him up and slings
him, and he just falls and falls
and falls and falls and falls
until he crash-lands on the
island of Lemnos.
There is a little city on
the island of Lemnos called
Hephaestia, so there's a place that is
named specifically after Hephaestus.
Narrator: 3,000 years ago,
Hephaestia was one of the most
important cities in Greece.
And according to the ancient
stories, Hephaestus actually
lived here among
the people of Lemnos.
The greeks worshiped this
divine blacksmith and built
monuments to him.
But could this mythological being
have actually been present
in ancient Greece?
And if so, might he
have been not a God...
but an ancient alien visitor?
Rader: In Greek mythology, you
conceive of gods as kind of
like human beings.
And we have lots of literature
which deals with a whole range
of interactions that human
beings can have with gods.
Tsoukalos: It is very clearly
stated that the knowledge for
making swords was given
directly by the gods.
And those gods weren't figments
of our ancestors' imagination,
but they were physical beings.
Narrator: Is it really
possible that our ancestors'
ability to forge metals and
make weapons was aided by
extraterrestrial beings?
And might stories of swords
imbued with magical powers be
something more than
mere works of fiction?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
half a world away--
in Japan.
Japan,
700 A.D.
Here, according to legend, the
swordsmith, Amakuni, and his
son, Amakura, sealed themselves
away in their blacksmith shop in
an effort to forge
the perfect w*apon.
For seven days and seven nights,
they prayed to the Shinto
gods to guide them.
31 days later, they emerged from
their isolation with a curved,
single-edged sword resembling
no blade ever made before.
Kosche: At that time,
the swords that they used
were these double edged,
Chinese designed
clunky, heavy,
unwieldy swords.
And Amakuni started reestablishing
and learning everything
that he knew about metallurgy
and after about a month,
finally emerged from his forge,
and had this single edge blade
with a curvature to it.
Every swordsmith in the
area ridiculed him.
Everybody laughed at him.
They thought
he was ridiculous,
that he didn't know
what he was doing.
"That's not the way you do it."
Well, the next time the emperor
went off into battle...
When he came back, Amakuni
stood on his front porch, and he
started counting the blades:
Two, ten, 15, 20, 100, 200
blades-- none of them were broken.
And the emperor
praised him and said,
"you are the greatest
swordsmith ever."
Ever since then, they have
followed that design.
Narrator: But what was the
secret behind Amakuni's
radical new design?
And what-- or who-- inspired him
to deviate from the one that had
been used for more
than 1,000 years?
Was he simply ahead of his time?
Or could he really have received
otherworldly guidance during the
seven days and nights he and his
son prayed to the Shinto gods?
(Swords clanging, men shouting)
Kosche: The history of the
Japanese sword is a long and
varied history all the way back
to mythological beliefs that
Omikami, the sun goddess, gave
her grandson a sword when she
sent him down to
rule over the earth.
Narrator: According to the
beliefs of the samurai,
higher beings called Kami
began human life.
But in order for humans to
experience the divine nature of
the Kami, they must undergo
purification rituals, which were
always performed when
making a new blade.
Kosche: Before you even begin,
you bathe yourself, and
you put on clean clothes.
All your assistants give
prayers, and they solicit
the help from the gods.
And, in fact, there are sword
smiths that will actually
chant as they're hammering
on the blade...
Because every hammer, as it
compacts the metal, is also
including their chant into it.
Narrator: Could the sword
maker, Amakuni, and his son,
Amakura, have actually come
in contact with the Kami?
And might these Buddhist gods
have come not from a spiritual
realm, but from an
extraterrestrial one, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe?
Might alien beings have chosen
Amakuni, the greatest sword
maker of his time, to hold the
knowledge of this new technology?
Coppens: When you give certain
very powerful objects to
people, you need to have
extremely intelligent people
to use them.
And so what we find everywhere
is that even if the gods had given
the most extraordinary machine
including fire or any
other kind of technology
you would have to have
someone able to operate it
a highly trained human being.
Another example
of Amakuni's work--
the Kogarasu Maru blade, the
most legendary sword in Japanese
history-- resides in the
Japanese imperial collection.
But modern scholars and
scientists have had difficulty
in figuring out the secret
to its amazing strength.
Dennin: The famous stories
are always, of course, the
Japanese steel used for
the samurai blade.
It's been very hard to reproduce
because some of these processes
can be incredibly sensitive to
the exact detail
of the temperature.
Some of its features are just
its flexibility and the way
they fold it over and over,
and its incredible strength
and its resistance toxidation,
which is what you
really need to keep
something sharp.
Narrator: Could the fact that
modern sword makers have
been unable to achieve the same
quality as Amakuni's blades be
further evidence that he was
trained by a more advanced
race of beings?
And might these ancient swords
have held some technology we
have yet to discover?
Kosche: In Shingon buddhism, the
sword has a life of its own.
It's not that the samurai
selects the blade.
Is the samurai, more appropriately,
good enough for the blade?
Does the blade choose him?
Narrator: Is the philosophy
of Shingon buddhism--
that the blade chooses its owner--
simply an example of early
humans' tendency to project
spiritual consciousness onto
inanimate objects?
Or might ancient swordsmiths
like Amakuni really have
possessed some
otherworldly knowledge?
A knowledge that swords, like
other deadly weapons, come not
from man, but from a divine or
extraterrestrial origin?
According to legend one such
sword may have existed in
15th-century France--
the sword of Joan of Arc.
Kathleen McGowan: When Joan of
Arc was arrested and brought
to what we now know of as
her condemnation trial,
her inquisitors
were determined to
get information
about her sword.
Her inquisitors were obsessed
about finding out about her sword
and that is because
Joan of Arc sword
was reputed to have legendary
power, divine power.
Joan claimed that her voices,
her angelic voices,
led her to this sword.
Coppens: She said to have
found it, as it was, hidden
behind an altar dedicated to
Saint Catherine de Fierbois.
It is said that the sword itself
was forged by the archangel
Saint Michael... and that whoever
possessed it was invincible.
McGowan: And that was certainly
true when Joan wielded
this sword, carried it with her
into the battle of Orleans.
Which was the decisive battle,
which allowed them to put King
Charles VII on
the throne of France.
Narrator: Could Joan of Arc
really have been given her
invincible sword by
extraterrestrials who had an
interest in the future of France?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe such a thing is not
only possible, but likely.
And they point to the legendary
story of King Arthur as evidence
of their claim.
Childress: King Arthur
had two swords.
The sword in the stone, that
showed that he was to be king
is one sword.
Tsoukalos: When I hear a story
about this magnificent sword
that's encasted in the stone with only
the handle sticking out
and only King Arthur has the
capability to pull it out
well, then I start thinking
of some type of biometric
security system. Where
today we now have g*ns,
that can only be
fired if the handle
recognizes your fingerprint.
Is it possible that the sword
in the stone was calibrated
specifically to King
Arthur's biometrics?
I think yes.
I know it sounds crazy, but
we're merely saying that what
today is being discovered is a
rediscovery of what already took
place thousands of years ago.
Narrator: According to the
stories of King Arthur, the
sword that he is said to have
pulled from the stone was never
used in battle.
His w*apon was the
legendary Excalibur.
Childress: The Excalibur sword
came to him from the lady
in the lake, where a hand came up
and handed him a magical sword.
And according to the ancient
chronicles, this sword shone
with the light of 30 suns
and blinded his enemies.
Peter Fiebag: Sword of
King Arthur was said
to have radiated lightning
and energy when he fought
against monsters.
So, we have swords as magical
objects that here also
is the suspicion that a misunderstood
technology could exist.
Narrator: Although historians
still debate whether the stories
of King Arthur have a basis in
fact, in 1998, archeologists
found a sixth-century piece of
slate inscribed with his name
at his reputed birthplace--
Tintagel, England.
But if King Arthur really
existed, might the legends of
his incredible swords
also be true?
And, if so, might that suggest
that extraterrestrial visitors
did in fact provide humans with
weapons not of this world?
Perhaps the answer can be found
in ancient Rome and by examining
a legendary battle,
one involving a much-witnessed
phenomenon in the sky.
Narrator: Rome.
October 27, 312 A.D.
At the Milvian bridge
north side of the city, deposed
emperor Constantine prepares to
reclaim his throne from Maxentius.
In the sky, he witnesses what he
will later describe as a cross
hovering above him.
He interprets this vision as a
sign from the Christian god.
The next day Constantine and
his army bear the image of the
Chi Rho on their
shields and flags,
one of the earliest cruciform
symbols used by Christians.
When they emerge victorious,
christianity becomes the official
religion of the Roman empire,
and the world is
changed forever.
But was the cross-shaped object
Constantine claimed to have seen
in the sky really
a sign from God?
Or might it have been some
other extraordinary force?
Bramley: It looked like they
are in a shape of a cross
but a shape of a cross could have
been air plane type objects,
because the fuselage and
the wings would look like
a cross to somebody
who's looking up.
Of course they had no concept
of these things back then.
Chris Pittman: There were other
signs important that were seen
around the same time,
they were described as
a crucifix in the sky. If these
were to appear in the sky
today, we would describe
them quite differently.
Tsoukalos: Is it possible that
Constantine instead of actually
having seen a cross
floating in the sky,
actually saw a type of
an extraterrestrial craft?
Is it possible that Constantine
won because the extraterrestrials
were siding with Constantine
and thus altering
mankind's history forever?
But according to ancient
astronaut's theorists
even stronger evidence exists
that emperor Constantine
had a genuine alien encounter.
Shortly after the battle
of Mulvian bridge,
he was said to have acquired
a powerful new w*apon
known as Greek fire, it was the
most devastating w*apon of the time
and it was said to have been
given to Constantine by angels.
Improgno: It was said to burn to
so violently and so hot,
it was said that even in
the rainiest of rainstorms
fire would not go out, and
when projected out to sea
when it sunk into
the water which still
burnt on the bottom
of the ocean.
Fiebag: In one battle,
Byzantium was att*cked
by 1,800 Persian ships
only 15 escaped.
All the others were destroyed
by the so-called Greek fire.
And prince Igor who att*cked
Byzantium in the year 941 A.D.
att*cked with a fleet of 1,000 ships.
Only ten ships made it home.
Narrator: But perhaps
even more astounding
than the incredible
power of Greek fire
is the fact that scientists have
not been able to reproduce it
even after 1,600 years.
Coppens: Scientists have
been trying to identify
what Greek fire is, for
decades, if not centuries.
No one has come up
with a satisfying answer.
The most logical answer is that it
might be somehow petroleum
because it is known that petroleum
continues to burn when
in contact with water.
George Noory: It think it has
to do with phosphorous
and magnesium, because when
they are mixed in with water
they tend to explode.
The formula for Greek fire
was not even known
to most of those who
used the w*apon,
as the delivery system required
multiple people to operate it.
Tsoukalos: What's interesting
about Greek fire is that it only
worked when all the different
components worked
together as one piece.
Each component was operated
by a different person,
so if somebody was captured,
they couldn't give away the quote,
unquote secret of Greek fire.
Narrator: But what was
this mysterious w*apon?
And, more importantly,
where did lt come from?
Tsoukalos: One story goes
that Greek fire was given to
Constantine by an angel.
Now angels are supposed to be
these friendly creatures that
instill peace and love-- and all
of a sudden, we have this one
quote, unquote angel that gives
one of the most sophisticated
weapons in mankind's history
to Constantine?
Replace the word angel with
extraterrestrial and we have
a very different story.
Narrator: Could Greek fire
really have been a type of
advanced alien technology given
to Constantine to ensure the
success of the Roman empire?
If so, wouldn't there be
evidence of extraterrestrial
influence during other
earthly conflicts?
Fiebag: Hannibal, who
crossed the Alps
and att*cked Rome, was said to
have had a chemical expl*sive.
We don't know where the knowledge
came from in these cases,
but there could definitely
be a connection to
other weapons of the gods.
The expl*sive w*apon
Hannibal allegedly used
against ancient Rome, in the
3rd century B.C., predated
gunpowder by
over a thousand years.
And some believe even gunpowder
itself may have been a discovery
inspired by otherworldly beings
back in the 9th century.
Ironically, this deadly
invention was discovered by
Chinese alchemists attempting to
create an elixir of immortality.
Laichen Sun: Alchemy
has a long history in China
and this alchemy *** has been
seeking the elixir of immortality.
It's a medicine, for example,
to live forever.
So they were experimenting for
many centuries and mixed all
kinds of things and it was not
until around 850 common era, and
we have records to show the
disastrous impact of this mixing.
Narrator: Though the Chinese
emperors never achieved this
elixir for immortality, they
ended up with something almost
as valuable-- a w*apon more
powerful than anything
that had come before.
Sun: The Chinese
gunpowder technology
led to this important
political and geographical
changes in China, in Vietnam,
in southeast Asia.
It led to the, even the rise and
the fall of the dynasties.
Narrator: But where did such
an incendiary ability come from?
Imbrogno: Was the formula given
to us by extraterrestrials?
Or did someone discovered
it by accident?
No one really knows.
Gunpowder was
made of charcoal,
which they burnt trees and
ground down the charcoal.
Sulfur they would
get from volcanoes,
and sodium or potassium
nitrate is not readily available.
So how would they know to get
those nitrates and mix them
all together in the
right proportions?
Narrator: Could the
formula for gunpowder
really have extraterrestrial origins?
And if deadly technologies like
gunpowder and Greek fire really
were handed down to humans
by an alien race-- why?
Might they have been
trying to shape our future?
And, if so, what other even more
powerful weapons might they
have had in their arsenal?
An unmanned areal vehicle
hurtles across the sky.
It travels at supersonic speeds,
spitting fire,
launching deadly missiles...
programmed to
seek and destroy.
The effect is devastating-- high-tech
warfare at its most lethal.
But what could be a page stolen
from a U.S. military black
project, is actually a
description written down
over 2,500 years ago
in the sacred Hindu text known
as the Mahabharata.
Coppens: When it comes to the
ancient India in the accounts,
they really eye-witness
testimony of the gods fighting.
Childress: When you read
the ancient Hindu epics,
they talk about horrific weapons,
missiles,
and atomic weapons.
Massive laser weapons, they are
melting and devastating entire cities
Tsoukalos: I refuse to think
that our ancestors,
came up with these
stories out of thin air.
When writing was first invented,
they wrote down their history
the first things that were ever
written down were actual events.
Narrator: How is it that some
of the earliest written accounts
of warfare describe sophisticated
weaponry that humans wouldn't
develop for thousands of years?
For the answer, ancient
astronaut theorists point to
numerous descriptions
of deadly weapons
found throughout
the Mahabharata--
many strikingly similar to those
used by the military today.
One example are the incendiary
weapons wielded by Vishnu,
which are specially equipped
to find their targets.
Deepak Shimkada: Vishnu has a flying
guided m*ssile, the Narayanastra
and once it is launched it will
destroy everything that is moving.
So according to the description,
it is a motion-detecting w*apon,
which is pretty much like
our modern weaponry.
There is also a w*apon
that is heat-seeking.
Heat-seeking is a very effective
way of finding something
you would fire a m*ssile
from behind on your craft,
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Dickman:
at an aircraft in front of you
specifically targeted
towards the heat engine.
And then you were able to move
off, from behind the airplane
and the heat seeker would still
be able to find the target.
Tsoukalos: I am aware that
there are forces of nature.
You've got thunder,
lightning, earthquakes.
But how would you go
from witnessing that
to a description
of heat-seeking missiles?
Narrator: In addition to guided
missiles, the Mahabharata
is filled with accounts of other
sophisticated weapons
wielded by the gods.
Shimkada: In the Mahabharata,
46 different types of
w*apon are described,
and each one has
a specific function.
The Pashupatastra is a w*apon
that actually multiplies into
seven different arrows.
So then it hits seven different
targets at the same time.
Salva is an anti-God; he can
make his vehicle disappear.
So we're talking about a flying
object that is stealth.
He also can put
people into sleep.
So we're perhaps
talking about nerve gas.
Childress: They talk about
weapons that are so high-tech,
that it could only be
from extraterrestrials.
Narrator: But of all
the weapons described
in the Mahabharata, perhaps the
most deadly was a device called
the Brahmastra.
A w*apon that the texts
warned was never to be used.
Shimkada: Brahmastra is described
as the ultimate w*apon.
Once it is launched, it will
simply burn everything,
so it will incinerate
the entire universe.
We are talking about
a nuclear blast 100-fold
magnitude of the b*mb that we have
seen or experienced in our own times.
So it would never be used.
And yet, someone was going to
make use of that Brahmastra.
And so that's the dilemma that
the books talks about
in the Mahabharata.
India now has a rocket program,
and one of their rockets is
called Shakti.
Shakti means "goddess energy."
This is also another divine w*apon.
Indians are now sort of going
back to their text or their
mythology and they're reliving
it by their modern technology.
Narrator: Is it possible that
alien beings visiting the
earth thousands of years ago
dealt with the same issues of
nuclear annihilation that
humans are dealing with today?
And might the deadly weapons
currently being deployed by the
world's military really be
recreations of weapons first
used on earth by extraterrestrials
in the ancient past?
Perhaps.
But then it should also be
possible to predict mankind's
military future by searching
through still more ancient texts.
The Tonle Sap Lake,
Cambodia.
This combined lake and river
system has a flow that changes
direction twice a year, and the
portion that forms the lake
expands and shrinks
dramatically with the seasons.
But this unusual body of water
is unique for another reason--
it is said to hold the mythical
sword of Preah Pisnokar.
Shimkada: The swordsman in Cambodia
has a wonderful legend,
a story within that
culture called Pisnokar.
It is a wizard,
a master craftsman
Narrator: In Cambodian
mythology, Preah Pisnokar is
the son of a human man and
a woman who came from the sky.
The stories say that he is
brought to the sky world where
he is taught the technology
of the gods, and some have credited
him as being the architect
behind the world's largest
religious shrine, Angkor Wat,
which sits just north of the
Tonle Sap lake.
But in addition to magnificent
structures, Preah Pisnokar was
also said to have fashioned a
sword that made him
invincible in battle.
Shimkada: In the
Cambodian legend,
he's been credited crafting
a sword as thin as a feather.
Fiebag: Preah Pisnokar had a
sword that could cut stone.
And it's reported that he could
use this to cut a ceramic jug so
finely down the
middle that the water
only ran out when the
two halves fell apart.
Narrator: According to legend,
Preah Pisnokar threw his
mighty w*apon into the Tonle Sap
lake when it grew too weak to
be of use to him anymore,
much like Excalibur
was given back
to the lady of the lake
in the story of King Arthur.
But how does a
sword grow weak?
According to ancient astronaut
theorists, the blade had lost
its power, and that blade was not
made of metal, but of light.
Tsoukalos: Does a sword
of fire really exist?
Well, it does if you think
of a type of light saber.
Whenever he took it out to cut
something with it, it was more
blinding than the sun.
It was a very thin and
very bright, emitting light.
From the description of it,
it could be a kind of
laser type of beam.
Dennin: Lasers-- what you
wanna just think about
is a whole bunch of waves
all moving together in step.
The light that comes
out of a light bulb
is a bunch of random people
in a mob running crazy
in all different directions, and
the laser is all the people
marching in orderly fashion.
Everything lines up and
basically makes the light that
much more powerful and effective.
Narrator: Could Preah
Pisnokar really have existed?
And if so, might the amazing
sword he wielded have involved
some type of laser technology?
Is it possible that light sabers,
a work of modern science fiction,
actually existed in the ancient past?
Dennin: So there's two ways to think of
a light saber that you're trying to make.
One is actually out of a laser
beam and that's very hard to
imagine because it's hard to
figure out how you
would get the endpoint,
because light just
keeps traveling.
And you would need a way
to bend it back on itself.
They make much more
sense as a plasma beam.
And a plasma beam is a bunch of
very, very energetically charged
particles, um, that would glow
so you'd get the effect
of the lightsaber.
And they're much easier to
have an endpoint, because they
respond to magnetic fields.
The plasma beam really is
energetically charged particles
with a lot of energy and pretty
much cut through anything.
Narrator: For ancient
astronaut theorists,
descriptions of laser-type technology
can be found in numerous texts
throughout the ancient world.
Fiebag (translated): In China,
it's called a yin yang mirror,
which could k*ll opponents
with a beam of light.
We have the Maori, whose god
defeated rebels with a kind of
laser-lightning w*apon.
Childress: Stories come to us
from ancient India of Rama's arrow,
which was some kind
of laser w*apon.
We have the famous
story of Archimedes,
using some kind of magic mirror
to create a laser
that set ships on fire.
So it seems that ancient lasers
were being used, and that
technology probably came
from extraterrestrials.
Narrator: What if the futuristic
weapons we believe
we have cultivated in our
modern day arsenals
are really reinventions of
something that has come before?
Could we subconsciously be
recreating our ancient past?
Coppens: What we have is
people who are eye-witnesses
and to some extend victims of a show
which is happening above their heads
and they are trying to explain
to people something which was
truly on a scale which they
couldn't comprehend.
Tsoukalos: Here we are today
thinking that we are inventing
all these wonderful things,
which we are, but it's
been here before.
Childress: Extraterrestrials may
well have given man these weapons.
They want us to be able
to defend ourselves
to advance, and ultimately
to be like them.
Narrator: From flaming arrows
to heat-seeking missiles,
could the evolution of mankind's
deadly weaponry really be the
result of alien intervention?
Could extraterrestrial beings
have given us technology as a
way of accelerating
natural selection?
Or might they have imparted
their knowledge with a
specific-- and perhaps
insidious-- agenda in mind?
Some say the answer
is right in front of us--
or in yet another ancient text or
carving waiting to be discovered.
But one thing is certain,
it is best we keep looking
and be prepared
before they return.
03x09 - Aliens and Deadly Weapons
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Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.
Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.