Legends of antmen,
-They have antennae,
they have elongated sculls
Beetles buried with
Egyptian mummies...
The scarab
was critical for the resurrection.
and swarms of
locusts targeting humans.
It's almost as if the locusts
themselves were programmed.
In cultures
throughout the world, insects
have been worshipped, feared,
and even thought of as gods.
But might these strange
creatures that have inhabited
Earth for hundreds of millions
of years provide a link
to extraterrestrial beings?
The idea that insect aliens are
coming here to this planet, interacting
with humans, may well
be based on something real.
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 if so is there a connection
between aliens and insects?
The Nile Delta, Egypt.
A small, centimeters-wide trail
is cut in the desert floor by
the rolling cocoon
of a dung beetle.
This strange-looking two-inch
long insect, also called a
scarab, uses the dung as both a
source of nourishment and a
place for storing its eggs.
It will roll the ball in a
straight line despite all
obstacles, and is the only
insect on Earth known to
navigate by following the light
of the Milky Way galaxy.
Biologists just made this
discovery in 2013...
but 5,000 years ago,
with presumably no knowledge of
its unique connection
to the stars, the ancient
Egyptians held the scarab
as a sacred symbol,
representing a link to the gods.
Interesting
that a great civilization
could pay so much attention
to a little bug, but
it appears constantly throughout
Egyptian temples and hieroglyphics.
It's a very frequent image.
At the Temple of
Karnak, overlooking the Sacred
Lake where the pharaohs
received their coronation,
a giant scarab beetle stands
watch, representing the Egyptian
god Khepri.
The Egyptians saw the
Sun moving across the sky
during the day.
Also, around the desert sands, you'd
see beetles moving balls of dung.
And so the Egyptians thought
that the force that moved the
Sun across the sky was a giant
scarab beetle god, Khepri.
They believe
that the Sun was what
is known as the eye of Ra,
which was Ra's chariot or his
flying machine.
And the thing that moved it,
they believed, was the scarab-
headed god, Khepri, and the
scarab represented Khepri,
the pilot, if you like,
of Ra's Sun ship or barge.
He was basically a pilot
to the gods.
But could there be
another explanation for why the
Egyptians regarded Khepri
as a pilot?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the representation
of Khepri as a scarab and
sometimes as a human with
a scarab head... may have been
inspired by actual contact the
Egyptians had with an
otherworldly being.
One has to
wonder whether or not these
beings actually existed,
because the ancient Egyptians
were incredibly proud in carving their
history into countless of walls.
And according to the ancient
astronaut theory, we all came
about through a deliberate
mutation of our genes.
And so it is entirely possible,
in my opinion, that some of
those creatures that we see
depicted in reliefs and in
carvings might have actually
exted in the past.
Is it possible the
ancient Egyptians could have
encountered alien beings that
had an insect-like appearance?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes...
and as further evidence,
point to the fact that the
Egyptians' obsession with the
scarab also extended to their
funerary rituals.
The Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
November, 1922.
Archaeologist Howard Carter
discovers the tomb
of King Tutankhamen.
Among the treasure trove of
artifacts found inside is the
young pharaoh's breastplate,
which features a scarab
as the centerpiece.
The scarab is made of a yellow
silica glass stone procured from
the Sahara, originally formed 28
million years ago when the sand
was superheated
by a comet strike.
But why would the ancient
Egyptians place a scarab...
and one sculpted from material
produced by a cosmic event... at
the center of their pharaoh's
funerary breastplate?
Curiously, scarabs always played
an integral role in the
Egyptians' mummification
process, often included during
the wrapping of the body.
In between
those wrappings, the Egyptians
put a number of charms, which
served not just a preservation
function, but a
magical function.
There was a
heart scarab, which was
placed on the body.
We also find other scarabs,
sometimes knitted into the linen
of the deceased.
The scarab was thought to be
critical for the resurrection,
because of its power and
necessity for it to be present
when the Sun rose
in the morning.
BARA: The idea was, is that
the soul or even the
body of the person that had
departed was carried by scarab
beetles along the path to the
next life, to the next dimension.
It's almost as if the scarab
beetle was some kind of device,
not an insect, but a device
that actually allows travel
from one place to another.
Where did
the Egyptians get the idea
of resurrection and this
idea that we could be reborn
as star beings?
It seems as if they were
given this idea by Khepri.
Could the inclusion
of scarab-shaped objects in the
mummification process have been
inspired by an actual encounter
with the scarab god Khepri?
To some ancient astronaut
theorists, it's not just the
presence of scarabs that
suggests the Egyptians made a
connection between insects and
the afterlife...
they say the mummification
process also mimics
insect metamorphosis itself.
The similarities
between mummification and the
cocooning process that a
caterpillar goes through before
it becomes a moth are really
quite incredible.
I think what the
Egyptians were trying to do
is actually cocoon the human
being so that when he emerged
into the next life at the next
level up, he would be
transformed into something
greater, more powerful, and
epically more beautiful.
This does mimic,
in nature, what we would
see with a pupa or a chrysalis,
in which the caterpillar
actually creates a hard
outer shell around itself,
and the material of the
caterpillar's body actually
turns into a broth before
it reconstitutes into what
ultimately emerges
as a butterfly.
While most people
associate metamorphosis with a
caterpillar transforming into
a butterfly...
beetles, like the scarab,
undergo a complete
metamorphosis as well.
The hatched larva inside the
ball of dung emerges fully
developed and capable of flight.
To the ancient Egyptians, it
seemed the sacred scarab had
miraculously regenerated inside
its cocoon.
The actual scarab
beetle in ancient Egyptian was
called something that means
"he that comes from nowhere."
Which is basically what
the name Khepri means.
"He comes from nowhere. He
can make himself exist."
Much like the
scarab emerging from its cocoon,
the Egyptians believed a
mummified body could rise from
its sarcophagus as a transformed
being, and live once again.
Part of the soul
was inexorably attached to the
body, so in order for that part
of the soul to live on in the
afterlife, the body had to be
preserved as closely as possible
to the way that it had existed
in life.
The idea of the
Egyptian soul is so alien
from our own that it's-it's
difficult to put parallels on.
For example, the Egyptians
concept of the soul had five
parts... the Ba and the
Ka are two in particular.
And part of their mythology was
that the Ba must return to the
body, enter the body, so that the
body can rise and live again.
It's possible
that the mummification
process was some kind of
replication of this process that
the extraterrestrials
went through.
And even the possibility that
the mummies themselves were
going into some kind of larval
stage and suspended animation
where they would emerge
eventually into some kind of new
body like the
extraterrestrials did.
While the scarab
dominates Egyptian symbolism,
another beetle common to this
part of the world, the buprestid
beetle, has a direct tie to the
Egyptians most important god...Osiris.
Buprestid beetles,
when bothered by a predator,
actually tuck their legs up
and lie perfectly still.
And the way they hold their
limbs is very similar to the way
Osiris would be represented in
some tomb paintings.
Well, it turns out the buprestid
beetle is found in the tamarisk
wood, and that is the wood that
comes from a tree that was part
of the Osiris legend.
Actually becomes the Djed
pillar.
And when, uh, !sis split this
pillar, she found Osiris inside,
and this beautiful beetle
inside, and so it's quite
possible that this beetle may
have a relationship to the
mummification process.
But does the
Ancient Egyptian worship of
a beetle really suggest an
encounter with insect-like
extraterrestrials?
Could they be mimicking
misunderstood technology?
Or might there be
another explanation?
Perhaps further clues can be
found in the numerous ancient
stories of Ant People.
Cambridge
University, England. 2013.
Using a high-speed camera with
intense magnification,
scientists from the department
of zoology record the movement
of a plant-hopping insect called
Issus.
Examining the footage, they make
a shocking discovery.
The movement of the Issus is
powered by mechanical gears.
It is the world's first evidence
of mechanical gearing in a
biological structure.
This natural cog mechanism
allows the Issus to make
powerful jumps, with the gear
teeth on the opposing hind-legs
locking together like those in
the gearbox of a car, ensuring
almost complete synchronicity of
leg movement.
But how did a biological entity
develop mechanisms that appear
manmade?
Insects are
essentially evolution's
Tinkertoy set.
Insects were the first animal
group to evolve the ability to
fly on their own power.
Insects have an exoskeleton,
which is almost like a living armor.
In terms of sheer numbers,
insects are by far the
most dominant life-form on
Earth, and with over one million
different species, they also
remain the most mysterious.
Insects appeared on the
Earth over 400 million years
before humans appeared
on the Earth.
They were incredibly successful,
well before the age of the
dinosaurs, and a long
time before humans.
About half of
the living creatures on the
planet belong to the
group of insects.
They've really found ways
to inhabit just about every
ecological niche in nature.
They have compound eyes, which,
in some cases, they can see into
the, uh, ranges that humans
cannot, like ultraviolent.
They have a very
sophisticated sensory system
that makes them different from
what we can perceive.
For example, insects taste,
smell, and feel with the hairs
on their body.
When they land on you, they're
smelling you, they're tasting
you, they're feeling you.
There are upwards of a million
species of insects evolved
so far. So, we may
think of ourselves as
being special, but in reality,
insects are the most successful
animal group that's ever evolve
In the more than
400 million years that insects
are believed to have existed, no
bug has thrived more than the ant.
Ants are among the
most successful animal groups
that we see on the face
of the Earth. One out of
every four individual
animals on the face of the Earth
is an ant.
Ants are incredible insects.
And they're highly evolved.
In size and
appearance, ants and humans
could not be more different.
But interestingly, in many ways,
these tiny bugs are more like us
than any other creature in the
animal kingdom.
Ants have a social
system where they have a
division of labor.
You have a reproductive queen.
You have males that will mate
with the queen. You have
sub-reproductives that
can leave the colony and start
new colonies.
Then you've got a
series of workers.
And then there specialized
workers that are soldiers, that
can actually protect the colony
if they're under attack.
So, they're rather, uh, intriguing
with regard to their behavior.
But how is it that
the behavior of ants mirrors
that of humans in so many ways?
Is it simply coincidence?
Or could ants and humans be more
closely related than we think?
Ancient Greece.
In both Homer's Iliad and
Ovid's Metamorphoses, there is a
group of warriors known as the
Myrmidon, who are born of
mysterious origins.
According to the Ovid, King
Aeacus of Aegina pleads with the
god Zeus to repopulate his
plague-ravaged country.
That night, he dreams that ants
fall from the branch of a tree
and turn into men.
He awakes the next morning to
find his dream has come true.
The story of the Myrmidons
is that they were ants
made into warriors.
They were said to have fought
with Achilles at Troy and they
were very effective.
The descriptions of the
ant people are very, very
accurate in terms of the
behavior of the insect...
the ant itself.
They were very loyal, they
moved together as one,
almost at a hive mentality.
The Myrmidons were
thought to be the first to
develop ships, and to sail under
their own power.
This ability to be organized
like an army, comes from ants
marching in a nice linear
fashion. The ea about
being the first
to sail comes from the ant's
ability to raft.
Ants will get on the surface
tension of water and lock legs,
other ants will climb on top,
and this little mound of ants
will float around on the surface
of water.
In the case of the Myrmidons,
these were fierce warriors.
They were well-trained,
they were organized...
just like ants.
These descriptions
are so vivid and so accurate
in terms of the ants'
behavior that what Zeus seems to
have done is actually some sort
of genetic crossbreeding
between humans and insects
in order to create this army
of ant people.
You're dealing with an extremely
advanced technology that really,
really understands how to use
genetic manipulation to create
new species.
Is it possible that
the Myrmidons depicted in the
ancient Greek stories were
actually some type of ant-and-
human hybrid, manufactured by an
alien being?
Ancient astronaut theorists
claim further evidence that ants
may have a connection to
extraterrestrials can be found
in stories throughout numerous
cultures.
In the Muslim holy book, the
Quran, there is a story of ants
speaking like humans.
In parts of Africa, ants are
considered to be the messengers
of the gods.
And Native American tribes, like
the Hopi and Zuni, tell stories
of the Ant People who emerge
from beneath the Earth.
The ant
people is a very interesting
subject when it comes to looking
at the Hopi belief system.
Ant people, number one,
are caretakers of the Earth.
Unlike the Myrmidons
of Greek mythology,
the Ant People of the Native
American stories don't just
behave like ants, they
resemble them as well.
They have spindly
arms, they have antennae.
They have elongated skulls.
These are clearly a merging
of the human and the insect.
They are not simply a
fable or a parable.
If one explores the
question of insectoid alien life...
then my question is why not?
Because if life is pervasive
throughout the entire universe
then that life comes in all
shape, size, and color.
So, the idea that insectoid
aliens might exist is very
possible to me.
However, I think the idea came
from our ancestors witnessing
physical features that made them
look like ants or could be best
described as ants.
If we look at the
face of an ant, we look
at the head of an ant, we see
large, buggy eyes widely
spaced on the face,
and a large head.
So this could be an illustration
of people seeing beings like
what we now call the Greys, and
associating it with something
that's familiar to them.
Is it possible that
the Ant People that appear in
both Greek and Native American
mythology were really
Grey aliens?
Or might they even be
human-insect hybrids engineered
by otherworldly beings?
Perhaps the answer can be found
in the accounts of those who
claim to have been victims
of alien abductions.
The Kalahari
Desert, South Africa.
The indigenous people of this
area, called the San,
represent one of the oldest
existing populations on Earth,
with a culture that dates back
approximately 80,000 years.
According to the origin story of
this ancient society, the first
humans were created not by
traditional gods but by insects.
According to the
San people, the origin
of humans lies with
the praying mantis.
There once was a bee who was
asked by a praying mantis to
carry him across a raging river.
And the bee did so.
He carried the praying mantis
across the river and deposited
him on a leaf.
But before leaving, the
exhausted bee left an egg inside
the praying mantis and that egg
is the source of all human
beings.
But where did the
San people get the idea that
humans were created by a praying
mantis?
Curiously, the San tradition
also holds that a praying mantis
gave early humans the gifts
of language and fire.
And one of their most
important gods, Cagn,
the creator of the world, often
took the form of a mantis.
The San people
of South Africa had a
fascinating theology.
Their god was known as Cagn,
and Cagn was a trickster god.
He could shape-shift and appear
in a number of different forms...
but was very fond of appearing
as a praying mantis.
Cagn had a lot struggles
on the planet Earth.
There were many wars that were
fought, and eventually he left
the Earth by means of
going up into the sky.
Another
interesting thing about Cagn
is that it's said that
he created the Moon.
And the San people do their planting
because of phases of the Moon.
So you've got to wonder: is this
praying mantis extraterrestrial
god just some mythical figure,
or is he really a representation
of some kind of real praying
mantis insectoid alien that's
come to Earth?
Could the
prominence of the praying mantis
in San mythology suggest that
their ancestors actually
encountered such beings in the
distant past?
Although most anthropologists
regard these stories as fables,
some ancient astronaut theorists
find it curious that the praying
mantis is also a recurring image
in reports of alien abduction.
Covina, California.
1963.
In this small farming town on
the outskirts of Los Angeles,
17-year-old Linda Porter awakens
to find herself aboard
a strange craft.
From what she is able to recall
later, under hypnosis, a small
creature that appeared to be a
Grey alien led her towards a
light-filled room where she
encountered another type of
being... one much taller and
with the features of
a praying mantis.
Very stand-alone,
very odd case.
The fact that this occurred in
1963 is very intriguing, because
it's before the abduction
phenomenon became popularized.
There have
depictions throughout various
abduction scenarios that include
the Grey aliens and this
larger, tall insectesoid being,
very praying mantis-like.
Linda Porter claims
that throughout her teens and
20s, she experienced numerous
other encounters with
these alien beings...
but it wasn't until
the age of 45 that she
finally reached out to
investigative journalist Linda
Moulton Howe to tell her story.
I received a letter, carefully
written, from Linda Porter.
This led up to her sending
me a whole lot of drawings.
These drawings
appear in Linda Moulton Howe's
book Glimpses of
Other Realities.
One of the drawings
was of a praying mantis
about eight feet tall in a
room that was very odd,
had a cylindrical object
and sparkles of light.
There have been
quite a number of different
types of aliens seen, allegedly,
by contactees.
But the ones that are really
peculiar, and very rare, are
these very scary, skinny, large,
basically intelligent insects
People have
drawn parallels between the
aliens that are reported onboard
UFOs and insects, particularly bees.
The Greys, for instance, could
be equated in some way to the
drone or the worker bee.
The so-called praying mantis
type could be seen, perhaps,
as the queen bee, larger than
the others, more intelligent.
They're taller than a person...
eight or even nine feet tall.
And the Grey aliens may handle
the person who's being abducted,
but in the background, there's
this praying mantis type that
seems toe calling the sh*ts.
According to
Porter, she is part of a larger
experiment... one in which these
aliens appear concerned with her soul.
She said whatever we
humans are, we have an animus,
a soul, that is mysterious to
them, and they are trying to
find out where does the soul,
spirit, go at the moment of
death, and that the non-humans
were studying the recycling of
the souls in and out of containers
She talked about
being shown three cylinders.
Contained in each cylinder was a
human being in kind of like a
state of suspended animation.
Numerous alleged
alien abduction victims have
reported seeing these
cocoon-like containers, but if
these accounts are real, might
there be another explanation
behind this technology?
Could it be, as some ancient
astronaut theorists contend,
that aliens are performing
genetic experimentation?
Linda Porter came away
from her two or three decades
of interaction with these
non-humans, including the at
first terrifying praying mantis,
that these are extraterrestrial
biological entities that have
taken a deep interest in the
evolution of life-forms here,
that they have manipulated DNA
in already evolving primates,
that they have created a whole
series of different models.
Might the numerous
accounts of mantis-like beings
reported by alleged alien
abduction victims, along with
the ancient San story of a
praying mantis god, be evidence
that an otherworldly race of
insectoids really does exist?
And, if so, could they be
conducting genetic experiments
with humans to make us more like
them?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
further clues revealing the
connection between insects and
aliens can be found...
in the Holy Bible.
Pi-Ramesses, Egypt.
The 15th century BC.
Most archaeologists believe this
ancient city to be the site of
the ten plagues as described in
the Bible's Book of Exodus.
According to the scripture, God
brought these plagues upon Egypt
when the pharaoh refused to
release the Israelites from
sl*very.
Three of them involved insects.
The third was a plague of gnats,
which came up from the ground
and infested both man and
animal.
The fourth was flies that
att*cked only the Egyptians,
sparing the Israelites.
And the eighth was a plague of
Locusts are
grasshoppers that have had an
unusual change in their
biology and behavior.
They will start to move in the
same direction.
They will land, eat.
Other locusts flying over them
will land and eat and so on and
so on, wiping out all the
vegetation in a given area and
destroying all the crops that
people might have planted.
And for every one million
locusts, they can eat a ton of
food.
But an even more
incredible story of locusts can
be found in the Bible's New
Testament Book of Revelation.
Rising from deep pits within the
Earth, these locusts form waves
of scorpion-tailed warhorses,
protected by iron breastplates.
And unlike the locusts from the
Book of Exodus, the target isn't
the locusts themselves
actually didn't eat any crops,
they didn't clear any fields.
They only att*cked people, and
they only ate up and
devoured and damaged people.
It's almost as if the locusts
themselves were programmed.
The locusts that
appear out of the smoke have
some type of ability to sting
people with a scorpion-like sting.
Now, locusts are known not to
have any type of way of harming
people, so these locusts
were special in origin.
These locusts only
sought out humans who did not
have the seal of God
on their foreheads.
And it makes you wonder if these
locusts are in fact some kind of
an advanced extraterrestrial
technology that was sent to seek
specific human beings.
Is it possible that
what is described in the Book of
Revelation is not the
plant-eating locust we have
today but some type of advanced
weaponry wielded by an
extraterrestrial being?
Now, if an extraterrestrial was
fighting a w*r, a w*apon that you could
use would be mechanical devices
that basically were like little
nanotechnology that would attack
certain very specific targets.
There are, in fact, such weapons
in use today.
DARPA headquarters,
Arlington, Virginia.
This is the military's visionary
toy shop, where the blueprints
for the weaponry of tomorrow are
drawn.
Here stealth technology and GPS
were conceived.
Now, according to sources, a new
arms race is underway, one
focused not on the biggest
weapons but the smallest.
Insects are
one of the most amazingly
designed creatures that
exist on planet Earth.
I mean, they're extraordinary.
It's no surprise that the United
States military is interested in
insects. It's
absolutely logical.
Why not send a small
insect or a crawling beetle into
a w*r zone, into a place to
gather intelligence?
That's exactly what we see
happening now.
At DARPA,
scientists have been
experimenting with
electronically modifying beetles
so they can actually manipulate
their flight.
Threading thin wires into the
base of the beetles' optic
lobes, they can control the
region of the brain at makes
the beetles start
and stop flying.
With another pair of wires in
the wing muscles, they can also
make the beetle veer to the
right to the left by remote
control. And scientists
working with
nanotechnology are not only
looking for ways to control
insects but to actually recreate
them.
Thomas Vaneck at Physical
Sciences, Incorporated, is
currently developing flying
robots based on insects.
Instant Eye is
a very small aerial robot about
the size of a pie plate.
It's relatively simple and yet
Just about any insect you can imagine
is being studied by somebody.
Hornets.
Dragonflies.
Mosquitoes.
All are said to be potential
models for the next generation
of biomimetic weapons... robots
that could one day be indistinguishable
from actual insects.
Right now, probably
the smallest insect-inspired
robot that we can make is about
the size of a hummingbird, from
the technologies that are
available to us today.
The driving force there is
energy storage, because we just
don't have a battery that stores
enough energy.
We're going to figure it out.
I can easily envision that
you're going to have a robot the
And if it landed on
the wall in some t*rror1st's
house, he probably
wouldn't know.
And we're able to fit so much
into such a small space now.
Keep the weight down, we can
give it wings, and the average
person would just try
to swat it away.
In the not-too-distant
future, you're going to
sit there, and go, "Wow,
what a" beautiful insect."
Maybe it's not an insect at all.
But if we can produce
insect drones today, is
it possible that the biblical
stories of locusts sent by God
are really accounts of alien
technology in the ancient past?
And could this be the reason why
insects are feared by humans,
even to this day?
Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe such an incredible
notion is possible, and for
proof, point to a mysterious
area in Nevada simply
known as Area 51.
Kingman, Arizona.
May, 1953.
At the height of the Cold w*r,
an unidentified object
reportedly crashed in the desert
sands.
What remained was allegedly sent
to America's most top-secret
facility...
Area 51.
But it wasn't until 45 years
later, in 1998, that a retired
military engineer named Bill
Uhouse came forward to make a
stunning claim.
The military didn't just have
the extraterrestrial technology.
They had an actual living alien.
Uhouse claimed
that he worked in a secret
laboratory, supposedly in the
Papoose Mountains of Area 51
in Nevada, and that since 1953,
the American government had an
insectoid alien that
was working with them.
His name was J-Rod.
J-Rod supposedly
assisted the military in
understanding and duplicating the
incredible power systems and
futuristic technology that was
combined and created for the
Kingman craft.
Shortly after
Bill Uhouse broke the story,
microbiologist Dan Burisch came
forward to confirm his claim.
But according to Dan Burisch, J-Rod
claimed that he was not an alien.
What he revealed was something
even more shocking.
This insectoid
alien J-Rod said that he had
actually come from our future,
and that, at some time in the
near future, to us, there is a
catastrophe on this planet...
and much of mankind is
destroyed...
and that mankind splits into
two different species.
And one of these species goes
and lives underground, and while
underground, they develop these
insectoid traits...
which is exactly what the Hopi
and Zuni and even Navajo legends
say... that, during the
transition period between
the third and the fourth
worlds, this above world
of today was not habitable, and
they had to go underground and
live for some time with what
they call the Ant People.
And you have to wonder if
perhaps J-Rod is actually an
insectoid human being from our
own future.
Could the accounts
of J-Rod confirm that the Hopi
stories of Ant People were more
than just mythology?
And if the so-called insectoids
really do exist, is it possible
that they are not aliens, but
humans from the future?
Aliens appear to be a
part of our human evolution
over thousands of years.
A lot of it has to do with
our reproductive systems.
Maybe they're actually trying to
create a new race, possibly that
will be able to withstand
atmospheric changes here on
Earth, or potentially lead us to a point
where we have to leave the planet.
But if humans are
someday forced underground by a
cataclysmic event, does it even
make scientific sense that we
would evolve to have
insect-like characteristics?
According to some scientists,
we are part insect already.
The work on the human
genome has indicated that
possibly up to half of our
DNA may be the result of
transposons.
That's a fancy word for jumping genes...
genes that can jump from
one species to another.
Recently, it was shown that rhodnius...
this is the sucking
insect that spreads Chagas disease...
not only can spread
the trypanosome, the
disease-causing agent, from
organism to organism, it also
can spread its own genes
to those organisms.
Humans get Chagas disease.
So far, they have not tested
humans for this insect DNA.
Odds are, we do have some of these
insect genes in our system.
We know some of these transposon
probably came from diseases
caught when our ancestors
were bitten by insects.
Could the studies on
Horizontal Gene Transfer one
day prove that we really do have
insect DNA in our genetic makeup?
And if so, might it be not
by chance, but by some
extraterrestrial design?
Is it possible that
evolution is being guided by
some sort of greater galactic
or universal intelligence?
Could it be possible that, in
certain circumstances, insects
could be the dominant species
that ultimately becomes sentient
and develops hominid
characteristics?
The contactee reports
are consistent.
Some people are seeing beings
like this, communicating with
them intelligently, and
for benevolent purpose.
The whole idea of
mixing these life-forms together
is fascinating, making hybrids
of the two of them.
Throughout history, people have
honored and even worshipped
insects, built temples to them.
It's quite possible that there
is an insectoid type life on
other planets that actually have
intelligence that's beyond our
own.
Is it possible that
there really is a connection
between insects and aliens?
Are they related to beings from
beyond our world, as some
ancient astronaut theorists
suggest? And if so,
might they have a
secret purpose we have yet to
discover?
Perhaps, one day, we'll find
that alien beings don't only
inhabit the furthest reaches of space.
But there are in fact
billions here on earth.
And most of them right under our feet.
07x07 - Aliens and Insects
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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.