New York City, [Music] 1976. Author and researcher Zechariah Sitchin publishes his book, The 12th Planet, introducing his revolutionary interpretation of the Anunnaki deities. After studying Samrian cunioform tablets for 30 years, he asserts that these so-called Samrian gods were in fact extraterrestrials that landed on Earth in Mesopotamia more than 450,000 years ago.
According to Sitchin's translations, the Anunnaki both created human beings and also had a part in mankind's downfall when a great flood nearly destroyed all life on earth. But why? What was the purpose of the Anunnaki's earthly visitations?
And why did they create the creature known as man? Zechariah Sitchin wrote a number of well-received books on the anarchy which he believed were basically extraterrestrial entities from a planet called Nibiru which he quite controversially believed actually exists in our solar system. His theory was they upgraded the human race and used them as sort of a slave species.
Sitchin understood based on his interpretation of the tablets that the mission had to do with the failing atmosphere around the planet Niburu and that when they came they came to mine gold. The Anunnaki had damaged their atmosphere and by using gold they found that they could patch these atmospheric holes becomes the story of our humanity. The Anunnaki literally came to Earth to mine the gold.
And when realizing it was such a toil to do so, created us as a worker race to do that for him. Zechariah Sitchin's hypothesis that the Anunnaki came to Earth to mine gold and then created humans to perform the task was both bold and controversial. Needless to say, it was not embraced by mainstream scholars.
But many ancient astronaut theorists believe that Sitchin's interpretation of the tablets is not only correct, but also provides compelling evidence that the Anunnaki created mankind. What if the whole Anunnaki story is a global story of a non-human intelligence that was manipulating genes all over the planet that it wasn't just gold, it was a planetary base. The Anunnaki said that they came from the Nibiru and they believe that Nibiru is a star, a gate, and a crossing place.
Opening up the possibility that the Anunnaki are actually traveling the stars through stargates and wormholes. [Applause] northern Iraq. Along the east bank of the Tigress River, opposite the city of Mosul, lie the ruins of the ancient city of Nineveh, a place originally inhabited by the Samrians of Mesopotamia.
Here in 1842, British archaeologist Austin Henry Leard unearthed the ruins of the great library of Azerbanopal, a royal archive containing thousands of clay tablets with cunoifor inscriptions. Dating to 3000 BC, the messages carved into stone are considered to be the world's first written accounts. Samrian tablets are probably one of the oldest uh form of written record that we have.
They've been translated and they tell exciting stories about how gods intermingled with human beings and actually had a hand in the creation of human beings. Whether or not it's just mythology or if it's fact, no one really knows. According to interpretations of the Samrian tablets, the gods were called the Anunnaki.
What we're looking at here is a Sumerian tablet that actually shows the tree of life flanked by divine beings. You can see here the Anunnaki on each side. We also see the winged disc, a symbolic reference that the Anunnaki had the power of flight.
They actually had necklaces with astronomical references, a moon, a star, various symbols which even could be symbolized as a wristwatch. technology being used 6,000 years ago. The written accounts etched into stone suggest the Anunnaki were giant beings standing 8 ft tall who came to Earth in search of gold for their home planet.
When the Sumerian gods, the Anunnaki, realized the toll it was taking to mine the gold themselves, they decided to fashion a worker being, a slave to mine the gold for them. And they explain in the Sumerian creation tales that this was an arduous process. So it's very possible that our genetic evolution was a process done by the Anunnaki to create us in their image and after their likeness.
They created man according to the Samrian text. They created Adam and Eve. How interesting that the Bible will echo the story but talk about it in terms of God.
It's almost like these highly advanced creatures were acting as teachers. Uh and certainly Samrian culture and mythology is full of stories of you know receiving visitations from these mysterious higher entities that you know bestowed wisdom and fantastic ideas and concepts and you know you have to wonder is this just down to myth or was somebody coming down and really trying to give us a push if you like. [Music] Ancient chronicles of sky beings creating human life are common in early cultures found all over the world.
But while mainstream scholars often dismiss this evidence, might such tangible historical accounts provide proof of alien intervention in man's evolution as ancient astronaut theorists believe. The Samrians are not the only culture that talks about this. Also in the Quran it says that language was given to us by Allah or God.
The Maya Populvu says that language was given to us by the gods. The ancient Egyptian texts are saying the exact same thing. It doesn't matter what ancient culture we look at.
They all say the same. that language was a gift from the gods. We should finally come to grips with the idea that extraterrestrials had something to do with our development.
Prior to the use of early systems of writing, ancient people carve symbolic communication into stone called petroglyphs. The oldest date to about 10 to 12,000 years ago. According to ancient astronaut theorists, petroglyphs located in the American Southwest linked the prehistoric ancestors of the Zouri and Hopi tribes with star beings.
The first graphic expressions by humans were petroglyphs. That means symbols or figures scratched into stone. The Hopi Indians, for example, scratched petroglyphs into their rock faces that show people with radiating wreaths, gods that descend from the sky.
The Hopi Indians say that these beings are cachings from space who came to Earth in aircraft who are not gods, but who brought them knowledge from another planet. We have the same phenomenon in Europe in Valkamonica. We have it in Asia.
We have it in Brazil in Brazil. When we look at the fact that all around the world, we hear similar legends of people from the stars coming down and having a profound impact on the people of this country or that particular culture. all in broadly similar time frames.
You know, we're seeing a pattern developing and it's difficult to dismiss that that pattern is suggestive. In our ancient past, creatures came down, interacted with us, and maybe manipulated us to become the people we are [Applause] today. The Lasco caves, southwestern France, discovered in 1940 near the village of Montanyak.
This cave complex is covered in Paleolithic paintings dating back more than 17,000 years. Anthropologists believe ancient shamans used these subterranean chambers to perform sacred rituals. And curiously, among the many ice age animals that are depicted on the walls, there is a strange creature that has the body of a man and the head of a bird.
The technical term for such a creature is a theanthrop and that's from the Greek therion which means wild beast and anthropos which means man. Clearly these are not things that one encounters in everyday life. The imagery of cave art is best explained as the experiences that shamans undergo in a deep state of trance.
When they return from the trans state, they then depict on the cave walls the visions that they have seen in this deeply altered state of consciousness. The birdman found in Lasco is reminiscent of one of the Egyptians most important gods, Thoth. It is also consistent with the depiction of the Samrian sky gods, the Anunnaki.
But is it mere coincidence that these shamans are encountering the same types of beings while in a trance that the world's earliest civilizations depicted as their gods? In all of these different indigenous cultures around the world, there are remarkable similarities of what types of beings people claim to be meeting when they go out of body. This suggests that in the dream plane and in the shamanic state, there is in fact a real place that we are going and real beings that we are encountering when we get there.
This is where the ancient astronaut theory suggests that they were the same teachers, the teachers that went to all the ancient cultures and brought them the basics for what we've accomplished today. But there was a a big noticeable change in human behavior around 40,000 years ago exactly at the time that our ancestors begin to manifest the first amazing uh cave art. But what is clear is that it's not a coincidence that at the moment that the cave art begins, we also witness in the archaeological record a radical change in human [Applause] behavior.
Nineveh, Iraq, 1849. A treasure trove of ancient cunioform texts is uncovered. detailing accounts of the creation of Earth, man, and the lives of the gods.
In 1849, Austin Henry Leard made an archaeological expedition to a city of Nineveh, a city that's mentioned in the Bible. And in his excavations, he discovered the palace of Snackb who's well known from the Bible. This really galvanized the interest of the world.
Well, 3 years after this, his assistant found the palace of his grandson Asher Banipal on the opposite side of the mount. Now, in both cases, they found archives and together the archives form about 20 to 30,000 tablets. Recorded on seven of the tablets is the Babylonian creation myth called the Enuma Elish.
[Music] Enumeish was probably composed in the 11th century BC, but almost certainly this story goes back to much earlier periods. The tablets tell of a god named Marduk who took blood from the god Kingu and mixed it with clay in order to create the earth's first humans. When the Anunnaki create the model man, that person gets picked up as a story in the Bible and he's called Adam.
What I find interesting is that the Bible left out some of the most important details and cut the story short. So the Samrian tablets, the Mesopotamian tablets have the more detailed [Music] versions. According to mainstream scholars, the Enuma Elish is simply an example of an ancient creation myth.
But ancient astronaut theorists believe that the epic story is not fiction, but based on fact. Anunnaki is a term that means from heaven to earth they came. So the knowledge that came out from Nineveh is a complete look of a civilization that sprung up out of nowhere.
Many of the tablets that were unearthed in Nineveh describe nuances into the actual mindset of the gods, these Anunnaki, and they describe being flesh and blood beings just like us. The Anunnaki themselves were physical beings that came here in giant spaceships that our ancestors thought were some type of divine apparitions. Our ancestors, especially the Samrians, received help.
And that help came from nowhere else but up there. According to ancient astronaut theorists, the Enuma Alish vividly describes not mythic gods, but other worldly beings, alien visitors who possessed a highly advanced knowledge of genetics. The Anunnaki began to figure out how they could create a docil worker.
So they took genes from a female homminid and after many many trials they figured out that they could blend genes together and create the perfect being. In a sense, what these tablets are really talking about is a genetic engineering and the changing of the DNA within human beings. Clearly, something happened where we went from nothing to all of a sudden coming up with the most incredible of thought models.
So, the question then is how was it done? And according to the ancient alien theory, our ancestors were given intelligence by a deliberate change of our DNA by space travelers who came here thousands of years [Applause] ago. From the mysterious statues of Sierra Leon to the Doon tribe of Mali and the Babylonian worship of Deeon to the Japanese stories of dragons and the curious dogu figures.
According to ancient astronaut theorists, there are eerie similarities between ancient cultures that indicate they were all visited by the same extraterrestrial beings from Sirius B. If there were beings from the Sirius star system, they may have come for a short period of time. They may have been harvesting metals.
They may have been harvesting genetic material. And then they go. But is there any physical evidence?
For some, the presence of a chromium sphere inside a statue estimated to be 17,000 years old and ancient figurines that appear to depict spacuits are proof enough. But could there also be actual artifacts from another world? Among the people of Sierra Leon, local legend has it that when they're normally gods fell from heaven, part of the sky turned to stone and rained down with them.
These strange blue stones called sky stones have been found with the statues. And at first archaeologists thought, okay, it's just blue stones. But when they analyzed it and they couldn't figure out how these had been made too.
Although the people in Sierra Leone felt that they were actually pieces of the blue sky that fell with the normaly. If these mysterious blue stones are really connected to the legend of the sky turning to stone and raining down on the earth with the arrival of the anomaly, what could they be? Some type of protective covering for an alien spacecraft.
Pieces of a heat shield perhaps, like the tiles that covered the bottom of the space shuttle? And if so, might further scientific examination of them support the idea that the nomaly were actually extraterrestrial visitors, perhaps from the Syria star system. Seattle, Washington, March 6th, 2019.
In search of further evidence that the Nomaly statues may have an extraterrestrial connection, ancient astronaut theorist David Childress has arranged to meet up with sky stone collector and researcher Jared Collins. Wow. Jared has in his possession a number of the mysterious blue stones that were found near the statues.
Jared has been collecting sky stones since he first heard about them in 2013. He became fascinated by their enigmatic nature, betraying neither obvious mineral nor man-made origin. So, how was it that these stones were actually discovered in modern times?
This was actually discovered in 1991 by a man named David Lebet. He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession looking for golden diamonds. And when he was having his crew dig, occasionally these stones would appear.
And interestingly, David went to the village chief to ask if he'd ever seen any of these stones before. And the chief said that when these stones are found, large amounts of golden diamonds usually follow shortly thereafter. What do other geologists say about stones like this?
Are they able to identify them? We've sent these down to 12 different labs. There is not one piece of consensus in here.
Everybody has a different opinion. We still don't know actually if these are natural or man-made. So maybe it's from another planet.
I don't know. I really wish I did. 30 mi south of Gallup, New Mexico, lies the Pueblo of Zouri.
Sheltered from the desolate high plains, this adobe city is home to the Zouri Indians, one of the oldest indigenous tribes in North America. They have inhabited this land for almost 2,000 years and have protected their secrets even longer. The Zouri are a very interesting culture in that they're one of the few cultures that really have not opened up uh to the rest of the world about their star knowledge traditions.
Most of this type of information is is very closely held uh by the the natives. And um I I really find it uh very intriguing that this is the time uh period in history where now we're starting to learn more and more about their star knowledge. Much of the Zouri people's history is etched in the rocks in the New Mexico desert.
Tribal elder Clifford Mahudi and archaeologist Dan Simpio have studied the Zouri secret history firsthand. They've collected stories passed down through generations that are rooted in the belief that the trib's creators and protectors are supernatural beings from the sky. This one's kind of interesting here.
I would imagine it was created in last century, but on this design you can see the star figure. Celestial images oftent times are depicted in a lot of our cultural petetroglyphs and this is one of them where it depicts the star. It could be the supernova of the crab nebula.
Our zone mythology in the prayer system and the ritualistic protocols talk about these people that came over here and told us how to actually live our lives as being sky people. If you listen to a lot of religious chants and songs and prayers, that's all they talk about. They're talking about space.
They're talking about out there in the universe where they came from. So, they depict it on a rock wall here. But the actual meaning of it is somewhere more profound and more complex than that.
These drawings are thought to have been created around 1200 BC. Yet they appear to depict modern space travelers and their vehicles. If you move back a little bit, you can see another figure here.
It has a dome, has eyes. Uh there's something coming down and a nose like a nose through the nose but it kind of flares out. I think it was something to do with the ancient ones when they saw something they took as much description of it to put it on there.
Of course, it's not going to be exactly what they saw, but that's as best as they can do for something that they saw. With all petroglyphs and and things like that, I mean, they're up to interpretation. Sometimes they're just doodlings of people, but other times they may well be actual descriptions and and depictions of some kind of god from outer space, some ancient astronaut.
And when you go around say like the Zonyi PBLO, I mean, that's what they'll tell you those petetroglyphs are. Even the Zunnies themselves call them the spacemen. This one seems to have two legs coming out like that.
And it has a broad diamond shaped body. Um, there probably was a bitter head that chipped off here. That's very different looking than humans are.
Now, usually they're called UFOs, but in the Zuni way, we've always been taught that they're the keepers of the upper world, which means space. other sky people, beings that are of the extraterrestrial origin. And this is still within our mythology and our religious practices [Applause] today.
Valkam Monica, Italy, June 13th, 2019. Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry has traveled to this UNESCO World Heritage site to investigate the area's mysterious petroglyphs. Hi, I'm William.
Hi, I'm Luca. Nice to meet you. Joining him is Luca Garelli, the head of the Valkan Monica Historical and Anthropological Society.
This place is massive. Yeah, it's very big. And the rock car covers all that area.
Are you ready for a hike? I'm ready. Let's go.
Let's go. I'm here at Valcommonica because it is a treasure trove of images from the ancient world that have been well documented and studied by scholars. They don't agree on the meaning of the images, but some of them are very open-minded to the ancient astronaut theory.
Luca leads William to an area with a panel of ancient petetroglyphs that appear strikingly familiar to modern eyes. Period. Wow.
What we have here? We have this one. This figure.
Oh, look at that. The spaceman. Spaceman.
Exactly. Look at the helmet. Out.
Look at the helmet. Right. It's like he's glowing.
Yeah. And the communion rose. The communion rose.
It's a strange mysterious symbol with uh nine dots was made probably of the first millennium before Christ. Wow. Archaeologists call this mysterious object the communion rose because of its flower-like shape.
While its exact meaning is lost to history, some believe it to be a religious symbol or representation of the movement of the stars. But ancient astronaut theorists suggest it might also depict something else. The vessel that brought these helmeted figures to Valkam Monica.
Look at that. That looks like a spaceship. It's like you'd look up in the sky and you would see this kind of twirling, spinning ship in the sky.
It seems to me just looking at it, they're trying to talk about beings coming from other worlds, maybe to this place. It could be an explanation. Tell me about that five-pointed star.
We have a lot of fivepoint star here on this rock. Mhm. But we don't know what they meaning when they did this particular geometric shape.
Sometimes the the stars mean energy like energy from the stars would come to this place where star beings would come to this place. Yeah, it could be an interpretation. We have a lot of mystery about the meaning of the engraving here in Black Monica.
We have a different motivation, religious, mythological and also describing events. Okay. So this is like a newspaper.
Then it says this was in the sky above us at some point and this spaceman came down and maybe met the communion people. It's could be. According to ancient stories, the nearby city of Trin was founded by a character from Greek mythology called Fatan who came to Earth from the stars.
Legend states that Turin was founded by the god Fighton, who is a son of the sun god Helios. And in the myth of Phyon, we learned the story of how he descended to Earth in a fiery chariot, perhaps crashing into Mount Mousini. This also led to something fortuitous because he brought gifts to this place.
He had great skills, was a metallurgist and taught this to the local people. When we look at myths such as the myth of Feton, here is really the story of a UFO landing on a mountain and interacting with the locals. When we look behind this myth of Baton, perhaps this is what we're also seeing at Belmonica.
I think given the connection with the spacemen that are etched into the rock, we have to be open to the possibility that what the ancient artist is trying to portray is something that he actually saw in the sky, something coming out of the heavens. [Applause] [Music] Mali in northwest Africa. Deep in a remote valley live the Doon people who are the descendants of a nomadic tribe that settled here around 1,000 AD.
Just like Aenadan's followers, the Doon had been forced to leave Egypt because of religious persecution. The Dogs lame a very long and ancient tradition and in my opinion maintain some of the ancient Egyptian traditions and myths that have been carried on right into the present age. Parts of ancient Egypt may not have died.
They were carried on to this day among the Doon. But what exactly are their beliefs? Doan mythology holds that the sky god Amma created the first living creature known as Namo.
The legend also says that shortly after his creation, Namo multiplied into several parts, one of which rebelled against Amma. Amma responded by destroying him and scattering his ashes throughout the world. According to the Doon myths, a god gave them this knowledge.
He descended from the sky in an arc surfing on fire and landed in a storm. Still today, Doon celebrates a festival in the honor of Namo and that visitation that occurred in the remote past. How do we know this?
For this festival, they have wooden masks that date back to a very long time ago when this festival [Music] began. Doon masks tell the mystic stories of their ancestors. This is a sculpture of the creator.
They call him Amma. He's embracing the universe. This is how they pass on information from generation to generation by stories carved in [Music] masks.
But could Namo have been a real person? Some see eerie similarities between the Doon's legend and the story of the mysterious pharaoh Aenatan. Aenatan believed he was directly descended from the sun god Autton.
Namo was said to have been created by the sky deity Amma. Is it a coincidence that both cultures although thousands of miles apart shared mythical tales of beings coming from the skies? and both Namo and Akenatan were depicted with elongated heads.
Is it possible that these legends were based on real events? The Doon dwell in the central plateau region of Banyagara. Their knowledge is centuries old and their priests have been sharing it with chosen individuals only.
In the 1920s, French anthropologist Greel and ethnologist Deerland visited the tribe and were invited to share their [Music] secrets. But one secret stood out. The Doon claimed that their god Amma came from a specific star in the Sirius constellation.
The same place where the ancient Egyptians believed their god Osiris was born. This star, which modern astronomers refer to as Sirius B, the Doon called Potolo. But what baffles experts is that the star is so far from Earth, it's impossible to see with the naked eye.
I was very intrigued by this, by the way. I mean uh the doggon should not have known about the existence of this star. Sirius is the second nearest star from our solar system.
It's eight light years away. In fact, it's not even visible with standard telescopes. It was first seen literally seen and photographed in 1970s.
Modern science has corroborated that Sirius B does indeed exist. Problem is, the Doon knew about this before modern science corroborated it. I mean, that's spooky.
Measurements taken with the Hubble telescope in 2003 have confirmed that Sirius B is what's known as a white dwarf or a partially burnt out star with extremely dense mass. Although it is smaller in size than Earth, it's estimated to weigh eight times as much as our sun. But how did the Doon acquire this ancient knowledge of astronomy that seems to be centuries more advanced than that of modern science?
The mystery is how did this story get passed on down generations? If the story came from a time before astronomers knew there was a companion star to Sirius which can't be seen with the human eye. This is the Doon symbol for Sirius.
When you move it around, you can see an orbit around the center marked by Sirius A. Sirius B circles around it. So it is a circular system.
This sign is practically an astronomical model that the Doon could not have invented because only Sirius A is visible. Sirius B and C are invisible. However, their description of the orbit is correct.
One assumption is that this god Namo who brought them this knowledge could have been an extraterrestrial intelligence.
