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TOK THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
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are one of the world's

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very, very oldest cultures.

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KEVIN GAVI DUNCAN:
Our stories

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are older than
the Stonehenge in England.

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They're 20 or 30,000 years older

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than the pyramids of Egypt.

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DAVID CHILDRESS:
If you look

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at these Wandjina figures

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in the cave art,

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these figures look exactly
like Grey aliens.

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Wow.

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GARY SIMON JAGAMARRA:
We carved them, we sang them,

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we danced them in stories,

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we painted them,

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so when the visitors left,

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we didn't forget about them.

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NARRATOR:
Since the dawn of civilization,

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mankind has credited its origins

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to gods and other visitors
from the stars.

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What if it were true?

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Did extraterrestrial beings

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really help
to shape our history?

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And if so,

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might the secrets of our past

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have been entrusted...

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to Australia's Wisdom Keepers?

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sub-rip: ®70

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NARRATOR:
In 2015, documentary filmmaker

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Damien Nott released an archive
of over 2,000 UFO images

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taken over the skies
of Australia

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in the past three years.

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DAMIEN NOTT:
Oh, my God.

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WOMAN: It seems to be,
like, illuminating.

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NOTT:
It's actually morphing shape

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and rotating as well.

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-WOMAN: Yeah.
-This is phenomenal.

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Australia
is certainly a hot spot

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for UFO sightings.

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We've had a phenomenal growth
in the reporting

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of UFO sightings
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especially since the advent
of the Internet.

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But all evidence shows that UFOs

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have definitely
been visiting Australia

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for tens of thousands of years.

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We've had records
engraved on cave artwork

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by the Australian Aborigines,

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which goes back thousands
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Australia is one of the
most mysterious continents,

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and the Aboriginals
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of ancient stories

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of sky gods coming down.

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These are probably some
of the oldest stories

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of extraterrestrial intervention

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that we have on Planet Earth.

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Australia was something
of a last frontier

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long after America was settled.

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Well, it was 1770

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that the British explorer
Captain Cook

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actually came across Australia,

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and it wasn't until 1788

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that it was really settled--

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that was the east coast
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settled by convicts.

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That's what the British brought

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from their prisons.

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NARRATOR:
Today, the area of Sydney

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that the British first settled

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is a bustling metropolis,

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and Australia has become

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one of the most popular
tourist destinations on Earth.

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But hidden behind
this modern facade

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is nearly
2½ million square miles

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of undeveloped
and sparsely populated land,

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known as the outback.

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And while Australia
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to the Western world,

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for the nearly 700,000 people

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that call the continent
their ancestral home,

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it has a history that dates back

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tens of thousands of years.

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THOMPSON: There is something
very, very special

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about Australia.

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Here we have a situation where
this huge land mass has been

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pretty much cut off
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for 40,000 years.

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And we don't really find that

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in-in many other places
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NARRATOR: But what was happening
on this island continent

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for the tens of thousands
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that it existed in isolation?

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DUNCAN: When the first
Europeans arrived here,

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they didn't have much knowledge

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in regards to the sky world,

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where our people had much

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ancient knowledge
of the star system,

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and the constellation
of the stars.

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Our knowledge and wisdom
is so old.

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NARRATOR: Anthropologists
have dated the existence

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of the Australian Aboriginal
people back 60,000 years,

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making it the most ancient
continuous culture in the world.

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THOMPSON: The Aboriginal
peoples of Australia,

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are one of the world's very,
very oldest cultures.

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No other cultures in the world

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can compare
with the Australian cultures.

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They have knowledge that's been
around for a lot longer

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than really any of our knowledge
has been around.

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NARRATOR:
The Aboriginal people

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have no official
written language.

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Art, music,
and oral storytelling

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are how they pass their
histories and sacred knowledge

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to future generations.

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Their past is encoded

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on various rock walls

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scattered across the continent.

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Our oral traditions,
our stories

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that are passed down
from generation to generation,

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the wisdom and knowledge

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that have been given to us
by our god,

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they're 10,000 or more
years older

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than the Stonehenge in England.

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They're 20,000
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than the pyramids of Egypt.

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NARRATOR:
These ancient traditions

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are all strongly tied

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to Australia's connection

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with the stars,
and with the beings

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that are said
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As evidence,
ancient astronaut theorists

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point to the caves of
the Northwest Kimberley region

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that contain depictions
of beings called the Wandjina,

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the sky heroes of one of
Australia's indigenous clans.

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The Aboriginals have all kinds

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of ancient stories

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of Wandjina figures,

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of great heroes

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and sky gods who
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and created the rivers
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and fought amongst each other,
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If you look at these Wandjina
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they have big white faces.

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They have really no mouth
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They have very large,
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and there's a field
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that's like a space helmet,
perhaps.

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So, in many ways
these Wandjina figures

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look exactly like Grey aliens.

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And you have to wonder, then,

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if the cave art
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NARRATOR: Could these images
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extraterrestrials that visited
Australia in the ancient past?

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And if so, do the indigenous
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still have insight
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behind this ancient rock art?

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JAGAMARRA:
We all have stories

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of people in crafts

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coming from the stars,

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going to the stars,
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In order to keep them,

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pass them down
to next generation,

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we carved them,
we painted them,

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we sung them.

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We danced them in stories

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to guarantee
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So when the visitors left,

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we didn't forget about them.

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And we never forget
about the things

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that they passed down to us,

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and the knowledge
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Australia
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where we still have
living mythologies

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where we can talk
to the people whose story

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has been passed down

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over thousands of generations.

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And they talk of teachers
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and bestowed any and all
of knowledge to mankind.

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So this, to me,
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for the
ancient astronaut theory.

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NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
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who carry an oral tradition

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that dates back
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really hold secrets
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that the outside world
has yet to discover?

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Perhaps more evidence
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by examining the depiction

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of one of their
most important sky gods.

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NARRATOR: Coming up...

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DUNCAN:
They said the fire burnt

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the top of the mountain
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every time he landed.

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TSOUKALOS: So the landings
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with a lot of noise,

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-smoke and fire?
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NARRATOR:
Brisbane Water National Park.

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New South Wales, Australia.

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The Bulgandry preservation site

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is one of numerous sacred
indigenous locations

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where ancient rock art
and engravings can be found.

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Many are believed
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Oh, wow.

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NARRATOR:
In February 2016,

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researcher and publisher
Giorgio Tsoukalos

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traveled to Australia

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to meet with Aboriginal elder
Kevin Gavi Duncan

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to learn about one of the oldest
carvings that can be found here.

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So what are we looking at here?

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So this image is an actual image

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of what we say is our
Godfather creator being, Baiame.

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That's what our people believe.

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Baiame came from, well,

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a place that we call
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within the Mirrabooka.

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"Mirra" means stars,

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and "booka" means river.

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That is the Milky Way that flows
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No kidding? Okay.

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And so he is one
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that has descended
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He's a sky hero, and

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Baiame is carved in the manner
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he has his arms out,

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and he holds
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...and the Morning Star
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which is a bit like
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the two moons which exist

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around the Morning Star
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that Baiame came from.

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TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.

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And this is the canoe.

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He sailed through the river
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across the sky world.

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TSOUKALOS: So, he sailed
through the Milky Way?

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DUNCAN: Yes, he sailed
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and this was his vessel
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and he landed, to the earth...

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and he crushed
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which is the sacred mountain
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not far from here.

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And when he landed they said
the fire came from his feet

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and it burnt the mount--
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and all around it
every time he landed.

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So, the landings were
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with a lot of noise, smoke

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-and fire?
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The fire trail that was left
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the top of the mountain
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when Baiame had left,
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people interpret that
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TSOUKALOS: Yeah.

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DUNCAN:
...as coming and going,

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but this is the way
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Baiame's spaceship.

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Right, but it's
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didn't exist at the time.

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-Yes.
-So, to me, those are all

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wonderfully poetic ways
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of things that were incredible.

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DUNCAN: Yes.

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This site is considered

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around 8,000 to 10,000
years old.

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Wow.

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DUNCAN:
These carvings,

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these rock paintings,
these are our books.

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They are considered to be,

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basically, as truth.

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NARRATOR:
While many in the Western world

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regard indigenous tales
as folklore,

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it has recently been found
that at least some

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of their stories are
historically accurate.

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In September 2015,

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scientists studying
Aboriginal lore

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of past sea level rise
found corroboration

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in the geological record.

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Incredibly, the information
was faithfully preserved

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even though these events
occurred somewhere

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between 7,000
to 18,000 years ago.

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Similar findings noting
the accuracy of indigenous myths

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have been published
since the 1980s,

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including knowledge of tsunamis,

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earthquakes, volcanic eruptions,

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meteorite impacts, and solar
eclipses in the remote past.

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WILLIAM HENRY: Their stories
of events that happened

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12,000 years ago, maybe older,
have now been verified

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by the geological record.

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This is extremely important

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because if they're telling the
truth about geological events,

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can we then take at face value

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their stories or their

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recollections of
extraterrestrial beings,

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spirit beings, sky beings,
coming to Earth

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and intervening
in human affairs?

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I believe that we can.

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NARRATOR:
Might the Aboriginal stories

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of sky beings not be myth
but actual historical fact?

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Could their creator gods have
been extraterrestrial visitors?

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Perhaps further clues can be

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found by examining evidence

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of an ancient pilgrimage
to Australia

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made by the Egyptians.

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And here we are.

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Wow.

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How old do you reckon these are?

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EVAN STRONG: We're thinking that
it's about 4,600 years old.

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Wow.

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DUNCAN:
We have stories

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about their visits

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long before Europeans

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had arrived here.

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NARRATOR:
Central Coast,

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New South Wales, Australia.

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Deep in the Brisbane
Water National Park

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is a mysterious site
known as the Gosford Glyphs.

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The site consists of two
massive, eight-foot-high walls

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engraved with over
300 ancient carvings,

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carvings that experts say do not
resemble indigenous artwork,

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but Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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After deciphering the texts,

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21st century Egyptologist Ray
Johnson believed them to reveal

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the burial site
of Lord Nefer-ti-ru,

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a member of
the Egyptian royal family

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who died while visiting the area

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with his brother
sometime between 2637

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and 2614 BC.

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Absolutely beautiful out here.

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Oh, I know.

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NARRATOR: While visiting the
area in 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos

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met with local ancient astronaut
theorist Evan Strong

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to get a firsthand look
at these enigmatic carvings.

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-And here we are.
-Wow.

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That's incredible.

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I had no idea, I mean,

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this looks totally different
than on pictures.

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So, what do these

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-hieroglyphs say?
-Well...

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at least one panel talks
about two brothers,

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two princes,
coming here from Egypt.

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They were shipwrecked.

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One of them ended up
getting bitten by a snake.

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He then died.

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The theory is, then,

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he was interred here,

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and that's why

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-you've got hieroglyphs here...
-Mm-hmm.

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...because he died here...

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but there's these other walls

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with a mixture of symbols.

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This one over here,
it's-it's more

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of a philosophical
astrophysics style thing

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with symbols meaning all sorts
of esoteric stuff, so...

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Now, h-have these symbols
at all been interpreted

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by Egyptologists?

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There have been
a-a few, actually.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, a few different, um,
people have done that.

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And what was their reaction?

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Well, Raymond Johnson was
one of the first people

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to come here and-and translate.

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He actually sent some
of his translations off

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to the Cairo Library,
and Dr. Abou Dia' Ghazi

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ended up saying, "Yep,
you're on the right track."

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It's something
called proto-Egyptian.

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And how old do you
reckon these are?

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We're thinking because of the
prevalence, at least in one,

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uh, panel of proto-Egyptian,
that it's about 4,600 years old.

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TSOUKALOS: Wow.

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Are there any hieroglyphs

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that stand out to you?

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Yeah, definitely.

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Follow me down here

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and I'll show you
this other one.

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So, this one here, um,
we call the UFO glyph

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and people have called it that
since they've been coming here

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because it kind of

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looks like a UFO.

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TSOUKALOS: It definitely has
the classic UFO shape.

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It's-it's got the... the rays

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or whatever you want to call it.

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What would you suggest
if anyone says, well,

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this is not a UFO,
it's-it's some other symbol

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that-- but certainly not that?

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I think that someone
suggested that it's jewelry

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but it's a completely different
symbol that's upside down

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and it really
doesn't quite fit in.

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It's one of those symbols here

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that-that doesn't fit
into the canon.

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In your opinion,

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why do you think the Egyptians

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made it all the way
to Australia?

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I think they were looking
for esoteric wisdom, definitely.

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-From the Aboriginals?
-Yes.

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DUNCAN: The ancient Egyptians,
we have stories,

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and Aboriginal stories,

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about their arrival,
and about their visits

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long before Europeans
had arrived here.

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Naturally,

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we would have shared ceremony

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with these people because they

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have the same similar beliefs

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as our people.

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Egyptians have that
same spiritual connection

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to the sky world.

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Many stories

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from all over this continent,

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not just from here,
but all over this continent,

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talk about those
who came by the sea

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and came to these continents,
and some of our knowledge

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and wisdom and technology
went back with them,

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and if you do some
of the research,

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in the last pyramids
that they found,

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they found boomerangs

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made from iron bark
from here,

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and they have hieroglyphs
of black fellows

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throwing the boomerangs to take
out the ducks and the geese.

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Now the question would be,
why would they paint us

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and carve us on their walls
if they didn't come here?

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And if that meeting and
relationship

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was not significant,
they wouldn't have carved it.

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It must've been significant
in order to carve.

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NARRATOR:
Aboriginal artifacts

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found in Egypt?

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Hieroglyphs found in Australia?

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Might the continent have

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actually served as
a pilgrimage site for visitors

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seeking a direct connection
to the so-called gods?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and suggest further evidence
of this otherworldly link

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can be found in a megalithic
structure lost to time.

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This really puts
the Aboriginal culture

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in a totally different light.

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DUNCAN:
He asked Aboriginal people,

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"Where do you people come from?"
And our people

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would always just point
to the sky.

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NARRATOR: Mullumbimby,

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New South Wales, 1939.

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Frederic Slater,

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the president of the
Australian Archaeology Society,

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was dispatched to investigate

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the discovery of a complex
Aboriginal arrangement

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consisting of 188
standing stones.

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Slater dubbed the formation

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the "Stonehenge of Australia"

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and became convinced that it

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was one of the oldest temple
complexes in the world,

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predating those found in Europe
and the Middle East.

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Frederic Slater found that
the site he was investigating

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was part of a larger,
much larger site,

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and fitted in very closely

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with Aboriginal sacred law,
myths and legends.

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After a time,
Frederic Slater began to posit

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and suggest that instead
of out of Africa,

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that maybe we should reexamine

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the evolution of man
as out of Australia.

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He took a massive leap

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and started declaring that
in ancient times in Australia,

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the Aborigines
were more advanced

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than any culture that he
could recount on the planet.

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He was declared almost insane

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by the rest
of the academic community.

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The landowners were so terrified
of the controversy

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that it implied that it was

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pretty much
destroyed by bulldozers.

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CHILDRESS: There are
many stone circles, uh,

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throughout the British Isles
and Europe.

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Stonehenge is one
of the most well known.

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And they all have
some relationship

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to astronomical observatories.

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This Aboriginal Stonehenge

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would really alter the way
we think of the Aboriginals

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and the sophistication
of their society.

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Where they had astronomical
and archaeoastronomical

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structures that helped them
monitor the heavens,

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much as standing stones
in Europe would have done.

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NARRATOR:
Could the so-called

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Aboriginal Stonehenge
provide us insight

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into the other
stone arrangements

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found scattered
throughout the world?

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If so, might they serve
to provide a permanent record

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of a significant connection
to another world?

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Uluru Rock,
also known as Ayers Rock,

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is located nearly in the center
of the continent,

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over 1,200 miles

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from the nearest
major Australian city.

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This geological anomaly

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is one of the largest
isolated rocks in the world.

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It is over two miles long

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and rises over 1,100 feet.

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It is, in fact,

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the exposed tip of a huge
vertical slab of rock

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that continues below the surface

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for three miles.

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It is a huge sedimentary boulder

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that's gigantic,

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sitting there in the middle
of the desert.

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And geologists
cannot really explain

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how Ayers Rock came to be.

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It's almost
as if it was lifted up

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from somewhere else

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and brought to the center
of the continent

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and then just dumped there.

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NARRATOR:
For the indigenous population,

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Uluru is one
of their most sacred sites

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and a place of pilgrimage.

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They consider it
the navel of the earth.

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THOMPSON:
For the Aboriginal cosmologies,

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a lot of times
the landscape itself

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is sort of like the Bible
and Heaven, rolled into one.

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So, in places
like Uluru, Ayers Rock,

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this rock is
of great significance

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because they built this
into their cultural memories

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of when the world was formed
by sky spirits coming to Earth.

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NARRATOR: The creation stories
at Uluru Rock

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are primarily associated
with the rainbow serpent.

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This divine being is said
to have come out of the sky

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at the beginning of time,

518
00:25:49,757 --> 00:25:53,025
and held in its belly
all of creation,

519
00:25:53,060 --> 00:25:55,795
including
the first human beings.

520
00:25:57,398 --> 00:26:00,065
DUNCAN: The Rainbow Serpent,
we call Gria.

521
00:26:00,101 --> 00:26:02,401
And the Rainbow Serpent
is related

522
00:26:02,437 --> 00:26:05,704
to all Aboriginal nations
right across Australia.

523
00:26:05,740 --> 00:26:09,375
And it connects us all
as Aboriginal people,

524
00:26:09,410 --> 00:26:11,977
because it was regarded

525
00:26:12,013 --> 00:26:16,382
as a very sacred symbol
of creation.

526
00:26:16,417 --> 00:26:18,117
STRONG: An elder we're
in good contact with

527
00:26:18,152 --> 00:26:19,485
told us a story about Uluru,

528
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,187
which is quite fascinating.

529
00:26:21,222 --> 00:26:23,522
That we were actually
seeded from the spear

530
00:26:23,558 --> 00:26:25,624
from the Pleiades through space.

531
00:26:29,063 --> 00:26:31,831
And it actually hit the ground,

532
00:26:31,866 --> 00:26:35,701
and where that place was
is Uluru.

533
00:26:35,736 --> 00:26:40,139
So Uluru and its creation story
with the rainbow serpent

534
00:26:40,174 --> 00:26:42,408
could perhaps even be indicative

535
00:26:42,443 --> 00:26:44,143
of an ancient astronaut

536
00:26:44,178 --> 00:26:47,613
kind of seeding moment
in-in our history.

537
00:26:49,417 --> 00:26:52,685
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long proposed

538
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:57,389
that Earth was seeded by alien
visitors in the remote past.

539
00:26:57,425 --> 00:27:00,025
Might this be true?

540
00:27:00,061 --> 00:27:02,995
And if so,
do the Aboriginal stories

541
00:27:03,030 --> 00:27:04,864
reflect this truth?

542
00:27:04,899 --> 00:27:08,033
When the first Europeans
arrived here,

543
00:27:08,069 --> 00:27:10,402
Captain Phillip,
who was an English sailor,

544
00:27:10,438 --> 00:27:15,107
planted the Union Jack
in Sydney,

545
00:27:15,142 --> 00:27:17,343
and he asked Aboriginal people

546
00:27:17,378 --> 00:27:22,114
around that time, he said,
"Where do you people come from?"

547
00:27:22,149 --> 00:27:26,352
And our people would always
just point to the sky.

548
00:27:26,387 --> 00:27:29,355
He couldn't believe
that such people,

549
00:27:29,390 --> 00:27:31,557
who were grounded
by Mother Earth,

550
00:27:31,592 --> 00:27:33,859
say that they come
from the sky world.

551
00:27:37,064 --> 00:27:39,565
NARRATOR: Might humanity
actually have been seeded

552
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:41,600
on Earth from another planet,

553
00:27:41,636 --> 00:27:44,737
as the Aboriginal elders claim?

554
00:27:44,772 --> 00:27:48,741
And could this truth be encoded
in the Australian landscape,

555
00:27:48,776 --> 00:27:52,311
preserved for
future generations?

556
00:27:52,346 --> 00:27:56,415
Researchers suggest
some sacred Aboriginal sites

557
00:27:56,450 --> 00:28:01,220
continue to serve
as extraterrestrial outposts.

558
00:28:06,761 --> 00:28:11,163
ROADS: They've got tales
of mystery, disappearing people,

559
00:28:11,198 --> 00:28:15,134
strange noises
and strange creature sightings.

560
00:28:15,169 --> 00:28:17,403
Some people had actually
traveled back

561
00:28:17,438 --> 00:28:18,571
to the Morning Star.

562
00:28:21,183 --> 00:28:23,417
(wind whistling)

563
00:28:23,452 --> 00:28:25,152
NARRATOR:
The Blue Mountains.

564
00:28:25,187 --> 00:28:26,854
Australia.

565
00:28:26,889 --> 00:28:30,491
Throughout the walls
of Red Hands Cave

566
00:28:30,526 --> 00:28:32,025
are the stenciled handprints

567
00:28:32,061 --> 00:28:36,530
of ancient Aboriginal men,
women and children.

568
00:28:36,565 --> 00:28:40,100
The art stands as a testament

569
00:28:40,136 --> 00:28:42,302
to their physical time
here on Earth,

570
00:28:42,338 --> 00:28:46,507
hundreds and possibly even
thousands of years ago.

571
00:28:46,542 --> 00:28:49,443
According to local elders,

572
00:28:49,478 --> 00:28:51,445
the location served

573
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,448
as an initiation site
for young warriors.

574
00:28:54,483 --> 00:28:58,352
And it was here
that the collective wisdom

575
00:28:58,387 --> 00:29:00,020
of the land and the sky

576
00:29:00,055 --> 00:29:03,991
was passed on to future
generations by the sky gods.

577
00:29:06,896 --> 00:29:09,963
We leave our images
on the cave walls,

578
00:29:09,999 --> 00:29:11,532
such as our handprints,

579
00:29:11,567 --> 00:29:13,767
from the time we are,
uh, children.

580
00:29:13,802 --> 00:29:19,406
This would be done
generation after generation.

581
00:29:19,441 --> 00:29:22,643
The Blue Mountains
is a very sacred area,

582
00:29:22,678 --> 00:29:24,511
a sacred place,

583
00:29:24,547 --> 00:29:27,481
especially the highest places,

584
00:29:27,516 --> 00:29:30,017
because we were being
closer to Baiame,

585
00:29:30,052 --> 00:29:32,252
closer to God.

586
00:29:36,725 --> 00:29:39,793
NARRATOR: Mount Yengo--
the original point of descent

587
00:29:39,828 --> 00:29:42,362
of the Aboriginal
creator god, Baiame--

588
00:29:42,398 --> 00:29:44,064
is located here,

589
00:29:44,099 --> 00:29:46,600
within the Blue Mountain range.

590
00:29:46,635 --> 00:29:51,305
And curiously, the area
is also well-known today

591
00:29:51,340 --> 00:29:53,473
for the mysterious
disappearances

592
00:29:53,509 --> 00:29:55,242
of numerous hikers...

593
00:29:55,277 --> 00:29:58,078
campers...

594
00:29:58,113 --> 00:30:01,315
and soldiers...

595
00:30:01,350 --> 00:30:05,619
in addition
to countless UFO sightings.

596
00:30:09,158 --> 00:30:12,092
Australia's Blue Mountains have
become internationally known

597
00:30:12,127 --> 00:30:15,295
as a hot spot for UFO sightings
and other mysteries.

598
00:30:17,233 --> 00:30:20,801
There is certainly a lot of
mystery in the Blue Mountains.

599
00:30:20,836 --> 00:30:23,637
Campers, bushwalkers,
explorers...

600
00:30:23,672 --> 00:30:26,506
all have got tales of mystery,

601
00:30:26,542 --> 00:30:28,709
disappearing people,

602
00:30:28,744 --> 00:30:31,345
strange tunnels,

603
00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:33,146
strange noises

604
00:30:33,182 --> 00:30:35,782
and strange creature sightings.

605
00:30:38,254 --> 00:30:43,223
The UFO sightings
of the Blue Mountains

606
00:30:43,259 --> 00:30:46,193
have triggered many magazine
articles, radio shows and books.

607
00:30:46,228 --> 00:30:48,161
A lot of people
have come forward

608
00:30:48,197 --> 00:30:49,997
over the last few decades
to document

609
00:30:50,032 --> 00:30:54,201
and put onto the record
their own experiences.

610
00:30:54,236 --> 00:30:57,738
We have a great tradition
of some hundreds of sightings.

611
00:30:57,773 --> 00:30:59,773
I myself have gathered

612
00:30:59,808 --> 00:31:03,543
about 600,
800 sightings or so of UFOs.

613
00:31:03,579 --> 00:31:07,247
And it's growing all the time,
in my own lifetime.

614
00:31:07,283 --> 00:31:12,019
We have stories of UFOs
amongst early pioneer settlers

615
00:31:12,054 --> 00:31:15,689
dating back to... 1850,
thereabouts.

616
00:31:15,724 --> 00:31:19,893
There's a story
from about the 1890s

617
00:31:19,928 --> 00:31:23,930
of a farmer who was
plowing his field and a craft,

618
00:31:23,966 --> 00:31:26,800
a silver craft,
came over the cliffs.

619
00:31:29,238 --> 00:31:32,372
He stood there and watched it
while it disappeared.

620
00:31:36,812 --> 00:31:41,081
It came back after dark
and landed there.

621
00:31:41,116 --> 00:31:44,885
And he grabbed his rifle
and went out to see

622
00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:48,221
what was going on,
and the craft took off again.

623
00:31:51,293 --> 00:31:52,893
I would suggest
that the Blue Mountains

624
00:31:52,928 --> 00:31:55,429
have served as a contact point
for E.T.s

625
00:31:55,464 --> 00:31:58,065
from an advanced
civilization in space.

626
00:32:01,170 --> 00:32:02,836
CAROLINE CORY:
What is interesting to note

627
00:32:02,871 --> 00:32:04,905
is that there are

628
00:32:04,940 --> 00:32:08,675
several umbilical cords
on the planet.

629
00:32:08,711 --> 00:32:11,511
This particular location
is located exactly

630
00:32:11,547 --> 00:32:15,248
at -33 latitude.

631
00:32:15,284 --> 00:32:17,851
Which means
it is aligned specifically

632
00:32:17,886 --> 00:32:21,254
with the center of the galaxy.

633
00:32:21,290 --> 00:32:24,624
Now having said that,
there's an interesting parallel

634
00:32:24,660 --> 00:32:27,394
with the 33 latitude

635
00:32:27,429 --> 00:32:29,830
on Planet Earth.

636
00:32:29,865 --> 00:32:32,532
And that particular point
is considered to be

637
00:32:32,568 --> 00:32:35,402
continuously being visited

638
00:32:35,437 --> 00:32:38,105
from different parts
of the planetary system,

639
00:32:38,140 --> 00:32:40,941
from different parts
of the galaxy,

640
00:32:40,976 --> 00:32:42,809
and even from beyond
this galaxy,

641
00:32:42,845 --> 00:32:45,379
from way out in the universe.

642
00:32:50,719 --> 00:32:52,285
MAN:
Wow.

643
00:32:52,321 --> 00:32:53,620
WOMAN:
Yeah, did you see that thing?

644
00:32:57,826 --> 00:33:01,328
CHILDRESS:
There is a lot of UFO activity.

645
00:33:01,363 --> 00:33:05,799
So here, we have something
that would be like a stargate,

646
00:33:05,834 --> 00:33:09,836
some portal to another dimension
and jumping to hyperspace,

647
00:33:09,872 --> 00:33:12,906
perhaps, and for some reason,

648
00:33:12,941 --> 00:33:16,410
Australia was the place
where they put

649
00:33:16,445 --> 00:33:21,314
this hyperspace portal that is
used by extraterrestrials.

650
00:33:21,350 --> 00:33:24,851
NARRATOR: Could the Blue
Mountains of Australia function

651
00:33:24,887 --> 00:33:28,388
as an extraterrestrial gateway?

652
00:33:28,424 --> 00:33:31,258
Might this explain
the strange phenomena

653
00:33:31,293 --> 00:33:35,562
reported in and around the area?

654
00:33:35,597 --> 00:33:39,633
But if so,
is there some connection

655
00:33:39,668 --> 00:33:43,904
to the local Aboriginal tribe?

656
00:33:43,939 --> 00:33:47,574
DUNCAN: There is stories
that elders would say

657
00:33:47,609 --> 00:33:49,776
that some people
had actually traveled

658
00:33:49,812 --> 00:33:53,246
back to the Morning Star...

659
00:33:53,282 --> 00:33:56,016
and have come back again.

660
00:33:56,051 --> 00:33:59,286
That's not so much
of an abduction,

661
00:33:59,321 --> 00:34:01,021
but they have basically went--

662
00:34:01,056 --> 00:34:03,523
have gone back there
and come back.

663
00:34:06,328 --> 00:34:07,694
ROADS:
The Australian Aborigines

664
00:34:07,729 --> 00:34:10,497
have a connection
and a relationship

665
00:34:10,532 --> 00:34:12,833
with what we call
extraterrestrials and UFOs,

666
00:34:12,868 --> 00:34:15,202
which goes back
tens of thousands of years.

667
00:34:16,805 --> 00:34:19,739
They're rather nonplussed
by their existence.

668
00:34:19,775 --> 00:34:21,975
They have developed

669
00:34:22,010 --> 00:34:25,545
an awareness of individual
types of visitors

670
00:34:25,581 --> 00:34:29,416
from what we'd call outer space.

671
00:34:29,451 --> 00:34:30,984
This is not new.

672
00:34:31,019 --> 00:34:33,753
This has happened
thousands of times before.

673
00:34:33,789 --> 00:34:35,355
How do we know that?

674
00:34:35,390 --> 00:34:37,657
From all of the remnants
that are left behind

675
00:34:37,693 --> 00:34:39,726
by the ancients.

676
00:34:39,761 --> 00:34:41,862
Only a fool could say, "Oh, no.

677
00:34:41,897 --> 00:34:43,530
"We're the only ones here

678
00:34:43,565 --> 00:34:47,234
in this vast amount of space."

679
00:34:52,441 --> 00:34:55,609
NARRATOR: Might the indigenous
Australians really

680
00:34:55,644 --> 00:35:00,380
have an ongoing relationship
to otherworldly beings?

681
00:35:00,415 --> 00:35:03,483
Beings who have been
visiting the continent

682
00:35:03,519 --> 00:35:06,019
for thousands of years?

683
00:35:06,054 --> 00:35:09,656
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest further evidence

684
00:35:09,691 --> 00:35:12,826
of extraterrestrial contact
can be found

685
00:35:12,861 --> 00:35:16,563
by examining
the Aboriginal rituals known

686
00:35:16,598 --> 00:35:18,098
as "dreaming."

687
00:35:23,146 --> 00:35:25,213
NARRATOR:
As the bustling streets

688
00:35:25,248 --> 00:35:27,649
of Sydney fill
with workers and tourists--

689
00:35:27,684 --> 00:35:30,485
over 500 miles away,

690
00:35:30,520 --> 00:35:34,022
Aboriginal elders
known as "men of learning"

691
00:35:34,057 --> 00:35:37,725
prepare
for a dreaming ceremony.

692
00:35:37,761 --> 00:35:42,330
Dreaming is sacred
to the culture

693
00:35:42,365 --> 00:35:45,033
and represents
a complex spiritual concept

694
00:35:45,068 --> 00:35:48,470
that transcends linear time.

695
00:35:51,341 --> 00:35:53,875
JAGAMARRA:
In the beginning,

696
00:35:53,910 --> 00:35:57,011
there was great spirit.

697
00:35:57,047 --> 00:35:59,814
From the stars they came,

698
00:35:59,850 --> 00:36:01,850
and they came down

699
00:36:01,885 --> 00:36:04,319
to this place.

700
00:36:05,956 --> 00:36:07,655
YOUNG:
The elders,

701
00:36:07,691 --> 00:36:10,525
the spiritual leaders
of the Aboriginal peoples,

702
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,928
will-will not only chant,
but use hypnotic techniques

703
00:36:13,964 --> 00:36:16,865
like the didgeridoo,
which makes this humming sound.

704
00:36:16,900 --> 00:36:19,334
(didgeridoo droning)

705
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,673
(singing in native language)

706
00:36:25,709 --> 00:36:28,810
It will take you
into an altered state.

707
00:36:31,014 --> 00:36:35,783
It takes them into connection
with the Dreamtime,

708
00:36:35,819 --> 00:36:37,952
the unseen worlds,

709
00:36:37,988 --> 00:36:39,754
to commune with the ancestors,

710
00:36:39,789 --> 00:36:42,924
the sky gods.

711
00:36:42,959 --> 00:36:46,928
The Dreamtime
is this vast storehouse

712
00:36:46,963 --> 00:36:48,596
of accumulated wisdom

713
00:36:48,632 --> 00:36:52,534
and images and stories.

714
00:36:52,569 --> 00:36:54,702
And it's like other traditions
that believe there is a place

715
00:36:54,738 --> 00:36:57,138
that everything
that has happened is recorded

716
00:36:57,174 --> 00:37:01,643
and can be reached by the elders
through their altered states.

717
00:37:01,678 --> 00:37:04,879
(chanting)

718
00:37:04,915 --> 00:37:08,683
THOMPSON: There's probably
no more fundamental concept

719
00:37:08,718 --> 00:37:12,253
in Aboriginal cosmology than
the concept of the dreaming.

720
00:37:12,289 --> 00:37:15,657
Sometimes this is referred
to as "the Dreamtime."

721
00:37:15,692 --> 00:37:19,661
And this is the idea of this
mythic beginnings of the world,

722
00:37:19,696 --> 00:37:23,097
but it's important in that it's
a sort of transcendent time.

723
00:37:23,133 --> 00:37:24,766
And what I mean by that is
in their view,

724
00:37:24,801 --> 00:37:26,201
it's never gone away.

725
00:37:29,573 --> 00:37:32,407
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

726
00:37:32,442 --> 00:37:35,677
that in many ways,
the concept of Dreamtime

727
00:37:35,712 --> 00:37:39,747
mirrors the ancient Hindu idea
of the Akashic record...

728
00:37:39,783 --> 00:37:43,451
a collection of past, present,

729
00:37:43,486 --> 00:37:46,721
and future knowledge
believed to be encoded

730
00:37:46,756 --> 00:37:48,957
in a non-physical existence

731
00:37:48,992 --> 00:37:51,726
known as the astral plane.

732
00:37:53,697 --> 00:37:56,898
HENRY: The Akashic records are
sort of like a giant hologram,

733
00:37:56,933 --> 00:37:59,968
a holographic world that we can
step into to gain wisdom,

734
00:38:00,003 --> 00:38:02,003
access knowledge...

735
00:38:02,038 --> 00:38:04,138
perhaps even to connect

736
00:38:04,174 --> 00:38:07,575
with extraterrestrial beings.

737
00:38:07,611 --> 00:38:10,979
It's pretty remarkable that the
Aborigines would have a concept,

738
00:38:11,014 --> 00:38:14,782
the Dreamtime, that matches
not only the Akashic records,

739
00:38:14,818 --> 00:38:18,586
but also the idea
of a holographic paradigm.

740
00:38:20,257 --> 00:38:22,957
NARRATOR:
In 1997,

741
00:38:22,993 --> 00:38:26,661
theoretical physicists
proposed a revolutionary idea

742
00:38:26,696 --> 00:38:29,864
called the holographic paradigm.

743
00:38:29,899 --> 00:38:33,468
Curiously, this theory
mirrors the ancient concept

744
00:38:33,503 --> 00:38:36,671
shared by
the indigenous Australians

745
00:38:36,706 --> 00:38:39,674
and also the Hindu tradition.

746
00:38:39,709 --> 00:38:41,743
The holographic universe theory

747
00:38:41,778 --> 00:38:44,512
suggests that
the world that we see

748
00:38:44,547 --> 00:38:47,815
is a mere projection
from a 2-D space.

749
00:38:47,851 --> 00:38:50,618
What we perceive
as physical objects

750
00:38:50,654 --> 00:38:55,290
are actually
projected fragments of data.

751
00:38:55,325 --> 00:38:58,660
YOUNG:
There is a fascinating idea

752
00:38:58,695 --> 00:39:02,563
that perhaps the universe
is not three-dimensional.

753
00:39:02,599 --> 00:39:04,565
That it's a projection

754
00:39:04,601 --> 00:39:07,101
from a two-dimensional slide
of some kind.

755
00:39:07,137 --> 00:39:10,004
That it's a-a hologram--

756
00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,840
<i>something like The Matrix,
in the movie--</i>

757
00:39:12,876 --> 00:39:17,178
and that we are walking around
inside of what seems like 3-D,

758
00:39:17,213 --> 00:39:20,281
but in fact is an illusion.

759
00:39:21,785 --> 00:39:23,084
NARRATOR:
While this incredible theory

760
00:39:23,119 --> 00:39:25,620
may seem far-fetched,

761
00:39:25,655 --> 00:39:30,258
in 2013, researchers
at Ibaraki University in Japan

762
00:39:30,293 --> 00:39:35,029
found that the theoretical model
is mathematically feasible

763
00:39:35,065 --> 00:39:39,934
and might actually be correct.

764
00:39:39,969 --> 00:39:41,569
CHILDRESS:
We have this parallel

765
00:39:41,604 --> 00:39:44,172
between the Aboriginal
Dreamtime,

766
00:39:44,207 --> 00:39:46,374
the Hindu Akashic record,

767
00:39:46,409 --> 00:39:49,110
and the Holographic
Universe Theory--

768
00:39:49,145 --> 00:39:50,978
what would appear to be

769
00:39:51,014 --> 00:39:54,949
some kind
of extraterrestrial technology

770
00:39:54,984 --> 00:39:57,919
that's putting all
the information of the universe

771
00:39:57,954 --> 00:40:00,355
into one spot.

772
00:40:02,859 --> 00:40:04,292
NARRATOR:
Is it possible

773
00:40:04,327 --> 00:40:07,128
that the Aboriginal elders
are tapping

774
00:40:07,163 --> 00:40:10,698
into an otherworldly plane when
they perform their ceremonies?

775
00:40:10,734 --> 00:40:13,735
A plane that our greatest
scientific minds

776
00:40:13,770 --> 00:40:16,938
don't yet fully understand?

777
00:40:16,973 --> 00:40:20,274
If so,
does this provide evidence

778
00:40:20,310 --> 00:40:25,079
of a maintained connection
between this indigenous culture

779
00:40:25,115 --> 00:40:27,915
and advanced
extraterrestrial beings?

780
00:40:32,489 --> 00:40:36,023
TSOUKALOS: We have to remind
ourselves that the Aboriginals

781
00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:40,762
are our last direct connection
to our extraterrestrial past.

782
00:40:44,033 --> 00:40:46,667
It would behoove us to listen,

783
00:40:46,703 --> 00:40:48,870
because one thing
is clear to me today--

784
00:40:48,905 --> 00:40:53,374
their stories
are very clear in their message

785
00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:56,010
that we are not alone
in the universe.

786
00:40:56,045 --> 00:40:59,313
DUNCAN:
We are the extraterrestrials.

787
00:40:59,349 --> 00:41:01,516
Our body is made up
of this earth,

788
00:41:01,551 --> 00:41:05,720
but our spirit comes
from the Morning Star.

789
00:41:05,755 --> 00:41:08,289
We come from another place,
from another world.

790
00:41:08,324 --> 00:41:12,326
We were brought here a long
time ago to populate this place

791
00:41:12,362 --> 00:41:15,930
everyone now calls Earth.

792
00:41:18,201 --> 00:41:21,335
NARRATOR: Might the Aboriginal
Wisdom Keepers serve

793
00:41:21,371 --> 00:41:25,640
as a direct link to
our extraterrestrial creators?

794
00:41:27,744 --> 00:41:29,343
And could there be messages

795
00:41:29,379 --> 00:41:31,712
left behind for mankind encoded

796
00:41:31,748 --> 00:41:34,415
in their sacred traditions?

797
00:41:34,451 --> 00:41:37,919
As we stand at the threshold
of a new level

798
00:41:37,954 --> 00:41:40,621
of science and understanding,

799
00:41:40,657 --> 00:41:43,991
perhaps we will discover
that the stories

800
00:41:44,027 --> 00:41:46,360
of the world's
oldest living culture

801
00:41:46,396 --> 00:41:49,230
not only reveal
our true origins...

802
00:41:49,265 --> 00:41:53,501
but also our destiny.

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