Ancient Aliens - Secrets of the Star Ancestors

Episode Date: July 24, 2025

In the traditions of native peoples across North America are stories of the Star Ancestors–powerful beings who descended to Earth in the distant past and are sometimes present even today. Might the ancient accounts and depictions of these visitors reveal profound truths about both humanity’s origins… and its future in the stars?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

For centuries, Native Americans have kept alive some of the oldest traditions on Earth. Through oral history and sacred sites, the story is told to indigenous people for thousands of years. Their incredible history is carved into the landscape. This is sensational. They represent those gods that came to earth. And their sacred rituals display a reverence for the land and for the ancestors. from the stars. They're the keepers of the upper world, which means space.

We don't use the word gods. We use the word creator. Y palmenoani. Do the stories of America's indigenous people reveal a long history of contact with otherworldly visitors? All Native American tribes have oral histories that people came from the stars to visit them.

I know they're out there. out there. There is a doorway in the universe. Beyond it is the promise of truth. It demands we question everything we have ever been taught. The evidence is all around us. The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone.

We have never been alone. Collinsville, Illinois. 15 miles east of St. Louis, towering over the flat local terrain is Monks Mound, the remains of a massive earthen pyramid. Built more than 1,000 years ago, it was the centerpiece of the ancient Native American city of Cahokia. Ed Barnhart, Ph.D. is an archaeologist and the director of Maya Exploration Center. Monks Mound is the largest building of the ancient North America, north of Mexico. It was called that because Trappist French monks lived nearby It stands 100 feet tall today.

It was probably taller in its heyday. It comprises of about 22 million cubic feet of dirt, which was millions and millions of buckets of dirt, brought one at a time. Its circumference on the bottom is larger than the temple of the sun just north of Mexico City. Monks Mound and other ancient ruins across the Americas offer clues about how Native people once lived in vast, thriving communities. Yet very little is known about the inhabitants of Cahokia and many Native cultures, since most of their history and traditions were passed down orally rather than through written records.

This is former Navajo tribal ranger John Dover. The Native Americans traditionally use a oral tradition. Everything is spoken. The oral traditions actually go back thousands of years. It's just the way it was, and we've maintained that tradition even to this day. It is unknown what the Native Americans who inhabited Cahokia called themselves. Anthropologists refer to them as the Mississippians, a name used to describe a wide variety of Native people. that lived east of the Mississippi in North America.

And although much about Cahokia remains a mystery, what is known is that it thrived centuries before Europeans ever stepped foot in the Americas, as did countless other cities. Around 1050, the city swells to a population of 15,000 and including the satellite communities around it, almost 30,000. There were a number of these cities, all around the eastern part of what's now the United States.

The general picture of Native America before European contact is that it's some sort of just nomadic life that they were living in small bands and camps. The truth is that there were thousands of people living in the same place very much the way the Europeans were. Across North America, vast differences existed between the Native peoples in terms of language, customs, and cultural practices. Yet many tribes shared the tradition of worshiping a powerful being known as the Bird Man. When excavations were performed at Cahokia in the 20th century, this motif was found to be abundant.

The most remarkable example was connected to the burial of a man believed to have been an early Cahokian ruler. His body had been placed on an elevated platform covered by a bed of more than 20,000 marine shell disc beads arranged in the shape of a falcon, with the bird's head appearing beneath and beside the man's head, in its wings and tail beneath his arms and legs. The Birdman of Cahokia is a burial that was found under a mound in the center of the city. And it's called the Birdman because there's this arrangement of shells that appear to be in the shape of a bird. And it makes sense because we know that the Mississippians

had a supernatural being who may or may not be a god. But he's a very powerful creature that lives up in the sky. We see depictions on also stone tablets. Here is Jonathan Young, PhD, founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives. Native people believed in the power deity called the Bird Man. There are a number of depictions in the remains of these cultures of this powerful creature who could fly and could move among the different realms and was essentially the ruling God of this reality.

Various descriptions of the Bird Man can be found from one tradition to the next, and some also feature a similar celestial being called the Thunderbird. Here is Zuni tribal elder, Clifford Mahoudi. The Thunderbird in Zuni is described as a being that came from the sky that could create lightning. It could create a lot of noise. And it was represented as a being with wings made out of knives. Now, the Thunderbird could have been a vehicle, but it was represented as a being a wing made out of knives. But way back then, the Indians had no other reference,

so they just said, well, it is a bird. This is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Suclos. One could argue that this is a representation of misunderstood technology that could illustrate some type of a flying craft. Because if you don't have the terminology for a plane, well, of course you're gonna call it a bird. I mean, pilots even today call their planes birds.

The mountain builders, I believe, were those Indian tribes that had contact with the extraterrestrials, the teachers. The star ancestors taught the American Indians about where they came from. There are different star system constellations and how they're supposed to carry out their rituals by referring to their star system. whether it be Pleiades, whether it be the Milky Way, whether it be the Big Dipper.

Here is Alfredo Figueroa, author of ATSLAND Origin and Ethnology. Ancestuous were in the cosmos. We don't use the word gods. We use the word creator. Yipalmenoani. He who has no name and has all the names. He's the eye that oversees everybody. This is Patricia Rubles, historian at Lacuna de Atslan's sacred site protection.

The creation story, if you understand it correctly, we are all from the cosmos. Our ancestors were extraterrestrial. The story is told to indigenous people for thousands of years. Through oral history and through the petroglyphs and pictographs, and the sacred sites that continue to be part of our Native cultural traditions. In talking about star people, all Native American tribes have these traditional oral histories that people came from the stars to visit them. And it's universal all across the United States that these gods, as we call them today,

came to Earth and visited to provide knowledge. This is David Childeris, author of Technology of the Gods. The Cherokee talked about the star seeds and the people coming from the sky. The Zunis and the Hopis talk about the star people coming, and the Mississippi Mound people had the Birdman culture. So here we have these cultures, and their legends and lores are about star ancestors, coming down, giving them information, showing them science and medicine. Native American people have been very clear

when they speak of celestial beings that imparted knowledge. And if you compare that to the ancient astronaut theory, that's exactly what it talks about, that the knowledge was imparted by beings who visited us. Could the stories of the Birdman and Star People, provide an oral history of alien visitation among early Native American tribes. Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and proposed that while the indigenous communities kept no written records, a historical account of exactly what they encountered can be found carved

into the landscape at an ancient petroglyph site in Arizona. In the American Southwest is a region known as the Four Corners, where the boundaries of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet. Most of this region belongs to semi-autonomous Native American nations including the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute, and dozens of other Native American peoples. They are all thought to be descendants of people frequently called the Ancestro Pueblo or Anasazi. The Anasazi are the old ones as we like to refer to them. We're here in the Four Corners region for thousands of of years and they suddenly around 1070 AD just up and disappear. Their cities are abandoned,

their structures, everything, pottery is left. They don't know what happened to them. Archaeological evidence shows that between 1275 and 1,300 AD, the Pueblo people stopped building entirely and left the land empty. They were a people that inhabited this four corners region for thousands of years. It's still a mystery today and it's one of the big mysteries in the American Southwest. Similar to the Mississippian tribes to the east, the Pueblo nations also described contact with visitors from the stars and performed rituals to connect with sky beings called the Kachina. There were objects we call them dolls but they were sacred objects that would be similar to the costumes worn by the dancers and imagined.

to be the appearance of the celestial beings. If you look at the kachinas, there are so many different types, different headdresses, different feathers on them, different ways of painting them to distinguish them one from another. And that tells me that there were a lot of different types of beings that were interacting with early natives, much more than we even think.

The kachinas were their full. first teachers, the ones that imparted the knowledge. To hope you are very clear in suggesting that the kachinas were physical beings. The kachina is a representation of the actual gods that used to come into the villages eons ago. Some of them are warriors. Most of them are priesthood type kachinas, and they come from different parts. In my opinion, different parts of the universe, but they actually have certain places on this planet that they call it home.

Ours is west of here and of course a lot of other Pueblos have their own specific place. And even to this day, some of them are here. The story of strange humanoid beings assisting Native peoples has been recounted for centuries among the Pueblo nations. Not only is it a central part of their people. oral traditions. These encounters were so significant they were carved into stone. I believe that these visitations have been documented in pictographs and petroglyphs. They're not art actually for art's sake. The petroglyphs have been done this way for basically thousands of years.

Do petroglyphs found throughout North America tell a story of ancient extraterrestrial contact? In July 2021, ancient astronaut theorist Georgiosuclos and William Henry traveled to rock art ranch in Winslow, Arizona, to investigate one of North America's most extensive collections of petroglyphs. Joining them is esteemed Navajo tribal ranger, John Dover. It's so great to meet you because 31 years you've been a tribal Navajo Ranger, is that correct? Yes, I started in 1980. to 2011 and worked most of the reservation up there 27,000 square miles. Wow.

This ranch is very unique because there is so much archaeology here. Well, we're sure excited to be here to get eyes on it with you. Okay, well let's go take a look. All right. Rock Art Ranch's 5,000 acres are home to nearly 3,000 ancient petroglyphs. And on nearly every panel, our figures that the Navajo people identify as star people. This is sensational.

Look at that guy right there. They call that the birthing mother, right? That's right. Very fascinating because I'm looking at that and immediately my mind goes around the world. Absolutely. This is a depiction of a mother goddess. It's like those big, giant statues

that were found over in Europe. Right. It also reminds me of Dogu statues of Japan. Yeah. And also the Wanjinas. Right. Very similar. In the Northwest Kimberley region of Australia,

ancient cave art depicts beings called the Wanjina, the sky heroes of one of Australia's indigenous clans. The stories behind the Wanjinas goes that they descended from the sky and gave knowledge and jumpstart civilization in Australia thousands and thousands of years ago. And the Wanginas are incredible. because they have these gigantic heads and these long bodies and these arms,

it seems as if they're inside some sort of a pressurized suit. There are similar figures all around the world. Big bulbous heads, big bodies floating up in the sky. In Japan, we have the same things. In Africa, in Yves' Europe, in North and South America. So my suggestion is that the exterrestrials that came to Earth thousands and thousands of years ago didn't just visit Australia. They visited each and every continent on Earth, and that is why

we have the similar motifs. Look at the concentric rings up there. That's the portal symbol. There's two of them. And there's guys around the portal. Interesting. Yeah. Tell me, John, petroglyphs are regarded as picture books that tell a story all at once. That's right. And also enmeshed in all this are religious symbols, things that tell you something about how they worshipped, pictures of gods. And when you say gods, in your culture, what does that mean? It could be anything from somebody coming to them and meeting with them and imparting knowledge.

And in the case of the Navajo, that's what the Yebeche represent. In the case of the Hopis, the kachinas represent those gods that came to earth to give them knowledge. And could one make the argument that these may have been visitations by flesh and blood exeterrestrials in ancient? ancient times. Oh, definitely. From what we understand, there's many different races of alien that are coming to this world. That's amazing. In the case of some tribes down in southern Arizona, you even have a mountain range called the Estreya Mountains.

In the language of the people in that area, Estrea means Stargate. Absolutely, Estrea, star people. Am I correct to assume that this is only the tip of the iceberg? and that there are so many more panels like this that the world doesn't even know about. On the Navajo Reservation alone, there are 300,000 sites that are recorded. I mean, we're talking at least 4,000 BC, right?

That's right. Well, this is great, but I'm just looking on the other side, and there is more. I mean, there's more everywhere. So let's go check out the other ones as well. Sure thing. July 2021. Giorgio Suclos and William Henry have been granted special access to rock art ranch in Winslow, Arizona,

where Navajo tribal elder John Dover is guiding them through the ancient petroglyph panels. Wow. I mean, look at the hollow body with the star inside. One hand point to the sky, the other down to Earth. And just beneath that, look at that is a gray alien. That triangular head. Very strange. That is a...

You have all kinds of different types of figures, different representations of gods. Right. I mean, what we have to fill in with our imagination is that these beings off the wall, 3D, walking amongst the people. They're interacting with these beings. Right. We don't know if it's the same time. Right. Or could be different times. That's mind-blowing.

I'm so intrigued by that double helix up there, too, beside the trapezoidal figure. Mm-hmm. I mean... As if to indicate because of the creature on the left, DNA, you know, had something to do with this. That's right. Georgio, when you see the guy with the trapezoidal body and you see the curvy lines on the body, that always symbolizes, like, vibration. Okay.

The Anunaki wore cloaks that had those kind of curvy lines all over. Right. And so here we have a clear, clear symbolic connection with the Ananaki on this figure. The Anunaki were powerful deities, worshiped. more than 5,000 years ago by the ancient Sumerians who inhabited Mesopotamia, an area that is now modern-day Iraq. According to Sumerian writings, the Anunnaki descended upon a mountain, shining like the sun, and shared profound wisdom with the human race.

Look at all the different types of beings here, and then all the way across there, you've still got even more variety. I mean, this is almost like a meat, place of all these different worlds and different beings. So, you know, you have giants, you have little people. And the giants and the little people are talked about in the other world that they came from before they came to this world. No, and this is the same with Sego Canyon up in Utah. You have these massive, massive carvings and petroglyphs.

So the fact that we have these virtually items, these virtually identical motifs to me suggests. They were all taught by the same teachers. And the guy here with the horns, which could be rays, right next to the gray alien, he's got horns or rays coming off of his head. You see that at Valcamonica in Italy. Yes, you do.

All kinds of different places. And again, pointing to the idea that these could be luminous or radiant beings that they're portraying. And seeing creatures here having, for example, three fingers, You know, as far as I know, except for a couple of reptiles, there aren't any three-fingered creatures, you know, and especially nothing humanoid.

So again, our ancestors had impeccable powers of observation. That's all they did all day. They observed. And so your estimation then too is that this was not a bunch of kids, you know, on a Saturday night not knowing what to do. Absolutely not. These were people that came here with a purpose. And the purpose was to put their history on the wall

showing where they came from, where they were going. John, this is incredible. And what I love the most is the axis. I mean, I've never been face to face like this. There's a lot of places nobody's allowed to go except for archaeologists, medicine men, and rangers. It's spectacular. It's one thing to see image.

in a book or online, but to come face to face with it, feel the energy, see it spectacular. I came away with this deep sense that this is meant for us to discover throughout the ages, that it was super important to the ancients to record this information,

to tell us that these beings were here, they had a hand in our evolution, and they're probably still visiting us today. What I think is important in this whole thing is that John, said these are our stories of the star people. And when First Nation cultures say that someone visited from the sky and imparted knowledge, I think it's time that we start to listen.

Do the petroglyphs at Rock Art Ranch provide a historical record of extraterrestrial visitation in North America? And if so, why does there seem to be such a strong connection between Native Americans and otherworldly beings? Perhaps further clues can be found within oral traditions that describe strange things known as the Antmen. All. Pay off your home, travel for life, drive a Ferrari. In celebration of the world premiere of the Monopoly Big Board Buckslot Machine by Aristocrat Gaming, Yamava Resort and Casino at San Manuel is giving one person a $1.6 million dream package. The biggest prize in Yamava's history.

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In the desolate high desert of the American Southwest stands the ruins of the most important ceremonial site of the ancient Pueblo people. Constructed around 900 AD, the central feature of this vast complex is the great Kiva. A Kiva. is basically a Native American version of a church. It is a circular structure.

Chaco Canyon has an absolutely giant one that's located there. When you enter one, you are literally entering another world to commune with the gods from before. In ancient Pueblo culture, every place you went had a small kiva of some kind. but they would get together, maybe eight or nine different kiva, small ones, into a larger great kiva. And the great kiva's were huge. When the Spanish came in in the 1600s, they took their church and interposed it on top of the kiva.

So everywhere in these Hopi villages, in the Pueblo villages that you see a Catholic church, it's usually on the high point. of land where the kiva was destroyed and the church was built over the top of it. Every kiva includes a feature called a sipapu. In some kivas, the sapapu is a small hole in the subterranean wall. In kivas that are enclosed, it is often represented by a hole in the roof. In both cases, it is the most important part of the structure, symbolizing the entrance to a subterranean world. All of the Pueblos share a story in which humankind began under the earth, and we slowly over generations crawled up and out of a hole called seapapu.

And the Kivas have this little hole in it symbolizing that. The descendants of the ancestral Pueblo share the belief that Earth was populated three separate times before the era of modern humans. with each previous age ending in a devastating cataclysm. The Pueblo Indians believe that there, in fact, were three worlds or epochs before ours. And they were all destroyed, first by fire, the second by ice, and the third by water. In each instance, they tell us that it was due to mistreatment of the earth. And so that tells us that there could have been previous examples of humanity that were destroyed

who knows how long ago. We're living now in the fourth world. And Zunis and Hopes believe our fourth world will also end in a cataclysm. Their prophecy says that there would be a gourd of ashes that would come from the sky that's interpreted as nuclear warfare. The Hopi suggests that there were previous worlds

or civilizations before. And this is interesting because there are other causes There are other cultures, ancient cultures around the world, who speak of similar stories. The Kabbalah teaches that there were previous advanced human civilizations, a number of them. The Hindus teach about the yugas, where civilization advances to a very high place,

and then descends, and then reassends. It, too, is divided into four different ages. So all of these traditions corresponds directly with what the Native American tradition is teaching. Could the Native American tradition describing previous ages of humankind be true? Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that these stories also contain evidence

of extraterrestrial intervention. The Hopes of Northern Arizona have a very curious myth of surviving the third of the cataclysms by going underground and living with what they called the ant men. The stories the Hopi tell us that the ant people rescued them from cataclysm by taking them underground, literally, and helping the Hopi to survive underground. And then once it was safe to return to the surface of the earth,

the Hopi were taken up through the Sapu by the ant people and repopulated the earth. But in all instances, the ant people are described as having a special relationship with the Hopi and also of having a connection with the star realms. Despite their name, ant men are described not as insects, but rather as small humanoid figures. The reason they call these creatures ant men is that they lived under the earth, and they would emerge much like ants crawling out of a hive. So they called them ant men. But what they were were extraterrestrials, they were entering our world through the portal. The ant men were underground dwellers who had a high technology

and looked very similar, apparently, to what we would call gray aliens. So this is something of a mystery of who these ant men were. Many Hopis, and the Zunis have similar, believe that, yes, the ant men were extraterrestrials. There were beings that are of the extraterrestrial origin that were part of that whole emergence mythology, the entrance to the fourth world.

Could it be that the story of the Antmen is a genuine account of extraterrestrials helping humanity survive a global cataclysm? Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest further clues can be found by comparing the Native American traditions to accounts of a legendary lost continent called Atlantis. Athens, Greece, the 4th century, BC.

In his famous dialogues, Tameas and Cretius, the Greek philosopher Plato, writes about a lost continent that existed 9,000 years before his time, and was home to a highly advanced civilization. Called Atlantis, it was founded by the Greek god Poseidon, and the inhabitants possessed sophisticated technology. But Atlantis was ultimately destroyed by a terrible cataclysm, and according to some researchers, the story of its destruction is strikingly similar to Native American traditions, detailing the end of the third world.

The Hopi and other Pueblo Indians tell us that their devastating cataclysm was due to human greed and wandering away from the spiritual truths of our creator. What's interesting about this is that this idea is echoed in Plato's story of the destruction of Atlantis. The Atlanteans were also created by gods. As soon as humanity wandered off into materialism, that's when Atlantis was destroyed by water. A perfect correspondence with what the Hopi said happened at the end of the third world. Could there be a connection between the ancient Greek tale of Atlantis

and Native American origin stories? Ancient astronaut theorists suggest another story told by early Native Americans bears striking similarities to Atlantis, the legend of the Lost City of Otslaan, which appears in the traditions of the Aztecs and numerous Native American groups throughout the Southwest. It's considered the birthplace of civilization based on the Machika codices and the oral history of the Mohammedis are the Hopis. So we have all these oral history also that allude to the origin of Islam. There's debate among Scotland.

debate among scholars as to exactly what Aslan looked like. And we know that the Aztecs say that their capital of Tenochtitlan was made in the image of Aslan. And from that capital, we get a backwards projection that their origin place is an island surrounded by water. They actually built Tenochtitlan up in to the lake and put causeways out so that it looks very much like Atlantis. According to the Aztecs, the god Wheatzee Lepostele was the founder of Tenechtedlan,

which as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, provides yet another intriguing connection to Plato's description of Atlantis. This is ancient astronaut theorist, Eric von Danikin, author of Chariots of the Gods. Teno Tietland was a place made artificial, compare it to Atlantis. In both cases, a god was the ruler of it. In Atlantis, we have Poseidon. Now, Poseidon was an extraterrestrial.

Not everyone should have access to Atlantis. The same thing in Azzlán or Tenotichtlan, they wanted to be separated. They had a certain technology there, which was a hidden technology, and it was not for the general part. for the general public, says the same thing. The fact that we have stories that are not just similar, but identical, leads me to think that perhaps these ancient cultures were visited by the same extraterrestials.

While mainstream academics consider the stories of these lost civilizations and their destruction to be mythological, the recent discovery of vast sunken landmasses, such as Doggerland, located just east of the British Isles in 2012, and Zelandia found near New Zealand in 2017, may offer proof that a catastrophic water event did, in fact, change the face of the Earth. So here we have authentic legends of lost lands

that were destroyed in cataclysms. Mainstream historians, you know, still pretty much reject this, feel that it's all missed. But it would seem really that all kinds of civilizations could have come and gone. that have come and gone on our planet. We know that there are over 200 known submerged cities in the Mediterranean. There's just so much on our planet

that we have yet to find out. In the Native American indigenous teaching, there are cycles of destruction and rebirth. The interesting part is that this is parallel to other great world teachings. In the story of Noah, the sons of God came down to Earth. And they were teaching the humans evil ways, and God decided to.

intervene and brought this great flood. In the story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend, the Council of Gods brought the flood. The Inca god Vera Kocha created the Great Flood. So all of these traditions correspond directly with the Hopi Four World's tradition about previous civilizations destroyed by the gods. The story is always the same.

This speaks to the idea of extraterrestrial intervention in human affairs. I believe there are ancient civilizations that some people refuse to write about. But ancient civilizations are coming to surface because the time has come to tell the truth about human origin. Could it be that Native American stories of star people and of lost civilizations so closely resembles other ancient traditions from all around the globe because they all encounter the same otherworldly visitors.

Ancient astronaut theorists say, yes, and suggest the Native American's knowledge of star people comes not only from the distant past, but from the extraterrestrial activity that occurs over native lands, even today. Corn Mountain, New Mexico. According to Zuni elder Clifford Mahoudi, above this steep mesa on the Zuni reservation,

strange lights are seen in the sky, seen in the sky nearly every night. The UFO activity here is very, very prevalent because of the religious system that we practice every day. So all around, the whole Zuni reservation, you can look up in the sky and they're up there. And they're not stars, they're not planets. There's a lot of our people that here in Zuni

has seen them. When you talk to many nations, Native Americans, they'll tell you that UFO sightings are common on their native lands. And you have to ask, why is that? Is it because they have had these traditions of the star people and the star ancestors? Maybe places like the Zuni Territory and Hopi mesas have been visited for thousands of years. Today, more UFO incidents are being reported and captured on camera than ever before. But while this recent activity has captured the public's imagination and inspired sensational headlines,

for many Native Americans, it is nothing out of the ordinary. In my time working as a Navajo Ranger, we had incidences of UFOs coming and going all the time. When we talk to people, they tell us, oh yeah, they're here all the time. So they just accept it. And as such, with the knowledge that I have and the experiences I've had, I know they're out there. I've seen them numerous, numerous times. And it's just a fact of life. We must reestablish the connection between our star ancestors

by educating and creating an awareness among the humans on Earth. We have to establish an urgency, protecting the sacred sites and telling the story what they mean. This is the history of the world. We are star beings. As far as being connected with the star elders, they gave us this knowledge and ours is a direct relationship with the entities throughout the universe. Could contact with star people, as described in the ancient sacred traditions,

still be happening in Native American communities today? And if so, might it be the beginning of the next Earth cycle? and a profound new chapter in the human story. Perhaps as we learn the truth about the mysterious objects in the sky, we will discover that the star ancestors are not merely ancient figures carved on rocks, but an extraterrestrial presence that has been guiding us all along.