Ancient Aliens - The Top Ten Alien Disasters

Episode Date: July 17, 2025

Ancient Aliens is counting down the top ten most devastating disasters ever documented that might have an otherworldly connection, from a flying monster at a nuclear incident, a meteor that w...iped out the dinosaurs, and a deadly virus that might be from another world. Could these disasters be proof of extraterrestrial contact?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Starting point is 00:00:28 Terms apply. See site for details. An ancient battle fought with nuclear weapons, a deadly virus of otherworldly origins, and biblical plagues that some believed were caused by extraterrestrial technology. Throughout history, devastating disasters have been associated with celestial beings and mysterious objects in the sky. Now, ancient aliens is taking a look back at ten of the biggest disasters we've investigated. Disasters that add to the growing body of evidence that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials. 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.
Starting point is 00:01:25 The future is right before our eyes. We are not alone. We have never been alone. been alone. Here is ancient astronaut theorist, Giorgio Suclos. Disasters and devastating events are unavoidable facts of life on planet Earth. But what's interesting to ancient astronaut theorists like me is that every once in a while, we find evidence that a catastrophe might be linked to an extraterrestrial presence. Like when mysterious flying craft were reported hovering over the site of a recent
Starting point is 00:02:06 deadly incident. Number 10 on our countdown of the top 10 alien disasters, the Fukushima nuclear accident. March 11, 2011, Tohoku, Japan. At 2.46 p.m., a massive earthquake shakes the region for nearly six minutes. The energy released registers 9.0 on the Richter scale, making it the most powerful earthquake ever recorded in Japan. The violent tremors destroy buildings, set fires, and kill thousands of people. It also triggers a catastrophic tsunami. In a matter of minutes, 130-foot-tall waves slam into the coast and travel more than six miles inland. But the greatest impact would be to a nearby nuclear power plant.
Starting point is 00:02:59 Gregory Barich is a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach. One wave in particular struck the Fukushima Daiichi power generating plant and overwhelmed the safety systems, which caused the plant to enter a critical phase and release radioactive material into the atmosphere and into the water. In a matter of hours, rescue teams arrive to prevent the plant's reactors from melting down. As the situation worsens, authorities evacuate the region.
Starting point is 00:03:28 The only people who remain are employees who struggle for days to prevent a larger catastrophe from occurring. But according to eyewitnesses on the scene, these workers were not alone. Here is UFO investigator, Chris Pittman. There were UFO sightings reported in some significant numbers in that area in the weeks and the days leading up to the earthquake and tsunami. And there were a number of UFO sightings reported. in the immediate area directly afterward. This is David Childress, author of Technology of the Gods. At that time, it seemed that there was going to be this huge nuclear disaster that would
Starting point is 00:04:12 devastate all of Japan and the Western Hemisphere. Is it possible that extraterrestrials did something to lessen the impact of this disaster? It would seem that this nuclear meltdown could have been. been much, much worse. Here is author and investigative mythologist William Henry. This suggests the possibility that extraterrestrials were involved in stabilizing that situation, because had that Fukushima plant melted down, it would have made a large swath of Asia uninhabitable for a very long time.
Starting point is 00:04:52 If extraterrestrials really were there at the Fukushima disaster, they must have been have been there on a rescue mission. They were there to avert a larger catastrophe. The notion that UFOs had a hand in protecting us from the Fukushima disaster is a truly wild idea. But what makes it even more incredible is the fact that UFOs were also seen during another nuclear meltdown.
Starting point is 00:05:22 And this time, they were observed alongside a mysterious winged creature who had glowing red eyes. Number nine on our countdown, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Pripyat Ukraine, 1986. This small city is the home of Chernobyl, one of the world's most advanced nuclear power plants. But on April 26, just after 1 a.m., disaster strikes. During a routine safety test, reactor number four suffers a catastrophic meltdown. Literally tons of radioactive material was released in the atmosphere after a series of thermal explosions and a devastating fire. More than 30 people were killed very quickly as a direct result of the disaster.
Starting point is 00:06:14 Thousands more have died or will die due to radiation-related cancers. The absolute catastrophe at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was the worst nuclear disaster in the history of humanity. According to official reports, the nuclear meltdown was caused by a combination of human error and mechanical failures. But some former residents of Pripyat believe the disaster had an otherworldly connection. A number of witnesses reported that there were UFOs hovering around the power station and that even beams of light were coming down from these UFOs and doing something to the nuclear power plants. But the UFOs were not the only strange phenomenon seen in the area. Residents also reported a large black creature flying near the nuclear reactor.
Starting point is 00:07:06 It has become known as the Blackbird of Chernobyl. Here is Mitch Horowitz, author of Uncertain Places, Essays on a Cult and Outsider Experiences. Some of the workers at Chernobyl in the days immediately preceding the explosion and following, reported seeing this mysterious bat-like winged creature with blazing red eyes. It was regarded as this otherworldly, monstrous figure that struck them with terror. Is it possible that the Blackbird of Chernobyl was an extraterrestrial being? And if so, what was it doing at the site of this disaster? Some suggest that this entity was not attempting to create devastation, but rather to prevent it.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Now, the explosions at Chernobyl, those were thermal explosions. They weren't nuclear explosions. The thermal explosions were devastating. However, had it been a nuclear explosion, what we now look at as former Soviet Union in much of Europe wouldn't be on a map anymore. And some has speculated that the UFOs that were seen during the crisis, after the crisis, may have been perhaps protecting us, trying to stave off a horrifying nuclear explosion. The Blackbird of Chernobyl provides compelling evidence that extraterrestrials may be observing us during devastating events.
Starting point is 00:08:44 And an even more extraordinary example occurred on the opposite side of the globe. where witnesses report of the presence of a mysterious flying creature during a disaster in West Virginia. Number eight on our countdown, the Silver Bridge Collapse. Point Pleasant, West Virginia. December 15, 1967. At 5 p.m. during bumper-to-bumper rush hour traffic, the historic Silver Bridge suddenly collapses into the freezing cold Ohio River. This is Jeff Wamsley. creator of the Mothman Museum.
Starting point is 00:09:22 It's the worst bridge disaster in U.S. history. 46 people died. Everybody here in Point Pleasant knew somebody on the bridge or had a relative, you know, that was on the bridge. And it changed the town of Point Pleasant forever. Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the bridge failed due to a structural flaw that had been present since it was built in 1928.
Starting point is 00:09:47 But some witnesses believe there was an otherworldly connection. There were people that claimed to have seen a large winged creature, six to seven foot tall, gray in color, and two large red eyes flying back and forth, you know, across the river before the bridge fell. For residents of Point Pleasant, the description is instantly recognizable.
Starting point is 00:10:09 The creature had been terrifying residents for months. It's known as the mothman. From late 1966 to December, 1967, were what was called the Mothman encounters. And the Mothman was a strange flying humanoid that has these red, burning eyes. Some people felt that since the bridge fell, right when the Mothman sightings were taking place,
Starting point is 00:10:40 that there may have been some kind of a connection. a harminger of doom or whatever. So what is the connection here between Mothman, UFOs, and the Silver Bridge? The strange thing is that after the collapse, Mothman disappeared, there were no further sightings. Fortunately for us, the most devastating disasters to hit this planet happened long before the time of humans. For example, every grade school student is taught about the asteroid that was
Starting point is 00:11:15 wiped out the dinosaurs. However, for ancient astronaut theorists, it's possible that this was not a natural disaster, but one orchestrated by extraterrestrials. Number seven on our countdown of the top 10 alien disasters, the dinosaur extinction. The Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. Here, just off the north coast of this tropical paradise,
Starting point is 00:11:42 lies the enormous Chichalub Crater. It is a remnant of a cataclysmic event that forever changed our planet. Mark Wilson is a professor of geology at the College of Worcester. The Chick-Shillube crater is the largest impact crater on Earth. This crater is 180 kilometers in diameter. It's absolutely ginormous. And it represents an event that occurred at the end of the Cretaceous period. It took out the dinosaurs, $65 million.
Starting point is 00:12:14 years ago. Michi Yokaku, PhD, is a theoretical physicist. We think that the dinosaurs were wiped up perhaps within a period of one year. With all the debris being shot into the space, it blanketed the sunlight. Temperatures plunge as a consequence. Therefore, vegetation died. With the dying of vegetation, the plant eaters died. When the plant eaters died, then the meat eaters would also die as a consequence.
Starting point is 00:12:43 And so the whole food chain collapsed as a consequence of just one year's worth of cataclysmic weather change. According to mainstream scientists, the meteor impact didn't just draw the age of the dinosaurs to a close, but it marked a new dawn for life on Earth. Here is Andrew Collins, author of Origins of the Gods. The blast that killed the dinosaurs allowed mammals. to thrive. If the dinosaurs had been left and remained on this Earth, we wouldn't be here now.
Starting point is 00:13:22 So our very existence has come about through impact events. The chance of Earth being hit by an asteroid like the one that killed the dinosaurs is extremely remote. And for ancient astronaut theorists, this raises an interesting possibility. Was the meteor that wiped out the dinosaur? dinosaurs simply the result of chance, an intergalactic accident, or might it have been a planned event. In September 2022, we shot up a probe towards an asteroid, crashed it into it in order to move
Starting point is 00:14:02 the trajectory of the asteroid. If we can now direct an asteroid, then it's certainly possible that highly advanced extraterrestrials could have had a technology to direct an asteroid towards Earth. Were the dinosaurs killed off by a cosmic natural event, as mainstream scientists believe? Or might the dinosaurs have been the target of extermination? And if so, for what purpose? Some ancient astronaut theorists believe that extraterrestrials may have wanted to clear a path for the development of humanity. Here is Eric von Danikin, author of Chariots of the Gods. Maybe it was made on purpose by extraterrestrials
Starting point is 00:14:50 simply because if the dinosaur source would have survived, they would have overtaken the planet Earth. According to the mythology, which is worldwide, the gods created men according to their image. It was in the extraterrestrials plan to create something like themselves, human-like being so the dinosaurs were not helpful in this game.
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Starting point is 00:15:34 July 24th. Tickets are on sale now at Yamava Theater.com. Only at Yamava Resort and Casino celebrating its 40th anniversary. UN must be 21 to enter. The possibility that aliens sent an asteroid to Earth millions of years ago is truly mind-blowing. But even more incredible is that in Siberia, the locals claim there is otherworldly technology embedded in the Earth, which actually protects us from the kinds of impact events
Starting point is 00:16:10 that wiped out the dinosaurs. And they say there is evidence that it destroyed an enormous meteor hurdling towards our planet as recently as the 20th century. Number six in our list, the Tunguska explosion. The Tiga Forest, Siberia, 1908. On June 30th, a fireball was seen streaking across the sky over the Tunguska River. Moments later, there was a massive explosion. The blast flattened more than 80 million trees across 800 square miles of forest. Here is Paul Stonehill, author of Russia's U.S.O. Secrets and the Soviet UFO files. Whatever happened over the TIGA that day, it had the power of the most powerful
Starting point is 00:16:59 nuclear bombs. It was one of the greatest disasters of the 20th century. But it was in such a faraway part of the world that nobody really knew what was going on. Soviet scientists took several years to actually reach the crash site and look for what they thought was a meteorite that had come down and exploded in Siberia, but they could not find a crater for this asteroid. If the devastating Tunguska explosion wasn't created by a meteorite impact, what caused it? Researcher Ivan McEarly has spent decades studying the mythology of the region's Yakut people. Their legends describe mysterious metallic cauldrons that are hidden in the Taiga forest. These pictures illustrate what people claimed the cauldrons had looked like.
Starting point is 00:17:53 The first picture shows a cauldron upside down with an open entrance where even a man on his reindeer can enter it. The second one shows another cauldron with some side supports. According to the Yakut mythology, The mysterious cauldrons were placed in the forest by celestial beings in the distant past. The cauldrons were said to be a type of weapon that would send fireballs into the sky. The local people there say it is some kind of alien underground installation that becomes active. And comets or meteors that had been entering the Earth's atmosphere,
Starting point is 00:18:34 they're being shot down by unknown technology. And in fact, this may have been. and what caused the Tunguska explosion. Might the mysterious metallic caldrons and the legends of the Yakut people explain the explosion over Siberia in 1908? Explorers continue to search the Tiga forest for the so-called cauldrons that the locals claim
Starting point is 00:18:58 to have seen with their own eyes. And ancient astronaut theorists suspect their discovery will present undeniable proof of extraterrestrial technology. But they say an even, Even more powerful technology can be found in the biblical account of Moses and a powerful staff that brought destruction upon ancient Egypt. When it comes to devastating disasters, one of the most famous examples can be found in
Starting point is 00:19:27 the pages of the Holy Bible. But for ancient astronaut theorists like me, the descriptions sound very much like misunderstood technology. at number five on our countdown of the top 10 alien disasters, the 10 plagues of Egypt. Conteer, Egypt, 60 miles northeast of Cairo. Many historians believe that beneath these fields lie the ancient ruins of the lost city of Pyramsies. In the 13th century BC, this was a capital of Egypt and home to Pharaoh Ramses II.
Starting point is 00:20:05 According to some theologians, it was also the location of a miraculous series of events described in the book of Exodus, called the Ten Plagues of Egypt. Here is Reverend Michael J.S. Carter, author of Alien Scriptures, Extraterrestrials in the Holy Bible. We have the story of the Exodus, which is the story of the Hebrew people leaving Egypt. And so Moses is going to be the liberator. chosen by God, i.e. Yahweh, to go to Pharaoh and say, let my people go. According to the biblical account, the Pharaoh refuses to release the Hebrew slaves.
Starting point is 00:20:44 So God instructs Moses to unleash a series of 10 increasingly devastating plagues on the people of Egypt. This is archaeologist Robert Mullen's Ph.D. In the first plague, Moses touches his staff to the Nile River, and it becomes blood. In the second plague, Moses multiplies frogs. In the third plague, Moses brings about gnats or some think lice. Livestock were poison. There were boils, thunder and hail. There was a darkness across the land. The land was covered with locust. And of course, the kicker is the death of the firstborn sons of Egypt. So for each of these plagues, they began to increase in their severity. And finally, Pharaoh needs to concede that, you know, this is the
Starting point is 00:21:38 finger of God. And beyond this, we can't challenge him anymore. According to the biblical account, Moses summoned the plagues by using his staff. Religious scholars contend that the staff held the power of God. But ancient astronaut theorists suggest it was a device that came from another world. Through this staff, Moses was able to perform these miracles. Now, when I look at it something like that, then what I am suggesting is that perhaps some type of technology was used, this is what the ancient astronaut theory does.
Starting point is 00:22:19 We try to dispel the misunderstandings of our past and suggest that what was described in the Old Testament was not God. It was exiterrestrials who had nuts and bold technology that our ancestors looked at and thought, wow, it must be something divine. And therefore, these plagues were actually technological in origin. In 1992, archaeologists in India uncovered radioactive ash that some believe was caused by a nuclear explosion thousands of years ago.
Starting point is 00:23:04 And according to ancient Sanskrit texts, it was the result of a powerful weapon deployed by beings who came from the stars. At number four on our countdown, the ancient nuclear war. TAR Desert, Rajasthan, India, 1992. Engineers working on a housing development discover a heavy layer. of radioactive ash under the soil. Further examination reveals the contamination stretches across a three-square-mile area of the desert that was once home to an ancient civilization.
Starting point is 00:23:42 Here is Praveen Mohan, founder of Phenomenal Place. After cordoning off the area, scientists unearthed a city with completely demolished buildings. When they look closer, they found everything. evidence of an atomic blast that happened 10,000 years ago. Is it possible that the radioactive ash was created by a nuclear explosion in the distant past? And if so, what could have caused it? Scientists are unable to determine the cause of the radiation, but ancient astronaut theorists believe a clue can be found in one of India's oldest Sanskrit texts.
Starting point is 00:24:24 The Indian epics themselves actually described what seemed to be atomic wars. The Ramayana particularly is talking about this terrific war that occurred. In the Ramayana, one of the major ancient Sanskrit texts is a description of the battle fought by the god Rama against the demon king. To win the war, Rama unleashes a powerful weapon to rain down destruction from above. It's called the Brahmastra. And these Brahmastras, they devastate.
Starting point is 00:24:57 They devastated everything. Everything was killed. All life was destroyed and nothing could grow in that area for years. It was exactly like an atomic weapon had been used. Could the radioactive soil discovered in the tar desert have resulted from an ancient nuclear explosion? And if so, was the weapon known as the Bermostra, a description of extraterrestrial technology? For ancient astronaut theorist, it's a distinct possibility. Those texts are chalk full with extraterrestrials or the so-called gods having waged a war up in the sky that our ancestors actually witnessed. When you combine the physical evidence and you combine that with ancient written documents,
Starting point is 00:25:52 perhaps what we have here are descriptions of weapons of mass destruction. In the 14th century, humanity faced one of the deadliest epidemics in our history, when a devastating disease swept across the world. But what might surprise you is that these outbreaks were often preceded by sightings of mysterious otherworldly beings. Number three on our list of the top 10 alien disasters, the Black Plague. Messina, Sicily, 1347. Italian sailors returning from the Black Sea developed dark oozing boils and died soon after.
Starting point is 00:26:40 The disease spreads rapidly throughout Europe and is given the name, the Black Plague. Here is microbiologist Milton Wainwright. What you get with the Black Plague is a slow linger in painful death. And that's what is nasty. and it completely decimates populations. In the Middle Ages, the whole of civilization had collapsed for a time period.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Within five years, this previously unknown disease had wiped out nearly one-third of Europe, the equivalent in today's numbers of more than 300 million dead. And curiously, outbreaks of the plague were accompanied by sightings of mysterious aerial phenomena. Here is Philip Imbrugno, co-author of Nightingale. siege, the Hudson Valley UFO sightings. What's interesting about these accounts is that they seem to have originated after something strange was seen up in the sky. For example, they saw this shield made out of bronze and gleaming metal that appears to be floating in the sky. And then it is also described
Starting point is 00:27:51 that this black dust came off that particular object. People saw strange bronze ships spreading a mist around the entire area. And shortly after that, people began to become very sick and die. During the Black Plague, UFOs were seen. Sometimes there would be vapor trails or something behind these UFOs. Certain researchers have speculated that, like this so-called modern phenomenon, of chemtrails that something like this was happening where UFOs are spreading, really, viruses and bacteria,
Starting point is 00:28:38 which will infect some people and perhaps kill them while others survive. And they develop a stronger immune system and are ultimately a hardier race because of that. Bronze ships in the sky, a mysterious mist that made people sick. What natural phenomenon could explain these strange reports? If you ask a historian today, they would say that they were hallucinating because of the illness,
Starting point is 00:29:11 but how do you get thousands of people hallucinating the same thing? In addition to the sightings of ships in the sky were accounts of mysterious cloaked figures spraying mist on the ground. It was this report that gave rise to rumors of a bulls of a book that. the rumors of a black hooded messenger of death, known as the Grim Reaper. In one case, the chronicle recounts a group of men mowing down wheat and their siths were making a loud swishing sound, but not actually cutting down the crops. We can imagine that maybe what was perceived in medieval times as siths making a swishing sound were perhaps some kind of wand shooting some kind of aerosol into the air that
Starting point is 00:29:57 was a pathogen that made so many people sick. There are eyewitness reports of these black-clad creatures. Now, to me, that is highly fascinating because it essentially depicts what looks like people in hazmat suits. Now, is it possible that what we have here are extraterrestrials wearing some type of protective suits? These beings were tall with hoods over their head,
Starting point is 00:30:24 and they would have some type of device that looked like a curved apparatus, a sickle, which would spray onto the wheat. And shortly after that, the black death occurred. And people associated those beings with the coming of death. Maybe the Grim Reaper could have been extraterrestrials. One of the most popular accounts of a devastating disaster was written by the Greek philosopher Plato more than 2,000 years ago. According to the story, an entire continent was destroyed in a single night of smoke and fire,
Starting point is 00:31:05 bringing an end to a highly advanced and potentially extraterrestrial civilization. Number two on our list of alien disasters, the disappearance of Atlantis. For over 2,000 years, historians and explorers have been fascinated by the story of a great cataclysm that destroyed a long-lost civilization known as Atlantis. The first reference of Atlantis that we have is in Plato's dialogues by Timius and Critias. In the very end of Timius, it talks about this mythical place called Atlantis
Starting point is 00:31:43 from where any and all knowledge of the world came. And so some people have suggested that the first civilization on Earth may have been Atlantis, Atlantis, as described by Plato, was a great civilization that was over 12,000 years ago. Atlantis had concentric circles that were ports and canals, and they led to a central city. And the Atlanteans were said to have great technology. They had huge fleets of ships.
Starting point is 00:32:21 This is Jonathan Young, founding curator of the district. Joseph Campbell Archives. Atlantis is thought to be in a great civilization of high culture and technological achievement. They had robotics at a very advanced level, the power of levitation, which is how they built their glorious cities. They achieved things that we still are not able to do.
Starting point is 00:32:45 According to Plato, the remarkable accomplishments of Atlantis came from an otherworldly connection. According to legend, that Atlantis was founded by the God Poseidon. He fell in love with a human woman named Cleto and that they had five sets of twins. And these twins went on to be the founders of Atlantis. So here we see really a story of extraterrestrials, perhaps,
Starting point is 00:33:18 coming to Earth at a very early date. Plato said the Atlanteans were the children. of the gods. They were to use our term hybrid beings. They were part human, part God, and perhaps also contributed to their ability to develop advanced technologies, as Plato described. But then that divine aspect that they possessed suddenly started to diminish, and that's when Atlantis was destroyed. Here is Greek historian Richard Rader, PhD. At some point, for reasons that are not entirely clear, the city
Starting point is 00:33:55 disappeared. And it was either destroyed by a natural disaster, a flood, or if we look at the archaeological record, maybe even the eruption of Mount Thira as well in the 7th century BCE. But a disaster consumes the city of Atlantis and all of its natural wonders. Was Atlantis destroyed by a natural disaster?
Starting point is 00:34:21 Or did otherworldly beings punish the greed of Atlanteans destroying it in a cataclysm, as the writings of Plato suggest. It's a question that might never be answered, but ancient astronaut theorists suggest there could be an even more profound explanation. When Plato said that Atlantis disappeared and Timius and Critias, the accepted idea is that Atlantis at some point sank. Well, when you read the original Plato, Plato not once said that Atlantis sank, but he says that Atlantis disappeared in a night of fire, smoke and trembling. In my opinion, Atlantis did exist, but it was never an island that sank or disappeared.
Starting point is 00:35:11 It was some type of a machine, a type of movable island that the ancient Greeks referred to as Asteria. Asterea means star that fell from the sky. The Atlantis description is very clear. I mean, it's these concentric circles, and it has this bronze exterior. So what if Atlantis was a proverbial disk that descended from the sky landed in the sea, was able to float around, and then lift it off again? We've reached a top spot on our list, and if you're a fan of ancient aliens, I'm sure you guessed this one right from the start.
Starting point is 00:35:55 It's a story from the Hebrew Bible that as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned paints a clear picture of extraterrestrial intervention. At number one on our countdown of alien disasters, the Great Flood. It is one of the best-known stories of the Bible. And variations of this ancient tale can be found in cultures throughout the world. It is written that God sent a powerful storm that rained for 40 days and 40 nights. The deluge created a great flood that submerged even the tallest mountains. It lasted for 150 days and destroyed all of humanity, except for one man and his family.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Irving Finkel, Ph.D., is the curator of the British Museum. In the Bible, God decided because he... human race was so sinful and wicked to destroy everything. And the last minute relented enough to inform Noah that he has to build a boat really fast and put all the animals in and shut the doors. Then afterwards, life could continue when the waters went down.
Starting point is 00:37:08 There's a similar story in India. King Manu was warned by a fish that there would be a great flood. The king built a great boat and survived. In an Aztec version, a sacred couple hide in a hollow tree with a little corn and somehow managed to survive the deluge. Other versions come from Irish legend,
Starting point is 00:37:31 Norse lore, also from China. This is a terribly important motif. The common denominator in the flood myths around the world is that there was an otherworldly being, an extraterrestrial being who is providing knowledge to certain humans of what is to come. This tells us that there is definitely an extraterrestrial connection.
Starting point is 00:37:52 Was the Great Flood caused by extraterrestrial beings, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? And if so, why? Perhaps clues can be found within a set of ancient texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. These scrolls contain the oldest versions of the Bible ever discovered. Among them were copies of a text called the Book of Enoch, which greatly expands on the story of the story of the book of the book of of the Great Flood. The Book of Enoch is about these angels who are described as watchers.
Starting point is 00:38:29 And it was said that 200 of their number come down from heaven, and they took mortal wives who begat offspring. And these offspring were of giant nature, and they were referred to as the Nephilim. And these Nephilim ran a mock. It was said that they drank blood, they caused battles and wars. According to the book of Enoch, the Nephilim were guilty of horrific crimes,
Starting point is 00:39:02 including slaughtering humans and feasting on their flesh. God ultimately decides the earth must be cleansed. Here is author and researcher Kathleen McGowan. One of the differences is that in the book of Enoch, the flood washes away. the Nephilim, as opposed to the traditional flood story, which washes away people who have been rebellious and sinful. You've got to wonder what was really going on here. Are extraterrestrials coming and now breeding with humans, which was somehow forbidden and wrong, but they did it anyway?
Starting point is 00:39:40 And so the other extraterrestrials decided this is a big mistake. Now we've got to destroy all these people. According to the ancient astronaut theory, the realm of the angels was some type of a spaceship that was orbiting the earth, and the angels most certainly were not angels. The idea is that the extraterrestrials in the end are looking out for our survival. They're not interested in killing us, so this is why some people were, quote unquote, saved. For ancient astronaut theorists like me, the disasters feel featured on our countdown not only provide evidence of an alien connection, but also suggest extraterrestrials have played a greater role in the history of our planet
Starting point is 00:40:28 than ever imagined. Perhaps as we continue to study these devastating events, from deadly plagues to nuclear meltdowns and asteroid impacts, the truth will finally be revealed. We are not alone. We have never been alone.

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