Ancient Aliens

Astonishing sea creatures defy explanation.

It’s like these creatures were

brought here in their entirety and put into our oceans.

Ancient cultures worship fish-like gods.

This is a common theme that we find around the world.

Humans that had aquatic features.

Underwater life-forms display

mysterious behavior.

So they’re totally alien forms of life

that have never been found anywhere else on the planet.

Scientists say we know more about the surface of Mars

than we do about the bottom of our own oceans.

But is it an even more alien environment

than anyone could imagine?

This is a extraterrestrial amino acid, I would say.

Really? This is a revolutionary discovery.

This could just be the opening of the door

into the realization that our oceans

are in fact a great extraterrestrial laboratory.

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.

November 4, 2006.

A video is anonymously posted on the Internet

that appears to be underwater footage

of a large, shadowy sea creature.

While the footage is low quality,

long arms and legs, or possibly a mermaid-like fin,

can be made out as the creature draws nearer to the camera,

and then the video abruptly ends.

Information posted with the clip claims it shows the Ningen,

a legendary sea creature said to lurk

off the coast of Antarctica.

While some suggest the footage was faked,

other photos and videos of the Ningen

have surfaced in recent years,

and there are those who believe

this disturbingly humanlike sea monster is real.

Now most people, when they saw the images of this Ningen,

quickly dismissed it as a hoax,

but things in the past, too, like the idea of a Kraken...

some large squid... was never even thought possible

until it was discovered.

History books are filled with sensational encounters

with terrifying sea monsters.

Many of these stories were derided as myth

until evidence was found centuries after

to indicate there was some truth to them.

The sea is a primal force.

It is deep, it is powerful,

it is tempestuous, so it frightens us.

So mariners’ tales of sea serpents, sea monsters go back

to the earliest times of mythology and folklore.

They represent some of our deepest terrors.

The ocean is a good example

of this fact meets fiction scenario.

You have stories like the Kraken

and these giant sea monsters.

And then the science catches up, so to speak,

and we find that, yes, there are these giant squid down there.

So that begs the question, what else might be down there?

And, frankly, we haven’t got a clue.

As we venture deeper and deeper into the ocean,

there’s no telling what we’re gonna find,

but one thing will be certain:

it will be absolutely mind-blowing.

Could the Ningen and other even more incredible creatures

that we have yet to encounter

be hiding out in the depths of Earth’s oceans?

Incredibly, the world that we know and inhabit, above water,

represents only one percent of the planet’s livable space.

99% belongs to the oceans,

and less than ten percent of that space has been explored.

The ocean does represent probably the last real, like,

unexplored area of the Earth.

Uh, the surface of the ocean floor

is largely uncharacterized.

It’s kind of strange when you think about it

because we know more

about the surface of the Moon and the surface of Mars

than we know about the ocean floors.

Up until 1875,

the mainstream scientific viewpoint

was that living organisms could not exist

more than 1800 feet beneath the surface of the ocean.

But then a scientific expedition

discovered over 4,700 new types of sea life

beneath that depth.

And an even more remarkable discovery

would be made more than 100 years later.

February 1977.

250 miles northeast of the Galápagos Islands.

Scientists make a remarkable discovery

more than 8,000 feet below the surface...

near a hydrothermal vent in the ocean floor

where no life is thought to exist.

To their astonishment,

the area is teeming with creatures unlike anything

ever witnessed on Earth.

When they first came upon these deep sea vents,

they found giant tube worms, Riftia,

that are amazing size

and beautifully colored,

all sorts of shrimp

and crabs and fish living around these vents.

So they’re totally alien forms of life

that have never been found anywhere else on the planet.

Central to the underwater ecosystem

is an unusual food source.

Bacteria exists at these vent sites.

In the absence of light, they do something that’s analogous

to photosynthesis that we call chemosynthesis.

They actually take these sulfur-containing compounds

to generate their energy for their cells, essentially.

The discovery transforms the field of marine biology.

Considering the fact that these extraordinary creatures

have been found, is it also possible

that so-called sea monsters presumed to be mythological,

such as the Ningen of Antarctica,

could exist as well?

While no physical evidence of the Ningen

has come to light yet,

there is proof of an equally mystifying creature

that lurks in the depths:

Turritopsis dohrnii, or the immortal jellyfish.

The immortal jellyfish, when conditions become adverse,

maybe temperatures become too high,

salinity changes,

these animals revert to a juvenile stage

from the adult stage

and basically start life all over again.

So it basically just keeps r... rewinding its development

over and over again.

In the lab, there are some lines of immortal jellyfish

that haven’t experienced death yet,

um, they’ve just been cycling

through their developmental stages repeatedly.

A jellyfish that has the potential to live forever?

But how is it possible that a creature could exist on Earth

that is so unlike any other life-form yet discovered,

and that scientists still struggle to explain?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest there could be

a very simple answer: that the immortal jellyfish,

and perhaps other bizarre creatures of the deep,

are not native to this planet, but arrived here from space.

On August 19, 2014,

Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station

made an incredible discovery.

Clinging to the exterior of the windows

was an organism commonly found underwater:

sea plankton.

Recent findings of sea plankton

on the outside of the space station

is really very interesting.

I, personally, have collaborated with the group

of very distinguished scientists who are involved in this,

and we concluded that there’s no way

in which microbes can be lofted to 400 kilometers

from the surface, so they have to come from outside.

Has Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe,

along with his colleagues, found irrefutable evidence

of alien life that is able to survive

the extreme conditions of outer space

and potentially travel to Earth?

And could the fact that it was found to be plankton

indicate that life-forms coming from space

are capable of surviving in Earth’s oceans?

Here’s what’s so crazy, we’ve discovered

new creatures and new species in places where, 20 years ago,

it was scientific fact

that no life could exist in those places.

We now have even found fish

at the bottom of the deepest spots of the ocean

where even a submarine could get crushed,

and there’s living fish down there, how is that possible?

It shouldn’t work on Earth, but it does,

so my question is: are some of those creatures

directly imported from somewhere else?

Immortal jellyfish.

Giant worms.

Possible humanoid sea monsters.

Might the many bizarre creatures found

in Earth’s oceans not be from Earth at all?

And if alien life-forms really do inhabit our seas,

did they arrive here by accident?

Or were they sent here deliberately

as part of an extraterrestrial agenda?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining an object

that recently crash-landed on Earth

carrying cargo that has the potential to create life.

December 1974.

Cambridge University Professor of Astronomy,

Dr. Chandra Wickramasinghe, publishes an article

in Nature magazine that sets the scientific community abuzz.