Ancient Aliens

The fruit of a tree that forever alters humanity.

This serpent being offers them some special food to eat,

and suddenly we have a fundamental change.

A drink that grants everlasting life.

This liquid could convey immortality upon

those who consumed it.

And a nourishing substance

that rains down from the sky.

This machine was given to the Israelites

by extraterrestrials.

In every religious tradition,

there are foods believed to possess extraordinary power,

and some that are even consumed

by the gods themselves.

The gods ate, the gods drank,

and this is what kept them divine.

But is it possible that what

our ancestors described as gods

were, in fact, visitors from another world?

And if so, might the food of these gods

reveal a powerful link

to mankind's extraterrestrial origins?

These foods were directly introduced into

the human experience in order to awaken us

and to bring us closer to the gods.

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.

As humanity prepares to travel to other worlds,

one of the biggest challenges facing scientists

is how to provide sustenance

beyond that found on planet Earth.

When we think of the early pioneers, uh,

we think of "living off the land."

You can't do that in outer space.

There's no soil, there's no oxygen,

there's very little of the basic ingredients

that we take for granted on the planet Earth.

So living in outer space

presents a whole new set of challenges.

Currently, NASA researchers

are experimenting with various possible solutions

to the problem of keeping humans fed during long-term missions.

For long expeditions in space,

there are really three things we have to do.

One, either bring our food with us,

wherever we go, take the food, wagon train.

Two, terraform a planet,

or find a planet where we can already grow food

that can sustain us.

Or three,

change our own metabolism, so that we can exist

on a whole different kind of food.

But is it even possible to sustain life

in the vacuum of space?

In recent years, biologists have discovered organisms

on our planet that can thrive in extreme conditions,

like those found in the deepest depths of Earth's oceans.

The prevailing assumption was that there wasn't much life

at the bottom of the ocean.

So this idea that, um, the deep sea,

um, could actually contain life

was pretty phenomenal because I think we had assumed that,

without light, we couldn't have life.

So the existence of whole ecosystems

that are supported by chemical reactions

that don't need light

to generate biomolecules and energy,

I think, was really revolutionary.

But could the key to mankind's survival on other worlds

be found not in a laboratory

but by studying past accounts of extraterrestrial encounters?

Eagle River, Wisconsin.

April 18, 1961.

Plumber Joe Simonton

is finishing his lunch when he notices

a metallic saucer-shaped craft

landing just outside his kitchen window.

I raced out to see what it was, and by that time

there was a hatchway opening up in the top of it,

just like the trunk of your car,

and in there there stood a little man...

I'd say a little man about five foot tall...

holding up a jug, and he motioned he wanted a drink,

he motioned for water, so I walked up to him

to get this jug and, uh, I looked at his eyes,

and they were so penetrating that I had to look away.

Simonton took the container and filled it with water.

When he returned to the flying saucer,

he noticed a second being

with what appeared to be food-like wafers.

He didn't say a word, he just reached forward

and he got a handful of 'em, four of 'em,

and he handed down to me, which I have one here yet.

According to Simonton, the two aliens promptly closed the hatch

and took off.

Within, uh, two or three seconds,

it was out of sight.

Well, there I stood in the driveway,

wondering what the heck I'd saw, what had happened.

And, uh, if that was their food,

God help them because I took a bite of one of 'em

and it tasted like a piece of cardboard.

The case immediately garnered the attention

of U. S. government agencies looking into the UFO phenomenon,

including Project Blue Book

and its science advisor, astronomer J. Allen Hynek.

Joe Simonton... this is an interesting case because it has

a level of physical evidence that we don't often see

with a lot of these cases.

NICAP,

the National Investigations Committee for Aerial Phenomena,

which was largely CIA back in that period of time,

wants to investigate.

And J. Allen Hynek, who was doing investigations

for the Air Force, he wanted to investigate.

Hynek obtained samples of the wafers

and requested a full analysis by the

U.S. Department of Health's Food and Drug Laboratory.

The report stated that the wafers consisted

of chemically modified terrestrial plants,

including buckwheat, soybeans, and bran.

But curiously,

not even the tiniest trace amount of salt

was detected in the sample.

There was no salt at all

found in this analysis

by NICAP and J. Allen Hynek, and it's puzzling.

One of the interesting things about life on this planet

is it did start in the oceans, and the ocean is salt water.

And so, fundamentally, the water in our bodies,

in our cells, and in-in pretty much every living thing

has a certain amount of salt concentration

and is ubiquitous everywhere.

According to scientists,

every cell of every living organism on Earth

contains a trace amount of sodium chloride, or salt.

So could the complete lack of salt

in Joe Simonton's so-called "alien wafer"

really be proof that it came from an extraterrestrial source?

We see in outer space

thousands of planets with different kinds of chemistries,

so it's definitely possible that you can have an entire planet

with very little salt on it.

What if salt is as poisonous

to those aliens as cyanide is to us?

That's what that alien contact could presuppose,

that we've learned something about what's poisonous to them.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that support

for the Joe Simonton story and the notion that salt

might be poisonous to some extraterrestrials

that have visited Earth

can be found in ancient tales from around the world,

in which salt is used to ward off alien entities.

The salt connection to the Simonton story

is-is very interesting because it connects to other mythologies

involving demonic beings or fairy beings.

They say that if you pour salt on the ground

in front of a fairy, it has to stop automatically.

Or that you can throw salt over your shoulder

and this will ward off evil spirits.

The Shinto religion uses salt as a protective mechanism.

So for salt to be lacking in these pancakes

is-is extraordinary

because it-it links us to these ancient stories

and it actually confirms these ancient stories.

But if the stories of both the past and present are true

and these alien visitors cannot consume salt,

how have they been able to sustain themselves

in a place where salt is abundant?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe that the answer

to this one simple question may reveal

both an alien agenda on Earth and perhaps

even the purpose behind the creation of humankind.

The 14th century BC.

According to the Hebrew Bible's Book of Exodus,

the prophet Moses helps the Jewish slaves to escape

the tyranny of the pharaoh,

leading them across the Red Sea and into the Sinai Desert.

During the exodus phase, you know,

you're wandering in the desert for almost 40 years.

What do you eat?

Well, God provides this substance,

this magical substance.

Moses appealed to Yahweh, the Old Testament God,

and Yahweh caused manna, this food of the heavens,

to rain down upon the Israelites.

But according to ancient astronaut theorists,

the story of the Israelites

receiving manna from heaven is not a story about a magical food

being sent by almighty God,

but one of extraterrestrials using their advanced technology

in order to prevent a group of migrating humans from starving.

We assumed that we were looking at gods in the past.