Ancient Aliens

President Thomas Jefferson...

Christopher Columbus...

Crusaders in the Middle Ages...

What did they have in common?

They either experienced

or believed in the possibility of alien encounters.

And the fact is there have been

so many descriptions by various chroniclers

talking about a strange cloud in the sky that glowed red.

Columbus, on his first voyage,

he noted in the log a glowing object

rise out ofthe water

and head off into the atmosphere.

Could alien beings have been responsible

for biblical floods,

medieval plagues

and even ancient nuclear attacks?

Visitations occurred

since before recorded history all the way to today.

Millions of people around the world believe

we have been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And what ifthese visitations didn't only occur

thousands ofyears ago,

but much more recently?

Might there be evidence of real-life close encounters?

Alamogordo, New Mexico.

White Sands Proving Ground, July 16, 1945.

Early in the morning,

a number of U.S. military officers and scientists

gather to watch a powerful new weapon being tested.

Some believe the device will be a complete failure.

Others think it might destroy the entire state of New Mexico.

As a precaution, viewing stations are placed

from ten to 20 miles away from the test site.

At precisely 5:29 and 45 seconds,

the first atomic bomb is detonated.

Three, two, one...

Fire!

The blast emits a fireball over 600 feet wide

and produces an explosion equal to 20,000 tons of TNT.

The mushroom cloud reaches over seven miles in height,

and the reverberations can be felt nearly 100 miles away.

The world had a new weapon;

one so terrifying it left even its creator,

Dr. Robert Oppenheimer, shocked and shaken.

A few people laughed.

A few people cried.

Most people were silent.

For the first time in its history,

the Earth had been assaulted

by a manmade weapon of incredible power.

But what if it had all happened before?

What if an explosion

of even greater force and destructiveness

had long ago shaped the Earth's history?

Some people have suggested

on the basis of a number of lines of evidence

that there may have been atomic warfare, atomic bombs,

atomic explosions, in the very distant past.

Atomic warfare among ancient civilizations

may sound like something out of a science fiction novel,

but descriptions of similar deadly occurrences

can be found in the very same text

Dr. Oppenheimer quoted after the New Mexico atomic test.

I remembered the line

from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita,

"Now I am become death, the destroyer ofworlds."

Part of an ancient Hindu scripture

known as The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita was written

sometime between the fifth and second century B.C.

This massive 100,000-verse text contains stories

about the ancient empire of Rama,

which it is said existed over 12,000 years ago,

or roughly 5,000 years before

the earliest recorded civilization in Mesopotamia.

Ifyou read the ancient Indian epics,

they read like modern-day science fiction.

Yet they are thousands ofyears old

with references not only offlying chariots

and ofthese gods

that had these incredible technological capabilities,

but incredible weapons that they used in those epic battles.

They had what was called a Brahma weapon.

There were many people that were singed and burned

and... and melted by the Brahma weapon.

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the Brahma weapon was an early nuclear device

because the descriptions of its deadly aftereffects

are eerily similar to the effects

of exposure to intense radiation.

It is a theory largely discounted

by conventional science.

There is no evidence that a nuclear bomb was described

in The Mahabharata, the Bhagavad Gita.

It describes a battle.

In battles, there are explosions.

Big explosions.

It's one thing about suggesting

that, you know, battles have explosions,

but that's not really what we're looking at.

You've got to look at the whole picture.

One reference that we have, for example,

speaks ofthese explosions

that were brighter than a thousand suns.

And when these blasts occurred,

the suns were twirling in the air,

trees went up in flames

and there was just this mass destruction.

After those blasts, people who survive

start to lose their hair and nails start to fall out.

I mean, right there, we have a concise reference

to radiation poisoning, nuclear fallout.

And those texts are thousands ofyears old.

But if The Mahabharata is based on fact,

wouldn't archaeologists have uncovered physical

or radiological evidence?

According to ancient astronaut theorists, they have.

The Indus Valley, Southern Pakistan.

In 1922, an officer

with an Indian archaeological survey group

discovered the ruins

of an ancient city known as Mohenjo-Daro.

According to mainstream archaeologists,

the city, whose name means "mound ofthe dead,"

had flourished between 2600 and 1900 B.C.

However, scientists in Pakistan

have suggested Mohenjo-Daro is much older.

Mainstream archaeologists believe the city was abandoned

as a result of climatic changes or possibly a decrease in trade.

But when the ruins of Mohenjo-Daro

were discovered in the 1920s,

44 skeletons were found lying face down in the street,

many holding hands.

Their faces and body positioning

suggested they suffered a sudden, violent death.

You have a culture of people

who literally were lying dead in the street.

Archaeologists have found human remains,

and something big has happened to these people.

What, in fact, did happen

to the people of Mohenjo-Daro?

Why is there evidence that wild animals

avoided scavenging their remains?

And why, even after thousands ofyears,

had their bones not decayed?

In certain areas ofthat site,

you find increased levels of radiation.

And radiation exists all over the place.

When, all of a sudden, you have higher levels

of radiation in certain areas ofthe world,

the question arises, "Why?"

Is it possible that Mohenjo-Daro

was one ofthe cities mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita--

a city that suffered the equivalent

of a sudden atomic attack?

In his 1979 book,

Atomic Destruction in 2000 B.C.,

British researcher David Davenport

claimed to have found a 50-yard-wide epicenter

at Mohenjo-Daro where everything appeared

to have been fused through a transformative process

known as "vitrification."

Vitrification is a process

in which regular-type stone

gets molten into a magma state

and then it hardens again.

But once the stone is hardened again,

it feels like glass.

At Mohenjo-Daro, we find evidence ofvitrification,

which could have only been achieved

ifthe material was exposed to extreme heat

by some type of a blast.

When British and Indian

and Pakistani archaeologists

began doing excavations in the Sian Desert,

on the borders of India and Pakistan,

in the late 1940s and early 1950s,

what they found in these cities--

Mohenjo-Daro, Harrapa, Kot Diji--

was archaeological evidence to show

there were apparently atomic weapons.

Only it happened in ancient times.

There's other evidence in parts ofAfrica and the Middle East,

where it would seem to be like some sort

of atomic explosion had taken place there,

and had turned the desert sand into glass.

And that's exactly what happened at Alamogordo, in New Mexico,

when they detonated the first atom bomb in the desert.

Could the strange ruins

found in the Indus Valley

really contain evidence of an ancient atomic explosion?

If so, where did these powerful weapons come from?

Who was using them?

And why?

In the ancient Indian texts themselves,

it says, and I quote, "At one point,

three giant cities were orbiting the Earth."

And those giant cities were often described