Ancient Aliens

An Irish legend...

The supreme deity

lived inside Newgrange.

Strange statues in Japan.

They are in what

literally look like space suits.

And a mysterious African tribe.

They didn’t see themselves as earthlings.

They saw themselves as aliens.

All connected by a single sound.

We have this repeated story

of these beings that said they came from the stars

and they introduced themselves always with the same phonetics.

You have Dogon,

you have dogu,

you have Dagda.

What’s the commonality here?

Because we have not similar but identical stories.

Could a simple syllable reveal

the identity of extraterrestrial visitors

from thousands of years ago?

There’s, across cultures,

a reference of some type of an amphibious creature

that they thought of as a god.

And might they provide new clues

about mankind’s very origins?

All these cultures were visited

by the same people.

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.

Mali, Africa.

1931.

French anthropologist Marcel Griaule

treks through the forbidding desert

in search of the mysterious Dogon tribe.

When he finds them,

he becomes fascinated by their culture and traditions.

As Griaule starts collecting Dogon legends,

he notices an eerie similarity

to ancient tales found across the globe,

tales of amphibious gods--

in this case, called Nommo,

who came from the sky,

lived in the sea,

and helped mankind.

They described these Nommos as being

very, like, mermaid- or mermen-like

but bequeathing lots of knowledge of astronomy,

math and science to this ancient race.

The Dogon would say that the Nommo

were these extraterrestrial gods.

But they needed a watery environment to live in,

though they could come on land.

Griaule learns that their arrival is known

as the Day of the Fish.

The Dogon actually said,

"Well, this was our creator god, Nommo,

"who descended from the sky

"in a loud whirlwind of a storm

of thunder, smoke, and lightning."

But what struck Griaule and shocked the world

weren’t the Dogon legends themselves

but where they said their amphibious gods came from,

a star that no one on Earth knew existed until 1862,

long after the Dogon claimed they knew of its existence.

In the 1930s,

when French anthropologists were first discussing the Nommo

with these Dogon priests,

the Dogon priests said that the Nommo were coming

from the star system of Sirius.

Well, the French anthropologists were amazed at that

and were confused as well.

According to the Dogon,

their gods didn’t come from Sirius A,

a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky,

but from its tiny companion,

a dying star called Sirius B

that can only be seen with advanced,

high-powered telescopes.

Sirius A is the brightest star in the sky,

because it is very luminous

and it is also fairly close to the Earth.

In astronomy, it is a known fact

that there is a Sirius A and a Sirius B.

Sirius A can be seen.

And Sirius B, for us,

is invisible,

because it’s just too small.

Now, the Dogon knew

about the invisible companion star to Sirius.

How did they know?

For thousands of years,

Sirius A has played an outsized role

in the imagination of Greeks, Persians,

Hindus, Romans,

Polynesians and countless others.

The Egyptians even based their calendar on Sirius A,

and some believe they aligned the Giza pyramids

to Orion’s Belt,

which points to Sirius A.

Villages along the Nile

and along the Euphrates,

ancient Mesopotamia,

they lined up their village dwellings

to mimic the constellation in which Sirius sat.

Sirius is one

of the closest stars to us.

It’s 8.6 light-years away.

Unlike the Sun,

which has a beautiful golden color,

Sirius is a bluish white color,

indicating it’s much hotter than the surface of the Sun,

and that corresponds to it being more massive than the Sun

and burning hotter.

It’ll have a shorter lifespan.

But how could the Dogon

have known about the existence of Sirius B?

Could they have, at one time,

been in possession of advanced technology?

Or could there be another, even more profound explanation?

The Dogon had an amazing degree of knowledge

about the Sirius system.

They knew that the orbits of the two stars

were about 50 years’ period

and that the invisible star was very dense

and past its prime.

They also knew that the brighter one

was a larger star than the Sun.

The Dogon also knew

that Sirius B is about the size of Earth

and spins on its axis.

There is no logical explanation

for why the Dogon tribe knew

about the Sirius star system naturally.

We didn’t have telescopes in those days.

How did they know this?

It’s as if an ET came here

and just told ’em all about that.

It’s an amazing story.

One theory is

maybe the aliens gave them this knowledge.

It can’t be ruled out.

That’s one possibility,

because they got it right on the dot.

But if a race of amphibious Nommo came from Sirius B

and gave the Dogon such gifts of knowledge,

did they only visit this one desert tribe?

Or did they visit other peoples in other lands?

It would be one thing if there’s

only one legend of a fish-man worldwide,

but the Nommo is

one story of dozens

of amphibious bringers of knowledge

to our ancestors.

The ancient Hindus talk about this.

The ancient Greeks.

They all had these fish people that,

during the day, taught mankind,

and then, at night,

they wandered back into the ocean

to just emerge the next day.

If the Nommo from Sirius B

visited numerous ancient cultures,

is it possible

that some physical evidence survived?

Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

As civil war rages across the country,

rebels begin forcing villagers to mine

so-called blood diamonds.

But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure

they weren’t expecting...

...mysterious figures ranging from five to ten inches tall,

often with reptilian or amphibian features.

They’re very strange statues.

Some are clay.

Some are of granite or limestone.

They are humans

and human figures with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

Archaeologists date the statues,

known as the Nomoli,

to around 500 years old,

when Europeans first came into contact

with the people of Sierra Leone.

But researchers point out that the statues were found buried

as much as 150 feet deep,

which would suggest they are extremely ancient.

Normally, the deeper you go,

the more ancient things are.

That indicates great antiquity.

We know that Angelo Pitoni

was able to date the strata