NARRATOR: The human genome
remains one of modern science's
greatest mysteries.
ADAM SIEPEL:
We still understand very little
about our genetic history.
NARRATOR:
Are h*m* sapiens
a miracle of nature?
Or could there be another,
more profound explanation?
LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
The evolution of the humanoid
primate on this planet
is because
of the genetic manipulation
of extraterrestrial entities.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The more we look into our DNA,
we recognize
that something happened.
NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos
and author David Childress
are meeting with experts in
religion, science, and mythology
for a provocative discussion
on the truth behind the origin
and future of mankind.
CAROLINE CORY:
Extraterrestrials are trying
to influence
our DNA and upgrade it.
TSOUKALOS:
I think Earth has been
a hybridization program
all along.
NARRATOR:
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.
I'm excited to be here
with you guys to talk about DNA,
because
the ancient astronaut theory
for 50 years now has suggested
that man and animal,
they were essentially the same.
But then, the so-called gods
arrived, and they saw
that one of these species
had potential.
And this is when they changed
the genetic makeup
in order to make us intelligent.
CORY: I've been doing
a lot of research about DNA
and I think we can see
there's some sort of design.
There's s--
there is intelligence
behind this whole creation.
DAVID CHILDRESS:
This is really interesting,
because recently,
scientists have been able
to start manipulating DNA.
Right, and the more we look
into the science of our DNA
and into the science
of evolution,
we recognize
that something happened.
Something happened in our DNA
that cannot be explained away
with just coincidence.
RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
You remember in the Bible,
it says in Genesis chapter one,
"let us make man
in [span]our[/span] own image."
Curious plural terminology.
-WILLIAM HENRY: Right.
-Well, the ancients asked,
"who is God talking to?"
And the response was,
he was talking to his angels.
And if we understand
in our modern terms
that these angels might have
been extraterrestrials,
there you go.
Right from the Bible,
you have a clear,
definitive statement
of an extraterrestrial
development of human DNA.
HENRY:
Absolutely. And DNA holds
information
but it's programmable.
NARRATOR:
DNA is the molecule that defines
every living creature on Earth.
DNA is the molecule
of life itself with a code,
a molecule with a code on it.
KIRSTEN FISHER:
The DNA code is essentially like
a language consisting of genes
that confer particular traits
like eye color or hair color.
All these traits, basically,
that we recognize.
SIEPEL:
In a sense, DNA is the program
that gets run by the computer,
and the computer is the cell.
The cell executes
the instructions
in the DNA molecule in order for
organisms to live and develop.
And it depends a little bit
on the environment
and other things that are
happening, and that's why,
for example,
two identical twins,
even though they have
the same DNA,
are not precisely identical.
NARRATOR:
In 1859, nearly a century
before the discovery of DNA,
English biologist Charles Darwin
theorized
in his controversial book, [span]
On the Origin of the Species,[/span]
that every living thing
was the product
of natural selection,
evolving over millions of years
to adapt and survive
in changing environments.
When scientists
later discovered DNA
and its ability to adapt,
it seemed to be in line
with Darwin's theory.
But today, with a far greater
breadth of scientific knowledge,
a number of Darwin's assumptions
have been found to be incorrect.
And one burning
question remains:
if evolution is the only factor
in the development
of life on Earth,
then why are humans
so incredibly unique?
We don't see dolphins
building cars.
We don't see elephants
building houses, you know?
That might sound trite,
but it's a fact
that these animals
just simply haven't progressed
and advanced in the way we have.
There's something definitely
different about the human race,
and the big question is,
why is that?
Nobody has ever denied
that evolution exists
because there is
a fossil record.
However, even Darwin himself
in [span]The Origin of Species,[/span]
in the last chapter, he says,
you know, "I like my theory,
but there is something
that does not make sense."
And this is why we have
the so-called missing link.
-CORY: Mm.
-And the ancient astronaut
theory suggests
that that missing piece
is an external artificial
mutation of our genetic makeup.
CORY:
I mean, we know that's possible.
Even now, scientists
are cutting DNA, you know,
isolating the gene
that is responsible for this,
responsible for that,
moving things around.
HENRY:
DNA is essentially digital.
-It's information, right?
-TSOUKALOS: Right.
But it's programmable.
You can cut, copy, paste
and edit it.
So, after Crick and Watson
discovered the double helix
nature of DNA,
it launches this whole search
into molecular biology,
bioengineering and so forth.
NARATOR:
In 1953,
molecular biologists James D.
Watson and Francis Crick
made one of the most important
scientific breakthroughs
in human history
when they identified
the double-helix structure
of DNA.
The discovery led
to a radical new era
of genetic experimentation,
culminating in a revolutionary
method to edit DNA
known as CRISPR.
Developed in 2012
by scientists Jennifer Doudna
and Emmanuelle Charpentier,
CRISPR, which stands
for "Clustered Regularly
Interspaced Short
Palindromic Repeats,"
is a tool
that enables scientists
to target and modify
individual genes.
SIEPEL:
CRISPR can be thought of
as a kind of a genetic scissors
that can snip DNA
at a desired location.
And what that allows people
to do is effectively cut out
one sequence
and paste in another sequence,
just like you might do
in a word processor.
CRISPR is incredibly powerful
because it allows
DNA sequences to be altered
in desired ways.
It could be used
to improve crops,
it could be used
to fight pathogens,
it could be used to confer
immunity to a disease.
And, of course, it could
be used for other purposes,
like, creating blue eyes
from brown eyes,
or blonde hair from brown hair.
You know, one of the most
fascinating things I've found
about the whole CRISPR scenario
and why it's so important, too,
is that we can alter
and edit DNA
so then it's passed on
to future generations.
And that is kind of
a really dangerous premise.
TZADOK:
That's a very
controversial issue
-today in modern science.
-HENRY: It is.
TZADOK:
We're doing the work of angels
by directing evolution.
NARRATOR:
While genetic engineering
of humans
may seem like an issue
that won't need to be faced
for many years to come,
it has, in fact,
already happened.
In November 2018,
Chinese biophysics researcher
He Jiankui made
the shocking announcement
that he used CRISPR
on twin female embryos.
And the plan to monitor
the twins' health
for the next 18 years.
In a bold effort to make
the twins immune to HIV,
he deleted a single gene,
known as CCR5.
Although the procedure
was a success,
his unauthorized actions
to tamper with human biology
on such an audacious scale
led Chinese authorities
to incarcerate him for
a three-year prison sentence.
FISHER:
We just don't know enough
about the long-term effects
of gene editing
to be performing
those types of procedures
on humans at this point.
REDFERN:
As far as these experiments
are concerned,
what they demonstrated
was that scientists
now had the ability
to quite literally play God.
NARRATOR:
Further research published
in the journal [span]Cell[/span]
showed that the removal
of gene CCR5
also significantly improves
memory, cognition
and even the brain's ability
to repair itself after a stroke.
These developments,
as ethically complicated
as they are, proved that DNA
can in fact be altered
to advance the evolution
of human beings.
The way that I'm looking
at this is,
this whole CRISPR technology
is simply a rediscovery
of technology
that existed way before
and has been used here
on planet Earth,
perhaps, of course,
not by human beings.
You know, this is something
that Erich von Daniken
has proposed in [span]Chariots [span]
of the Gods?[/span] over 50 years ago,[/span]
that the ultimate proof
of an extraterrestrial
intervention will not be found
in a crashed spaceship somewhere
or a ray g*n
that's discovered in a cave,
but rather, in our DNA.
CHILDRESS:
Just recently, in 2018,
this Australian geneticist
discovered these DNA knots
which they called the i-motif.
And they think
that this is perhaps
what's creating
the modern human.
So, one has to ask the question,
who did that?
Actually, in 2018,
this Australian geneticist
discovered these knots
in our DNA,
and some of the doctors think
that this is perhaps what's
creating the modern human.
HENRY:
This is a major discovery
that they've made, that our DNA
doesn't necessarily look like
a double helix all the time.
It can take on different
expressions and--
but this one is, like,
really sticking out.
CHILDRESS:
But these knots have been there
-from the very beginning
of our DNA.
-Yes.
-Yes.
-And I'm gonna predict
that they have a very
significant role to play
in our evolutionary future.
I wouldn't be surprised
if they find that,
-because, again, they are...
-Th-- We don't believe anything
-is a coincidence.
-Right.
NARRATOR:
In April 2018,
Dr. Daniel Christ
at the Garvan Institute
of Medical Research
in Sydney, Australia,
announced that he had discovered
a curious anomaly in human DNA.
Dr. Christ and his team
identified sections
of the double helix
genetic structure
that are twisted into what
they described as knots.
While the function
of these knots remains
largely a mystery,
scientists suspect
these unusual DNA shapes
may play an essential role
in human evolution.
We don't exactly know
the, uh, the function,
but presumably, because it's
changing the shape of the DNA,
one of the proposed ideas,
right,
is that they may be involved
in-in gene regulation.
We've known for more
than 50 years that, uh,
the way genes
are turned on and off,
the way they're regulated
is at least as important
as what the genes actually do
once they're turned on.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible,
as ancient astronaut theorists
propose,
that these mysterious DNA knots
not only played
an important role in
the evolution of humankind,
but are physical evidence
that extraterrestrials
manipulated human DNA?
There are these parts
inside our DNA
that do not correspond
to that double helix structure.
How crazy is that?
Because, through science,
we've learned that it seems
as if those parts
were somehow extraordinary
from the rest of the structure.
-CORY: It's almost like
added information.
-Sure.
I think the common denominator
of this whole discussion
is that DNA is changeable,
it's malleable.
TSOUKALOS:
More and more question marks
arise because we now have
evidence
that some of the things
that happened
with our own human DNA
are not coincidental.
So, one has to ask the question:
what was the purpose of it
and who did that?
And, of course, the ancient
astronaut theory suggests
that this was done through
a targeted manipulation
of our genes
by artificial means.
This goes into
the old kabbalistic beliefs
about the pre-Adamic
civilizations.
That we had
a humanoid civilization.
And then along came God,
the angels,
and made Adam out of that
which was before him.
NARRATOR:
According to an ancient
Jewish interpretation
of the Bible
known as the kabbalah,
Adam was created
from a humanlike race
that already existed on Earth.
There are some
who believe this points
to the genetic engineering
of h*m* sapiens,
and that further manipulation
of human DNA
can be found in the biblical
story of the Garden of Eden.
Let's look, then, at the story
of the Garden of Eden
and Adam and Eve,
living, uh, sort of blissfully
in this Edenic garden
and then suddenly this
serpent-being comes to them
and offers them
some special food to eat.
Who is this serpent?
Ancient legend tells us
that the serpent
in the Garden of Eden was
actually a humanoid form.
It stood erect, had arms and had
legs, and clearly, it spoke.
The serpent talks
to Eve and says,
"Hey, have a piece of fruit."
Eve eats. Adam, too.
And suddenly,
they completely change
into what we would call
modern people
who are now creating clothing,
creating ornaments.
They're building houses
and vehicles.
Tools and things like that.
We have, in a sense,
an evolutionary leap
from primitive humans
to more modern humans
who are more aware of themselves
and their surroundings.
NARRATOR:
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
strikingly similar
creation myths exist
in ancient cultures
around the world.
For instance, Mayan tradition
describes how humans
were created by a feathered
serpent known as Kukulkan,
and ancient Chinese stories
portray the first emperor,
Huangdi, as the offspring
of a human woman
and a dragon god
who descended from the sky.
But perhaps
most remarkable of all
is the creation story
of the Sumerians,
who are believed, by most
mainstream archaeologists,
to be the earliest human
civilization on Earth.
Approximately 4,000 years ago,
the Sumerians recorded stories
about powerful beings
called the Anunnaki,
who descended to Earth
from the sky.
One of these figures
was known as Enki,
and according to author
Zecharia Sitchin,
who spent years studying
the Sumerian cuneiform tablets,
Enki is the equivalent
of the serpent
in the Garden of Eden.
Enki is the god of technology
of the Annunaki.
Zachariah Sitchin
noticed that Enki
was symbolized by a serpent
and he made the simple leap
to suggest
that he, in fact, is the serpent
in the Garden of Eden
that was responsible
for putting us on
our current path of evolution.
Enki altered our human DNA
in order to awaken us
and to illuminate us.
Ancient astronaut theory
proposes that this actually
is extraterrestrial
intervention,
that as the Egyptian
and Sumerian stories tell us,
beings came from other worlds
and activated
that part of our brain
that makes us human.
What's fascinating to me
is that all around the world,
in ancient cultures,
there are these stories
-of a so-called tree of life.
-Right.
TSOUKALOS:
And in ancient Sumeria,
you have this tree of life.
It looks like,
for all intents and purposes,
like a double helix structure.
Then in Portugal, in Silves,
there is this egg, this ancient
giant egg, that was discovered.
-HENRY: Right. Right.
-And it has a double helix
structure on there.
TSOUKALOS:
Or even the caduceus symbol
in ancient Greece.
CHILDRESS:
Of Hermes, yeah.
It's a double helix.
So yeah,
we're looking at a DNA strand.
Let's go to a really direct one.
Ancient Egypt, Ptah.
You look up his name
in the [span]Egyptian Hieroglyphic [span]
Dictionary[/span] by Budge,[/span]
and he says he was
the god that fashioned
-the human body.
-TSOUKALOS: Yes.
HENRY:
And you look at his hieroglyph,
and there's a double helix.
TSOUKALOS:
Right.
That cannot be by chance.
TSOUKALOS:
And so this idea, to me,
suggests that someone
wanted to leave behind
a message about our DNA.
CORY:
I've been doing a lot
of research about DNA lately.
I was talking to Garry Nolan,
who's a very well-known
geneticist at Stanford.
And he was telling me
that they realized
that every 600,000 years,
DNA doubles in complexity.
So, they kept going back
to the very first time
where it started, where
it couldn't double anymore.
And that was
nine billion years ago.
They're saying that our DNA
started nine billion years ago?
And Earth is how old?
-Four and a half billion.
-HENRY: Four and a half,
-maybe five.
-So how could...
Our DNA is twice
as old as the Earth.
-Exactly. How...
-So, it didn't come
from Earth, then.
And I think we need to talk
about Francis Crick
-for a moment, too.
-Yeah.
Because even Crick
himself believed
-that there was some kind
of an intervention.
-Yep.
NARRATOR:
Two decades after discovering
the structure of DNA in 1953,
Francis Crick made a statement
that shocked
the scientific world.
He had come to the conclusion
that human DNA
was far too complex
to have evolved
over the 4.5-billion-year
history of planet Earth.
CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE: Francis
Crick asked the question,
could it be that the extremely
complex DNA
that we have in us
was seeded from outside?
Was an intelligent entity
involved
in, sort of, flooding the Earth
with the genes that make humans?
And I think that this is
certainly a logical possibility.
ANDREW COLLINS:
Francis Crick wrote
and promoted the idea
that it was possible
that DNA may have been seeded
on this planet
from another star system
in a process known
as directed panspermia.
HENRY:
Francis Crick comes up,
of course,
with the idea of directed
panspermia as an explanation,
of an extraterrestrial
civilization that sh**t DNA--
loads it up on a rocket--
sh**t it out into space,
and this is the origin
of human DNA.
So, this is Francis Crick
himself,
-is a believer.
-The man who discovered DNA.
-Exactly.
-And he won the Nobel Prize
for it.
-You don't get a greater
authority than that.
-Right.
HENRY:
He said it was impossible
that this
could have happened
spontaneously.
So, but are you talking
about intervention
-Yes.
-...in the middle
of the evolution?
-Or from the very beginning?
-Hmm.
-Both.
-CORY: It's starting as...
-It could very well be both.
-I think it's both.
In my opinion, someone
changed the genetic makeup
in the humanoid species.
HENRY:
I'm glad you brought
that up, Giorgio,
'cause geneticists have
discovered other types
of hominins in our DNA.
Denisovans and-and others.
NARRATOR:
In recent years,
new discoveries
in genetic research
have profoundly altered
the timeline of human evolution.
MICHAEL DENNIN: When you look
at the evolution of humanity,
and the different species that
have existed throughout time,
early on, we had
a pretty simple story.
We-we started
with our ancestors,
we split from chimpanzees
and monkeys,
the h*m* sapien ancestors
developed.
And what confuses the story is,
as we do more research in
archeology,
we're discovering a wide range
of different hominins.
COLLINS:
Before modern humans
occupied the Eurasian continent,
there were two so-called
archaic humans existing there.
To the west
and the central area,
we had the Neanderthals.
But from the central
to the eastern part
of the continent, we had
the so-called Denisovans.
And there are
a number of others.
DENNIN:
Given the great diversity,
and of the number
of different species,
how is it that h*m* sapiens
ended up the only one left?
NARRATOR:
Scientists now believe
that, dating back
as much as 40,000 years ago,
at least eight humanlike species
existed on Earth
at the same time.
HOWE: The discovery could be
that the evolution
of the humanoid primate
on this planet
is because
of the genetic manipulation
of extraterrestrial
biological entities
using this planet Earth
like a laboratory.
This would suggest
that some type
of experimentation
has been going on,
because why would there,
all of a sudden,
be these brand-new species
that come along
and then suddenly
disappear again?
HENRY:
So, the mystery deepens because,
at first, we thought,
based on Darwin,
that because we came
from primates,
that we must also
have 48 chromosomes,
just like the primates.
And then they discovered
that that's not true.
That humans have 46 chromosomes,
And that became a big mystery.
What-what happened
to the other two?
NARRATOR:
One principle that biologists
generally agree on
is that species
which are closely related
usually have the same number
of chromosomes.
Chromosomes are long
physical molecules
that consist of a DNA strand.
And when we talk
about the genome,
we're talking primarily
about the DNA
stored in the chromosomes.
Once the idea of-of evolution,
um, by descent caught hold, uh,
it was assumed traits
would be shared between humans
and other primates
because of our common ancestry.
And so when it was discovered
that humans actually have
that was surprising.
NARRATOR:
Some researchers believe
that these missing chromosomes
may hold the key
to what causes human beings
to behave differently,
and demonstrate
higher intelligence
than other species on Earth.
COLLINS:
We broke away
from a common primate ancestor
that we shared with chimpanzees
and other types of ape.
And what's so significant
is that this break seemed
to change
the amount of chromosomes
that were in our cells.
NARRATOR:
In 2005, a team
of scientists discovered
that two chromosomes
in the ape genome
appear to have
fused together to create
a single, larger chromosome in
humans, called chromosome 2.
In their own terms, this is what
they say, this is not natural.
This is not the product
of evolution.
Something intervened
to fuse these two chromosomes.
So, was that an upgrade?
You can call that an upgrade,
absolutely.
Like what CRISPR can do now,
we can alter
and edit DNA so then it's passed
on to future generations.
So-- but the point is, that this
is what defines us as humans,
and it is, and definitely,
an intervention.
It's an upgrade.
So, essentially,
we weren't necessarily created
from scratch,
but built upon and added from
that which was already there.
This is why I'm asking
the questions,
because I'm looking
at ancient patterns
and we're seeing
modern patterns.
We're going through this
right now.
HENRY: What all this
ultimately speaks to me
is that while
the time span is vast,
hundreds of thousands of years,
there seems to be a project,
-that we're the project.
-TSOUKALOS: Absolutely.
And they're aiming us
towards an ultimate outcome.
CORY:
Right. I've been working
with hundreds of people
for the last few years
about their
abduction experiences.
And in my experience
working with many individuals,
the common dominator
of the abduction
is it has to do with
some sort of genetic engineering
and genetic combining
of the DNA.
NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,
thousands of people have
reported being abducted
by extraterrestrials.
While such reports
are rarely taken seriously,
many researchers suggest
that the accounts given
by alleged abductees
are too similar to dismiss,
and may reveal
an extraterrestrial agenda.
The first documented case
of a reported alien abduction
appeared in the [span]Boston Traveler
on October 25, 1965.[/span]
According to the account,
Betty and Barney Hill
were driving through
New Hampshire late at night
when a large flying saucer
rapidly approached them,
and then hovered over their car.
The couple claimed that they had
been taken aboard the craft
and were subjected to numerous
medical experiments,
including both eggs and sperm
being taken.
In the more than five decades
since the Hills'
compelling reported
alien abduction,
thousands of people have come
forward with similar claims.
What's particularly notable
is the fact
that during alien abductions,
people talk about blood,
eggs, semen, cells, DNA
taken from their bodies
and essentially experimented on
by these strange, short,
black-eyed entities
that have become known
as the Greys.
The people that come to me
don't know each other.
So, they're telling me
all these different stories
that are actually
strikingly similar.
Most of the time,
extraterrestrials
are doing some sort
of genetic manipulation,
taking eggs from the female,
or sperm if it's a-a male.
-They...
-CHILDRESS: Or sometimes
these children as fetuses,
disappear from the mother,
don't they,
and they're suddenly gone?
-Yes. Exactly.
-There are cases
like that, right?
So, these are kind of medical
mysteries, anomalies.
NARRATOR:
One of the most shocking
and disturbing accounts
of extraterrestrial abduction
involved a Las Vegas couple,
Dhyanne Swanson and Bret Oldham,
in 1987.
At the time, Dhyanne
was almost four months pregnant
with her first child.
We're asleep and then,
I don't know what time it was,
but I was woken up.
And then I sat up.
Our bedroom door was open,
and there were
these three entities
looking over the door,
so I thought it was a dream.
And-and you know how
you're so scared you just go...
[ragged inhale]
And then it went black.
And then I woke up and I was
on this ice-cold metal bed
and then it was,
I was strapped down.
But I couldn't move.
And then that's when I realized
they were doing something to me.
And I remember just calling,
just saying, "Please.
Please don't, don't take
my baby. Don't hurt us."
I woke up the next morning
in my own bed
and I was covered in blood.
Bret rushed me
to my doctor's office
and he took us in right away,
and, uh, he thought I had
miscarried, but he wasn't sure.
He gave me an examination,
and he was very perplexed.
He told us that there
was no evidence
of me ever being pregnant.
He said that was crazy,
because he had just saw me
the week before.
NARRATOR:
The sudden disappearance
of the four-month-old fetus
baffled many
in the medical community.
What you have here
is an ultrasound image
of a three-month fetus.
And this fetus here
is lying on its back,
and if you measure what we call
crown-rump length--
and that would be
the longest distance
from the head to the rump,
this area here--
this is approximately
about five to six centimeters,
which is about the diameter
of a baseball.
So could the body absorb
this fetus overnight?
That's very unlikely.
NARRATOR:
Is it possible,
as Dhyanne claims,
that her unborn child was taken
by extraterrestrials?
And if so,
what would be the purpose?
SWANSON:
I believe they took
my child that night.
I believe it with all my heart
that they took my child.
I believe that
they're testing on us.
I believe that they are.
And I wonder sometimes,
did they have some kind of...
plan for that baby?
NARRATOR:
Some researchers suggest
that Dhyanne's story,
when considered alongside the
many strikingly similar accounts
of abductees being subjected
to medical experiments,
may provide evidence
of an extraterrestrial agenda.
We believe that they are,
uh, creating hybrids
on craft; that they began
with the Greys
and they combined human genetics
through some kind
of gene splicing.
When I say "hybrids," I mean
that the genetic material
has been altered and upgraded.
And perhaps some of the E.T.'s
genetic material
has been inserted.
-From these children
who you say have been taken...
-Yeah.
The-the hybrids--
have we identified
-any of them
that we can look at?
-Yes.
I-I've been doing
a lot of research in that field.
I mean, I've been working
with so many children
that seem to have
special abilities.
So, I believe that there are
extraterrestrial, uh, species
that are upgrading the DNA.
To me, I think the
extraterrestrial intervention
has to do with supporting...
-An evolution. Our growth.
-...our evolution and growth.
There's some sort
of agenda going on,
because after this abduction
experience,
the person comes back upgraded.
So, are-are you saying, then,
that these children
have these greater abilities,
psychic abilities
-a-and stuff like that, right?
-Exactly.
I mean, that's what I believe
is happening.
NARRATOR:
Throughout the world,
scientists and researchers
have been baffled
by numerous cases of children
who display
astonishing and inexplicable
extrasensory abilities.
Often referred to
as star children
by ancient astronaut theorists,
some researchers suggest they
have been genetically modified
to possess heightened intuition
and even psychic abilities.
RICHARD BOYLAN:
Star kids are advanced
in several departments.
These kids, by and large,
are much brighter
than the, uh, old-school child
of a previous generation.
They're using special gifts
they have as advanced star kids.
For example,
in that area of telepathy.
They can pick up on things
that somebody else
is thinking or sensing.
NARRATOR:
In 1982, the Chinese government
launched a nationwide search
for children
with psychic abilities
such as telekinesis,
telepathy and clairvoyance.
In total,
Chinese officials identified
more than 1,000 children
who possessed
what researchers referred to
as extra human function.
Might further study of these
incredible abilities reveal,
as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
that they are the result
of extraterrestrial manipulation
of the human genome?
So, what is making these
children to be alien hybrids?
If we looked at their DNA,
we would see
it would be different than ours?
Or-- is that kind of
what you're saying?
They would have
a "normal" human DNA,
plus added information.
I believe that part
of our DNA has to do
with our supersensory
a-abilities.
We cannot see those abilities
in the "normal" part of the DNA,
uh, but then you look at
why certain people
can do certain things.
I mean, we have people who can
move objects with their mind.
We have people who can be
completely blindfolded
and are able to reprogram their
brains entirely
to be able to see without their
eyes and so on and so forth.
NARRATOR:
In her 2018 documentary film,
[span]Superhuman: [span]
The Invisible Made Visible,[/span] [/span]
renowned futurist
Caroline Cory investigated
a group of children
who demonstrate
incredible
extrasensory capabilities.
In one segment, Caroline tested
the children's ability
to positively identify objects
and images
while wearing blindfolds that
completely block out all light.
CORY:
Justin,
tell me what's on this card.
Teacup.
And now, tell me
what's on this card.
A tiger.
Isabella, what is the shape
and color of this stone?
Kind of like a circle,
and I don't--
and it's not really,
it's kind of, like, see-through.
Evie, tell me the shape
and color of this stone.
Um, it's red and kind of
-a circle?
-Yes.
Evie, tell me what I'm holding
in my hand.
A wooden spoon.
CORY:
There was a study
that was done
where scientists were able
to demonstrate
that DNA is actually
receiving information
from the external environment.
The environment literally
is changing the information
and the genetic code
at a DNA level.
All sorts of informational waves
are being transmitted
into our being.
That said, a telepathic
communication,
for example,
could also be a type of wave
that we are receiving,
even at a DNA level.
We could literally be
communicating
with nonvisible,
nonphysical beings
transmitting this information
to us through our DNA.
I think we are born
with these abilities.
We're not taught
that we have them.
How is that possible for a human
to all of a sudden
be able to do
these superhuman things?
I think it is because
"part" of our DNA
is what's responsible.
Perhaps we're being altered
genetically in order to advance
the race beyond what is
transpiring in our world now.
Perhaps we're being altered
genetically in order to advance
the race beyond what is
transpiring in our world now.
I guarantee, that's what
they're doing with us, to us.
I personally think
it's to evolve us.
TSOUKALOS:
What's fascinating to me is that
with Darwinian evolution,
one thing that's always said
is that you need long,
long periods of time.
-Right.
-And with certain things
that we now can see,
it doesn't take a long time.
Through science,
we've learned that somehow,
all of a sudden, evolution
accelerated exponentially.
NARRATOR:
Scientists believe
that human DNA
has been evolving
for billions of years,
making it nearly impossible
to trace
its trajectory
back to its origins.
But in 2007, University
of Wisconsin professor
John Hawks did
a comprehensive analysis
of the human genome
going back 80,000 years
and discovered
something astonishing.
According to his research,
over the past 5,000 years,
human DNA has evolved at a rate
of approximately
than at any previous time
during that 80,000-year period.
The essential question
that remains for Dr. Hawks
is why?
CORY:
Humanity is expanding,
is advancing.
We are evolving.
But is it possible
that extraterrestrials
may have enhanced our DNA?
And the more our own DNA
gets enhanced,
the more we become like them.
So perhaps
they are our ancestors.
And perhaps that is our destiny.
NARRATOR:
If extraterrestrials
genetically engineered
the human race
thousands of years ago,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
is it possible that they are
continuing to upgrade our DNA,
helping us to evolve
so that we become like them?
CHILDRESS:
So what's the next step then?
Is it possible
that there's going to be
some giant change,
-and they're preparing us
for that?
-HENRY: That's what...
I think that there's a positive
intention behind this.
And here we are in this age
of immense change
and transformation.
We're get-- we're right
on the verge
of migrating into space.
And perhaps they're aiming us
towards an ultimate outcome,
because they want us to
ultimately migrate into space.
And they want us
to be more like them.
I think for those
who think that, uh,
all alien, uh, interference
or intervention is negative,
is to block us;
I think they're so advanced
that if they wanted
to destroy us,
-they would have done so by now.
-Oh, absolutely.
I always embrace this idea
that the extraterrestrials
mean well.
TZADOK:
Mm-hmm. This is a growth,
an evolution of our race,
a fulfillment of prophecy
or the angelic
or extraterrestrial goal.
We're part of it.
We're living it right now.
TSOUKALOS:
My friends,
I think we've learned a lot,
and especially
from you, Caroline.
This thing that is
going on right now,
overall, illustrates that we are
not alone in the universe,
we've never been alone
in the universe,
and some type of experimentation
has been going on
to usher in a new era.
-Agreed.
-And so,
I'm looking forward
to the future.
17x05 - The Human Experiment
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Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.
Explores the pseudoscientific hypothesis of ancient astronauts in a non-critical, documentary format.