NARRATOR: Athens, Greece, the 4th century BC.
In his famous dialogues "Timaeus" and "Critias,"
the Greek philosopher Plato writes about a lost continent
that existed 9,000 years before his time
and was home to a highly advanced civilization.
Called Atlantis, it was founded by the Greek god Poseidon,
and the inhabitants possessed sophisticated technology.
But Atlantis was ultimately destroyed
by a terrible cataclysm.
And according to some researchers,
the story of its destruction is strikingly
similar to Native American traditions
detailing the end of the third world.
The Hopi and other Pueblo Indians
tell us that their devastating cataclysm
was due to human greed and wandering away
from the spiritual truths of our creator.
What's interesting about this is that this idea
is echoed in Plato's story of the destruction of Atlantis.
The Atlanteans were also created by gods.
As soon as humanity wandered off into materialism,
that's when Atlantis was destroyed by water.
A perfect correspondence with what the Hopi said
happened at the end of the third world.
NARRATOR: Could there be a connection
between the ancient Greek tale of Atlantis and
Native American origin stories?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest another story told
by early Native Americans bears striking similarities
to Atlantis, the legend of a lost city of Aztlán,
which appears in the traditions of the Aztecs
and numerous Native American groups
throughout the Southwest.
and the Hopis.
So we have all these oral histories also
There's debate among scholars as to exactly
what Aztlán looked like.
And we know that the Aztecs say that
their capital of Tenochtitlan was
made in the image of Aztlán.
And from that capital, we get a backwards projection
that their origin place is an island surrounded by water.
They actually built Tenochtitlan up into the lake
and put causeways out so that it looks very much like Atlantis.
NARRATOR: According to the Aztecs,
the god Huitzilopochtli was the founder of Tenochtitlan, which,
as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
provides yet another intriguing connection to Plato's
description of Atlantis.
Tenochtitlan was a place made artificially.
Compare it to Atlantis.
In both cases, a god was the ruler of it.
In Atlantis, we have Poseidon.
Now, Poseidon was an extraterrestrial.
Not everyone should have access to Atlantis.
The same thing in Aztlán or Tenochtitlan,
they wanted to be separated.
They had a certain technology there,
which was a hidden technology, and it
was not for the general public.
So it's the same thing.
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The fact that we have stories that
are not just similar but identical
leads me to think that perhaps these ancient cultures were
visited by the same extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: While mainstream academics consider
the stories of these lost civilizations
and their destruction to be mythological,
the recent discovery of vast sunken land masses,
such as Doggerland, located just east of the British Isles
in 2012, and Zealandia, found near New Zealand in 2017,
may offer proof that a catastrophic water
event did, in fact, change the face of the Earth.
So here we have authentic legends of lost lands that
were destroyed in cataclysms.
Mainstream historians still pretty much reject
this, feel it is all myths.
But it would seem really that all kinds of civilizations
could have come and gone on our planet.
We know that there are over 200 known submerged cities
in the Mediterranean.
There's just so much on our planet
that we have yet to find out.
JONATHAN YOUNG: In the Native American Indigenous teaching,
there are cycles of destruction and rebirth.
The interesting part is that this is parallel
to other great world teachings.
Then the story of Noah.
The sons of God came down to Earth,
and they were teaching the humans evil ways.
And God decided to intervene and brought this Great Flood.
In the story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian legend, the Council
of Gods brought the flood.
The Inca god Viracocha created the Great Flood.
WILLIAM HENRY: So all of these traditions correspond directly
with the Hopi four worlds tradition
about previous civilizations destroyed by the gods.
The story is always the same.
This speaks to the idea of extraterrestrial intervention
in human affairs.
PATRICIA ROBLES: I believe there are
ancient civilizations that some people refuse to write about.
But ancient civilizations are coming
to surface because the time has come to tell
the truth about human origin.
NARRATOR: Could it be that Native American stories of star
people and of lost civilizations so closely resembles
other ancient traditions from around the globe
because they all encountered the same otherworldly visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest the Native Americans' knowledge of star
people comes not only from the distant past,
but from the extraterrestrial activity that occurs
over Native lands even today.
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