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2005, Florence, Italy-- beyond a hidden staircase,

in the Santissima Annunziata convent,

researchers from Italy's Military Geographical Institute

discover the secret workshop of Leonardo da Vinci.

He was the true archetypal Renaissance man--

brilliant painter, brilliant inventor, brilliant poet,

ambidextrous, could write with his left hand

and his right hand at the same time,

wrote backwards instead of forwards.

A very interesting guy.

NARRATOR: Though Da Vinci is renowned

for his public paintings, like the Mona

Lisa and The Last Supper, ancient astronaut theorists

are more intrigued by his private notebooks that contain

sketches of futuristic military technology,

including machine guns, tanks, helicopters,

and even submarines.

It clearly seems that Leonardo da Vinci was privy to a series

of secrets that had been handed down for many, many thousands

of years.

Da Vinci may also have actually been contacted

by human-like extraterrestrials, who either

spoke to him in person or perhaps telepathically,

and inspired him to do so many different things.

We do know, for example, that one of his inventions

was a circular car.

It looks kind of like a UFO.

Now, he's also into inventing weapons.

And did that come from the fact that the UFO has demonstrated

basically some aggressiveness, and did some of that maybe

in some way rub off on him?

Were they trying to give him weapons that could be used

to destroy life on Earth?

That could have been possible.

NARRATOR: But if Leonardo da Vinci did

have knowledge of advanced weaponry,

might he have learned of it through observation and study?

Or was this knowledge given to him by another perhaps

extraterrestrial source?

There is this book of prophecies,

which is a very rare book.

And in there are some type of descriptions

that could indicate some type of an extraterrestrial visitation.

There are references in which Da Vinci himself says that he's

had these encounters, these visions of God and angels.

And of course, according to the ancient astronaut hypothesis,

that wasn't God.

It wasn't angels.

They were extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that over the centuries

extraterrestrials have been partnering

with human collaborators, human beings entrusted with the kind

of advanced scientific knowledge that would allow mankind

to leap over centuries of normal intellectual evolution?

To ancient astronaut theorists, the fact

that mankind had gone from the horse and buggy

to the moon in less than 100 years

makes such a notion not only possible, but entirely

probable.

In our development, all of a sudden

we've made a quantum leap, where we were sitting in caves

munching on bananas, and the next thing we do

is we're building pyramids.

Virtually overnight.

And so that quantum leap can be explained

with a direct extraterrestrial intervention of our past.

And the visitors are the ones who are revered as gods, who

seem to come on flying shields, or silver boats,

or any of the various descriptions

of extraterrestrial technology that you see

in these ancient legends, and they consistently

are trying to cultivate humanity in a direction that's

beneficial for everyone.

NARRATOR: There are many who believe

extraterrestrial visitors might have provided

intellectual inspiration to men like Albert Einstein, whose

theories of relativity opened the door for the possibility

of future travels through space and time,

J Robert Oppenheimer, whose research in the field

of theoretical physics resulted in the development

of atomic weapons, Wernher von Braun, whose innovations

in advanced rocket technology led to the modern day space

program.

When we look into the lives and the motivations

as to Wernher von Braun, and to why he wanted to take mankind

into outer space, we're confronted with the fact

that he was absolutely convinced that we had gone there before,

or that an ancient civilization had come from there to us.

These people were motivated, and specifically they

wanted to take us to space, because they were convinced

that somehow they would find something which would

completely change planet Earth.

Key Vocabulary

Vocabulary	Meanings
discover /dɪˈskʌvər/ B1	verb - to find something unexpectedly
secret /ˈsiːkrɪt/ B1	noun - something that is kept hidden adjective - known only to a few people; private
brilliant /ˈbrɪliənt/ B2	adjective - extremely intelligent or talented
inventor /ɪnˈventər/ B1	noun - a person who invents things
hand /hænd/ A1	noun - the end part of a person's arm beyond the wrist, including the fingers and thumb
paintings /ˈpeɪntɪŋz/ B1	noun - pictures made with paint
notebooks /ˈnəʊtbʊks/ A2	noun - a book with blank pages for writing notes
technology /tekˈnɒlədʒi/ B1	noun - the application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes
machine /məˈʃiːn/ A2	noun - a piece of equipment with moving parts that does a particular job
gun /ɡʌn/ A1	noun - a weapon that shoots bullets
secrets /ˈsiːkrɪts/ B1	noun - things that are kept hidden
extraterrestrials /ˌekstrətrəˈrestriəlz/ B2	noun - beings from outer space
inventions /ɪnˈvenʃənz/ B1	noun - things that have been invented
weapons /ˈwepənz/ B1	noun - things used to fight with
knowledge /ˈnɒlɪdʒ/ B1	noun - facts, information, and skills acquired through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.
visions /ˈvɪʒənz/ B2	noun - the ability to see; sight
ancient /ˈeɪnʃənt/ B1	adjective - belonging to the distant past
scientific /ˌsaɪənˈtɪfɪk/ B2	adjective - based on or using the principles and methods of science.
theories /ˈθɪəri/ B2	noun - a supposition or a system of ideas intended to explain something, especially one based on general principles independent of the thing to be explained.
space /speɪs/ A2	noun - the physical universe beyond the Earth's atmosphere
modern /ˈmɒdən/ B1	adjective - relating to the present or recent times
civilization /ˌsɪvəlaɪˈzeɪʃən/ B2	noun - the stage of human social development and organization that is considered most advanced.
planet /ˈplænɪt/ A2	noun - a celestial body moving in an orbit around a star
develop /dɪˈveləp/ B1	verb - grow or cause to grow and become more mature, advanced, or elaborate.