The Last Sign: 3I/ATLAS and the Hopi Blue Star — Transcript
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- 0:00This episode of the Wi-Files is brought
- 0:02to you by Deceptio AI.
- 0:04>> [music]
- 0:10>> An old Hopi man was walking along a
- 0:12desert highway when a minister pulled
- 0:14over and gave him a ride.
- 0:16The old man told the minister about a
- 0:18prophecy, nine signs and then the end of
- 0:21the world. The Hopi take the prophecy so
- 0:24seriously, they warned the United
- 0:26Nations because by the 1990s eight signs
- 0:29came true. The last sign is the
- 0:31appearance of a new blue star.
- 0:35In 2025, something flew into our solar
- 0:37system. Some called it a comet, some
- 0:40called it a machine, but whatever it
- 0:42was, it looked like a star. But when it
- 0:44came around the sun, that star turned
- 0:47blue.
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- 1:04>> I can neither confirm nor deny.
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- 1:08>> The hat is classified.
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- 1:12>> Uh swap guest.
- 1:14>> So, did you buy the hot tub boat after I
- 1:16told you not to?
- 1:17>> The earlier reports of a hot tub boat
- 1:19were premature. It was a weather
- 1:21balloon.
- 1:22>> With my credit card?
- 1:23>> Uh the transaction involved a card. I I
- 1:26I won't speculate on ownership.
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- 1:33>> Yeah, I'm sorry. This greeting is over.
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- 1:39>> Fine, I bought the hot tub boat, uh but
- 1:42you told me to.
- 1:43>> I absolutely did not.
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- 1:51one in the freezer.
- 1:52>> That sounds like me, but I never said
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- 1:58>> Someone cloned my
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- 3:25>> Okay, Deceptio says the voicemail was
- 3:27fake and the other 11.
- 3:29>> Great. Now, did you use the freezer card
- 3:31for anything else?
- 3:32>> No.
- 3:33>> Run that through Deceptio.
- 3:35>> Okay, fine. There's a second hot tub
- 3:37boat, mirror on the ceiling. She's
- 3:39called the Wet Bandit.
- 3:49>> It was the summer of 1958. The old man
- 3:51introduced himself to the minister as
- 3:53White Feather, an elder of the Hopi Bear
- 3:55Clan.
- 3:56>> How did you know I'm a full-blooded
- 3:57Native American?
- 3:58>> Really?
- 3:59>> Yep, Chickasaw.
- 4:01>> Here it comes.
- 4:01>> The Chickasaw me naked and left her
- 4:03husband.
- 4:05>> [cough]
- 4:06>> Okay. Yeah, okay. Okay.
- 4:08Okay. Okay.
- 4:09>> As they drove through the heat of the
- 4:11American Southwest, White Feather told
- 4:13the minister that humanity was running
- 4:15out of time. He said the Hopi elders
- 4:17held an ancient prophecy passed down for
- 4:19generations. It was a countdown of nine
- 4:22signs
- 4:23>> [music]
- 4:23>> that would appear before the end of the
- 4:24world. Then White Feather started
- 4:26listing them.
- 4:27The first sign was the arrival of
- 4:29white-skinned men who would take the
- 4:31land and strike their enemies with
- 4:33thunder. When European settlers arrived
- 4:35with guns, the first sign was complete.
- 4:37[music] The second sign was the coming
- 4:39of spinning wheels filled with voices.
- 4:41In the 1800s, over 400,000 settlers
- 4:44rolled west across the plains in covered
- 4:46wagons. The third sign was a strange
- 4:49beast, like a buffalo, but with great
- 4:52long horns that would overrun the
- 4:53country. Within a few decades, settlers
- 4:56slaughtered 30 million buffalo and
- 4:58replaced them with millions of longhorn
- 5:00cattle.
- 5:02The fourth sign was snakes of iron
- 5:04crossing the land. By 1900, railroads
- 5:07had laid nearly 200,000 miles of steel
- 5:09track across the continent.
- 5:11>> Wow, 200,000 miles. They laid almost as
- 5:14much steel as Wilt Chamberlain.
- 5:17>> The fifth sign was a giant spider web
- 5:19crisscrossing the land. It was a web of
- 5:21wires. First the telegraph, then
- 5:24telephone, then power lines. Today more
- 5:27than 5 million miles of wire hang above
- 5:29the United States.
- 5:31But the prophecy could also apply to the
- 5:32entire planet. Every day we use wires to
- 5:35connect to something called the web.
- 5:38The sixth sign was rivers of stone that
- 5:41make pictures in the sun.
- 5:43Soon blacktop highways were everywhere.
- 5:45In the desert heat, asphalt creates
- 5:47mirages that shimmer like water. And
- 5:50under the right conditions, a mirage
- 5:51called a fata morgana bends light
- 5:54through the air and makes it look like
- 5:55an entire city is floating in the sky.
- 5:58White Feather listed these signs in
- 6:001958. The first six had already come
- 6:02true. But he said the seventh sign would
- 6:05be coming soon.
- 6:06And he was right.
- 6:14By 1958, six of the Hopi's nine signs of
- 6:16the apocalypse had come true. The
- 6:18seventh would happen just a few years
- 6:20later. The seventh sign was the sea
- 6:22turning black and many living things
- 6:25dying because of it.
- 6:26Well, 1967,
- 6:28a supertanker ruptured off the Isles of
- 6:30Scilly, dumping 35 million gallons of
- 6:33oil into the ocean. 15,000 birds died
- 6:36from that spill.
- 6:37In 1978, there was another spill off
- 6:39France, 68 million gallons. In 1979, two
- 6:44separate spills dumped over 230 million
- 6:47gallons of oil into the ocean.
- 6:49Just counting major oil spills since
- 6:521967,
- 6:53>> [music]
- 6:53>> over 1.3 billion gallons of oil has
- 6:56polluted the ocean.
- 6:57Nobody knows how many animals were
- 6:59killed, but estimates are over 500,000
- 7:02birds, 4,500 marine animals like seals
- 7:05and dolphins, thousands of sea turtles,
- 7:08millions of fish, and billions of
- 7:10mollusks, crabs, and other
- 7:12microcrustaceans.
- 7:15The eighth sign was young people with
- 7:17long hair trying to learn the ancient
- 7:19Hopi ways from tribal elders.
- 7:21In the 1960s, the counterculture
- 7:23movement exploded. Thousands of
- 7:25long-haired hippies drove into the Hopi
- 7:27villages in Arizona looking [music] for
- 7:29spiritual wisdom. So many camped on Hopi
- 7:31land that the tribal council banned them
- 7:34from the reservation.
- 7:35>> Whoa, banned by the tribal council.
- 7:37I wonder if they hired Chef Popes to
- 7:39deliver the news.
- 7:40>> By the end of 1968, only one sign
- 7:43remained. So, the Hopi waited and hoped.
- 7:46But, the following year, another Hopi
- 7:48warning came true.
- 7:50The Hopi elders warned that man must
- 7:52never go to the moon and bring pieces of
- 7:54it back to Earth. Taking rocks from the
- 7:56moon, even the smallest rocks, would
- 7:59disrespect the creator and break the
- 8:01Earth's natural balance. This would
- 8:03trigger earthquakes and violent weather.
- 8:07In July 1969, Apollo astronauts landed
- 8:10on the moon
- 8:11>> [music]
- 8:11>> and across six missions, they brought
- 8:13842 pounds of moon rock back to Earth.
- 8:17There have been five times as many
- 8:18severe weather disasters since we went
- 8:20to the moon compared to the years
- 8:21before.
- 8:22>> As you mean since Kubrick released his
- 8:24movie.
- 8:25>> Please, not not again.
- 8:26>> We never went to the moon and Buzz
- 8:28Aldrin's real and Paul is dead and so is
- 8:31the internet.
- 8:32>> As more and more signs came true, the
- 8:34Hopi knew they had to do something. For
- 8:36centuries, Hopi elders kept their
- 8:38prophecies locked away in underground
- 8:40prayer [music] rooms called kivas.
- 8:42Some elders wanted to warn the outside
- 8:43world while others insisted they had to
- 8:46stay silent. Under sacred law, they were
- 8:48forbidden to share the warnings with
- 8:50outsiders until a specific weapon fell
- 8:52from the sky, a gourd of ashes that
- 8:55would poison the land.
- 8:58That hadn't happened.
- 9:00Then a Hopi elder reminded the council
- 9:03that this weapon was already used. It
- 9:05was dropped on Japan in 1945.
- 9:18The prophecy called that weapon a gourd
- 9:20of ashes. It said a container full of
- 9:22ashes would fall from the air, boil the
- 9:24oceans and poison the land so nothing
- 9:27would grow for years.
- 9:31In August 1945, the United States
- 9:34dropped two atomic bombs on Japan. In a
- 9:36twist of evil irony, a lot of the
- 9:39uranium used to build the bombs was dug
- 9:41out of the desert around Hopi land. The
- 9:44gourd of ashes had fallen. The vow of
- 9:46silence was [music] over.
- 9:49A Hopi interpreter, Thomas Banyacya, was
- 9:51chosen to carry their warning to the
- 9:53House of Mica. That was their name for a
- 9:55great house of glass on the eastern edge
- 9:57of the continent, the United Nations
- 9:59headquarters in New York City. For
- 10:01years, Hopi elders traveled to New York
- 10:04to deliver the message. Every time the
- 10:06United Nations turned them away.
- 10:08Finally, in December 1992, the UN agreed
- 10:11[music] to listen. 83-year-old Thomas
- 10:13Banyacya walked up to the podium inside
- 10:15the United Nations General Assembly
- 10:16Hall, and almost every seat in the giant
- 10:19room was empty. Most diplomats didn't
- 10:21even bother to show up. Officials only
- 10:23gave Thomas 10 minutes at the very end
- 10:26of the day.
- 10:27>> Uh last slot of the day, huh? It's like
- 10:291:00 a.m. at an open mic, right after
- 10:31the prop comic and the and all the guys
- 10:34who do Christopher Walken impressions.
- 10:36Ugh.
- 10:37>> Thomas sprinkled sacred corn meal beside
- 10:38the microphone and delivered the warning
- 10:41in the Hopi language.
- 10:44>> Hopi spiritual leaders had an ancient
- 10:47prophecy that someday world leaders
- 10:50would gather in a great house of mica to
- 10:53solve the world problems without war.
- 10:56Today, you see increasing floods, more
- 10:59damaging hurricanes, hailstorms, [music]
- 11:02climate changes, and earthquakes as our
- 11:04prophecies said would come.
- 11:07If we humans do not wake up to the
- 11:09warnings, the great purification will
- 11:12come to destroy this world.
- 11:15>> The handful of delegates in the room
- 11:17clapped politely and walked out. Nobody
- 11:19took him seriously.
- 11:21That night, a massive storm hit New
- 11:23York. Extreme winds tore through the
- 11:25city, and 4 ft of water flooded the
- 11:28streets. The subway was shut down. Cars
- 11:31were underwater on the FDR Drive. Scuba
- 11:34divers were called in to rescue the
- 11:35drivers.
- 11:36>> [music]
- 11:37>> And, as if responding to Banyacya's
- 11:39warning, even the UN building flooded.
- 11:43How could an isolated desert tribe in
- 11:44Arizona know about atomic bombs, power
- 11:47grids, moon landings, and a flood at the
- 11:49United Nations?
- 11:51Well, because according to the Hopi,
- 11:53they've watched humanity destroy itself
- 11:54before.
- 11:56Three times.
- 11:58>> [music]
- 12:09[music]
- 12:10>> The Hopi say we are living in the fourth
- 12:12world. The first three worlds were wiped
- 12:14out every time humanity lost its way.
- 12:17>> [music]
- 12:17>> In the first world, humans and animals
- 12:19lived in harmony and shared their
- 12:21thoughts without conflict. But
- 12:23eventually men grew greedy and turned on
- 12:25each other. The creator knew this world
- 12:28[music] had to go. He spared only the
- 12:30faithful. They were led underground to
- 12:32live with the ant people who taught them
- 12:34that survival depends on cooperation and
- 12:37sharing. Above ground, volcanoes erupted
- 12:40and fire rained down across every corner
- 12:43of the earth. The world burned for a
- 12:45thousand [music] years. But below
- 12:47ground, the ant people shared their food
- 12:49with the humans until they almost
- 12:51starved.
- 12:51>> It's sharing food. You ever been to a
- 12:53picnic? Those little bastards shared
- 12:55nothing.
- 12:56>> When the fire stopped, the faithful
- 12:58returned to the surface [music] and the
- 13:00second world began. Villages grew into
- 13:02busy trading towns and the world
- 13:04prospered. But as trade grew profitable,
- 13:08merchants became obsessed with money and
- 13:10forgot the creator once again. But the
- 13:12creator was watching. He saw the path
- 13:14that mankind chose and decided to start
- 13:17over again. The second world wouldn't
- 13:20end with fire, it would end with ice.
- 13:22>> Fire, then ice. Finish the book, George.
- 13:27>> Two giant twin brothers stood at the
- 13:29north and south poles holding the planet
- 13:31steady. The creator ordered the twins to
- 13:34let go. The earth tipped off its axis,
- 13:37mountains crumbled, oceans spilled
- 13:39across the land, and the whole planet
- 13:41froze.
- 13:42>> The creator told them to let it go and
- 13:44the whole world froze.
- 13:46Uh Disney's lawyers would like a word.
- 13:50>> Once again, the faithful waited out the
- 13:52cataclysm underground with the ant
- 13:54people until the twins returned to the
- 13:56poles. The earth stabilized and the ice
- 13:59melted. That began the third world. Hopi
- 14:02elders carried the lessons from the
- 14:03previous two worlds into this one and
- 14:06this time people listened. Villages grew
- 14:08into cities and cities became high-tech
- 14:11nations. They built machines that could
- 14:13fly. But that technology made the people
- 14:15arrogant. They felt superior to the ant
- 14:18people, [music] and some believed they
- 14:20were more powerful than the creator.
- 14:22Then, the nations went to war, and
- 14:24millions died. It was time for the
- 14:26creator to try again.
- 14:29This time, the creator sent water. Waves
- 14:31higher than mountains rolled across the
- 14:33continents, and whole nations sank
- 14:35beneath the sea.
- 14:40The creator sealed the faithful inside
- 14:42giant hollow reeds until the water
- 14:44receded. When they paddled east toward
- 14:46new land, they watched the last islands
- 14:48of their old world sink behind them.
- 14:53The cities and the flying machines were
- 14:55gone, buried at the bottom of the ocean.
- 14:58According to the Hopi,
- 14:59those three lost worlds aren't just
- 15:01fairy tales. They say the entrance to
- 15:03that underground refuge is still right
- 15:05there in Arizona, deep inside the Grand
- 15:08Canyon.
- 15:09In April 1909, the Arizona Gazette
- 15:11reported that explorer G. E. Kincaid and
- 15:14a team from the Smithsonian actually
- 15:16found it, 2,000 ft up a sheer canyon
- 15:19wall. Kincaid entered a massive tunnel
- 15:21cut into solid rock. Inside was an
- 15:24underground city carved with hundreds of
- 15:26rooms, storage vaults filled with seeds,
- 15:28copper tools, and strange stone idols.
- 15:31The cavern was big enough to shelter
- 15:3350,000 people. Soon after the story
- 15:36broke, the Smithsonian denied the
- 15:37expedition ever happened, and the
- 15:39government made that part of the Grand
- 15:40Canyon off limits. I have a whole
- 15:43episode about that if you want to check
- 15:44it out.
- 15:46And across the canyon walls near the
- 15:47Hopi mesas, ancient rock carvings show
- 15:50the beings who sheltered humanity down
- 15:52in the dark. They have thin waists, long
- 15:55limbs, and oversized almond-shaped eyes
- 15:58that look just like modern gray aliens.
- 16:00In the Hopi language, the word for ant
- 16:02is anu, and the word for friend is naki.
- 16:06Put them together, and the ant people
- 16:08who came down from the sky were
- 16:10>> Yeah, new naki.
- 16:11>> Right. The same gods as the ancient
- 16:13Sumerians on the other side of the the
- 16:16>> Yeah, naki. This episode is cooking.
- 16:18>> You don't think this is a good episode?
- 16:22Researchers also mapped the Hopi
- 16:24villages on the three mesas in Arizona.
- 16:27The towns were built in the exact same
- 16:28pattern over Orion's belt, just like the
- 16:31pyramids in Giza.
- 16:33In the 1970s, a NASA engineer who helped
- 16:35design the Saturn V moon rocket traveled
- 16:37to Arizona. He wanted to ask a Hopi
- 16:40elder about the flying machines of the
- 16:42third world. The elder told him the
- 16:44civilization was a sunken continent in
- 16:46the Pacific called Kaskara. The craft
- 16:48were curved metal shields that hummed as
- 16:51they flew. They ran on magnetic power
- 16:54and carried directed energy beams that
- 16:56could vaporize a whole city in a
- 16:57blinding flash of light.
- 17:00According to the Hopi, those sky beings
- 17:02and their flying shields didn't vanish
- 17:04forever. They're waiting to return when
- 17:07our current world reaches the end.
- 17:09When the survivors came into this world,
- 17:11the fourth world, a guardian spirit gave
- 17:14them a plan for staying in balance. He
- 17:16carved that plan onto sacred stone
- 17:18tablets. One tablet is small, about 4 in
- 17:21square, and made of dark stone. Carved
- 17:23on the front is a figure with no head.
- 17:26Any Hopi leader who betrays the sacred
- 17:28plan agrees to lose his head.
- 17:30>> Betray the people, lose your head. I'd
- 17:33put that in the Constitution and
- 17:35Congress is empty by Tuesday.
- 17:37>> And one corner of the stone tablet was
- 17:39broken off. According to the prophecy,
- 17:42the day that missing piece comes back,
- 17:44our world ends.
- 17:45The Hopi have a word for what destroys
- 17:47worlds, Koyaanisqatsi.
- 17:50It means life at a balance.
- 17:52Look around.
- 17:53Do you think our world is in balance?
- 18:06The Hopi had a lost white brother,
- 18:07Pahana.
- 18:09Long ago, he walked east taking that
- 18:10missing corner of the stone tablet with
- 18:12him. The prophecy says that at the end
- 18:14of the fourth world, Pahana will return
- 18:16from the east carrying the missing
- 18:18piece.
- 18:19When he fits that corner back onto the
- 18:21tablet, the great purification will
- 18:23begin. The great purification starts
- 18:26with the end of the fourth world, our
- 18:27world. First, natural disasters like
- 18:30earthquakes and floods, then global
- 18:33conflict.
- 18:35Wars will break out everywhere until
- 18:37there is a final cataclysmic war.
- 18:39Then humanity will be tested. [music]
- 18:41Those who remain pure will be saved.
- 18:43Those consumed by greed and materialism
- 18:45will die.
- 18:48Outside their oldest village Oraibi, the
- 18:50elders carved their warning into
- 18:51Prophecy Rock, a large sandstone
- 18:53boulder. The carving shows two paths for
- 18:56humanity. One path is in balance with
- 18:59nature and it's a very long line. The
- 19:01other path warns of technology without
- 19:04spirit. Along that path sits three
- 19:06circles marking three great shakings of
- 19:10the world. [music]
- 19:12Some think those are the world wars.
- 19:14Past the third circle, the line breaks
- 19:16apart, [music] then it just stops.
- 19:20The Hopi still have the sacred tablet.
- 19:22The keeper of the tablet has said the
- 19:23prophecies are playing out like a movie.
- 19:26And our movie ends after the ninth sign
- 19:28when a new blue star appears. And in
- 19:302025, it did.
- 19:37>> [music]
- 19:41>> Back on the desert highway in 1958,
- 19:43White Feather gave the minister
- 19:45>> [music]
- 19:45>> the final warning.
- 19:47>> You will hear of a dwelling place in the
- 19:49heavens above the earth
- 19:52that shall fall with a great crash.
- 19:56It will appear as a blue star.
- 19:59Very soon after this,
- 20:01the ceremonies of my people will cease.
- 20:05>> White Feather's ninth sign had two
- 20:06parts, a dwelling place in the heavens
- 20:09falling with a great crash and the
- 20:11appearance of a blue star.
- 20:13>> [music]
- 20:13>> Then in June 2024, NASA paid SpaceX $843
- 20:17million
- 20:19to build a special spacecraft. It's only
- 20:21job is to grab the International Space
- 20:23Station and crash it into the ocean
- 20:26around 2030. The largest home ever built
- 20:28in space [music]
- 20:29is already scheduled to fall with a
- 20:31great crash.
- 20:32>> Yeah, I'd pay green money to see the
- 20:34Property Brothers try to fix that one.
- 20:36Uh hey, did you know one of them is
- 20:37married to Zooey Deschanel?
- 20:39>> I didn't and I don't care.
- 20:40>> It's so weird. I I feel like no girl
- 20:42should be aiming high up, but no.
- 20:44>> And what about the blue star? For
- 20:46decades the Hopi watched the sky for a
- 20:48new blue star. In October 2007, they
- 20:51thought it arrived when Comet Holmes
- 20:53exploded near the Earth. Its brightness
- 20:56increased a million times. Its glowing
- 20:58cloud was bigger than the sun.
- 21:00But it burned yellow, not blue.
- 21:03Then in July 2025, another object showed
- 21:06up. Astronomers named it 3I Atlas. It
- 21:10was only the third object ever seen
- 21:11entering our solar system from another
- 21:13star. And from the moment telescopes
- 21:16locked onto it, nothing about its
- 21:17behavior looked natural. The object
- 21:20vented pure nickel gas and sped up in
- 21:22ways gravity couldn't [music] explain.
- 21:24Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb warned that
- 21:273I Atlas could be alien technology. And
- 21:30most comets approach the sun from steep
- 21:32angles above or below the planets, not
- 21:343I Atlas.
- 21:36>> [music]
- 21:36>> It flew almost flat in the plane of the
- 21:38planets, passing close to Jupiter, Mars,
- 21:40and Venus.
- 21:41>> Yeah, that proves it was flown by
- 21:44intelligent aliens.
- 21:46They were smart enough to avoid Uranus.
- 21:52>> In October 2025, the object flew behind
- 21:55the sun. This made it invisible to
- 21:56telescopes, but when space probes caught
- 21:59it coming back around, it was burning
- 22:01bright blue,
- 22:02>> [music]
- 22:02>> as bright as any star.
- 22:04Eight signs have already come true. The
- 22:06dwelling place in the heavens is
- 22:07scheduled to fall and the blue star is
- 22:10here.
- 22:22An old Hopi elder on a desert highway
- 22:24lists nine signs before the end of the
- 22:26world. One by one, eight signs come true
- 22:29from railroads and oil spills to the
- 22:31internet [music] and the atomic bomb.
- 22:33Elders warn the UN, a storm floods
- 22:35Manhattan, and in 2025 an object from
- 22:37another star around the sun burning
- 22:39bright blue. I think
- 22:41that's the whole legend. It's a great
- 22:42one. But how much of it is true? Well,
- 22:45the core Hopi prophecy is completely
- 22:47real and so are the sacred stone
- 22:49tablets. Outside witnesses have seen and
- 22:51photographed those dark stone tablets
- 22:53for more than a century. And according
- 22:55to the elders, the Hopi are still
- 22:57waiting for that missing corner of the
- 22:58tablet to return. [music]
- 23:00In 2017, Thomas Banyacya's son Tommy
- 23:03explained what the elders really meant
- 23:04by their warnings. His father grew up
- 23:06speaking Hopi and learned English from a
- 23:08Bible, which is why he used the word
- 23:10prophecy. Tommy said that wasn't really
- 23:12the right word. To the Hopi, it wasn't a
- 23:14fixed calendar or future gadgets. It was
- 23:18a warning passed down through
- 23:19generations about cause and effect and
- 23:21what happens when humanity falls out of
- 23:23balance.
- 23:24Thomas Banyacya's 1992 speech at the
- 23:26United Nations is real, too. He really
- 23:28did warn the General Assembly about
- 23:30floods and storms on December 10th,
- 23:321992. The next morning, one of the worst
- 23:35storms in New York history slammed into
- 23:36the city, flooding highways and shutting
- 23:38down the subways.
- 23:40Now, there's no official record that the
- 23:42UN building itself flooded. That detail
- 23:44came from a note attached to copies of
- 23:46his speech years later. Still, the
- 23:47timing of that storm was an eerie
- 23:49coincidence. So, the ancient warning is
- 23:51real. What about the specific checklist
- 23:54of modern inventions and events? Well,
- 23:56most of those were made to fit after the
- 23:58events already happened. Start with the
- 24:00three destroyed worlds and the flying
- 24:01shields. In 1963, writer Frank Waters
- 24:05published a bestseller about the Hopi.
- 24:06Waters worked with a Hopi spokesperson
- 24:09who took genuine tribal stories about
- 24:11past world cycles and filtered them
- 24:13through 1960s sci-fi language, coining
- 24:16phrases like flying shields. When the
- 24:18book came out, the UFO and New Age
- 24:20movements ran wild with it. Later,
- 24:22historian Armin Geertz tracked every
- 24:25recorded Hopi prophecy back to the
- 24:261830s. He found that specific
- 24:29predictions about cobwebs of wire, the
- 24:31atomic bomb, and landing on the moon
- 24:33only showed up in recorded speeches
- 24:35after those technologies already
- 24:37existed. The same goes for White Feather
- 24:39and his list of nine signs from 1958.
- 24:42Nobody's ever found the minister who
- 24:43supposedly picked up White Feather on
- 24:45that desert highway.
- 24:46>> Yeah, naked desert highway. Cool wind in
- 24:49my fins. Fresh smell of eucalyptus and
- 24:53something rhymes with fins.
- 24:55>> Do Do you mind?
- 24:56>> Sorry, sorry. It was too easy. Uh go
- 24:58ahead.
- 24:59>> And there is no traditional Hopi record
- 25:00of the nine signs. That checklist didn't
- 25:02appear in print until 1980 in a new age
- 25:05book about earth changes. And by 1980,
- 25:07the first eight signs were already
- 25:09history from railroads and highways to
- 25:11oil spills and hippies. After that, the
- 25:13internet added its own layers. In the
- 25:15Hopi language, the ant people are called
- 25:17Anu Sinom, not Anunnaki. A writer
- 25:20attached the Sumerian ending onto the
- 25:21word in 2006 to manufacture an ancient
- 25:24alien connection. And while the
- 25:26interstellar object through Atlas really
- 25:28did turn bright blue near the sun in
- 25:292025, NASA confirmed it's a natural
- 25:32comet. When solar heat baked the ice, it
- 25:34lit up carbon gas that glows blue, just
- 25:37like a gas stove. Without that
- 25:38checklist, the blue comet isn't a
- 25:40doomsday countdown, it's just cool
- 25:42astronomy. But the Hopi didn't need to
- 25:44predict railroads, the internet, or
- 25:46space stations before they were built.
- 25:48That's not what makes their warning
- 25:49real. They weren't saying avoid
- 25:51technology. They were warning against
- 25:53developing technology that outruns the
- 25:56human spirit.
- 25:57Think about AI. AI is so powerful that
- 26:00we don't completely understand it. It's
- 26:02outrunning us.
- 26:04AI has no soul, no conscience, no
- 26:07wisdom. It only knows what we teach it.
- 26:09It's a mirror of our spirit. We're
- 26:12teaching AI about greed, division, and
- 26:14war. We should be teaching AI honesty,
- 26:17curiosity, and restraint.
- 26:19AI can either be the greatest invention
- 26:20of mankind
- 26:22or the end of it.
- 26:24Two paths. The Hopi had spent 100 years
- 26:27warning us about the two paths. One of
- 26:29peace and enlightenment that continues
- 26:31forever. The other path worships
- 26:33technology and money. That path is
- 26:35chaotic and short.
- 26:37Which path do you think we're on?
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- 32:02[music]
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- 32:32[music]
- 32:36>> The Mothman sightings and the solar
- 32:38storm still [music] come [singing] to
- 32:40have got the secret city underground.
- 32:45>> [music]
- 32:45>> Mysterious number stations, planets are
- 32:48bold, too. Project Stargate and what the
- 32:51dark watchers found.
- 32:55We're in a simulation, don't you [music]
- 32:57worry though.
- 32:59The black knight satellite it told me
- 33:03so. I can't believe
- 33:05I'm dancing with the feeling
- 33:07Have [music] a bitchin' Thursday next
- 33:09Wednesday change you
- 33:11and the wild ones will be
- 33:12up through the night.
- 33:17All I ever wanted was to give you the
- 33:19truth so the wild ones will be
- 33:22up through the night.
- 33:26Have a bitchin' [music] Thursday next
- 33:28Wednesday change you and the wild
- 33:30ones will be
- 33:31up through the night.
- 33:35All I ever wanted was to give you the
- 33:38truth so the wild ones
- 33:40will be
- 33:41up through the night.
- 33:49>> [music]
- 33:59>> Giddy love to dance on the dance floor
- 34:02>> [music]
- 34:02>> because she is a camel
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- 34:09right or waiting time.
- 34:14>> [music]
- 34:20[music]
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