1 00:00:03,237 --> 00:00:05,371 This gigantic pyramid in Antarctica 2 00:00:05,473 --> 00:00:08,207 would be the oldest pyramid on our planet. 3 00:00:08,309 --> 00:00:10,909 It's possible that underneath the ice 4 00:00:11,012 --> 00:00:15,247 will be keys for us to reclaim our ancient past. 5 00:00:15,349 --> 00:00:17,416 The Nazis were particularly interested 6 00:00:17,518 --> 00:00:19,218 in Antarctica. 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:21,587 Saucers were coming up out of the water 8 00:00:21,689 --> 00:00:24,523 and were shooting them with some sort of beam, 9 00:00:24,625 --> 00:00:26,158 literally cutting ships in half. 10 00:00:26,260 --> 00:00:28,360 Antarctica may hold lost remnants 11 00:00:28,462 --> 00:00:30,362 of an extraterrestrial civilization 12 00:00:30,464 --> 00:00:35,167 that existed there, thousands and thousands of years ago. 13 00:00:35,269 --> 00:00:38,637 Since the dawn of civilization, 14 00:00:38,739 --> 00:00:42,674 mankind has credited its origins to gods 15 00:00:42,777 --> 00:00:45,611 and other visitors from the stars. 16 00:00:45,713 --> 00:00:47,713 What if it were true? 17 00:00:47,815 --> 00:00:50,816 Did extraterrestrial beings 18 00:00:50,918 --> 00:00:54,119 really help to shape our history? 19 00:00:54,221 --> 00:00:57,923 And if so, might the ultimate proof be found 20 00:00:58,025 --> 00:01:02,394 when we uncover the pyramids of Antarctica? 21 00:01:34,528 --> 00:01:38,430 Stretching over five million square miles, 22 00:01:38,532 --> 00:01:41,400 across the southernmost reaches of the Earth, 23 00:01:41,502 --> 00:01:46,371 lies the coldest and most isolated continent in the world, 24 00:01:46,474 --> 00:01:48,774 Antarctica. 25 00:01:51,245 --> 00:01:53,078 Because of its hostile climate, 26 00:01:53,180 --> 00:01:55,781 including average daily temperatures 27 00:01:55,883 --> 00:01:58,183 of minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit 28 00:01:58,285 --> 00:02:02,154 and wind speeds of over 200 miles per hour, 29 00:02:02,256 --> 00:02:05,691 Antarctica remains largely untouched 30 00:02:05,793 --> 00:02:07,826 by mankind. 31 00:02:07,928 --> 00:02:10,462 According to historical records, 32 00:02:10,564 --> 00:02:13,866 modern man did not even set foot on the continent 33 00:02:13,968 --> 00:02:16,568 until 1853, 34 00:02:16,670 --> 00:02:20,272 when ship captain Mercator Cooper landed 35 00:02:20,374 --> 00:02:21,874 on what is now known as 36 00:02:21,976 --> 00:02:25,144 the Oates Coast of Victoria Land. 37 00:02:25,246 --> 00:02:29,848 Today, anywhere from 1,000 to 5,000 people 38 00:02:29,950 --> 00:02:34,386 reside at the research stations scattered across the continent, 39 00:02:34,455 --> 00:02:37,422 braving the extreme conditions in hopes of learning more 40 00:02:37,525 --> 00:02:40,325 about this mysterious landscape. 41 00:02:44,465 --> 00:02:46,765 The thing about Antarctica 42 00:02:46,867 --> 00:02:50,369 is that as much as 98% of it 43 00:02:50,471 --> 00:02:52,371 is covered in ice. 44 00:02:52,473 --> 00:02:55,073 And just occasionally, 45 00:02:55,176 --> 00:02:57,309 there are little areas that stick out... 46 00:02:57,411 --> 00:03:00,179 mountaintops, ridges, peaks. 47 00:03:01,682 --> 00:03:03,949 Antarctica is the least explored 48 00:03:04,051 --> 00:03:05,517 of the continents. 49 00:03:05,619 --> 00:03:06,752 Even the North Pole, which is just ice, 50 00:03:06,854 --> 00:03:08,520 has been explored more. 51 00:03:08,589 --> 00:03:10,489 It is a mystery, and it's right here on the Earth. 52 00:03:10,558 --> 00:03:13,892 It's perhaps the last big unexplored part 53 00:03:13,994 --> 00:03:15,827 of our home planet. 54 00:03:15,930 --> 00:03:19,731 Antarctica is a vast, frozen world 55 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:23,468 and we know very little about it. 56 00:03:23,571 --> 00:03:25,671 And, in fact, the ice in Antarctica 57 00:03:25,773 --> 00:03:28,840 is up to three miles thick in certain places. 58 00:03:28,943 --> 00:03:31,109 And what's beneath the ice 59 00:03:31,178 --> 00:03:34,179 is still largely a mystery to scientists. 60 00:03:34,281 --> 00:03:36,415 You just have to imagine this. 61 00:03:36,517 --> 00:03:38,750 The Sears Tower is a little less 62 00:03:38,852 --> 00:03:41,153 under a third of a mile tall, 63 00:03:41,255 --> 00:03:43,622 so you have to imagine that you can stack 64 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:46,458 nine Sears Towers on top of each other 65 00:03:46,560 --> 00:03:48,493 and they would still not peek out 66 00:03:48,596 --> 00:03:50,529 from that ice sheet. 67 00:03:52,666 --> 00:03:54,466 Most geologists believe 68 00:03:54,568 --> 00:03:57,236 Antarctica has been completely frozen 69 00:03:57,338 --> 00:04:00,906 and uninhabited for over 12 million years. 70 00:04:01,008 --> 00:04:04,209 But in 2012, new photographs 71 00:04:04,311 --> 00:04:06,645 revealed formations in the landscape 72 00:04:06,747 --> 00:04:09,014 that challenge this notion: 73 00:04:09,116 --> 00:04:12,117 Mysterious pyramid structures 74 00:04:12,219 --> 00:04:15,387 emerging from the now-melting ice. 75 00:04:16,857 --> 00:04:20,759 Recently there have been a number of reports 76 00:04:20,861 --> 00:04:24,763 of pyramids being found on Antarctica. 77 00:04:24,865 --> 00:04:28,700 There are various photographs 78 00:04:28,802 --> 00:04:30,402 that show what appear to be 79 00:04:30,504 --> 00:04:33,105 perfect four-sided pyramids, 80 00:04:33,207 --> 00:04:38,877 very similar in design to those at Giza, Egypt, 81 00:04:38,979 --> 00:04:40,946 and perhaps other places around the world. 82 00:04:44,084 --> 00:04:45,884 While the photos were explained away 83 00:04:45,986 --> 00:04:48,353 by mainstream scientists 84 00:04:48,455 --> 00:04:51,623 as nothing more than natural land formations... 85 00:04:51,725 --> 00:04:55,360 satellite imagery analysts like Joseph White 86 00:04:55,462 --> 00:04:57,729 are not entirely convinced. 87 00:04:57,831 --> 00:05:00,265 In March of 2013, 88 00:05:00,367 --> 00:05:03,101 he uncovered what he believes is evidence 89 00:05:03,170 --> 00:05:06,538 of yet another pyramid, located just south 90 00:05:06,607 --> 00:05:10,575 of Antarctica's remote Shackleton mountain range. 91 00:05:10,678 --> 00:05:12,711 I initially found the structure 92 00:05:12,813 --> 00:05:14,746 whilst looking on Google Earth. I was in fact looking 93 00:05:14,848 --> 00:05:17,115 at some of the ra-rather strange blank spots that you get 94 00:05:17,217 --> 00:05:20,719 in Antarctica, when I stumbled on... upon this very large 95 00:05:20,821 --> 00:05:24,323 square structure which seems to be some kind of building 96 00:05:24,425 --> 00:05:26,992 or perhaps even a pyramid, but certainly, 97 00:05:27,094 --> 00:05:28,593 very large and very square. 98 00:05:28,696 --> 00:05:31,129 It actually lines up perfectly with the coordinates 99 00:05:31,231 --> 00:05:34,466 of the compass: north, south, east and west. 100 00:05:34,568 --> 00:05:37,636 And, uh, this dictates to me that it's probably 101 00:05:37,738 --> 00:05:40,272 an intelligent structure, because, uh, random structures, 102 00:05:40,374 --> 00:05:43,608 like mountains, are not aligned to the compass. 103 00:05:43,711 --> 00:05:45,977 And another way we know that, uh, a structure 104 00:05:46,080 --> 00:05:48,347 is not naturally occurring 105 00:05:48,449 --> 00:05:49,915 is generally to look for symmetry... 106 00:05:50,017 --> 00:05:53,118 things like right angles and equilateral triangles 107 00:05:53,220 --> 00:05:57,055 and shapes that you would not normally find in nature. 108 00:05:57,157 --> 00:05:58,990 This structure is-is exactly, 109 00:05:59,093 --> 00:06:00,959 uh, two kilometers square. 110 00:06:01,061 --> 00:06:03,929 And, uh, this corner to this corner 111 00:06:04,031 --> 00:06:06,064 is two kilometers and this corner to this corner 112 00:06:06,166 --> 00:06:08,200 is also exactly two kilometers, 113 00:06:08,302 --> 00:06:11,069 which would make this more than double the size 114 00:06:11,171 --> 00:06:13,672 of any pyramid thus far found on Earth. 115 00:06:15,776 --> 00:06:17,476 While it may seem unthinkable 116 00:06:17,578 --> 00:06:20,679 that pyramids could exist in Antarctica, 117 00:06:20,781 --> 00:06:24,116 in recent years, archaeologists have found pyramids 118 00:06:24,218 --> 00:06:26,151 all over the world 119 00:06:26,253 --> 00:06:28,854 that had been lost for centuries, 120 00:06:28,956 --> 00:06:31,356 mistaken as natural formations 121 00:06:31,458 --> 00:06:35,127 or hidden in the most unlikely places. 122 00:06:35,229 --> 00:06:36,862 They have been discovered 123 00:06:36,964 --> 00:06:39,698 in the plains of northern Peru; 124 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,769 buried beneath dirt and rubble in Indonesia; 125 00:06:43,871 --> 00:06:45,771 and one may even exist 126 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:48,073 in Los Angeles, California. 127 00:06:48,175 --> 00:06:50,175 All the way round the world 128 00:06:50,277 --> 00:06:53,278 we find evidence of pyramid structures. 129 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:57,315 We should start looking at the possibility 130 00:06:57,384 --> 00:07:01,086 that there was habitation on Antarctica. 131 00:07:01,188 --> 00:07:05,123 Was it a lost civilization? 132 00:07:05,225 --> 00:07:07,859 Could it be ancient astronauts? 133 00:07:07,961 --> 00:07:10,662 And just maybe 134 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:13,565 the earliest monuments of our own civilization 135 00:07:13,667 --> 00:07:16,902 came originally from Antarctica. 136 00:07:17,004 --> 00:07:20,539 If this gigantic pyramid in Antarctica 137 00:07:20,641 --> 00:07:23,575 is an artificial structure, 138 00:07:23,677 --> 00:07:27,546 it would probably be the oldest pyramid on our planet. 139 00:07:27,648 --> 00:07:30,515 And, in fact, it might be the master pyramid 140 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,918 that all the other pyramids 141 00:07:33,020 --> 00:07:35,053 on planet Earth were designed, 142 00:07:35,155 --> 00:07:37,189 uh, to-to look like. 143 00:07:37,291 --> 00:07:40,325 There has been extensive research done 144 00:07:40,427 --> 00:07:42,661 on pyramids throughout the world, 145 00:07:42,763 --> 00:07:46,064 in terms of their structure and what it is that they really are. 146 00:07:46,166 --> 00:07:49,734 And one of the theories is that pyramids are power generators. 147 00:07:49,837 --> 00:07:53,572 And so, if you have these pyramids strategically placed 148 00:07:53,674 --> 00:07:56,074 around the world, generating this charge, 149 00:07:56,143 --> 00:07:58,143 it's possible to create 150 00:07:58,245 --> 00:08:01,146 a general standing wave around the world 151 00:08:01,248 --> 00:08:03,181 that is basically a wireless 152 00:08:03,283 --> 00:08:06,585 transmission of energy. 153 00:08:06,687 --> 00:08:10,555 It's been theorized that ancient ships, 154 00:08:10,657 --> 00:08:13,792 extraterrestrials and those with high technology 155 00:08:13,861 --> 00:08:16,294 could use this interconnected 156 00:08:16,363 --> 00:08:19,130 wireless energy system 157 00:08:19,233 --> 00:08:21,900 to navigate around the planet 158 00:08:21,969 --> 00:08:24,669 and it makes sense that, 159 00:08:24,771 --> 00:08:28,540 if there was some kind of worldwide 160 00:08:28,642 --> 00:08:34,145 pyramid power grid like this, that Antarctica 162 00:08:34,248 --> 00:08:37,682 would have pyramids as well. 163 00:08:37,784 --> 00:08:41,319 The whole idea of these pyramidal structures... 164 00:08:41,421 --> 00:08:43,922 where did it come from? 165 00:08:43,991 --> 00:08:45,991 'Cause it's not an arbitrary thing. 166 00:08:46,093 --> 00:08:48,326 And these structures, they exist worldwide. 167 00:08:48,428 --> 00:08:50,929 So, you know, what was the impetus? 168 00:08:51,031 --> 00:08:52,297 What's the origin? 169 00:08:52,399 --> 00:08:54,733 And, even more fascinating, 170 00:08:54,835 --> 00:08:56,268 did they originate 171 00:08:56,370 --> 00:08:58,703 on the Antarctic continent? 172 00:09:01,875 --> 00:09:03,842 Might the pyramid 173 00:09:03,944 --> 00:09:06,011 Joseph White claims to have discovered 174 00:09:06,079 --> 00:09:07,913 near the Shackleton Mountain Range 175 00:09:08,015 --> 00:09:10,382 and other pyramid-shaped formations 176 00:09:10,484 --> 00:09:13,285 recently photographed in Antarctica 177 00:09:13,387 --> 00:09:16,955 provide evidence of extraterrestrial visitation 178 00:09:17,057 --> 00:09:19,457 to our planet in the remote past? 179 00:09:21,194 --> 00:09:23,929 And if they are actually man-made structures, 180 00:09:24,031 --> 00:09:26,698 how is such a thing even possible 181 00:09:26,800 --> 00:09:29,801 in a place that has been buried beneath the ice 182 00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:32,671 for over 12 million years? 183 00:09:32,773 --> 00:09:35,874 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 184 00:09:35,976 --> 00:09:39,411 Antarctica may not have been a frozen continent 185 00:09:39,513 --> 00:09:44,282 for as long as mainstream scientists suggest. 186 00:09:44,384 --> 00:09:47,319 And they say proof can be found 187 00:09:47,387 --> 00:09:52,290 by examining a 500-year-old map depicting the continent... 188 00:09:52,392 --> 00:09:54,759 without any ice. 189 00:10:01,377 --> 00:10:05,045 Siberia, 2013. 190 00:10:05,114 --> 00:10:07,748 A wooly mammoth is discovered 191 00:10:07,850 --> 00:10:10,351 flash frozen in the glacial ice, 192 00:10:10,453 --> 00:10:12,386 engulfed so quickly 193 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:17,224 that its blood and muscle tissue are perfectly preserved. 194 00:10:17,293 --> 00:10:19,827 It is just one of dozens 195 00:10:19,929 --> 00:10:22,663 that have been found within the Siberian ice 196 00:10:22,765 --> 00:10:25,566 since the turn of the 20th century. 197 00:10:25,668 --> 00:10:29,303 Many seemingly caught in suspended animation, 198 00:10:29,372 --> 00:10:31,438 some with food in their mouths 199 00:10:31,540 --> 00:10:34,341 and vegetation in their stomachs 200 00:10:34,443 --> 00:10:37,478 that would only grow in a much warmer climate. 201 00:10:37,546 --> 00:10:39,179 The discovery of a woolly mammoth 202 00:10:39,281 --> 00:10:40,814 that was flash frozen 203 00:10:40,916 --> 00:10:43,250 raises some interesting scientific questions. 204 00:10:43,352 --> 00:10:46,086 Did something happen very locally to the woolly mammoth 205 00:10:46,188 --> 00:10:47,821 that it froze very fast? 206 00:10:47,923 --> 00:10:49,723 But it does also raise the question 207 00:10:49,792 --> 00:10:51,759 of how quickly can climate really change. 208 00:10:51,827 --> 00:10:54,461 And does it take some sort of cataclysm? 209 00:10:54,563 --> 00:10:56,830 One that's sudden and unexpected? 210 00:11:01,203 --> 00:11:03,804 In 1958, 211 00:11:03,906 --> 00:11:07,074 Charles Hapgood, a Harvard-educated scientist, 212 00:11:07,176 --> 00:11:11,912 published the book, Earth's Shifting Crust. 213 00:11:12,014 --> 00:11:16,517 In it, he proposed that portions of the Earth's crust 214 00:11:16,619 --> 00:11:19,053 experienced violent and sudden shifts 215 00:11:19,155 --> 00:11:21,822 during Earth's geological history. 216 00:11:23,559 --> 00:11:27,327 His theory, known as Crustal Displacement, 217 00:11:27,430 --> 00:11:29,229 posited that both Siberia 218 00:11:29,331 --> 00:11:32,433 and the continent of Antarctica were located 219 00:11:32,468 --> 00:11:34,435 in slightly more temperate climates 220 00:11:34,537 --> 00:11:36,870 prior to the end of the last Ice Age, 221 00:11:36,972 --> 00:11:40,207 approximately 12,000 years ago. 222 00:11:40,276 --> 00:11:44,411 But then, some unknown catastrophe plunged them 223 00:11:44,513 --> 00:11:46,180 into their current positions. 224 00:11:50,920 --> 00:11:53,520 Professor Hapgood came up with the idea 225 00:11:53,622 --> 00:11:57,391 that the previous North Pole position had been 226 00:11:57,460 --> 00:11:59,493 in the area of the Hudson Bay. 227 00:11:59,595 --> 00:12:02,896 And then it shifted to where the pole is today. 228 00:12:05,167 --> 00:12:07,401 And at the southern pole, he believes 229 00:12:07,503 --> 00:12:09,870 that the area of Antarctica 230 00:12:09,972 --> 00:12:14,541 had previously also experienced a temperate climate, 231 00:12:14,610 --> 00:12:16,877 and that this was suddenly now thrust... 232 00:12:16,979 --> 00:12:23,016 into this deep ice and this harsh, freezing climate. 233 00:12:23,085 --> 00:12:24,585 He believed the last time 234 00:12:24,687 --> 00:12:26,720 that this had actually taken place 235 00:12:26,789 --> 00:12:32,326 was approximately 12,000 years ago. 236 00:12:32,428 --> 00:12:34,294 When we think about Earth crust displacement theory 237 00:12:34,396 --> 00:12:36,130 and plate tectonics, 238 00:12:36,232 --> 00:12:40,067 you want to think of the crust basically floating on the magna 239 00:12:40,169 --> 00:12:43,337 and being able to shift and move around on top of it. 240 00:12:43,405 --> 00:12:45,506 The Earth's crust is not one solid piece. 241 00:12:45,574 --> 00:12:48,509 We know it's made of individual pieces. 242 00:12:48,611 --> 00:12:50,711 So, you could look and see 243 00:12:50,779 --> 00:12:52,846 how the continents probably used to fit together 244 00:12:52,948 --> 00:12:55,382 and where they've moved, and how they move apart 245 00:12:55,417 --> 00:12:57,151 over a long period of time. 246 00:12:57,219 --> 00:12:59,686 But the question is, you know, would something the size 247 00:12:59,788 --> 00:13:02,089 of Antarctica shift suddenly, or is that too big? 248 00:13:02,158 --> 00:13:05,959 These crustal shifts, according to Hapgood, 249 00:13:06,028 --> 00:13:08,629 actually could happen over a period of even days. 250 00:13:08,731 --> 00:13:12,099 And so, if you had a thriving civilization, 251 00:13:12,201 --> 00:13:15,802 this crustal displacement could have hit it very, very quickly, 252 00:13:15,871 --> 00:13:18,639 and so, it could have actually been frozen 253 00:13:18,741 --> 00:13:21,308 over a very short period of time. 254 00:13:23,379 --> 00:13:25,679 Although Hapgood's theory of sudden, 255 00:13:25,748 --> 00:13:28,415 large-scale shifts of the Earth's crust 256 00:13:28,517 --> 00:13:30,450 was not widely accepted, 257 00:13:30,519 --> 00:13:33,020 renowned physicist Albert Einstein 258 00:13:33,122 --> 00:13:34,888 was "electrified" by it, 259 00:13:34,957 --> 00:13:39,560 and even wrote the foreword of Hapgood's book. 260 00:13:39,662 --> 00:13:42,496 Hapgood would also find additional support 261 00:13:42,598 --> 00:13:45,365 for his theory when, in 1960, 262 00:13:45,401 --> 00:13:48,702 while combing through the Library of Congress archives, 263 00:13:48,771 --> 00:13:53,340 he unearthed an unusual map, published in 1531. 264 00:13:53,409 --> 00:13:55,676 The map, credited 265 00:13:55,778 --> 00:13:59,846 to mathematician and cartographer Oronteus Finaeus 266 00:13:59,915 --> 00:14:02,749 appears to depict an ice-free continent 267 00:14:02,851 --> 00:14:07,821 remarkably similar to today's maps of Antarctica. 268 00:14:07,923 --> 00:14:12,125 It was not until as late as 1820 269 00:14:12,228 --> 00:14:17,197 that we had any real idea of what Antarctica looked like. 270 00:14:17,299 --> 00:14:21,568 Yet, here, on the Oronteus Finaeus map from 1531, 271 00:14:21,670 --> 00:14:23,537 here was Antarctica. 272 00:14:23,639 --> 00:14:25,906 How the hell is it possible 273 00:14:26,008 --> 00:14:30,944 that it could appear on this map? 274 00:14:31,046 --> 00:14:33,013 Researchers are baffled 275 00:14:33,115 --> 00:14:35,182 as to how the Oronteus Finaeus map 276 00:14:35,284 --> 00:14:37,017 could include a continent 277 00:14:37,119 --> 00:14:41,054 that was not discovered until over 300 years later, 278 00:14:41,123 --> 00:14:43,023 and are even more perplexed 279 00:14:43,125 --> 00:14:48,128 by the fact that it depicts Antarctica free of ice. 280 00:14:48,197 --> 00:14:53,066 If explorers somehow discovered Antarctica in the 1500s, 281 00:14:53,168 --> 00:14:56,336 it would have been completely frozen over. 282 00:14:56,438 --> 00:15:00,240 Remarkably, the Finaeus map shows not only 283 00:15:00,309 --> 00:15:03,043 a detailed coastline free of ice, 284 00:15:03,112 --> 00:15:05,145 but the entire continent, 285 00:15:05,214 --> 00:15:08,282 including interior features such as rivers, 286 00:15:08,384 --> 00:15:12,619 valleys and mountains. 287 00:15:12,721 --> 00:15:16,056 The map shows mountain ranges 288 00:15:16,158 --> 00:15:19,459 that have rivers coming out of the mountain ranges. 289 00:15:19,561 --> 00:15:21,561 How could that be? 290 00:15:21,664 --> 00:15:24,064 It's frozen. It's ice. 291 00:15:24,133 --> 00:15:28,035 There's a NASA image of the continent of Antarctica 292 00:15:28,103 --> 00:15:31,371 using radar so that mountain ranges come through 293 00:15:31,473 --> 00:15:33,440 and can be seen. 294 00:15:33,542 --> 00:15:38,478 And you can see a mountain range on one photograph, 295 00:15:38,547 --> 00:15:41,315 and on the Oronteus Finaeus map, it's right there, too. 296 00:15:41,383 --> 00:15:43,383 It's the same mountain range. 297 00:15:45,988 --> 00:15:47,854 According to climatologists, 298 00:15:47,923 --> 00:15:50,691 the estimates of when this feature would have been free 299 00:15:50,793 --> 00:15:55,495 from ice cover was at least 6,000 years ago. 300 00:15:55,597 --> 00:15:59,800 So how is it possible that this map exists? 301 00:15:59,902 --> 00:16:02,736 Did Finaeus have access to an older map? 302 00:16:02,838 --> 00:16:05,472 One dating back thousands of years? 303 00:16:07,643 --> 00:16:11,244 Perhaps more confounding, U.S. Air Force cartographers 304 00:16:11,347 --> 00:16:15,115 that were sent the maps in the 1960s 305 00:16:15,184 --> 00:16:17,484 concluded that they were drawn 306 00:16:17,553 --> 00:16:19,753 using advanced spherical trigonometry 307 00:16:19,822 --> 00:16:22,789 with remarkable precision, especially when considering 308 00:16:22,891 --> 00:16:25,692 the maps were made hundreds of years ago. 309 00:16:25,728 --> 00:16:28,061 The fact that we find something that's 310 00:16:28,163 --> 00:16:30,864 a reference to modern-day technology on a map 311 00:16:30,966 --> 00:16:33,300 that dates back to the 16th century, 312 00:16:33,369 --> 00:16:36,136 makes me think: is it possible 313 00:16:36,238 --> 00:16:40,507 that some type of advanced radar technology was used? 314 00:16:40,609 --> 00:16:43,477 Because in order to produce a map 315 00:16:43,545 --> 00:16:46,613 that would outline the areas we see, 316 00:16:46,715 --> 00:16:51,084 you would have to be at an altitude of 80 miles. 317 00:16:51,186 --> 00:16:54,221 So, how was that possible? 318 00:16:54,323 --> 00:16:59,393 Could it be that the basis for these maps was gleaned 319 00:16:59,495 --> 00:17:02,896 from maps that were cartographed 320 00:17:02,998 --> 00:17:05,699 by extraterrestrial land surveyors? 321 00:17:07,336 --> 00:17:10,203 The implications of all this... 322 00:17:10,305 --> 00:17:14,674 and if you now are able to add things like pyramids... 323 00:17:14,777 --> 00:17:18,044 this would really indicate that there was some kind 324 00:17:18,147 --> 00:17:20,380 of ancient civilization in Antarctica. 325 00:17:20,482 --> 00:17:23,417 And that it would have been over 12,000 years ago. 326 00:17:23,519 --> 00:17:27,988 And you've got to wonder what kind of civilization this was. 327 00:17:28,056 --> 00:17:31,158 Is it possible that it was extraterrestrials? 328 00:17:33,061 --> 00:17:35,429 Could Antarctica have been inhabited 329 00:17:35,531 --> 00:17:39,099 by extraterrestrials in the distant past? 330 00:17:39,201 --> 00:17:40,967 Did they study this continent 331 00:17:41,069 --> 00:17:43,603 and leave behind detailed information 332 00:17:43,705 --> 00:17:46,339 about its landscape? 333 00:17:46,408 --> 00:17:52,245 If so, just what happened to these otherworldly visitors? 334 00:17:52,347 --> 00:17:55,081 Ancient astronaut theorists believe 335 00:17:55,150 --> 00:17:58,718 more clues can be found in Egyptian stories 336 00:17:58,787 --> 00:18:03,223 describing an Earth-altering catastrophe. 337 00:18:12,558 --> 00:18:15,192 Edfu, Egypt. 338 00:18:15,228 --> 00:18:17,995 Located on the western bank of the Nile, 339 00:18:18,097 --> 00:18:20,965 the Temple of Edfu is one of the largest 340 00:18:21,034 --> 00:18:24,602 and most well preserved temples of the ancient kingdom, 341 00:18:24,671 --> 00:18:30,107 dating back to 237 BC. 342 00:18:30,209 --> 00:18:33,311 The Edfu Temple is of tremendous importance. 343 00:18:33,413 --> 00:18:37,214 As you enter the temple, it's like you're going inside a book. 344 00:18:37,317 --> 00:18:38,716 It's literally full of texts... 345 00:18:38,818 --> 00:18:40,451 every wall, every column, 346 00:18:40,553 --> 00:18:44,121 every room, every chamber is filled with text. 347 00:18:44,223 --> 00:18:46,791 They're known collectively as the Edfu Texts. 348 00:18:46,859 --> 00:18:49,327 What is very interesting is that 349 00:18:49,395 --> 00:18:51,529 the majority of these texts speak about the creation 350 00:18:51,631 --> 00:18:53,764 of the world. 351 00:18:57,036 --> 00:18:58,669 According to the texts, 352 00:18:58,771 --> 00:19:01,372 the Earth was created by powerful gods 353 00:19:01,474 --> 00:19:03,774 who came down from the sky, 354 00:19:03,843 --> 00:19:07,745 and these gods first established a place known 355 00:19:07,847 --> 00:19:11,782 as the Island of the Egg. 356 00:19:11,851 --> 00:19:14,018 Two gods, 357 00:19:14,120 --> 00:19:19,957 they created an island in the middle of the eternal lake. 358 00:19:20,026 --> 00:19:23,294 Creation started with that island. 359 00:19:25,398 --> 00:19:27,698 The occupants of this so-called primordial, 360 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:30,868 mythical world... very strange creatures. 361 00:19:30,937 --> 00:19:33,471 There seems to be three groups of people: 362 00:19:33,573 --> 00:19:36,741 one called the sages, 363 00:19:36,843 --> 00:19:39,343 one called the builders, 364 00:19:39,445 --> 00:19:40,778 and the other called the Shebtiu. 365 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,146 Nobody knows who they are. 366 00:19:42,248 --> 00:19:44,248 These are the ones that are very mysterious 367 00:19:44,350 --> 00:19:48,285 because they are said to emerge from the water. 368 00:19:48,388 --> 00:19:52,757 Then the Egyptians believed a series of gods came 369 00:19:52,825 --> 00:19:55,893 and built the first temples. 370 00:19:55,995 --> 00:19:59,030 It says that here the first temples were-were built, 371 00:19:59,098 --> 00:20:01,532 the first ones ever in the world. 372 00:20:01,634 --> 00:20:04,368 And that these became the blueprint 373 00:20:04,470 --> 00:20:08,239 for every temple in Egypt. 374 00:20:08,341 --> 00:20:11,242 Once all the creator gods have done their job 375 00:20:11,344 --> 00:20:13,844 with creating the world, 376 00:20:13,913 --> 00:20:18,482 they would meet with their big bird and ascend to the sky. 377 00:20:18,551 --> 00:20:22,720 Ancient Egyptians believed with all their heart 378 00:20:22,822 --> 00:20:27,758 that everything listed and inscribed on these walls 379 00:20:27,827 --> 00:20:32,463 are true, true, true. 380 00:20:32,532 --> 00:20:36,033 If the walls say there's an island in the middle of nowhere 381 00:20:36,135 --> 00:20:39,804 where gods would go and ascend to the sky, 382 00:20:39,906 --> 00:20:43,074 then ancient Egyptians, the devoted ones, 383 00:20:43,142 --> 00:20:45,876 would believe that island exists. 384 00:20:47,880 --> 00:20:50,614 According to the Edfu Texts, 385 00:20:50,716 --> 00:20:53,884 not all of the occupants left. 386 00:20:53,986 --> 00:20:55,820 And after many generations, 387 00:20:55,888 --> 00:20:58,889 the island suffered a terrible fate. 388 00:21:01,527 --> 00:21:03,461 The texts are very different 389 00:21:03,529 --> 00:21:07,798 as to what happens to the occupants, these strange gods. 390 00:21:07,900 --> 00:21:09,900 They seem to... once they have set the scene, 391 00:21:10,002 --> 00:21:12,069 once they have built the temples, 392 00:21:12,171 --> 00:21:16,774 they hand over their work to the historical lineage, 393 00:21:16,876 --> 00:21:18,509 and then they depart. 394 00:21:18,611 --> 00:21:20,644 We don't know where they go. 395 00:21:20,713 --> 00:21:22,546 There seems to be something very interesting here. 396 00:21:22,615 --> 00:21:24,381 There seems to be a war going on. 397 00:21:24,484 --> 00:21:26,717 The armies of these divinities 398 00:21:26,786 --> 00:21:28,786 is led by this falcon god. 399 00:21:28,888 --> 00:21:33,524 And he battles a kind of enemy represented by a snake. 400 00:21:33,626 --> 00:21:38,095 In the skies appeared what was known as the enemy snake. 401 00:21:38,164 --> 00:21:41,532 It had a name. It was called the Great Leaping One. 402 00:21:41,601 --> 00:21:43,968 It was said that immediately it appeared, 403 00:21:44,070 --> 00:21:46,570 there was a time of darkness. 404 00:21:46,672 --> 00:21:48,906 And there were suddenly floods 405 00:21:48,975 --> 00:21:52,877 that destroyed this sacred island. 406 00:21:52,979 --> 00:21:54,945 And when the waters receded, 407 00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:59,049 these original beings, who were known as the Ancient Ones 408 00:21:59,152 --> 00:22:05,356 or the Elder Ones, were now no longer there. 410 00:22:05,424 --> 00:22:08,959 Perhaps the Great Leaping One, this enemy snake, 411 00:22:09,028 --> 00:22:12,263 was the memory of the comet 412 00:22:12,331 --> 00:22:15,666 that entered into our inner solar system, 413 00:22:15,768 --> 00:22:17,902 broke up, 414 00:22:17,970 --> 00:22:22,773 causing devastation and destruction. 415 00:22:25,645 --> 00:22:28,712 Might the account of this ancient catastrophe 416 00:22:28,781 --> 00:22:31,549 inscribed on the walls of the Edfu Temple 417 00:22:31,651 --> 00:22:34,985 be describing a natural event? 418 00:22:35,054 --> 00:22:37,922 Or was it a deliberate attack, 419 00:22:38,024 --> 00:22:42,493 an attack targeting an otherworldly civilization 420 00:22:42,595 --> 00:22:47,331 existing on what we now know as the Antarctic continent? 421 00:22:47,400 --> 00:22:49,633 We need to take a second look 422 00:22:49,735 --> 00:22:51,035 at the Edfu Texts and the story 423 00:22:51,137 --> 00:22:54,238 of the Island of the Egg because 424 00:22:54,307 --> 00:22:56,574 it's the source material for Plato's story. 425 00:22:56,676 --> 00:23:00,411 In his story of Atlantis, he gives a very important detail. 426 00:23:00,479 --> 00:23:04,048 He describes it as an immense island 427 00:23:04,116 --> 00:23:08,118 the size of Libya and North Africa combined. 428 00:23:08,221 --> 00:23:11,555 Now, the thing about it is, is that there's only one island 429 00:23:11,657 --> 00:23:14,058 on the planet that's out in the middle of the ocean 430 00:23:14,126 --> 00:23:18,829 that matches that description, and that's Antarctica. 431 00:23:21,133 --> 00:23:25,035 Curiously, the island continent depicted 432 00:23:25,137 --> 00:23:27,371 on the Oronteus Finaeus map 433 00:23:27,473 --> 00:23:29,673 reveals a shift of the South Pole 434 00:23:29,742 --> 00:23:32,009 of seven and a half degrees, 435 00:23:32,111 --> 00:23:36,747 or nearly 1,000 miles from what it is today. 436 00:23:36,849 --> 00:23:40,184 Might this shift corroborate the accounts 437 00:23:40,286 --> 00:23:44,655 of a major catastrophic event in the remote past? 438 00:23:44,757 --> 00:23:49,059 If so, could the creation myth recorded at Edfu 439 00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:53,931 be describing something more than mythology? 440 00:23:54,033 --> 00:23:57,234 The cataclysm which would have shifted Antarctica, 441 00:23:57,303 --> 00:24:00,704 this would have destroyed the civilization that was there. 442 00:24:00,806 --> 00:24:02,873 And then, over time, 443 00:24:02,975 --> 00:24:05,609 whatever buildings and pyramids that were there 444 00:24:05,711 --> 00:24:07,378 would be covered with ice. 445 00:24:08,914 --> 00:24:12,283 So the whole idea that Antarctica is hiding, 446 00:24:12,385 --> 00:24:16,053 beneath its ice, some ancient civilization 447 00:24:16,155 --> 00:24:18,856 is a very intriguing idea 448 00:24:18,924 --> 00:24:21,925 and one that may very well be true. 449 00:24:24,463 --> 00:24:27,197 Might there actually be evidence 450 00:24:27,300 --> 00:24:30,134 of an ancient extraterrestrial civilization 451 00:24:30,202 --> 00:24:34,238 buried under the ice of Antarctica? 452 00:24:34,340 --> 00:24:38,075 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 453 00:24:38,177 --> 00:24:40,644 and believe that this long history 454 00:24:40,746 --> 00:24:44,114 of an alien presence there is precisely what brought 455 00:24:44,183 --> 00:24:47,918 another occupying force to its frozen shores... 456 00:24:48,020 --> 00:24:51,705 the Nazis. 457 00:24:52,984 --> 00:24:54,717 Hamburg, Germany. 458 00:24:54,819 --> 00:24:58,154 December, 1938. 459 00:24:58,256 --> 00:25:01,690 Four years into Adolf Hitler's reign as Fuhrer, 460 00:25:01,759 --> 00:25:03,692 he is beginning to establish 461 00:25:03,761 --> 00:25:06,896 his total dictatorship by taking direct control 462 00:25:06,998 --> 00:25:09,064 of the German military. 463 00:25:17,542 --> 00:25:20,442 But on the brink of World War II, 464 00:25:20,545 --> 00:25:24,013 Hitler is also involved in much stranger endeavors 465 00:25:24,115 --> 00:25:26,182 that are hidden to the public. 466 00:25:26,250 --> 00:25:28,217 He is committing every remaining resource 467 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:32,054 to searching for ancient relics that he believes 468 00:25:32,156 --> 00:25:34,356 could hold incredible powers. 469 00:25:36,561 --> 00:25:38,160 On December 17, 470 00:25:38,229 --> 00:25:40,696 the German freighter MS Schwabenland 471 00:25:40,798 --> 00:25:44,667 sets out on one of these top secret missions. 472 00:25:44,769 --> 00:25:49,171 Its 33-member team is rumored to include scientists, 473 00:25:49,273 --> 00:25:52,675 military experts, construction crews, 474 00:25:52,777 --> 00:25:55,444 and key members of the Thule Society, 475 00:25:55,546 --> 00:25:57,980 an elite group associated with the Nazis 476 00:25:58,049 --> 00:26:01,951 that focused on mysticism and the occult. 477 00:26:02,053 --> 00:26:06,956 32 days later, they arrive at their destination, 478 00:26:07,058 --> 00:26:10,593 Antarctica. 479 00:26:10,695 --> 00:26:13,762 The Nazis themselves were fascinated 480 00:26:13,865 --> 00:26:15,931 by ancient civilizations 481 00:26:16,033 --> 00:26:19,902 and legends of vanished super races. 482 00:26:20,004 --> 00:26:24,173 They were searching for this lost Arctic home 484 00:26:24,275 --> 00:26:26,709 that they thought that the Aryans had come from. 485 00:26:26,811 --> 00:26:29,678 They were looking all over the world, 486 00:26:29,780 --> 00:26:31,780 and that included Antarctica. 487 00:26:31,849 --> 00:26:34,917 The Thule Society actually believed 488 00:26:35,019 --> 00:26:38,687 that they were mystics, or channels, who were able 489 00:26:38,789 --> 00:26:40,556 to communicate with these beings 490 00:26:40,658 --> 00:26:43,492 who claimed to be either extraterrestrial in origin 491 00:26:43,594 --> 00:26:46,061 or claimed to belong to this, uh, civilization 492 00:26:46,163 --> 00:26:48,497 that lived in Earth's interior. 493 00:26:48,599 --> 00:26:51,133 They gave a lot of information 494 00:26:51,235 --> 00:26:54,136 about the building of advanced aerospace vehicles, 495 00:26:54,238 --> 00:26:57,006 flying saucers, and I think this is where, 496 00:26:57,108 --> 00:26:59,975 uh, Hitler's Nazi party got a lot of its information 497 00:27:00,077 --> 00:27:01,777 about Antarctica... 498 00:27:01,879 --> 00:27:05,214 that, uh, in Antarctica there is this ancient civilization, 499 00:27:05,316 --> 00:27:07,283 or bases where they could find 500 00:27:07,385 --> 00:27:10,119 a lot of these advanced technologies. 501 00:27:12,857 --> 00:27:15,124 During their time in Antarctica, 502 00:27:15,226 --> 00:27:17,593 the Nazis were believed to have mapped 503 00:27:17,695 --> 00:27:21,630 huge swaths of the icy landscape by air. 504 00:27:21,732 --> 00:27:25,134 Ancient astronaut theorists believe they also established 505 00:27:25,236 --> 00:27:27,836 an elaborate underground headquarters 506 00:27:27,939 --> 00:27:31,507 known as Base 211. 507 00:27:31,609 --> 00:27:33,042 Hitler and the Nazis 508 00:27:33,144 --> 00:27:36,011 were particularly interested in Antarctica. 509 00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:38,714 I think they really believed that there were things going on 510 00:27:38,816 --> 00:27:40,549 deep under the ice. 511 00:27:40,651 --> 00:27:42,952 And there have always been rumors that the Nazis, 512 00:27:43,054 --> 00:27:46,388 with their submarines, have underwater caverns, 513 00:27:46,490 --> 00:27:49,625 small cities; that they escaped there 514 00:27:49,727 --> 00:27:52,361 after World War II. 515 00:27:52,463 --> 00:27:55,230 When the Germans got to Antarctica 516 00:27:55,333 --> 00:27:59,201 what they found were massive cities 518 00:27:59,303 --> 00:28:01,804 that were highly technological. 519 00:28:01,906 --> 00:28:05,207 And these buildings were not just on the surface... 520 00:28:05,309 --> 00:28:07,810 they went deep down underground. 521 00:28:07,912 --> 00:28:11,113 So, they began relocating a massive amount of equipment 522 00:28:11,215 --> 00:28:14,049 and personnel to Antarctica, 523 00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:17,086 repressurizing these ancient facilities 524 00:28:17,188 --> 00:28:19,188 and reoccupying them. 525 00:28:22,760 --> 00:28:24,727 In 1946, 526 00:28:24,829 --> 00:28:28,230 one year after the end of World War II, 527 00:28:28,332 --> 00:28:30,699 the U.S. government launched its own 528 00:28:30,801 --> 00:28:33,535 large-scale mission to Antarctica. 529 00:28:33,637 --> 00:28:37,306 Operation Highjump deployed 4,700 troops, 530 00:28:37,408 --> 00:28:40,542 13 ships, an aircraft carrier, 531 00:28:40,644 --> 00:28:44,480 and a number of seaplanes to Antarctica. 532 00:28:44,548 --> 00:28:47,316 Although the government denied it at the time, 533 00:28:47,418 --> 00:28:49,918 it would later become known that 534 00:28:50,021 --> 00:28:52,821 one of the operation's primary objectives was 535 00:28:52,923 --> 00:28:56,658 "extending the United States' sovereignty over the largest 536 00:28:56,761 --> 00:29:00,396 practicable area of the Antarctic continent." 537 00:29:02,299 --> 00:29:05,801 The U.S. Navy, then, sent what was basically 538 00:29:05,903 --> 00:29:09,772 a flotilla of armed ships to Antarctica. 539 00:29:09,874 --> 00:29:11,740 In Operation Highjump, 540 00:29:11,842 --> 00:29:14,610 there were stories that were quite strange, 541 00:29:14,712 --> 00:29:17,246 that ultimately came out of that expedition, 542 00:29:17,348 --> 00:29:19,181 which-which ended quite early. 543 00:29:19,283 --> 00:29:22,618 There were stories of craft coming up 544 00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,287 out of the water, around the ships, 545 00:29:25,389 --> 00:29:28,357 and of flying saucer-type vehicles. 546 00:29:28,459 --> 00:29:32,061 Saucers were coming up out of the water, 547 00:29:32,163 --> 00:29:35,964 and were shooting them with some sort of beam, 548 00:29:36,067 --> 00:29:38,200 literally cutting ships in half. 549 00:29:38,302 --> 00:29:40,903 They were shooting planes out of the sky. 550 00:29:41,005 --> 00:29:42,805 And they traveled so fast, 551 00:29:42,907 --> 00:29:44,840 that it was almost impossible 552 00:29:44,942 --> 00:29:47,009 to visually reference 553 00:29:47,111 --> 00:29:49,144 where the disk was going. 554 00:29:49,246 --> 00:29:51,580 So, the American fleet 555 00:29:51,682 --> 00:29:54,650 had to limp back to the United States, 556 00:29:54,752 --> 00:29:56,452 totally broken and destroyed. 557 00:29:57,788 --> 00:30:00,322 It's still a mystery, all of the activities 559 00:30:00,424 --> 00:30:01,824 that were going on in Antarctica. 560 00:30:01,926 --> 00:30:04,293 You have to wonder if the American military, 561 00:30:04,395 --> 00:30:06,061 and other governments, too, 562 00:30:06,163 --> 00:30:08,497 are aware of structures under the ice, 563 00:30:08,599 --> 00:30:12,301 of pyramids beneath the ice; and perhaps they know 564 00:30:12,403 --> 00:30:15,671 that there's some kind of ancient civilization 565 00:30:15,773 --> 00:30:18,807 frozen beneath the ice of Antarctica. 566 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:23,712 If, in fact, the Nazis were seeking 567 00:30:23,814 --> 00:30:26,849 extraterrestrial technology in Antarctica, 568 00:30:26,951 --> 00:30:30,486 is it possible that they actually discovered it? 569 00:30:30,588 --> 00:30:33,655 And might the U.S. military have encountered 570 00:30:33,757 --> 00:30:36,925 this powerful technology years later, 571 00:30:36,994 --> 00:30:39,728 during Operation Highjump? 572 00:30:39,830 --> 00:30:42,297 Ancient astronaut theorists believe 573 00:30:42,399 --> 00:30:46,168 that further proof of an alien presence in Antarctica 574 00:30:46,270 --> 00:30:49,338 may be found in a prehistoric lake 575 00:30:49,440 --> 00:30:53,142 buried under two miles of ice. 576 00:31:00,759 --> 00:31:02,959 Lake Vostok, Antarctica. 577 00:31:05,330 --> 00:31:07,497 Buried under two miles of ice 578 00:31:07,566 --> 00:31:11,234 is a 4,800-square-mile body of water. 579 00:31:11,336 --> 00:31:13,503 It is by far the largest 580 00:31:13,605 --> 00:31:15,939 of the continent's nearly 400 lakes 581 00:31:16,041 --> 00:31:19,109 that are entirely covered by ice. 582 00:31:19,211 --> 00:31:21,712 In 2001, 583 00:31:21,780 --> 00:31:25,082 pilots collecting data here recorded unusual 584 00:31:25,184 --> 00:31:28,485 and extreme irregularities in the magnetic field 585 00:31:28,587 --> 00:31:31,221 at the southeastern corner of the lake. 586 00:31:31,323 --> 00:31:37,160 Spanning a remarkable 65 by 46 miles, 588 00:31:37,262 --> 00:31:39,663 the anomalous area is producing 589 00:31:39,765 --> 00:31:43,533 an unusually high level of magnetic energy. 590 00:31:43,635 --> 00:31:47,370 This anomaly was roughly, uh, 50 miles in diameter 591 00:31:47,473 --> 00:31:49,873 and was something that would be 592 00:31:49,975 --> 00:31:52,909 commensurate with the magnetic field 593 00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:55,011 being generated by a city. 594 00:31:57,216 --> 00:32:00,417 I have been to Lake Vostok several times, 595 00:32:00,519 --> 00:32:02,452 as part of expedition research. And when we were 596 00:32:02,554 --> 00:32:05,722 in the area, we did pick up this magnetic anomaly. 597 00:32:05,824 --> 00:32:07,858 But we also found other magnetic anomalies 598 00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:09,559 which were actually transitioning from 599 00:32:09,661 --> 00:32:11,394 one place to another. They were moving. 600 00:32:11,463 --> 00:32:13,463 Highly rare and extremely unusual. 601 00:32:13,532 --> 00:32:15,298 We weren't able to determine what was 602 00:32:15,400 --> 00:32:17,033 causing these anomalies. 603 00:32:18,837 --> 00:32:20,904 It's totally inexplicable. 604 00:32:21,006 --> 00:32:23,306 And of course, this has given rise 605 00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:26,009 to theories that perhaps 606 00:32:26,111 --> 00:32:27,878 there is something else here. 607 00:32:27,980 --> 00:32:30,247 Perhaps it's a UFO... 608 00:32:30,349 --> 00:32:33,116 some kind of alien base; perhaps even the remnants 609 00:32:33,218 --> 00:32:35,318 of a lost civilization. 610 00:32:35,420 --> 00:32:37,821 And now the NSA themself 611 00:32:37,923 --> 00:32:40,190 have almost put a blanket 612 00:32:40,292 --> 00:32:41,825 over any further research, 613 00:32:41,927 --> 00:32:44,861 and it's almost become a no-go area. 614 00:32:46,198 --> 00:32:48,965 Vostok is not the only site 615 00:32:49,067 --> 00:32:51,368 with limited outside access. 616 00:32:51,470 --> 00:32:53,436 Seven different countries 617 00:32:53,539 --> 00:32:56,072 have claimed territories in Antarctica, 618 00:32:56,175 --> 00:32:59,309 yet it remains one of the most restricted locations 619 00:32:59,411 --> 00:33:01,478 in the world. 620 00:33:01,547 --> 00:33:03,213 Currently, there are 68 621 00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:05,215 international bases here, 622 00:33:05,317 --> 00:33:07,250 many of which require permits 623 00:33:07,352 --> 00:33:09,586 or special permissions to visit. 624 00:33:09,688 --> 00:33:13,256 They are manned not just with scientists 625 00:33:13,358 --> 00:33:15,492 but also military personnel. 626 00:33:15,594 --> 00:33:18,895 But why is it so restricted? 627 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,234 McMurdo Station, Antarctica. 628 00:33:24,336 --> 00:33:28,138 Located on a southern peninsula of Ross Island, 629 00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:32,142 this is the largest research station on the continent. 630 00:33:32,244 --> 00:33:35,278 It was opened by the U.S. government 631 00:33:35,380 --> 00:33:38,048 in 1956 and houses 632 00:33:38,150 --> 00:33:41,918 up to as many as 1,200 residents at a time. 633 00:33:43,388 --> 00:33:46,089 In January of 2015 634 00:33:46,191 --> 00:33:48,091 a U.S. Navy flight engineer, 635 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,994 who served with the Antarctic Development Squadron 636 00:33:51,063 --> 00:33:53,096 at McMurdo for 14 years, 637 00:33:53,165 --> 00:33:56,666 came forward to investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe 638 00:33:56,768 --> 00:34:00,203 with bizarre accounts of his time in Antarctica. 639 00:34:00,305 --> 00:34:03,206 In January of 2015, 640 00:34:03,308 --> 00:34:06,343 I got an e-mail from a retired 641 00:34:06,445 --> 00:34:08,111 naval flight engineer. 642 00:34:08,213 --> 00:34:10,881 He's asked me to call him only Brian 643 00:34:10,983 --> 00:34:13,083 in the world public. 644 00:34:13,185 --> 00:34:15,685 And this is what he told me: 645 00:34:15,787 --> 00:34:19,356 From about 1983, to when he retired 646 00:34:19,458 --> 00:34:25,095 from the Navy in 1997, he was in all kinds 648 00:34:25,197 --> 00:34:28,965 of what they call Antarctic squadron expedition missions, 649 00:34:29,067 --> 00:34:31,534 that included rescuing people 650 00:34:31,637 --> 00:34:33,603 in and out of various places. 651 00:34:33,705 --> 00:34:38,108 In all these trips, nothing of a high strangeness had occurred. 652 00:34:38,210 --> 00:34:41,111 And then, all of a sudden, it was one thing after another. 653 00:34:41,213 --> 00:34:45,015 During a squadron mission in the Transantarctic Mountains, 654 00:34:45,117 --> 00:34:50,420 the whole crew saw a whole bunch of silver darting objects. 655 00:34:50,522 --> 00:34:52,589 And they are round. 656 00:34:52,658 --> 00:34:54,991 And he says they're doing the strangest thing. 657 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:58,061 They're going, like, to this peak in a group, 658 00:34:58,163 --> 00:35:01,097 to this peak in a group, to this peak in a group. 659 00:35:01,166 --> 00:35:03,300 And then they'd all take off. 660 00:35:03,402 --> 00:35:08,038 And not only did this happen once, it happened over and over. 661 00:35:08,106 --> 00:35:12,175 According to the informant, this was just one 663 00:35:12,277 --> 00:35:14,277 of many strange mysteries on the continent 664 00:35:14,379 --> 00:35:17,113 that he witnessed during his time there. 665 00:35:17,215 --> 00:35:21,384 They get an assignment not long after. 666 00:35:21,486 --> 00:35:23,119 There's a medical emergency. 667 00:35:23,221 --> 00:35:26,256 They are now under the gun, the clock is ticking, 668 00:35:26,358 --> 00:35:28,391 and a decision was made: 669 00:35:28,493 --> 00:35:30,660 They're going o... through the no-fly zone 670 00:35:30,729 --> 00:35:32,462 because it's a medical emergency. 671 00:35:32,564 --> 00:35:34,631 And what do they see? 672 00:35:34,733 --> 00:35:41,004 In the ice, like, a huge entrance to a cave 674 00:35:41,106 --> 00:35:44,240 but slanted going down. And he said, 675 00:35:44,343 --> 00:35:47,043 "I think it was at least, Linda, 200 feet in diameter, 676 00:35:47,145 --> 00:35:48,812 a big hole in the ice." 677 00:35:48,914 --> 00:35:52,215 And he said, "Our instruments are not operating." 678 00:35:52,317 --> 00:35:55,251 "We were losing electricity. We had magnetic anomalies. 679 00:35:55,354 --> 00:35:58,822 "And we concluded there's something about this hole 680 00:35:58,924 --> 00:36:02,058 that is now causing these problems." 681 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,296 They do their medical recovery. 682 00:36:06,398 --> 00:36:08,598 And the next thing they know, 683 00:36:08,700 --> 00:36:13,069 they're all being chewed out by men in suits 685 00:36:13,171 --> 00:36:16,673 that are not from McMurdo. 686 00:36:16,775 --> 00:36:19,342 They appear to be from Washington, DC. 687 00:36:19,444 --> 00:36:20,844 And he-he said, 688 00:36:20,946 --> 00:36:23,747 "They told us that we are never, ever 689 00:36:23,849 --> 00:36:26,282 "to fly over that hole. 690 00:36:26,385 --> 00:36:28,485 And we are never to discuss it again." 691 00:36:28,587 --> 00:36:30,220 What is that about? 692 00:36:30,322 --> 00:36:32,288 And does that have anything to do 693 00:36:32,391 --> 00:36:35,025 with all these other pieces that keep emerging 694 00:36:35,127 --> 00:36:38,361 that there might be something archaeological 695 00:36:38,463 --> 00:36:40,263 in Antarctica? 696 00:36:41,867 --> 00:36:44,167 According to ancient astronaut theorists, 697 00:36:44,269 --> 00:36:47,670 this was not the first time a massive hole has been spotted 698 00:36:47,773 --> 00:36:50,673 in the ice of Antarctica. 699 00:36:50,776 --> 00:36:52,509 Famous polar explorer. 700 00:36:52,611 --> 00:36:55,378 Admiral Richard Byrd allegedly reported 702 00:36:55,480 --> 00:36:58,448 seeing a massive entrance to an underground world 703 00:36:58,550 --> 00:37:03,319 during his 1947 expedition to the South Pole. 704 00:37:03,422 --> 00:37:07,223 Admiral Byrd made a lot of unusual statements, 705 00:37:07,325 --> 00:37:11,728 allegedly talking about a large opening at the South Pole, 706 00:37:11,830 --> 00:37:15,398 that went deep inside the Earth, ice-free, 707 00:37:15,500 --> 00:37:22,038 and was inhabited by various sorts of aliens. 709 00:37:22,140 --> 00:37:24,507 And when Byrd got back to the United States, 710 00:37:24,609 --> 00:37:26,609 he was brought back to Washington, 711 00:37:26,711 --> 00:37:30,246 where he was questioned very heavily about his statements. 712 00:37:30,348 --> 00:37:35,151 And, allegedly, he was told to stop talking about this. 713 00:37:35,253 --> 00:37:37,587 You have to wonder, is the South Pole 714 00:37:37,689 --> 00:37:41,591 some kind of extraterrestrial entry zone, 715 00:37:41,660 --> 00:37:44,527 some kind of portal that's so important 716 00:37:44,629 --> 00:37:48,364 that it has to be controlled by the military? 717 00:37:48,467 --> 00:37:52,068 Is the United States government covering up 718 00:37:52,170 --> 00:37:55,772 an extraterrestrial presence in Antarctica? 719 00:37:55,874 --> 00:38:00,210 And if so, could they be the same otherworldly beings 720 00:38:00,312 --> 00:38:04,514 that once occupied the continent thousands of years ago? 721 00:38:04,616 --> 00:38:06,816 Ancient astronaut theorists believe 722 00:38:06,918 --> 00:38:08,818 the truth may be revealed 723 00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:13,189 when Antarctica's ice finally disappears. 724 00:38:17,804 --> 00:38:20,471 East Antarctica. 725 00:38:20,573 --> 00:38:24,308 October, 2015. 726 00:38:24,411 --> 00:38:26,644 Scientists at NASA announce 727 00:38:26,746 --> 00:38:29,947 that despite years of thinking otherwise, 728 00:38:30,050 --> 00:38:32,684 they are now finding that the ice in this region 729 00:38:32,752 --> 00:38:34,686 is actually growing, 730 00:38:34,788 --> 00:38:38,322 averaging 82 billion tons a year. 731 00:38:38,425 --> 00:38:42,527 Snowfall is currently adding ice to most of the continent. 732 00:38:42,629 --> 00:38:46,931 But at the same time, glaciers are rapidly melting 733 00:38:47,033 --> 00:38:50,768 along the coast of Western Antarctica. 734 00:38:50,870 --> 00:38:54,639 Scientists calculate that, since 2009, 735 00:38:54,741 --> 00:38:57,575 as much as 60 cubic kilometers of ice, 736 00:38:57,677 --> 00:39:01,479 the equivalent of 70,000 Empire State Buildings, 737 00:39:01,581 --> 00:39:05,149 is disappearing into the ocean each year. 738 00:39:05,251 --> 00:39:07,518 But why is the ice here melting, 739 00:39:07,620 --> 00:39:09,587 when it is growing throughout much 740 00:39:09,689 --> 00:39:12,890 of the rest of the continent? 741 00:39:12,992 --> 00:39:17,228 We see the graphic pictures on television 742 00:39:17,330 --> 00:39:21,966 of the ice caps melting and falling into the sea. 743 00:39:22,035 --> 00:39:25,369 But it's actually only in some areas 744 00:39:25,438 --> 00:39:28,206 that the ice caps are actually melting. 745 00:39:28,308 --> 00:39:30,541 What's so strange is that, 746 00:39:30,643 --> 00:39:35,880 through various factors, that the ice in Antarctica 747 00:39:35,982 --> 00:39:38,716 might actually be growing and extending. 748 00:39:38,818 --> 00:39:41,886 This is very strange. 749 00:39:41,988 --> 00:39:44,288 We can't rule out the possibility 750 00:39:44,390 --> 00:39:48,559 that, in certain cases, there could be entire cities 751 00:39:48,661 --> 00:39:50,228 that are built underground 752 00:39:50,330 --> 00:39:52,296 that may even be actively maintained 753 00:39:52,398 --> 00:39:54,031 by extraterrestrials now, 754 00:39:54,134 --> 00:39:56,534 and that as those cities are powered up 755 00:39:56,636 --> 00:40:01,305 or expanded in size that they are giving off some kind of heat 756 00:40:01,407 --> 00:40:05,810 and that heat, in turn, is melting the ice above them. 757 00:40:05,912 --> 00:40:10,548 If there are things buried under the miles of ice at Antarctica, 758 00:40:10,650 --> 00:40:12,784 then that would mean that had to have happened 759 00:40:12,886 --> 00:40:14,752 before the last Ice Age. 760 00:40:14,854 --> 00:40:16,888 So who knows what we'll find there? 761 00:40:16,990 --> 00:40:19,390 Remnants of a lost civilization, 762 00:40:19,492 --> 00:40:23,761 perhaps even tools with which these civilizations were built. 763 00:40:25,732 --> 00:40:29,567 It's possible that underneath the ice will be keys for us 764 00:40:29,669 --> 00:40:32,537 to actually save ourselves 765 00:40:32,639 --> 00:40:35,640 and reclaim our ancient past. 766 00:40:35,742 --> 00:40:38,075 We may end up in a situation 767 00:40:38,178 --> 00:40:40,478 where this can't be covered up anymore, 768 00:40:40,580 --> 00:40:43,414 where visible ruins... gigantic pyramids, 769 00:40:43,516 --> 00:40:44,982 gigantic obelisks... 770 00:40:45,084 --> 00:40:48,986 start to peek through the ice. 771 00:40:49,088 --> 00:40:51,088 And, at that point, it's game over. 772 00:40:51,191 --> 00:40:53,591 No longer can this be swept under the rug. 773 00:40:53,693 --> 00:40:57,595 There's no question that under the ice of Antarctica 774 00:40:57,697 --> 00:41:00,097 there could be extraterrestrial craft. 775 00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:02,466 There could be cities down there. 776 00:41:02,569 --> 00:41:04,402 Bottom line is, 777 00:41:04,504 --> 00:41:08,206 it will shock the entire belief system of humankind. 778 00:41:08,308 --> 00:41:11,609 It will just change everything we know. 779 00:41:11,711 --> 00:41:14,779 What really lies beneath 780 00:41:14,881 --> 00:41:17,682 the ice and snow in Antarctica? 781 00:41:17,784 --> 00:41:23,020 Was this frozen continent once covered with lush vegetation, 782 00:41:23,122 --> 00:41:27,859 as well as pyramids that predate those in Egypt? 783 00:41:27,961 --> 00:41:32,530 And if extraterrestrials truly did inhabit Antarctica, 784 00:41:32,632 --> 00:41:34,866 could these otherworldly visitors 785 00:41:34,968 --> 00:41:38,502 still be hiding out there today? 786 00:41:38,605 --> 00:41:41,138 Perhaps, one day soon, 787 00:41:41,241 --> 00:41:44,508 we will discover what the ice of Antarctica 788 00:41:44,611 --> 00:41:47,144 has hidden for thousands of years, 789 00:41:47,247 --> 00:41:50,848 and it will finally expose the truth 790 00:41:50,984 --> 00:41:54,118 about our alien past.