NARRATOR: Chile is home to Earth's oldest
and most mysterious desert.
We have huge, giant figures carved into the desert.
ERICH VON DANIKEN: On the ground are gigantic stone plates,
really gigantic.
NARRATOR: It has ancient traditions
of visitors from the sky.
NICOLAS BERASAIN: Our ancestors
used to tell stories about beings
who came from outer space.
NARRATOR: And it is considered a hotbed of modern UFO reports.
GEORGE NOORY: Chile has one of the highest rates of UFO sightings
in the world.
You got two hot spots, and they're separated.
It's probably very large, because this is 35 miles away.
I've never seen anything like this in my life.
NARRATOR: Now that the Chilean government
is openly examining UFOs,
could they uncover an extraterrestrial presence
that has been interacting with our planet
for thousands of years?
GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Extraterrestrial visitation
to Chile never ended.
That's one of the most amazing things
‐I've ever seen in my life. ‐It is truly amazing.
These are the cases where I think
‐there's really something to the ancient astronaut theory. ‐I do, too.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
The Atacama Desert, Chile.
2013.
An autonomous rover
traverses the barren landscape,
carrying out a two‐week NASA‐funded mission
to collect soil samples from below the surface
of the parched desert floor.
This region of Chile
is the driest place on the planet.
Some parts have not experienced rainfall
for centuries, making it
one of the few locations on Earth
that mimics conditions on Mars.
MICHAEL MASTERS: Because the Atacama Desert
is so similar to the landscape seen on Mars,
it's a very useful research tool for astrobiologists,
those interested in studying how life exists
in such difficult environments
and how it relates to the Mars landscape.
NARRATOR: On February 28, 2019,
the results of the mission are finally published.
While surveying this seemingly lifeless terrain,
the rover discovered evidence of microbial life
thriving just below the surface.
MASTERS: Microbial life
in the Atacama is very unique,
and life has existed where it really shouldn't be.
Anybody who's been to the Atacama Desert of Chile
knows that it's pretty unusual.
There's some very old life‐forms there
you don't find so easily in other parts of the world.
NARRATOR: Scientists believe
that future subsoil sampling on Mars
could reveal similar and perhaps even identical microbes.
Is it possible that there is life in the Atacama Desert
that matches life on a planet
140 million miles from Earth?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
the desert soil contains evidence
of a more profound extraterrestrial connection.
We have figures that have been carved into the desert
similar to what we see in Nazca in Peru.
And they're huge, giant figures
to be seen from the sky.
NARRATOR: The Nazca Lines in Peru
lie just 500 miles north of the Atacama Desert.
They are the most famous geoglyphs on Earth,
with over 1,100 glyphs
spread across 155 square miles.
But few people are aware that Chile's Atacama Desert
is home to nearly five times as many geoglyphs as Nazca,
with more than 5,000 covering an area
of 90,000 square miles.
MICHAEL BRADBURY: The Atacama Desert has one of the most,
if not the most, harsh environments on the planet.
So, for civilizations years ago,
these glyphs that were engraved into the ground,
you know that was not an easy task.
TSOUKALOS: There is no way
that anyone would go through this effort
unless something very compelling
and something very real
happened to our ancestors.
And so I think it's time that we pay closer attention
to what our ancestors really tried to describe.
NARRATOR: Of the thousands of geoglyphs in Chile,
one towers above the rest.
The Atacama Giant measures 390 feet,
30 feet longer than a football field.
It sits on an ancient hillside known as Cerro Unitas.
VICTOR HIDALGO: When you walk by this,
you cannot really see the shape.
This has been designed, constructed,
you know, to be seen from above.
CHILDRESS: And like at Nazca,
seems to be a signal to the sky gods
and those who are flying above the desert.
So, who are they signaling?
It would seem to be extraterrestrials.
WILLIAM HENRY: The Atacama Giant has these lines coming out
of the top of his head.
We have to ask the question.
Are these the beings that the geoglyph makers
were trying to communicate with?
NARRATOR: Could the figures depicted in the Atacama
and at Nazca represent extraterrestrial visitors,
as ancient astronaut theorists contend?
And if so,
could both the Nazca Lines
and the Atacama glyphs serve a larger,
more interconnected purpose,
having been made long before any national borders existed?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes
and suggest they could mark an ancient flight path.
CHILDRESS: So, when you look at all of these glyphs in Peru
and Chile and the vast desert spaces
and all of the UFO activity there,
is it possible that Chile is really this UFO avenue?
Is it possible that Chile is this flight path
for extraterrestrials,
an alien alley?
BILL BIRNES: It's interesting
when you look at the Nazca Lines
and the Atacama geoglyphs together.
These are symbols
that are best observed from the sky,
and they explode in numbers
as you move south to the Atacama.
Could this suggest that these symbols
were some sort of aerial guide,
guiding ancient aliens on their way into Chile?
And if so,
this is exactly how the runway lights work
on modern airports.
I think what we are seeing today
is what was seen in the past.
Because Chile is honestly like a kind of arrival point.
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
what makes the Atacama geoglyphs even more compelling
is the fact that Chile also boasts
the highest number of reported UFO sightings in the world.
There is a huge wave,
a large quantity of UFO sightings.
Quite simply, there is not one family in Chile
whose member has not had a UFO experience.
For some reason, Chile has one of the highest rates
of UFO sightings in the world.
Nobody really understands why,
but it seems to be in a region
that there's a cluster of UFO sightings.
NICK POPE: Chile is such a vast country.
It encompasses a wide range of different climates.
There are jungles, there are deserts,
there are forests.
There's huge biodiversity, too,
and diversity in human populations.
There are modern, first world cities
and indigenous peoples.
If we're being visited,
everything that you would want to see on planet Earth
is there in one nation.
NARRATOR: Could there be
a link between Chile's high number of UFO reports
and the ancient geoglyphs found in the Atacama Desert?
Incredibly,
the Chilean government itself has suggested
a connection between the country's ancient
and modern mysteries.
Chile's national tourism board
establishes a designated UFO trail,
a 19‐mile route
through one of the most infamous UFO hot spots in the country,
and it leads to an enigmatic site
known as El Enladrillado.
This megalithic platform was constructed
from 233 volcanic blocks,
each weighing upwards of ten tons.
HIDALGO: Now, the Enladrillado is a plateau
about 800 meters in diameter.
It is not a place of easy access.
You have to go on horseback for a couple days
in order to get there.
There is the belief that it was related to UFO landing.
VON DANIKEN: Also on the ground
are gigantic stone plates,
really gigantic, and it might very well be that
Enladrillado was something like a space port
of the extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Is there both ancient and modern evidence
that Chile has been visited by extraterrestrials
for thousands of years?
And if so, why?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
an indigenous tribe that once existed
in the southernmost reaches of the country
and their mysterious rituals.
The creator gods of the Selk'nam NARRATOR: German missionary turned anthropologist
Martin Gusinde
arrives in Chile's southernmost outpost
just 200 miles north of Antarctica.
He is met by native islanders
known as the Selk'nam.
But by the time of Gusinde's arrival,
the once thriving tribe had been almost completely wiped out.
...pre‐Columbian people...
HIDALGO: Something else that happens to them
is that many of them were taken back to Europe
to be displayed in what was called human zoos.
So, unfortunately, it was a genocide.
It was a genocide against this tribe.
NARRATOR: Before the tribe's
tragic and complete annihilation,
Gusinde took a remarkable series of photos of these people.
In 2015, his work was finally published
in The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego,
documenting the Selk'nam's unique ceremonies and rituals.
The Selk'nam were a marvelous culture.
They had various rituals,
and a pantheon of gods
would make them perform a series of ceremonies
where they would dress up
representing these gods from the sky.
The creator gods of the Selk'nam
actually descended from the sky
and gave knowledge to the local population.
These pictures were taken in black and white,
but in real life, the entire body is covered
in bright red and white,
and it is signifying the fire of heaven
according to the traditions.
So you have to wonder what it means,
the fire of heaven that descended from the sky.
Now, you combine this
with the representations of the elongated skulls
and the very strange‐looking costumes that they have,
and right there you have a connection
to extraterrestrial visitation.
Where the Selk'nam are located,
there have been records of UFOs in that whole area.
And if that area is active in UFO sightings,
then it is possible that we are thinking
what the Selk'nam must have been thinking in that time.
LUKES: They were definitely communicating
with other worlds,
with mythological creatures and things.
And so there very well could have been a component
of them having had extraterrestrial encounters
and now trying to communicate and continue that communication.
NARRATOR: Could the clothing, body paint and rituals
of the Selk'nam people have been inspired
by interaction with extraterrestrial visitors?
CHILDRESS: They dressed in all kinds
of strange costumes.
They had very specific rituals
that tied them to the land and to the stars.
When you look at some of these strange costumes
with‐with strange antennas
coming out of the side of their head,
you have to wonder,
are they imitating extraterrestrials
with their costumes?
NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned,
compelling evidence exists
that alien visitation occurred in this part of the world
not only in the distant past
but continues even today.
Sábado Gigante,
the longest running variety show
in television history,
interrupts its scheduled broadcast
with an urgent report.
At about 2:00 p. m. or something like that,
Sábado Gigante cuts the transmissions,
take the cameras outside to the parking spot,
and they spot this incredible object
in the sky, clear blue sky.
We're talking about a silver‐looking object.
NARRATOR: The Santiago UFO,
as it became known, was seen
from Antofagasta to Concepción,
a distance of about 1,200 miles
or almost half of the country's coastline.
I was perhaps ten years old at the time that we saw it.
And you could hear on the radio,
you know, broadcast from the navy
telling you that they have not been able to identify.
They don't know what it was.
It was one of those cases that really make you wonder,
could it be an extraterrestrial?
Yes, it could have been.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists
point out that this mass sighting was reported
along what could be a specific flight path
that has been documented since antiquity.
A route marked by Peru's Nazca Lines,
the geoglyphs of the Atacama,
the megalithic platform of El Enladrillado,
and reaching as far south as Tierra del Fuego,
the homeland of the Selk'nam people.
The indications are that this UFO activity
has been going on in Chile
for‐for centuries if not thousands of years.
NARRATOR: The Santiago UFO incident
is only the tip of a massive iceberg
of well‐documented reports
regarding inexplicable aerial phenomena
observed in Chile.
But if these sightings represent otherworldly encounters,
do extraterrestrials have a special interest in this area
that some now call Alien Alley?
NARRATOR: We see an 4:15 a.m.nary range
Corporal Armando Valdes patrols the northern desert
with a seven‐man military unit.
Suddenly, their lookout bursts into camp.
He has just witnessed two bright violet lights
descend from the sky and land 500 yards away.
Corporal Valdes was the leader of this patrol,
and he approached these objects.
What happened next
is shrouded in confusion and mystery.
His men saw him almost disappear
into the light.
He recalls getting disoriented,
confused, perhaps passing out.
And next thing he knew,
he reappeared again.
But the strange thing was
that he had five days' growth of beard.
And his watch showed a date
five days into the future.
Had he somehow been gone five days,
and yet to all the rest of the people in the patrol,
it was just perceived as a few minutes?
We were able to interview four members
of Valdes's squad.
We interviewed Armando Valdes, and everyone corroborated
that his experience had actually occurred.
NARRATOR: Immediately following the incident,
Corporal Valdes returned to his men
on the verge of collapse
and uttered an ominous phrase:
"You don't know who we are or where we come from,
but we will be back soon."
Based on the growing number of reports
since this mysterious encounter,
many believe that they were true to their word.
There are so many UFO sightings in Chile.
It's a hotbed of UFO activity.
And even just in the last eight years,
there have been some significant UFO sightings
that the Chilean government has actually admitted to.
2012.
The Chilean Air Force documented
five lights forming strange, geometric patterns
in the night sky.
And then in 2015, eight mysterious orbs
flew in an oval formation above Santiago.
Just recently in 2019,
several bright red objects were seen
streaking over the skies of southern Chile.
Chile is a place where there's a tremendous amount
of UFO activity,
and fortunately, the Chilean government
is totally aboveboard on these sightings.
We see an extraordinary range of cases in Chile,
from close encounters, through to pilot encounters with UFOs.
NARRATOR: Why have UFO sightings persisted in Chile
in such abundance for hundreds, if not thousands of years,
as ancient astronaut theorists believe?
I think the reason why Chile to this day
is considered a hot spot of UFO activity
is because Chile features one of the biggest
uninhabited geographical locations on Earth.
CHILDRESS: The northern part is desolate desert
that's virtually unpopulated.
And the southern part of Chile is fjords and glaciers.
It's also hardly populated down there, too.
There are all kinds of hiding spots.
Vacant places on the map
where absolutely no one goes.
It's an ideal place to hide.
It'd be an ideal place for an underground base.
Anything that enters our territory can hide.
Centuries can pass and no one will discover it.
NARRATOR: Are extraterrestrials hiding in,
or even below, the uninhabited regions of Chile?
And if so, is it their intention
to merely observe humanity
or could there be something more tangible
attracting them to this part of the world?
Even highly advanced extraterrestrial civilizations
will have resource needs.
With Chile, one wonders if it isn't copper.
They have the biggest reserves anywhere on the planet.
There are also vast supplies of lithium
and staggering amounts of natural resources, too.
TSOUKALOS: It is not surprising to me that this whole strip
that's present‐day Chile,
that just goes 3,000 miles straight,
that this would be a hotbed of UFOs,
because that area of the planet
is huge with raw materials and resources.
So, if any extraterrestrials would arrive on planet Earth,
that area of the planet would be blinking on their instruments
with, "Hey, come here, check out this area of the planet."
We have data, concrete data
of UFO appearances in mines,
in hydroelectric power plants,
including such cases as in Lake Colbún
in the area of San Clemente.
The UFO landing and takeover of the hydroelectric power plant
caused a vast quantity of blackouts.
When these lights would appear, the locals and the farmers
would call them the "light robbers"‐‐ why?
Because supposedly the locals would attribute
the blackouts to these UFOs.
NARRATOR: Have extraterrestrials mined this region's vast deposits
of natural resources since antiquity?
Or more recently, tapped into energy generated
from Chilean power plants?
Perhaps definitive answers are just over the horizon.
With more and more unidentified flying objects
invading the country's airspace every year,
unlike the United States, the Chilean government
is actively and openly
searching for answers.
HIDALGO: I do believe it's our right to know exactly NARRATOR: After a 17‐year rule, Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet steps down,
ushering in a period of reform across the country.
With a new spirit of government transparency and social freedom,
the media, as well as military personnel,
begin to openly investigate Chile's unrivaled UFO phenomena.
HIDALGO: Now, when it came to UFOs,
this is not something new in Chile.
In Chile, we have had sightings long before Pinochet.
So, after Pinochet,
when the democracy comes back,
the military forces were making an effort
to change the public opinion about them.
NARRATOR: Following the country's
newfound openness to UFO sightings,
control tower personnel observed a flurry
of mysterious aerial activity in Chilean airspace.
Unidentified objects were flying dangerously close
to Chilean aircraft.
I do believe it's our right to know exactly
what we are seeing, what our military is seeing
all over the world.
NARRATOR: Several notorious near‐miss incidents
elevated Chile's UFO activity
from harmless curiosity to an issue of national security.
As a result, in 1997,
the Chilean government instituted
the Committee on Studies of Anomalous Aerial Phenomena,
or CEFAA.
CEFAA started as a result of pilot sightings.
Pilots, navigators, radar operators
were reporting UFOs.
Some of these objects came dangerously close to aircraft.
The Chilean government decided to act.
So, this is unique.
It's government, it's military, and importantly,
it's the scientific community as well.
All working together with one common aim‐‐
find out what these sightings are.
Who's responsible?
What's going on?
CEFAA gets reports
from all citizens from the far north down to Antarctica.
And these reports are made via our website.
In the last 22 years of investigation,
we have received almost 900 reports.
Our process and our manner of looking
at these phenomena has been very rigorous
because we owe it to our community.
Instead of secrecy and cover‐ups and conspiracies,
we have an atmosphere of openness
where people are almost encouraged
to come forward and report.
The default position of CEFAA
after their investigations is to publish,
release the case files,
tell the people what you've discovered.
This is astonishing
and refreshing.
NARRATOR: CEFAA insists that governments
around the world should take a similar approach
to accelerate our understanding of these aerial anomalies
and reveal their true origin.
To us, it is important
that more organizations or institutions
or countries get involved in the study of this phenomena.
The phenomenon clearly exists.
We don't know exactly if there is only
one explanation for its origin.
Without a doubt, however, when other countries
or other states create institutions like ours,
they contribute to the security of airspace operations.
We have more good,
documented video evidence out of Chile
than almost any other nation I can think of.
NARRATOR: On March 13, 2012,
the Chilean government unveiled footage
of a curious event caught on camera
above the prestigious El Bosque Air Force Base in Santiago.
Crowds were gathered to celebrate the change
of Chilean Air Force command in 2010,
recording fighter jets
performing acrobatic maneuvers overhead.
After investigating the footage,
CEFAA concluded that the jets were not alone.
The El Bosque was one that CEFAA was very excited about.
And when they slowed down the videos,
you could see these objects zipping by at incredible speeds.
This case acquired notoriety
once the videos were viewed.
In these videos, there was a dark object
that crossed the lines of flight of these squadron formations.
POPE: Now this is where
it gets really intriguing,
because the official conclusion
was that this UFO was traveling
at a speed of around 4,000 miles an hour.
NARRATOR: Since the objects in the El Bosque footage
only reveal themselves for a brief moment,
definitive answers remain elusive to investigators.
But just a few years later,
the Chilean government would release
an even more incredible video.
Just outside of Santiago,
Chilean Navy officers aboard an Airbus Cougar helicopter
are testing an infrared FLIR high‐definition camera.
Suddenly, the camera captures a strange object
flying alongside them at an altitude of 4,500 feet.
After tracking it for several minutes, they witness
what appears to be some sort of discharge coming from the craft.
The Cougar case was a military helicopter back in 2014
that produced footage in an infrared camera.
And we're talking about military equipment.
We're talking about millions of dollars in equipment.
TAYLOR: It's nine minutes long
that they have continuous infrared footage
of this phenomena.
That's really unprecedented.
And if this phenomena is going on for nine minutes,
we can do analysis on it.
NARRATOR: UFO researchers consider this
to be one of the most baffling incidents ever recorded.
Could a deeper analysis of the footage
provide undeniable proof
that what the Chilean Navy officers caught on camera
was, in fact...
an alien aircraft?
TNARRATOR:t For more than a decade,
image analyst Michael Bradbury
has examined videos of alleged UFOs,
looking for any signs that they could be
something other than man‐made aircraft.
Intrigued by the recently released video shot
from a Chilean Navy helicopter,
he has invited astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor
to join him and lend his expert opinion
in examining the footage.
TAYLOR: The Chilean helicopter video
is really intriguing and fascinating, because...
you have this vehicle, or phenomena, whatever it is,
and then it starts releasing some type of material behind it.
So we absolutely need to understand
what this phenomena is.
All right, here we go.
I'm not going into it with a belief
that it is or isn't something.
‐No. ‐So let's apply our knowledge to it
and see what we can come up with.
Everything I look at, I look at open‐mindedly,
you know, from a standpoint of...
we could be seeing something special here, you know.
And then again, it could be a possible bird or a bug.
That's always an option inside the atmosphere of planet Earth.
‐That's just the way it is. ‐So this is from the,
uh, helicopter not far from Santiago.
‐Not far. Uh, November of 2014. ‐Okay.
There's the object, and it's only visible
in infrared format.
That's really intriguing.
The high‐def video, it's like it's not even there.
BRADBURY: Two ground radar didn't see it.
The radar on the helicopter could not pick it up.
So super‐unique circumstances here.
You got two hot spots, and they're separated.
‐You know, that's intriguing. ‐Well...
it's probably very large, because this is 35 miles away.
TAYLOR: Now, how do we know for sure it's 35 miles away?
Based off of the captain that was flying the...
‐Okay. ‐helicopter.
That was his estimate.
I've never seen anything like this in my life.
NARRATOR: Michael inverts the image,
so they can examine the object's shape more closely.
BRADBURY: What I've done here
is taken the basic infrared,
and I've just kind of flipped it and adjusted it a little better
‐for clarity purposes. ‐You can clearly see the shape
‐of the vehicle... ‐Right.
or whatever the thing is.
It's peanut‐shaped. Why is it peanut‐shaped?
BRADBURY: The pilot,
his description was...
it had a flat body with...
these two, like...
‐bright lenses or something. ‐You know, it kind of
does look like two jet engines,
if you're looking at it from the back, but...
the motion on it looks like it's moving side to side,
and the aspect ratio doesn't change on the circles.
It's not going into the page...
‐No. ‐as it should be.
There's no other structure.
‐That's the thing. ‐Yeah.
You would see...
wings, a nose cone.
‐Right. ‐You wouldn't just see the engine.
You can look at a aircraft with a infrared camera,
‐and you see the structure, because it's hot. ‐Right.
‐You got sun shining on it. You got, you know, the engine... ‐Exactly.
just the mechanics of it make it hot.
That's what I'm looking for here is
reflectivity off of the physical structure,
‐and it's not there. ‐And there's nothing.
That kind of throws that idea out.
NARRATOR: After isolating the object,
Michael applies color filters
to better define the object's unique heat signature
for closer analysis.
TAYLOR: Now, this one is really interesting.
BRADBURY: This is adjusted, not altered.
TAYLOR: Sure, I got it.
So you got black is hot here.
‐Green is an ambient temperature, I'm assuming. ‐Yes.
‐And white is cold. ‐Correct.
So here's the thing. There's clearly a field
of cold air around this thing. That's, uh...
that's baffling.
‐Baffling. ‐This thing, it's hot,
‐and then instantly... ‐Instantly cold.
...it's cold.
And in nature, that's not how things work.
No.
There is a different temperature bubble
around the vehicle than there is
‐around normal vehicles. ‐Exactly.
Which suggests some type of a field,
whatever that means.
Could be, you know, electrical, magnetic, gravitational.
We just don't know what it is, but there is some sort of
clear anomaly and some sort of field around this craft.
The most amazing thing, from a scientific standpoint,
is some sort of low pressure or cold area
immediately around whatever this phenomena is.
And, from a physics standpoint,
we can't really explain what's causing that.
So, when does it start releasing the particulates?
It does at about five minutes into the video.
‐TAYLOR: So right there. Now, that's really interesting. ‐Right here.
TAYLOR: So it's very hot. Right?
It's saturated black. Very hot.
BRADBURY: So, again, in hi‐def, you can't see it.
TAYLOR: That means it's a temperature plume.
It's not necessarily a particulate plume.
Like, if you spray out jet fuel from the back of a plane,
it starts cooling off almost immediately,
and you even get ice crystals in it, right?
Absolutely, because it's affected by the atmosphere.
‐This thing stays hot. ‐And it holds its shape.
Which, in itself, is highly unusual.
‐It doesn't follow standard fluid mechanics. ‐No.
TAYLOR: You could try to debunk this as just an earthly vehicle
all you want to, but I've never seen any earthly vehicle
that is explained this way.
What on earth could this thing be?
NARRATOR: The video analysis suggests to Travis
that this craft possesses technology that is more advanced
than anything that can be found on Earth.
TAYLOR: That's really interesting.
NARRATOR: Michael completes the analysis
using a variety of metrics.
BRADBURY: This is inverted infrared, full gamma reduction,
and you've still got two hot spots.
So, clearly you've got two hot spots
in your peanut shape, and they're separated.
You know, that‐that's... intriguing.
Looks like a diamond shape around...
BRADBURY: Looks like a diamond at times.
Clearer in some formats
but not visible to the naked eye.
Yeah, it could be, like, two hexagons or two diamonds,
whatever it ends up being.
NARRATOR: Finally, Michael has one more thing to show Travis
that he feels makes this footage even more extraordinary.
There's a good look at it right there.
That is‐‐ that's insane.
NARRATOR: In 2017, the Chilean government released astonishing footage
of a UFO caught on infrared camera near Santiago.
After new analysis, astrophysicist Dr. Travis Taylor
has concluded that this strange aerial object possesses
capabilities that are not consistent
with any known human technology.
But as far as image analyst Michael Bradbury is concerned,
perhaps most incredible of all
is an image that appears not in the video...
but etched into the desert floor.
There is a glyph on the ground that was found in the desert
that has two diamond‐shaped, like, objects
with a plume coming out behind it
that has a line in the center of it.
‐TAYLOR: No kidding. ‐BRADBURY: Yeah.
That is very intriguing.
BRADBURY: And you see that same structure
that was seen by the Chilean Navy.
They match nearly perfectly.
‐Just like the phenomena caught by this Chilean helicopter. ‐Yes.
Like the diamond things we were seeing on the, on the infrared.
That's a phenomena right now we're seeing with our own eyes.
And‐and we, we see that somebody else saw it somehow.
How old is the glyph?
Several hundred‐‐ if not thousands‐‐ of years old.
So that's really exciting.
BRADBURY: It's no coincidence that that was found
in the same geographical part of the world.
TAYLOR: That's, that's one of the most amazing things
I've ever seen in my life.
It is truly amazing.
These are the cases where I think there's really
something to the ancient astronaut theory.
I do, too.
TSOUKALOS: Just because, thousands of years ago,
people did not have video cameras
doesn't mean these things did not exist.
These diamond‐shaped wedges have the exact same trail
as we can see in the UFO video.
So is there a connection?
And in my opinion, as far as Chile is concerned,
there is a connection between modern UFOs
and ancient craft.
NARRATOR: Could the striking similarity between an ancient geoglyph
and a craft captured on an infrared camera
provide compelling evidence that extraterrestrials
have been present on Earth for thousands of years?
And if so, has an alien flight path
been positively identified in South America?
POPE: There are UFO reports from the modern industrialized cities,
and there are reports from the indigenous peoples.
Now, when two completely different groups see and report
the same thing, this tells me they're reporting
something tangible and real.
...the contemporary UFOs and the mythological UFOs.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the vast desert landscape
stretching through Chile and Peru
is an extraterrestrial outpost on Earth?
Do the incredible sightings, curious rituals,
and strange geoglyphs tell a story
of ongoing alien visitation?
Perhaps as more incredible footage continues to surface,
it will be revealed that our alien ancestors
have been among us... all along.