1 00:00:02,042 --> 00:00:03,792 [Narrator] Massive stone temples 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,167 believed to have been constructed by giants. 3 00:00:07,292 --> 00:00:10,042 A mysterious megalithic city 4 00:00:10,167 --> 00:00:12,750 that rises out of the ocean. 5 00:00:12,875 --> 00:00:15,167 And a colossal pyramid 6 00:00:15,333 --> 00:00:19,458 thought to predate the Great Flood of the Bible. 7 00:00:20,750 --> 00:00:22,708 ♪ ♪ 8 00:00:36,208 --> 00:00:38,625 All around the world, we see the magnificent ruins 9 00:00:38,792 --> 00:00:43,083 of cultures that existed thousands of years ago. 10 00:00:43,250 --> 00:00:47,000 And even today, archaeologists still don't know 11 00:00:47,167 --> 00:00:49,708 how sites like the pyramids of Giza, 12 00:00:49,875 --> 00:00:51,625 the temple at Baalbek, 13 00:00:51,833 --> 00:00:54,042 and even Stonehenge were built. 14 00:00:54,208 --> 00:00:56,625 For ancient astronaut theorists like me, 15 00:00:56,792 --> 00:00:59,292 these places are even more compelling 16 00:00:59,500 --> 00:01:02,458 because the local mythology claims that 17 00:01:02,625 --> 00:01:05,708 they were constructed with otherworldly assistance. 18 00:01:05,875 --> 00:01:10,375 Perhaps one of the best examples of extraterrestrial engineering 19 00:01:10,542 --> 00:01:15,000 can be found atop a vast plateau in the Andes Mountains, 20 00:01:15,208 --> 00:01:17,667 where dozens of megalithic blocks 21 00:01:17,875 --> 00:01:22,417 appear to have been carved with laser-like precision. 22 00:01:25,042 --> 00:01:29,917 [Narrator] The Inca Empire, Peru. 1549. 23 00:01:30,083 --> 00:01:31,917 High in the Andes Mountains, 24 00:01:32,083 --> 00:01:36,000 Spanish explorer Pedro Cieza de León 25 00:01:36,208 --> 00:01:39,250 is searching for the Inca capital of Qullasuyu. 26 00:01:39,417 --> 00:01:42,292 Just south of Lake Titicaca, 27 00:01:42,500 --> 00:01:45,833 at an elevation of nearly 13,000 feet, 28 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:47,750 he comes upon extraordinary ruins 29 00:01:47,875 --> 00:01:50,667 covering roughly two and a half square miles. 30 00:01:50,875 --> 00:01:55,417 It is the ancient settlement of Tiwanaku. 31 00:01:55,583 --> 00:01:59,667 De León spends many months investigating the site, 32 00:01:59,792 --> 00:02:02,833 and writes in his chronicles that Tiwanaku 33 00:02:03,042 --> 00:02:05,167 contains impressive stone walls, 34 00:02:05,375 --> 00:02:08,167 idols of human figures, 35 00:02:08,292 --> 00:02:10,125 and great doorways. 36 00:02:10,292 --> 00:02:12,208 He also writes about an area 37 00:02:12,375 --> 00:02:14,500 south of the main archaeological site 38 00:02:14,708 --> 00:02:18,208 called Puma Punku, or "gate of the puma." 39 00:02:18,375 --> 00:02:20,833 It features stone blocks so enormous 40 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:24,625 he does not understand how they could be moved by humans. 41 00:02:24,750 --> 00:02:27,250 And they are carved with a precision that, 42 00:02:27,458 --> 00:02:30,167 according to de León, could not be accomplished 43 00:02:30,375 --> 00:02:33,000 with the tools available to the Inca. 44 00:02:33,208 --> 00:02:35,667 [Tsoukalos] Pedro Cieza de León says 45 00:02:35,833 --> 00:02:40,000 that the local population, which was Inca, told him 46 00:02:40,208 --> 00:02:44,958 that this place was not built by the Incas, 47 00:02:45,167 --> 00:02:48,333 but it was built hundreds of years before. 48 00:02:48,458 --> 00:02:51,958 If the Inca themselves have said 49 00:02:52,083 --> 00:02:53,833 that it was not the Inca, 50 00:02:54,042 --> 00:02:56,125 well then, who were the pre-Incas? 51 00:02:56,292 --> 00:02:58,249 And there we are confronted 52 00:02:58,250 --> 00:03:00,500 with a gigantic question mark. 53 00:03:00,708 --> 00:03:04,667 [Narrator] What the giant blocks formed is completely unknown, 54 00:03:04,875 --> 00:03:08,667 and nearly five centuries after its discovery by de León, 55 00:03:08,792 --> 00:03:13,167 Puma Punku remains as mysterious as ever. 56 00:03:13,375 --> 00:03:15,083 [Barnhart] It's out in this 57 00:03:15,292 --> 00:03:18,125 really open, high plains. 58 00:03:18,333 --> 00:03:22,667 Most of the stones in Puma Punku are huge. 59 00:03:22,792 --> 00:03:27,000 The biggest is 130 tons. 60 00:03:27,208 --> 00:03:30,333 There's another one that's 85 tons. 61 00:03:30,458 --> 00:03:33,000 Even the small ones are multi-ton. 62 00:03:33,208 --> 00:03:35,250 So these are huge. 63 00:03:35,375 --> 00:03:38,208 The platform Illitica is in the center of Puma Punku, 64 00:03:38,375 --> 00:03:40,167 and it's, in fact, the foundation. 65 00:03:40,292 --> 00:03:43,542 So it consists of enormous slabs of red sandstone 66 00:03:43,708 --> 00:03:45,417 that were brought from a quarry 67 00:03:45,625 --> 00:03:49,167 eight miles to the west over two mountain ranges. 68 00:03:49,375 --> 00:03:52,833 So, how that was accomplished, I have no idea. 69 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,167 [Caroline Whitehill] Another really fascinating 70 00:03:55,375 --> 00:03:57,917 aspect of the Puma Punku site 71 00:03:58,083 --> 00:03:59,667 is the distribution of these blocks. 72 00:04:00,875 --> 00:04:03,167 Some of them are still upright, in the position 73 00:04:03,333 --> 00:04:04,958 that they were originally constructed in. 74 00:04:05,167 --> 00:04:08,292 Most of them are strewn about. 75 00:04:08,458 --> 00:04:10,667 It looks like you're in a child's playroom 76 00:04:10,875 --> 00:04:13,042 and blocks have just been knocked over from 77 00:04:13,208 --> 00:04:15,333 some sort of a structure that was built. 78 00:04:15,458 --> 00:04:18,208 [Hugh Newman] It looks like it's been destroyed 79 00:04:18,375 --> 00:04:20,250 by a kind of tsunami or something. 80 00:04:20,417 --> 00:04:22,500 It's got mud piled up everywhere, 81 00:04:22,708 --> 00:04:27,208 giant stones sticking out of it at crazy angles. 82 00:04:28,208 --> 00:04:30,167 [Narrator] It remains unknown 83 00:04:30,375 --> 00:04:32,250 whether the structures of Puma Punku 84 00:04:32,458 --> 00:04:34,167 were destroyed by a cataclysm 85 00:04:34,375 --> 00:04:37,375 or if the construction project was simply abandoned 86 00:04:37,542 --> 00:04:39,500 before it was finished. 87 00:04:39,667 --> 00:04:43,250 But the roughly 150 megalithic blocks 88 00:04:43,417 --> 00:04:44,833 that can be found at the site today 89 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:48,125 reveal that the builders possessed astounding 90 00:04:48,250 --> 00:04:50,375 stoneworking abilities. 91 00:04:51,750 --> 00:04:55,042 [Barnhart] Puma Punku has these megalithic blocks 92 00:04:55,208 --> 00:04:57,000 that are perfectly cut, 93 00:04:57,208 --> 00:04:59,417 that all of their angles 94 00:04:59,583 --> 00:05:01,542 are completely right angles. 95 00:05:01,750 --> 00:05:05,458 There's these ones in particular called H-blocks 96 00:05:05,667 --> 00:05:08,208 that look like a big capital H. 97 00:05:08,375 --> 00:05:12,667 They have kind of, uh, fade lines going in 98 00:05:12,792 --> 00:05:15,208 where they carved the same shape 99 00:05:15,417 --> 00:05:17,625 in a couple of different layers, 100 00:05:17,792 --> 00:05:20,833 deeper and deeper into the stone. And its precision 101 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,125 is really mind-boggling. 102 00:05:23,333 --> 00:05:25,167 [Travis Taylor] There are grooves that are cut 103 00:05:25,333 --> 00:05:26,958 with perfect 90-degree angles. 104 00:05:27,125 --> 00:05:29,708 It looks like they were so precise 105 00:05:29,917 --> 00:05:32,250 that they were done with modern-day 106 00:05:32,375 --> 00:05:34,875 milling machine tools. 107 00:05:36,792 --> 00:05:38,167 [David Childress] There's stones there, too, 108 00:05:38,333 --> 00:05:40,417 that have a lot of drill holes 109 00:05:40,542 --> 00:05:43,667 and saw cuts and things like that in them. 110 00:05:43,875 --> 00:05:45,375 [Taylor] It's an 111 00:05:45,542 --> 00:05:48,958 amazing piece of engineering that is beyond its time. 112 00:05:49,125 --> 00:05:51,042 [Tsoukalos] Predominantly, we have 113 00:05:51,208 --> 00:05:54,042 two types of stone at Puma Punku, 114 00:05:54,208 --> 00:05:57,000 and that is red sandstone 115 00:05:57,208 --> 00:05:59,708 and gray andesite. 116 00:05:59,833 --> 00:06:02,792 They have found tools made of copper 117 00:06:02,958 --> 00:06:06,667 and of iron and bronze at Puma Punku. 118 00:06:06,875 --> 00:06:11,708 And with those tools, you can absolutely cut the sandstone. 119 00:06:11,875 --> 00:06:17,292 However, you cannot cut the gray andesite blocks 120 00:06:17,458 --> 00:06:20,000 with bronze or with copper or with iron. 121 00:06:20,125 --> 00:06:24,500 What's interesting, too, is that the stone blocks that we find 122 00:06:24,708 --> 00:06:28,250 at Puma Punku-- the surface is as if 123 00:06:28,375 --> 00:06:30,333 you're touching glass. 124 00:06:30,500 --> 00:06:32,625 It is perfection. 125 00:06:34,375 --> 00:06:38,333 [Narrator] In 1903, Arthur Posnansky, 126 00:06:38,542 --> 00:06:40,958 an Austrian engineer, explorer 127 00:06:41,125 --> 00:06:42,667 and amateur archaeologist, 128 00:06:42,875 --> 00:06:45,333 traveled to Puma Punku, which, by that time, 129 00:06:45,542 --> 00:06:47,625 was located in western Bolivia. 130 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:51,750 Posnansky began the most thorough study of the site 131 00:06:51,875 --> 00:06:53,333 ever conducted. 132 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:55,208 [Foerster] Arthur Posnansky was born 133 00:06:55,375 --> 00:06:57,708 in Vienna, Austria in the 19th century, 134 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,292 and in his early 20s he moved to South America. 135 00:07:00,458 --> 00:07:04,375 But very soon after that he became fascinated by Puma Punku, 136 00:07:04,542 --> 00:07:06,667 and spent almost the rest of his life 137 00:07:06,875 --> 00:07:09,625 studying and researching that location. 138 00:07:09,750 --> 00:07:12,417 [Tsoukalos] Arthur Posnansky lived 139 00:07:12,625 --> 00:07:15,000 and researched at Puma Punku 140 00:07:15,208 --> 00:07:17,208 from 1904 141 00:07:17,417 --> 00:07:20,125 until 1945. 142 00:07:20,292 --> 00:07:22,667 He was there for 41 years, 143 00:07:22,833 --> 00:07:25,792 and he absolutely fell in love 144 00:07:25,958 --> 00:07:28,917 not only with the landscapes there, 145 00:07:29,083 --> 00:07:31,125 but also with that culture 146 00:07:31,292 --> 00:07:33,667 that put a spell on him, 147 00:07:33,792 --> 00:07:36,250 and it was his biggest siren call. 148 00:07:36,417 --> 00:07:39,000 When speaking with the Aymara elders, 149 00:07:39,208 --> 00:07:43,083 they speak very, very fondly of the archaeologist Posnansky, 150 00:07:43,250 --> 00:07:47,667 because he respected them and he respected their culture. 151 00:07:47,875 --> 00:07:51,833 And he talked to them about what they knew about these sites. 152 00:07:52,000 --> 00:07:53,750 And one of the places that they're in agreement 153 00:07:53,875 --> 00:07:56,500 is that the site is much older than it's believed to be 154 00:07:56,667 --> 00:07:58,167 by mainstream archaeologists. 155 00:07:58,375 --> 00:08:01,208 [Narrator] Mainstream scholars believe 156 00:08:01,375 --> 00:08:02,833 the site was originally constructed 157 00:08:02,958 --> 00:08:06,875 about 1,500 years ago, but Posnansky proposed 158 00:08:07,042 --> 00:08:11,000 that Puma Punku was much, much older. 159 00:08:11,208 --> 00:08:14,500 By examining the structures and what he believed 160 00:08:14,625 --> 00:08:17,167 was their original alignment with the stars, 161 00:08:17,375 --> 00:08:21,333 he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC. 162 00:08:21,458 --> 00:08:23,625 [Taylor] Arthur Posnansky suggests that 163 00:08:23,792 --> 00:08:27,458 Puma Punku would line up with stellar objects 164 00:08:27,625 --> 00:08:29,250 about 17,000 years ago. 165 00:08:29,417 --> 00:08:32,583 The local indigenous people-- the Aymara-- 166 00:08:32,750 --> 00:08:34,167 uh, they actually 167 00:08:34,333 --> 00:08:37,042 have a mythology that Puma Punku 168 00:08:37,208 --> 00:08:41,625 has been around for maybe as much as 17,000 years. 169 00:08:42,833 --> 00:08:44,667 [Narrator] The Aymara people have occupied 170 00:08:44,833 --> 00:08:47,167 the area of modern-day Peru and Bolivia 171 00:08:47,375 --> 00:08:49,583 for at least 800 years, 172 00:08:49,708 --> 00:08:51,667 and lived alongside the Inca 173 00:08:51,833 --> 00:08:54,625 when Pedro Cieza de León arrived at Tiwanaku 174 00:08:54,792 --> 00:08:56,833 in the 16th century. 175 00:08:57,000 --> 00:09:00,582 Both the Inca and Aymara told de León 176 00:09:00,583 --> 00:09:02,333 and other Spanish chroniclers 177 00:09:02,500 --> 00:09:06,667 not only that Puma Punku was built long before their time, 178 00:09:06,875 --> 00:09:10,375 but also that it was the work of the gods. 179 00:09:10,542 --> 00:09:12,292 [Erich von Däniken] The locals said, 180 00:09:12,458 --> 00:09:14,917 "It was not us who made this. 181 00:09:15,042 --> 00:09:18,500 It was the gods who did it in one night. 182 00:09:19,875 --> 00:09:22,874 The gods who descended from the sky." 183 00:09:22,875 --> 00:09:25,542 So, normally, every culture says, 184 00:09:25,708 --> 00:09:28,542 "Oh, yes, we did it. We-we had the knowledge. 185 00:09:28,708 --> 00:09:31,125 We were strong enough." In that case-- 186 00:09:31,333 --> 00:09:32,833 Puma Punku-- the locals say 187 00:09:33,042 --> 00:09:36,333 "It was not us who made these platforms. 188 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:38,500 It was the gods." 189 00:09:38,708 --> 00:09:41,792 Which gods? Extraterrestrials. 190 00:09:47,875 --> 00:09:49,916 In the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, 191 00:09:49,917 --> 00:09:51,916 the tiny island nation of Malta 192 00:09:51,917 --> 00:09:53,958 is home to some of the best examples 193 00:09:54,083 --> 00:09:56,500 of what ancient astronaut theorists 194 00:09:56,667 --> 00:09:59,792 consider to be extraterrestrial engineering. 195 00:09:59,917 --> 00:10:04,167 The megaliths of Malta are some of the oldest in the world, 196 00:10:04,375 --> 00:10:07,667 and many weigh more than 50 tons. 197 00:10:07,833 --> 00:10:11,000 But what's even more intriguing are the local legends 198 00:10:11,167 --> 00:10:14,333 that claim that these sites were built by beings 199 00:10:14,542 --> 00:10:17,125 who came from the stars. 200 00:10:19,708 --> 00:10:22,000 [Narrator] The Republic of Malta. 201 00:10:22,208 --> 00:10:24,667 Situated across the island nation's 202 00:10:24,833 --> 00:10:27,250 122 square miles 203 00:10:27,375 --> 00:10:31,458 sit the remains of seven megalithic sites. 204 00:10:31,583 --> 00:10:36,583 These include the two temples of Ggantija... 205 00:10:44,167 --> 00:10:46,250 ...and Skorba. 206 00:10:46,458 --> 00:10:49,958 These marvels of ancient construction were all built 207 00:10:50,083 --> 00:10:52,625 with the same type of Maltese limestone 208 00:10:52,750 --> 00:10:55,333 which was extracted from local quarries. 209 00:10:56,750 --> 00:10:58,667 [Schoch] The fact that they were moving around 210 00:10:58,875 --> 00:11:02,500 these multi-ton blocks, building these temples 211 00:11:02,708 --> 00:11:04,833 and actually, when you look at them, 212 00:11:05,042 --> 00:11:08,792 moving the blocks within very, very narrow confines... 213 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:11,875 Okay, it's one thing to move a block 214 00:11:12,042 --> 00:11:13,875 out in the open that's multi-ton, 215 00:11:14,042 --> 00:11:17,833 but to then place it systematically 216 00:11:18,042 --> 00:11:20,042 and very carefully next to another one, 217 00:11:20,167 --> 00:11:22,208 next to another one, next to another one, 218 00:11:22,375 --> 00:11:26,708 to form these beautiful temple structures-- 219 00:11:26,875 --> 00:11:29,042 that's a real engineering feat. 220 00:11:30,542 --> 00:11:32,750 [Narrator] While there are some researchers who believe 221 00:11:32,917 --> 00:11:34,875 that Malta's megalithic temples 222 00:11:35,042 --> 00:11:38,583 could be as much as 12,000 years old, 223 00:11:38,750 --> 00:11:42,292 mainstream scholars believe they were created 224 00:11:42,417 --> 00:11:45,125 no earlier than 3600 BC, 225 00:11:45,292 --> 00:11:49,000 during what is known as the Neolithic Age. 226 00:11:49,167 --> 00:11:52,667 And they also theorize that the massive structures 227 00:11:52,875 --> 00:11:55,000 were built by a human culture that used 228 00:11:55,167 --> 00:11:57,333 only primitive stone tools. 229 00:11:58,375 --> 00:12:01,333 [Tsoukalos] Archaeology suggests, at the time, 230 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:03,458 we barely invented the wheel. 231 00:12:03,667 --> 00:12:05,625 We barely had tools, 232 00:12:05,792 --> 00:12:10,042 there was no known language 233 00:12:10,208 --> 00:12:12,083 and we had no writing. 234 00:12:12,250 --> 00:12:15,292 Well, let's step back for a moment and think about this. 235 00:12:15,458 --> 00:12:18,750 From an evolutionary and technology, uh, perspective, 236 00:12:18,917 --> 00:12:20,333 that makes no sense because 237 00:12:20,542 --> 00:12:22,667 you begin with simple, 238 00:12:22,875 --> 00:12:25,667 you continue bigger, bigger and then biggest. 239 00:12:25,875 --> 00:12:28,292 But you start small. 240 00:12:28,458 --> 00:12:31,500 What we have in the case of the Maltese structures 241 00:12:31,667 --> 00:12:34,458 is that the biggest are the oldest. 242 00:12:34,583 --> 00:12:38,333 So that makes zero sense 243 00:12:38,458 --> 00:12:40,750 from a logical perspective 244 00:12:40,917 --> 00:12:44,167 because there was no evolution in technology. 245 00:12:44,375 --> 00:12:46,917 The archaeologists-- they agree with this. 246 00:12:48,917 --> 00:12:50,500 [Jason Osequeda] To construct similar temple 247 00:12:50,667 --> 00:12:51,833 after similar temple, 248 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:53,958 um, with the same material, 249 00:12:54,125 --> 00:12:55,958 without evidence of writing, 250 00:12:56,125 --> 00:12:57,833 shows a high degree of communication. 251 00:12:58,042 --> 00:13:01,625 And we find terra-cotta models, 252 00:13:01,750 --> 00:13:04,625 in fact, of temples, and 253 00:13:04,792 --> 00:13:06,750 archaeologists have suggested, perhaps, 254 00:13:06,917 --> 00:13:09,042 that this is an early architect's rendering. 255 00:13:09,208 --> 00:13:12,000 This is more evidence of the high level 256 00:13:12,167 --> 00:13:14,167 of thought and ability that went into 257 00:13:14,292 --> 00:13:16,292 the construction of these temples. 258 00:13:19,167 --> 00:13:21,958 [Narrator] No written records have ever been discovered 259 00:13:22,083 --> 00:13:25,500 to explain who built the megalithic temples in Malta. 260 00:13:25,708 --> 00:13:29,750 However, local traditions of the Maltese people 261 00:13:29,875 --> 00:13:32,167 have offered a stunning possibility. 262 00:13:32,333 --> 00:13:36,042 They claim that the massive structures 263 00:13:36,208 --> 00:13:38,000 were built by a race of giant beings 264 00:13:38,208 --> 00:13:41,792 who came to Earth from the stars. 265 00:13:43,000 --> 00:13:44,749 [Jonathan Young] There's a story 266 00:13:44,750 --> 00:13:46,958 that a meteorite came down from the heavens 267 00:13:47,167 --> 00:13:49,583 and turned into a goddess, a giant 268 00:13:49,750 --> 00:13:51,917 named Sansuna. 269 00:13:52,125 --> 00:13:55,292 And the locals, of course, were terrified of this giant. 270 00:13:55,458 --> 00:14:00,333 But at a place called Ggantija she started building a temple 271 00:14:00,500 --> 00:14:04,000 and moved stones much larger than any human could ever move, 272 00:14:04,208 --> 00:14:06,667 and assembled this structure that was so massive 273 00:14:06,875 --> 00:14:09,958 it remains to this day, 274 00:14:10,125 --> 00:14:12,583 still a place of mystery, 275 00:14:12,750 --> 00:14:15,333 still a giant's construction. 276 00:14:16,708 --> 00:14:19,083 [William Henry] When you see these cyclopean stones, 277 00:14:19,250 --> 00:14:23,542 some of them weighing as much as 50 tons, you can appreciate 278 00:14:23,667 --> 00:14:27,458 why we have the story of this giantess, Sansuna. 279 00:14:28,458 --> 00:14:30,750 [Narrator] The local legends of Sansuna 280 00:14:30,917 --> 00:14:33,000 may sound incredible to some. 281 00:14:33,208 --> 00:14:35,375 However, in the 17th century, 282 00:14:35,542 --> 00:14:39,875 a Maltese nobleman named Gian Francesco Abela 283 00:14:40,083 --> 00:14:43,042 claimed to have found forensic evidence that these legends 284 00:14:43,208 --> 00:14:45,250 may have been based in fact. 285 00:14:45,417 --> 00:14:48,833 In the early 1600s, Gian Francesco Abela 286 00:14:49,042 --> 00:14:52,000 was living on the island of Malta, 287 00:14:52,125 --> 00:14:54,917 and he actually wrote about the fact that giants 288 00:14:55,042 --> 00:14:57,542 were involved in the construction of these sites. 289 00:14:59,292 --> 00:15:01,167 And one of the reasons he wrote this is because 290 00:15:01,333 --> 00:15:06,542 he said he found bones, skulls and even giant teeth 291 00:15:06,708 --> 00:15:09,000 all across the island 292 00:15:09,167 --> 00:15:12,250 and there were other reports of them coming forth at this time. 293 00:15:13,708 --> 00:15:16,042 [Narrator] In order to investigate the local legends 294 00:15:16,208 --> 00:15:19,042 connecting giant extraterrestrial beings 295 00:15:19,208 --> 00:15:21,500 to the massive structures on Malta, 296 00:15:21,708 --> 00:15:24,458 in 2022, 297 00:15:24,625 --> 00:15:27,833 ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos 298 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:30,917 traveled to Malta's oldest megalithic structures, 299 00:15:31,042 --> 00:15:35,708 the temples of Ggantija on the island of Gozo. 300 00:15:35,875 --> 00:15:39,625 There, he met with Frans Van Avendonk... 301 00:15:39,750 --> 00:15:41,000 I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you. 302 00:15:41,167 --> 00:15:43,875 ...an expert in Maltese history 303 00:15:44,042 --> 00:15:47,292 who has lived on the island since 1991. 304 00:15:49,125 --> 00:15:51,250 - Look at this, I mean... - Gigantic. 305 00:15:51,375 --> 00:15:53,292 It is gigantic. 306 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:57,375 "Ggantija" means "the giant goddess," 307 00:15:57,542 --> 00:15:59,333 and it makes sense why, 308 00:15:59,500 --> 00:16:03,292 because right now, I feel like an ant. 309 00:16:03,417 --> 00:16:06,958 We are so small, and especially when you're right next to it. 310 00:16:07,125 --> 00:16:08,667 [Van Avendonk] It's very impressive. 311 00:16:08,875 --> 00:16:10,625 [Tsoukalos] And, uh, in my opinion, 312 00:16:10,833 --> 00:16:13,292 still a massive question mark. 313 00:16:13,458 --> 00:16:16,833 [Van Avendonk] There are still questions, yeah, definitely. 314 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:19,458 What can you tell us about the dating? 315 00:16:19,625 --> 00:16:22,083 Well, when it was excavated-- because we don't 316 00:16:22,208 --> 00:16:24,208 talk about discovery, it was always visible-- 317 00:16:24,417 --> 00:16:26,083 people thought it was a Phoenician temple. 318 00:16:26,250 --> 00:16:28,500 - Okay. - Much later, they realized 319 00:16:28,667 --> 00:16:30,958 it must have been prehistoric, so it was put 320 00:16:31,167 --> 00:16:33,167 in the 2000s, before Christ. 321 00:16:33,375 --> 00:16:37,625 Then it moves back to the 3000s. Now we're saying 3600, at least. 322 00:16:37,792 --> 00:16:39,375 Technology has improved, 323 00:16:39,500 --> 00:16:41,208 different ways of looking at things, 324 00:16:41,375 --> 00:16:42,708 so therefore, they're getting older. 325 00:16:42,875 --> 00:16:44,333 They were built much earlier 326 00:16:44,542 --> 00:16:46,083 than we thought before. 327 00:16:47,042 --> 00:16:48,500 [Narrator] When viewed from above, 328 00:16:48,667 --> 00:16:51,083 the two adjacent temples of Ggantija 329 00:16:51,250 --> 00:16:55,583 are designed with large apses resembling a cloverleaf. 330 00:16:55,750 --> 00:16:59,125 Each housed an altar, and artifacts suggest 331 00:16:59,292 --> 00:17:02,375 a wooden roof covered the entire temple. 332 00:17:02,542 --> 00:17:05,792 Many of the stone blocks stand 20 feet tall, 333 00:17:05,917 --> 00:17:09,333 and some weigh in excess of 50 tons. 334 00:17:10,583 --> 00:17:15,917 Is it possible that we've lost some type of masonry knowledge? 335 00:17:16,083 --> 00:17:19,542 Because you could create it using smaller stones. 336 00:17:20,708 --> 00:17:24,083 Clearly, this required planning. 337 00:17:24,250 --> 00:17:26,250 - It required logistics. - Yes. 338 00:17:26,375 --> 00:17:28,583 [Tsoukalos] In my opinion, master builders 339 00:17:28,750 --> 00:17:30,250 were at work here, 340 00:17:30,375 --> 00:17:32,083 and mainstream archaeologists are suggesting that 341 00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:34,167 whoever built this did not have any writing. 342 00:17:34,375 --> 00:17:36,417 Well, not only would it require writing, 343 00:17:36,625 --> 00:17:38,833 but you have to have calculations. 344 00:17:38,958 --> 00:17:41,333 - And leadership. - Doesn't last... Exactly. 345 00:17:41,542 --> 00:17:44,833 With the evidence of how old or when it was built, 346 00:17:44,958 --> 00:17:47,000 who built it and how it was built... 347 00:17:47,167 --> 00:17:49,000 - Mm-hmm. - Might be there, 348 00:17:49,167 --> 00:17:50,708 but we haven't found it yet. 349 00:17:50,875 --> 00:17:52,333 I can imagine that people saw this 350 00:17:52,542 --> 00:17:54,333 and thought, "This must have been 351 00:17:54,500 --> 00:17:56,583 - the work of a giant." - Right. 352 00:17:58,542 --> 00:18:00,208 [Osequeda] Throughout the Mediterranean, 353 00:18:00,375 --> 00:18:03,375 you see an association with giants 354 00:18:03,542 --> 00:18:08,583 constructing megaliths. For instance, in Mycenaean Greece, 355 00:18:08,708 --> 00:18:11,292 there's a structure called the Lion's Gate. 356 00:18:11,458 --> 00:18:14,792 Aristotle mentioned that 357 00:18:14,917 --> 00:18:17,167 this construction style was called cyclopean masonry 358 00:18:17,375 --> 00:18:19,667 because of the large stones. 359 00:18:19,792 --> 00:18:24,000 The ancient Greeks figured that only a giant called Cyclops 360 00:18:24,208 --> 00:18:27,082 could have had the strength to move these. 361 00:18:27,083 --> 00:18:29,916 The same sort of cyclopean masonry is present 362 00:18:29,917 --> 00:18:32,167 in the Maltese temples as well. 363 00:18:33,583 --> 00:18:35,083 [Tsoukalos] These stories of giants 364 00:18:35,292 --> 00:18:38,250 have been an integral part 365 00:18:38,417 --> 00:18:41,167 of our entire human history 366 00:18:41,333 --> 00:18:44,167 since the beginning of time. 367 00:18:44,333 --> 00:18:46,917 So, is it possible 368 00:18:47,042 --> 00:18:51,750 that the reason why we have these stories of these giants 369 00:18:51,917 --> 00:18:55,708 is because, at one point, they actually existed? 370 00:18:55,917 --> 00:18:57,875 And the answer to that is yes. 371 00:19:03,750 --> 00:19:06,667 Not every example of extraterrestrial engineering 372 00:19:06,833 --> 00:19:08,667 are gigantic structures. 373 00:19:08,792 --> 00:19:10,167 Sometimes, they're so small 374 00:19:10,375 --> 00:19:12,958 they can fit in the palm of your hand. 375 00:19:13,083 --> 00:19:15,417 Like in the case of a fascinating discovery 376 00:19:15,583 --> 00:19:18,333 under the ruins of Teotihuacan in Mexico, 377 00:19:18,542 --> 00:19:20,625 where archaeologists found 378 00:19:20,750 --> 00:19:24,208 mysterious golden spheres. 379 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:32,208 [Narrator] Teotihuacan, Mexico. 380 00:19:32,375 --> 00:19:35,292 This ancient pyramid site was once home 381 00:19:35,458 --> 00:19:38,167 to a mysterious civilization dating back 382 00:19:38,292 --> 00:19:40,708 to the first century AD-- 383 00:19:40,875 --> 00:19:44,667 a time long before the Aztec arrived in this region. 384 00:19:45,833 --> 00:19:47,875 Since the early 1990s, 385 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,875 archaeologists have been exploring the dozens 386 00:19:51,042 --> 00:19:53,833 of subterranean rooms, tunnels 387 00:19:54,000 --> 00:19:58,292 and pathways that lie below this eight square mile complex. 388 00:20:00,917 --> 00:20:03,833 They've been doing a lot of excavations to understand 389 00:20:04,042 --> 00:20:07,333 the nature and the relationship of the different pyramids. 390 00:20:07,500 --> 00:20:10,500 And they're exploring underneath 391 00:20:10,667 --> 00:20:12,708 the Temple of the Feathered Serpent. 392 00:20:12,917 --> 00:20:15,583 And so they've made some really nice maps 393 00:20:15,750 --> 00:20:18,250 of the pathways and such that are underneath the temple 394 00:20:18,417 --> 00:20:21,792 and exposed caverns in areas that they didn't know existed. 395 00:20:23,167 --> 00:20:25,042 [Narrator] In May of 2013, 396 00:20:25,208 --> 00:20:29,292 researchers working beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent 397 00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:33,750 employed a small robot called Tlaloc II-TC 398 00:20:33,917 --> 00:20:37,042 to explore the recently uncovered area. 399 00:20:37,208 --> 00:20:40,125 Inside one chamber, archaeologists made 400 00:20:40,333 --> 00:20:42,333 a curious discovery. 401 00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:47,250 They found more than a hundred gold-colored metallic spheres. 402 00:20:47,375 --> 00:20:50,000 [Andrew Collins] These tiny balls 403 00:20:50,167 --> 00:20:52,500 are probably anything between 404 00:20:52,667 --> 00:20:55,917 an inch to about five inches in diameter. 405 00:20:56,083 --> 00:20:59,083 And what we can say is that 406 00:20:59,250 --> 00:21:02,083 when they were actually put in place, 407 00:21:02,208 --> 00:21:05,167 uh, probably about 2,000 years ago, 408 00:21:05,333 --> 00:21:07,167 you would have had this incredible 409 00:21:07,333 --> 00:21:11,833 shining gallery of lights as you went down it. 410 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:15,167 [Whitehill] They appear gold, but when you look at them 411 00:21:15,375 --> 00:21:17,958 under chemical inspection, it appears that 412 00:21:18,125 --> 00:21:20,625 that gold color is mineral pyrite. 413 00:21:22,042 --> 00:21:23,750 The Mexican archaeologists 414 00:21:23,917 --> 00:21:25,792 are completely perplexed. They haven't seen 415 00:21:25,958 --> 00:21:27,375 anything like this before. 416 00:21:27,542 --> 00:21:29,333 They haven't seen anything like this 417 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:31,708 in their explorations of the other temples. 418 00:21:31,875 --> 00:21:34,500 So there's lots of-of questions to be answered, still. 419 00:21:38,458 --> 00:21:40,167 [Narrator] Archaeologists retrieved 420 00:21:40,375 --> 00:21:42,000 several spheres from the chamber, 421 00:21:42,125 --> 00:21:44,625 and when they analyzed them, they were amazed 422 00:21:44,833 --> 00:21:46,708 by what they found. 423 00:21:46,875 --> 00:21:51,167 [Barnhart] The sparkly spheres that were found in Teotihuacan 424 00:21:51,375 --> 00:21:53,625 really are an enigma. 425 00:21:53,750 --> 00:21:57,708 As far as how they were made, men definitely made them. 426 00:21:57,833 --> 00:22:01,208 We have looked at those spheres and they are clay. 427 00:22:01,417 --> 00:22:04,000 They are like sunbaked clay that was then 428 00:22:04,208 --> 00:22:06,792 rolled in pyrite dust. 429 00:22:06,958 --> 00:22:10,167 That's why they have that kind of yellow color. 430 00:22:10,333 --> 00:22:12,833 Why they did it... I don't know. 431 00:22:14,542 --> 00:22:16,583 [Henry] Nobody knows the purpose of them, 432 00:22:16,750 --> 00:22:19,250 why they were made or even who made them, 433 00:22:19,375 --> 00:22:20,833 but the fact that they're there 434 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,250 tells us they are of-of utmost importance 435 00:22:23,375 --> 00:22:25,083 to what went on at the temple. 436 00:22:28,375 --> 00:22:29,708 [Narrator] The golden spheres found under 437 00:22:29,875 --> 00:22:31,667 the Temple of the Feathered Serpent 438 00:22:31,833 --> 00:22:34,292 are a mystery to archaeologists, 439 00:22:34,458 --> 00:22:37,500 but some believe they may be representations 440 00:22:37,708 --> 00:22:41,667 of celestial bodies observed in the night sky. 441 00:22:41,875 --> 00:22:46,417 But ancient astronaut theorists suggest the mysterious spheres 442 00:22:46,583 --> 00:22:48,750 could have served a more profound purpose, 443 00:22:48,875 --> 00:22:53,417 and point to another discovery made in 1906. 444 00:22:54,708 --> 00:22:59,500 [Collins] At Teotihuacan, huge mica sheets have been found 445 00:22:59,625 --> 00:23:03,333 beneath a layer of stone flooring 446 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,833 that were 90 feet 447 00:23:06,042 --> 00:23:10,042 square and they were placed directly on top of each other, 448 00:23:10,208 --> 00:23:11,708 and yet you couldn't see them. 449 00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:17,583 So, they clearly weren't decorative or aesthetic, 450 00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:21,417 they were clearly functional in their use. 451 00:23:21,583 --> 00:23:24,000 So, what were they doing there? 452 00:23:25,042 --> 00:23:28,417 [Tsoukalos] We use mica today in spacefaring technology. 453 00:23:28,583 --> 00:23:30,583 It's a heat shield 454 00:23:30,708 --> 00:23:33,917 for high-- very, very high-- temperatures. 455 00:23:34,083 --> 00:23:36,083 What is it doing at Teotihuacan? 456 00:23:36,208 --> 00:23:40,208 What's also fascinating is that throughout Teotihuacan 457 00:23:40,375 --> 00:23:44,292 you see burn marks on the walls. 458 00:23:44,417 --> 00:23:47,667 So, at some point, Teotihuacan 459 00:23:47,833 --> 00:23:51,000 underwent a gigantic fire. 460 00:23:51,167 --> 00:23:54,000 Or was it something else? 461 00:23:54,167 --> 00:23:57,125 Was it some type of a blast? 462 00:23:57,292 --> 00:23:59,542 Was it some type of an exhaust? 463 00:24:00,583 --> 00:24:02,500 [Narrator] Curiously, mica 464 00:24:02,708 --> 00:24:04,750 wasn't the only unusual substance 465 00:24:04,917 --> 00:24:06,917 found within the ancient structure. 466 00:24:07,042 --> 00:24:09,708 [Newman] They actually found mercury 467 00:24:09,875 --> 00:24:12,042 under some of the pyramids as well. 468 00:24:12,250 --> 00:24:15,167 So, what does this all mean? Well, Mercury is used 469 00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:17,083 in different electrical components 470 00:24:17,250 --> 00:24:21,000 and it conducts electricity. So, can we suggest that 471 00:24:21,167 --> 00:24:24,958 they were using this for some advanced technological purpose? 472 00:24:26,000 --> 00:24:28,042 [Childress] Mercury itself is-is very special. 473 00:24:28,208 --> 00:24:31,500 It's a metal, it's a liquid, it's a electrical conductor. 474 00:24:31,667 --> 00:24:34,958 Mercury can be used for many, many devices, 475 00:24:35,083 --> 00:24:36,625 all of which are high tech. 476 00:24:36,792 --> 00:24:39,500 So, you have to wonder: what is going on 477 00:24:39,625 --> 00:24:41,458 here at Teotihuacan? 478 00:24:41,625 --> 00:24:43,667 Do these small balls 479 00:24:43,833 --> 00:24:46,833 and the mica and the mercury 480 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,917 and other facets of the pyramid-- 481 00:24:49,083 --> 00:24:52,542 are they all working together to create 482 00:24:52,708 --> 00:24:57,667 some kind of electrical device that's doing something? 483 00:24:57,833 --> 00:25:00,458 That would seem to be the case. 484 00:25:01,708 --> 00:25:04,042 [Narrator] Does the discovery at Teotihuacan 485 00:25:04,208 --> 00:25:06,375 of both mica and mercury-- 486 00:25:06,542 --> 00:25:09,667 two substances with high-tech applications-- 487 00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:13,792 indicate that an advanced technology once existed 488 00:25:13,958 --> 00:25:16,750 in this ancient Mesoamerican city? 489 00:25:16,917 --> 00:25:19,958 One that involved the mysterious spheres 490 00:25:20,083 --> 00:25:23,500 found under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent? 491 00:25:23,667 --> 00:25:26,667 We've often suggested that ancient structures 492 00:25:26,833 --> 00:25:30,167 may have been used as some type 493 00:25:30,375 --> 00:25:32,500 of energy capacitor. 494 00:25:32,708 --> 00:25:35,292 An aeronautics engineer has suggested 495 00:25:35,458 --> 00:25:39,125 that the Great Pyramid of Egypt or the whole Giza complex 496 00:25:39,292 --> 00:25:42,333 may have been some type of a giant power plant. 497 00:25:42,500 --> 00:25:46,500 Well, what if Egypt is not the only place 498 00:25:46,667 --> 00:25:48,792 where they had something like this? 499 00:25:55,667 --> 00:25:57,833 How do you explain an ancient structure 500 00:25:57,958 --> 00:26:02,125 where the walls are built from 20-foot-long basalt columns 501 00:26:02,292 --> 00:26:04,708 stacked more than 30 feet high, 502 00:26:04,875 --> 00:26:07,708 all in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? 503 00:26:07,875 --> 00:26:11,833 For ancient astronaut theorists, this place, called Nan Madol, 504 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:17,208 is a perfect example of extraterrestrial engineering. 505 00:26:19,583 --> 00:26:21,792 [Narrator] Pohnpei, Micronesia. 506 00:26:21,958 --> 00:26:26,583 Located roughly 2,500 miles northeast of Australia 507 00:26:26,750 --> 00:26:29,333 lie the ruins of Nan Madol. 508 00:26:29,500 --> 00:26:32,625 This 11-square-mile complex 509 00:26:32,792 --> 00:26:37,000 was built out of more than 250 million tons of basalt, 510 00:26:37,167 --> 00:26:40,458 with some blocks weighing upwards of 50 tons. 511 00:26:40,667 --> 00:26:43,500 In 2019, 512 00:26:43,667 --> 00:26:46,667 ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos 513 00:26:46,875 --> 00:26:48,958 and David Childress, along with 514 00:26:49,125 --> 00:26:53,625 Micronesia's national historic preservation officer Gus Kohler, 515 00:26:53,792 --> 00:26:56,083 traveled to Nan Madol to investigate 516 00:26:56,208 --> 00:26:59,167 this megalithic site. 517 00:26:59,333 --> 00:27:02,042 Also joining them was structural engineer 518 00:27:02,250 --> 00:27:04,875 Dr. Henry Burton. 519 00:27:05,083 --> 00:27:07,667 This thing-- it's-it's supposed to be the biggest 520 00:27:07,792 --> 00:27:10,417 of all the stones here. 521 00:27:10,542 --> 00:27:13,416 Henry, do you think you can calculate the weight of this? 522 00:27:13,417 --> 00:27:16,208 Yeah, we can certainly estimate it. Um, I have a measuring tape. 523 00:27:16,375 --> 00:27:19,167 We can estimate the volume. And we know the density. 524 00:27:19,292 --> 00:27:21,875 - So that can give us the mass. - All right, let's do that. 525 00:27:23,708 --> 00:27:25,833 [Burton] Yeah, so, this is about four meters. 526 00:27:25,958 --> 00:27:29,167 All right, here's, uh, the far... corner here. 527 00:27:29,375 --> 00:27:31,167 [Narrator] Using the dimensions and the density 528 00:27:31,292 --> 00:27:33,542 of one of the basalt stone blocks, 529 00:27:33,708 --> 00:27:35,458 Dr. Burton calculates its weight. 530 00:27:35,625 --> 00:27:37,833 Two fifty. Two meters, fifty. 531 00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:39,500 [Burton] All right. So, based on the measurements, 532 00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:41,000 you're looking at a weight of about 54 tons. 533 00:27:41,208 --> 00:27:42,625 - Fifty-four tons? Then... - Yeah. 534 00:27:42,792 --> 00:27:44,042 So, 50 tons, give or take. 535 00:27:44,208 --> 00:27:47,208 And you have one, two, three, four 536 00:27:47,375 --> 00:27:51,292 of those monoliths essentially stacked on top of each other. 537 00:27:51,458 --> 00:27:54,292 At a height of 40 feet. 538 00:27:54,458 --> 00:27:57,958 [Childress] So, Gus, what is, then, the oral history 539 00:27:58,125 --> 00:28:00,875 of moving this stone on the island? 540 00:28:01,042 --> 00:28:03,417 Well, according to the legends, uh, 541 00:28:03,583 --> 00:28:07,000 the stones were flown up there. 542 00:28:10,833 --> 00:28:12,458 [Narrator] For generations, 543 00:28:12,667 --> 00:28:15,083 the people of Pohnpei have told the story 544 00:28:15,208 --> 00:28:18,708 that Nan Madol was constructed by strange visitors 545 00:28:18,833 --> 00:28:21,417 through a process of levitation. 546 00:28:21,583 --> 00:28:24,167 It is this legend that has suggested 547 00:28:24,333 --> 00:28:27,167 to ancient astronaut theorists that Nan Madol 548 00:28:27,375 --> 00:28:30,042 is not only an ancient megalithic structure. 549 00:28:30,208 --> 00:28:33,917 It is also an extraterrestrial one. 550 00:28:34,083 --> 00:28:36,958 So, we have, in the oral traditions, 551 00:28:37,125 --> 00:28:39,333 a story about two brothers. 552 00:29:05,833 --> 00:29:08,208 [Narrator] According to legend, the twin sorcerers 553 00:29:08,375 --> 00:29:11,875 who created Nan Madol were of giant proportions, 554 00:29:12,083 --> 00:29:16,250 much like the legends of Easter Island, where it is said 555 00:29:16,417 --> 00:29:18,167 that giants magically floated 556 00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:21,000 the stone Moai statues into place. 557 00:29:22,708 --> 00:29:24,958 Similar stories involving levitation 558 00:29:25,125 --> 00:29:28,500 are associated with numerous other megalithic sites 559 00:29:28,708 --> 00:29:31,167 like Stonehenge in England, 560 00:29:31,292 --> 00:29:33,875 the Great Pyramid in Giza, Egypt, 561 00:29:34,042 --> 00:29:37,333 the Uxmal Pyramid in the Yucatán Peninsula 562 00:29:37,542 --> 00:29:40,000 and Puma Punku in Bolivia. 563 00:29:41,042 --> 00:29:44,458 There are other stories around the world 564 00:29:44,583 --> 00:29:46,500 that say the exact same thing-- 565 00:29:46,708 --> 00:29:49,042 how gigantic stones 566 00:29:49,208 --> 00:29:52,875 were moved into place as if by magic. 567 00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:55,792 And you have to ask yourself, is there a connection? 568 00:29:55,917 --> 00:29:59,625 Did all of our ancestors receive the same knowledge 569 00:29:59,792 --> 00:30:01,542 from the extraterrestrials? 570 00:30:01,708 --> 00:30:04,750 And the answer to that is a resounding yes. 571 00:30:17,667 --> 00:30:18,917 [Childress] They don't know... 572 00:30:19,083 --> 00:30:20,167 I think they don't know where it came from. 573 00:30:20,375 --> 00:30:22,292 And... But it's-it's not from here, right? 574 00:30:24,083 --> 00:30:25,833 So, yeah, 60% of the stones, 575 00:30:26,042 --> 00:30:27,458 they don't know where they came from. 576 00:30:27,625 --> 00:30:29,833 That's incredible. That... 577 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:33,458 The 60% is essentially still a mystery, yes? 578 00:30:33,583 --> 00:30:35,042 Huh. 579 00:30:37,333 --> 00:30:39,625 [Narrator] For decades, mainstream archaeologists 580 00:30:39,750 --> 00:30:43,333 have been frustrated by their failure to identify the source 581 00:30:43,500 --> 00:30:47,375 for much of the basalt used in the construction of Nan Madol. 582 00:30:47,542 --> 00:30:49,625 But recently, a growing number of scientists 583 00:30:49,833 --> 00:30:52,167 have become convinced that it came from 584 00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:56,750 a volcanic outcropping located 25 miles northeast of Nan Madol 585 00:30:56,875 --> 00:30:58,667 called Pwisehn Malek. 586 00:30:58,833 --> 00:31:03,792 The unusual formation extends over 400 feet into the air. 587 00:31:03,958 --> 00:31:07,000 And, incredibly, the rock used to construct Nan Madol 588 00:31:07,167 --> 00:31:09,667 appears to have been extracted from the least accessible 589 00:31:09,833 --> 00:31:12,583 part of the mountain: the very top. 590 00:31:12,750 --> 00:31:14,250 But how? 591 00:31:14,417 --> 00:31:17,333 According to the oral history of Pohnpei, 592 00:31:17,458 --> 00:31:19,500 the basalt was taken by what the natives 593 00:31:19,667 --> 00:31:22,833 referred to as a giant bird. 594 00:31:23,042 --> 00:31:25,417 There's one story that says that, at some point, 595 00:31:25,583 --> 00:31:27,833 there were these giant roosters 596 00:31:28,042 --> 00:31:31,208 that lived on top of that mountain. 597 00:31:31,375 --> 00:31:34,917 And this rooster took these basalt blocks 598 00:31:35,083 --> 00:31:38,708 and flew them over to Nan Madol. 599 00:31:38,875 --> 00:31:42,000 Now, monster roosters do not exist. 600 00:31:42,208 --> 00:31:46,167 So, my mind always goes to misunderstood technology. 601 00:31:46,375 --> 00:31:50,875 Machines that were provided by the extraterrestrials. 602 00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,958 When it comes to extraterrestrial engineering, 603 00:32:01,125 --> 00:32:04,167 look no further than the Great Pyramids of Giza. 604 00:32:04,292 --> 00:32:07,667 For ancient astronaut theorists, these colossal structures 605 00:32:07,833 --> 00:32:10,708 are the perfect example of how 606 00:32:10,917 --> 00:32:14,333 humans constructed an extraordinary site 607 00:32:14,542 --> 00:32:18,542 with the help of otherworldly technology. 608 00:32:20,542 --> 00:32:24,042 [Narrator] Jerusalem. 2016. 609 00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:29,125 Researchers with the Israel Antiquities Authority 610 00:32:29,292 --> 00:32:32,917 studying the Dead Sea Scrolls make a major discovery. 611 00:32:34,250 --> 00:32:36,541 Using state-of-the-art imaging technology, 612 00:32:36,542 --> 00:32:39,000 they uncover a passage of ancient text 613 00:32:39,208 --> 00:32:42,208 previously unseen by the naked eye. 614 00:32:42,375 --> 00:32:45,416 These researchers have discovered a new passage 615 00:32:45,417 --> 00:32:48,000 in the Dead Sea Scrolls that indicates 616 00:32:48,208 --> 00:32:51,042 that Noah's Ark wasn't in the shape of a ship at all, 617 00:32:51,208 --> 00:32:53,917 but was in the shape of a pyramid. 618 00:32:56,042 --> 00:32:58,458 [Narrator] Curiously, this is not the first time 619 00:32:58,667 --> 00:33:01,625 that Noah's Ark has been depicted as a pyramid. 620 00:33:01,792 --> 00:33:05,917 In the 15th century, Italian artist Lorenzo Ghiberti 621 00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:08,208 created his masterpiece. 622 00:33:10,583 --> 00:33:12,292 A series of ten panels 623 00:33:12,458 --> 00:33:15,083 that depict scenes from the Old Testament. 624 00:33:17,125 --> 00:33:19,292 [Henry] The Italian sculptor Lorenzo Ghiberti 625 00:33:19,458 --> 00:33:21,500 was selected to create the doors going into 626 00:33:21,708 --> 00:33:24,208 the new Florence cathedral, the Il Doumo. 627 00:33:26,375 --> 00:33:28,375 These doors are called the Gates of Paradise. 628 00:33:30,375 --> 00:33:32,208 And something that is very extraordinary about them 629 00:33:32,375 --> 00:33:36,249 is that, in one instance, he shows Noah's Ark as a pyramid 630 00:33:36,250 --> 00:33:39,667 that resembles the Great Pyramid of Giza. 631 00:33:39,833 --> 00:33:43,167 [Childress] Was it possible that Lorenzo, while he was working 632 00:33:43,292 --> 00:33:46,458 for the Church, learned about the true nature 633 00:33:46,625 --> 00:33:50,000 of Noah's Ark and then depicted it in his sculpture? 634 00:33:55,458 --> 00:33:57,333 [Narrator] According to historians, 635 00:33:57,500 --> 00:34:01,208 the Pyramid of Djoser, constructed in 2600 BC, 636 00:34:01,375 --> 00:34:04,042 was the first pyramid ever built in Egypt, 637 00:34:04,250 --> 00:34:07,833 and the Great Pyramid was built 100 years later. 638 00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,083 But the dating of the Great Pyramid 639 00:34:10,250 --> 00:34:12,833 and the two smaller pyramids that stand next to it 640 00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:17,167 is a point of major contention, with many researchers suggesting 641 00:34:17,375 --> 00:34:19,417 they were built much earlier. 642 00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:25,917 [Childress] Egyptologists often assume 643 00:34:26,042 --> 00:34:29,208 that the older pyramids are 644 00:34:29,417 --> 00:34:32,917 less well-created and smaller, 645 00:34:33,083 --> 00:34:35,125 such as Djoser's Pyramid. 646 00:34:35,292 --> 00:34:37,542 And that, ultimately, their building got better and better 647 00:34:37,667 --> 00:34:40,000 until they finally built the Great Pyramid 648 00:34:40,208 --> 00:34:43,292 as their final construction masterpiece. 649 00:34:44,333 --> 00:34:46,667 But it may be completely reversed of that, 650 00:34:46,833 --> 00:34:49,375 and that the Great Pyramid, which is by far the best 651 00:34:49,542 --> 00:34:53,458 of all the pyramids, is actually the oldest of the pyramids. 652 00:34:55,167 --> 00:34:56,792 [von Däniken] Two and a half thousand BC, 653 00:34:56,958 --> 00:35:00,292 according to archaeology, humans made the Great Pyramid. 654 00:35:00,458 --> 00:35:02,542 Now, in old writing, especially in the Book of Enoch, 655 00:35:02,750 --> 00:35:04,292 and in the so-called 656 00:35:04,458 --> 00:35:07,292 Hitat, which is a book from Arabian writer, 657 00:35:07,417 --> 00:35:10,708 they say the Great Pyramid was constructed 658 00:35:10,875 --> 00:35:12,458 before the Great Flood. 659 00:35:12,625 --> 00:35:14,167 [Henry] What if the Great Pyramid 660 00:35:14,333 --> 00:35:16,167 existed, perhaps even for millennia, 661 00:35:16,375 --> 00:35:17,875 before the Djoser Pyramid? 662 00:35:18,042 --> 00:35:21,000 Then the Egyptians come along, discover it, and decide, 663 00:35:21,125 --> 00:35:23,000 "Hey, maybe we can make one of those, too." 664 00:35:23,208 --> 00:35:25,208 And that's when they build the Djoser Pyramid. 665 00:35:25,375 --> 00:35:30,000 [Mark Carlotto] Perhaps the-the most similar common motif 666 00:35:30,208 --> 00:35:32,500 or style is the pyramidal shape 667 00:35:32,625 --> 00:35:36,125 that seems to exist throughout the world. 668 00:35:36,250 --> 00:35:38,750 In Egypt, in Mesoamerica, in China. 669 00:35:38,917 --> 00:35:41,375 Giant, earthen mounds in the shape of pyramids. 670 00:35:41,542 --> 00:35:44,249 Why pyramids? 671 00:35:44,250 --> 00:35:46,083 [Narrator] Is it possible that pyramids were built 672 00:35:46,208 --> 00:35:48,208 by cultures all around the world 673 00:35:48,375 --> 00:35:51,083 because they were trying to recreate much older structures 674 00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:53,417 that survived a great flood? 675 00:35:53,583 --> 00:35:56,000 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 676 00:35:56,125 --> 00:35:58,833 and some researchers have even suggested 677 00:35:59,042 --> 00:36:02,417 that those pyramids that were built by pre-flood civilizations 678 00:36:02,583 --> 00:36:05,708 represent a form of lost technology. 679 00:36:06,708 --> 00:36:10,000 In his 1998 book The Giza Power Plant, 680 00:36:10,208 --> 00:36:13,167 noted machinist and engineer Christopher Dunn 681 00:36:13,333 --> 00:36:16,500 proposed that the shape, positions of chambers, 682 00:36:16,667 --> 00:36:19,083 and proximity to underground rivers 683 00:36:19,250 --> 00:36:21,125 indicate the Great Pyramids of Giza 684 00:36:21,292 --> 00:36:23,583 functioned as power plants. 685 00:36:25,333 --> 00:36:28,083 [Childress] I personally think that the pyramids 686 00:36:28,208 --> 00:36:31,375 were some kind of energy generators, and 687 00:36:31,583 --> 00:36:34,458 here we have the strange idea that the Ark itself 688 00:36:34,625 --> 00:36:37,917 wasn't a boat-type shaped thing, 689 00:36:38,083 --> 00:36:39,958 but was actually a pyramid. 690 00:36:40,125 --> 00:36:44,208 So, is it possible that whoever built the pyramids of Egypt 691 00:36:44,417 --> 00:36:49,208 was doing so to try to preserve their technology? 692 00:36:56,458 --> 00:36:58,333 One of the oldest structures on Earth 693 00:36:58,500 --> 00:37:01,833 is a megalithic site in Ireland called Newgrange. 694 00:37:01,958 --> 00:37:04,500 What's remarkable about this ancient passage tomb 695 00:37:04,625 --> 00:37:07,833 is not only its age but the mythology 696 00:37:08,042 --> 00:37:11,708 that says it was engineered by an otherworldly being 697 00:37:11,875 --> 00:37:14,875 to be a home for the gods. 698 00:37:18,208 --> 00:37:21,333 [Narrator] County Meath, Ireland. 699 00:37:21,542 --> 00:37:24,292 Here, in the Boyne River Valley, 700 00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:27,500 a large, circular mound rises out of the earth-- 701 00:37:27,667 --> 00:37:30,000 the Newgrange Passage Tomb, 702 00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:33,250 built around 3200 BC. 703 00:37:33,375 --> 00:37:37,208 It was constructed with over 200,000 tons of stone 704 00:37:37,375 --> 00:37:40,500 quarried 75 miles away, 705 00:37:40,625 --> 00:37:42,542 and contains one passageway 706 00:37:42,708 --> 00:37:46,000 that leads to a centralized chamber. 707 00:37:47,417 --> 00:37:49,000 [Newman] Newgrange is one of the most important sites 708 00:37:49,208 --> 00:37:50,750 in all of Europe. 709 00:37:50,917 --> 00:37:55,000 It was possibly a stone circle with 36 or 37 stones. 710 00:37:55,125 --> 00:37:57,417 Only 12 of these still remain. 711 00:37:57,583 --> 00:38:01,708 And after that, a huge mound made of stone and earth 712 00:38:01,875 --> 00:38:04,708 was built within the stone circle itself. 713 00:38:04,875 --> 00:38:07,667 Within this, we have a huge chamber, 714 00:38:07,792 --> 00:38:10,042 which is a cruciform shape, or a cross. 715 00:38:10,250 --> 00:38:14,500 It's got some beautiful carvings on the 97 curbstones 716 00:38:14,667 --> 00:38:17,500 that go around the edge as well as on the main entrance stone. 717 00:38:17,667 --> 00:38:20,083 And within the chamber itself, 718 00:38:20,208 --> 00:38:23,000 mainly zigzags and spirals 719 00:38:23,167 --> 00:38:25,083 and, most notably, a triple spiral 720 00:38:25,250 --> 00:38:29,583 at the back of the main chamber within the actual site itself. 721 00:38:31,375 --> 00:38:32,917 [Narrator] Newgrange was designed 722 00:38:33,083 --> 00:38:34,792 to honor the winter solstice, 723 00:38:34,958 --> 00:38:37,500 but according to a book published in 2012 724 00:38:37,708 --> 00:38:40,542 called The Newgrange Sirius Mystery, 725 00:38:40,708 --> 00:38:42,833 the entire mound was also built 726 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,000 to align with the star Sirius A in the night sky. 727 00:38:47,167 --> 00:38:49,542 [Newman] The declination of Sirius is the same 728 00:38:49,708 --> 00:38:53,749 as the winter solstice sunrise moving across the sky, 729 00:38:53,750 --> 00:38:57,542 and through the light box, which is a rectangular area 730 00:38:57,708 --> 00:39:00,333 just above the main entrance, this is where 731 00:39:00,458 --> 00:39:03,000 you witness not only the sunlight coming through, 732 00:39:03,167 --> 00:39:05,458 but also, later in the day, 733 00:39:05,583 --> 00:39:07,583 Sirius light coming through as well. 734 00:39:10,833 --> 00:39:13,167 [Narrator] The Dogon of Mali in West Africa 735 00:39:13,333 --> 00:39:17,625 claimed that their gods came to Earth from the star Sirius B. 736 00:39:19,708 --> 00:39:22,667 Ancient astronaut theorists connect these visitors 737 00:39:22,875 --> 00:39:25,875 to gods with similar names all over the world. 738 00:39:28,542 --> 00:39:31,333 But they also point out an intriguing connection 739 00:39:31,542 --> 00:39:33,875 to Newgrange in Ireland. 740 00:39:34,042 --> 00:39:37,125 In addition to being in line with the star Sirius, 741 00:39:37,292 --> 00:39:41,750 legend says that this megalith was built by a Celtic god: 742 00:39:41,917 --> 00:39:43,500 Dagda. 743 00:39:43,625 --> 00:39:46,292 [Childress] The main god that's associated with Newgrange 744 00:39:46,458 --> 00:39:49,083 is called Dagda. So here, once again, 745 00:39:49,250 --> 00:39:53,750 we have this same word that appears to mean something about 746 00:39:53,958 --> 00:39:55,667 gods coming from Sirius. 747 00:39:55,875 --> 00:39:57,875 [Narrator] The god known as Dagda 748 00:39:58,042 --> 00:40:01,000 was said to be the leader of a group of otherworldly beings 749 00:40:01,167 --> 00:40:03,708 called the Tuatha Dé Danann. 750 00:40:03,875 --> 00:40:06,000 [Newman] So, the Tuatha Dé Danann 751 00:40:06,208 --> 00:40:08,708 were this renowned fairy race 752 00:40:08,875 --> 00:40:10,667 that arrived, mysteriously, in Ireland 753 00:40:10,833 --> 00:40:12,542 many thousands of years ago. 754 00:40:12,708 --> 00:40:16,333 The supreme deity of the Tuatha Dé Danann 755 00:40:16,500 --> 00:40:18,583 was Dagda. Dagda Mul. 756 00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:21,250 And he was a renowned god. 757 00:40:21,375 --> 00:40:26,000 He was said to have built and lived inside Newgrange. 758 00:40:26,208 --> 00:40:27,875 They had very advanced weaponry 759 00:40:28,042 --> 00:40:32,042 and different types of what sounds like machinery. 760 00:40:32,208 --> 00:40:35,250 But also, they taught the high arts of civilization 761 00:40:35,417 --> 00:40:38,708 and they were said to be almost like the shining ones 762 00:40:38,875 --> 00:40:40,667 of the Biblical tradition. 763 00:40:40,833 --> 00:40:42,833 It's almost like a science fiction movie 764 00:40:42,958 --> 00:40:45,917 when you start looking at these ancient Irish myths. 765 00:40:48,375 --> 00:40:51,167 Could Newgrange have once been 766 00:40:51,375 --> 00:40:53,708 an alien outpost on Earth? 767 00:40:53,875 --> 00:40:56,500 It's certainly an intriguing possibility, 768 00:40:56,625 --> 00:40:58,625 and just one of the many examples 769 00:40:58,792 --> 00:41:01,458 of diverse ancient constructions 770 00:41:01,583 --> 00:41:03,750 that defy our current understanding 771 00:41:03,917 --> 00:41:07,583 of just how and why they were made. 772 00:41:07,708 --> 00:41:10,667 From the megalithic temples of Malta 773 00:41:10,833 --> 00:41:14,042 and the precisely cut stones at Puma Punku 774 00:41:14,208 --> 00:41:18,125 to the enigma that are the Great Pyramids of Egypt, 775 00:41:18,292 --> 00:41:22,000 these remarkable creations present possible evidence 776 00:41:22,125 --> 00:41:25,250 of the role extraterrestrial engineering 777 00:41:25,375 --> 00:41:26,708 may have played 778 00:41:26,875 --> 00:41:29,458 in our ancestors' distant past. 779 00:41:29,625 --> 00:41:32,833 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS