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This was the language of the
Gods.

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Did extraterrestrial beings

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leave behind coded messages?

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We may find information
that is vital to mankind.

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Messages that
are carved in stone

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and found all over the world?

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There has been an explosion

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in new discoveries of geoglyphs

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that we didn't
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But once deciphered,

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will they reveal
a message of hope...

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Many of
the geoglyphs were created

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in order to contact
someone up there.

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...or a deadly warning?

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Just imagine
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Humanity could be
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Saudi Arabia. 2004.

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While exploring the ancient
lava fields of Harrat Khaybar,

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amateur archaeologist
Dr. Abdullah Al-Saeed

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comes upon a number of
what appear to be stone walls,

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each approximately
three feet high.

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From the ground level,
Dr. Al-Saeed concludes

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that the structures have no
discernable pattern or purpose.

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That is,
not until four years later,

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when he obtains satellite photos
of the very same area.

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What he sees astounds him.

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There, detectable from the sky
are a vast collection

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of more than 400
stone enclosures.

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Known to the local Bedouin
as the Works of the Old Men,

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these mysterious structures
are quickly examined

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and are revealed to stretch
for hundreds of miles.

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They were within
what's referred to

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as-as a lava field of activity.

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They're generally described
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or as gates,

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which are more rectilinear forms
of them.

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And there are literally hundreds
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In fact, they stretch
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right away across to Jordan
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They're kind of
like angular pyramids

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almost going off
into the distance like runways,

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widening at one end to being
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Although no record exists

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indicating when these structures
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who built them or why,

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the predominant theory
among mainstream archaeologists

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is that they were constructed
for hunting purposes

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many thousands of years ago.

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What we think they are
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where gazelle and other animals

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would be driven
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and then on the outsides
of the enclosure, pits were dug

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and the animals
would fall into the pits.

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The kites, when you visit them
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are really hard to find.

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In the air you get
the whole pattern.

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There are literally thousands
of them.

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And they must have been in use
for thousands of years.

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And why did they
fall into disuse?

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That's an answer
we haven't yet got.

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Although the theory
that the stone structures

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were used for hunting purposes
is compelling,

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ancient astronaut theorists
argue that if these structures

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were really used
for hunting gazelle,

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the walls would have needed
to be more than three feet high

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since a gazelle can leap more
than ten feet into the air.

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Instead, they suggest
that because the structures

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are only viewable from the air,

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they should be considered
geoglyphs.

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A geoglyph is just basically

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a drawing on the landscape,
usually quite large scale.

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Most geoglyphs are in deserts,

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and in deserts
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which we call desert varnish.

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It's just a natural dark patina
that builds up on the surface.

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expose the lighter soil
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that is one way
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The second basic technique
is to use the dark stones

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and pile them together
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Geometric shapes, animal shapes
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And the third basic technique is
simply a combination of the two.

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You move things to one side
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you use the dark stones
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So, you get very nice
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In recent years,
thanks to modern technology,

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and particularly
satellite photographs,

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uh, there has been an explosion
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of-of geoglyphs that we didn't
know about before.

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The interesting fact
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is that they point
towards the sky.

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And what might this tell us?

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Well, the first thing is
that many of the geoglyphs

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that we know today
were only discovered

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once aerial survey
started in around the 1920s.

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All of them were
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once aircraft got up
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And this tells us something
very, very important.

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Most geoglyphs really
only make sense from above.

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It therefore seems
that they would be messages

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to something nonhuman,
something up there.

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When the now legendary
Nazca Lines of Peru

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were first discovered in 1927,

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they were considered
a unique phenomenon.

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But now, with the benefit
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thousands of ancient geoglyphs

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are being found
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in Kazakhstan, in the
Southwestern United States,

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in the Atacama Desert of Chile
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Almost everywhere
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we find what are known
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Whether they be
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British geoglyphs to those
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they're something that are
virtually universal

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around the world
and they've been appearing

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for many hundreds of years.

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But why would ancient people

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in so many different locations
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all be making signs that can
only be seen from above?

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We don't know for sure
what ancient peoples

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were trying to communicate
through geoglyphs,

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but the most important thing is
the amount of time and effort

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that went into building them.

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They're not quick sketches.

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They're, many of them,
whole community projects.

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And the time that you spend
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is time not spent
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not spent defending your land.

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It's time not spent
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So, the first thing
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is to the community itself what
is important to the community.

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But could there be another

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even more incredible
explanation?

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Is it possible that these
ancient geoglyphs were created

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not for a terrestrial purpose,
but for an extraterrestrial one?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and suggest further clues
can be found

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by examining similar shapes
and symbols

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that occur
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Geoglyphs are
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of what we know as petroglyphs,

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the most obvious being
the rock art that we'd see

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on surfaces of stone rock
around the world

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that date back many, many
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Petroglyphs are images
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or hammered away.

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They occur all over the world
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Europe, Africa,
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Perhaps more intriguing

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than the petroglyphs themselves

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are the eerie similarities
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and their geoglyphic siblings.

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We see certain symbols
recurring again and again.

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There are many geometric forms.

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These take the form
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of concentric rings

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and other more rectilinear
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They're something that
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around the world.

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One of the most interesting
geoglyphs that you have at Nazca

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is the sun, star,
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which is really a very
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of interconnected stars
and triangles.

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And it's something we see
all over the world

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and in Tibet and India
as mandalas and even yantras.

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So, things like this that are
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and are found all over the world

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indicates that there was
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symbolic language
that was brought here

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by a higher intelligence,
probably extraterrestrials.

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Is it possible
that the thousands

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of mysterious petroglyphs
and geoglyphs

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found throughout the world

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were intended to be
a form of communication

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between early humans
and extraterrestrial visitors?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
believe that proof

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of such a profound idea
does exist

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and it can be found
by examining an ancient story

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associated with one of
the oldest petroglyphs

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ever discovered.

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Northwest Nevada. 2013.

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In the dried-up bed of what was
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researchers take
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from a series of recently
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They are covered with what
appears to be ancient carvings.

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Some of the petroglyphs
are believed to be depictions

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of ancient shipping techniques,

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but others are much more
difficult to identify.

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Even more mysterious is the fact
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say the petroglyphs were not
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but by a race of giants.

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The Paiutes said that

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initially they did not
create petroglyphs,

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that an ancient race
called the Si-Te-Cah did.

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The Si-Te-Cah was
a race of giants

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that was said to have been
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having red hair, and well over
seven-foot tall.

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The Paiutes explained that
these giants lived on the lake...

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In Pyramid Lake,
on floating cities.

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And each Paiute legend has
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of how petroglyphs were
originally created.

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But they remain, to this day,
unaware now of what

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a lot of that language was,
like most tribes in the world.

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Samples of
the petroglyphs were taken

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to the University of Colorado
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where scientists performed
a series of radiocarbon tests

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to determine their age.

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The results are astonishing,
and reveal the petroglyphs

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were etched between 10,500
and 14,800 years ago,

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making them
the oldest petroglyphs

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ever found in North America.

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When we look at petroglyphs,

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with their incredible spirals,
the doorways,

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the strange beings
that are featured,

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the stories that are told,

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it suggests that they all
have an origin

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with extraterrestrials
themselves.

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Could the petroglyphs found

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at Winnemucca Lake
really have been created

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by an ancient race of
extraterrestrial giants?

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If so, what were they intended
to represent?

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A map indicating
their planet of origin?

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Or was it an alien form
of hieroglyphics which,

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when deciphered,
could teach us profound lessons

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about mankind's past?

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Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining geoglyphs

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that some believe are depictions
of actual alien beings.

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The Atacama Desert, Chile.

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Located on the western side
of a hill called Cerro Unitas

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is an enormous geoglyph
of a human-like figure

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known as the Atacama Giant.

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Although its origins
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some have estimated it to be
as much as 10,000 years old.

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The Atacama Giant
is one of about

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500 petroglyphs
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that span a huge area of about
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produced over about
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and linking cultures
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all the way up to
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of South America.

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The Atacama Giant itself
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and it's a hugely
impressive figure.

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It's got the most amazing
symmetry and geometry,

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which would have required
the most exquisite planning.

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Because once you're up there
digging away,

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you can't see exactly
the proportions.

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It's clearly a focal point

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of the culture of the people
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It has these very strange

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horizontal and vertical lines
coming out of its head.

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Archaeoastronomers have
suggested that

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every part of this figure
was actually used

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for astronomical purposes.

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It marked the different cycles
of the moon in every year.

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If you ask the local elders

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what the Atacama Giant
represents,

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they will say that it represents
sacred space,

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and that actually entering
inside them

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allowed you communication
with the sky gods.

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Given that these geoglyphs
have multiple layers of meaning

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and much knowledge
encoded with them,

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we have to ask if maybe
it's also a device

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to tell the locals when the
extraterrestrials would return.

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Although the
Atacama Giant is extraordinary,

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it is by no means unique,

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as similar geoglyphs
can be found

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in many parts of the world.

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Blythe, California.

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Located in the desert,
just west of the Arizona border,

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an estimated 300 gigantic
figures can be seen etched

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in the arid ground.

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Known as the Blythe Intaglios,
these ancient carvings depict

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animals, spirals, and,
perhaps most significantly,

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gigantic humanoid figures.

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These intaglios are unique

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in that they're always found
on the shorelines

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of ancient lakes that existed
12,500 years ago and prior.

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In April 2018,

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author and ancient astronaut
researcher David Childress

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traveled to Blythe to meet with
Alfredo Figueroa,

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an elder of the local
Chemehuevi tribe.

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He is also known
to many in the region

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as The Guardian of the Glyphs.

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David was eager to see firsthand
whether the legends

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surrounding these unique
geoglyphs could be true.

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They can only be seen
from the air, really, right?

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Well, they can be seen
from the ground,

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but you can see it over intact.

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If you're walking on it,

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you really don't know
what you're walking on.

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Exactly, yeah, right.

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We'll be able to see it
with the drone, I think.

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Oh, that's excellent.
You got a drone?

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- Yes, we've got it.
- Oh, that's wonderful.

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- Let me get the drone out.
- That's the best way.

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- Okay, let me get it.
- Thank you.

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Who builds this, and-and why?

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The original tribes
here were the Aztecas.

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- The Aztecs.
- Right.

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Okay. Here we go.

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Wow.

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That's pretty interesting.

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With the drone camera,

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David and Alfredo
are able to see

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the Blythe Intaglios
from a vantage point

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that their creators
never could have,

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at least not without the aid
of some form of aircraft.

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But if this is true,
then why were they created?

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And for whom?

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All right, this is...
Is Omecihuatl.

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"Cihuatl" means "woman."

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And she is pregnant,
right here, see?

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She's, like,
having a baby, then.

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Ah, okay.

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And right next to her
is the ocelot.

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Ocelot is the jaguar.

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Okay, so you can see it's a cat

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because it has
a very long tail, huh?

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Well, the tail is supposed to be
like a "U,"

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and in the cosmos,
it represents the Big Dipper.

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Here in this place,
they came down.

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And because they descended
from the cosmos,

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our ancestors created
these images

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and aligned them with
the constellations

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so that we would understand
that story.

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But of all the Blythe Intaglios,

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the one Alfredo is
most eager to show David

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are the ones
that are the largest

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and arguably the most dramatic.

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This is big. This thing is huge.

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That's right.

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They are the ones representing

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the Aztec gods, Kokopelli...
Better known as Quetzalcoatl...

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And Cicimitl,
the Aztec star god.

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Which glyph is this one?

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What we're seeing here
is Kokopelli,

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and he represents Quetzalcoatl.

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The Aztec god, Quetzalcoatl.

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- So, this one is...
- Cicimitl.

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Cicimitl.

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His face there...
You see his nose.

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I mean, he's not like
a normal person, is he?

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No, he looks just like a...
a E.T.

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He looks like an
extraterrestrial. Uh-huh, yeah.

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An extraterrestrial?

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Is it possible that these
incredible geoglyphs represent

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not just mythological gods,
but actual alien beings,

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whose arrival on Earth was
witnessed by the Azteca people?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

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and Alfredo Figueroa is
convinced that it was here...

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The location of the Aztecs'
legendary home of Aztlan...

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Where extraterrestrial visitors
came down from the sky.

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Aztlan is very
important in Aztec mythology.

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It was a place where the gods
came down to give them

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the information and prophecies
that the Aztecs had.

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I mean, you're maintaining
that this whole area here,

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around Blythe
and the Colorado River,

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is an ancient homeland
of-of the Aztecs

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- and-and the gods, too?
- Yes.

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The geoglyphs were made by
the Nahuatl people.

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The Nahuatl are the origin of
the Aztecas and the Mexicas.

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So, they're the ones
that made 'em at first.

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And then the Nahuatl people
made these geoglyphs to...

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to honor, uh, the creator gods.

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Right. And to not forget
where we came from.

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Where we came from.
That's right.

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Could it be
that Blythe, California,

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really was the ancestral home
of the Aztec people,

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and that more than
1,000 years ago,

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the area was visited by
extraterrestrial beings?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the answers

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may be found by examining

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the most mysterious geoglyphs
of all,

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incredible markings that are
invisible to the naked eye.

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Palpa, Peru.

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December 2017.

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Researchers use state-of-the-art
drones to photograph

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the famous Nazca Lines
with high-resolution cameras.

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This is new technology
being employed

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to search the landscape,

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and to try and find
what the human eye

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has not been able to notice
and not even from airplanes.

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What the researchers
find amazes them,

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as the HD camera reveals dozens
of additional geoglyphs

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that had never been seen before.

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They include a huge serpent,
and also a giant fish,

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both of which
are cosmic symbols.

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The thing is, with some
of the figures found in Palpa,

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they think they could be older
than some of the Nazca figures,

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because they're on hillsides,
and it's known

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that the Paracas culture, who
were around before the Nazca,

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going back to probably 800 BC,
or even earlier.

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It does suggest
that there was more cultures

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than just
the Nazca people creating

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these effigies and lines in that
part of the whole Nazca region.

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More geoglyphs,

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created by cultures stretching
back nearly 3,000 years?

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But who were they?

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What were they trying
to communicate?

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One has to wonder,

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why did our ancestors
create these things

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if they can only be appreciated
from the air?

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Because here is the thing:
sometimes it has been proposed

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that the Nazca Lines were crests

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of different tribes,
of different societies.

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But if I were a society leader,

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and I had my crest created
on the ground,

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but I could not see it, I would
not be very happy with that.

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That many of them can
only be seen from the air,

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that suggests to me that many
of the geoglyphs were in fact

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created in order to contact
someone up there.

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The ancients were
trying to represent

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that which they believed
was coming from the cosmos,

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and that they themselves
were trying to communicate

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or make the link
with these cosmic beings.

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For ancient astronaut theorists,

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the link between the Nazca Lines

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and extraterrestrial
communication is an obvious one.

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They believe ancient man

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would have no reason
to make such detailed

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and elaborate representations
of life on Earth

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unless they were trying
to communicate with someone.

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They also cite recent images
recorded on Mars

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as evidence
which supports their claims.

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Certainly, the photographs

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that have been taken
by the Mars orbiters

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and the landers and the rovers
would suggest

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there are actually
geoglyphs on Mars.

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These geoglyphic formations
are structural,

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like we see
with the American Indians,

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the Mound Builders,
those type of formations.

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We're also finding pictographic
images like the face on Mars,

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which have facial features.

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We have wonderful pictures

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of the surface of Mars,
and definitely

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on the surface of Mars,
we have some stone circles.

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Nature does not
create stone circle.

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Nature could make
one stone circle,

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but not three or four
put together.

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Of particular
interest to researchers

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is a recently discovered
geological anomaly

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that strongly resembles
a species of bird.

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In 2002, a member of
the Cydonia Institute discovered

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a parrot formation in
the Argyre basin area of Mars.

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After two geologists
and three veterinarians...

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One being an avian specialist...
Examined the formation,

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they confirmed that the parrot
formation had over 17 points

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of anatomical correctness, all
adhering to the proper shape,

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size and orientation
to a real parrot.

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The same motif can be
seen on a copper plate

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produced by the Hopewell Indians
that features the same type

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of parrot formation
with an upraised wing.

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Could the mysterious
parrot-shaped formation

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on the surface of Mars
really offer a link

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to the thousands of geoglyphs
found here on Earth?

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And, if so, does it offer
evidence that extraterrestrials

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have been using them as a form
of communication with humans

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for thousands of years?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes, and believe

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that the various geoglyphic
depictions of animals,

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humans and birds may not have
been intended as mere artwork,

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but as a form of language,

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whose message for mankind
has yet to be decoded.

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Elkab, Egypt.

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June 2017.

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A team of researchers
from Yale University

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and the Royal Museums
of Art and History in Brussels

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make an historic find.

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While exploring this ancient
city, they discover a number

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of rock art carvings,
which after closer examination,

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date back
an estimated 5,200 years,

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making them the oldest
monumental Egyptian hieroglyphs

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ever discovered.

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Using combinations of
various shapes and symbols,

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including representations
of humans and animals,

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hieroglyphics is regarded

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as a highly sophisticated
writing system,

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where every symbol
and combination of symbols

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has a specific meaning.

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When we look at the hieroglyphs
of ancient Egypt,

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they seem to have come
from nowhere.

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No one knows
where they came from,

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no one knows who they really
were designed for,

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or for their purpose, they just
appeared out of nowhere.

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So where did these come from?

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Were they sort of
just divinely inspired?

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Was it some other reason,

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was it some gods that emerged
and arrived

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and presented them
with this information?

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The term "hieroglyphics"

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literally means "holy writing,"
and ancient Egyptian texts say

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it was a gift given to them
from the god Thoth.

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There are legends from
all over the world that sky gods

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have come down to Earth
and given information

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of science and learning,
and also communication

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and of language to people.

501
00:27:19,020 --> 00:27:24,920
And early language and alphabets
are these symbols.

502
00:27:27,430 --> 00:27:29,900
We're here in Luxor Temple,

503
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,940
and the hieroglyphs here...
are so interesting.

505
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:39,470
Most people would think that
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

506
00:27:39,570 --> 00:27:44,510
is more like emojis, and symbols
where the sun and a cow

507
00:27:44,610 --> 00:27:47,150
would meet the sky, and you have
this picture of the sky...

508
00:27:47,250 --> 00:27:49,320
It's not pictures
next to each other.

509
00:27:49,420 --> 00:27:51,990
It's a proper language.

510
00:27:52,090 --> 00:27:54,620
It's a language
that has such precision

511
00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:57,090
that people
from all over the world

512
00:27:57,190 --> 00:28:01,700
can translate it
with the same exact meaning.

513
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:06,130
All this language
was from the god of knowledge.

514
00:28:06,230 --> 00:28:07,730
That's what ancient
Egyptians believed,

515
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:12,610
that god Thoth gave them
the language, with all it has.

516
00:28:12,710 --> 00:28:14,470
And the kings then used it

517
00:28:14,580 --> 00:28:16,640
to also communicate
with their gods.

518
00:28:16,750 --> 00:28:19,780
Ancient Egyptian kings knew
for a fact that their gods

519
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,550
understood hieroglyphs.

520
00:28:22,650 --> 00:28:26,650
As described
in the Pyramid Texts,

521
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,520
ancient Egyptian religious texts
that date back

522
00:28:29,620 --> 00:28:31,790
more than 4,000 years,

523
00:28:31,890 --> 00:28:35,530
a meteoric iron object
called the Benben stone

524
00:28:35,630 --> 00:28:38,830
was reported as having descended
from the heavens

525
00:28:38,930 --> 00:28:40,700
like a firebird.

526
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:47,640
Even Egyptologists agree
that this type of a shape

527
00:28:47,740 --> 00:28:50,080
descended from the sky...

528
00:28:52,150 --> 00:28:54,710
...and made
a controlled landing.

529
00:28:54,820 --> 00:28:58,920
The Benben stone opened,
and people walked out,

530
00:28:59,020 --> 00:29:01,690
the first creator gods.

531
00:29:01,790 --> 00:29:06,190
Now, when I hear a story
like this, I wonder

532
00:29:06,290 --> 00:29:09,830
if this thing may have been
some type of a craft,

533
00:29:09,930 --> 00:29:11,800
because it is very reminiscent

534
00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:16,340
of the top module
of an Apollo rocket.

535
00:29:17,970 --> 00:29:20,670
The Benben came with
hieroglyphic inscriptions on it,

536
00:29:20,780 --> 00:29:24,040
and it was the first form
of hieroglyphic language,

537
00:29:24,150 --> 00:29:26,010
the gift from the gods.

538
00:29:26,110 --> 00:29:29,450
This was the language
of the gods.

539
00:29:29,550 --> 00:29:32,890
Did an otherworldly spacecraft

540
00:29:32,990 --> 00:29:35,760
bring the language of
hieroglyphics to the people

541
00:29:35,860 --> 00:29:40,460
of ancient Egypt
thousands of years ago?

542
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,800
And, if so, could there be
a connection between hieroglyphs

543
00:29:43,900 --> 00:29:47,630
and the various individual
figures of animals,

544
00:29:47,740 --> 00:29:50,900
shapes and symbols found
in the world's

545
00:29:51,010 --> 00:29:53,640
petroglyphs and geoglyphs?

546
00:29:53,740 --> 00:29:56,710
It would seem that
these petroglyphs and geoglyphs

547
00:29:56,810 --> 00:30:00,110
are ultimately part
of this universal language

548
00:30:00,220 --> 00:30:01,650
that's the forerunner

549
00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:04,780
of hieroglyphic and pictographic
languages, too,

550
00:30:04,890 --> 00:30:06,590
like the Chinese for example.

551
00:30:06,690 --> 00:30:08,920
When we're really able
to understand

552
00:30:09,020 --> 00:30:10,920
these geoglyphs or petroglyphs,

553
00:30:11,030 --> 00:30:13,890
we may find
that there is a message for us

554
00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:16,560
that we have been missing
all this time.

555
00:30:16,670 --> 00:30:19,570
One day, hopefully,
we will find that knowledge

556
00:30:19,670 --> 00:30:22,900
and know that message.

557
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,810
If hieroglyphs
actually represent

558
00:30:25,910 --> 00:30:28,740
a type of
ancient alien language,

559
00:30:28,840 --> 00:30:31,740
could their earliest examples
exist carved into rocks

560
00:30:31,850 --> 00:30:34,450
and etched in desert sands?

561
00:30:34,550 --> 00:30:37,780
Could they be trying to tell us
that Earth's history

562
00:30:37,890 --> 00:30:41,350
is very different
than the one we've been taught?

563
00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:45,330
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

564
00:30:45,430 --> 00:30:47,990
and suggest that instead
of viewing them as symbols

565
00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:50,500
of mankind's ancient past,

566
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:55,440
we should start to look at them
as part of mankind's future.

567
00:31:02,540 --> 00:31:05,910
Kanda,
the Republic of Macedonia.

568
00:31:06,010 --> 00:31:10,920
There, isolated on a hill
in the middle of a vast steppe,

569
00:31:11,020 --> 00:31:14,150
sits a giant geoglyph
depicting a symbol

570
00:31:14,260 --> 00:31:17,460
known as the cosmic egg.

571
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,430
According to ancient mythology,

572
00:31:20,530 --> 00:31:22,800
it is the great egg
of the universe

573
00:31:22,900 --> 00:31:28,300
from which a powerful deity
is often hatched or born.

574
00:31:28,400 --> 00:31:32,470
The concept
of the cosmic egg is universal.

575
00:31:32,570 --> 00:31:36,010
But what's so interesting
is that a multinational team

576
00:31:36,110 --> 00:31:39,050
who have been
investigating this site

577
00:31:39,150 --> 00:31:43,780
have come to the conclusion
that it's orientated

578
00:31:43,890 --> 00:31:47,320
towards the constellation
of Cassiopeia.

579
00:31:47,420 --> 00:31:51,890
Cassiopeia represents
the queen of Heaven.

580
00:31:51,990 --> 00:31:53,730
In addition to the alignment

581
00:31:53,830 --> 00:31:57,000
of the egg with
the Cassiopeia constellation,

582
00:31:57,100 --> 00:31:58,930
many scholars believe
that the symbol

583
00:31:59,030 --> 00:32:03,370
contained in the egg represents
that of the cosmic god Se.

584
00:32:05,410 --> 00:32:08,740
He represents
the all-seeing god.

585
00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:11,880
Macedonian myth
says that the god Se

586
00:32:11,980 --> 00:32:14,580
was the child
of the great cosmic mother

587
00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:16,320
and the supreme god father.

588
00:32:16,420 --> 00:32:18,990
While there are various theories

589
00:32:19,090 --> 00:32:22,560
as to who made the cosmic egg
geoglyph and why,

590
00:32:22,660 --> 00:32:25,990
ancient astronaut theorists
agree on one point,

591
00:32:26,090 --> 00:32:28,230
that this geoglyph,

592
00:32:28,330 --> 00:32:32,230
like the thousands of others
found all across the world,

593
00:32:32,330 --> 00:32:35,000
was intended to be more than
simply a work of art

594
00:32:35,100 --> 00:32:37,500
or indicate a place of worship.

595
00:32:37,610 --> 00:32:41,670
It was intended to communicate
something of great,

596
00:32:41,780 --> 00:32:45,080
possibly intergalactic,
importance.

597
00:32:45,180 --> 00:32:47,050
It would seem that

598
00:32:47,150 --> 00:32:49,780
extraterrestrials
arrived on Earth,

599
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:53,350
and then taught humans
the meanings of these symbols.

600
00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:57,020
And then humans
then used these symbols

601
00:32:57,130 --> 00:32:59,130
to try and contact the
extraterrestrials themselves,

602
00:32:59,230 --> 00:33:03,600
either as giant geoglyphs
on the ground

603
00:33:03,700 --> 00:33:06,130
to even just petroglyphs
on the rocks.

604
00:33:11,970 --> 00:33:14,370
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

605
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:17,310
that the notion that
petroglyphs and geoglyphs

606
00:33:17,410 --> 00:33:19,580
could represent
a form of communication

607
00:33:19,680 --> 00:33:21,480
taught to humans
by alien visitors

608
00:33:21,580 --> 00:33:25,420
is supported by our own
relatively modern science

609
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,120
of semiotics.

610
00:33:28,220 --> 00:33:31,590
It is the study
of signs and symbols

611
00:33:31,690 --> 00:33:34,930
mankind will need to use
when trying to communicate,

612
00:33:35,030 --> 00:33:37,330
not only with
future generations,

613
00:33:37,430 --> 00:33:39,800
but with extraterrestrials.

614
00:33:39,900 --> 00:33:41,330
Pictographs are more than

615
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,840
pretty simplistic pictures.

616
00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:45,940
They are, in fact, another way
of communicating entirely,

617
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,980
not only on Earth, but in
a spacecraft sent to deep space

618
00:33:50,080 --> 00:33:52,910
to communicate
perhaps with beings

619
00:33:53,010 --> 00:33:55,420
we have no idea about
how they speak, write,

620
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,050
or make signification.

621
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:05,120
In 1991, the United States
Department of Energy

623
00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:07,260
assigned two teams of experts

624
00:34:07,360 --> 00:34:10,100
to the task of devising
a marking system

625
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:13,600
for the Waste Isolation
Pilot Plant, or WIPP,

626
00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:16,200
a nuclear waste facility

627
00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:19,010
located in the salt beds
of the Delaware Basin,

628
00:34:19,110 --> 00:34:22,880
26 miles east
of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

629
00:34:24,910 --> 00:34:28,110
The project attempted
to find ways of communicating

630
00:34:28,220 --> 00:34:30,050
the hazard of the plant

631
00:34:30,150 --> 00:34:32,390
to humans living
in the distant future,

632
00:34:32,490 --> 00:34:36,320
humans who may have developed
entirely new languages

633
00:34:36,420 --> 00:34:39,630
or other forms of communication.

634
00:34:42,230 --> 00:34:45,130
One prominent member
of the project

635
00:34:45,230 --> 00:34:48,700
was space artist and science
journalist Jon Lomberg.

636
00:34:50,710 --> 00:34:56,480
Lomberg had previously worked on
NASA's 1977 Voyager mission,

637
00:34:56,580 --> 00:34:58,540
helping to determine
what sounds and images

638
00:34:58,650 --> 00:35:01,480
should be included
on a pair of golden discs

639
00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:03,650
being sent into deep space.

640
00:35:05,690 --> 00:35:08,020
They put together
a panel of people

641
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:10,090
from a wide variety
of backgrounds,

642
00:35:10,190 --> 00:35:13,160
including me as an artist

643
00:35:13,260 --> 00:35:15,060
and as somebody
who had experience

644
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,760
trying to communicate
with extraterrestrials.

645
00:35:17,870 --> 00:35:20,930
The idea being was,
if we can come up with a way

646
00:35:21,040 --> 00:35:24,000
of communicating
with extraterrestrials,

647
00:35:24,110 --> 00:35:27,040
then communicating with humans
10,000 years

648
00:35:27,140 --> 00:35:31,180
or a half a million years away
should be a piece of cake.

649
00:35:33,110 --> 00:35:35,750
Through their
research, the teams determined

650
00:35:35,850 --> 00:35:39,190
that simple images are
the most universally recognized.

651
00:35:39,290 --> 00:35:45,120
But some can only be understood
when paired with other images.

652
00:35:45,230 --> 00:35:47,790
We knew that there were
certain elements of human art

653
00:35:47,900 --> 00:35:50,630
that had appeared so widely

654
00:35:50,730 --> 00:35:52,623
that you could assume
everybody would understand them.

655
00:35:52,630 --> 00:35:55,270
And they were: the comic strip.

656
00:35:55,370 --> 00:35:58,870
The idea of a series of images
where first this happens,

657
00:35:58,970 --> 00:36:01,210
and then this happens,
and then this happens,

658
00:36:01,310 --> 00:36:02,810
you find that all over,

659
00:36:02,910 --> 00:36:06,910
from ancient Egypt
to the plains tribes

660
00:36:07,020 --> 00:36:09,050
to the Bayeux Tapestry.

661
00:36:09,150 --> 00:36:10,950
The idea of telling
a story with pictures

662
00:36:11,050 --> 00:36:13,290
seems to be something
that everybody knows.

663
00:36:13,390 --> 00:36:17,990
So we used the linear story
and the stick figure

664
00:36:18,090 --> 00:36:21,060
to try to explain
the meaning of symbols

665
00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:25,770
like the poison symbol
or the nuclear radiation trefoil

666
00:36:25,870 --> 00:36:28,000
or the "do not" sign.

667
00:36:28,100 --> 00:36:30,270
None of these are universal,

668
00:36:30,370 --> 00:36:33,240
but they're easily explained
with a little comic strip.

669
00:36:35,010 --> 00:36:38,410
The whole of written human
history is only 5,000 years old.

670
00:36:38,510 --> 00:36:41,410
It's only by the most
incredible efforts

671
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,250
that we're able to read
the earliest human languages.

672
00:36:44,350 --> 00:36:46,820
So trying to guess how people
are going to understand things

673
00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:50,860
10,000 years from now requires
incredibly imaginative thinking.

674
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,490
Symbols are universal, and thus,

675
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:56,630
when we're looking
at hieroglyphs

676
00:36:56,730 --> 00:37:02,640
or petroglyphs on
rock or geoglyphs,

678
00:37:02,740 --> 00:37:05,670
we have to also recognize

679
00:37:05,770 --> 00:37:07,770
that there are
universal symbols.

680
00:37:07,880 --> 00:37:11,510
We may look at them today
and not be aware

681
00:37:11,610 --> 00:37:13,980
of exactly what they mean.

682
00:37:14,080 --> 00:37:16,920
Just possibly some of them

683
00:37:17,020 --> 00:37:21,620
could have been influenced
by external sources,

684
00:37:21,720 --> 00:37:25,020
non-terrestrial intelligences,

685
00:37:25,130 --> 00:37:28,460
perhaps even extraterrestrials.

686
00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:32,000
These messages
potentially contain

687
00:37:32,100 --> 00:37:34,030
tremendous knowledge
for humanity.

688
00:37:34,140 --> 00:37:36,040
It could be something
very simple

689
00:37:36,140 --> 00:37:38,870
like "point yourselves
at this particular star system"

690
00:37:38,970 --> 00:37:42,210
or "meet us at this
particular time and place."

691
00:37:42,310 --> 00:37:44,840
And just imagine if
we don't get that message

692
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:46,580
and don't make that meeting,

693
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,720
or don't look to that
particular star system.

694
00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:52,290
Humanity could be
in the balance.

695
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,490
Could it be that
the petroglyphs and geoglyphs

696
00:37:56,590 --> 00:37:58,320
found all over the world

697
00:37:58,430 --> 00:38:00,990
are not only examples
of how early humans

698
00:38:01,100 --> 00:38:02,930
communicated with each other,

699
00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:07,070
but their attempt to replicate
a more sophisticated form

700
00:38:07,170 --> 00:38:09,170
of extraterrestrial language?

701
00:38:11,210 --> 00:38:13,570
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

702
00:38:13,680 --> 00:38:16,440
and believe the evidence
can be found

703
00:38:16,540 --> 00:38:19,610
by investigating UFO encounters
in which witnesses

704
00:38:19,710 --> 00:38:22,210
reported seeing
hieroglyphic writing

705
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:24,320
on alien spacecraft.

706
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,160
Rendlesham Forest.

707
00:38:30,260 --> 00:38:32,390
Suffolk County, England.

708
00:38:32,490 --> 00:38:35,960
December 26, 1980.

709
00:38:36,060 --> 00:38:40,230
Near an airbase leased
to the United States Air Force

710
00:38:40,340 --> 00:38:41,900
by the R.A.F.,

711
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:45,670
strange lights are reported
on the horizon.

712
00:38:45,770 --> 00:38:49,680
Two U.S. servicemen
are dispatched to the site

713
00:38:49,780 --> 00:38:51,680
to investigate what they believe

714
00:38:51,780 --> 00:38:55,210
could be a possible
downed aircraft.

715
00:38:55,320 --> 00:39:00,190
Some U.S. servicemen
at a base called Woodbridge

716
00:39:00,290 --> 00:39:03,260
saw a strange light
over the forest

717
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,290
and went to investigate,

718
00:39:05,390 --> 00:39:11,130
and in a clearing
came across this landed craft.

719
00:39:11,230 --> 00:39:16,000
One of them saw these
strange sequence of symbols

720
00:39:16,100 --> 00:39:18,370
upon the side of it.

721
00:39:18,470 --> 00:39:24,410
The object then rose up
and disappeared out of sight.

722
00:39:26,450 --> 00:39:28,710
What were these hieroglyphs?

723
00:39:28,820 --> 00:39:33,020
Were we meant to see them?
Were we meant to record them?

724
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,760
There are some very famous cases

725
00:39:36,860 --> 00:39:40,930
of hieroglyphs being seen
on the side

726
00:39:41,030 --> 00:39:45,300
of what appeared to be
flying saucers or UFOs.

727
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:47,530
Another UFO incident

728
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:52,000
where hieroglyphs were seen
on the side of a strange craft

729
00:39:52,110 --> 00:39:56,010
took place at Kecksburg,
in Pennsylvania.

730
00:39:57,810 --> 00:40:01,780
On December 9, 1965,
a fireball was seen

731
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:05,120
streaking through the skies
of-of Michigan and Ontario

732
00:40:05,220 --> 00:40:09,390
and then crashing
in Pennsylvania.

733
00:40:09,490 --> 00:40:13,130
And this became known as
the Kecksburg UFO.

734
00:40:13,230 --> 00:40:15,730
But what they said
that they found

735
00:40:15,830 --> 00:40:19,170
on this bell-shaped object

736
00:40:19,270 --> 00:40:24,070
were strange hieroglyphic
writing all along the base,

737
00:40:24,170 --> 00:40:28,910
very similar to the early
pictographs and petroglyphs

738
00:40:29,010 --> 00:40:31,580
and geoglyphs that we find
all over the world.

739
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,650
Could the details
of these and other UFO reports

740
00:40:35,750 --> 00:40:39,420
provide proof that
the geoglyphs and petroglyphs

741
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,450
found all across the world

742
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:45,990
were actually inspired by alien
encounters in the distant past?

743
00:40:48,430 --> 00:40:50,300
I believe that
one day we will break

744
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:53,930
the entire code of the
ancient language locked away

745
00:40:54,040 --> 00:40:57,870
in the petroglyphs, geoglyphs,
and even megaliths of the world.

746
00:40:57,970 --> 00:41:00,370
And in it, we may
find information

747
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,680
that is vital to mankind.

748
00:41:03,780 --> 00:41:05,880
When we're really
able to understand

749
00:41:05,980 --> 00:41:07,380
these geoglyphs and petroglyphs,

750
00:41:07,480 --> 00:41:10,720
we may find that there is
a message for us

751
00:41:10,820 --> 00:41:13,350
that we have been
missing all this time.

752
00:41:13,450 --> 00:41:14,990
One day, hopefully,

753
00:41:15,090 --> 00:41:19,290
we will find that knowledge
and know that message.

754
00:41:19,390 --> 00:41:22,460
It may be that there's a sort of
metaphysical time lock

755
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or a timeline for the decoding

756
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:26,530
of the petroglyphs
and geoglyphs.

757
00:41:26,630 --> 00:41:28,000
Maybe now is the time

758
00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:31,240
for us to fully understand
what those messages are.

759
00:41:31,340 --> 00:41:35,410
Perhaps the keys
to breaking the alien code

760
00:41:35,510 --> 00:41:39,040
are all around us, and have been
hiding in plain sight

761
00:41:39,150 --> 00:41:41,980
for thousands of years.

762
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:46,020
All we need to do to unlock
their mystery is to see them

763
00:41:46,120 --> 00:41:50,690
from the same perspective as
our extraterrestrial ancestors.

764
00:41:50,790 --> 00:41:53,830
We must look at them
from the sky.

765
00:41:55,830 --> 00:41:57,138
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