Once it reaches its critical temperature,
it will actually levitate.
This, to me, looks like a flying saucer.
Could we have something
that potentially people could ride in?
If you have enough magnetism,
there's no limit to how big this can be.
Unbelievable.
We're seeing a very intriguing connection here.
At this ancient site of Teotihuacan,
there may be a location in which exotic technology was used
to create an electromagnetic field.
At very low temperatures,
mercury would display the same behavior.
Mercury, in fact, was the first superconductor ever discovered.
Archeologists found a literal river
of liquid mercury at Teotihuacan.
So there absolutely does appear to be
an advanced ancient civilization that was here,
and this is the actual spaceport of this civilization.
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Mexico City.
Beneath the current-day capital of Mexico lie the ruins
of the ancient Aztec metropolis known as Tenochtitlan.
The Aztecs dominated much of central Mexico
from the 14th to the 16th century AD,
and Tenochtitlan is considered
to be their first official settlement...
An incredibly sophisticated city
featuring a grid system of canals and causeways.
But according to their historical texts,
the Aztec civilization did not originate here.
The Aztecs say they started
from this place up in the north called Chicomoztoc.
It was a cave, and inside that cave,
it had seven different caverns,
and there were said to be seven different tribes.
And the Aztecs say they were part of the seven tribes
that came from the seven chambers of Chicomoztoc.
While Chicomoztoc was once thought
to be a mythological place,
some scholars believe archaeological evidence suggests
that it really did exist, and is located at the site
of the ancient pyramid complex known today as Teotihuacan.
The place of seven caves, we think
maybe that has actually been located archaeologically
at the site of the main temple of Teotihuacan,
called the Pyramid of the Sun,
which sits just north of the Valley of Mexico.
Underneath it is actually a cave
with seven different spots that it extends out into.
And that's where the Aztecs said
their original ancestors came from.
In the 16th century,
Spanish chronicler Geronimo de Mendieta recorded the legends
of the local native population.
According to their accounts, the Aztec believed
that they were fashioned by a group
of stranded gods within these seven caves.
Mendieta wrote an account of Aztec legend.
In this report, he describes a giant flint knife
landing on the Earth.
And the Earth was trembling and shaking
as this enormous flint knife landed.
Then some 1,600 gods disgorged from this thing,
and they are responsible for launching Aztec civilization.
The Aztecs talk about the many gods
coming down to Earth and creating humans.
They create them out of bone, ash and their own blood.
And they make them somewhat in their own image.
But they make them specifically so that they will honor them
and they will serve them.
All of a sudden,
there is a description of a giant flint knife
that descended from the sky, and somebody emerged out of it.
One has to wonder
whether or not our ancestors were witness
to a landing of some type of a craft.
If so, then the Aztec story suggests
that, some point in our history,
extraterrestrials created mankind.
And something very strange was going on at Teotihuacan.
Located just 30 miles northeast of Mexico City,
the Teotihuacan complex encompasses nearly
eight square miles, and is dated to the first century AD.
It is the oldest and most sophisticated city
of Mesoamerica, an area that extends from northern Mexico
down through Central America.
The civilization predated the Maya
by at least a hundred years.
At its peak, it was said to have supported
nearly 100,000 residents.
It was also the largest city in the entire Western Hemisphere
prior to the 15th century, and served as the major commerce
and religious center for the region.
The significance of Teotihuacan
cannot be overstated.
It is the Rome of Mesoamerica.
The things that Teotihuacan did set the pattern
for all other city-states after it.
The central features of the complex
are two large pyramids,
known as the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon,
as well as a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl,
the feathered serpent.
These structures stand alongside a thoroughfare
referred to as the Avenue of the Dead.
Over 200 smaller buildings, platforms and pyramids
are found adjacent to the Avenue.
And there are thousands of living quarters
just outside the complex.
But as incredible as Teotihuacan is,
no one knows exactly who built this metropolis
or what happened to its occupants.
Teotihuacan, despite its size,
has no hieroglyphs whatsoever.
There are other cultures in Mesoamerica
that were using writing systems.
There's nothing like that at Teotihuacan.
So we don't really have a clear history
of what happened at Teotihuacan.
And we can't really find evidence of their rulers.
To develop a complete, huge complex, citadel...
We have such a sophisticated site
that embodies engineering principles, craftsmanship, art.
Where did it originate?
Where are the smaller versions of this?
Well, we don't find any.
So, we don't have a progression, an evolution,
to show where this came from.
So we have to ask: where did it come from?
We've become conditioned to look
at these awesome works of stone architecture and think,
"Oh, primitive people did that, and they used primitive methods
with primitive technology."
But we have to rethink the fundamental assumptions,
and come to a greater and greater level of understanding
that the technology required to build these artifacts, in fact,
is greater than anything that they possessed.
But based on the local lore of the region,
ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the original
builders of the site may not have been human at all.
All of the people in this area felt
this city was a sacred site connected to a divine realm.
The population along the coast were the Totonac.
They believed that the place was founded by
a dozen sky gods... The lords of thunder.
Other nearby Mesoamerican cultures had their own theories.
One associated the site with the feathered serpent god
Quetzalcoatl, who was said to have come from Venus.
It was the Aztecs who gave the place its name,
Teotihuacan... City of the Gods.
The name speaks for itself.
So one has to ask the question: what gods?
Who were they?
Were they just a figment of our ancestors' imagination,
or did they see someone?
Did somebody visit them
to essentially jumpstart civilization?
If Teotihuacan truly was founded
by extraterrestrial visitors in the remote past,
just how old might the site be?
And could this ancient city still hold evidence
of alien visitation?
Every year,
millions of tourists visit the ancient ruins
of Teotihuacan.
But most are unaware that many of the buildings
they see throughout the complex
have been erected upon much older structures.
The Pyramid of the Sun is believed to consist of
a total of five layers of pyramids,
one built on top of the next, like a Russian nesting doll.
Curiously, the oldest layers are said to exhibit
the most advanced building techniques.
Evidence of this older stonework can still be found
scattered in parts of the complex,
including a largely off-limits area
behind the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent.
This enormous stone has been very finely cut
by the inhabitants of Teotihuacan.
Local researcher Marco Vigato
has gained unprecedented access to this part of the site.
When archaeologist Leopoldo Batres
started excavating the site in 1884,
he discovered the pyramids were buried
in upwards of 12 feet of earth.
He surmised that only a catastrophic event
could account for the devastation.
It was covered under a deep layer of earth.
And we have to ask why.
How did it get covered in so much dirt?
It would require an enormous amount of time
for nature to do it.
Unless you have a catastrophic flooding.
You have to ask yourself:
was there some big cataclysm
that occurred here in prehistory?
Possibly even the Great Flood
that is spoken of in various mythologies around the world?
This could mean that Teotihuacan
is actually many, many thousands of years older
than what archaeologists say.
According to the accounts recorded
by Spanish chroniclers
when they initially made contact with the locals,
the Aztec believed that they were one of seven tribes
to be created by the gods at a time
after the world had been wiped clean
due to a catastrophic event.
They were the last group to leave the caves
where they were created in order to repopulate the world.
Teotihuacan is where they believe
the gods had created humanity, had created all things,
had created the sun, which they referred to as the "fifth sun."
The Aztecs had a cosmology that involved five ages.
They were solar ages, about 5,000 years long,
and each one terminates in a disaster.
The fourth age was called the "Water Sun,"
and it was presided over by the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue.
She was the goddess who, at the end of the age,
poured the deluge on the Earth,
and flooded everything.
If the origins of the site
are thousands of years older
than mainstream archaeologists suggest,
might this help explain why,
even after decades of excavations,
they still haven't found evidence
of who the site's rulers were?
And could it also shed new light
on recent perplexing discoveries?
October, 2003.
Torrential rains sweep through the ruins
of this ancient pyramid complex...
leaving a three-foot-wide sinkhole
at the foot of one of the site's most important structures:
the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
Archaeologists immediately begin exploring the cavity.
What they found is the tunnel
leading from outside the temple
all the way to about centerline underneath the temple.
It was very filled in,
probably by the Teotihuacanos themselves.
But it's been a slow process to excavate.
Halfway through down the tunnel,
we find these two chambers on either side.
As they continued down,
they found three more chambers at the end.
And those hold some incredible things.
There were many jade statues in there.
And ceramics.
In April, 2015,
after nearly 12 years of excavations,
archaeologist Sergio Gómez and his team
make another shocking discovery.
Directly underneath the center of the pyramid,
they have located a vast pool of liquid mercury.
What makes this so interesting
is that the mercury cannot exist in its native form in nature.
There is a natural minerallac material called "cinnabar,"
and in order to get mercury,
you have to extract it out of the cinnabar,
which requires a complex process involving high temperatures.
It's a highly toxic element.
It is difficult to extract.
So, the logistics behind this are incredible.
How was it transported there?
Where did it come from and for what purpose?
Also, how did our ancestors handle liquid mercury
without them dying out?
Interestingly enough, the only other site
that features liquid mercury is in China,
inside the tomb of the first emperor.
How come there is liquid mercury in a tomb in China,
and now they've discovered liquid mercury
in Teotihuacan?
One has to ask the question: what was it used for?
Liquid mercury is a superconductor,
and in our modern technological age, this class of elements
is being used in revolutionary applications
such as free-energy generation, advanced medical imaging
and cutting-edge transportation projects.
But why would there be vast amounts of mercury
found under a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid?
Could it have served a technological purpose?
May, 2013.
Just two years prior to the astounding discovery
of liquid mercury at Teotihuacan,
archaeologist Sergio Gómez and his team
made another curious find:
hundreds of gold-colored metallic spheres
scattered in the same tunnel
beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.
The spheres ranged in diameter
from just one inch up to five inches.
There were hundreds of them.
On the exterior, they were burned pyrite.
And on the interior, they're mostly clay.
In fact, the entire chamber seems to have
flecks of this golden pyrite or fool's gold all over it.
I've never seen anything like it.
I do not know what these things are, what their meaning is.
To my knowledge, we've never found a chamber like that
anywhere in Mesoamerica,
certainly nowhere in Teotihuacan.
It's an enigma, and neither I nor any of my colleagues
know what to make of it.
One of the findings of the analysis of these golden spheres
was that there are substances in them that can't be identified,
can't be related to other known Earth substances.
The archeologists themselves cannot explain
how these were formed,
why is there anomalous organic material within them,
or what purpose did they serve.
We have to wonder what these pyramids
and this whole structure is about.
What are these golden spheres about?
And why is there mercury inside of this pyramid?
It's almost like some kind of alien technology
is being used at Teotihuacan, but we don't understand it.
The recent finds of mercury
and the inexplicable golden spheres
only add to the mystery of the site.
In 1906, archaeologist Leopoldo Batres discovered
layers of mica throughout the Teotihuacan complex.
The discovery of entire sheets of this material,
which is used in electrical and thermal applications,
has baffled researchers, as it has not been found
in any other ancient architecture.
In a couple of different places in Teotihuacan,
we've discovered sheets of mica.
The first reports of them were supposedly that
Leopold Batres had found these large sheets of mica
on top of the Temple of the Sun.
Since that first discovery,
entire chambers lined with mica have allegedly been found
at different locations along the Avenue of the Dead,
but the areas are now off limits to visitors.
Ever since the late 1990s, the Mexican government...
In the 1970s, author and researcher Erich von Daniken
got a firsthand look into one of these mica chambers.
I was brought there by a local archeologist who loved my books,
and he said he can show me a mystery.
There is a room, and the room has a ceiling,
and has, of course, four walls.
And in the four walls, you see mica.
This mica is put in artificially.
It's like an insulation.
First, you have stone, then you have a level of mica,
about ten centimeter, and then again stone.
From this chamber where the mica is, there is a hole,
and the hole is insulated with mica.
And I have been told that the hole goes
inside the great pyramid...
The Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan.
That will be the next discovery.
Today, mica is used as a heat shield
in electronic and aerospace industries.
It has the unique properties of being a good conductor
of electricity as well as an insulator of heat,
since it is able to resist temperatures
upwards of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.
We use mica today with high technology.
So one has to wonder,
why is there a mica chamber at Teotihuacan?
It's very brittle,
but it's incredibly, incredibly heat resistant.
Why was there any need for mica in the first place?
There seems to be a correlation, though,
between mica, liquid mercury,
and these orbs or spheres that all seem to point
to some high technology usage.
What did they know,
how did they know it is anybody's guess,
but it just sounds like they needed these materials
for something, and they used them.
We have to wonder, are we looking at a technology?
We see components of it
that don't make sense just for a primitive culture.
The pyramids
and the various components could've been part of
a sophisticated system of technology.
Ancient astronaut theorists propose
that the mercury, mica,
and gold-colored spheres may be somehow connected
and serve as components of a larger device.
They suggest that further evidence
can be found at the site by examining the remnants
of an ancient explosion.
Teotihuacan.
Along the Avenue of the Dead,
multiple structures show evidence
of a catastrophic fire
that consumed portions of the temple complex.
The damage has been attributed
to an uprising at the end of the sixth century,
just before the population entirely vanished
without a trace.
This structure, in particular,
in spite of the many modern restorations...
According to archaeologist Leopoldo Batres,
who surveyed the site in the late 19th century,
the damage seemed too extensive
to be attributed to simple torch flames,
leading researchers to explore alternative explanations.
Could the curious finds
of mica and mercury at the site
help corroborate the theory that the burn marks we see
along the Avenue of the Dead
are from some sort of mechanical explosion?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and they suggest that like the Great Pyramid at Giza
and other sites throughout the globe,
the structures at Teotihuacan may have once served
as an electromagnetic power plant.
Researchers proposed that the pyramids
constructed around the world are, in fact, power plants.
This is based on our new knowledge
that they, in fact, are designed
to tap the resonant power of the Earth
and then to distribute it around the world.
Teotihuacan matches precisely this model.
It's built over caverns,
it had liquid mercury and mica incorporated into its design,
and we know that the gods came and left from this place.
So when we put all the pieces together,
we're looking at Teotihuacan as yet another example
of the power plants of the gods.
If it was a technological system
that was generating a lot of energy, at some point,
there could've been a malfunction in it.
If there was energy, the mica found at the site
was supposed to shield it,
and mercury... Was also found at the site...
Seems to have been used.
Perhaps we had some kind of accident there
at some point in time.
If Teotihuacan served as an ancient power plant,
generating electromagnetic energy,
just what role did the liquid mercury...
Recently discovered at the site...
Play in such a scenario?
There's stories of mercury being used in spacecraft.
And some of the ancient Indian epics
talk about mercury as part of the vimanas
and the mechanics of these craft.
So here we have the idea that this mercury
that's being found at archeological sites
is really part of the propulsion of some of the craft
that the extraterrestrials were using here on Earth.
Los Angeles, California.
February, 2017.
Physicist James Lincoln has been experimenting
with superconductors like mercury
and the levitation effects produced
in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields,
such as those suspected of being generated
by the ancient pyramid power plants.
Author and researcher David Wilcock
visited his laboratory
to see how electromagnetism creates an environment
that allows mercury to levitate.
- Good to meet you. - Nice to meet you. Yes.
The demonstration will utilize
a conventional superconductor material
in place of mercury due to its toxicity.
What am I about to see here?
Now, one of the signatures of a superconductor
is that once it reaches its critical temperature,
as being it's cold enough,
it will actually levitate over a magnetic field.
That is unbelievable.
We can actually make it go around the track.
This is the signature behavior of any superconductor
in the presence of a magnetic field.
It generates electricity flowing in loops
inside of a superconductor.
- That's why it floats. - Wow.
There's not really an upper limit
to how fast this thing can go.
So there's a flow of current
in the disc as it's going?
Yes. Once these electric currents are generated,
it's free and permanent
and can last as long as you can keep it cold.
Wow. Very, very cool.
So if you had mercury here
and got it really, really cold, th-this same type
of effect would occur, or would we notice anything different?
We would be able to get the same effect
if we managed to get this cold enough.
Okay. -Mercury is also a superconductor.
In fact, it was the first superconductor
- ever discovered. - Okay.
And this one can be anywhere, any orientation,
whether I put it on forward or backwards
or even upside down, it still works.
And here we're seeing it
held perfectly in place, zipping along on its own.
Now that is truly remarkable.
This, to me, looks like a flying saucer.
It does look a lot like a flying saucer.
In fact, you can get it to avoid obstacles,
like you would want from any hovering technology.
So, here I'm placing some little debris on the track,
and let's see if it, uh, can get over this, uh, pile of sticks.
Sure.
- No trouble. - No resistance.
Yeah, so now you can imagine it flying over forests,
if it was large enough,
and if you managed to have enough magnetism on the surface
for that to happen.
Unbelievable.
If this technology could be scaled up,
could we have something that potentially people could be able
to ride in as a craft?
Yeah. If you keep the superconductor cold.
- Huh. - And you imagine
it has to have a chamber of liquid nitrogen. -Right.
And you have enough magnetism over a surface,
then there's no upper limit to how big this can be.
So, if there were some way to make this
a self-contained continuously cooling unit,
theoretically at least, would it be able
to keep doing what it's doing right now indefinitely?
Well, yes.
It will last, uh, as long as it stays cold.
People have had superconductors lasting for years already
with currents flowing in them.
And there's a lot of places that are cold enough
that that would work.
- For example, outer space. - Right.
We're seeing a very intriguing connection here.
Teotihuacan may be a location
in which exotic technology was used
to create an electromagnetic field.
And therefore, the area around the pyramid
may have been an area in which levitation
was much easier for a flying saucer
that involved liquid mercury as a fuel.
Teotihuacan may have been the Cape Canaveral of its day.
Today most space facilities
are built as close to the equator as possible
to take advantage of the Earth's rotation.
And Teotihuacan is relatively near the equator,
and so it would be an ideal spot
as a spaceport for extraterrestrial vehicles
to land and take off.
Is it possible that Teotihuacan
functioned as some sort of extraterrestrial spaceport,
one capable of generating electromagnetic power
to support interstellar craft fueled by liquid mercury?
Perhaps further evidence can be found
by examining a planetary map encoded in the city's layout.
March, 2017.
Archaeologists continue to dig under the pyramid complex,
in an attempt to answer the many mysteries
of Teotihuacan.
The discoveries of liquid mercury,
walls lined with mica,
and strange artifacts like the golden spheres
point to the possibility that an advanced society
once occupied this city.
But some researchers suggest even greater clues can be found
by examining the layout of the entire complex.
Three of the major structures contained within Teotihuacan
have been found to line up with the three belt stars of Orion,
a connection that is also mirrored
in the layout of the pyramids at the Giza Plateau in Egypt.
And the positioning of the main thoroughfare,
known as the Avenue of the Dead,
is directed toward the Pleiades star cluster.
But perhaps the most intriguing connection
was proposed in the 1970s
by American engineer Hugh Harleston Jr.
In 1972, Hugh Harleston
undertook a study of the site.
And he was trying to determine mathematically
if he could break down or discover
a standard unit of measure at Teotihuacan.
The conclusion that Harleston came up with
in all his measurements, he found consistent numbers.
And he discovered that they reflected
mathematical principles that involved units, intervals,
and the spacing of the planets.
He found the actual derivation of the solar system
with the planets, their correct distances from one another,
actually laid out
in the spacings of the monuments at this complex.
Harleston noted that the intervals
between the major structures corresponded exactly
to the distances between the various planets.
There is a very clear rationale
for the positioning of these artifacts,
and it's only once you get into their measurements
that you start to see compelling proof
that this is intended to be
an accurate map of our solar system.
Even the distance of the asteroid belt
between Mars and Jupiter was correctly plotted
by the diversion of the San Juan River through the site.
Harleston believed
that a man-made canal that was cut
through Teotihuacan represented the asteroid belt,
which was not something known to ancient people.
Whoever built Teotihuacan,
they had full knowledge of our solar system
and knowledge that ancient people could not have had.
Three and a half miles away,
on top of the Cerro Gordo mountain range,
Harleston also located the ruins of the Temple of Xóchitl,
which fell directly in sight line of the Avenue of the Dead.
Harleston believed
that this temple was mathematically showing
that there was a planet beyond Pluto,
twice as far as Pluto,
that was somehow orbiting around our solar system.
Curiously, in 2016,
planetary scientists
from the California Institute of Technology announced
that they had found preliminary evidence of the existence
of an unknown planet beyond Pluto.
Would such a revelation give further credence
to the idea that the inhabitants of Teotihuacan
had intimate knowledge of our solar system,
and that the site served as an ancient spaceport,
one that might still be active today?
May 4, 2015.
A tourist visiting the ancient pyramid complex of Teotihuacan
takes a photograph featuring the Pyramid of the Sun.
He thinks nothing of it until he later reviews the photo
and notices two strange objects hovering over the pyramid.
Upon closer examination,
they appear to be silver disk-shaped craft.
What's strange about the two UFOs photographed
above the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan is
that only ten seconds later,
a second photograph was taken and those two objects were gone.
So, clearly, we're not talking about Mylar balloons here.
There's nothing floating in the sky anymore.
And if they would have been Mylar balloons, well,
they don't move that fast to just disappear.
There has been a long history
of UFO sightings and unusual events
in Teotihuacan, particularly around the pyramids,
which perhaps are somehow attracting UFOs
and extraterrestrials.
Is there more going on at Teotihuacan
than archaeologists realize?
Could there be secrets about our extraterrestrial past
left for us to discover at this ancient city?
At Teotihuacan,
so far only ten percent has been excavated.
That means there's 90% that remains to be dug up.
How much more is there at the site?
We have no idea.
But we have to ask, if we continue and press on,
might we find the artifacts, the components
that start to put the pieces together,
and perhaps lead us to a much clearer concept
of who these beings were that built this?
We don't know what they will find
in the future, but I suspect
they'll make some startling discoveries.
There's many things in our past that we just don't understand,
but it's possible that the answers, or some of them,
are at Teotihuacan.
Is it possible
that the ancient complex of Teotihuacan
was an extraterrestrial spaceport?
Might it still hold the very fuel
that was used to power alien craft?
Perhaps the secrets of Teotihuacan
will ultimately be revealed
in time for mankind's alien ancestors to return.
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