NARRATOR: The Dome of the Rock.
The Temple of Jupiter.
Puma Punku.
They are sites sacred to millions of people,
and they are all built atop the ruins of structures
that are far more ancient.
WILLIAM HENRY: Some of the most iconic temples sites around the world
are built on the exact same location as former temples.
And the question is, why?
NARRATOR: What compelled early humans to build and rebuild
in the same place, again and again?
It seems they were not only doing it for practical purposes
but also for religious and spiritual reasons.
NARRATOR: Are there locations on Earth
that hold special power?
GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The local population say,
"It was not us who built this. It was the gods."
NARRATOR: And might we find that they were once occupied
by extraterrestrials?
GEORGE NOORY: There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites than we think,
and that they were spots for extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
NARRATOR: There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is the promise of truth.
It demands we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
Cuzco, Peru.
Nestled in a high river valley of the Andes Mountains,
among peaks towering over 20,000 feet,
this once great city served as the capital
of the Inca Empire
from the 13th to 16th centuries AD.
In 1533, Spanish conquistadors arrived in Cuzco
and were astonished by the incredible stonework
found at a site just north of the city called Sacsayhuamán.
Above the city of Cuzco we find the megalithic site
and huge ceremonial Inca complex called Sacsayhuamán.
Its most prominent feature is a zigzag wall of three levels.
Some of the stones there weigh as much as 125 tons
and were moved from the quarry at least three miles away.
Sacsayhuamán is one of the most beautiful ancient structures
you will ever see in your life.
There are massive, gigantic megalithic blocks,
and you find the most amazing of masonry style
where you can’t even fit a dollar bill
in between the fittings of any of the blocks.
NARRATOR: Sacsayhuamán served both as a fortress
and a ceremonial center.
A circular structure that lies within the megalithic walls,
called Muyuq Marka, was the base of a tower
where the Inca worshipped the sun god Inti.
However, many experts suggest that while the Inca
certainly utilized this megalithic structure,
they were not the ones to build it.
Standard belief is that the Inca constructed Sacsayhuamán
less than a thousand years ago.
But in some of the earliest Spanish chronicles
it is said that the Spanish were completely astounded
by seeing this site, and they asked the local Inca,
"Did you build this?" And the Inca replied,
"No. This was here when we arrived 500 years ago."
NARRATOR: Many experts believe Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca
by thousands of years,
and that the Inca built on top of what came before.
The Inca were a Bronze Age civilization,
and the stones at Sacsayhuamán are metamorphosed limestone,
which is much harder than bronze
and could not be cut or shaped using bronze tools.
Inca built on top ’cause you can tell a major difference
between megalithic construction,
where the stones fit perfectly together,
and the Inca, which is stones piled on top of stones
with mortar as filler.
NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamán really does predate the Inca‐‐
as the Inca themselves claimed‐‐
how could an even earlier civilization have possessed
far superior technology?
The ancient Inca talk about celestial beings
who descended from the sky a long time ago
and imparted the first knowledge of anything
toward people of Earth.
The ancient astronaut theory suggests
it was human beings who built Sacsayhuamán
but under the tutelage of the extraterrestrials.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that the astonishing megalithic stonework
at Sacsayhuamán was achieved with the help of
alien technology, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?
And if so, might the Inca have built on top of it‐‐
and established it as a place of worship‐‐
because they were somehow aware of this?
Sacsayhuamán is only one of many places
where ancient civilizations have felt compelled
to repeatedly build their most sacred sites.
In fact, there are locations all around the world
where successive cultures have rebuilt over and over again.
This has been going on since the end of the last ice age
with places like Gobekli Tepe in Southeast Turkey,
where the oldest and most sophisticated monuments
were built first on the bedrock.
And then, eventually, they would be covered over,
and a new structure, new enclosure built on top of them.
Some of the most iconic temple sites around the world,
from Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple of Horus at Edfu in Egypt,
are built on the exact same location
as former temples that were reputed to be there.
And the question is, why?
NARRATOR: It is not uncommon for people to repurpose an old structure
or rebuild on its foundation for practical purposes.
But what ancient astronaut theorists find intriguing
is how the most sacred sites
tend to remain sacred over thousands of years.
And of all the places in the world
where this phenomenon is found,
perhaps there is none more universally revered
than the 35‐acre platform in Jerusalem known as Temple Mount.
KATHLEEN McGOWAN: The Temple Mount is arguably
the most important spiritual site in the world.
All three of the primary monotheistic religions have
a connection to the events of history that occurred
‐on top of the Temple Mount. ‐(praying in Arabic)
It’s believed that, "Is this the stone
from which the world originates?"
It’s a crucial element in the Jewish tradition.
When Isaac is offered up for sacrifice by Abraham,
this happens on the exposed surface of Mount Moriah.
That’s the Temple Mount.
For Muslims, this is where the Prophet Muhammad
ascends up to heaven.
That stone is now covered over by the Dome of the Rock,
this very important Islamic monument.
NARRATOR: The Dome of the Rock
has stood at Temple Mount for more than 1,300 years,
but the very first temple to occupy this sacred space
was the legendary Solomon’s Temple,
constructed upon order of the Israelite king
in the tenth century BC.
According to the Hebrew Bible, King Solomon received a message
from the heavens to build his temple on this spot.
Its primary purpose was to house the Ark of the Covenant,
the golden box which carried the two stone tablets
inscribed with the Ten Commandments,
and which was said to be God’s earthly throne.
Solomon has a communication with the angel Michael,
who comes and helps Solomon to build this.
And so, not only is this the presence of God on this spot,
it’s God who’s helping in the building of this.
And so that’s part of what makes that place so special.
So literally divine.
NARRATOR: Solomon’s Temple was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.
But 70 years later, Jewish exiles returning to Jerusalem
built a new temple on the exact same location.
HUSSAIN: That’s what we call the Second Temple.
And that temple survives until the year 70 AD,
when it’s destroyed by the Romans.
Then, in the seventh century, Muslims conquered Jerusalem.
They build the Dome of the Rock there.
And, so, there’s been a long history
of different people coming in,
taking control, building, rebuilding, uh, places there.
McGOWAN: Solomon was instructed to build the temple
on this incredibly important space.
So why is this space important?
Is it an energetic space? Is it a portal?
What we see over and over again
with these profound religious sites all over the world
is, we see this reverence for power places endures.
From the earliest human history to today,
we’re constantly building on top of these places.
NARRATOR: If a higher power instructed King Solomon
to build on Temple Mount, could there be something special
about this particular location on Earth?
And could the same be true
for other places around the world
where successive cultures built again and again?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
one of the most astonishing megalithic sites in the world,
and stories about its connection to the stars.
NARRATOR: Baalbek, Lebanon.
Here, in the fertile Bekaa Valley,
stands what many consider
to be the greatest ruin of Roman antiquity...
...the colossal Temple of Jupiter.
But the imposing remains that tower over the site today
are only the latest in a long line of structures
erected on this spot.
Archaeologists say the area has been continually inhabited
for at least 10,000 years,
and no one knows who built the first place of worship here.
But according to legend,
both Egyptian and Assyrian conquerors
erected sanctuaries on the site,
followed by the Canaanites and Phoenicians,
who built a great temple here to their god Baal around 2500 BC.
Baalbek is one of those places
where you have different people over millennia
building their shrines, their temples,
to their particular, you know, gods or goddesses.
You’ve got this temple that’s built by the Phoenicians
for one of their deities Baal.
Then Alexander the Great conquers this area
and‐‐ surprise, surprise‐‐
builds a temple to the Greek gods.
NARRATOR: In the first century BC,
roughly 300 years after Alexander the Great,
the Romans conquer Lebanon and decide to erect a temple here
to their chief god Jupiter.
The main Roman temple once boasted 54 columns,
each a staggering 65 feet in height.
But while visitors to the ruins may first notice
the towering Roman columns,
the most impressive feature at Baalbek
is its massive foundation.
TSOUKALOS: To this day,
Baalbek, Lebanon has remained
one of the most enduring mysteries on planet Earth,
because the masonry that we find there
is unparalleled compared to the rest of the world.
In fact, there are three stone blocks called the trilithons,
each weighing approximately 800 metric tons,
which is 1.6 million pounds.
COLLINS: Each of these blocks is approximately 62 feet in length
by about 14 feet in depth and 12 feet in breadth.
And they’re not even on the ground.
So whoever placed them there in ancient times
would have had to have raised them
up to a height of about 20 feet.
HENRY: Each of the stones were quarried two miles away
and put perfectly into place
with such precision that you can’t even put a credit card
or a needle in between those massive blocks.
NARRATOR: How ancient people carved and moved
such massive stones is a question
that baffles archaeologists to this day.
And equally as mysterious is who placed them there.
The giant blocks in the foundation
are clearly of a different building style
than the temples that sit above.
And in my opinion, that platform is not just ancient,
it is prehistoric.
NARRATOR: But if the platform at Baalbek was constructed
thousands of years before the Romans arrived
in the Bekaa Valley,
why did they choose this as the site
to build their most magnificent temple?
One pioneering Russian scholar has proposed
that humans may have been drawn to this location
because it was the site of one of Earth’s
earliest extraterrestrial events.
Scientist and mathematician Dr. Matest Agrest
sends shockwaves through the world of academia
with an article in which he poses a new theory
called "paleocontact," a precursor
to what is known today as the ancient astronaut theory,
suggesting that certain biblical texts
could be interpreted as evidence of alien visitation.
And according to Agrest,
one place where such visitations occurred was Baalbek.
HENRY: Dr. Matest Agrest
went into the ancient record, the Book of Enoch
and other Hebrew texts, and noticed that there were beings
coming from the sky or the stars that came to Earth,
and he came up with a theory that they
were extraterrestrial beings who came to Earth
to assist humanity in developing advanced technology
to build stone constructions
such as what we see at Baalbek in Lebanon.
NARRATOR: Agrest wrote about the watchers,
a group of fallen angels
who, according to the biblical account,
descended to Earth at Mount Hermon,
very near the site of Baalbek.
Agrest suggested that the watchers were, in fact,
visitors from another planet,
who built the megalithic platform at Baalbek
as a launchpad.
He thought it was a giant stone platform
that spaceships could land on and take off from.
And this makes a lot of sense,
because it’s so incredibly solid,
with these huge stone blocks in it,
that even huge vehicles, such as rockets,
could land and take off from this huge platform.
NARRATOR: Two decades after the publication
of Agrest’s controversial article,
author and researcher Zecharia Sitchin
came to the same conclusion about Baalbek
based on a 5,000‐year‐old Sumerian text.
The Epic of Gilgamesh tells of a hero of superhuman strength
who embarks on an impossible quest.
In the course of his journeys, Gilgamesh arrives at a site
where he encounters otherworldly gods,
a site that sounds suspiciously like Baalbek.
In the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh,
which is one of the great and important legends,
um, of human history, we have the hero arriving
in a place known as the Landing Place.
A space which allows the ascent and the descent of beings
from the heavens to the Earth.
HENRY: Zecharia Sitchin in the 1970s proposed,
based on his reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh,
that Gilgamesh himself had seen some sort of a spacecraft
take off from a landing site and pinpointed that site as Baalbek.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that Baalbek
was a landing pad for alien visitors?
And that it remained so for thousands of years?
Could that be why so many ancient peoples,
such as the Egyptians, Assyrians, Canaanites,
Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans, all chose to build and rebuild
some of their greatest temples on this spot?
Perhaps further clues can be found
by examining new discoveries
made at a mysterious ancient site
on the other side of the world.
NARRATOR: While searching for the southern capital
of the Inca Empire, Spanish conquistador Pedro Cieza de León
comes upon something far stranger‐‐
a vast, abandoned city near the shore of Lake Titicaca
that the locals call Tiahuanaco.
The ruined city contains temples,
huge megalithic structures, and vast ceremonial buildings.
ED BARNHART: Tiahuanaco was huge.
It spanned for miles and miles,
and had a population of perhaps as many as 20,000 people.
NARRATOR: Among Tiahuanaco’s most impressive ruins
is a carved monolith called the Gateway to the Sun
and a terraced mound called Puma Punku,
containing stone blocks cut with extraordinary precision.
According to archaeologists, the Tiahuanaco complex
once served as the capital of a sprawling empire
that rose and fell centuries before the Inca.
TSOUKALOS: This is why we have the term called the pre‐Inca.
But who were the pre‐Inca?
And this is where it gets interesting,
because pre‐Inca construction
is more sophisticated than Inca construction.
NARRATOR: While some mainstream historians say the site dates back
only to the Bronze Age, others maintain it is far older.
TSOUKALOS: Arthur Posnanski spent an exorbitant amount of time
at Tiahuanaco, and he calculated
an actual origin date of Tiahuanaco,
which he based to be around 12,500 BC,
which is an incredible time, because at that time,
according to mainstream archaeology,
we were munching on bananas.
HENRY: So, it opens up the possibility that this site
is vastly more ancient than we’re led to believe.
And we’re only just now beginning to discover
the complete history of that site.
NARRATOR: Some experts believe that the builders of Tiahuanaco
were the ancestors of the local Aymara people
who still live in the area today.
But many of the Aymara themselves disagree.
TSOUKALOS: The local population, the ancient Aymara culture, say,
"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods. Los dioses."
NARRATOR: Recently, the mystery of who built Tiahuanaco
only deepened with a staggering discovery
not within the city but beneath it.
2017.
Researchers from UNESCO,
working with local archaeologists at Tiahuanaco,
announce findings that send shockwaves
through the world of archaeology.
While analyzing satellite imagery
and ground‐penetrating radar of the Tiahuanaco site,
they find dozens of previously unknown structures
buried virtually everywhere they look.
What this aerial technology has found
is 34 acres of terraced mounds,
underground platforms,
and elements of a pyramid complex.
Undated constructions reveal that temples
may have taken the form of industrial‐strength platforms,
and this begs the question, why are the bases,
these platforms, so industrial‐strength?
It’s as though they were built to support extreme weight.
So, originally, there could have been one large mega‐platform,
similar to what we find at Baalbek.
This could have belonged to a much earlier civilization.
NARRATOR: If Tiahuanaco is yet another sacred site
where successive cultures built temples atop the ruins
of far earlier structures,
is it possible that there is a connection
to extraterrestrial visitation?
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,
Tiahuanaco’s most mysterious ruins,
at Puma Punku, provide the best evidence
that the site was not only significant
to the native people
but also to otherworldly visitors.
Puma Punku is, to me, the most important place on Earth
as far as an extraterrestrial visitation would be concerned.
The construction style at Puma Punku
does not exist anywhere else on Earth.
HENRY: These stones, some of them weighing a hundred tons,
are made of andesite and other hard materials
that today we would use a diamond‐tip drill
in order to shape or mold such stones.
How did they do it with hammers and chisels?
NARRATOR: Like the foundation stones beneath Baalbek
and the megalithic blocks of Sacsayhuamán,
the buried platforms beneath Puma Punku
raise a provocative question:
Why were the largest, heaviest
and most sophisticated parts of these sites
those that date back farthest in time?
According to ancient astronaut theorists,
more than 12,000 years ago,
human civilizations existed on Earth
that possessed incredible technology
given to them by extraterrestrial beings.
The ancient Egyptians referred to
a‐a time called the "First Time,"
when the gods, extraterrestrial beings, walked among men.
Pre‐10,000 BC.
CHILDRESS: We have authentic legends
about these lost lands and lost worlds.
And that extraterrestrials were here at the same time.
We have these all over the world.
We have the stories of Atlantis and Lemuria.
Many cultures around the world have, also, these same legends
and lores and myths of cataclysms.
The Scandinavians have this.
Also, we have the flood of Noah.
We have‐‐ the Greeks also have tales of a flood.
COLLINS: What we now know
from incredible amount of evidence
coming from every part of the world,
is around 10,800 BC,
the Earth suffered a terrible, uh, catastrophe
in the form of a comet impact
known as the Younger Dryas event.
And this devastated every continent of the world
with fires and floods.
CHILDRESS: So, now it looks like we’re looking at a‐a secret history
of planet Earth,
one where there’s extraterrestrial intervention.
And there were civilizations and activities going on then,
and they were destroyed in a cataclysmic flood.
HENRY: From Baalbek in Lebanon to the Temple Mount to Puma Punku,
some of these sites are thought to be the locations
where pre‐flood temples once existed.
So, after the cataclysm, people are regaining civilization,
and they go back to the exact same location
as previous temples and‐and rebuild the temple there.
NARRATOR: Could it be that the most ancient structures
found at sacred sites all over the world
belonged to civilizations that have been lost to history?
Civilizations where extraterrestrials
once lived among humans
before falling victim to a cataclysmic event?
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining
a site in Peru where the Inca claimed to have had
a direct line of communication with the gods.
NARRATOR: Cuzco, Peru.
In the heart of the ancient Incan capital
stands the Convent of Santo Domingo,
a Spanish church constructed roughly 400 years ago.
But still visible beneath the church are the remnants
of an older and far more impressive structure:
the Incan temple of Coricancha.
TOK THOMPSON: Coricancha is probably the premier site
for the ancient Incan civilization.
This was the crowning jewel of their empire.
Um, it, uh, reflected the Incan, uh, political power.
As well as the religious power.
BARNHART: It had gold plating all along its walls, inside and out.
So it glowed in the Sun.
And it was a very imposing structure.
It had a base that was a curved wall
with a big garden at the bottom.
And inside, it had a number of temples.
(men yelling, swords clanging)
NARRATOR: After the Spanish conquistadors
sacked Cuzco in November of 1533,
they demolished the Coricancha and built a convent and church
on its monumental foundation.
All that’s left of the original structure
is the impressive stonework of the base
and some underground rooms.
But some experts believe the surviving stonework
of the Coricancha is too monumental and sophisticated
to have been achieved with the Bronze Age tools of the Inca,
and was built instead by an earlier, unknown civilization.
NEWMAN: So, with the Coricancha, we have
good evidence that when the Inca arrived in this area,
there was already an earlier megalithic temple there.
They were actually building on something
that was already there,
like, possibly an ancient platform,
possibly an underground temple,
because there’s evidence of tunnels in this area.
NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,
this raises the same question posed by Baalbek and Tiahuanaco:
why did ancient people repeatedly build
temple after temple on the same sacred spot?
And some believe that in the case of the Coricancha,
Inca legends may provide a pivotal clue.
Because tradition states that a special spot
within the Coricancha allowed communication
directly with the heavens,
but only when it was activated by the most sacred relic
in the Inca world, a mysterious golden disc
called the Inti Punchaco.
The most legendary relic of any Peruvian era
was said to have been kept in the original Coricancha.
This was the Inti Punchaco.
This sun disc, this golden artifact,
allowed whoever possessed it
to commune directly with the gods.
NARRATOR: According to the Inca, within the Coricancha,
the Inti Punchaco disc allowed direct contact
with their creator god Viracocha.
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that the specific placement of it
was important because it may have been receiving a signal
from beyond Earth.
And they believe the exact spot where it was activated
still exists in a chamber of the Coricancha
that was spared destruction by the Spanish.
In the Coricancha is this special niche,
and today they’ve covered it with a Plexiglas sheet,
but it has blocks that are perfectly cut
and articulated in unusual ways, little notches and things,
plus drilled holes that go through it,
which seem to be for electric cables or something.
So it would appear that some device
was placed into this niche in the wall
that was like a monitor of some kind.
And they’ve chosen this spot.
And all for reasons that we do not understand.
NEWMAN: So, could it be that at the Coricancha,
there was a sacred kind of part of the site there
where they were connecting with the gods?
Actually something in the land, like a‐a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex that the Inca
and then later the Spanish became aware of.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient Peruvians possessed a device
that allowed them to communicate with beings from beyond Earth?
And that the location of the Coricancha
was essential to activating this technology?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,
and suggest that clues as to just how such a technology
might have worked can be found by examining
mysterious magnetic anomalies detected
at one of the most remote ancient sites in the world.
NARRATOR: In the middle of the Pacific Ocean,
roughly 2,500 miles northeast of Australia,
lie the ruins of a once great ancient city Nan Madol.
Consisting of hundreds of man‐made islets
off the eastern coast of Micronesia,
it has been dubbed the "Eighth Wonder of the World."
The site of Nan Madol on the island of Pohnpei in Micronesia
is one of the strangest places on the planet.
It’s an 11‐square‐mile complex
composed of over 250 million tons of basalt logs...
...floating on a submerged coral reef.
They are 18 feet long, four feet in diameter,
and are stacked 40 feet up in the air.
Why did they do this? And how did they do this?
NARRATOR: Today, the site lies abandoned and shunned
by the local Micronesians, who consider it haunted.
THOMPSON: Nan Madol is one of these disappeared civilizations.
It’s fascinatingly interesting.
This seemed to have been the center of power
of a, uh, major civilization.
And yet it also seems that it might have been built
on earlier civilizations that are lost in time.
NARRATOR: Since stone is difficult to accurately date,
no one knows for certain when it was constructed
or how it was built.
TSOUKALOS: When you ask the local population,
"Where were these blocks quarried?"
In unison, they will tell you, from across the island
and that they were flown across the island.
According to legend,
twin sorcerers of giant proportions
came down from the sky and floated above the site
and positioned the basalt columns as they desired,
a legend that’s very similar to the same story at Puma Punku.
TSOUKALOS: But when I hear stories like that,
I wonder, well, perhaps we have another example
of what I refer to as misunderstood technology.
NARRATOR: As with other sites like Puma Punku,
Baalbek and the Coricancha, legend says
that these structures were not the first to exist here,
but instead were built above a much older city.
GOUGH: The mystery of Nan Madol
is even more intriguing when we factor in the local legend
that states that it was built on an earlier civilization
called the Kanamwayso,
which is submerged below water
but still has those same basalt megaliths.
NARRATOR: Objects that appear to be basalt columns
have in fact been found beneath the ocean at Nan Madol,
and those who have studied the columns
both above and below the water
have discovered a curious electromagnetic anomaly.
CHILDRESS: There’s a strong magnetic field in every single one
of the 250 million tons of basalt there.
You can take a compass and run it along these basalt blocks,
and your compass will just spin as you move it along the blocks.
Also, it’s thought that the site itself is a special power spot
and an energy vortex, and that’s why Nan Madol is built there.
And this legendary sunken city called Kanamwayso as well.
TSOUKALOS: The local population also reports many, many sightings
of orbs and lights
that have been seen hovering around Nan Madol.
Is it because of the magnetic spectrum of Earth?
And you have to wonder if, through magnetism,
the stones were transported in the first place,
’cause they were transported through the air.
NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that elevated electromagnetic energy present at Nan Madol
was not only a powerful tool
used to move the giant basalt columns,
but that it may also have been the reason
that extraterrestrials helped the locals
to build here in the first place.
NEWMAN: Could it be that there was
a sacred kind of part of the site there,
where they were connecting with the gods?
You know, not just through visionary experiences,
but actually something in the land,
like a‐a magnetic hot spot or a vortex?
TAYLOR: We hear the word "vortex" in science fiction,
popular culture all the time.
And a vortex is just a mathematical thing
that describes a swirling motion.
An electromagnetic field can be formed in a vortex.
You could create a vortex that would enable
transporting information from somewhere else to here
at the speed of light or faster than the speed of light.
And if there are places on the Earth
where these types of vortexes may be stronger than others,
you could see people going there to build structures
that maybe altered
the electromagnetic field of the local environment.
NEWMAN: Was there even some kind of portal or vortex present
in some of these sacred places?
If that’s the case, we have to question
these principles of oracle sites, megalithic temples.
Were they built to harness this,
to be these communication portals
between these different places?
There is no question in my mind
that these are much older sites than we think,
and that they were spots for extraterrestrial communication
a long, long time ago.
NARRATOR: Is it possible that certain locations around the world
act as vortexes of electromagnetic energy?
And that ancient people built their most sacred sites
in these very spots
in order to communicate with otherworldly beings?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
that although this notion may sound far‐fetched,
scientists at NASA recently found evidence
that such portals really do exist.
NARRATOR: NASA makes a groundbreaking announcement,
that there is indisputable evidence of magnetic portals
connecting the Earth and the Sun.
These portals open every eight minutes
and allow the transfer of high‐energy particles
between the two celestial bodies.
TAYLOR: So, you have these two really powerful magnets,
the Earth and the Sun,
and their field lines are crossing each other.
But every now and then, for whatever reason,
we have these flux transfer events where the field lines
will actually connect to each other
and they create a pathway for the magnetic field of the Sun
to literally be connected to the magnetic field of the Earth.
And it’s even been referred to in the scientific literature
as magnetic portals.
We actually have a connection that could be a transit
to or a pathway for information to travel from the Sun
to the Earth or vice versa.
NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists have long been intrigued
by the concept of electromagnetic portals,
since in theory they could provide
a means of communicating, or even traveling rapidly,
across the vast distances of space.
The NASA discovery poses an intriguing question:
could sites around the world, where successive cultures
built their most sacred temples, be locations that facilitate
the creation of magnetic portals?
TAYLOR: Could a civilization with a more advanced knowledge
of physics than we have currently
make use of this flux transfer, of these magnetic field lines
connecting between their star and other planets?
Could it create a means of traveling quickly
from one point to the other between them?
Or maybe even something else
that we just haven’t discovered yet.
NEWMAN: Maybe these sites
were kind of manipulating the energies
of the cosmos and the Earth to open these portals up
for this kind of purpose.
And what or who were they really communicating with?
Was it really the gods? Was it the ancestors?
Or was it otherworldly beings?
NARRATOR: Could Baalbek, Temple Mount,
Puma Punku, the Coricancha,
and other sites around the world where sacred structures
have been built again and again
have electromagnetic properties similar to Nan Madol?
Properties that could be harnessed to create gateways
to connect with otherworldly beings?
McGOWAN: Over and over, around the world,
from the beginning of time to now,
we see that sacred sites and power points
have been marked by humankind.
Temples have been built to communicate
from Earth to heaven.
Quite clearly, these places are somewhere
that we keep coming back to.
We call them portals, we call them vortexes.
They are gateways onto another world,
and they are very, very important
not just for human experience but for evolution itself.
NARRATOR: Are humans drawn to certain locations on Earth
by a magnetic force?
Do we build our most sacred temples
on the same sites again and again
because these locations connect us to the cosmos?
Perhaps, as we continue to unearth even more ancient ruins,
we will come to better understand
our connection to the universe
and the truth about our extraterrestrial past.
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