1 00:00:01,958 --> 00:00:02,750 NARRATOR: Massive figures 2 00:00:02,958 --> 00:00:05,167 etched into the earth, 3 00:00:05,292 --> 00:00:07,625 coded patterns in stone 4 00:00:07,833 --> 00:00:10,833 only visible from above, 5 00:00:10,958 --> 00:00:14,042 and mysterious crop formations 6 00:00:14,208 --> 00:00:17,250 crafted with extraordinary precision. 7 00:00:19,917 --> 00:00:21,458 For nearly two decades, 8 00:00:21,625 --> 00:00:23,750 Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe 9 00:00:23,917 --> 00:00:27,000 exploring towering megalithic structures, 10 00:00:27,208 --> 00:00:29,000 mysterious artifacts, 11 00:00:29,167 --> 00:00:32,250 and stories of otherworldly beings 12 00:00:32,375 --> 00:00:35,750 in a quest for evidence that might reveal the truth 13 00:00:35,917 --> 00:00:39,167 of our extraterrestrial origins. 14 00:00:39,333 --> 00:00:41,375 We really have to ask, what is the significance 15 00:00:41,542 --> 00:00:42,958 of these geoglyphs? 16 00:00:43,125 --> 00:00:44,250 Are they calling cards? 17 00:00:44,417 --> 00:00:46,333 Are they signs for those in the sky? 18 00:00:46,500 --> 00:00:47,833 What are we gonna learn from all this? 19 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:49,833 NARRATOR: Now we take a look back 20 00:00:50,042 --> 00:00:52,167 through the Ancient Aliens archives, 21 00:00:52,333 --> 00:00:55,125 to the show's very origins, 22 00:00:55,250 --> 00:00:58,917 to examine the evidence that we are not alone, 23 00:00:59,042 --> 00:01:01,917 we have never been alone. 24 00:01:02,083 --> 00:01:04,208 ♪ ♪ 25 00:01:09,375 --> 00:01:11,250 When we talk about ancient mysteries, 26 00:01:11,417 --> 00:01:13,625 one of the most fascinating things to me 27 00:01:13,792 --> 00:01:16,958 is why people would build, all around the world, 28 00:01:17,125 --> 00:01:20,750 things that can only be seen from up above, 29 00:01:20,958 --> 00:01:22,625 -from the sky. -GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: That's right. 30 00:01:22,792 --> 00:01:25,417 I mean, we have standing stones, we have structures, 31 00:01:25,542 --> 00:01:27,625 we have geoglyphs that you really can't 32 00:01:27,792 --> 00:01:30,208 make out from the ground. 33 00:01:30,375 --> 00:01:33,000 So you have to ask yourself, why? 34 00:01:33,167 --> 00:01:35,333 And were they meant to be seen 35 00:01:35,500 --> 00:01:37,875 by extraterrestrial visitors? 36 00:01:38,042 --> 00:01:39,667 Right, I mean, who else would see them? 37 00:01:39,875 --> 00:01:41,833 The most well-known example of this, of course, 38 00:01:42,042 --> 00:01:43,833 -are the Nazca Lines in Peru. -Mm-hmm. 39 00:01:43,958 --> 00:01:45,417 And we did a whole episode 40 00:01:45,583 --> 00:01:49,083 about geoglyphs around the world back in 2013. 41 00:01:53,042 --> 00:01:55,667 NARRATOR: Southern Peru, 1927. 42 00:01:57,708 --> 00:02:01,000 While hiking in the foothills of the arid Nazca Desert, 43 00:02:01,208 --> 00:02:05,667 archaeologist Toribio Mejía Xesspe discovers 44 00:02:05,875 --> 00:02:09,125 what appears to be a large network of ancient roads 45 00:02:09,208 --> 00:02:11,333 carved into the earth. 46 00:02:13,083 --> 00:02:15,125 Years later, as airplane travel 47 00:02:15,250 --> 00:02:17,542 to the region becomes more frequent, 48 00:02:17,708 --> 00:02:21,458 aerial flyovers reveal nearly 100 other designs 49 00:02:21,667 --> 00:02:23,875 in the nearby landscape. 50 00:02:25,667 --> 00:02:27,042 Known as geoglyphs, 51 00:02:27,208 --> 00:02:29,875 they depict animals, flowers, 52 00:02:30,042 --> 00:02:33,375 and even a mysterious humanlike being. 53 00:02:35,708 --> 00:02:39,417 Scattered over a nearly 200-square mile area, 54 00:02:39,542 --> 00:02:43,167 these lines and figures have become collectively known 55 00:02:43,333 --> 00:02:45,583 as the Nazca Lines. 56 00:02:48,083 --> 00:02:49,250 NICK REDFERN: The Nazca Lines 57 00:02:49,375 --> 00:02:52,208 consist of these massive drawings 58 00:02:52,375 --> 00:02:54,583 or carvings, if you like, on the ground. 59 00:02:56,583 --> 00:02:59,208 Everything from geometric symbols, lines, 60 00:02:59,375 --> 00:03:02,167 to animals, even fish, birds, 61 00:03:02,333 --> 00:03:04,000 but the intriguing thing about them 62 00:03:04,167 --> 00:03:06,583 is, you know, that number one, they're massive. 63 00:03:06,708 --> 00:03:10,292 And they can really only be seen properly from the sky. 64 00:03:12,042 --> 00:03:14,083 There are over 800 straight lines, 65 00:03:14,292 --> 00:03:16,542 there are over 70 animal figures, 66 00:03:16,667 --> 00:03:20,125 there are over 150 geometrical shapes. 67 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:25,500 JASON MARTELL: We have glyphs of different figurines on the ground. 68 00:03:25,708 --> 00:03:29,250 We have these intricate lines and what appear to be runways 69 00:03:29,375 --> 00:03:31,292 spread all around the desert. 70 00:03:31,375 --> 00:03:34,667 Some of these actually show mathematical diagrams 71 00:03:34,875 --> 00:03:36,708 built thousands of years ago, 72 00:03:36,875 --> 00:03:39,750 which really raises the question: why? 73 00:03:39,917 --> 00:03:41,958 M.J. EVANS: There's an enormous amount of unanswered 74 00:03:42,125 --> 00:03:46,083 and perhaps unanswerable questions 75 00:03:46,250 --> 00:03:49,333 that arise from the phenomena. 76 00:03:51,125 --> 00:03:52,625 NARRATOR: The largest of the figures 77 00:03:52,792 --> 00:03:54,583 is nearly 1,000 feet, 78 00:03:54,708 --> 00:03:59,208 or the size of three football fields, 79 00:03:59,375 --> 00:04:04,000 while the longest line extends almost nine miles. 80 00:04:04,208 --> 00:04:06,583 According to mainstream archaeologists, 81 00:04:06,750 --> 00:04:10,875 these mysterious earth drawings were created by the Nazca, 82 00:04:11,042 --> 00:04:14,208 an ancient people that flourished in the region 83 00:04:14,375 --> 00:04:17,458 between the first and eighth century AD. 84 00:04:19,458 --> 00:04:22,167 The lines were formed by the careful removal 85 00:04:22,292 --> 00:04:24,167 of the reddish iron oxide pebbles 86 00:04:24,333 --> 00:04:27,208 that make up the desert surface. 87 00:04:27,375 --> 00:04:30,000 Once exposed, the underlying dirt, 88 00:04:30,083 --> 00:04:32,167 which contains high amounts of lime, 89 00:04:32,333 --> 00:04:35,417 hardened and was resistant to erosion. 90 00:04:35,583 --> 00:04:37,667 HUGH NEWMAN: The Nazca plain is made up of layers 91 00:04:37,792 --> 00:04:40,625 of light-colored kind of rock and dirt 92 00:04:40,708 --> 00:04:42,833 with dark-colored rock and dirt just on top-- it's very simple. 93 00:04:42,958 --> 00:04:45,958 And they just remove the dark-colored stuff to reveal 94 00:04:46,125 --> 00:04:49,333 these kind of white-looking lines over the landscape. 95 00:04:50,417 --> 00:04:52,875 Like a canvas that isn't being disturbed, 96 00:04:53,083 --> 00:04:54,542 that's maintained its integrity 97 00:04:54,708 --> 00:04:58,333 for hundreds or even thousands of years. 98 00:04:58,542 --> 00:05:00,125 PHILIP COPPENS: The reason why they have survived 99 00:05:00,250 --> 00:05:01,417 is because of the desert conditions. 100 00:05:01,583 --> 00:05:03,667 Truly, if you make a geoglyph 101 00:05:03,833 --> 00:05:06,917 at the Nazca Desert environment today, 102 00:05:07,042 --> 00:05:09,708 it will be found hundreds of years from now. 103 00:05:09,875 --> 00:05:12,750 There is hardly any rain, hardly any wind. 104 00:05:12,875 --> 00:05:16,667 Anything you make here will last for eternity. 105 00:05:20,208 --> 00:05:21,667 NARRATOR: But why did the Nazca people 106 00:05:21,875 --> 00:05:24,417 feel it necessary to make these elaborate 107 00:05:24,583 --> 00:05:27,167 and massive drawings in the earth? 108 00:05:27,375 --> 00:05:30,792 What purpose were they intended to serve? 109 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:33,333 And why were they designed in such a way 110 00:05:33,500 --> 00:05:35,208 that they could have only been seen 111 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:37,417 and appreciated from the sky 112 00:05:37,542 --> 00:05:41,500 at a time when aircraft didn't even exist? 113 00:05:41,667 --> 00:05:44,208 The only place you can see them above 114 00:05:44,375 --> 00:05:47,083 is that somehow you're floating in midair. 115 00:05:48,250 --> 00:05:49,708 TSOUKALOS: It has been suggested 116 00:05:49,875 --> 00:05:53,500 that whoever inhabited the Nazca plateau, 117 00:05:53,708 --> 00:05:57,000 that they had access to some type of balloon flight 118 00:05:57,208 --> 00:05:58,750 so that they could appreciate 119 00:05:58,917 --> 00:06:01,583 what they had created on the ground. 120 00:06:03,125 --> 00:06:05,000 If the Nazca population 121 00:06:05,167 --> 00:06:07,333 had access to balloon flight, 122 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,500 the Spanish chroniclers would have most certainly 123 00:06:09,708 --> 00:06:12,333 recorded that in their reports. 124 00:06:12,458 --> 00:06:14,417 But there is not a single word 125 00:06:14,583 --> 00:06:18,583 that describes that the Nazcans had access to hot-air balloons. 126 00:06:18,750 --> 00:06:20,333 They would have written that down, 127 00:06:20,458 --> 00:06:23,292 but they didn't, so it didn't exist. 128 00:06:23,458 --> 00:06:25,333 COPPENS: By default, we're in the bailiwick 129 00:06:25,542 --> 00:06:28,542 of highly advanced terrestrial technology. 130 00:06:28,750 --> 00:06:32,208 And that is really the anomaly of the Nazca Lines. 131 00:06:32,375 --> 00:06:36,292 They really are easy to make when you look at it, 132 00:06:36,500 --> 00:06:38,125 because it is only really removing 133 00:06:38,292 --> 00:06:40,000 the top layer of a surface. 134 00:06:40,167 --> 00:06:42,583 But the magnitude of the figures 135 00:06:42,750 --> 00:06:45,583 is what makes this such a complex undertaking. 136 00:06:50,042 --> 00:06:53,333 CHILDRESS: Many of the lines at Nazca go for miles, 137 00:06:53,500 --> 00:06:56,792 perfectly straight through the desert. 138 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,625 There are various trapezoids and spirals 139 00:07:00,833 --> 00:07:04,000 and other glyphs that are so large 140 00:07:04,167 --> 00:07:09,417 that the surveyors would need some direction from the sky. 141 00:07:09,625 --> 00:07:12,583 And this is where aliens 142 00:07:12,750 --> 00:07:16,125 or some kind of people with flight 143 00:07:16,292 --> 00:07:20,125 had to be involved with the creation of the Nazca Lines. 144 00:07:26,792 --> 00:07:30,625 LINDA MOULTON HOWE: I was in Peru for a month in 1987. 145 00:07:30,792 --> 00:07:34,333 I went with a pilot over the plains of Nazca. 146 00:07:34,542 --> 00:07:37,333 The first pattern that the pilot said, "Well, let's aim 147 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:40,292 for that long, six-mile triangle." 148 00:07:40,417 --> 00:07:43,333 And there have been laser surveys done, 149 00:07:43,417 --> 00:07:46,833 and it is remarkably accurate, this triangle. 150 00:07:47,042 --> 00:07:50,208 And it looked like something had pressed 151 00:07:50,375 --> 00:07:54,667 the whole ground down at least 24 inches. 152 00:07:54,833 --> 00:07:58,875 How would you press down a six-mile-long 153 00:07:59,042 --> 00:08:04,167 perfect triangle into the desert of Nazca? 154 00:08:04,375 --> 00:08:07,000 What kind of technology can do that? 155 00:08:07,167 --> 00:08:10,833 Not the feet of ancient people. 156 00:08:13,417 --> 00:08:16,375 NARRATOR: How could the ancient people of Nazca have created 157 00:08:16,542 --> 00:08:20,458 such massive geoglyphs without the capability of flight 158 00:08:20,625 --> 00:08:23,708 or the use of advanced tools? 159 00:08:23,875 --> 00:08:27,625 Might these mysterious lines have actually been created 160 00:08:27,833 --> 00:08:30,708 with the help of otherworldly beings, 161 00:08:30,875 --> 00:08:33,833 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 162 00:08:36,000 --> 00:08:38,375 The fact that these designs can only be seen from above, 163 00:08:38,583 --> 00:08:41,208 from the sky, is an indication 164 00:08:41,375 --> 00:08:43,542 that they were used as navigational markers 165 00:08:43,708 --> 00:08:46,208 for the gods when they were actually here. 166 00:08:46,375 --> 00:08:48,167 So the question then becomes, you know, 167 00:08:48,375 --> 00:08:50,500 were they drawn in this way 168 00:08:50,708 --> 00:08:52,583 as navigational markers for the gods 169 00:08:52,708 --> 00:08:56,083 to actually fly their vehicles in? 170 00:08:56,250 --> 00:08:58,250 TSOUKALOS: Let's assume for a moment that extraterrestrials sent down 171 00:08:58,417 --> 00:09:00,958 some type of an unmanned craft, like a rover 172 00:09:01,083 --> 00:09:04,250 that we have on Mars right now, that is collecting samples 173 00:09:04,417 --> 00:09:06,500 and is driving around a desert plateau. 174 00:09:06,667 --> 00:09:09,667 It, of course, leaves behind some type of tracks. 175 00:09:09,875 --> 00:09:11,708 And then the natives, just witnessed this, 176 00:09:11,875 --> 00:09:14,333 would look at each other and say, "Wow, 177 00:09:14,500 --> 00:09:16,792 we were just visited by a god." 178 00:09:16,917 --> 00:09:19,792 When in reality, no such thing happened. 179 00:09:23,750 --> 00:09:26,583 REDFERN: Now, could it be the case that the gods 180 00:09:26,750 --> 00:09:30,667 directed the building of them to the people below? 181 00:09:30,792 --> 00:09:32,292 Could it be that there was some sort of 182 00:09:32,417 --> 00:09:34,292 teaching process involved? 183 00:09:36,292 --> 00:09:38,542 The fact that we're talking about geometric lines 184 00:09:38,708 --> 00:09:41,042 and things like this, was it a teaching process 185 00:09:41,208 --> 00:09:42,667 by somebody up there 186 00:09:42,792 --> 00:09:46,833 for the so-called lesser perceived people down below? 187 00:09:47,042 --> 00:09:50,167 We're still asking questions 1,500 years later, 188 00:09:50,292 --> 00:09:53,292 but, you know, to this day they fascinate, uh, people 189 00:09:53,417 --> 00:09:55,333 and just provoke endless controversy. 190 00:09:56,958 --> 00:09:58,333 NARRATOR: Were the Nazca Lines 191 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:00,458 really navigational markers 192 00:10:00,583 --> 00:10:03,875 for otherworldly beings visiting Earth? 193 00:10:04,042 --> 00:10:06,500 Or were they meant to commemorate 194 00:10:06,667 --> 00:10:08,833 an extraterrestrial encounter, 195 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,625 one that happened tens of thousands of years ago? 196 00:10:17,208 --> 00:10:20,000 Modern-day historians and anthropologists 197 00:10:20,208 --> 00:10:21,833 believe the Nazca people 198 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,167 were one of several ancestors of the Inca civilization, 199 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:29,583 the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. 200 00:10:31,500 --> 00:10:33,167 In the 13th century, 201 00:10:33,250 --> 00:10:36,375 the Inca Empire thrived in the Andes Mountain region 202 00:10:36,542 --> 00:10:38,333 of South America. 203 00:10:38,542 --> 00:10:40,000 According to legend, 204 00:10:40,083 --> 00:10:43,167 the mysterious Incan creator god Viracocha 205 00:10:43,375 --> 00:10:47,875 commissioned the Nazca Lines and glyphs in the remote past. 206 00:10:50,083 --> 00:10:51,500 NEWMAN: And these were said to be created 207 00:10:51,625 --> 00:10:53,000 by the Viracocha himself, 208 00:10:53,125 --> 00:10:56,167 who was the great teacher god of the Andes. 209 00:10:56,333 --> 00:10:58,750 And so where he came from is still a mystery. 210 00:10:58,917 --> 00:11:00,917 He could have been from Sumeria. 211 00:11:01,125 --> 00:11:03,042 He could have been connected somehow 212 00:11:03,208 --> 00:11:05,625 with the Anunnaki, no one really knows. 213 00:11:05,792 --> 00:11:07,042 But the same legends, 214 00:11:07,208 --> 00:11:09,208 and the same stories of these great gods 215 00:11:09,375 --> 00:11:10,875 appear throughout the world, 216 00:11:11,042 --> 00:11:13,000 especially all the way through the Americas. 217 00:11:14,958 --> 00:11:16,875 COPPENS: We know that they are part 218 00:11:17,042 --> 00:11:20,583 of a creation mythology in which some of the figurines, 219 00:11:20,792 --> 00:11:24,167 which are depicted here, are said to be deities, 220 00:11:24,333 --> 00:11:26,625 are said to be part of the creation mythology 221 00:11:26,750 --> 00:11:28,917 as to how the people who lived in that area 222 00:11:29,042 --> 00:11:32,125 and who made these geoglyphs came about. 223 00:11:33,833 --> 00:11:36,000 They are messages to be seen from above 224 00:11:36,208 --> 00:11:38,208 to basically say that the people on the ground 225 00:11:38,375 --> 00:11:40,958 still live in accordance with the rules established 226 00:11:41,167 --> 00:11:42,875 by the deities who came from above 227 00:11:43,083 --> 00:11:45,417 to teach the people on the ground 228 00:11:45,542 --> 00:11:49,125 about civilization and various other aspects of culture. 229 00:11:50,875 --> 00:11:53,250 NARRATOR: Could the lines and glyphs of Nazca 230 00:11:53,417 --> 00:11:56,750 really have been the work of the Inca god Viracocha, 231 00:11:56,917 --> 00:11:59,500 as their legends suggest? 232 00:11:59,708 --> 00:12:01,875 If so, what was the purpose 233 00:12:02,042 --> 00:12:06,000 of carving these strange geoglyphs into the earth? 234 00:12:06,208 --> 00:12:09,958 Perhaps the answers can be found by taking a closer look 235 00:12:10,125 --> 00:12:13,583 at one of Nazca's most mysterious figures, 236 00:12:13,750 --> 00:12:17,792 one that has become known as el astronauto. 237 00:12:26,792 --> 00:12:29,375 NARRATOR: Switzerland, 1968. 238 00:12:31,375 --> 00:12:34,042 Researcher and writer Erich von Däniken 239 00:12:34,208 --> 00:12:37,958 publishes his first book, Chariots of the Gods? 240 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,458 In it, he introduces the revolutionary notion 241 00:12:42,667 --> 00:12:46,458 that the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca people 242 00:12:46,625 --> 00:12:48,708 after witnessing extraterrestrials 243 00:12:48,875 --> 00:12:50,792 using advanced technology 244 00:12:50,958 --> 00:12:54,000 and a sophisticated knowledge of mathematics. 245 00:12:56,875 --> 00:12:58,917 Erich von Däniken was one of the first 246 00:12:59,083 --> 00:13:02,500 to actually do aerial flyovers of the Nazca region, 247 00:13:02,708 --> 00:13:04,167 and was one of the first researchers 248 00:13:04,333 --> 00:13:08,500 to not only look at the diagrams on the plain floor 249 00:13:08,667 --> 00:13:11,000 but also in the hills of Nazca. 250 00:13:11,167 --> 00:13:13,917 We find intricate mathematical diagrams 251 00:13:14,083 --> 00:13:16,958 that have never been documented before. 252 00:13:26,750 --> 00:13:31,333 When you fly over the desert, you see down gigantic lines. 253 00:13:31,542 --> 00:13:33,000 Seen from the air, 254 00:13:33,167 --> 00:13:35,208 they give you the imagination of air strips. 255 00:13:35,417 --> 00:13:37,792 Because they start abruptly, end abruptly. 256 00:13:37,958 --> 00:13:39,375 Sometimes they cross. 257 00:13:39,542 --> 00:13:41,167 They look like airstrips. 258 00:13:42,792 --> 00:13:44,417 COPPENS: When Erich drew the comparison 259 00:13:44,583 --> 00:13:47,583 as to how this looks like a network of runways, 260 00:13:47,708 --> 00:13:50,125 it is to draw a visual comparison 261 00:13:50,292 --> 00:13:52,333 to what they look like from above. 262 00:13:53,458 --> 00:13:54,958 They are not runways. 263 00:13:55,125 --> 00:13:56,583 They would not support weight 264 00:13:56,750 --> 00:13:59,208 of anything physically landing there. 265 00:14:02,375 --> 00:14:05,167 KEN STORCH: Some theorize that they were runways. 266 00:14:05,333 --> 00:14:08,292 Uh, I don't believe that for a moment. 267 00:14:08,417 --> 00:14:11,167 Hell, I was in the Air Force for six years 268 00:14:11,375 --> 00:14:14,500 and none of the aircraft that we had would be capable 269 00:14:14,667 --> 00:14:17,667 of landing on that as a runway. 270 00:14:17,833 --> 00:14:21,083 I think it's more of a attention getter. 271 00:14:21,958 --> 00:14:24,500 You can see them from space. 272 00:14:24,708 --> 00:14:28,833 So I think that it's a, uh, a signal. 273 00:14:31,875 --> 00:14:33,375 NARRATOR: In the more than four decades 274 00:14:33,542 --> 00:14:36,333 since the publication of Chariots of the Gods?, 275 00:14:36,500 --> 00:14:39,542 Erich von Däniken's controversial theories 276 00:14:39,708 --> 00:14:41,375 concerning the Nazca Lines 277 00:14:41,542 --> 00:14:44,833 have continued to spark widespread study. 278 00:14:45,042 --> 00:14:48,333 Some scholars, after discovering curious patterns 279 00:14:48,542 --> 00:14:50,167 in the numerous designs, 280 00:14:50,375 --> 00:14:53,500 suggest that the Nazca Lines might actually be 281 00:14:53,708 --> 00:14:57,667 one of the earliest known examples of applied geometry. 282 00:14:58,833 --> 00:15:00,917 MICHAEL DENNIN: They were interesting geometric figures. 283 00:15:01,042 --> 00:15:02,583 They could draw a figure 284 00:15:02,708 --> 00:15:04,917 and then they could envision making it even bigger. 285 00:15:05,042 --> 00:15:06,750 You're making angles, 286 00:15:06,917 --> 00:15:08,875 you're approximating distances 287 00:15:09,042 --> 00:15:12,000 and that innate skill of us to deal with geometry, 288 00:15:12,208 --> 00:15:15,125 I think translates to our earliest art forms. 289 00:15:18,083 --> 00:15:19,250 BARA: It's interesting as you look 290 00:15:19,417 --> 00:15:21,417 at these designs on the plains of Nazca, 291 00:15:21,583 --> 00:15:24,833 some of them have very, very interesting relationships 292 00:15:25,000 --> 00:15:26,417 to the skies overhead. 293 00:15:27,542 --> 00:15:30,292 There's a very famous glyph of a spider 294 00:15:30,458 --> 00:15:32,667 with one leg that extends way, way out 295 00:15:32,833 --> 00:15:34,167 and if you take that 296 00:15:34,292 --> 00:15:36,000 and flip it into sort of a mirror situation 297 00:15:36,208 --> 00:15:38,583 what you can plainly see is that the spider 298 00:15:38,708 --> 00:15:41,333 is meant to represent the constellation of Orion. 299 00:15:41,542 --> 00:15:43,333 And the spider's leg, the extension, 300 00:15:43,542 --> 00:15:46,083 is meant to represent the star Sirius. 301 00:15:47,208 --> 00:15:51,417 So whoever put these designs on the plains of Nazca 302 00:15:51,542 --> 00:15:53,125 understood the same thing 303 00:15:53,292 --> 00:15:55,917 that all of the other ancient cultures before them understood, 304 00:15:56,125 --> 00:15:58,292 which is that there's some critical importance 305 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:01,667 to understanding Orion and Sirius 306 00:16:01,792 --> 00:16:03,583 and their relationship to the Earth. 307 00:16:07,083 --> 00:16:08,958 NARRATOR: But could the Nazca figures 308 00:16:09,083 --> 00:16:11,917 really have had a more profound purpose? 309 00:16:13,458 --> 00:16:16,833 Some ancient astronaut theorists believe they were created 310 00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:21,000 as a means of communicating messages to the gods. 311 00:16:21,208 --> 00:16:23,667 Messages that may have also included 312 00:16:23,875 --> 00:16:26,958 a plea for them to return. 313 00:16:30,042 --> 00:16:32,333 Ancient astronaut theorists believed 314 00:16:32,542 --> 00:16:35,833 the mysterious figure known as el astronauto 315 00:16:36,042 --> 00:16:39,833 could hold a clue to the Nazca mystery. 316 00:16:40,042 --> 00:16:41,917 CHILDRESS: They call him the spaceman. 317 00:16:42,083 --> 00:16:43,500 And he appears to have a space helmet 318 00:16:43,708 --> 00:16:44,917 or something on his head, 319 00:16:45,083 --> 00:16:47,583 and he's got one arm up and he's waving. 320 00:16:47,792 --> 00:16:52,000 And it-it would seem this is one of the sky gods. 321 00:16:52,167 --> 00:16:55,083 Or if he's not one of the sky gods himself, 322 00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:58,667 he's one of the Nazca people 323 00:16:58,833 --> 00:17:00,667 who's waving to the sky gods 324 00:17:00,833 --> 00:17:03,333 and saying, "Hi, we're here. 325 00:17:03,542 --> 00:17:04,917 "Come and land. 326 00:17:05,083 --> 00:17:08,208 We know you came here before, come back." 327 00:17:09,625 --> 00:17:11,875 TSOUKALOS: You have a figure that looks like E.T., 328 00:17:12,042 --> 00:17:14,250 with the big eyes, and the big head. 329 00:17:14,417 --> 00:17:17,625 And one hand is pointing to the sky 330 00:17:17,792 --> 00:17:20,708 and the other is pointing to Earth, 331 00:17:20,875 --> 00:17:23,000 as if it was some type of a message: 332 00:17:23,167 --> 00:17:25,333 "Hey, something happened here. 333 00:17:25,458 --> 00:17:28,417 We were visited by beings from above." 334 00:17:31,417 --> 00:17:35,458 NARRATOR: Is the mysterious figure known as el astronauto evidence 335 00:17:35,667 --> 00:17:39,708 of an extraterrestrial visitation in the distant past, 336 00:17:39,875 --> 00:17:42,042 as some researchers believe? 337 00:17:42,208 --> 00:17:43,875 And, if so, 338 00:17:44,042 --> 00:17:48,167 might this suggest a reason why extraterrestrial visitors 339 00:17:48,375 --> 00:17:51,417 may have landed at Nazca in the first place? 340 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:58,167 VON DÄNIKEN: We send scientists 341 00:17:58,375 --> 00:18:01,583 from the University of Dresden to Nazca. 342 00:18:01,708 --> 00:18:06,125 They measured the magnetic field and they found a change 343 00:18:06,250 --> 00:18:10,208 in the magnetic field under some of the lines. 344 00:18:10,333 --> 00:18:14,500 And also, we measured the conduction, 345 00:18:14,708 --> 00:18:19,333 electricity along the lines and right next to it, 346 00:18:19,542 --> 00:18:23,583 the ability to conduct currency was 347 00:18:23,750 --> 00:18:27,417 8,000 time higher on the lines. 348 00:18:29,292 --> 00:18:34,000 And they found that eight feet below one of these lines, 349 00:18:34,208 --> 00:18:36,750 the magnetic field definitely changes. 350 00:18:38,333 --> 00:18:39,833 So we have the result, 351 00:18:40,042 --> 00:18:44,292 there is something in the ground but we don't know what it is. 352 00:18:47,833 --> 00:18:49,750 ♪ ♪ 353 00:18:51,167 --> 00:18:52,500 NARRATOR: Is it really possible 354 00:18:52,667 --> 00:18:55,042 that something in the Earth might have attracted 355 00:18:55,208 --> 00:18:57,708 an otherworldly species to Nazca? 356 00:19:00,750 --> 00:19:02,125 Could it have been an outpost 357 00:19:02,292 --> 00:19:05,083 for a mining operation of precious metals? 358 00:19:05,208 --> 00:19:08,708 Or perhaps minerals needed for rocket fuel? 359 00:19:09,917 --> 00:19:12,333 MARTELL: It's been said that if any extraterrestrial wanted 360 00:19:12,542 --> 00:19:16,250 to come to Earth, Nazca would be a great place for them to land. 361 00:19:16,375 --> 00:19:17,708 Nitrates and various things that we use 362 00:19:17,875 --> 00:19:20,542 in our modern propulsion are found in abundance. 363 00:19:20,667 --> 00:19:22,917 Maybe it's possible that extraterrestrials were 364 00:19:23,083 --> 00:19:25,458 aware of this location as an energy source, 365 00:19:25,625 --> 00:19:28,458 and ancient man left these depictions and runways 366 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:32,083 as a way to entice those beings to come back. 367 00:19:32,208 --> 00:19:36,292 We find that the Nazca civilization was placed 368 00:19:36,458 --> 00:19:38,417 in nitrate-rich environments. 369 00:19:38,583 --> 00:19:41,333 They had no purpose for these nitrates. 370 00:19:41,500 --> 00:19:44,333 The question might be whether nitrate was indeed 371 00:19:44,542 --> 00:19:48,833 of importance to the people who came to this area, 372 00:19:48,958 --> 00:19:51,833 maybe in prehistoric times. 373 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:53,917 Maybe an extraterrestrial civilization 374 00:19:54,083 --> 00:19:57,000 somehow had a purpose for this nitrate. 375 00:19:57,208 --> 00:19:59,583 Because nitrate is used in an awful lot 376 00:19:59,708 --> 00:20:02,833 of interesting technological applications today. 377 00:20:04,458 --> 00:20:06,750 Such applications as space travel. 378 00:20:09,542 --> 00:20:12,625 NARRATOR: But might the extraterrestrial contact at Nazca 379 00:20:12,792 --> 00:20:16,000 have been designed to support an even greater presence 380 00:20:16,208 --> 00:20:18,167 that we have yet to recognize? 381 00:20:19,375 --> 00:20:22,833 And could Nazca have, in time, served its purpose... 382 00:20:23,042 --> 00:20:26,542 only to be abandoned? 383 00:20:27,208 --> 00:20:30,250 With any visit, or with any project, 384 00:20:30,417 --> 00:20:34,250 the time arrives when something is finished. 385 00:20:35,208 --> 00:20:37,000 And that is why 386 00:20:37,125 --> 00:20:38,833 some of these contacts had ended, 387 00:20:38,958 --> 00:20:42,708 because the extraterrestrials went on to different places. 388 00:20:50,125 --> 00:20:51,250 When we talk about formations 389 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:52,667 that pretty much can only be seen from the air, 390 00:20:52,917 --> 00:20:56,167 then one of my favorites is right here in the United States, 391 00:20:56,375 --> 00:20:58,792 and that's Serpent Mound in Ohio. 392 00:20:58,917 --> 00:21:01,625 Yeah, and what's so interesting is it's a giant Native American 393 00:21:01,833 --> 00:21:04,250 effigy mound, which are burial sites, 394 00:21:04,417 --> 00:21:06,375 but there's no burials at Serpent Mound. 395 00:21:06,542 --> 00:21:09,083 Yeah, and it's right on the edge of this enormous crater 396 00:21:09,208 --> 00:21:11,958 where there's all kinds of magnetic anomalies, 397 00:21:12,042 --> 00:21:15,125 so you have to wonder if they're not marking this location 398 00:21:15,292 --> 00:21:16,917 for alien visitors. 399 00:21:21,375 --> 00:21:23,625 NARRATOR: Adam's County, Ohio. 400 00:21:24,833 --> 00:21:28,583 At the end of the 1700s, President George Washington 401 00:21:28,750 --> 00:21:32,333 awarded what was then the unchartered land 402 00:21:32,542 --> 00:21:36,083 beyond the Appalachian Mountains to Revolutionary War veterans, 403 00:21:36,250 --> 00:21:39,000 in 600-acre parcels, 404 00:21:39,167 --> 00:21:41,167 as payment for their service. 405 00:21:42,167 --> 00:21:45,708 But when the settlers arrived, they found much of the land 406 00:21:45,875 --> 00:21:49,417 covered with thousands of Indian burial mounds. 407 00:21:49,542 --> 00:21:54,417 And one of these was very different from the rest. 408 00:21:54,625 --> 00:21:57,333 Imagine when you're pushing west and all of a sudden you find 409 00:21:57,542 --> 00:22:00,417 this gigantic effigy mound in the form of a serpent. 410 00:22:01,500 --> 00:22:04,208 What you have is a gigantic structure, 411 00:22:04,417 --> 00:22:05,833 which just sits there in the middle 412 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:07,583 of a very interesting landscape. 413 00:22:07,750 --> 00:22:10,500 Serpent Mound was one of the amazing, 414 00:22:10,625 --> 00:22:13,083 mysterious mounds, found by, uh, the first settlers, 415 00:22:13,292 --> 00:22:15,167 as they came over the Appalachian Mountains. 416 00:22:15,333 --> 00:22:17,333 There were thousands of mounds, but Serpent Mound 417 00:22:17,500 --> 00:22:19,667 must have been special. 418 00:22:22,958 --> 00:22:25,833 NARRATOR: Like the Nazca Lines in Peru, 419 00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:30,417 Serpent Mound is a giant, prehistoric structure 420 00:22:30,542 --> 00:22:32,958 that looks as though it is meant to be 421 00:22:33,083 --> 00:22:36,750 viewed only from the sky. 422 00:22:36,917 --> 00:22:40,667 CHILDRESS: When you see the, the Great Serpent Mound in Ohio, 423 00:22:40,875 --> 00:22:42,333 it's massively huge. 424 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:44,750 And it can't really be appreciated 425 00:22:44,917 --> 00:22:47,375 when you're standing there looking at it. 426 00:22:47,542 --> 00:22:51,000 What we have here is meant to be seen from the sky. 427 00:22:53,458 --> 00:22:56,125 It's mysterious in the fact that it is 428 00:22:56,292 --> 00:22:58,833 on an elevated plateau and concealed 429 00:22:59,042 --> 00:23:00,750 from the world. 430 00:23:02,208 --> 00:23:04,333 Unless you're flying over it in a plane. 431 00:23:04,500 --> 00:23:07,375 And it's, it's on very uneven ground. 432 00:23:07,542 --> 00:23:10,042 And, really, to lay that out and make it right, 433 00:23:10,167 --> 00:23:13,833 you'd almost have to be above, looking down, to get it right. 434 00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:15,625 Which is a mystery. 435 00:23:17,875 --> 00:23:21,167 NARRATOR: This 1,330-foot-long structure 436 00:23:21,333 --> 00:23:23,667 winds across the land and depicts 437 00:23:23,792 --> 00:23:27,917 a coiled snake, eating what appears to be an egg. 438 00:23:30,542 --> 00:23:33,417 It is the largest effigy mound in the world. 439 00:23:33,583 --> 00:23:37,625 And curiously, unlike most Native American mounds, 440 00:23:37,792 --> 00:23:41,875 the Great Serpent Mound was not constructed for burials. 441 00:23:42,042 --> 00:23:44,167 ROSS HAMILTON: Serpent Mound had no burials. 442 00:23:44,375 --> 00:23:47,458 It's one of those mysterious mounds that, 443 00:23:47,625 --> 00:23:50,167 that offered us no clue as to who the builders were. 444 00:23:50,292 --> 00:23:52,042 But on the property 445 00:23:52,208 --> 00:23:53,875 there were burial mounds 446 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:58,000 dated from about very early Adena period, 447 00:23:58,125 --> 00:24:00,833 nearly 3,000 years ago. 448 00:24:00,917 --> 00:24:04,042 NARRATOR: Another curious aspect of Serpent Mound 449 00:24:04,208 --> 00:24:08,542 is where the ancient Native Americans chose to build it... 450 00:24:08,708 --> 00:24:13,125 on the outside swell of a five-mile-wide meteor crater. 451 00:24:13,333 --> 00:24:15,167 JOHNSON: 300 million years ago, 452 00:24:15,333 --> 00:24:17,167 a meteor came into this area 453 00:24:17,333 --> 00:24:21,625 and struck the Earth going about 50,000 miles an hour. 454 00:24:21,792 --> 00:24:25,333 The Serpent Mound is built right on the very edge of the crater. 455 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:27,667 And there's magnetic anomalies and faults that go 456 00:24:27,833 --> 00:24:30,625 across the Serpent Mound and that the Native Americans 457 00:24:30,750 --> 00:24:33,167 could dowse them and they could feel the positive energy 458 00:24:33,333 --> 00:24:34,958 that's coming out of the ground. 459 00:24:36,292 --> 00:24:39,208 If you bring a compass to the Great Serpent Mound, 460 00:24:39,375 --> 00:24:42,083 there's certain spots where the compass needle 461 00:24:42,250 --> 00:24:44,208 just keeps going, so obviously, 462 00:24:44,375 --> 00:24:46,667 we have some weird magnetic fields there 463 00:24:46,833 --> 00:24:49,208 and also some gravitational anomalies. 464 00:24:49,417 --> 00:24:51,792 The myth has it that the Native Americans, 465 00:24:51,958 --> 00:24:54,750 when they came here, could see birds similar 466 00:24:54,917 --> 00:24:56,958 to passenger pigeons, or homing pigeons, 467 00:24:57,083 --> 00:24:59,083 circling by the millions. 468 00:24:59,250 --> 00:25:02,167 Because within the skull of the pigeon is a little piece 469 00:25:02,333 --> 00:25:05,875 of hematite, or magnetite, and that's how they navigate. 470 00:25:06,042 --> 00:25:08,333 And they couldn't figure out where north was. 471 00:25:08,542 --> 00:25:10,292 Can you imagine millions of birds flying 472 00:25:10,458 --> 00:25:12,583 in a circle five miles wide? 473 00:25:14,542 --> 00:25:17,333 NARRATOR: In addition to creating magnetic anomalies, 474 00:25:17,542 --> 00:25:19,750 the meteor also deposited a number 475 00:25:19,875 --> 00:25:22,833 of elements not indigenous to the area, 476 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,333 including one of the rarest elements on Earth: 477 00:25:26,500 --> 00:25:28,667 iridium. 478 00:25:28,875 --> 00:25:30,833 When we look at the location of the Serpent Mound, 479 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:32,667 we find not only that there is iron, 480 00:25:32,833 --> 00:25:35,375 that there is uranium, but also iridium. 481 00:25:35,542 --> 00:25:37,333 Iridium can withstand temperatures 482 00:25:37,542 --> 00:25:39,500 up to 2,000 Celsius. 483 00:25:39,667 --> 00:25:41,833 It is non-corrosive. 484 00:25:42,042 --> 00:25:45,542 And it's actually been used in unmanned spacecraft 485 00:25:45,708 --> 00:25:47,708 A.J. SHAKA: A lot of iridium apparently comes 486 00:25:47,917 --> 00:25:52,000 from outer space rather than being found on the Earth. 487 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:57,375 There is a use of iridium for thermal electric circuits. 488 00:25:57,542 --> 00:26:01,083 These deep space probes include, actually, 489 00:26:01,208 --> 00:26:04,792 a radioactive source, because it's the only thing 490 00:26:04,958 --> 00:26:07,958 that can provide enough power when you're out 491 00:26:08,125 --> 00:26:10,500 beyond Jupiter and there's no sunlight, 492 00:26:10,625 --> 00:26:12,667 and there's no nothing. 493 00:26:12,750 --> 00:26:15,750 We have iron, iridium and uranium, 494 00:26:15,917 --> 00:26:18,750 three substances which definitely should 495 00:26:18,917 --> 00:26:21,625 not be considered to be of any use to Native Americans. 496 00:26:21,792 --> 00:26:24,167 The question then is: to who are they of use? 497 00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:28,708 NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists believe extraterrestrials 498 00:26:28,917 --> 00:26:31,708 may have come to this site to mine iridium 499 00:26:31,875 --> 00:26:35,375 for their spacecraft, and point to numerous caves 500 00:26:35,542 --> 00:26:38,292 found in the crater swell beneath the mound 501 00:26:38,458 --> 00:26:40,750 as evidence of this. 502 00:26:40,917 --> 00:26:43,375 Right here we can see one of those caves. 503 00:26:43,583 --> 00:26:45,000 It's pretty large. 504 00:26:45,167 --> 00:26:46,958 And since this site is believed to be many, 505 00:26:47,083 --> 00:26:49,667 many millions of years old, there's a chance 506 00:26:49,875 --> 00:26:51,792 that there are many, many caves. 507 00:26:52,792 --> 00:26:55,750 NARRATOR: But if alien visitors really did come here 508 00:26:55,917 --> 00:26:58,500 to mine iridium and other elements, 509 00:26:58,667 --> 00:27:01,333 might this explain why the Serpent Mound 510 00:27:01,458 --> 00:27:05,667 was built on a scale that made its shape visible from the sky? 511 00:27:07,708 --> 00:27:10,375 JOHNSON: The Serpent Mound is a marker for space 512 00:27:10,500 --> 00:27:12,833 according to the Shawnee Indians. 513 00:27:13,000 --> 00:27:16,542 They're convinced that space travelers 514 00:27:16,708 --> 00:27:19,000 are using Serpent Mound as a marker. 515 00:27:21,167 --> 00:27:23,917 NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists also point 516 00:27:24,083 --> 00:27:27,625 to the placement and shape of the Great Serpent Mound 517 00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:30,833 as proof of its extraterrestrial origins. 518 00:27:32,083 --> 00:27:36,417 HAMILTON: The serpent itself was aligned to a constellation 519 00:27:36,583 --> 00:27:39,333 that had its apex at the height 520 00:27:39,500 --> 00:27:42,167 of the night sky 5,000 years ago. 521 00:27:42,375 --> 00:27:43,833 The constellation Draconis. 522 00:27:44,042 --> 00:27:47,250 It was used to align the Great Pyramid. 523 00:27:49,458 --> 00:27:52,958 NARRATOR: In addition to lining up with the stars of Draconis, 524 00:27:53,125 --> 00:27:55,917 the coils of Serpent Mound also align 525 00:27:56,042 --> 00:27:59,333 with the solar events of the solstice and equinox, 526 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,792 as well as the 18.6-year lunar cycle. 527 00:28:05,833 --> 00:28:08,583 Could these precise astronomical alignments 528 00:28:08,708 --> 00:28:10,958 suggest that the Serpent Mound served 529 00:28:11,125 --> 00:28:14,458 a greater purpose than just acting as a marker? 530 00:28:15,458 --> 00:28:19,000 Some believe that, because of its magnetic anomalies, 531 00:28:19,208 --> 00:28:23,167 this site may also have been used to harness energy. 532 00:28:24,208 --> 00:28:27,833 This magnetic anomalies, these faults, attract lightning. 533 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,792 HAMILTON: The Serpent Mound is right on the edge 534 00:28:30,917 --> 00:28:34,042 of an outcropping of pure limestone, 535 00:28:34,208 --> 00:28:36,333 or dolomite, which is even, even better 536 00:28:36,500 --> 00:28:38,667 than the limestone they built the Great Pyramid from. 537 00:28:38,875 --> 00:28:41,458 And it's, it's highly semi-conductive. 538 00:28:43,750 --> 00:28:47,500 This is, uh, what, what I call the Serpent Mound stone. 539 00:28:47,708 --> 00:28:50,625 It's, uh, an unusual feature that seems 540 00:28:50,792 --> 00:28:53,542 to be made of a different kind of dolomite 541 00:28:53,708 --> 00:28:55,167 than what exists on the outcropping 542 00:28:55,333 --> 00:28:56,958 of the general serpent. 543 00:28:57,125 --> 00:29:00,333 This stone could've been placed in the center of the oval. 544 00:29:00,500 --> 00:29:03,375 Therefore you wouldn't get a lot of random strikes, 545 00:29:03,542 --> 00:29:06,208 so much as you would a lot of strikes that would 546 00:29:06,375 --> 00:29:08,958 tend to come to the stone. 547 00:29:13,125 --> 00:29:15,208 NARRATOR: Was the Great Serpent Mound 548 00:29:15,375 --> 00:29:19,375 really a hub of ancient extraterrestrial visitation? 549 00:29:20,542 --> 00:29:22,583 And could this effigy mound have been 550 00:29:22,792 --> 00:29:25,417 a deliberate signpost to mark the location 551 00:29:25,583 --> 00:29:28,125 of an energy source on Earth? 552 00:29:28,292 --> 00:29:31,125 If so, are there others? 553 00:29:35,750 --> 00:29:36,125 When it comes to things 554 00:29:36,750 --> 00:29:37,792 ere s 555 00:29:37,917 --> 00:29:39,958 than the Carnac Stones in France. 556 00:29:40,083 --> 00:29:42,833 Yeah, you have thousands of these monolithic standing stones 557 00:29:43,042 --> 00:29:46,667 erected in perfectly straight lines across the countryside. 558 00:29:46,833 --> 00:29:51,125 And they can only really be appreciated from above. 559 00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:52,625 Right, and you actually went there 560 00:29:52,792 --> 00:29:55,333 for one of our earliest field segments 561 00:29:55,500 --> 00:29:58,042 we ever shot for Ancient Aliens. 562 00:30:01,750 --> 00:30:03,125 NARRATOR: Few sites on Earth 563 00:30:03,208 --> 00:30:06,000 are as majestic, or as treacherous, 564 00:30:06,125 --> 00:30:08,500 as the jagged region of Brittany 565 00:30:08,708 --> 00:30:11,292 located on the northwest coastline of France. 566 00:30:12,500 --> 00:30:16,042 Here can be found the legendary Carnac Stones: 567 00:30:16,208 --> 00:30:20,583 a collection of over 3,000 massive rocks, 568 00:30:20,750 --> 00:30:24,417 arranged in rows and other shapes, 569 00:30:24,583 --> 00:30:28,917 and spreading across more than two miles of French countryside. 570 00:30:31,917 --> 00:30:34,875 You're talking thousands of stones that are aligned 571 00:30:35,083 --> 00:30:38,500 in straight rows, aligned in circles, 572 00:30:38,625 --> 00:30:42,042 aligned in squares and rectangles. 573 00:30:43,375 --> 00:30:44,792 Why are people doing this? 574 00:30:44,958 --> 00:30:46,542 Why are they putting so much time 575 00:30:46,708 --> 00:30:48,958 and energy into something? 576 00:30:49,125 --> 00:30:53,125 And the short answer, I believe, is that we really don't know. 577 00:30:54,958 --> 00:30:56,792 NARRATOR: According to local legend, 578 00:30:56,958 --> 00:31:00,667 the megaliths were originally invading Roman soldiers, 579 00:31:00,833 --> 00:31:03,875 turned to stone by Merlin the Magician. 580 00:31:05,250 --> 00:31:08,750 But if it wasn't magic that created this forest of stones, 581 00:31:08,917 --> 00:31:11,667 who or what did? 582 00:31:11,875 --> 00:31:15,000 CHILDRESS: Modern archaeologists would say 583 00:31:15,208 --> 00:31:18,250 that people who were one step removed from cavemen 584 00:31:18,417 --> 00:31:21,667 were quarrying these giant stones, 585 00:31:21,833 --> 00:31:24,708 uh, some of them weighing 100, 200 tons, 586 00:31:24,917 --> 00:31:27,500 even up to 350 tons. 587 00:31:27,708 --> 00:31:31,375 And then somehow moving them into place. 588 00:31:31,583 --> 00:31:36,042 When you first look at the stones here at Carnac, 589 00:31:36,208 --> 00:31:39,375 they seem to be in, uh, haphazard shapes. 590 00:31:39,583 --> 00:31:41,667 But on closer examination, 591 00:31:41,833 --> 00:31:44,583 we can see that most of the stones 592 00:31:44,750 --> 00:31:47,208 have been cut on one side or another. 593 00:31:47,375 --> 00:31:50,500 And, in fact, these granite megaliths 594 00:31:50,708 --> 00:31:52,708 are magnetized with the Earth, 595 00:31:52,875 --> 00:31:56,875 and nearly all of them come to a point. 596 00:31:57,083 --> 00:31:59,500 NARRATOR: Stone magnets? 597 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,958 Is it possible that these stones 598 00:32:02,125 --> 00:32:05,167 were really cut and positioned in such a way 599 00:32:05,292 --> 00:32:08,208 as to create some sort of geomagnetic field? 600 00:32:08,333 --> 00:32:10,500 But why? 601 00:32:10,708 --> 00:32:14,875 Carnac as a place is highly charged with energy. 602 00:32:15,042 --> 00:32:18,000 As you walk down these stone corridors, 603 00:32:18,208 --> 00:32:21,208 you can feel this charge. 604 00:32:21,375 --> 00:32:24,792 Many tourists who come here also like to touch the stones 605 00:32:24,917 --> 00:32:27,292 and feel the energy coming off of it. 606 00:32:28,875 --> 00:32:31,500 And the people who built Carnac must've been 607 00:32:31,708 --> 00:32:35,292 highly knowledgeable of the Earth's energy fields. 608 00:32:35,458 --> 00:32:39,000 NARRATOR: According to a concept known as the World Grid Theory, 609 00:32:39,125 --> 00:32:41,333 certain places on our planet 610 00:32:41,417 --> 00:32:44,958 contain higher magnetic forces than others. 611 00:32:45,125 --> 00:32:47,792 MARTELL: An interesting coincidence for all the megalithic structures 612 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:50,042 we have around the Earth is that they're placed 613 00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:53,042 at specific points that could be harnessing 614 00:32:53,167 --> 00:32:55,083 an ancient World Energy Grid. 615 00:32:56,125 --> 00:32:58,333 SCHOCH: There are certain spots around the world 616 00:32:58,542 --> 00:33:01,333 which have traditionally been "sacred," 617 00:33:01,500 --> 00:33:03,875 "hallow," "vortexes." 618 00:33:04,042 --> 00:33:06,458 Energy feels different there. 619 00:33:08,958 --> 00:33:11,708 The ancient stone monuments were built 620 00:33:11,875 --> 00:33:14,667 to harness that force and that potential 621 00:33:14,875 --> 00:33:17,042 to create a funnel-like vortex. 622 00:33:17,250 --> 00:33:20,792 MARTELL: When we look at things like the Giza pyramids 623 00:33:20,958 --> 00:33:24,208 or Machu Picchu or Baalbek in Lebanon, 624 00:33:24,375 --> 00:33:27,667 all of these are placed at specific geo-coded locations 625 00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:30,083 which relate to this World Energy Grid. 626 00:33:32,292 --> 00:33:35,167 NARRATOR: Could Carnac be one of these locations? 627 00:33:36,583 --> 00:33:40,792 And might the combination of geomagnetic properties 628 00:33:40,917 --> 00:33:44,083 and the unique shapes of the stones themselves 629 00:33:44,250 --> 00:33:48,125 have allowed ancient builders to actually manipulate gravity? 630 00:33:50,333 --> 00:33:53,875 If so, where did this knowledge come from? 631 00:33:54,042 --> 00:33:57,458 And what ultimate purpose did it serve? 632 00:33:57,625 --> 00:34:02,000 It wasn't until we were able to see these stones from above, 633 00:34:02,208 --> 00:34:06,292 in a helicopter, that we realized that Carnac 634 00:34:06,375 --> 00:34:11,292 was meant to be seen from the sky above us. 635 00:34:14,083 --> 00:34:16,167 And that is one of only three things 636 00:34:16,250 --> 00:34:18,167 that you can see from outer space. 637 00:34:18,375 --> 00:34:23,375 That's Nazca, Great Wall in China and Carnac. 638 00:34:25,875 --> 00:34:28,542 MARTELL: Were they meant to be seen by people in the sky? 639 00:34:28,708 --> 00:34:31,333 And who could've been flying at that time other than... 640 00:34:31,542 --> 00:34:32,792 extraterrestrials? 641 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,417 NARRATOR: At one end of the Carnac alignment, 642 00:34:38,583 --> 00:34:41,417 aerial researchers identified a stone circle, 643 00:34:41,542 --> 00:34:44,333 similar to the one found at Stonehenge. 644 00:34:44,500 --> 00:34:48,375 At the other end, investigators on the ground 645 00:34:48,542 --> 00:34:51,292 discovered a rectangle of stones, 646 00:34:51,375 --> 00:34:54,042 one that had been buried for centuries. 647 00:34:55,458 --> 00:34:58,208 Both groupings appeared precisely placed 648 00:34:58,375 --> 00:35:02,292 to predict both the summer and the winter solstice. 649 00:35:02,458 --> 00:35:05,792 And when even more closely examined from above, 650 00:35:05,958 --> 00:35:07,458 the solstice points 651 00:35:07,625 --> 00:35:10,000 and the alignment of Carnac's many rows of stones 652 00:35:10,167 --> 00:35:14,292 reveal yet another geometric phenomenon: 653 00:35:14,458 --> 00:35:18,833 the shape of a Pythagorean, or right, triangle 654 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,458 covering many square miles. 655 00:35:23,875 --> 00:35:27,292 But how could the builders of Carnac have had knowledge 656 00:35:27,458 --> 00:35:30,167 of a sophisticated mathematical theorem 657 00:35:30,333 --> 00:35:33,542 approximately 2,000 years before its discovery 658 00:35:33,708 --> 00:35:36,333 by the Greek mathematician Pythagoras? 659 00:35:38,375 --> 00:35:41,250 These conclusions about the Pythagorean Theorem 660 00:35:41,417 --> 00:35:44,125 doesn't come from me, it actually comes 661 00:35:44,208 --> 00:35:46,917 from quite advanced mathematicians 662 00:35:47,083 --> 00:35:48,625 who have looked at these alignments 663 00:35:48,750 --> 00:35:51,042 and made the calculations. 664 00:35:51,208 --> 00:35:56,417 We're talking Stone Age time, 665 00:35:56,542 --> 00:36:00,833 and they knew about A squared plus B squared equals C squared? 666 00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,750 They knew about it, yes, but why? 667 00:36:04,917 --> 00:36:07,375 Who told them this? 668 00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:13,333 At the time, extraterrestrials told our ancestors, 669 00:36:13,458 --> 00:36:16,083 put this stone here, put this stone there, 670 00:36:16,250 --> 00:36:19,750 with the idea that a future generation 671 00:36:19,917 --> 00:36:24,333 would have to stumble across this mathematical riddle, 672 00:36:24,542 --> 00:36:28,042 that somebody would say, "Hold on a second. 673 00:36:28,208 --> 00:36:31,542 "This was erected during the Stone Age, 674 00:36:31,708 --> 00:36:34,000 "yet here we have advanced mathematics. 675 00:36:34,208 --> 00:36:35,833 How is this possible?" 676 00:36:37,583 --> 00:36:39,833 VON DÄNIKEN: Now these extraterrestrials, they ask themself, 677 00:36:40,000 --> 00:36:43,250 how could we give them a sign? 678 00:36:43,417 --> 00:36:45,042 And there was a suggestion made 679 00:36:45,250 --> 00:36:48,667 in French Brittany, kilometers of stone lines 680 00:36:48,833 --> 00:36:52,167 in the form of a triangle. Gigantic triangle. 681 00:36:52,375 --> 00:36:55,667 So we have the sign. We have the information. 682 00:36:55,833 --> 00:36:57,292 But nobody looks at it. 683 00:36:57,375 --> 00:37:00,500 It's time to change our attitude to these things. 684 00:37:03,750 --> 00:37:08,000 CHILDRESS: I think that these stones are transmitting energy 685 00:37:08,125 --> 00:37:12,000 that extraterrestrials, or others in airships, 686 00:37:12,167 --> 00:37:15,333 could pick up this energy like a GPS system, 687 00:37:15,542 --> 00:37:18,250 or some kind of airport beacon... 688 00:37:19,417 --> 00:37:22,750 ...and use it for navigating the entire planet. 689 00:37:24,875 --> 00:37:28,875 NARRATOR: Gigantic triangles made of stone. 690 00:37:29,042 --> 00:37:32,375 Geomagnetic phenomenon. 691 00:37:32,542 --> 00:37:36,333 The possibility of an extraterrestrial encounter 692 00:37:36,542 --> 00:37:39,375 with humans, thousands of years ago. 693 00:37:39,542 --> 00:37:44,042 But if alien visitors did touch down at Carnac, 694 00:37:44,208 --> 00:37:46,958 where else did they land? 695 00:37:52,375 --> 00:37:53,875 You know, when it comes to lines and patterns 696 00:37:53,875 --> 00:37:55,542 that pretty much can only be seen from the air, 697 00:37:55,542 --> 00:37:57,292 the largest ones actually extend 698 00:37:57,500 --> 00:37:59,500 for thousands of miles. 699 00:37:59,708 --> 00:38:02,000 And we refer to them as "ley lines." 700 00:38:02,208 --> 00:38:05,250 And on these ley lines are ancient cities 701 00:38:05,417 --> 00:38:07,500 that are perfectly aligned. 702 00:38:07,708 --> 00:38:09,333 And they cross mountains and lakes, 703 00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:11,000 and in some places, even the ocean. 704 00:38:11,208 --> 00:38:13,208 Right. And when you consider they go on 705 00:38:13,375 --> 00:38:14,917 for miles and miles, you have to think 706 00:38:15,083 --> 00:38:16,292 that maybe our ancestors were directed 707 00:38:16,458 --> 00:38:18,333 on where to build these sites, 708 00:38:18,542 --> 00:38:21,542 and maybe extraterrestrials were using them for navigation. 709 00:38:24,292 --> 00:38:26,167 NARRATOR: Herefordshire, England. 710 00:38:26,375 --> 00:38:30,000 June 30, 1921. 711 00:38:31,458 --> 00:38:34,500 While horseback riding through the British countryside, 712 00:38:34,667 --> 00:38:37,500 amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins 713 00:38:37,667 --> 00:38:39,542 notices that ancient features 714 00:38:39,708 --> 00:38:42,208 and structures across the landscape 715 00:38:42,375 --> 00:38:45,042 appear to be arranged along straight lines. 716 00:38:47,167 --> 00:38:50,625 Four years later, in 1925, 717 00:38:50,750 --> 00:38:53,375 Watkins publishes The Old Straight Track, 718 00:38:53,542 --> 00:38:56,000 a book in which he proposes 719 00:38:56,208 --> 00:38:57,833 that man's earliest monuments and megaliths 720 00:38:58,042 --> 00:39:02,500 were linked by a network of long, straight tracks. 721 00:39:03,708 --> 00:39:05,708 ANDREW COLLINS: And he referred to them as ley lines, 722 00:39:05,875 --> 00:39:09,083 but as to what these were, he could only really say 723 00:39:09,250 --> 00:39:11,333 that perhaps they-they were lines 724 00:39:11,542 --> 00:39:14,750 that were used by the ancients 725 00:39:14,917 --> 00:39:17,333 to communicate from one place to the next. 726 00:39:17,458 --> 00:39:20,917 In other words, they were simply markers on a journey. 727 00:39:21,083 --> 00:39:25,417 Ley lines are, uh, mostly found in England and France. 728 00:39:25,583 --> 00:39:28,833 They're literally geographic markings 729 00:39:29,042 --> 00:39:31,167 between sacred sites. 730 00:39:31,375 --> 00:39:33,500 They might be old churches, 731 00:39:33,667 --> 00:39:36,667 they might be churches built on top of megalithic ruins. 732 00:39:36,833 --> 00:39:39,792 But you'll see dead straight lines between these sites 733 00:39:39,958 --> 00:39:42,208 that have been maintained. 734 00:39:42,375 --> 00:39:45,375 The Michael Line in England is a straight line 735 00:39:45,542 --> 00:39:47,167 and it is measurable. 736 00:39:47,375 --> 00:39:49,833 It's a magnetic field line that you can measure 737 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:52,208 and it will be higher than other areas 738 00:39:52,375 --> 00:39:54,500 around it geographically. 739 00:39:57,417 --> 00:40:01,333 NARRATOR: In his book, Watkins further theorized 740 00:40:01,542 --> 00:40:04,208 that ancient landmarks along ley lines 741 00:40:04,417 --> 00:40:07,292 were deliberately placed by early man 742 00:40:07,500 --> 00:40:10,333 for the purpose of line-of-sight navigation. 743 00:40:11,375 --> 00:40:14,417 NEWMAN: Watkins believed they were trade routes originally. 744 00:40:14,583 --> 00:40:15,958 But later it was noticed that some of them 745 00:40:16,125 --> 00:40:17,500 went over really obscure terrain, 746 00:40:17,625 --> 00:40:19,125 like mountains and bogs 747 00:40:19,333 --> 00:40:20,583 and streams, and all this kind of stuff, 748 00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:22,500 so they couldn't really have been walking. 749 00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:24,500 So it seems more like they were kind of like a survey, 750 00:40:24,667 --> 00:40:26,375 or a mapping system. 751 00:40:28,167 --> 00:40:30,750 NARRATOR: Some researchers believe that ley lines 752 00:40:30,958 --> 00:40:33,000 are magnetic in nature, 753 00:40:33,208 --> 00:40:37,500 and delineate the lines of Earth's unseen energy fields. 754 00:40:38,417 --> 00:40:40,750 But if ley lines were useful 755 00:40:40,917 --> 00:40:43,708 for overland navigation to the ancients, 756 00:40:43,875 --> 00:40:47,292 might they also have been useful for aerial navigation 757 00:40:47,500 --> 00:40:49,625 by extraterrestrial visitors, 758 00:40:49,792 --> 00:40:52,625 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 759 00:40:52,750 --> 00:40:56,875 TSOUKALOS: Something extraordinary happened along those ley lines, 760 00:40:57,042 --> 00:41:01,458 because the once very physical and real visit 761 00:41:01,583 --> 00:41:06,208 of extraterrestrial beings has been forgotten. 762 00:41:08,667 --> 00:41:10,458 NARRATOR: Trelleborg, Denmark. 763 00:41:10,583 --> 00:41:14,583 Here, along the northern reaches of the European continent, 764 00:41:14,708 --> 00:41:18,042 lie the archaeological ruins of a Viking fortress 765 00:41:18,208 --> 00:41:20,833 dating to 900 AD. 766 00:41:21,875 --> 00:41:24,792 For decades, mainstream historians 767 00:41:24,875 --> 00:41:27,250 have been baffled by the precise nature 768 00:41:27,417 --> 00:41:29,917 of Trelleborg's perfectly circular design, 769 00:41:30,083 --> 00:41:33,333 with a courtyard divided into four zones, 770 00:41:33,458 --> 00:41:36,417 each with four longhouses, 771 00:41:36,583 --> 00:41:38,667 and gateways open precisely 772 00:41:38,792 --> 00:41:40,708 to the four cardinal directions: 773 00:41:40,875 --> 00:41:45,750 North, south, east and west. 774 00:41:45,958 --> 00:41:48,875 Some believe such a strict geometric design 775 00:41:49,042 --> 00:41:51,167 would have required extensive knowledge 776 00:41:51,333 --> 00:41:53,125 of advanced engineering. 777 00:41:57,417 --> 00:42:00,583 The mystery deepened in 1982, 778 00:42:00,750 --> 00:42:02,417 when pilot Preben Hansson 779 00:42:02,625 --> 00:42:04,750 discovered a direct line of flight 780 00:42:04,875 --> 00:42:08,542 from Trelleborg to three other Viking fortresses, 781 00:42:08,708 --> 00:42:12,000 all constructed with a similar design. 782 00:42:14,625 --> 00:42:16,000 (speaking German) 783 00:42:16,208 --> 00:42:17,833 (translated): Trelleborg was the starting point. 784 00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:21,583 40 miles farther, another fort appeared. 785 00:42:22,958 --> 00:42:25,125 Then he found others so that there was a line 786 00:42:25,250 --> 00:42:27,167 of four forts in Denmark. 787 00:42:32,375 --> 00:42:34,958 BARA: Given that the Vikings were basically seafaring people, 788 00:42:35,125 --> 00:42:38,542 and these sites are spread out so far over land 789 00:42:38,750 --> 00:42:40,583 at great distances, it implies that maybe 790 00:42:40,792 --> 00:42:42,458 they had some other way of getting to these places. 791 00:42:42,667 --> 00:42:44,667 Perhaps they even were able to fly. 792 00:42:44,792 --> 00:42:47,333 Now, how they would fly, what the technology was, 793 00:42:47,542 --> 00:42:49,083 it's a good question. 794 00:42:49,208 --> 00:42:51,625 But it seems unlikely that they would be able 795 00:42:51,792 --> 00:42:55,833 to find all these spots, survey them, and place monuments 796 00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,500 and structures there if they were simply a seafaring race. 797 00:42:59,708 --> 00:43:03,750 VON DÄNIKEN: These Viking fortresses are all on one straight line. 798 00:43:03,917 --> 00:43:06,292 You continue the one line straight ahead, 799 00:43:06,417 --> 00:43:09,500 over the Alps, for thousands and thousands of kilometer, 800 00:43:09,708 --> 00:43:13,167 and under the line, always holy places 801 00:43:13,333 --> 00:43:14,833 from antiquity, from Stone Age. 802 00:43:16,458 --> 00:43:19,208 And the line points directly to Delphi, 803 00:43:19,333 --> 00:43:21,042 Delphi in Greece. 804 00:43:22,083 --> 00:43:25,042 Delphi was the place of the god Apollo. 805 00:43:25,208 --> 00:43:29,500 And, uh, mythology about Apollo says every year, 806 00:43:29,708 --> 00:43:33,625 two times, Apollo took his heavenly chariot, 807 00:43:33,792 --> 00:43:37,667 disappeared in a faraway land in the north. 808 00:43:39,917 --> 00:43:42,750 Apollo flies on one straight line. 809 00:43:42,917 --> 00:43:45,583 At several points, he makes a stop. 810 00:43:45,708 --> 00:43:48,333 Wherever he makes a stop, the Stone Age people 811 00:43:48,500 --> 00:43:51,875 start to create a holy place of it, because here was a god. 812 00:43:57,375 --> 00:44:00,000 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the ley lines that connected 813 00:44:00,167 --> 00:44:03,708 early civilizations were actually flight paths, 814 00:44:03,875 --> 00:44:06,875 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 815 00:44:08,750 --> 00:44:10,542 And might such flight paths 816 00:44:10,708 --> 00:44:13,958 have been used by extraterrestrial spacecraft? 817 00:44:17,292 --> 00:44:20,333 VON DÄNIKEN: The extraterrestrials in the past knew exactly 818 00:44:20,500 --> 00:44:22,458 that the future generations would develop technology, 819 00:44:22,625 --> 00:44:24,625 they would fly, they would measure, 820 00:44:24,708 --> 00:44:26,875 they would photograph their own land. 821 00:44:29,083 --> 00:44:31,542 So, by photographing their land, they would realize 822 00:44:31,708 --> 00:44:33,292 something is strange here on the ground. 823 00:44:34,292 --> 00:44:37,583 BIRNES: How could a straight line link ancient Egypt, 824 00:44:37,708 --> 00:44:42,333 the pyramids, the Oracle of Delphi in Greece, 825 00:44:42,500 --> 00:44:44,333 and Viking fortresses 826 00:44:44,500 --> 00:44:47,417 that would've been established thousands of years later? 827 00:44:47,542 --> 00:44:49,042 It made no sense. 828 00:44:49,208 --> 00:44:51,500 But it does make sense 829 00:44:51,708 --> 00:44:55,167 if these installations are along straight lines 830 00:44:55,333 --> 00:44:56,958 across the Earth's grid, 831 00:44:57,125 --> 00:45:00,792 and if somehow, those straight lines 832 00:45:00,958 --> 00:45:03,500 marked navigation routes 833 00:45:03,708 --> 00:45:06,583 for ancient extraterrestrials 834 00:45:06,708 --> 00:45:10,000 that use them as markers 835 00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:12,167 to navigate the globe 836 00:45:12,375 --> 00:45:15,500 from society to society. 837 00:45:15,708 --> 00:45:18,583 TSOUKALOS: Is it possible that these ancient sites 838 00:45:18,750 --> 00:45:21,375 along ley lines were nothing else 839 00:45:21,542 --> 00:45:25,167 but refueling stations for ancient astronaut craft? 840 00:45:27,208 --> 00:45:28,625 And the answer is yes, 841 00:45:28,792 --> 00:45:30,500 because just like today, 842 00:45:30,708 --> 00:45:33,583 a plane goes in straight lines. 843 00:45:33,750 --> 00:45:36,208 And if a plane needs to refuel, 844 00:45:36,417 --> 00:45:39,792 it lands at an airport that's on its course, 845 00:45:39,917 --> 00:45:42,375 and not, you know, a thousand miles to the east 846 00:45:42,542 --> 00:45:45,958 or a thousand miles to the west. A plane flies straight. 847 00:45:47,125 --> 00:45:51,667 COLLINS: It was suggested that UFOs may be connected in some way, 848 00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:53,917 because it could well be that they are following 849 00:45:54,125 --> 00:45:57,000 the paths of geomagnetic fields, the different variations, 850 00:45:57,208 --> 00:45:59,500 the different strengths that exist. 851 00:46:00,875 --> 00:46:03,125 It was often seen that UFOs 852 00:46:03,208 --> 00:46:07,333 seemed to either appear or descend or rise 853 00:46:07,542 --> 00:46:12,167 in connection with where the ley lines seem to intersect. 854 00:46:12,375 --> 00:46:16,625 And this has been seen time and time again 855 00:46:16,792 --> 00:46:19,958 around the world, at different UFO hot spots. 856 00:46:25,167 --> 00:46:28,542 NARRATOR: Might the sacred sites along ancient flight paths 857 00:46:28,708 --> 00:46:30,500 really have been landing points, 858 00:46:30,667 --> 00:46:32,917 or perhaps fueling stations 859 00:46:33,125 --> 00:46:35,625 for extraterrestrial space vehicles? 860 00:46:35,792 --> 00:46:39,167 Perhaps further evidence can be found 861 00:46:39,333 --> 00:46:41,750 by examining the ancient civilizations 862 00:46:41,875 --> 00:46:45,875 that are connected from opposite sides of the globe. 863 00:46:51,542 --> 00:46:53,417 NARRATOR: Cuzco, Peru. 864 00:46:56,042 --> 00:46:59,167 Here lie the impressive ruins of the ancient capital 865 00:46:59,375 --> 00:47:01,292 of the Inca Empire... 866 00:47:02,917 --> 00:47:06,833 ...that thrived from the 13th to 15th century. 867 00:47:07,875 --> 00:47:10,958 Long suspected by ancient astronaut theorists 868 00:47:11,083 --> 00:47:13,750 to have been a place visited by extraterrestrial beings 869 00:47:13,917 --> 00:47:16,208 in the distant past, 870 00:47:16,375 --> 00:47:20,500 Cuzco is considered to be an axis mundi, 871 00:47:20,708 --> 00:47:22,667 which in religion or mythology 872 00:47:22,833 --> 00:47:26,125 means the "center" or "navel of the world." 873 00:47:27,750 --> 00:47:30,292 They are very important sites, 874 00:47:30,417 --> 00:47:32,333 and quite often, when you start looking into some sites, 875 00:47:32,542 --> 00:47:36,500 like Cuzco, Cuzco literally means "navel of the world." 876 00:47:36,708 --> 00:47:40,333 It was the navel of the empire of the Inca. 877 00:47:40,500 --> 00:47:42,875 So, Cuzco isn't unique. 878 00:47:43,042 --> 00:47:45,042 We really find navel sites everywhere, 879 00:47:45,250 --> 00:47:46,917 and the navel sites are quite often the most 880 00:47:47,083 --> 00:47:48,833 important sites of a culture. 881 00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:52,458 Jerusalem is one, the Giza Plateau is another. 882 00:47:52,583 --> 00:47:53,792 BIRNES: World navels, 883 00:47:53,958 --> 00:47:55,667 because they lie along 884 00:47:55,875 --> 00:47:58,958 the Earth's magnetic grid, were places 885 00:47:59,167 --> 00:48:02,833 where the ancients created what could only be called 886 00:48:03,000 --> 00:48:06,958 heaven's gates, altars, places where human beings 887 00:48:07,125 --> 00:48:09,500 could communicate with otherworldly entities. 888 00:48:13,042 --> 00:48:15,750 NARRATOR: Evidence can also be found connecting Cuzco 889 00:48:15,917 --> 00:48:19,292 with another world navel over 2,000 miles away 890 00:48:19,500 --> 00:48:22,917 in the South Pacific: Easter Island. 891 00:48:24,250 --> 00:48:27,583 Although mainstream historians and archaeologists believe 892 00:48:27,708 --> 00:48:31,500 the two places were never in contact in ancient times, 893 00:48:31,667 --> 00:48:33,958 Cuzco and Easter Island 894 00:48:34,125 --> 00:48:37,250 feature strikingly similar styles of stonework, 895 00:48:37,417 --> 00:48:40,333 with colossal, multi-sided stones 896 00:48:40,500 --> 00:48:44,542 precisely fitted as if each joint was welded together. 897 00:48:47,083 --> 00:48:50,083 TSOUKALOS: The walls at Cuzco are identical 898 00:48:50,250 --> 00:48:53,292 to the walls we can find in the base foundations 899 00:48:53,458 --> 00:48:56,750 of some of the Moais on Easter Island. 900 00:48:56,875 --> 00:49:00,500 And those two places are so far apart, 901 00:49:00,708 --> 00:49:03,500 I wonder how was it done? 902 00:49:03,708 --> 00:49:08,083 Either the builders traveled from one place to the other, 903 00:49:08,292 --> 00:49:12,667 or the builders in each culture 904 00:49:12,833 --> 00:49:16,333 were visited by the same teachers, 905 00:49:16,542 --> 00:49:21,417 the teachers from the stars, extraterrestrials. 906 00:49:23,458 --> 00:49:25,333 (Fiebag speaking German) 907 00:49:25,500 --> 00:49:28,583 (translated): These navels of the world might have been geodesic points, 908 00:49:28,750 --> 00:49:31,292 which you could use to navigate from the air. 909 00:49:32,333 --> 00:49:34,167 There are interesting accounts about this. 910 00:49:34,250 --> 00:49:36,542 For example, from Apollonius, 911 00:49:36,708 --> 00:49:38,875 who lived in Rome in 4 AD, 912 00:49:39,042 --> 00:49:41,042 that he descended with thunderbirds, 913 00:49:41,208 --> 00:49:43,667 that he had visited the city of the gods. 914 00:49:43,875 --> 00:49:45,750 There, he was given a talisman, 915 00:49:45,917 --> 00:49:47,458 which he was supposed to bury. 916 00:49:48,792 --> 00:49:51,125 There is a similar legend from Cuzco. 917 00:49:51,333 --> 00:49:53,417 There, the children of the sun god 918 00:49:53,583 --> 00:49:56,625 are supposed to have plunged a rod into the earth. 919 00:49:58,000 --> 00:50:01,042 And there are similar legends on Easter Island. 920 00:50:03,625 --> 00:50:06,125 NARRATOR: But if Cuzco and Easter Island 921 00:50:06,292 --> 00:50:09,625 were linked in ancient times by space travelers, 922 00:50:09,792 --> 00:50:13,333 what might this say about other "centers of the world"? 923 00:50:16,083 --> 00:50:19,083 Strangely, some ancient civilizations 924 00:50:19,250 --> 00:50:23,333 are located on the exact opposite sides of the planet. 925 00:50:24,542 --> 00:50:28,000 A line drawn from Easter Island, through the center of the Earth, 926 00:50:28,167 --> 00:50:31,125 points to Mohenjo-Daro, Pakistan, 927 00:50:31,292 --> 00:50:34,875 a once-great empire believed by ancient astronaut theorists 928 00:50:35,042 --> 00:50:37,667 to have been destroyed by a nuclear blast 929 00:50:37,833 --> 00:50:39,750 thousands of years ago. 930 00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,375 And from Nazca, Peru, 931 00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:48,292 a line through the Earth points to Angkor Wat, Cambodia, 932 00:50:48,417 --> 00:50:51,417 a site of great religious significance, 933 00:50:51,583 --> 00:50:54,625 known in ancient myths to have been built 934 00:50:54,792 --> 00:50:57,167 as a landing zone for sky beings. 935 00:50:57,375 --> 00:51:01,000 And astonishingly, these four sites 936 00:51:01,167 --> 00:51:03,375 lie on one circle around the globe, 937 00:51:03,583 --> 00:51:06,833 a circle that also includes the location 938 00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:09,625 of the great pyramids of Egypt. 939 00:51:09,792 --> 00:51:12,417 COPPENS: This is really the underlying mystery, I think, 940 00:51:12,583 --> 00:51:15,750 which is, not necessarily why were these monuments built, 941 00:51:15,875 --> 00:51:17,458 for what purpose? 942 00:51:17,583 --> 00:51:20,708 But also why were they built on those specific places? 943 00:51:20,875 --> 00:51:24,125 Because really, what we are beginning to understand 944 00:51:24,250 --> 00:51:26,333 is that all of these monuments from the past 945 00:51:26,542 --> 00:51:29,833 were not just built haphazardly on the surface of the Earth, 946 00:51:30,042 --> 00:51:32,458 but were built in very specific locations. 947 00:51:33,583 --> 00:51:35,250 MARTELL: It appears that ancient people 948 00:51:35,375 --> 00:51:37,583 either mapped the Earth in some esoteric way 949 00:51:37,750 --> 00:51:39,083 that we can't comprehend yet, 950 00:51:39,208 --> 00:51:41,208 or it was sacred knowledge 951 00:51:41,375 --> 00:51:43,708 handed down over thousands of years. 952 00:51:44,833 --> 00:51:48,500 NARRATOR: Might such connections between ancient sites around the world 953 00:51:48,667 --> 00:51:51,292 suggest that there was some sort of strategic link 954 00:51:51,500 --> 00:51:53,917 between these civilizations, 955 00:51:54,042 --> 00:51:57,292 as ancient astronaut theorists believe? 956 00:51:57,417 --> 00:52:00,458 And if so, what could this mean? 957 00:52:02,542 --> 00:52:04,333 Before the advent of satellite-guided 958 00:52:04,500 --> 00:52:07,167 global positioning systems, 959 00:52:07,333 --> 00:52:08,833 the science of geodesy 960 00:52:09,042 --> 00:52:11,167 was used to determine the exact position 961 00:52:11,333 --> 00:52:13,708 of geographic points on the globe. 962 00:52:15,417 --> 00:52:17,833 One of the oldest of earth sciences, 963 00:52:17,958 --> 00:52:21,625 the use of geodesy dates back thousands of years. 964 00:52:22,542 --> 00:52:24,417 There's clear records that geodesy 965 00:52:24,625 --> 00:52:27,167 was used by the Sumerians in ancient times. 966 00:52:27,333 --> 00:52:30,250 Several of the landing spots used by the gods... 967 00:52:32,333 --> 00:52:35,583 ...were actually triangulation points to the landing corridor. 968 00:52:35,750 --> 00:52:39,042 Things like Baalbek in Lebanon, or Jerusalem, 969 00:52:39,208 --> 00:52:42,167 were actually extensive megalithic monuments 970 00:52:42,375 --> 00:52:45,875 or platforms that were used to launch spacecraft. 971 00:52:47,333 --> 00:52:50,333 And ancient man recorded stories around these locations 972 00:52:50,542 --> 00:52:52,875 of seeing great smoke, fire and loud noise 973 00:52:53,042 --> 00:52:56,417 as these ships ascended or descended from these locations. 974 00:52:58,625 --> 00:53:00,208 DENNIN: It's probably highly reasonable that the ancients 975 00:53:00,375 --> 00:53:02,125 had systems of navigation. 976 00:53:02,292 --> 00:53:04,375 I mean, we know the Romans did effectively that. 977 00:53:04,542 --> 00:53:06,292 And that was why they were so efficient 978 00:53:06,458 --> 00:53:08,167 at getting around their empire, 979 00:53:08,292 --> 00:53:10,833 in addition to their roads and keeping track of things. 980 00:53:12,875 --> 00:53:16,000 CHILDRESS: In the early era of our own flight, 981 00:53:16,208 --> 00:53:18,375 pilots used markers, 982 00:53:18,542 --> 00:53:22,042 which would be church steeples or mountains, 983 00:53:22,208 --> 00:53:24,708 and obvious, uh, physical monuments 984 00:53:24,833 --> 00:53:26,083 that they could see. 985 00:53:26,292 --> 00:53:29,500 Just like that, the ancient aliens, 986 00:53:29,625 --> 00:53:32,708 they were able to also use this world grid 987 00:53:32,875 --> 00:53:37,333 and the pyramids and obelisks and other monuments 988 00:53:37,458 --> 00:53:42,625 that were built at these special power places to navigate. 989 00:53:44,875 --> 00:53:47,667 NEWMAN: It's almost like the ancients were building these sites 990 00:53:47,833 --> 00:53:50,083 and they were mapping the planet in-in vast antiquity, 991 00:53:50,250 --> 00:53:52,875 possibly up to 10,000 or more years ago. 992 00:53:54,250 --> 00:53:55,875 BIRNES: Because of the interaction 993 00:53:56,042 --> 00:53:59,625 between ancient civilization and ancient aliens, 994 00:53:59,792 --> 00:54:01,667 these ancient societies, 995 00:54:01,833 --> 00:54:04,333 recognizing the importance of these spots 996 00:54:04,542 --> 00:54:07,083 and the presence of ancient aliens, 997 00:54:07,292 --> 00:54:10,208 place these monuments as a map 998 00:54:10,375 --> 00:54:14,208 for the star people, for the ancient aliens to follow 999 00:54:14,375 --> 00:54:16,708 and to direct them to the civilizations 1000 00:54:16,875 --> 00:54:21,333 they might well have started by themselves as colonies. 1001 00:54:22,375 --> 00:54:24,167 NARRATOR: Is it really possible 1002 00:54:24,333 --> 00:54:26,667 that many of the world's most famous ancient sites 1003 00:54:26,875 --> 00:54:29,208 were part of an interconnected network 1004 00:54:29,375 --> 00:54:31,000 whose placement on the globe 1005 00:54:31,208 --> 00:54:34,083 was planned tens of thousands of years ago 1006 00:54:34,250 --> 00:54:36,500 by visitors from other galaxies, 1007 00:54:36,667 --> 00:54:39,958 as ancient astronaut theorists contend? 1008 00:54:40,125 --> 00:54:43,208 Perhaps further evidence can be found 1009 00:54:43,417 --> 00:54:46,083 by analyzing striking similarities 1010 00:54:46,250 --> 00:54:50,167 in geometric patterns that can only been seen 1011 00:54:50,333 --> 00:54:52,458 from above. 1012 00:54:57,542 --> 00:54:58,542 When we're thinking about alien beacons, 1013 00:54:58,542 --> 00:54:59,500 it's interesting to note 1014 00:54:59,625 --> 00:55:01,042 that the form that some of these take 1015 00:55:01,208 --> 00:55:02,750 is in abstract, 1016 00:55:02,958 --> 00:55:04,958 -geometric symbols. -TSOUKALOS: Right, 1017 00:55:05,125 --> 00:55:07,542 and that makes you think that they might contain messages, 1018 00:55:07,708 --> 00:55:11,292 either for other visitors or for us to decipher. 1019 00:55:11,375 --> 00:55:14,042 Right, like the Sun, Star and Cross glyph at Nazca, 1020 00:55:14,208 --> 00:55:16,042 which looks like a mandala. 1021 00:55:16,208 --> 00:55:17,667 But what's a Hindu mandala doing in Peru? 1022 00:55:17,875 --> 00:55:22,042 We investigated this on Ancient Aliens in 2014. 1023 00:55:22,208 --> 00:55:23,958 (bell tolls) 1024 00:55:24,083 --> 00:55:27,500 NARRATOR: London, England, 1971. 1025 00:55:29,542 --> 00:55:32,500 After years of studying ancient philosophical teachings 1026 00:55:32,667 --> 00:55:35,333 relating to the Egyptian Mystery Schools, 1027 00:55:35,500 --> 00:55:39,833 author John Michell unearths evidence of an ancient code. 1028 00:55:40,042 --> 00:55:44,417 A numerical and geometric code seemingly embedded 1029 00:55:44,542 --> 00:55:48,125 not only in the sacred structures of ancient Egypt 1030 00:55:48,292 --> 00:55:52,042 but also in the Hebrew world and in the plans 1031 00:55:52,208 --> 00:55:55,958 for the Heavenly City of New Jerusalem. 1032 00:55:56,083 --> 00:55:58,500 KATHLEEN McGOWAN: John Michell was a scholar, he was a mystic, 1033 00:55:58,708 --> 00:56:01,167 he was a genius and a very, very prolific author. 1034 00:56:01,292 --> 00:56:03,333 He had an incredible understanding 1035 00:56:03,542 --> 00:56:06,708 of earth geometry and geography. 1036 00:56:08,375 --> 00:56:10,667 But what John Michell is most famous for 1037 00:56:10,792 --> 00:56:14,333 is the New Jerusalem diagram. 1038 00:56:14,542 --> 00:56:16,333 NARRATOR: By carefully examining 1039 00:56:16,542 --> 00:56:18,750 the physical description of New Jerusalem 1040 00:56:18,917 --> 00:56:20,500 in Revelation 21, 1041 00:56:20,583 --> 00:56:24,000 Michell uncovered a sacred design. 1042 00:56:24,167 --> 00:56:28,042 At the core of Michell's diagram is the squaring of the circle, 1043 00:56:28,208 --> 00:56:31,250 and the division of the circle into equal sectors-- 1044 00:56:31,417 --> 00:56:33,292 a zodiac wheel-- 1045 00:56:33,417 --> 00:56:36,833 and the positioning of 12 gates to the Heavenly City, 1046 00:56:37,042 --> 00:56:39,042 three on each side of the square 1047 00:56:39,208 --> 00:56:42,417 representing the 12 tribes of Israel. 1048 00:56:42,625 --> 00:56:45,583 CHILDRESS: This is also a geometric figure, 1049 00:56:45,750 --> 00:56:49,833 and John Michell claimed that this would be, uh, 1050 00:56:50,042 --> 00:56:53,833 how the New Jerusalem was to be built in the future. 1051 00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:58,542 And that all this was encoded in Revelations 1052 00:56:58,708 --> 00:57:02,083 in a mathematical, geometric way. 1053 00:57:02,250 --> 00:57:05,458 NARRATOR: In his book The Dimensions of Paradise, 1054 00:57:05,583 --> 00:57:08,375 Michell proposed that this sacred geometry 1055 00:57:08,542 --> 00:57:12,333 represented the order of the universe. 1056 00:57:12,500 --> 00:57:14,833 Ancient astronaut theorists suggest 1057 00:57:15,000 --> 00:57:18,708 that this exact same geometrical concept can be found 1058 00:57:18,875 --> 00:57:22,917 halfway around the world, in Nazca, Peru. 1059 00:57:27,292 --> 00:57:28,500 NARRATOR: Here in the desert, 1060 00:57:28,667 --> 00:57:30,875 among the many plant and animal glyphs, 1061 00:57:31,042 --> 00:57:34,125 is a geometric design that looks much different 1062 00:57:34,250 --> 00:57:36,292 from the rest of the Nazca Lines. 1063 00:57:36,458 --> 00:57:41,083 It is called the Sun, Star and Cross. 1064 00:57:41,292 --> 00:57:43,208 CHILDRESS: The Nazca Sun, Star Glyph 1065 00:57:43,375 --> 00:57:47,542 is one of the most interesting glyphs to be seen at Nazca. 1066 00:57:47,708 --> 00:57:50,750 And, in fact, because it's in a remote area, 1067 00:57:50,958 --> 00:57:54,750 the Palpa valley, it's not actually seen by many tourists. 1068 00:57:54,917 --> 00:57:57,458 But it is, by far, uh, the strangest 1069 00:57:57,625 --> 00:58:00,333 and most mathematically precise 1070 00:58:00,542 --> 00:58:04,458 of all of the-the diagrams at Nazca. 1071 00:58:04,667 --> 00:58:07,250 NARRATOR: The Sun, Star and Cross glyph 1072 00:58:07,417 --> 00:58:09,750 is a precisely formed star polygon 1073 00:58:09,917 --> 00:58:12,917 made of two squares surrounding a perfect circle, 1074 00:58:13,083 --> 00:58:16,333 all sharing the same center and diameter. 1075 00:58:16,542 --> 00:58:19,292 Inside the grid are wheels within wheels 1076 00:58:19,458 --> 00:58:21,792 and squares within squares. 1077 00:58:21,917 --> 00:58:26,583 The design mirrors not only New Jerusalem's sacred geometry 1078 00:58:26,708 --> 00:58:30,583 but also offers up yet another connection. 1079 00:58:31,667 --> 00:58:35,042 When you look at it, it's very obviously 1080 00:58:35,208 --> 00:58:37,625 what is called a mandala. 1081 00:58:39,167 --> 00:58:42,667 Or a yantra, in ancient India or-or Tibet. 1082 00:58:42,833 --> 00:58:47,667 What a mandala/yantra glyph is doing 1083 00:58:47,833 --> 00:58:53,167 in remote desert of Peru is very interesting. 1084 00:58:54,375 --> 00:58:56,875 TSOUKALOS: It's a very sacred symbol. 1085 00:58:57,042 --> 00:59:00,417 It's this idea of being connected 1086 00:59:00,542 --> 00:59:03,083 with the realm of the gods. 1087 00:59:03,250 --> 00:59:06,167 And then we have to once again ask ourselves, 1088 00:59:06,375 --> 00:59:08,750 "Well, what was the realm of the gods?" 1089 00:59:10,417 --> 00:59:11,500 It's very interesting to note 1090 00:59:11,708 --> 00:59:14,333 that, seen from the sky, 1091 00:59:14,458 --> 00:59:16,417 it is very similar-- 1092 00:59:16,583 --> 00:59:19,458 not identical but very similar to, for example, 1093 00:59:19,625 --> 00:59:24,167 the layout of the temples at Borobudur. 1094 00:59:25,375 --> 00:59:26,833 NARRATOR: The Buddhist temple of Borobudur 1095 00:59:27,042 --> 00:59:32,125 lies over 11,000 miles west of Nazca, in Indonesia, 1096 00:59:32,292 --> 00:59:35,500 and is laid out with a series of precise circles 1097 00:59:35,667 --> 00:59:38,792 within a platform of perfect squares. 1098 00:59:41,375 --> 00:59:45,917 TSOUKALOS: One has to wonder if, somehow, all these sites are connected, 1099 00:59:46,083 --> 00:59:49,083 because that is what the ancient astronaut theory excels in, 1100 00:59:49,250 --> 00:59:55,125 that people in our ancient past were not isolated. 1101 00:59:55,292 --> 00:59:57,708 They had contact with each other. 1102 00:59:57,875 --> 01:00:02,667 In the end, there is an extraterrestrial connection. 1103 01:00:04,458 --> 01:00:08,667 COLLINS: Is this something that was taught by the ancients 1104 01:00:08,875 --> 01:00:10,583 from one culture to the rest, 1105 01:00:10,750 --> 01:00:13,208 and they incorporated these divine cities, 1106 01:00:13,375 --> 01:00:15,500 these New Jerusalems? 1107 01:00:15,708 --> 01:00:17,500 Or is this something that may have been given to us 1108 01:00:17,625 --> 01:00:20,250 by some divine intelligence? 1109 01:00:22,042 --> 01:00:25,583 NARRATOR: Is it possible that the New Jerusalem design, 1110 01:00:25,708 --> 01:00:28,375 the Sun, Star and Cross of Nazca, 1111 01:00:28,542 --> 01:00:30,833 the Temple of Borobudur 1112 01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:33,875 and other geometric structures around the world 1113 01:00:34,042 --> 01:00:36,458 are encoded with similar mathematic 1114 01:00:36,625 --> 01:00:38,667 and geometric principles? 1115 01:00:38,833 --> 01:00:43,125 And if so, are they part of an alien message? 1116 01:00:44,167 --> 01:00:47,875 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 1117 01:00:48,042 --> 01:00:49,792 and suggest there's evidence 1118 01:00:49,917 --> 01:00:53,125 that the communication continues. 1119 01:01:00,375 --> 01:01:01,875 NARRATOR: 90 miles west of London, 1120 01:01:02,042 --> 01:01:04,125 in the county of Wiltshire, 1121 01:01:04,333 --> 01:01:07,125 the English countryside remains pretty much as it has 1122 01:01:07,292 --> 01:01:08,833 for thousands of years. 1123 01:01:09,042 --> 01:01:13,542 Small farms, stone walls and rolling green hills 1124 01:01:13,708 --> 01:01:15,667 provide inhabitants with an environment 1125 01:01:15,833 --> 01:01:18,042 of peace and stability. 1126 01:01:20,542 --> 01:01:23,000 This historic region is also home 1127 01:01:23,167 --> 01:01:25,750 to a large number of ancient, sacred sites, 1128 01:01:25,917 --> 01:01:28,833 many built thousands of years ago. 1129 01:01:29,000 --> 01:01:30,458 It's an ancient, sacred landscape 1130 01:01:30,625 --> 01:01:32,542 where most of them occur. 1131 01:01:32,750 --> 01:01:34,542 There are monuments that you know about-- 1132 01:01:34,708 --> 01:01:36,000 Stonehenge, 1133 01:01:36,125 --> 01:01:37,375 Avebury, 1134 01:01:37,542 --> 01:01:38,833 Silbury Hill-- this is one small area 1135 01:01:39,042 --> 01:01:41,667 that seems to be a manipulated landscape 1136 01:01:41,833 --> 01:01:43,667 that was done thousands of years ago, 1137 01:01:43,833 --> 01:01:46,167 where sacred rituals have taken place. 1138 01:01:51,500 --> 01:01:54,833 NARRATOR: But in 1978, Wiltshire's tranquil landscape 1139 01:01:55,042 --> 01:01:57,125 became the focus of a controversy 1140 01:01:57,292 --> 01:01:59,333 that persists to this day. 1141 01:02:03,542 --> 01:02:06,667 REPORTER: Today, alongside the tracks of farm machinery, 1142 01:02:06,875 --> 01:02:08,833 a new set of circles were found. 1143 01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,333 No human tracks lead to the markings. 1144 01:02:12,375 --> 01:02:14,375 ♪ ♪ 1145 01:02:16,833 --> 01:02:19,250 NARRATOR: There, carved in fields of wheat, 1146 01:02:19,375 --> 01:02:24,458 barley and rye were elaborate geometric patterns. 1147 01:02:24,625 --> 01:02:27,083 Even more curious was the fact 1148 01:02:27,250 --> 01:02:30,167 that, much like the famed Nazca lines of Peru, 1149 01:02:30,333 --> 01:02:34,167 the designs were only visible from the air. 1150 01:02:34,333 --> 01:02:35,708 TAYLOR: When you see it for the first time, 1151 01:02:35,875 --> 01:02:37,833 you go "What in the world is that doing there?" 1152 01:02:38,042 --> 01:02:40,250 I mean, it's obviously not natural. 1153 01:02:42,042 --> 01:02:43,625 TOM BULLARD: There have been cases 1154 01:02:43,792 --> 01:02:45,833 that have been traced back for hundreds of years, 1155 01:02:46,042 --> 01:02:48,083 so-called mowing devil where, 1156 01:02:48,250 --> 01:02:51,667 apparently, some sort of, uh, devil supposedly mowed a field 1157 01:02:51,875 --> 01:02:54,542 in a single night, but they became recognized 1158 01:02:54,750 --> 01:02:57,042 as a phenomenon only when these circles 1159 01:02:57,167 --> 01:02:59,417 started appearing in, uh, English wheat fields. 1160 01:03:00,750 --> 01:03:02,833 They were very simple things at first. 1161 01:03:02,917 --> 01:03:04,792 And... but they kept 1162 01:03:04,958 --> 01:03:07,167 occurring year after year, and each year they seemed to get 1163 01:03:07,375 --> 01:03:08,667 a little more elaborate. 1164 01:03:08,833 --> 01:03:10,583 One of the early theories was that there was 1165 01:03:10,750 --> 01:03:13,125 some kind of whirlwind that was making them. 1166 01:03:13,250 --> 01:03:15,083 But as they became more elaborate, 1167 01:03:15,292 --> 01:03:18,667 they also became associated with paranormal activity. 1168 01:03:18,792 --> 01:03:20,042 Particularly UFOs. 1169 01:03:20,208 --> 01:03:21,542 Some people said they saw a light 1170 01:03:21,708 --> 01:03:23,792 in the field at night. 1171 01:03:23,917 --> 01:03:28,000 And some people began to read that as a UFO presence. 1172 01:03:28,167 --> 01:03:31,958 This circle in a Wiltshire field is just one of 200 such markings 1173 01:03:32,125 --> 01:03:34,667 to have been discovered in the last six weeks. 1174 01:03:34,792 --> 01:03:37,042 To farmers and scientists, 1175 01:03:37,167 --> 01:03:40,292 how they're formed, or by whom, remains a big mystery. 1176 01:03:41,625 --> 01:03:43,667 NARRATOR: Not surprisingly, 1177 01:03:43,875 --> 01:03:45,667 the region became the focus of intense interest 1178 01:03:45,833 --> 01:03:48,875 from UFO enthusiasts and skeptics, 1179 01:03:49,042 --> 01:03:51,250 each offering explanations as to who 1180 01:03:51,417 --> 01:03:55,208 or what was responsible for this strange phenomenon. 1181 01:03:57,042 --> 01:04:00,333 But if, in fact, alien beings from another planet 1182 01:04:00,458 --> 01:04:03,125 were responsible for the crop circles, 1183 01:04:03,292 --> 01:04:05,500 why were they making them in England? 1184 01:04:05,625 --> 01:04:08,333 Were they trying to contact us? 1185 01:04:08,500 --> 01:04:12,042 Or were there clues embedded in the designs? 1186 01:04:12,208 --> 01:04:14,417 And was the proximity to Stonehenge 1187 01:04:14,583 --> 01:04:18,833 and other ancient sites of any particular significance? 1188 01:04:19,042 --> 01:04:21,000 So you have the idea of these earth energies, 1189 01:04:21,167 --> 01:04:22,875 and these ancient structures, 1190 01:04:23,042 --> 01:04:25,958 and then the crop circles are appearing around them. 1191 01:04:27,000 --> 01:04:29,667 And many of the crop circles appear to be 1192 01:04:29,833 --> 01:04:33,167 some kind of signals, ancient writing. 1193 01:04:33,375 --> 01:04:35,375 The crop circles are calling us back 1194 01:04:35,542 --> 01:04:38,833 to a time before science and spirit got separated, 1195 01:04:39,042 --> 01:04:41,375 when we were whole, we had a sense of wholeness. 1196 01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:43,875 And here, they are landing near sacred sites 1197 01:04:44,083 --> 01:04:45,167 that are from an ancient time, 1198 01:04:45,375 --> 01:04:47,500 when we did experience those things. 1199 01:04:49,042 --> 01:04:50,583 When I saw the first photographs, 1200 01:04:50,750 --> 01:04:53,583 I was, uh, haunted, actually. 1201 01:04:53,750 --> 01:04:56,500 Are these extraterrestrials doing this? 1202 01:04:56,667 --> 01:04:58,792 Are we dealing with somebody who knows 1203 01:04:58,917 --> 01:05:01,458 how to bend space and time? 1204 01:05:01,667 --> 01:05:03,250 Our entire relationship 1205 01:05:03,417 --> 01:05:05,875 with the universe and quantum physics 1206 01:05:06,042 --> 01:05:10,875 in all of its complexities has been pushed hard, 1207 01:05:11,042 --> 01:05:13,250 by crop formations alone. 1208 01:05:15,750 --> 01:05:17,875 CHILDRESS: Certainly it is one theory 1209 01:05:18,042 --> 01:05:22,083 that extraterrestrials are trying to communicate 1210 01:05:22,250 --> 01:05:25,333 in a big way through popular media. 1211 01:05:25,500 --> 01:05:26,667 Cop circles do get 1212 01:05:26,875 --> 01:05:28,167 in the newspapers all over the world. 1213 01:05:28,375 --> 01:05:29,708 Perhaps that's what they want. 1214 01:05:29,875 --> 01:05:32,333 These are being carefully designed. 1215 01:05:32,458 --> 01:05:34,042 They're not accidental, 1216 01:05:34,208 --> 01:05:36,500 both in terms of the shape and where they land. 1217 01:05:36,667 --> 01:05:38,250 These aren't accidents. 1218 01:05:38,417 --> 01:05:42,333 There's a mind behind this that's making these decisions. 1219 01:05:42,500 --> 01:05:45,917 Where is that mind? What kind of body is it in? 1220 01:05:51,167 --> 01:05:53,167 NARRATOR: Scientists struggled to find 1221 01:05:53,375 --> 01:05:54,833 an explanation for the phenomenon 1222 01:05:55,042 --> 01:05:57,125 until, in 1991, 1223 01:05:57,333 --> 01:05:59,625 two self-proclaimed British pranksters-- 1224 01:05:59,708 --> 01:06:03,417 Doug Bower and Dave Chorley-- came forward and proclaimed 1225 01:06:03,542 --> 01:06:06,500 that they were the ones responsible. 1226 01:06:07,167 --> 01:06:11,000 They showed how they could make crop circles in a single night 1227 01:06:11,167 --> 01:06:12,833 using some very simple tools. 1228 01:06:13,042 --> 01:06:15,208 And at the time, people said, 1229 01:06:15,375 --> 01:06:17,083 "Well, that must be the explanation for it." 1230 01:06:17,250 --> 01:06:18,667 NARRATOR: Nevertheless, 1231 01:06:18,875 --> 01:06:20,333 some researchers remain 1232 01:06:20,542 --> 01:06:24,125 skeptical that a single pair of elderly men 1233 01:06:24,292 --> 01:06:27,167 could have created literally hundreds of designs 1234 01:06:27,333 --> 01:06:29,000 in the dead of night with little more 1235 01:06:29,167 --> 01:06:31,833 than a few boards and some rope. 1236 01:06:31,958 --> 01:06:33,500 TAYLOR: You know, it was very effective. 1237 01:06:33,667 --> 01:06:35,667 You still will run into people: 1238 01:06:35,875 --> 01:06:37,375 "Crop circles? Oh, forget about them. 1239 01:06:37,542 --> 01:06:40,083 "Those two old guys made a... Come on! Do not be so naive. 1240 01:06:40,250 --> 01:06:42,375 "They-they were done by those two old guys, years ago. 1241 01:06:42,542 --> 01:06:44,667 Why are you even paying attention to them anymore?" 1242 01:06:44,792 --> 01:06:47,458 Very effective piece of disinformation. 1243 01:06:49,125 --> 01:06:52,667 NARRATOR: During the years that followed Bower and Chorley's confession, 1244 01:06:52,792 --> 01:06:56,333 crop circles continued to appear in the English countryside 1245 01:06:56,500 --> 01:06:59,667 and at various locations around the world. 1246 01:07:00,750 --> 01:07:04,708 Some were, inarguably, the work of artists or jokesters. 1247 01:07:04,875 --> 01:07:07,875 But after studying soil samples and grain dispersion patterns 1248 01:07:08,042 --> 01:07:09,542 in the disturbed farmland, 1249 01:07:09,708 --> 01:07:13,667 researchers concluded that it would be impossible 1250 01:07:13,875 --> 01:07:16,083 for all of these designs to be man-made. 1251 01:07:16,250 --> 01:07:19,000 Well, in what we would consider to be a mysterious crop circle, 1252 01:07:19,208 --> 01:07:21,167 where we can't identify it being made by people, 1253 01:07:21,375 --> 01:07:23,375 the lay is absolutely beautiful, the lay of the crop. 1254 01:07:23,542 --> 01:07:25,667 It's like a million carpet layers came down, 1255 01:07:25,875 --> 01:07:28,167 and put these stalks of grain down, 1256 01:07:28,333 --> 01:07:30,167 right parallel to one another. 1257 01:07:30,333 --> 01:07:32,792 It's just a gorgeous thing to behold. 1258 01:07:32,958 --> 01:07:34,042 When the hoaxers make them, 1259 01:07:34,208 --> 01:07:35,625 they tend to be sloppy and messy, 1260 01:07:35,792 --> 01:07:38,000 'cause they're not, they haven't got that same force. 1261 01:07:38,167 --> 01:07:40,083 They're doing handmade manipulation, 1262 01:07:40,250 --> 01:07:42,417 which doesn't lay them down quite as beautifully. 1263 01:07:45,708 --> 01:07:50,875 NARRATOR: In 1991, noted biophysicist Dr. William Levengood 1264 01:07:51,042 --> 01:07:53,917 put forth a startling new theory. 1265 01:07:54,042 --> 01:07:55,792 After spending ten years studying 1266 01:07:55,958 --> 01:07:59,833 crop circle sites and samples, he concluded that they were 1267 01:08:00,000 --> 01:08:02,583 created by a complex energy system, 1268 01:08:02,708 --> 01:08:05,833 which he called a spinning plasma vortex, 1269 01:08:06,000 --> 01:08:09,667 that comes down from somewhere high up in the atmosphere. 1270 01:08:13,625 --> 01:08:15,708 HOWE: Biophysicist Levengood has now analyzed 1271 01:08:15,917 --> 01:08:19,167 350 some samples 1272 01:08:19,333 --> 01:08:21,583 from crop formations in his career. 1273 01:08:21,792 --> 01:08:25,542 Now, if Levengood were sitting here with me, he would say, 1274 01:08:25,750 --> 01:08:29,125 "All I can do is, I can take you from the ground, 1275 01:08:29,292 --> 01:08:32,208 "I can take you from the crops, up. 1276 01:08:33,250 --> 01:08:36,333 "But I can't tell you what sets in motion 1277 01:08:36,542 --> 01:08:39,875 "that spinning plasma vortex, in the first place. 1278 01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,708 It's still a huge mystery." 1279 01:08:44,333 --> 01:08:46,750 The anomalous things that happen inside crop circles are, 1280 01:08:46,917 --> 01:08:48,250 in fact, one of the indications 1281 01:08:48,417 --> 01:08:50,417 that you're in a so-called genuine circle 1282 01:08:50,583 --> 01:08:53,208 because, indeed, the weirdest things happen. 1283 01:08:53,375 --> 01:08:55,167 Batteries fail-- brand-new batteries-- 1284 01:08:55,333 --> 01:08:58,458 people go in with cameras, cell phones don't work. 1285 01:08:58,625 --> 01:09:00,333 There have been people who have started reading 1286 01:09:00,458 --> 01:09:03,417 all kinds of messages into these crop circles, 1287 01:09:03,583 --> 01:09:06,375 that they have some kind of digital significance, 1288 01:09:06,542 --> 01:09:08,958 that you can read a kind of numerology, 1289 01:09:09,083 --> 01:09:10,583 and there will be a kind of message. 1290 01:09:10,750 --> 01:09:13,500 People are really reading something into it. 1291 01:09:16,208 --> 01:09:18,125 TAYLOR: In terms of who or what is delivering them, 1292 01:09:18,292 --> 01:09:20,167 we have no way to know that. 1293 01:09:20,375 --> 01:09:21,625 We only have science fiction 1294 01:09:21,708 --> 01:09:23,875 that tells us what's coming to visit us. 1295 01:09:24,042 --> 01:09:25,375 So we have to just speculate 1296 01:09:25,542 --> 01:09:27,042 about where this might be coming from. 1297 01:09:27,208 --> 01:09:29,083 We have to wait for whatever the source is 1298 01:09:29,292 --> 01:09:31,000 to introduce itself to us. 1299 01:09:31,208 --> 01:09:34,375 Are we dealing with time travelers? 1300 01:09:34,542 --> 01:09:36,542 Are we dealing with spiritual forces 1301 01:09:36,708 --> 01:09:39,417 from some dimension we don't understand? 1302 01:09:39,542 --> 01:09:42,083 Are we dealing with advanced intelligences 1303 01:09:42,208 --> 01:09:44,167 that are not even in this galaxy, 1304 01:09:44,333 --> 01:09:46,208 that are from someplace else? 1305 01:09:46,375 --> 01:09:49,500 And is this a form of communication? 1306 01:09:49,625 --> 01:09:52,708 The conversations keep getting more and more complicated. 1307 01:09:52,875 --> 01:09:55,333 Crop circles are contact. We are being contacted. 1308 01:09:55,458 --> 01:09:58,333 Just because we don't have the bodies to shake hands with, 1309 01:09:58,542 --> 01:10:01,000 we have the evidence that the bodies have left us. 1310 01:10:01,125 --> 01:10:02,667 I'm absolutely convinced 1311 01:10:02,833 --> 01:10:04,792 the crop circles are evidence of intelligent life. 1312 01:10:04,958 --> 01:10:08,667 There is intelligence bombarding us, winking at us. 1313 01:10:15,583 --> 01:10:16,750 You know, we've been talking about extraterrestrials 1314 01:10:16,750 --> 01:10:17,750 placing beacons on Earth, 1315 01:10:18,083 --> 01:10:19,958 but we, too, have been sending signals out into space 1316 01:10:20,125 --> 01:10:22,667 hoping they'll be received by some alien intelligence. 1317 01:10:22,833 --> 01:10:24,583 Yeah, I mean, we've sent out 1318 01:10:24,708 --> 01:10:28,417 music and images and even messages in binary code, 1319 01:10:28,542 --> 01:10:31,500 and even the entire Wikipedia library. 1320 01:10:31,708 --> 01:10:33,667 Right, and what's even more incredible 1321 01:10:33,833 --> 01:10:37,333 is that some people claim that some of the signals 1322 01:10:37,542 --> 01:10:40,167 that we've sent out have already received 1323 01:10:40,333 --> 01:10:42,708 an actual response. 1324 01:10:44,375 --> 01:10:46,542 NARRATOR: Arecibo Observatory. 1325 01:10:46,708 --> 01:10:48,250 Puerto Rico. 1326 01:10:48,417 --> 01:10:51,833 November 16, 1974. 1327 01:10:53,417 --> 01:10:55,375 Early pioneers of SETI-- 1328 01:10:55,542 --> 01:10:58,333 the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence-- 1329 01:10:58,500 --> 01:11:01,167 aim the world's largest radio telescope 1330 01:11:01,333 --> 01:11:05,125 at a cluster of stars 25,000 light years away 1331 01:11:05,292 --> 01:11:09,208 to send a transmission out into the cosmos. 1332 01:11:10,375 --> 01:11:13,875 The coded signal consists of binary digits-- 1333 01:11:14,042 --> 01:11:16,000 zeros and ones-- 1334 01:11:16,167 --> 01:11:18,958 that form a message designed to notify 1335 01:11:19,042 --> 01:11:23,458 other potentially advanced beings of our existence. 1336 01:11:23,625 --> 01:11:26,708 This message into space, it was encoded in what's called 1337 01:11:26,875 --> 01:11:29,417 binary code, 'cause it's the simplest around. 1338 01:11:29,583 --> 01:11:32,333 Listen, we're trying to send a message to the aliens 1339 01:11:32,500 --> 01:11:34,833 and because you don't know anything about them, 1340 01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:37,667 you have to make this as obvious as possible. 1341 01:11:40,042 --> 01:11:43,708 Now here's the message over here that was actually sent in 1974. 1342 01:11:43,917 --> 01:11:46,583 And it starts off with teaching the ABC's to the aliens. 1343 01:11:46,750 --> 01:11:50,375 Well, not ABC's, the 123's, because right up here are 1344 01:11:50,542 --> 01:11:53,792 the numbers from 1 to 10, but in binary, 1345 01:11:53,917 --> 01:11:55,583 and anybody who has thought about binary 1346 01:11:55,792 --> 01:11:57,917 should be able to figure that out, including the aliens. 1347 01:11:59,042 --> 01:12:00,792 Right underneath that is... 1348 01:12:00,958 --> 01:12:04,542 th-this funny thing here has the numbers one, six, seven, 1349 01:12:04,708 --> 01:12:05,875 and so forth. 1350 01:12:06,042 --> 01:12:09,000 Those are the atomic numbers of the elements 1351 01:12:09,208 --> 01:12:10,667 that make up our bodies: 1352 01:12:10,750 --> 01:12:15,583 hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus. 1353 01:12:15,708 --> 01:12:18,167 NARRATOR: The coded message also contained 1354 01:12:18,375 --> 01:12:21,167 information about our DNA, 1355 01:12:21,333 --> 01:12:23,833 the figure of a human, 1356 01:12:24,000 --> 01:12:26,500 a graphic of the solar system, 1357 01:12:26,667 --> 01:12:29,583 and a graphic of a radio telescope. 1358 01:12:32,375 --> 01:12:35,042 For decades, SETI scientists wondered 1359 01:12:35,208 --> 01:12:40,333 if their cosmic message would ever be received or answered. 1360 01:12:40,500 --> 01:12:43,167 Then, nearly 27 years later, 1361 01:12:43,375 --> 01:12:47,000 there appeared to be a response. 1362 01:12:50,375 --> 01:12:54,000 Hampshire, England. August 2001. 1363 01:12:56,833 --> 01:13:00,042 Next to the Chilbolton Radio Observatory, 1364 01:13:00,250 --> 01:13:02,750 two crop formations appeared in a field. 1365 01:13:03,750 --> 01:13:07,000 Both were unlike any other ever found. 1366 01:13:08,708 --> 01:13:11,042 They were both pixelated, meaning that, 1367 01:13:11,208 --> 01:13:13,417 when you're on the ground, you couldn't perceive 1368 01:13:13,583 --> 01:13:15,500 what the crop circle was, but once from the air, 1369 01:13:15,708 --> 01:13:18,250 you could readily identify the pattern. 1370 01:13:19,208 --> 01:13:23,292 COLLINS: One of the crop formations that appeared at Chilbolton in 2001 1371 01:13:23,458 --> 01:13:25,833 was a face, but the other one 1372 01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:30,833 was far, far more interesting because it greatly resembled 1373 01:13:31,000 --> 01:13:36,917 the message that had been sent in 1974. 1374 01:13:41,917 --> 01:13:45,833 There were very, very subtle differences between the two. 1375 01:13:46,042 --> 01:13:47,333 Um, they looked identical, 1376 01:13:47,500 --> 01:13:49,250 but when you actually looked at them, 1377 01:13:49,417 --> 01:13:52,000 the differences gave a key 1378 01:13:52,167 --> 01:13:56,042 that seemed to be, uh, almost like an answer. 1379 01:13:57,417 --> 01:13:59,125 NEWMAN: One of them was the fact 1380 01:13:59,292 --> 01:14:00,833 that the human being that we sent out, 1381 01:14:01,042 --> 01:14:03,000 when it came back, it had what appeared to look like 1382 01:14:03,125 --> 01:14:07,333 some kind of grey alien with a large head and a small body. 1383 01:14:07,500 --> 01:14:10,000 It also had a different system of planets, 1384 01:14:10,208 --> 01:14:12,708 which is suggesting it's a different solar system, 1385 01:14:12,875 --> 01:14:16,250 and also it had a different DNA sequence as well. 1386 01:14:16,458 --> 01:14:18,167 And so, just these three things 1387 01:14:18,375 --> 01:14:20,875 really caught my attention because either it was, it was 1388 01:14:21,042 --> 01:14:23,667 a brilliant hoax or it was actually a message 1389 01:14:23,875 --> 01:14:25,792 that came back and was a response 1390 01:14:25,958 --> 01:14:29,542 to that original SETI message, way back in the 1970s. 1391 01:14:33,792 --> 01:14:37,250 COLLINS: And all of these suggested to the crop circle community, 1392 01:14:37,417 --> 01:14:41,667 um, and the media, that we really had received a reply... 1393 01:14:42,750 --> 01:14:46,125 ...to the Aricebo message of 1974. 1394 01:14:47,208 --> 01:14:49,167 Can we see it as a reply? 1395 01:14:49,333 --> 01:14:51,000 Yes, indeed, it was. 1396 01:14:51,167 --> 01:14:52,875 But actually who created it 1397 01:14:53,042 --> 01:14:56,042 and their exact purpose will remain a mystery. 1398 01:14:56,208 --> 01:14:59,333 NARRATOR: Could the crop circles in Chilbolton 1399 01:14:59,542 --> 01:15:02,667 have been an actual alien response to the signal 1400 01:15:02,792 --> 01:15:07,292 that SETI sent out into the cosmos in 1974? 1401 01:15:07,417 --> 01:15:10,583 And are crop formations the latest iteration 1402 01:15:10,750 --> 01:15:14,292 in an ancient system of otherworldly signposts, 1403 01:15:14,458 --> 01:15:17,167 including global pictographs, 1404 01:15:17,292 --> 01:15:21,125 geometric patterns, and architectural markers? 1405 01:15:22,292 --> 01:15:25,333 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, 1406 01:15:25,458 --> 01:15:27,833 and suggest that modern technology 1407 01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:31,667 is revealing this system to be far more ancient 1408 01:15:31,833 --> 01:15:35,625 and widespread than ever imagined. 1409 01:15:40,208 --> 01:15:42,250 You know, when the Nazca Lines were discovered in the 1920s, 1410 01:15:42,250 --> 01:15:46,292 people thought that these lines, these markings in the ground, 1411 01:15:46,458 --> 01:15:48,875 were a complete and total anomaly. 1412 01:15:49,042 --> 01:15:53,000 But today, we know that there thousands of other geoglyphs 1413 01:15:53,208 --> 01:15:54,542 all around the globe. 1414 01:15:54,708 --> 01:15:56,583 Yeah, that's right, and what's so exciting is that, 1415 01:15:56,750 --> 01:15:59,417 with continuing advances in technology, 1416 01:15:59,583 --> 01:16:01,250 we're discovering more and more of them all the time. 1417 01:16:01,375 --> 01:16:06,083 Yeah, and in 2024, artificial intelligence helped us uncover 1418 01:16:06,208 --> 01:16:08,667 300 new Nazca glyphs. 1419 01:16:08,833 --> 01:16:10,292 So, it would seem that, you know, 1420 01:16:10,417 --> 01:16:12,042 technology is what we need 1421 01:16:12,208 --> 01:16:15,042 to uncover what was happening in the ancient world. 1422 01:16:17,708 --> 01:16:19,917 NARRATOR: Nazca, Peru. 1423 01:16:20,833 --> 01:16:23,583 First discovered in 1927, 1424 01:16:23,750 --> 01:16:27,625 the Nazca Lines consist of hundreds of designs known 1425 01:16:27,750 --> 01:16:31,792 as geoglyphs that can only be seen from above. 1426 01:16:32,833 --> 01:16:36,667 Scattered over 200 square miles in southern Peru, 1427 01:16:36,833 --> 01:16:40,417 mainstream archaeologists believe the figures were created 1428 01:16:40,583 --> 01:16:42,167 by the ancient Nazca people 1429 01:16:42,292 --> 01:16:46,542 sometime between the first and eighth centuries AD. 1430 01:16:47,583 --> 01:16:49,083 Ancient astronaut theorists 1431 01:16:49,208 --> 01:16:52,708 have been studying the Nazca Lines for years. 1432 01:16:52,875 --> 01:16:56,833 They maintain that the massive and complex designs 1433 01:16:56,958 --> 01:17:00,500 must have been created as signals to celestial beings 1434 01:17:00,667 --> 01:17:03,708 that came down from the heavens, 1435 01:17:03,833 --> 01:17:07,208 and they say new evidence proves that aliens 1436 01:17:07,375 --> 01:17:09,167 not only visited Nazca, 1437 01:17:09,375 --> 01:17:13,125 but continued to return there over the centuries. 1438 01:17:15,833 --> 01:17:20,250 On July 7, 2015, a team of anthropologists 1439 01:17:20,375 --> 01:17:25,000 from Yamagata University in Japan revealed they had found 1440 01:17:25,167 --> 01:17:28,000 new Nazca Lines that, due to erosion, 1441 01:17:28,167 --> 01:17:30,958 are impossible to make out with the naked eye. 1442 01:17:32,417 --> 01:17:34,542 By conducting a three-dimensional scan 1443 01:17:34,750 --> 01:17:39,083 of the ground, they uncovered a total of 24 images, 1444 01:17:39,250 --> 01:17:42,833 including strange-looking humanoid figures, 1445 01:17:42,917 --> 01:17:47,875 a disembodied head, and a llama 65 feet long. 1446 01:17:50,792 --> 01:17:52,458 According to their findings, 1447 01:17:52,625 --> 01:17:56,667 the new geoglyphs date from 400 to 200 BC, 1448 01:17:56,875 --> 01:17:58,875 making them hundreds of years older 1449 01:17:59,083 --> 01:18:02,000 than those previously discovered. 1450 01:18:02,208 --> 01:18:06,958 These new finds are instrumental in showing the duration 1451 01:18:07,125 --> 01:18:09,833 of which these types of modifications were going on, 1452 01:18:10,042 --> 01:18:13,458 on the desert floor, for hundreds and hundreds of years, 1453 01:18:13,583 --> 01:18:15,833 involving different cultures 1454 01:18:16,042 --> 01:18:18,917 with different motivations and different depictions. 1455 01:18:19,083 --> 01:18:22,583 It would seem to be all of the cultures 1456 01:18:22,750 --> 01:18:25,958 were trying to signal some kind of sky people, 1457 01:18:26,125 --> 01:18:31,042 and probably over time were trying to induce them 1458 01:18:31,208 --> 01:18:35,292 to come back down from the sky and land their ships. 1459 01:18:35,458 --> 01:18:36,958 You have to wonder then if, 1460 01:18:37,167 --> 01:18:40,167 with at least four successive cultures doing this, 1461 01:18:40,333 --> 01:18:43,792 that you would think they must've had some success. 1462 01:18:46,250 --> 01:18:49,333 NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists have even suggested 1463 01:18:49,458 --> 01:18:53,292 that the discovery of older Nazca Lines may indicate 1464 01:18:53,458 --> 01:18:56,583 that the people responsible for the later geoglyphs 1465 01:18:56,792 --> 01:18:59,000 were imitating what was originally made 1466 01:18:59,208 --> 01:19:02,083 by the extraterrestrials themselves. 1467 01:19:03,167 --> 01:19:05,250 So, the question starts to rise is: 1468 01:19:05,458 --> 01:19:08,083 were various different people coming to Nazca 1469 01:19:08,208 --> 01:19:11,417 to make these petroglyphs and these large diagrams? 1470 01:19:11,583 --> 01:19:15,542 Or were they possibly recreating some initial experiment 1471 01:19:15,708 --> 01:19:19,000 or some initial thing that took place? 1472 01:19:19,208 --> 01:19:21,583 What if some of the early cultures in Nazca 1473 01:19:21,708 --> 01:19:25,708 actually experienced interaction with beings that were creating 1474 01:19:25,875 --> 01:19:28,417 edifices that can only be seen from in the sky, 1475 01:19:28,583 --> 01:19:30,833 and the only way to get to lure them back 1476 01:19:30,958 --> 01:19:33,292 was to create these ways to communicate 1477 01:19:33,375 --> 01:19:34,875 from an aerial perspective? 1478 01:19:37,417 --> 01:19:40,750 NARRATOR: For decades, it was thought that there was no other place 1479 01:19:40,917 --> 01:19:42,750 on Earth like Nazca, 1480 01:19:42,917 --> 01:19:46,542 but recently, a shocking discovery was made 1481 01:19:46,708 --> 01:19:49,792 on the opposite side of the globe. 1482 01:19:49,917 --> 01:19:54,750 Turgay, Kazakhstan. October 2015. 1483 01:19:56,542 --> 01:20:00,375 Using satellite photography, NASA captures images 1484 01:20:00,542 --> 01:20:05,167 of more than 260 geoglyphs covering the ground here. 1485 01:20:06,583 --> 01:20:10,500 They're located in a very rural part of Kazakhstan, 1486 01:20:10,708 --> 01:20:14,125 and they could only be found thanks to modern technology. 1487 01:20:14,250 --> 01:20:17,667 They're much more complex than the Nazca geoglyphs 1488 01:20:17,875 --> 01:20:20,333 in that they are three-dimensional. 1489 01:20:20,500 --> 01:20:22,958 They are mounds and trenches, 1490 01:20:23,042 --> 01:20:27,667 whereas the Nazca Lines are etchings in the sand. 1491 01:20:27,792 --> 01:20:32,917 We're talking here about massive features that are constructed 1492 01:20:33,083 --> 01:20:36,208 from earthen mounds and also from wood, 1493 01:20:36,375 --> 01:20:41,250 showing everything from rings to squares 1494 01:20:41,375 --> 01:20:45,792 to crosses, and even swastikas that are on the ground. 1495 01:20:49,208 --> 01:20:52,292 NARRATOR: The archaeologists in the area have no idea 1496 01:20:52,417 --> 01:20:56,250 who made the geoglyphs or what they represent. 1497 01:20:56,417 --> 01:20:59,667 But one fact they have been able to determine 1498 01:20:59,875 --> 01:21:04,125 is that some of these glyphs date back 8,000 years, 1499 01:21:04,292 --> 01:21:09,375 nearly 6,000 years older than the Nazca Lines. 1500 01:21:11,250 --> 01:21:14,417 Since these can be dated to almost 8,000 years old, 1501 01:21:14,583 --> 01:21:17,375 we have to wonder who they were trying to communicate with. 1502 01:21:17,542 --> 01:21:19,042 Could it have been, possibly, 1503 01:21:19,250 --> 01:21:22,958 what a lot of these ancient cultures refer to as gods? 1504 01:21:24,333 --> 01:21:27,125 I think the fact that we're finding more and more 1505 01:21:27,292 --> 01:21:30,583 of these symbols simply tell us 1506 01:21:30,750 --> 01:21:33,625 that the humankind at that time 1507 01:21:33,792 --> 01:21:36,292 tried to communicate with what they thought 1508 01:21:36,458 --> 01:21:38,333 were the gods from above. 1509 01:21:39,458 --> 01:21:42,250 This is only one small part 1510 01:21:42,417 --> 01:21:46,000 of a gigantic archaeological puzzle. 1511 01:21:47,125 --> 01:21:51,333 Now, we today, we must stumble over these lines, 1512 01:21:51,542 --> 01:21:55,333 and automatically we have to ask questions. What is it? 1513 01:21:55,500 --> 01:21:58,500 How have they done it? For what purpose? 1514 01:21:58,667 --> 01:22:01,917 And sooner or later, we came up with the question, 1515 01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:05,000 is there maybe a message by the extraterrestrials? 1516 01:22:07,208 --> 01:22:10,000 So we really have to ask, what is the significance 1517 01:22:10,167 --> 01:22:12,167 of these geoglyphs? Are they calling cards? 1518 01:22:12,375 --> 01:22:14,417 Are they signs for those in the sky? 1519 01:22:14,583 --> 01:22:16,083 A lost language? 1520 01:22:16,250 --> 01:22:17,542 What are we gonna learn from all this? 1521 01:22:17,708 --> 01:22:19,667 Yeah, and are they just signaling 1522 01:22:19,875 --> 01:22:22,000 to the extraterrestrials, "Hey, we're here. 1523 01:22:22,125 --> 01:22:23,500 You know, come on back"? 1524 01:22:23,708 --> 01:22:25,333 Almost like cargo cults 1525 01:22:25,458 --> 01:22:27,750 and their airstrips to attract more airplanes to come. 1526 01:22:27,875 --> 01:22:30,667 Right. I mean, all of these pieces 1527 01:22:30,875 --> 01:22:33,333 are parts of a puzzle, 1528 01:22:33,542 --> 01:22:37,167 and you don't necessarily have to finish a puzzle 1529 01:22:37,375 --> 01:22:39,125 in order to see the bigger picture. 1530 01:22:39,333 --> 01:22:43,000 There is an underlying thread 1531 01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:45,500 that essentially combines it all, 1532 01:22:45,625 --> 01:22:50,542 that we have been visited physically in the remote past. 1533 01:22:51,708 --> 01:22:54,292 CAPTIONING PROVIDED BY A+E NETWORKS