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Narrator: UFO SIGHTINGS ARE
RELATIVELY MODERN PHENOMENON,

BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE
RAISED THE QUESTION

OF ANCIENT ALIEN INTERACTION.

NOW RECENT DISCOVERIES
SUGGEST CONTACT WITH UFOs

LIKELY OCCURRED EARLIER
IN HISTORY THAN EVER IMAGINED.

Rosenfeld: GIVEN THAT THESE ARE
ARTIFACTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES

TELLS ME THAT THESE ARE
DEPICTIONS OF CONTACT

WITH AN ANCIENT VISITOR.

Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE OF
ANCIENT MONUMENTS

BUILT FOR THE GODS THAT
DESCENDED FROM THE SKY.

Lukes: ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO

THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,
PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?

Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST

THAT THESE REALLY ARE TALKING
ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.

Narrator: WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD

BEEN KEEPING SECRET THEIR
KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT CONTACT

WITH ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS?

Dolan: IT'S NOT SIMPLY
THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH

AN INHERENTLY
MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON.

WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY

OBFUSCATION AND SECRECY.

Narrator: DID UFOs LAND ON EARTH
SEVERAL MILLENNIA AGO

AND SEED MODERN CIVILIZATION?

Bara: WHAT I SAY IS AN
EXPRESSION OF THE SAME CONCEPTS

ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES
ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,

WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Rosenfeld: IT GOES TO SHOW YOU
THAT THESE VISITORS

HAVE BEEN HERE
FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.

♪♪

Narrator: NEW INFORMATION
IS TRANSFORMING

WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT.

ARE UFOs REALLY
VISITING OUR WORLD?

IS THE GOVERNMENT
HIDING THE TRUTH?

AND, IF SO, COULD
NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE

REVEAL THE ASTONISHING TRUTH OF
ANCIENT UFO EARTH LANDINGS?

♪♪

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MARCH 25, 2013.

MEXICO CITY.

HERE, IN THE MOST POPULATED
METROPOLITAN AREA

IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE,
GOVERNMENT MINISTERS

DECLARE PUBLICLY THAT THEY HOLD
ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS

PROVING THE REALITY
OF EARLY CONTACT

BETWEEN THE ANCIENT MAYA
AND UFOs.

SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME
ON NATIONAL TELEVISION,

THE ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN KEPT
A CLOSELY GUARDED STATE SECRET

FOR OVER 80 YEARS.

BUT WHY?

WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE CLASSIC
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS --

THE MAYANS, THE INCAS --
IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE

THE RECURRENCE OF THE IDEA
OF VISITORS FROM THE STARS,

SKY GODS COMING DOWN,
INTERACTING WITH THE PEOPLE.

THIS IS A THREAD
THAT RUNS THROUGH

THE NARRATIVE OF THESE PEOPLES,
OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS.

IS THIS JUST STORY AND MYTH?

OR IS IT A RETELLING
OF SOMETHING

THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED?

THESE ARTIFACTS
ARE VERY DRAMATIC,

AND THEY SHOW IN SOME CASES
WHAT LOOKS LIKE

CLEAR GRAY ALIEN
EXTRATERRESTRIAL

AND FLYING SAUCERS.

SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY
CAREFUL, FIND THE TRUE ORIGIN,

AND FACT CHECK
THE HECK OUT OF IT.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO ARTIFACTS
RESEARCHER KLAUS DONA,

THE LONG, LOST OBJECTS
WERE FOUND IN A CAVE

JUST NORTH OF MEXICO CITY.

BUT SOME IN THE MEXICAN
INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY

AND HISTORY BELIEVE
THE ARTIFACTS WERE

ORIGINALLY FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CALAKMUL.

THIS ONCE MIGHTY CITY,
DATING TO 600 A.D.,

WAS POSSIBLY
THE LARGEST MAYA CITY

WITH THE TALLEST KNOWN PYRAMID
IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA.

French: SO THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE
OF MAYA WE START SEEING

AROUND 1500 B.C.

WE'RE SEEING DENSER POPULATIONS
OF PEOPLE THAT ARE STARTING

TO BUILD MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,

AND THAT MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE
HAS CERTAIN SIGNATURES

THAT WE START SEEING
IN OTHER PLACES

THROUGHOUT THE MAYA REGION.

THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT
FOR THE MAYA, IN MY OPINION,

WOULD REALLY BE
THEIR WRITING SYSTEM.

NO ONE ELSE IN THE NEW WORLD
HAD THAT KIND OF WRITING SYSTEM.

THAT AND THEIR COMPLEX
CALENDAR SYSTEM WOULD BE

THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS.

Narrator: REGARDED BY SCHOLARS
AS ONE OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED

CIVILIZATIONS IN
THE ANCIENT WORLD,

THE MAYA ALSO MASTERED
AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING,

AND ASTRONOMY.

THEIR CALENDARS ACCURATELY TRACK
CELESTIAL EVENTS OVER DECADES.

BUT DID THE MAYA CREATE THIS
REMARKABLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION

THROUGH THEIR OWN INGENUITY,
OR IS IT POSSIBLE,

AS SOME UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVER, THE MAYA ACQUIRED

SUCH KNOWLEDGE
FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS

THAT ARRIVED IN WHAT
WE KNOW CALL UFOs?

Pope: SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT
CIVILIZATIONS LIKE THE MAYANS

AND POINT TO HOW ADVANCED
THEY WERE IN AREAS SUCH AS

MATHEMATICS AND ARCHITECTURE.

AND THEY SAY,
DID THESE PEOPLE HAVE SOME HELP?

WAS THEIR CIVILIZATION
SOMEHOW JUMP STARTED?

THIS IS AN INTRIGUING
POSSIBILITY.

AND AGAIN, IT ALL TIES IN
PERHAPS TO THE IDEAS OF GODS

COMING FROM THE SKIES,
INTERACTING WITH THESE PEOPLE,

SHARING THEIR SACRED KNOWLEDGE.

IN FACT, MANY UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE THE ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED

IN MEXICO MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO
SUPPORT THE THEORY THAT THE MAYA

NOT ONLY EXPERIENCED
OTHERWORLDLY VISITATION,

BUT PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR VISITORS
THROUGH THEIR ARTWORK.

Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED
THAT MANY OF THESE IMAGES

COME FROM THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY,
THAT THEY COME FROM

THINGS GLIMPSED
IN THE SHAMANIC CHANTS

WHICH ARE MAYBE BASED ON SOME
MIXTURE OF DREAM, IMAGINATION,

AND REALITY ALL MIXED TOGETHER.

SO, IS ANY OF THIS ALIEN?

WE DON'T KNOW,
BUT IT'S AN INTRIGUING MYSTERY

AND WORTH FURTHER STUDY.

Narrator:
BUT WHAT IF THE ARTIFACTS REVEAL

SOMETHING MORE
THAN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY?

WHAT IF, AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE,

THEY REVEAL
ACTUAL CONTACT WITH UFOs?

NOW, LOOKING AT THESE THINGS,
THEY DO LOOK, FOR ALL THE WORLD,

LIKE A CLASSICAL IMAGE
OF A FLYING SAUCER.

THEY ARE DISC-SHAPED.

THEY SEEM TO HAVE
A RAISED DOME IN THE CENTER,

AND THERE ARE
STRANGE PATTERNS ON THEM.

ARE THEY REAL OR NOT,
AND IF THEY'RE REAL,

ARE THEY REALLY SHOWING
EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT?

ONE OF THEM LOOKS
CLEARLY LIKE A FLYING SAUCER

OR SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT.

IT'S DISC-SHAPED.

IT'S GOT A CLASSIC
UFO SHAPE TO IT.

IT'S DEFINITELY DEPICTING
SOMETHING FLYING.

EVEN A LANDING GEAR OR A RAMP
COMING DOWN OFF OF IT.

TO ME, THIS IS
VERY STRONG EVIDENCE

THAT WE'VE BEEN VISITED
IN THE PAST BY ANCIENT VISITORS.

Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING
TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

ONE KEY QUESTION REMAINS.

ARE THESE
MAYA ARTIFACTS AUTHENTIC?

THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT
RELEASED THESE ARTIFACTS

THAT CLEARLY DEPICT UFOs,
SOME KIND OF ADVANCED

ALIEN TECHNOLOGY,
THAT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL

BECAUSE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY
HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENTS

THAT ARE WILLING TO RELEASE
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE.

BUT, ARE THEY REAL?

WE DON'T KNOW.

Narrator: ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT
OF FLYING SAUCERS

OR FLYING DISCS
AND THEIR IMAGES ONLY BEGAN

IN THE MID-20th CENTURY,
OFFICIALS AT THE MEXICAN

INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY
AND HISTORY HAVE DETERMINED

THE ARTIFACTS PREDATE FLYING
SAUCER IMAGERY BY CENTURIES.

Bara: THE DISCS,
THEY WERE FOUND 80 YEARS AGO.

80 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO
SUCH THING AS A FLYING SAUCER.

SO, WHATEVER THESE OBJECTS ARE,
THEY CLEARLY EXISTED

80 YEARS AGO, BEFORE
THERE WAS ANY SORT OF

FLYING SAUCER CULTURE
OR TV INTERVIEWS

OR ANY OF THESE
KINDS OF PROGRAMS.

SO THE IDEA THAT
THEY'RE NOT AUTHENTIC

KIND OF BLOWS UP RIGHT THERE.

BECAUSE TO ME, CLEARLY,
IF THEY WERE FOUND,

AND THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE,
IT'S NOW UP TO US

TO MAKE A MODERN INTERPRETATION

OF WHAT THEY WERE
SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT.

Narrator: ACCORDING TO
UFO RESEARCHERS,

EVIDENCE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS

FOUND 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH
IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF TIKAL

IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPUTE.

SURROUNDED BY DENSE RAINFORESTS,
TIKAL IS BELIEVED TO BE

THE OLDEST URBAN CENTER
OF THE MAYA CIVILIZATION.

French: TIKAL'S LOCATED
IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA,

VERY LARGE SITE, COVERED ABOUT
SEVEN OR EIGHT SQUARE MILES.

ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE.

EARLIEST BEGINNINGS
AROUND 400 B.C.

Narrator: EVIDENCE OF
ASTONISHING MAYA ARCHITECTURAL

AND ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
CAN BE FOUND IN WHAT WAS

ONCE TIKAL'S GRAND PLAZA.

SEVEN PYRAMIDS STAND
IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT,

AND IN THE SAME
GEOMETRIC PATTERN

AS THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER

WHICH IS VISIBLE
TO THE NAKED EYE.

Rosenfeld: FOR THE MAYANS
TO LAY OUT THEIR PYRAMIDS

IN THE FORMATION
OF THE PLEIADES CONSTELLATION

TOOK GREAT CARE AND EFFORT, AND
WHY WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING?

IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM.

Bara: THE MAYANS ACTUALLY
SAY THAT THEY DID THIS

BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE
THEY COME FROM.

THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,

AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED IT
BY THE CONSTRUCTION

OF THESE VERY UNIQUE PYRAMIDS
ON THIS SITE

COMPLETELY ALIGNED
WITH THE PLEIADES.

Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
BELIEVE THAT SUCH ACHIEVEMENTS

IN COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION
WERE MADE POSSIBLE

BECAUSE OF A UNIQUE
AND SOPHISTICATED

NUMBERS SYSTEMS
DEVELOPED BY THE MAYA.

BUT UFO RESEARCHERS CONTEND
THAT EVEN THIS WAS THE RESULT

OF CONTACT
WITH SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES.

THE MAYAN SAY THEIR GODS
COME FROM THE PLEIADES,

AS DO MANY OTHER
NATIVE CULTURES.

THE QUESTION BECOMES,
NOT ONLY WHERE ARE THEY GETTING

THE INFORMATION, BUT WHERE
ARE THEY GETTING

THE MATHEMATICAL
INTELLECTUAL ACUITY.

TO ME, IT LENDS ITSELF TO
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCES,

EITHER DEEPLY, DEEPLY CONNECTED
WITH THIS CIVILIZATION,

OR AT LEAST
BEING VISITED BY THEM

TO GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION.

BUT PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING
EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH UFOs

AT TIKAL, SAY UFO EXPERTS, IS
THIS ASTONISHING STONE CARVING

KNOWN AS THE TIKAL ASTRONAUT.

ONE STONE FIGURE FOUND AT TIKAL
IS PARTICULARLY INTRIGUING.

NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT
IT JUST SHOWS A REPRESENTATION

OF SOMEONE IN A CEREMONIAL
HEADDRESS OF SOME SORT.

BUT OTHERS LOOK AT IT AND SAY,

WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S
AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET.

Rosenfeld: THIS MAYAN FIGURINE
WEARING WHAT LOOKS TO ME

LIKE AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET
WITH BREATHING APPARATUS

AND KIND OF A PRESSURE SUIT,

LOOKS TO ME LIKE
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.

Lukes:
WE HAVE TO POSE THE QUESTION,

ARE THESE CIVILIZATIONS
LEAVING A MESSAGE HERE?

ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS
TRYING TO POINT TO THEIR GODS?

ARE THEY TRYING TO POINT TO
THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD,

PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL?

Narrator: COULD THIS
ANCIENT ARTIFACT REPRESENT

A SO-CALLED SKY GOD
THAT TRAVELED FROM

THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER,
AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND IF SO, WHY HAS THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT KEPT THEIR KNOWLEDGE

OF THESE ARTIFACTS
SECRET FOR SO LONG?

INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
FURTHER EVIDENCE LONG-HIDDEN

IN THE MEXICAN JUNGLE,
COULD FINALLY PROVIDE PROOF

OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT
HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG

ABOUT ALIEN CONTACT
IN THE DISTANT PAST.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS,

NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE
COULD REVEAL CLUES

TO THE QUESTION OF EARLY MAN'S
INTERACTION WITH UFOs.

AFTER WITHHOLDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL
EVIDENCE FOR 80 YEARS,

THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT
HAS FINALLY COME FORWARD

WITH WHAT MANY BELIEVE IS PROOF

OF UFO CONTACT
WITH THE ANCIENT MAYA.

WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, AND INDEED,
CONTINUE TO LEARN AS WE STUDY

IS THAT THEY WERE
PRETTY ADVANCED.

MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY,
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.

HOW THEY ACQUIRED
THAT KNOWLEDGE IS FASCINATING,

BUT IT'S AN UNANSWERED QUESTION.

Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS,
THE ANSWER LIES IN A FRESH LOOK

AT EVIDENCE LONG HIDDEN
IN THE MIST-SHROUDED JUNGLES

OF SOUTHERN MEXICO
AT THE MAYA RUINS OF PALENQUE.

HERE AT ONE OF THE MOST
IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES

OF THE AMERICAS
LIES THE TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS.

INSIDE, IN 1952, ARCHAEOLOGISTS
UNCOVERED THE BURIAL TOMB

OF PAKAL THE GREAT --
A MAYAN KING WHO RULED

IN THE 6th CENTURY A.D.

HIS MOTHER HANDED OVER THE
THRONE TO HIM AT THE AGE OF 12,

AND HE RULED FOR
THE NEXT 68 YEARS.

AND THAT IS THE TIME
THAT PALENQUE DEFINITELY

HAS ITS RENAISSANCE.

MORE BUILDINGS,
MORE CONSTRUCTION GOES ON

DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.

WE ALSO KNOW THAT KING PAKAL
LIVED TO BE 80 YEARS OLD

BECAUSE WE'VE DONE AGE ANALYSIS
ON HIS SKELETAL REMAINS.

Narrator: IN ADDITION
TO THE KING'S REMAINS,

ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED
PERHAPS THE MOST STUDIED

AND CONTROVERSIAL
ANCIENT MAYA ARTIFACT --

KING PAKAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID.

ONE OF THE IMPRESSIVE ELEMENTS
OF PAKAL HAS SOMETHING TO DO

WITH HIS SARCOPHAGUS WITH
THIS ENORMOUS LID

WHICH MEASURES ABOUT
4 METERS BY 3 METERS.

SOLID PIECE OF LIMESTONE,
AND IT HAS AN IMAGE

OF PAKAL HIMSELF BEING
SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTH MONSTER

AS HE'S ENTERING XIBALBA.

IT'S WHAT THEY REFER TO
AS THE UNDERWORLD.

Narrator: BUT UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE KING PAKAL'S

SARCOPHAGUS LID REPRESENTS
SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY,

SOMETHING THEY CALL
THE MAYA ASTRONAUT.

I'M A MECHANICAL ENGINEER.

I WORKED IN THE AEROSPACE
INDUSTRY FOR YEARS.

I SEE MECHANICAL DEVICES.

SOME SORT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY
BEING CONTROLLED AND PILOTED

BY I WOULD ASSUME KING PAKAL.

HE'S TURNING DIALS.

HE'S OPERATING GUIDANCE SYSTEMS.

THERE ARE FOOT PEDALS BEING USED

OUT OF THE BACK OF THIS
SORT OF ROCKET SHIP SHAPE.

THERE ARE FLAMES COMING OUT.

Pope:
THE SARCOPHAGUS OF KING PAKAL,

IT SHOWS A FIGURE WHO LOOKS,

FOR ALL THE WORLD, AS IF HE'S
ACTUALLY IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE

DESCRIBED AS A SPACE CAPSULE.

NOW, IS THIS IMAGE
ON THE PALENQUE LID,

AS SOME BELIEVE,
THE MAYANS HOMAGE

TO THEIR CREATOR GODS
WHO CAME FROM THE STARS?

PERHAPS KING PAKAL
BELIEVED THAT AFTER DEATH,

HE WOULD JOURNEY
BACK TO THE STARS HIMSELF,

AND HIS SARCOPHAGUS WOULD BE THE
VEHICLE IN WHICH HE TRAVELED.

Bara: THERE'S BEEN
A LOT OF SPECULATION

THAT EITHER KING PAKAL
WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS
OR, IN FACT,

HE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL
HIMSELF.

AND THE IDEA IS THAT THIS
LID WAS ACTUALLY DEPICTING HIM

RETURNING HOME AFTER HIS DEATH,

RETURNING BACK TO THE STARS
FROM WHENCE HE CAME.

THIS IS VERY UNIQUE, AND IT HAS
RAISED A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

IS, IN FACT, THIS KING
IN SOME SORT OF OXYGEN CHAMBER

OR PERHAPS
SOME SORT OF SPACE POD?

WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS
AN INTRIGUING IMAGE.

Rosenfeld: WE KNOW THAT
THE MAYANS HAVE TALKED

ABOUT SKY GODS, AND THAT
TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY USED

TO COME DOWN TO EARTH
AND SHARE THEIR TEACHINGS.

IT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT
THESE VISITORS HAVE BEEN HERE

FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.

Narrator: IS KING PAKAL'S
SARCOPHAGUS LID

THE ULTIMATE PROOF
OF UFO LANDINGS

IN THE ANCIENT PAST
AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE?

AND WHY WOULD THE MEXICAN
GOVERNMENT BE HIDING THIS?

ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS,
SIMILAR ARTIFACTS

RESEMBLING ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN
FOUND IN OTHER CULTURES

ALL AROUND THE WORLD.

IN ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA,
IN A REGION ONCE DOMINATED

BY THE ANCIENT INCA PEOPLE,
UFO RESEARCHERS HAVE TAKEN

RENEWED INTEREST IN CLAY FIGURES
HANDCRAFTED AROUND 1500 B.C.

IN ECUADOR, YOU FIND
THESE SCULPTURES

OF WHAT CLEARLY APPEAR TO BE
BEINGS IN SPACE SUITS.

THEY HAVE HELMETS.

THEY HAVE
FULLY PRESSURIZED SUITS.

THEY HAVE BOOTS ON.

SO CLEARLY WHAT THE INCA
ARE REPRODUCING,

THE SAME THINGS THAT
THE MAYANS HAD ALREADY SEEN

AND ALREADY REPRODUCED IN THEIR
VARIOUS ARTWORKS AND SCULPTURES.

IF YOU COMPARE IT SIDE BY SIDE,
YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE

THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN
MODERN-DAY ASTRONAUTS.

THE HELMET SIZE, THE WHOLE
LAYOUT OF THE SUITS, THE BELTS.

IT LOOKS LIKE A PRESSURE SUIT.

EVEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS SOME
KIND OF APPARATUS ON THE BACK,

LIKE OUR PRESENT-DAY
ASTRONAUTS WOULD HAVE.

GIVEN THAT THESE ARE ARTIFACTS
FROM ANCIENT TIMES,

WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU?

IT TELLS ME THAT
THESE ARE DEPICTIONS

OF CONTACT WITH
AN ANCIENT VISITOR.

Bara: IN ECUADOR, IT'S VERY HOT,
IT'S VERY HUMID,

YOU DON'T WEAR A LOT OF CLOTHES.

THE IDEA THAT THEY WOULD WEAR
SOME SORT OF CEREMONIAL CLOTHES

THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE
A HEAVY, PRESSURIZED SPACE SUIT

WITH A SPACE HELMET
IS PRETTY LUDICROUS.

YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT
FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN

TO COMMEMORATE, PERHAPS,
SOMETHING YOU'D SEEN

SOMEBODY ELSE WEAR LIKE,
PERHAPS, ONE OF YOUR GODS.

Narrator: MORE STRANGE ARTIFACTS
HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED

HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE.

IN JAPAN,
THE ANCIENT JOMON PEOPLE,

A CIVILIZATION DATING
AS FAR BACK AS 1200 B.C.

CREATED 12-INCH CLAY FIGURES
KNOWN AS THE DOGU.

Pope: THE DOGU FIGURINES
FROM JAPAN ARE INTERESTING.

SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT
THEY ARE REPRESENTATIONS

OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS.

THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY FROM
THE FACT THAT IT'S CLEARLY NOT

A LITERAL REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN BEING.

BUT DOES THAT MEAN
THAT THESE PEOPLE

WERE CARVING VISITORS
FROM THE STARS?

WE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW.

Bara: NOW, IT SEEMS TO ME
WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

IS SOME SORT OF HUMANOID BEING
IN A PRESSURIZED SUIT,

LIKE A SPACE SUIT.

THEY HAVE HELMETS,
THEY HAVE THE WIDE,

PUFFY SLEEVES LIKE WE'RE USED TO
SEEING ON THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS.

THEY EVEN HAVE
THE VERY LARGE, SORT OF

ALIEN GRAY TYPE OF EYES ON THEM.

I MEAN, CLEARLY, YOU'RE LOOKING
AT SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL

WHO'S NOT ABLE TO SURVIVE
IN THE ATMOSPHERE

OF THE PLANET EARTH WITHOUT

THE ASSISTANCE
OF THIS PRESSURIZED SUIT.

Narrator: FOR MODERN MAN,
DEPICTIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN

IN SPACE SUITS AND ALIEN BEINGS
WITH BULGING EYES

ARE IMAGES UNDERSTOOD AS NORMAL
IN OUR EVERYDAY CULTURE.

BUT PRIOR TO
THE 1950s, RESEARCHERS ASK,

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
ANCIENT MAN WAS ABLE TO DEPICT

OR EVEN IMAGINE BEINGS
THAT APPEAR TO BE OUTFITTED

LIKE MODERN ASTRONAUTS?

LIKE THE EVIDENCE
UNCOVERED AT MAYA RUINS.

COULD THESE
STONE CARVINGS REPRESENT

OUR ANCESTORS'
SPIRITUAL BELIEFS,

OR CONTACT WITH
OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS?

THEY SEEM TO BE
TIED UP WITH WORSHIP,

BUT WORSHIP OF WHAT?

ANCIENT GODS?

BUT WHAT IF THOSE GODS
WERE VISITING EXTRATERRESTRIALS?

Lukes: COULD THIS BE EVIDENCE
OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS?

WE DON'T KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE
ALL OF THESE REFERENCES

ACROSS CONTINENTS,
THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES,

AND THEY'RE REMARKABLY SIMILAR,
ONE HAS TO ASK THAT QUESTION.

Rosenfeld: SOMETHING
THAT'S BEEN PASSED DOWN

THROUGH HISTORY,
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,

DIFFERENT CULTURES
THAT DON'T HAVE ANY CONTACT

WITH EACH OTHER
SHARED THE SAME IDEA.

I THINK THAT WE'VE BEEN
VISITED ON THIS PLANET

FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME.

AND THE ANCIENT PEOPLES
HAVE DOCUMENTED THIS VISITATION.

Narrator: BUT IF EARLY MAN
WAS AWARE OF SPACE TRAVELERS,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

IS THERE A TRUTH
YET TO BE REVEALED

ABOUT THE EXACT NATURE
OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS?

Narrator: SEARCHING FOR PROOF
OF ANCIENT EARTH LANDINGS

BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,

UFO RESEARCHERS TRACING
THE ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MAYA

ARE TAKING A RENEWED LOOK
AT EVIDENCE FOUND

IN WHAT MANY CONSIDER
TO BE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION

OF THE AMERICANS -- THE OLMEC.

LOCATED 170 MILES
WEST OF PALENQUE

NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO,

THE OLMEC PEOPLE THRIVED
IN AN AREA KNOWN AS LA VENTA.

French: THE OLMEC COME ABOUT
AROUND 1,400 B.C.

THEY EXIST IN A PRETTY SMALL
AREA OF THE GULF COAST,

IN WHAT'S
SOUTHERN VERACRUZ TODAY.

OFTEN, THE OLMEC
ARE REFERRED TO

AS THE MOTHER CULTURE
OF MESOAMERICA.

BUT REALLY, I THINK WHAT
THAT'S REFERRING TO IS

THEY'RE THE EARLIEST
STATE LEVEL SOCIETY

TO FORM IN MESOAMERICA.

THEY'RE THE FIRST ONES TO START

BUILDING MONUMENTAL
ARCHITECTURE,

TO START HAVING
A HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT

AND THAT TYPE OF THING.

OLMEC RELIGION WAS JUST WOVEN

INTO ALL ASPECTS
OF THEIR CULTURE.

THEY KNEW THE EARTH WAS ROUND.

THERE WAS A PRIESTLY CASTE
WHO MEDIATED BETWEEN THEIR GODS,

WHO THEY SAY CAME FROM THE SKY,

AND THE MAYANS BORROWED HEAVILY
FROM THAT COSMOLOGY.

Narrator: BUT WHILE THE OLMEC
DOMINATED CENTRAL AMERICA

FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS,

BY 300 B.C., THE OLMEC PEOPLE

SEEMED TO MYSTERIOUSLY VANISH
FROM HISTORY.

WHY?

UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE
ARTWORK DISCOVERED HERE

MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO THEIR FATE,
BEGINNING WITH THESE ARTIFACTS

OF WHAT IS KNOWN
AS THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER.

French: WE SEE WITH ANCIENT ART,
WITH ANCIENT ARTIFACTS,

IF IT MIMICS ANYTHING,
IT ACTUALLY MIMICS

THE QUETZAL BIRD,

WHICH HAS AN EXTREMELY LONG
SERIES OF FEATHERS.

AND WHEN IT FLIES
THROUGH THE AIR,

IT HAS THESE VERY LONG
TAIL FEATHERS

THAT FLAP IN THE WIND.

Narrator:
BUT UFO RESEARCHERS DISAGREE.

Bara: THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTERS

LOOK EXACTLY LIKE MODERN-DAY
DELTA WING JET AIRCRAFT.

YOU CAN EVEN SEE ON
SOME OF THEM AIR INTAKES.

THEY HAVE TAILS.
THEY HAVE ELEVATORS.

THEY HAVE DELTA
WING-SHAPED AIR FOILS.

CLEARLY, THEY WERE
TRYING TO DEPICT THINGS

THAT THEY SAW IN THE SKY,
THESE AIR MONSTERS

THAT WERE ACTUALLY
PROBABLY AIRCRAFT

THAT THEY SIMPLY
DIDN'T UNDERSTAND.

THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW
WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT.

Pope: IF YOU LOOK AT
THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER,

IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE

A MODERN JET AIRCRAFT
OR A SPACE SHUTTLE.

IT'S GOT ALL THE FEATURES --

THE FUSELAGE,
THE WINGS, THE TAIL.

I MEAN, IT REALLY COULD BE
ALMOST EXACT REPRESENTATION

OF SOMETHING MORE MODERN.

Rosenfeld: THESE THINGS
LOOK LIKE FLYING CRAFT,

ALMOST LIKE AIRCRAFT.

THEY DON'T FIT THE PERFECT
FLYING SAUCER TYPE UFO,

BUT IT'S DEFINITELY
A FLYING MACHINE.

BACK THEN, THEY WERE THINKING,
THIS IS SOME KIND OF BIRD,

AND IT'S SO MONSTROUS,
IT'S A BIRD MONSTER.

Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS
BELIEVE FURTHER CLUES

TO THE FATE OF THE OLMEC

CAN BE FOUND
IN OTHER ARTIFACTS AT LA VENTA.

SOME DEPICTING WHAT
IS KNOWN AS THE OLMEC DRAGON.

IS A FIERY DRAGON SOME SORT OF
MYTHICAL SKY CREATURE?

THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH SOMEBODY
IN AN ANCIENT CULTURE

COULD FRAME A DESCRIPTION

OF WHAT WE WOULD
NOW CALL A SPACESHIP.

SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPECULATED
THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT,

FOR EXAMPLE, LEGENDS OF DRAGONS
FLYING IN THE SKY

AND BREATHING FIRE,
THAT THIS IS, IN FACT,

HOW SUCH ANCIENT PEOPLES

DESCRIBED
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT

MAYBE WITH FIERY EXHAUST
COMING OUT OF THE REAR.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE OLMEC DRAGON

AND THE BIRD MONSTER COULD BE
PRIMITIVE MAN'S INTERPRETATION

OF FIRE-EMITTING SPACECRAFT?

PERHAPS THE MOST
CONTROVERSIAL DEPICTION AMONG

THE OLMEC ARTWORK IS FOUND
ON A SCULPTURE

KNOWN BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS
AS "MONUMENT 19."

IT IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN
REPRESENTATION OF

THE FEATHERED SERPENT --

A GODLIKE FIGURE KNOWN
TO BOTH THE OLMEC AND THE MAYA.

MONUMENT 19 IS JUST A DEPICTION
OF A WARRIOR WEARING A HELMET,

AND HE'S WITH
THE FEATHERED SERPENT,

WHICH IS A DEITY
ALL ACROSS MESOAMERICA.

AND THE FACT THAT HE HAS
THAT LITTLE KIT,

MAYBE WHAT THAT'S SYMBOLIZING
IS THIS PERSON

IS HEADING OFF
INTO THE AFTERLIFE.

Narrator: FOR INVESTIGATORS,
HOWEVER, MONUMENT 19

IS REGARDED AS EVIDENCE
SUGGESTING THAT THERE REALLY WAS

CONTACT WITH UFOs
IN THE ANCIENT PAST.

MONUMENT 19 AT LA VENTA SHOWS
WHAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE

IS A REPRESENTATION
OF A HUMAN FIGURE

IN A SPACESHIP OF SOME SORT.

AGAIN, THERE'S WHAT SEEMS
TO BE MACHINERY.

I MEAN, IT REALLY
DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING

THAT'S BEEN CONSTRUCTED.

Bara: I THINK THAT THE FEATHERED
SERPENT IS AN ANALOGY

FOR SOME SORT OF
FLYING CRAFT THAT THEY SAW.

BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY
A MAN INSIDE OF IT.

HE'S WEARING A HELMET,
A PRESSURE SUIT OF SOME KIND,

AND HE'S ALSO CARRYING A BAG

THAT LOOKS A LITTLE BIT
LIKE A PURSE,

BUT IT ALSO BEARS
A REALLY STRIKING RESEMBLANCE

TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS
PACK LIKE THE ASTRONAUTS CARRY

BEFORE THEY WOULD GET ON
THE SPACE SHUTTLE

OR BEFORE THAT THEY WOULD
GET ON THE APOLLO MISSION.

IT LOOKS LIKE THE FIGURE
IS ACTUALLY MOVING LEVERS,

HAS SOME KIND OF APPARATUS
ON ITS HEAD,

MAYBE SOME BREATHING GEAR.

DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING
THAT YOU WOULD SEE

SOMEONE DOING 5,000 YEARS AGO.

ANYTHING THAT FLEW TO THE OLMEC
WOULD HAVE BEEN FEATHERED.

SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
SOME SORT OF BIRD.

SO AGAIN, IT APPEARS
THAT THEY ARE DEPICTING

EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAW,

WHICH IS A PILOT
OF A FEATHERED SERPENT,

AN AIRCRAFT,
A HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT,

SPACECRAFT OF SOME TYPE
THAT PROBABLY WORE ONE OF THESE

PRESSURIZED SUITS WITH A HELMET

AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL
CONTROL PACK.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT PEOPLE
COULD IMAGINE A TRAVEL SCENARIO

THAT WOULD REQUIRE A HELMET
AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

IS SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE
IN AND OF ITSELF.

DID THE ANCIENTS REALLY BELIEVE
THEY WERE GOING SOME PLACE

ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND HAZARDOUS
FOR THEIR HEALTH?

MORE TO THE POINT,

FROM WHO OR WHAT WERE
ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

GETTING THE INSPIRATION
FOR SUCH ARTWORK

OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO?

FOR UFO EXPERTS,

THE ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER LIES
IN ANCIENT CONTACT

WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS
IN THE DISTANT PAST.

Bara: IT'S JUST A NATURAL,
LOGICAL CONCLUSION

BASED ON THE VISUAL EVIDENCE.

I TEND TO THINK THAT THINGS ARE
EXACTLY WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE.

Narrator: THE ARTIFACTS
DISCOVERED AMONG THE RUINS

OF THE MAYA, THE OLMEC,
CRAFTED BY EARLY JAPANESE,

AND ANCIENT INCAS ALL GOING BACK
THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

IS THIS EVIDENCE
OF CONTACT WITH UFOs?

WHAT IF WE LOOK AT MAN'S
EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION --

THE SUMERIANS?

ARE THERE CONNECTIONS
TO ALIEN LIFE THERE, AS WELL?

AND WHAT STUNNING REVELATIONS
MIGHT THOSE CONNECTIONS REVEAL

ABOUT THE VERY ORIGINS
OF MANKIND?

Narrator: AFTER LOOKING BACK
OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS

TO FIND EVIDENCE
OF MAN'S INTERACTION

WITH ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS,

UFO RESEARCHERS ARE NOW
GOING ALL THE WAY BACK

TO THE WORLD'S EARLIEST
KNOWN CIVILIZATION --

THE SUMERIANS.

DATING TO 6,000 B.C.

LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERNMOST
PART OF MESOPOTAMIA,

AN AREA OFTEN CALLED
THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION.

French:
MESOPOTAMIA'S REALLY THE AREA

BETWEEN THE TIGRIS
AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEYS.

THAT AREA STRETCHES
FROM PORTIONS OF SYRIA

ALL THROUGH IRAQ
AND A LITTLE BIT INTO KUWAIT.

VERY RICH, FERTILE AREA WHERE
SOME OF THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURE

IN THE WORLD CAME ABOUT.

THE SUMERIANS REALLY WERE
THE FIRST HUMAN CIVILIZATION.

THIS REALLY MARKED
THE TRANSITION

FROM HUNTER/GATHERER
SOCIETIES TO SOCIETIES

WITH MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATION

WHO WROTE DOWN
IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE,

WHO CONSTRUCTED CITIES.

Narrator: THE SUMERIANS
ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN

FOR THE CONSTRUCTION
OF PYRAMID-LIKE STRUCTURES

KNOWN AS ZIGGURATS.

ZIGGURATS ARE JUST LARGE,
MONUMENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS

THAT THE ELITE WOULD USE
FOR A MULTITUDE OF PURPOSES --

FOR LIVING QUARTERS,
TO CONDUCT CEREMONIES,

AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

THEY'RE BUILT OVER
A LONG PERIOD OF TIME

LIKE MOST TEMPLES ARE.

Narrator: ALTHOUGH RELIGIOUS
SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE ZIGGURATS

WERE USED MOSTLY
FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSES,

IS IT POSSIBLE
THESE MASSIVE TEMPLES SERVED

A VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSE?

WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ZIGGURATS,

THEY HAVE A HUGE,
SOLID BASE AND A FLAT TOP.

AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
THIS THING RISING UP.

I MEAN, IT'S VAST.

IT'S EASY TO LOOK
AT THEM AND SAY,

WELL, THIS IS REMINISCENT
OF A LANDING PAD.

YOU CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING
COMING DOWN AND LANDING

ON THE TOP OF THIS THING.

I MEAN, IT'S VISIBLE
FROM THE SKY.

SOMEBODY FLYING IN COULD SEE IT
FROM A LONG WAY OFF,

COULD NAVIGATE BY IT,
AND THEN LAND ON TOP OF IT.

Narrator: IF ZIGGURATS
WERE, IN FACT,

USED AS NAVIGATIONAL SITES,
OR EVEN LANDING PADS

FOR INCOMING ALIEN CRAFT,
AS MOST UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE,

IS IT INCONCEIVABLE
THAT PRIMITIVE MAN

WOULD MISTAKE OTHERWORLDLY
BEINGS FOR STAR GODS?

FOR ME, IT'S HARD NOT
TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION

THAT THERE WAS SOME TECHNOLOGY
THAT WAS WITNESSED,

MAYBE EVEN EXPERIENCED.

AND I THINK FOR
EARLY HUMAN BEINGS,

THEIR TECHNOLOGY
WAS MAGIC TO US.

THIS IS WHY THESE BEINGS
WERE WORSHIPED AS GODS.

Bara: IF YOU'RE AN ANCIENT,
PRIMITIVE HUMAN CULTURE,

AND YOU SEE THESE
EXTRATERRESTRIALS COME IN

ON FIERY SLEDS
OR FIERY SHIELDS, ROCKETS,

LANDING NEAR YOUR VILLAGE

AND COMING OUT
OF THEIR SPACECRAFT

AND DISPLAYING ALL THIS
INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGY,

THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GONNA LOOK
AT THEM AS ANYTHING BUT GODS

WHO CAN MANIPULATE
THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IN WAYS

THAT YOU HADN'T EVEN
THOUGHT OF BEFORE THAT.

Narrator: BUT WHAT CAN
EXPLAIN WHY SUCH SIMILAR

PYRAMID STRUCTURES ARE FOUND
IN ANCIENT SITES

THROUGHOUT THE WORLD?

Dolan: PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT,
PYRAMIDS IN MEXICO,

PYRAMIDS IN BOSNIA.

THERE ARE ALLEGED
PYRAMIDS IN CHINA.

WE NEED TO
LOOK INTO THESE MORE.

IF THERE IS A SERIES OF PYRAMID
CREATIONS AROUND THE WORLD,

WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND
WHY THAT IS SO,

AND IF THERE IS
SOME KIND OF CULTURE

THAT IS RELATED TO ALL OF THEM.

MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE,

BUT PYRAMID STRUCTURE
DOES SEEM TO BE A RECURRENT ONE

MORE THAN WE HAVE REALIZED
IN ANCIENT HUMAN HISTORY.

Bara: THE SIMPLE FACT
IS THAT PYRAMIDS

ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE
TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT,

AND EFFECTIVELY CREATE.

AND YET, ALL AROUND THE WORLD,

WE SEE THESE
BEAUTIFULLY PRECISE,

INCREDIBLY CALCULATED
PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES.

AND THEY MAY NOT
LOOK EXACTLY LIKE,

BUT THEY ALL HAVE
THE SAME FUNCTION.

THEY ALL HAVE
MATHEMATICAL ALIGNMENTS --

ALIGNMENTS WITH THE STARS,
THE SUN, THE MOON.

THEY'RE ALL MEANT TO
SERVE A CERTAIN PURPOSE,

AND WHAT I SEE IS AN EXPRESSION
OF THE SAME CONCEPTS,

THE SAME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS
ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES,

ALL SAYING THE SAME THING,

WHICH IS THAT WE CAME
FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.

Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS
OFFER FEW CLUES

ABOUT HOW ANCIENT CULTURES
ARRIVED UPON

THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE
AND ENGINEERING SKILL NECESSARY

TO BUILD THESE
PRECISE STRUCTURES

AT SUCH AN EARLY STAGE
OF HUMAN EVOLUTION.

EVEN MORE ASTONISHING,
HOW COULD ANCIENT CULTURES

SEPARATED ACROSS TIME
AND VAST DISTANCES

WITH NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
BUILD PYRAMIDS SO SIMILAR

TO THOSE FIRST BUILT IN SUMER?

THE ODDS OF THESE
SEPARATE CULTURES ARRIVING

AT THE SAME EVOLUTIONARY POINT
INTELLECTUALLY

ARE REMARKABLY SLIM
ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

WHICH LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE
THAT THE KNOWLEDGE WAS SPREAD

BY WHAT WE CALL
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS.

NOT ONLY ARE WE SEEING
PYRAMIDS IN SUMER,

BUT WE ARE SEEING THEM
ALL OVER THE WORLD,

AND THEY ARE
VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURES.

WAS THERE SOME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE,

PERHAPS, GIVING INFORMATION
OR GUIDING THESE CIVILIZATIONS

TO BUILD OBJECTS
THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR?

Rosenfeld:
FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE

TO BE SPREAD
THROUGHOUT THE WORLD,

IT HAD TO HAVE
SOME KIND OF HELP.

AND HELP WOULD BE STAR VISITORS
WITH UFO TECHNOLOGY.

Pope: OBVIOUSLY,
WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE

ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
A MILLENNIA AGO IN RELATION

TO ALIEN VISITATION.

BUT THE EVIDENCE
IS INTRIGUING

AND OUGHT NOT TO BE
DISMISSED OUT OF HAND.

IF UFOs REALLY ARE HERE,
IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK

THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT
IF WE'RE SEEING IT TODAY,

AND IT REALLY IS A PHENOMENA
CONNECTED TO ALIENS,

THEN I'M GUESSING
THEY PROBABLY SAW IT

THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AS WELL.

Narrator:
DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST

THAT THE SUMERIAN ZIGGURATS

AND OTHER PYRAMIDS
ALL AROUND THE WORLD

WERE REALLY USED AS LANDING
SITES FOR ANCIENT UFOs?

AND IF, AS SOME MAINSTREAM
SCHOLARS ADMIT,

QUESTIONS STILL EXIST ABOUT
THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH,

IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS

HAD A HAND IN SEEDING MANKIND?

I DEFINITELY THINK
THAT UFOs PLANTED THE SEED

FOR THE EXPANSION
AND TRANSFORMATION

OF OUR LIFE AS HUMAN BEINGS.

I THINK THIS IS WHERE
OUR RELIGIONS COME FROM.

Narrator:
ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS,

THE TRANSLATIONS
OF ANCIENT SUMERIAN TABLETS

MAY ACTUALLY REVEAL
THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN.

Narrator: WHILE INVESTIGATING
THE HISTORY

OF ANCIENT UFO CONTACT,
INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER

THE STUNNING IDEA
THAT EARLY UFOs

MAY NOT JUST BE ABOUT CONTACT,

BUT ABOUT THE BEGINNING
OF THE HUMAN SPECIES.

AND THEY SAY THE EVIDENCE LIES
ALONG THE EASTERN BANK

OF THE TIGRIS RIVER IN WHAT WAS
ONCE KNOWN AS UPPER MESOPOTAMIA,

NOW MODERN-DAY IRAQ,

IN THE RUINS OF THE GREAT
SUMERIAN CITY OF NINEVEH.

HERE IN 1849,
BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST

AUSTEN LAYARD DISCOVERS
ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS --

30,000 OF THEM DATING BACK
AN ESTIMATED 6,000 YEARS.

WHAT THEY DEPICTED
WAS REALLY THE ORIGIN

OF ONE OF MANKIND'S
GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS,

WHICH IS THE WRITTEN WORD.

THEY CONTAINED
WHAT'S NOW KNOWN

AS THE SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM TEXTS.

THE CUNEIFORM ITSELF WAS
A VERY INTRICATE TEXT

THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRESSED

INTO THE WET CLAY
TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION.

AND AT FIRST, IT WAS CONSIDERED
JUST DECORATION BY THE SCHOLARS

UNTIL THEY FIGURED OUT
THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY

A VERY, VERY INTRICATE
WRITTEN LANGUAGE.

Narrator: EARLY ATTEMPTS
TO TRANSLATE THE TEXTS

WERE LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL,
AND AFTER A CENTURY PASSES,

THE TABLETS WERE
ALL BUT FORGOTTEN --

THEIR TRUE MEANING
SHROUDED IN MYSTERY.

THEN IN THE 20th CENTURY,
A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOLARS

ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE
THE TABLETS.

ONE IN PARTICULAR
WAS ZECHARIA SITCHIN.

PART OF WHAT HE WANTED TO DO
WITH HIS RESEARCH IS TO BE ABLE

TO READ THESE FOR HIMSELF

AND NOT JUST TAKE VERBATIM
THE WORD OF PEOPLE

WHO HAD TRANSLATED THEM
WITH A DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW.

AND HE LOOKED AT
THE DIFFERENT STORIES

OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE TO SEE,
WHAT WERE THEY SAYING?

AND DOES IT REALLY
HOLD TOGETHER AS HISTORY?

AND DOES PHYSICAL EVIDENCE

CORRESPOND WITH THAT, TOO,
AND CORROBORATE IT?

WHAT HE FOUND WAS, YES, IT DID.

Narrator: WHAT SITCHIN'S
TRANSLATIONS REVEALED

SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ACADEMIC
CIRCLES AND THE UFO COMMUNITY.

ZECHARIA SITCHIN PRODUCED
A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSLATION

OF SOME OF THE CLAY TABLETS.

AND HE SAID THAT THEY SPOKE
ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI.

ACCORDING TO
ZECHARIA SITCHIN'S TRANSLATION,

THESE CLAY TABLETS
ARE TALKING ABOUT CRAFT

THAT FLY IN THE AIR.

THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT
THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY.

THEY'RE TALKING
ABOUT WAR IN HEAVEN,

WAR AMONGST THE GODS.

IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
THE CONCLUSION IS INESCAPABLE.

WE REALLY WERE VISITED.

Narrator: BUT WHO WERE THESE
BEINGS KNOWN AS THE ANUNNAKI?

THE ANUNNAKI IS SUMERIAN

FOR "THOSE WHO FROM HEAVEN
TO EARTH CAME."

THEY ARE TALLER THAN US.

THEY WERE ABOUT
8 OR 10 FEET TALL,

AND SO TO US,
THEY WERE GIANTS.

SO, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT

THAT THE GODS CREATED MAN
IN THEIR IMAGE,

WE LOOK LIKE THEM.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE
THE EXPLOSIVE TRUTH DISCOVERED

IN THE CUNEIFORM TABLETS REVEALS

THAT THE SUMERIANS
WERE ACTUALLY VISITED BY

A RACE OF
EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS,

AND IF SO, WHY WERE THEY HERE?

ZECHARIA SITCHIN BELIEVED
THAT THE SUMERIANS

WERE TALKING ABOUT
EXTRATERRESTRIALS

WHO HAD VISITED
THE ANCIENT SUMERIANS,

HAD PERHAPS SHARED
KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM.

AND PERHAPS EVEN SEEDED
HUMAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT

BY BREEDING WITH HUMANS

AND ACTUALLY PRODUCING
A HYBRID RACE.

Bara: ACCORDING TO SITCHIN,
THE ANUNNAKI CAME DOWN HERE

TO DO SOME WORK,
TO DO SOME MINING FOR GOLD,

TO FIND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED
FOR THEIR CIVILIZATION.

WHEN THE WORK BECAME
TOO INTENSE FOR THEM,

WHEN THEY COULDN'T
HANDLE ALL THE WORK,

THEY DECIDED TO FASHION
A WORKER SPECIES,

AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THEMSELVES,

AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS
OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS,

AND THEY MELDED THEM TOGETHER

AND APPARENTLY CREATED
THE PHYSICAL BODIES

OF WHAT WE NOW CALL MODERN MAN.

THE SUMERIANS BELIEVED THAT
THEY WERE MADE TO MINE GOLD.

THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT,

THEY BRED THAT INTO US.

WE STILL HAVE THAT FASCINATION
TO THIS DAY WITH GOLD.

THE REAL QUESTION THAT WE WANT
TO ASK ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI IS,

DO WE TAKE THESE STORIES
TO BE LITERALLY TRUE?

ALL RIGHT?

OR DO WE TAKE THEM
AS STORIES THAT THE SUMERIANS

JUST HAD ABOUT THEIR CULTURE?

IF WE'RE TO TAKE THEM
AS LITERALLY TRUE,

WE HAVE A LOT
OF QUESTIONS TO ASK.

Narrator: ONE QUESTION RELATES
TO EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITIES

FOUND IN THE ARTWORK
OF THE SUMERIANS

AND THE OLMEC OF MESOAMERICA.

IN SUMERIAN DEPICTIONS,
THE ANUNNAKI GODS

HOLD WHAT APPEARS TO BE
A SMALL BAG WITH A HANDLE.

HOW IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT A STRANGELY SIMILAR BAG

IS BEING HELD BY THE OLMEC
ASTRONAUT AT LA VENTA?

Lukes:
SO, HERE YOU SEE THE ANUNNAKI.

THEY'RE CLEARLY HOLDING
SOMETHING IN THEIR HAND.

WHAT IS THIS OBJECT?

WE'RE SEEING THIS
WITH THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION.

IT IS AN OBJECT OR OBJECTS
THAT ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL.

DOES IT MEAN THAT THERE IS
A GREATER INTELLIGENCE AT WORK?

PERHAPS, AS SOME THEORIZE,
AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE

THAT IS SHARING THIS INFORMATION
WITH BOTH CIVILIZATIONS.

Narrator: COULD THERE REALLY BE
A DIRECT CONNECTION

BETWEEN THE OLMEC
AND SUMERIAN CIVILIZATIONS,

AS UFO RESEARCHERS THEORIZE?

Dolan: THEY HAD EXISTED IN
A VERY DIFFERENT PERIOD OF TIME.

BUT NONETHELESS, IS IT POSSIBLE
THAT THERE'S A TIE-IN?

MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE.

Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,
I MEAN, THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST

THAT THESE REALLY ARE
TALKING ABOUT

THE SAME
EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS.

Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE
SUGGEST THAT THE OLMEC AND MAYA

WERE VISITED BY THE SAME
SO-CALLED STAR GODS

KNOWN TO THE SUMERIANS
AS THE ANUNNAKI?

AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD
EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE TO GAIN

BY THESE VISITATIONS?

IF UFOs ARE AN ADVANCED
ALIEN CIVILIZATION,

AND THEY ARE HERE
IN THE 21st CENTURY,

IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK

THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.

THEY COULD ESSENTIALLY BE
WATCHING THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY.

WOULD THEY STICK AROUND
AND RESEARCH US THAT LONG?

THAT'S A BIG QUESTION MARK.

MAYBE THEIR AGENDA
IS TO SEE THE NATURAL EVOLUTION

OF A YOUNG SPECIES.

MAYBE THAT IS THEIR MISSION.

Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD,

INCLUDING IN MEXICO,
HAVE KNOWN THAT OUR CIVILIZATION

MAY HAVE BEEN SEEDED
BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDINGS

IN THE ANCIENT PAST?

IF SO, WHAT ELSE
ARE THEY NOT TELLING US?

IT'S NOT SIMPLY THAT
WE'RE DEALING WITH AN INHERENTLY

MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON,
WHICH WE ARE.

WE ARE ALSO DEALING
WITH GOVERNMENT

AND MILITARY OBFUSCATION
AND SECRECY,

AND THAT'S JUST A FACT.

WE LIVE IN AN ERA
IN WHICH THERE IS

A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SECRECY.

Narrator:
STILL, ONE THING IS CLEAR.

THE SUMERIAN TABLETS
DO OFFER CLUES TO THE FUTURE

IF THEY ARE TO BE BELIEVED.

Bara: THERE IS A PROPHECY
THAT SOME DAY,

THE ANUNNAKI WILL COME BACK.

THEY WILL RETURN TO
CLAIM THEIR PROPERTY,

CLAIM THEIR STAKE,

AND LIVE IN HARMONY
WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH.

WE SHALL SEE IF
THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS.

Narrator: WHAT IS ABUNDANTLY
CLEAR IS THAT THE FASCINATION

OF OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS
AND THEIR LIKENESS

THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY

IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BEGAN
MERELY IN THE 20th CENTURY.

THERE ARE UNDENIABLE GAPS

IN OUR UNDERSTANDING
OF ANCIENT CULTURES,

GAPS WHICH MAY
ONLY BE EXPLAINED,

ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS,

IF WE LOOK TO THE SKIES
FOR ANSWERS.