All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens S02E05

>> NARRATOR: Invading armies of

>> NARRATOR: Invading armies of
almost invincible power...

almost invincible power...

Incredible weaponry

designed to both intimidate...

and annihilate.

Secret experiments of an

otherworldly nature.

>> HENRY STEVENS: A lot of the

information that we've been told

about the Second World War is

wrong.

>> NARRATOR: Did, as some

believe, Adolf Hitler base his

plans for world domination on

secret extraterrestrial

knowledge?

>> GEORGE NOORY: The Nazis were

looking for some kind of

technology that the ancients

possessed.

>> NARRATOR: And did the German

military develop an arsenal of

so-called "wonder weapons"

based on advanced alien

technologies?

>> JIM MARRS: Not only were

they able to cancel out

gravity, they could be

manipulating time.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we

have been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And if so, just what was their

connection to Hitler's Nazis

connection to Hitler's Nazis
and World War II?

and World War II?

>> NARRATOR: During the Second

World War, Germany possessed

the most technologically

advanced military in the world.

Weapons such as the jet

aircraft...

precision bombers...

and guided missiles...

all designed with one purpose

in mind: to help the Nazis and

their leader, Adolf Hitler,

blitzkrieg their way across

Europe...

and create a "Third Reich,"

or empire, that would eventually

rule the world.

>> BILL BIRNES: And they

developed two amazing weapons.

One was the V-1 buzz bomber,

literally the first cruise

literally the first cruise
missile.

missile.

And the other was the V-2, the

first ballistic missile.

[roaring]

>> MARRS: The German rocket

program was years ahead of any

of the Allied nations.

By the end of the war, they were

developing the A-10, which was

also known as the New York

Rocket.

So that'd give you an idea of

what they were thinking.

They also had one in the works

that they were calling "the Mars

Rocket."

So I think they had some pretty

grandiose plans.

>> NARRATOR: Even to their

enemies, German scientists were

the envy of the world.

But what was the source of

their incredible achievements?

Were they simply smarter than

their counterparts in other

countries?

Did they receive more funding

and resources for their

research?

Or were they, as some ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

guided by other, possibly

extraterrestrial, forces?

>> LINDA MOULTON HOWE: Hitler

was always saying that he had

access to the most advanced

technology, that the Nazis would

prevail in World War II.

And I suppose it is a very

important question to ask.

"What was giving Adolf Hitler

the confidence to assert to

masses of people that he was

going to essentially take over

going to essentially take over
the world?"

the world?"

>> NARRATOR: In his 1993 book,

Secret Societies and Their

Power in the 20th Century,

author Jan van Helsing told the

story of a strange crash in

Germany's Black Forest that

occurred in 1936, three years

before the start of World War

II.

According to Van Helsing,

residents living near the small

town of Freiburg woke up to

what sounded like a massive

plane crash.

[crashing]

But when investigators examined

the crash, they found a strange

disc-shaped object.

And inside were the remains of

what appeared to be

extraterrestrial beings.

Van Helsing also claims that

within hours of the crash,

Hitler's SS troops took

possession of the downed

aircraft and its deceased crew

and carried it away to their

top-secret headquarters at

Wewelsburg Castle.

There, it was believed, Nazi

scientists began the task of

reverse-engineering the

technology found aboard the

damaged craft.

But is there any evidence that

this extraterrestrial space

ship even existed?

And would it have been possible

to reverse-engineer it?

>> BIRNES: What exists are the

reports of scientists who claim

to have read reports of analysis

done on that craft and the

propulsions system.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: The

challenges in reverse-

engineering it would depend a

little bit on the nature of the

power source it used and how it

worked.

Right now, because we are such

an electronically-based

society, and it's almost all

based on silicon electronics,

um, if it wasn't that, it might

be very, very hard.

But if it was close to what we

did, then it would probably be

pretty easy.

>> NARRATOR: According to

reports discovered after the

war, German scientists began

experimenting with anti-gravity

technologies shortly after the

alleged discovery of the alien

craft.

One of these scientists was an

Austrian inventor named Viktor

Schauberger.

>> DENNIN: He was very

instrumental in talking about

creative ways of using fluid

motion to generate propulsions.

And a lot of it has to do with

studying the way animals

actually move through water

or air.

>> JOERG SCHAUBERGER: He looked

especially on the trout

standing still in a raging

torrent.

And he thought of, "How can this

fish stand still in this river?"

And then he thought of how

nature works.

And he stated, it's not the

animal itself, it's air or

water that moves this animal.

A fish does not swim, it is

swum, and a bird does not fly,

it is flown.

So why can't we do this with

machines?

Move the air in a special way

so that the vehicle is pulled,

not pushed.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Viktor

Schauberger, he developed a

type of vortex engine--

artificial tornado, as it were--

where vortex activity and

gyroscopic activity could be

harnessed with liquids such as

water or mercury.

>> SCHAUBERGER: My grandfather

Viktor Schauberger made some

big inventions.

Inventions that lead maybe back

to ancient times.

This is the so-called Repulsin,

or Repulsinein German.

It was meant to be some kind of

propulsion system mounted in a

submarine or an aircraft

vertically to create a field

Viktor Schauberger called

"biological vacuum."

And the aircraft or the

submarine should be sucked into

this field.

The special shape of this

device led to the story that

Viktor Schauberger is the

Viktor Schauberger is the
inventor of flying saucers.

inventor of flying saucers.

>> NARRATOR: At the time of its

development, the Repulsin's

inverse propulsion system

seemed revolutionary, but

Viktor Schauberger believed he

had rediscovered an ancient

technology.

>> SCHAUBERGER: Viktor also

refers to old Indian texts

where he reads out of these

texts that these older peoples,

they used some kind of flowing

magnetism that allowed them to

overcome gravity.

>> NARRATOR: According to early

Sanskrit texts discovered in

India, aircraft called Vimanas

used a similar propulsion

system thousands of years ago.

Is it possible that German

scientists viewed ancient texts

like the Bhagavad-Gitanot as

legendary myth, but as a source

of historical and scientific

fact?

>> STEVENS: The Germans were

the best Oriental scholars in

the world.

So they translated the, uh, the

ancient text, Sanskrit, and

later, into German.

>> CHILDRESS: And the Germans

studied these ancient Indian

epics and were familiar with

the ideas of Vimanas.

And so, by combining that with

this vortex technology and,

allegedly, this crashed disc

from 1936 in the Black Forest,

they then came up with their

designs for these flying

designs for these flying
saucers.

saucers.

>> NARRATOR: In 1939, three

years after the reported crash

at Freiberg...

German scientists developed

their own flying-saucer-shaped

aircraft and called it the

Haunebu.

Early prototypes had a diameter

of 25 meters and were manned by

a crew of eight.

>> CHILDRESS: The Haunebu was a

classic flying-saucer design

with a dome and windows on the

top, with one large dome

underneath.

>> STEVENS: It was sort of

contained ball lightning is what

it was.

These two balls, they would

produce electrons and positrons,

and the positrons would migrate

to the top of the sphere and

levitate.

[high-pitched whirring]

[whooshing]

>> MARRS: Almost all my life

I've heard stories that the

Nazis had obtained a flying

saucer.

And I do believe the Nazis were

in touch with nonhuman

intelligences... that gave

them the advanced technology

that they developed right up to

the end of the war.

>> NARRATOR: But how many in

Hitler's regime actually

believed in the existence of

extraterrestrial beings?

How close were they to the

fuhrer?

And how far did they go to

And how far did they go to
make contact?

make contact?

>> NARRATOR: The swastika.

This simple, four-sided figure

is the ultimate symbol of Adolf

is the ultimate symbol of Adolf
Hitler's Nazi regime.

Hitler's Nazi regime.

But its origins reveal a much

different message...

one that dates back over 3,000

years.

>> MICHAEL CREMO: "Swastika" is

a Sanskrit word from ancient

India.

It means "mark of good fortune,"

and the same symbol is found not

only in ancient India but all

over the world...

in many different ancient

cultures, ranging from Egypt to

Iran to the cultures of the

Iran to the cultures of the
Americas.

Americas.

>> NARRATOR: During the 1930's,

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party

used the swastika to symbolize

the Aryan race in its struggle

for victory.

But were the German leaders

aware of the swastika's

extraterrestrial connection?

>> CREMO: In the ancient

Sanskrit texts, it stated that

the symbol of the swastika is

connected with extraterrestrial

beings, such as the Hindu god

Brahman.

It's often used in worship in

temples dedicated to

extraterrestrial beings.

>> BIRNES: The swastika turns up

in the legends of indigenous

peoples all around the world,

and the theory was that it was a

magical power, a magical symbol,

given to these indigenous

peoples by extraterrestrials,

and that by using this symbol,

it could ward off enemies, ward

off evil, give them the power to

not only survive but become

supreme.

[crowd shouting]

>> NARRATOR: Did Hitler choose

the swastika as the symbol of

the Nazi party because of its

extraterrestrial connections?

Did he believe in aliens from

other worlds?

It is known that Hitler

surrounded himself with those

who believed in extraterrestrial

beings and ancient advanced

civilizations.

>> NOORY: Hitler was obsessed

with ancient mythology, he was

obsessed with the occult, and

more importantly, he was

obsessed with trying to gain

knowledge...

that he believed he could muster

before anybody else could.

So he spent an inordinate amount

of time, energy and money all

over the planet to try to get

information about things that

would give Germany an upper

hand.

>> NARRATOR: One of the main

groups advising the Nazi

leadership was a secret society

known as the Vril.

Members are said to have

included the commander of the

SS, Heinrich Himmler...

Air Force Commander Hermann

Goring...

and the head of the Nazi Party,

Martin Bormann.

The Vril Society took their name

from a 19th-century book written

by Edward Bulwer-Lytton called

The Coming Race.

In it, Bulwer-Lytton describes a

powerful master race and an

ancient mystical energy form

known as Vril that could be

tapped and controlled.

>> CHILDRESS: The Vril Society

in Germany took their name from

this force, this universal

force, which, in Sanskrit, is

known as prahna.

>> CREMO: Just like an engineer

can use electricity to either

heat a room or cool a room or

make sound or do so many other

things, it's one energy, but it

can be manifested in different

ways.

>> CHILDRESS: The Vril Society

believed that this Vril power

could power machines... and

devices, and they wanted to use

it for aircraft, discoid flying

saucers.

>> NARRATOR: According to their

beliefs, the Vril could tap into

this energy because they were

the direct descendants of

extraterrestrials from the

Aldabaran solar system that

had come to Earth in the distant

past.

Members of this pure master race

were known as Aryans.

>> BIRNES: They believed that

Aryans ascended from a race of

E.T.'s and these E.T.'s imbued

this Aryan race with tremendous

power and meant for them to be

the master race on Earth.

And that was, in part, the

justification for the Nazi

political party to establish the

Aryan supremacy on the planet

Earth.

>> NARRATOR: When the Nazi Party

swept into power in 1933, the

Vril encouraged Hitler and his

henchmen to fund a worldwide

search for ancient alternative

technologies.

German scientists and

researchers scoured the planet

for ancient texts and relics...

such as the Holy Grail...

and the Ark of the Covenant.

According to legend, these

biblical artifacts contained

powerful energies that could be

harnessed and used as weapons.

>> ROBERT CARGILL: The Ark of

the Covenant was said to be a

wooden box that was overlaid

in gold, and the Israelites

were said to revere this box

because it represented God.

The Ark of the Covenant is said

to possess tremendous power.

Whoever touched it dies.

Any army that marches with the

Ark of the Covenant can defeat

any other army.

And this is part of the lore

and the legend of the Ark of the

Covenant.

>> NARRATOR: But did Hitler

really believe these tales to be

true?

Did he view the Bible as a

history book?

>> CHILDRESS: When you see,

like, the Indiana Jones movies,

which tend to focus on these

secret Nazi occult expeditions

around the world to find the Ark

of the Covenant or the Spear of

Destiny or some secret libraries

and aliens, while those movies

are fiction, they're very much

based on truth.

>> NOORY: Hitler was obsessed

with trying to find the Ark of

the Covenant.

It was far more important, I

think, than just some religious

belief.

I think the Ark of the Covenant

had a function, whatever it

might have been.

>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: In the Book

of Exodus, there's a very

detailed description of the Ark

of the Covenant.

Supposedly it was the box that

was constructed to contain the

two tablets of the Ten

Commandments...

which were irradiated with

divine power because they had

been touched by the finger of

God.

As soon as the tablets are

placed inside the box, if you

look at the biblical accounts,

that box becomes dangerous.

It starts striking people dead.

Strange voices emerge from it.

They weren't far off in the

Indiana Jones movie when it was

described as a radio for talking

described as a radio for talking
to God.

to God.

>> NARRATOR: At his headquarters

in Wewelsburg Castle, SS

Commander Heinrich Himmler

brought in psychics and mediums

who claimed they could contact

extraterrestrial beings.

One of these was an influential

member of the Vril Society named

Maria Orsic.

>> MARRS: Maria Orsic headed a

group of women known as the

"Vriligen," or the female Vril

members.

And they were beautiful women.

They grew their hair very long

because they felt like their

long hair could act as an

antenna to the universal Vril

energy.

>> BIRNES: They believed that

extraterrestrials, non-human

force, was right here on planet

Earth.

And they were the ones who

inspired the early technology

to develop circular-shaped

craft based on images that

they'd seen of flying saucers.

They inspired Schauberger.

They inspired other developers

to look into the possibility

that these disc-shaped craft

could fly through some sort of

antigravity, some sort of

levitation.

The Germans were able to

develop a technology so far in

advance of the Allied

technology, that people said

they were helped by

extraterrestrials.

In fact, the one quote we have

was from Hermann Oberth, and Dr.

Oberth was in the German

rocketry program.

Hermann Oberth said, quote, "We

were helped by people from other

worlds."

>> NARRATOR: Was it possible

that the Nazis made contact

with extraterrestrial beings?

If so, might the Germans have

received other advanced alien

technologies?

Just how close did Hitler come

to building the deadliest

weapon in the history of the

weapon in the history of the
world?

world?

>> NARRATOR: Berlin, 1938.

The world took its first step

towards the atomic age when

German chemists Otto Hahn and

Fritz Strassmann split uranium

atoms and inadvertently

discovered fission, the basis

discovered fission, the basis
of nuclear energy.

of nuclear energy.

>> DENNIN: When you have atoms

either break apart or come

together, you lose a small

amount of mass.

It turns out the amount of

energy in mass is related to

the mass times the speed of

light, squared.

And the speed of light is such

a huge number, that's what

converts this small amount of

mass into a huge amount of

energy.

>> NARRATOR: News of the

discovery quickly spread

through the world's scientific

community.

In the United States, Albert

Einstein warned President

Franklin Roosevelt in an August

2, 1939 letter that Germany's

progress could lead to the

progress could lead to the
creation of a powerful new bomb.

creation of a powerful new bomb.

>> NARRATOR: How were the German

scientists in Berlin able to

make this discovery before

anyone else?

Was this really a new

breakthrough?

Or might these scientists have

rediscovered an ancient source

rediscovered an ancient source
of unimaginable power?

of unimaginable power?

Deformed skeletons and

vitrified stone at Mohenjo

Daro, Pakistan.

Radioactive ash covering the

ancient city of Harappa, India.

And the Biblical cities of Sodom

and Gomorrah.

According to the ancient

astronaut theory, the first

atomic blasts may not have

occurred during the 1940s, but

thousands of years earlier.

>> CHILDRESS: What they found

in these cities-- Mohenjo Daro,

Harappa, Kot Diji, others of

these Harappan cities-- they

found people just lying dead in

the streets.

It was like some doom had just

taken over these cities.

Some theorists have proposed

that what happened to Sodom and

Gomorrah, two cities right at

the end of the Dead Sea, was

some kind of nuclear explosion

that wiped this area out.

Lot's wife was allegedly turned

into a pillar of salt.

The idea there would be that

when there is a nuclear

explosion, people are suddenly

vaporized, incinerated,

mineralized.

[explosion booms]

>> CREMO: When an atomic bomb

explodes, the heat is so intense

that it melts the silicon in

the sand into glass.

There are some reports that

such fields of fused sand, of

glass, have been found in places

including India.

But, if they do exist, this

would confirm the descriptions

given in the ancient Sanskrit

writings that the people of

those times had weapons

resembling our modern nuclear

weapons.

They were called brahmastras.

>> NARRATOR: According to the

Hindu texts, the brahmastras

came from gods.

But who were these supernatural

beings?

>> CHILDRESS: Many of these

Hindu gods did look different

than humans.

Generally they're often

depicted as having blue skin,

and that may well be describing

extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Could Hitler have

been aware of these same

ancient accounts?

Might that have been the reason

behind Nazi Germany's

archeological and scientific

trips to India and Africa?

>> NOORY: The Nazis were

looking for something.

They were looking for some kind

of technology that the ancients

possessed that we had lost, and

they wanted to find it, and they

wanted to find it fast.

>> CHILDRESS: Throughout the

Middle East and also in ancient

India, there's stories of jinn,

these genies, they've got magic

powers, magic lamps, flying

carpets and things like that.

So in my mind, it's quite

possible that this ancient jinn

are really the ancient aliens

with all their technology and

with all their technology and
aircraft.

aircraft.

>> NARRATOR: Did Hitler and the

Nazis uncover any ancient

atomic secrets?

Just how close did they come to

developing the ultimate weapon?

And how much of their quest was

guided by an outside hand?

In a secret lecture in February

1942, German physicist Werner

Heisenberg spoke of building a

nuclear reactor designed to

control fission and enable

uranium to be converted into

plutonium.

>> DENNIN: In layman's terms,

how the atomic bomb works, it's

basically two stages.

The key element is you have to

get uranium to split.

So you need a trigger for this

reaction to happen.

And then you need it to have

what they call a

"critical mass."

Enough of it together that once

you get it to happen in one

place, it can cause the next

reaction, and next reaction,

and next reaction.

So it's actually a series of

explosions.

>> NARRATOR: Hitler was now on

the brink of having an atomic

bomb.

But then the Germans suddenly

stopped trying to build one.

But why did the Germans give up

on their atomic program?

Most mainstream historians

believe it was due to its high

cost and commitment amid a

losing war effort.

Others suggest that the German

scientists lacked the knowledge

or possibly even sabotaged the

project in fear of what Hitler

would do with his new weapon.

>> NOORY: The Germans came very

close to developing a weapon

that would have allowed them to

win the war.

All I can say is, "Thank God we

beat them to the punch," because

if they had gotten that

technology perfected, we'd all

be speaking German right now.

>> NARRATOR: But might the Nazi

scientists, as some suggest,

have turned their attention to

an even more advanced weapon,

one that would allow Hitler's

army to travel through both

army to travel through both
space and time?

space and time?

>> NARRATOR: In a remote valley

just outside Ludwikowice,

Poland stands a strange

circular structure known as the

circular structure known as the
Henge... or Fly Trap.

Henge... or Fly Trap.

>> IGOR WITKOWSKI: We are in

the middle of a valley, which

was taken over by the SS and

transformed into a secret

research, development and

industrial facility.

It was closely guarded.

Inside of this valley, we have

three security rings, closing

specific areas from each other.

Inside of the innermost circle,

this structure stands, and it's

quite mysterious.

>> NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars

believe the structure served as

the concrete support base to a

cooling tower used by a coal

mine.

But according to Witkowski and

others, the German high command

would not have devoted so many

military resources here if the

valley contained only an energy

plant.

They say the Henge was used to

test a new, highly-advanced

machine known as Die Glocke,or

The Bell.

>> MARRS: The Bell, Die Glocke,

was probably one of the top

secret projects of the Third

Reich.

It was so secret that it's even

unclear on how much Hitler was

told.

>> DR. STEVEN M. GREER: There's

a great deal of evidence that

suggests that the scientists,

including Hermann Oberth and

Wernher von Braun and others,

were working on a bell-shaped

craft that was electromagnetic

in its propulsion system.

in its propulsion system.
[crackling]

[crackling]

>> BIRNES: This, some say, was

the Vunda Vava,the wonder

weapon, a weapon so powerful,

so exotic, that even in the last

minutes of the war, as the

Soviet army closed in on

Poland...

it could have changed the whole

it could have changed the whole
course of the war.

course of the war.

>> NARRATOR: Surviving sketches

depict The Bell as having a

ceramic covering and dimensions

measuring ten feet high and five

feet in diameter.

Its design appears contrary to

modern aerodynamic principles.

>> DENNIN: If you're starting

to think about a bell shape for

flight, the challenge you're

facing, I think, is making it

aerodynamic when you move around

side to side and forward and

backward, 'cause you're

presenting a very large

cross-sectional area to the air,

and you're gonna generate a lot

of drag.

So you might be very good if

you wanted just, like, a

hovercraft that went up and

down, but once you start moving,

I think you're gonna run into

trouble.

>> NARRATOR: But if The Bell was

not a new type of aircraft, then

what was it?

According to some ancient

astronaut theorists, The Bell

may have been a time machine.

>> WITKOWSKI: There is a kind of

vortices named solitons--

vortices isolated

electromagnetically from the

outside world.

Recent research and experiments

show that the link between

gravity and electromagnetic

physics is much stronger than

the scientists thought for some

time.

>> GREER: The laws of the

universe being universal, if you

take the right electromagnetic

field, and very high voltage,

pulse it or phase it in a

certain way, you can get some

very strange phenomenon.

You can make things disappear

and reappear.

Therefore, it follows to reason

that this would be studied, and

that the Nazi Bell was probably

an attempt by that regime to

develop some type of flying

machine that would use these

sort of advanced electromagnetic

concepts.

>> NARRATOR: But was time travel

even a possibility?

According to German-born

physicist Albert Einstein,

humans were theoretically

capable of it.

>> DENNIN: His Theory of

Special Relativity actually

showed for the first time that

time can slow down when you go

very fast.

And so, that has an impact on

going into the future.

It allows you to travel really

fast somewhere, and your time

goes slower than somebody else,

and you end up in the future

relative to what you thought

you were doing.

The harder one to think about

is general relativity, where

Einstein talks about gravity,

and how to describe gravity.

And there, you can start

thinking about space-time, and

bending it, and actually by

warping space and time in the

right way, you end up going

right way, you end up going
backwards in time.

backwards in time.

>> NARRATOR: While no records

exist indicating The Bell was

ever used during the war...

as the Allied military forces

pushed into Germany, the entire

project and its commander, SS

General Hans Kammler, suddenly

disappeared.

>> MARRS: SS General Hans

Kammler was going to defect in

exchange for immunity.

But then, by the end of the war,

he disappeared.

So where did Hans Kammler go,

and what did he take?

I think he took The Bell.

Did he create a wormhole?

Did he create a stargate?

And this is what the Nazis were

working on.

>> NARRATOR: Did Kammler and

other Nazis really use The Bell

to escape justice by

disappearing across time, or

possibly to another planet?

Reportedly, the rest of the

project team met a more

sinister fate.

>> STEVENS: The engineers that

worked on The Bell were put to

death by the SS.

They didn't want this technology

falling into the hands of the

east or the west.

>> CHILDRESS: I mean, you

have... like, all these people

are being murdered.

Okay. I mean... I mean, top

scientists, you know.

[imitates explosions]

They blow themselves up in their

own labs.

>> NARRATOR: It was also rumored

that Maria Orsic, the psychic

and member of the secret society

known as the Vril, sent out a

coded message to the remaining

members, hoping to escape with

the help of extraterrestrial

beings.

>> ALLEN GREENFIELD: What I have

been given to understand was,

that was the agreed-to code to

gather at a certain location.

I believe it was somewhere near

what was left of Hamburg.

At that time, a UFO was seen

over Hamburg.

She disappeared.

Several other key members of

the Vril Society disappeared

and some say, Martin Bormann,

major league occultist, also

disappeared.

There have been rumors for many,

many years that they went to

another planet.

>> NOORY: The ironic thing about

all of this is, years later in

Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, a

similar object was witnessed by

a number of people...

that looked like The Bell.

Is it possible that the Nazis

perfected these things?

Or is it possible that the

aliens looked like Nazis in

uniforms?

How bizarre would that be?

>> NARRATOR: In the spring of

1945, Germany's war effort

collapsed...

as the Allied armies advanced

towards Berlin.

German scientists and engineers

abandoned their laboratories.

Hitler's search for a wonder

weapon failed.

But as the war neared its end,

what happened to the German

scientists?

While it's known many ended up

in the U.S., just what secrets

in the U.S., just what secrets
did they bring with them?

did they bring with them?

>> NARRATOR: On April 30, 1945,

as the Allied armies closed in

on Berlin, Adolf Hitler

committed suicide.

committed suicide.
Two days later, the city fell.

Two days later, the city fell.

On May 7, 1945, the German army

unconditionally surrendered.

After the war in Europe, many

leading Nazi Party members

disappeared-- some never to be

disappeared-- some never to be
found.

found.

Two months after the defeat of

Germany, a group of American

scientists, led by Dr. Robert

Oppenheimer, gathered in

a remote area of New

Mexico known as Jornada del

Mexico known as Jornada del
Muerto or "Journey of Death."

Muerto or "Journey of Death."

There, at 5:29 a.m. on July 16,

1945, the US military detonated

1945, the US military detonated
the first ever atomic bomb.

the first ever atomic bomb.

But how had the

Americans discovered the key to

the world's first successful

nuclear device?

Did they do it themselves, or

might they have had access to

the same ancient texts the

Germans did that described

powerful weapons and

extraterrestrial aircraft?

>> STEVENS: It's something

that's never denied by people

that research this thing.

There's a geophysicist in

Germany, Dr. Axel Stoll, and

he's done a technical

translation of some

of the ancient Indian texts

with an eye towards the idea

that it may have had something

to do with the German flying

discs built during the Second

World War.

So this idea is a possibility.

>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the most

amazing technological

advancement in the history of

mankind was placing a man on

the moon.

On July 20, 1969, less than 25

years after the end of World

War II, astronauts Neil

Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stood

on the surface of an actual

alien world.

But how did such a

technological leap forward

happen so quickly?

And could it possibly have been

tied to ancient technologies

discovered by Germany?

>> STEVENS: If you think about

all the technology we have

today, there isn't anything that

either wasn't invented during

this period of time, or greatly

enhanced by the Germans during

the Reich years.

The Germans pretty much

invented our modern world.

>> NARRATOR: Following the end

of World War II, many of

Germany's top scientists,

engineers and technicians were

captured and brought to America

as part of a secret project

known as Operation Paper Clip.

>> STEVENS: Operation Paper Clip

was a US government project to

bring German scientists to the

United States to work, either

for the military or for

industry.

>> BIRNES: They were taken into

custody, they were granted

asylum, they were brought to the

United States.

Their horrific war crimes with

concentration camp victims were

expunged.

>> NARRATOR: The most important

and influential of these former

German scientists was Dr.

Wernher von Braun, the

commander of Germany's

Peenemunde Space Research

Center.

>> CHILDRESS: Von Braun was

really the developer of the V-1

and the V-2 rocket.

He was a member of the Nazi

Party.

His commanders were SS generals.

He was privy to some of the

most secret projects that Nazi

Germany was developing during

the war.

>> NARRATOR: Once in America,

Von Braun quickly established

himself as the leader of the

US military's burgeoning

rocket program.

He would eventually become one

of the key architects of NASA.

>> MARRS: In fact, the first

rockets that the United States

was launching out in New Mexico

were essentially the V-2

rockets.

In fact, I think the only real

difference was that we'd taken

the swastikas and Iron Crosses

the swastikas and Iron Crosses
off.

off.

>> BARA: The whole space race

almost seems like a joke, as I

look back on it, because the

fact is that there wasn't

an American rocket program

versus a Russian rocket program.

We had a German rocket program.

We didn't have an American

We didn't have an American
rocket program.

rocket program.

There's no question, as you

look at NASA, there's no getting

to the moon without Von Braun

and the other German rocket

scientists.

>> CHILDRESS: In many ways, the

American government has just

carried on what the Third Reich

was doing: building underground

bases and factories, developing

secret technology.

And this technology was also in

ancient times, too, and is the

same technology that was used

in the Vimanas.

>> NARRATOR: In 1970, UFO

researcher Allen Greenfield

claims to have met rocket

expert Wernher von Braun while

examining declassified files at

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

>> GREENFIELD: And I said to

him, "How did you develop that

much technology so fast?"

And he looked down the rows of

UFO files.

And he said, "We had help from

them."

And I said, "You mean, them?"

meaning the aliens.

He said, "Yeah, we had help.

We all got help from them."

And that was, like, the eye-

And that was, like, the eye-
opening moment.

opening moment.

>> MARRS: The evidence that the

Nazis were aware of nonhuman

technology is simply the fact

of the existence of this

incredible technology that they

had by the end of the war.

>> NARRATOR: In the end, Adolf

Hitler's quest for a powerful

new wonder weapon failed.

But the technological

advancements created by German

scientists did succeed in

changing our world... and even

changing our world... and even
threatening our very existence.

threatening our very existence.

But could today's space-age

technology really be the result

of ancient alien research?

And if extraterrestrials once

possessed deadly weapons

capable of mass destruction...

what happened to them?

Did they become victims of

their own super-intelligence?

their own super-intelligence?
If so... will we?

If so... will we?

Perhaps only time...

and space...

and space...
will tell.