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NARRATOR: A lost city hidden in the Andes.

Mysterious metal spheres of extraterrestrial origin.

And a sunken city that was said to be the home of the gods.

Over the years, Ancient Alienshas investigated

some of the most astonishing breakthroughs

in archaeology, astronomy, and physics

that challenge traditional beliefs about human history.

Now, we're counting down

the ten most extraordinary discoveries we've examined--

discoveries that just might present undeniable proof

of our extraterrestrial past.

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For ancient astronaut theorists like me,

there is nothing more exciting

than when a new discovery is made

that points to evidence of extraterrestrial visitations

in the distant past.

And while it's not easy to narrow it down to just ten,

our list covers discoveries in everything from science

to archaeology to astronomy--

like the first entry in our countdown.

It is a mysterious object that flew through our solar system.

And what makes it truly extraordinary

is that some scientists believe

it might have been an extraterrestrial craft.

At number ten on our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries:

Oumuamua.

NARRATOR: The Hawaiian Island of Maui.

October 19, 2017.

Astronomers at the Haleakala Observatory

detect a mysterious object traveling at high speed

through our solar system.

The object has a strange, oblong shape

and is on a trajectory

that is unlike anything that has ever been seen before.

I was in charge of coordinating

the observing to characterize the object.

There were four images taken...

...that showed an object moving rapidly

with respect to the stars.

At that point, they started to compute an orbit

to try and understand what this object was.

Once more data came in,

it was very clear that this object was from

outside the solar system.

This was really exciting.

NARRATOR: By calculating the object's speed and trajectory,

astronomers determined that it originated

in another star system,

making it the first interstellar object ever discovered.

They named the object "Oumuamua," meaning

"voyager from the distant past reaching out to us."

And, incredibly,

some astronomers suggested it might be

some type of extraterrestrial technology.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: Oumuamua doesn't look like a typical asteroid.

It's elongated. It's not round or chunky

like you would think an asteroid is.

And there were a lot of astronomers and scientists

who studied Oumuamua

and it looks like it could possibly have been

a probe from some other civilization

outside our solar system.

What I think is interesting is that Oumuamua is cigar-shaped.

Because there are stories

and eyewitness reports of cigar-shaped UFOs.

So, is it possible

that there is some type of a connection?

Is it possible that some asteroids

are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft?

While it might sound like science fiction,

in 2023, a team of scientists launched an expedition

to find fragments of a meteorite on the ocean floor--

one that they believed contains evidence of alien technology.

At number nine on our countdown:

The BeLaU Spheres.

NARRATOR: The Bismark Sea.

June 2023.

100 miles north of Papua New Guinea.

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb and a team of scientists

are attempting to retrieve the remnants

of an exploded meteor from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean

using a large magnetic sled.

Two weeks into the project,

the sled pulls up something unexpected.

ROD PYLE: Loeb did find a number of beads,

little spherules not much bigger than a BB,

that they were able to dredge up.

Upon first glance, they look kind of exotic.

They have little swirls in them,

they're almost perfectly round.

NARRATOR: For Dr. Loeb, the discovery of these mysterious spheres

is particularly exciting because he believes

that the exploded object they came from

is unlike any other meteor that's ever landed on Earth.

He first learned about this meteor in 2019,

and based on its speed and trajectory

he was able to surmise that it was interstellar.

I came across a meteor catalog

that the government compiled

using its missile warning system.

The meteor discovered in 2014

was actually from outside the solar system.

The meteor burned up 18.7 kilometers

above the ocean's surface

and it released a few percent of the energy

of the Hiroshima bomb when it exploded.

The government released the light curve

of the fireball of the explosion and

from that we inferred that the object must have been

made of some alloy that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

And that raises the possibility

that it may have been a spacecraft.

NARRATOR: A spacecraft?

Could it be that the object that exploded

over the ocean north of Papua New Guinea

was an extraterrestrial craft?

Dr. Loeb believes the small metallic spheres

his team discovered could confirm his radical theory.

Initial testing of the spherules showed that

they had an unusually high concentration

of beryllium, lanthanum and uranium,

making a never-before-seen compound known as "BeLaU."

That BeLaU composition does not exist

in any known mineral or rock that we know of.

And so this does speak to his hypothesis

that they're manufactured extraterrestrially.

TSOUKALOS: Dr. Avi Loeb proposes

that these spherules

may be part of some type of ET technology.

Could that really be a remnant of

a far, far distant extraterrestrial civilization?

Dr. Avi Loeb's suggestion

that the objects discovered in the Pacific Ocean

may have come from an extraterrestrial spacecraft

is a thrilling prospect.

But there's another scientist

who made a similar intriguing discovery--

not in the ocean, but in Earth's upper atmosphere--

and he's convinced that it is of alien origin.

Number eight on our countdown:

The Titanium Microsphere.

NARRATOR: The University of Sheffield, England.

2015.

MILTON WAINWRIGHT: Andrew, on you.

-Count down, please. -Okay.

NARRATOR: Astrobiologist Dr. Milton Wainwright and his research team

release a hydrogen balloon that travels 25 miles up

into Earth's stratosphere.

Once the balloon reaches its target altitude,

a capture mechanism collects samples

of whatever material is around it.

Then, the balloon bursts

and the capture mechanism

descends by parachute back to Earth

so that its contents can be analyzed.

One of these balloons was hit

at an incredible rate by something

that left behind a small crater.

And when they actually dug into this crater

to see what it was, it was a tiny sphere.

And when they actually examined what the sphere was made of,

it was found to be of titanium and vanadium.

And these are elements that shouldn't be there naturally

out in the lower atmosphere.

NARRATOR: The microscopic sphere is just 200 microns in diameter,

roughly the thickness of a human hair.

There's no Earth material associated with them

and they're too large

to be carried from Earth to these altitudes.

They must be incoming from space.

Where are they coming from? We just don't know.

COLLINS: This tiny sphere,

when they studied it under electron microscope,

saw that it was actually a shell

that had now broken

and coming out of it

was this strange ooze

that they felt was biological in nature.

NARRATOR: A biological substance?

That originated not on Earth but from somewhere in space?

Is it possible that this discovery

is evidence of a living organism

from a world other than our own?

WAINWRIGHT: The characteristics of these organisms is very interesting.

They're made of carbon and oxygen,

so we know they're life-forms.

They don't contain silicon, so they're not bits of cosmic dust.

They're very unusual.

When I see the shapes of these things, I'm amazed,

'cause I've never seen anything like them on Earth.

There's no textbook version

of the pictures we've been seeing.

Although it is still unknown

just where these spheres come from,

Dr. Wainwright believes they are being used

to introduce new life-forms on Earth.

CHILDRESS: With Dr. Wainwright's small metal sphere,

you have to wonder,

is this protein ooze that's inside it

something to jump-start life on the planet?

Without a doubt, one of my favorite places

to explore is Egypt.

And what I find truly exciting

is when technology reveals new secrets

about its ancient monuments and temples.

Like an extraordinary discovery that was made in 2017,

when researchers located a hidden chamber

inside the Great Pyramid

that's big enough to fit the Statue of Liberty.

At number seven on our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries:

The Great Pyramid Void.

NARRATOR: Just west of Cairo stands the most mysterious

and sophisticated wonder of the Ancient World:

the Great Pyramid.

Built from more than two million limestone blocks,

this massive structure is engineered to near-perfection.

Despite being studied for hundreds of years,

much about the Great Pyramid remains shrouded in mystery.

And in November 2017,

media outlets around the world

announced an incredible discovery.

Archaeologists detected a chamber

near the pyramid's north face

that is approximately 100 feet long

and more than six feet tall.

TSOUKALOS: The discovery of that void is sensational,

because it opens up the whole discussion

to more questions and to new answers.

NARRATOR: In April 2018,

Giorgio Tsoukalos entered the Great Pyramid

along with Egyptologist Ramy Romany

and Dr. Giulio Magli, a professor of archaeoastronomy

from the Polytechnic University in Milan, Italy.

RAMY ROMANY: So, this is it.

The Grand Gallery.

NARRATOR: They are inside the Grand Gallery,

which is directly beneath the newly discovered void.

ROMANY: From here to the ceiling, it's about ten meters high

and it goes about 50 meters in, which is 150 feet deep.

I mean, that just gives you an idea

of how huge this place is.

-ROMANY: Yeah. -And it's perfect.

ROMANY: So, you think the void is right on top of our heads here?

TSOUKALOS: In your opinion,

what do you think is inside that void

that was just discovered?

TSOUKALOS: Can you elaborate

on that iron throne?

NARRATOR: A throne, containing pieces of metal found in a meteorite?

Could such an object really be embedded

inside a secret chamber located within

the Great Pyramid of Giza?

According to ancient Egyptian writings

called the Pyramid Texts,

the god Osiris and his wife Isis

came to Earth from stars in the constellation of Orion,

and it is from these two gods that all human life originates.

According to the story,

Osiris had an iron throne that possessed awesome powers.

Throughout ancient Egypt in the temples,

we see depictions of the gods:

extraterrestrial beings on their thrones.

These thrones are feathered

because they are ascension vehicles.

They are vehicles that take them to the stars and back.

ROMANY: What could be inside that void?

There are many theories out there.

To this day,

we don't know what's inside.

And that's the most exciting part for Egyptologists.

Every day, I'm looking forward to find

what's inside that new void that has been discovered.

Just what is inside the Great Pyramid's void

remains to be seen.

But if it's anything like the amazing discovery

that's next on our list,

it may leave us with more questions than answers.

I'm talking about the giant stone boxes

that weigh nearly 100 tons,

whose purpose is still unknown.

At number six on our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries:

The Serapeum of Saqqara.

NARRATOR: Here, 20 miles south of the Giza pyramids,

French archaeologist Auguste Mariette

is surveying the area when he notices a stone object

protruding from the ground.

Upon closer inspection,

it appears to be the head of a sphinx.

SALIMA IKRAM: He started to clear the area,

and so, his team dug down and revealed

sphinx after sphinx after sphinx.

HENRY: He soon lines up over 100 sphinxes,

follows the pathway and is led to an underground tunnel,

an entrance that's blocked.

He dynamites the entrance.

He's now in a 700-foot-long tunnel

that's been carved out of the limestone.

NARRATOR: Inside the ancient structure,

Mariette discovered inscriptions that identify

the underground complex as the Serapeum.

And within its chambers, he found gigantic stone boxes.

TSOUKALOS: Inside that Serapeum

are 24 niches

that contain some of the biggest stone sarcophagi

ever discovered in Egypt.

The boxes themselves range in weight

from 70 to 75 tons,

and the lids alone

weigh between 20 and 25 tons.

NARRATOR: What compelled the ancient Egyptians

to place 24 enormous

and precisely-crafted stone boxes

deep beneath the earth?

Archaeologists suggest they were built

to be the burial place of sacred Apis bulls.

The Apis bull is related to the Egyptian god Ptah,

who was the... a major creator god.

He was the god of Memphis, the capital city.

He was the god of all craftsmen.

TSOUKALOS: The Apis bull

was one of the most sacred animals

in all of ancient Egypt.

But when August Mariette

opened the sarcophagus, they were empty.

There was nothing in there.

NARRATOR: The absence of the Apis bulls

has led ancient astronaut theorists to suggest

the boxes might have served a more profound purpose

as a type of an advanced,

even extraterrestrial technology.

One of the ideas, too, of the sarcophagi is that

they're super high-tech storage devices.

You know, they're hermetically sealed,

they're, you know, in spaces

that would be difficult to get to.

Perhaps something dangerous and technical

was kept in these boxes.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries,

and this next one truly blows my mind.

In 2003, archaeologists began to excavate

an ancient lost city hidden deep in the jungles of Guatemala.

In total, they found over 100,000 structures

that, remarkably, revealed a profound connection

to the stars.

At number five: The Lost City of El Mirador.

NARRATOR: The El Mirador Basin,

northern Guatemala, 2015.

Archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen

begins an aerial survey of the dense jungle

using a sophisticated remote sensing method called lidar.

The results reveal an extraordinary metropolis

that had been lost to history.

TAYLOR: What's amazing is we've found

what seems to be an entire civilization

that the Mayans had built a long time ago

we never knew were there.

There are pyramids there

that rival the pyramids in Egypt.

CHILDRESS: Now archaeologists realize

that this area was, at one time, densely populated.

There were hundreds of thousands,

if not even millions of people living there.

And they built huge pyramid cities.

NARRATOR: At the center of the ancient metropolis

are two gigantic pyramids,

now known as El Tigre and La Danta.

La Danta, the bigger of the two, is larger in volume

than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

DAVID CHEETHAM: La Danta, it's not just a pyramid,

it's a pyramid with pyramids on top of it.

I mean, this is a massive structure

that's rivaling or even bigger

than any other known Maya temple complex.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

perhaps the greatest discovery is in the layout of the site.

CHILDRESS: Some archaeologists have suggested

that El Mirador

is aligned with the Pleiades,

and that pyramids and other structures there

are actually recreating the Pleiades star system

on the grounds in the El Mirador Basin.

The Maya themselves associate

the celestial beings that had contact

with their own ancestors

with the Pleiades constellation.

TSOUKALOS: What we have discovered right there

is a lost chapter of human history

that could be a direct connection

to the ancient astronaut theory.

Our next extraordinary discovery

was made in a remote area of Peru,

and this one really took archaeologists by surprise

because here they found a massive complex

that is older than the pyramids of Egypt.

At number four on our countdown:

Caral.

NARRATOR: While conducting research at the base of the Andes Mountains,

Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Ruth Shady Solis

notices several hills in the landscape

that do not appear to have been formed naturally.

People had known it was there, but most people had assumed

that these great mounds were natural.

But Ruth Shady had decided to excavate,

and it turned out, uh, she'd actually

hit the jackpot because she'd found

one of the most important sites in South America.

NARRATOR: Dr. Shady and her team

discovered the ruins of an extraordinary lost city

that has come to be known as Caral.

When you visit Caral, you find a huge archaeological complex.

There's a large sunken amphitheater to the south,

there's a major pyramid to the north,

and then there are more minor pyramids

that surround a central area.

There are also other buildings, residential buildings,

so it's a really huge complex.

NARRATOR: But the most extraordinary discovery was still to come.

Towards the bottom of the great mound,

they found remains of what seemed to be reed bags

or baskets in which the earth and stones

would have been carried to make this enormous mound.

And of course, you can date reeds by the radiocarbon method.

And to everyone's surprise, the answer came far earlier

than anybody had expected.

This site went back at least to 2600 BC or earlier.

So that was putting it back 4,600 or more years,

which made it one of the oldest sites,

as far as civilization, in the Americas.

HUGH NEWMAN: Caral could be the mother culture

of the whole of South America.

The dating of Caral has really put into question

the origins of civilization on the planet.

NARRATOR: At the time the greater pyramid of Caral was created,

ziggurats were being built in Mesopotamia

and the step pyramids were rising in Egypt.

HENRY: This was the beginning of a worldwide pyramid age.

You have pyramids all over the world start to spring up.

And you have to wonder, how did this happen?

Did they all have the same teacher that was assisting them

or instructing them in how to build these massive structures?

Scientific breakthroughs and archaeological finds

are always compelling.

But for ancient astronaut theorists like me,

what's really exciting is when a story

once thought to be fiction

is proven to be based on historical fact.

Like the discovery of a sunken city that,

according to ancient Hindu texts,

was the home of the gods.

Number three on our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries:

Dwarka.

NARRATOR: Northwest India.

April 1983.

Marine archaeologist Dr. S.R. Rao

begins a seven-year underwater exploration

just off the coast of the modern city of Dwarka.

And what he discovers is stunning.

Submerged 20 feet beneath the surface of the ocean,

he finds sandstone walls, cobblestone streets,

and further evidence of a prosperous ancient city.

At Dwarka, what has been found so far

under the ocean is incredibly tantalizing.

For instance, there's this huge wall,

estimated about 580 meters long.

Pottery has been found.

Stone anchors have been found,

so this seems to have been a maritime city.

COLLINS: The remains that have been discovered

beneath the waters have been radiocarbon-dated

to at least 9,500 years.

So this was many thousands of years older

than that of Sumeria,

Egypt and China.

So what exactly was going on in India at this time?

NARRATOR: Are these ruins evidence of a city

that is over 9,000 years old?

And if so, who built it?

Dr. S.R. Rao and other researchers believe

that the ruins belong to a legendary ancient city

that was also called Dwarka.

According to the sacred Hindu text the Mahabharata,

ancient Dwarka was once the home of the god

Lord Krishna.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA: In the Mahabharata,

Dwarka is described

as Krishna's kingdom.

There were magnificent palaces,

all having wonderful windows,

wonderful balconies,

you know, high-rise buildings.

So, it is beautifully described in the Mahabharata

as being a very important city.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The Mahabharatatells that

the land came up out of the sea, the ocean released this land.

It was a special place of great magic and beauty.

NARRATOR: According to the story,

Dwarka was destroyed after another Hindu god

Lord Salva attacked it from a flying chariot.

SHIMKHADA: He had a celestial chariot,

which is almost like a plane that he could fly.

And this plane was like a stealth, uh, fighter plane.

So he came to Dwarka

and then he started bombarding the city.

YOUNG: Krishna is killed, and the city--

this magnificent city built on land

that came out of the sea--

sank back into the ocean again.

It only existed during the time that Krishna lived there.

NARRATOR: For centuries, the story of ancient Dwarka

was believed to be merely a legend.

But is it possible that these underwater ruins are evidence

that the ancient Hindu texts are based in actual history?

If so, it wouldn't be the first time

that a supposedly mythological site

was found to be real.

In the 1870s, archaeologists discovered the ruins of Troy,

a legendary city from Greek mythology

that was assumed to be completely fictitious.

For hundreds of years, people thought that

the story of the Trojan War, the Trojan Horse,

it's all myth.

But then archaeologists found the ruins of Troy,

and we know there was the Trojan War,

just like the way the ancients called it.

SHIMKHADA: Now we know that Troy did exist,

and similarly, Dwarka in the Mahabharata,

it was not just a mythical city.

Once upon a time, it really did exist.

NARRATOR: But if the underwater ruins of Dwarka really are

the place described in the Mahabharata,

might the story of its demise also be true?

Was it destroyed in an aerial assault

waged by an otherworldly visitor?

CHILDRESS: This would indicate to us that the legends

are really correct about this place,

that this was a real event,

one that perhaps included extraterrestrials.

Every so often, a discovery is made

that sounds like it's been ripped straight from the pages

of a fantasy novel.

And that's exactly what happened

when a family renovating their home in Central Turkey

stumbled upon the entrance to an entirely hidden world.

At number two on our countdown

of the Top Ten Extraordinary Discoveries:

The Underground Cities of Turkey.

NARRATOR: Nevsehir Province, Turkey.

Here, in 1963, a simple home renovation

in the town of Derinkuyu led to an extraordinary discovery.

A cave wall was opened, revealing a passageway

to an elaborate underground city.

TSOUKALOS: Derinkuyu

is this massive underground tunnel system

going down three levels,

with many streets, with many shafts and corridors

and rooms and caverns

that can hold massive amounts of people.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists were astounded by this massive underground city

that extends as much as 280 feet beneath the earth.

And they got an even bigger surprise

more than 50 years later, in 2014, when another

even larger underground city was discovered

beneath the nearby town of Nevsehir.

SCHOCH: It is

absolutely stupendous.

It covers about five million square feet.

It goes down over 370 feet into the ground.

And it's estimated that this could have held

20,000 people or more.

COLLINS: Archaeologists got inside and there were churches,

there were vessels and jars,

there were wineries,

there was living quarters, uh,

there were places where they made linseed oil.

NARRATOR: Further exploration revealed

that the two underground cities were actually connected.

VON DAÄNIKEN: I was many times

in the underground cities in Turkey.

And this is a fantastic experience.

They are linked together.

There are seven-kilometers-long underground tunnels

connecting the two cities.

NARRATOR: According to many archaeologists,

these cities were most likely constructed around 800 BC

to provide shelter from an invading army.

But some researchers suggest they could be much older.

COLLINS: One Turkish archaeologist by the name of Omer Demir,

who was actually a curator of Derinkuyu,

found evidence of Stone Age tools

going back to the Paleolithic era.

This is at the time of the last ice age.

This tells us that these underground cities

are perhaps 11,000, 12,000, 13,000 years old.

NARRATOR: If the underground cities of Turkey really are

as much as 13,000 years old,

just who could have built them?

And why?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that these sprawling underground cities

may be shelters that are described

in the sacred writings of Zoroastrianism,

one of the world's oldest religions.

In a text called the Vendidad,

a young ruler named Yima is instructed to build

an underground sanctuary

by the god Ahura Mazda.

YOUNG: Ahura Mazda told the great early king Yima

that there would be a terrible disaster.

A winter would come such as has never been known.

It would be so cold

that at midday it would be dark like night.

Ahura Mazda instructs Yima to build a Vara.

This is a huge structure

two miles long, two miles wide,

an underground hall of sorts

where things can be protected from the terrible winter.

In the Vara,Yima was to hide

a remnant of the people and an extensive seed bank,

also a pair of each of the animal species.

TSOUKALOS: Ahura Mazda

was known to have descended from the sky

in a vehicle with fixed wings.

It looks like some type of flying device.

That would suggest that he was,

in fact, an extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the story of Yima is an account of an alien intervention

in the distant past...

...and they suggest it is very possible

that the shelters Yima was said to have built are, in fact,

the underground cities that have been found in Turkey.

The Varais supposed to be a-a huge enclosure

that not only houses a large number of people

but it's to have big streets that go through it,

it's divided into certain areas.

The Varacould be

the underground cities in Turkey.

We've reached the top spot on our countdown,

and this next extraordinary discovery

completely upended our understanding

of human civilization.

It's an astonishing megalithic complex

of massive stone pillars and mysterious carvings

that predates the world's earliest known civilization

by more than 5,000 years.

At number one: Goöbekli Tepe.

NARRATOR: Sanliurfa, Turkey, October 1994.

While plowing his field, a shepherd spots

a strangely shaped stone protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt,

he realizes the stone may be part of an ancient ruin.

He reports his find to the local museum

and is visited by Klaus Schmidt

from the German Archaeological Institute.

NEWMAN: It wasn't until

German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt visited the site

and began digging that they realized

what was really at this site.

HENRY: What he discovered was mind-blowing.

After discovering the first T-shaped pillar

buried at the site,

he soon found more of these massive structures.

NARRATOR: The site becomes known

as Goöbekli Tepe, meaning "Potbelly Hill."

BAHN: The site of Goöbekli Tepe is a series of circular enclosures.

But then in the center of each enclosure

you have two particularly big T-shaped pillars of limestone

sort of facing each other.

Many of these pillars have remarkable carvings on them,

wonderful carvings and bas-reliefs

of animals, birds, insects, all kinds of things.

So to fashion those and carve them

and set them up in these structures was just

absolutely amazing.

COLLINS: Many of these were carved into human form.

They would have arms on the side of them.

They would have hands that come around to the front.

They would have garments that drop down the front.

20 different enclosures were built.

And each one, seemingly at the end of its useful life,

was completely covered over

with rubble and soil

before the next enclosure was built.

NARRATOR: Intrigued by his discovery,

Klaus Schmidt had the sediment layers of the site

radiocarbon-dated.

The results were astonishing.

TSOUKALOS: It is the first archaeological site in the world

that proves its age

dating as far back as 12,000 years,

around 10,000 BC.

The discovery and the official acceptance

of Goöbekli Tepe's dating

has changed the history of archaeology.

COLLINS: All of this suggests

a understanding of technology,

of masonry, of art, of carving at the end of the last ice age.

We realize that there is some great culture,

possibly even a high civilization

that existed here as much as 11,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists believe

the Sumerians were the world's first civilization,

emerging around 5000 BC.

But the discovery of Goöbekli Tepe put that

into serious question.

And some researchers have noticed a curious connection

between the Sumerians and Goöbekli Tepe.

At Goöbekli Tepe there's a carving

of these three handbags

that appear above this birdlike creature.

And what's fascinating about this is

that you can find carvings of similar handbags

about 400 miles to the south

where the ancient Sumerians lived.

And there the handbags are held

by these winged figures called Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki, as told in the Sumerian stories, had

these advanced powers,

they had connection with the heavens.

They're extraterrestrial beings.

And it makes you wonder

if Goöbekli Tepe was, in fact,

a place of connection with these beings.

It's exciting to think that Goöbekli Tepe might hold clues

to extraterrestrial contact

that occurred 12,000 years ago.

And as far as I'm concerned,

with every extraordinary discovery,

from lost civilizations hidden from sight

to ancient structures and artwork

that suggests contact with otherworldly beings

to objects from space

that defy explanation,

we get one step closer to understanding the truth

about humankind's extraterrestrial past.

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