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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The megalithic site

known as Puma Punku
in Bolivia is unlike

any other place on the planet.

Here, scattered
across the landscape

at an altitude
of over 12,000 feet,

are giant stone blocks,

each cut
with astonishing precision

and some weighing over 100 tons.

Yet no one knows
how they got here,

how they were made,
or what they were used for.

There are many ancient sites
that I am certain

were constructed with the help
of advanced beings.

But Puma Punku
is so extraordinary

that I think it was built

by the extraterrestrials
themselves.

On my most recent visit
to Puma Punku,

I was once again blown away

by how incredibly sharp
and precise the cuts are

with these giant stone blocks.

In some places
it's as smooth as glass.

You can actually cut
your finger

by running it along one
of the edges.

And this is solid andesite we're
talking about,

which is an extremely hard
volcanic rock,

not something
that is easy to cut.

Clearly the blocks were made
to fit together

to form some sort of structure,
but what?

And why don't we find
stone blocks like this

anywhere else on Earth?

NARRATOR:
Bolivia, South America.

Here, 45 miles west of La Paz,

isolated high
in the Andes Mountains,

lie the mysterious
ancient ruins of Puma Punku.

Spread across a desert plateau

at an altitude
over 12,000 feet,

the megalithic stones
found here

are among the largest
on the planet,

measuring up to 26 feet long

and weighing
more than 100 tons each.

These are the mysterious ruins
of Puma Punku,

nearly 13,000 feet
in the altiplano

of Bolivia.

What you have here
are massive blocks of granite

scattered
like some kids' toy blocks

around the site.

It's like some giant cataclysm

just wiped out
this entire area.

Archaeologists are baffled

by what Puma Punku was,

how it looked,

and what the purpose
of this enormous structure

would have been.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream scientists

believe the site
was originally constructed

about 2,000 years ago.

But in 1945,

archaeologist Arthur Posnansky
proposed

that Puma Punku
was much, much older.

By examining the structures

and what he believed
were their original alignment

with the stars,
he dated the ruins

to 15,000 BC.

HUGH NEWMAN: Arthur Posnansky
was a researcher

who was part Bolivian,
and he worked at the site

for many decades.
And he concluded

that the site
must've been built about

17,000 years ago
by studying the archaeoastronomy

of that particular site.

PHILIP COPPENS: We don't know
how old Puma Punku is.

We have had
some circumstantial dating,

but we have been unable

to date the stones
of Puma Punku themselves.

They could be thousands

if not hundreds of thousands
of years old.

We don't know.

GEORGE NOORY:
I think the fascinating thing

about Puma Punku is how did
these structures get built.

We're talking about stone
that is 25 feet high,

stone that is hundreds of tons.

BRIEN FOERSTER: Puma Punku
is so unique in the way

that it was constructed
and shaped and positioned

that it is the most intriguing
ancient site on the planet.

Of all the places
I've ever visited,

Puma Punku is the one
that I go back to time

and again because
no one can solve the mystery.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream scholars believe

the andesite blocks found
at Puma Punku

were formed by hand
with primitive stone tools.

But some researchers point
to the intricate stonework

as evidence of the use of
advanced precision technology.

One of the amazing things here
at Puma Punku

is the precision of the blocks.

You can see with this block
of granite

that it's really been cut

at very accurate right angles.

Not only do these granite blocks
have precision corners

but they also have
these difficult drill holes

that are going
right through the rock.

NARRATOR: But how could
such primitive people,

living perhaps tens
of thousands of years ago,

have produced
such flawless stonework?

Might the ancient builders
of Puma Punku

have fabricated the megalithic
stones with advanced technology,

technology
of an otherworldly origin,

as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?

CHILDRESS:
You know, Brien, this is one

of the most interesting
and unusual stones

here at Puma Punku.

It's got
these perfect right angles,

and then each
of these small drill holes

are basically evenly spaced

along this routered groove.

To me, it's clear
that power tools have been used

on this unusual block of stone
here.

Well, exactly.
And this surface is as smooth

as a tabletop,
like in your kitchen.

There's no wave to it
or anything.

This was machined.

But who machined it?

It's an astonishing piece
of work.

And how anyone could think
that primitive human beings

could have done this,
you know, it's just crazy.

If anything looks like
ancient aliens, it's this stone.

NARRATOR:
But if otherworldly technology

was used at Puma Punku,

where is the proof?

In Danville, Illinois,

machinist and toolmaker
Chris Dunn

has put the Puma Punku stone

through
the ultimate cutting test,

using both laser technology

and a modern diamond saw.

We've got a sample
of the laser cut.

This is the diamond wheel cut.

And the top surface
is the original cut surface

from Puma Punku.

So now we can compare
the difference

between all three cuts.

NARRATOR: Looking at the stone
under a microscope,

Dunn compares the two
modern cutting techniques

with the part of the stone
cut thousands of years ago.

Though age has worn the surface
of the ancient example,

the comparison
reveals distinct differences.

You've got vitrification
on the laser-cut side,

and then, of course,
you've got circular tool marks

on, uh, the-the side cut
with the diamond saw.

And then whatever tool they used

to cut the ancient surface must
have been a different method.

Now, do you think it's possible

that some type
of a diamond precision tool

was used on the old surface,
but because

it was such a long time ago,

that over time,

the surface became
a bit more rough,

and we're talking 10,000,
or even 15,000 years ago?

DUNN: That is
a reasonable speculation.

I think we have to start
examining, um,

a little more
sophisticated tools

that no longer exist.

NARRATOR: But how could the
ancients have managed to move

the incredibly heavy andesite
stones to the site?

After years of research,
mainstream archaeologists

have said the massive stones
were hewn at quarries

over 60 miles away

and then rolled
to Puma Punku on logs.

What nobody talks about
is the irrefutable fact

that we are at an altitude
of 12,800 feet.

Which means we are above

the natural tree line.

No trees ever grew

in that area,

meaning no trees were cut down

in order to use wooden rollers.

-The wooden roller theory...
-[snaps fingers]

falls by the wayside.

NARRATOR: Could there have been
another more profound method

of moving these megalithic
stones into place?

And if so, how could such
an advanced engineering feat

have been accomplished
without the help

of modern machinery?

CHILDRESS: How these massive
blocks of granite

were moved from their quarries

and brought here to Puma Punku
would have required

some kind of super technology.

Levitation and antigravity,

huge lifting vehicles--

something that ancient aliens

would have had.

NARRATOR: Might the ancient city
of Puma Punku

really have been built
by alien beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?

Some researchers believe
the ultimate proof

can be found nearby

and also carved in stone.

TSOUKALOS: On my most recent
visit to Puma Punku,

I met with local historian
Rene Quispe.

I was fascinated to learn

that he is one
of a growing number

of researchers who believe
that the site is much older

than what mainstream
archeology has suggested.

How does he react when

people say, for example, that

this place here could have been

built more than
10,000 years ago?

[speaks foreign language]

TSOUKALOS: He told me that many
people outside of Bolivia

won't accept this dating
because they refuse to believe

that the local legends
could actually be based

on real history.

According to the ancient
stories, Puma Punku was built

by so-called sky beings

and that the recorded proof
of their time on Earth

can be found in Tiahuanaco,

where the Inca
say mankind was created.

NARRATOR:
Southern Peru. 1549.

While searching for the capital
of the Inca Empire,

Spanish conquistadors,

led by Pedro Cieza de Le�n,
cross into Bolivia

and discover the ruins
of Tiahuanaco.

Less than a quarter mile
northeast of Puma Punku,

mainstream scientists believe
Tiahuanaco was once the center

of a civilization

with more than 40,000
inhabitants.

PAUL GOLDSTEIN: Tiahuanaco
is probably the greatest

Native American civilization

that many people
haven't heard of.

It was one of the most important
antecedents of the Inca.

It was long gone by the time
the Spaniards came on the scene.

Yet its level of achievement
in architecture,

in political development,

in agriculture,
in many craft industries

are on a very high level.

NARRATOR: Most scholars agree
that Tiahuanaco

was mysteriously abandoned
around 1100 AD.

But why?

Local legends suggest
that Tiahuanaco was built

as a site of religious
pilgrimage to celebrate

the arrival of sky gods
at nearby Puma Punku.

According to ancient astronaut
theorists,

the two sites were not only

built at different times,

but also by beings
from different worlds.

COPPENS: Puma Punku, I think,
is very of the gods.

And I think mankind did very
little with that site.

And then nearby our ancestors
built Tiahuanaco

as a place where people
could come to explore

these places, but also,
I think, as a tribute site

where a god had once been

physically present
on planet Earth.

ERICH VON DANIKEN:
You have to differentiate

two different styles
of construction:

the old style, which I call
the extraterrestrial style,

and then the later style,

which was made by the humans.

Tiahuanaco is nothing else

but a place of pilgrimage

for people to congregate

and remember the time

when something significant
happened at Puma Punku.

And the thing that was
significant about it

was an extraterrestrial visit

by ancient aliens
in the remote past.

NARRATOR:
But if Tiahuanaco

was built to honor
extraterrestrial contact,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend,

might there be
tangible evidence?

In the 1960s
the Bolivian government

excavated and unearthed
the subterranean temple

at Tiahuanaco.

Within the walls of the square,
sunken courtyard

are hundreds of stone heads

with a diverse range
of features.

CHILDRESS: Here at the famous
sunken temple at Tiahuanaco,

we have all
of the different heads

that have been inserted

into the walls.

It's sometimes said that

there are all the races

of mankind represented here,

even elongated skulls, people

wearing turbans, people

with broad noses,

people with thin noses,

people with thick lips,

people with thin lips,

and some of the statues

are particularly unusual.

FOERSTER: They don't seem
to represent the local people.

They seem to represent
every type and shape

of human head
existing on the planet.

Two of them,
which are very intriguing,

are white in color,
and they look

very much like Grey alien heads.

COPPENS: When we're looking
at the carved heads

of the Tiahuanaco complex,
you really see

that it's almost as if this
is a U.N. headquarters,

whereby everybody was able to
come there because all cultures

on planet Earth accepted

that Tiahuanaco was so special

because this was a place

where contact with the divine
had been made.

NARRATOR: Some researchers
believe a large statue

at the center
of the sunken temple

depicts the creator god

known as Viracocha.

But why would the inhabitants
of Tiahuanaco

have depicted
their most prominent god

with features unlike their own?

CHILDRESS:
He has got a beard

and a mustache.

And that is an unusual thing,

because American Indians

do not have beards
and mustaches.

FOERSTER:
Exactly. The fact, also,

that the beard and the mustache

are so pronounced.
They're not little wispy ones,

they're major, so that indicates
that this person

was not a South American Native,

but clearly came
from another land.

CHILDRESS: And an important
person, too,

who's somehow, uh,

one of the founders
here of Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody
who's come from Sumeria

to South America.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
that the Sumerians--

a civilization established
in 4000 BC

and located
nearly 8,000 miles away--

could be connected to the early
inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found

at the Precious Metals Museum

in La Paz, Bolivia.

CHILDRESS:
This is perhaps

one of the most important
archaeological artifacts

ever discovered
in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.

This is the famous
Fuente Magna bowl

discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It's a ceramic bowl,

and it has written on it
Sumerian cuneiform

plus proto-Sumerian
hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming
from circa 3000 BC.

It draws a direct connection

between the ancient Sumerians

and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

NARRATOR:
Discovered near Lake Titicaca

by a local farmer in the 1950s,

researchers believe
the vessel provides proof

of extraterrestrial intervention
at Puma Punku.

CHILDRESS:
The idea

of Sumerian writing being here

at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco...

...would seem to relate
to the late Zecharia Sitchin,

and his ideas
that the Sumerians

were also interacting

with these space beings

called the Anunnaki.

So in that case, the Anunnaki
were there in Sumeria,

but also here at Puma Punku

and Tiahuanaco
in South America.

NARRATOR:
Could the stone sculptures

found at Tiahuanaco
really be evidence

of interaction
with extraterrestrial beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the legends
of the creator god Viracocha...

and his mysterious origins.

NARRATOR:
The Andes Mountains, Peru.

Here, 12 miles north
of Puma Punku,

lie the murky waters
of Lake Titicaca,

the largest lake
in South America.

According to local legends,

the god Viracocha rose up
from the depths of this lake

to create the sun...

the stars...

and mankind.

NEWMAN:
Legend states that Viracocha,

the great creator god
of the Inca

and the prehistoric civilization
of the area,

emerged from Lake Titicaca.

And he went to Tiahuanaco

and brought civilization
to that part of the world.

He then went to Puma Punku,

and this is where he said he
made men and women from stone

and took them to
the four corners of the Earth

to spread their seed.

VON DANIKEN:
The Spanish conqueror

asked the Inca,
the people living there,

including the king of the Inca,

what is this Puma Punku?

And they all said:
It's not us.

It's not our forefather
who make this.

These were made by the gods
in one single night.

Usually, a king is proud

about what his people did,

about the precision and so on.

In that case,
the chief and the people said:

No, it was not us.

It was the gods who made it.

NEWMAN: One of the legends
of Puma Punku states

that it was built by a race
of giants in one night

after a great
cataclysm and flood

had destroyed the whole area.

But what's really interesting
is that, who were these giants?

Where did they come from?

Was it Viracocha
and his band of followers?

Was it some other beings
from some other place?

One of the earliest chronicles
that we have

in regards to Puma Punku
talks about

that these giant platforms
were moved through the air

-[horn blowing]
-by the sound of a trumpet.

They basically floated
into place.

So do we have some type
of sound technology here?

And the answer is
a potential yes.

NARRATOR:
Might the legends of giants

and stones floating
through the air

have been inspired

by some sort of mysterious
events in the distant past?

Or were they the result
of alien beings visiting Earth

in prehistoric times,

as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?

VON DANIKEN: Now,
I come with the speculation.

Extraterrestrials arrive.

The spaceship stands in orbit.

Only a smaller space vehicle
comes down,

like a space shuttle.

So just to protect

their instruments,
they make, overnight,

with their technology
what we call a base camp.

Of course, made
out of stones found on Earth,

because you don't transport
granite or diorite

from another solar system.

And then they disappear.

But the wall of their base camp
is still there.

Now the natives come.

They see these ruins.

They touch it
with their fingers.

They say: Look at this,
it's so smooth,

it's so sharp--
the gods did it.

The place becomes a holy place.

And now the natives start
to construct temples,

altars in honor of the gods.

So you have two technologies.

One was
an extraterrestrial technology,

and the other was the humans

with their altars
and their temples.

The suggestion that some sort
of levitation technology

was used to move
the giant H-blocks at Puma Punku

has always intrigued me,
because we find similar stories

about this all around the world.

According to local legends
on the island of Pohnpei,

strange visitors created
the ancient city of Nan Madol

by floating giant stone columns
into place.

The story behind Stonehenge
in England

is that the wizard Merlin

transported those massive stones
through levitation.

And even in the 20th century,

we have the story
of Ed Leedskalnin,

a Latvian immigrant in Florida,

who claimed he built
the incredible Coral Castle

using the secrets of the
pyramids-- ancient techniques

for transforming stones
into weightless objects.

I propose
that the same technology

was used at Puma Punku,
and I think further proof

can be found carved
into a stone arch at Tiahuanaco

called the Gateway of the Sun.

NARRATOR: In the center
of the temples at Tiahuanaco

lie the ruins of a stone arch
called the Gateway of the Sun.

Cut and shaped
from a single andesite stone

weighing more than ten tons,

archaeologists believe
the ten-foot-tall,

13-foot-wide megalith

was once the gateway...

leading to Puma Punku.

GOLDSTEIN:
The Gateway of the Sun

is probably the entrance,

or one of the entrances,
to the Puma Punku temple,

and as such,
it's very important,

because this is how
the people of Tiahuanaco

conducted their ritual,

by funneling people through
increasingly smaller gateways

and stairways to more and more
sacred precincts.

NARRATOR: On the upper portion
of the arch,

intricate carvings can be found
of nearly 50 winged beings

on either side
of what is believed to be

the great creator god Viracocha.

Interpretations
of the engravings

suggest they refer
to a calendar

describing a time
as far back as 27,000 BC.

So here we are at the famous
Gate of the Sun with the...

Viracocha right in the middle,
holding two scepters,

surrounded by bird men.

That's a common depiction
in ancient societies,

is a man who's able to fly,
that would have probably been

an interpretation
by the Native people

of someone coming from the sky
or from the heavens.

?

CHILDRESS: It's part
of our idea, too, that...

some giant airship
that was a factory,

with power tools and power saws

and routers and drills,

just landed here and began...

processing these
giant blocks of stone,

and then ultimately
created Puma Punku.

?

NEWMAN:
It seems like the whole complex

was some kind of technological
kind of factory.

And if my research is correct,

it looks like
they were using it

to create energy of some sort.

So what some people

suggest is, is that
they were using electricity

and power tools,
which sounds incredible

when we think about it, because
they're a modern invention.

But actually,
if you look at the quality

of the stonework,
you have to admit

something like that
was going on there.

CHILDRESS: When you look at
the complexity of Puma Punku,

the huge platforms,

the interlocking blocks
that was made

into what they thought
were indestructible walls...

...what you could have

is the kind of perfectly made

granite spaceport that
extraterrestrials would want.

In March of 2015, archeologists
from the Tiahuanaco

Archeological Research Center
made an incredible discovery--

an underground pyramid less
than a mile from Puma Punku.

Using ground-penetrating radar,

they also detected
other underground anomalies

which they suspect
could be monoliths.

Excavations have just begun,

but I think that
these new discoveries

might offer further proof

that Puma Punku was built
by extraterrestrials.

But what was it built to be?

What did it look like
before it was destroyed?

That is what I traveled all
the way to Illinois to find out.

NARRATOR:
January 2011.

Researchers survey and measure

the monolithic stones
and H-blocks

scattered around
the archeological site

of Puma Punku,
hoping to solve the mystery

of what these structures
were used for, and why.

TSOUKALOS: The evidence
that something extraordinary

happened at Puma Punku

is in front of our very eyes.

Because at Puma Punku,

we find evidence of stone cuts

that we today
could only replicate if we use

the most sophisticated
of technologies.

NARRATOR: In Danville, Illinois,
toolmaker Chris Dunn

uses measurements taken
at Puma Punku

to create
a one-eighth-scale model

of an H-block
to better understand

how they may have
originally fit together.

So you actually went to Puma
Punku to measure the H-blocks.

What was your conclusion?
What did you find?

For me, it was important to find
out what the measurements were.

What I found was
that the internal cavities

were not parallel to each other.

And by "internal cavities,"
you're referring

-to these two parts right here,
right? Mm-hmm. -Exactly.

These two surfaces right here,
both top and bottom...

they are smaller at the front
than they are at the back.

TSOUKALOS: Essentially
suggesting a dovetail.

DUNN:
Creating a dovetail.

TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.
Why do you think a...

dovetail shape
was carved or used?

Really, if we look at the way
wehave used dovetails,

we use them
for mechanical purposes,

to hold things together.

So essentially what I'm saying

is that they were using
these H-blocks

for a mechanical purpose.

Probably to hold hinges
for a door.

NARRATOR:
To test his theory,

Dunn created a door hinge
that would connect

to a small-scale model H-Block.

So if we put this together,
we put the one in the bottom,

like so...

one in the top part...

like so,

and then...

this piece fits in there,

put a hinge pin in it,

and now you have your hinge.

TSOUKALOS: Yeah,
it's absolutely spectacular.

And, of course, the most
fascinating question is,

what tools were used
5,000 years ago?

Because something
very sophisticated was used,

and not chicken bones.

Not chicken bones,
not, uh, copper chisels,

not, uh, stone chisels.

The tools that
were used to create

these blocks at Puma Punku

do not exist
in the archaeological record.

NARRATOR:
According to Dunn,

the H-blocks may have been used
to mount hinges

for a massive door--

perhaps for one
of the largest temple complexes

in the ancient world.

TSOUKALOS:
It's a spectacular discovery

that Chris Dunn made.

This lends a whole new meaning

to the H-blocks at Puma Punku,

because, possibly,
they held something in place.

The question is, what?

NARRATOR: But Dunn's theory
on the purpose of the H-blocks

is only one
of several recent hypotheses

concerning
the complex engineering

found at Puma Punku.

These had a purpose...

NARRATOR:
Model maker Paul Francis,

from Dandridge, Tennessee,
offers another theory.

So you've recreated
these H-blocks

that we can find at Puma Punku,

and you came up
with a very interesting idea,

where you put
these blocks together,

creating what looks like to be
some type of a track.

So tell me more
about what went on in your mind.

FRANCIS: When I saw these
laid out on the table, I thought

it basically looks like some
of the World War II launch ramps

that the Germans used in testing
rocket-propelled airplanes.

?

When I saw this,
the lightbulb went off

in my head, and I said,
yeah, with some wooden skids

this would make
a perfect launching platform

for an ancient spacecraft.

So the skid would travel
down the H-blocks,

and eventually, at the end,
this would fall off,

and, of course, the airplane
would continue to go on.

And this is what I envision
an airplane looking like.

And this plane,

it has an intake,
it has your control panels,

your control surfaces,
and basically,

I mean, this thing is...

ready to go into outer space.

NARRATOR: The concept
for the ancient spacecraft

is based on gold jewelry
found in tombs

near Bogot�, Colombia.

After careful analysis

and modern testing
of reproductions

of the gold object,

ancient astronaut theorists

suggest such artifacts--

nearly 1,500 years old--

are proof of modern
aerodynamic capabilities

in the ancient past.

FRANCIS: You know,
when these original sculptures

were produced, they're doing
a literal interpretation

of what they saw.

I have to take
that interpretation

and I have to make it
into something

that would actually work
as a machine.

So in doing so,

we've added a cockpit,

which the original model
does not have.

Also, there are two small bumps

on the back
of the original sculpture,

which, to me,
indicate rocket thrusters.

You have this...
cone-shaped piece,

which could've been an intake
that this person saw.

TSOUKALOS:
And we know that

these objects truly fly.

We know that,
'cause these experiments

have been done before,
and they were experiments

that were repeatable--

meaning they satisfy
the scientific method.

And so your idea

of using the H-blocks

as a type

of a launching ramp,

to me, is ingenious.

I've never heard it before

and it's always great

to explore new ideas

in this field.

NARRATOR:
Might the H-blocks at Puma Punku

really have been used
as launch ramps

for alien spacecraft?

If so, what happened
to these massive,

seemingly indestructible
structures?

NARRATOR:
Puma Punku.

For centuries, researchers
have been unable to explain

what may have caused
the total destruction

of this ancient site.

Some believe a massive
earthquake in prehistoric times

may have scattered
its mega-ton stones

like toy blocks.

TSOUKALOS:
Puma Punku looks

like some type of a junkyard.

It's as if the whole place
at some point

got destroyed and ripped apart

in some type of an upheaval.

Puma Punku seems
to have become a victim

of a massive flood of some kind

several thousand years ago.

There is evidence that a meteor

or a comet struck

south of Lake Titicaca,

creating a wall of mud

at least six or ten feet tall

that covered the entire area.

And we can see evidence
of that today.

NARRATOR: At recent excavations
of Puma Punku,

researchers have discovered
that bits of andesite stone

from the structural blocks

are thoroughly mixed in
with the soil.

Might such findings of this
unusual soil composition

be the result
of a large-scale explosion

in the remote past,

as ancient astronaut theorists
believe?

CHILDRESS: One possibility is
that Puma Punku was destroyed

in some artificial blast

that literally blew these
buildings apart.

And then, later,

some cataclysmic tidal wave

also just covered it
with mud and muck.

FOERSTER: Some of these stones
are so smashed to pieces

you can find them anywhere

in the area.
You'll find pieces of diorite

with the angles on it.
So that was part of Puma Punku.

So much of it
is not simply broken.

It's shattered...

to the point where you can find
little tiny pieces of diorite

anywhere you look.

And that looks to me
like an explosion happened.

CHILDRESS: When you look at
the construction techniques,

it would seem indestructible

and yet it was destroyed.

NARRATOR: But if the structures
at Puma Punku

were constructed
with such precision,

and with the heaviest,

most durable materials
available,

how did it end up in ruins?

Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe,

that Puma Punku
may have been struck

by a devastating meteor?

Or could there be
an even more incredible

explanation for its demise?

There could've been
an alien battle out there

where they were
using technology--

perhaps nuclear...

...that blew up everything
in the region,

that's very possible.

Something could've happened
with our Earth's shield

where the sun's rays came
through at a certain time

and just burned everything
and obliterated it.

The only thing we know
for sure is those people

at Puma Punku are gone.

We just don't know how

or where they went.

CHILDRESS: It's hard to imagine
the devastating destruction

that occurred here.

It would seem like
extraterrestrials

had some cosmic battle on
planet Earth before they left.

COPPENS: There are various sites
across the planet

where it is said
that there was contact

with non-human intelligences.

But when it comes to Puma Punku,
what you have is also

the archaeological remains,

which tells you something
out of the ordinary

was happening here.

And when you lay upon
the layer of mythology,

which says that
the gods were here,

I think it is an absolutely
convincing case right now

to conclude that
Puma Punku stands out

as one of the preeminent sites

where E.T. will have been
in residence on this planet.

And so the question,
then, is Puma Punku

being a base camp
for an E.T. civilization

here on planet Earth--
if they left--

does that potentially mean
that when they left

that somehow they destroyed
Puma Punku as well?

FOERSTER: If they made this
to be a factory or something,

at the end of its use

they may have simply
blown it up.

Because they didn't want anyone

to use the technology
that they had left behind.

CHILDRESS:
The ancient Indian epics--

the Ramayana, the Mahabharata--

they're talking about these
horrific wars that happened

in the past with airships,

these vimanas,

spacecraft,

huge, destructive weapons
like atomic weapons,

so maybe Puma Punku
was destroyed

in this ancient planetary war.

FOERSTER: Since it is unique
to the area,

it may have been a...
an outstation or something

for another civilization.
Possibly from India,

possibly from Atlantis,
possibly from...

-Outer space.
-Exactly.

TSOUKALOS: With its highly
precise stonework

and sophisticated design,
I think Puma Punku

is one of the most significant

archaeological sites
on the planet.

For me, it provides hard proof

that extraterrestrials came here

tens of thousands of years ago.

But was it
an extraterrestrial outpost?

A fortress?

Or perhaps some sort
of interplanetary base camp?

Only time
and additional research

may tell us.

Perhaps when we unearth
the underground pyramid

discovered nearby
we will finally have

the piece of the puzzle
we've been looking for.

The piece that will once
and for all offer the skeptics

undeniable proof
of our alien origins.

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