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Ancient monuments deep under water... A once-thriving metropolis now

half a mile under the sea... Lost cities submerged for

thousands of years... All over the world, there are sunken cities.

There's more than 200 known sunken cities in the Mediterranean alone.

What we're looking at are the remains of

cities at a time when mainstream archeology tells us there were

no cities, uh, anywhere in the world.

Are underwater monuments examples of mankind's

earliest civilizations?

Or is there evidence of skills far beyond that of primitive man?

And if so, where did it come from?

The native legends are very clear... that

something or someone landed, and then, knowledge, all of a

sudden, spread.

There is many, many legends with lights coming from under the water.

You start to get the idea that there's some kind

of ancient alien underwater base... 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?

If so, what evidence lies deep underwater?

# Ancient Aliens 2x03 # Underwater Worlds Original Air Date on November 11, 2010

Covering more than 71% of the planet, the Earth's

oceans are a vast and largely unexplored mystery.

For most of recorded history, man could only guess at what

lay beneath the ocean's surface.

But new technologies are reaching new depths.

Researchers around the world are finding the unexpected...

underwater complexes and sophisticated monuments that

defy the conventional historical record.

There are remains of urban civilizations

on parts of the Earth that were

exposed on land 10,000 and more years ago.

And this means that urban civilization is far older by many thousands

of years than many scientists now believe possible.

Scientific theory suggests that during Earth's

last Ice Age, ocean levels were once much lower than they are today.

You have to envisage a world in which there are two

mile-deep ice caps sitting on top of northern Europe and

North America, in which are accumulated enormous quantities of water.

And we know that this water began to melt about 21,000 years

ago, and finished melting about 10,000 years ago.

As a result, rich coastal lands were slowly

submerged by rising sea levels.

Ten million square miles of land was flooded all around the world.

That's roughly the size of Europe and China added

together... were just rubbed from the record.

They just disappear from the story.

And in my opinion, archeology is not doing enough work to

investigate those lost and submerged lands.

While much of the ocean's floor remains unexplored, for thousands of

years, philosophers and scientists have been drawn to

one of the greatest mysteries of the sea, the legend of the

lost city of Atlantis.

It's been said that more books have been

written about Atlantis than any other subject.

But most of what we know comes from the Greek philosopher

Plato, who wrote two books about Atlantis, the Timaeus and the

Critias.

Written in 360 BC, Plato described Atlantis as a

highly advanced city, ringed by concentric walls, which

flourished 9,000 years before his own time.

There are descriptions of huge palaces for kings.

It's stated that Atlantis had huge naval forces, which it

used to conquer other parts of the world.

It was an urban civilization.

According to the ancient Greek texts, Atlantis was connected

with extraterrestrials from the beginning.

It was founded by the Greek god Poseidon.

Poseidon can be regarded as an extraterrestrial in the sense

of not being of this Earth.

Poseidon, one of the extraterrestrial,

found a pretty, wonderful, young woman-girl on Earth.

And he took this woman-girl, made her pregnant.

And to protect his new family, he founded Atlantis.

According to the legend, after a failed attempt

to invade Athens, disaster struck the island.

According to Plato, Atlantis was destroyed in a day and a night...

...a cataclysmic destruction that sank the entire island and

its capital city.

Some researchers believe that the Atlantians somehow

destroyed themselves.

According to Plato, Atlantis was located in front

of the Pillars of Hercules, a location beyond what some

scholars attribute to modern Gibraltar.

And to the ancients, as they left the

Mediterranean Sea to go into the larger Atlantic Ocean, this was

where they went beyond the Pillars of Hercules between

Spain and Morocco.

Across the Atlantic lies the island chain

of the Bahamas, just southeast of Florida.

Here in 1968, archaeologist J. Manson Valentine believed he

found part of Atlantis when he discovered an unusual rock

formation off the coast of North Bimini Island.

It's only in about 12 to 18 feet of water, so

you can, uh, view it easily.

At first, scientists thought this was just beach rock, but

then several other scientists exploring the Bimini Road

noticed that the beach rock was on top of other beach rock,

with balancing stones wedged in between.

And nature doesn't do that; man does.

And they realized this is a harbor, a breakwater for a harbor.

From the shallow edges of Bimini all the way to the Gulf

Stream in 300 feet of water, we have found many fascinating

complexities that look like remnants of ancient cities or

structures... roads, pathways, structures covered in coral.

Could the Bimini ruins be remnants of Atlantis?

And if so, could these roads lead to other sites buried

under sand and water?

In the year 2000, while mapping the seafloor off the western

coast of Cuba, a research expedition led by

Russian-Canadian oceanographer Paulina Zelitsky spotted

symmetrical stone structures deep below the water.

Remarkably, they were over a half mile down.

Divers cannot do this kind of, uh, investigation, so we have to

use remote operating vehicle.

And this vehicle is equipped with video cameras and manipulators.

And it controlled, uh, from the deck of the ship.

The expedition was also armed with side-scan sonar

equipment used to create images of large areas of the sea floor

and underwater objects.

I was in control room on board of the ship, and

we were receiving that image coming from side-scan.

And this is just one of the many other images that we were

obtaining of, the 80, uh, structures made of large stones

placed one on top of another.

Well, what do they end up with?

It is an image that shows these rectangular 90-degree angles,

over and over and over, on very large structures that seemed to

have wide avenues.

The exploration found huge stone blocks in

pyramid shapes, others more circular.

Most were gigantic, reaching 16 feet in height and weighing

several tons.

30 geometric structures emerged, appearing to be the remains of

streets, buildings, tunnels and pyramids, all at a depth of

2,200 feet below the surface of the water.

We might well have here the evidence of a

prehistoric culture that would probably go back tens of

thousands of years, and that's very exciting indeed.

Using dating techniques based on the presence of nearby volcanic ash,

geologists estimated the underwater city sank over 6,000 years ago.

Could this be, a half mile down, some part of the

sunken Atlantis from 9,000, 10,000 yrs ago that Plato talked about?

Well, the Atlantis myth is integrally related with

the area of the Caribbean and the Bahamas, in particular Cuba.

Plato talks about an island empire.

He's probably talking about dozens of different islands of

different sizes, not just in the western Atlantic, but probably

stretching out right into the central Atlantic area.

Both the Cuban and the Bahaman ruins lie on the

western edge of the Bermuda Triangle, an area of ocean

covering over 500,000 square miles, known for magnetic

anomalies, extraterrestrial sightings and unexplained

disappearances of aircraft and ships.

Could there be a connection between Atlantis and the area

known as the Devil's Triangle?

On the edge of the Bermuda Triangle, there are

underwater ruins of the ancient city of Atlantis, the

prehistoric city of Atlantis.

So, yes, there is a theory that Atlantis lies, not near Greece,

but in the Bermuda Triangle.

If Plato's texts are true, then other Greek myths

may provide a hint of the true fate of Atlantis.

One myth tells of the Titan goddess named Asteria, who fell

from the sky and became an island.

In ancient Greece, we have a number of myths which

describe islands... bronze, gleaming islands... that fell

from the sky and landed in water.

I don't think that Atlantis, therefore, was an actual

stationary, physical island.

Atlantis, according to Plato, disappeared in one night with a

lot of fire and a lot of smoke.

See, I don't think that Atlantis sank.

I think Atlantis lifted off.

Was Atlantis a safe haven for ancient aliens before

the end of Earth's last Ice Age?

And if so, could there be other alien cities submerged deep

underwater?

Yonaguni, Japan.

This small island is at the westernmost tip of the

Japanese archipelago.

Scholars believe the first inhabitants migrated here from

Southeast Asia during prehistoric times.

In 1987, in nearby waters, dive tour orator Kihachiro Aratake

made a shocking discovery.

A massive complex of stone formations lay hidden a mere 60

feet beneath the ocean surface.

Experts call it one of the greatest discoveries in the

history of underwater archeology.

What's intriguing about the complex at Yonaguni is

that there are a whole range of monuments, pretty much side by

side, and this, to my eye, looks unmistakably to be the work of

human beings, not the random action of the ocean on

differential layers of stone.

There are several reasons why I think this is not a natural

formation.

Some tools and engraved stones are found at the site.

Because of these things, there is no doubt that this is made

artificially.

Submerged beneath 60 to 100 feet of water, the

largest of the underwater formations resemble a massive,

five-layered stepped pyramid, the size of two football fields.

You see unambiguous carvings that clearly are geometric in nature,

tons of right angles.

We see channels that you can walk through with stairwells at

the end that are perfectly rectangular in shape.

There are places where you find megaliths piled

on top of one another to create a tunnel through which you can swim.

There is a set of megaliths positioned side by side against

the side of the cliff.

There's a gigantic human face carved underwater.

There is a stone that inscribes a big face, about seven meters in

height.

Our first impression was that it looked a lot like the Moai on

Easter Island.

Then we began to realize that it strongly resembled the sphinx

which guarded the pyramids, and we wondered, "Is that the"

function the face is serving "here?"

It's the whole combination of all these structures together which

convinced me that we're looking at a... at a ceremonial complex.

The mystery surrounding the Yonaguni underwater structure

is, when did it go underwater?

The geological evidence is that it was submerged during the

meltdown of the last Ice Age.

All around the world, whether it is France, India or Japan, there are

man-made structures that lie underwater.

Two ways how our ancestors could have done this.

Either they had scuba gear... I don't think so...

or this stuff was built when the ocean levels were lower, and

that was over 14,000 years ago, and 14,000 years ago, according

to mainstream archeology, we were just dwelling in caves,

hunter-gatherers.

Could the Yonaguni structures have been built by

such primitive people?

And what evidence exists of the people who inhabited this island?

Human fossils were found, so I'm sure there were people living on the

island, but I'm not sure if they had the technology to create

structures, or anything like this.

It's not so much the question of could the stone have

been chipped away and removed.

It's a question of the vision, of the scale of the complex,

of thinking in those kind of terms.

And we know of no other, uh, Stone Age culture that thought

in those kind of terms, of creating a gigantic, seemingly

ceremonial complex.

If, according to scholars, the ancient Japanese

people could not have built this monument, who did?

And how did it get here?

The speculation is that extraterrestrials created

the Yonaguni monument.

The engineering is just beyond the capacity of Stone Age

civilizations.

Ancient astronaut theorists also believe the key

to the Yonaguni mystery is found in its global positioning.

Strangely, the complex lies within an area of the Pacific

long suspected of extraterrestrial activity.

It's called the Dragon's Triangle.

Just south of Japan, you have a mysterious area

called the Dragon's Triangle, which is very similar to the

Bermuda Triangle, because you have planes that have

disappeared from the air, ships that have disappeared from the ocean.

In fact, Japan had declared this a disaster area.

Don't sail through it.

Don't fly through it.

Stay the heck away, because if you go in there, terrible things

can happen to you.

In ancient Japan, and even into the relatively modern

era, there are stories about the Dragon Sea, in which objects

rise out of the water and sail through the air.

In ancient Japan, these were winged monsters breathing fire.

In more modern times, these took on the appearance of actual

machines.

When you compare those descriptions of these devices

with the description that Columbus gave of a craft nearing

the Bermuda Triangle actually rising out of the water, a light

that followed the ship, you realize there's a similarity in

both of these locations to things, objects, that are in the

water and rise out of the water and fly through the air.

But why are the two submerged structures found

within the perimeter of these strange regions of the planet

where so much unusual activity occurs?

Is it coincidence that the Earth's 25th parallel north

cuts through both the Bermuda Triangle and the Dragon's Triangle?

They lie on a plane along the same line, and both of

them have the same magnetic phenomena, in which compass

bearings are lost and instruments go down.

People wonder if there's a real, strange UFO connection.

If UFO's and flying saucers do exist, then we

should suspect that they could originally come from an ancient

super civilization.

It makes you wonder if flying saucers, UFO's, whatever you

want to call them, actually use the area of the Triangle as

their major base, and perhaps are even coming back to the

remnants of a civilization that they were familiar with.

What if the sunken monuments at Yonaguni and near

Cuba had alien origins?

Might they have been used as alien bases?

And if we believe extraterrestrials functioned on

land, could they have also functioned underwater?

Could there be more evidence lying in the vast Pacific?

As an island nation, it should come as no

mystery that much of Japan's rich history is tied to the

waters of the Pacific Ocean.

But although many of Japan's legends are largely unknown to

the West, some are drawing the attention of ancient astronaut

theorists.

One such legend dates back to 1803 and traces its origins

to a beach north of Tokyo.

Allegedly, a craft that was quite large in size

washed up on the shore in Japan.

A strange round ship drifted ashore in this area.

The woman did not speak any language they could identify.

There were written inscriptions inside her craft that they

could not identify, and she's clutching this box that she

didn't want anybody to touch.

Known as the legend of the Utsuro Bune, or "hollow"

"ship," the details of the story have puzzled historians for

centuries.

Where, for example, did the mysterious hollow ship come from?

Could it have come from the area of the submerged Yonaguni monument?

Who was the strange woman?

And what were the contents of the box she guarded so carefully?

Was it a human head?

Or was it, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe, a

type of brain or other form of extraterrestrial intelligence?

If so, could it have been intended as a gift to the early

Japanese by an ancient space traveler?

There's five different drawings that have survived from completely

different regions of Japan.

They're almost identical to modern UFO reports.

As evidence to support their claims, ancient

astronaut theorists point to early Japanese carvings and

statuary, each suggesting a variety of extraterrestrial encounters.

This is a Dogu figure, and it comes from Japan.

And even to the untrained eye, you look at this, and it's as if

this being is wearing some type of a suit... with a helmet, some

goggles, on the back there are all these weird buckles and

circles, you know, straps.

Very similar to a modern-day space suit.

In my opinion, this is a likeness of a possible

extraterrestrial that visited Earth thousands of years ago.

Archaeologists have catalogued the existence of

more than 15,000 Dogu figures made during the Jomon period of

prehistoric Japan, dating from approximately 14,000 to 300 years B.C.

But could, as ancient astronaut theorists believe, these strange

Dogu figures really be a primitive interpretation of a

pressurized space suit or diving apparel?

The story behind those Dogu figures is very

clear, and anyone can go and read translations of the ancient

texts that the Dogu, a long time ago, descended from the sky and

taught the first Japanese people in various disciplines.

And the whole Japanese culture, including the

kimono, the tea ceremony, the use of wasabi and ginger for

eating sushi, the way that they build their architecture, their

written language, everything they say came from these

visitors, from these gods, from the universe.

The pictures shows beings who look like astronauts.

They are dressed like an astronaut.

They have the helmet as an astronaut.

They have some strange tools in their hands, tools which we

do not understand.

Now, there is a link.

The Japanese call it "Dogus."

In North America, we have still the Hopi tribe, in Arizona, and

the Hopi Indians are still making today kachina dolls.

Kachina dolls look similar to the Japanese Dogu figures.

Further back, in the Sahara Desert, Africa, we found cave paintings.

When you see the picture, you see definitely an astronaut suit.

No doubt.

Absolutely.

Now, you compare these cave paintings with the kachina dolls

of the Hopi, and with the Dogu of Japan.

You have one line.

Do the mysterious Dogu figures provide tangible

evidence of extraterrestrial encounters in Japan's ancient past?

And does the legend of the Utsuro Bune suggest that the

Earth's oceans may be hiding even more proof of alien contact?

Perhaps the answer can be found deep in the waters off the coast

of India.

In 2001, researchers from India's Oceanic

Institute detected anomalies on the bottom of the Gulf of

Khambhat, seven miles from shore.

They had been commissioned by the Indian government to do a survey of

pollution in the Gulf of Khambhat up in the northwest of India.

And they were not expecting to find anything except a mess

down there.

But suddenly, their side-scan sonar started returning images

of regular structures.

The images revealed an enormous network of stone

buildings, now shrouded in mud and sand, and covering a

distance of five square miles.

What we're looking at in the Gulf of Khambhat are

the remains of cities.

There's actually two of them.

And it turns out that they are positioned on the side of

ancient river channels.

They look lime cities that have been submerged for a very long

time, at a time when mainstream archeology tells us there were

no cities anywhere in the world.

Powerful crosscurrents made it nearly impossible to dive the 170 feet

to the bottom.

Still, scientists retrieved dozens of artifacts, including

wood and pottery shards.

Some of the dates on some of the human artifacts that

were brought up extended as far back as 32,000 years.

But the oceanographers concluded that the area had been covered

by water about 9,000 years ago.

So this city had apparently existed from 32,000 to about

9,000 years ago.

Mainstream scholars today claim that ancient Indian civilization

only goes back 4,000 or 5,000 years.

Yet, Hindu scholars themselves say that Hindu civilization is

going back, uh, many tens of thousands, even hundreds of

thousands of years.

Might the ruins below the Gulf of Khambhat prove

the Hindu scholars right?

Another recent discovery may support their claims.

200 miles to the northwest lies the modern city of Dwaraka.

Archaeologists digging deep under the city found signs of a

settlement once inundated by the sea.

Inspired by this clue, they began searching for more ruins

in waters just off the coast.

In only 70 feet of water, divers discovered sandstone walls,

cobblestone streets and evidence of a prosperous seaport.

Scholars declared these ruins to be the remains of the

ancient and legendary city of Dwaraka.

Ancient Hindu texts explain that the legendary city of Dwaraka

was said to be the dwelling place of Lord Krishna, a deity

worshipped across many traditions of Hinduism.

Imagine what it would mean for the Christian world to all of a sudden

discover the actual Holy Grail, the actual Ark of the Covenant.

That would be akin, for the Indian population, to discover

an actual Dwaraka.

This was a very powerful city, which was ruled by Lord Krishna.

And Krishna is still revered until today.

He's one of the highest gods that we have in Hindu culture.

Hindu texts explain that a king named Salwa attacked

Lord Krishna in the mythical Dwaraka.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the descriptions of the

battle suggest the use of alien technology and even spacecraft.

According to the ancient Sanskrit texts, with

this spacecraft, Salwa attacked the city, raining down energy

weapons that resemble lightning.

He destroyed large parts of the city in this way

When this happened, the king of the city, the god Krishna,

responded by firing weapons at this spacecraft.

The weapons are described as arrows, but they're not ordinary arrows.

It's said that they roared like thunder when they were launched,

and resembled bolts of lightning or rays of the sun.

In response, it is said that the spacecraft began to appear in

different places simultaneously.

It appeared to be moving in ways that resemble modern

descriptions of UFOs.

So what I find interesting about this account is, there's a

spacecraft made of metal that is firing down weapons on a city on

Earth.

The legend says that Krishna eventually departed

Earth, and the ocean consumed his city of Dwaraka.

For many people, the description of fabulous ancient

cities in the Sanskrit writings of India were simply mythology,

but with the discovery of the remains of a sunken city off the

coast of India in the location of Dwaraka, all that has changed.

People are beginning to look at these ancient writings in a new

light, and see them not simply as mythology, but as actual

historical records.

Did India's ancestors witness a war between

extraterrestrial entities?

If the mythical city cited in the Hindu texts turned out to be

real, could there also be evidence of Krishna and his

supernatural powers?

Ancient alien theorists believe a link between the submerged

ruins and extraterrestrials can be found in another set of texts

known as India's Sangam literature.

Sangams were assemblies of sages.

It says that the first two Sangams took place on a sunken

landmass called Kumari Kandam.

This area was once above water thousands of years ago,

according to the accounts, but it's now underwater.

It's also interesting that these assemblies of sages included

extraterrestrial beings, as well.

And this fits in with evidence discovered in the Gulf of

Cambay, and off the coast of the present city of Dwaraka.

Are the interpretations of India's ancient texts proof of alien

contact in Earth's past?

And are the descriptions of gods actually descriptions of

extraterrestrials?

Perhaps another discovery... one beneath a mysterious lake...

will yield even more evidence of alien visitors in the remote past.

The Andes Mountains, Peru.

Here, at an elevation of 12,500 feet, lie the dark waters of

Lake Titicaca, the highest navigable body of water in the world.

In August of 2000, an Italian team of divers and

archaeologists launched an underwater investigation of the

legendary lake.

There, submerged under 100 feet of water, the team

uncovered traces of a paved road, a stone terrace, and a

wall nearly a half mile long.

For centuries, local legends have spoken of a lost

underwater city called Wanaku.

Could these ruins provide proof that such a city did, in fact, exist?

Then, another shocking discovery.

Lying on the lake bed was a large, sculptured stone head.

Could this ancient relic offer a clue to the origins of this

incredible archaeological find?

Comparisons were quickly made to similar stonework found at

the nearby ancient city of Tiahuana, just 12 miles south

of Lake Titicaca... a city long thought by ancient astronaut

theorists to have extraterrestrial origins.

When the early conquistadors talked to the

local Aymara Indians they were told that-that giants at the

beginning of creation had created Tiahuanaco.

The Spanish, too, were amazed by the gigantic blocks of stone.

They felt that the devil had built this building.

If you look at some of the rock cut on megalithic

structures at the site of Tiahuanaco, I personally

believe very strongly that we are looking at an older episode

of construction and the traces of a forgotten episode in the

human story.

But if the ruins found at the bottom of Lake

Titicaca are from the legendary lost city of Wanaku, what

happened to it?

Did it fall prey to a major earthquake or other natural disaster?

Or was the city, as some ancient astronaut theorists

believe, deliberately flooded?

The more you know about Lake Titicaca, the stranger it gets.

Archeologists have problems in really explaining why there are

sunken ruins there, because they're saying that the ruins

aren't that old.

They're only 1,500 years old.

And that would mean that Lake Titicaca has gone through a

number of major changes in that period.

And it's possible that somehow the lake itself and the

shorelines were manipulated so that certain areas of Lake

Titicaca were flooded in a sort of artificial way.

There is a type of seahorse that lives in Lake Titicaca.

And seahorses are coming from saltwater and oceans, yet these

seahorses are living at nearly 13,000 feet in the Andes.

But just how could an ancient people have artificially created South

America's largest lake?

A lake that is 118 miles long and 50 miles wide?

When you ask the local population, "How did all"

"of this come into being?" the Aymara Indians will tell

you that all of this has existed since before the beginning of time.

In the Aymara legends, the lake is like the...

the place of genesis, the place where it starts... all the

civilizations... in our continent.

We have these very, very, very old roots.

I mean, we're not talking only about this civilization, this

humanity.

We are talking about our seeds, the roots of the stars.

Some people believe that the extraterrestrial built, but

what I believe is that the space brothers help us, direct

us, teach us, because they had the experience in many ways.

The legend says that once the space brothers came to this

planet and they used to live with us, and they was very

important in our lives and they used to be very powerful people.

But is it possible that the lost city of Wanaku

was really built, or inhabited, by the ancient ancestors of

the indigenous Aymara people?

And if so, could it have been deliberately flooded to avoid

detection from the outside world?

Cristina Sovrosa The elders, they used to talk about the

underwater city.

They talk about the lights like stars connecting with the lake.

The stars, when they come down to the lake, there is changes

in the temperatures.

There is many legends with lights coming from

the underground of the lake.

It seems they come, they go and they return in different moments.

You start to get the idea that there is some kind

of ancient alien underwater base.

And it's possible that some of these sunken ruins are, uh,

somehow part of that base.

Could the ancient city of Wanaku really have been

built by alien visitors?

And if so, why?

What was their purpose?

Could the discovr of this and other sunken cities pride the

evidence that mankind has been seeking for centuries...

evidence that proves... that we are not alone?

These mysterious underwater structures really

don't have any context or any background; they just seem to

come from nowhere.

They seem to stand out as being out of place in time, so there's

some question marks, some mystery surrounding them that

might shed new light on human history.

Atlantis, Lake Titicaca, Dwaraka.

All those ancient mystery places always have had a

connection to the gods.

The gods who, in the ancient astronaut opinion, were flesh

and blood extraterrestrials.

And in the end, the ancient astronaut theory will be proven right.