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recent discoveries have left
scientists stunned.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
Something is going on there,

and the question is: what?

There were shockwaves in 2018
when we realized

radiation was coming
from the South Pole.

NARRATOR:
After thousands of years

hidden by thick ice

and protected by
deadly temperatures,

the truth about Antarctica
may finally be revealed.

This is a legitimate
satellite image

of a very large hole
in the mountain range.

NARRATOR:
What secret lies beneath

the Earth's most
unexplored continent?

Here we have a huge

underground world
beneath Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
And what will we find out about

mankind's true origins?

WILLIAM HENRY:
Buried underneath the ice
in Antarctica

could well be
the greatest reveal

in all of human history.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway
in the universe.

Beyond it
is the promise of truth.

It demands we question
everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right
before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR:
Ross Island, Antarctica.

This volcanic landmass
at the bottom of the world

is the site of one of
the greatest mysteries

of modern physics.

It is here that in May of 2018,

NASA scientists

working on the Antarctic
Impulsive Transient Antenna,

otherwise known as ANITA,
detected an anomaly

that defies the laws of physics.

Cosmic rays, which normally
rain down on Earth from space,

were instead erupting
out of the ground.

Among physicists,
there were shockwaves in 2018

when we realized that
a strange form of radiation

was coming from the South Pole.

We physicists said, "What kind
of particle could this be?"

This is new.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
You would expect

high-energy neutrinos would be
raining down from the sky,

but not coming up
from the Earth,

but that's exactly
what they found.

The fact that cosmic rays

were measured coming out of
the Earth begs the question:

how is such a thing possible?

Antarctica, to this day, remains
one of the last unexplored

geographical regions
of our planet.

It is still one of
the greatest mysteries

with which we are faced today.

NARRATOR:
Antarctica is a land
of extremes.

Nearly 98% of the ground
is covered by an ice sheet

up to three miles thick.

A mountain as towering
as Japan's Mount Fuji,

at 12,400 feet, would not even
break the surface.

Temperatures regularly fall

below minus-50 degrees
Fahrenheit

with winds of up to
200 miles an hour.

During its peak season,
it is home

to only 4,000 scientists
and military personnel.

Antarctica is the last frontier.

It holds our imagination.

Old maps that said,
"Here be monsters."

The last remaining
territory on the planet

that could have such
a designation is Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
Although it was discovered
nearly 250 years ago,

scientists have more
questions than answers

when it comes to this
frozen continent.

Due to the sheer depth of
the ice covering its landmass,

the surface of Antarctica
is unable

to be seen with the naked eye.

And ancient astronaut
theorists propose

that it is not just the geology
that is hidden from us.

They suggest there
is far more human,

and perhaps non-human, activity

happening in Antarctica
than we've been told.

Something seems to be going on

on this mysterious continent
at the South Pole.

And it has been theorized
by a number of people

that Antarctica is
some kind of alien base.

NARRATOR:
Rumors of extraterrestrial
activity in Antarctica

have circulated for years.

And now, at long last,
military personnel

who have been stationed
on the frozen continent

are willing to speak
to these claims.

Scottsdale, Arizona.
February 2019.

Investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

arrives to conduct an interview
with a former

Navy flight engineer who has
come forward with information

about strange events
he witnessed

during his time in Antarctica.

This is where one of the most
important whistleblowers

in my career lives,

and he has decided that he
is willing to work with me

to tell the truth about what
happened with him in Antarctica.

This is the kind of breakthrough
I have been hoping

that people with real,
solid military information

would start coming forward,
and we would start learning

the facts and the truth,

in spite of government
policies of denial.

(distorted):
I knew things that

I-I felt needed to be

put out in the mainstream.

NARRATOR:
"Brian," as he prefers
to be called,

requested that his face
and voice be obscured

to protect his identity.

His unit was based on the
southern tip of Ross Island

at the U.S. McMurdo Station,

the main logistics hub
that services nearly all

of the scientific outposts
on the continent.

Brian, when did you get
into the Navy

and wh-- how did you get
to Antarctica?

I enlisted in July of 1976.

In order to go to Antarctica,
you have to volunteer.

It's not a, uh, duty station
where you are ordered to go.

I was able to get orders

to, um, Antarctica Development
Squadron Six,

which was referred to as VXE-6.

And its mission would be
described as what, generally?

The mission basically
was supplying

to outcamps, uh, science parties

from McMurdo Station to
South Pole, back and forth.

Talk about sort of the route,

and what you guys began to see

on a repeated basis.

During our '95, '96 season,

my crew was doing a lot
of back and forth to Pole.

Mainly it was cargo resupply,

personnel exchanges.

That season,
prior to us doing missions,

we were told by
some of our officers

that if we saw something flying,

that we weren't supposed
to say anything.

- Okay.
- Oh, so you knew that...

- BRIAN: Well...
- ...people had--

-were already warning about,
but you had not seen it.
-Yeah.

Right, so, somewhere
around December,

uh, we were flying
a mission from McMurdo,

and my loadmaster in the back,

he gets on the intercom on the
ICS and he says, "Hey, there's

something off to the left here
kind of shimmering."

So I went up to the flight deck,

and I'm looking out
the big windows

and I see these little
disc-shaped objects.

There was probably
four or five of them,

and they were, at first,
when I first saw them,

they were just stationary
over one mountain peak.

And then, all of a sudden, I'm
looking at them and one of them

takes off by itself and flies
at incredible speed

to the next mountaintop
and stops.

And then another one
in the group takes off

and heads toward
where the first one went.

What did the pilot say?

(laughs) That was kind of funny.

My pilot gets on the intercom
and he-he kind of jokingly goes,

"Well, all I can tell you
is they're not ours."

Not ours, what are you
talking about?

And it kept happening?

Yes, it happened
at least two other times.

HOWE:
Brian feels that it is
really important

that the world know
that there is something

that is going on in Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that Brian's sighting

of unidentified flying objects

may be somehow connected to
the discovery that cosmic rays

are emanating
from the frozen continent?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

Antarctica is not only

hiding secrets about current
extraterrestrial activities,

they believe there is much more
to be learned

by examining incredible
new discoveries

deep underground.

Some of these caverns
were thermally heatedy,
satellite photography

has allowed anyone
with an Internet connection

to access images of Antarctica.

In 2016, a striking image
was discovered

of a seemingly man-made
entrance carved

into an Antarctic
mountain range.

This is a legitimate
satellite image

of a very large, proportionate

hole in the ground,
or the mountain range.

This looks
intelligently designed

to suit a specific craft
that flies

through this particular opening.

NARRATOR:
Similarly, in 2018,

Internet researchers
released the coordinates

for what they describe
as a UFO crash-landed

on the Antarctic island
of South Georgia.

The photographs
are really compelling.

Because this is not somebody

making believe
something is there.

You can actually
see the skid marks.

It actually looks
as though an object

is moving along that ice.

But the thing
that so intrigued people

looking at those images,

were that the skid marks
were straight.

NARRATOR:
Some ancient astronaut theorists

have noted that the shape
of the alleged craft

is very similar
to a mysterious celestial object

that was detected entering our
solar system in October 2017.

Called "Oumuamua," the object

was initially identified
as an asteroid.

But its shape, trajectory
and acceleration

were so unexpected

that the chair of Harvard's
Astronomy Department,

Avi Loeb,
suggested that Oumuamua

might be an alien probe.

CHILDRESS:
It's a very curious image
of this...

large, oblong,
tubular-shaped craft

that seems to have
crashed into the ice

and then skidded along.

And it really looks like
this interstellar asteroid,

Oumuamua, that could easily
be a spacecraft.

The actual craft itself
is right around

50 yards, uh, in length.

This is the wider view of this
object that quite possibly

came in at an angle,
ricocheted off of the base

of this mountain and that's
what gave it the momentum

to skid several thousands
of feet.

You can definitely see the
mountain, there's some

disturbance here,
where this track leads back to,

from this unidentified object.

This very well could be
a crash landing based off

of what we're seeing at the
bottom of the mountain, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that online researchers

using satellite technology

actually located
the crashed remnants

of an extraterrestrial vehicle

and the opening
to an underground alien base?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and point to shocking
disclosures

from those on the ground that
validate these claims.

When investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

interviewed a former
Navy flight engineer

going by the name
of Brian in 2019,

he revealed a very curious
no-fly zone he came upon

during his service
in Antarctica.

According to Brian,
sometime around October 1985,

an emergency call had come
into McMurdo dispatch.

(indistinct radio chatter)

They got a medevac call
and it was from the Davis camp,

which was Australia, on
the far side of East Antarctica.

It was a real emergency
and they had a long flight.

NARRATOR:
A scientist at Davis camp

was gravely injured
by a boiler explosion

and needed immediate
medical attention.

Including a fuel pit stop
at the South Pole,

Brian's evacuation crew
was six hours away

from the critically injured
patient.

But they had standing orders
to avoid flying over a so-called

"air sampling station" that
was on the most direct route.

(distorted):
So we were given orders
to deviate,

I believe it was 30-mile
deviation away

from the air sampling station.

The... officers on board
suggested that we fly

straight over
the air sampling station

and not deviate and that would
save us 30 minutes.

- It was a no-fly zone.
- BRIAN: It was a no-fly zone

for that specific region,
um, around the Pole.

NARRATOR:
But where the air sampling
station was supposed to be,

the crew faced something
none of them had ever seen.

BRIAN:
There was this giant indentation

that looked like
a hole in the ice

that looked like a snow ramp
that went down into it.

The Polar Plateau at South Pole
is completely flat;

there are no holes there.

Now there's this big large hole
in the ice that stood out

like a sore thumb,
it should not have been there.

NARRATOR:
Brian estimated the hole to be
at least 300 feet in diameter.

The size of a football field.

Confounded by
what they had seen,

the crew continued
on their route to Davis.

They picked up
the injured scientist and headed

back to the McMurdo Station.

As we were getting back, and
basically taking the same route,

we were called back and told,
"You must deviate from

"your course that you took
from Pole to Davis.

You've got to deviate
30 degrees to do this."

We weren't given an explanation,
but we complied

with the request
and on the way back,

the patient died from his burns.

NARRATOR:
When the aircraft landed
at McMurdo Station,

the entire crew was escorted to
the senior commander's office.

There, they were ordered
to never speak

of the restricted area
they had flown over.

Immediately after,
I thought to myself,

"Well, what was it we weren't
supposed to see?

All we saw was a hole in,
in the ice."

NARRATOR:
If the hole was, in fact,
a natural feature,

why did the crew's flyover

elicit such attention
from high-rank officials?

There's been a lot of talk
about underground bases

in Antarctica and certain
satellite photos

show mountain areas that have
unusual caverns in them,

literal windows that are
the shape of a flying saucer.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that secret,
perhaps extraterrestrial bases,

are hidden beneath
the ice on Antarctica?

Curiously, the idea
of habitable space

beneath the ice has been
recently backed up

by mainstream science.

Mount Erebus.
Ross Island, Antarctica.

2017.

Researchers from the Australian
National University

discover the existence
of vast ice caverns

directly adjacent
to this active volcano.

Due to their location, these
glacial caves under the ice

offer something
incredibly unique

on the otherwise
frigid continent--

large heated spaces
with temperatures

warm enough to sustain life.

MICHAEL SALLA:
Australian scientists
were able to find

enormous caverns
that were hollowed out,

that were places
where you could actually

have life flourish,

that they were able to determine
that some of these caverns

were thermally heated
to a balmy 70, 72 degrees.

NARRATOR:
72 degrees?

In Antarctica?

Mount Erebus is just one of more
than 90 volcanoes on Antarctica.

Modern technology
has enabled scientists

to discover additional caverns
near these features.

And some are reportedly as large

as the entire island
of Manhattan.

CHILDRESS:
Here we have a huge, apparently,

underground world
beneath Antarctica.

And this could be used
by extraterrestrials

as these ready-made bases that
are underground and are hidden.

NARRATOR:
Could these naturally heated
caverns and tunnels

really be inhabited
by extraterrestrials?

The ideas of both passageways

deep under
the Antarctic ice sheets

and also an alien presence on
the icy continent are not new.

Some say they trace back to
the beginning of World War II

and a secret Nazi expedition.

The Nazis found
some of these caverns Germ.

December 1938.

On the brink of World War II,

Adolf Hitler
is secretly searching

for ancient relics
that he believes

could hold incredible powers.

As part of this effort,
on December 17,

he sends the German freighter
MS Schwabenland

on a top secret mission
to establish

a permanent base on Antarctica.

But why is Hitler sacrificing
crucial resources and personnel

for a mission to Antarctica
when he is simultaneously

preparing to go to war?

SALLA:
The Thule Society

was very important
in understanding,

uh, what happened
in Nazi Germany.

They actually believed
that there were mystics

who could communicate
with beings

who claimed to be
extraterrestrial in origin.

Hitler's Nazi Party
got information through

these psychic mediums who
told them that in Antarctica

there is this ancient
civilization

or bases where they could find

advanced technologies.

The Nazis found some of
these caverns beneath the ice.

And some of them can be reached
by submarines, apparently.

(sonar pings)

SALLA:
The story goes that the
German Navy were able to find

passages under
the Antarctic ice sheets

to these enormous caverns.

And so, they were then able
to establish these bases

under the Antarctic ice sheet.

NARRATOR:
Does the recent discovery
of interconnected caverns

beneath the ice of Antarctica
validate rumors

about the Nazis that many
mainstream historians

had deemed a complete fantasy?

And if so,
might the Nazis have discovered

something truly incredible
on the frozen continent?

(wind whooshing)

BIRNES:
One theory is that

the Germans discovered,

when they were
exploring the South Pole,

that there was actually another
presence at the South Pole

that was not human.

And together with that presence,

the Germans established
a base on Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
After the Nazis
were defeated in 1945,

the United States
and the Soviet Union recruited

the top Nazi scientists,

many who later embarked
on their own secret missions

to Antarctica.

Is it possible that
these two emerging world powers

had knowledge that the Nazis
did, in fact, come into contact

with extraterrestrials
at the South Pole?

August 26, 1946.

A U.S. scientific expedition
called Operation Highjump

departs for the South Pole.

It is led by esteemed
Naval officer and explorer

Admiral Richard Byrd.

BIRNES:
Admiral Richard Byrd

was a very important admiral
in the United States Navy.

He graduated the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis,

he fought in World War I,
and after the war,

he became an explorer.

NARRATOR:
In 1926, Byrd made
worldwide headlines

when he and Navy Chief Aviation
Pilot Floyd Bennett,

became the first people
to ever fly over the North Pole.

For their efforts,
both men received

the Congressional
Medal of Honor.

Later, when Byrd,
at the age of 41,

made the first solo flight
over the South Pole,

he became the youngest person
ever promoted to the rank

of admiral in the history
of the United States Navy.

In 1946,
Byrd oversaw Operation Highjump,

the largest
Antarctic expedition to date.

The massive military convoy
included 13 ships,

33 aircraft and 4,700 troops.

The U.S. Navy sent down
a flotilla of ships

under the command
of Admiral Byrd.

And they came back after
about nine months in Antarctica.

Apparently, they actually fought
a battle in Antarctica,

probably between remnants
of the Third Reich,

and perhaps extraterrestrials,
as well.

There were stories
of craft coming up

out of the water
and attacking them.

Flying saucers dealt
a very heavy defeat

to Byrd's Operation Highjump.

He gave a report
in March of 1947

that said a new enemy
had been discovered

that could fly from Pole to Pole
in an instant.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
this incredible story

of a naval battle
with extraterrestrials

and encounters with craft
capable of flying from the South

to the North Pole in an instant
could actually be true?

(beeping)

In 2018, more than 70 years

after Byrd's astounding claim,

a satellite image captured
what appeared to be

a condensed water trail
from an aircraft, or contrail,

that could
only have been produced

by something traveling
at incredibly high speeds.

BRADBURY:
It extended the entire length
of the Earth,

longitudinally, from the
North Pole to the South Pole,

which is 12,000 miles.

NARRATOR:
The maximum length of time

that a contrail can maintain
its shape is 30 minutes,

but most dissipate
in less than 15.

Only a craft capable
of traveling faster

than 50,000 miles per hour,
or ten times the speed

of the fastest aircraft
in existence today,

could leave a contrail
that would stretch

the entire length of the Earth
without breaking up.

It's a seeming impossibility,
'cause it meant that some object

was able to traverse the entire
planet from Pole to Pole

in a matter of minutes
before the contrail disappeared.

BRADBURY:
Whatever created that
was going beyond Mach 10.

Mach 10 is over seven,
eight thousand miles per hour.

This was probably going much,
much faster than that.

So whatever it was,
was something that,

more than likely,
we've never seen before.

NARRATOR:
After sharing the image online,

Michael Bradbury received
replies of confirmed sightings

and even photographic
corroboration

looking up
at what appeared to be

the same incredible contrail
from below.

People had seen from below,

on the ground,
looking up the same thing.

When I saw this, I thought of
Admiral Byrd and what he said.

Admiral Byrd did tell us
that we had a very good chance

of being invaded
by a very fast-moving object

that would be able
to travel from Pole to Pole

at a very incredible speed.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Admiral Byrd
and the U.S. Navy

really did encounter
alien technology in Antarctica?

Technology that was first
discovered by the Nazis

at the start of World War II?

And could they even be
developing it

with extraterrestrials
still living there today,

hidden beneath the ice?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further evidence

of a long-standing
alien presence in Antarctica

can be found by investigating
a controversial theory.

TSOUKALOS:
This map shows Antarctica
without the ice,
NARRATOR:
Istanbul, Turkey.

Locked away in the archives
at the Topkapi Palace Museum

is a piece of gazelle skin
with a fragment

of an intricately drawn
world map on it.

This highly accurate
representation of the globe

is the work of an Ottoman
cartographer, Admiral Piri Reis,

and dates back to 1513 AD.

Incredibly,
the map depicts Antarctica,

which was not officially
discovered until 260 years later

by British explorer
Captain James Cook.

And even more startling,

it depicts the continent as
it would look without any ice.

TSOUKALOS:
Piri Reis claimed

that the map that he had
was a finished product

of other maps that he collected,

and all of this information
from the other maps

was transferred into
this one Piri Reis map.

What's so fascinating
about this map

is that it shows Antarctica
without the ice.

The question
that naturally arises:

well, who made these maps,
if they show

the Antarctic coastline
prior to it being under the ice?

Piri Reis was able to get
access to ancient records.

And we're not clear
exactly where they were,

but possibly the Vatican.

The Vatican Library has
extensive ancient records,

and I would imagine that
Admiral Piri Reis had access

to some of these maps.

So this supports that Antarctica
was known to the ancient world,

prior to it being

in its present location
under two miles of ice.

TSOUKALOS:
It shows

the actual landmass
of Antarctica

exactly as it is under ice.

And so, you have to ask the
question: how was that done?

You have two options: these maps
were gleaned from people

who had access
to radar technology,

and if that is the case,

then one has to argue
it is extraterrestrials,

because who else would have

satellite technology
1,000 or 2,000 years ago?

Another option is what if this
map was drawn during a time

when the Antarctic
was not under ice,

implying that Antarctica
was not at the South Pole

at the time
when that map was drawn.

NARRATOR:
The main proponent of this
theory was Charles Hapgood,

a history professor
at Springfield College

in Massachusetts,
when he first heard

about the paradox
of the Piri Reis map.

In his 1958 book,
The Earth's Shifting Crust,

Hapgood argued
that Antarctica was ice-free

prior to a catastrophic crustal
displacement that occurred

at the end of the last ice age,
approximately 12,000 years ago.

Hapgood's idea of crustal
displacement was that

in the relatively recent past,

Antarctica was in a much more
temperate zone,

and that it just shifted
and moved very suddenly

into the frozen area.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream scientists agree

that continents do drift,

and that Antarctica was
once in a warmer latitude.

But they insist
it took millions of years

to reach the South Pole.

Hapgood said it took days,
even hours.

CHILDRESS:
Hapgood was saying

that the thin crust
of the Earth is able

to slip forward
on the mantle and this causes

huge cataclysmic changes.

There are tidal waves,
earthquakes.

And suddenly, landmasses
that aren't at, say,

the North Pole or the South Pole
find themselves there.

NARRATOR:
If Hapgood's theory is correct,

could an ancient alien
civilization

that once flourished
in a warm Antarctica

have been destroyed
by a catastrophe?

And if so, is evidence
finally coming to light

in the form of
mysterious structures

emerging from the ice?

That civilization
was flash-frozen.

with former Navy
flight engineer "Brian,"

investigative journalist

Linda Moulton Howe learned
of a strange incident

that occurred in November 1995,

after he had dropped off
a team of scientists

at a new research site
in Marie Byrd Land.

Three, maybe four weeks into
them being out there,

McMurdo lost communication.

They had missed a couple of
their communication windows

that they were supposed
to make a call every day.

Our crew was told to go out
and find out

if everything was okay
at the camp.

So we went out,
and we orbited the camp,

and there was no sign
of anybody.

Right.

So, we landed, and, uh,
our navigator got out,

and he went out to try
and find the, the camp manager.

He comes back and says
there's nobody here.

So we got orders to fly back
to McMurdo,

so we closed up the airplane,
took off, came back to McMurdo.

NARRATOR:
The scientists remained missing
for more than a week--

an impossible amount of time
to survive out in the harsh

Antarctic conditions
without shelter or food.

Yet one week later,
McMurdo dispatch was stunned

when they received radio
communication from the team.

Somehow, they had all returned
to their camp unharmed.

Brian's squadron was once again
given orders to pick them up.

We landed, opened the back end
of the aircraft up,

and the people, they didn't even
grab their gear,

they just ran up to the back
of the airplane and jumped in.

And basically, we had to go out
and get their gear

and put it in the airplane
for them,

because they weren't gonna
get out of the aircraft.

What were you seeing
on their faces

of these scientists
running into the C-130?

They looked scared.
I mean, I can't say it

any plainer than that.
They looked scared.

These people
aren't talking to us,

they're not saying anything.

And I even asked one of the
guys, "Hey, where were you guys,

you know, for a whole week?"
And he just looked at me,

and he had this blank stare
on his face,

and he looked right at my face,
and-and didn't say a word.

Not anything.

Would you say, based on your
military life and work,

- were these people in shock?
- Yes.

That's a, that's
a very good explanation,

that they were in shock.

Somebody that had
just experienced

something that terrified them,

from what I can visualize,

the look they had,
yes, they were in shock.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, as the aircraft

taxied into the runway

at McMurdo Station,
they were met

with a special
transport vehicle.

The scientists were
immediately flown

on a private flight back to
Christchurch, New Zealand.

Brian and his team were never
given any explanation

for why the scientists
had gone missing,

or why they were flown out
of Antarctica in such a hurry.

HOWE:
What was the scuttlebutt,

where you guys ate,
around this whole operation

of the scientists, the hole,
the silver discs?

What was the scuttlebutt?

In town, people were talking
about maybe they were abducted

by aliens or something
like that.

Kind of started off as a joke.

There were scientists
that were saying that

they had run into some entities
at Marie Byrd Land,

-and that's why
they went missing.
-Right. Right.

NARRATOR:
If Brian's accounts are true,

and there is, in fact,
an extraterrestrial presence

in Antarctica today,

could it have been there
for hundreds,

or even thousands of years?

In July 2018,
Linda Moulton Howe interviewed

another whistleblower who
offered to provide her

with classified information

regarding Antarctica
on the condition

that she not reveal
his identity.

Her source, a retired Navy SEAL
who she identifies

as "Spartan 1,"
provided her with details

of an ancient structure
he claims to have visited

during his time
at the South Pole.

At that time, my rank was
first lieutenant commander,

Naval Special Operations.

We were inbound the southeast
coast of Antarctica.

We were dispatched for,
unofficially,

it was a research/reconnaissance
mission.

Officially, it was to find
a certain individual,

obtain any information,
and bring it back.

HOWE:
What was the date?

August 2003.

NARRATOR:
According to Spartan 1,

when he and his team
reached their destination,

they encountered a large
octagonal structure

protruding from the ice.

Cautiously, they proceeded
to enter it.

SPARTAN 1:
The very top of the first
structure we entered,

there was almost 18 feet
poking from the ice.

The rest of it was hidden
under the ice.

Each door was the same.

Uh, anywhere from 18 feet thick
to around 30 feet thick.

And even though these doors were
that thick and that heavy,

you could take one finger and
push them, and they would open.

There was
no resistance whatsoever.

The outside temperature was
at least 40 degrees below zero.

Once you stepped inside
these structures,

the temperature was an ambient
68 to 72 degrees.

SPARTAN 1:
It was lighted from the inside,

but we could not find
the source of light.

It was a lime green in color.

The walls were lined with
what I call hieroglyphics.

But nothing of hieroglyphics
that I've ever seen in my life.

NARRATOR:
Could there really be
mysterious structures

buried at the South Pole?

Structures built by an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization

in our remote past?

With all of the recently
reported UFO activity

on the continent, is it possible
that whoever or whatever

was behind the construction
is still around today?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

hidden in plain sight
in the Holy Bible.

NARRATOR:
The Bible's Book of Genesis.

In chapter six, verse nine,
begins the story

of Noah and the flood,

in which God sends a great
deluge to rid the Earth

of sinners and start anew.

Different versions
of this same story exist

in nearly every ancient
tradition around the world.

Going back 5,000 years,

we have sacred texts
that tell us there was

an antediluvian civilization...

...there was a great flood
and that there were survivors.

The Mesopotamians speak of this
in The Epic of Gilgamesh.

The Egyptians speak of this
in the Edfu Creation text.

Plato learned from the Egyptians
that there was once

a civilization called
Atlantis that existed

9,000 years before his time.

NARRATOR:
Plato wrote about
the lost continent of Atlantis

in two of his dialogues,

Timaeus and Critias,
around 360 BC.

Historians and researchers
have long debated whether

this pre-flood civilization
was purely mythological

or actually existed.

Arguments have been made
suggesting remnants

of Plato's
destroyed civilization

could be found
at the South Pole.

SALLA:
I think what happened
in Antarctica was that

approximately 13,000 years ago,
that flourishing civilization...

...that originally came
from space,

and establishing its presence
in Antarctica, was flash-frozen.

We actually have
ancient evidence of this

in the form of Plato's dialogues

where he talks about
the last days of Atlantis.

That basically is informing us
that Atlantis

was an extraterrestrial colony
that had established itself

on Earth,
and that after a Pole shift,

Atlantis was moved under the ice

where the South Pole
currently is.

NARRATOR:
Scientific anomalies.

Radar and satellite images.

Eyewitness accounts.
As more and more pieces

of the puzzle start
to come together,

might we soon be able
to solve the mystery

of the Antarctic continent?

And if so, just what
might we discover?

Modern whistleblowers
still argue

that there is more
about Antarctica

that is being covered up
than we think.

There are entire bases
down there,

entire civilizations,

that the world's governments
are working with aliens.

SALLA:
They know about
the buried artifacts,

they know about the ancient
civilizations down there.

And they know about the
extraterrestrial civilizations

that continue to operate in
Antarctica at the very moment.

CHILDRESS:
It's totally possible that
Antarctica contains

extraterrestrial home base
on Earth.

It's a totally isolated part
of the planet.

It's completely uninhabited,
or was until recently.

It's ideal.

HENRY:
Buried underneath the ice

in Antarctica could well be
stone temple constructions.

There could be
biological material,

remains of beings
that lived there,

and could still be there.

It could be the greatest reveal
in all of human history.

NARRATOR:
Are we getting glimpses

of Earth's true history
very deep under the ice sheets

of Antarctica?

And if so, will we soon
be confronted with proof

of an extraterrestrial presence
at the South Pole?

(whooshes)

Perhaps when the icy curtain
is finally lifted

and we are ready
to learn the truth,

we will find ourselves
face-to-face

with our alien ancestors.

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