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NARRATOR: Ancient megalithic stones
cut with astonishing precision.

What some people suggest
is is that they were using

electricity and power tools.

NARRATOR: Mysterious sculptures
depicting beings from

around the world and beyond.

There are all the races here.

Even the grey aliens.

NARRATOR: And legends of
otherworldly giants creating an

entire civilization in a single night.

If there's one place that
shows evidence of ancient

aliens, it's Puma Punku.

NARRATOR: Are the ancient ruins
of Puma Punku the result

of primitive man's
incredible ingenuity?

Or are they they product
of a much higher power?

Puma Punku is the only site
on planet Earth that, in my

opinion, was built directly
by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Millions of people
around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by
extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might there be evidence
here on Earth of a lost alien city?

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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.

DAVID CHILDRESS: 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 kid's toy blocks around the site.

It's like some giant cataclysm
just wiped out this entire area.

Archeologists 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, archeologist
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 have
been built about 17,000 years

ago by studying the archeoastronomy
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.

CHILDRESS: 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?

NEWMAN: If you look at the
stones carefully, and you get a

magnifying glass on some of them,
you can see some intricate

stonework, as though they used
machine tools or even lasers.

It's absolutely incredible.

I've seen nothing like it
anywhere on the planet.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When an
architect or an engineer looks

at Puma Punku, one thing jumps
out immediately, that whoever

built this place had knowledge
of planning, of logistics and

had access to advanced technology.

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 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.

FOERSTER: Well, exactly, and
this surface is as smooth as a

table top, 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 to the
ultimate cutting test, using

both laser technology and
a modern diamond saw.

DUNN: 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.

DUNN: You've got vitrification
on the laser-cut

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

on the side cut with the diamond saw.

And then, whatever tool they
used to cut the ancient surface

must have been a different method.

TSOUKALOS: 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 ten 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: What did the ancients
use to cut the andesite

stone so precisely?

Might evidence of advanced
technology be found by further

study of the construction
of the Puma Punku stones?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and point to what
they call H blocks.

FOERSTER: It seems like every
one of these H blocks is

exactly the same, so it's like
a prefabrication process where

they needed X-hundred of these,
and whatever machinery it is

that they had was able, with
amazing accuracy, to replicate

one after another after another.

That's very sophisticated.

CHILDRESS: Yeah, it's an
ingenious way of building a

huge granite wall.

And again, the whole thing is
just so incredibly precise.

Doing these kind of inside
corners like this... this just

can't be done, really, with
copper chisels and stone hammers.

The whole thing is-is just
so incredibly high-tech,

even beyond what we would do today.

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.

TSOUKALOS: 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
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.

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, Ph.D:
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.

TSOUKALOS: 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 UN 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 moustache.

And that is an unusual thing,
because American Indians do not

have beards and moustaches.

FOERSTER: Exactly.

The fact, also, that the beard and
the moustache 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 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 4,000 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 3,000 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 Annunaki.

So, in that case, the Annunaki
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?

TSOUKALOS: One of the earliest
chronicles that we have

in regards to Puma Punku talks
about that these giant platforms

we moved through the air
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.

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

CHILDRESS: So, here we are at the
famous Gate of the Sun, with

Viracocha right in the middle,
holding two scepters, surrounded

by bird men.

FOERSTER: 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
were modern inventions.

But actually, if you look at the
quality of the stone work, 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 space

port that extraterrestrials would want.

NARRATOR: Might Puma Punku be
the remains of an intergalactic

outpost built by otherworldly
beings tens of thousands of

years ago, as ancient
astronaut theorists contend?

Perhaps the answer can be found
using modern technology to

examine the purpose for which the
site was built in the first place.

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
used the most sophisticated of

technologies.

FOERSTER: That is part of the
great mystery of Puma Punku.

It seems as though some kind of
factory was set up there to make

these almost exactly the same.

It's almost like a Lego system
of interconnecting blocks, and

that is unique on this Earth.

VON DANIKEN: Many of the blocks
were prefabricated blocks.

Prefabricated blocks means planning.

You have to make a design.

Planning means writing.

Now the archaeologists say that
Puma Punku are the ruins of

temples made by the Aymara.

Aymara are the highland
Indians up there.

But the Aymara were Stone Age people.

They had not even writing.

So not planning, it's
absolutely impossible.

Prefabricated blocks in Stone
Age doesn't fit with Stone Age.

And the precision of the
blocks is absolutely baffling.

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.

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

What was your conclusion?

What did you find?

DUNN: 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.

TSOUKALOS: And by internal
cavities, you're referring to

these two parts
right here, right?

DUNN: Exactly.

TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.

DUNN: These two surfaces right
here, both top and bottom,

uh, 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?

DUNN: Really, if we look at the
way we have 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, uh,
hinges for a door.

NARRATOR: To test his theory,
Dunn created a door hinge that

would connect to a
small-scale model H-block.

DUNN: 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 sophistited
was used and not chicken bones.

DUNN: Not chicken bones, not
copper chisels, not 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.

PAUL FRANCIS: These had a purpose.

NARRATOR: Model maker Paul
Francis from Dandridge,

Tennessee, offers another theory.

TSOUKALOS: 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.

TSOUKALOS: I mean, this
justlooks bad-ass.

I mean, it looks really
unbelievable 'cause you've

basically taken an object that
was created by an ancient

artisan and turned it into
something from a modern-day

perspective as it relates to space
travel, or at least aviation.

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 therere two small bumps
on the back of the original

sculpture, which to me
indicate rocket thrusters.

You have this cone-shaped piece,
which could have 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 megaton
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.

FOERSTER: 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?

NOORY: There could have 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 have 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.

TSOUKALOS: I think that Puma

Punku was deliberately
destroyed by its builders...

extraterrestrials...
right before they decided to leave planet

Earth and go on to their next mission.

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 nonhuman 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 ET will

have been in residence on this planet.

And so the question then is,
Puma Punku being a base camp for

an ET 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 an

outstation or something for
another civilization, possibly

from India, possibly from
Atlantis, possibly from...

CHILDRESS: Outer space.

FOERSTER: Exactly.

NARRATOR: Precision stonework...

unparalleled engineering...

and incomprehensible destruction.

Was Puma Punku really built by
extraterrestrial travelers?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Was is it an outpost?
A battle ground?

Or could have it been
a final destination?

Perhaps one day we will solve the
riddle

and find out once and for all
just who we are and why we are here.