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Prehistoric rock art depicting astronauts.
Oh, look at that.
It's a spaceman.
Spaceman, exactly. Look at the helmet.
An ancient temple covered in otherworldly writings.
It's all here in this sanctuary.
The whole story of humanity's place in the stars.
Incredible petroglyphs of mysterious flying objects.
This one here looks like a UFO.
For more than a decade, Ancient Aliens has examined the oldest and most
mysterious carvings on Earth, up close and in person.
Now we take a look back at some of the most extraordinary glyphs.
Glyphs that, according to ancient astronaut theorists, tell a worldwide
alien visitation.
On Ancient Aliens, we have traveled across the world examining some of the
mysterious stone carvings, often referred to as glyphs. Our ancestors
countless hours carving images and symbols as a record of what they thought
the most important pieces of their history.
Many glyphs depict strange humanoid figures and tell stories of visitors
down from the sky.
William Henry got to see some of these incredible glyphs up close in the
mountains of northern Italy.
Valcamonica, Italy, June 13, 2019.
Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry has traveled to this UNESCO World
Heritage Site to investigate what he believes could be forensic evidence that
the early civilizations of this region came into contact with
Hi, I'm William. Hi, I'm Luca. Nice to meet you. Joining him is Luca Giarelli,
the head of the Valcamonica Historical and Anthropological Society.
Luca has spent years studying this mysterious region of northern Italy and
to show William the rock carvings for which this alpine valley is famous.
This place is massive.
Yeah, it's very big and deep.
Rockhart covers all that area.
Are you ready for a hike? I'm ready. Let's go. Let's go.
I'm here at Valcamonica because it is a treasure trove of images from the
ancient world that have been well documented and studied by scholars.
They don't agree on the meaning of the images, but some of them are very open
-minded to the ancient astronaut theory.
This is one of the rockhart hikes here in Valcamonica.
Footprint. Footprint there.
Wow.
You can see here.
Look like deer.
We have a warrior.
Look at that.
Incredible.
Thousands and thousands of figures on the rock.
Here we are. Wow. What we have here? We have this one. A figure.
Oh, look at that.
It's big, man.
Faith man, exactly. Look at the helmet.
Look at the helmet.
Right. It's like he's glowing.
Yeah.
And the communion rose.
The communion rose.
Wow.
19 communion roses.
Archaeologists call this mysterious symbol the communion rose because of its
flower -like shape, while its exact meaning is lost to history.
Some believe it to be a religious symbol or a representation of the movement of
the stars.
But ancient astronaut theorists suggest it might also depict something else, the
vessel that brought these helmeted figures to Valcamonica.
Look at that. That looks like a spaceship. It's like you'd look up in
and you would see this kind of twirling, spinning ship in the sky.
It seems to me, just looking at it, they're trying to talk about beings
from other worlds, maybe to this place. It's a petition.
Tell me about that five -pointed star.
We have a lot of five -point stars here on this rock, but we don't know what
they mean when they did this particular geometric shape.
Sometimes the stars mean energy, like energy from the stars would come to this
place, where star beings would come to this place.
Yeah, it could be an interpretation.
We have a lot of mystery about the meaning of the engraving here in
We have a different motivation.
religious, mythological, and also describing events.
Okay. So this is like a newspaper then. It says this was in the sky above us at
some point and this spaceman came down and maybe met the communion people.
It could be.
According to the ancient stories, the city of Turin, just 155 miles from
Valcamonica, was founded by a character from Greek mythology called Phaeton, who
came to Earth from the stars.
Legend states that Turin was founded by the god Phaeton, who is a son of the sun
god Helios. And in the myth of Phaeton, we learn the story of how he descended
to Earth in a fiery chariot, perhaps crashing into Mount Nusini.
This also led to something fortuitous because he brought gifts to this place.
had great skills, was a metallurgist, and taught this to the local people.
When we look at myths such as the myth of Phaeton, here is really the story of
UFO landing on a mountain and interacting with the locals.
Given the connection with the spacemen, that are etched into the rock, that we
have to be open to the possibility that what the ancient artist is trying to
portray is something that he actually saw in the sky, something coming out of
the heavens.
Is there a connection between the stone carvings found at Valcamonica and the
story of Phaeton's descent from the sky?
And do other clues exist here that point to ancient alien contact?
Were there any other cultures that were connected with the valley? We found some
engravings that represent gods of Celtic religion.
What sort of engravings?
You know, Cernunnos?
Oh, the horned god. Yeah. Yeah, the horned god.
And we find the same figure here in Valcamonica.
That means the Celts were here.
Yeah, they were the connection.
So, is this the only location where we see the spaceman?
No, we have two locations. This is one, but we can find another astronaut out of
the path.
Even deeper into the woods? Yeah. We can go there.
I'd love to go. Let's go.
Luca guides William up a steep portion of the valley for a rare look at another
carving hidden from public view.
Be careful.
All right. Thanks.
Whoa, here we are. Take a look where we are. Wow.
We're right on the edge of a cliff here.
We have less than 100 people in the last 10 years that came here.
Did you see them?
Wait a minute. That's one of them, isn't it, right there? Yeah. How cool. A
couple of space maps.
Wow.
You can see here the helmet with the race like the other one.
Yeah, these are just like the other guys.
Yeah, it's very similar, but...
They are bigger.
The detail is amazing. Yeah.
It's like a mirror.
One in front of the other. Same position, same helmet.
There's clearly some kind of an exchange that's happening here.
It's like they're making a photograph of what happened at this place. They're
trying to say, at this spot, this is what we saw here.
We don't know, but it's very strange because it's hidden location, deep
engraving. are not meant to be seen by other people.
Of all places to find a rock like this, this is a very secretive, almost
initiatory place where select people would be brought here to be told this
about the extraterrestrials. Yeah, maybe it's the hidden message for us.
Do the so -called spacemen of Valcamonica commemorate an
visitation? as ancient astronaut theorists suggest.
Perhaps further clues can be found by examining an Egyptian temple covered in
hieroglyphs that tell the story of the creation of humankind.
Of all the mysterious glyphs we've examined on ancient aliens, some of the
astounding can be found in Egypt, where they're known as hieroglyphs.
One of the most extensive collections of hieroglyphs is at the Temple of Edfu.
And in 2018, Rami Rahmani gave us a rare opportunity to see them for ourselves.
Egyptologist Rami Rahmani has invited author and
researcher Andrew Collins to join him on a visit to one of the most impressive
and best preserved shrines in Egypt, the Temple of Edfu, located on the west
bank of the Nile, 465 miles south of Cairo.
Look at this temple.
This is like my most favorite facade in all of the temples of ancient Egypt.
According to mainstream archaeologists, Edfu is believed to have been built
sometime between 237 and 57 BC.
It is dedicated to the falcon -headed god Horus, the son of Osiris and Isis.
This temple was one of the last temples that was ever built in ancient Egypt
during the Roman times.
When they built that temple, they were like, we want to preserve the stories,
let's gather all the mythology of ancient Egypt and try to put it in one
It took 150 years to make this happen.
And then finally, we have the book of ancient Egyptian mythology. It's right
front of us on all these walls.
Every wall is absolutely covered in hieroglyphs and images, not only of
the foundation of ancient Egypt and the first temple, but also how the world
came into being, how Egypt came into being, how the universe was essentially
founded in the first place.
I mean, there's just so much here.
The most sacred part of Edfu is its inner sanctum, featuring a 12 -foot tall
granite stone.
This is it, right here.
This is how it all began.
Every symbol, every text, every little drawing in here represents the most
sacred thing for ancient Egyptians.
The question that humans now still ask themselves, how did it all begin?
what created us, but every religion talks about it. Scientists try to figure
out. Ancient Egyptians had an answer, and it was right there.
Right on top of this is the Pyramidian. That Pyramidian is the primeval mound
that appeared in the middle of the marches where all the gods came and
for the first time to start creating humanity. This is the beginning of
humanity.
And the Pyramidion is almost like a miniature of what we see at Giza with
Great Pyramid, which is so fascinating because what we have here is a focus of
all of these chapels finishing with this incredible structure pointing towards
the stars.
It's actually pointing towards the origins of the gods themselves.
There's another piece of evidence here that you might like. This.
is the boat, or a symbol of the boat that they believed the gods came on to
first primeval stone, the first primeval mound. The gods would have arrived on
this ship.
So it's all here in this sanctuary, the whole story of humanity's beginning, you
know, its place in the stars and how it arrived here in the first place. This,
to me, strongly suggests that they were aware.
that our origins are found amongst the stars.
Or could it just simply be humans trying to make religions explain what science
can't explain?
But I don't think it's about religion.
This is about cosmology, an ancient cosmology that we're now beginning to
understand for the first time within science. We can now essentially say that
the idea that life came from the stars is almost certainly a reality, whether
came here.
or on a meteorite or whatever.
Somehow the ancient Egyptians knew this.
Are the ancient hieroglyphs carefully inscribed on the granite stone at the
Temple of Edfu merely the fanciful notions of ancient Egyptian priests?
Or could they be based on actual historical events?
Perhaps the answers can be found by examining an ancient glyph that can only
seen.
On ancient aliens, we have traveled around the world investigating
glyphs that for me prove we are not alone in the universe.
Some of the most dramatic examples of this are geoglyphs, enormous symbols
have been carved into the earth and can only be seen from the sky.
In 2018,
David Childress got a bird's eye view of one of the most amazing geoglyphs we've
ever examined.
Blight, California.
Located in the desert just west of the Arizona border, an estimated 300
figures can be seen etched in the arid ground.
Known as the Blight in Taglios, these ancient carvings depict animals,
and perhaps most significantly, gigantic humanoid figures.
The entaglios are unique in that they are always found on the shorelines of
ancient lakes that existed 12 ,500 years ago and prior.
In April 2018,
ancient astronaut theorist David Childress traveled to Blythe to meet
historian Patricia Robles and Alfredo Figueroa.
an elder of the local Chemehuevi tribe.
He is also known to many in the region as the guardian of the glyphs.
David was eager to see firsthand whether the legends surrounding these unique
geoglyphs could be true.
They can only be seen from the air, really, right? They can be seen from the
ground, but you can't see it all.
In tech.
If you're walking on it, you really don't know what you're walking on.
Yeah, right. We'll be able to see it with the drone, I think. Oh, that's
excellent. You got a drone?
Yeah, we've got it. Yeah, let me get that drone out. Okay, let me get it.
Who built this and why?
The regular tribes here were the Aztecas. The Aztecs. Right.
I have a... Here we go.
Wow, that's pretty interesting.
With the drone camera, David, Patricia, and Alfredo are able to see the Blythe
intaglios from a vantage point that their creators never could have, at
not without the aid of some form of aircraft.
But if this is true, then why were they created, and for whom?
All right, this is Omer Siwat.
Siwat means woman.
And she is pregnant right here. She's like having a baby then.
And right next to her is the ocelot.
Ocelot is a jaguar.
So you can see it's a cat because it has a very long tail, huh?
Well, the tail is supposed to have been like a u.
And in the cosmos, it represents the big dipper.
Here in this place, they came down.
And because they descended from the cosmos, our ancestors created these
and aligned them with the constellations so that we would understand that story.
But of all the Blythe and Taglios, the ones Alfredo is most eager to show David
are those that are the largest and arguably the most dramatic.
This is big. This thing is huge. That's right.
They are the ones representing the Aztec gods Cocopelli, better known as
Quetzalcoatl, and Sisi Mito, the Aztec star god.
Which glyph is this one?
What we're seeing here is Cocopelli.
And he represents Quetzalcoatl.
The Aztec god of Quetzalcoatl.
So this one is... Sisi Mito.
Sisi Mito.
His face there, you see his nose.
I mean, it's not like a normal...
No, well, it looks just like E .T. He looks like an extraterrestrial, yeah.
An extraterrestrial?
Is it possible that these incredible geoglyphs represent not just
gods, but actual alien beings whose arrival on Earth was witnessed by the
people?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and Alfredo Figueroa is convinced.
But it was here, the location of the Aztecs' legendary home of Aslan, where
extraterrestrial visitors came down from the sky.
Aslan is very important in Aztec mythology.
It was a place where the gods came down to give them the information and
prophecies that the Aztecs had.
I mean, you're maintaining that this whole area here around Blythe and the
Colorado River, It's the ancient homeland of the Aztecs and the gods,
Yes. The geoglyphs were made by the Nahua people. The Nahua are the origin
the Aztecas and the Mexicas. So they're the ones that made them at first.
And then the Nahua people made these geoglyphs to honor the creator gods.
Right, and to not forget where we came from.
That's right.
Could it be that Blythe, California,
really was the ancestral home of the Aztec people, and that more than 1 ,000
years ago, the area was visited by extraterrestrial beings.
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the answers may be found by examining
the most mysterious glyphs of all, incredible images of visitors from the
Any discussion of mysterious glyphs has to include the incredible ancient rock
art of the Native Americans.
In 2013, I got the rare opportunity to examine a remarkable collection of
petroglyphs in the Zuni territory of New Mexico with tribal elder Clifford
Mahudi.
The Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico.
Located at an elevation of over 6 ,000 feet, this barren desert land, has been
home to the Zuni for at least 1 ,300 years.
Stretching roughly 700 square miles, it contains literally thousands of ancient
carvings that most outsiders have never laid eyes on.
And the Zuni claim that some of these petroglyphs depict visitations from star
beings.
To the Zuni people and other tribes, there's a spiritual connection with the
star beings.
They're the ones that actually rule the universe or the world that we're on.
If you look at the petroglyphs, there's a lot of references to those type of
entities.
There's definitely evidence that aliens visited North America in the distant
past, and there are petroglyphs throughout this part of the country
ancient Americans that depict just that.
In 2013,
Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Suclos traveled to New Mexico to meet
Zuni elder Clifford Mahudi and get an exclusive look at this mysterious rock
art. What can you tell me about this petroglyph right here?
You know, if you can see on top of it where maybe a head would be, it's kind
eroded off. But on the next part of it, there's where compartments look like
extension of something sticking out. Yeah, almost like legs.
It could be something that they saw in the air.
Isn't there a legend that beings visited on top of this mountain?
Oh, yes.
On all of the mesas.
Look at that triangle up there.
And you've got the dots around that have been carved into the rock. They remind
me like stars in conjunction with all the stories of star people descending
the sky.
in fiery shields and things like this when i see a pattern like that i always
think what if this is something that they saw and then they carved onto a
for something like this that they saw maybe in the sky or had an encounter
would come over and say well it all it looked like this so they would put on
there He said, well, the best of my recollection, here's what it looked
they would put it on there. So this is their permanent record.
Right. Oh, no, that is why stone was used. It is the only permanent record
we have.
Yes. And the thing about it is that how does it connect to present day?
I mean, there are certain things out here where you can look at it. Okay, for
example, the UFO.
We didn't know anything about UFOs until the last century.
But all those years, they knew about them, they saw them, and somebody says,
okay, I'm going to put this down here for longevity.
And they say, grandson, I want to show you what I saw when I was a young man.
And they'll come over and say, that's exactly what I saw, and here's what it
looked like.
Is it possible that these ancient rock carvings in remote areas of the Zuni
territory provide a historical record of extraterrestrial contact?
You can find petroglyphs that are similar to those in the Zuni territory
throughout North America. And surprisingly, nearly identical drawings
found on the other side of the planet.
Brisbane Water National Park, New South Wales, Australia.
The Bulgari Preservation Site.
is one of numerous sacred indigenous locations where ancient rock art and
engravings can be found.
Many are believed to date back thousands of years.
In February 2016,
researcher and publisher Giorgio Tsoukalos traveled to Australia to meet
Aboriginal elder Kevin Gavi Duncan to learn about one of the oldest carvings
that can be found here.
So what are we looking at here?
So this image is an actual image of what we say is our godfather creator being,
Bayami.
That's what our people believe.
Okay.
Bayami came from a place that we call the morning star within the mirror
Mirror means stars and bukkha means river. It is the Milky Way that flows
the night sky.
No kidding.
Okay.
And so he is one of those sky heroes that has descended from the Milky Way.
He's a sky hero.
And Bihami is carved in the manner as you see them. He has his arms out and he
holds the moon in one hand and the morning star in the
other, which is a bit like what we call planet Earth.
And these are the two moons which exist around the morning star in the Mirabuka
that Bayami came from.
And this is the canoe.
He sailed through the river of life in the Mirabuka across the sky. He sailed
through the Milky Way. Yes, he sailed through the Milky Way.
And this was his vessel that he sailed and landed to the earth.
And he crushed the top of the mountain, which is the sacred mountain of Mount
Yango, not far from here.
When he landed, they said the fire came from his feet and it burnt the top of
the mountain and all around it every time he landed. So the landings were
associated with a lot of noise, smoke and fire.
The fire trail that was left when Bayami was leaving the top of the mountain
into the sky world. When Bayami had left, it was so bright.
People interpret that as a spaceship of some kind, as come and go.
But this is the way we simply interpret Bayami spaceship.
Right, but it's because the vocabulary didn't exist at the time. So to me,
are all wonderfully poetic ways to describe...
eyewitness accounts of things that were incredible.
Yes. This site is considered around 8 ,000 to 10 ,000 years old.
Wow.
These carvings, these rock paintings, these are our books.
They are considered to be basically truth.
Do the petroglyphs found in Australia and North America?
tell the same story of alien visitation?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest that another series of rock
carvings found in Australia may reveal the truth about how these otherworldly
visitors arrived on planet Earth.
On ancient aliens, we've examined glyphs all over the world, and we find
strikingly similar imagery again and again.
But what was completely unexpected was the discovery of what are clearly
Egyptian hieroglyphs, not in Egypt, but in Australia.
Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.
Deep in the Brisbane Water National Park is a mysterious site known as the
Gosford Glyphs.
The site consists of two massive eight -foot -high walls.
engraved with over 300 ancient carvings.
Carvings that experts say do not resemble indigenous artwork, but
hieroglyphs.
After deciphering the texts, 21st century Egyptologist Ray Johnson
to reveal the burial site of Lord Nefertiru, a member of the Egyptian
family. who died while visiting the area with his brother sometime between 2637
and 2614 B .C.
Absolutely beautiful out here.
And I am.
While visiting the area in 2016,
Giorgio Suclos met with local ancient astronaut theorist Evan Strong.
to get a first -hand look at these enigmatic carvings. And here we are.
That's incredible.
I had no idea. I mean, this looks totally different than on pictures.
So what do these hieroglyphs say?
Well, at least one panel talks about two brothers, two princes, coming here from
Egypt. They were shipwrecked. One of them ended up getting bitten by a snake.
He then died.
then he was interred here, and that's why you've got Pyrogoth here, because he
died here.
But there's these other walls with a mixture of symbols.
This one over here is more of a philosophical, astrophysics -style thing
symbols meaning all sorts of esoteric stuff.
Now, have these symbols at all been interpreted by Egyptologists?
There's... Been a few, actually.
A few different people have done that. And what was their reaction?
Well, Raymond Johnson was one of the first people to come here and translate.
He actually sent some of his translations off to the Cairo Library,
Diogazi ended up saying, yep, you're on the right track.
Something called proto -Egyptian. And how old do you reckon these are?
We're thinking, because of the prevalence at least in one panel of
-Egyptians, that it's about 4 ,600 years old.
Wow.
Are there any hieroglyphs that stand out to you?
Yeah, definitely. Follow me down here, and I'll show you this other one.
This one here we call the UFO glyph, and people have called that since they've
been coming here, because it kind of looks like a UFO.
It definitely has the classic UFO shape.
It's got the...
The rays or whatever you want to call it.
What would you suggest if anyone says, well, this is not a UFO, it's some other
symbol, but certainly not that?
I think someone suggested it's jewelry, but it's a completely different symbol
that's upside down. It really doesn't quite fit in. It's one of those symbols
here that doesn't fit into the canon.
In your opinion, why do you think the Egyptians made it all the way to
Australia? I think they were looking for esoteric.
Wisdom, definitely. From the Aboriginals?
Yeah.
The ancient Egyptians, we have stories and Aboriginal stories about their
arrival and about their visits long before Europeans had arrived here.
Naturally, we would have shared ceremony with these people because they have the
same similar beliefs as our people.
Egyptians have that same...
spiritual connection to the sky world.
Hieroglyphs found in Australia?
Might the continent have actually served as a pilgrimage site for visitors
seeking a direct connection to the so -called gods?
Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence of this
otherworldly link can be found in one of the most remote places in the world.
What's fascinating about many of the glyphs we've examined on ancient aliens
that they depict the natural world of our ancestors with extreme accuracy.
But every now and then we find a bird that looks more like an airplane, or a
serpent with wings, or even a turtle descending from the sky.
And this is exactly what I found at one of the most remote locations in the
world, the Marquesas Islands.
The South Pacific Ocean, June 2018.
Ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress set out to
explore the remote Marquesas Islands in search of evidence that extraterrestrial
contact took place here in the remote past.
Hello. Hello. I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you.
I'm Anieta. Hi, I'm David.
Arriving on the island of Nuku Hiva.
They are met by local guide, Panyata Kimateta.
Let's go explore.
Great. All right.
She has brought them to an area known as Kamuihe, a sacred place believed to be
rich in what the natives call mana, or spiritual power.
So we are arriving at this spot where I really wanted to show you about this
site. Oh, look at this.
What we see here is what we call a petroglyph. Yeah.
So you have three turtles.
So one, two, three here.
And also on the rock, you can see a canoe.
Okay. So you have the head of the canoe here that looks a little bit like a
bird. Their canoes had a bird head at the front.
You see the beak?
Yeah, that looks like a bird head. Yeah.
And what is the significance of the turtles?
The turtle is actually the messenger from the gods. He was a very sacred
People were not allowed to eat them.
You know, I think this is really interesting what you said, that the
regarded here as a messenger of the gods, because this is not something new.
It's not something...
native to this area. There are other parts of the world where the turtle is
described by having descended from the sky.
And the idea that this is here too considered a messenger of the gods, that
me is a connection to potential extraterrestrials.
Throughout the planet, numerous ancient cultures have origin stories that
involve some sort of divine or cosmic turtle.
Followers of Japanese Shinto venerate the Kamiishi, a stone turtle that
the end of the world.
In Guatemala, there are legends of giant flying turtles and even artifacts that
feature the image of a man wearing what appears to be a helmet lying inside a
turtle shell.
In North America, the Iroquois Indians tell tales of a sky goddess.
who falls to earth from the heavens, whereupon a giant turtle rises up from
ocean to catch her.
I think it's interesting here, this canoe, which would have been very large,
the bird head on it, and you have the birdmen of Easter Island that are so
famous.
One of Easter Island's ancient traditions involves Tengada Manu, or the
Cult.
According to legend, the creator god, Maki Maki, was looking in a mirror and
a bird land on his shoulder.
Seeing his image combined with the bird, he decided to make a son who was half
man, half bird.
In turn, the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island worshipped the bird man as the
predecessor of all humans.
One of the central focuses of the rituals, the annual rituals at Easter
was that of Tangatu Manu, the Birdman.
And the Birdman is a universal symbol that we find in many parts of the globe
that relates to ancestry associated with figures, characters in feather coats.
who were seen to be able to go between this world and the next.
And here we have the same idea on Easter Island.
Is there more to see on the island?
We have a lot more to see on the island. Okay. So let's go. Okay.
After showing Giorgio and David the ancient petroglyphs, Agnata takes them
site that is some of the most striking statuary in the Marquesas.
Right now, we are at the Tohua of Temerhea. So the Tohua is the gathering
And so this sculpture here is a modern sculpture.
But is this based on something old?
Yes, because the site that we are on was rebuilt. Even though it's modern, it's
really based on the original statue. Oh, wow.
Okay. Is this considered a tiki?
Yes, the tiki represent the population.
So to the Marquesan people, what is a tiki?
A tiki at first was the representation of our god of magic and sorcery. He was
one of the only gods in French Polynesia that has the face of a man.
He became our protector because when you have a tiki by your side, then you're
protected from your enemy.
In the Marquesas, The word tiki can be used to refer both to an ancestral
that came to the islands in ancient times, as well as the statues that
him.
They are variously carved in both wood and stone, and often depict a being with
large, goggle -like eyes.
And this is what Tiki looks like?
Yes, because they say in the legend that when Tiki left the earth, they made the
sculpture of how he looked like, just to have something to remember from Tiki.
So that's how he looked like, actually. It looks very strange to me.
This is a representation of what your ancestors thought this figure looked
It doesn't look like a man. It looks weird.
Yeah, I mean, he sort of looks like a man, but with these big goggle eyes and
the elongated head and everything, he looks like an extraterrestrial.
Is it possible that glyphs found on nearly every continent reveal that
people all over the world encountered extraterrestrial visitors?
Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that some rock art provides a record not
only of alien contact, but even of how they got here.
Could these mysterious petroglyphs provide the best evidence yet of ancient
alien contact?
To me, the ultimate proof lies in the fact that all over the world, cultures
that were separated by thousands of miles carved the same strange figures
symbols again and again.
leaving us with a record of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth.
Our alien origins are in plain sight for anyone to see.
You only need to read the writing on the wall.
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