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A mysterious metal object that defies explanation.

Very strange.

So what does the museum have to say about this? It is a strange piece for us

well. An ancient stone carving that may possess advanced technology.

Inside the crystalline structure were great memory chip banks.

An extraordinary crystal skull with strange properties.

So what are we looking at here? It seems to be very strong protective energy.

On ancient aliens, we've investigated the world's oldest and most incredible

relics up close and in person.

Now, we take a look back at some of the most mysterious artifacts we've examined

all over the globe.

Artifacts that, according to ancient astronaut theorists, provide undeniable

proof of extraterrestrial contact.

On ancient aliens, we have examined some of the most mysterious artifacts on

Earth.

Artifacts that I believe offer compelling evidence that our ancestors

visited by extraterrestrials.

And that is exactly what I found when I traveled to a museum in Romania with

Erik van Däniken to examine one of the most extraordinary relics ever

discovered.

Transylvania, Romania.

1970.

Workers digging a trench along the bank of the Muir's River unearth two giant

bones.

And with them, a mysterious metal object buried 35 feet beneath the surface.

The discovery brings the project to a halt as the crew takes their findings to

nearby museum.

This strange object, known today as the wedge of Ayut continues to baffle

archaeologists because it is an aluminum alloy that appears to have been made

thousands of years before humans were able to smelt or fabricate metal.

It was 10 meters in depth, associated with some bones, which they later

identified as woolly mammoth bones.

If they were contemporary, all of them, then they were in use sometime in the

period when Neanderthals roamed the Earth. So they were extinct 40 ,000

ago, so they must be older than that.

The wedge was analyzed three times, to my knowledge. The main metal in its

composition is aluminum.

Humans didn't really start working with aluminum until well into the 1800s.

So when you look at this wedge and you analyze it, it really has most of the

modern properties we would associate with aluminum.

In January of 2017,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos and Erich von Däniken were

a rare opportunity to get a firsthand look at the wedge of Ayyub.

Museum curator Anna Gruia has taken it out of a storage locker.

where it has been deliberately hidden from the public since the early 1970s.

Okay.

This is exciting.

I'm going to put my gloves on.

Great.

Okay. So this is it.

Oh, wow. Okay.

This is strange.

It's very heavy.

Chacho, take it. It's crazy.

It's heavy.

Wow.

This was found at a depth of 10 meters, which is about 30 feet, in the ground.

Yes. And here this is where they took the sample out and here to make the

analysis. And here you see two pieces that are broken off, sort of. So maybe

was attached or something.

But very strange. So what does the museum have to say about this? This is a

strange piece.

it is it is a strange piece for us as well as historians we do not consider it

historical object that we're used to we don't know what it was used for and we

acknowledge these uncertainties about its dating and its composition as well

so for what can you use this it looks like a hammer or a shuffle but it's also

what is the word of in english

Oh, an excavator tooth. Well, it looks like this. It could have been something

like it.

But these excavator tubes are never made out of aluminum.

No, it's too weak. Aluminum is too soft. Yeah. They are made out of steel,

especially hard steel. So it could not be that. So we have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina over this whole object, and this creates another

problem. Yes.

Because you cannot fake a patina.

It's impossible to artificially create a patina.

The patina is a thin coating of various metal compounds that forms on the

surface of the metal during exposure to atmospheric elements.

The older the object, the thicker the patina layer will be.

It takes hundreds, if not thousands of years for a thick layer of patina, as

this apparently is, It's ready to develop.

Yes, we agree. There are two basic problems.

One, that aluminum was not invented at the age when we presume this was in use.

And second, it's the patina, as you noted.

Which speaks for the date, for the age of it.

So, we still...

Have a mystery here. Thank you very much for showing us this object because I

know that there was a time when nobody knew where it was, somewhere in a box in

the back, which means present -day archaeology has a problem.

And they're doing magnificent work. But when something like this comes along,

you know, we should investigate this and not put it in a box in the back.

Definitely. It did depend on mentalities and official position.

it isn't currently exhibited because we have to admit as historians that we do

not know more details about it for us it's just baffling at this point

but taking the the logic further this conflicting information could have just

two solutions so far one that it is really not so old And the context is

irrelevant and the patina was somehow produced in special circumstances.

So it's a new object, strangely preserved, let's say.

And the second option is, of course, that it's not of terrestrial origin.

In all of your adventures, how does this compare to some of the other things

that are inexplicable? I am helpless. I have no idea.

That says it all right there.

Very bizarre.

It's bizarre.

I've known about this thing since the early 1990s.

And I have to tell you that looking at it in person was a dream come true.

And it's a very strange thing.

I mean, how do you explain this? It certainly looked as if it was part of a

larger object.

The question is, was it a component of a device? Was it a component of something

larger?

If the wedge of Ayut really is over 40 ,000 years old, then who made it? And

what was it used for?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe they may have the answer.

An aeronautical engineer who...

saw the Ayud wedge, looked at it and said, that's a piece of a landing gear

a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft.

Ancient astronaut theorists have also looked at this wedge and surmised that

it's possible that it's part of a crashed extraterrestrial craft.

Could the wedge of Ayud really be a remnant of an extraterrestrial craft?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And they suggest that the truth about these otherworldly visitors can be found

half a world away, encoded in stone.

Some of the most mysterious artifacts we've investigated on ancient aliens

come in the form of ancient stone statues known as steli.

On a recent trip to Copan, Honduras, I met with an archaeologist who showed me

some intriguing examples of these Mayan artifacts that he suggests may have

served a technological purpose.

October 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos travels to Copan, Honduras, to

up with renowned Mayan archaeologist David Sadat, who has been involved in

excavation of this site for more than three decades.

David, great pleasure to meet you.

Well, I've been looking forward to this. I'm sure you have a lot of things you

want to see. Yes, I do. So, David, what are we looking at here?

Well, this is the Great Plaza.

It's over 100 meters, larger than a football field.

And it's the southern portion of the Great Plaza where the majority of the

standing stone giants that you'll come to see are located.

On the grounds at Copan.

are dozens of stone statues called steli.

The most well -known of these were built during the 43 -year reign of the ruler

Washaklahon Ubukawi, better known by the nickname 18 Rabbit.

This is the first time I'm standing next to one of these.

Absolutely incredible.

What do the glyphs say about this particular statue or stela here?

This is all a representation of the 13th ruler, whom we have nicknamed 18

Rabbit. And they show him taking on the persona of the high god of Copan,

Chanthea Hao, who was a sky god, a supreme being. The motifs on his

headdress and other attributes show that he is a sky god.

This is amazing to me, because here we have not only a statue

depicting something, which is a picture, a carved picture, but on the sides we

have writing, glyphs carved, that speak of a sky deity.

Now, when I look at something like this, I'm immediately reminded of

misunderstood technology, because imagine...

if a people who are intelligent, yet their technological frame of reference

from 1 ,000 or 2 ,000 years ago, we have to admit, was primitive. Not their

intelligence, their technological frame of reference.

Of course, let me just add to that that everything shows his connectedness of

the cosmos and the living space of mankind in all of its senses.

And by the way, I have seen that headdress right there elsewhere on

Earth. And that is in Mesopotamia. So the fact that we have these examples

worldwide leads me to think that it was a flesh and blood extraterrestrial whom

our ancestors misinterpreted as being God.

Why? Because they came from the sky.

Arthur C. Clarke said it best when he said, Any sufficiently advanced

is indistinguishable from magic.

Imagine showing your great -great -grandfather your smartphone.

Right, that's right. All of a sudden, you've become a magician, a wizard. When

we talk about technology, I imagine someday in the future that the

will be such that we'll be able to scan this stele here.

and receive the resonances that are inside the crystalline structure of the

stone. In other words, that these were great memory chip banks.

Wow, okay. And in the appropriate algorithm, we could peel back into time

by hearing the sights and sounds and everything that happened in this sacred

space and maybe answer some of the questions that you were posing.

Is it possible that these Mayan stone giants were designed in such a way as to

be able to digitally store valuable data?

We've learned a lot about how ancient civilizations understood our solar

and their world.

These civilizations had advanced technologies for working with stone and

and in some cases, crystal.

We still don't know how they did what they did.

It's reasonable that given these monuments exist,

that we should analyze them to see if there's other layers of information

encoded in them.

If these statues were, in fact, devices that had recorded information,

you wonder if we have also some evidence here from the statues of Copan

that extraterrestrials are coming to this planet.

Could the ancient stone giants of Copan, really be encoded with precious

information about the ancient world?

And if so, might they also hold evidence of extraterrestrial contact?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the answer is a profound

yes.

And to prove their point, they believe that one of the keys can be found by

examining the elaborate carvings located on what is referred to as Stela C.

The same one that David Sadat considers the most incredible.

The inscription on this side starts a 20 -year period equivalent to December 5

to 7 -11.

And midnight on that night, the Milky Way was standing precisely straight up

the tropical sky here. The text...

goes on to say that this also happened 4 ,600 years before.

And very strong implication that he was as well, like on that night, witnessing

this celestial event.

Witnessing the event?

Is it possible that the ruler depicted on the stele, known as 18 rabbits,

was able to observe an astronomical event that occurred more than 4 ,000

before his time.

Let me show you how the narrative picks up on the other side.

All right, let's check it out.

So now here, this guy has a beard.

Well, yes, this is still 18 rabbit, but he's achieved great age, great wisdom.

telling us that he is witnessing this astronomical conjunction of the milky

two million years ago two million years ago two million years now

he witnesses this astronomical conjunction of the milky way

two million years in the future as well as well

That's extraordinary.

These stones have to be seen as the supernatural personas that can travel in

time simultaneously backwards and forwards.

You've just blown my mind.

Supernatural personas that can travel through time? If the statues of Copan...

were really created as a means of storing valuable ancient knowledge, as

astronaut theorists suggest, then how and why did that knowledge come to be

lost, along with the keys needed to unlock their secrets?

Perhaps the answers can be found by examining another group of mysterious

that may have extraterrestrial origins.

Many of the mysterious artifacts we've investigated on ancient aliens are, in

opinion, objects that our ancestors created to document encounters with

otherworldly beings.

But every now and then we have come across an artifact that may itself be of

extraterrestrial origin.

In 2019, David Childress got the rare opportunity to scientifically test

stones that are unlike anything we've ever found on planet Earth.

Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

As civil war rages across the country.

Rebels begin forcing villagers to mine so -called blood diamonds.

But from deep within the earth emerges a vast treasure they weren't expecting.

They discover mysterious figures ranging from 5 to 10 inches tall,

often with reptilian or amphibian features known as nomoli.

They're very strange statues.

Some are clay, some are of granite or limestone.

They are humans and human figures with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

According to legend, the nomoli represent sky gods.

When they fell from the heaven, part of the sky turned to stone and rained down

with them.

Curiously, Strange blue stones can be found buried with many of the nomally

figurines.

These strange blue stones, called sky stones, have been found with the

And at first, archaeologists thought, okay, it's just blue stones.

But when they analyzed it, they couldn't figure out how these had been made,

too.

Although the people in Sierra Leone felt that they were actually pieces of the

blue sky that fell with the nomoli.

If these mysterious blue stones are really connected to the legend of the

turning to stone and raining down on the earth with the arrival of the nomoli,

what could they be?

Seattle, Washington, March 6, 2019.

In search of further evidence that the nomally statues may have an

extraterrestrial connection, ancient astronaut theorist David Childress has

arranged to meet up with Skystone collector and researcher Jared Collins.

Wow. Jared has in his possession a number of the mysterious blue stones

were found near the statues.

So how was it that these stones were actually discovered in modern times?

was actually discovered in 1991 by a man named David Ledbetter.

He was in Sierra Leone on a mining concession looking for golden diamonds.

And when he was having his crew dig, occasionally these stones would appear.

What do other geologists say about stones like this? Are they able to

them? We've sent these now to 12 different labs. There is not one piece

consensus in here.

Everybody has a different opinion.

We still don't know, actually, if these are natural or man -made. So maybe it's

from another planet.

I don't know. I really wish I did, and I would love a chance to actually be able

to get this in front of somebody else who could look at it again. I've got

friends at the University of Washington, and I think we can set this up and have

another test done. That would be fantastic.

I would love to get some consensus on this to understand what this actually

While tests conducted on the stones found with anomaly statues have so far

produced conflicting and sometimes even confounding results, David is eager to

have them tested or installed.

At the University of Washington, David and Jared meet with renowned geologist,

Professor Peter Ward.

Hi, I'm David Childress. I talked to you on the phone.

It's good to meet you. And this is Jared Collins.

Thank you so much for seeing us today. Jared, both you guys, welcome to the

University of Washington Isolab.

So what do we have in this beautiful box?

We're sort of hoping that you can tell us.

Well, well, well, what are these beauties?

We have been through many tests on these, and no one can identify them.

cannot tell us whether these are natural or artificial, what's causing the blue

color, if this is ancient or modern. So they've been checked for the common blue

minerals, I take it. One thing that we know for sure is that this is not

turquoise, this is not lapis, this is not aronite. The fact that it's so

unbelievably light really suggests that there's an organic component to it.

Anything that goes blue generally is much heavier. So this is really a

I should mention also that this only comes from one very specific part from

very specific village. It has never been found anywhere else in the world. Well,

let's do a test that removes any doubt about them being partly organic.

So Erin is going to take this rock and she's going to scrape it into these tiny

little tin cups.

The tin cups themselves will load into our mass spectrograph.

They will then be heated to 1 ,000 degrees centigrade. Everything inside

combust and turn to gas, and those individual gas molecules will then be

sampled, and we can examine if there are any truly organic molecules in this

rock. Was there some life process that was involved in its formation?

David and Jared return home to wait for the results.

When Dr.

Ward receives them two weeks later, he sends an email to David, remarking that

what the scientists found was so strange, they ran the test three times,

thinking it was a machine error, and added, this gives me the creeps.

To learn more, David contacted Dr.

Ward through video chat.

Hi, Dr. Ward.

So I wanted to learn about the results.

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

I mean, it was much stranger than we thought.

There really seems to be some sort of organic aspect to this.

It's got element nitrogen in it in really high concentrations.

Having this high amount of nitrogen puts it into a, wow, that's a very peculiar

rock category.

We were looking for a possible extraterrestrial origin.

Is it possibly a meteorite or even part of a spaceship?

Loaded? Let's just say that there's a possibility that it came from off the

Earth. As we scientists say, it's worth more studies.

Although the Sky Stones are still a mystery, David and Jared have confirmed

they are unlike any other stone ever examined.

Could they have arrived on Earth with the strange beings that are depicted in

the nomally statues?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And they claim that further evidence of extraterrestrial visitation in the

distant past can be found in one of the most remote places in the world.

On ancient aliens, we have traveled around the world to get a closer look at

mysterious artifacts. And sometimes we find evidence of alien contact hiding in

plain sight.

This is exactly what happened when David Childress and I traveled to the remote

Marquesas Islands and were shown an ancient statue that, as far as we were

concerned, clearly represents something very different from what mainstream

scholars suggest.

The South Pacific Ocean, June 2018.

Ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsouklos and David Childress are in the

Marquesas Islands.

investigating potential evidence that this remote part of the world was once

inhabited by extraterrestrial visitors.

At their local guide,

they've enlisted Hibaoa resident Himata Bono, who will show them some of the

mysterious sculptures found on the island, known as tikis, these

represent the ancestral gods and goddesses that came to the islands in

times.

This is incredible.

So what are we looking at here? What is this?

This is the goddess of fertility.

Down the belly, you can see the symbol.

For the archaeologists, they think it's a dog.

For me, it's wrong. It's more a llama.

Oh, it totally looks like a llama.

Well, the llama is from Inca tribe.

I totally think this looks like a llama. I mean, there's no question in my mind.

And I also don't think that this was altered.

This is original, and I don't see any changes.

So either this is not authentic, or if it is authentic, it's a llama, and it

proves connection to South America.

South America?

Is it possible that the llama, believed to be native to South America, was known

to people living on this remote island chain some 3 ,500 miles away?

But how?

Some people say that it's a woman giving birth.

Yes. Do the women here on the Marquesas Islands, do they do this? They lie on

their stomach and give birth?

No. No.

This is crazy.

Huh. To me, it looks like something from the sky. Yes.

Like maybe some flying vehicle.

Exactly. It's a great question.

Yeah.

Perhaps what we're looking at here is some type of a craft because you have

windows in the front, which are these giant goggles, and then you have the

in the front, which to me looks like some type of an air intake.

underneath you have a lifting body that goes underneath the entire body.

And if you combine that with the story of this object or this woman giving

birth, if someone has never seen passengers disembarking from an actual

airplane, if they have no idea what is happening, well, all of a sudden,

a flying vehicle is giving birth to people.

Is it possible that this ancient statue that has been interpreted in modern

times as a fertility goddess is actually depicting an extraterrestrial

spacecraft?

I think that Tiki's are nothing else but misunderstood technology that over

time turned into divine objects of magic and sorcery.

This is a female tiki, but you have another tiki female.

More important, just up the side.

Can we go look at it? Yes. Great.

Follow me.

Oh, wow.

Clearly, this tiki, the head is missing.

But I see that it has six fingers.

Yes, it's amazing, huh?

It's very feasible

to me that they actually tried to imitate whoever visited or whoever came

to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say, oh, this is just fantasy.

I think they saw someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

Yeah. Yeah? It's possible.

Yes. Yeah.

So this is Taka 'i 'i.

Taka 'i 'i is the god of power.

He's the protector for the tribe here.

So these are protectors?

Yeah. From outside, from other people who came to the land.

Could it be that the mysterious statues and carvings found throughout the

Marquesas Islands?

were made to commemorate extraterrestrial visitation.

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further evidence of alien

contact can be found by examining strange skulls made of crystal.

Of the many mysterious artifacts we've investigated on ancient aliens, Some of

the most jaw -dropping are the crystal skulls.

Crystal skulls have been found all around the world, and some of them have

carved with such extraordinary precision that, in my opinion, they must have

been created with some type of advanced technology.

In 2013, David Childress got to examine the largest crystal skull ever

discovered.

This is Einstein.

believed to be the largest ancient crystal skull as yet discovered.

Its owner, Carolyn Ford, says she obtained the 33 -pound crystal object

than 20 years ago from an explorer who discovered it in Mexico in the early

1900s.

She was unaware that it possessed any strange abilities until the day when she

claims it actually communicated with her.

It was revealed to me by Einstein.

The moment that I got him, when I knew nothing about Crystal Skulls, he said,

I'm an ancient computer.

In fact, I'm a master computer.

And we record everything like a live feed 24 -7. And that's our

purpose.

He's been recording history on this planet since the beginning of time. So

indeed, he was in Atlantis.

A lot of the ancient crystal skulls have been in Atlantis and even before that

time.

Could the so -called Einstein skull really be an artifact from the lost

civilization of Atlantis as its owner claims?

Sedona, Arizona, 2013.

It's very clear down here, and then it gets cloudy.

Ancient astronaut theorist David Childress enlists the help of aura

expert Jamie Jones in an effort to test the Einstein skull for unusual energy

pulses or auras.

These auras are believed to appear as colors that correspond to various

physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual states.

With Aura technology, we're able to use biofeedback imaging to pick up

electromagnetic energy field around the human body.

I'm not expecting any energy to be coming out of the inanimate object. So

little skeptical in that I'm not sure what to expect when I photograph the

skull. And I've been told a lot of things about skulls as far as

that they're holding, what civilizations they're from, or if they're actually

from the extraterrestrials. So I'm kind of excited to see this particular skull

and what it emits.

Hi, Jamie.

Hi. Hey.

And this is Carolyn. And, wow, here is the skull.

Wow. This is fabulous. So what do we do? These are biofeedback sensors, and

they're going to be reading the energy if there's energy around the skull. So

you're going to place it on here for me.

So it has to go on both of the two sensors? Yes, because both sensors are

picking up energy.

So we want as much coverage as possible.

Okay, that's perfect. All right. And now you just take a photo of it. We're

going to take a picture.

And here is the aura of the skull.

Okay.

Wow. Amazing.

It's amazing.

So what are we looking at here? I mean, here we can see the skull. It seems to

be a very strong warrior -type protective energy. And if you look

energy is arced over, literal arc of protection over the skull.

Now, the blue that we see throughout the entire picture is wisdom and knowledge

from traveling many lifetimes and many dimensions.

I was.

Surprised, really, that the aura camera would pick up so much energy from the

skull and the different colors.

Some people believe that crystal skulls have electro -radio wave

type energy that's emitted from them. And that the skull can actually

communicate to people through this energy.

And it seems that aura photography can actually pick up and we can see.

these waves that are being emitted from the skull.

I feel more than ever there is something to crystal skulls and the energy behind

them.

Does the photographed energy field surrounding Einstein help to prove that

crystal skull could, in fact, be some sort of recording device?

An extraterrestrial object used to harness both energy and information.

Although there have been hundreds of other crystal skulls found throughout

world, the Einstein skull is believed to be one of only 13 authentic ancient

artifacts. And according to legend, when all 13 are finally unearthed,

humankind's true past will be revealed.

Part of this legend is that, yes, these 13 crystal skulls are extraterrestrial

skulls, and when these 13 skulls are together, it'll create a new epoch for

planet Earth.

There is certainly a belief among certain Native American tribes when

is at its most desperate, all of these original ancient crystal skulls

will come back together and that they will divulge their knowledge, their

wisdom.

that can help the human race survive.

Could these mysterious crystal artifacts not only be of alien origin, but serve

a purpose that is yet to be revealed?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes and suggest further proof that

extraterrestrials visited ancient cultures all over the world can be found

examining a mysterious Middle Eastern artifact discovered.

Any list of mysterious artifacts would be incomplete without featuring the

amazing relics of Tiwanaku, Bolivia. Of all the astounding objects we've

examined from there on ancient aliens, one of the most baffling is the Fuente

Magna Bowl.

This beautiful piece of pottery is covered in an ancient script that is

not to Bolivia, but to a culture that existed on the other side of the world.

Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.

Situated at an elevation of over 12 ,000 feet on the Altiplano, lay the ruins of

an ancient temple complex thought to predate the Incan Empire.

Standing at the center of the site, is a large statue believed by many to

represent the creator god Viracocha.

But curiously, the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco chose to depict this god with

features unlike their own.

He has got a beard and a mustache.

And that is an unusual thing because American Indians do not have beards and

mustaches. Exactly. That indicates that this person...

was not a South American native, but clearly came from another land.

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.

Is it possible that the Sumerians, a civilization established in 4000 B .C.

located nearly 8 ,000 miles away, could be connected?

to the early inhabitants of Tiwanaku?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found at the Precious

Metals Museum in La Paz, Bolivia.

This is perhaps one of the most important archaeological artifacts ever

discovered at Tiwanaku or Pumapunku.

This is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl discovered near Tiwanaku.

It's a ceramic bowl, and it has written on it Sumerian cuneiform plus

Proto -Sumerian hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming from circa 3000 B .C.

It draws a direct connection between the ancient Sumerians and Tiwanaku

and Pumapunku.

Discovered near Lake Titicaca by a local farmer in the 1950s, researchers

believe the vessel provides the proof of extraterrestrial intervention at

Pumapunku.

The idea of Sumerian writing being here at Pumapunku and Tiahuanaco

would seem to relate to the late Zacharias Sitchin

and his ideas.

that the Sumerians were also interacting with these space beings called the

Anunnaki. So in that case, the Anunnaki were there in Sumeria, but also

here at Pumapunku in Tiwanaku in South America.

To me, when you consider the many mysterious artifacts we've examined on

aliens, from bizarre metal alloys, to strange statues, and even crystal

skulls. It all adds up to one thing, undeniable evidence of extraterrestrial

visitation. As we continue to dig deeper and unearth more extraordinary relics

of the past, perhaps we will finally discover the key to reuniting with our

alien ancestors.