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Megalithic structures in the middle of the ocean.

Legends state that stones were actually flown

from one part of the island to another.

Terrifying creatures.

There are stories about giants

killing people and taking over things.

And mysterious events on the open sea.

How can an island just disappear?

Are the stories of lost civilizations

and unreachable paradises simply

the product of imaginative seafarers?

Or could there be remote locations all over the world

that are secret bases for extraterrestrials?

There have been sightings, on the Isle of Man going back centuries,

of what are described as "fiery wheels... in the sky.

They're in the middle of the ocean.

There's just nothing that's supposed to be there,

and yet there's activity being reported there.

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 we find proof by exploring the world's

forbidden islands?

March 1963.

75 miles off the coast of Puerto Rico.

While training in antisubmarine maneuvers,

the United States Navy's fleet - led by the USS Wasp aircraft carrier -

detects an unknown sonar target moving in the nearby waters.

For four days the fleet tracked the unknown object,

recording its speed at more than 150 knots,

or 170 miles per hour.

There is nothing in any naval inventory anywhere in the world

that can approach anything remotely that speed.

Not then, not now.

Moreover, the object descended

to a depth of something like 27,000 feet.

Again, another impossibility.

The pressures down there are vastly too much

and would crush any vessel that went down that deep.

At that time, with the technology that we had,

the best that we could do, underwater,

was about forty-five knots,

and a maximum depth of about three thousand feet.

For the last hundred, two hundred years, there have been many,

many accounts of objects that have been seen underwater.

But exactly what they are, we still do not know.

There's been a tremendous

surge of UFO sightings in Puerto Rico since the early 1990s.

And for many of the Puerto Rican witnesses,

they're absolutely convinced that there's some sort

of massive futuristic

installation deep below Puerto Rico under the ocean bed.

Is it possible that aliens have bases here on earth,

hidden deep underwater, and off the coasts of islands?

Could this explain why so many islands around the world

have stories of unexplained sightings of objects

both overhead and beneath the sea?

An isolated island would be a perfect location for, say,

extraterrestrial beings to make their base of operations.

Radar could spot any kind of craft in orbit very quickly.

However, if you had your base underwater,

near an island,

a lot more difficult to be discovered.

Islands are essentially mountains that are mostly underwater.

What they are, in essence, is energetic upwellings

of the energy of the earth,

pushing higher, and higher, and higher.

Logically, these types of locations would be very attractive

to visitors from another world, especially visitors

that would be looking for an ideal place to set up a base,

or a landing spot, or simply a place

where they could draw some of the earth's energy.

The Aleutian Islands.

Just off the Alaskan coast,

this chain of more than 100 small islands

extends west for 1100 miles,

separating the Bering Sea from the Pacific Ocean.

Here, in the summer of 1945,

fourteen crewmembers of the United States Army

Transport Delarof reported seeing what they believed

to be a large UFO emerge from the waters near the island of Adak.

It is reported that a round object that appeared

dark against the setting sun at the time actually rose vertically

into the air and then circled the boat two,

or possibly three, times.

And was visible for about seven or eight minutes before it vanished.

Something that comes out of the water,

circles around and then takes off like that,

that's well beyond anything we're supposed to have.

And they're in the middle of the ocean.

That's the important thing to remember here.

There's just nothing, nothing that's supposed to be there,

and yet there's activity being reported there.

UFO sightings around the Aleutian Islands continue to this day.

But why?

Is it perhaps more than mere coincidence

that the native people known as the Aleuts

believe this is the exact spot

where their ancestors first descended from the skies?

The Aleuts believed they descended

from a creature that had come from the sky.

A dog actually had fallen to the island of Umnak

and had had two pups with paws.

But the children that came from those two were perfect humans.

So by way of this descent from the heavens

and by way of animal form, we get the Aleutian people.

I find it intriguing

that the Aleut's origin story has something to do

with them having arrived from the sky,

essentially saying that they have been seeded.

So the fact that to this day that area of the world

is considered a hot spot for UFOs to me is not coincidence.

There have been rumors that there is an underground alien,

or UFO base, in the Aleutian Islands.

The question is: Could a base really exist there?

And, the answer is yeah.

There's plenty of places... knolls, atolls, volcanoes

where, if hollowed out,

they would pretty much make ideal bases for UFOs

to use to come and go as they please,

and to investigate that area.

Could there really be a connection

between the high number of UFO sightings

and the Aleuts' origin story?

Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes,

and as evidence they point to the fact

that similar legends exist on other remote islands -

islands that have also had reports of UFOs.

Five thousand miles to the east of the Aleutian Islands,

nestled in the Irish Sea, lies the Isle of Man.

According to legend, the Isle of Man was founded

by a mystical race of Celts, the Tuatha de Danann,

who possessed magical powers.

Banished from heaven for their sorcery and advanced knowledge,

they descended on Ireland in a cloud of mist.

It's said that at the end of their time,

they just sort of vanished.

Left behind their ghosts, quite literally,

and these are remembered in the folklore of the Isle of Man

as the "Little People....

The so-called "Little People...

are believed by the locals

to be able to put humans under a magical spell -

a spell in which all awareness of space and time is lost.

Kidnapping human beings

is one of the chief activities of the Little People.

And the whole point of these stories is that the humans tend

to come back from the other realm,

often finding that hundreds of years have passed.

This sounds really, really similar to what people experience

sometimes during alien abduction events,

where a ship will show up.

The very small aliens will come out.

They'll find themselves paralyzed;

they'll have missing time experiences.

And, there's reason to believe that the little people may have,

in fact, been extraterrestrials -

the same "greys,... as we describe them -

that perform the same types of magical enchantment

on people that they abduct today.

Could the legends of the "Little People...

and the ancestral Tuatha de Danann

actually be describing otherworldy beings

that came to Earth in the distant past?

And if so, might these legends be connected

to modern day UFO sightings over the Isle of Man?

Locals claim that these UFO sightings have been

reported for centuries,

and for ancient astronaut theorists,

the most compelling sighting of all is a 2500-year-old report

of a fiery wheel with three spokes descending from the heavens.

According to legend on the Isle of Man,

some fishermen were washed ashore during a terrible storm.

Suddenly this three-spoked craft

came out of the clouds terrifying them.

There have been sightings, on the Isle of Man going back centuries,

of what are described as wheels or "fiery wheels... in the sky.

Now, these descriptions are almost identical

to the description of the wheel of Ezekiel in the Bible.

According to Ezekiel chapter one,

the prophet saw a flying object described as four wheels

within a wheel - an account that ancient astronaut theorists say

is not of an angel,

but of an extraterrestrial spacecraft.

Biblical scholars have very much struggled

with the description of Ezekiel's wheel -

seeing wheels within wheels,

the idea that a cherub was standing next to each wheel.

It's very clear that he's describing some type of device.

Ezekiel describes wheels within a wheel,

and eyes of different animals,

and they're all gleaming like bronze, and metal.

So what is really described here?

It reads much more like an encounter

with some type of an extraterrestrial craft

that was misinterpreted as some type of a divine event.

So you have to think really that Isle of Man

was some kind of island that was chosen by the extraterrestrials.

This was one of their bases.

They would land their UFOs there.

And in fact, legends about UFOs

and extraterrestrials continue on the island even to this day.

Could these islands actually contain alien base camps,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

And might these powerful locations

reveal important knowledge for mankind?

Perhaps clues can be found

in another mysterious Pacific island chain

9200 miles to the southeast -

an area rumored to be inhabited by giants.

The Solomon Islands.

800 miles East of Papua New Guinea,

this group of nearly 1000 isles covers 11,000 square miles.

Though first discovered in 1568 by Spanish explorers,

many people identify this area with World War II

due to the fierce fighting that occurred between the Japanese

and Americans on the largest island here, Guadalcanal.

In a campaign that lasted over six months,

a total of 41 warships were sunk

and over 30,000 men died either in battle or from disease.

The Americans and Japanese,

they left behind a lot of the remnants of the war.

Ships that were sank for instance.

And then on land you have leftovers of tanks

and a lot of ammunitions as well.

There was a place close to where I went to school called Hell's Point

and it's full of live ammunitions.

But Guadalcanal is also infamous for something else -

the countless local legends of giants.

There are mysterious legends all over the Solomons actually.

A lot of the stories from Guadalcanal tend

to talk about giants.

The relationship between people and giants.

Giants are often portrayed in different ways.

Sometimes they are benevolent giants.

They help people. They look after people.

But there are stories about giants

killing people and taking over things.

So giant is a major character in a lot of the Guadalcanal stories.

There are legends and stories that go way back that suggest that giants

actually still live on the Solomon Islands.

Some say they're kind of hairy beast,

Sasquatch-like kind of beings.

Others say they're more humanoid.

And some say they even relate

and kind of mate with the human population.

According to local legends,

those giants were able to travel

the entire length of the island

without seeing the light of day by utilizing subterranean tunnels.

People talk about it that giants actually do exist.

They existed in the past.

Today with all kinds of developments taking place,

they shifted further into the mountains.

They really do exist.

It's not just a mythology to scare children.

According to one report, in 1998,

workers during a gold-mining operation witnessed

what they believe is proof of the existence of the giants

of Guadalcanal when one of their bulldozers broke down.

The workers say they removed the ten-ton blade

from the machine to make overnight repairs,

and when they returned to the dig site the next morning,

they were shocked by what they found.

The blade itself had been moved quite a distance

and they found footprints of giants in the mud.

So they could only assume that these famous giants

of the Solomon Islands had been there and moved the bulldozer blade.

Could Guadalcanal really be home to giants?

If so, what are they?

And where did they come from?

In the book "Solomon Islands Mysteries,...

author Marius Boirayon, a retired helicopter engineer

who lived on the Solomon Islands

for many years interviewing locals,

unveils a groundbreaking theory.

The Australian author, Boirayon,

believed that incidents of the giants

that he'd been told about by the natives

were related to UFO activity.

And from what he could put together there was some kind of UFO

base deep in the mountains

of Central Guadalcanal and it involved these giants.

And at the same time

there was some kind of underwater UFO base there as well.

Eyewitness accounts of UFOs

have been documented on the Solomon Islands for years,

and mysteriously, details reveal that the UFOs

seem to rise out of the surrounding ocean

where warships sank in WWII,

and vanish into a remote mountain lake on the island.

People often talk about seeing light not only in the sky,

but in the ocean as well;

that you see lights in the ocean

and then you see lights flying past overhead as well.

And sometimes crashing into the ocean

like a plane crashing.

There have been sightings of flying saucers appearing over the wreckage,

flying into and out of mountains and volcanoes in the area.

So, the whole area is really pretty interesting.

There have been reports that objects, strange lights,

actually rise up out of the waters into the air,

and move about for a period of time and then disappear.

And often this is either witnessed from the beach

or is experienced at close hand by fishermen,

and it is said that sometimes these objects come

so close that the fishermen can actually feel the heat as they pass.

There was a lot of local people who had said, "Yes.

For many years we've seen these types of things happening."

There are numerous accounts of abductions.

People who disappear after coming into contact with these UFOs.

Never to be seen again.

Could there be a connection

between the legends of the giants of Guadalcanal

and the numerous UFO sightings

that have been reported here over the years?

And might this be evidence that Guadalcanal

really is the site of an underwater alien base?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers

can be found by examining stories of other strange creatures

said to inhabit the island - creatures like the Adaro.

The Adaro were frightening-looking creatures: half fish, half man.

They were said to have come from the sun by way of rainbows

and they could be dangerous.

They could shoot poisonous flying fish at you.

So the notion of some creature that was of danger

and mythological qualities coming from far away seems alive

and well in the Solomon Islands.

Chua-Chua is the story

that a lot of people on Guadalcanal know about,

that these are actually human beings.

But at certain time they take different forms.

These are energies that can shape shift into any form.

These are not just stories for entertainment

or for scaring the children.

These fears are great.

You have to wonder if these famous giants of the Solomon islands

and these weird beings were, in fact,

extraterrestrials

that were there to protect these secret bases.

Is it possible that the stories of giants, sea monsters,

and other strange beings on Guadalcanal

are really accounts of extraterrestrials

who appear as frightening creatures in order to scare off anyone

who might discover their secret alien bases?

The Solomon Islands is right on what we call the ring of fire.

A lot of volcanic activity.

A lot of tectonic and geo activity.

So there's a lot of energy.

One theory would simply be that if these other beings

whatever they are, wanted access to a good source of energy,

that might be a very good place to go.

Could the stories from the Aleutian Islands, the Isle of Man,

and the Solomon Islands be evidence

that there are alien bases located beneath our seas?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and point to an island on the other side of the world

that has archaeologists mystified even to this day.

The island of Pohnpei.

More than 2500 miles southwest of Hawaii,

completely isolated in the Pacific Ocean,

this Micronesian landmass is home to just 34,000 people -

mainly farmers and fishermen.

But there is one area of the island that is completely uninhabited -

the Lost City of Nan Madol.

The native islanders believe this ancient site is cursed,

and it is also home

to some of the most mysterious archaeological ruins in the world.

Built on a coral reef just off the eastern coast of Pohnpei

and sprawling more than 200 acres,

Nan Madol consists of 92 smaller man-made islands

connected by canals.

According to historians, this ancient city,

often called the Venice of the Pacific,

was the capital of the Saudeleur dynasty

that ruled from about 500 to 1628 AD.

This ancient city housed the Saudeleurs, the kings of that time.

So, it has their houses.

It has feasting areas.

It has tombs.

So there's a whole number of areas that each of these islets supported.

Most archaeologists agree

that construction of these artificial islands

began sometime in the 13th century.

Each has been formed with columnar basalt -

a black rock that forms when basaltic lava from a volcano cools

in the form of columns.

There are a number of columnar basalt outflows across

Pohnpei itself.

And we know of several of these outcrops

that were used to mine the basalt.

They were then transported to the area of Nan Madol.

And then placed to create these small islets.

But how did the native people living here 800 years ago

manage to build 92 islets out of giant basalt columns?

Researchers estimate that each stone log used to construct

the megalithic structures weighs between 5 to 50 tons.

Stacked to form walls as high as 25 feet tall and 17 feet thick,

archaeologists believe that it was an undertaking

that most likely

would have required all 25,000 island inhabitants to complete.

Around the ruins of Nan Madol are many canals,

which researchers and archeologists say

were the routes taken by boats to move these basalt columns across

and around the island to construct the huge megalithic site.

Mainstream scholars insist people built Nan Madol using ropes,

rollers and rafts,

but attempts to prove this theory have failed.

If you add up all of the stone logs,

you have a weight of 750,000 or so metric tons.

That's a lot.

If you were to move maybe 2000 tons a year,

you might be able to get it built over about three centuries.

We're talking about a major, massive effort here.

The kind of effort that you would see

in the construction of the pyramids in Egypt.

But could there be another explanation

for how these ancient people

were able to move such massive rocks miles across the island

and into place in the ocean without the help of modern machinery?

According to local legends,

the ancient builders

used a much more profound method of construction -

an advanced anti-gravitational technology

that ancient astronaut theorists believe

may explain many of the world's mysterious megalithic sites.

Some legends state that the stones were actually flown from one part

of the island to another or levitated some way

to get them up to such high areas of the main construction.

This is very reminiscent of what researchers

call auditive levitation,

which was a technique of raising heavy stones

by matching the sound frequency of matter,

rendering it weightless and moving it into place.

The people themselves

who still to this day live there in Pohnpei say

that this place was not built by us;

it's been here before we arrived.

And they themselves say that basalt blocks

were moved as if by ghost hand.

That is why the natives call Nan Madol also the City of Ghosts.

Although no written records on the island's history exist,

its spoken myths and legends have survived through generations.

According to the natives,

Nan Madol has been plagued by a curse for centuries -

and anyone who explores the ruins will perish.

The local islanders believe that the city of Nan Madol is cursed.

And they say they see lights moving throughout the city at night.

And they believe that if they spend the night there they'll die.

When the Europeans came to colonize

Micronesia in the early 20th century,

they were advised of Nan Madol and its alleged spell.

In April of 1907,

the German Governor Victor Berg disregarded these warnings

and not only explored the island ruins,

but even opened a tomb of the ancient rulers.

Locals say

Governor Berg was haunted by strange sounds that night,

and the next morning mysteriously died.

The local legend said that if you messed with this site in any way,

it was cursed and in fact, it would be a terrible price to pay for it.

And it appears that Victor Berg lost his life because of this curse.

Official records indicate the governor died April 30, 1907

due to sunstroke and heat exhaustion while surveying the ruins.

But the natives maintain that his untimely death

was a result of the curse -

and proof that otherworldly powers guard the mystical island city.

Might the local legends

of supernatural forces at work on the islands actually be true?

And if so,

just who or what is haunting these mysterious islands?

Ancient astronaut theorists claim the strongest evidence

that an advanced race of extraterrestrials

helped to build Nan Madol

is not the megalithic rock structures

but what may lie beneath them.

Nan Madol is a huge city and most of it is above water

but parts of it are underwater.

And the islanders say that there is a second city

there called Kanemweiso

and this is the city of the gods.

And it's in even deeper water.

You have to wonder if there isn't some

kind of underwater UFO base even today.

If the local legends are true,

could Nan Madol really be the remnants of an ancient alien base?

One that exists not only above ground,

but also extends down into the sea?

And might this explain why the natives of Pohnpei

have left this part of the island uninhabited

for nearly 400 years?

There are those who believe the answers can be found

by examining islands that have suddenly

and mysteriously vanished.

The Pacific Ocean.

October 2012.

Scientists aboard a research ship Between Australia and New Caledonia

set a course for 19 degrees south latitude

and 160 degrees east longitude -

the location of Sandy Island.

But when they arrive they make a shocking discovery -

the island is not there.

Digital scientific databases have shown Sandy Island

to be 15 miles long and 3 miles wide -

approximately the size of Manhattan.

Small islands sometimes disappear due to rising ocean levels,

but the researchers find no evidence of a sunken landmass -

just ocean waters 4600 feet deep.

Sandy Island is an island of great mystery.

It literally disappeared.

According to early eyewitness accounts,

and including those by Captain Cook

in the 1700's this island clearly existed.

And it makes you wonder how can an island just disappear?

Was it there to begin with?

Absolutely it was.

There's eyewitness accounts of it.

Captain James Cook

was the first to establish Sandy Island on a map back in 1774.

And, in fact, the island still appeared

even on modern satellite maps up until 2013,

when it was finally removed based

on the findings of the University of Sydney.

But how could an island that has appeared on maps

for over 230 years

suddenly disappear,

There are a number of accounts,

within folklore and legend of mythical islands.

For instance, the Antilles,

and others which appeared on ancient maps.

And yet which don't exist today.

So did they once exist?

Do they exist only at certain times?

We could be dealing with a phenomena

whereby these islands

disappear at certain times and then reappear.

Although, is that something that's natural?

Is this something to do with geology or is this something to do

with something more supernatural?

This is obviously a mystery which remains to be solved.

When the University of Sydney findings were first revealed,

many scientists insisted that the researchers

must have been looking in the wrong place -

pointing to the fact that satellites had recorded temperatures

in this location consistent with the presence of land.

Scientists would later claim that this anomaly

was due to errors in the data sets.

But how could the temperature data, the satellite images,

and numerous other maps dating back to the 18th century all be in error?

It's possible that these islands actually do exist;

but, they are somehow being cloaked

by whoever might be using the islands.

For instance, extraterrestrial visitors

could very easily create a light bending type of device,

which could make it appear that an island

that was once there is no longer there.

There are other stories of islands that appear

and disappear and that sometimes there's a mist around them.

There are stories like this around the Samoan Islands.

So you have to wonder

if extraterrestrials have some kind of super technology

that allows them to cloak islands

and make them appear and disappear.

It boggles the mind that such a technology would exist

and yet it appears to be so.

Could extraterrestrials really be using advanced cloaking technology

to hide Sandy Island?

Some ancient astronaut theorists believe there may be an even more

incredible explanation behind the disappearance of Sandy Island.

Things like Sandy Island, that somehow was located

and then when they went to go look for it, it was gone.

It's very possible that these aren't islands

but are some technological device coming up to the surface.

Or landing for a little while and going away.

In ancient Greek mythology we have these stories of the Asteria,

of the falling stars that would fall into the water

but they wouldn't sink.

They could, in fact, then travel from place to place.

Floating islands so to speak.

So what if, in this particular case,

we have a similar story?

Is that really what is happening?

Is it possible that these phantom islands that appear

and disappear are really elaborate alien outposts?

And could the extraterrestrials that use them still be here on Earth,

waiting to be discovered?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest that further evidence can be found

by examining another island that mysteriously disappeared.

An island that was said to be home to otherworldly beings.

The North Atlantic Ocean.

200 miles west of Ireland

lie open waters expanding as far as the eye can see.

But according to 14th century Mediterranean mapmakers,

this exact spot marks the location of an island known as Hy-Brasil.

For more than 600 years,

sailors across the world have searched

for this so-called phantom island

believed to contain an Eden-like paradise.

Lore has it that the island couldn't be seen except

once every seven years,

when it could be seen but not reached.

Hy-Brasil allegedly appeared and disappeared behind the mists.

It could never definitively be found.

Although, the, it's putative location is marked

on some of these early maps.

Hy-Brasil was first mapped

by the Italian-Majorcan cartographer

Angelino de Dalorto in 1325,

who described the island as being "a strikingly round form....

Over a century later in 1497,

Italian explorer John Cabot

also reported reaching Hy-Brasil,

and in 1674, Captain John Nisbet of Ireland

reportedly brought back silver and gold from the island,

that he claimed to have received from an old, mysterious man.

Strangely, he and his men also said that Hy-Brasil was inhabited

by what they called "giant black rabbits....

Other explorers of the time returned from the island

with similarly bizarre stories,

and accounts of beautiful glowing people.

Hy-Brasil is imagined in Irish lore to be the place

that the Irish gods came from.

On the island of Hy-Brasil, the gods had a luxurious life.

They were able to develop an advanced civilization.

In 1684, one of the first Irish historians, Roderick O'Flaherty,

wrote about Hy-Brasil in his book

"A Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connacht."

In it, he refers to the island as "enchanted"

and writes that it is a "land

kept hidden by the special ordinance of God."

Like a lot of other mythologies, such as Atlantis,

Hy-Brasil was thought to be the source of civilization.

Especially in Ireland and England and other areas such as that.

It's thought that Hy-Brasil

still exists under the sea and that,

periodically, when the conditions are right, it'll surface.

According to legend, the mysterious land

was last seen in 1872 by author TJ Westropp and his crew,

who saw the island appear and then vanish.

If Hy-Brasil is an actual land,

very possibly it could be that at one time

on planet Earth there was a superior technology.

A civilization that had progress

that far surpassed even our own today.

And these people originated from the stars.

They are the people that the human race descended from.

And, locations such as Hy-Brasil

is the homeland of these creatures.

Is it possible

that the mythical island of Hy-Brasil not only exists,

but is actually a hi-tech alien base?

And if so, might there be others located all over the world?

You find so many accounts of beings coming and going

from the stars at these locations.

You find mysterious disappearances.

You find other supernatural events taking place at these islands.

And it makes you wonder if they're in fact being used

by advanced extraterrestrial races as portals,

as gateways, even as stop over places,

maybe even refueling stations in a way,

as places that are known throughout the cosmos.

Might aliens have been visiting these remote,

relatively uninhabited locations for thousands of years,

using them as secret hideouts,

landing spots or energetic refueling stations?

Could there be extraterrestrial bases

on hidden islands even now?

And when the truth behind

these forbidden islands is revealed,

will we finally, come face-to-face

with our celestial ancestors?