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Megalithic stone columns that have stood

for an estimated 5,000 years.

Stonehenge is completely different

to anything else in the Neolithic world.

NARRATOR: But could Stonehenge have been something more

than conventional historians have assumed?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The fact that we now know that Stonehenge

was part of a much larger superstructure

indicates we're facing a sensational mystery.

NARRATOR: And could modern scientific findings

reveal a startling truth?

HUGH NEWMAN: We don't really know who these people were,

don't really know where they come from.

WILLIAM HENRY: The people who built Stonehenge

just vanished from the Earth.

NARRATOR: Might the mystery of Stonehenge

be the key to unlocking the secrets of the universe,

and provide tangible evidence

of mankind's extraterrestrial past?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Is it possible that Stonehenge

was actually built by these sophisticated extraterrestrials?

It's a fantastic thought, but it's possible.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: For six years,

the U.K. Ministry of Defence has been in a slow process

of releasing the entirety of their UFO files

to the National Archives of England.

Now the final batch of declassified reports

are released to the public.

Despite Ministry claims that no credible evidence

or alien craft was discovered in over 50 years of study,

one report, from January 14, 2009,

includes a fascinating photo of a disk-shaped craft

hovering above the world's most famous megalithic site:

Stonehenge.

Stonehenge has been the site of a number of UFO encounters

over the years.

The county of Wiltshire itself

is something of a UFO hot spot.

Dating back over the lifetime

of the Ministry of Defence's UFO project,

there have probably been several hundred,

if not low thousands, of sightings recorded

in the county of Wiltshire.

NARRATOR: But Stonehenge is not only a major hot spot

for UFO reports, it is also the center

of the crop circle phenomenon,

with dozens of unexplained crop formations appearing

in the area every year.

Many of the most spectacular formations

have appeared in that geographical area.

This is a location where there has been

more than, I suppose,

a fair share of weirdness over the years.

People are kind of obsessed by it,

because it's the only way they can get back

to have some contact with their ancestors.

I believe there's much, much more going on here.

NARRATOR: Why does the area of Stonehenge

experience more unexplained phenomena

than any other place on Earth?

Could a new examination of these massive stone blocks

reveal profound truths that have remained hidden

for more than 5,000 years?

The British Isles.

55 BC.

Julius Caesar begins a military campaign

to extend the Roman Empire into Britain.

His forces are met by ferocious resistance

from the native Celtic tribes, led by their Druid priests.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: The tribes of Britain

were all united against the warring Romans

by the Druids,

to repel the greatest general who's ever lived.

NARRATOR: It would take the Romans nearly a century

to conquer Britain.

Once they succeeded, they turned Stonehenge

into a temple of their sun god, Apollo.

But the Romans were not the first to adopt this monument

as their own.

The Celts themselves had migrated into Britain

some 2,500 years before.

When they arrived, Stonehenge was already there,

but the country was eerily deserted.

The people who are responsible for Stonehenge, for erecting it,

are nowhere to be seen, and this is a puzzling,

uh, piece of information that we know now.

NARRATOR: Instead of ignoring Stonehenge

and building new temples, as historians would expect,

the Celts adopted it as their own.

You have to ask yourself:

Why did the Celts and Druids adopt Stonehenge

as a place of worship if they didn't build it?

Did they somehow know the power of the place?

NARRATOR: Archaeologists today believe

that this great Neolithic stone circle

has stood on the plains of Wiltshire, England,

for no less than 5,000 years.

An outer ring of 30 four-ton stones

surrounds five huge arches

whose massive blocks weigh 22 tons each,

and which were somehow transported

from 120 miles away.

It's an astonishing feat of ancient engineering,

and the mysteries about its construction still remain.

NEWMAN: Some of the stones at Stonehenge

weigh between 50 and 70 tons.

Some of the stones are even heavier.

So how could you have moved these into place?

How could you have moved them from Wales,

where the bluestones, the spotted dolerite, came from,

within Stonehenge?

PHILLIPS: The bluestones,

from which the original Stonehenge was constructed,

were transported from 120 miles to the west

from a place called the Preseli Mountains,

which is the only place in the British Isles

where you can get that kind of stone.

Now, how they were moved is a mystery.

NARRATOR: The predominant theory

as to how the megalithic blocks were moved is that the builders

fashioned sledges and rollers out of tree trunks

to lug the bluestones from the Preseli Hills,

then transferred them onto rafts

and floated them first along the Welsh coast

and then up the River Avon towards Salisbury Plain.

TSOUKALOS: You know, this idea

that all these ancient blocks were moved

with, uh, wooden rollers is...

is very interesting.

However, do you know what happens to wood

when you put 20 tons on a wooden roller?

It'll just get crushed to smithereens.

PHILLIPS: However they did it,

it must have been very important for them

to move these particular stones to Stonehenge.

And that's a mystery.

That doesn't happen anywhere else

at stone circles in the country.

They only come from stone that's quarried locally.

NARRATOR: However Stonehenge was constructed,

it involved moving much more than just the stone blocks

that stand today.

According to researchers,

this is just 25% of the original monument,

the center of a much larger structure

that was surrounded by multiple concentric circles

constructed over a period of more than a thousand years.

MARTINEAU: So Stonehenge is very interesting

in that it evolves over a very long period of time.

And the first thing that goes up at Stonehenge

is not there anymore.

It's the 56 holes

that today are known as the Aubrey Circle.

It used to be filled with the bluestones from Preseli.

PHILLIPS: Around the outside of the stone circle

is constructed a ditch and embankment.

This is the so-called "henge" structure

that stands around Stonehenge, from where it gets its name.

NARRATOR: Many mainstream scholars

suggest that Stonehenge was simply a place of worship

and a burial ground.

But why would the ancient people of Britain

have spent more than a thousand years

to build what amounts to a church and a cemetery?

NEWMAN: And the big problem is we don't really know

who these people were.

We don't really know where they come from.

So we find similar structures around the world

that show incredible levels of sophistication,

like the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt,

like Machu Picchu in Peru.

So why not, in ancient Britain,

why not have a very advanced civilization here?

The fact that we now know that Stonehenge was part

of a much larger superstructure

indicates to me that we've only barely scratched the surface.

What did it all mean?

NARRATOR: If the monolithic stones

that comprise Stonehenge today

are only merely a partial skeleton

of the original complex, is it possible

that it was among the most sophisticated structures

of the ancient world?

Perhaps the answers to who built it--

and why-- can be found by examining similar structures

found all over the world.

Each circle corresponds NARRATOR: Dr. William Stukeley,

a pioneer in the field of archaeology,

begins the first scientific survey of Stonehenge.

He quickly notices that its axis aligns with sunrise

on the summer solstice.

Over the centuries, scientists discover that Stonehenge

also points to sunset on the winter solstice

and contains dozens of other astronomical alignments.

NEWMAN: Stonehenge is unlike any stone circle

anywhere on the planet.

It's perfectly circular. It has lintels above it.

It's designed with precision-engineered carving

and astronomical alignments.

TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, it is Stonehenge itself

that is the message.

And one part of that message is that Stonehenge

is a replica of our solar system on Earth.

Each circle corresponds with one of our planets

inside our solar system, including Pluto.

So, now we have a structure that's at least 4,000 years old,

and our ancestors knew about Pluto?

Without telescopes?

Someone told them about Pluto

and all of our planets in our solar system,

and that is the message, because in Neolithic time,

there is no way that they knew about this.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the massive blocks

still standing at Stonehenge

were purposely arranged to reflect the positions

of the planets in our solar system?

And if so, could this astronomical knowledge

have been imparted to our ancestors by extraterrestrials?

While Stonehenge is the most extraordinary

stone circle in England,

in the 1970s, Scottish cartographer Alexander Thom

found that all the famed stone circles across the U.K.

have sophisticated designs that track the movements

of planets and constellations.

NEWMAN: Alexander Thom surveyed

over 300 stone circles in Britain.

And he came up with this principle

that they used advanced geometry in the construction,

which was connected with very advanced astronomy.

NARRATOR: Over time, archaeologists began to find

that ancient megalithic sites all over the planet

were built to align with the sun.

In Macedonia,

the Kokino Observatory features four stone thrones

at the top of a mountain

positioned to track the solstices and equinoxes.

In Machu Picchu, there is a stone temple

with three trapezoidal windows

also positioned to align with the sun

during the solstices and equinoxes.

On the northwest coast of France,

a collection of over 3,000 massive rocks,

called the "Carnac stones,"

align with both the summer and winter solstices.

And some of the sites where these solar alignments

are found include stone circles similar to Stonehenge.

The entrance to the Temple of Mnajdra

on the Mediterranean island of Malta

is aligned to mark both the solstices and equinoxes.

NEWMAN: In ancient Malta, going back

potentially to 3,000,

to 4,000 B.C. or even much older,

they also were observing

multiple different constellations,

including Taurus and others.

NARRATOR: As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the most significant of all the ancient sites

that contain astronomical alignments

is also the oldest.

German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt begins

a major excavation at Gobekli Tepe.

This prehistoric site was believed

to contain a standard Roman-era cemetery.

But what Schmidt actually discovered would revolutionize

our view of the ancient world.

TSOUKALOS: Gobekli Tepe is one of the most fascinating stories

that we have in archaeology in recent times.

It is the first documented

and confirmed archaeological site in the world

that proves its age dating as far back

as 10,000 BC.

NEWMAN: Gobekli Tepe is the oldest known stone circle complex.

It dates to nearly 12,000 years old,

and it stands out as one of the most unique sites on the planet.

It really shouldn't be there at this date.

It wasn't for many thousands of years

that Stonehenge was built.

ANDREW COLLINS: Stonehenge in Britain was constructed

around 3000 BC, but

as much as 6,000 years earlier

in southeast Turkey,

Gobekli Tepe was built

by a very early form of Neolithic people.

And here you have a series

of circular monuments,

each made of T-shaped pillars,

like spokes of a wheel radiating out

from a central spot

where there are two huge monoliths

as much as 18 and a half feet tall.

NARRATOR: According to mainstream archaeologists,

one of the reasons that Gobekli Tepe has survived

in such remarkable condition for more than 10,000 years

is because it was deliberately buried.

But why?

Was it to protect it

from some catastrophic event?

Or was it to hide what ancient astronaut theorists consider

the structure's otherworldly origins?

Perhaps the answer can be found by a further examination

of not only who may have built Gobekli Tepe,

but why.

weighing up to ten tons, HENRY: We look around at templestons

sophisticated carvings,

and even signs of hieroglyphic writing...

experts say Gobekli Tepe could only have been built

by an advanced civilization.

But according to mainstream historians,

the world's first true civilization--

the Sumerians-- did not arise

until thousands of years after Gobekli Tepe was built.

BILL BIRNES: What we know about Gobekli Tepe

is that the Sumerians

said, "Oh, they were built by the ancients."

Who were the ancients that were here before the Sumerians?

So, we actually have geological artifacts

that point us to a civilization

before civilization.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

Gobekli Tepe provides evidence

that a highly-advanced civilization flourished

long before the Sumerians.

And they suggest that a written record

of this civilization can be found in the Book of Enoch

and its mysterious tale of the Watchers.

HENRY: According to the Book of Enoch,

there was an ancient race of giants

who descended to the Earth.

They brought technology with them and shared it with humans.

They were called the Anunnaki,

also known as the Watchers,

extraterrestrial beings who lived near Gobekli Tepe.

TSOUKALOS: In the Old Testament,

there are quite a few passages that speak

of when the sons of God encountered the women of Earth.

They thought of them quite beautiful.

And so they mated with them,

and the offspring were the so-called giants.

NARRATOR According to the Book of Enoch,

these hybrid offspring were giants called the Nephilim.

They built a glittering high-tech civilization.

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But God considered them an abomination

and sent a great flood to wipe them out.

HENRY: Going back 5,000 years,

we have sacred texts that tell us

there was an antediluvian civilization.

There was a great flood and that there were survivors.

The Mesopotamians speak of this in The Epic of Gilgamesh,

the Egyptians speak of this in the Edfu creation texts.

We look around at temples and other constructions

that suddenly blossomed as if out of thin air.

We're asked to believe

that suddenly humanity learned the skills

for building these magnificent monuments

that we can't even duplicate today.

It doesn't make sense,

unless there was some pre-flood teacher indeed

that taught us how to do this.

According to some traditions,

some of the Nephilim survived the flood.

These hybrid children of the Anunnaki still knew

how to build megalithic monuments

aligned with the stars, and that's what they did.

NARRATOR: Tradition has it that after surviving the flood

and building Gobekli Tepe in Turkey,

the Nephilim began to migrate.

And each place they went,

they left stone circles in their wake.

COLLINS: After Gobekli Tepe,

there are other stone circles before we get to Stonehenge.

For instance, at Karahunj

in Armenia, there is a massive series

of megalithic constructions and circles

which have been dated to approximately 5500 BC,

according to the astronomical alignments.

Other sites that are of extreme age include

Cromlech Almendres in Portugal.

This dates back to around 6,000 years.

NARRATOR: If the Nephilim were responsible

for all these stone circles, is it possible that these giants

ultimately found refuge in the British Isles

and built Stonehenge?

Many believe that supporting evidence is found

in a 12th century book by Welsh cleric Geoffrey of Monmouth,

The History of the Kings of Britain.

It states that Stonehenge was erected by giants in Ireland,

then transported to its current site

by the famed magician Merlin.

JONATHAN YOUNG: The story has it, the king wanted

to honor the dead from a great battle,

and he wanted a particular monument

the giants had built in Ireland.

It was Stonehenge.

He sent Merlin to get this thing.

Merlin used magic to move it to Somerset.

This is how it got to where it presently is.

NEWMAN: And somehow he did this.

Whether it was magic, we really don't know.

But we do know that there are traditions

of giants moving stones.

CHILDRESS: We have to ask ourselves,

is it possible that the Nephilim,

as descendants of the Anunnaki,

were the actual builders of Stonehenge

and other megaliths in Great Britain?

And, in fact, uh, that may well have been the case.

NARRATOR: To further support the notion

that the Anunnaki not only built Stonehenge

but also other megalithic stone circles like Gobekli Tepe,

ancient astronaut theorists point to a curious legend

concerning a tribe known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.

TOK THOMPSON: The Tuatha Dé Danann

are probably the most important tribe

or figures or group of people--

if they are people-- uh, that show up in Irish mythology.

The Tuatha Dé Danann were special.

CHILDRESS: The Tuatha Dé Danann were tall.

They had red hair and blue or green eyes.

They had magical powers.

NEWMAN: They had very advanced weaponry

and different types of what sounds like machinery.

But also they taught the high arts of civilization

and they were said to be almost like the Shining Ones

of the biblical tradition.

NARRATOR: Could it be

that the Tuatha Dé Danann were the descendants

of the otherworldly beings described

in the Sumerian tradition as the Anunnaki?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes.

And as evidence,

they point to a curious historic fact.

The Tuatha Dé Danann, or tribe of Danann,

originally had a different name,

the Tuatha Dé Anu.

CHILDRESS: The name means "the tribe of Anu."

And Anu here is the Anunnaki.

It's this mysterious people

who are talked about in Sumerian texts.

So, here we now have a connection

with the Tuatha Dé Danann

with the Anunnaki of ancient Sumeria.

NARRATOR: Did these Anunnaki descendants

really migrate to the British Isles

and ultimately build Stonehenge?

And if so, could this shed light

on the mystery of not only who built Stonehenge but why?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a startling new genetic study

that indicates that,

almost immediately after Stonehenge was built,

its builders

mysteriously vanished from the Earth.

NARRATOR: In a groundbreaking So the pgenetic studylt this,

published in the journal Nature,

Harvard researchers announce a stunning discovery

about ancient human DNA.

It reveals that,

immediately after Stonehenge was built,

the people who built it,

the ancient inhabitants of Britain,

suddenly and almost totally vanished from the British Isles.

They left behind virtually no DNA

in the modern British population.

What the 2018 study suggests

is that the genetic signature of the Neolithic inhabitants

of the British Isles,

it vanishes shortly after the period

in which they build Stonehenge and is largely replaced

by an entirely new human culture

in a very short amount of time.

HENRY: The Harvard study is an absolute bombshell.

An entire civilization just disappears without a trace,

vanishes into thin air?

It's easily the most surprising and most shocking conclusion

you can imagine.

NARRATOR: The study used

a revolutionary new technique

that samples DNA from ancient human bones

and then compares it to the DNA

of modern people in the same place.

Scientists then determine

what percentage of the modern population

is descended from the ancient group.

So, the new genetic data are really providing

an example of population replacement,

in which the genetic markers that characterize one population

is almost entirely replaced in a relatively short amount of time

by the genetic signature that characterizes another population

from a different part of the world.

NARRATOR: The strange disappearance

of the Stonehenge builders

remains a profound historical mystery.

But historians had long known that around 2500 BC,

just after Stonehenge was built,

a new group entered the British Isles.

The so-called Beaker people are named

for their distinctive clay pottery

and are believed to be the ancestors of the Celts.

CHILDRESS: You might think that

when the original population of Britain suddenly left

these stone monuments,

that the newcomers would maybe just let them

go back to nature and ultimately just-just fall down

and be destroyed, uh, over time.

But that's not what happened.

And so it would seem that these newcomers

realized that these places had power.

There was an energy associated with them.

Something important.

NARRATOR: The Orkney Islands, Scotland.

2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Andrew Collins

and author Graham Phillips

have come to these islands to investigate

the mysterious disappearance of the people who built Stonehenge.

Dating back to 3200 BC,

Skara Brae was buried in sand for thousands of years

until a great storm uncovered it in 1850.

Now known as the Scottish Pompeii,

it was home to the people

who began Britain's stone circle building boom,

ultimately built Stonehenge,

and then mysteriously vanished from the genetic record.

Right. Site's over here.

Well, it's quite amazing

that this place was completely covered

with sand,

uh, until they refound it in the 19th century.

The people who built the first stone circle

a couple of miles from here lived here.

Yeah. Just look at this place.

I mean, it's just extraordinary.

PHILLIPS: It's pretty sophisticated.

I mean, these walls here

are really quite advanced for 5,000 years ago,

when everybody else in the country was living in,

well, mud huts, basically.

I know. And-and the incredible thing about this is

the descendants of these people end up creating

all of the stone circles around Britain.

How do you think this started?

I-I think something was changing in the minds of these people.

But, you know, the bigger question is,

what were they doing here?

NARRATOR: Experts believe that the descendants of Skara Brae

began building the great stone circles

that ultimately led to Stonehenge.

To see the first of these mighty circles,

Andrew and Graham travel six miles south.

So, we're going now to the Stones of Stenness,

which is the first stone circle, that we know of,

built anywhere in the British Isles.

It originally consisted of

12 stones in a circle

around 100 feet in diameter,

and the stones are up to 16 feet high.

COLLINS: What's so incredible

is that this first stone circle in Britain

has a relationship

with Gobekli Tepe in southeast Turkey, which--

because the Stones of Stenness

is aligned to the stars.

To the south,

it's the rising of the stars of Orion.

And to the north,

it is the setting of the stars of Cygnus.

And the very same constellations feature

within astronomical alignments at Gobekli Tepe,

thousands of miles away.

NARRATOR: If the Stones of Stenness,

like Gobekli Tepe, Stonehenge,

and other megalithic structures,

was constructed in such a way as to be in alignment

with astronomical events, why?

Was it to merely function as a type of calendar,

indicating when to plant crops or perform rituals?

Or were these structures oriented to the stars

for a far more profound

or perhaps extraterrestrial purpose?

It is true that-that Stonehenge can be used

or was used as a calendar.

There is no doubt about it.

However, in order to create a calendar,

there was absolutely zero need

to build a megalithic structure as gigantic as Stonehenge.

'Cause you could have recreated the entire same thing

by, essentially, placing ordinary sticks in the ground.

That was not the case.

So what was it?

POPE: There is a knowledge and purpose here,

and it's-it's sophisticated.

Were ceremonies and rituals

conducted there that actually achieved something?

In other words, is, in one sense,

Stonehenge a device, a machine?

MARTINEAU: This geometry is there right from the beginning

of the stone circle building

and the reason they were choosing these shapes

was something to do with astronomy.

And I think it's some kind of interesting technology,

ancient technology, um,

whose origins are lost in the mist of time.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the builders of ancient stone circles

weren't constructing giant celestial calendars,

but, instead, were using the sun and stars as guides

so that the giant stones they were using

could be precisely placed?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

And they believe the precise astrological placements of these

weren't intended for ritual purposes,

but for technological ones, possibly as a means

of conducting and generating

a type of geo-electrical energy.

So the people who built this,

you think, were inspired by the descendants

of those who built Gobekli Tepe.

I'm certain of it.

But as we know,

this is the beginning

of something brand-new that starts here

on the Orkney mainland and continues to Stonehenge.

So what comes next?

NARRATOR: Just down the road from the Stones of Stenness

lies the Ring of Brodgar.

The third largest stone circle in the British Isles,

it is a hotbed of UFO sightings and activity.

According to ancient astronaut theorists,

it could also hold the key to solving the mystery

of why the Stonehenge builders suddenly

and inexplicably... disappeared.

POPE: Were the ancients mimicking

ancient astronaut theorist Andrew Collins

and author Graham Phillips

are investigating stone circles

that are believed to be even older than Stonehenge.

They have just arrived at the Ring of Brodgar,

which is not only an important historical site

but also a hot spot for UFO sightings.

PHILLIPS: We're here at the Ring of Brodgar.

It is a henge circle, so all around

the outside of it is a ditch and embankment.

COLLINS: And one of the things that's been repeatedly found

in connection with stone circles

is that there's a very special geology associated

with the landscape around them.

And all of these seem to be able

to manifest mysterious lights.

And they almost appear to act

like windows onto another realm.

Because as you get higher,

you can see that the whole place is like a perfect circle.

A perfect hole out of this reality

into another realm all together.

So this place here could actually be

some kind of portal between this world and another?

Precisely.

But what's so incredible

is that at virtually every location

that this megalithic culture moved out

is also somewhere associated with the appearance

of mysterious lights, what we'd call UFOs.

We're talking about Stonehenge,

Avebury,

the Isle of Anglesey in Wales,

and the area around the Rod Stone.

All of these locations

are what we would call portals,

places where mysterious lights appear

and then disappear.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient stone circles

found throughout the world were once used as portals

to other parts of the universe?

And could this explain why the builders of Stonehenge

suddenly disappeared from the DNA record,

right after the structure is believed to have been completed?

While such a notion may sound preposterous to some,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that it is far from impossible.

NEWMAN: They realized that these stone circles

actually do manipulate earth energies,

these currents that are part of the magnetic field.

CHILDRESS: Archaeologists now

are speculating that the blue stones

that are part of the Stonehenge complex,

they are a type of black-blue dolerite

that has very bright nodes of quartz in them.

NARRATOR: Quartz is able to convert

the earth's natural electrical vibrations

into a form of energy.

The amount of energy increases

when the quartz is under pressure,

as it would be as part of a massive monolithic structure

like Stonehenge.

NEWMAN: So you have electrical qualities

when the quartz is kind of crushed

and then you have magnetic qualities as well

within the same stone.

So this could have been used

to manipulate earth energy currents.

CHILDRESS: Many of the stone circles

have something to do with astronomical alignments,

and you have to wonder if it's a way of calculating

and having a calibration that you can use

to create a special portal area.

It's got a special energy, perhaps,

that's being manipulated

and created by these megalithic structures.

NARRATOR: Did the builders of ancient megalithic structures

like Stonehenge and Gobekli Tepe,

use their advanced knowledge

of the interconnectivity between the Earth--

and the ability of precisely placed megalithic stones--

to generate energy to create portals?

And could this be why they decided

to quarry the rock for Stonehenge

from 120 miles away,

because they needed a particular type of rock

with a particular quartz concentration?

If so, could their incredible ability

to create energy be an indication

that their origins might be extraterrestrial?

If the Nephilim were actually

some sort of extraterrestrial race

with super high technology, then maybe

now all the high-tech stuff is gone

and all that's left is this skeletal structure

that we call Stonehenge.

NARRATOR: If the builders of Stonehenge

really did create a portal

through which they returned to the home planet

of their extraterrestrial ancestors,

did that portal close after they left?

Or was the site stripped of its power

when the original structure was deconstructed?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining one of the strangest events to occur

at Stonehenge in modern times.

An event that some believe may contain a message

from another world.

NARRATOR: Wiltshire, England.

July 1996.

One of the most complex

and spectacular crop circle designs ever seen

appears in a field opposite Stonehenge.

POPE: The so-called Julia Set

appeared right next to Stonehenge.

Now, the Julia Set takes its name

from a fractal, which is a mathematical shape.

This was intricate, complex.

There's an interesting story

that apparently a taxi driver

saw this formation

just appearing suddenly, magically,

as if some unseen hidden force

was making the pattern.

Some people have said that they were symbols

that are meant to convey information.

And it's the conveying of information

that I think is the important thing here.

That really might be the key

to unlocking the mystery here.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the incredible crop formation

that appeared next to Stonehenge

was a message from extraterrestrial visitors?

If Stonehenge was built as a portal to the stars,

can this technology be reactivated?

And might the mathematical information contained

within the Julia Set provide the key

to reopening the portal?

CHILDRESS: When we look at Stonehenge,

we have to wonder about the energy there.

So, early on, it becomes a site where things are happening,

extraterrestrials are landing here perhaps.

But it all starts with some activity early on

in this, in this special place.

People speculated that the ancients

were able to perceive power,

Earth energies, mysterious forces

that perhaps modern humans

have lost the ability to perceive.

Maybe, the theory is, that we've got smarter in other ways,

but we've lost a certain something,

the ability to perhaps tap into

these ancient power sites.

NARRATOR: Does a megalithic stone circle

standing alone in the English countryside

represent the remains of the most sophisticated technology

to ever exist on Earth?

A technology which was part of a vast global network

of similar structures that were not only capable

of generating vast amounts of energy,

but also the means by which alien visitors

could both arrive and depart?

Perhaps the stones that still remain

were deliberately left standing

so that humankind would one day restore

this lost technology...

reactivate it...

and ultimately reunite with the ancient builders

who still exist...

light-years away.

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