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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Archaeologists discovered

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cave systems in China.

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Inside those caves,
they found hundreds

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of these round disks

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that contained
these bizarre grooves

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with strange writing on them.

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All over the world,
you find ancient depictions

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of disks.

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Not only depictions,

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but they also occur
as actual artifacts.

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DAVID CHILDRESS: Local legend
says that the sun disk

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was transported
through these tunnels

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to some unknown destination.

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WILLIAM HENRY: The disk could
actually be some method

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of communicating
with the god himself.

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Sort of a god button

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that the ancient civilizations
could push

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and be able to connect
with the gods.

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NICK REDFERN: Maybe the disks
themselves are extraterrestrial,

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or they're imbued
with some sort of

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extraterrestrial intelligence.

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NARRATOR: The Baian-Kara-Ula
mountain range, China, 1938.

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While trekking
through the rugged terrain,

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an archaeologist from
Beijing University and his team

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discover what appears
to be man-made caves.

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TSOUKALOS:
Archaeologists discovered

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cave systems in China

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that contained the skeletons
of very short, spindly creatures

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with giant heads.

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They also found petroglyphs

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and cave paintings
of the solar system.

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And inside those caves,

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they also found hundreds
of these round disks

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that contained
these bizarre grooves

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with strange writing on them.

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NARRATOR:
According to an article

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published in a German magazine
in July 1962,

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entitled
"UFOs in Prehistoric Times,"

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archaeologists unearthed 716

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of these disk-shaped objects
from the caves,

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later termed Dropa stones.

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Each stone had a small hole
in the center,

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measured roughly
a foot in diameter,

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and had grooves containing
microscopic inscriptions.

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The team from Beijing

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dated the Dropa stones
to roughly 10000 BC,

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based on the skeletal remains
found at the site.

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But their purpose
remained a mystery

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for more than two decades,

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until a Chinese archaeologist
claimed to have deciphered them.

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When the disks
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they discovered that within the
grooves were tiny hieroglyphs

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that were so tiny,

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they could only be seen
with a magnifying glass.

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When they were
finally deciphered,

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they told this amazing story.

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They tell the story
of the Dropa,

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tiny extraterrestrial
or dwarf-like beings.

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HARTWIG HAUSDORF:
Those hieroglyphs

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told about the crash landing
of some people

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that flew through the universe

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and came upon the third planet
of our solar system.

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And when they crash landed
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they had no possibility

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to repair their spacecraft
and had to stay there.

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The Chinese Academy
of the Sciences

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forbid
the Chinese archaeologist,

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named Tsum Um Nui, to, uh,

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publish what he found out.

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But he succeeded
in publishing the story,

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and when it came
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it was received as, well,
some kind of science fiction.

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No one believed the story.

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NARRATOR:
Shortly after the article

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about the Dropa Stones
was published,

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the Chinese government
confiscated the disks

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and quickly dismissed
their existence as a hoax.

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But was it?

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TSOUKALOS: An interesting aspect
about the Dropa stones

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is that, today,

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none of these disks
exist publicly.

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So, that means, at some point,

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these disks were put away
by museums,

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by archaeologists, who knows?

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Any and all trace
of these disks is gone.

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So one has to wonder:
"What was up with these disks?"

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Because if they were
just ordinary artifacts,

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then they would be
displayed at museums.

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What if we have another example

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of where archaeologists
are afraid

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to investigate something,

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just because the inscription
on there reads

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there was an extraterrestrial
visitation?

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NARRATOR: Years after
the Dropa stones disappeared

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from the public sphere,

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evidence of a mysterious
short-statured population

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known as the Dzopa
was discovered in the area.

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This would seem
to add further credence

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to the Beijing archaeologists'
report,

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in which they stated
that they had come across

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three-foot-tall
human-like skeletons

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in the caves that contained
the Dropa stones.

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Since the Chinese government
took control of these disks,

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we're at a loss
for more knowledge

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about who the Dropa
actually were.

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But the reason why we should
pay attention to the Dropa story

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is because in 1995,

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it was discovered
that there was a group of people

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living very near
the Dropa crash.

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The tallest person in this group
was three-foot, ten inches tall,

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matching identically the
description of the Dropa beings.

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Because this tribe matched
the description of the Dropa,

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one wonders, are they actual
descendants of the Dropa beings?

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NARRATOR:
If the published account

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of the Dropa disks is true,

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is this evidence
of an alien technology on Earth?

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References
to disk-shaped artifacts

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associated
with otherworldly beings

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can be found
throughout human history.

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All over the world-- it doesn't
matter on what continent--

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you find ancient depictions
of disks.

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Not only depictions, but they
also occur as actual artifacts.

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Disks are everywhere
in ancient imagery,

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connected with extraterrestrials
or celestial beings.

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In Christian art,
we'll see disks in the sky

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that appear to be
like craft or UFOs.

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The Chinese portrayed their gods
flying in disks.

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You will see saints with halos,

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and it symbolizes
expanded consciousness

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and connection to other realms.

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The Egyptians had golden disks
on their heads as well.

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When we see these disks,
it always symbolizes

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their connection
to otherworldly realms.

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Disks have found themselves
as central artifacts

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within every ancient culture.

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Disks were seen as points of
communication with the divine.

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Disks were revered as being
that point of connection

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with their creator gods.

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When we look at the almost
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of this disk shape
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we're seeing something
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the common idea of it
just being a useless artifact.

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It is an archetype.

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It is a consistent motif that
shows up over and over again,

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and we need to investigate
the possibility

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that there is some actual
message contained within them.

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NARRATOR:
Is there a connection

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between the Dropa stones

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reportedly found
in the mountains of China,

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and disk-shaped artifacts
written about

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by ancient cultures
all around the world?

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And if so, were they left here
by extraterrestrial visitors,

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with a purpose mankind
has yet to discover?

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Perhaps further clues
can be found

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by examining ancient disks

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that were believed to hold
the power to communicate

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with the gods.

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NARRATOR:
Phaistos, Crete, 1908.

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While exploring the ruins
of an ancient Minoan palace

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dating to the 17th century BC,

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Italian archaeologist
Luigi Pernier

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unearths a clay disk
with strange writing on it.

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More than 100 years
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researchers are still unsure who
created this mysterious disk,

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what its purpose was, or what
the symbols on it might mean.

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The Phaistos Disk is interesting

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because of what we don't know,
in a sense.

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What we do know is that it
came from the Phaistos Temple,

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which is a Minoan temple,
and we really wish we did know

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more about what
Minoan civilization was,

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what their writing was,
what their culture was.

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It in itself
is a very mysterious culture.

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And then the disk
adds another layer of mystery.

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Here it was in one
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and yet it doesn't
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to anything we've seen
from Minoan civilization.

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So did this come
from a very, very early time?

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Was it brought in from
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that was considered
significant and sacred enough

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to put in a temple?

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There isn't a scholar
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that can tell you where the
Phaistos Disk originated from.

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The clay the disk has been
made from is not Minoan.

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Nobody knows the origins of the
language on the Phaistos Disk.

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It doesn't match ancient Minoan.

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Now, over the last 100 years,

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there's been
40 failed academic attempts

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to decode or to discover

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the true language
of the Phaistos Disk.

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It wasn't until 2008, professors
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and the University of Oxford
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which was, "The mother goddess
from beyond."

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They can see the patterns within
the structure of the language.

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But they all admit
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100% of nothing.

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The Phaistos Disk

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is written in these
curious hieroglyphics.

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They include pictures of men
with Mohawks, different designs.

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Even one of the figures
looks like a flying saucer.

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While the Phaistos Disk
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we know that the script on it
is not Minoan.

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It's believed to be made
with moveable type,

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which wasn't invented
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This opens up the possibility

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that the Minoans
must have been in contact

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with some advanced beings, maybe
even extraterrestrials who,

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in fact, created the disk
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or some kind of
an information disk,

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that would be able to be
deciphered at a later date.

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According to the ancient
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the only reason why
ancient relics became sacred

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is because of their connection

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with someone descending
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According to the Minoan
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the knowledge that
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was given to them by none other
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Could it be that the Minoans
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with advanced beings
visiting them from outer space?

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NARRATOR: Could the mysterious
Phaistos Disk

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that was found within
a 4,000-year-old Minoan palace

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be of extraterrestrial origin?

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And might it also have a
connection to the Dropa stones

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unearthed in China?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
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and suggest further evidence
can be found

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by examining another disk

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belonging to one of mankind's
earliest known civilizations.

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Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq.

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In the Iraqi desert,

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just 18 miles southwest
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lie the ruins
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In 1881, archaeologists
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unearthed tens of thousands
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dating back
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Amongst the finds
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depicting the Mesopotamian
sun god Shamash.

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This here is the Babylonian
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which has this
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with God Shamash right here
and human beings right here.

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What's so cool in this depiction

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is that Shamash is shown

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as if he was some type
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'cause he is much, much bigger

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than the rest
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The enclosure has this

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type of a connection
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because you have a depiction

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of the Moon, the Sun and Venus.

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Now, what I think is
really cool is that up here,

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you have this celestial being

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that is sort of holding on
to this disk.

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The fact that
this celestial being

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has these two ropes
attached to this disk

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leads me to think about
misunderstood technology.

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ASHLEY COWIE:
The sun disk

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in the Tablet of Shamash

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is described
in the below text as such:

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the disk was sent there
or put there

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to be worshipped
in place of Shamash.

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It was the access point
for the ancient Babylonians

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to communicate with their gods,

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in particular,
the sun god Shamash.

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This could actually be
some method of communicating

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with the god himself.

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It is some form of a technology.

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Think of it as
sort of a god button

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that the ancient Babylonians
or Sumerians could push

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and be able to connect
with Shamash.

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NARRATOR:
If the actual sun disk

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depicted on the tablet
is ever found

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among the ruins
of ancient Babylonia,

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will we discover that it is some
sort of technological device?

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Perhaps further clues can be
found by examining the story

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of an Incan ruler
who wore a disk

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which allowed him to wield
the power of the gods.

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NARRATOR:
Cusco, Peru.

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Today, the Church
of Santo Domingo

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sits on the foundation stones

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of what was once considered
the most important temple

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to the ancient Inca: the
Coricancha, Temple of the Sun.

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The original structure,
which is believed

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to predate
the Incan civilization,

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was rebuilt in the 15th century
by the ruler, Pachacuti,

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after he came into possession
of a mirrored disk.

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DR. EDWIN BARNHART
Pachacuti is...

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the first Inca who really
created the Inca as an empire,

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not just as one of many cultures
in the Andes.

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COWIE: A legend has it
that Pachacuti traveled

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to a spring to the east
of Cusco.

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A disk is said to have fallen
from the sky into the spring.

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And when Pachacuti lifted it
out of the water,

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he saw an image

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of Viracocha, the creator.

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The apparition told Pachacuti,

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"You will win many wars."

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(men shouting)

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Within ten years,
Pachacuti expanded the empire

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in a way that's never been seen
in history before.

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(men shouting)

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The myths say that he held
that mirror with him

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for the rest of his life

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and any answers he wanted
to look into the future

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or what to do,
he consulted the mirror

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and the mirror told him
what to do.

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COWIE:
The disk that Pachacuti found

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truly was his key

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and his driving force
to become one of the most

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powerful emperors in history.

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NARRATOR: Pachacuti began the
expansion of the Incan territory

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from the valley of Cusco

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to encompass 2,500 miles of the
west coast of South America

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from Quito, Ecuador
to Talca, Chile.

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Worldwide, it doesn't matter
what ancient culture,

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there's some type of a worship
of a disk

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that came from the sky.

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It is possible that this disk

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had some type of an
extraterrestrial connection

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and that this disk was
a technological device.

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CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder,

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was it some kind of
extraterrestrial object

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that Pachacuti was now carrying
around with him that allowed him

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to communicate with these
extraterrestrial gods

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that were guiding him?

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WILCOCK:
We've already had smartphones

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that have come out
in our own history

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where it's a lot
more than what it appears.

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You're looking
at all of your apps.

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You can watch movies on it.
You can send e-mail.

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You can have telephone calls.

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You can have video calls,
all kinds of things.

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So, that disk may have been
something with a great deal

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of computer circuitry in it,

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something that had
far more capability

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than we could ever
normally imagine.

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NARRATOR: If the accounts of
Pachacuti's magic disk are true,

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could it have contained some
sort of alien technology?

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According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

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further evidence that
alien disks exist on Earth

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can be found in the Hayu Marca
mountain region of Peru.

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At the site known by the locals
as the Puerta de Hayu Marca,

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or Gate of the Gods,

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is an enormous 23-foot high
door-like structure

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carved into the solid rock face.

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Contained within it
is a smaller T-shaped opening

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just under six feet in height,

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with a circular
depression inside.

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Local legends tells us
that the gods would use this

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as a gateway, or a stargate,

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through which they would
come and go.

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They opened the doorway through
this disk that was placed

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in a little alcove or etching
place inside the doorway.

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CHILDRESS:
One of the stories, too,

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is that a high priest
named Amaru Meru

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utilized a disk
to open this door.

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And so this was
his computer or key

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that opened this
dimensional doorway.

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Once again, the disk is the key.

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Here we have an apparent
extraterrestrial technology

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in the form of a disk,

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and you would then pop the disk
into where the door is

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and that would open the portal.

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This circular area has been
found where the door is located

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and so it does suggest that
there may be some veracity

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to these ancient legends.

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NARRATOR: Interestingly, the
disk of Puerta de Hayu Marca

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and Pachacuti's mirror
are just two

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of a number of mysterious disks
that are said to have existed

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throughout Central
and South America.

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And legend has it that
the very same Coricancha temple

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that Pachacuti rebuilt,

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housed the empire's
most prized possession:

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a golden sun disk.

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The artifact
allegedly disappeared

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just before the conquistadors,
lead by Francisco Pizarro,

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sacked the city
in November of 1533.

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(men grunting)

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Nearly five centuries later,

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in March of 2017,

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author and world explorer
David Childress

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visited the site
to see the very spot

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where the legendary disk
once hung from the wall.

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It's thought that this spot
here in the Coricancha temple

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is where the seven-foot wide
sun disk was held.

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And a long rope was

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fastened through
these many holes,

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and it held
the sun disk in place

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here in the center of
the Coricancha temple in Cusco.

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NARRATOR:
According to Inca legend,

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the sun disk had existed since
the birth of human civilization.

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They described the artifact
as being made

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from a translucent gold material
that came from the heavens.

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BARNHART:
The disk was said, by the Inca,

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to represent Viracocha,

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the creator deity,
the apex deity.

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And in point of fact,

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just about every culture
in the ancient Andes

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also recognized Viracocha,

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under various names,
as the creator deity.

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COWIE: Legend has it that,
after Viracocha

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created the Moon and the Sun,

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he created
the first man and woman,

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Manco Cápac and Mama Ocllo.

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The first thing
Viracocha commanded

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Manco Cápac to do on Earth

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was create
the Incan golden sun disk.

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The sun disk
was an actual manifestation

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of the creator on Earth.

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They truly believed
it was imbued

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with supernatural,
trans-dimensional forces,

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and it was the point
of communication

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with the creator himself.

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It was like a broadband
connection to Viracocha.

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TSOUKALOS: Now, Viracocha
came down from the sky.

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Now, is it possible

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that it was
a misunderstood flying machine

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that our ancestors
thought was God?

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And the massive golden disk

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attributed to this
extraterrestrial being

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allegedly had the power

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to heal ailments,

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to help shamans reach
a higher plane of consciousness.

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CHILDRESS: The Incas believed
that the sun disk

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had the power to help them
change the weather

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or alter catastrophes.

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So if there was a big earthquake

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or there were terrible floods,

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they believed that they could go
to this sun disk

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and ask it for help.

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So you have to ask yourself,

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was the Inca sun disk some kind
of communication device

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with extraterrestrials?

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NARRATOR: According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

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the fact that the Inca
were so concerned

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with keeping the golden sun disk

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out of the hands of the Spanish

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serves as further evidence

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that it truly did
possess otherworldly power.

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And many believe

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the disk still exists

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somewhere on Earth today.

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NARRATOR: Outside the ruins
of Saksaywaman,

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just a mile and a half from
the Coricancha temple in Cusco,

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are little known entrances
to underground passageways

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dating back to the Inca.

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Many of the openings
have been covered up

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and sealed for public safety,

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00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:27,126
but a few
still remain accessible.

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In 2017,

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David Childress visited the site

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of one of
the remaining open tunnels.

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CHILDRESS:
There is a labyrinth

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of tunnels beneath Cusco,

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and they extend for hundreds
of miles in every direction.

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And some of these tunnels
even intersect.

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Over the years these tunnels
have been blocked off

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and sealed,

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but you can still access parts
of this tunnel system,

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such as this tunnel here,

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cut through solid rock.

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Local legend says that
the sun disk was transported

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out of the city
through these tunnels.

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There has been
a lot of speculation

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of where the sun disk was taken.

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And treasure hunters have been
searching for this location

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for centuries.

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COWIE:
Legends recount three myths,

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as to how the sacred
golden sun disk left Cusco.

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Some legends maintain
that it was taken out

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through a tunnel system
to Gran Paititi,

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a lost Inca village

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at the top of a mountain,

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which the Spanish
never, ever found.

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Some maintain
it was taken to Saksaywaman.

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And some maintain it was
returned to Lake Titicaca

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from whence it came.

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NARRATOR: Located more than
200 miles southeast of Cusco,

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at an elevation of over
12,500 feet above sea level,

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Titicaca is the highest
navigable lake in the world

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and considered sacred
to the local Andean population.

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HENRY:
In the Incan creation myth,

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their god Viracocha
emerged from Lake Titicaca.

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This goes along
with ancient myths and legends

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that tl us that there's
an etheric or ethereal city

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that's underneath Lake Titicaca.

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00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:26,178
In light of this,
it makes sense that

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the Incas returned their
prized golden disk to the lake.

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COWIE: The temple was said
to be a thing of imagination,

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a thing of wonder.

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Until the year 2000.

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In the year 2000, a team
of Italian divers and scientists

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ventured to the base
of Lake Titicaca

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after finding
a road of Inca stones.

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They followed the road
for just less than half a mile,

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into the lake.

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And discovered
a 650 by 150-foot temple...

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...underneath the waters
of Lake Titicaca.

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NARRATOR: Since the discovery
of the temple in Lake Titicaca,

499
00:28:11,791 --> 00:28:16,395
underwater archaeologists
have unearthed 2,000 artifacts,

500
00:28:16,428 --> 00:28:19,231
including
gold and silver objects,

501
00:28:19,265 --> 00:28:22,301
as well as pottery
dating back to the Inca.

502
00:28:22,334 --> 00:28:24,937
Could they be close to finding

503
00:28:24,971 --> 00:28:27,206
the golden sun disk
of Coricancha?

504
00:28:29,541 --> 00:28:32,244
But why are there so many
stories throughout the world

505
00:28:32,278 --> 00:28:36,983
of disks with incredible powers?

506
00:28:37,016 --> 00:28:40,419
Is it possible that
they are all somehow connected

507
00:28:40,452 --> 00:28:44,056
and serve a hidden purpose
for humanity?

508
00:28:44,090 --> 00:28:47,794
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

509
00:28:47,827 --> 00:28:50,029
a more recent story
of the discovery

510
00:28:50,062 --> 00:28:52,064
of a mysterious disk.

511
00:28:55,334 --> 00:28:58,437
Grand Teton National Park,
Wyoming.

512
00:28:58,470 --> 00:29:01,373
This majestic mountain range

513
00:29:01,407 --> 00:29:05,845
rises over 13,000 feet
above sea level,

514
00:29:05,878 --> 00:29:08,981
and is the site of one
of the most remarkable claims

515
00:29:09,015 --> 00:29:12,151
of non-human interactions
on Earth.

516
00:29:12,184 --> 00:29:15,822
In his book
Original Unveiled Mysteries,

517
00:29:15,855 --> 00:29:18,357
published in 1934,

518
00:29:18,390 --> 00:29:21,060
mining engineer Guy Ballard

519
00:29:21,093 --> 00:29:23,830
claims to have been taken
into a secret entrance

520
00:29:23,863 --> 00:29:25,531
within the mountain.

521
00:29:25,564 --> 00:29:28,400
REDFERN:
Ballard claimed that he met

522
00:29:28,434 --> 00:29:31,137
these higher ascended beings,

523
00:29:31,170 --> 00:29:34,974
what today we would perhaps call
extraterrestrials or aliens.

524
00:29:35,007 --> 00:29:38,077
And one of them showed him,
essentially,

525
00:29:38,110 --> 00:29:41,180
sort of a secret opening
into the mountain.

526
00:29:41,213 --> 00:29:46,552
And he was reportedly
taken down this extensive shaft,

527
00:29:46,585 --> 00:29:50,823
possibly even to a depth
of around 2,000 feet.

528
00:29:50,857 --> 00:29:54,460
As they descended, they reached
this particular room,

529
00:29:54,493 --> 00:29:59,331
which contained this large,
circular, disk-shaped object.

530
00:29:59,365 --> 00:30:03,269
And, when Ballard asked
questions about what it was,

531
00:30:03,302 --> 00:30:05,537
this higher entity said to him

532
00:30:05,571 --> 00:30:09,475
it was essentially
a guiding device,

533
00:30:09,508 --> 00:30:12,078
which could have an effect
on the human mind.

534
00:30:14,881 --> 00:30:16,582
WILCOCK:
Why would an engineer

535
00:30:16,615 --> 00:30:18,550
want to make up
something like this?

536
00:30:18,584 --> 00:30:21,353
His stories are so
detailed and complex

537
00:30:21,387 --> 00:30:23,289
that there is reason to believe

538
00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:25,291
that Ballard was in contact

539
00:30:25,324 --> 00:30:28,027
with some sort of
human-looking extraterrestrial

540
00:30:28,060 --> 00:30:30,863
who gave him
an eyewitness viewing

541
00:30:30,897 --> 00:30:34,500
of an extraterrestrial disk
that actually had the ability

542
00:30:34,533 --> 00:30:38,537
to steer and guide the people
on the surface of the Earth.

543
00:30:38,570 --> 00:30:43,910
There may be an ability to take
certain materials, like gold,

544
00:30:43,943 --> 00:30:46,478
and to imbue them with thoughts,

545
00:30:46,512 --> 00:30:48,948
such that perhaps
the high priest or priestess

546
00:30:48,981 --> 00:30:52,384
of that civilization could
actually access the disk,

547
00:30:52,418 --> 00:30:54,553
perhaps with
a telepathic process,

548
00:30:54,586 --> 00:30:58,490
and use that
much like a tuning fork,

549
00:30:58,524 --> 00:31:00,659
or an antennae
that gets them in touch

550
00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:03,495
with some sort of
cosmic intelligence.

551
00:31:03,529 --> 00:31:07,499
Because gold has
very unique properties.

552
00:31:07,533 --> 00:31:10,602
It's highly
electrically conductive

553
00:31:10,636 --> 00:31:14,006
and precious metals,
such as gold,

554
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:17,376
have a certain chemical
and molecular lattice.

555
00:31:17,409 --> 00:31:20,279
They can cluster together
in geometric ways,

556
00:31:20,312 --> 00:31:23,615
which allows them to act
almost like a tuning fork

557
00:31:23,649 --> 00:31:25,484
for the consciousness field.

558
00:31:27,586 --> 00:31:29,555
HENRY:
Ballard's story affirms the idea

559
00:31:29,588 --> 00:31:31,190
that some of these disks
found around the world

560
00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:34,160
are not objects of art.

561
00:31:34,193 --> 00:31:36,562
These are actually
objects brought here

562
00:31:36,595 --> 00:31:38,630
by extraterrestrials
for the purpose

563
00:31:38,664 --> 00:31:40,466
of influencing human affairs.

564
00:31:43,202 --> 00:31:45,938
REDFERN:
If these disks have the ability

565
00:31:45,972 --> 00:31:50,076
to sort of guide the human mind
down certain pathways,

566
00:31:50,109 --> 00:31:54,380
this offers us a potentially
really intriguing scenario.

567
00:31:54,413 --> 00:31:57,149
Maybe in some respects,

568
00:31:57,183 --> 00:32:00,086
the disks themselves
are extraterrestrial,

569
00:32:00,119 --> 00:32:01,420
or they're imbued
with some sort of

570
00:32:01,453 --> 00:32:04,490
extraterrestrial intelligence,

571
00:32:04,523 --> 00:32:08,060
which can essentially
head outwards,

572
00:32:08,094 --> 00:32:12,131
and be soaked in by us,
unknowingly perhaps.

573
00:32:14,366 --> 00:32:16,969
NARRATOR:
If these objects are imbued

574
00:32:17,003 --> 00:32:18,570
with extraterrestrial
consciousness

575
00:32:18,604 --> 00:32:20,372
as Guy Ballard proposed,

576
00:32:20,406 --> 00:32:23,642
is it possible that many
of the other enigmatic disks

577
00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:29,481
found across the globe
are influencing humans as well?

578
00:32:29,515 --> 00:32:33,019
Perhaps the answer can be found

579
00:32:33,052 --> 00:32:35,187
by further examining
the Dropa stones

580
00:32:35,221 --> 00:32:37,456
that were unearthed in China,

581
00:32:37,489 --> 00:32:40,759
and the strange
electrical frequencies

582
00:32:40,792 --> 00:32:43,029
they were said to emit.

583
00:32:50,202 --> 00:32:55,041
NARRATOR:
Interstellar space, June 2017.

584
00:32:55,074 --> 00:32:59,511
Located nearly 13 billion miles
from Earth,

585
00:32:59,545 --> 00:33:05,384
NASA's Voyager 1 probe continues
on its path into the unknown.

586
00:33:05,417 --> 00:33:09,455
Launched on September 5, 1977,

587
00:33:09,488 --> 00:33:12,458
the spacecraft
is the furthest from Earth

588
00:33:12,491 --> 00:33:15,427
that any man-made object
has ever traveled,

589
00:33:15,461 --> 00:33:19,331
having officially exited
the solar system.

590
00:33:19,365 --> 00:33:23,269
If the object is ever found
by an alien race,

591
00:33:23,302 --> 00:33:27,573
they will discover within it
a phonographic disk.

592
00:33:27,606 --> 00:33:31,043
The purpose of the disk itself

593
00:33:31,077 --> 00:33:35,114
was to introduce us
to an extraterrestrial species.

594
00:33:35,147 --> 00:33:38,784
The disk contains
all kinds of audio recordings

595
00:33:38,817 --> 00:33:40,719
that would give clues
as to who we are,

596
00:33:40,752 --> 00:33:42,821
as to our systems of culture,

597
00:33:42,854 --> 00:33:45,224
our systems of science
and mathematics,

598
00:33:45,257 --> 00:33:47,493
giving them,
whoever would discover it,

599
00:33:47,526 --> 00:33:50,429
a very clear guide stone

600
00:33:50,462 --> 00:33:53,499
to understanding
the creators of that disk.

601
00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:58,504
NARRATOR: That same year, NASA
sent a similar time capsule disk

602
00:33:58,537 --> 00:34:02,841
aboard the Voyager 2 launched
at a different trajectory.

603
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:06,278
In both Voyager missions,

604
00:34:06,312 --> 00:34:08,747
the cases that contained
the golden disks

605
00:34:08,780 --> 00:34:11,783
were etched with symbols
explaining how to play them,

606
00:34:11,817 --> 00:34:14,820
as well as mathematical
and scientific concepts

607
00:34:14,853 --> 00:34:20,359
that might be recognizable to an
advanced extraterrestrial race.

608
00:34:20,392 --> 00:34:24,596
Both disks were mounted
on the exterior of the probes,

609
00:34:24,630 --> 00:34:26,598
and to assure their longevity,

610
00:34:26,632 --> 00:34:29,601
the covers were electroplated
in uranium,

611
00:34:29,635 --> 00:34:36,342
which has a half-life
of over four billion years.

612
00:34:36,375 --> 00:34:39,845
I find it intriguing
that if we are sending out disks

613
00:34:39,878 --> 00:34:41,647
containing information

614
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,417
about us as a species,
our place in the universe,

615
00:34:45,451 --> 00:34:49,688
then it's entirely possible,
even logical,

616
00:34:49,721 --> 00:34:51,657
that, perhaps,
highly advanced aliens

617
00:34:51,690 --> 00:34:53,792
would be doing exactly the same.

618
00:34:53,825 --> 00:34:56,795
And certainly,
there's evidence of this.

619
00:35:03,302 --> 00:35:08,207
NARRATOR:
Xi'an, China, 1974.

620
00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:10,776
At the Banpo Museum,

621
00:35:10,809 --> 00:35:13,812
Austrian engineer Ernst Wegerer

622
00:35:13,845 --> 00:35:19,285
photographs a display featuring
two strange circular objects.

623
00:35:19,318 --> 00:35:22,488
He is told
that they are Dropa stones,

624
00:35:22,521 --> 00:35:27,359
the mysterious disks
discovered in a cave in 1938,

625
00:35:27,393 --> 00:35:30,729
that the Chinese
quickly dismissed as a hoax.

626
00:35:30,762 --> 00:35:34,833
Mysteriously,
as word of the find spreads,

627
00:35:34,866 --> 00:35:38,937
the disks are removed
from the museum.

628
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:44,376
In spring 1994, I have been
in this Banpo Museum,

629
00:35:44,410 --> 00:35:48,580
and I spoke to the present
curator of this museum

630
00:35:48,614 --> 00:35:51,217
and he told me
a very bizarre story

631
00:35:51,250 --> 00:35:54,453
of what happened
a few days after the visit

632
00:35:54,486 --> 00:35:57,823
of engineer Wegerer
at this museum.

633
00:35:57,856 --> 00:36:02,528
Some days later, the former
manageress of the museum,

634
00:36:02,561 --> 00:36:05,931
along with two stone disks
that were on display,

635
00:36:05,964 --> 00:36:10,269
they have disappeared
without any trace.

636
00:36:13,739 --> 00:36:14,873
NARRATOR:
While further researching

637
00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:16,642
the story of the Dropa stones

638
00:36:16,675 --> 00:36:19,545
for his book
The Chinese Roswell,

639
00:36:19,578 --> 00:36:22,514
Hartwig Hausdorf
uncovered an article

640
00:36:22,548 --> 00:36:24,816
in the Soviet magazine Spoutnik,

641
00:36:24,850 --> 00:36:27,986
detailing tests
performed on the disks.

642
00:36:28,019 --> 00:36:32,858
After the public release
of the story in 1962,

643
00:36:32,891 --> 00:36:36,828
Russian scientist
Dr. Viatcheslav Saizev

644
00:36:36,862 --> 00:36:40,266
requested permission
to study the disks.

645
00:36:40,299 --> 00:36:42,368
In addition to determining

646
00:36:42,401 --> 00:36:45,604
that they were composed
of cobalt, iron and nickel,

647
00:36:45,637 --> 00:36:51,343
the scientist discovered the
stones were emitting a signal.

648
00:36:51,377 --> 00:36:53,612
Accredited scientists noticed

649
00:36:53,645 --> 00:36:56,315
that there was this weird
electromagnetic current

650
00:36:56,348 --> 00:36:58,884
coming off of the Dropa stones
when they were rotated.

651
00:36:58,917 --> 00:37:02,521
And it was discovered
that if you put these stones

652
00:37:02,554 --> 00:37:05,724
onto a regular
phonograph turntable

653
00:37:05,757 --> 00:37:08,760
and rotate them
with the needle on them,

654
00:37:08,794 --> 00:37:11,530
that they actually create
electrical energy.

655
00:37:13,299 --> 00:37:16,335
NARRATOR: The disks
were allegedly returned

656
00:37:16,368 --> 00:37:18,003
to the Chinese government

657
00:37:18,036 --> 00:37:22,007
before further analysis
of the frequency could be made.

658
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:24,876
WILCOCK:
Under further examination,

659
00:37:24,910 --> 00:37:28,814
that electrical energy may be
much like a radio frequency

660
00:37:28,847 --> 00:37:32,684
or a signal
that could be deciphered.

661
00:37:32,718 --> 00:37:35,421
And it is curious that we were
doing much the same thing

662
00:37:35,454 --> 00:37:38,624
with the gold disks that we put
on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2

663
00:37:38,657 --> 00:37:40,692
from NASA directly.

664
00:37:42,027 --> 00:37:44,863
NARRATOR:
Could the Dropa stones,

665
00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:47,599
and other similarly
mysterious disks

666
00:37:47,633 --> 00:37:50,402
discovered
throughout human history,

667
00:37:50,436 --> 00:37:54,940
serve the same function as the
disks NASA sent out into space?

668
00:37:54,973 --> 00:37:57,409
Are they meant to introduce us

669
00:37:57,443 --> 00:38:01,780
to another intelligent race
that exists beyond Earth?

670
00:38:01,813 --> 00:38:04,816
Or do the stories
of their supernatural powers

671
00:38:04,850 --> 00:38:09,555
reveal a more profound purpose?

672
00:38:09,588 --> 00:38:13,359
Perhaps further clues
can be found

673
00:38:13,392 --> 00:38:17,463
by examining an encoded disk
discovered not in a cave,

674
00:38:17,496 --> 00:38:20,799
but in the crop fields
of England.

675
00:38:29,541 --> 00:38:35,046
NARRATOR: Winchester, England,
August 15, 2002.

676
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:39,050
An alien figure holding
a disk-shaped object

677
00:38:39,084 --> 00:38:42,354
mysteriously appears
in a crop formation

678
00:38:42,388 --> 00:38:44,756
in the middle of a wheat field.

679
00:38:44,790 --> 00:38:48,560
The image was found
to contain binary code,

680
00:38:48,594 --> 00:38:51,062
a series of ones and zeros

681
00:38:51,096 --> 00:38:54,833
currently used
to write computer data.

682
00:38:54,866 --> 00:38:58,637
Programmers, recognizing
the digital language,

683
00:38:58,670 --> 00:39:02,908
set out to decipher the message.

684
00:39:02,941 --> 00:39:09,047
When we translated that,
it was basically a warning.

685
00:39:09,080 --> 00:39:12,017
And this is what it said:

686
00:39:12,050 --> 00:39:16,955
"Beware of the bearers of false
gifts and their broken promises.

687
00:39:16,988 --> 00:39:19,891
"Much pain but still time.

688
00:39:19,925 --> 00:39:21,693
"There is good out there.

689
00:39:21,727 --> 00:39:24,930
"We oppose deception.

690
00:39:24,963 --> 00:39:27,833
Conduit closing."

691
00:39:27,866 --> 00:39:30,536
Some people said,
"Well, is this disk

692
00:39:30,569 --> 00:39:36,007
"warning about the Grey
that is holding the disk?

693
00:39:36,041 --> 00:39:41,713
Or is the disk itself
the intelligence warning?"

694
00:39:41,747 --> 00:39:44,750
CHILDRESS:
This crop circle disk,

695
00:39:44,783 --> 00:39:47,753
which appears to be encoded
with information,

696
00:39:47,786 --> 00:39:51,623
in theory, must be some kind
of effort by extraterrestrials

697
00:39:51,657 --> 00:39:53,925
to communicate with us,

698
00:39:53,959 --> 00:39:57,162
and give us information
that they think we need.

699
00:39:57,195 --> 00:40:00,499
And it could be possibly
a warning for us.

700
00:40:03,134 --> 00:40:04,803
NARRATOR:
Do the many mysterious disks

701
00:40:04,836 --> 00:40:07,706
found throughout the world,

702
00:40:07,739 --> 00:40:11,076
much like the disk depicted in
the Winchester crop formation,

703
00:40:11,109 --> 00:40:14,513
contain warnings for mankind?

704
00:40:14,546 --> 00:40:16,715
Could they hold information

705
00:40:16,748 --> 00:40:21,186
essential to humanity's
future survival?

706
00:40:21,219 --> 00:40:24,523
GEORGE NOORY: These disks
that were left behind,

707
00:40:24,556 --> 00:40:28,059
with messages from
extraterrestrial races,

708
00:40:28,093 --> 00:40:30,529
they're trying
to tell us things,

709
00:40:30,562 --> 00:40:34,633
and we are obligated
to find out what they are.

710
00:40:34,666 --> 00:40:37,503
And it's appalling
that in many cases,

711
00:40:37,536 --> 00:40:39,571
governments have
confiscated these materials

712
00:40:39,605 --> 00:40:42,240
and these artifacts,

713
00:40:42,273 --> 00:40:44,943
and they won't let anybody know.

714
00:40:44,976 --> 00:40:47,813
We have to look at these disks

715
00:40:47,846 --> 00:40:49,881
as possibly being left for us

716
00:40:49,915 --> 00:40:54,119
and they're here
to influence us and guide us.

717
00:40:54,152 --> 00:40:56,588
They're some kind
of technology here,

718
00:40:56,622 --> 00:40:59,591
and it's up to us to figure out

719
00:40:59,625 --> 00:41:02,928
why these extraterrestrials
have left these disks here

720
00:41:02,961 --> 00:41:06,665
and what their purpose
ultimately is.

721
00:41:06,698 --> 00:41:10,168
These disks could well be
the centerpiece of our study

722
00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:12,804
of ancient alien artifacts.

723
00:41:12,838 --> 00:41:16,975
In fact, they could well be the
extraterrestrials themselves.

724
00:41:17,008 --> 00:41:19,144
By making that connection,

725
00:41:19,177 --> 00:41:21,913
we deepen our understanding
of who they are,

726
00:41:21,947 --> 00:41:23,549
and what they mean to us.

727
00:41:23,582 --> 00:41:26,585
WILCOCK: There is a very strong
likelihood

728
00:41:26,618 --> 00:41:29,755
that these disks are bringing us
closer together,

729
00:41:29,788 --> 00:41:33,625
and creating a bridge between
our world and the worlds beyond.

730
00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:37,896
NARRATOR:
If the many mysterious disks

731
00:41:37,929 --> 00:41:42,167
found scattered across the globe
are interconnected,

732
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:45,604
might they really serve
some technological purpose

733
00:41:45,637 --> 00:41:49,307
just beyond our current scope
of understanding?

734
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:53,111
Perhaps the sooner
we are able to fully comprehend

735
00:41:53,144 --> 00:41:56,815
the message
behind these alien disks,

736
00:41:56,848 --> 00:42:01,553
the sooner mankind
will be able to fully reconnect

737
00:42:01,587 --> 00:42:04,255
with our extraterrestrial
ancestors.

738
00:42:04,289 --> 00:42:07,192
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