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An ancient figurine

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of a modern-day airplane.

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A primitive statue
of a man in a spacesuit.

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Mysterious crystal skulls

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whose origins are entirely
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For more than a decade on <span>
Ancient Aliens,</span> we've traveled

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the globe and investigated
strange objects

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found on every continent
on Earth.

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I'm counting down
what I consider

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to be the top ten
alien artifacts.

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Artifacts that, in my opinion,

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provide strong evidence
that in the distant past,

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extraterrestrials walked
among us.

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Ancient artifacts offer us
a fascinating glimpse

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of how our ancestors lived.

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And for ancient astronaut
theorists like me,

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some artifacts provide
critical evidence

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to support the notion that
extraterrestrials

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visited Earth
in the remote past.

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One compelling example is
a group of precisely-carved

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objects that are not only
surrounded in controversy,

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but may possess a technology far
more advanced than our own.

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Number ten on my countdown

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the crystal skulls.

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- Lubaantun, Belize.
- Central America.

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Here, in the jungles
of the Yucatán Peninsula,

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lie the ruins of an ancient
pre-Colombian city that

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thrived in
the eighth century AD.

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In 1924,

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explorer Frederick Albert
Mitchell-Hedges

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and his daughter Anna

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discovered a human-sized skull
made of clear quartz crystal.

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Mitchell-Hedges was told by
the Mayans that

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his skull was over
3,600 years old.

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This is fascinating,
because this would pre-date

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Mayan civilization.

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Mitchell-Hedges and his daughter

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kept the skull
under lock and key

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for almost four decades

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before allowing
it to be studied.

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When it comes
to the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull,

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it has been analyzed on
a number of occasions.

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Frank Dorland in the 1960s
did it as a private individual.

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Hewlett-Packard did it as
well, and the British Museum did

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a very short analysis
in 1980 as well.

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So this skull has
been subjected to

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a number of detailed
scientific analyses.

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In all of those occasions,
what was found was that it was

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almost impossible for a
human being to make this.

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The Mitchell-Hedges skull

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was milled or worked

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in a way that went
counterclockwise

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to the creation of the crystal.

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Crystal grows in
a certain direction.

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And if you don't mill
or work the crystal

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in that particular
direction, it'll shatter.

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So how was it done?

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Quartz crystal is
extremely hard.

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And almost any object
that's made out of

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carved quartz
crystal would probably

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have to be created
using power tools.

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Although hundreds
of people have claimed to be

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in possession of
ancient crystal skulls,

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a curious legend can be
found in multiple cultures

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that says there are
exactly 13 crystal skulls

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located around the planet
that are of otherworldly origin.

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These include the Synergy Skull,

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discovered in the
Melanesian Islands

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of the South Pacific,

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the Amar Skull of Tibet,

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the Einstein Skull,
found in Mexico,

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and the Mitchell-Hedges Skull.

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Researchers suggest that
not only were these 13 skulls

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constructed using
advanced technology,

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but that they may
contain ancient knowledge,

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hidden from mankind
for thousands of years.

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What we know as a
fact is that crystal is

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able to store information.

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So what we need to
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crystal skulls were
made out of crystal

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because our ancestors wanted
to put information in them.

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While we might not have
a means of extracting it,

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I think we really
require it for ourselves,

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to try and make an effort to see
what kind of information might

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be present within
these crystal skulls.

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The moment you lay
eyes on a crystal skull,

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you know you're looking
at something extraordinary.

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But the next artifact
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could be described as
a simple wooden toy.

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That is, until you take a
closer look, and see that

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this bird-shaped object is
more like a modern-day glider.

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My number-nine alien
artifact: the Saqqara Bird.

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Saqqara, Egypt.

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French archeologists digging at
the Step Pyramid of King Djoser

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unearth a tomb
over 2,000 years old.

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In it they find a
small wooden model

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of what appears to be a
bird lying beside a papyrus

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bearing the inscription,
"I want to fly."

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The artifact was later
sent to the Cairo Museum,

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where authorities
placed it alongside

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several other bird figurines.

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But the Saqqara Bird
was noticeably different.

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It's
interesting, because on one hand,

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clearly, it should look like
a bird, because it has eyes

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and has a typical
nose of a bird.

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Uh, on the other hand, the
wings are clearly not bird wings.

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To the middle of the rump,

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you'll see this
wing a bit thicker.

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In this region, the
lift-up is the highest.

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The whole thing becomes
thinner to the end of the wings,

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and those wings
are modeled down.

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And this is a very modern
aerodynamic design.

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Then the other point is
birds have no rudders, because a bird

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doesn't need a rudder, because
of its aerodynamic architecture.

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And so there is the idea
they are not representing birds,

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but flying
machines, or aircraft.

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Aircraft?

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Could the Saqqara
Bird reveal that

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the ancient Egyptians
possessed the power of flight?

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To find the answer, in 2006,
aviation and aerodynamics

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expert Simon Sanderson
built a scale model

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of the Saqqara Bird,

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five times larger
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and tested its aerodynamic
properties in a wind tunnel.

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We're running at a constant
speed, slowly increasing

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the angle of attack
and then measuring

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the forces which it's producing.

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That way we can learn
about its flight characteristics.

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At ten degrees, we're producing
four times weight and lift.

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So it actually
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- Yeah.
- That's good.

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Tests show the Saqqara Bird is

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a highly-developed glider.

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And this is a
design we use today.

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But if the
Saqqara Bird is capable of flight,

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where would ancient Egyptians
have acquired such technology?

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I think that
people in ancient times

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were visited by beings
coming not from this Earth.

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And they gave us culture
and scientific technologies

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to improve our life on Earth,

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coming from the primitive to
a higher-developed culture.

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The next artifacts on my list
might be microscopic in size,

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but they're
enormously significant.

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They appear to be
advanced nanotechnology,

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and they were found so
deep beneath the earth

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that geologists estimate them

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to be thousands of years old.

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We're potentially
looking at actual remnants

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of alien technology.

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And that's why number
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is the Russian nanotubes.

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Eastern Russia, 1991.

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Geologists lead an
expedition into the mineral-rich

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Ural Mountains in hopes
of locating gold deposits.

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For decades, people hiking
in this area of the Urals

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near the Kozhim, Naroda
and Balbany rivers,

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have reported witnessing
unidentified craft

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and strange
anomalies in the sky.

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On this occasion, however,
the geological team encounters

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something unexpected not
above the Earth, but below it.

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While excavating at
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they discover a scattering of
tiny metal coils and springs.

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They
discovered very unusual objects

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that were tiny springs

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that were always somehow
curled towards the left side.

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Most of them could not be seen
unless you use the microscope.

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Just a few were maybe
a few millimeters in size.

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That soil wasn't touched

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for hundreds of
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The area where it
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tens of kilometers around.

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It's as if something exploded
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and the fragments were
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The metal fragments
were sent to the Russian Academy

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of Sciences in St.
Petersburg for analysis.

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They found
thousands of these things.

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They have to look at
them through microscopes.

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Some of them are just one
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They're all kinds of spirals
and tiny machined bits.

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When they look at it,
they seem to be exactly like

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the kind of tiny nanoparticles

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and machine bits that
we are creating today.

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Testing revealed
that the fragments were composed

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of rare metals, and appear
to have been manufactured.

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But based on the depth
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geologists estimate
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tens of thousands of years.

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So what could explain this
seemingly impossible discovery?

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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest clues may be found

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by examining the materials
that make up the nanospirals,

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like tungsten and molybdenum...
Elements commonly used

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in NASA spacecraft.

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Molybdenum is an additive
that we use to put in steel

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to make steel have
various properties.

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And it's used in
manufacturing aircraft.

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Could it be, as
ancient astronaut theorists speculate,

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that the nanospirals
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an extraterrestrial craft?

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Ural Mountains are a
very interesting space

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in the paranormal
history of Russia.

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And I've studied a lot because
there have always been

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incredible UFO sightings
in the Ural Mountains.

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So, is this a debris
field from a crashed

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extraterrestrial craft
in the Ural Mountains?

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There could be crash
sites all over the world

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that are hundreds of
thousands of years old.

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Oftentimes,
artifacts that support

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the ancient astronaut theory

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are hiding in plain sight.

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For example, there's an
Egyptian temple carving

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that some scholars believe
is a representation of a snake

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and a lotus flower.

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But in my opinion,
what you're looking at is

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the depiction of
modern technology.

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Number seven on my
countdown of alien artifacts,

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the Dendera light bulb.

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Dendera, Egypt.

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370 miles south
of the Giza Plateau

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stands the Hathor Temple.

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The narrow passageways
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2,000-year-old monument
are lined with curious images,

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and one that is of
particular interest

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to ancient astronaut theorists.

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Underneath
this structure is the so-called

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Lotus Flower of Dendera.

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And there are not just
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but they're, in fact, also
on the outside wall on top.

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That's something that's
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So what are we looking at here?

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Egyptology suggests
that this bulb-like thing,

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it essentially is the
aroma of the lotus flower,

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and that the snake in the
middle illustrates fertility.

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What's often not
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the surrounding hieroglyphics...
'cause you have monkey gods

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standing around
with sharp knives.

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It indicates danger, death.

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And there are textual references

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that say that this has something
to do with a bringer of light.

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Why would there be
descriptions of bringers of light?

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Egyptologists maintain
that it actually portrays

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the moment of creation.

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But it definitely resembles
a lightbulb or a lamp.

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Here is a replica of
the bulb that's shown

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in the Dendera reliefs in Egypt.

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What's interesting about
this bulb is the fact that

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on the wall relief, we
see the bulb is actually

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plugged into what appears
to be a power source.

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So what we have here is
a bulb, which very easily

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could have been used
by the Egyptians to light

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the deep recesses
of tombs and crypts.

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How did the ancient Egyptians

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light the insides
of their structures?

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Because some structures, not
only are they deep underground,

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but there's different
corners, and different shafts

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and corridors, sometimes
on multiple levels.

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And some of these places
are filled with hieroglyphics.

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The extraterrestrials
did not let these people

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work in the dark.

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Of course they
provided lighting sources.

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And then that was
also put in stone.

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Because otherwise,
nobody would believe

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that truth in the future.

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I've read the creation stories
of countless ancient cultures,

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and in nearly every one of them,

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the gods came down from the sky,

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usually in some
type of flying craft,

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surrounded by smoke and fire.

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Now, to me, these
are nothing else

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but extraterrestrial encounters.

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And if you want further
proof, just take a look

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at how the ancient people
of Japan depicted their gods.

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Number six on my
alien artifacts countdown:

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the Dogu statues.

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On the East
Asian islands of Japan,

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remnants of the ancient world
can still be found in the midst

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of a modern, hi-tech society.

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And the most incredible are not
the opulent palaces and shrines,

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but a collection of extremely
ancient clay vessels

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and figurines,

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some of which date back
more than 12,000 years.

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They are credited to a
people called the Jomon.

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The earliest culture that we can
identify in Japan is the Jomon,

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which is originally a Stone
Age culture running roughly

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from 10,000 BCE to 300 BCE.

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It is a culture that we don't
know an awful lot about,

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because they had
no writing system.

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All we have is artifacts.

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The little
that we do know about the Jomon

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comes from
archaeological evidence.

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And one of the most
representative artifacts

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that is tied to the Jomon
is the Dogu statue.

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Approximately
15,000 Dogu figurines,

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resembling strange
humanoid beings,

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have been found at various
Jomon sites in Japan.

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Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest these figurines

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represent the Kami,
a group of beings

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00:17:24,739 --> 00:17:27,002
the Japanese believe
descended to this world

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in the ancient past.

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Shintoism is the
primary religion of Japan,

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and they worship
what they call the Kami,

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which are these celestial
beings that are able to inhabit

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basically anything, from a
human being to an animal,

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and even inanimate objects.

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Then they also describe
them as having come down

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from their celestial
palace in the sky.

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And these figurines look
like these humanoid beings

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that are in some
type of space suits.

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There are
thousands of these statuettes

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that have been recovered,

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and these figures
have goggle-type eyes,

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and they have rivets
all over their body,

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indicating that they're wearing
some kind of a space suit

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or technological armor.

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So you have to
ask yourself, were these statues

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sky beings who came
and directed the Japanese

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to have their
civilization and culture,

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and that ultimately these
sky gods are their ancestors?

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As far as ancient
astronaut theorists are concerned,

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the Dogu figures were not
inspired by the imagination,

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but depict very real visitors
that the people of Japan

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encountered
thousands of years ago,

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and provide a compelling
record of extraterrestrial contact.

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We're coming up on the
halfway mark in my countdown

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of the top ten alien artifacts,

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and this next object
is truly remarkable.

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It's an ancient figurine that
was discovered in Mexico,

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but to me, it clearly depicts
a man in a modern flight suit.

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The number-five artifact
in my top ten countdown:

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the rocket man of La Venta.

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Throughout
the world, ancient illustrations

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00:19:25,816 --> 00:19:28,167
and statues can be
found that depict figures

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dressed in strange attire

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00:19:30,212 --> 00:19:32,171
that, as far as ancient
astronaut theorists

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00:19:32,301 --> 00:19:34,477
are concerned, is
eerily reminiscent

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00:19:34,608 --> 00:19:37,132
of modern-day space suits.

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00:19:37,263 --> 00:19:41,180
Examples include cave
art in Italy, Australia,

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and the American southwest,

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as well as sculptures, like
the statue of Pachamama

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00:19:47,229 --> 00:19:50,189
in Tiahuanaco, Bolivia,

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00:19:50,319 --> 00:19:54,018
depictions of the Mayan
god Kukulkan in Mexico,

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00:19:54,149 --> 00:19:58,066
curious figures carved into
the Hoysaleswara Temple

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00:19:58,197 --> 00:20:01,112
in India, and a
strange sculpture found

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00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:04,551
in Guatemala City.

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00:20:04,681 --> 00:20:07,728
But perhaps most intriguing
of all is a small figurine

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attributed to the Olmec,

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00:20:10,078 --> 00:20:13,299
a civilization that
emerged around 1400 BC

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00:20:13,429 --> 00:20:16,911
in the area of
modern-day Mexico.

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00:20:17,041 --> 00:20:19,827
The Olmecs are one
of the most mysterious

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00:20:19,957 --> 00:20:24,179
ancient cultures known
to the history of our planet.

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And in La Venta,
we have carvings

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00:20:28,096 --> 00:20:33,667
that show the Olmecs
in very bizarre scenes.

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00:20:33,797 --> 00:20:38,193
One of them is this plumed
serpent that appears to be

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00:20:38,324 --> 00:20:42,415
floating in the sky, and
you actually see a person

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00:20:42,545 --> 00:20:47,376
sitting inside
this flying snake.

355
00:20:47,507 --> 00:20:53,208
And so you have to wonder if
somehow the Olmecs had access

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00:20:53,339 --> 00:20:57,691
to aviation technology, and
I personally think they did.

357
00:20:57,821 --> 00:21:01,608
Because at the Museum of
Natural History in New York City,

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00:21:01,738 --> 00:21:05,873
there is a Olmec
figurine about this tall,

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00:21:06,003 --> 00:21:10,051
and you can tell that
this guy is wearing

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00:21:10,181 --> 00:21:13,402
some type of a flight suit.

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00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:17,014
You've got the legs here like
in a modern-day astronaut suit,

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00:21:17,145 --> 00:21:20,366
and there's also some
type of a life-support pack

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00:21:20,496 --> 00:21:22,150
that's on his chest.

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00:21:23,369 --> 00:21:25,284
There are six wings,

365
00:21:25,414 --> 00:21:28,591
and the head is clearly enclosed

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00:21:28,722 --> 00:21:32,291
by a skullcap similar to
modern-day astronauts.

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00:21:34,771 --> 00:21:37,513
In my opinion, it
is the smoking gun

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00:21:37,644 --> 00:21:40,603
of our ancestors having
aviation technology

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00:21:40,734 --> 00:21:42,605
thousands of years ago.

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00:21:44,912 --> 00:21:48,394
When it comes to ancient
artifacts depicting advanced

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00:21:48,524 --> 00:21:51,658
technology, one of the
most extraordinary examples

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00:21:51,788 --> 00:21:55,139
I've ever seen is
a tiny gold figurine

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00:21:55,270 --> 00:21:58,491
that looks remarkably similar
to a modern-day airplane.

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00:21:58,621 --> 00:22:01,450
In fact, it's such an
important piece of evidence

375
00:22:01,581 --> 00:22:03,409
for the ancient astronaut theory

376
00:22:03,539 --> 00:22:06,455
that I wear a replica
on my shirt pocket.

377
00:22:06,586 --> 00:22:09,240
Number four on my countdown

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00:22:09,371 --> 00:22:12,505
of the top ten alien
artifacts: the gold flyer.

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The Southern
highlands of Colombia.

380
00:22:20,034 --> 00:22:23,080
In the late 19th
century, tomb robbers

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00:22:23,211 --> 00:22:24,908
searching along
the Magdalena River

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00:22:25,039 --> 00:22:28,608
stumbled upon a gravesite
dating back 1,500 years

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00:22:28,738 --> 00:22:33,439
to a pre-Colombian
civilization known as the Tolima.

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00:22:33,569 --> 00:22:36,311
Among the funerary
objects found there

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00:22:36,442 --> 00:22:40,271
were hundreds of small two
to three-inch gold figurines.

386
00:22:40,402 --> 00:22:44,145
So the Tolima
culture placed inside tombs little tiny

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00:22:44,275 --> 00:22:46,800
objects made of gold, and they
found hundreds of thousands

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00:22:46,930 --> 00:22:50,325
of those in the form
of different animals:

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00:22:50,456 --> 00:22:55,809
birds, fish, frogs, insects.

390
00:22:55,939 --> 00:22:58,812
However, out of these
hundreds of thousands,

391
00:22:58,942 --> 00:23:03,077
there were 17 that looked
like modern-day airplanes.

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00:23:05,471 --> 00:23:08,125
They have a triangular shape,

393
00:23:08,256 --> 00:23:11,912
they have an upright tail fin,

394
00:23:12,042 --> 00:23:14,828
stabilizers,

395
00:23:14,958 --> 00:23:18,135
and a fuselage.

396
00:23:18,266 --> 00:23:21,269
And they have
nothing in common with

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00:23:21,400 --> 00:23:24,403
anything similar in nature.

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00:23:28,494 --> 00:23:31,540
In 1997,
German aviation experts,

399
00:23:31,671 --> 00:23:33,716
including Algund Eenboom,

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00:23:33,847 --> 00:23:35,781
set out to test the Gold
Flyer's flight capabilities

401
00:23:35,805 --> 00:23:39,374
by building a
scale-model replica,

402
00:23:39,505 --> 00:23:42,725
fully equipped with landing
gear and a working engine.

403
00:23:42,856 --> 00:23:46,250
It was rather
simple because we don't need

404
00:23:46,381 --> 00:23:49,732
to put much parts to this shape

405
00:23:49,863 --> 00:23:52,256
because this shape is perfect.

406
00:23:52,387 --> 00:23:55,999
Everything was already
done by the native people

407
00:23:56,130 --> 00:23:59,220
2,000 years ago.

408
00:23:59,350 --> 00:24:01,430
Once completed,
the remote-controlled flyer

409
00:24:01,483 --> 00:24:04,312
took off down a makeshift
runway, and flew.

410
00:24:10,187 --> 00:24:11,907
When you
see this thing taking off,

411
00:24:12,015 --> 00:24:14,627
you really feel that
this is the real deal.

412
00:24:16,803 --> 00:24:18,892
It was a very successful test,

413
00:24:19,022 --> 00:24:25,246
and showed us how perfect
ancient people were working out

414
00:24:25,376 --> 00:24:27,901
aerodynamic design.

415
00:24:28,031 --> 00:24:32,427
What shows you that there
must be something happened.

416
00:24:32,558 --> 00:24:37,084
We are not quite sure
how it did, but that it did.

417
00:24:37,214 --> 00:24:38,651
This is applied science.

418
00:24:38,781 --> 00:24:40,522
This isn't just
thinking somewhere.

419
00:24:40,653 --> 00:24:44,526
This is people going out there
and making sure and proving

420
00:24:44,657 --> 00:24:47,181
what I still see...
Anybody can see this...

421
00:24:47,311 --> 00:24:49,096
That this is real,
this is genuine.

422
00:24:49,226 --> 00:24:52,491
This little thing, which
sits in a museum, could fly.

423
00:25:01,369 --> 00:25:06,592
In 2017, I flew to Romania with
Erich von Daniken to check out

424
00:25:06,722 --> 00:25:09,116
one of the most
remarkable artifacts

425
00:25:09,246 --> 00:25:10,639
we had ever heard of.

426
00:25:10,770 --> 00:25:13,990
An aluminum object said to
be at least 40,000 years old.

427
00:25:14,121 --> 00:25:17,124
And even more extraordinary
is that it was scientifically

428
00:25:17,254 --> 00:25:21,389
tested and found to have been
made from an aluminum alloy

429
00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:25,698
that doesn't match anything
humans have ever manufactured.

430
00:25:27,177 --> 00:25:31,268
Number three on my countdown
of the top ten alien artifacts

431
00:25:31,399 --> 00:25:33,227
is the wedge of Aiud.

432
00:25:43,846 --> 00:25:46,501
1970.

433
00:25:46,632 --> 00:25:49,809
Workers digging a trench along
the banks of the Mures River

434
00:25:49,939 --> 00:25:52,159
unearth two giant bones,

435
00:25:52,289 --> 00:25:55,728
and with them, a
mysterious metal object

436
00:25:55,858 --> 00:25:59,340
buried 35 feet
beneath the surface.

437
00:25:59,470 --> 00:26:03,953
This strange object, known
today as the wedge of Aiud,

438
00:26:04,084 --> 00:26:06,652
is an aluminum alloy that
appears to have been made

439
00:26:06,782 --> 00:26:09,393
thousands of years before
humans were able to smelt

440
00:26:09,524 --> 00:26:11,439
or fabricate metal.

441
00:26:13,049 --> 00:26:18,185
It was ten meters in depth,
associated with some bones,

442
00:26:18,315 --> 00:26:21,580
which they later identified
as woolly mammoth bones.

443
00:26:21,710 --> 00:26:24,365
They were extinct
40,000 years ago,

444
00:26:24,495 --> 00:26:27,455
so they must be older than that.

445
00:26:27,586 --> 00:26:31,851
The wedge was analyzed
three times, to my knowledge.

446
00:26:31,981 --> 00:26:36,290
The main metal in its
composition is aluminum.

447
00:26:36,420 --> 00:26:39,380
Humans didn't
really start working with aluminum

448
00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:40,729
until well into the 1800s.

449
00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:44,124
So when you look at this
wedge and you analyze it,

450
00:26:44,254 --> 00:26:46,605
it really has most of
the modern properties

451
00:26:46,735 --> 00:26:48,432
we would associate
with aluminum.

452
00:26:50,739 --> 00:26:53,655
For decades,
government officials refused to reveal

453
00:26:53,786 --> 00:26:56,527
where the wedge of
Aiud was being held.

454
00:26:56,658 --> 00:27:00,053
But its location has
recently come to light.

455
00:27:00,183 --> 00:27:04,187
On January 18, 2017,

456
00:27:04,318 --> 00:27:05,798
at the National History Museum

457
00:27:05,928 --> 00:27:08,801
of Transylvania, ancient
astronaut theorists

458
00:27:08,931 --> 00:27:11,934
Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Erich von Daniken

459
00:27:12,065 --> 00:27:14,807
were offered a rare
opportunity to get a firsthand look

460
00:27:14,937 --> 00:27:17,810
at the wedge of Aiud.

461
00:27:17,940 --> 00:27:20,595
Museum curator Ana Gruia

462
00:27:20,726 --> 00:27:22,126
has taken it out
of a storage locker

463
00:27:22,162 --> 00:27:23,990
where it has been
deliberately hidden

464
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:27,123
from the public
since the early 1970s.

465
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,998
Okay, I'm just gonna
put my gloves on.

466
00:27:32,128 --> 00:27:33,652
This is great.

467
00:27:36,742 --> 00:27:38,439
So, this is it.

468
00:27:38,569 --> 00:27:40,136
Oh, okay.

469
00:27:40,267 --> 00:27:42,356
This is strange.

470
00:27:45,098 --> 00:27:47,622
And here, this is the... where
they took the sample out,

471
00:27:47,753 --> 00:27:49,711
and here, to make the analysis.

472
00:27:49,842 --> 00:27:52,453
And here you see two pieces
that are broken off, sort of.

473
00:27:52,583 --> 00:27:56,413
So maybe it was
attached or something.

474
00:27:56,544 --> 00:27:58,067
But very strange.

475
00:27:58,198 --> 00:28:00,461
So what does the museum
have to say about this?

476
00:28:00,591 --> 00:28:03,420
This is a very strange piece.

477
00:28:03,551 --> 00:28:06,206
It is. It is a strange
piece for us as well.

478
00:28:06,336 --> 00:28:09,383
As historians, we
do not consider it

479
00:28:09,513 --> 00:28:12,125
a historical object
that we're used to.

480
00:28:12,255 --> 00:28:15,650
We don't know what
it was used for, and we

481
00:28:15,781 --> 00:28:19,523
acknowledge these
uncertainties about its dating,

482
00:28:19,654 --> 00:28:21,395
and its composition as well.

483
00:28:21,525 --> 00:28:23,484
So we have a real mystery here.

484
00:28:23,614 --> 00:28:28,837
But you see this patina
over this whole object?

485
00:28:28,968 --> 00:28:30,273
And this creates
another problem.

486
00:28:30,404 --> 00:28:33,886
Yes. Because
you cannot fake a patina.

487
00:28:34,016 --> 00:28:38,238
It's impossible to
artificially create a patina.

488
00:28:40,893 --> 00:28:44,287
The patina is a thin
coating of various metal compounds

489
00:28:44,418 --> 00:28:46,246
that forms on the
surface of the metal

490
00:28:46,376 --> 00:28:49,902
during exposure to
atmospheric elements.

491
00:28:50,032 --> 00:28:51,686
The older the
object, the thicker

492
00:28:51,817 --> 00:28:54,820
the patina layer will be.

493
00:28:54,950 --> 00:28:58,693
It takes hundreds, if
not thousands of years

494
00:28:58,824 --> 00:29:02,262
for a thick layer of patina,
as this apparently is,

495
00:29:02,392 --> 00:29:04,394
for it to develop.

496
00:29:04,525 --> 00:29:07,789
So, we-we
still have a mystery here.

497
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:11,532
In all of your
adventures, how does this compare

498
00:29:11,662 --> 00:29:14,622
to some of the other
things that are inexplicable?

499
00:29:14,753 --> 00:29:16,929
I am helpless. I have no idea.

500
00:29:17,059 --> 00:29:19,540
That says it all right there.

501
00:29:19,670 --> 00:29:21,934
Very bizarre. Bizarre.

502
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,113
Could the wedge
of Aiud be a physical remnant

503
00:29:27,243 --> 00:29:29,071
of an extraterrestrial
visitation

504
00:29:29,202 --> 00:29:31,770
that occurred
thousands of years ago?

505
00:29:33,075 --> 00:29:36,862
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes...

506
00:29:36,992 --> 00:29:39,560
and suggest that even
more compelling evidence

507
00:29:39,690 --> 00:29:43,651
of alien contact exists on
the other side of the world,

508
00:29:43,782 --> 00:29:47,133
hidden deep within
an ancient tomb.

509
00:29:54,140 --> 00:29:56,577
When it comes to finding
proof that extraterrestrials

510
00:29:56,707 --> 00:29:59,058
visited Earth, the evidence
is not always obvious.

511
00:29:59,188 --> 00:30:02,278
But sometimes it
can be crystal clear

512
00:30:02,409 --> 00:30:04,280
if you know what to look for.

513
00:30:04,411 --> 00:30:08,197
To me, this next
artifact irrefutably depicts

514
00:30:08,328 --> 00:30:12,767
an astronaut in the
cockpit of a rocket ship.

515
00:30:12,898 --> 00:30:17,424
Number two on my list of
the top ten alien artifacts:

516
00:30:17,554 --> 00:30:20,166
the sarcophagus
lid of King Pakal.

517
00:30:28,478 --> 00:30:30,698
Palanque, Mexico.

518
00:30:30,829 --> 00:30:33,744
1952.

519
00:30:33,875 --> 00:30:37,487
Archaeologist Alberto
Ruz Lhuillier discovers

520
00:30:37,618 --> 00:30:39,533
the pyramid tomb of King Pakal,

521
00:30:39,663 --> 00:30:41,840
who ruled over the
ancient Mayan city

522
00:30:41,970 --> 00:30:45,800
from 615 to 683 AD.

523
00:30:45,931 --> 00:30:49,456
This is the famous Temple
of the Inscriptions behind me.

524
00:30:49,586 --> 00:30:53,808
Perhaps the most famous
pyramid in all of the Mayan world.

525
00:30:53,939 --> 00:30:59,553
The French-Mexican
archeologist Alberto Lhuillier

526
00:30:59,683 --> 00:31:02,948
began his
excavations at the top.

527
00:31:03,078 --> 00:31:05,385
It took him four years

528
00:31:05,515 --> 00:31:10,433
to slowly excavate,
step by step,

529
00:31:10,564 --> 00:31:14,176
down the pyramid,
until he finally came

530
00:31:14,307 --> 00:31:17,876
to the tomb of Lord Pakal,

531
00:31:18,006 --> 00:31:21,618
and the giant
sarcophagus and lid

532
00:31:21,749 --> 00:31:23,751
that the pyramid
were built around.

533
00:31:28,408 --> 00:31:32,194
Arguably the most
remarkable Mayan artifact ever found,

534
00:31:32,325 --> 00:31:35,545
the stone sarcophagus lid
of King Pakal has produced

535
00:31:35,676 --> 00:31:38,853
considerable controversy.

536
00:31:38,984 --> 00:31:42,509
Mainstream scholars believe
the depiction is of King Pakal

537
00:31:42,639 --> 00:31:45,904
on a journey to Xibalba,
the land of the dead.

538
00:31:48,558 --> 00:31:52,432
But ancient astronaut theorists
believe the king is portrayed

539
00:31:52,562 --> 00:31:57,698
seated at the controls
of a spacecraft.

540
00:31:57,828 --> 00:32:00,614
You see a man bending forward,

541
00:32:00,744 --> 00:32:04,835
almost like
a racing motorcyclist.

542
00:32:04,966 --> 00:32:08,361
He has his nose on some kind
of oxygen mask.

543
00:32:08,385 --> 00:32:10,385
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