1 00:00:02,403 --> 00:00:05,804 Narrator: UFO SIGHTINGS ARE RELATIVELY MODERN PHENOMENON, 2 00:00:05,806 --> 00:00:08,040 BUT THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE RAISED THE QUESTION 3 00:00:08,042 --> 00:00:11,043 OF ANCIENT ALIEN INTERACTION. 4 00:00:11,045 --> 00:00:14,446 NOW RECENT DISCOVERIES SUGGEST CONTACT WITH UFOs 5 00:00:14,448 --> 00:00:18,484 LIKELY OCCURRED EARLIER IN HISTORY THAN EVER IMAGINED. 6 00:00:18,486 --> 00:00:20,886 Rosenfeld: GIVEN THAT THESE ARE ARTIFACTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES 7 00:00:20,888 --> 00:00:24,189 TELLS ME THAT THESE ARE DEPICTIONS OF CONTACT 8 00:00:24,191 --> 00:00:25,791 WITH AN ANCIENT VISITOR. 9 00:00:25,793 --> 00:00:27,626 Narrator: NEW EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT MONUMENTS 10 00:00:27,628 --> 00:00:31,497 BUILT FOR THE GODS THAT DESCENDED FROM THE SKY. 11 00:00:31,499 --> 00:00:34,133 Lukes: ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS TRYING TO POINT TO 12 00:00:34,135 --> 00:00:38,837 THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD, PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL? 13 00:00:38,839 --> 00:00:42,508 Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST 14 00:00:42,510 --> 00:00:46,812 THAT THESE REALLY ARE TALKING ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS. 15 00:00:46,814 --> 00:00:48,647 Narrator: WHY HAVE GOVERNMENTS ALL AROUND THE WORLD 16 00:00:48,649 --> 00:00:51,517 BEEN KEEPING SECRET THEIR KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT CONTACT 17 00:00:51,519 --> 00:00:54,219 WITH ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS? 18 00:00:54,221 --> 00:00:55,421 Dolan: IT'S NOT SIMPLY THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH 19 00:00:55,423 --> 00:00:57,623 AN INHERENTLY MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON. 20 00:00:57,625 --> 00:01:00,192 WE ARE ALSO DEALING WITH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY 21 00:01:00,194 --> 00:01:02,194 OBFUSCATION AND SECRECY. 22 00:01:02,196 --> 00:01:05,330 Narrator: DID UFOs LAND ON EARTH SEVERAL MILLENNIA AGO 23 00:01:05,332 --> 00:01:07,466 AND SEED MODERN CIVILIZATION? 24 00:01:07,468 --> 00:01:11,236 Bara: WHAT I SAY IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SAME CONCEPTS 25 00:01:11,238 --> 00:01:14,573 ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES ALL SAYING THE SAME THING, 26 00:01:14,575 --> 00:01:17,709 WHICH IS THAT WE CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. 27 00:01:17,711 --> 00:01:19,511 Rosenfeld: IT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT THESE VISITORS 28 00:01:19,513 --> 00:01:23,382 HAVE BEEN HERE FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. 29 00:01:23,384 --> 00:01:25,384 ♪♪ 30 00:01:25,386 --> 00:01:27,052 Narrator: NEW INFORMATION IS TRANSFORMING 31 00:01:27,054 --> 00:01:30,789 WHAT PEOPLE BELIEVE ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT. 32 00:01:30,791 --> 00:01:33,559 ARE UFOs REALLY VISITING OUR WORLD? 33 00:01:33,561 --> 00:01:35,694 IS THE GOVERNMENT HIDING THE TRUTH? 34 00:01:35,696 --> 00:01:38,263 AND, IF SO, COULD NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE 35 00:01:38,265 --> 00:01:43,435 REVEAL THE ASTONISHING TRUTH OF ANCIENT UFO EARTH LANDINGS? 36 00:01:43,437 --> 00:01:46,905 ♪♪ 37 00:01:55,816 --> 00:01:58,750 -- Captions by VITAC -- www.vitac.com 38 00:01:58,752 --> 00:02:02,387 CAPTIONS PAID FOR BY DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS 39 00:02:02,389 --> 00:02:05,491 MARCH 25, 2013. 40 00:02:05,493 --> 00:02:07,259 MEXICO CITY. 41 00:02:07,261 --> 00:02:10,095 HERE, IN THE MOST POPULATED METROPOLITAN AREA 42 00:02:10,097 --> 00:02:12,865 IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, GOVERNMENT MINISTERS 43 00:02:12,867 --> 00:02:16,468 DECLARE PUBLICLY THAT THEY HOLD ARCHAEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS 44 00:02:16,470 --> 00:02:18,871 PROVING THE REALITY OF EARLY CONTACT 45 00:02:18,873 --> 00:02:22,574 BETWEEN THE ANCIENT MAYA AND UFOs. 46 00:02:22,576 --> 00:02:25,811 SEEN HERE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON NATIONAL TELEVISION, 47 00:02:25,813 --> 00:02:29,148 THE ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN KEPT A CLOSELY GUARDED STATE SECRET 48 00:02:29,150 --> 00:02:31,250 FOR OVER 80 YEARS. 49 00:02:31,252 --> 00:02:33,285 BUT WHY? 50 00:02:33,287 --> 00:02:37,322 WHEN ONE LOOKS AT THE CLASSIC MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS -- 51 00:02:37,324 --> 00:02:41,026 THE MAYANS, THE INCAS -- IT'S INTERESTING TO NOTE 52 00:02:41,028 --> 00:02:46,231 THE RECURRENCE OF THE IDEA OF VISITORS FROM THE STARS, 53 00:02:46,233 --> 00:02:50,402 SKY GODS COMING DOWN, INTERACTING WITH THE PEOPLE. 54 00:02:50,404 --> 00:02:52,771 THIS IS A THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH 55 00:02:52,773 --> 00:02:56,275 THE NARRATIVE OF THESE PEOPLES, OF THESE CIVILIZATIONS. 56 00:02:56,277 --> 00:02:59,878 IS THIS JUST STORY AND MYTH? 57 00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:01,647 OR IS IT A RETELLING OF SOMETHING 58 00:03:01,649 --> 00:03:04,016 THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED? 59 00:03:06,253 --> 00:03:10,289 THESE ARTIFACTS ARE VERY DRAMATIC, 60 00:03:10,291 --> 00:03:12,191 AND THEY SHOW IN SOME CASES WHAT LOOKS LIKE 61 00:03:12,193 --> 00:03:14,860 CLEAR GRAY ALIEN EXTRATERRESTRIAL 62 00:03:14,862 --> 00:03:16,728 AND FLYING SAUCERS. 63 00:03:16,730 --> 00:03:19,831 SO I THINK WE NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL, FIND THE TRUE ORIGIN, 64 00:03:19,833 --> 00:03:21,767 AND FACT CHECK THE HECK OUT OF IT. 65 00:03:21,769 --> 00:03:24,570 Narrator: ACCORDING TO ARTIFACTS RESEARCHER KLAUS DONA, 66 00:03:24,572 --> 00:03:27,105 THE LONG, LOST OBJECTS WERE FOUND IN A CAVE 67 00:03:27,107 --> 00:03:29,808 JUST NORTH OF MEXICO CITY. 68 00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:32,244 BUT SOME IN THE MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY 69 00:03:32,246 --> 00:03:34,613 AND HISTORY BELIEVE THE ARTIFACTS WERE 70 00:03:34,615 --> 00:03:40,152 ORIGINALLY FROM THE ANCIENT MAYA ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CALAKMUL. 71 00:03:40,154 --> 00:03:43,722 THIS ONCE MIGHTY CITY, DATING TO 600 A.D., 72 00:03:43,724 --> 00:03:45,824 WAS POSSIBLY THE LARGEST MAYA CITY 73 00:03:45,826 --> 00:03:50,295 WITH THE TALLEST KNOWN PYRAMID IN THE YUCATAN PENINSULA. 74 00:03:50,297 --> 00:03:52,231 French: SO THE EARLIEST EVIDENCE OF MAYA WE START SEEING 75 00:03:52,233 --> 00:03:54,566 AROUND 1500 B.C. 76 00:03:54,568 --> 00:03:56,969 WE'RE SEEING DENSER POPULATIONS OF PEOPLE THAT ARE STARTING 77 00:03:56,971 --> 00:03:58,270 TO BUILD MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE, 78 00:03:58,272 --> 00:04:01,206 AND THAT MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE HAS CERTAIN SIGNATURES 79 00:04:01,208 --> 00:04:03,375 THAT WE START SEEING IN OTHER PLACES 80 00:04:03,377 --> 00:04:06,245 THROUGHOUT THE MAYA REGION. 81 00:04:06,247 --> 00:04:09,281 THE GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT FOR THE MAYA, IN MY OPINION, 82 00:04:09,283 --> 00:04:11,683 WOULD REALLY BE THEIR WRITING SYSTEM. 83 00:04:11,685 --> 00:04:15,053 NO ONE ELSE IN THE NEW WORLD HAD THAT KIND OF WRITING SYSTEM. 84 00:04:15,055 --> 00:04:18,824 THAT AND THEIR COMPLEX CALENDAR SYSTEM WOULD BE 85 00:04:18,826 --> 00:04:21,026 THEIR GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS. 86 00:04:21,028 --> 00:04:23,729 Narrator: REGARDED BY SCHOLARS AS ONE OF THE MOST SOPHISTICATED 87 00:04:23,731 --> 00:04:26,531 CIVILIZATIONS IN THE ANCIENT WORLD, 88 00:04:26,533 --> 00:04:30,469 THE MAYA ALSO MASTERED AGRICULTURE, ENGINEERING, 89 00:04:30,471 --> 00:04:32,170 AND ASTRONOMY. 90 00:04:32,172 --> 00:04:37,009 THEIR CALENDARS ACCURATELY TRACK CELESTIAL EVENTS OVER DECADES. 91 00:04:37,011 --> 00:04:40,679 BUT DID THE MAYA CREATE THIS REMARKABLY ADVANCED CIVILIZATION 92 00:04:40,681 --> 00:04:44,283 THROUGH THEIR OWN INGENUITY, OR IS IT POSSIBLE, 93 00:04:44,285 --> 00:04:47,552 AS SOME UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVER, THE MAYA ACQUIRED 94 00:04:47,554 --> 00:04:50,455 SUCH KNOWLEDGE FROM EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS 95 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:53,792 THAT ARRIVED IN WHAT WE KNOW CALL UFOs? 96 00:04:53,794 --> 00:04:57,462 Pope: SOME PEOPLE LOOK AT CIVILIZATIONS LIKE THE MAYANS 97 00:04:57,464 --> 00:05:01,066 AND POINT TO HOW ADVANCED THEY WERE IN AREAS SUCH AS 98 00:05:01,068 --> 00:05:03,602 MATHEMATICS AND ARCHITECTURE. 99 00:05:03,604 --> 00:05:07,039 AND THEY SAY, DID THESE PEOPLE HAVE SOME HELP? 100 00:05:07,041 --> 00:05:10,942 WAS THEIR CIVILIZATION SOMEHOW JUMP STARTED? 101 00:05:10,944 --> 00:05:12,978 THIS IS AN INTRIGUING POSSIBILITY. 102 00:05:12,980 --> 00:05:17,382 AND AGAIN, IT ALL TIES IN PERHAPS TO THE IDEAS OF GODS 103 00:05:17,384 --> 00:05:21,653 COMING FROM THE SKIES, INTERACTING WITH THESE PEOPLE, 104 00:05:21,655 --> 00:05:25,524 SHARING THEIR SACRED KNOWLEDGE. 105 00:05:25,526 --> 00:05:29,394 IN FACT, MANY UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE THE ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED 106 00:05:29,396 --> 00:05:33,398 IN MEXICO MORE THAN 80 YEARS AGO SUPPORT THE THEORY THAT THE MAYA 107 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:36,702 NOT ONLY EXPERIENCED OTHERWORLDLY VISITATION, 108 00:05:36,704 --> 00:05:39,971 BUT PAY HOMAGE TO THEIR VISITORS THROUGH THEIR ARTWORK. 109 00:05:45,446 --> 00:05:50,048 Pope: IT'S BEEN SUGGESTED THAT MANY OF THESE IMAGES 110 00:05:50,050 --> 00:05:54,386 COME FROM THE SHAMANIC JOURNEY, THAT THEY COME FROM 111 00:05:54,388 --> 00:05:57,956 THINGS GLIMPSED IN THE SHAMANIC CHANTS 112 00:05:57,958 --> 00:06:03,929 WHICH ARE MAYBE BASED ON SOME MIXTURE OF DREAM, IMAGINATION, 113 00:06:03,931 --> 00:06:08,066 AND REALITY ALL MIXED TOGETHER. 114 00:06:08,068 --> 00:06:09,868 SO, IS ANY OF THIS ALIEN? 115 00:06:09,870 --> 00:06:12,471 WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT'S AN INTRIGUING MYSTERY 116 00:06:12,473 --> 00:06:14,573 AND WORTH FURTHER STUDY. 117 00:06:14,575 --> 00:06:16,041 Narrator: BUT WHAT IF THE ARTIFACTS REVEAL 118 00:06:16,043 --> 00:06:19,111 SOMETHING MORE THAN A SPIRITUAL JOURNEY? 119 00:06:19,113 --> 00:06:22,114 WHAT IF, AS UFO EXPERTS BELIEVE, 120 00:06:22,116 --> 00:06:25,684 THEY REVEAL ACTUAL CONTACT WITH UFOs? 121 00:06:25,686 --> 00:06:29,121 NOW, LOOKING AT THESE THINGS, THEY DO LOOK, FOR ALL THE WORLD, 122 00:06:29,123 --> 00:06:32,991 LIKE A CLASSICAL IMAGE OF A FLYING SAUCER. 123 00:06:32,993 --> 00:06:34,693 THEY ARE DISC-SHAPED. 124 00:06:34,695 --> 00:06:38,029 THEY SEEM TO HAVE A RAISED DOME IN THE CENTER, 125 00:06:38,031 --> 00:06:40,732 AND THERE ARE STRANGE PATTERNS ON THEM. 126 00:06:40,734 --> 00:06:43,435 ARE THEY REAL OR NOT, AND IF THEY'RE REAL, 127 00:06:43,437 --> 00:06:47,672 ARE THEY REALLY SHOWING EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT? 128 00:06:47,674 --> 00:06:50,175 ONE OF THEM LOOKS CLEARLY LIKE A FLYING SAUCER 129 00:06:50,177 --> 00:06:51,777 OR SOME KIND OF FLYING CRAFT. 130 00:06:51,779 --> 00:06:53,678 IT'S DISC-SHAPED. 131 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,248 IT'S GOT A CLASSIC UFO SHAPE TO IT. 132 00:06:56,250 --> 00:06:59,084 IT'S DEFINITELY DEPICTING SOMETHING FLYING. 133 00:06:59,086 --> 00:07:03,121 EVEN A LANDING GEAR OR A RAMP COMING DOWN OFF OF IT. 134 00:07:03,123 --> 00:07:04,756 TO ME, THIS IS VERY STRONG EVIDENCE 135 00:07:04,758 --> 00:07:08,226 THAT WE'VE BEEN VISITED IN THE PAST BY ANCIENT VISITORS. 136 00:07:08,228 --> 00:07:10,762 Narrator: BUT, ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS, 137 00:07:10,764 --> 00:07:12,964 ONE KEY QUESTION REMAINS. 138 00:07:12,966 --> 00:07:15,667 ARE THESE MAYA ARTIFACTS AUTHENTIC? 139 00:07:15,669 --> 00:07:18,103 THE FACT THAT THE GOVERNMENT RELEASED THESE ARTIFACTS 140 00:07:18,105 --> 00:07:21,573 THAT CLEARLY DEPICT UFOs, SOME KIND OF ADVANCED 141 00:07:21,575 --> 00:07:24,242 ALIEN TECHNOLOGY, THAT'S KIND OF A BIG DEAL 142 00:07:24,244 --> 00:07:26,611 BECAUSE YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE WORLD GOVERNMENTS 143 00:07:26,613 --> 00:07:29,648 THAT ARE WILLING TO RELEASE PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. 144 00:07:29,650 --> 00:07:32,184 BUT, ARE THEY REAL? 145 00:07:32,186 --> 00:07:33,385 WE DON'T KNOW. 146 00:07:33,387 --> 00:07:35,620 Narrator: ALTHOUGH THE CONCEPT OF FLYING SAUCERS 147 00:07:35,622 --> 00:07:38,890 OR FLYING DISCS AND THEIR IMAGES ONLY BEGAN 148 00:07:38,892 --> 00:07:42,294 IN THE MID-20th CENTURY, OFFICIALS AT THE MEXICAN 149 00:07:42,296 --> 00:07:45,163 INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY HAVE DETERMINED 150 00:07:45,165 --> 00:07:49,935 THE ARTIFACTS PREDATE FLYING SAUCER IMAGERY BY CENTURIES. 151 00:07:49,937 --> 00:07:52,070 Bara: THE DISCS, THEY WERE FOUND 80 YEARS AGO. 152 00:07:52,072 --> 00:07:54,940 80 YEARS AGO, THERE WAS NO SUCH THING AS A FLYING SAUCER. 153 00:07:54,942 --> 00:07:58,376 SO, WHATEVER THESE OBJECTS ARE, THEY CLEARLY EXISTED 154 00:07:58,378 --> 00:08:00,045 80 YEARS AGO, BEFORE THERE WAS ANY SORT OF 155 00:08:00,047 --> 00:08:02,013 FLYING SAUCER CULTURE OR TV INTERVIEWS 156 00:08:02,015 --> 00:08:03,949 OR ANY OF THESE KINDS OF PROGRAMS. 157 00:08:03,951 --> 00:08:07,285 SO THE IDEA THAT THEY'RE NOT AUTHENTIC 158 00:08:07,287 --> 00:08:08,854 KIND OF BLOWS UP RIGHT THERE. 159 00:08:08,856 --> 00:08:10,889 BECAUSE TO ME, CLEARLY, IF THEY WERE FOUND, 160 00:08:10,891 --> 00:08:13,291 AND THIS IS WHAT THEY LOOK LIKE, IT'S NOW UP TO US 161 00:08:13,293 --> 00:08:14,893 TO MAKE A MODERN INTERPRETATION 162 00:08:14,895 --> 00:08:17,062 OF WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO REPRESENT. 163 00:08:17,064 --> 00:08:19,030 Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS, 164 00:08:19,032 --> 00:08:20,966 EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS 165 00:08:20,968 --> 00:08:25,003 FOUND 60 MILES FARTHER SOUTH IN THE ANCIENT CITY OF TIKAL 166 00:08:25,005 --> 00:08:29,374 IS MORE DIFFICULT TO DISPUTE. 167 00:08:29,376 --> 00:08:32,944 SURROUNDED BY DENSE RAINFORESTS, TIKAL IS BELIEVED TO BE 168 00:08:32,946 --> 00:08:36,982 THE OLDEST URBAN CENTER OF THE MAYA CIVILIZATION. 169 00:08:36,984 --> 00:08:38,583 French: TIKAL'S LOCATED IN NORTHERN GUATEMALA, 170 00:08:38,585 --> 00:08:41,586 VERY LARGE SITE, COVERED ABOUT SEVEN OR EIGHT SQUARE MILES. 171 00:08:41,588 --> 00:08:43,488 ABOUT 50,000 PEOPLE. 172 00:08:43,490 --> 00:08:46,391 EARLIEST BEGINNINGS AROUND 400 B.C. 173 00:08:46,393 --> 00:08:48,827 Narrator: EVIDENCE OF ASTONISHING MAYA ARCHITECTURAL 174 00:08:48,829 --> 00:08:51,630 AND ASTRONOMICAL ACHIEVEMENTS CAN BE FOUND IN WHAT WAS 175 00:08:51,632 --> 00:08:54,666 ONCE TIKAL'S GRAND PLAZA. 176 00:08:54,668 --> 00:08:57,536 SEVEN PYRAMIDS STAND IN PERFECT ALIGNMENT, 177 00:08:57,538 --> 00:08:59,638 AND IN THE SAME GEOMETRIC PATTERN 178 00:08:59,640 --> 00:09:01,606 AS THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER 179 00:09:01,608 --> 00:09:03,642 WHICH IS VISIBLE TO THE NAKED EYE. 180 00:09:03,644 --> 00:09:05,844 Rosenfeld: FOR THE MAYANS TO LAY OUT THEIR PYRAMIDS 181 00:09:05,846 --> 00:09:08,647 IN THE FORMATION OF THE PLEIADES CONSTELLATION 182 00:09:08,649 --> 00:09:13,151 TOOK GREAT CARE AND EFFORT, AND WHY WOULD THEY DO SUCH A THING? 183 00:09:13,153 --> 00:09:16,588 IT HAS TO HAVE BEEN OF GREAT IMPORTANCE TO THEM. 184 00:09:16,590 --> 00:09:18,590 Bara: THE MAYANS ACTUALLY SAY THAT THEY DID THIS 185 00:09:18,592 --> 00:09:20,091 BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE THEY COME FROM. 186 00:09:20,093 --> 00:09:21,826 THAT THEY HAVE ACTUALLY COME FROM THE PLEIADES, 187 00:09:21,828 --> 00:09:24,029 AND THEY ACKNOWLEDGED IT BY THE CONSTRUCTION 188 00:09:24,031 --> 00:09:26,565 OF THESE VERY UNIQUE PYRAMIDS ON THIS SITE 189 00:09:26,567 --> 00:09:29,568 COMPLETELY ALIGNED WITH THE PLEIADES. 190 00:09:29,570 --> 00:09:32,370 Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS BELIEVE THAT SUCH ACHIEVEMENTS 191 00:09:32,372 --> 00:09:34,940 IN COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION WERE MADE POSSIBLE 192 00:09:34,942 --> 00:09:36,775 BECAUSE OF A UNIQUE AND SOPHISTICATED 193 00:09:36,777 --> 00:09:40,645 NUMBERS SYSTEMS DEVELOPED BY THE MAYA. 194 00:09:40,647 --> 00:09:44,182 BUT UFO RESEARCHERS CONTEND THAT EVEN THIS WAS THE RESULT 195 00:09:44,184 --> 00:09:47,185 OF CONTACT WITH SUPERNATURAL ENTITIES. 196 00:09:47,187 --> 00:09:50,722 THE MAYAN SAY THEIR GODS COME FROM THE PLEIADES, 197 00:09:50,724 --> 00:09:54,259 AS DO MANY OTHER NATIVE CULTURES. 198 00:09:54,261 --> 00:09:56,695 THE QUESTION BECOMES, NOT ONLY WHERE ARE THEY GETTING 199 00:09:56,697 --> 00:09:58,630 THE INFORMATION, BUT WHERE ARE THEY GETTING 200 00:09:58,632 --> 00:10:01,700 THE MATHEMATICAL INTELLECTUAL ACUITY. 201 00:10:01,702 --> 00:10:09,674 TO ME, IT LENDS ITSELF TO EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCES, 202 00:10:09,676 --> 00:10:14,412 EITHER DEEPLY, DEEPLY CONNECTED WITH THIS CIVILIZATION, 203 00:10:14,414 --> 00:10:17,215 OR AT LEAST BEING VISITED BY THEM 204 00:10:17,217 --> 00:10:19,351 TO GIVE THEM THIS INFORMATION. 205 00:10:22,556 --> 00:10:26,424 BUT PERHAPS THE MOST COMPELLING EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH UFOs 206 00:10:26,426 --> 00:10:31,129 AT TIKAL, SAY UFO EXPERTS, IS THIS ASTONISHING STONE CARVING 207 00:10:31,131 --> 00:10:34,633 KNOWN AS THE TIKAL ASTRONAUT. 208 00:10:34,635 --> 00:10:40,338 ONE STONE FIGURE FOUND AT TIKAL IS PARTICULARLY INTRIGUING. 209 00:10:40,340 --> 00:10:44,542 NOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT SAY THAT IT JUST SHOWS A REPRESENTATION 210 00:10:44,544 --> 00:10:48,913 OF SOMEONE IN A CEREMONIAL HEADDRESS OF SOME SORT. 211 00:10:48,915 --> 00:10:50,181 BUT OTHERS LOOK AT IT AND SAY, 212 00:10:50,183 --> 00:10:54,152 WAIT A MINUTE, THAT'S AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET. 213 00:10:54,154 --> 00:10:57,355 Rosenfeld: THIS MAYAN FIGURINE WEARING WHAT LOOKS TO ME 214 00:10:57,357 --> 00:11:01,693 LIKE AN ASTRONAUT'S HELMET WITH BREATHING APPARATUS 215 00:11:01,695 --> 00:11:03,662 AND KIND OF A PRESSURE SUIT, 216 00:11:03,664 --> 00:11:06,297 LOOKS TO ME LIKE AN ANCIENT VISITOR. 217 00:11:06,299 --> 00:11:08,166 Lukes: WE HAVE TO POSE THE QUESTION, 218 00:11:08,168 --> 00:11:13,171 ARE THESE CIVILIZATIONS LEAVING A MESSAGE HERE? 219 00:11:13,173 --> 00:11:18,009 ARE THE ANCIENT MAYANS TRYING TO POINT TO THEIR GODS? 220 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:21,513 ARE THEY TRYING TO POINT TO THEIR OWN ORIGINS THAT COULD, 221 00:11:21,515 --> 00:11:26,484 PERHAPS, BE EXTRATERRESTRIAL? 222 00:11:26,486 --> 00:11:28,453 Narrator: COULD THIS ANCIENT ARTIFACT REPRESENT 223 00:11:28,455 --> 00:11:30,989 A SO-CALLED SKY GOD THAT TRAVELED FROM 224 00:11:30,991 --> 00:11:35,193 THE PLEIADES STAR CLUSTER, AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE? 225 00:11:35,195 --> 00:11:38,530 AND IF SO, WHY HAS THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT KEPT THEIR KNOWLEDGE 226 00:11:38,532 --> 00:11:42,300 OF THESE ARTIFACTS SECRET FOR SO LONG? 227 00:11:42,302 --> 00:11:45,403 INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE FURTHER EVIDENCE LONG-HIDDEN 228 00:11:45,405 --> 00:11:48,773 IN THE MEXICAN JUNGLE, COULD FINALLY PROVIDE PROOF 229 00:11:48,775 --> 00:11:50,842 OF WHAT THE GOVERNMENT HAS KNOWN ALL ALONG 230 00:11:50,844 --> 00:11:54,479 ABOUT ALIEN CONTACT IN THE DISTANT PAST. 231 00:11:57,884 --> 00:11:59,451 Narrator: ACCORDING TO RESEARCHERS, 232 00:11:59,453 --> 00:12:02,153 NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE COULD REVEAL CLUES 233 00:12:02,155 --> 00:12:06,191 TO THE QUESTION OF EARLY MAN'S INTERACTION WITH UFOs. 234 00:12:08,495 --> 00:12:11,763 AFTER WITHHOLDING ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE FOR 80 YEARS, 235 00:12:11,765 --> 00:12:14,399 THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT HAS FINALLY COME FORWARD 236 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:16,568 WITH WHAT MANY BELIEVE IS PROOF 237 00:12:16,570 --> 00:12:19,537 OF UFO CONTACT WITH THE ANCIENT MAYA. 238 00:12:19,539 --> 00:12:23,274 WHAT WE'VE LEARNED, AND INDEED, CONTINUE TO LEARN AS WE STUDY 239 00:12:23,276 --> 00:12:25,176 IS THAT THEY WERE PRETTY ADVANCED. 240 00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:28,780 MATHEMATICS, ASTRONOMY, WRITTEN LANGUAGE. 241 00:12:28,782 --> 00:12:31,783 HOW THEY ACQUIRED THAT KNOWLEDGE IS FASCINATING, 242 00:12:31,785 --> 00:12:35,019 BUT IT'S AN UNANSWERED QUESTION. 243 00:12:35,021 --> 00:12:37,756 Narrator: FOR UFO RESEARCHERS, THE ANSWER LIES IN A FRESH LOOK 244 00:12:37,758 --> 00:12:40,892 AT EVIDENCE LONG HIDDEN IN THE MIST-SHROUDED JUNGLES 245 00:12:40,894 --> 00:12:45,630 OF SOUTHERN MEXICO AT THE MAYA RUINS OF PALENQUE. 246 00:12:48,502 --> 00:12:51,269 HERE AT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES 247 00:12:51,271 --> 00:12:56,841 OF THE AMERICAS LIES THE TEMPLE OF INSCRIPTIONS. 248 00:12:56,843 --> 00:13:02,313 INSIDE, IN 1952, ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVERED THE BURIAL TOMB 249 00:13:02,315 --> 00:13:05,350 OF PAKAL THE GREAT -- A MAYAN KING WHO RULED 250 00:13:05,352 --> 00:13:08,419 IN THE 6th CENTURY A.D. 251 00:13:08,421 --> 00:13:11,689 HIS MOTHER HANDED OVER THE THRONE TO HIM AT THE AGE OF 12, 252 00:13:11,691 --> 00:13:15,960 AND HE RULED FOR THE NEXT 68 YEARS. 253 00:13:15,962 --> 00:13:18,530 AND THAT IS THE TIME THAT PALENQUE DEFINITELY 254 00:13:18,532 --> 00:13:20,331 HAS ITS RENAISSANCE. 255 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:22,400 MORE BUILDINGS, MORE CONSTRUCTION GOES ON 256 00:13:22,402 --> 00:13:23,701 DURING THAT TIME PERIOD. 257 00:13:23,703 --> 00:13:26,437 WE ALSO KNOW THAT KING PAKAL LIVED TO BE 80 YEARS OLD 258 00:13:26,439 --> 00:13:30,108 BECAUSE WE'VE DONE AGE ANALYSIS ON HIS SKELETAL REMAINS. 259 00:13:30,110 --> 00:13:32,076 Narrator: IN ADDITION TO THE KING'S REMAINS, 260 00:13:32,078 --> 00:13:34,512 ARCHAEOLOGISTS DISCOVERED PERHAPS THE MOST STUDIED 261 00:13:34,514 --> 00:13:37,482 AND CONTROVERSIAL ANCIENT MAYA ARTIFACT -- 262 00:13:37,484 --> 00:13:40,318 KING PAKAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID. 263 00:13:44,324 --> 00:13:47,492 ONE OF THE IMPRESSIVE ELEMENTS OF PAKAL HAS SOMETHING TO DO 264 00:13:47,494 --> 00:13:49,761 WITH HIS SARCOPHAGUS WITH THIS ENORMOUS LID 265 00:13:49,763 --> 00:13:52,530 WHICH MEASURES ABOUT 4 METERS BY 3 METERS. 266 00:13:52,532 --> 00:13:55,066 SOLID PIECE OF LIMESTONE, AND IT HAS AN IMAGE 267 00:13:55,068 --> 00:13:57,936 OF PAKAL HIMSELF BEING SWALLOWED UP BY AN EARTH MONSTER 268 00:13:57,938 --> 00:13:59,537 AS HE'S ENTERING XIBALBA. 269 00:13:59,539 --> 00:14:02,173 IT'S WHAT THEY REFER TO AS THE UNDERWORLD. 270 00:14:02,175 --> 00:14:04,075 Narrator: BUT UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE KING PAKAL'S 271 00:14:04,077 --> 00:14:08,379 SARCOPHAGUS LID REPRESENTS SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY, 272 00:14:08,381 --> 00:14:11,749 SOMETHING THEY CALL THE MAYA ASTRONAUT. 273 00:14:11,751 --> 00:14:12,917 I'M A MECHANICAL ENGINEER. 274 00:14:12,919 --> 00:14:14,552 I WORKED IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY FOR YEARS. 275 00:14:14,554 --> 00:14:16,387 I SEE MECHANICAL DEVICES. 276 00:14:16,389 --> 00:14:20,692 SOME SORT OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY BEING CONTROLLED AND PILOTED 277 00:14:20,694 --> 00:14:23,161 BY I WOULD ASSUME KING PAKAL. 278 00:14:23,163 --> 00:14:24,596 HE'S TURNING DIALS. 279 00:14:24,598 --> 00:14:26,197 HE'S OPERATING GUIDANCE SYSTEMS. 280 00:14:26,199 --> 00:14:28,132 THERE ARE FOOT PEDALS BEING USED 281 00:14:28,134 --> 00:14:31,102 OUT OF THE BACK OF THIS SORT OF ROCKET SHIP SHAPE. 282 00:14:31,104 --> 00:14:33,571 THERE ARE FLAMES COMING OUT. 283 00:14:33,573 --> 00:14:36,841 Pope: THE SARCOPHAGUS OF KING PAKAL, 284 00:14:36,843 --> 00:14:39,444 IT SHOWS A FIGURE WHO LOOKS, 285 00:14:39,446 --> 00:14:42,714 FOR ALL THE WORLD, AS IF HE'S ACTUALLY IN WHAT CAN ONLY BE 286 00:14:42,716 --> 00:14:44,883 DESCRIBED AS A SPACE CAPSULE. 287 00:14:44,885 --> 00:14:48,853 NOW, IS THIS IMAGE ON THE PALENQUE LID, 288 00:14:48,855 --> 00:14:52,257 AS SOME BELIEVE, THE MAYANS HOMAGE 289 00:14:52,259 --> 00:14:55,260 TO THEIR CREATOR GODS WHO CAME FROM THE STARS? 290 00:14:55,262 --> 00:14:59,530 PERHAPS KING PAKAL BELIEVED THAT AFTER DEATH, 291 00:14:59,532 --> 00:15:02,834 HE WOULD JOURNEY BACK TO THE STARS HIMSELF, 292 00:15:02,836 --> 00:15:06,504 AND HIS SARCOPHAGUS WOULD BE THE VEHICLE IN WHICH HE TRAVELED. 293 00:15:09,309 --> 00:15:10,775 Bara: THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF SPECULATION 294 00:15:10,777 --> 00:15:13,878 THAT EITHER KING PAKAL WAS DEEPLY INVOLVED 295 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:15,780 WITH EXTRATERRESTRIALS OR, IN FACT, 296 00:15:15,782 --> 00:15:17,715 HE WAS AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL HIMSELF. 297 00:15:17,717 --> 00:15:21,753 AND THE IDEA IS THAT THIS LID WAS ACTUALLY DEPICTING HIM 298 00:15:21,755 --> 00:15:23,154 RETURNING HOME AFTER HIS DEATH, 299 00:15:23,156 --> 00:15:27,292 RETURNING BACK TO THE STARS FROM WHENCE HE CAME. 300 00:15:27,294 --> 00:15:31,229 THIS IS VERY UNIQUE, AND IT HAS RAISED A LOT OF QUESTIONS. 301 00:15:31,231 --> 00:15:34,999 IS, IN FACT, THIS KING IN SOME SORT OF OXYGEN CHAMBER 302 00:15:35,001 --> 00:15:38,202 OR PERHAPS SOME SORT OF SPACE POD? 303 00:15:38,204 --> 00:15:42,106 WE DON'T KNOW, BUT IT IS AN INTRIGUING IMAGE. 304 00:15:42,108 --> 00:15:43,908 Rosenfeld: WE KNOW THAT THE MAYANS HAVE TALKED 305 00:15:43,910 --> 00:15:46,444 ABOUT SKY GODS, AND THAT TECHNOLOGY THAT THEY USED 306 00:15:46,446 --> 00:15:49,580 TO COME DOWN TO EARTH AND SHARE THEIR TEACHINGS. 307 00:15:49,582 --> 00:15:51,983 IT GOES TO SHOW YOU THAT THESE VISITORS HAVE BEEN HERE 308 00:15:51,985 --> 00:15:54,252 FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. 309 00:15:54,254 --> 00:15:56,321 Narrator: IS KING PAKAL'S SARCOPHAGUS LID 310 00:15:56,323 --> 00:15:58,523 THE ULTIMATE PROOF OF UFO LANDINGS 311 00:15:58,525 --> 00:16:01,726 IN THE ANCIENT PAST AS RESEARCHERS BELIEVE? 312 00:16:01,728 --> 00:16:05,029 AND WHY WOULD THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT BE HIDING THIS? 313 00:16:08,835 --> 00:16:11,970 ACCORDING TO UFO INVESTIGATORS, SIMILAR ARTIFACTS 314 00:16:11,972 --> 00:16:15,039 RESEMBLING ASTRONAUTS HAVE BEEN FOUND IN OTHER CULTURES 315 00:16:15,041 --> 00:16:17,575 ALL AROUND THE WORLD. 316 00:16:17,577 --> 00:16:20,878 IN ECUADOR, SOUTH AMERICA, IN A REGION ONCE DOMINATED 317 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,248 BY THE ANCIENT INCA PEOPLE, UFO RESEARCHERS HAVE TAKEN 318 00:16:24,250 --> 00:16:29,921 RENEWED INTEREST IN CLAY FIGURES HANDCRAFTED AROUND 1500 B.C. 319 00:16:29,923 --> 00:16:31,656 IN ECUADOR, YOU FIND THESE SCULPTURES 320 00:16:31,658 --> 00:16:34,959 OF WHAT CLEARLY APPEAR TO BE BEINGS IN SPACE SUITS. 321 00:16:34,961 --> 00:16:35,860 THEY HAVE HELMETS. 322 00:16:35,862 --> 00:16:37,428 THEY HAVE FULLY PRESSURIZED SUITS. 323 00:16:37,430 --> 00:16:38,863 THEY HAVE BOOTS ON. 324 00:16:38,865 --> 00:16:41,632 SO CLEARLY WHAT THE INCA ARE REPRODUCING, 325 00:16:41,634 --> 00:16:43,534 THE SAME THINGS THAT THE MAYANS HAD ALREADY SEEN 326 00:16:43,536 --> 00:16:47,672 AND ALREADY REPRODUCED IN THEIR VARIOUS ARTWORKS AND SCULPTURES. 327 00:16:47,674 --> 00:16:50,308 IF YOU COMPARE IT SIDE BY SIDE, YOU CAN DEFINITELY SEE 328 00:16:50,310 --> 00:16:53,378 THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN MODERN-DAY ASTRONAUTS. 329 00:16:53,380 --> 00:16:56,981 THE HELMET SIZE, THE WHOLE LAYOUT OF THE SUITS, THE BELTS. 330 00:16:56,983 --> 00:16:59,751 IT LOOKS LIKE A PRESSURE SUIT. 331 00:16:59,753 --> 00:17:03,287 EVEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT HAS SOME KIND OF APPARATUS ON THE BACK, 332 00:17:03,289 --> 00:17:05,857 LIKE OUR PRESENT-DAY ASTRONAUTS WOULD HAVE. 333 00:17:05,859 --> 00:17:07,859 GIVEN THAT THESE ARE ARTIFACTS FROM ANCIENT TIMES, 334 00:17:07,861 --> 00:17:08,860 WHAT DOES THAT TELL YOU? 335 00:17:08,862 --> 00:17:12,296 IT TELLS ME THAT THESE ARE DEPICTIONS 336 00:17:12,298 --> 00:17:16,701 OF CONTACT WITH AN ANCIENT VISITOR. 337 00:17:16,703 --> 00:17:18,569 Bara: IN ECUADOR, IT'S VERY HOT, IT'S VERY HUMID, 338 00:17:18,571 --> 00:17:20,271 YOU DON'T WEAR A LOT OF CLOTHES. 339 00:17:20,273 --> 00:17:23,041 THE IDEA THAT THEY WOULD WEAR SOME SORT OF CEREMONIAL CLOTHES 340 00:17:23,043 --> 00:17:26,077 THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE A HEAVY, PRESSURIZED SPACE SUIT 341 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:28,246 WITH A SPACE HELMET IS PRETTY LUDICROUS. 342 00:17:28,248 --> 00:17:29,881 YOU WOULDN'T DO THAT FOR ANY REASON OTHER THAN 343 00:17:29,883 --> 00:17:32,784 TO COMMEMORATE, PERHAPS, SOMETHING YOU'D SEEN 344 00:17:32,786 --> 00:17:36,187 SOMEBODY ELSE WEAR LIKE, PERHAPS, ONE OF YOUR GODS. 345 00:17:39,125 --> 00:17:41,426 Narrator: MORE STRANGE ARTIFACTS HAVE BEEN UNEARTHED 346 00:17:41,428 --> 00:17:43,694 HALFWAY AROUND THE GLOBE. 347 00:17:43,696 --> 00:17:46,431 IN JAPAN, THE ANCIENT JOMON PEOPLE, 348 00:17:46,433 --> 00:17:50,601 A CIVILIZATION DATING AS FAR BACK AS 1200 B.C. 349 00:17:50,603 --> 00:17:55,373 CREATED 12-INCH CLAY FIGURES KNOWN AS THE DOGU. 350 00:17:55,375 --> 00:17:58,876 Pope: THE DOGU FIGURINES FROM JAPAN ARE INTERESTING. 351 00:17:58,878 --> 00:18:01,546 SOME PEOPLE SAY THAT THEY ARE REPRESENTATIONS 352 00:18:01,548 --> 00:18:02,980 OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS. 353 00:18:02,982 --> 00:18:05,216 THERE'S NO GETTING AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT IT'S CLEARLY NOT 354 00:18:05,218 --> 00:18:08,953 A LITERAL REPRESENTATION OF A HUMAN BEING. 355 00:18:08,955 --> 00:18:11,522 BUT DOES THAT MEAN THAT THESE PEOPLE 356 00:18:11,524 --> 00:18:15,059 WERE CARVING VISITORS FROM THE STARS? 357 00:18:15,061 --> 00:18:16,594 WE SIMPLY DON'T KNOW. 358 00:18:16,596 --> 00:18:18,663 Bara: NOW, IT SEEMS TO ME WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT 359 00:18:18,665 --> 00:18:22,266 IS SOME SORT OF HUMANOID BEING IN A PRESSURIZED SUIT, 360 00:18:22,268 --> 00:18:23,401 LIKE A SPACE SUIT. 361 00:18:23,403 --> 00:18:25,069 THEY HAVE HELMETS, THEY HAVE THE WIDE, 362 00:18:25,071 --> 00:18:27,939 PUFFY SLEEVES LIKE WE'RE USED TO SEEING ON THE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS. 363 00:18:27,941 --> 00:18:30,475 THEY EVEN HAVE THE VERY LARGE, SORT OF 364 00:18:30,477 --> 00:18:32,443 ALIEN GRAY TYPE OF EYES ON THEM. 365 00:18:32,445 --> 00:18:36,447 I MEAN, CLEARLY, YOU'RE LOOKING AT SOME SORT OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL 366 00:18:36,449 --> 00:18:40,284 WHO'S NOT ABLE TO SURVIVE IN THE ATMOSPHERE 367 00:18:40,286 --> 00:18:41,986 OF THE PLANET EARTH WITHOUT 368 00:18:41,988 --> 00:18:44,355 THE ASSISTANCE OF THIS PRESSURIZED SUIT. 369 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:49,861 Narrator: FOR MODERN MAN, DEPICTIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN 370 00:18:49,863 --> 00:18:53,431 IN SPACE SUITS AND ALIEN BEINGS WITH BULGING EYES 371 00:18:53,433 --> 00:18:57,635 ARE IMAGES UNDERSTOOD AS NORMAL IN OUR EVERYDAY CULTURE. 372 00:18:57,637 --> 00:19:01,172 BUT PRIOR TO THE 1950s, RESEARCHERS ASK, 373 00:19:01,174 --> 00:19:04,575 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT ANCIENT MAN WAS ABLE TO DEPICT 374 00:19:04,577 --> 00:19:07,945 OR EVEN IMAGINE BEINGS THAT APPEAR TO BE OUTFITTED 375 00:19:07,947 --> 00:19:10,581 LIKE MODERN ASTRONAUTS? 376 00:19:10,583 --> 00:19:13,217 LIKE THE EVIDENCE UNCOVERED AT MAYA RUINS. 377 00:19:13,219 --> 00:19:15,019 COULD THESE STONE CARVINGS REPRESENT 378 00:19:15,021 --> 00:19:17,655 OUR ANCESTORS' SPIRITUAL BELIEFS, 379 00:19:17,657 --> 00:19:21,859 OR CONTACT WITH OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS? 380 00:19:21,861 --> 00:19:24,629 THEY SEEM TO BE TIED UP WITH WORSHIP, 381 00:19:24,631 --> 00:19:27,098 BUT WORSHIP OF WHAT? 382 00:19:27,100 --> 00:19:28,933 ANCIENT GODS? 383 00:19:28,935 --> 00:19:32,837 BUT WHAT IF THOSE GODS WERE VISITING EXTRATERRESTRIALS? 384 00:19:32,839 --> 00:19:37,208 Lukes: COULD THIS BE EVIDENCE OF ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS? 385 00:19:37,210 --> 00:19:40,878 WE DON'T KNOW, BUT WHEN YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE REFERENCES 386 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:44,048 ACROSS CONTINENTS, THROUGH DIFFERENT CULTURES, 387 00:19:44,050 --> 00:19:49,253 AND THEY'RE REMARKABLY SIMILAR, ONE HAS TO ASK THAT QUESTION. 388 00:19:49,255 --> 00:19:51,155 Rosenfeld: SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN PASSED DOWN 389 00:19:51,157 --> 00:19:52,857 THROUGH HISTORY, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, 390 00:19:52,859 --> 00:19:55,059 DIFFERENT CULTURES THAT DON'T HAVE ANY CONTACT 391 00:19:55,061 --> 00:19:57,061 WITH EACH OTHER SHARED THE SAME IDEA. 392 00:19:57,063 --> 00:20:00,198 I THINK THAT WE'VE BEEN VISITED ON THIS PLANET 393 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,899 FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. 394 00:20:01,901 --> 00:20:05,203 AND THE ANCIENT PEOPLES HAVE DOCUMENTED THIS VISITATION. 395 00:20:05,205 --> 00:20:07,972 Narrator: BUT IF EARLY MAN WAS AWARE OF SPACE TRAVELERS, 396 00:20:07,974 --> 00:20:10,007 AS UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE, 397 00:20:10,009 --> 00:20:11,943 IS THERE A TRUTH YET TO BE REVEALED 398 00:20:11,945 --> 00:20:14,812 ABOUT THE EXACT NATURE OF MAN'S RELATIONSHIP 399 00:20:14,814 --> 00:20:17,315 WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS? 400 00:20:22,355 --> 00:20:24,989 Narrator: SEARCHING FOR PROOF OF ANCIENT EARTH LANDINGS 401 00:20:24,991 --> 00:20:27,525 BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS, 402 00:20:27,527 --> 00:20:30,861 UFO RESEARCHERS TRACING THE ORIGIN OF THE ANCIENT MAYA 403 00:20:30,863 --> 00:20:33,531 ARE TAKING A RENEWED LOOK AT EVIDENCE FOUND 404 00:20:33,533 --> 00:20:36,367 IN WHAT MANY CONSIDER TO BE THE OLDEST CIVILIZATION 405 00:20:36,369 --> 00:20:40,638 OF THE AMERICANS -- THE OLMEC. 406 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:43,507 LOCATED 170 MILES WEST OF PALENQUE 407 00:20:43,509 --> 00:20:45,142 NEAR THE GULF OF MEXICO, 408 00:20:45,144 --> 00:20:50,715 THE OLMEC PEOPLE THRIVED IN AN AREA KNOWN AS LA VENTA. 409 00:20:50,717 --> 00:20:53,651 French: THE OLMEC COME ABOUT AROUND 1,400 B.C. 410 00:20:53,653 --> 00:20:56,254 THEY EXIST IN A PRETTY SMALL AREA OF THE GULF COAST, 411 00:20:56,256 --> 00:20:58,923 IN WHAT'S SOUTHERN VERACRUZ TODAY. 412 00:20:58,925 --> 00:21:00,124 OFTEN, THE OLMEC ARE REFERRED TO 413 00:21:00,126 --> 00:21:02,293 AS THE MOTHER CULTURE OF MESOAMERICA. 414 00:21:02,295 --> 00:21:04,662 BUT REALLY, I THINK WHAT THAT'S REFERRING TO IS 415 00:21:04,664 --> 00:21:07,698 THEY'RE THE EARLIEST STATE LEVEL SOCIETY 416 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:09,100 TO FORM IN MESOAMERICA. 417 00:21:09,102 --> 00:21:10,468 THEY'RE THE FIRST ONES TO START 418 00:21:10,470 --> 00:21:11,702 BUILDING MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTURE, 419 00:21:11,704 --> 00:21:13,604 TO START HAVING A HIERARCHICAL GOVERNMENT 420 00:21:13,606 --> 00:21:15,473 AND THAT TYPE OF THING. 421 00:21:15,475 --> 00:21:18,542 OLMEC RELIGION WAS JUST WOVEN 422 00:21:18,544 --> 00:21:21,979 INTO ALL ASPECTS OF THEIR CULTURE. 423 00:21:21,981 --> 00:21:23,714 THEY KNEW THE EARTH WAS ROUND. 424 00:21:23,716 --> 00:21:29,654 THERE WAS A PRIESTLY CASTE WHO MEDIATED BETWEEN THEIR GODS, 425 00:21:29,656 --> 00:21:31,856 WHO THEY SAY CAME FROM THE SKY, 426 00:21:31,858 --> 00:21:35,793 AND THE MAYANS BORROWED HEAVILY FROM THAT COSMOLOGY. 427 00:21:35,795 --> 00:21:38,396 Narrator: BUT WHILE THE OLMEC DOMINATED CENTRAL AMERICA 428 00:21:38,398 --> 00:21:40,665 FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS, 429 00:21:40,667 --> 00:21:43,334 BY 300 B.C., THE OLMEC PEOPLE 430 00:21:43,336 --> 00:21:47,038 SEEMED TO MYSTERIOUSLY VANISH FROM HISTORY. 431 00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:49,006 WHY? 432 00:21:49,008 --> 00:21:52,043 UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE ARTWORK DISCOVERED HERE 433 00:21:52,045 --> 00:21:56,380 MAY PROVIDE CLUES TO THEIR FATE, BEGINNING WITH THESE ARTIFACTS 434 00:21:56,382 --> 00:22:00,418 OF WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER. 435 00:22:00,420 --> 00:22:03,621 French: WE SEE WITH ANCIENT ART, WITH ANCIENT ARTIFACTS, 436 00:22:03,623 --> 00:22:06,957 IF IT MIMICS ANYTHING, IT ACTUALLY MIMICS 437 00:22:06,959 --> 00:22:08,259 THE QUETZAL BIRD, 438 00:22:08,261 --> 00:22:11,162 WHICH HAS AN EXTREMELY LONG SERIES OF FEATHERS. 439 00:22:11,164 --> 00:22:13,064 AND WHEN IT FLIES THROUGH THE AIR, 440 00:22:13,066 --> 00:22:14,765 IT HAS THESE VERY LONG TAIL FEATHERS 441 00:22:14,767 --> 00:22:16,801 THAT FLAP IN THE WIND. 442 00:22:16,803 --> 00:22:19,470 Narrator: BUT UFO RESEARCHERS DISAGREE. 443 00:22:19,472 --> 00:22:20,738 Bara: THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTERS 444 00:22:20,740 --> 00:22:23,674 LOOK EXACTLY LIKE MODERN-DAY DELTA WING JET AIRCRAFT. 445 00:22:23,676 --> 00:22:26,077 YOU CAN EVEN SEE ON SOME OF THEM AIR INTAKES. 446 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:27,978 THEY HAVE TAILS. THEY HAVE ELEVATORS. 447 00:22:27,980 --> 00:22:31,048 THEY HAVE DELTA WING-SHAPED AIR FOILS. 448 00:22:31,050 --> 00:22:33,217 CLEARLY, THEY WERE TRYING TO DEPICT THINGS 449 00:22:33,219 --> 00:22:35,720 THAT THEY SAW IN THE SKY, THESE AIR MONSTERS 450 00:22:35,722 --> 00:22:37,455 THAT WERE ACTUALLY PROBABLY AIRCRAFT 451 00:22:37,457 --> 00:22:38,823 THAT THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 452 00:22:38,825 --> 00:22:41,125 THEY SIMPLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE LOOKING AT. 453 00:22:41,127 --> 00:22:43,694 Pope: IF YOU LOOK AT THE OLMEC BIRD MONSTER, 454 00:22:43,696 --> 00:22:45,229 IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE 455 00:22:45,231 --> 00:22:47,998 A MODERN JET AIRCRAFT OR A SPACE SHUTTLE. 456 00:22:48,000 --> 00:22:49,533 IT'S GOT ALL THE FEATURES -- 457 00:22:49,535 --> 00:22:52,870 THE FUSELAGE, THE WINGS, THE TAIL. 458 00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:57,007 I MEAN, IT REALLY COULD BE ALMOST EXACT REPRESENTATION 459 00:22:57,009 --> 00:22:58,509 OF SOMETHING MORE MODERN. 460 00:22:58,511 --> 00:23:00,511 Rosenfeld: THESE THINGS LOOK LIKE FLYING CRAFT, 461 00:23:00,513 --> 00:23:01,812 ALMOST LIKE AIRCRAFT. 462 00:23:01,814 --> 00:23:05,583 THEY DON'T FIT THE PERFECT FLYING SAUCER TYPE UFO, 463 00:23:05,585 --> 00:23:07,952 BUT IT'S DEFINITELY A FLYING MACHINE. 464 00:23:07,954 --> 00:23:10,755 BACK THEN, THEY WERE THINKING, THIS IS SOME KIND OF BIRD, 465 00:23:10,757 --> 00:23:15,326 AND IT'S SO MONSTROUS, IT'S A BIRD MONSTER. 466 00:23:15,328 --> 00:23:17,294 Narrator: UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE FURTHER CLUES 467 00:23:17,296 --> 00:23:18,796 TO THE FATE OF THE OLMEC 468 00:23:18,798 --> 00:23:21,565 CAN BE FOUND IN OTHER ARTIFACTS AT LA VENTA. 469 00:23:21,567 --> 00:23:25,636 SOME DEPICTING WHAT IS KNOWN AS THE OLMEC DRAGON. 470 00:23:25,638 --> 00:23:30,374 IS A FIERY DRAGON SOME SORT OF MYTHICAL SKY CREATURE? 471 00:23:30,376 --> 00:23:34,278 THE ONLY WAY IN WHICH SOMEBODY IN AN ANCIENT CULTURE 472 00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,180 COULD FRAME A DESCRIPTION 473 00:23:36,182 --> 00:23:39,417 OF WHAT WE WOULD NOW CALL A SPACESHIP. 474 00:23:39,419 --> 00:23:42,520 SOME PEOPLE HAVE SPECULATED THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT, 475 00:23:42,522 --> 00:23:47,024 FOR EXAMPLE, LEGENDS OF DRAGONS FLYING IN THE SKY 476 00:23:47,026 --> 00:23:50,494 AND BREATHING FIRE, THAT THIS IS, IN FACT, 477 00:23:50,496 --> 00:23:52,630 HOW SUCH ANCIENT PEOPLES 478 00:23:52,632 --> 00:23:55,566 DESCRIBED AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL SPACECRAFT 479 00:23:55,568 --> 00:24:00,004 MAYBE WITH FIERY EXHAUST COMING OUT OF THE REAR. 480 00:24:00,006 --> 00:24:02,173 Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THE OLMEC DRAGON 481 00:24:02,175 --> 00:24:06,043 AND THE BIRD MONSTER COULD BE PRIMITIVE MAN'S INTERPRETATION 482 00:24:06,045 --> 00:24:09,980 OF FIRE-EMITTING SPACECRAFT? 483 00:24:09,982 --> 00:24:12,349 PERHAPS THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL DEPICTION AMONG 484 00:24:12,351 --> 00:24:14,752 THE OLMEC ARTWORK IS FOUND ON A SCULPTURE 485 00:24:14,754 --> 00:24:18,889 KNOWN BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS AS "MONUMENT 19." 486 00:24:21,461 --> 00:24:24,061 IT IS THE EARLIEST KNOWN REPRESENTATION OF 487 00:24:24,063 --> 00:24:25,696 THE FEATHERED SERPENT -- 488 00:24:25,698 --> 00:24:31,268 A GODLIKE FIGURE KNOWN TO BOTH THE OLMEC AND THE MAYA. 489 00:24:31,270 --> 00:24:34,972 MONUMENT 19 IS JUST A DEPICTION OF A WARRIOR WEARING A HELMET, 490 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:37,608 AND HE'S WITH THE FEATHERED SERPENT, 491 00:24:37,610 --> 00:24:39,944 WHICH IS A DEITY ALL ACROSS MESOAMERICA. 492 00:24:39,946 --> 00:24:42,613 AND THE FACT THAT HE HAS THAT LITTLE KIT, 493 00:24:42,615 --> 00:24:44,915 MAYBE WHAT THAT'S SYMBOLIZING IS THIS PERSON 494 00:24:44,917 --> 00:24:47,218 IS HEADING OFF INTO THE AFTERLIFE. 495 00:24:47,220 --> 00:24:49,954 Narrator: FOR INVESTIGATORS, HOWEVER, MONUMENT 19 496 00:24:49,956 --> 00:24:53,357 IS REGARDED AS EVIDENCE SUGGESTING THAT THERE REALLY WAS 497 00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,228 CONTACT WITH UFOs IN THE ANCIENT PAST. 498 00:24:58,397 --> 00:25:02,433 MONUMENT 19 AT LA VENTA SHOWS WHAT MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE 499 00:25:02,435 --> 00:25:05,236 IS A REPRESENTATION OF A HUMAN FIGURE 500 00:25:05,238 --> 00:25:07,238 IN A SPACESHIP OF SOME SORT. 501 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,641 AGAIN, THERE'S WHAT SEEMS TO BE MACHINERY. 502 00:25:10,643 --> 00:25:12,843 I MEAN, IT REALLY DOES LOOK LIKE SOMETHING 503 00:25:12,845 --> 00:25:14,979 THAT'S BEEN CONSTRUCTED. 504 00:25:14,981 --> 00:25:16,947 Bara: I THINK THAT THE FEATHERED SERPENT IS AN ANALOGY 505 00:25:16,949 --> 00:25:19,083 FOR SOME SORT OF FLYING CRAFT THAT THEY SAW. 506 00:25:19,085 --> 00:25:20,518 BUT THERE IS ACTUALLY A MAN INSIDE OF IT. 507 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,920 HE'S WEARING A HELMET, A PRESSURE SUIT OF SOME KIND, 508 00:25:22,922 --> 00:25:25,356 AND HE'S ALSO CARRYING A BAG 509 00:25:25,358 --> 00:25:27,358 THAT LOOKS A LITTLE BIT LIKE A PURSE, 510 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:29,793 BUT IT ALSO BEARS A REALLY STRIKING RESEMBLANCE 511 00:25:29,795 --> 00:25:32,963 TO AN ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS PACK LIKE THE ASTRONAUTS CARRY 512 00:25:32,965 --> 00:25:34,732 BEFORE THEY WOULD GET ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE 513 00:25:34,734 --> 00:25:37,268 OR BEFORE THAT THEY WOULD GET ON THE APOLLO MISSION. 514 00:25:37,270 --> 00:25:41,138 IT LOOKS LIKE THE FIGURE IS ACTUALLY MOVING LEVERS, 515 00:25:41,140 --> 00:25:42,940 HAS SOME KIND OF APPARATUS ON ITS HEAD, 516 00:25:42,942 --> 00:25:44,942 MAYBE SOME BREATHING GEAR. 517 00:25:44,944 --> 00:25:47,144 DEFINITELY NOT SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD SEE 518 00:25:47,146 --> 00:25:50,114 SOMEONE DOING 5,000 YEARS AGO. 519 00:25:50,116 --> 00:25:53,083 ANYTHING THAT FLEW TO THE OLMEC WOULD HAVE BEEN FEATHERED. 520 00:25:53,085 --> 00:25:54,618 SO IT WOULD HAVE BEEN SOME SORT OF BIRD. 521 00:25:54,620 --> 00:25:56,921 SO AGAIN, IT APPEARS THAT THEY ARE DEPICTING 522 00:25:56,923 --> 00:25:58,455 EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAW, 523 00:25:58,457 --> 00:26:01,058 WHICH IS A PILOT OF A FEATHERED SERPENT, 524 00:26:01,060 --> 00:26:03,460 AN AIRCRAFT, A HIGH-ALTITUDE AIRCRAFT, 525 00:26:03,462 --> 00:26:06,664 SPACECRAFT OF SOME TYPE THAT PROBABLY WORE ONE OF THESE 526 00:26:06,666 --> 00:26:08,732 PRESSURIZED SUITS WITH A HELMET 527 00:26:08,734 --> 00:26:10,901 AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL PACK. 528 00:26:13,539 --> 00:26:15,606 Narrator: ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS, 529 00:26:15,608 --> 00:26:19,076 THE IDEA THAT ANCIENT PEOPLE COULD IMAGINE A TRAVEL SCENARIO 530 00:26:19,078 --> 00:26:22,313 THAT WOULD REQUIRE A HELMET AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 531 00:26:22,315 --> 00:26:25,883 IS SIGNIFICANT EVIDENCE IN AND OF ITSELF. 532 00:26:25,885 --> 00:26:28,652 DID THE ANCIENTS REALLY BELIEVE THEY WERE GOING SOME PLACE 533 00:26:28,654 --> 00:26:32,723 ENTIRELY DIFFERENT AND HAZARDOUS FOR THEIR HEALTH? 534 00:26:32,725 --> 00:26:33,924 MORE TO THE POINT, 535 00:26:33,926 --> 00:26:37,361 FROM WHO OR WHAT WERE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS 536 00:26:37,363 --> 00:26:40,197 GETTING THE INSPIRATION FOR SUCH ARTWORK 537 00:26:40,199 --> 00:26:43,400 OVER 3,000 YEARS AGO? 538 00:26:43,402 --> 00:26:44,802 FOR UFO EXPERTS, 539 00:26:44,804 --> 00:26:47,638 THE ONLY POSSIBLE ANSWER LIES IN ANCIENT CONTACT 540 00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,842 WITH EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS IN THE DISTANT PAST. 541 00:26:51,844 --> 00:26:54,078 Bara: IT'S JUST A NATURAL, LOGICAL CONCLUSION 542 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,679 BASED ON THE VISUAL EVIDENCE. 543 00:26:55,681 --> 00:27:00,784 I TEND TO THINK THAT THINGS ARE EXACTLY WHAT THEY APPEAR TO BE. 544 00:27:00,786 --> 00:27:02,653 Narrator: THE ARTIFACTS DISCOVERED AMONG THE RUINS 545 00:27:02,655 --> 00:27:06,857 OF THE MAYA, THE OLMEC, CRAFTED BY EARLY JAPANESE, 546 00:27:06,859 --> 00:27:11,362 AND ANCIENT INCAS ALL GOING BACK THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 547 00:27:11,364 --> 00:27:15,032 IS THIS EVIDENCE OF CONTACT WITH UFOs? 548 00:27:15,034 --> 00:27:18,369 WHAT IF WE LOOK AT MAN'S EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION -- 549 00:27:18,371 --> 00:27:20,304 THE SUMERIANS? 550 00:27:20,306 --> 00:27:23,974 ARE THERE CONNECTIONS TO ALIEN LIFE THERE, AS WELL? 551 00:27:23,976 --> 00:27:27,378 AND WHAT STUNNING REVELATIONS MIGHT THOSE CONNECTIONS REVEAL 552 00:27:27,380 --> 00:27:31,081 ABOUT THE VERY ORIGINS OF MANKIND? 553 00:27:34,220 --> 00:27:35,786 Narrator: AFTER LOOKING BACK OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS 554 00:27:35,788 --> 00:27:37,755 TO FIND EVIDENCE OF MAN'S INTERACTION 555 00:27:37,757 --> 00:27:40,691 WITH ANCIENT EXTRATERRESTRIALS, 556 00:27:40,693 --> 00:27:43,060 UFO RESEARCHERS ARE NOW GOING ALL THE WAY BACK 557 00:27:43,062 --> 00:27:45,896 TO THE WORLD'S EARLIEST KNOWN CIVILIZATION -- 558 00:27:45,898 --> 00:27:47,297 THE SUMERIANS. 559 00:27:47,299 --> 00:27:50,034 DATING TO 6,000 B.C. 560 00:27:50,036 --> 00:27:53,203 LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERNMOST PART OF MESOPOTAMIA, 561 00:27:53,205 --> 00:27:57,174 AN AREA OFTEN CALLED THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION. 562 00:27:57,176 --> 00:27:58,876 French: MESOPOTAMIA'S REALLY THE AREA 563 00:27:58,878 --> 00:28:01,945 BETWEEN THE TIGRIS AND EUPHRATES RIVER VALLEYS. 564 00:28:01,947 --> 00:28:04,615 THAT AREA STRETCHES FROM PORTIONS OF SYRIA 565 00:28:04,617 --> 00:28:08,118 ALL THROUGH IRAQ AND A LITTLE BIT INTO KUWAIT. 566 00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:10,788 VERY RICH, FERTILE AREA WHERE SOME OF THE EARLIEST AGRICULTURE 567 00:28:10,790 --> 00:28:12,389 IN THE WORLD CAME ABOUT. 568 00:28:12,391 --> 00:28:16,760 THE SUMERIANS REALLY WERE THE FIRST HUMAN CIVILIZATION. 569 00:28:16,762 --> 00:28:18,529 THIS REALLY MARKED THE TRANSITION 570 00:28:18,531 --> 00:28:21,999 FROM HUNTER/GATHERER SOCIETIES TO SOCIETIES 571 00:28:22,001 --> 00:28:23,434 WITH MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATION 572 00:28:23,436 --> 00:28:26,203 WHO WROTE DOWN IN WRITTEN LANGUAGE, 573 00:28:26,205 --> 00:28:28,305 WHO CONSTRUCTED CITIES. 574 00:28:28,307 --> 00:28:30,274 Narrator: THE SUMERIANS ARE ALSO WELL-KNOWN 575 00:28:30,276 --> 00:28:32,409 FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF PYRAMID-LIKE STRUCTURES 576 00:28:32,411 --> 00:28:33,577 KNOWN AS ZIGGURATS. 577 00:28:33,579 --> 00:28:37,214 ZIGGURATS ARE JUST LARGE, MONUMENTAL CONSTRUCTIONS 578 00:28:37,216 --> 00:28:39,683 THAT THE ELITE WOULD USE FOR A MULTITUDE OF PURPOSES -- 579 00:28:39,685 --> 00:28:42,453 FOR LIVING QUARTERS, TO CONDUCT CEREMONIES, 580 00:28:42,455 --> 00:28:43,787 AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 581 00:28:43,789 --> 00:28:45,522 THEY'RE BUILT OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME 582 00:28:45,524 --> 00:28:48,158 LIKE MOST TEMPLES ARE. 583 00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,794 Narrator: ALTHOUGH RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS BELIEVE THE ZIGGURATS 584 00:28:50,796 --> 00:28:53,564 WERE USED MOSTLY FOR SPIRITUAL PURPOSES, 585 00:28:53,566 --> 00:28:56,133 IS IT POSSIBLE THESE MASSIVE TEMPLES SERVED 586 00:28:56,135 --> 00:28:58,402 A VERY DIFFERENT PURPOSE? 587 00:28:58,404 --> 00:29:00,137 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ZIGGURATS, 588 00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:04,875 THEY HAVE A HUGE, SOLID BASE AND A FLAT TOP. 589 00:29:04,877 --> 00:29:08,212 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THIS THING RISING UP. 590 00:29:08,214 --> 00:29:09,446 I MEAN, IT'S VAST. 591 00:29:09,448 --> 00:29:10,881 IT'S EASY TO LOOK AT THEM AND SAY, 592 00:29:10,883 --> 00:29:13,784 WELL, THIS IS REMINISCENT OF A LANDING PAD. 593 00:29:13,786 --> 00:29:16,420 YOU CAN IMAGINE SOMETHING COMING DOWN AND LANDING 594 00:29:16,422 --> 00:29:17,821 ON THE TOP OF THIS THING. 595 00:29:17,823 --> 00:29:20,224 I MEAN, IT'S VISIBLE FROM THE SKY. 596 00:29:20,226 --> 00:29:22,960 SOMEBODY FLYING IN COULD SEE IT FROM A LONG WAY OFF, 597 00:29:22,962 --> 00:29:26,530 COULD NAVIGATE BY IT, AND THEN LAND ON TOP OF IT. 598 00:29:26,532 --> 00:29:28,365 Narrator: IF ZIGGURATS WERE, IN FACT, 599 00:29:28,367 --> 00:29:31,902 USED AS NAVIGATIONAL SITES, OR EVEN LANDING PADS 600 00:29:31,904 --> 00:29:36,640 FOR INCOMING ALIEN CRAFT, AS MOST UFO RESEARCHERS BELIEVE, 601 00:29:36,642 --> 00:29:38,809 IS IT INCONCEIVABLE THAT PRIMITIVE MAN 602 00:29:38,811 --> 00:29:43,147 WOULD MISTAKE OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS FOR STAR GODS? 603 00:29:43,149 --> 00:29:46,283 FOR ME, IT'S HARD NOT TO COME TO THE CONCLUSION 604 00:29:46,285 --> 00:29:49,586 THAT THERE WAS SOME TECHNOLOGY THAT WAS WITNESSED, 605 00:29:49,588 --> 00:29:51,188 MAYBE EVEN EXPERIENCED. 606 00:29:51,190 --> 00:29:52,656 AND I THINK FOR EARLY HUMAN BEINGS, 607 00:29:52,658 --> 00:29:55,926 THEIR TECHNOLOGY WAS MAGIC TO US. 608 00:29:55,928 --> 00:29:58,362 THIS IS WHY THESE BEINGS WERE WORSHIPED AS GODS. 609 00:29:58,364 --> 00:30:00,798 Bara: IF YOU'RE AN ANCIENT, PRIMITIVE HUMAN CULTURE, 610 00:30:00,800 --> 00:30:03,734 AND YOU SEE THESE EXTRATERRESTRIALS COME IN 611 00:30:03,736 --> 00:30:07,938 ON FIERY SLEDS OR FIERY SHIELDS, ROCKETS, 612 00:30:07,940 --> 00:30:09,940 LANDING NEAR YOUR VILLAGE 613 00:30:09,942 --> 00:30:11,175 AND COMING OUT OF THEIR SPACECRAFT 614 00:30:11,177 --> 00:30:14,511 AND DISPLAYING ALL THIS INCREDIBLE TECHNOLOGY, 615 00:30:14,513 --> 00:30:17,014 THERE'S NO WAY YOU'RE GONNA LOOK AT THEM AS ANYTHING BUT GODS 616 00:30:17,016 --> 00:30:19,917 WHO CAN MANIPULATE THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE IN WAYS 617 00:30:19,919 --> 00:30:22,352 THAT YOU HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT OF BEFORE THAT. 618 00:30:22,354 --> 00:30:24,354 Narrator: BUT WHAT CAN EXPLAIN WHY SUCH SIMILAR 619 00:30:24,356 --> 00:30:27,124 PYRAMID STRUCTURES ARE FOUND IN ANCIENT SITES 620 00:30:27,126 --> 00:30:28,959 THROUGHOUT THE WORLD? 621 00:30:28,961 --> 00:30:32,529 Dolan: PYRAMIDS IN EGYPT, PYRAMIDS IN MEXICO, 622 00:30:32,531 --> 00:30:34,565 PYRAMIDS IN BOSNIA. 623 00:30:34,567 --> 00:30:36,266 THERE ARE ALLEGED PYRAMIDS IN CHINA. 624 00:30:36,268 --> 00:30:37,801 WE NEED TO LOOK INTO THESE MORE. 625 00:30:37,803 --> 00:30:40,604 IF THERE IS A SERIES OF PYRAMID CREATIONS AROUND THE WORLD, 626 00:30:40,606 --> 00:30:43,006 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHY THAT IS SO, 627 00:30:43,008 --> 00:30:44,474 AND IF THERE IS SOME KIND OF CULTURE 628 00:30:44,476 --> 00:30:46,610 THAT IS RELATED TO ALL OF THEM. 629 00:30:46,612 --> 00:30:48,445 MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE, 630 00:30:48,447 --> 00:30:51,715 BUT PYRAMID STRUCTURE DOES SEEM TO BE A RECURRENT ONE 631 00:30:51,717 --> 00:30:55,219 MORE THAN WE HAVE REALIZED IN ANCIENT HUMAN HISTORY. 632 00:30:55,221 --> 00:30:57,254 Bara: THE SIMPLE FACT IS THAT PYRAMIDS 633 00:30:57,256 --> 00:31:00,724 ARE EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE TO DESIGN, CONSTRUCT, 634 00:31:00,726 --> 00:31:02,025 AND EFFECTIVELY CREATE. 635 00:31:02,027 --> 00:31:03,794 AND YET, ALL AROUND THE WORLD, 636 00:31:03,796 --> 00:31:06,330 WE SEE THESE BEAUTIFULLY PRECISE, 637 00:31:06,332 --> 00:31:09,700 INCREDIBLY CALCULATED PYRAMIDAL STRUCTURES. 638 00:31:09,702 --> 00:31:11,568 AND THEY MAY NOT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE, 639 00:31:11,570 --> 00:31:13,570 BUT THEY ALL HAVE THE SAME FUNCTION. 640 00:31:13,572 --> 00:31:15,873 THEY ALL HAVE MATHEMATICAL ALIGNMENTS -- 641 00:31:15,875 --> 00:31:18,942 ALIGNMENTS WITH THE STARS, THE SUN, THE MOON. 642 00:31:18,944 --> 00:31:21,078 THEY'RE ALL MEANT TO SERVE A CERTAIN PURPOSE, 643 00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,848 AND WHAT I SEE IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE SAME CONCEPTS, 644 00:31:24,850 --> 00:31:28,852 THE SAME SCIENTIFIC IDEAS ALL ACROSS DIFFERENT CULTURES, 645 00:31:28,854 --> 00:31:30,687 ALL SAYING THE SAME THING, 646 00:31:30,689 --> 00:31:34,658 WHICH IS THAT WE CAME FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE. 647 00:31:37,363 --> 00:31:39,730 Narrator: MAINSTREAM SCIENTISTS OFFER FEW CLUES 648 00:31:39,732 --> 00:31:41,798 ABOUT HOW ANCIENT CULTURES ARRIVED UPON 649 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:46,036 THE MATHEMATICAL KNOWLEDGE AND ENGINEERING SKILL NECESSARY 650 00:31:46,038 --> 00:31:48,405 TO BUILD THESE PRECISE STRUCTURES 651 00:31:48,407 --> 00:31:53,176 AT SUCH AN EARLY STAGE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION. 652 00:31:53,178 --> 00:31:56,480 EVEN MORE ASTONISHING, HOW COULD ANCIENT CULTURES 653 00:31:56,482 --> 00:31:59,316 SEPARATED ACROSS TIME AND VAST DISTANCES 654 00:31:59,318 --> 00:32:02,653 WITH NO MEANS OF COMMUNICATION BUILD PYRAMIDS SO SIMILAR 655 00:32:02,655 --> 00:32:05,555 TO THOSE FIRST BUILT IN SUMER? 656 00:32:05,557 --> 00:32:07,758 THE ODDS OF THESE SEPARATE CULTURES ARRIVING 657 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:10,394 AT THE SAME EVOLUTIONARY POINT INTELLECTUALLY 658 00:32:10,396 --> 00:32:14,765 ARE REMARKABLY SLIM ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS, 659 00:32:14,767 --> 00:32:17,334 WHICH LEADS THEM TO BELIEVE THAT THE KNOWLEDGE WAS SPREAD 660 00:32:17,336 --> 00:32:22,139 BY WHAT WE CALL UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECTS. 661 00:32:22,141 --> 00:32:24,374 NOT ONLY ARE WE SEEING PYRAMIDS IN SUMER, 662 00:32:24,376 --> 00:32:26,843 BUT WE ARE SEEING THEM ALL OVER THE WORLD, 663 00:32:26,845 --> 00:32:29,713 AND THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR STRUCTURES. 664 00:32:29,715 --> 00:32:32,916 WAS THERE SOME EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE, 665 00:32:32,918 --> 00:32:36,653 PERHAPS, GIVING INFORMATION OR GUIDING THESE CIVILIZATIONS 666 00:32:36,655 --> 00:32:39,856 TO BUILD OBJECTS THAT ARE VERY SIMILAR? 667 00:32:39,858 --> 00:32:40,924 Rosenfeld: FOR THIS KNOWLEDGE 668 00:32:40,926 --> 00:32:42,426 TO BE SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE WORLD, 669 00:32:42,428 --> 00:32:44,695 IT HAD TO HAVE SOME KIND OF HELP. 670 00:32:44,697 --> 00:32:49,366 AND HELP WOULD BE STAR VISITORS WITH UFO TECHNOLOGY. 671 00:32:49,368 --> 00:32:51,268 Pope: OBVIOUSLY, WE CAN ONLY SPECULATE 672 00:32:51,270 --> 00:32:54,371 ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED A MILLENNIA AGO IN RELATION 673 00:32:54,373 --> 00:32:55,906 TO ALIEN VISITATION. 674 00:32:55,908 --> 00:32:58,175 BUT THE EVIDENCE IS INTRIGUING 675 00:32:58,177 --> 00:33:01,078 AND OUGHT NOT TO BE DISMISSED OUT OF HAND. 676 00:33:04,283 --> 00:33:08,385 IF UFOs REALLY ARE HERE, IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK 677 00:33:08,387 --> 00:33:11,154 THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 678 00:33:11,156 --> 00:33:13,256 SO IT MAKES SENSE THAT IF WE'RE SEEING IT TODAY, 679 00:33:13,258 --> 00:33:16,827 AND IT REALLY IS A PHENOMENA CONNECTED TO ALIENS, 680 00:33:16,829 --> 00:33:18,362 THEN I'M GUESSING THEY PROBABLY SAW IT 681 00:33:18,364 --> 00:33:20,297 THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AS WELL. 682 00:33:20,299 --> 00:33:21,498 Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST 683 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:23,600 THAT THE SUMERIAN ZIGGURATS 684 00:33:23,602 --> 00:33:25,936 AND OTHER PYRAMIDS ALL AROUND THE WORLD 685 00:33:25,938 --> 00:33:30,607 WERE REALLY USED AS LANDING SITES FOR ANCIENT UFOs? 686 00:33:30,609 --> 00:33:34,044 AND IF, AS SOME MAINSTREAM SCHOLARS ADMIT, 687 00:33:34,046 --> 00:33:37,981 QUESTIONS STILL EXIST ABOUT THE ORIGIN OF LIFE ON EARTH, 688 00:33:37,983 --> 00:33:40,617 IS IT POSSIBLE THAT OTHERWORLDLY BEINGS 689 00:33:40,619 --> 00:33:44,755 HAD A HAND IN SEEDING MANKIND? 690 00:33:44,757 --> 00:33:48,925 I DEFINITELY THINK THAT UFOs PLANTED THE SEED 691 00:33:48,927 --> 00:33:51,695 FOR THE EXPANSION AND TRANSFORMATION 692 00:33:51,697 --> 00:33:53,864 OF OUR LIFE AS HUMAN BEINGS. 693 00:33:53,866 --> 00:33:57,134 I THINK THIS IS WHERE OUR RELIGIONS COME FROM. 694 00:33:57,136 --> 00:33:58,735 Narrator: ACCORDING TO INVESTIGATORS, 695 00:33:58,737 --> 00:34:01,371 THE TRANSLATIONS OF ANCIENT SUMERIAN TABLETS 696 00:34:01,373 --> 00:34:06,476 MAY ACTUALLY REVEAL THE TRUE ORIGIN OF MAN. 697 00:34:10,749 --> 00:34:11,982 Narrator: WHILE INVESTIGATING THE HISTORY 698 00:34:11,984 --> 00:34:15,085 OF ANCIENT UFO CONTACT, INVESTIGATORS DISCOVER 699 00:34:15,087 --> 00:34:17,621 THE STUNNING IDEA THAT EARLY UFOs 700 00:34:17,623 --> 00:34:19,990 MAY NOT JUST BE ABOUT CONTACT, 701 00:34:19,992 --> 00:34:23,627 BUT ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF THE HUMAN SPECIES. 702 00:34:23,629 --> 00:34:26,496 AND THEY SAY THE EVIDENCE LIES ALONG THE EASTERN BANK 703 00:34:26,498 --> 00:34:30,901 OF THE TIGRIS RIVER IN WHAT WAS ONCE KNOWN AS UPPER MESOPOTAMIA, 704 00:34:30,903 --> 00:34:32,836 NOW MODERN-DAY IRAQ, 705 00:34:32,838 --> 00:34:37,841 IN THE RUINS OF THE GREAT SUMERIAN CITY OF NINEVEH. 706 00:34:37,843 --> 00:34:41,011 HERE IN 1849, BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGIST 707 00:34:41,013 --> 00:34:44,381 AUSTEN LAYARD DISCOVERS ANCIENT CLAY TABLETS -- 708 00:34:44,383 --> 00:34:50,554 30,000 OF THEM DATING BACK AN ESTIMATED 6,000 YEARS. 709 00:34:50,556 --> 00:34:53,090 WHAT THEY DEPICTED WAS REALLY THE ORIGIN 710 00:34:53,092 --> 00:34:55,192 OF ONE OF MANKIND'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS, 711 00:34:55,194 --> 00:34:56,293 WHICH IS THE WRITTEN WORD. 712 00:34:56,295 --> 00:34:58,095 THEY CONTAINED WHAT'S NOW KNOWN 713 00:34:58,097 --> 00:35:00,564 AS THE SUMERIAN CUNEIFORM TEXTS. 714 00:35:00,566 --> 00:35:03,333 THE CUNEIFORM ITSELF WAS A VERY INTRICATE TEXT 715 00:35:03,335 --> 00:35:04,868 THAT WAS ACTUALLY PRESSED 716 00:35:04,870 --> 00:35:07,471 INTO THE WET CLAY TO CREATE AN IMPRESSION. 717 00:35:07,473 --> 00:35:10,273 AND AT FIRST, IT WAS CONSIDERED JUST DECORATION BY THE SCHOLARS 718 00:35:10,275 --> 00:35:12,008 UNTIL THEY FIGURED OUT THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY 719 00:35:12,010 --> 00:35:15,245 A VERY, VERY INTRICATE WRITTEN LANGUAGE. 720 00:35:15,247 --> 00:35:17,247 Narrator: EARLY ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE THE TEXTS 721 00:35:17,249 --> 00:35:21,351 WERE LARGELY UNSUCCESSFUL, AND AFTER A CENTURY PASSES, 722 00:35:21,353 --> 00:35:23,620 THE TABLETS WERE ALL BUT FORGOTTEN -- 723 00:35:23,622 --> 00:35:27,224 THEIR TRUE MEANING SHROUDED IN MYSTERY. 724 00:35:27,226 --> 00:35:30,794 THEN IN THE 20th CENTURY, A NEW GENERATION OF SCHOLARS 725 00:35:30,796 --> 00:35:33,430 ATTEMPTS TO TRANSLATE THE TABLETS. 726 00:35:33,432 --> 00:35:37,501 ONE IN PARTICULAR WAS ZECHARIA SITCHIN. 727 00:35:37,503 --> 00:35:42,072 PART OF WHAT HE WANTED TO DO WITH HIS RESEARCH IS TO BE ABLE 728 00:35:42,074 --> 00:35:43,840 TO READ THESE FOR HIMSELF 729 00:35:43,842 --> 00:35:47,344 AND NOT JUST TAKE VERBATIM THE WORD OF PEOPLE 730 00:35:47,346 --> 00:35:51,114 WHO HAD TRANSLATED THEM WITH A DIFFERENT WORLD VIEW. 731 00:35:51,116 --> 00:35:52,582 AND HE LOOKED AT THE DIFFERENT STORIES 732 00:35:52,584 --> 00:35:56,686 OF THE ANCIENT PEOPLE TO SEE, WHAT WERE THEY SAYING? 733 00:35:56,688 --> 00:35:58,822 AND DOES IT REALLY HOLD TOGETHER AS HISTORY? 734 00:35:58,824 --> 00:36:00,724 AND DOES PHYSICAL EVIDENCE 735 00:36:00,726 --> 00:36:02,993 CORRESPOND WITH THAT, TOO, AND CORROBORATE IT? 736 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:06,830 WHAT HE FOUND WAS, YES, IT DID. 737 00:36:06,832 --> 00:36:09,032 Narrator: WHAT SITCHIN'S TRANSLATIONS REVEALED 738 00:36:09,034 --> 00:36:13,770 SENT SHOCKWAVES THROUGH ACADEMIC CIRCLES AND THE UFO COMMUNITY. 739 00:36:13,772 --> 00:36:18,608 ZECHARIA SITCHIN PRODUCED A CONTROVERSIAL TRANSLATION 740 00:36:18,610 --> 00:36:20,644 OF SOME OF THE CLAY TABLETS. 741 00:36:20,646 --> 00:36:25,148 AND HE SAID THAT THEY SPOKE ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI. 742 00:36:27,186 --> 00:36:30,353 ACCORDING TO ZECHARIA SITCHIN'S TRANSLATION, 743 00:36:30,355 --> 00:36:33,957 THESE CLAY TABLETS ARE TALKING ABOUT CRAFT 744 00:36:33,959 --> 00:36:37,394 THAT FLY IN THE AIR. 745 00:36:37,396 --> 00:36:40,630 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT THE QUEST FOR IMMORTALITY. 746 00:36:40,632 --> 00:36:43,833 THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT WAR IN HEAVEN, 747 00:36:43,835 --> 00:36:46,570 WAR AMONGST THE GODS. 748 00:36:46,572 --> 00:36:50,407 IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, THE CONCLUSION IS INESCAPABLE. 749 00:36:50,409 --> 00:36:53,310 WE REALLY WERE VISITED. 750 00:36:53,312 --> 00:36:57,714 Narrator: BUT WHO WERE THESE BEINGS KNOWN AS THE ANUNNAKI? 751 00:36:57,716 --> 00:36:59,082 THE ANUNNAKI IS SUMERIAN 752 00:36:59,084 --> 00:37:02,152 FOR "THOSE WHO FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH CAME." 753 00:37:02,154 --> 00:37:03,954 THEY ARE TALLER THAN US. 754 00:37:03,956 --> 00:37:06,056 THEY WERE ABOUT 8 OR 10 FEET TALL, 755 00:37:06,058 --> 00:37:08,725 AND SO TO US, THEY WERE GIANTS. 756 00:37:08,727 --> 00:37:10,193 SO, WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 757 00:37:10,195 --> 00:37:13,663 THAT THE GODS CREATED MAN IN THEIR IMAGE, 758 00:37:13,665 --> 00:37:15,498 WE LOOK LIKE THEM. 759 00:37:17,469 --> 00:37:19,970 Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THE EXPLOSIVE TRUTH DISCOVERED 760 00:37:19,972 --> 00:37:22,205 IN THE CUNEIFORM TABLETS REVEALS 761 00:37:22,207 --> 00:37:24,074 THAT THE SUMERIANS WERE ACTUALLY VISITED BY 762 00:37:24,076 --> 00:37:27,043 A RACE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL BEINGS, 763 00:37:27,045 --> 00:37:30,780 AND IF SO, WHY WERE THEY HERE? 764 00:37:30,782 --> 00:37:34,618 ZECHARIA SITCHIN BELIEVED THAT THE SUMERIANS 765 00:37:34,620 --> 00:37:38,388 WERE TALKING ABOUT EXTRATERRESTRIALS 766 00:37:38,390 --> 00:37:41,391 WHO HAD VISITED THE ANCIENT SUMERIANS, 767 00:37:41,393 --> 00:37:45,262 HAD PERHAPS SHARED KNOWLEDGE WITH THEM. 768 00:37:45,264 --> 00:37:51,801 AND PERHAPS EVEN SEEDED HUMAN SOCIETY AS WE KNOW IT 769 00:37:51,803 --> 00:37:54,904 BY BREEDING WITH HUMANS 770 00:37:54,906 --> 00:37:58,308 AND ACTUALLY PRODUCING A HYBRID RACE. 771 00:38:01,113 --> 00:38:04,547 Bara: ACCORDING TO SITCHIN, THE ANUNNAKI CAME DOWN HERE 772 00:38:04,549 --> 00:38:06,683 TO DO SOME WORK, TO DO SOME MINING FOR GOLD, 773 00:38:06,685 --> 00:38:09,986 TO FIND THINGS THAT THEY NEEDED FOR THEIR CIVILIZATION. 774 00:38:09,988 --> 00:38:12,255 WHEN THE WORK BECAME TOO INTENSE FOR THEM, 775 00:38:12,257 --> 00:38:14,024 WHEN THEY COULDN'T HANDLE ALL THE WORK, 776 00:38:14,026 --> 00:38:17,093 THEY DECIDED TO FASHION A WORKER SPECIES, 777 00:38:17,095 --> 00:38:19,729 AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS OF THEMSELVES, 778 00:38:19,731 --> 00:38:21,331 AND THEY TOOK THE GENETICS OF THE LOCAL INHABITANTS, 779 00:38:21,333 --> 00:38:23,566 AND THEY MELDED THEM TOGETHER 780 00:38:23,568 --> 00:38:25,835 AND APPARENTLY CREATED THE PHYSICAL BODIES 781 00:38:25,837 --> 00:38:29,306 OF WHAT WE NOW CALL MODERN MAN. 782 00:38:29,308 --> 00:38:36,746 THE SUMERIANS BELIEVED THAT THEY WERE MADE TO MINE GOLD. 783 00:38:36,748 --> 00:38:38,848 THAT'S VERY, VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, 784 00:38:38,850 --> 00:38:40,817 THEY BRED THAT INTO US. 785 00:38:40,819 --> 00:38:43,953 WE STILL HAVE THAT FASCINATION TO THIS DAY WITH GOLD. 786 00:38:47,893 --> 00:38:50,260 THE REAL QUESTION THAT WE WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE ANUNNAKI IS, 787 00:38:50,262 --> 00:38:52,762 DO WE TAKE THESE STORIES TO BE LITERALLY TRUE? 788 00:38:52,764 --> 00:38:54,030 ALL RIGHT? 789 00:38:54,032 --> 00:38:56,800 OR DO WE TAKE THEM AS STORIES THAT THE SUMERIANS 790 00:38:56,802 --> 00:38:59,502 JUST HAD ABOUT THEIR CULTURE? 791 00:38:59,504 --> 00:39:01,071 IF WE'RE TO TAKE THEM AS LITERALLY TRUE, 792 00:39:01,073 --> 00:39:04,507 WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS TO ASK. 793 00:39:04,509 --> 00:39:07,377 Narrator: ONE QUESTION RELATES TO EXTRAORDINARY SIMILARITIES 794 00:39:07,379 --> 00:39:09,746 FOUND IN THE ARTWORK OF THE SUMERIANS 795 00:39:09,748 --> 00:39:12,949 AND THE OLMEC OF MESOAMERICA. 796 00:39:12,951 --> 00:39:15,885 IN SUMERIAN DEPICTIONS, THE ANUNNAKI GODS 797 00:39:15,887 --> 00:39:20,557 HOLD WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SMALL BAG WITH A HANDLE. 798 00:39:20,559 --> 00:39:23,526 HOW IS IT POSSIBLE THAT A STRANGELY SIMILAR BAG 799 00:39:23,528 --> 00:39:27,163 IS BEING HELD BY THE OLMEC ASTRONAUT AT LA VENTA? 800 00:39:29,835 --> 00:39:32,569 Lukes: SO, HERE YOU SEE THE ANUNNAKI. 801 00:39:32,571 --> 00:39:35,805 THEY'RE CLEARLY HOLDING SOMETHING IN THEIR HAND. 802 00:39:35,807 --> 00:39:37,273 WHAT IS THIS OBJECT? 803 00:39:37,275 --> 00:39:40,343 WE'RE SEEING THIS WITH THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION. 804 00:39:40,345 --> 00:39:46,483 IT IS AN OBJECT OR OBJECTS THAT ARE ALMOST IDENTICAL. 805 00:39:46,485 --> 00:39:50,353 DOES IT MEAN THAT THERE IS A GREATER INTELLIGENCE AT WORK? 806 00:39:50,355 --> 00:39:53,556 PERHAPS, AS SOME THEORIZE, AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL INTELLIGENCE 807 00:39:53,558 --> 00:39:58,228 THAT IS SHARING THIS INFORMATION WITH BOTH CIVILIZATIONS. 808 00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:00,196 Narrator: COULD THERE REALLY BE A DIRECT CONNECTION 809 00:40:00,198 --> 00:40:03,566 BETWEEN THE OLMEC AND SUMERIAN CIVILIZATIONS, 810 00:40:03,568 --> 00:40:06,069 AS UFO RESEARCHERS THEORIZE? 811 00:40:06,071 --> 00:40:09,639 Dolan: THEY HAD EXISTED IN A VERY DIFFERENT PERIOD OF TIME. 812 00:40:09,641 --> 00:40:12,475 BUT NONETHELESS, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THERE'S A TIE-IN? 813 00:40:12,477 --> 00:40:14,511 MAYBE IT'S A COINCIDENCE. 814 00:40:16,047 --> 00:40:20,750 Pope: IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE, I MEAN, THIS CAN ONLY SUGGEST 815 00:40:20,752 --> 00:40:22,819 THAT THESE REALLY ARE TALKING ABOUT 816 00:40:22,821 --> 00:40:26,222 THE SAME EXTRATERRESTRIAL VISITORS. 817 00:40:26,224 --> 00:40:29,092 Narrator: DOES THE EVIDENCE SUGGEST THAT THE OLMEC AND MAYA 818 00:40:29,094 --> 00:40:31,895 WERE VISITED BY THE SAME SO-CALLED STAR GODS 819 00:40:31,897 --> 00:40:35,432 KNOWN TO THE SUMERIANS AS THE ANUNNAKI? 820 00:40:35,434 --> 00:40:38,635 AND IF SO, WHAT WOULD EXTRATERRESTRIALS HAVE TO GAIN 821 00:40:38,637 --> 00:40:41,638 BY THESE VISITATIONS? 822 00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:44,274 IF UFOs ARE AN ADVANCED ALIEN CIVILIZATION, 823 00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:46,209 AND THEY ARE HERE IN THE 21st CENTURY, 824 00:40:46,211 --> 00:40:48,077 IT'S ABSOLUTELY LOGICAL TO THINK 825 00:40:48,079 --> 00:40:52,315 THAT THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN HERE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. 826 00:40:52,317 --> 00:40:56,486 THEY COULD ESSENTIALLY BE WATCHING THE GROWTH OF HUMANITY. 827 00:40:56,488 --> 00:40:58,521 WOULD THEY STICK AROUND AND RESEARCH US THAT LONG? 828 00:40:58,523 --> 00:40:59,823 THAT'S A BIG QUESTION MARK. 829 00:40:59,825 --> 00:41:02,425 MAYBE THEIR AGENDA IS TO SEE THE NATURAL EVOLUTION 830 00:41:02,427 --> 00:41:03,793 OF A YOUNG SPECIES. 831 00:41:03,795 --> 00:41:05,428 MAYBE THAT IS THEIR MISSION. 832 00:41:07,766 --> 00:41:10,567 Narrator: IS IT POSSIBLE THAT GOVERNMENTS AROUND THE WORLD, 833 00:41:10,569 --> 00:41:13,870 INCLUDING IN MEXICO, HAVE KNOWN THAT OUR CIVILIZATION 834 00:41:13,872 --> 00:41:16,606 MAY HAVE BEEN SEEDED BY EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDINGS 835 00:41:16,608 --> 00:41:18,208 IN THE ANCIENT PAST? 836 00:41:18,210 --> 00:41:20,777 IF SO, WHAT ELSE ARE THEY NOT TELLING US? 837 00:41:20,779 --> 00:41:23,446 IT'S NOT SIMPLY THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH AN INHERENTLY 838 00:41:23,448 --> 00:41:25,915 MYSTERIOUS PHENOMENON, WHICH WE ARE. 839 00:41:25,917 --> 00:41:28,351 WE ARE ALSO DEALING WITH GOVERNMENT 840 00:41:28,353 --> 00:41:30,653 AND MILITARY OBFUSCATION AND SECRECY, 841 00:41:30,655 --> 00:41:34,657 AND THAT'S JUST A FACT. 842 00:41:34,659 --> 00:41:36,259 WE LIVE IN AN ERA IN WHICH THERE IS 843 00:41:36,261 --> 00:41:39,863 A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF SECRECY. 844 00:41:39,865 --> 00:41:42,432 Narrator: STILL, ONE THING IS CLEAR. 845 00:41:42,434 --> 00:41:46,302 THE SUMERIAN TABLETS DO OFFER CLUES TO THE FUTURE 846 00:41:46,304 --> 00:41:48,171 IF THEY ARE TO BE BELIEVED. 847 00:41:48,173 --> 00:41:50,807 Bara: THERE IS A PROPHECY THAT SOME DAY, 848 00:41:50,809 --> 00:41:52,108 THE ANUNNAKI WILL COME BACK. 849 00:41:52,110 --> 00:41:54,811 THEY WILL RETURN TO CLAIM THEIR PROPERTY, 850 00:41:54,813 --> 00:41:56,412 CLAIM THEIR STAKE, 851 00:41:56,414 --> 00:41:59,516 AND LIVE IN HARMONY WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE EARTH. 852 00:41:59,518 --> 00:42:02,952 WE SHALL SEE IF THAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS. 853 00:42:02,954 --> 00:42:05,788 Narrator: WHAT IS ABUNDANTLY CLEAR IS THAT THE FASCINATION 854 00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:08,224 OF OTHERWORLDLY VISITORS AND THEIR LIKENESS 855 00:42:08,226 --> 00:42:10,193 THROUGHOUT ANCIENT HISTORY 856 00:42:10,195 --> 00:42:14,364 IS NOT SOMETHING THAT BEGAN MERELY IN THE 20th CENTURY. 857 00:42:14,366 --> 00:42:16,032 THERE ARE UNDENIABLE GAPS 858 00:42:16,034 --> 00:42:19,335 IN OUR UNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT CULTURES, 859 00:42:19,337 --> 00:42:21,271 GAPS WHICH MAY ONLY BE EXPLAINED, 860 00:42:21,273 --> 00:42:23,306 ACCORDING TO UFO RESEARCHERS, 861 00:42:23,308 --> 00:42:27,877 IF WE LOOK TO THE SKIES FOR ANSWERS.