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Ancient megalithic stones cut with astonishing precision.

What some people suggest is is that they were using

electricity and power tools.

Mysterious sculptures depicting beings from

around the world and beyond.

There are all the races here.

Even the grey aliens.

And legends of otherworldly giants creating an

entire civilization in a single night.

If there's one place that shows evidence of ancient

aliens, it's Puma Punku.

Are the ancient ruins of Puma Punku the result

of primitive man's incredible ingenuity?

Or are they they product of a much higher power?

Puma Punku is the only site on planet Earth that, in my

opinion, was built directly by extraterrestrials.

Millions of people around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, might there be evidence here on Earth of a lost alien city?

Bolivia, South America.

Here, 45 miles west of La Paz, isolated high in the

Andes mountains, lie the mysterious ancient ruins of Puma Punku.

Spread across a desert plateau, at an altitude over 12,000 feet,

the megalithic stones found here are among the largest on the planet,

measuring up to 26 feet long and weighing more than 100 tons each.

These are the mysterious ruins of Puma

Punku, nearly 13,000 feet in the altiplano of Bolivia.

What you have here are massive blocks of granite scattered like

some kid's toy blocks around the site.

It's like some giant cataclysm just wiped out this entire area.

Archeologists are baffled by what Puma Punku was, how it

looked, and what the purpose of

this enormous structure would have been.

Mainstream scientists believe the site was

originally constructed about 2,000 years ago.

But in 1945, archeologist Arthur Posnansky proposed that

Puma Punku was much, much older.

By examining the structures and what he believed were their

original alignment with the stars, he dated the ruins to 15,000 BC.

Arthur Posnansky was a researcher who was part

Bolivian, and he worked at the site for many decades, and he

concluded that the site must have been built about 17,000 years

ago by studying the archeoastronomy of that particular site.

We don't know how old Puma Punku is.

We have had some circumstantial dating, but we have been unable

to date the stones of Puma Punku themselves.

They could be thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years old,

we don't know.

I think the fascinating thing about Puma

Punku is how did these structures get built?

We're talking about stone that is 25 feet high.

Stone that is hundreds of tons.

Puma Punku is so unique in the way that it was

constructed and shaped and positioned, that it is the most

intriguing ancient site on the planet.

Of all the places I've ever visited, Puma Punku is the one

that I go back to time and again because no one can solve the mystery.

Mainstream scholars believe the andesite blocks

found at Puma Punku were formed by hand with primitive stone tools.

But some researchers point to the intricate stonework as

evidence of the use of advanced precision technology.

One of the amazing things here at Puma Punku is the

precision of the blocks.

You can see with this block of granite, that it's really been

cut at very accurate right angles.

Not only do these granite blocks have precision corners, but they

also have these difficult drill holes that are going right

through the rock.

But how could such primitive people, living perhaps

tens of thousands of years ago, have produced such flawless stonework?

Might the ancient builders of Puma Punku have fabricated the

megalithic stones with advanced technology?

Technology of an otherworldly origin, as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

If you look at the stones carefully, and you get a

magnifying glass on some of them, you can see some intricate

stonework, as though they used machine tools or even lasers.

It's absolutely incredible.

I've seen nothing like it anywhere on the planet.

When an architect or an engineer looks

at Puma Punku, one thing jumps out immediately, that whoever

built this place had knowledge of planning, of logistics and

had access to advanced technology.

You know, Brien, this is one of the most

interesting and unusual stones here at Puma Punku.

It's got these perfect right angles, and each of these small

drill holes are basically evenly spaced along this routered groove.

To me, it's clear that power tools have been used on this

unusual block of stone here.

Well, exactly, and this surface is as smooth as a

table top, like in your kitchen.

There's no wave to it or anything. This was machined.

But who machined it?

It's an astonishing piece of work, and how anyone could think

that primitive human beings could have done this...

You know, it's just crazy.

If anything looks like ancient aliens, it's this stone.

But if otherworldly technology was used at Puma Punku, where is the proof?

In Danville, Illinois, machinist and toolmaker Chris Dunn has

put the Puma Punku stone to the ultimate cutting test, using

both laser technology and a modern diamond saw.

We've got a sample of the laser cut. This is the diamond wheel cut.

And the top surface is the original cut surface from Puma Punku.

So, now we can compare the difference between all three cuts.

Looking at the stone under a microscope, Dunn

compares the two modern cutting techniques with the part of the

stone cut thousands of years ago.

Though age has worn the surface of the ancient example, the

comparison reveals distinct differences.

You've got vitrification on the laser-cut

side, and then, of course, you've got circular tool marks

on the side cut with the diamond saw.

And then, whatever tool they used to cut the ancient surface

must have been a different method.

Now, do you think it's possible that some type of

a diamond precision tool was used on the old surface, but

because it was such a long time ago, that over time, the surface

became a bit more rough, and we're talking ten or even 15,000 years ago?

That is a reasonable speculation.

I think we have to start examining, um, a little more

sophisticated tools that no longer exist.

What did the ancients use to cut the andesite stone so precisely?

Might evidence of advanced technology be found by further

study of the construction of the Puma Punku stones?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and point to what they call H blocks.

It seems like every one of these H blocks is

exactly the same, so it's like a prefabrication process where

they needed X-hundred of these, and whatever machinery it is

that they had was able, with amazing accuracy, to replicate

one after another after another.

That's very sophisticated.

Yeah, it's an ingenious way of building a huge granite wall.

And again, the whole thing is just so incredibly precise.

Doing these kind of inside corners like this... this just

can't be done, really, with copper chisels and stone hammers.

The whole thing is-is just so incredibly high-tech,

even beyond what we would do today.

But how could the ancients have managed

to move the incredibly heavy andesite stones to the site?

After years of research, mainstream archaeologists have

said the massive stones were hewn at quarries over 60 miles

away and then rolled to Puma Punku on logs.

What nobody talks about is the irrefutable fact

that we are at an altitude of 12,800 feet, which means we are

above the natural tree line.

No trees ever grew in that area, meaning, no trees were cut down

in order to use wooden rollers.

The wooden roller theory falls by the wayside.

Could there have been another more profound

method of moving these megalithic stones into place?

And if so, how could such an advanced engineering feat have

been accomplished without the help of modern machinery?

How these massive blocks of granite were moved

from their quarries and brought here to Puma Punku would have

required some kind of super technology, levitation and

antigravity, huge lifting vehicles, something that ancient

aliens would have had.

Might the ancient city of Puma Punku really have

been built by alien beings, as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Some researchers believe the ultimate proof can be found

nearby, and also, carved in stone.

Southern Peru. 1549.

While searching for the capital of the Inca Empire, Spanish

conquistadors, led by Pedro Cieza de Le�n, cross into

Bolivia and discover the ruins of Tiahuanaco.

Less than a quarter mile northeast of Puma Punku,

mainstream scientists believe Tiahuanaco was once the center

of a civilization with more than 40,000 inhabitants.

Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest Native American civilization

that many people haven't heard of.

It was one of the most important antecedents of the Inca.

It was long gone by the time the Spaniards came on the scene.

Yet, its level of achievement in architecture, in political

development, in agriculture, in many craft industries are on a

very high level.

Most scholars agree that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously

abandoned around 1100 AD.

But why?

Local legends suggest that Tiahuanaco was built as a site

of religious pilgrimage to celebrate the arrival of sky

gods at nearby Puma Punku.

According to ancient astronaut theorists, the two sites were

not only built at different times, but also by beings from different worlds.

Puma Punku, I think, is very of-the-gods.

And I think mankind did very little with that site.

And then, nearby, our ancestors built Tiahuanaco as a place

where people could come to explore these places, but also,

I think, as a tribute site where a god had once been

physically present on planet Earth.

You have to differentiate two different styles of construction:

the old style, which I call the extraterrestrial style, and

then, the later style, which was made by the humans.

Tiahuanaco is nothing else but a place of

pilgrimage for people to congregate and remember the

time when something significant happened at Puma Punku.

And the thing that was significant about it was an

extraterrestrial visit by ancient aliens in the remote past.

But if Tiahuanaco was built to honor

extraterrestrial contact, as ancient astronaut theorists

contend, might there be tangible evidence?

In the 1960s, the Bolivian government excavated and

unearthed the Subterranean Temple at Tiahuanaco.

Within the walls of the square sunken courtyard are hundreds of

stone heads with a diverse range of features.

Here at the famous Sunken Temple at Tiahuanaco, we

have all of the different heads that have been inserted into the walls.

It's sometimes said that there are all the races of mankind

represented here, even elongated skulls, people wearing turbans,

people with broad noses, people with thin noses, people with

thick lips, people with thin lips, and some of the statues

are particularly unusual.

They don't seem to represent the local people.

They seem to represent every type and shape of human head

existing on the planet.

Two of them, which are very intriguing, are white in color,

and they look very much like grey alien heads.

When we're looking at the carved heads of the

Tiahuanaco complex, you really see that it's almost as if this

is a UN headquarters, whereby everybody was able to come there

because all cultures on planet Earth accepted that Tiahuanaco

was so special because this was a place where contact with the

divine had been made.

Some researchers believe a large statue at the center of the sunken temple

depicts the creator god, known as Viracocha.

But why would the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco have depicted their

most prominent god with features unlike their own?

He has got a beard and a moustache.

And that is an unusual thing, because American Indians do not

have beards and moustaches.

Exactly.

The fact, also, that the beard and the moustache are so pronounced.

They're not little wispy ones.

They're major, so, that indicates that this person was

not a South American native, but clearly came from another land.

And an important person, too, who's somehow one

of the founders, here, of Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody who's come from Sumeria to South America.

Is it possible that the Sumerians... a civilization

established in 4,000 BC and located nearly 8,000 miles away...

could be connected to the early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found

at the Precious Metals Museum in La Paz, Bolivia.

This is perhaps one of the most important

archaeological artifacts ever discovered in Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.

This is the famous Fuente Magna Bowl discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It's a ceramic bowl, and it has written on it Sumerian

cuneiform, plus Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming from circa 3,000 BC.

It draws a direct connection between the ancient Sumerians

and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

Discovered near Lake Titicaca by a local farmer

in the 1950s, researchers believe the vessel provides

proof of extraterrestrial intervention at Puma Punku.

The idea of Sumerian writing being here

at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco would seem to relate to the

late Zecharia Sitchin, and his ideas that the Sumerians were

also interacting with these space beings called the Annunaki.

So, in that case, the Annunaki were there in Sumeria, but also

here at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco in South America.

Could the stone sculptures found at Tiahuanaco

really be evidence of interaction with extraterrestrial beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining the legends of the

creator god, Viracocha, and his mysterious origins.

The Andes Mountains, Peru.

Here, 12 miles north of Puma Punku, lie the murky waters

of Lake Titicaca, the largest lake in South America.

According to local legends, the god Viracocha rose up from the

depths of this lake to create the sun, the stars and mankind.

Legend states that Viracocha, the great creator god

of the Inca and the prehistoric civilization of the area,

emerged from Lake Titicaca, and he went to Tiahuanaco and

brought civilization to that part of the world.

He then went to Puma Punku, and this is where he said he made

men and women from stone and took them to the four corners of

the Earth to spread their seed.

The Spanish conqueror asked the Inca, the

people living there, including the king of the Inca, "What is

this Puma Punku?"

And they all said, "It's not us.

It's not our forefather who make this.

"These were made by the gods in one single night."

Usually, a king is proud about what his people did, about the

precision, and so on.

In that case, the chief and the people said, "No, it was not us.

It was the gods who made it."

One of the legends of Puma Punku states that it was

built by a race of giants in one night after a great cataclysm

and flood had destroyed the whole area.

But what's really interesting is that, who were these giants?

Where did they come from?

Was it Viracocha and his band of followers?

Was it some other beings from some other place?

One of the earliest chronicles that we have

in regards to Puma Punku talks about that these giant platforms

we moved through the air by the sound of a trumpet.

They basically floated into place.

So, do we have some type of sound technology here?

And the answer is a potential yes.

Might the legends of giants... and stones floating

through the air... have been inspired by some sort of

mysterious events in the distant past?

Or were they the result of alien beings visiting Earth in

prehistoric times, as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

Now, I come with the speculation.

Extraterrestrials arrive.

The spaceship stands in orbit.

Only a smaller space vehicle comes down, like a space shuttle.

So, just to protect their instruments, they make,

overnight, with their technology, what we call a base

camp... of course, made out of stones found on Earth, because

you don't transport granite or diorite from another solar system.

And then, they disappear.

But the wall of their base camp is still there.

Now the natives come.

They see these ruins.

They touch it with their fingers.

They say, "Look at this. It's so smooth, it's so sharp.

The gods did it."

The place becomes a holy place.

And now, the natives start to construct temples, altars in

honor of the gods.

So you have two technologies.

One was an extraterrestrial technology, and the other was

the humans with their altars and their temples.

In the center of the temples at Tiahuanaco lie

the ruins of a stone arch called the Gateway of the Sun.

Cut and shaped from a single andesite stone weighing more

than ten tons, archaeologists believe the ten-foot tall,

13-foot wide megalith was once the gateway leading to Puma Punku.

The Gateway of the Sun is probably the entrance, or

one of the entrances, to the Puma Punku temple.

And as such, it's very important, because this is how

the people of Tiahuanaco conducted their ritual, by

funneling people through increasingly smaller gateways

and stairways to more and more sacred precincts.

On the upper portion of the arch, intricate

carvings can be found of nearly 50 winged beings on either side

of what is believed to be the great creator god, Viracocha.

Interpretations of the engravings suggest they refer to

a calendar describing a time as far back as 27,000 BC

So, here we are at the famous Gate of the Sun, with

Viracocha right in the middle, holding two scepters, surrounded by bird men.

That's a common depiction in ancient societies, is a man who's able to fly.

That would have probably been an interpretation by the native

people of someone coming from the sky or from the heavens.

It's part of our idea, too, that some giant

airship that was a factory with power tools and power saws and

routers and drills just landed here and began processing these

giant blocks of stone, and then ultimately, created Puma Punku.

It seems like the whole complex was some kind of

technological kind of factory.

And if my research is correct, it looks like they were using it

to create energy of some sort.

So, what some people suggest is is that they were using

electricity and power tools, which sounds incredible when we

think about it because they were modern inventions.

But actually, if you look at the quality of the stone work, you

have to admit something like that was going on there.

When you look at the complexity of Puma Punku,

the huge platforms, the interlocking blocks that was

made into what they thought were indestructible walls,

what you could have is the kind of perfectly made granite space

port that extraterrestrials would want.

Might Puma Punku be the remains of an intergalactic

outpost built by otherworldly beings tens of thousands of

years ago, as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Perhaps the answer can be found using modern technology to

examine the purpose for which the site was built in the first place.

January, 2011.

Researchers survey and measure the monolithic stones and

H-blocks scattered around the archeological site of Puma

Punku, hoping to solve the mystery of what these structures

were used for and why.

The evidence that something extraordinary happened

at Puma Punku is in front of our very eyes.

Because at Puma Punku, we find evidence of stone cuts that we

today could only replicate if we used the most sophisticated of technologies.

That is part of the great mystery of Puma Punku.

It seems as though some kind of factory was set up there to make

these almost exactly the same.

It's almost like a Lego system of interconnecting blocks, and

that is unique on this Earth.

Many of the blocks were prefabricated blocks.

Prefabricated blocks means planning.

You have to make a design.

Planning means writing.

Now the archaeologists say that Puma Punku are the ruins of

temples made by the Aymara.

Aymara are the highland Indians up there.

But the Aymara were Stone Age people.

They had not even writing.

So not planning, it's absolutely impossible.

Prefabricated blocks in Stone Age doesn't fit with Stone Age.

And the precision of the blocks is absolutely baffling.

In Danville, Illinois, toolmaker Chris Dunn

uses measurements taken at Puma Punku to create a

one-eighth-scale model of an H-block to better understand

how they may have originally fit together.

So you actually went to Puma Punku to measure the H-blocks.

What was your conclusion?

What did you find?

For me, it was important to find out what the measurements were.

What I found was that the internal cavities were not

parallel to each other.

And by internal cavities, you're referring to

these two parts right here, right?

Exactly.

Mm-hmm.

These two surfaces right here, both top and bottom,

uh, they are smaller at the front than they are at the back.

Essentially suggesting a dovetail.

Creating a dovetail.

Mm-hmm.

Why do you think a dovetail shape was carved or used?

Really, if we look at the way we have used dovetails,

we use them for mechanical purposes... to hold things together.

So, essentially, what I'm saying is that they were using these

H-blocks for a mechanical purpose.

Probably to hold, uh, hinges for a door.

To test his theory, Dunn created a door hinge that

would connect to a small-scale model H-block.

So if we put this together, we put the one in the bottom.

Like so.

One in the top part.

Like so.

And then this piece fits in there.

Put a hinge pin in it.

And now you have your hinge.

Yeah, it's absolutely spectacular.

And of course, the most fascinating question is, what

tools were used 5,000 years ago?

Because something very sophistited was used and not chicken bones.

Not chicken bones, not copper chisels, not stone chisels.

The tools that were used to create these blocks at Puma

Punku do not exist in the archaeological record.

According to Dunn, the H-blocks may have been used

to mount hinges for a massive door, perhaps for one of the

largest temple complexes in the ancient world.

It's a spectacular discovery that Chris Dunn made.

This lends a whole new meaning to the H-blocks at Puma Punku

because, possibly, they held something in place.

What?

But Dunn's theory on the purpose of the H-blocks

is only one of several recent hypotheses concerning the

complex engineering found at Puma Punku.

These had a purpose.

Model maker Paul Francis from Dandridge,

Tennessee, offers another theory.

So you've recreated these H-blocks that we

can find at Puma Punku, and you came up with a very interesting

idea where you put these blocks together, creating what looks

like to be some type of a track.

So tell me more about what went on in your mind.

When I saw these laid out on the table, I thought

it basically looks like some of the World War II launch ramps

that the Germans used in testing rocket-propelled airplanes.

When I saw this, the lightbulb went off in my head and I said,

yeah, with some wooden skids, this would make a perfect

launching platform for an ancient spacecraft.

So the skid would travel down the H-blocks, and eventually at

the end this would fall off, and of course the airplane would

continue to go on.

And this is what I envision an airplane looking like.

And this plane... it has an intake.

It has your control panels, your control surfaces, and basically,

I mean, this thing is ready to go into outer space.

I mean, this justlooks bad-ass.

I mean, it looks really unbelievable 'cause you've

basically taken an object that was created by an ancient

artisan and turned it into something from a modern-day

perspective as it relates to space travel, or at least aviation.

The concept for the ancient spacecraft is based on

gold jewelry found in tombs near Bogot�, Colombia.

After careful analysis and modern testing of

reproductions of the gold object, ancient astronaut

theorists suggest such artifacts nearly 1,500 years

old are proof of modern old...

aerodynamic capabilities in the ancient past.

You know, when these original sculptures

were produced, they're doing a literal interpretation

of what they saw.

I have to take that interpretation and I have to

make it into something that would actually work as a

machine, so, in doing so, we've added a cockpit, which the

original model does not have.

Also therere two small bumps on the back of the original

sculpture, which to me indicate rocket thrusters.

You have this cone-shaped piece, which could have been an intake

that this person saw.

And we know that these objects truly fly.

We know that 'cause these experiments have been done

before, and they were experiments that were

repeatable, meaning they satisfy the scientific method, and so

your idea of using the H-blocks as a type of a launching ramp,

to me, is ingenious.

I've never heard it before, and

it's always great to explore new ideas in this field.

Might the H-blocks at Puma Punku really have been

used as launch ramps for alien spacecraft?

If so, what happened to these massive, seemingly

indestructible structures?

Puma Punku.

For centuries, researchers have been unable to explain what may

have caused the total destruction of this ancient site.

Some believe a massive earthquake in prehistoric times

may have scattered its megaton stones like toy blocks.

Puma Punku looks like some type of a junkyard.

It's as if the whole place, at some point, got destroyed and

ripped apart in some type of an upheaval.

Puma Punku seems to have become a victim of a

massive flood of some kind, several thousand years ago.

There is evidence that a meteor or a comet struck south of Lake

Titicaca, creating a wall of mud at least six or ten feet tall

that covered the entire area, and we can see evidence of that today.

At recent excavations of Puma Punku,

researchers have discovered that bits of andesite stone from the

structural blocks are thoroughly mixed in with the soil.

Might such findings of this unusual soil composition be the

result of a large-scale explosion in the remote past, as

ancient astronaut theorists believe?

One possibility is that Puma Punku was destroyed in

some artificial blast that literally blew these buildings

apart, and then later, some cataclysmic tidal wave also just

covered it with mud and muck.

Some of these stones are so smashed to pieces,

you can find them anywhere in the area.

You'll find pieces of diorite with the angles on it, so that

was part of Puma Punku.

So much of it is not simply broken.

It's shattered to the point where you can find little tiny

pieces of diorite anywhere you look, and that looks to me like

an explosion happened.

When you look at the construction techniques, it

would seem indestructible and yet it was destroyed.

But if the structures at Puma Punku were

constructed with such precision and with the heaviest, most

durable materials available, how did it end up in ruins?

Is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

that Puma Punku may have been struck by a devastating meteor?

Or could there be an even more incredible explanation for its demise?

There could have been an alien battle out there where

they were using technology,

perhaps nuclear...

that blew up everything in the region.

That's very possible.

Something could have happened with our Earth's shield where

the sun's rays came through at a certain time and just burned

everything and obliterated it.

The only thing we know for sure

is, those people at Puma Punku are gone.

We just don't know how or where they went.

I think that Puma Punku was deliberately destroyed by its builders...

extraterrestrials right before they decided to leave planet

Earth and go on to their next mission.

It's hard to imagine the devastating destruction that occurred here.

It would seem like extraterrestrials had some

cosmic battle on planet Earth before they left.

There are various sites across the planet where it

is said that there was contact with nonhuman intelligences.

But when it comes to Puma Punku, what you have is also the

archaeological remains, which tells you something out of the

ordinary was happening here, and when you lay upon the layer of

mythology, which says that the gods were here, I think it is an

absolutely convincing case right now, to conclude that Puma Punku

stands out as one of the preeminent sites where ET will

have been in residence on this planet.

And so the question then is, Puma Punku being a base camp for

an ET civilization here on planet Earth, if they left, does

that potentially mean that, when they left, that somehow they

destroyed Puma Punku as well?

If they made this to be a factory or something, at

the end of its use they may have simply blown it up... because

they didn't want anyone to use

the technology that they had left behind.

The ancient Indian epics... the Ramayana,

theMahabharata, they're talking about these horrific wars that

happened in the past with airships, these vimanas,

spacecraft, huge destructive weapons like atomic weapons, so

maybe Puma Punku was destroyed in this ancient planetary war.

Since it is unique to the area, it may have been an

outstation or something for another civilization, possibly

from India, possibly from Atlantis, possibly from... Outer space.

Exactly.

Precision stonework...

unparalleled engineering...

and incomprehensible destruction.

Was Puma Punku really built by extraterrestrial travelers?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Was is it an outpost? A battle ground?

Or could have it been a final destination?

Perhaps one day we will solve the riddle

and find out once and for all, just who we are and why are we here.