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[ Man Narrating ] Strange symbols found on opposite sides of the Earth.

[ Man ] What a mandala is doing in remote desert of Peru...

is very interesting.

[ Narrator ] Binary code appearing in crop formations.

Can we see it as a reply? Indeed, it was.

[ Narrator] And geographical alignments that defy explanation.

[ Man ] These settlements, they're 5,000 years old.

How are they all lined up?

[ Narrator] Is it possible that throughout the world...

there are messages concealed within ancient texts...

symbols and structures?

And if so, might they have been left for us to uncover...

by extraterrestrial beings?

[Woman ] These messages were left to us a long, long time ago...

so that we could remember who we are.

[ Narrator] 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 reality help to shape our history?

And if so, might we find the proof in alien messages?

Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico.

November 16, 1974.

Early pioneers of SE TI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence...

aim the world's largest radio telescope...

at a cluster of stars 25,000 light-years away...

to send a transmission out into the cosmos.

The coded signal consists of binary digits- zeros and ones-

that form a message...

designed to notify other potentially advanced beings of our existence.

This message into space, it was encoded...

in what's called binary code cause it's the simplest around.

Listen, we're trying to send a message to the aliens...

and because you don't know anything about them...

you have to make this as obvious as possible.

Now, here's the message over here that was actually sent in 1974.

And it starts off with teaching the ABC's to the aliens.

Well, not ABC's, the 1-2-3's...

because right up here are the numbers from one to 1O but in binary.

And anybody who has thought about binary...

should be able to figure that out, including the aliens.

Right underneath that, this funny thing here...

has the numbers one, six, seven and so forth.

Those are the atomic numbers...

of the elements that make up our bodies-

hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and phosphorus.

[ Narrator] The coded message...

also contained information about our DNA...

the figure of a human...

a graphic of the solar system...

and a graphic of a radio telescope.

For decades, SE TI scientists wondered...

if their cosmic message would ever be received or answered.

Then, nearly 27 years later, there appeared to be a response.

Hampshire, England.

August 2001.

Next to the Chilbolton Radio Observatory...

two crop formations appeared in a field.

Both were unlike any other ever found.

They were both pixelated...

meaning that when you're on the ground...

you couldn't perceive what the crop circle was.

But once from the air, you could readily identify the pattern.

[ Man ] One of the crop formations that appeared at Chilbolton in 2001

was a face...

but the other one was far, far more interesting...

because it greatly resembled the message...

that had been sent in 1974.

[ Radio Chatter]

There were very, very subtle differences between the two.

They looked identical, but when you actually looked at them...

the differences gave a key...

that seemed to be almost like an answer.

[ Man ] One of them was the fact...

that the human being that we sent out...

when it came back it had what appeared...

to look like some kind of gray alien with a large head and a small body.

It also had a different system of planets...

which is suggesting it's a different solar system...

and also it had a different DNA sequence as well.

And so, just these three things really caught my attention...

because either it was a brilliant hoax...

or it was actually a message that came back...

and was a response to that original SETI message...

way back in the 1970s.

[ Collins ] And all of these suggested to the crop circle community and the media...

that we really had received a reply...

to the Arecibo message of 1974.

Can we see it as a reply?

Yes, indeed, it was.

But actually who created it and their exact purpose will remain a mystery.

[ Narrator] Some think the reply may have been to tell us...

that we're on the right track...

communicating in the universal language of the cosmos-

binary code.

A German mathematician, Gottfried Leibniz...

is credited with defining binary code in the 17th century.

In turn, Leibniz is said to have credited his inspiration...

to the 5,000 year-old Chinese text of! Ching...

an ancient oracle code used to communicate divine guidance.

The I Ching is a kind of cryptic oracular inscription...

that you're supposed to decipher...

and it was heavily used in divination in early China.

The numerical symbols or values...

are actually tied to a semi-mythical figure by the name of Fu Xi...

who is perhaps the earliest legendary ruler of China.

The history or origin of the I Ching is very interesting...

because it is said that this knowledge was imparted on Fu Xi...

by an otherworldly being.

[ Narrator] According to ancient Chinese myth...

Fu Xi lived around 3000 BC.

He and his sister were the sole survivors of a great flood...

and together they repopulated the Earth.

And it was said that one day he was on the Yellow River...

and a water dragon appeared to him...

and that on the back of this water dragon...

was revealed to him the eight trigrams.

[ Narrator] These eight trigrams are the foundation of the I Ching.

They are made up of a series of broken and unbroken lines-

a distinct binary code.

[ Man ] Fu Xi was given the information of the I Ching-

what was essentially a binary code.

It's basically proven that this kind of mathematical binary code...

is what is going to drive all computers in the future.

And this is something...

that extraterrestrials on other planets and other galaxies...

must also be using.

Some have surmised that the idea for the binary code...

was gleaned from the I Ching.

It's a very curious thing.

Especially the idea that the basics of the I Ching...

was imparted by another type of being.

[ Narrator] Could the I Ching have been an attempt by extraterrestrials...

to setup a common communication language with mankind?

Might this also support the notion...

that the crop circles in Chilbolton are an actual alien response...

to the signal that' SETI sent out into the cosmos in 1974?

And have extraterrestrials been leaving messages here on Earth...

for us to discover for thousands of years...

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Perhaps further clues can be found...

by examining other mysterious symbols...

that have been discovered carved into rock all over the world.

Washington, DC. May 2014.

NASA researchers, in conjunction with SET! scientists...

publish a manual enlisting archaeologists and anthropologists...

in the search for evidence of extraterrestrial communication.

The 330-page document...

entitled 'Archeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication”...

details means and methods- beyond binary code and radio signals-

that scientists should consider...

as potential communication from extraterrestrials.

Singled out in the document are rock an' and carvings...

including the neolithic petroglyphs of Northumberland, England.

Although the document does not directly attribute the art to extraterrestrials...

it does propose the possibility...

that it could be tied to otherworldly communication.

Throughout the world there are petroglyphs and other rock art...

that are actually quite similar all over the Earth.

We have to wonder if there's not some parallel that's going on.

[Tsoukalos ] I think that we have to start looking at these symbols...

and ask how did it originate and from where.

[ Narrator] Roswell, New Mexico.

September 4, 2004.

While tracking deer in the desert...

just 11 miles from the famous Roswell crash site...

Robert' Ridge came across an object sticking out of the sand-

a small, triangular-shaped rock that is completely uniform in color...

and has a circular design on top of it...

that isn't etched into the rock, but actually protrudes from it.

Thought it was really cool when I first picked it up.

Um, then got into the truck, brushed it off...

and then I was like, you know, in awe.

And I was, like, pinching myself. What is this?

I thought it was very unique and very special right off the get-go.

And I still do.

[ Narrator] The Roswell Rock, as it has come to be known...

measures roughly one and a half inches thick by two inches wide.

Meticulously etched out of the face of the triangular stone...

are circles and crescents.

Robert Ridge is convinced...

that' this symbol ls meant to convey a message.

And after studying the rock, he discovered an uncanny correlation...

between the symbols and the magnetism of the stone.

[ Ridge ] We found the rock has magnetic properties.

A friend of mine kept hounding me about it.

And he finally brought a magnet of his own...

and said, “Here, do this.”

So we did.

And we found out that it has, uh- it's pretty cool.

[ Narrator] But with all the strange qualities...

that the Roswell Rock possesses...

what researchers find most fascinating...

is that the design protruding from its surface...

has also been found in England, nearly 5,000 miles away.

[ Man ] The pattern of the sun and moon inside the circle that we see on the rock...

is precisely the same as what we see in a crop circle formation...

dating to 1996 in Southern England.

[ Narrator] The crop circle appeared...

eight years before Robert Ridge discovered the Roswell Rock...

a fact that has led some to suggest the rock is simply a man-made copy.

One of my best friends said...

it looks like a hippie made it and threw it out in the desert.

So I wanted to examine it.

We did a 3-D CAT scan of the rock.

And that's how we found out it hasn't been painted.

This hasn't been stuck to the top of the rock.

It's not an appliqué. it's a part of the rock.

It doesn't have a magnet inside.

[ Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists also contend...

that if someone had made the rock as a hoax...

it's unlikely they would have left it half buried in the middle of the desert...

where it may never be found.

But what has truly convinced Robert and many others...

that the rock is not a man-made fabrication...

is a comparison that' was done under a microscope...

between the Roswell Rock and a sandblasted replica.

[ Ridge ] We started looking at it under magnification.

It blew me away.

And I was like, wow. What is this?

It's proven to be everything I thought it was so far.

In my opinion.

[ Narrator] One of the first researchers to investigate the connection...

between the Roswell Rock and the crop circle in England...

was investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe.

She is convinced that' within the design is a message.

If we are dealing with advanced intelligences...

and you assume that throughout the universe-

all solar systems, all galaxies-

there have to be some- we'll call them baselines.

Moons, suns and skies would be the common denominator.

Something is trying to teach us humans about astronomy.

The moon and the sun and the tracking of the symbols-

this is reflecting past, present and future.

And that comes back to, what is on that rock?

Well, some people would say that that is a date.

[ Narrator] A date? But why?

Could there be a message encoded in the design on the Roswell Rock...

that reveals some significant turning point that lies ahead for mankind?

It could be that the extraterrestrials responsible for making crop circles-

which I believe that's what's happening-

actually generated this rock...

created this near the Roswell crash...

so as to get us asking the right questions.

A little bread crumb here and a little bread crumb there...

and we're being brought closer and closer to the truth.

[ Narrator] Is it possible that the design that appears on the Roswell Rock...

and in the crop formation in England...

is actually an attempt by extraterrestrials to communicate with humankind?

Might this message be trying to tell us something about our future...

and possibly even reveal the date on which these alien visitors plan to return?

Perhaps further clues can be found...

by examining the geometry of one of the world's most mysterious sites.

[ Narrator] Nazca.

The Ica region of Peru.

High in this arid desert...

there is a series of precise geoglyphic formations...

that have mystified people since their modern discovery in the 1920s.

They are called the Nazca Lines.

These geoglyphs appear in many shapes and sizes.

Some are figures of animals.

Others are plants.

And a few even appear to be depicting humans or human-like beings.

Ana' all of them were made on a scale to be seen from above.

[ Tsoukalos ] The only true way...

with which you can appreciate the entire scope is from the sky.

And so the stories behind them as well to this day...

are maintained very clearly.

It's not meant to be seen from the ground.

Only by the gods. And the gods dwell up in the skies.

[ Narrator] But for some ancient astronaut theorists...

even more fascinating is what lies 100 miles to the north...

on the Cajamarquilla Plain.

Here, thousands of holes of varying dimensions and depths...

have been dug into a mountain range...

in a pattern that runs north and south for almost two miles.

This mysterious formation has baffled archaeologists for decades.

And like the Nazca Lines...

the holes can only be appreciated in their entirety from high above the ground.

[Tsoukalos ] In the mountains of Peru...

we have what's commonly referred to as the Band of Holes.

It is one of the coolest places in relation to the ancient astronaut theory...

because who in their right mind would go ahead and dig all these holes?

For what?

They're an incredible mystery, a very long-lived mystery.

Some people think it looks like some kind of machine was running over the territory.

Some people think it was some kind of systematic mining operation.

Some people say it was just pot hunters, you know, looting, looking for burials.

None of the explanations make good sense.

[ Narrator] While the Band of Holes continues to defy explanation...

some ancient astronaut theorists...

believe it may represent a type of message-

a message that can also be found at another site 6,000 miles away.

The northwest coast of France.

Here, just south of Brittany, lie the legendary Carnac stones.

An arrangement of over 3,000 megalithic rocks...

that stretch for more than two miles across the countryside.

The megaliths of Carnac in Brittany are amazing.

Some of them stand about 3O or 4O feet tall.

There are multiple avenues of stones going right over hills.

And no one's really worked out exactly what their purpose is.

[ Narrator] Like the Band of Holes in Peru...

the Carnac stones continue to defy explanation.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that the clue to understanding both mysterious sites...

might be found by comparing them side by side.

The Band of Holes runs for approximately two miles.

So do the Carnac stones.

The width of the Band of Holes measures eight holes across...

occasionally deviating by one or two holes.

This, too, is often the case with the Carnac stones.

And when viewed from high above, the layout of the two sites is eerily similar.

[Childress] It would appear, in my mind...

that there's some connection that's between Carnac, France and Peru...

and a special code put there for us to find at a future time...

when we could understand these codes.

[ Narrator] Some ancient astronaut theorists...

have even gone so far as to suggest...

that the Band of Holes may have once held some sort of standing totems...

similar to what is believed to have existed at Stonehenge...

and that those totems may have disappeared because they were made of wood.

There are a series of post holes that were found all around Stonehenge...

in which you can stick sticks in the holes.

But they degraded over time, and it gradually crumbled away...

and perhaps the same thing happened in the Nazca Plain in Peru with these holes.

[ Narrator] Could there really be a connection...

between the Carnac stones in France and the Bend of Holes in Peru. . .

As ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, is it meant to convey a message ?

[Wilcock] if you look at the stones at Carnac...

you see curious alignments.

And these alignments actually duplicate the Pythagorean triangle.

This appears to have happened...

as much as 3,000 years before Pythagoras allegedly invented the Pythagorean triangle.

What you're seeing...

is remarkable mathematical symbolism and encoding messages...

that seem to suggest somebody wanted us to know...

it was built with technology far in excess of what we have now.

[ Man ] Some thousands of years in the past...

the extraterrestrials who visited our planet left the proof behind.

They knew that in the far future the humans will see these stone patterns.

They will realize that this is high geometry.

And sooner or later the questions comes up...

have we maybe been visited by beings from outer space?

[ Narrator] Is it possible that these two ancient sites...

are both conveying a message left behind by extraterrestrials?

And was it their intention that it would one day be deciphered by mankind?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and claim that further evidence can be found with another alien message-

one that is encoded in the Bible.

- [ Clock Chimes ] - London, Eng/and.

1971.

After years of studying ancient philosophical teachings...

relating to the Egyptian mystery schools...

author John Michell unearths evidence of an ancient code.

A numerical and geometric code...

seemingly embedded not only in the sacred structures of ancient Egypt...

but also in the Hebrew world...

and in the plans for the Heavenly City of New Jerusalem.

[Woman ] John Michell was a scholar. He was a mystic.

He was a genius and a very, very prolific author.

He had an incredible understanding of earth geometry and geography.

But what John Michell is most famous for is the New Jerusalem diagram.

[ Narrator] By carefully examining the physical description...

of Ne w Jerusalem in Re vela lion 27. . .

Michell uncovered a sacred design.

At the core of Michell's diagram is the squaring of the circle...

and the division of the circle into equal sectors- a zodiac wheel-

and the positioning of 12 gates to the Heavenly City-

three on each side of the square, representing the 12 tribes of Israel.

[Childress] This is also a geometric figure...

and John Michell claimed...

that this would be how the New Jerusalem was to be built in the future...

and that all this was encoded in Revelations...

in a mathematical geometric way.

[ Narrator] In his book “The Dimensions of Paradise”...

Michell proposed that this sacred geometry...

represented the order of the universe.

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

that this exact same geometrical concept...

can be found halfway around the world, in Nazca, Peru.

Here in the desert, among the many plan! and animal glyphs. . .

Is a geometric design that looks much different from the rest of the Nazca Lines.

It is called the Sun-Star and Cross.

[Childress] The Nazca Sun-Star glyph...

is one of the most interesting glyphs to be seen at Nazca.

And, in fact, because it's in a remote area, the Palpa Valley...

it's not actually seen by many tourists.

But it is, by far, the strangest and most mathematically precise...

of all of the diagrams at Nazca.

[ Narrator] The Sun-Star and Cross glyph...

is a precisely formed star polygon...

made of two squares surrounding a perfect circle...

all sharing the same center and diameter.

Inside the grid are wheels within wheels and squares within squares.

The design mirrors not only New Jerusalem's sacred geometry...

but also offers up yet another connection.

When you look at it, it's very obviously what is called a mandala...

or a yantra, in ancient India or Tibet.

What a mandala, yantra glyph is doing in remote desert of Peru...

is very interesting.

[Tsoukalos] it's a very sacred symbol.

It's this idea of being connected with the realm of the gods.

And then we have to once again ask ourselves...

well, what was the realm of the gods?

It's very interesting to note that seen from the sky...

it is very similar, not identical but very similar...

to, for example, the layout of the temples at Borobudur.

[ Narrator] The Buddhist temple of Borobudur...

lies over 77, 000 miles west of Nazca in Indonesia...

and is laid out with a series of precise circles...

within a platform of perfect squares.

[ Tsoukalos ] One has to wonder if somehow all these sites are connected...

because that is what the ancient astronaut theory excels in-

that people in our ancient past were not isolated.

They had contact with each other.

In the end, there is an extraterrestrial connection.

[ Collins ] Is this something that was taught by the ancients...

from one culture to the rest...

and they incorporated these divine cities, these New Jerusalems?

Or is this something that may have been given to us by some divine intelligence?

[ Narrator] Is it possible that the New Jerusalem design...

the Sun-Star and Cross of Nazca, the temple of Borobudur...

and other geometric structures around the world...

are encoded with similar mathematic and geometric principles?

And if so, are they pan' of an alien message...

that is meant not only to inform us of our celestial origins...

but to guide us towards a reconnection?

Perhaps a key to understanding the relevance of this sacred code...

can be found by examining the astrological alignments...

of mysterious sites throughout the world.

[ Narrator] Isolated in the Pacific Ocean...

more than 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile...

lies one of the most mysterious places on Earth- Easter Island.

This tiny land mass is home to nearly 900 monolithic stone statues...

carved out of volcanic rock.

2,564 miles to the east...

isolated 7,000 feet above sea level...

are the ruins of a mysterious lost city of the Inca, called Machu Picchu.

And 10,742 miles away...

on the opposite side of the world, lies Mohenjo-daro...

a site where ancient astronaut theorists...

believe a nuclear explosion may have occurred in the distant past.

Curiously, as discovered by researcher Jim Alison...

these three sites fall in a straight line around the center of the Earth.

And with just a minor margin of error...

it also runs through a number of other mysterious ancient sites.

[Coppens] We have the Giza Plateau.

We have Nazca.

We have Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

All of these extraordinarily important powerful sacred places...

were all built in a straight line.

No, this cannot be an accident.

This cannot be a coincidence.

[ Narrator] The line also encompasses the ancient Sumerian city of Ur...

the ruins of Petra, Jordan...

and Persepolis, the capital city of ancient Persia.

There are all these different sites that seem to line up.

Even if there's a minute degree of deviation...

it's never a massive distance from that line.

[ Narrator] How is it that so many important ancient sites across the globe...

all follow this line?

What could possibly explain this coincidence?

[ Tsoukalos ] This is bizarre...

because only a people capable of flight...

or at least being able to look at maps...

would be able to do such a thing.

Could it be because some of those points were, in fact, places...

where our ancestors made contact with extraterrestrials?

There has to be something important...

in the location and the geography, in the geometry...

that indicated to our ancestors that this is sacred ground...

that this is a powerful place to put these sacred sites.

[ Narrator] Ancient astronaut theorists...

say evidence of extraterrestrial intervention can also be found...

by looking at how early humans aligned their most important sites with the stars.

At the Giza Plateau in Egypt...

the layout of the three Great Pyramids aligns perfectly...

with the belt stars of the constellation Orion.

Orion's Belt is made up of two bright stars and a third dimmer star...

which is offset a bit to the left.

It's exactly what you see on the ground-

two large pyramids in alignment with a third pyramid offset.

It looks like they wanted to build stars on the ground, if you like.

[ Narrator] Also aligned with these stars...

are the ancient city of Teotihuacén in Central Mexico...

the Hopi villages in the American Southwest...

and the Thornborough Henges...

a neolithic landscape complex in Northern England.

Could it be merely coincidence...

that so many ancient cultures throughout the world-

that presumably had no contact with each other-

all built their most important sites by using celestial alignments?

Look, this is not something that can be explained away as a coincidence.

It's time for us to responsibly take a look at what we're really seeing...

and understand that there is a worldwide, intelligent...

highly mathematically-precise plan behind these designs.

The idea that even ancient buildings are encoded with information...

and that where they sit on the planet...

is also part of an intricate code...

is a fascinating idea...

and one that we're just beginning to understand.

[ Narrator] Could it be that the curious location...

and alignments of ancient sacred sites...

were actually meant to serve as a form of communication?

And might the purpose have been to leave behind a hidden message...

for future generations to discover?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest that otherworldly messages can be found...

not only hidden throughout the globe but even within the human body.

The University of Cambridge, England.

March 1953.

American biologist James Watson and English physicist Francis Crick...

discover the three-dimensional double-helix shape of DNA.

This scientific breakthrough is a giant leap forward'...

in unraveling the mystery of mankind's origins.

But our genetic code proves to be so complex...

that Francis Crick proposes it did not develop by chance...

and also that it is not of this Earth.

[ Childress ] Sir Francis Crick said...

that the human genome is not something that could have occurred randomly...

and that therefore, we were somehow programmed...

specifically by extraterrestrials, it would seem...

many thousands of years ago.

[ Henry] The message is, is that our DNA didn't come from Earth.

In fact, their research suggests that our DNA is billions of years old...

and that we were, in fact, seeded from the stars.

[Wilcock ] The DNA molecule itself...

is the equivalent of the entire Encyclopedia Britannica...

being dropped out of a helicopter, chopped up into individual words...

and then as the words fall out of the helicopter like confetti...

that they all arrange into the correct order that they were in.

That's the madness that is required...

to even speculate that DNA could have evolved randomly on Earth.

[ Narrator] Is it possible that DNA is an intelligently designed code?

And if so...

might there even be more information embedded within our genetic makeup...

than scientists have yet to find?

[ Man ] As an information molecule...

I think DNA is much more attractive than radio signals and so on.

It lives longer, it has the ability to self-replicate...

and it has an astronomically tiny error rate.

And so these three properties make DNA a unique storage device.

So if you want to store a secret or a stamp of the maker...

DNA would be your choice.

[ Narrator] Could it be that there are messages actually imprinted...

right in our genetic makeup?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and contend that part of that message may be contained...

within the universal structure of DNA...

which consists of a series of three molecule combinations...

known as codons, or triplets.

They say that it is much more than coincidence...

that three is also the number of stars in Orion's belt...

the number of pyramids on the Giza Plateau...

that line up with those stars...

and the basic geometry behind the pyramid shape itself.

We have a very fascinating connection to data points saying the same thing.

Number three is where you begin building geometry.

The DNA molecule has an underlying geometry to it.

Geometry is intrinsic to the design of the universe...

and that the number three builds the triangle-

the triangle being the building block of all other geometry.

Maybe we'll learn some very interesting things...

once we can correctly decipher the message.

[ Narrator] Are there alien messages all around us...

hidden within elaborate designs...

embedded in geographical alignments...

carved in rock...

etched into the landscape...

and even encoded in our DNA?

And if so, might there be some significance to the fact...

that we are just now beginning to discover these messages?

[ Man ] In the Book of Daniel, there's a chapter...

that tells Daniel to seal up the prophecies of the Hebrew scriptures.

And it will be opened again...

in the days when human beings are running to and fro...

and knowledge will increase.

Well, we could argue that we're living in those days that Daniel was writing about.

[Coppens ] So much of what we know about ancient culture...

ancient architecture, ancient technology is encoded.

There are codes in literature.

We see in the New Jerusalem diagram...

that there is encoding, again, in geometry, in the architecture.

These codes were left to us a long, long time ago...

so that we could find our way, so that we could remember who we are.

Is it some kind of message for us from the past that we're to decode...

when we have reached a higher state of civilization and knowledge...

that we can figure all this out?

It would seem that we are only just now reaching a point...

of knowledge and technology...

that we can understand these codes...

and find the hidden meaning that's there.

[ Narrator ] Is it possible that the answers to mankind's greatest questions-

where did we come from...

why are we here...

and where are we headed-

are actually all around us...

hidden in alien messages...

waiting to be deciphered?

Perhaps the key to decoding it all lies in an ancient script-

our own DNA-

or something we have yet to discover.

And once we crack the code...

we will find that the answers to these questions...

are far more profound than we ever imagined.