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JAMES LINCOLN: Once it reaches its critical temperature,

it will actually levitate.

DAVID WILCOCK: This, to me, looks like a flying saucer.

Could we have something

that potentially people could ride in?

LINCOLN: If you have enough magnetism,

there's no limit to how big this can be.

Unbelievable.

We're seeing a very intriguing connection here.

At this ancient site of Teotihuacan,

there may be a location in which exotic technology was used

to create an electromagnetic field.

LINCOLN: At very low temperatures,

mercury would display the same behavior.

Mercury, in fact, was the first superconductor ever discovered.

WILCOCK: Archeologists found a literal river

of liquid mercury at Teotihuacan.

So there absolutely does appear to be

an advanced ancient civilization that was here,

and this is the actual spaceport of this civilization.

*

NARRATOR: Mexico City.

Beneath the current-day capital of Mexico lie the ruins

of the ancient Aztec metropolis known as Tenochtitlan.

The Aztecs dominated much of central Mexico

from the 14th to the 16th century AD,

and Tenochtitlan is considered

to be their first official settlement--

an incredibly sophisticated city

featuring a grid system of canals and causeways.

But according to their historical texts,

the Aztec civilization did not originate here.

DR. EDWIN BARNHART: The Aztecs say they started

from this place up in the north called Chicomoztoc.

It was a cave, and inside that cave,

it had seven different caverns,

and there were said to be seven different tribes.

And the Aztecs say they were part of the seven tribes

that came from the seven chambers of Chicomoztoc.

NARRATOR: While Chicomoztoc was once thought

to be a mythological place,

some scholars believe archaeological evidence suggests

that it really did exist, and is located at the site

of the ancient pyramid complex known today as Teotihuacan.

BARNHART: The place of seven caves, we think

maybe that has actually been located archaeologically

at the site of the main temple of Teotihuacan,

called the Pyramid of the Sun,

which sits just north of the Valley of Mexico.

Underneath it is actually a cave

with seven different spots that it extends out into.

And that's where the Aztecs said

their original ancestors came from.

NARRATOR: In the 16th century,

Spanish chronicler Geronimo de Mendieta recorded the legends

of the local native population.

According to their accounts, the Aztec believed

that they were fashioned by a group

of stranded gods within these seven caves.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Mendieta wrote an account of Aztec legend.

In this report, he describes a giant flint knife

landing on the Earth.

And the Earth was trembling and shaking

as this enormous flint knife landed.

Then some 1,600 gods disgorged from this thing,

and they are responsible for launching Aztec civilization.

BARNHART: The Aztecs talk about the many gods

coming down to Earth and creating humans.

They create them out of bone, ash and their own blood.

And they make them somewhat in their own image.

But they make them specifically so that they will honor them

and they will serve them.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: All of a sudden,

there is a description of a giant flint knife

that descended from the sky, and somebody emerged out of it.

One has to wonder

whether or not our ancestors were witness

to a landing of some type of a craft.

If so, then the Aztec story suggests

that, some point in our history,

extraterrestrials created mankind.

And something very strange was going on at Teotihuacan.

NARRATOR: Located just 30 miles northeast of Mexico City,

the Teotihuacan complex encompasses nearly

eight square miles, and is dated to the first century AD.

It is the oldest and most sophisticated city

of Mesoamerica, an area that extends from northern Mexico

down through Central America.

The civilization predated the Maya

by at least a hundred years.

At its peak, it was said to have supported

nearly 100,000 residents.

It was also the largest city in the entire Western Hemisphere

prior to the 15th century, and served as the major commerce

and religious center for the region.

BARNHART: The significance of Teotihuacan

cannot be overstated.

It is the Rome of Mesoamerica.

The things that Teotihuacan did set the pattern

for all other city-states after it.

NARRATOR: The central features of the complex

are two large pyramids,

known as the Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon,

as well as a temple dedicated to Quetzalcoatl,

the feathered serpent.

These structures stand alongside a thoroughfare

referred to as the Avenue of the Dead.

Over 200 smaller buildings, platforms and pyramids

are found adjacent to the Avenue.

And there are thousands of living quarters

just outside the complex.

But as incredible as Teotihuacan is,

no one knows exactly who built this metropolis

or what happened to its occupants.

BARNHART: Teotihuacan, despite its size,

has no hieroglyphs whatsoever.

There are other cultures in Mesoamerica

that were using writing systems.

There's nothing like that at Teotihuacan.

So we don't really have a clear history

of what happened at Teotihuacan.

And we can't really find evidence of their rulers.

...to develop a complete, huge complex, citadel...

WILL HART: We have such a sophisticated site

that embodies engineering principles, craftsmanship, art.

Where did it originate?

Where are the smaller versions of this?

Well, we don't find any.

So, we don't have a progression, an evolution,

to show where this came from.

So we have to ask: where did it come from?

WILCOCK: We've become conditioned to look

at these awesome works of stone architecture and think,

"Oh, primitive people did that, and they used primitive methods

with primitive technology."

But we have to rethink the fundamental assumptions,

and come to a greater and greater level of understanding

that the technology required to build these artifacts, in fact,

is greater than anything that they possessed.

NARRATOR: But based on the local lore of the region,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest that the original

builders of the site may not have been human at all.

YOUNG: All of the people in this area felt

this city was a sacred site connected to a divine realm.

The population along the coast were the Totonac.

They believed that the place was founded by

a dozen sky gods-- the lords of thunder.

Other nearby Mesoamerican cultures had their own theories.

One associated the site with the feathered serpent god

Quetzalcoatl, who was said to have come from Venus.

It was the Aztecs who gave the place its name,

Teotihuacan-- City of the Gods.

The name speaks for itself.

So one has to ask the question: what gods?

Who were they?

Were they just a figment of our ancestors' imagination,

or did they see someone?

Did somebody visit them

to essentially jumpstart civilization?

NARRATOR: If Teotihuacan truly was founded

by extraterrestrial visitors in the remote past,

just how old might the site be?

And could this ancient city still hold evidence

of alien visitation?

NARRATOR: Every year,

millions of tourists visit the ancient ruins

of Teotihuacan.

But most are unaware that many of the buildings

they see throughout the complex

have been erected upon much older structures.

The Pyramid of the Sun is believed to consist of

a total of five layers of pyramids,

one built on top of the next, like a Russian nesting doll.

Curiously, the oldest layers are said to exhibit

the most advanced building techniques.

Evidence of this older stonework can still be found

scattered in parts of the complex,

including a largely off-limits area

behind the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent.

This enormous stone has been very finely cut

by the inhabitants of Teotihuacan.

NARRATOR: Local researcher Marco Vigato

has gained unprecedented access to this part of the site.

NARRATOR: When archaeologist Leopoldo Batres

started excavating the site in 1884,

he discovered the pyramids were buried

in upwards of 12 feet of earth.

He surmised that only a catastrophic event

could account for the devastation.

HART: It was covered under a deep layer of earth.

And we have to ask why.

How did it get covered in so much dirt?

It would require an enormous amount of time

-for nature to do it. -(thunder crashes)

Unless you have a catastrophic flooding.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to ask yourself:

was there some big cataclysm

that occurred here in prehistory?

Possibly even the Great Flood

that is spoken of in various mythologies around the world?

This could mean that Teotihuacan

is actually many, many thousands of years older

than what archaeologists say.

NARRATOR: According to the accounts recorded

by Spanish chroniclers

when they initially made contact with the locals,

the Aztec believed that they were one of seven tribes

to be created by the gods at a time

after the world had been wiped clean

due to a catastrophic event.

They were the last group to leave the caves

where they were created in order to repopulate the world.

YOUNG: Teotihuacan is where they believe

the gods had created humanity, had created all things,

had created the sun, which they referred to as the "fifth sun."

The Aztecs had a cosmology that involved five ages.

They were solar ages, about 5,000 years long,

and each one terminates in a disaster.

The fourth age was called the "Water Sun,"

and it was presided over by the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue.

She was the goddess who, at the end of the age,

-poured the deluge on the Earth, -(thunder crashes)

and flooded everything.

NARRATOR: If the origins of the site

are thousands of years older

than mainstream archaeologists suggest,

might this help explain why,

even after decades of excavations,

they still haven't found evidence

of who the site's rulers were?

And could it also shed new light

on recent perplexing discoveries?

October, 2003.

(thunder crashes)

Torrential rains sweep through the ruins

of this ancient pyramid complex...

(thunder crashes)

...leaving a three-foot-wide sinkhole

at the foot of one of the site's most important structures:

the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.

Archaeologists immediately begin exploring the cavity.

BARNHART: What they found is the tunnel

leading from outside the temple

all the way to about centerline underneath the temple.

It was very filled in,

probably by the Teotihuacanos themselves.

But it's been a slow process to excavate.

Halfway through down the tunnel,

we find these two chambers on either side.

As they continued down,

they found three more chambers at the end.

And those hold some incredible things.

There were many jade statues in there.

And ceramics.

NARRATOR: In April, 2015,

after nearly 12 years of excavations,

archaeologist Sergio Gómez and his team

make another shocking discovery.

Directly underneath the center of the pyramid,

they have located a vast pool of liquid mercury.

WILCOCK: What makes this so interesting

is that the mercury cannot exist in its native form in nature.

There is a natural minerallac material called "cinnabar,"

and in order to get mercury,

you have to extract it out of the cinnabar,

which requires a complex process involving high temperatures.

TSOUKALOS: It's a highly toxic element.

It is difficult to extract.

So, the logistics behind this are incredible.

How was it transported there?

Where did it come from and for what purpose?

Also, how did our ancestors handle liquid mercury

without them dying out?

Interestingly enough, the only other site

that features liquid mercury is in China,

inside the tomb of the first emperor.

How come there is liquid mercury in a tomb in China,

and now they've discovered liquid mercury

in Teotihuacan?

One has to ask the question: what was it used for?

NARRATOR: Liquid mercury is a superconductor,

and in our modern technological age, this class of elements

is being used in revolutionary applications

such as free-energy generation, advanced medical imaging

and cutting-edge transportation projects.

But why would there be vast amounts of mercury

found under a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid?

Could it have served a technological purpose?

NARRATOR: May, 2013.

Just two years prior to the astounding discovery

of liquid mercury at Teotihuacan,

archaeologist Sergio Gómez and his team

made another curious find:

hundreds of gold-colored metallic spheres

scattered in the same tunnel

beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.

The spheres ranged in diameter

from just one inch up to five inches.

There were hundreds of them.

On the exterior, they were burned pyrite.

And on the interior, they're mostly clay.

In fact, the entire chamber seems to have

flecks of this golden pyrite or fool's gold all over it.

I've never seen anything like it.

I do not know what these things are, what their meaning is.

To my knowledge, we've never found a chamber like that

anywhere in Mesoamerica,

certainly nowhere in Teotihuacan.

It's an enigma, and neither I nor any of my colleagues

know what to make of it.

One of the findings of the analysis of these golden spheres

was that there are substances in them that can't be identified,

can't be related to other known Earth substances.

The archeologists themselves cannot explain

how these were formed,

why is there anomalous organic material within them,

or what purpose did they serve.

We have to wonder what these pyramids

and this whole structure is about.

What are these golden spheres about?

And why is there mercury inside of this pyramid?

It's almost like some kind of alien technology

is being used at Teotihuacan, but we don't understand it.

NARRATOR: The recent finds of mercury

and the inexplicable golden spheres

only add to the mystery of the site.

In 1906, archaeologist Leopoldo Batres discovered

layers of mica throughout the Teotihuacan complex.

The discovery of entire sheets of this material,

which is used in electrical and thermal applications,

has baffled researchers, as it has not been found

in any other ancient architecture.

In a couple of different places in Teotihuacan,

we've discovered sheets of mica.

The first reports of them were supposedly that

Leopold Batres had found these large sheets of mica

on top of the Temple of the Sun.

NARRATOR: Since that first discovery,

entire chambers lined with mica have allegedly been found

at different locations along the Avenue of the Dead,

but the areas are now off limits to visitors.

Ever since the late 1990s, the Mexican government...

NARRATOR: In the 1970s, author and researcher Erich von Daniken

got a firsthand look into one of these mica chambers.

I was brought there by a local archeologist who loved my books,

and he said he can show me a mystery.

There is a room, and the room has a ceiling,

and has, of course, four walls.

And in the four walls, you see mica.

This mica is put in artificially.

It's like an insulation.

First, you have stone, then you have a level of mica,

about ten centimeter, and then again stone.

From this chamber where the mica is, there is a hole,

and the hole is insulated with mica.

And I have been told that the hole goes

inside the great pyramid--

the Pyramid of the Sun in Teotihuacan.

That will be the next discovery.

NARRATOR: Today, mica is used as a heat shield

in electronic and aerospace industries.

It has the unique properties of being a good conductor

of electricity as well as an insulator of heat,

since it is able to resist temperatures

upwards of 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit.

We use mica today with high technology.

So one has to wonder,

why is there a mica chamber at Teotihuacan?

It's very brittle,

but it's incredibly, incredibly heat resistant.

Why was there any need for mica in the first place?

GEORGE NOORY: There seems to be a correlation, though,

between mica, liquid mercury,

and these orbs or spheres that all seem to point

to some high technology usage.

What did they know,

how did they know it is anybody's guess,

but it just sounds like they needed these materials

for something, and they used them.

We have to wonder, are we looking at a technology?

We see components of it

that don't make sense just for a primitive culture.

The pyramids

and the various components could've been part of

a sophisticated system of technology.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists propose

that the mercury, mica,

and gold-colored spheres may be somehow connected

and serve as components of a larger device.

They suggest that further evidence

can be found at the site by examining the remnants

of an ancient explosion.

NARRATOR: Teotihuacan.

Along the Avenue of the Dead,

multiple structures show evidence

of a catastrophic fire

that consumed portions of the temple complex.

The damage has been attributed

to an uprising at the end of the sixth century,

just before the population entirely vanished

without a trace.

This structure, in particular,

in spite of the many modern restorations...

NARRATOR: According to archaeologist Leopoldo Batres,

who surveyed the site in the late 19th century,

the damage seemed too extensive

to be attributed to simple torch flames,

leading researchers to explore alternative explanations.

NARRATOR: Could the curious finds

of mica and mercury at the site

help corroborate the theory that the burn marks we see

along the Avenue of the Dead

are from some sort of mechanical explosion?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and they suggest that like the Great Pyramid at Giza

and other sites throughout the globe,

the structures at Teotihuacan may have once served

as an electromagnetic power plant.

Researchers proposed that the pyramids

constructed around the world are, in fact, power plants.

This is based on our new knowledge

that they, in fact, are designed

to tap the resonant power of the Earth

and then to distribute it around the world.

Teotihuacan matches precisely this model.

It's built over caverns,

it had liquid mercury and mica incorporated into its design,

and we know that the gods came and left from this place.

So when we put all the pieces together,

we're looking at Teotihuacan as yet another example

of the power plants of the gods.

If it was a technological system

that was generating a lot of energy, at some point,

there could've been a malfunction in it.

If there was energy, the mica found at the site

was supposed to shield it,

and mercury-- was also found at the site--

seems to have been used.

Perhaps we had some kind of accident there

at some point in time.

NARRATOR: If Teotihuacan served as an ancient power plant,

generating electromagnetic energy,

just what role did the liquid mercury--

recently discovered at the site--

play in such a scenario?

There's stories of mercury being used in spacecraft.

And some of the ancient Indian epics

talk about mercury as part of the vimanas

and the mechanics of these craft.

So here we have the idea that this mercury

that's being found at archeological sites

is really part of the propulsion of some of the craft

that the extraterrestrials were using here on Earth.

NARRATOR: Los Angeles, California.

February, 2017.

Physicist James Lincoln has been experimenting

with superconductors like mercury

and the levitation effects produced

in the presence of strong electromagnetic fields,

such as those suspected of being generated

by the ancient pyramid power plants.

Author and researcher David Wilcock

visited his laboratory

to see how electromagnetism creates an environment

that allows mercury to levitate.

-Good to meet you. -Nice to meet you. Yes.

NARRATOR: The demonstration will utilize

a conventional superconductor material

in place of mercury due to its toxicity.

What am I about to see here?

Now, one of the signatures of a superconductor

is that once it reaches its critical temperature,

as being it's cold enough,

it will actually levitate over a magnetic field.

That is unbelievable.

LINCOLN: We can actually make it go around the track.

This is the signature behavior of any superconductor

in the presence of a magnetic field.

It generates electricity flowing in loops

inside of a superconductor.

-That's why it floats. -WILCOCK: Wow.

There's not really an upper limit

to how fast this thing can go.

WILCOCK: So there's a flow of current

in the disc as it's going?

LINCOLN: Yes. Once these electric currents are generated,

it's free and permanent

and can last as long as you can keep it cold.

WILCOCK: Wow. Very, very cool.

So if you had mercury here

and got it really, really cold, th-this same type

of effect would occur, or would we notice anything different?

LINCOLN: We would be able to get the same effect

if we managed to get this cold enough.

-Okay. -Mercury is also a superconductor.

In fact, it was the first superconductor

-ever discovered. -Okay.

And this one can be anywhere, any orientation,

whether I put it on forward or backwards

or even upside down, it still works.

And here we're seeing it

held perfectly in place, zipping along on its own.

Now that is truly remarkable.

This, to me, looks like a flying saucer.

It does look a lot like a flying saucer.

In fact, you can get it to avoid obstacles,

like you would want from any hovering technology.

So, here I'm placing some little debris on the track,

and let's see if it, uh, can get over this, uh, pile of sticks.

WILCOCK: Sure.

-LINCOLN: No trouble. -No resistance.

Yeah, so now you can imagine it flying over forests,

if it was large enough,

and if you managed to have enough magnetism on the surface

for that to happen.

Unbelievable.

If this technology could be scaled up,

could we have something that potentially people could be able

to ride in as a craft?

LINCOLN: Yeah. If you keep the superconductor cold.

-WILCOCK: Huh. -LINCOLN: And you imagine

-it has to have a chamber of liquid nitrogen. -Right.

And you have enough magnetism over a surface,

then there's no upper limit to how big this can be.

So, if there were some way to make this

a self-contained continuously cooling unit,

theoretically at least, would it be able

to keep doing what it's doing right now indefinitely?

LINCOLN: Well, yes.

It will last, uh, as long as it stays cold.

People have had superconductors lasting for years already

with currents flowing in them.

And there's a lot of places that are cold enough

that that would work.

-For example, outer space. -WILCOCK: Right.

We're seeing a very intriguing connection here.

Teotihuacan may be a location

in which exotic technology was used

to create an electromagnetic field.

And therefore, the area around the pyramid

may have been an area in which levitation

was much easier for a flying saucer

that involved liquid mercury as a fuel.

Teotihuacan may have been the Cape Canaveral of its day.

Today most space facilities

are built as close to the equator as possible

to take advantage of the Earth's rotation.

And Teotihuacan is relatively near the equator,

and so it would be an ideal spot

as a spaceport for extraterrestrial vehicles

to land and take off.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Teotihuacan

functioned as some sort of extraterrestrial spaceport,

one capable of generating electromagnetic power

to support interstellar craft fueled by liquid mercury?

Perhaps further evidence can be found

by examining a planetary map encoded in the city's layout.

NARRATOR: March, 2017.

Archaeologists continue to dig under the pyramid complex,

in an attempt to answer the many mysteries

of Teotihuacan.

The discoveries of liquid mercury,

walls lined with mica,

and strange artifacts like the golden spheres

point to the possibility that an advanced society

once occupied this city.

But some researchers suggest even greater clues can be found

by examining the layout of the entire complex.

Three of the major structures contained within Teotihuacan

have been found to line up with the three belt stars of Orion,

a connection that is also mirrored

in the layout of the pyramids at the Giza Plateau in Egypt.

And the positioning of the main thoroughfare,

known as the Avenue of the Dead,

is directed toward the Pleiades star cluster.

But perhaps the most intriguing connection

was proposed in the 1970s

by American engineer Hugh Harleston Jr.

HART: In 1972, Hugh Harleston

undertook a study of the site.

And he was trying to determine mathematically

if he could break down or discover

a standard unit of measure at Teotihuacan.

The conclusion that Harleston came up with

in all his measurements, he found consistent numbers.

And he discovered that they reflected

mathematical principles that involved units, intervals,

and the spacing of the planets.

WILCOCK: He found the actual derivation of the solar system

with the planets, their correct distances from one another,

actually laid out

in the spacings of the monuments at this complex.

NARRATOR: Harleston noted that the intervals

between the major structures corresponded exactly

to the distances between the various planets.

WILCOCK: There is a very clear rationale

for the positioning of these artifacts,

and it's only once you get into their measurements

that you start to see compelling proof

that this is intended to be

an accurate map of our solar system.

NARRATOR: Even the distance of the asteroid belt

between Mars and Jupiter was correctly plotted

by the diversion of the San Juan River through the site.

CHILDRESS: Harleston believed

that a man-made canal that was cut

through Teotihuacan represented the asteroid belt,

which was not something known to ancient people.

Whoever built Teotihuacan,

they had full knowledge of our solar system

and knowledge that ancient people could not have had.

NARRATOR: Three and a half miles away,

on top of the Cerro Gordo mountain range,

Harleston also located the ruins of the Temple of Xóchitl,

which fell directly in sight line of the Avenue of the Dead.

CHILDRESS: Harleston believed

that this temple was mathematically showing

that there was a planet beyond Pluto,

twice as far as Pluto,

that was somehow orbiting around our solar system.

NARRATOR: Curiously, in 2016,

planetary scientists

from the California Institute of Technology announced

that they had found preliminary evidence of the existence

of an unknown planet beyond Pluto.

Would such a revelation give further credence

to the idea that the inhabitants of Teotihuacan

had intimate knowledge of our solar system,

and that the site served as an ancient spaceport,

one that might still be active today?

NARRATOR: May 4, 2015.

A tourist visiting the ancient pyramid complex of Teotihuacan

takes a photograph featuring the Pyramid of the Sun.

(camera whirs, clicks)

He thinks nothing of it until he later reviews the photo

and notices two strange objects hovering over the pyramid.

Upon closer examination,

they appear to be silver disk-shaped craft.

What's strange about the two UFOs photographed

above the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan is

-that only ten seconds later, -(camera clicks)

a second photograph was taken and those two objects were gone.

So, clearly, we're not talking about Mylar balloons here.

There's nothing floating in the sky anymore.

And if they would have been Mylar balloons, well,

they don't move that fast to just (whistles) disappear.

There has been a long history

of UFO sightings and unusual events

in Teotihuacan, particularly around the pyramids,

which perhaps are somehow attracting UFOs

and extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is there more going on at Teotihuacan

than archaeologists realize?

Could there be secrets about our extraterrestrial past

left for us to discover at this ancient city?

HART: At Teotihuacan,

so far only ten percent has been excavated.

That means there's 90% that remains to be dug up.

How much more is there at the site?

We have no idea.

But we have to ask, if we continue and press on,

might we find the artifacts, the components

that start to put the pieces together,

and perhaps lead us to a much clearer concept

of who these beings were that built this?

CHILDRESS: We don't know what they will find

in the future, but I suspect

they'll make some startling discoveries.

There's many things in our past that we just don't understand,

but it's possible that the answers, or some of them,

are at Teotihuacan.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the ancient complex of Teotihuacan

was an extraterrestrial spaceport?

Might it still hold the very fuel

that was used to power alien craft?

Perhaps the secrets of Teotihuacan

will ultimately be revealed

in time for mankind's alien ancestors to return.

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