All language subtitles for S01E10 - The Alien Code

The ancient astronaut
theory has been around for over 45 years

in popular culture, and it asks
the question whether or not

flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials
visited Earth in the remote past.

I'm in the mountains
of Switzerland near Interlaken

at Erich von Daniken's Mystery Park,

and everywhere you look
you can see incredible recreations

of stupas, pyramids, ancient monoliths,
Mayan temples, strange carvings

and other examples
of physical evidence that suggests

that not only are we humans
not alone in the universe,

but that extraterrestrials have been
part of mankind's history

for thousands and thousands of years.

But what does it all mean'?

What are they trying to tell us'?

I'm curious to know
if there really might be

some kind of alien code.

My name is Giorgio Tsoukalos.

I explore the world that exists

between reality and speculation,

the known and the unknown.

What we've been taught
by mainstream scholars

is not the whole picture.

But I'm convinced that every day

we are one step closer to the truth.

From the time when I was a kid
in Switzerland,

I have dedicated my life to searching
for evidence that extraterrestrials

visited Earth in the remote past.

I've traveled to every corner of the world,
investigating mysterious sites and artifacts,

looking for evidence
of extraterrestrial contact.

And what I've found
at nearly every ancient site...

And even he modern ones, like Roswell...

Is that they all involve stories

of someone or something
coming down from the sky.

Now, although I'm convinced
that extraterrestrial visitors

really did come here
in the ancient past,

I still can't figure out why so many people
continue to deny it.

They claim that there is no evidence.

No concrete proof.

But to them, I say: look around you.

Because while the proof
may not be in concrete,

it may very well be found in bone.

When I was in Malta recently,

investigating the legend of the Cyclops,
I made a visit

to the National Museum of Archaeology
in Valletta.

There, I encountered compelling evidence
of extraterrestrials

coming to Earth thousands of years ago.

Here, hidden away from the public,

are mysterious elongated skulls
that were discovered

in an underground temple known
as the Hypogeum of Hal-Saflieni.

The skulls hadn't been on display
for more than 100 years,

so I was incredibly honored to get
the chance to examine them up close.

I mean, this is wild.

So, these belong to the Temple period,

so we're speaking about 5,000 years ago.

They were found 100 years ago.

Looking at the difference
of this skull

and these here, it seems as if it's,
like, an elongated shape.

As you can see, even from the inside
there's no sign of the middle suture.

Completely fused.

That's very interesting.

The bones of the human skull
are joined together

by what are called "sutures."

The sagittal suture connects
to the sides and roof of the cranium

and is open when a person is born
and closes around the age of 35.

But the skull I'm looking at does not
appear to have a sagittal suture at all.

This is incredible!

This one in particular, especially,
seems to be longer, which is quite unusual.

I know there is quite
a lot of mystery about them.

In fact, we've been accused many times
of keeping them secret

'cause they're the remains,

they're the evidence.

Yeah, why-why are
these not on display?

Unfortunately, they
haven't been studied yet.

They were discovered about 100...

But this is the first thing
you should study, right here!

That missing suture is really bizarre...
and even more bizarre

is that I found this same anomaly
when I was in Peru with David Childress.

David and I were invited
to examine some elongated skulls

at the Paracas History Museum
by curator Juan Navarro,

and they were some of the strangest skulls
I've ever laid my eyes on.

Wow, that's weird.

You can see some sutures
in the back here,

but there's none in the front.

It doesn't have the-the side plates
fusing together, it's...

This is strange.

I've heard from a doctor.

He said that over the years,
if a person gets older,

they fuse.

But there's not even a remnant
of a suture.

I mean, there is nothing here,
if you look.

Unlike the elongated skulls in Malta,
the skulls here have undergone

at least some DNA testing...
Although it was only one hair sample

that was analyzed,
and not the bone itself.

The results showed it to be
of Northern European origin,

which I thought was quite strange.

I mean, how did Northern Europeans
make their way to South America

thousands of years before
mainstream historians

believed that such a thing
was even possible?

And why did they have elongated skulls?

What if, David, we are
looking at extraterrestrials here?

Seriously.

It's the first time that I've
actually come in close contact

with so many.

This is very, very bizarre.

It's really hard to ignore
the possibility that these skulls

may prove aliens" or perhaps
alien-human hybrids" existed in the past.

But why has it taken us so long

to notice these things, such as the
absence of the sagittal suture'?

And why have we not wondered
why similar elongated skulls

have been found in Germany, Egypt,
Russia, Mexico and even the United States?

I believe I received a clue to the answer
during my recent visit to a small museum

in Southern Portugal.

While looking for evidence
of the lost city of Atlantis

in the town of Silves,
author Peter Daughtrey took me

to the Lagos Museum.

He wanted to show me a huge stone egg
that had been found

on the side of a road near Silves.

There it is.

Wow.

This is it.

The first thing I noticed
was the serpentine symbol on top,

because it instantly reminded me
of what's known as a "cosmic egg"

or "creation egg," a motif
that can be found in ancient cultures

throughout the world.

How old do you presume this one is'?

We're talking of something
that's... that's incredibly old.

And this thing up the middle here,
well, they resemble the rod,

which throughout history has been
a symbol of power and of creation.

Moses had a rod.

And in Mesopotamia, the rod
was regarded as the symbol

of the power of the gods.

Interestingly, the idea of human life
emerging from a cosmic egg can be found

in many ancient cultures.

In China, for example, Pangu was
considered to be the first living being

and the creator of all.

He was said to have been born

from a silver egg that crashed
and broke in half to create

the sky and the Earth.

The Dogon of Western Africa
say that creator spirits named Nommo

hatched from cosmic eggs.

When they descended from the sky,
they made such a deafening noise

that it made the ground tremble.

And in the ancient Greek Orphic tradition,
it was said that

a golden-winged primordial being

named Phanes was hatched
from a shining cosmic egg

that was the source of the universe.

It reminds me of what might be
a double helix symbol.

Which is very interesting,

because that's basically
what the ancient astronaut theory suggests,

that a long time ago,

advanced extraterrestrials saw
that there was potential

for intelligent life
and with a target mutation

of our genes and theirs,
essentially we became who we are today.

I'm beginning to wonder if somehow
the so-called "gods" of our ancestors

knew we would not be able to identify them
as flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials

until we first began to study bones,
including human skulls,

and discover that there is
such a thing as DNA.

Perhaps what we have here is

yet another clue to cracking
the alien code.

This is great.

The egg that I saw in Portugal

got me thinking about other stones
that have been found

around the world
with strange markings anthem,

and perhaps none
have raised more questions

about our history than the Ica stones.

Eighty miles northwest
of the famous Nazca Lines

lies the small city of Ica, Peru.

It was here, in 1961,
that a collection of andesite stones

were unearthed in the desert...

stones etched with mysterious depictions
of humans interacting

with what seem to be prehistoric animals,

people looking through telescopes,

and even ancient surgeries.

Now, while it is true
that some of the stones

have been exposed as forgeries,

approximately 15,000 of them
have been found

across the region,
and some researchers estimate

that they could be
more than 2,000 years old.

Approximately 700 miles southeast
of where the first Ica stones were found,

in the Precious Metals Museum
in La Paz, Bolivia,

is the Fuente Magma bowl.

Thought to be over 5,000 years old,

the Fuente Magna bowl
was discovered near Lake Titicaca

by a local farmer in the 1950s.

It features hundreds of triangular carvings
that are strangely similar

to the cuneiform text used
by the ancient Sumerians.

But what is a bowl featuring
Sumerian text doing

more than 8,000 miles from Sumeria...
or, as we know it today, Iraq'?

My good friend and
fellow ancient astronaut theorist

David Childress has conducted extensive
research on the Fuente Magna bowl,

so when I met with him recently in Peru,

I asked him what he thought
about this artifact.

That bowl has two forms
of Sumerian writing on it:

Sumerian hieroglyphs
and Sumerian cuneiform.

It's been authenticated
by Bolivian archaeologists,

and all that mainstream archaeologists
can do at this point is ignore it.

It's not something
they could ever address,

because it would completely blow
all of their theories out of the water.

But here's the thing that...

you just said that this was authenticated
by Bolivian archaeologists.

What makes a Bolivian archaeologist
less mainstream

than all the other
mainstream archaeologists?

In my opinion, nothing.

So why aren't they confirmed
by the rest of archaeology?

It would change history.

The Fuente Magna bowl
is basically proof

that the Sumerian Anunnaki
were coming to South America.

The idea of Sumerian writings
being discovered near Lake Titicaca

would relate to the theories
of author Zecharia Sitchin

and his proposal that the Sumerians
were interacting

with a highly advanced extraterrestrial
race known as the Anunnaki.

History has to be rewritten.

Eventually, they'll have
to address these things.

It's incredible that
a bowl was found in Bolivia

that has Sumerian writing,
known as cuneiform, carved into it.

I mean, this is some
of the strongest evidence there is

for the ancient astronaut theory.

And what's even more incredible
is where it was found:

on the shores of Lake Titicaca,
just a few short miles

from the mysterious megalithic site
known as Puma Punku.

Today, most archaeologists believe
that Puma Punku was part

of an ancient temple complex,

but they are baffled by the uniformly
shaped and sharp-edged stone blocks

found all over the site.

They are also puzzled
by an even bigger mystery:

what type of structure
did these blocks actually form'?

So check it out.

Here are the awesome,
awesome H-blocks.

Whenever I see them,
and this is just this-this feeling

that you get at Puma Punku...

I'm at a loss for words,
because this, here, is something

that can't be found anywhere else
in the world.

Mainstream archaeologists believe
that these H-blocks

were created by hand,
with primitive stone and metal tools.

Because the one thing
that we have to remind ourselves...

With this particular construction style,
no mortar, no binding agent

was ever used.

These pieces are so perfect that
they fit together interlockingly

in such a way that you don't need
anything with which to bind together

the two or three or hundreds of pieces.

But what's so very interesting

is that they seem
as if they are part of a larger picture.

That if you put them together,

they form a solid wall,
which is very incredible.

If another block was placed on top,
or this was placed on top

of another rock, these are features
that make these two blocks

fit together seamlessly.

But what is really incredible
is that even to this day,

no one really knows
what these stones were meant to form.

Was it really a temple,
as most archaeologists believe'?

Or is it possible that it was some sort
of an extraterrestrial base camp'?

These look like technical components,
part of a larger,

almost industrial, construction.

I've got a little paper clip,

ordinary paper clip
that I've just unfurled.

To see how deep they go...

And they actually go equidistant
all the way down.

Unfortunately, the H-blocks remain scattered
across the dry Bolivian landscape.

They taunt us, demanding
to be figured out, like a giant puzzle

that needs to be pieced together

by us.

When I take into account
these precision-cut stones of Puma Punku

and the Fuente Magna bowl,

it is clear to me that something
extraordinary happened here.

But are these incredible stones

and carvings simply meant to be proof
that extraterrestrials

were here guiding us
and assisting our progress?

Or are they all part
of some incredible puzzle,

a code that mankind has been given
thousands of years to figure out'?

I think further answers may be found
by exploring other megalithic structures.

When I was in Greece,
investigating the legend of Atlantis,

I climbed to the highest peak of Santorini
to visit Ancient Thera

and examined a mysterious,
giant stone wall.

Mainstream archaeologists
have already proven that these walls

are part of the ruins
of an ancient city

that was constructed by King Theras
in the ninth century BC.

And while I don't disagree with that,
lam convinced

that the condition of the rocks
reveals much more.

When King Theras arrived here,

these things already existed
and they were built

by an unknown culture
of megalithic builders

who, at some point, were given
engineering knowledge from up there.

Incredibly, the enormous stones
seem precisely placed.

Some are even positioned
in very sophisticated polygonal patterns.

It reminds me of a type of construction
style attributed to the legendary giant

known as the Cyclops.

Now, I'm not really so sure
we're talking about giants here...

but could the wall in Ancient Thera
have actually been built by giant machines?

Machines that may have appeared

to be giants to the early humans

who inhabited these regions?

During a trip to Malta,
I met with Dr. Anthony Bonanno,

a professor of archaeology
and classical literature.

He took me to the Temple of Mnajdra,
a massive megalithic structure that aligns

with the sun.

Do you think this structure was built
with anything astronomical in mind'?

With observing
of the constellations?

I mean, this is incredible.

More and more, even mainstream scholars
and archaeologists

are discovering evidence
that early humans deliberately built

ancient structures
in careful consideration of the movements

of the Earth and stars.

But why?

In Malta, I also met
with Professor Hubert Zeitlmair,

who has a replica of the Tal-Qadi stone
that I had seen firsthand

at the National Museum of Archaeology.

He believes that this tablet contains
pre-Sanskrit writing

and proves that the numerous
megalithic structures here date back

much further than what
mainstream archaeology suggests...

To a time when extraterrestrials
lived alongside humans.

You see these symbols... or petroglyphs,
or whatever it's called.

Sure.

But it is an old script.

And the meaning, the language
of this script is a...

a pre-Sanskrit language.

And in my opinion,
all the people in the world had spoken

one language
and did use one script.

It is discovered around the world.

Even in the United States.

But the same script,

the same language,
can be deciphered

and has been deciphered
by a German linguist,

Kurt Schildmann, in the year 1997.

And from this time, we can read

the old texts
from this ancient civilization.

And it is mentioned here our solar system
must have one more member.

Planet X.

Planet X.
That's correct.

So... but this Planet X
is mentioned here

as the most high planet.

One of the earliest proponents
of the ancient astronaut theory,

Zecharia Sitchin, proposed that
extraterrestrials came to Earth

from an as of yet undiscovered planet
called Nibiru...

also known as Planet X.

According to his theory,
a previously existing planet

in our solar system suffered
a calamitous collision with Planet X

that led to its destruction
and formed the asteroid belt

that now exists between Mars
and Jupiter.

And on this island,

these sites we call nowadays temples

were not temples at all,

but observatories...
laboratories.

And they had a roof, all stony.

And they were quite big.

Laboratories for what,

in your opinion?

There is some evidence on stone tablets,
that they make genetic experiments.

Biogenetics.

So we are the result of genetic
manipulations by extraterrestrials.

I mean, that is the basic idea
of the ancient astronaut theory.

It was fascinating to
hear Professor Zeitlmair

suggest that the megalithic structures
on Malta could have been

laboratories for genetic experimentation.

I mean, this is right up my alley.

I'm convinced that
these large megalithic stone blocks

were used because they would last...

right up to the present day.

And why?

Because our visitors knew
that one day we would be able

to look down from the sky.

And once that day came,
we would be given further clues

to solving the alien code.

Some of the most compelling evidence

for the ancient astronaut theory
can be found in Nazca, Peru,

where there are hundreds of ancient
geoglyphs carved into the desert floor.

Archaeologists believe that the Nazca Lines
were created sometime between 500 BC

and 500 AD, but for some reason

the ancient people made these geoglyphs
on such a large scale

that they can only be
appreciated from above.

I recently flew over the Nazca Lines

with fellow ancient astronaut
theorist David Childress,

and I'm still blown away
by this picture book

that's laid out in this remote
and desolate location.

What's interesting about the Nazca Lines
is that the designs do not seem random.

Instead, it's like a catalogue

of what can be found here on Earth:
birds, fish, plants and,

oddly, even an animal that can't
be found in this part of the world.

But even more surprising
than coming across a monkey

among these glyphs is seeing
what looks like a man in a spacesuit.

So I keep wondering
really if this isn't a signal,

uh, to the Anunnaki.

Right.

And this is a big signal for them.

It's like a beacon.

This strange figure
appears to be pointing to the sky,

or perhaps waving to visitors
from above and inviting them to land here.

But why would people living
thousands of years ago

create these glyphs
that can only truly be seen

from high above the Earth'?

Curiously, there are a number
of sites throughout the ancient world

that were designed to be seen
from the sky.

There is the Serpent Mound in Ohio,

the Kofun tombs in Japan,

the Atacama Giant in Chile,

and numerous others.

Now, in my opinion, I think that
not only were ancient people

inspired to do this
by extraterrestrial visitors,

but that those visitors intended
for future generations of humans

to discover these sites.

And possibly, by looking at them
all together,

we will uncover some message
about both our past and our future.

But what is it that we're
supposed to uncover?

And could extraterrestrials
still be leaving clues for us today...

in the form of crop circles?

Now, some crop circles have clearly
been exposed as man-made hoaxes,

but others are so precise
and appeared so suddenly

that they continue to defy explanation.

There's one in particular
that has caught my attention

more than all the rest,
and it was discovered in England in 1996.

Incredibly, the exact same design
appears on a rock

that was found in New Mexico
eight years later.

So, this is the trail that I was on.

In 2004, while tracking deer in the desert

just 11 miles from the famous
Roswell crash site,

Robert Ridge discovered
what has become known as the Roswell Rock.

This small, triangular-shaped object
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.

Investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe
was one of the first

to study this mysterious object,
so I visited her at her home

in Albuquerque to see what
she had discovered.

At first I thought,
could it really be identical?

And we can do a comparison here

on, um, my Earthfiles site,
so that you can see how they compare.

Now, on the left is the rock,

the actual rock and its pattern.

And on the right is the crop formation
in wheat, 120 feet long.

And when you take each item,
you can measure it across...

they're exactly identical.

Wow.

So you clearly think
that the crop circle wasn't man-made'?

In this one particular case,

they had a pilot and a passenger

who said that they had flown
over the field and there was nothing there.

And they flew back over...
Couldn't have been more than a half hour...

And here was this pattern.

Now, the fact that we have equal
but opposite images

of what appears to be
the sun and the moon

brings to mind a concept
from the ancient Hindu texts

known as the Vedas,
and that is: "as above, so below."

In other words, what happens
here on Earth is connected directly

to what happens up there
in the sky.

Just who or what created the crop circle
that suddenly appeared in England in 1996'?

And why is the same design
found on the Roswell Rock'?

Now, although the Roswell Rock

was discovered eight years
after the crop circle,

lam convinced that it is much older,

because for the design to protrude
like it does means

that the rock around it
had to be carved away.

And if it was recently carved,

it would be perfectly smooth
without any bumps or fissures.

Could the crop circle in England

that matches the design
on the Roswell Rock

be a sign that not only
is there an alien code,

but that whoever is behind this code

is leaving further clues
to help us solve it'?

In my opinion, this goes
far beyond coincidence,

and when I look
at all the evidence as a whole,

I have to say, I think I'm starting
to see a very specific pattern emerging.

Over the course of my investigations,

I found that not only do
many ancient cultures

have similar stories of celestial beings
visiting Earth...

Like the Anunnaki in Sumeria,

the Olympian gods in Greece,

and the South American
creator god Viracocha...

But I also noticed that there are often
strange, unexplained designs

etched into the landscape and artifacts
at some of these ancient locations.

After studying many of these designs,

as well as the layout
of the megalithic structures,

I was struck by how often
I saw the shape of a circle recurring,

over and over.

Stone circles have been discovered
in England, Ireland,

France, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Jordan.

And above Saksaywaman,
in the sacred valley of the Inca,

lies a ceremonial site in the shape
of concentric circles.

But how come circles and circular motifs
are so prominent

in geoglyphs and petroglyphs

found all over the globe?

Is it possible that these designs
were messages,

or perhaps even signals to the sky gods?

Although I can't say for sure yet,

this has me thinking
of the lost continent of Atlantis,

which was described
by the Greek philosopher Plato

as a highly advanced civilization
set on an island made up

of concentric circles.

When I was on the Greek island
of Santorini,

investigating the legend of Atlantis,
writer and researcher Jonathan Bright

shared another
interesting connection with me.

Mount Hermon is in the Golan Heights
between Israel and Lebanon.

And according to the Book of Enoch,
a group of so-called "watchers"

descended here and mated with local women.

This is exactly the same story

Plato writes about concerning Atlantis,
where Poseidon sired an entire race.

That's very interesting, and you know,

the legends that are corresponding with
this place up here are very interesting.

That something significant,

something "sacred" happened
up here a very long time ago.

And they weren't angels
in the sense as we think of angels today.

It was fascinating to me
to discover that at Mount Hermon,

where the watchers are said
to have come down to Earth,

there is a 5,000-year-old monument
that seems to be a perfect match

for the description of Atlantis.

And this specific pattern of concentric
circles appears over and over

throughout the ancient world.

You see it, for example,
at Stonehenge in England,

at Goseck Circle in Germany,

at Big Horn Medicine Wheel in Wyoming

and even the Aztec calendar.

But what does it all mean'?

What are the ancients trying to tell us'?

When I was in Nazca with fellow
ancient astronaut theorist David Childress,

we encountered another circular design
that I am convinced was meant to send us

a message: the Sun-Star
and Cross glyph.

I was intrigued by David's suggestion
that the Sun-Star and Cross glyph

depicts a mandala.

A mandala is the spiritual symbol
for the universe

in both Hinduism and Buddhism.

It is also said to represent
the home of the gods.

But what is a symbol that's common
to India and Asia

doing here in Peru'?

Today, for the first time,
I saw perfect circles

inside some of the lines,
which I had never seen before.

It's this giant geometry etching
on the desert

that just... that's baffling.

You know, you can't figure out
what it's about.

If you've been to India
and Southeast Asia,

you can instantly recognize
that as a mandala, and a yantra.

The similarity between
this geoglyph at Nazca

and the mandala symbol
is really incredible.

Maybe if I can decipher
the true meaning

of the Sun-Star and Cross glyph,
I will begin to crack the alien code.

I'm really starting to think
that the Sun-Star and Cross glyph at Nazca

could hold the key to understanding
all these circular-shaped structures

and symbols that appear
all over the world.

Now, to me, the Sun-Star
and Cross glyph definitely looks like

some kind of mandala...
A symbol used to represent

"the realm of the gods."

And I want to compare notes with my good
friend and mentor Erich von Daniken.

What do you say
about this thing right here?

Because there are some
that have suggested

that "the realm of the gods"
was something physical

and not something spiritual or ethereal.

It was real.

We have so many descriptions in...

in the Vedas, for example.

The so-called cities in the sky.

Or we have things like heaven.

Abraham, for example,
was taken into heaven.

Or Arjuna, in the Indian mythology,
was taken to heaven.

Enoch was taken to heaven.

Change the word of "heaven,"
put in "space" instead of "heaven,"

and you change
the complete meaning of the text.

In this case of the so-called mandala,
definitely extraterrestrials told to the humans

make this in the ground.

They knew, in the future,
we start to ask questions.

You know, it almost seems as if
there is this hidden message

that we are now, slowly
but surely, uncovering...

That our past is completely different
from what the textbooks are saying.

That there is some type
of an alien code.

I am absolutely sure
these extraterrestrials

did not just left the planet
with nothing...

just disappeared with,
"Hey, good-bye!"

They left something,
some kind of proof.

And this is the future
of our science: to find out this.

In addition to the mandala, I
found another interesting association

to be made with the
Sun-Star and Cross glyph.

In 1972, British writer John Michell
set out to diagram New Jerusalem...

A vision of a city described in both the
Book of Ezekiel and the Book of Revelation.

By carefully examining the physical description
of New Jerusalem in Revelation 21,

Michell created a diagram that features
a series of concentric circles,

and at the center, a square
and two overlapping stars.

This design, like the mandala,

bears an intriguing similarity
to the Sun-Star and Cross glyph.

I refuse to accept
that this is all coincidence.

There must be a message here.

But what is it'?

In Geneva, Switzerland,

scientists have built the largest
and most complex machine

ever created: the Large Hadron Collider.

It is designed to smash tiny protons
together at speeds

of nearly 670 million miles per hour...

and thus duplicate what many scientists
believe were the conditions

that caused the universe to form.

Once again, the Large Hadron Collider
bears an interesting similarity

to many of the circular
patterns and designs

seen throughout the world.

Is it possible that with the creation
of the Large Hadron Collider,

we are fulfilling a destiny
that extraterrestrials

set out for us long ago'?

I'm more and more convinced
that the questions we're asking

and the clues we're finding
were intentionally planted here

centuries ago.

And they were meant to be found
and figured out...

not by early man, but by us, today,
at the point in our evolution

when we can begin to ask these questions.

We needed to study biology
to know that there is such a thing as DNA.

We needed to understand
principles of advanced physics

and structural engineering.

We needed to understand
the movements of the stars

and develop the means of seeing
our planet from the sky...

and from up in space.

I'm convinced that someday
we will reconnect

with our extraterrestrial ancestors.

But before that happens,
there are still many more pieces

of the puzzle I need to find.

Only then will we be able
to crack what I call the "alien code."

So it's time for me to once again
grab my gear

and head out
in search of aliens.