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NARRATOR: Invading armies
of almost invincible power.

Incredible weaponry, designed to
both intimidate and annihilate

Secret experiments of
an otherworldly nature.

HENRY STEVENS: A lot of
the information that we've

been told about the
Second World War is wrong.

NARRATOR: Did, as some
believe, Adolph Hitler

base his plans for
world domination

on secret extraterrestrial
knowledge?

GEORGE NOORY: The
Nazis were looking

for some kind of technology
that the ancients processed.

NARRATOR: And did
the German military

develop an arsenal of
so-called wonder weapons,

based on advanced
alien technologies?

JIM MARRS: Not only were they
able to cancel out gravity,

they could be manipulating time.

NARRATOR: Millions of
people around the world

believe we've 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, just what
was their connection

to Hitler's Nazis
and World War II?

NARRATOR: During the
Second World War,

Germany possessed the
most technologically

advanced military in the world.

Weapons, such as
the jet aircraft,

precision bombers,
and guided missiles,

all designed with
one purpose in mind--

to help the Nazis and
their leader, Adolf Hitler,

blitzkrieg their
way across Europe,

and create a Third
Reich, or empire

that would eventually
rule the world.

-And they developed
two amazing weapons.

One was the V-1 buzz
bomber, literally

the first cruise missile.

And the other was the V-2,
the first ballistic missile.

JIM MARRS: The
German rocket program

was years ahead of any
of the Allied nations.

By the end of the war,
they were developing

the A10, which was also
known as the New York rocket.

So that would give you an idea
of what they were thinking.

They also had one in
the works that they

were calls-- calling
the Mars rocket.

So I think they had some
pretty grandiose plans.

NARRATOR: Even to their
enemies, German scientists

were the envy of the world.

But what was the source of
their incredible achievements?

Were they simply smarter
than their counterparts

in other countries?

Did they receive more
funding and resources

for their research?

Or were they, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

guided by other, possibly
extraterrestrial forces.

-Hitler was always
saying that he had access

to the most advanced
technology, that the Nazis would

prevail in World War II.

And I suppose it is a very
important question to ask.

What was giving Adolf
Hitler the confidence

to assert to masses
of people that he

was going to essentially
take over the world?

NARRATOR: In his 1993
book, "Secret Societies

and their Power in
the 20th Century,"

author Ian van
Helsing told the story

of a strange crash in
Germany's Black Forest

that occurred in
1936, three years

before the start
of World War II.

According to van
Helsing, residents

living near the small
town of Freiburg

woke up to what sounded
like a massive plane crash.

But when investigators
examined the crash,

they found a strange
disc-shaped object,

and inside were
the remains of what

appeared to be
extraterrestrial beings.

Van Helsing also claims that
within hours of the crash,

Hitler's SS troops
took possession

of the downed aircraft
and its deceased crew

and carried it away to their
top secret headquarters

at Wewelsburg Castle.

There, it was believed,
Nazi scientists

began the task of
reverse engineering

the technology found
aboard the damaged craft.

But is there any evidence that
this extraterrestrial spaceship

even existed?

And would it have been possible
to reverse engineer it?

BILL BIRNES: What exists are
the reports of scientists

who claim to have read
reports of analysis

done on that craft and
the propulsion system.

MICHAEL DENNIN: The challenges
in reverse engineering

it would depend a little bit on
the nature of the power source

it used, and how it worked.

Right now, because we are
such an electronically based

society-- and it's almost all
based on silicon electronics--

if it wasn't that, it
might be very, very hard.

But if it was close
to what we did,

then it would probably
be pretty easy.

NARRATOR: According to reports
discovered after the war,

German scientists
began experimenting

with anti-gravity technologies
shortly after the alleged

discovery of the alien craft.

One of these scientists
was an Austrian inventor

named Viktor Schauberger.

MICHAEL DENNIN: He was very
instrumental in talking

about creative ways of using
fluid motion to generate

propulsions.

And a lot of it has to
do with studying the way

animals actually move
through water or air.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER:
He looked especially

on the trout standing
still in a raging torrent,

and he thought of how can this
fish stand still in this river.

And then they thought about
how nature works and he stated,

it's not the animal itself.

It's air or water that
moves this animal.

A fish does not swim.

It is swum.

And a bird does not fly.

It is flown.

So why can't we do
this with machines?

Move the air in a special way so
that the vehicle is pulled, not

pushed.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Viktor Schauberger, he

developed a type
of vortex engine.

Artificial tornado,
as it were, where

vortex activity and
gyroscopic activity

could be harnessed with liquids,
such as water or mercury.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER:

Viktor Schauberger, made
some big inventions.

Inventions that lead, um,
maybe back to ancient times.

This is the so-called Repulsin,
or Repulsine in German.

It was meant to be some kind
of propulsion system mounted

in a submarine or an
aircraft vertically

to create a field Viktor
Schauberger called,

biological vacuum.

And the aircraft
or the submarine

should be sucked
into this field.

The special shape of this
device led to the story

that Viktor Schauberger is the
inventor of flying saucers.

NARRATOR: At the time
of its development,

the Repulsin's inverse
propulsion system

seemed revolutionary,
but Viktor Schauberger

believed he had rediscovered
an ancient technology.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER:
Viktor also refers

to old Indian texts, where
he reads out of these texts

that these old
peoples, uh, they'd

used some kind of
flowing magnetism

that allows them to
overcome gravity.

NARRATOR: According to early
Sanskrit text discovered

in India, aircraft
called vimanas

used a similar propulsion
system thousands of years ago.

Is it possible that
German scientists

viewed ancient texts
like the Bhagavad Gita,

not as legendary
myth, but as a source

of historical and
scientific fact.

-The Germans were the best
oriental scholars in the world.

So they translated the,
uh, the ancient texts,

uh, Sanskrit and
later, into German.

DAVID CHILDRESS: And
the Germans studied

these ancient Indian
epics and were familiar

with the ideas of vimanas.

And so by combining that
with this vortex technology,

and allegedly this crashed disc
from 1936 in the Black Forest,

they then came up
with their designs

for these flying saucers.

NARRATOR: In 1939, three
years after the reported crash

at Freiburg, German scientists
developed their own flying

saucer-shaped aircraft
and called it the Haunebu.

Early prototypes had a
diameter of 25 meters

and were manned by
a crew of eight.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The Haunebu
was a classic flying saucer

design with a dome and
windows on the top,

with one large dome underneath.

HENRY STEVENS: It was sort
of containable lightning,

is what it was.

These two balls,
they would produce

electrons and positrons.

And the positrons would
migrate to the top

of the sphere and levitate.

JIM MARRS: Almost all my
life I've heard stories

that the Nazis had
obtained a flying saucer.

And I do believe the
Nazis were in touch

with non-human
intelligences that gave them

the advanced technology
that they developed

right up till the
end of the war.

NARRATOR: But how many
in Hitler's regime

actually believed
in the existence

of extraterrestrial beings?

How close were
they to the Fuhrer?

And how far did they
go to make contact?

NARRATOR: The swastika.

This simple four-sided
figure is the ultimate symbol

of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.

But its origins reveal a
much different message,

one that dates back
over 3,000 years.

MICHAEL CREMO:
Swastika is a Sanskrit

word from ancient India.

It means "mark of good fortune."

And the same symbol is found
not only in ancient India,

but all over the world in many
different ancient cultures,

ranging from Egypt to Iran, to
the cultures of the Americas.

NARRATOR: During the
1930's, Adolph Hitler

and the Nazi party
used the swastika

to symbolize the Aryan race
and its struggle for victory.

But were the German leaders
aware of the swastika's

extraterrestrial connection?

MICHAEL CREMO: In the
ancient Sanskrit text,

it's stated that the
symbol of the swastika

is connected with
extraterrestrial beings,

such as the Hindu god Brahma.

It's often used in
worship in temples

dedicated to
extraterrestrial beings.

BILL BIRNES: The
swastika turns up

in the legends of indigenous
peoples all around the world.

And the theory was that it was a
magical power, a magical symbol

given to these indigenous
peoples by extraterrestrials.

And that by using
this symbol, it

could ward off enemies, ward
off evil, give them the power

to not only survive,
but become supreme.

NARRATOR: Did Hitler
choose the swastika

as the symbol of the
Nazi party because

of its extraterrestrial
connections?

Did he believe in aliens
from other worlds?

It is known that Hitler
surrounded himself

with those who believed
in extraterrestrial beings

and ancient advanced
civilizations.

-Hitler was obsessed
with ancient mythology.

He was obsessed with the
occult, and more importantly he

was obsessed with
trying to gain knowledge

that he believed he could muster
before anybody else could.

So he spent an inordinate amount
of time, energy, and money

all over the planet to try to
get information about things

that would give
Germany an upper hand.

NARRATOR: One of the main groups
advising the Nazi leadership

was a secret society
known as the Vril.

Members are said
to have included

the commander of the SS,
Heinrich Himmler, Air Force

commander, Hermann
Goering, and the head

of the Nazi party,
Martin Bormann.

The Vril society took their
name from the 19th century book

written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
called "The Coming Race."

In it, Bulwer-Lytton describes
a powerful master race

and an ancient
mystical energy form

known as vril, that could
be tapped and controlled.

-The Vril Society in
Germany took their name

from this force,
this universal force,

which in Sanskrit
is known as prana.

MICHAEL CREMO: Just
like an engineer

can use electricity to either
heat a room or cool a room,

or make sound or do so many
other things, it's one energy,

but it can be manifested
in different ways.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The
Vril Society, they

believed that this
vril power could

power machines and devices.

And they'd wanted to use it
for aircraft, discoid flying

saucers.

NARRATOR: According
to their beliefs,

the Vril could tap
into this energy

because they were the direct
descendant of extraterrestrials

from the Aldebaran
solar system that

had come to earth
in the distant past.

Members of this pure master
race were known as Aryans.

BILL BIRNES: They believed
that Aryans descended

from a race of ETs, and these
ETs imbued this Aryan race

with tremendous power
and meant for them

to be the master race on earth.

And that was, in part,
the justification

for the Nazi political party to
establish the Aryan supremacy

on the planet Earth.

NARRATOR: When the Nazi party
swept into power in 1933,

the Vril encouraged
Hitler and his henchmen

to fund a worldwide search
for ancient alternative

technologies.

German scientists
and researchers

scoured the planet for
ancient texts and relics,

such as the Holy Grail, and
the Ark of the Covenant.

According to legend,
these biblical artifacts

contained powerful
energies that could

be harnessed and
used as weapons.

ROBERT CARGILL: The
Ark of the Covenant

was said to be a wooden box
that was overlaid in gold.

And the Israelites
were said to revere

this box because
it represented God.

The Ark of the Covenant is said
to possess tremendous power,

that whoever touched it dies.

Any army that marches with
the Ark of the Covenant

can defeat any other army.

And this is part of
the lore and the legend

of the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: But did Hitler really
believe these tales to be true?

Did he view the Bible
as a history book?

DAVID CHILDRESS: When you
see, like, the Indiana Jones

movies which tend to focus
on these secret Nazi occult

expeditions around the world to
find the Ark of the Covenant,

or the Spear of Destiny, or some
secret libraries and aliens,

while those movies
are fiction, they're

very much based on truth.

GEORGE NOORY:
Hitler was obsessed

with trying to find the
Ark of the Covenant.

It was far more
important, I think,

than just some religious belief.

I think the Ark of
the Covenant had

a function, whatever
it might have been.

-The Book of Exodus, there's
a very detailed description

of the Ark of the Covenant.

Supposedly, it was the
box that was constructed

to contain the two tablets of
the Ten Commandments, which

were irradiated
with divine power

because they had been
touched by the finger of God.

As soon as the tablets
are placed inside the box,

if you look at the
biblical accounts,

that box becomes dangerous.

It starts striking people dead.

Strange voices emerge from it.

They went far off in
the Indiana Jones movie

when it was described as a
radio for talking to God.

NARRATOR: At his headquarters
in Wewelsburg Castle,

SS commander, Heinrich Himmler,
brought in psychics and mediums

who claimed they could contact
extraterrestrial beings.

One of these was an influential
member of the Vril society,

named Maria Orsic.

JIM MARRS: Marie
Orsic headed a group

of women known as the Vrillican,
or the female Vril members.

And they were beautiful women.

And they grew their
very long because they

felt like their long hair
could act as an antenna

to the universal vril energy.

-They believed that
extraterrestrials,

non-human force, was right
here on planet Earth.

And they were the ones who
inspired the early technology

to develop circular-shaped
craft based on images

that they'd seen
of flying saucers.

They inspired Schauberger.

They inspired other developers
to look into the possibility

that these disc-shaped
craft could

fly through some
sort of anti-gravity,

some sort of levitation.

The Germans were able to develop
a technology so far in advance

of the Allied
technology, that people

said they were helped
by extraterrestrials.

In fact, the one quote we
have was from Hermann Oberth.

And Dr. Oberth was in the
German rocketry program.

Hermann Oberth said,
quote, "We were

helped by people
from other worlds."

NARRATOR: Was it possible
that the Nazis made contact

with extraterrestrial beings?

If so, might the
Germans have received

other advanced
alien technologies?

And just how close
did Hitler come

to building the deadliest weapon
in the history of the world?

NARRATOR: Berlin, 1938.

The world took its first
step towards the atomic age

when German chemists, Otto
Hahn and Fritz Strassmann,

split uranium atoms and
inadvertently discovered

fission, the basis
of nuclear energy.

MICHAEL DENNIN: When you
have atoms either break apart

or come together, you lose
a small amount of mass.

It turns out, the
amount of energy in mass

is related to the mass times
the speed of light squared.

And the speed of light
is such a huge number.

That's what converts
this small amount of mass

into a huge amount of energy.

NARRATOR: News of the
discovery quickly spread

through the world's
scientific community.

In the United States,
Albert Einstein

warned President
Franklin Roosevelt,

in an August 2, 1939 letter,
that Germany's progress

could lead to the creation
of a powerful new bomb.

NARRATOR: How were
the German scientists

in Berlin able to make this
discovery before anyone else?

Was this really a
new breakthrough?

Or might these scientists
have rediscovered

an ancient source of
unimaginable power?

Deformed skeletons,
and vitrified stone

at Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan.

Radioactive ash covering the
ancient city of Harappa, India.

And the biblical cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah.

According to the ancient
astronaut theory,

the first atomic
blasts may not have

occurred during the 1940s but
thousands of years earlier.

-What they found in these
cities-- Mohenjo Daro, Harappa,

Kot Diji, others of
these Harappan cities--

they found people just
lying dead in the streets.

It was like some doom had
just taken over these cities.

Some theorists have
proposed that what

happened to Sodom and
Gomorrah, two cities right

at the end of the Dead Sea, was
some kind of nuclear explosion

that wiped this area out.

Lot's wife was allegedly
turned into a pillar of salt.

The idea there
would be that, when

there is a nuclear explosion,
people are suddenly

vaporized, incinerated,
mineralized.

MICHAEL CREMO: When an
atomic bomb explodes,

the heat is so intense that it
melts the silicon in the sand

into glass.

There are some reports that such
fields of fused sand, of glass

have been found in
places including India.

But if they do exist, this
would confirm the descriptions

given in the ancient
Sanskrit writings,

that the people of
those times had weapons

resembling our modern
nuclear weapons.

They were called Brahmastras.

NARRATOR: According
to the Hindu text,

the Brahmastras came from gods.

But who were these
supernatural beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Many
of these Hindu gods

did look different than humans.

Generally they're often
depicted as having blue skin.

And that may well be
describing extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Could
Hitler have been aware

of these same ancient accounts?

Might that have been the
reason behind Nazi Germany's

archaeological and scientific
trips to India and Africa?

-The Nazis were
looking for something.

They were looking for
some kind of technology

that the ancients
possessed that we had lost.

And they wanted to find it.

And they wanted to find it fast.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Throughout
the Middle East and also

in ancient India, there
are stories of gin.

These genies, they've got
magic powers, magic lamps,

flying carpets and
things like that.

So in my mind,
it's quite possible

that this ancient gin are really
the ancient aliens with all

their technology and aircraft.

NARRATOR: Did
Hitler and the Nazis

uncover any ancient
atomic secrets?

Just how close did they come to
developing the ultimate weapon?

And how much of their quest
was guided by an outside hand?

In a secret lecture in February,
1942, German physicist,

Werner Heisenberg, spoke of
building a nuclear reactor

designed to control
fission and enable uranium

to be converted into plutonium.

-In layman terms, how
the atomic bomb works,

it's basically two stages.

The key element is, you have
to get uranium to split.

So you need a trigger for
this reaction to happen.

And then you need it to have
what they call a critical mass,

enough of it together, that
once you get it to happen in one

place, it can cause
the next reaction,

and the next reaction,
and the next reaction.

So it's actually a
series of explosions.

NARRATOR: Hitler was now on the
brink of having an atomic bomb.

But then the Germans suddenly
stopped trying to build one.

But why did the Germans give
up on their atomic program?

Most mainstream
historians believe

it was due to its high
cost and commitment,

amid a losing war effort.

Others suggest that the
German scientists lacked

the knowledge, or possibly,
even sabotaged the project

in fear of Hitler would
do with his new weapon.

GEORGE NOORY: The
Germans came very

close to developing
a weapon that

would've allowed
them to win the war.

All I can say is, thank God
we beat them to the punch.

Because if they had gotten
that technology perfected,

we'd all be speaking
German right now.

NARRATOR: But might the Nazi
scientists, as some suggest,

have turned their attention to
an even more advanced weapon,

one that would
allow Hitler's army

to travel through
both space and time?

NARRATOR: In a remote valley
just outside Ludwikowice,

Poland, stands a strange
circular structure

known as the Henge, or Fly Trap.

-We are in the middle
of a valley which

was taken over by the
SS, and transformed

into a secret
research development

and industrial facility.

It was closely guarded.

Inside of this valley, we
have three security rings,

closing specific
areas from each other.

Inside of the innermost
circle, this structure stands.

And it's quite mysterious.

NARRATOR: Mainstream
scholars believe

the structure served as
the concrete support base

to a cooling tower
used by a coal mine.

But according to
Witkowski and others,

the German high
command would not

have devoted so many
military resources here

if the valley contained
only an energy plant.

They say the Henge
was used to test

a new highly advanced
machine known as Die Glocke,

or, the Bell.

-The Bell, Die
Glocke, was probably

one of the top secret
projects of the Third Reich.

It was so secret,
that it was even

unclear on how much
Hitler was told.

-There's a great
deal of evidence

to suggest that the
scientists, including

Hermann Oberth and Wernher
von Braun and others,

were working on a
bell-shaped craft that

was electromagnetic in
it's propulsion system.

-This, some say, was the
Wunderwaffe, the wonder weapon.

A weapon so powerful, so exotic,
that even in the last minutes

of the war, as the Soviet
army closed in on Poland,

could've changed the
whole course of the war.

NARRATOR: Surviving
sketches depict the Bell

as having a ceramic
covering, and dimensions

measuring 10 feet high,
and five feet in diameter.

It's design appears contrary to
modern aerodynamic principles.

-If you're starting to think
about a bell shape for flight,

the challenge you're
facing, I think,

is making it aerodynamic
when you move around

side-to-side, and
forward and backward.

Because you're presenting a
very large cross-sectional area

to the air, and you're going
to generate a lot of drag.

So you might be very
good if you wanted just

like a hovercraft
that went up and down.

But once you start
moving, I think

you're going to
run into trouble.

NARRATOR: But if the Bell was
not a new type of aircraft,

then what was it?

According to some ancient
astronaut theorists,

the Bell may have
been a time machine.

IGOR WITKOWSKI: There is
a kind of, uh, voltage

that's named solitons,
which a voltage is isolated

electromagnetically
from the outside world.

Recent research and
experiments show

that the link between gravity
and electromagnetic physics

is much stronger than
the scientists thought

for some time.

-The laws of the
universe being universal,

if you take the right
electromagnetic field and very

high voltage, pulse it, or
phase it in a certain way,

you can get some very
strange phenomena.

You can make things
disappear and reappear.

Therefore, it follows to reason
that this would be studied

and that the Nazi
Bell was probably

an attempt by that regime to
develop some type of flying

machine that would
use these sort

of advanced
electromagnetic concepts.

NARRATOR: But was time
travel even a possibility?

According to German-born
physicist, Albert Einstein,

humans were theoretically
capable of it.

-His theory of
special relativity

actually showed
for the first time,

that time can slow down
when you go very fast.

And so that has an impact
on going into the future.

It allows you to travel
really fast somewhere,

and your time goes slower
than somebody else.

And you end up in the
future, relative to what

you thought you were doing.

The harder one to think
about is general relativity,

where Einstein
talks about gravity,

and how to describe gravity.

And there, you can start
thinking about space-time,

and bending it, and actually
by warping space and time

in the right way, you end
up going backwards in time.

NARRATOR: While no records exist
indicating the Bell was ever

used during the war, as
the Allied military forces

pushed into Germany,
the entire project,

and its commander, SS
general, Hans Kammler,

suddenly disappeared.

-SS general, Hans
Kammler, who was

going to defect in exchange
for immunity, but then,

by the end of the
war, he disappeared.

So where did Hans Kammler go?

And what did he take?

I think he took the Bell.

Did he create a wormhole?

Did he create a Stargate?

And this is what the
Nazis were working on.

NARRATOR: Did Kammler
and other Nazis really

use the Bell to escape
justice by disappearing

across time or possibly
to another planet?

Reportedly, the rest
of the project team

met a more sinister fate.

-The engineers that
worked on the Bell

were put to death by the SS.

They didn't want this
technology falling

into the hands of
the East or the West.

-I mean, you have,
like all these people

are being murdered.

OK.

I mean, I mean top scientists.

You know, [BOOM] there,
they blow themselves up

in their own labs.

NARRATOR: It was also rumored
that Maria Orsic, the psychic

and member of the secret
society known as the Vril,

sent out a coded message
to the remaining members,

hoping to escape with the help
of extraterrestrial beings.

-What I have been given
to understand was,

that the agreed-to code to
gather at a certain location,

I believe it was somewhere
near what was left of Hamburg.

At that time, a UFO
was seen over Hamburg.

She disappeared.

Several other key members of
the Vril society disappeared.

And some say, uh,
Martin Bormann,

a major-league occultist
also disappeared.

There have been rumors
for many, many years

that they went to
another planet.

-The ironic thing
about all of this

is years later, in
Kechburg, Pennsylvania,

a similar object was
witnessed by a number

of people that
looked like the Bell.

Is it possible that the
Nazis perfected these things?

Or is it possible
that the aliens

looked like Nazis in uniforms?

How bizarre would that be?

NARRATOR: In the spring of 1945,
Germany's war effort collapsed.

As the Allied armies
advanced towards Berlin,

German scientists and engineers
abandoned their laboratories.

Hitler's search for a
wonder weapon failed.

But as the war
neared its end, what

happened to the
German scientists?

While it's known, many
ended up in the US,

just what secrets did
they bring with them?

NARRATOR: On April 30, 1945
as the Allied armies closed

in Berlin, Adolf Hitler
committed suicide.

Two days later, the city fell.

On May 7, the German army
unconditionally surrendered.

After the war in Europe, many
leading Nazi party members

disappeared, some
never to be found.

Two months after the
defeat of Germany,

a group of American Scientists,
led by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,

gathered in a remote area of
New Mexico known as Jornada del

Muerto, or, Journey of Death.

There, at 5:29 AM,
on July 16, 1945,

the US military detonated
the first ever atomic bomb.

But how had the Americans
discovered the key

to the world's first
successful nuclear device?

Did they do it themselves?

Or might they have had access
to the same ancient texts

the Germans did, that
described powerful weapons

and extraterrestrial aircraft?

-It's something
that's never denied

by people that
research this thing.

There is a geophysicist in
Germany, Dr. Axel Stoll,

and he's done a
technical translation

of some of the
ancient Indian text

with an eye towards the idea
that it may have had something

to do with the German
flying disc, built

during the Second World War.

So this idea is a possibility.

NARRATOR: Perhaps
the most amazing

technological advancement
in the history of mankind

was placing a man on the moon.

On July 20, 1969,
less than 25 years

after the end of World War
II, astronauts Neil Armstrong

and Buzz Aldrin
stood on the surface

of an actual alien world.

But how did such a technological
leap forward happen so quickly?

And could it possibly
have been tied

to ancient technologies
discovered by Germany?

HENRY STEVENS: If you think
about all the technology

we have today,
there isn't anything

that either wasn't invented
during this period of time,

or greatly enhanced by the
Germans during the Reich years.

The Germans pretty much
invented our modern world.

NARRATOR: Following the
end of World War II,

many of Germany's top
scientists, engineers,

and technicians were captured
and brought to America

as part of a secret project
known as Operation Paperclip.

HENRY STEVENS: Operation
Paperclip was a US government

project to bring German
scientists to the United States

to work either for the
military or for industry.

-They were taken into custody.

They were granted asylum.

They were brought to
the United States.

Their horrific war crimes with
concentration camp victims

were expunged.

NARRATOR: The most
important and influential

of these former
German scientists

was Dr. Wernher von
Braun, the commander

of Germany's Peenemunde
space research center.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Von Braun was really

the developer of the
V-1 and the V-2 rocket.

He was a member
of the Nazi party.

His commanders were SS generals.

He was privy to some of
the most secret projects

that Nazi Germany was
developing during the war.

NARRATOR: Once in
America, von Braun quickly

established himself as the
leader of the US military's

burgeoning rocket program.

He would eventually become one
of the key architects of NASA.

-In fact, the first rockets
that the United States

was launching out in New
Mexico were essentially

the V-2 rockets.

I think the only
real difference was

that we'd taken the swastikas
and iron crosses off.

-The whole space race
almost seems like a joke

as I look back on it,
because the fact is,

there wasn't an American rocket
program versus a Russian rocket

program.

We had a German rocket program.

We didn't have an
American rocket program.

There's no question,
as you look at NASA.

There's no getting to the
moon without von Braun

and the other German
rocket scientists.

DAVID CHILDRESS: In many
ways, the American government

has just carried on what
the Third Reich was doing--

building underground
basins and factories,

developing secret technology.

And this technology was
also in ancient times, too.

And is the same technology
that was used in the vimanas.

NARRATOR: In 1970,
UFO researcher,

Allen Greenfield claims to have
met rocket expert, Wernher von

Braun, while examining
declassified files

at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base.

-And I said to him,
how did you develop

that much technology so fast?

And he looked down the rows
of UFO files, and he said,

we had help from
[NODS HEAD TOWARD FILES] them.

And I said, you mean,
them, meaning the aliens.

He said, yeah, we had help.

We all got help from them.

And that was like, the
eye-opening moment.

JIM MARRS: The evidence
that the Nazis were

aware of non-human
technology is simply

the fact of the existence of
this incredible technology

that they had by
the end of the war.

NARRATOR: In the end,
Adolph Hitler's quest

for a powerful new
wonder weapon failed.

But the technological
advancements

created by German scientists did
succeed in changing our world,

and even threatening
our very existence.

But could today's
space-age technology really

be the result of
ancient alien research?

And, if extraterrestrials
once possessed deadly weapons

capable of mass destruction,
what happened to them?

Did they become victims of
their own super intelligence?

If so, will we?

Perhaps, only time,
and space will tell.