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>> NARRATOR: Massive stone

structures

built to reach for the heavens.

>> ANDREW COLLINS: It is a

place of connection, a place of

communication with the

gods themselves.

>> NARRATOR: Strange figures

buried deep in the earth.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: Long

narrow noses with narrow lips.

They look like robots.

>> NARRATOR: And globally

connected spheres, creating the

energy to travel to another

world.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: Somehow, by

touching these stones, we were

able to establish a bridge

to another dimension.

>> NARRATOR: Are ancient

monoliths simply the product of

prehistoric man's hard labor?

Or are they the manifestation

of a more profound power?

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: Certainly

in the past, that kind of

technology could only come

from extraterrestrials.

>> 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 really help

to shape our history?

And if so, might there be

evidence here on earth, hidden

evidence here on earth, hidden in the mysterious monoliths?

In the mysterious monoliths?

The Washington Monument.

Built in the 19th century to

commemorate the first president

of the United States, it towers

more than 555 feet above.

America's capital city.

Its pinnacle fashioned into a

distinctive pyramid shape, the

monument is considered to be the

tallest stone obelisk in the

world.

>> MICHAEL DENNIN: Obelisk is a

generic phrase used for the

rectangular pillars that

are a little pointy at the top

that you find in ancient Egypt,

ancient Rome.

They would have writing on them.

They were used often to record

battles, special events,

record the entire reign of a

particular king or ruler.

>> CHILDRESS: And so now, here

in the United States, we've

done a similar thing.

The Washington Monument, a

symbol of the United States and

of the power in Washington D.C.

The Washington Monument is built

out of blocks of stone,

but then it looks identical to

an Egyptian obelisk, but those

obelisks are different.

They are one solid stone.

>> NARRATOR: Single standing

massive stones are known as

monoliths, and millions of them

were used to construct monuments

all across the ancient world,

including locations such as

Turkey, Peru,

and Ethiopia.

But why did ancient man begin

to create these massive,

monolithic structures?

Could there be something

inherent in the quality of stone

that might hold some sort of

influence or power over mankind?

Perhaps the answer can be found

at a location 90 miles west

of London

of London in the English countryside.

In the English countryside.

In the English countryside. Stonehenge, England.

Stonehenge, England.

Here, on the Salisbury plain in

the county of Wiltshire, stands

the most sophisticated

prehistoric stone circle

in the world.

According to radiocarbon dating,

this striking arrangement of

monoliths was placed on this

wide plain in Southern England

more than 4,000 years ago.

Consisting of more than 100

stone blocks, the monoliths

create a larger structure known

as a megalith.

>> COPPENS: There is a period

in time, several thousand years

ago, which is known as

the megalithic time.

And it is defined by the fact

that our ancestors, pretty much

in every part of civilization,

began to build with gigantic

stones.

>> ALAN BUTLER: These cultures,

which were known as megalithic

cultures, are something of a

mystery to us.

We have to ask ourselves why,

all of a sudden, virtually,

human beings across a broad

stretch of Europe and Asia

enly started to prize large

pieces of rock free, drag them

around the landscape, and then

piling them up in very exotic

piling them up in very exotic and unusual ways.

And unusual ways.

>> NARRATOR: Stonehenge, the

world's most famous megalithic

structure, derives its name from

the material used to construct

it, and also from the term

"henge," which refers to a

circular or oval-shaped bank

that surrounds a central flat

area.

>> SAM OSMANAGICH: Stonehenge...

It's just 25% of the original

monument.

75% has been destroyed forever.

Originally they had 60 huge

blocks that formed a perfect

circle.

The question is, who was able to

move them and what was the

purpose?

>> NARRATOR: Although the

specific origin of the site has

eluded researchers for

centuries, thysical

construction of Stonehenge is

believed to have taken place in

different stages over a period

of several thousands of years.

>> HUGH NEWMAN: It's now

believed the very first part of.

Stonehenge is three great wooden

postholes, which are now in the

car park and there's blobs of

paint on them.

These are dated to at

least 10,000 years old.

The next phase of construction

at Stonehenge was around

3200 to 3400 B.C.,

where they built a great earthen

henge and there was just a

couple of stones there.

Then a few hundred years later,

they brought in the blue stones.

And these are the ones that were

brought over a hundred miles

away from the Preseli Mountains

in Wales.

The major monoliths there, the

great Sarsen stones, they were

brought from much closer, about

20 miles away.

But then some of them weigh up

to 50 tons.

>> NARRATOR: Multiton stones

being carved from the landscape

and transported distances of up

to 100 miles.

Is it really possible that a

prehistoric people could

accomplish such an enormous and

seemingly impossible task?

>> NEWMAN: The theories really

range from they either used

rollers and tree trunks,

which is kind of unlikely when

you look at some of the terrain

they would have

had to go through.

>> M.J. EVANS: There have

been teams of Brits who have

tried to recapitulate

these things.

How did they get them across the

rivers between Wales and.

Stonehenge?

How did they go up and down

through valleys and over hills?

>> BUTLER: One explanation

associated with Stonehenge

dates back to the.

Arthurian legend,

and the legend says that the

stones at Stonehenge were

brought from Ireland by Merlin,

who was King Arthur's magician.

>> NEWMAN: Merlin was said to

transport the stones by

levitating them and pushing

them along just with his bare

hands, all the way across the

landscape from Wales to.

Stonehenge.

>> KATHLEEN McGOWAN: The great

20th century French philosopher

and historian, Jean Marcel,

wrote over 40 books on the life

of Merlin and Arthur and the

Celtic traditions.

And Marcel was adamant that

Merlin was a real person.

He was also adamant that Merlin

was an incredibly powerful

otherworldly being who was here

to teach us to move beyond the

human restrictions and

human restrictions and boundaries.

Boundaries.

>> NARRATOR: Could the legend of

Merlin really be proof of

contact with extraterrestrial

entities in the ancient past

and that they provided advanced

technology to help transport and

place the monoliths?

If so, why would stone be the

ideal material needed to

construct the site?

>> BUTLER: Probably it was

worth using as a medium if you

wanted to impress the gods.

Because it was quite likely that

people saw stone as being

synonymous with gods, because it

seemed to them to last forever.

>> TOK THOMPSON: If they're

gonna build a monument to

provide a testament to how long

lived their culture is, stones

are the best way to go.

Stones were recognized to have

very spectacular properties of

toughness, of hardness, and some

of them, other properties

such as quartz crystals, which

we see with a particular use in

a lot of these cultures.

>> EVANS: The blue stones that

create the outer and inner

circle of Stonehenge contain

quartz crystal.

The properties of those stones

had been found to have effects

on the human body, to impart

vibration and beneficial effects

to the holder of those stones,

to have healing properties.

>> CHILDRESS: And in fact, it's

often been said Stonehenge was

some healing place where people

came, and with their ailments

to be cured.

>> NARRATOR: For some

researchers, further clues to.

Stonehenge's extraterrestrial

connection can be found in one

of the site's most striking

features: The precise position

and alignment of each stone that

makes up the megalith.

>> GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Seen

from the air, Stonehenge is

actually a replica of our solar

system.

All those concentric circles,

they all represent one planet in

our solar system.

How did they know this?

And according to the ancient

texts and the ancient

traditions, this knowledge was

given to our ancestors by none

other than extraterrestrials,

by the gods.

>> MIKE BARA: Some people think.

Stonehenge was some sort of

calendar marker so that

ancient cultures could know when

was the right time to plant.

Other people think that it

actually was a celestial

calendar that was designed to

show when we would pass through

certain very, very intense

certain very, very intense meteor streams.

Meteor streams.

>> OSMANAGICH: We know that,

through the position

of different monoliths,

they were able to watch the

summer solstice, the winter

solstice, even the movement

of some star systems.

>> CHILDRESS: So, who was it,

then, who needed these

astronomical calculations?

Would it be the

extraterrestrials?

Or rather the priestly groups

that the extraterrestrials were

cultivating here on Earth, and

training them to monitor the

stars and the heavens and the

moon and the eclipses.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible that otherworldly

beings designed Stonehenge so

ancient man could gather data

about the stars?

If so, why?

And what was the ultimate

purpose behind obtaining

celestial knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe further clues can be

found by traveling deeper into

the English countryside to

another monolithic site that is

16 times larger than Stonehenge

16 times larger than Stonehenge and even more mysterious.

And even more mysterious.

>> NARRATOR: Southwest England.

Here, just 17 miles north

of Stonehenge, is Avebury...

the largest megalithic stone

circle in the world.

Originally constructed with

hundreds of monoliths, some

experts believe this immense

site was once a major center of

religious ritual

in Great Britain.

>> BUTLER: Avebury is probably

the most significant and most

interesting megalithic site in.

Great Britain, partly because

it's the largest.

>> NEWMAN: Just imagine

the magnitude of what

we're dealing with here.

There's now been a whole village

built inside it because

it's so large.

The stones are huge.

They're probably between 20

and 50 tons each.

They're rough-hewn stones

in a great circle.

And there were even two stone

circles within Avebury itself.

And these were roughly the same

size of Stonehenge each.

>> BUTLER: Old antiquarians once

said that Stonehenge was like a.

Parish church compared to.

Avebury, which was like a

great cathedral.

>> COLLINS: Approaching.

Avebury from at least

two different directions

were avenues of stones that led

off into the local landscape.

Plus, on top of that, there were

other monuments locally as

well: Silbury Hill... the largest

man-made mound in Europe... and

the West Kennet Long Barrow,

which was a burial chamber

dating back perhaps 6,000 years.

>> NARRATOR: Encompassing more

than 28 acres,

mainstream historians believe.

Avebury was constructed from

2850 B.C. to 2200 B.C. by.

Neolithic Britons, and like.

Stonehenge, was used during

sacred rituals.

>> COLLINS: They were

celebrating the different cycles

of the years, the changing of

the seasons.

It seems as if this

was necessary within their

society to show that there was

some kind of rhythm and cycle

within nature that was not only

understood but could be

controlled in some manner.

By creating something like this,

there is stability in the world,

chaos and disorder cannot reign.

>> BUTLER: Avebury was

considered to be a meeting

point.

It's significant to the

solstices at the midsummer and

the midwinter.

But exactly what took place

there and exactly what the

people who built it believe,

we don't know.

>> NARRATOR: According to some

researchers, there may be a

profound purpose for this

circular alignment of stones at.

Avebury, one perhaps connecting

the monoliths to celestial

beings that visited the site

thousands of years ago.

>> NEWMAN: The area around.

Avebury has always been

associated with kind of magic

and mystery.

There's been lots

of orbs seen there, UFOs.

There's been ghost sightings.

There's been hundreds of crop

circles around the area.

So it's got this strange

mystical feeling about it.

>> TSOUKALOS: The mythologies in

conjunction with Avebury

always point to the sky,

to some celestial beings...

The "shining ones," as they

were called, descending from the

sky and educating people in

various disciplines:

Agriculture, mathematics,

geometry, engineering.

>> CHILDRESS: In many cases with.

Avebury and other giant

megaliths, it's as if

they are set up by some

ancient people, perhaps an

extraterrestrial race,

who essentially went out and

surveyed these wilderness lands.

And as part of their surveying,

they left what we would call

gigantic survey markers.

And then at certain places for

unknown reasons, they made stone

circles like Avebury.

>> COPPENS: It is pretty clear

that in Avebury

you have this fenced-off

environment whereby probably

only certain people were able to

come because the stones somehow

embodied the deities.

Maybe they thought that they

could communicate with the

deities through these

monolithic stones.

And we're once again to this

time frame of a civilization who

said that at one point in time,

the deities were physically

present.

>> NARRATOR: Could Avebury's

location and building materials

really have been chosen in order

to enable communication with

extraterrestrials?

And if so, might this explain

why man has been drawn to stone

structures throughout the world

since ancient times?

Perhaps the answers can be found

at another mysterious city, one

that was built on top

that was built on top of a giant rock.

Of a giant rock.

>> NARRATOR: Sigiriya,

Sri Lanka.

Known as Lion's Rock, this

natural monolith towers 600 feet

over the surrounding landscape.

>> CHILDRESS: It was discovered

in 1831 by a British Army

officer named Jonathan Forbes.

What he found there was a

natural monolith, a giant cliff

rock, and stairs had been cut

into it, and then a palace had

been built on top.

And it's extremely remote area.

And it's extremely remote area. And high-up vertical cliffs.

And high-up vertical cliffs.

>> COLLINS: Sigiriya was

certainly a Buddhist monastery

from the first millennium B.C.

And then, around 500 A.D., it

actually became a fortress and

actually became a fortress and a palace for a local king.

A palace for a local king.

There are gardens, palaces on

the very top of the rock.

Then there's various caves and

within these caves are different

murals.

>> NARRATOR: These fresco

paintings feature portraits of

women that some researchers

believe represent ladies of the

king's court, while others

suggest the women are religious

figures.

But according to ancient

astronaut theorists, the images

reveal more evidence of

extraterrestrial contact in the

distant past.

>> TSOUKALOS: We find some of

the most amazing paintings of

people emerging out of the

clouds.

And they're actually floating in

mid-air.

And you have to wonder, what

did our ancestors try to depict

here?

According to the local myths and

legends, Sigiriya was created

with the help of the gods who

descended from the sky.

What a beautiful, poetic way to

depict something that they might

have witnessed.

It was a complete

misunderstanding of a visitation

by technologically advanced

space travelers.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible

these paintings depict actual

sky beings descending to Earth,

as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest?

And if so, might there be

another, more profound reason

why ancient man built a city on

top of this massive monolith?

>> COPPENS: We see so often how

these enigmatic rocks are

worshipped by our ancestors.

They somehow are gateways

between our world and the world

of the gods.

And so in Sigiriya we're seeing

this once again confirmed.

>> ROBERT SCHOCH: The very

concept of a monolith can be

very important, very sacred

people.

Also, the concept of the

mountain reaching to heaven.

It makes me think of the

celestial or the cosmic Mount.

Meru.

>> RICHARD LEVITON: Mount Meru

is a name used in Buddhist

cultures to describe a cosmic

mountain.

It's actually described in

ancient literature as a mass of

golden light, like a golden

blazing fire in the shape of a

mountain.

It's at the center of the

universe, and it exists at many

levels from there, not in a

physical sense but in an energy

sense.

The gods live on the slopes of

it, they all have palaces and

cities.

>> COLLINS: Mount Meru was a

place of the gods.

It was seen as the place of

connection, a place of

communication with the gods

themselves.

It's the point of access between

this world and Heaven.

>> COPPENS: Sigiriya is

basically the small-scale

replica of Mount Meru.

Our ancestors took to this rock

and began to build on top of

that.

It is saying, "This is the rock"

we have in this specific place.

So we're gonna use it in order

to establish an uplink and a

downlink to the gods in the

"sky."

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that.

Sigiriya was built in order to

honor and connect with

extraterrestrials, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

If so, might other monoliths

reveal more evidence of these

ancient space visitations?

Perhaps the ultimate proof can

be found carved in stones buried

be found carved in stones buried half a world away.

Half a world away.

>> NARRATOR: Easter Island.

Isolated in the Pacific Ocean

more than 2,000 miles west of

Chile, this tiny landmass is

home to nearly 900 monolithic

stone statues.

>> SCHOCH: On Easter Island we

have these huge heads and torsos

that are carved out of the

volcanic rock.

They are called the moai.

Some of them that have been

erected are 30 feet or so tall,

weighing up to 75 tons.

>> CHILDRESS: You don't realize

that they're really buried right

that they're really buried right up to their chest.

Up to their chest.

And that these statues are two,

three times as large as we can

see because most of them is

below ground.

Many of the statues, they're

often times sort of sideways,

looking up.

>> SCHOCH: They look inward

toward the center of the island.

They also seem to look up toward

the skies.

So I think there's a deeper

significance and it has to do

with the heavens.

It has to do with things that

were happening in the sky that

were very important to the

people and that they are

recording in these moai, and

pointing to look upward.

There's something going on

there.

>> NARRATOR: According to

archaeologists, the native.

Polynesian inhabitants of Easter.

Island... known as the Rapa Nui

people... constructed the moai

between the 12th and 18th

centuries A.D. to honor their

ancestors.

But recent archaeological

excavations have revealed that

the figures were naturally

buried over thousands of

years, making them much older

than originally believed.

>> SCHOCH: From a geological

perspective, to bury the moai in

20 feet or more of sediment

suggests that they are

potentially thousands of years

old, much older than traditional

archaeologists have suggested.

>> OSMANAGICH: The idea that

they were built 1,000 or 1,500

or 700 years ago, not realistic.

They were built much, much

before that.

It seemed that certain guests

came, built them, and probably

those heads do represent their

original builders.

>> NARRATOR: If the moai are

older than previously

recognized, who really built

them and why?

Considering the Rapa Nui are

thought to have arrived on.

Easter Island no earlier than

300 A.D., is it possible that

celestial beings visited here

thousands of years before?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe these monolithic figures

provide clues that the Rapa Nui

ancestors may have actually been

ancestors may have actually been space travelers.

Space travelers.

>> VON DANIKEN: You cannot

exclude that they are

representation of celestial

ancestors.

We have all these statues, and

the faces of the statues do not

look like the Easter Islanders.

The statues they created, they

look like robots with long,

narrow noses, with narrow lips.

They have nothing which compares

the Easter Island people.

The Easter Island people. So what do they represent?

So what do they represent?

>> CHILDRESS: They are elongated

heads.

They are also these cone heads

that we see at Nazca and Egypt

and other areas of the world.

And other areas of the world. Who are these people?

Who are these people?

>> LEVITON: One possible

explanation for why these heads

of the Easter Island stone

figures face the heavens.

It's as if they were pointing a

finger to their place of origin,

but not because they forgot

where they came from, but so the

where they came from, but so the humans could remember.

Humans could remember.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible the

moai heads represent

extraterrestrial beings,

nodding toward their

otherworldly origin?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes and point to similar stone

figures thousands of miles away

figures thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia as proof.

In Southeast Asia as proof.

Bada Valley, Indonesia.

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Hidden in the isolated mountains

of the island of Sulawesi,

more than 20 monoliths are

scattered in the fields of this

farming region.

Mainstream historians date the

statues to the first millennium

B.C., although the actual date

of their creation has not been

determined.

>> CHILDRESS: Much of the valley

has rice terraces, which are

familiar throughout Indonesia

and Southeast Asia.

But then in the middle of these

rice paddies are these statues,

rice paddies are these statues, and they're just sitting there.

And they're just sitting there.

And when you look at it, you're.

And when you look at it, you're baffled.

Baffled.

The stones are coming from

these deep river valleys that

are some miles away where there

are giant boulders weighing 100

tons.

But then to haul those giant

boulders up into the valley and

then erect it, then carve it

into this giant 15-foot statue.

And you don't know why they.

And you don't know why they would do it or how.

Would do it or how.

>> TSOUKALOS: The Bada Valley

in Indonesia features some of

the most magnificent megalithic

the most magnificent megalithic structures that we can find.

Structures that we can find.

Giant statues that are very

reminiscent to the statues that

we can find, for example, on.

Easter Island.

>> NARRATOR: But how is it that

monoliths halfway around the

world can bear such a close

resemblance to each other?

Some researchers believe the

inspiration came from the same

celestial visitors.

>> NEWMAN: You get similar style

carvings of these very strange

sort of alien-looking faces,

which are very symmetrical, very

beautifully carved.

They have intricate kind of

craftsmanship built into them.

>> COPPENS: They wanted to make

them resemble what, in my

opinion, was a depiction of the

opinion, was a depiction of the ancestors, the gods.

Ancestors, the gods.

Which somehow these stones were

allowing to commemorate or

communicate with these entities.

They're basically telling us,

this is a memorial to our gods,

the deities who were once

present, and who have left

present, and who have left since.

Since.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that these monoliths

were created by mankind to pay

homage to actual otherworldly

beings who visited Earth in the

distant past?

And if so, might monoliths

throughout the world have an

even more profound connection to

each other?

Some researchers believe the

answers can be found by taking a

closer look at sphere-shaped

stones hidden in the jungles of

stones hidden in the jungles of Costa Rica.

Costa Rica.

>> NARRATOR: Palmar Sur, Costa.

Rica.

While clearing the jungles in

the 1930s, crews discover

hundreds of monolithic stone

hundreds of monolithic stone spheres.

Spheres.

>> CHILDRESS: Many of them are

huge.

I mean, they're ten feet in

diameter.

Diameter. They're gigantically huge.

They're gigantically huge.

Others are much smaller, the

size of a basketball or of a car

tire or something like that.

>> NARRATOR: To date, over 300

stone spheres have been

found at archaeological sites

across the region.

And Las Bolas, as they are

called, are some of the most

precise stone carvings in the

ancient world.

Some experts believe these

mysterious stone balls could be

96% completely spherical.

>> CHILDRESS: A perfectly

spherical round ball is hard to

make, and, in fact, where

they're found is a primitive

area, so the stone balls that we

see at Costa Rica would've been

very, very hard to make by just

very, very hard to make by just bashing them out with a rock.

Bashing them out with a rock.

>> SCHOCH: We can only imagine

how they may have been able to

make such perfect spheres.

These spheres are carved out of

granites and granodiorites.

These are very hard igneous.

These are very hard igneous rocks, difficult to work.

Rocks, difficult to work.

>> OSMANAGICH: Granodiorite is

one of the hardest natural

materials.

It never comes free in nature in

the shape of the sphere.

So obviously somebody shaped

them.

Today we would need to use

diamond tools and laser to shape

diamond tools and laser to shape the spheres.

The spheres.

>> NEWMAN: It almost seems like

there was some kind of

megalithic carving school.

Who could create the most

perfect sphere?

Some of them are still hidden

within the jungles.

So what were they doing there?

I mean, why were they

I mean, why were they constructed?

Constructed?

>> CHILDRESS: Jungle-dwelling

local chiefs were sometimes

buried with some of the smaller

balls, but some of the balls

are gigantically huge and in

fact they're so large, they

couldn't fit in any grave.

So the great mystery with the

stone balls really is what their

purpose was.

>> TSOUKALOS: According to the

legends of Costa Rica, those

stone spheres were used as

cannonballs by the god of

thunder to drive away the god of

thunder to drive away the god of wind and hurricanes.

Wind and hurricanes.

Now, these are all wonderful

ideas of a story.

But as we all know, every

story has a core of truth, and

the question is: What is that

the question is: What is that core?

Core?

>> NARRATOR: Are the legends of

gods battling storms really a

description of ancient astronaut

machinery at work, as some

researchers suggest?

And if so, might the discovery

of stone spheres reveal the

of stone spheres reveal the ultimate purpose for monoliths?

Ultimate purpose for monoliths?

Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2004.

A team of archaeologists

discovers stone spheres in

forests and creek beds near the

town of Banja Luka.

>> CHILDRESS: If you go into

that area, it's a ravine in a

mountainside that's been cut by

a stream, and in it are all of

a stream, and in it are all of these stone balls.

These stone balls.

Very similar to the ones

in Costa Rica.

They're half buried in this

mountainside, and some are

exposed.

It is a tourist area.

And in fact Bosnia has

four or five areas where these

stone balls can be seen.

>> OSMANAGICH: The tree, the

tree was standing there, but in

the last storm the tree fell

and, you know, all this, you

know, dirt, all this material

covered the stone sphere which

is here.

Right here.

The biggest source of Bosnian

stone spheres is the central

Bosnian town of Zavidovici.

We took samples from four

different stone spheres and

samples of natural stone that we

found nearby, and then we did

chemical analysis,

and the conclusion was: Those

stone spheres were made.

From the liquid state,

they would melt them.

They were adding certain

additives to get the better

properties of material, and then

when they got dry in certain

molds,

they were getting a perfect

shape of the sphere.

>> NARRATOR: Like most other

monoliths, researchers believe

the spheres were likely used for

ceremonial rituals,

but is it possible that these

monoliths, like the stone

spheres in Costa Rica, helped

create a connection to celestial

beings, as ancient astronaut

theorists contend?

>> CHILDRESS: Another theory

of the stone balls is that they

were somehow used as star maps,

and that they were

rolled around,

and they would show where stars

were and their relationship to

other areas, very much like some

extraterrestrial map.

>> COPPENS: It's also said that

these stone balls were there to

concentrate thought, that they

were somehow physical devices,

that somehow by touching or

working with these stones, we

were able to establish a bridge

to another dimension.

And so we might actually be

looking at a civilization who

realized that the places where

these stone spheres were

located, were somehow power

spots, that somehow there was

some form of energy, whereby if

we were able to concentrate, we

would indeed be transported to a

world where we could communicate

with the gods.

And that might be why these

stone spheres are located in the

places they are.

>> NARRATOR: Could it really be

that these round monoliths were

placed throughout the world to

create a greater cosmic energy

grid, as some researchers

believe?

If so, might stone spheres and

other monoliths be celestial

travel tools placed

in power spots,

portals for celestial travelers

visiting Earth,

and is it possible these

advanced beings have left behind

more evidence,

perhaps not on Earth

but approximately 140

but approximately 140 million miles away?

Million miles away?

>> NARRATOR: 1998.

The Mars Global Surveyor snaps

photos of what appears to be a

monolith on Phobos, one of the

two moons that orbit the planet

Mars.

>> BARA: On the moon of Mars,

Phobos, there's a very, very

interesting obelisk

or monolith there.

They call it the.

Phobos Monolith.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to

walk on the moon, made a really

big deal out of this and

basically claimed that it was

artificial and when we got there

and studied it, it would change

everything in terms of how we

looked at our history.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible there is an obelisk on

a moon of Mars?

One that is not a natural

occurrence, but was,

in fact, put there by

otherworldly beings?

If so, might they have created

similar structures on other

planets and celestial bodies,

perhaps even Earth, as some

researchers suggest?

>> CHILDRESS: Egypt has a

number of obelisks in it, and

those obelisks are 4,000 or

5,000 years old.

And the obelisks in Ethiopia may

be that old, too.

Obelisks, they're a piece of

crystalline granite, and within

the granite is quartz crystal.

So obelisks themselves are, in a

sense, a crystal tower with all

of the properties that quartz

crystal brings to technology.

It's an antenna,

and any antenna can receive a

broadcast and it can give a

broadcast.

And then we have these ancient

obelisks that were at one point,

apparently, all around the

world.

It would seem that there was a

worldwide system, similar to a

wireless broadcasting system.

These obelisks would broadcast

power into the atmosphere, and

remote locations around the

world could pick up that power,

much like a radio today, or a

television set, a satellite

phone, or a computer.

This seems to be the system that

was set up by extraterrestrials

thousands of years ago on this

planet, and incredibly, they

didn't just do it on Planet.

Earth.

So we may well find that when

we go to Mars, we'll find

obelisks there.

>> NARRATOR: Is it really

possible, as some researchers

believe, that monoliths on Earth

have a cosmic connection to the

obelisk on Phobos,

and that, at one time, many of

the monolithic sites seen around

the world were part of an

advanced system that would help

to receive and distribute

energy?

>> LEVITON: You have to realize

that there is more than just

the stones involved.

There's a kind of energy field

around them, and it works

through the stones by way

of their placement.

When put in a circle, or in

rows, or standing singly, they

would ground celestial energy,

transmit it and download it into

the local landscape.

It was meant to be a kind of

passive, continuous input to the

earth from the celestial and

galactic realms.

>> CHILDRESS: Places like.

Easter Island, or remote

jungles, or a remote

mountain area, as long as you

were able to dial in to that

energy pattern and to the

energy being put out, you would

have power.

>> NEWMAN: These tall standing

stones all around the world

could easily have part

of some kind of energy grid

around the planet, connecting

up all these ancient cultures.

Connecting up the energies of

the earth all in different parts

of the world,

somehow harnessing cosmic

energy with Earth energy, and

used for various different

purposes we're only just

starting to understand today.

>> LEVITON: This sort of

megalithic landscape was

designed to create higher nodes

of awareness in multiple places.

Their placement was specific to

take advantage of implicit

energy aspects and gradients in

the landscape.

>> OSMANAGICH: The location of

the stones is very important.

For example, Stonehenge, we now

know that those stones were

positioned above the underground

water flows.

The water moves, generates

energy, the stones receive the

energy, and slowly release it.

The ancient people, they would

be around those monoliths,

keeping their hands on the

stones, receiving the energy.

>> LEVITON: And if the stones

were arranged in a pattern, it

would create a kind of geometry

of consciousness that would have

uplifting effects on people who

were in proximity to them.

>> COPPENS: Throughout the

world, whether they are stone

spheres in Bosnia or

megalithic monuments in Avebury,

what we're seeing is that our

ancestors are saying that these

stones are able to hold energy,

a soul, a spirit, of our

ancestors, of the gods.

And so what we see throughout

the world is these monoliths,

because throughout the world we

are trying to establish this

link between us, mankind, and

the world of the gods.

>> NARRATOR: Monoliths

interconnected by design,

tapping into the energy

of the earth,

and serving as a beacon to link

with celestial beings.

Is it really possible that

ancient monoliths hon

advanced, perhaps

extraterrestrial power we have

yet to realize, and if so, just

what will happen when we unlock

the mystery of the monoliths?

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