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NARRATOR: He is the man who harnessed lightning.

MAN: He really is the quintessential wizard.

NARRATOR: He envisioned new technologies

far before their time.

DIFFERENT MAN: These images would burst into his mind.

NARRATOR: He also claimed to have contact

with otherworldly beings.

DIFFERENT MAN: You have to wonder

if extraterrestrials themselves weren't feeding him information.

NARRATOR: Nikola Tesla is considered

one of the most innovative and mysterious men who ever lived,

but was he simply a mad genius,

or might his brilliance have had extraterrestrial origins?

DIFFERENT MAN: He was actually being communicated with

by extraterrestrials and publicly proclaimed this.

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, is there a connection

to the genius of Nikola Tesla?

New York City,

January 7, 1943,

famed inventor Nikola Tesla dies of a heart attack

on the 33rd floor of the Hotel New Yorker.

Within hours of his body being discovered,

his nephew arrives at Room 3327 and discovers Tesla's remains

as well as his technical papers and notebooks

have already been removed.

Speculation spreads that the Federal Bureau of Investigation

had seized the items and quickly designated them top secret.

MAN: Nikola Tesla was completely paranoid

about someone trying to kill him,

and as soon as he died, U.S. government agents

swooped in and confiscated all of his scientific papers.

In a very short time, everything that

he had been guarding with this life was gone.

The official story is that nothing

of any great significance was found.

It was just a lot of scientific papers and documents.

However, there have been a lot of rumors over the years

that the material that was recovered

was profoundly significant in terms

of a lot of highly advanced scientific concepts.

NARRATOR: Just who was this mysterious figure

known as Tesla, and why would his notebooks

elicit so much interest from the United States government?

[Thunder]

The life of Nikola Tesla

was a dramatic one from the very beginning.

[Clock bell chimes]

He was born at the stroke of midnight on July 10, 1856,

during a violent lightning storm in what is now Croatia.

[Thunder]

MAN: It was during an electrical storm,

and the midwife saw this as a bad omen,

but there was a flash of lightning,

and Tesla's mother said, "No. This will be a child of light."

MAN: At an early age,

Nikola Tesla showed a superior mind.

He was already inventing things.

He invented toys that used insects to power them,

but he was fascinated by thunderstorms,

and when he would see the lightning,

he became fascinated with electricity,

and he was determined that he was going to harness

the power of the earth and the universe

for the benefit of mankind.

NARRATOR: In 1881, after eight years

studying physics, math, and engineering at universities

in Graz, Austria, and Prague, Tesla became

an electrical engineer for a telephone company in Budapest.

Three years later, the 28-year-old moved

to the United States and took a job in New York City

working for Thomas Edison,

but very quickly, the two would become rivals

in what became known as the War of the Currents.

In a sense, you have dueling wizards.

Edison was performing with direct current.

Tesla came along with alternating current,

competing to win the right to harness Niagara Falls.

That was the big prize.

If you harness Niagara Falls,

you control all the power for the entire Northeast.

NARRATOR: In Edison's direct current distribution system,

the steady stream of electricity would lose potency

as it traveled down the line.

This required power plants every half-mile

and could only supply enough power to light bulbs.

Tesla designed a far more sophisticated system

utilizing alternating current,

which could easily be manipulated along the way,

allowing for not only light bulbs to be powered,

but also other electric devices.

Using Niagara Falls as a hydroelectric power source,

Tesla's system could illuminate the entire Northeast.

SEIFER: It would be like comparing a horse and buggy

to a jet plane.

Tesla had the jet plane. Edison had the horse and buggy.

There is no comparison at all. Tesla had a quantum leap ahead.

NARRATOR: Edison criticized Tesla's model

as highly dangerous in an effort to ensure

that his system won out.

He even went so far as holding public demonstrations

using alternating current to electrocute cats and dogs...

and even a rogue elephant...

but Nikola Tesla's superior A/C power system

ultimately prevailed, and today it still remains

the foundation of the world's power grid.

Tesla allowed the world to be electrified, and not only that.

He brought electricity from being kind of a useful thing

to being a universal thing

that could be used all throughout society.

MAN: Nikola Tesla is one of the most amazing geniuses

mankind has ever known.

His ideas went far and beyond what was accepted at the time.

If it hadn't been for Tesla,

we would be living in very different times.

NARRATOR: But Nikola Tesla

not only officially electrified the world.

His legacy includes groundbreaking work

on electric rail roads, fluorescent and neon lights,

wireless radio communications,

X-rays

remote control,

turbine engines,

speedometers,

helicopters,

and even torpedoes.

By the time of his death,

Tesla held nearly 700 worldwide patents.

MAN: Nikola Tesla was one of the world's greatest inventors.

Tesla was like Leonardo da Vinci.

He had the mind of a futurist,

and he was able to do incredible things.

NARRATOR: During Nikola Tesla's time,

the Industrial Revolution was firmly taking hold.

Factories using steam and coal power replaced manual labor.

Hundreds of thousands of miles of railway and roads were built,

dramatically changing the landscape of society,

but this extraordinary innovation came at a price--

a complete disregard for the environment.

SWARTZ: Nikola Tesla said that there was a difference

between progress and technology.

Progress benefits mankind.

Technology does not necessarily do that.

If you have a technology that is polluting the planet,

that's not progress.

NARRATOR: But just how is it that Nikola Tesla

was so far ahead of his time?

For decades, the forward-thinking inventor,

a man shrouded in mystery,

has fascinated scholars and researchers.

SEIFER: Tesla came from a very strange area,

actually wasn't too far from Transylvania.

He was tall and thin.

He spoke 11 or 12 different languages,

and he does these fantastic inventions

and fantastic performances.

So he had this mystique about him.

MAN: Nikola Tesla is born at a time which, coincidentally,

coincides with an ancient Zoharic prophecy that speaks

about the opening of the gates

of wisdom upon the earth,

and who is born at this time?

Nikola Tesla,

Albert Einstein.

This is the beginning of so many things.

NARRATOR: But could there really be something more

to the prophecies, rumors, and wild speculations

surrounding Nikola Tesla,

something, perhaps, even otherworldly?

Throughout history, there have been various prophets

and scientists that have really affected the human evolution--

like Einstein, Galileo, Copernicus--

and Tesla is definitely one of these type of people.

We have to wonder if these people aren't somehow involved

in some larger plan of influence on humanity as a whole.

MAN: Some researchers into Tesla think that he was some kind

of special human receiver, and if that's the case,

then we have someone who the ETs were helping

to move along and develop the amazing inventions

that light the world today.

WILCOCK: Is it possible that Tesla knew he was on a mission?

Was he attempting to uplevel our technology to the point

at which we would be capable of having all of the abilities

of those who in ancient times were called the gods?

NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that Nikola Tesla was being influenced by extraterrestrials,

extraterrestrials on a mission to advance mankind?

Perhaps answers can be found by further examining

the inspiration behind one of Tesla's greatest achievements.

Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology

is home to some of the world's greatest minds.

M.I.T. researchers are on the forefront of innovation,

including the development of wireless transmission of power.

Efficient wireless transmission of electricity

has eluded scientists for years.

Radio waves, microwaves,

and even laser beam transmission of power have fallen short,

but in 2007, M.I.T. researchers were able

to safely transmit power wirelessly seven feet

across a room, a feat heralded

as a first step to cutting the power cord.

Incredibly, a world in which all electrical devices

would be automatically powered at all times,

requiring no charging or wires, was envisioned

more than a century earlier by inventor Nikola Tesla,

and by some accounts,

he was close to actually achieving that goal.

MAN: The ideas of Tesla for wireless power

have only been briefly investigated

by various scientists,

and the tests that were done by Tesla in 1899 to 1900

in Colorado Springs verify the fact

that the use of wireless was actually possible.

SEIFER: Tesla went out to Colorado Springs

to see if he could send electricity miles,

which is a tremendous achievement,

but he had a huge tower,

and there was 200 feet to the top.

His assistant was located at the laboratory,

and Tesla said, "When I give you the signal,

"I want you to throw the switch

"and fire up the wireless system,"

and Tesla probably walked four miles away.

NARRATOR: Tesla inserted light bulbs into the earth

to see if his tower was, in fact, creating

a wireless circuit with the ground.

If so, the bulbs would light up.

SEIFER: These light bulbs were being lit.

So he was able to establish

that he could transmit electrical power

over great distances, but he did keep it a secret.

He even kept the mechanics a secret from his assistant,

who didn't totally know all the details of what he was doing.

NARRATOR: Shoreham, New York, 1901.

Tesla convinces banker J.P. Morgan

to give him $150,000 for the construction of a radio station,

but instead, he uses the money to build

a giant wireless transmitter he calls Wardenclyffe Tower.

SEIFER: Wardenclyffe was 187 feet to the top,

but it also went 120 feet down into the ground...

and Tesla had envisioned receiving stations

which would look just like the Wardenclyffe Tower

at different nodal points around the Earth.

So he would jump energy by means of wireless

from station to station.

He even thought that he could eventually use the same system

to jump power to different planets.

NARRATOR: But Tesla's dream of creating

a highly efficient broadcast of wireless electricity

was cut short when, in 1904, its funder J.P. Morgan

discovered Tesla's true intentions

to provide free power to everyone on the planet.

With lack of additional funding,

by 1908, the project was completely abandoned,

and in 1917, the tower was demolished.

REDFERN: No company, no corporation

wants to give away its technology freely.

So Tesla was shut down

so that the world wouldn't have free energy.

NARRATOR: But just how was Tesla able

to transmit electricity wirelessly for several miles

when modern scientists can only manage seven feet?

Tesla credited his many inventions

to the ability to realize them entirely in his mind.

He also described experiencing intense flashes of light

which were followed by moments

of intense creativity and clarity.

SWARTZ: He would see an invention appear before his eyes

in almost holographic detail.

He said that he could rotate these visions,

take them apart piece by piece, and he knew exactly

how he was going to build these inventions

based on his visionary experiences.

SEIFER: One of his greatest creations

is the rotating magnetic field,

and that came in a flash of intuition.

He felt that we were receivers,

that all impulses came from the outside

and that we worked on these impulses.

So he doesn't believe that they come

from dreams or inner visions.

He really felt that we were, in a sense, self-propelled robots.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe there may be another explanation

for Tesla's uncanny abilities and mysterious visions.

They suggest these spontaneous episodes

are proof that Tesla was receiving information

from an otherworldly source.

TZADOK: These images would literally burst into his mind.

Somehow, somewhere, some connection was made,

and it's the same way the biblical prophets

received their prophecy.

Nikola Tesla was clearly in touch with something.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if extraterrestrials themselves

weren't feeding him images of inventions

that only he could understand.

SWARTZ: Nikola Tesla felt there was a knowledge base

located somewhere in the universe

that all of humanity could tap into

if they just knew how to properly tune their mind

to this knowledge base.

NARRATOR: Is it possible Nikola Tesla

was actually being fed images to assist him

in furthering mankind, and, if so, could Tesla

have tapped into an ancient source of knowledge,

perhaps even rediscovering technology

that may have been used before?

TSOUKALOS: We have these stories of towers

that might have relayed energy, like the obelisks

that we can find all around the world that they, at some point,

were all connected and that they were feeding

off the Earth's magnetic grid.

SWARTZ: It's been discovered in ancient Egyptian temples

and tombs carvings that look suspiciously

like modern-day light bulbs and Tesla coils.

CHILDRESS: Was there a certain technology,

an energy system of ancient times

that we still have remnants of today--

giant pyramids, obelisks, huge standing stones and towers?

Perhaps they were all part

of some extraterrestrial huge energy system.

NARRATOR: Was Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower

meant to connect to an ancient energy grid

powered not only by the Earth,

but eventually by other planets, as well,

and, if so, is it possible Nikola Tesla was communicating

with advanced celestial beings that visited Earth

thousands of years ago?

Perhaps further clue can be found

with the mysterious radio transmissions

Tesla claimed he received in 1899 from outer space.

[Thunder]

NARRATOR: Colorado Springs,

July 1899.

While testing a magnifying transmitter

built to track storms, Nikola Tesla claims he received

some sort of transmission from an unknown source.

[Thunder]

SEIFER: One night, he was tracking thunderstorms

600 miles away, but all of a sudden, he heard these beeps...

[Beep beep beep]

And it was three beats in sequence,

and so it was mathematical, and it didn't make any sense to him,

and the more he thought about it,

he thought that they came from outer space,

perhaps from the Martians.

[Beep beep beep]

BRANDENBURG: Mars' orbit brings it close to the Earth

periodically about once every 1.8 years,

and at one of those close encounters,

he believed he was picking up signals from Mars.

VALONE: He most likely had made a receiver

that was sensitive enough to receive radio waves,

as we now know come from galaxies

and lots of different extraterrestrial sources.

So he interpreted them as signals from ETs,

but perhaps he had an open channel

that we really still don't understand today.

SEIFER: Tesla believed it's absurd to think

we're the only intelligent beings in the universe.

If that's the case, where are they

in the intelligence hierarchy and why wouldn't they want

to communicate with an intelligent force on the Earth?

NARRATOR: Tesla reported this otherworldly communication

and proclaimed his belief in extraterrestrials in February

of 1901 in an article for "Collier's Weekly"

titled "Talking with the Planets."

Tesla became obsessed with trying to receive

further radio communications from other planets.

Based on these transmissions that Tesla was receiving,

he developed the theory that this extraterrestrial presence

had been on Earth for a millennia,

that these extraterrestrials had been controlling mankind

from the very beginning.

WILCOCK: How far did these communications go?

Did it lead to the point where he was actually able

to receive useful information

that was helping him build his inventions?

Many believe that this is what happened

and that Tesla had direct contact

through the things he'd invented

with extraterrestrial intelligence.

NARRATOR: But the shocking revelation was shunned

by Tesla's scientific peers and led many

to deem him a mad scientist.

BRANDENBURG: So you have Nikola Tesla

electrifying the world literally.

Then about the time that he had a falling out

with J.P. Morgan, a very powerful man,

he'd also had a legendary falling out with Edison,

another legendary, powerful man.

Then it came out that he was trying

to perhaps signal the planet Mars,

and his enemies exploited this, I think,

to try and discredit him.

NARRATOR: In the early 1900s, it was rumored that Tesla

was being considered to receive the Nobel Prize,

but, mysteriously, he never did.

SEIFER: Even today, scientists don't take him

into account the way they should.

Tesla talked about atoms working like solar systems

and that light could work as a wave and a particle.

Einstein got a Nobel Prize

for saying light worked like a particle,

and Bohr and Rutherford got a Nobel Prize

for saying that atoms were like little solar systems.

So why is he removed from the history of quantum physics

when he really belongs at the heart of it?

So I think he's been unfairly treated by the physicists,

and part of the reason is his attachment to extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Was Nikola Tesla

simply letting his imagination get the better of him,

or is it possible he really was in contact

with extraterrestrial beings?

Belgrade, Serbia.

Housing more than 160,000 documents,

the Nikola Tesla Museum offers rare insight

into some of Tesla's future plans,

including what some believe to be drawings of spaceships.

According to historians,

Tesla began work on his flying machine in 1910,

focusing on the use of field propulsion, or anti-gravity.

It is believed Tesla had discovered

that high amounts of electricity

could actually create lift in an object.

CHILDRESS: Throughout the 1920s and Thirties,

Tesla continually talked about anti-gravity ships

that could derive power from his Wardenclyffe Towers

that were gonna be broadcasting power.

He claimed these ships did not have wings or fuel.

They were completely electric.

NARRATOR: But were Tesla's designs

truly the first of their kind, or is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that similar vehicles had already visited the planet

in the remote past?

In the ancient Indian epics, the Vedas,

we find references of vimanas, those flying chariots

that were used by the gods in order to travel

from point "A" to point

Some of these vimanas were able to alter direction

at the drop of a hat without any effort.

So now, reading this from a modern-day perspective

would suggest that some type of anti-gravity device was used.

You can link this from the ancient to the modern world

with the modern UFO phenomenon, and so the idea that Tesla

might have worked on an anti-gravity device

is very plausible to me.

NARRATOR: Are the depictions of flying machines

in ancient Hindu texts like the Mahabharata really proof

that Tesla had received otherworldly knowledge

in order to design anti-gravity spaceships,

and if the so-called mad scientist

actually did make contact with extraterrestrials,

is it possible he continued

to carry out their wishes in secret?

Palo Alto, California, 2013.

A Silicon Valley start-up's all-electric sports car

wins "Motor Trend's" Car of the Year.

It's one of the most fuel-efficient vehicles

on the planet, produces no emissions,

and can go from zero to 60 miles per hour in four seconds.

The Model "S" energizes the electric car industry

and reintroduces its namesake to the world stage--Tesla.

CHILDRESS: It's interesting to think in 1931,

Tesla told reporters that he had converted

a Pierce-Arrow car into a completely electric car.

Tesla showed them the car. He drove it around.

It went as fast as 90 miles per hour.

When you look at it, many of the inventions

that Tesla talked about and even patented

were eventually developed.

NARRATOR: The list of technologies that can be traced

back to the drawing board of Nikola Tesla is endless--

modern humanoid robotics, solar and wind power,

weather manipulation, drones,

and even planetary exploration vehicles.

Getting as little as just two hours of sleep per day,

the inventor's sole purpose on Earth

appeared to be geared toward one end--

advancing technology for the future of the human race.

He always had his eye on the future,

and further, he was trying to shape the future

through his inventions.

TZADOK: Mr. Tesla was not unique in this.

Many of the founders, leaders, of religion

also were compelled by inner experiences

which pushed them to materialize these things in the world.

So in a religious context, we would say

that a religious leader is in touch with something divine.

In a scientific context, we wouldn't necessarily use

the word "divine," but yet somehow, somewhere,

people are being contacted, receiving communications

which are leading to the clear introduction

of new things in humanity.

Tesla seemed to have this drive

that put everything else by the wayside.

When he was working on an invention,

food, sleep, relationships, human interaction,

none of that mattered.

It's almost as if he was on some type of a mission,

a mission, possibly, with a greater plan

under the influence of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Was Nikola Tesla really inspired to invent

by an extraterrestrial source,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

and, if so, might further clues be found

in what some believe to be the rantings of a mad man?

By the time Nikola Tesla moved into his final home,

the Hotel New Yorker, in January 1934,

he had become better known for his eccentricities

than his inventions.

He reportedly was an extreme germaphobe,

preferred to work in almost complete darkness,

and was also obsessed with the number three.

SEIFER: Tesla was definitely interested in numerology,

and he was very superstitious.

He had to circle a building three times before he entered.

He had calculated nodal points around the planet,

and they're probably linked

to the numbers three, six, and nine,

and he said that the numbers were very important.

WILCOCK: Nikola Tesla was quoted as saying,

"if you knew the magnificence of the three, six, and nine,

"you would have a key to the universe."

if we go to the Great Pyramid of Giza,

not only are there the three larger pyramids at Giza

all side by side mirroring the positions

of the stars in Orion's Belt,

but we also see a group of three smaller pyramids

immediately away from the three larger pyramids.

Three and three.

Similarly, we find lots of evidence that nature

uses threefold and sixfold symmetry,

including the hexagonal tile shape of the common honeycomb.

These shapes are in nature, and the ancients

emulated these shapes in the building

of their sacred architecture.

So Tesla's quote is neatly mirrored

in the actual archaeological evidence that we find

in many ancient architectural sites around the world.

NARRATOR: Could the numbers three, six, and nine

really offer clues to the inner workings of the universe?

If so, is it possible that Tesla uncovered this profound secret

and used this knowledge to push the boundaries

of science and technology?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining Tesla's most controversial invention.

NARRATOR: New York City, July 1934.

On his 78th birthday, Nikola Tesla makes headlines

on the front page of the "New York Times"

for his alleged death-beam.

According to the article, the weapon could generate

enough energy to bring down a fleet of 10,000 enemy airplanes

as far as 250 miles away.

BRANDENBURG: Tesla apparently discovered that he could direct

a stream of plasma plus solid particles for long distances

through the air and kind of direct a lightning bolt,

and he called this a death ray.

NOORY: Tesla wanted to invent a machine

that would knock out enemy aircraft in the air.

You would point it to the skies, turn it on, and all of a sudden,

those planes would just fall like that.

SEIFER: Tesla felt that if every country

had a particle beam weapon, then no country

would ever be invaded because planes would be shot down

and ships would be sunk.

So he was trying to sell this particle beam weapon

to the U.S. government during World War ll,

and I think Franklin Roosevelt

was basically looking at two possibilities.

Einstein was discussing the possibility of an atom bomb.

Tesla was discussing the possibility

of a particle beam weapon, and it turned out, the atom bomb

was able to be invented, and that's the way they went.

NARRATOR: Although the death ray announcement

failed to ignite interest by the U.S. War Department,

some say other innovative work by Tesla

did catch their attention.

Earlier in his career while conducting research

with one of his transformer coils,

Nikola Tesla had a near-death experience

when he came in contact with a resonating

electromagnetic charge of 3.5 million volts.

Tesla was working with 60-foot lightning bolts,

and he made a mistake, and he almost got electrocuted,

and he couldn't get out, and he had to get one

of his workers to stop the lightning from happening,

and he barely escaped with his life,

and because of a shock that he had, he had a revelation.

CHILDRESS: Tesla said that he entered a state of timelessness

and he could see the past and the future and the present

all in one in this mystic vision,

but he was paralyzed and he couldn't do anything about it.

Tesla was being essentially electrocuted,

and right then, his assistant cut the power to him,

but what Tesla said it had done

was moved him through time and space.

[Thunder]

NARRATOR: But is it really possible Tesla had found a way

to break through the space-time continuum?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer

might be found by looking at what has become known

as the Philadelphia Experiment.

According to reports, right before Tesla's death,

he was working with Albert Einstein

and the United States Navy at the Philadelphia Naval Yard

to create an electromagnetically charged invisibility cloak

for the USS Eldridge.

BRANDENBURG: They were attempting

to do a stealth technology, and apparently,

they mounted a bunch of Tesla coils

to make a bunch of plasma around a ship,

and this is well known to help hide things from radar,

but something very unexpected happened.

The ship didn't just disappear from radar.

It disappeared completely

and then reappeared with some of the crew

actually embedded in the metal of the ship.

NARRATOR: Although mainstream scientists believe

the so-called Philadelphia Experiment is a hoax,

some insist the account is authentic.

We have leaked testimony from classified levels

of secrecy in the U.S. government

the Philadelphia Experiment was real,

that the soldiers on that ship got disoriented,

and they ended up walking into the hull,

and when the ship then rematerialized in our reality,

their bodies melded with the metal in the hull.

NARRATOR: Had Tesla really discovered

a way to travel through time and space?

If so, might the secrets behind this technology,

along with the blueprints for Tesla's death beam,

have been included in the scientific documents

that the FBI allegedly confiscated upon his death?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe evidence of this

might be found with the modern world's

most sophisticated new weaponry.

NARRATOR: The Singapore Airshow,

February 2014.

An Israeli arms company known as Rafael Advanced Defense Systems

reveals details of a laser defense system capable

of shooting missiles from the sky with a pulse of energy.

The futuristic military hardware is called Iron Beam.

REDFERN: The concept of Iron Beam

is that it's essentially a high-energy laser

that is designed to rapidly heat up the target

that it's aimed at.

We're talking about aircraft, drones, missiles.

Anything that could launch an attack on a city

could be literally destroyed in the sky by Iron Beam.

This sounds very much like Tesla's death ray.

CHILDRESS: This is exactly the kind of technology

that Tesla was talking about in the 1920s and Thirties,

using these beam weapons

to shoot down missiles and projectiles.

WILCOCK: The War Department sided with Einstein

and Oppenheimer's atomic bomb, not with Tesla,

but now what we're seeing is that Israel

is developing this Iron Beam technology

because they've realized

that atomic weapons were far too destructive.

Is it possible that Tesla developed a time-viewing

or time-travel technology,

and that he became aware of these developments?

NARRATOR: Tesla was once quoted as saying,

"The present is theirs, but the future

"for which I have really worked is mine."

Did Tesla, in fact, see into the future?

Might Iron Beam be proof that plans for the death ray

not only existed, but also may have even been confiscated

and carried out by the United States government?

There are those who believe that Nikola Tesla

was not only in contact with extraterrestrials,

but was sent here to Earth by them to fulfill a mission

and usher in a new age for mankind.

SEIFER: One of the big questions is, who is Tesla?

Is he, in a sense, an avatar, an enlightened being

that comes to the Earth to help humans?

No one really knows exactly what's going on,

but I think all great artists--

and Tesla saw himself as an artist--

feel that they're instruments of a higher purpose,

and Tesla certainly felt that he was working along those lines.

TZADOK: There is an agenda for humanity.

There is a plan, and in every generation,

whatever power it is that's behind the plan

sends to Earth certain specific souls

who are by birth more inclined and able

to be receptors to the higher knowledge.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder if Tesla was transplanted to Earth

by extraterrestrials in order to envision

and invent all of these amazing devices.

WILCOCK: if extraterrestrials put Tesla in place

for a specific purpose,

did they accomplish what they hoped to achieve?

The answer may be no because if Tesla's technologies

had been openly acknowledged here on Earth,

we could have greened the deserts.

We could be desalinating ocean water

with tabletop energy levels.

We could have a totally new and different world

in which we don't have to pay for energy,

in which we have anti-gravity craft,

in which we have teleportation technology,

and in which we truly have become

a golden age here on Earth.

That has not happened.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Nikola Tesla

really was influenced by otherworldly beings?

Might he have been inspired to carry out

an extraterrestrial experiment,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest...

and could it be that mankind was not ready

to receive this advanced knowledge?

Perhaps, but if such an audacious notion is true,

then is it possible that we are now on the threshold

of completing his experiment, and, in doing so,

might we reconnect not only with Tesla's genius,

but with an alien intelligence

that stretches throughout the galaxy?