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A mathematical message encoded
within a megalithic tomb.

A mysterious ancient symbol

with connections to the cosmos.

And complex patterns

that appear in fields
around the world.

Over the years,
Ancient Aliens has documented

evidence of
otherworldly visitation

believed to be concealed
in ancient codes and symbols.

Now we're counting down
the ten most intriguing

and mysterious codes
we've examined.

Codes that just might
unlock the truth

about our extraterrestrial past.

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Throughout the ancient world,

we can find mysterious
structures, carvings,

and symbols
that defy explanation.

For ancient astronaut
theorists like me,

these are signs
that our ancestors were

influenced
by extraterrestrial visitors,

and they represent a code

left for future generations
to decipher.

A prime example are
the giant monoliths

that were erected
all over the Earth

thousands of years ago
for reasons

that archaeologists
still do not understand.

At number ten on our countdown
of the top ten alien codes:

the Standing Stones.

NARRATOR:
Throughout the planet,

scattered across Europe, Asia,
Africa and the Americas,

are more than 50,000
ancient standing stones.

They are enormous monoliths

that have been placed
vertically into the ground.

Most date back
more than 5,000 years,

and the largest
weigh over 300 tons--

more than double the weight
of the Statue of Liberty.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
When we look at these
standing stones in the earth,

they are particularly mysterious

and they bring
something out in us,

an awe, a sense of mystery.

Why are these stones here?

It must have some purpose
but we don't know what it is.

NARRATOR:
On the northwest coast
of France lies the most famous

and mysterious collection
of ancient standing stones

found anywhere in the world.

Stretching across two miles
of rolling countryside,

the more than 3,000
giant monoliths

are known as the Carnac stones.

CHILDRESS:
French archeologists

have been able to give a date
to these standing stones,

and it's 5000 B.C.

So they're saying

that these stones were
erected 7,000 years ago,

but they don't know
who erected them.

They don't know why
they were erected.

They don't know how

they moved all these stones
and erected them.

NARRATOR:
Some mainstream
scholars suggest

that the stones are
simply grave markers,

while others theorize

that they track
astronomical events

like the solstice and equinox.

But ancient astronaut
theorists propose

the precise placement
of the Carnac Stones

represent geometric alignments
far more sophisticated

than they might appear
at first glance.

These 3,000 stones
have been arranged

in very specific arrangements.

In fact, one
of the arrangements we have

is a representation
of the Pythagorean theorem,

which is "A squared plus
B squared equals C squared."

How do we have
that mathematical message

in an archeological site
that's at least

7,000 years old?

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN:
The constructions in Carnac
is thousands of years

older than Pythagoras,
the Greek mathematician.

So somebody must have
teached our ancestors

to put these stones
in a certain line,

in geometrical forms.

Now the question is simply, why?

Without a doubt one of the most
baffling places on Earth

can be found in Peru.

It's a mysterious formation

that stretches for miles
through the rugged desert.

And while its purpose
is completely unknown,

some believe it was used

to communicate
with otherworldly beings.

Number nine on our list:
the Band of Holes.

NARRATOR: Pisco, Peru.

Here, stretching across
the Cajamarquilla Plain,

thousands of ancient holes have
been dug into a mountain range.

The holes measure
six to seven feet in depth

and are evenly spaced
about three feet apart.

They are arranged
in a precise line

that runs north and south
for almost two miles.

TSOUKALOS:
In the mountains of Peru we have

what's commonly referred to
as the Band of Holes.

It is one of the coolest places

in relation to the ancient
astronaut theory because

who in their right mind
would go ahead

and dig all these holes?

They're a incredible mystery,
a very long-lived mystery.

Some people think it looks like

some kind of machine was
running over the territory.

Some people think it was

some kind of systematic
mining operation.

Some people say it was
just pot-hunters,

you know, looting,
looking for burials.

None of the explanations
make good sense.

NARRATOR:
While the Band of Holes
continues to defy explanation,

some ancient astronaut
theorists believe

it might convey
a type of message

left behind
by extraterrestrials.

VON DÄNIKEN:
Some thousands of years
in the past,

the extraterrestrials
who visited our planet

left a proof behind.

They knew that in the far future

the humans will see
these patterns.

They will realize
that this is high geometry.

And sooner or later
the questions comes up,

have we maybe been visited
by beings from outer space?

CHILDRESS:
Is it some kind of message
for us from the past

that we're to decode when
we have reached a higher state

of civilization and knowledge
that we can figure all this out?

It would seem that we are
only just now reaching a point

of knowledge and technology

that we can
understand these codes.

And find the hidden meaning
that's there.

The ancient astronaut
theory suggests

that extraterrestrials who came
to Earth in the distant past

left behind signs
that they were here.

To me, some compelling examples
are massive shapes and figures

that are carved into
the landscape across the globe

and can only be seen
from the sky.

At number eight on our countdown

of the top ten alien codes:
geoglyphs.

NARRATOR: Nazca, Peru.

High in this arid plateau,

there is a series
of precise lines and artworks

carved into the desert floor
that have mystified people

since their modern discovery
in the 1920s.

Curiously, all of them
were made on a scale

to be seen from high above.

They are called geoglyphs.

A geoglyph is just basically

a drawing on the landscape.

Usually quite large scale.

Most geoglyphs are
in deserts and in shapes.

Geometric shapes,
animal shapes or whatever.

Most geoglyphs really
only make sense from above.

NARRATOR:
For years,
archeologists believed

the Nazca Lines were
an isolated phenomenon.

But now, with the benefit
satellite imagery,

thousands of ancient geoglyphs
are being found

all over the world--

in Kazakhstan,

in the southwestern
United States,

in the Atacama Desert of Chile,

and in Bolivia,

just to name a few.

WILLIAM HENRY:
There are many groups
around the world

that have been
creating geoglyphs

for thousands of years.

And the thing is
that these glyphs can only

be seen from the sky.

That tells us
that these messages

have to be for beings

that are in the sky--
extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that these ancient geoglyphs
were created

for an extraterrestrial purpose?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest further clues
can be found by examining

one of the most extraordinary
geoglyphs ever discovered.

One of the most interesting
geoglyphs that you have at Nazca

is the sun-star-cross geoglyph,

which is really
a very complicated, huge mandala

of interconnected stars
and triangles.

And it's something we see
all over the world,

and in Tibet and India
as mandalas.

So things like this that are
so geometrically complicated

and are found
all over the world indicates

that there was some kind
of worldwide symbolic language

that was brought here
by a higher intelligence.

one thing I look for are
structures or shapes

that are repeated

at ancient sites
around the world.

One of the most intriguing
is a mysterious symbol

that just might
unlock the secret

of our extraterrestrial past.

Number seven on our countdown:
the keyhole shape.

NARRATOR:
Khaybar, Saudi Arabia,

May 2017.

An archaeological team
conducting an aerial survey

of the Saudi Arabian desert

makes
an extraordinary discovery.

They find a series
of 19 stone formations

in the shape of keyholes.

HUGH NEWMAN:
They're thought to be
thousands of years old,

but no one knows who built them,

no one knows
why they were there,

but they have this sacred symbol
of the keyhole as the design.

So the keyhole shape
is a combination

of the triangle and the circle.

And the circle
is often a representation

of the Sun and the Moon
and other heavenly objects,

whereas the triangle shape
is really the pyramid shape,

and that is a representation
of the Earth.

So it really could be
a representation

linking heaven and Earth.

NARRATOR: Curiously,

the keyhole symbol can be found

at ancient sites
all over the world.

But perhaps the most impressive
example can be found in Japan,

at a megalithic tomb
called Daisen Kofun.

It rises up 35 feet
above the surrounding area

and is 1,600 feet long

and 980 feet wide,

and it's encircled
by three moats,

making the entire edifice

cover a space
of five million square feet.

NARRATOR:
The Daisen Kofun

is merely the largest
of more than 160,000 kofuns

that dot Japan.

There are hundreds
of these tombs,

built between around 300 AD
to around 600 AD.

So what were these?

Were these really just tombs
built for emperors and kings,

or were they something else
altogether?

HENRY:
The keyhole shape

can only be seen from the air.

And we're told that the ancient
Japanese did not have a means

of getting into the sky
to appreciate this shape.

So there's a great mystery here
about why the keyhole shape?

NARRATOR:
Some researchers suggest

that the keyhole shape
is an alien code

and can be traced back
to the first kofun ever built.

The first of these tombs
is associated

with the first historical
Japanese emperor,

Emperor Sujin,

in whose record in the book of
ancient mythology, the Kojiki,

a keyhole of a door actually
also plays an important part.

NARRATOR:
According to the story
in the Kojiki,

a young woman becomes
impregnated by a powerful god

who comes to her room
through a keyhole,

then gives birth
to semidivine children.

So, you've got to wonder
if these keyhole-shaped kofun

aren't something
that were actually designed

by extraterrestrials.

There's something
about that shape.

It has meaning.

Are these sites
signaling somebody

who is apparently in the sky?

I find it fascinating
that, across the globe,

megalithic structures
are covered

with mysterious lines
and swirls.

Are these merely decoration?

Or do they have
a deeper meaning?

At number six on our list:
the spiral code.

NARRATOR:
County Meath, Ireland.

Here stands Ireland's
most famous megalithic site:

Newgrange.

The ancient tomb was built

with over 200,000 tons
of stone blocks,

many of which are covered
in intricate spiral patterns.

Newgrange is one
of the most important sites

in all of Europe.

Within this,
we have beautiful carvings

on the 97 curbstones
that go around the edge,

as well as on
the main entrance stone

and within the chamber itself.

Mainly spirals, and most
notably, a triple spiral

at the back of the main chamber
within the actual site itself.

NARRATOR:
Identical spiral patterns

have been found at ancient sites
across the globe.

We see certain symbols
recurring again and again.

These take the form of spirals,
of concentric rings,

and they're something
that are virtually universal

around the world.

NARRATOR:
Many archaeologists believe

spiral petroglyphs
symbolize the cosmos.

But ancient astronaut
theorists believe

they serve
a more profound purpose.

And as evidence,
they point to spiral carvings

at a 5,000-year-old
archaeological site

off the coast of France.

TSOUKALOS:
On the island of Gavrinis,

there is a passage tomb.

And inside, there are
giant stones left and right

with carvings
that look like fingerprints

that have been carved
onto the megalithic slabs.

COPPENS:
When people came to Gavrinis,

they began to make measurements

as to how these stones
were placed.

They began to realize
that these stones

weren't just placed haphazardly

in some kind of
coincidental form,

but actually displayed

extraordinary understanding
and knowledge of mathematics.

NARRATOR:
Mathematicians
examining the spirals

speculated that
their varying lengths

could indicate
that they represent numbers.

Based on this assumption,

they determined which numbers
each carving might represent,

and discovered a record
of specific information,

like the number of days
in a year.

But astonishingly,
these stone records

include something
even more incredible.

TSOUKALOS:
When mathematicians
went in there

to look at this in the 1970s,

they determined
it showed the longitude

and latitude of Gavrinis.

How would they know about
longitude and latitude?

We came up with this
in modern times.

How do we have
that mathematical message

in a archaeological site
that's at least 5,000 years old?

In my opinion,
the extraterrestrials

wanted to leave behind
some type of a message,

a type of secret code
that needed to be deciphered

by a future generation
that would understand,

and that generation is us.

We're comi,

and the next entry on our list
needs no introduction.

They are monumental structures

that can be found
on every continent,

and they were built
with such precision

that, from the perspective of
an ancient astronaut theorist,

many could be of
extraterrestrial design.

Number five on our list

of the top ten alien codes:
pyramids.

NARRATOR:
In every region of the world

stand ancient monuments
that have been built

in a sophisticated geometric
form known as pyramids.

These structures are separated
by thousands of miles,

but they are strikingly similar
in design.

CASSARO:
There is a kind of
a master blueprint

that we see in the architecture,

and it's not in just one or two
or three civilizations,

it's in all the civilizations.

China,

India,

South America-- it's there.

NARRATOR:
According to
the local mythologies

of numerous
pyramid-building cultures,

the inspiration to build
these complex structures

came from
an otherworldly source.

WILLIAM BRAMLEY:
In Mesoamerica,

we have the gods associated

with the construction
of the pyramids.

This reflects
the same kind of entity

that the Mesopotamians reported,

that the Egyptians reported

as being the architect
that designed these structures.

Who were the teachers
of these engineering styles?

The only conclusion there is
is that aliens had a hand

in these creations
a long time ago.

They're all human-made,
but with the assistance

or the technology
provided by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
If otherworldly beings
inspired our ancestors

to build pyramids,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend,

what was their purpose?

Perhaps clues can be found

in the most famous
of these structures:

the Great Pyramid of Egypt.

Ever since the first studies

of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
have been made,

researchers have been amazed

at the mathematical knowledge

that is encoded
into the Great Pyramid.

NARRATOR:
The Great Pyramid is aligned

to within three sixtieths
of a degree of north,

a more accurate alignment

than any other structure
on Earth.

And researchers have discovered

even more profound information
encoded within its design.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
We've discovered,

with satellite imagery,
that the pyramid,

if you take its peak
and measure it precisely

its location in degrees
on the planet Earth,

the number is equal
to the number

that is the speed of light,
out to many, many digits.

How in the world
would an ancient culture

build something so precisely

that we couldn't even
measure until now,

when we had spacecraft?

And, if the people
who built the pyramids

put just in its location
the speed of light,

what else is in the design
and placement of the pyramid?

A key tenet
in the ancient astronaut theory

is that extraterrestrials shared
knowledge with our ancestors.

Compelling evidence of this
can be found

in an ancient Chinese text

that describes
an extraterrestrial language,

one that is actually
still used to this day.

Number four on our countdown:
binary code.

NARRATOR:
Today, the most prolific
language in the world

consists of just two characters:

zero and one.

It's a language
that is understood

in every culture across
the globe: binary code.

People know that
the digital revolution

is based on zeros and ones,
zeros and ones.

Computer tape consists of one,
one, one, zero, zero, zero.

That's called "binary."

Computers use zeroes and ones

because zeroes and ones
correspond to "off" and "on,"

which is the circuitry
of a computer.

NARRATOR:
A German mathematician,
Gottfried Leibniz,

is credited with defining
binary code in the 17th century.

He designed
a mechanical calculator

that expressed numbers
as zeroes and ones.

In turn, Leibniz
credited his inspiration

to the 5,000-year-old
Chinese text I Ching ,

an ancient oracle code

used to communicate
with otherworldly beings.

The I Ching is basically
composed of 64 hexagrams,

which are combinations of

broken and unbroken lines,

binary combinations.

It was heavily used
in divination.

You can use it
and people still do,

very easily, you can flip
a coin, for example, six times,

and every time that it lands
on heads, you draw a full line.

Every time
that it lands on tails,

you draw a broken line.

And then when you
have six of these,

you come up with your hexagram.

And each of these hexagrams
has a kind of cosmic symbolism,

And then there's a kind of
oracular inscription

that you're supposed
to decipher.

NARRATOR:
According to mythology,

the I Ching was created
by Emperor Fuxi

after he was visited
by an otherworldly being.

It was said that one day
he was on the Yellow River

and a water dragon
appeared to him,

and that on the back
of this water dragon

was revealed to him
the I Ching.

And therefore we can see
this system as in some way

having come
from the stars, originally.

NARRATOR:
Could the I Ching have been
an attempt by extraterrestrials

to set up a common
communication language

with mankind using binary code?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest evidence can be found

by examining
a famous UFO encounter

that occurred
in Suffolk County, England.

On December 26, 1980,

Sargeant James Penniston
and Airman John Burroughs

were performing
a routine security check

at a U.S. air force base
in Rendlesham Forest

when they reportedly encountered
a large extraterrestrial craft.

JAMES PENNISTON:
The craft was
triangular in shape,

measuring about six
to seven feet high,

black in color.

I'd come around to the far side
of the craft

and that's when I noticed
that there was,

you know, inscription
on the side.

Instead of something familiar,

I see these
pictorial-type glyphs.

And got running my hand over
the side of the craft.

I don't know how
to explain this.

It's like someone
was holding a picture up, okay?

I could see it in my mind's eye.

Zeroes and ones.

So I recorded those.
One after another.

NICK POPE:
Years later,

a computer programmer

took this information

ran it through
a translation program

and a message emerged.

The message read

"Exploration of humanity

continuous
for planetary advance."

Jim Penninston came up
with all this information

without knowing a thing
in real life

about binary code
and binary messages.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that extraterrestrials

are using binary code
as a common language

to communicate with mankind?

POPE:
Who's to say that
extraterrestrials

wouldn't choose to communicate
via ones and zeros?

With ones and zeros,
you've got binary code.

With binary code,
you can write a message.

And perhaps that is
the language of the cosmos.

And that's how
to communicate with them.

One ofa.

Its mythology is chock full
of stories

of powerful gods
who came from the sky

and possessed
astonishing technology,

like flying craft
called vimanas.

And there is evidence
that the secret

to this technology
has been encoded

within complex geometric symbols

that are said to have
been designed by the gods.

Number three on our countdown

of the top ten alien codes:
mandalas.

NARRATOR:
More than 5,000 years ago,

the Indus Valley
civilization emerged

in the Punjab region of
modern-day India and Pakistan.

Its people produced
the foundational texts

for Hinduism,
which is widely regarded

as the world's oldest religion

and today has more
than one billion followers.

The earliest of these texts,
called the Vedas,

describe how the gods
provided humankind

with a visual guide
to sacred sounds.

They are represented
in elaborate patterns

called mandalas.

HENRY:
The Vedas tell us that the gods
taught humans how to chant.

How to pray and to sing

in order to communicate
with the gods.

PRAVEEN MOHAN:
Mandalas are mnemonic devices

used to aid meditation

often in tandem with chanting.

So, what they're doing is
they're essentially translating

sound into visual patterns.

NARRATOR:
Mandalas are
important components

in both Hindu
and Buddhist faiths.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

what is most intriguing
about mandalas

is that the visual
patterns do, in fact,

have a scientific connection

to the sacred sounds
they are said to represent.

This was discovered

thanks to an 18th century
German physicist

named Ernst Chladni,

who is known
as the father of acoustics.

In 1787, Chaldni's book,

Discoveries in the Theory
of Sound,

revealed that the application
of sound vibrations

to grains of sand
on a metal plate

creates complex
geometric shapes,

now known as cymatic patterns.

JEFF THOMPSON:
We've got this thin metal plate
like a sounding board

and we've got a transducer
attached to the bottom of it.

And they spread sand
over the top of this plate.

And start playing certain tones.

And those sand particles
will start to bounce around

and dance around
and they start to form

these mathematical
circular patterns.

And as we move up
through these frequencies,

the sand goes into kind of
a chaos in-between state

and then it arrives
at this next pattern.

And the higher
the frequency you go,

the more these patterns
become more complex.

NARRATOR:
For Hindus and Buddhists,

the most important
sacred sound is "om."

For centuries, this sound
has been depicted in mandalas

by a circle with a dot
in the middle.

Incredibly, the sound "om"
produces a cymatic pattern

that perfectly matches
this depiction.

Other sounds
also create patterns

that are found
in ancient mandalas.

COLLINS:
Is it conceivable

that the writers
of the ancient Vedic texts

were given advanced knowledge
on how sound frequencies

can be converted
into visual patterns?

Is it therefore possible

that sound is an important means

of communication with
such higher intelligences?

NARRATOR:
Could mandalas contain
an otherworldly message

for humanity that is based
on sacred sounds?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest
evidence can be found

at the Sri Ranganathaswamy
Temple in Southern India.

Standing in
the temple's courtyard

are 40 ornate statues
that depict vimanas,

vehicles that,
according to Sanskrit texts,

were navigated by the gods.

The word "vimana"
in ancient Vedic text

means "flying machines."

In Hinduism,
it is clearly established

that the gods come down
from the sky using vimanas.

And in the temple of Srirangam,

these carvings show many
different types of vimanas.

And what's really unique
is that under these vimanas,

we are able to see
some very interesting

patterns of mandala.

According to legend,
each type of vimana

can be activated
with a specific type of mandala.

I believe that much
of ancient technology

was activated
with specific types

of frequencies.

And if we crack
this visual code,

if we crack
this cymatic pattern,

we might actually unlock

the secret
to power these vimanas.

Ancient Aliens,

some of the most mysterious
are massive impressions

that randomly appear
in fields all over the world.

And what's most interesting
to me

is that these complex patterns

may be encoded
with otherworldly messages.

At number two on our countdown:
crop circles.

NARRATOR:
A mysterious geometric pattern

emerges in a field
of mustard plants.

The perfectly symmetrical
design is a phenomenon

known as a crop circle.

Crop circles are basically

features, designs,

illustrations
of high complexity in crops.

They tend to be complicated
designs of unknown origin.

NARRATOR: Crop circles
range from small discs

to elaborate pictograms
hundreds of feet across.

They have been found
in various crops,

including wheat, barley,
oilseed rape,

and corn.

TAYLOR: In terms
of the patterns themselves,

they've been
undergoing this amazing

sort of ramp up
in sophistication.

You can find these huge,

what they call pictographs,
that span

hundreds of feet
across a whole field,

and feature multiple components.

And they're arranged
with mathematical precision.

Crop circles appear
in more than 50 countries.

And there literally
have been thousands of them.

Maybe over 10,000 crop circles

that we're aware of
in the modern era.

One of the first in 1966,

it was Tully, Queensland,
Australia.

A farmer heard a buzzing sound
and literally saw

this big round, maybe
30-feet-diameter craft, disk,

rising up
out of what essentially

was marshy, reedy ground.

And it goes up and disappears,

and left behind the circle.

HENRY: He finds a circular
area where the grass

in the swamp
or the reeds are matted down.

This is reported
in the Australian press,

and they start labeling
these "UFO nests,"

or "flying saucer nests."

HOWE: Something keeps
laying things down in sequence

as if it has a big picture
of how it is communicating

with this planet,
but it is doing so in pieces.

What in the world is making
these patterns and why?

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the answer may be

encoded within
the crop circles themselves

and might have critical
implications for mankind.

As evidence, they point
to an elaborate formation

that appeared
in Wroughton, England in 2008.

One formation had
everyone baffled

and people were saying,
"Well, what is this?"

Then a mathematician had
a look at it and said,

"Wait a minute,
that's a representation of pi,

and it's correct
down to ten decimal places."

It's a representation
of pi in a geometric sense.

It's kind of interesting
because the way you get pi

out of it is the lengths of the
different arcs in each segment.

And what happens is
there's these little notches

in the spiral that let you know
you're at the end of an arc

so you actually have to measure
the arc lengths as you go around

and their lengths
give you the digits of pi.

And there's a little circle
to give you the decimal point.

So it's a really
interesting example of using

geometry as a code for
representing digits and numbers.

Many of the most famous
crop circles

actually derive
from fractal patterns.

which is a mathematical shape.

The Mandelbrot set.

The Julia set.

To make these you have
to have knowledge of math.

Mathematics is of course
the universal language.

Could crop circles,
as some believe,

be an attempt from
an alien civilization

to reach out
and communicate with us?

There is only one alien code
left on our countdown.

And we've definitely saved
the best for last,

because this code is one

that we're all carrying with us.

So far on our countdown
of the top alien codes,

we've investigated
extraordinary sites

and analyzed mysterious symbols.

But as far as I'm concerned,
the most compelling discovery

won't be found
in an ancient structure

but in a message
hidden inside the human body.

Coming in at number one:
the genetic code

NARRATOR:
Silves, Portugal. 1984.

Farmers digging a well
come across a mysterious object

15 feet beneath the earth.

A six-foot-long
carved limestone egg.

Known as the Algarve egg,
it has been dated

to at least 3500 BC.

And scientists conclude
it could be even older.

But what interests ancient
astronaut theorists the most

is a mysterious pattern
etched on its surface.

TSOUKALOS:
When we look at the Algarve egg,
it had a symbol on it

that looked like
intertwined serpents.

Or they can also be
interpreted as DNA strands.

And the idea of
the double helix wasn't invented

or wasn't discovered
by us human beings

until well into
the 20th century.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the design

found on the Algarve egg
shows the DNA double helix?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes and suggest

that this genetic symbol

can be found
throughout the ancient world.

VON DÄNIKEN:
The DNA spiral is shown

on different antique rocks
and steles.

Just, for example,

look at the Sumerian steles.

There you see
so-called flying geniuses

or winged geniuses.

Between these
winged geniuses is something

which archeology
calls the tree of life.

But if you look
at the tree of life,

it's in reality a DNA spiral.

NARRATOR:
How is it possible that
the double helix appears

in ancient carvings and artwork

when it wasn't discovered
by modern scientists

until 1953?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

clues have been hidden
within our own cells.

In 2013, Kazakhstani
scientists Vladimir Shcherbak

and Maxim Makukov published
a shocking proposal

that there is
an intelligent code

that can be found
in our own DNA.

They concluded that there was

a certain amount
of mathematical precision

and what's known
as a digital checking

built into our DNA,

like computer codes have.

Checking codes to make sure that
all the other codes are right.

NARRATOR:
Ever since
the theory of evolution

was introduced
by Charles Darwin in 1859,

scientists have searched
for a so-called "missing link"

that connects humans
to our hominid ancestors.

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest this evolutionary leap

was made by extraterrestrial
manipulation of our DNA.

TSOUKALOS:
We've always suggested
that the ultimate proof

for the ancient astronaut theory

will not happen
because we'll discover

a buried spaceship somewhere
or a ray gun in a tomb.

But rather
inside of our own DNA.

KAKU:
Believe it or not,
I have colleagues of mine

looking for secret messages
in our DNA.

And some of my friends
take this to the nth degree

and say,
"Maybe aliens from outer space

have left us a message."

Maybe there's
a message there hidden

by an advanced civilization

and that says,
"Here we are, folks.

"We created you.

And to prove it, we left
a code for you in your DNA."

Well, we can't rule it out.

The idea that extraterrestrials
placed a hidden message

in our DNA
is not only sensational

but also entirely possible.

And one thing is clear.

Whether they're standing stones,

elaborate mandalas

or massive geoglyphs,

perhaps by deciphering
these alien codes

we will unlock the truth
about our extraterrestrial past.

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