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NARRATOR: Mysterious ancient stones

shaped into perfect spheres.

WILLIAM HENRY: From Kansas to Kazakhstan, we find these stone spheres.

Some of them are massive,

and they bring with them this incredible mystery.

NARRATOR: Many show clear evidence of being man-made.

HUGH NEWMAN: Some have carvings on, like spirals,

and they look like they're created in a machine.

NARRATOR: And some of them completely defy explanation.

The sphere was made of elements that shouldn't

be there naturally.

NARRATOR: Why is it that these strange artifacts

are found in all corners of the globe?

And might there be an otherworldly explanation?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Is it possible that there is a connection between

those spheres and the extraterrestrials

who visited us thousands of years ago?

NARRATOR: There is a doorway in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

Across the ancient world are mysterious monolithic monuments

carved of solid stone,

like the obelisks of ancient Egypt,

the Carnac alignments in Northern France,

and the Moai statues of Easter Island.

What purpose they served

has been the subject of much speculation.

But perhaps the most mystifying monoliths of all

are those that are in the shape of perfect spheres.

Stone spheres are found all around the world,

on every continent except maybe Antarctica.

But it's important to note that geologists are still really

very much in debate about how geological spheres form.

ED BARNHART: Some of them are taller than a man.

And many of them, they're so perfectly shaped,

they must have been shaped by the hands of man.

HENRY: From Kansas to Kazakhstan, we find these stone spheres.

Some of them are massive, and the key thing that links

all of them is this incredible mystery about

how were they created, why were they created?

And ultimately, what is their purpose?

NARRATOR: While ancient stone spheres have been found

that are of enormous proportions,

they exist in a vast range of sizes,

and geologists remain divided

about just how they were formed.

Some are clearly natural formations,

but experts agree that many spheres show evidence

of having been artificially shaped.

The question is, what purpose did they serve?

I think that one of the reasons they might

have been constructing these spheres is

to mimic what they see in nature.

DOMINIC STEAVU: There's a geometrical perfection that comes with the sphere.

It might be, perhaps, a connection to planets.

Sun, the Moon, the stars. All of these are spherical.

And if you look deeper, at the microscopic level,

at the atomic level, you have the same patterns

of spheres as very important building blocks.

So, this fascination with spheres

might be a reflection of this.

NARRATOR: What could explain why ancient people

all over the world fashioned spheres out of stone?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining a discovery

made deep in the jungles of Central America

that defies explanation.

Southwest Costa Rica, 1939.

Workers with the United Fruit Company

begin clearing the rainforest near the Diquis Delta

for a new banana plantation.

While making their way through the dense vegetation,

the workmen find dozens of giant stone spheres.

They started to find these massive stone spheres

that they had no clue why they were there.

The instruction for them was, if you find anything, just move it.

And they just started to move them.

But they just kept appearing.

NARRATOR: In 1943, the archeological journal American Antiquity

published photos of the mysterious spheres,

which caught the attention

of American archaeologist Dr. Samuel Lothrop.

Five years later, Dr. Lothrop led an excavation of the area

and discovered hundreds of stone spheres.

They range in size from just a few inches

to more than six feet in diameter,

and weigh up to 15 tons.

Archeologists soon discovered stone spheres

throughout the Diquis Delta, and on the nearby Isla del Caño.

Many were found with artifacts from

the ancient Indigenous Diquis culture,

and are believed to be at least a thousand years old.

About 300 have been discovered so far.

Some of them are fairly small, like the size of footballs.

Others are huge,

between eight and nine feet tall and wide.

Some have carvings on, like spirals...

...and what looks like boats or ships.

They look like they're created in a machine.

NARRATOR: Researchers believe the stone that the spheres are carved from

is not local to the Diquis Delta,

but was transported from a quarry

that was located more than 50 miles away.

CARRANZA: The quarries of this material

are allegedly found at least

a few dozen kilometers from the site

where the spheres are located.

So that brings us questions of transportation.

Walking around the rainforest is not an easy task.

You have creeks, you have mountains, you have hills,

you have branches, you have tree roots.

So how were they moved?

NARRATOR: Just as puzzling as how the massive objects were moved

is how they were made.

Archeologists believe that the Diquis civilization

carved the spheres with simple stone tools.

But some researchers argue that creating

such a precise shape would be difficult to achieve,

even with today's technology.

WHITEHILL: It's important to note that these are,

in some reports, granitic, which are very,

very hard rocks to shape, to form, to move,

and to quarry in any capacity.

If we wanted to make these same spheres,

we would need something harder than granite.

And there are very few substances that are harder.

JIM VIEIRA: What's noteworthy is some of them are

almost perfectly spherical.

And that's a very tall task

to create that with the tools of the time.

As a stonemason, I would use diamond saws,

I would use polishing items.

But when you look at Indigenous people

that were purported to have made them,

did they have those machines, did they have that equipment,

did they have that technology?

NARRATOR: How could a culture that only had access

to stone chisels and rudimentary tools have carved

and transported such enormous stone spheres?

And what could have been their reason for doing so?

CARRANZA: Since the United Fruit Company

started moving the spheres,

we do not know the original location of most of them.

You start to wonder, what if we could go back in time

and see the exact location of all the spheres?

What would they show? Would they show a pattern?

Would they show a constellation map?

Would they be like the Nazca lines?

Like a pattern that you could only see from above?

NARRATOR: Although documentation to explain the spheres

does not exist, according to local legend,

they were created by the gods.

HENRY: One very interesting explanation for the Costa Rica spheres is

that they were created by Tara, the god of thunder,

who used some sort of a blowpipe to shoot these spheres

out of the pipe in order to push back hurricanes.

Ancient astronaut theory says that within legends like this,

there's often a kernel of truth.

And so you have to wonder,

is this a calling card

from some extraterrestrial entity,

a sky god, Tara, with some sort of message?

TSOUKALOS: To me, the ancient legend of the god of thunder illustrates

an example of misunderstood technology.

Clearly those spheres themselves never descended from the sky.

But maybe our ancestors saw

the appearance of a spherical craft by the extraterrestrials

who visited us thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Was the creation of the mysterious stone spheres

found in Costa Rica inspired by an extraterrestrial event,

as ancient astronaut theorists propose?

And if so, just what, exactly, do they represent?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

the largest stone spheres ever discovered.

NARRATOR: Zavidovici, Bosnia, 1999.

Archaeologist Dr. Sam Osmanagich and a small team of researchers

are hiking along the Bosna River

when they come upon an astonishing sight.

In the midst of the dense forest are massive boulders

that do not appear to be part of the natural landscape.

We discovered six of them intact,

perfectly preserved and perfectly spherical.

NARRATOR: To Dr. Osmanagich, the near-perfect shape

of the objects is compelling.

And he begins to comb the region in search

of other stone spheres.

OSMANAGICH: We have been researching

the stone spheres in Bosnia for 25 years,

and we have discovered 20 different locations.

The stone spheres in Bosnia come

in four different materials.

Granite, volcanic stone,

sandstone and limestone.

And different sizes, also.

In most cases,

they are over one ton.

NARRATOR: After his initial discovery of the stone spheres,

Dr. Osmanagich expanded his search.

And in 2016, he spotted

the most enormous stone sphere

he had ever seen hidden in the forest floor.

OSMANAGICH: We could see that the small part of the sphere

was sticking out.

We started clearing it,

realizing that it was huge.

Monumental in size.

Once we cleared almost all of it,

we've done the measurements.

It is more than three meters in diameter.

The specific weight: 37 tons.

So, this was the largest stone sphere discovery

in the world.

NARRATOR: How the Bosnian stone spheres were created

remains a mystery.

Some geologists suggest

they were shaped through erosion.

But others believe the spheres are simply too perfect

to have been formed naturally.

There is a process called "spherical"

or "spheroidal" weathering

that is very, very common.

We see them on the landscape in Arizona,

everywhere, called hoodoos.

You can see them out in Alabama Hills,

out in Owens Valley.

There's a lot of examples of this sort of sphere weathering.

But rarely are they perfect spheres.

And so it could be that some of these stones started out

mostly spheroidal, and then were worked

into a...

more perfect sphere.

The one in particular that I'm thinking of,

Bosnia, that's been,

um, in the headlines lately

has evidence of heat treating

to help facilitate polishing.

McGOWAN: These are not just round stones.

They are 96% perfect

in their spherical form.

That's not something that's created by the Earth.

NARRATOR: The near-perfect measurements of the stone spheres

convinced Dr. Osmanagich

that they were carved by artificial means.

And in 2016, he sparked controversy

when he announced that he believed

they originated with some unknown civilization.

OSMANAGICH: Who made them?

We don't have precise answer, but we know

that they were made by ancient builders.

Why?

Granite never comes

in spherical shape in nature.

NARRATOR: If the stone spheres are not naturally formed,

as Dr. Osmanagich suggests,

when were they made?

Many of the spheres

are impossible to scientifically date,

but based on the layers of soil

where the largest stone sphere was discovered,

Dr. Osmanagich believes it is up to 100,000 years old.

We don't have very specific time,

but what we do know, extremely old.

How do we know that?

The Bosnian stones sphere, the biggest one,

is discovered below the tree--

50 years--

dark soil-- 100 years--

light soil-- couple of hundred years.

We have light clay.

Almost 1,000 years.

We have dark clay, we have gray clay.

Tens of thousands of years.

And, finally, we have sandstone plate.

100,000-plus years.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the stone spheres in Bosnia

were created by some unknown culture

tens of thousands of years ago?

And if so, how?

OSMANAGICH: According to the mainstream archeologists,

until a couple of thousands of years back,

the only tools were copper tools.

Copper is soft material.

You cannot use copper tools

to shape granite stones.

Of course this is us, 21st-century civilization.

What did they use?

NARRATOR: To try and understand how these artifacts were shaped,

Dr. Osmanagich had several samples taken from the spheres

analyzed in a lab

at the University of Belgrade in Serbia.

We realized that there is a difference

between their physical and chemical properties

and natural stone materials.

McGOWAN: There is a chemical component

that was found within the spheres.

And this chemical has not been able to be identified.

NARRATOR: If the giant stone spheres in Bosnia

were created by an ancient civilization,

what purpose did they serve?

The precise engineering of the monoliths,

and the fact that many are made of granite,

has convinced Dr. Osmanagich

that the stone spheres' true purpose was to transmit

Earth energy that occurs in the region.

It seems that they had multi-layer purpose.

According to the new science, bio-geometry,

three most powerful geometrical shapes

when it comes to the energy, are:

four-sided pyramid,

conical shape,

and the third one is the sphere.

Those three geometrical shapes

amplify the energies.

Most of the stone balls

have quartz crystal.

Quartz crystal has the ability

to amplify the energy.

McGOWAN: Dr. Semir Osmanagich talks about

the use of these spheres as, potentially,

small power supplies.

And this makes sense when you look at them

in context with the rest of Bosnia.

When you're sitting in this creek bed,

surrounded by these spheres, it's hard to describe,

but it does feel powerful.

It feels like it is generating energy.

NARRATOR: Did the giant stone spheres in Bosnia

once serve a technological function?

And if so, might other stone spheres

have a similar purpose?

Perhaps answers can be found by examining

hundreds of stone spheres in Mexico

that were hidden for centuries.

NARRATOR: Teotihuacan, Mexico.

This ancient pyramid site was once home

to a mysterious civilization

dating back to the first century AD.

A time long before the Aztec arrived in this region.

Since the early 1990s,

archaeologists have been exploring

the dozens of subterranean rooms, tunnels, and pathways

that lie below this eight-square-mile complex.

They've been doing a lot of excavations to understand

the nature and the relationship of the different pyramids.

And they're exploring underneath

the Temple of the Feathered Serpent.

And so they've made some really nice maps

of the pathways and such that are underneath the temple

and exposed caverns in areas that they didn't know existed.

NARRATOR: In May of 2013,

researchers working beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent

employed a small robot

called Tlaloc II-TC

to explore the recently uncovered area.

Inside one chamber,

archeologists made a curious discovery.

They found more than 100 gold-colored metallic spheres.

COLLINS: These tiny balls

are probably anything between

an inch to about five inches in diameter.

And what we can say is that

when they were actually put in place,

uh, probably about 2,000 years ago,

you would've had this incredible

shining gallery of lights

as you went down it.

WHITEHILL: They appear gold, but when you look at them

under chemical inspection,

it appears that that gold color is the mineral pyrite.

The Mexican archeologists are completely perplexed.

They haven't seen anything like this before.

They haven't seen anything like this

in their explorations of the other temples.

So there's lots of questions to be answered still.

NARRATOR: Archeologists retrieved several spheres

from the chamber, and when they analyzed them,

they were amazed by what they found.

BARNHART: The sparkly spheres that were found

in Teotihuacan really are an enigma.

As far as how they were made,

men definitely made them.

We have looked at those spheres.

And they are clay.

They are, like, sunbaked clay

that was then rolled in pyrite dust.

That's why they have that kind of yellow color.

Why they did it... I don't know.

HENRY: Nobody knows the purpose of them,

why they were made, or even who made them,

but the fact that they're there

tells us they are of utmost importance

to what went on at the temple.

NARRATOR: The golden spheres found

under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent

are a mystery to archaeologists,

but some believe they may be representations

of celestial bodies observed in the night sky.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest the mysterious spheres

could have served a more profound purpose,

and point to another discovery made in 1906.

COLLINS: At Teotihuacan,

huge mica sheets have been found

beneath a layer of stone flooring

that were 90 feet square,

and they were placed directly on top of each other,

and yet, you couldn't see them.

So, they clearly weren't decorative or aesthetic,

they were clearly functional in their use.

So what were they doing there?

TSOUKALOS: We use mica today

in spacefaring technology.

It's a heat shield

for high, very, very high temperatures.

What is it doing at Teotihuacan?

What's also fascinating is that, throughout Teotihuacan,

you see burn marks on the walls.

So, at some point, Teotihuacan

underwent a gigantic fire.

Or was it something else?

Was it some type of a blast?

Was it some type of an exhaust?

NARRATOR: Curiously,

mica wasn't the only unusual substance

found within the ancient structure.

NEWMAN: They actually found mercury

under some of the pyramids as well.

So what does this all mean?

Well, mercury is used

in different electrical components,

and it conducts electricity.

So, can we suggest that they were

using this for some advanced technological purpose?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Mercury itself is-is very special.

It's a metal, it's a liquid, it's an electrical conductor.

Mercury can be used for many, many devices,

all of which are high-tech.

So you have to wonder, what is going on here at Teotihuacan?

Do these small balls and the mica

and the mercury and other facets of the pyramid,

are they all working together

to create some kind of electrical device

that's doing something?

That would seem to be the case.

NARRATOR: Does the discovery at Teotihuacan

of both mica and mercury,

two substances with high-tech applications,

indicate that an advanced technology

once existed in this ancient Mesoamerican city?

One that involved the mysterious spheres

found under the Temple of the Feathered Serpent?

We've often suggested that ancient structures

may have been used as some type

of energy capacitor.

An aeronautics engineer has suggested

that the Great Pyramid of Egypt, or the whole Giza complex,

may have been some type of a giant power plant.

Well, what if Egypt is not the only place

where they had something like this?

NARRATOR: Are the small golden spheres discovered at Teotihuacan

evidence of an extraterrestrial presence

on Earth centuries ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further clues can be found

by examining mysterious spheres that are not from this planet.

NARRATOR: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2019.

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb

learns of a meteorite that exploded

over the Pacific Ocean five years earlier.

AVI LOEB: I came across a meteor catalog

that the government compiled

using its missile warning system.

The meteor, uh, burned up

about 100 miles off the coast of Papua New Guinea,

and it released a few percent of the energy

of the Hiroshima bomb when it exploded.

From that, we inferred

it was about half a meter in size when it exploded.

NARRATOR: What intrigued Dr. Loeb the most

wasn't the object's size but where it came from.

LOEB: The meteor was actually moving

at 60 kilometers per second, clearly unbound to the Sun.

It must have originated from outside the solar system.

NARRATOR: This revelation is the first time

astronomers have identified an interstellar object

that entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Excited by the discovery,

Dr. Loeb closely examined the data

captured by the military satellites,

and he noticed something extraordinary.

LOEB: The government released data

of the explosion and from that, we inferred that the object

has material strength that is very unusual.

It's made of some alloy that is much tougher

than iron meteorites.

So, not only was this object the first interstellar meteor

but it was also tougher than all other meteors

detected by the government in that catalog.

And that raises the possibility

that it may have been a spacecraft.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that an extraterrestrial spacecraft

crashed into the Pacific Ocean?

To find out, Dr. Loeb and a team of scientists

set out in June 2023

to attempt to retrieve any debris of the event.

COLLINS: Avi Loeb initiated this expedition

off the coast of Papua New Guinea

to try and retrieve the fragments of this meteor,

which was now known under the name IM1.

And this expedition was incredibly successful.

What they managed to do, using a magnetic sledge,

was to retrieve around 700 very tiny spherules.

NEWMAN: The samples were sent

to Harvard College Observatory for further study,

because no one knows, really, where they came from

and what they're made of.

NARRATOR: Remarkably,

the material recovered by the magnetic sled,

containing microscopic metal spherules,

was unlike anything the scientists had ever seen.

COLLINS: Probably about 50 to 60 so far

have been properly studied.

And these show elements that could not have been

from the solar system itself, or not primarily.

They must have come in from another star system.

NARRATOR: To Dr. Loeb, the discovery is evidence

that he has found remnants of the interstellar meteorite.

But the most remarkable find was still to come.

Further scientific testing of the mysterious objects

revealed a composition that led Dr. Loeb to believe

they could be fragments of extraterrestrial technology.

The spheres were found to contain

extremely high levels of beryllium,

lanthanum and uranium,

making a never-before-seen compound known as "BeLaU."

WHITEHILL: That BeLaU composition does not exist

in any known mineral or rock that we know of.

And so this does speak to his hypothesis

that they're manufactured extraterrestrially.

TSOUKALOS: Dr. Avi Loeb proposes

that these spherules may be part of some type of E.T. technology.

What exactly he means by that, I don't know.

Could that really be a remnant

of a far, far distant extraterrestrial civilization?

NARRATOR: Word of Dr. Loeb's discovery made headlines across the globe

and stirred up controversy among his peers.

Within academia, there is still resistance

to discussing this subject openly.

However, if we do not invest in getting better data,

we will never be able to figure out the nature of these objects.

Unless you search, you will never find this evidence.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the mysterious alloy

is a material created by extraterrestrial beings?

Dr. Loeb's research is ongoing.

But if true, the spheres he discovered

will upend humanity's place in the universe.

LOEB: We will publish our results

in peer-reviewed journals

and make them available for anyone to see.

If we end up concluding that it was artificial in origin,

perhaps a spacecraft,

that would be the first time that we found evidence

for an object that originated from another civilization.

NARRATOR: Avi Loeb's suggestion

that the spheres may have come

from an extraterrestrial spacecraft

has been hotly debated in the scientific community...

-Got filaments here. -NARRATOR: ...but incredibly,

another scientist has also recovered tiny metal spheres

that he is convinced are of alien origin.

NARRATOR: The University of Sheffield, England, 2015.

SCIENTIST: Andre, on you. Countdown, please.

NARRATOR: Astrobiologist Dr. Milton Wainwright

-and his research team... -Three, two, one.

NARRATOR: ...release scientific balloons

25 miles up into the sky.

Once a balloon reaches its target altitude,

a capture mechanism will collect samples of material

within the Earth's stratosphere.

After the sampling is complete, the balloon bursts,

and the capture mechanism descends back to Earth

under the safety of a parachute.

COLLINS: In 2015, Dr. Milton Wainwright,

sent one of these balloons up, and it was hit

at an incredible rate, uh, by something

that left behind a small crater.

And when they actually dug into this crater

to see what it was, it was a tiny sphere.

And when they actually examined what the sphere was made of,

it was found to be of titanium and vanadium.

And these are elements

that shouldn't be there naturally

out in the lower atmosphere.

There's no Earth material associated with them.

And they're too large to be carried from Earth

to these altitudes.

They must be incoming from space.

Where are they coming from? We just don't know.

NARRATOR: Upon closer examination,

Dr. Wainwright noticed the small sphere

contained something completely unexpected.

COLLINS: This tiny sphere, when they studied it

under electron microscope,

saw that it was actually a shell

that had now broken,

and coming out of it

was this strange ooze that they felt

was biological in nature.

WAINWRIGHT: The characteristics of these organisms is very interesting.

They're made of carbon and oxygen,

so we know they're life-forms.

They don't contain silicon, so they're not bits of cosmic dust.

They're very unusual.

When I see the shapes of these things, I'm amazed,

'cause I've never seen anything like them on Earth.

There's no textbook version of the pictures we've been seeing.

NARRATOR: Although it is still unknown

just where these spheres come from,

Dr. Wainwright believes they are being used

to introduce new life-forms on Earth.

This concept is known as panspermia.

The question, how life ever got here,

to astronomers and to astrobiologists,

is still a gigantic question mark

and a huge debate

because, at some point, our planet

was just a rock with rocks and water. That's it.

And so, how did it all begin?

And so, there's two ways. One is panspermia.

Panspermia suggests that life was carried

on the backs of comets throughout the universe.

So, it's a natural seeding of the planets.

The other one is directed panspermia,

and direct panspermia dictates

that an intelligent extraterrestrial civilization

that's much, much older than ours

sent probes out to seed the planet

with their own DNA.

Directed panspermia is an idea first suggested

by the famous DNA pioneer Francis Crick.

And, basically, the idea is that maybe

aliens sent life to Earth.

COLLINS: This is the idea that an alien civilization

would send out these seeds

into different parts of the galaxy

that would come into the atmospheres of planets

and eventually reach the surface.

And this biological ooze would then create

the beginnings of life itself.

CHILDRESS: With Dr. Wainwright's small metal sphere,

you have to wonder, is this protein ooze that's inside it

something to seed the planet with life?

And to me, that's a fascinating idea.

And if this is the case, then

perhaps the extraterrestrials

are using these metallic spheres,

which are full of some protein liquid

that will jump-start life on the planet.

NARRATOR: Could the tiny metal spheres found in our atmosphere

really be designed to seed life on Earth?

For Dr. Wainwright, the distinct shape

of the microscopic objects presents a compelling argument.

WAINWRIGHT: The reason I'm suggesting

it might be artificial engineering,

it's pretty obvious that, if you're looking for a vehicle

of directed panspermia, this is what you would pick.

Instead of sending one rocket, you know, to California

or to Sheffield, what you want to do

is to completely cover the globe in minute balls of life.

And this would absolutely fit the bill.

HENRY: To Dr. Wainwright, this was evidence of cosmic seeding.

He believed that the spheres were, in fact, a technology--

a seed, if you will-- that were sent deliberately

to Earth by some unknown advanced civilization.

This would certainly be one way

of accelerating evolution on Earth.

NARRATOR: Dr. Wainwright awaits additional funding

to continue his experiments,

and as far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the questions raised by his research

merit further examination.

TSOUKALOS: This oozing liquid that's inside these spherules

is something that has never been discovered elsewhere.

So what is it?

Could it be that this is a part

of a directed panspermia project

that was used by extraterrestrials,

and we just happen to have found the evidence for it?

I think what Dr. Wainwright discovered

is crucial in figuring out

the larger picture that our origins

is not down here on Earth, but out there.

NARRATOR: Do the microscopic spheres found in the upper atmosphere

provide proof that extraterrestrials

seeded life on Earth?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

it's an intriguing possibility.

And they suggest further evidence of a connection

between the planet's mysterious spheres

and alien visitation can be found by examining

hundreds of stone orbs discovered in Scotland

that were used to communicate with the gods.

NARRATOR: The Orkney Islands, Scotland.

In the 19th century,

archeologists excavating a neolithic settlement here

discovered five small stone spheres.

Over the years, more than 500

have been unearthed throughout the region.

The petrospheres in Scotland are very, very interesting.

They appear to be of neolithic origin.

So, we're going back to 12,000 BC to about 4500 BC.

They're small, almost the size of ball bearings or something.

VIEIRA: They have geometric forms and spirals,

and it is obvious that they were produced by humans.

The question is, why were they produced

and what do all the symbols mean?

NARRATOR: While mainstream archaeologists

have yet to identify the purpose of these stones,

ancient astronaut theorists believe

the answer can be found in local legends,

which claim they were used to communicate

with otherworldly beings.

HENRY: Legend says that they could be used as oracle stones,

that a person would ask a question,

throw the stone on the ground,

and they would get some sort of an answer.

And that makes me wonder if it's possible that these

smaller handheld stones are somehow connected

to the larger stone spheres,

and they're perhaps amplifiers or transmitters

of Earth's energy, and that they all have

some sort of an energetic function.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient stone spheres

found around the world were intended to amplify

the energy of the Earth for a purpose we have yet to discover?

Or is our fascination with spheres simply inspired

by the connection we feel to the spherical bodies

we see in the heavens?

Perhaps the explanation is more profound

than we can even imagine.

As a stonemason, I'm very interested

in this mystery of the stone spheres.

I think it's, uh, a very enigmatic mystery.

It's a mixture of science, geology,

actual human manufacture, and legends of gods.

And I feel that more and more objects like this

may emerge because I think people are keen

on looking at our past like never before.

In my experience, stone speaks to humans.

Stone has a story to tell.

Stone is placed in specific ways with specific properties

to emit some message,

communication devices, maybe...

It-it's a very interesting medium.

And I really believe there is an understanding here

of something larger that the stone is trying to convey to us.

Our fascination with stone spheres,

whether they be tiny,

handheld, or massive,

is something that is associated

with connections with otherworldly environments,

that we see spheres

as points of communication with the other world.

TSOUKALOS: Clearly, the sphere has played a crucial part

in all of our ancient cultures.

And you have to ask yourself, why?

Could there be more behind it?

HENRY: What was the purpose of creating the spheres?

Is it indeed communication?

Are they information storage devices?

A commemoration of the original seeding of the planet?

We still don't know.

And that just adds to the mystery.

NARRATOR: Do the stone spheres found throughout the globe

serve as testament to extraterrestrial visitation

in the distant past?

Are they commemorating the origins of life on Earth?

Some profound technology witnessed by our ancestors?

Or could they even have served

a technological function themselves

that we might one day reactivate?

Perhaps the mystery of the stone spheres

will only be solved once we are reunited

with our alien ancestors.

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