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NARRATOR: Throughout the world, enormous stone monoliths

have stood for thousands of years.

Many were built to align with the stars.

The monolith has religious implications.

It’s pointing to the heavens.

NARRATOR: Some are said to have strange powers.

People get electric shocks.

They have altered states, experiences.

NARRATOR: And there are clues that they may have had

a technological function.

These stones are standing in just the right locations

where you could create a release of energy.

NARRATOR: Are the ancient standing stones

simply the earliest monuments of prehistoric humans?

Or might they have a far more profound purpose?

The standing stones are a calling card.

They are a message that somebody was here in the past,

and they were our teachers.

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.

NARRATOR: Biologists, from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources,

surveying a nearby canyon,

spot a strange, rectangular‐shaped object

from their helicopter.

DAVID CHILDRESS: They saw this metallic slab

down in the canyon.

It was a vertical slab about 10 to 12 feet tall.

And they were astonished because this...

this remote canyon is almost only accessible by a helicopter.

NARRATOR: Satellite imaging reveals

that the triangular column, dubbed the "Utah monolith,"

has stood undetected for over four years,

and its discovery quickly becomes international news.

There was terrific speculation

when the Utah monolith was first discovered...

...as to the provenance of the monolith, you know,

was this communication from E.T.s?

And I think people were really excited by this idea,

because it’s drawing on

the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey,

which was a science‐fiction book

written in 1968 by Arthur C. Clarke.

And in the same year,

Stanley Kubrick directed the movie.

And together, they captured the imagination of the world.

2001 begins with this monolith appearing on Earth.

And through that monolith, as we all know from the movie,

this is how our evolution begins.

The appearance of a similar monolith

in a remote location in Utah

gives us the sense of a connection

with alien intelligence,

the idea of a point of contact.

NARRATOR: While it is still not known for certain

just who erected the Utah monolith,

it is believed to have been nothing more

than an art installation

and was removed shortly after its discovery

by a group of conservationists.

During the following weeks,

similar monoliths started popping up

on nearly every continent.

TIM BRENNAN: So between December and January,

you had hundreds of monoliths appearing around the world.

And there were nine monoliths in the U.K. alone within a month.

NARRATOR: But why did the Utah monolith

spark this worldwide fascination?

Was it all because of a science‐fiction movie?

Or is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

that these monoliths resonate on a much more profound level...

and trigger deep‐seated memories of standing stones

erected thousands of years ago?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: People have always been fascinated

with monoliths,

and I think it goes even deeper into our past,

because we have standing stones around the world.

Standing stones have been an integral part

of our human development over thousands of years.

BRENNAN: Monoliths are a part of our DNA, part of our psyche.

Stone has a great resonance within the landscape.

It has a presence of permanence

that outlives the human frame.

NARRATOR: There are more than 50,000 ancient standing stones,

also known as monoliths or menhirs,

scattered across Europe,

Asia, Africa and the Americas.

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.

When you look at these standing stones,

we’re looking back at the Stone Age,

and we’re thinking, are these Stone Age people

moving all of these huge megaliths around?

The largest standing stone in all of Europe

is called Le Grand Menhir Brisé, the Great Broken Menhir.

It’s located in French Brittany,

and when it was one solid piece,

it was over 60 feet tall.

They have estimated for that stone, when it was one piece,

to be 330 tons.

Now explain to me how you transport 330 tons.

We have a hard time doing this today.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: It’s a huge undertaking.

And there could have been some knowledge that they had

to move heavy things that, for some reason,

we don’t understand today in our modern technological society.

Have we forgotten some ancient physics that they knew?

Or did they have help?

NARRATOR: While not all monoliths are of such enormous size,

for ancient astronaut theorists, the question still remains:

why would prehistoric people, struggling just to survive,

have expended so much time and energy erecting standing stones?

CHILDRESS: When you try to speculate about the standing stones

and what their purpose is, we have to wonder,

does it have to do with extraterrestrials

and something technological that we do not understand?

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 menhirs

are known as the Carnac stones.

French archeologists have been able to give a date

to these standing stones, and it’s 5,000 BC.

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.

Some of these stones are as much as ten feet tall.

And they are arranged in huge alignments.

Some of them are in parallel lines.

Some of them are fan‐like.

The Carnac alignments

refer to rows of stones

that run in precise lines for long distances

through the landscape.

HUGH NEWMAN: This is long before Stonehenge,

and Avebury and other such sites.

So who were these people?

And how were they able to move up to 70‐ton blocks

over huge distances

and lay them out into these geometric configurations?

NARRATOR: Some mainstream scholars suggest

that the stones are simply grave markers,

while others claim they track astronomical events

like the solstice and equinox.

But neither theory can explain the precise placement

of the stones in geometric alignments.

One of the most interesting of the Carnac alignments

is the alignment of Ménec.

When viewed from above,

we can see these 11 almost perfect parallel lines

that stretch out for almost a mile.

So the Ménec alignment is so pristine

and created with such perfection

we can’t even imagine

how it would’ve been done in ancient times.

Now, we have to wonder what these lines were for.

We have to wonder why

they’re so beautifully viewed from above.

NARRATOR: In 1970, Alexander Thom, a Scottish engineer

who spent most of his life studying megaliths,

performed a survey of Carnac

and found that the stones appeared to be

purposely arranged to form geometric designs.

Of particular interest was an egg‐shaped stone formation

at the west end of the Ménec alignment,

whose stones were precisely positioned

to form perfect Pythagorean triangles.

Thom’s finding astonished archaeologists,

due to the fact that Pythagoras introduced

this geometrical concept in the sixth century BC,

more than 4,000 years after the Carnac stones were erected.

TSOUKALOS: 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 a archaeological site that’s at least 7,000 years old?

ERICH VON DANIKEN: 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?

I am absolutely sure, some thousands of years in the past,

the extraterrestrials who visited our planet

left a proof behind.

TSOUKALOS: It’s a message that somebody was here

in the past who instructed our Stone Age people

to put this stone here, put that stone there.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the positioning

of the Carnac stones

was directed by extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

But if so, was the intent

simply to leave clues that they were here?

Or might these standing stones,

and the thousands of others that exist across the world,

have served another purpose?

One that can be found

not by looking at the stones from above

but by understanding what lies beneath.

Pierre Mereaux, a French engineer in thermodynamics,

performs a study of the Carnac stones,

which produces some highly intriguing results.

CHILDRESS: What he found was that

the stones were aligned and placed over areas

that had quartz fissures.

The standing stones, themselves, are also made of quartz.

Now these stones, as I understand it,

have a fair amount of quartz,

and quartz is an interesting material...

...because we do connect it with piezoelectricity.

NARRATOR: Piezoelectricity is the process of generating electricity

from crystals, like quartz,

when they are placed under pressure.

This technology is used today in watches,

speakers and computer storage systems.

But in order for the stones

found in the Carnac region to generate a charge,

they would need to be stimulated by a tremendous amount of force.

NEWMAN: When studying the landscape of Carnac,

Pierre Mereaux found fault zones

which the stone avenues appeared to be aligned to.

TAYLOR: It’s really interesting, if there was tectonic movement,

the quartz could be stimulated

to create a release of energy, using the piezoelectric effect.

And these stones are standing in just the right locations

where you could create a phenomena like this.

You can store and create electromagnetic energy

in these types of stones.

NARRATOR: In addition to being placed over a fault line,

there is also the presence

of a strong and measurable "Earth energy"

that lies beneath the stones.

So, one of the cool things about the Earth

is the currents that exist.

And it’s something we don’t think about a lot

is that underneath the earth,

and the crust, and the mantle

and in the oceans and the water

there’s constant electric current flowing.

Some of it very reproduceable and very steady.

It seems as if the Carnac stones somehow were reflecting

the presence of these electrical currents beneath the earth,

almost as if the prehistoric peoples that created them

were aware of the subtle energies of the earth.

TAYLOR: Somebody understood something about the quartz in the ground,

the standing stones and the fault line.

It’s too big of a coincidence

for them not to have understood that.

TSOUKALOS: I think in Carnac, our ancestors

did not know what they were creating.

The entire region has over 4,000 stones.

And, of course, it was our human ancestors who moved that stone.

It was not aliens who moved the stone.

But somebody told our ancestors why to move it there,

and above all, how to move it there.

Carnac, at some point, was an extraterrestrial hot spot.

NARRATOR: Were the stones at Carnac part of an electrical grid?

One that was created by extraterrestrial visitors

to tap into the natural energy produced by the earth?

But if so, to what end?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining some of the strange events

that have occurred near ancient standing stones.

Rudston, England.

This ancient village in Yorkshire

has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years,

and several of its Neolithic structures are still standing...

...as well as a number of monoliths.

But one towers above the rest.

The Rudston Monolith

is the tallest standing stone in Britain.

Currently, it is 25 feet in height,

and it weighs 40 tons.

Some researchers say that the monolith was found

at Cayton Bay, which is about 10 miles from Rudston,

and was carried up onto the hill.

So the effort involved to try to lift the stone

in an upright position is beyond imagination.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists believe the Rudston Monolith

dates back to at least 2,500 BC.

But some point to evidence that it could be far older.

BRENNAN: Well, we know that people have lived nearby Rudston

for over 11,000 years, uh,

in the Mesolithic era.

Because there have been some fantastic excavations

which have revealed the oldest house dwelling in the U.K.

So the Rudston Monolith could be as old as that.

NARRATOR: If the Rudston Monolith really is 11,000 years old,

that would mean it was transported and erected

some 6,000 years before the invention of the wheel.

And according to local historians,

just as mysterious as the origins

of the giant standing stone, is the strange phenomena

that have been observed in the area for centuries.

This particular area of the world is known

as the Bermuda Triangle of East Yorkshire,

and there’s a multitude of strange phenomena

that people report.

Strange lights and odd occurrences

in the sky and on the ground.

BRENNAN: We have reports of high strangeness in the region

dating back to the tenth century.

We have accounts of lights in the sky.

Intelligent light forms that seem to have a purpose

and a will of their own.

People get electric shocks off the Rudston Monolith.

They have altered states, experiences.

ERIN KAVANAGH: People claim to have seen green‐skinned fairy‐like folk

scuttling around the Rudston.

TSOUKALOS: Aerial phenomena are reported in that region.

Lights in the sky,

weird things that happen to electronic equipment,

weird magnetic anomalies.

So clearly, there is something going on there.

CHILDRESS: So you have to wonder, is the Rudston Monolith there

because of all these strange effects?

Or perhaps, the Rudston Monolith itself

is helping create some of these effects.

NARRATOR: But how could an ancient standing stone

be the source of such unusual phenomena?

Are earth energies being amplified

by the monolith just like at Carnac?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and suggest

there is far more to the Rudston Monolith than meets the eye.

NARRATOR: In the early 1700s, English scholar William Stukeley

conducted an excavation at the site

of the Rudston Monolith,

and discovered that the rock was twice as large

as previously thought, with half of it lodged in the earth.

HUTCHINSON: What’s interesting about Rudston Monolith,

they discovered this extension of the stone went 25 feet

below the surface, as well as 25 feet above the surface.

This is what makes this monolith

the largest standing stone in Britain.

CHILDRESS: What was the purpose?

I mean, it’s a lot of effort

that they’re doing for no real reason

that we can gather.

It seems that they’re tapping into certain places

where this energy from the earth can

be gathered, and then somehow emitted.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient people embedded

this 50‐foot‐tall stone a full 25 feet deep in the ground

as an attempt to tap into earth energies?

Curiously, the Rudston Monolith,

like the Carnac stones in France, is composed

primarily of highly conductive quartz crystal.

HUTCHINSON: The monolith is gritstone.

And gritstone is a conglomerate of sandstone,

with large grains of quartz‐like sand.

Gritstone has a high degree of conductivity

because of the electromagnetic frequencies

that quartz can contain in some stones.

So, it is a conductor of energy.

NARRATOR: And also like Carnac, Rudston is a location where

there are strong earth energies.

Some suspect this is due, in part,

to the presence of the Gypsy Race River

that runs beneath the earth here.

The Gypsy Race is a type of river that flows above ground,

then underground, then above ground again,

weaving in and out of the earth rather like a giant worm.

The Gypsy Race River is known as the Waters of Woe,

because it’s said to flood before calamity strikes,

such as a war, famine or plague.

One of the times in which the Rudston Gypsy Race flooded

was just before a meteorite struck.

It’s hardly surprising that people think the Gypsy Race

leads rise to energy vortices in the earth.

NARRATOR: Rudston is also believed to be at a convergence point

of what are known as ley lines.

In the 1920s, English landscape photographer

Alfred Watkins made the curious discovery

that many of the prehistoric standing stones

and significant ancient sites of England

and France line up in perfectly straight lines.

Other researchers have since theorized

that the ancient people placed standing stones

and structures along these lines

because they were somehow aware of underlying energy currents.

I think the ancients followed a line of energy...

...and placed certain monuments and monolith stones

that could activate those lines of energy.

CHILDRESS: The Rudston Monolith apparently is at

a junction of three ley lines.

And there’s an energy associated with these.

It’s a subtle energy, but it’s there and it can be

amplified by these standing stones.

Was the Rudston Monolith erected by ancient people who were aware

that this is a place of powerful earth energy?

Or is it possible, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

that they were directed by otherworldly visitors?

NEWMAN: The ancients knew what they were doing.

They would place these stones in specific spots.

And it would affect the energy.

But were they working with other beings to do this?

We have to ask these kind of questions

because why would they do it?

There’s so much energy that is being recorded at these sites

that we have to look at this seriously.

COLLINS: It seems as if it was the result of some kind of

contact with entities, perhaps even extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists point out that although no

written records exist to document the origins of

the prehistoric standing stones found around the world,

many of the ancient cultures attributed them

to otherworldly beings.

In Wiltshire, England, legend says that the monoliths

of Stonehenge were erected by the magician

Merlin, who was not of this Earth.

McGOWAN: The great 20th‐century French philosopher

and historian, Jean Marcel,

wrote over 40 books on the Celtic traditions.

‐(thunder crashes) ‐And was adamant that Merlin was

an incredibly powerful otherworldly being.

And in a number of the legends Merlin brought

the understanding of how to utilize these stones

in some extraordinary way in terms of technology,

communications, energy.

Now also in the Breton legends of Carnac,

Michael the Archangel comes down to Earth incarnate

and brings this extraordinary information

to this very powerful place to build

these alignments that occur at Carnac to create the energy,

to harness the energy, to utilize it in some way.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

the most compelling account of all comes from Ireland.

According to Celtic legend,

the Lia Fáil‐‐

a sacred stone used in the coronation of kings‐‐

was placed on the Hill of Tara by mysterious beings

known as the Tuatha Dé Danann.

KAVANAGH: They were said to appear

on mountaintops amidst dark clouds

floating down in ships from the sky.

And they brought great knowledge

of the architecture, metalworking

and medicine to Ireland.

In Irish tradition, the Tuatha Dé Danann possessed

godlike powers, but they were mortals.

And so you wonder, what are they talking about here?

NEWMAN: Lia Fáil arrived with the Tuatha Dé Danann.

So it has this mystical kind of history

that goes way, way back, potentially thousands of years.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that these stories

of otherworldly visitations

are not merely mythology but are based on actual events?

And were standing stones carefully placed

for some energetic purpose?

Perhaps the answer can be found by examining

our own modern‐day efforts to harness the power of the earth.

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NARRATOR: Long Island, New York.

March 1901.

After years of experimentation,

famed engineer and inventor, Nikola Tesla,

begins construction on the Wardenclyffe Tower

outside the town of Shoreham.

The project is an attempt

to wirelessly transmit electricity through the ground.

TAYLOR: Tesla invented almost everything that brought forward

our modern society with electrical power.

And his idea was to power the world wirelessly,

without having to have this big infrastructure.

All they would need was towers around the world.

His biggest test was at Wardenclyffe in Long Island,

and it was a large tower that has a strange ray conductor

on top of it, and then a large conducting pipe

that went way deep into the granite basin underneath it.

What he was really doing was grounding his system

into the earth, electrically connecting it to the earth

‐and transmitting power around the Earth. ‐(crackling)

And there are minerals and salts and things in the ground

that are conductive.

And you can actually pass electromagnetic energy‐‐

electrical current‐‐ through the ground.

His plan was to send wireless power through the earth,

uh, over vast distances.

NARRATOR: Tesla’s dream of harnessing the natural electricity

of the earth to broadcast wireless power was cut short

when he lost funding in 1904 and abandoned the project.

But another experiment he secretly conducted

in Colorado Springs five years earlier

allegedly proved the technology could work.

During the test, Tesla placed light bulbs

attached to metal conductors into the ground

as much as 26 miles

from the power source in his laboratory.

He then signaled his assistant to turn on the wireless system

and watched as the light bulbs became illuminated.

He actually lit light bulbs many miles away

with his experiment in Colorado.

And this was implementing

the electrical conductivity of the earth in a way that

nobody else has really been able to do efficiently since then.

NARRATOR: More than a century later,

scientists are still attempting to replicate

what Tesla was able to achieve in Colorado.

But is it possible that he was not the first

to conceive of drawing electricity from the earth?

When we think about what Tesla was doing

with his Wardenclyffe Tower, and we compare that

with what we see at standing stones like Carnac,

we have to wonder if the ancients were

trying to create some sort of electrical system

similar to what Tesla was proposing.

NARRATOR: When thermodynamics engineer Pierre Mereaux

studied the Carnac stones in France in 1992,

he concluded that they do, in fact, store energy

by connecting to an electric source

just below the surface of the earth,

much like Tesla’s Wardenclyffe Tower.

But if the ancient people were placing standing stones

in order to tap into Earth’s energy currents,

what exactly were they using this energy for?

Energy can be amplified by these standing stones.

And it can be emitted as well.

Much like we use antennas, and towers,

radio towers and things like that.

We have to wonder, does it have to do

with extraterrestrials and spacecraft?

Some have suggested that these standing stones

may have been used as a fuel device

for some type of craft.

And while at first this sounds absolutely insane,

the more you think about it, the more it makes sense.

A Soviet scientist by the name of Kardashev

came up with a scale

where the advancement of a society

is determined by its energy use.

So, what if somebody came here who has been around

longer than us and has figured out

how to harness the energy of the planet

through use of standing stones?

TAYLOR: Now just imagine that you’re on a long trip.

And you have an electric vehicle.

And when you leave your house, you plan your trip

around places that you know you can recharge.

Well, now imagine that you’re an advanced civilization.

And you’re going to a new planet.

But you understand planetary physics

and that planets will generate certain locations

that have more electromagnetic anomalies than others.

That might be a fueling station.

Would they leave a marker that says,

"Fuel here"? Maybe they would.

CHILDRESS: It’s interesting that flying saucers are

very commonly seen around power lines and power plants.

But in ancient times they didn’t have

those power lines running all over the world.

But what they did have were these standing stones.

So, extraterrestrials can take the stored energy

that’s in these standing stones,

recharge their own craft and then fly on

to an‐another one of these standing stones somewhere.

NARRATOR: Could this be the answer to the mystery

of the standing stones?

Did alien visitors instruct our ancestors

on where to place them so that they could tap

into the Earth’s natural energy to charge their craft?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is a resounding yes.

But they suggest this technology was used

for far greater purposes

and claim the proof can be found in ancient Egypt.

NARRATOR: Cairo, Egypt

20 miles northeast of the iconic Giza Pyramid Complex

stands the world’s oldest surviving obelisk,

dating to roughly 1900 BC.

Originating from the Greek obeliskos,

meaning "pointed pillar," an obelisk is

a tall, four‐sided, narrow tapering monument

which ends in a pyramidion at the top.

In Egypt, hieroglyphs were carved

into all four sides, and they often recorded battles,

special events, or the history of the region.

CHILDRESS: The obelisks of Egypt were erected maybe centuries

after standing stones like the ones in Carnac in Brittany.

But they’re monoliths, too‐‐ one solid piece of stone.

The obelisks of Egypt, too, are made of red granite,

and red granite is a very special kind of granite.

It’s infused with tiny quartz crystals.

And this gives the obelisk a certain type of energy,

and the ancient peoples were aware of this energy

that was coming out of the obelisk.

They actually thought the obelisk was alive.

And this is very reminiscent

of the ancient standing stones that are even older.

NARRATOR: Is it more than mere coincidence

that the Egyptians erected monolithic stones

that were rich in quartz crystal,

just like ancient cultures in other parts of the world did

thousands of years earlier?

Had they discovered the secret of the ancient standing stones,

and their power to harness the energy of the Earth?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and point out that the Egyptians believed

the obelisks provided a profound connection to the gods.

The obelisk itself, like a cathedral,

lifts up into the heavens.

It is pointing to the heavens.

It is a connection to the gods.

And at the top of an obelisk in ancient Egypt,

there was a special stone, the capstone, the pyramidion.

It was the shape of a pyramid.

It was made of specially fine granite,

polished with some, uh, hieroglyphics,

but the main detail was it was brightly gilded in pure gold,

so that the sun would bounce off that and beams would glow

for miles around it.

Must’ve been dazzling.

This was the point of contact between humans and the gods.

This was how we communicated with the gods

through that stone.

HENRY: You’ll see the top of the obelisk

reaching into the sky.

They think of it as a sort of, uh, an axis mundi.

It’s a way of connecting Earth with the heavens.

Egypt was given, according to ancient texts,

the powers of heaven.

Egypt became a mirror of the heavens,

and that the powers that are found in the heavens

are found on Earth, in Egypt.

As above, so below.

NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars interpret

this connection to the heavens as purely symbolic,

but ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that the obelisks were recreating the technology

of another world, and that these giant stone pillars

were part of a vast wireless energy grid,

one that also incorporated the power of the pyramids.

It’s a fascinating idea that like we would charge a phone

on a charging pad just by placing it there,

these extraterrestrials can recharge their own craft

off of these standing stones and obelisks.

You have to wonder whether pyramids had

exactly the same purpose.

Could there be even more highly advanced technology

way beyond any technology that we even know?

A lot of people don’t realize this,

but Tesla’s original design for the Wardenclyffe Tower

was actually to be the same height

as is the pyramid from the base to the tip of

where that conductor piece used to be on top of the pyramids.

And at the time that he was building it,

in the 1908‐ish timeframe,

J.P. Morgan had an expedition in the pyramids

and were sending information to Tesla

while he was working on the Wardenclyffe Tower.

Nobody knows why and what the results of that was

and to what end.

But it seems suspect that Tesla wanted to do

something with wireless transmission of power

from a system that’s the same height as the pyramids.

Did they believe that that’s what the pyramids were for?

NARRATOR: The walls of the Great Pyramid‐‐ like the obelisks‐‐

contain a high concentration of quartz crystal.

Could it be that this massive monument,

in conjunction with the obelisks,

made up a global wireless energy network?

By placing some of these obelisks and standing stones

around the Earth, in combination with pyramids,

if you have the correct technology,

you can use that energy,

and these standing stones become antennas

and power beacons and all kinds of things.

And it seems that this could have been

a worldwide system of power.

And that spacecraft, submarines,

other electric devices could draw their power

from the atmosphere because it was being put out

by these pyramids and by these obelisks.

NARRATOR: Might the world that Nikola Tesla envisioned

at the beginning of the 20 century

have actually existed right here on Earth

thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest there is even evidence

that parts of this wireless energy system

may still be in use today.

NARRATOR: Tara, Ireland.

Continuing a 6,000‐year‐old tradition,

thousands congregate on the Hill of Tara every June

to celebrate the summer solstice,

and gather around the sacred stone called Lia Fáil.

In Axum, Ethiopia,

the ancient granite obelisks attract

more than 20,000 tourists every year.

And more than 800,000 tourists will visit Wiltshire, England

this year, to gaze upon the iconic monoliths of Stonehenge.

After thousands of years, humankind remains mesmerized

by the ancient standing stones.

There’s just some energy and mystery

that’s associated with them that really grabs humans

to the point where all of these places today are now

major sacred places and tourist spots.

Was it something that the extraterrestrials had set up

and has now, uh, fallen into disuse?

A giant matrix and grid around the Earth

that was functioning in ancient times,

and now all we have is just sort of remnants

of this ancient power grid

that was once completely around the Earth?

It’s a fantastic thought.

NARRATOR: But considering the geological makeup of these ancient stones

and their potential for transmitting energy,

is it possible that they are more

than just majestic monuments to the past?

Could otherworldly visitors be drawing power

‐from them even today? ‐(crackling)

COLLINS: What is so interesting is that monoliths are

very strongly associated with UFO sightings.

Mysterious lights have been seen at the Rudston Monolith.

People witness these strange lights and UFOs

above the Carnac stones in France.

Near Stonehenge in England, each year,

strange crop circles appear.

And in the very same locality,

you have mysterious lights, UFO abductions,

disappearances, time slips, things like this taking place.

Plasma UFOs, have been seen and reported.

And these continue to this day.

CHILDRESS: Perhaps these standing stones are storing energy,

they’re emitting energy and with the right technology

and instruments, you can pick these stones up‐‐

these standing stones‐‐ from hundreds of miles away.

TSOUKALOS: The point is that the standing stone formations

that we find all around the world

are pieces of the puzzle of the ancient astronaut theory,

that long ago we received visits from outer space

and we were visited by none other

than our first teachers on planet Earth.

NARRATOR: Do the standing stones found across the world represent

the remains of a sophisticated global electrical grid?

One that exceeds the most advanced technology

we possess today?

And if so, could Earth be part of a universal network

of space ports built for interplanetary travel?

Perhaps with further examination of the ancient monoliths

we will learn to harness their power ourselves

and continue the legacy of our alien ancestors.

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