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NARRATOR:
A mysterious metal object
that defies ex

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Very strange.

So what does the museum
have to say about this?

It is a strange piece
for us as well.

NARRATOR:
An ancient stone carving

that may possess
advanced technology.

DAVID SEDAT:
Inside the crystalline
structure were great

memory chip banks.

NARRATOR:
An extraordinary crystal skull

with strange properties.

So, what are we looking at here?

JAMIE JONES:
It seems to be a very strong,

protective energy.

NARRATOR: On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated

the world's oldest
and most incredible

relics up close and in person.

Now, we take a look back at some
of the most mysterious artifacts

we've examined
all over the globe.

Artifacts that, according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

provide undeniable proof
of extraterrestrial contact.

♪ ♪

On Ancient Aliens,
we have examined

some of the most mysterious
artifacts on Earth.

Artifacts that, I believe,

offer compelling evidence
that our ancestors

were visited by
extraterrestrials.

And that is exactly
what I found when I traveled

to a museum in Romania with
Erich von Däniken to examine

one of the most extraordinary
relics ever discovered.

NARRATOR:
Workers digging a trench

along the banks
of the Mures River

unearth two giant bones.

And with them,
a mysterious metal object,

buried 35 feet
beneath the surface.

The discovery brings
the project to a halt

as the crew takes their
findings to a nearby museum.

This strange object, known
today as the Wedge of Aiud,

continues to baffle
archaeologists

because it is an aluminum alloy

that appears to have been
made thousands of years

before humans were able
to smelt or fabricate metal.

It was 10 meters in depth
associated with some bones,

which they later identified
as woolly mammoth bones.

If they were contemporary,

all of them, then they were
in use sometime in the period

when Neanderthals
roamed the Earth.

So they were extinct
40,000 years ago,

so they must be older than that.

The Wedge was analyzed
three times to my knowledge.

The main metal in its
composition is aluminum.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
Humans didn't really
start working

with aluminum until well
into the 1800s.

So when you look at
this wedge and you analyze it,

it really has most
of the modern properties

we would associate
with aluminum.

NARRATOR:
In January of 2017,

ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Erich von Däniken

were offered a rare opportunity

to get a firsthand look
at the Wedge of Aiud.

Museum curator Ana Gruia

has taken it out of
a storage locker

where it has been
deliberately hidden

from the public
since the early 1970s.

Okay.

This is exciting.

Okay, I'm just gonna put
my gloves on.

TSOUKALOS:
This is great.

GRUIA:
So this is it.

-VON DÄNIKEN: Oh, wow.
-TSOUKALOS: Okay.

VON DÄNIKEN:
This is strange.

It's very heavy.

-Giorgio, take it, it's heavy.
-This is crazy.

TSOUKALOS:
Wow.

And this was found at a depth

of 10 meters,
which is about 30 feet,

-in the ground.
-GRUIA: Yes.

TSOUKALOS:
Yes, and here, this is

where they took the sample out,
and here, to make the analysis.

And here you see two pieces

that are broken off, sort of.

So maybe it was attached
or something.

But very strange.

So what does the museum
have to say about this?

This is a very strange piece.

It is, it is a strange piece
for us as well.

As historians,
we do not consider it

a historical object
that we're used to.

We don't know
what it was used for,

and we acknowledge these
uncertainties about its dating,

and its composition as well.

VON DÄNIKEN:
So, for what can you use this?

It looks like a hammer
or a shovel, but, Giorgio,

what is the word of, in English?

(speaking in foreign language)

-Oh, an excavator tooth.
-VON DÄNIKEN: Well,

it looks like this.

-It could have been
something like it.
-Yeah.

VON DÄNIKEN:
But these excavator tooths

-are never made out of aluminum.
-TSOUKALOS: No, it's too weak.

-VON DÄNIKEN: Aluminum
is too soft.
-TSOUKALOS: Yeah.

VON DÄNIKEN:
They are made out of steel.

Especially hard steel,
so it could not be that.

So we have a real mystery here.

But you see this patina
over this whole object?

And this creates
another problem.

TSOUKALOS: Yes, because
you cannot fake a patina.

It's impossible

to artificially create a patina.

NARRATOR:
The patina is a thin coating
of various metal compounds

that forms
on the surface of the metal

during exposure
to atmospheric elements.

The older the object,

the thicker
the patina layer will be.

It takes hundreds,
if not thousands of years

for a thick layer of patina,

as this apparently is,

for it to develop.

Yes, we agree there are
two basic problems.

One, that aluminum
was not invented

at the age when we presume
this was in use.

And second, it's the patina,
as you noted.

VON DÄNIKEN:
Which speaks for the date.

-TSOUKALOS: Yes.
-VON DÄNIKEN: For the age of it.

So we-we still
have a mystery here.

TSOUKALOS:
Thank you very much for

showing us this object because
I know that there was a time

when nobody knew where it was,

somewhere in a box in the back.

Which means present-day
archaeology has a problem.

And they're doing
magnificent work.

But when something
like this comes along,

you know, we should
investigate this

and not put it in
a box in the back.

-Definitely.
-GRUIA: It did depend
on mentalities

-in official position.
-Yes. (chuckling)

It isn't currently exhibited

because we have to admit,

as historians,
that we do not know

more details about it.

For us it's just baffling
at this point.

But taking the-the logic
further, this conflicting

information could have
just two solutions so far:

One, that it is really
not so old and the context

is irrelevant, and the patina
was somehow produced

in special circumstances.

So it's a new object
strangely preserved, let's say.

And the second option is,
of course,

that it's not
of terrestrial origin.

In all of your adventures,

how does this compare

to some of the other things
that are inexplicable?

I am helpless. I have no idea.

-That says it all right there.
-(chuckling)

Very bizarre. Bizarre.

♪ ♪

I've known about this thing
since the early 1990s,

and I have to tell you
that looking at it

in person was a dream come true.

And it's a very strange thing.

I mean, how do you explain this?

It certainly looks

as if it was part
of a larger object.

The question is, was it
a component of a device?

Was it a component
of something larger?

NARRATOR:
If the Wedge of Aiud really is
over 40,000 years old,

then who made it,
and what was it used for?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe they may have
the answer.

An aeronautical engineer
who saw the Aiud Wedge

looked at it and said,

"That's a piece of
a landing gear

for a vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft."

Ancient astronaut theorists
have also looked at this wedge

and surmised that it's possible

that it's part of a crashed
extraterrestrial craft.

NARRATOR:
Could the Wedge of Aiud

really be a remnant
of an extraterrestrial craft?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes.

And they suggest that the truth

about these
otherworldly visitors

can be found half a world away,
encoded in stone.

Some of the most
mysterious artifacts

we've investigated on
Ancient Aliens

have come in the form of
ancient stone statues

known as stelae.

On a recent trip
to Copán, Honduras,

I met with an archaeologist

who showed me some
intriguing examples

of these Mayan artifacts

that he suggests

may have served
a technological purpose.

NARRATOR:
Ancient Astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos travels

to Copán, Honduras, to meet up

with renowned Mayan
archaeologist David Sedat

who's been involved
in the excavation

of the site for more
than three decades.

TSOUKALOS:
David, great pleasure
to meet you.

SEDAT:
Well, I've been
looking forward to this.

I'm sure you have a lot
of things you want to see.

TSOUKALOS:
This is... Yes, I do.

So, David, what are we
looking at here?

SEDAT:
Well,

this is the Great Plaza.

It's over 100 meters, uh,
larger than a football field.

And it's the southern portion

of the Great Plaza
with the majority of the great

standing stone giants that
you've come to see are located.

NARRATOR:
On the grounds at Copán

are dozens of stone
statues called stelae.

The most well-known of these

were built during
the 43-year reign of the ruler

Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,

better known by
the nickname "18 Rabbit."

TSOUKALOS:
This is the first time

I'm standing next
to one of these.

Absolutely incredible.

What do the glyphs say
about this particular statue

or stela here?

SEDAT:
This is all
a representation of

the 13th ruler, whom we
have nicknamed 18 Rabbit.

And they show him
taking on the persona

of the high god of Copán,
Ju'n Ajaw, who was a sky god.

The supreme being.

The motifs on his headdress

and other attributes
show that he is a sky deity.

This is amazing to me
because here we have not only

a statue depicting something,
which is a picture,

a carved picture,

but on the sides,
we have writing,

glyphs carved
that speak of a sky deity.

Now, when I look at
something like this,

I'm immediately reminded
of misunderstood technology.

Because imagine,
if a people who are

intelligent yet their
technological frame of reference

from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago
we have to admit was primitive,

not their intelligence,

their technological
frame of reference.

Of course,
let me just add to that

that everything

shows his connectedness
of the cosmos

and this living space
of mankind in all of its senses.

And by the way,

I have seen that
headdress right there

elsewhere on planet Earth.

And that is in Mesopotamia.

So the fact that we have
these examples worldwide

leads me to think that it was

a flesh and blood
extraterrestrial

whom our ancestors
misinterpreted as being God.

Why? Because
they came from the sky.

Arthur C. Clarke
said it best when he said,

"Any sufficiently
advanced technology

is indistinguishable
from magic."

Imagine showing

your great-great-grandfather
your smart phone.

-Right. That's right.
(laughing)
-All of a sudden,

you've become
a magician, a wizard.

When we talk about technology,

I imagine someday in the future

that the technology will be such

that we'll be able to scan

this stela here...

...and receive the resonances

that are inside the crystalline
structure of the stone.

In other words,
that these were great

memory chip banks.

Wow, okay.

And in the appropriate algorithm

we could peel back into time

by hearing the sights and sounds

and everything
that happened in this

sacred space and maybe
answer some of the questions

that you were posing.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that these
Mayan stone giants

were designed in such a way

as to be able to digitally
store valuable data?

NOVA SPIVACK:
We've learned a lot about
how ancient civilizations

understood our solar system
and their world.

These civilizations
had advanced technologies

for working with
stone and metal,

and in some cases crystals.

We still don't know
how they did what they did.

It's reasonable that,
given these monuments exist,

that we should analyze them
to see if there's

other layers of information
encoded in them.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
If these statues were

in fact devices that had
recorded information,

you wonder if we have also

some evidence here
from the statues of Copán

that extraterrestrials
are coming to this planet.

NARRATOR:
Could the ancient
stone giants of Copán

really be encoded with
precious information

about the ancient world?

And if so, might they
also hold evidence

of extraterrestrial contact?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove their point,

they believe
that one of the keys

can be found by examining
the elaborate carvings

located on what is
referred to as Stela C...

the same one that David Sedat

considers the most incredible.

The inscription on this side

starts a 20-year period

equivalent to
December 5 of 711.

And midnight on that night,
the Milky Way was standing

precisely straight up
in the tropical sky here.

The text goes on to say

that this also happened
4,600 years before.

And there is strong implication
that he was as well,

like on that night,
witnessing this celestial event.

NARRATOR:
Witnessing the event?

Is it possible that the ruler
depicted on the stelae

known as 18 Rabbit

was able to observe
an astronomical event

that occurred more than
4,000 years before his time?

Let me show you
how the narrative

picks up on the other side.

All right, let's check it out.

So now here,

-this guy has a beard.
-Well, yes.

This is still 18 Rabbit,

but he's achieved
great age, great wisdom.

Telling us that he is

witnessing this astronomical
conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years ago.

Two million years ago?

-Two million years ago.
-So this guy here...

And he witnessed it.

Now, he witnesses
this astronomical

conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years in the future.

-As well?
-As well.

TSOUKALOS:
That's extraordinary.

SEDAT:
So these stones have to be seen

as the supernatural
personas that can travel

in time simultaneously
backwards and forwards.

You've just blown my mind.

NARRATOR:
Supernatural personas that
can travel through time?

If the statues of Copán
were really created

as a means of storing
valuable ancient knowledge,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

then how and why did that
knowledge come to be lost...

...along with the keys needed
to unlock their secrets?

Perhaps the answers
can be found by examining

another group
of mysterious stones

that may have
extraterrestrial origins.

Many of the mystererious
artifacts

we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens are,

in my opinion,

objects that our ancestors
created to document

encounters with
otherworldly beings.

But every now and then
we have come across an artifact

that may itself be
of extraterrestrial origin.

In 2019, David Childress
got the rare opportunity

to scientifically test
strange stones that are unlike

anything we've ever
found on planet Earth.

NARRATOR:
Sierra Leone, Africa.

The early 1990s.

As civil war rages
across the country...

...rebels begin forcing
villagers to mine

so-called "blood diamonds."

But from deep within the earth
emerges a vast treasure

they weren't expecting.

They discover mysterious figures

ranging from five
to ten inches tall...

...often with reptilian
or amphibian features

known as Nomoli.

CHILDRESS:
They're very strange statues.

Some are clay, some are of
granite or limestone.

They are humans and human
figures with lizard heads.

There are hundreds of them.

NARRATOR:
According to legend,
the Nomoli represent sky gods.

When they fell from the heaven,

part of the sky turned to stone
and rained down with them.

Curiously, strange blue stones

can be found buried with many
of the Nomoli figurines.

These strange blue stones
called skystones

have been found with
the statues and at first,

archaeologists thought,
okay, it's just blue stones.

But when they analyzed it,

they couldn't figure out
how these had been made, too.

Although the people
in Sierra Leone felt

that they were actually
pieces of the blue sky

that fell with the Nomoli.

NARRATOR:
If these mysterious blue stones
are really connected

to the legend of the sky
turning to stone

and raining down on the Earth
with the arrival of the Nomoli,

what could they be?

Seattle, Washington.
March 6, 2019.

In search of further evidence
that the Nomoli statues may have

an extraterrestrial connection,

ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress

has arranged to meet up
with skystone collector

and researcher Jared Collins.

Wow.

NARRATOR:
Jared has in his possession

a number of
the mysterious blue stones

that were found
near the statues.

So how was it that these stones

were actually discovered
in modern time?

This was actually
discovered in 1991

by a man named David Leadbetter.

He was in Sierra Leone
on a mining concession

looking for gold and diamonds.

And when he was
having his crew dig,

occasionally,
these stones would appear.

What do other
geologists say about

stones like this?
Are they able to identify them?

COLLINS:
We've sent these now
to 12 different labs.

There is not one piece
of consensus in here.

Everybody has
a different opinion.

We still don't know,
actually, if these are

-natural or man-made.
-So maybe it's
from another planet.

I don't know.

I really wish I did,
and I would love a chance

to actually be able to get this

in front of somebody else
who could look at it again.

I've got some friends at
the University of Washington

and I think we can set this up
and have another test done.

That would be fantastic.

I would love to get
some consensus on this

to understand
what this actually is.

NARRATOR:
While tests conducted
on the stones found

with the Nomoli statues
have so far produced

conflicting and sometimes
even confounding results,

David is eager to have them
tested for himself.

At the University of Washington,

David and Jared meet
with renowned geologist

Professor Peter Ward.

Hi, I'm David Childress.

-I talked to you on the phone.
-David.

It's good to meet you.

And this is Jared Collins.

Thank you so much
for seeing us today.

Jared, both of you guys,

welcome to the University
of Washington IsoLab.

So, what do we have
in this beautiful box?

Well, we're sort of hoping
that you can tell us.

Well, well, well,
what are these beauties?

We have been through
many tests on these,

and no one can identify them.

They cannot tell us whether

these are natural or artificial,
what's causing the blue color,

if this is ancient or modern.

So, they've been checked for

the common blue minerals,
I take it?

One thing that we know for sure
is that this is not turquoise.

This is not lapis.
This is not erinite.

WARD:
The fact that it's so
unbelievably light

really suggests that there's
an organic component to it.

Anything that goes blue
generally is much heavier,

So this is,
this is really a mystery.

COLLINS:
I should mention also

that this only comes from
one very specific part,

from one very specific village.

It has never been found
anywhere else in the world.

Well, let's do a test
that removes any doubt

about them being partly organic.

So Erin is gonna take this rock

and she's gonna
scrape it into these

tiny little tin cups.

The tin cups themselves will
load into our mass spectrograph.

They will then be heated to
a thousand degrees centigrade.

Everything inside will combust
and turn to gas.

And those individual
gas molecules will then

be sampled and we can examine
if there are any truly organic

molecules in this rock.

Was there some life process that
was involved in its formation?

NARRATOR:
David and Jared return home
to wait for the results.

When Dr. Ward receives them
two weeks later,

he sends an email to David

remarking that what
the scientists found

was so strange, they ran
the tests three times,

thinking it was
a machine error and added:

"This gives me the creeps."

To learn more, David contacted
Dr. Ward through video chat.

Hi, Doctor Ward.

So I wanted to learn
about the results?

Yeah, it was pretty cool.

I mean, it was much
stranger than we thought.

There really seems to be
some sort of organic

aspect to this.

It's got element nitrogen in it

in really high concentrations.

Having this high
amount of nitrogen

puts it into a, "Wow, that's
a very peculiar rock" category.

We were looking for a possible
extraterrestrial origin.

Is it possibly
a meteorite or even

part of a spaceship
that exploded?

(laughing)

Let's just say that there's
a possibility that it came

from off the Earth.

As we scientists say,
"It's worth more study."

NARRATOR:
Although the skystones
are still a mystery,

David and Jared have confirmed

that they are unlike any
other stone ever examined.

Could they have arrived
on Earth with the strange beings

that are depicted
in the Nomoli statues?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they claim that further
evidence of extraterrestrial

visitation in the distant past

can be found in one of the most
remote places in the world.

On Ancient Aliens we have
traveled around the world

to get a closer look
at mysterious artifacts.

And sometimes, we find
evidence of alien contact

hiding in plain sight.

This is exactly what happened

when David Childress
and I traveled

to the remote Marquesas Islands
and were shown

an ancient statue that,
as far as we were concerned,

clearly represents something

very different from what
mainstream scholars suggest.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress

are in the Marquesas Islands,
investigating potential evidence

that this remote
part of the world

was once inhabited by
extraterrestrial visitors.

Hello.

CHILDRESS:
It's good to see you.

-TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
-CHILDRESS: Okay.

NARRATOR:
As their local guide,

they've enlisted
Hiva Oa resident

Heimata Bonno who will show them

some of the mysterious
sculptures

found on the island,
known as tikis.

These statuaries represent
the ancestral gods and goddesses

that came to the islands
in ancient times.

-TSOUKALOS: This is incredible.
-CHILDRESS: Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: So what are we
looking at here? What is this?

Oh, it totally looks
like a llama.

TSOUKALOS: I totally think
this looks like a llama.

I mean, there is
no question in my mind.

And I also don't think
that this was altered.

This is original.

And I don't see any changes.

CHILDRESS: So either
this is not authentic,

or if it is authentic
it's a llama,

and it proves connection
to-to South America.

NARRATOR:
South America?

Is it possible that the llama,

believed to be native
to South America,

was known to people living
on this remote island chain

some 3,500 miles away?

But how?

CHILDRESS:
Some people say that

it's a woman giving birth.

Do the women here

in the Marquesas islands,
do they do this?

They lie on their stomach
and give birth?

No.

TSOUKALOS:
This is crazy. Huh.

To me, it looks like
something from the sky.

It's like... (groans)
Maybe some flying vehicle.

-It's a great question.
-Yeah.

TSOUKALOS:
Perhaps what we're
looking at here

is some type of a craft.

Because you have
the windows in the front,

which are these giant goggles

and then you have
the mouth in the front

which to me it looks like
some type of an air intake.

Underneath you have
a lifting body

that goes underneath
the entire body.

And if you combine that
with the story of this object

or this woman giving birth,

if someone has never seen

passengers disembarking
from an actual airplane...

...if they have no idea
what is happening,

well, all of a sudden...

...a flying vehicle
is giving birth to people.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that
this ancient statue

that has been interpreted
in modern times

as a fertility goddess

is actually depicting
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I think that tikis
are nothing else

but misunderstood technology

that over time
turned into divine objects

of magic and sorcery.

Can we go look at it?

Great.

TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow.

Clearly this tiki,
the head is missing.

But I see that it has
six fingers.

It's very feasible to me that
they actually tried to imitate

whoever visited or whoever came
here to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers
if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say,
"Oh, this is just fantasy."

I think they saw
someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

Yeah.

Yes.

TSOUKALOS:
So these are protectors.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that
the mysterious statues

and carvings found
throughout the Marquesas Islands

were made to commemorate
extraterrestrial visitation?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence
of alien contact can be found

by examining strange
skulls made of crystal.

Of the many mysterious
artifacts

we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,

some of the most jaw-dropping
are the crystal skulls.

Crystal skulls have been
found all around the world

and some of them have been

carved with such
extraordinary precision that,

in my opinion,
they must have been created

with some type
of advanced technology.

In 2013, David Childress
got to examine

the largest crystal skull
ever discovered.

NARRATOR:
This is Einstein,

believed to be the largest
ancient crystal skull

as yet discovered.

Its owner, Carolyn Ford,
says she obtained

the 33-pound crystal object
more than 20 years ago

from an explorer who discovered
it in Mexico in the early 1900s.

She was unaware that it
possessed any strange abilities

until the day when, she claims,

it actually
communicated with her.

CAROLYN FORD: It was
revealed to me by Einstein

at the moment that I got him

when I knew nothing about
crystal skulls, he said,

"I'm an ancient computer.
In fact, I'm a master computer.

And we record everything,

like a live feed, 24/7.

And that's our purpose."

He's been recording
history on this planet

since the beginning of time,
so indeed he was in Atlantis.

A lot of the ancient
crystal skulls have been

in Atlantis, and even
before that time.

NARRATOR:
Could the so-called
Einstein skull

really be an artifact

from the lost civilization
of Atlantis as its owner claims?

Sedona, Arizona.

2013.

CHILDRESS:
It's very clear down here,
and then it gets cloudy.

NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress

enlists the help
of aura photography

expert Jamie Jones

in an effort to test
the Einstein skull

for unusual
energy pulses or auras.

These auras are
believed to appear as colors

that correspond to various
physical, emotional,

mental and spiritual states.

JONES:
With aura technology,
we're able to use

biofeedback imaging
to pick up electromagnetic

energy field
around the human body.

I'm not expecting any energy

to be coming out of
the inanimate object.

So I'm a little skeptical

in that I'm not sure
what to expect

when I photograph the skull.

And I've been told
a lot of things about skulls,

as far as information
that they're holding,

what civilizations they're from,

or if they're actually
from the extraterrestrials.

So I'm kind of excited to see

this particular skull
and what it emits.

-Hi, Jamie.
-Hi.

Hey.

And this is Carolyn, and wow,

here is the skull.

JONES:
Wow, this is fabulous.

-So what do we do?
-These are biofeedback censors

and they're gonna be
reading the energy,

if there's energy
around the skull.

So you're gonna
place it on here for me.

Perfect.

CHILDRESS:
So it has to go on both

of the two sensors?

Yes, because both sensors
are picking up energy,

so we want as much
coverage as possible.

-Okay, that's perfect.
-All right.

And now, uh, you just
take a photo of it, huh?

We're gonna take a picture.

All right.

All right.

-And here is the aura
of the skull.
-FORD: Oh, wow.

-CHILDRESS: Okay, wow.
-FORD: Whoa, look at
those colors.

JONES: That is amazing.

-It's amazing.
-Really?

-Oh.
-So, what are we
looking at here?

I mean, here
we can see the skull.

It seems to be very strong,
warrior type protective energy.

And if you look closely,

that energy is arced over.

-Right.
-Literal arc of protection
over the skull.

Now, the blue that we see
throughout the entire picture

is wisdom and knowledge

from traveling many lifetimes
and many dimensions.

CHILDRES: I was surprised,
really, that the aura camera

would pick up so much energy

from the skull
and the different colors.

Some people believe

that crystal skulls have
electro radio wave type

energy that emits from them.

And that the skull
can actually communicate

to people through this energy.

And it seems that
aura photography

can actually pick up
and we can see

these waves that are being
emitted from the skull.

I feel, more than ever,
there is something

to crystal skulls
and the energy behind them.

NARRATOR:
Does the photographed energy
field surrounding Einstein

help to prove that
the crystal skull could,

in fact, be some sort
of recording device?

An extraterrestrial object
used to harness

both energy and information?

Although there have been
hundreds of other crystal skulls

found throughout the world,

the Einstein Skull
is believed to be

one of only 13 authentic
ancient artifacts.

And according to legend,

when all 13
are finally unearthed,

humankind's true past
will be revealed.

CHILDRESS:
Part of this legend is that yes,
these 13 crystal skulls

are extraterrestrial skulls.

And when the 13 skulls
are together,

it'll create a new epoch
for planet Earth.

CHRIS MORTON:
There is certainly a belief

amongst certain
Native American tribes,

when humanity is
at its most desperate,

all of these original

ancient crystal skulls
will come back together

and that they will divulge
their knowledge, their wisdom

that can help
the human race survive.

NARRATOR:
Could these mysterious
crystal artifacts

not only be of alien origin,

but serve a purpose
that has yet to be revealed?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest further proof
that extraterrestrials

visited ancient cultures
all over the world

can be found by examining

a mysterious
Middle Eastern artifact

discovered in South America.

Any list of mysterious artifacts

would be incomplete
without featuring

the amazing relics

of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.

Of all the astounding objects

we've examined from there
on Ancient Aliens,

one of the most baffling

is the Fuente Magna Bowl.

This beautiful piece
of pottery is covered

in an ancient script that
is native not to Bolivia

but to a culture that existed
on the other side of the world.

Situated at an elevation
of over 12,000 feet

on the Altiplano, lay the ruins

of an ancient temple complex
thought to predate

the Incan Empire.

Standing at the center
of the site is a large statue

believed by many to represent
the creator god Viracocha.

But curiously,

the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco
chose to depict this god

with features unlike their own.

CHILDRESS:
He has got
a beard and a moustache.

And that is an unusual thing

because American Indians do not
have beards and moustaches.

BRIEN FOERSTER:
Exactly.

That indicates that this person

was not a South American native

but clearly came
from another land.

CHILDRESS:
And an important person too,

who's somehow
one of the founders

here of Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody who's come
from Sumeria to South America.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the Sumerians,

a civilization
established in 4,000 BC

and located nearly
8,000 miles away

could be connected to the early
inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found
at the Precious Metals Museum

in La Paz, Bolivia.

CHILDRESS: This is perhaps

one of the most important
archaeological artifacts

ever discovered in
Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.

This is the famous
Fuente Magna Bowl

discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It's a ceramic bowl
and it has written on it

Sumerian cuneiform

plus proto-Sumerian
hieroglyphic script.

This script is
coming from circa 3,000 BC.

It draws a direct connection

between the ancient Sumerians
and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

NARRATOR:
Discovered near Lake Titicaca
by a local farmer in the 1950s,

researchers believe
the vessel provides the proof

of extraterrestrial
intervention at Puma Punku.

CHILDRESS:
The idea of Sumerian

writing being here
at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco...

...would seem
to relate to the late

Zecharia Sitchin and his ideas

that the Sumerians
were also interacting

with these space beings

called the Anunnaki.

So in that case the Anunnaki
were there in Sumeria,

but also here at Puma Punku
and Tiahuanaco in South America.

To me, when you consider
the many mysterious artifacts

we've examined
on Ancient Aliens,

from bizarre metal alloys

to strange statues

and even crystal skulls,

it all adds up to one thing:

Undeniable evidence of
extraterrestrial visitation.

As we continue to dig deeper

and unearth more extraordinary
relics of the past,

perhaps we will finally discover

the key to reuniting
with our alien ancestors.

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