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NARRATOR: Ancient paintings of strange, humanlike figures,

rocks engraved thousands of years ago

with images of flying machines,

and stone carvings

of what appear to be astronauts.

For more than a decade,

Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe

to examine some of the most extraordinary

and mysterious rock art ever discovered.

Now, we're investigating the Top Ten Alien Petroglyphs

that just may hold the proof that Earth has been visited

by extraterrestrials.

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On Ancient Aliens, we have investigated

some of the most mysterious carvings

and paintings ever discovered.

Our ancestors spent countless hours

leaving strange images and symbols on stone

to create a record of what they experienced.

And at one site in Nevada,

the rock art is not only some of the oldest in the world

but predates any known civilization in North America.

At number ten on our countdown

of the Top Ten Alien Petroglyphs:

The Rock Art of Winnemucca Lake.

NARRATOR: In the dried-up bed

of what was once Winnemucca Lake

are several limestone boulders that are covered

with what appear to be ancient carvings.

HUGH NEWMAN: In Nevada are some of the most remarkable

petroglyphs found on Earth.

They're called the Winnemucca Petroglyphs.

They are extremely large,

extremely deep-cut,

beautiful pans of leaves, zigzags, spirals

and other motifs.

It's a remarkable site.

NARRATOR: So far, researchers have been unable

to determine what the abstract patterns mean.

But what's even more mysterious

is the fact that the local Paiute people

say the petroglyphs were not created by their ancestors

but by a race of giants.

CHRIS HEGG: The Paiutes said that initially

they did not create petroglyphs,

that an ancient race, uh, called the Si-Te-Cah did.

The Si-Te-Cah was a race of giants

that was said to have been white-complected,

having red hair, and well over seven foot tall.

The Paiutes explained that these giants

lived on the lake in Pyramid Lake, on floating cities.

NARRATOR: In 2013, samples of the limestone were taken

to the University of Colorado at Boulder

where scientists performed a series of radiocarbon tests

on sediment within the petroglyphs

to determine their age.

The results were astonishing.

They revealed the carvings were etched

between 10,500 and 14,800 years ago,

making them the oldest petroglyphs

ever found in North America.

And what's so special about these is their extreme age

because no one was supposed to be living

in North America at that time.

This is before the Clovis,

this is before the first settlers

in North America, so who could have done this?

NARRATOR: Could the petroglyphs at Winnemucca Lake

really have been created by an ancient race of giants?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest that the origins of these mysterious beings

was even recorded into the stone.

When we look at petroglyphs with their incredible spirals,

the doorways, the strange beings that are featured,

the stories that are told,

it suggests that they all have an origin

with extraterrestrials themselves.

If you travel 800 miles southeast from Winnemucca Lake,

you will come to a remarkable site in Arizona.

It's a place where the Navajo people carved thousands

of petroglyphs into rock walls and cliffs centuries ago.

The images tell a story of their encounters

with celestial visitors called "the star people."

Number nine on our list: Rock Art Ranch.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and William Henry

have traveled to Rock Art Ranch to investigate

one of North America's most extensive

collections of petroglyphs.

TSOUKALOS: This is sensational.

NARRATOR: Joining them is esteemed Navajo Tribal Ranger

Jon Dover.

Rock Art Ranch's 5,000 acres

are home to nearly 3,000 ancient petroglyphs,

and on nearly every panel are figures that the Navajo

identify as star people.

Tell me, Jon, petroglyphs are regarded as

picture books that tell a story all at once.

That's right, and also en-enmeshed

-in all this are religious symbols. -HENRY: Mm-hmm.

Things that tell you something

-about how they worshipped, pictures of gods. -HENRY: Mm-hmm.

-And when you say gods... -Gods, right.

...what, in-in your culture, what does that mean?

It could be anything from somebody coming to them

and meeting with them and imparting knowledge.

And in the case of the Navajo,

that's what the Yeibichai represent.

In the case of the Hopis,

the Kachinas represent those gods...

-HENRY: Right. -...that came to Earth

to give them knowledge.

TSOUKALOS: And could one make the argument

that these may have been visitations

by flesh and blood extraterrestrials

-in ancient times? -Oh, definitely.

From what we understand,

there's many different races

of alien that are coming t-to this world.

NARRATOR: Jon guides Giorgio and William

to another site at Rock Art Ranch

with even more strange petroglyphs.

-Wow. -Look at this.

-I mean, look at the hollow body with the star inside. -Mm-hmm.

TSOUKALOS: One hand pointing to the sky, the other down to Earth.

And just beneath that,

look at... that is a Grey alien.

TSOUKALOS: That triangular head.

-Very strange. -HENRY: That is.

DOVER: You have all kinds of different types of figures,

different representations of gods.

Right. I mean, what we have to fill in with our imagination

is that these beings off the wall, 3D,

-walking amongst the people. -Yeah.

HENRY: Look at all the different types of beings here.

And then all the way across there,

y-you've still got even more variety.

I mean, this is almost like

a meeting place of all these different worlds

and different beings.

So, you know, you have giants,

you have little people.

And the giants and the little people

are talked about in th-the other world

that they came from before they came to this world.

TSOUKALOS: And seeing creatures here having,

-for example, three fingers. -DOVER: Mm-hmm.

You know, as far as I know,

uh, except for a couple of reptiles,

there aren't any three-fingered creatures.

-No. -You know? So, and especially nothing humanoid.

-Right. -So, again, our ancestors

had impeccable powers of observation.

-DOVER: That's right. -That's all they did all day.

-They-they observed. -Mm-hmm.

And so your estimation, then, too,

is that this was not a bunch of kids,

you know, on a Saturday night not knowing what to do.

-Absolutely not. -(laughter)

These, these were people that came here with a purpose.

And the purpose was to put

their history on the wall

showing where they came from,

where they were going.

NARRATOR: Do the petroglyphs at Rock Art Ranch

present a historical record

of extraterrestrial visitation

in the distant past?

For Jon and many who share the traditional beliefs

of their ancestors,

the answer is a resounding yes.

DOVER: I believe that these visitations have been documented

in pictographs and petroglyphs.

They're not art, actually, for art's sake.

The petroglyphs have been done this way

for basically thousands of years.

And that tells me

that there were a lot of different types of beings

that were interacting

with early Natives,

with early Natives,

much more than we even, uh, think.

Some of the most incredible rock art I have ever seen

can be found on one of the most remote islands on Earth.

And in my opinion

what the people who carved it were depicting

was actually misunderstood alien technology.

Coming in at number eight

on our countdown of the Top Ten Alien Petroglyphs:

The Birdmen of Easter Island.

NARRATOR: This remote landmass in the South Pacific

is famous for the colossal stone statues,

called moai, that dot its coast.

But on the southwestern tip of the island

are a serious of equally mysterious petroglyphs

that represent one of Easter Island's oldest creation myths--

the legend of Tangata manu,

or the birdmen.

According to the Rapa Nui,

the Indigenous people of Easter Island,

when the great creator god looked in the mirror,

he saw a bird over his shoulder

and thought the image was good.

And so he created a creature

that was a combination of bird and human.

But the creator god was still lonely.

So he created humans.

(chanting)

But the humans worshipped the birdman

because that was the great god's first creation.

One of the central focuses of the rituals,

the annual rituals at Easter Island,

was that of Tangata manu, the birdman.

And the birdman is a universal symbol

that we find in many parts of the globe

that relates to ancestry

associated with figures,

characters in feather coats who were seen

to be able to go between this world and the next.

HENRY: The birdman motif is found in Egypt

with Horus the savior figure

and Thoth the god of divine magic and alchemy.

We find birdmen in among the Maya with Quetzalcoatl,

the feathered serpent, a birdman.

We also find birdmen in Cahokia, Illinois.

When we look at the birdman legend,

it always has a cosmic connection,

that these are humanoid figures

that also have a celestial dimension to them.

They can fly, they can ascend,

therefore they're referred to as birdmen.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

the most intriguing depiction of birdmen

can be found by examining the stories

of the Sumerian civilization

that emerged 5,000 years ago

and the beings they called the Anunnaki.

TSOUKALOS: The term Anunnaki means "those who from the heavens came."

And our ancestors thought

they were being visited by these divine magical beings.

DAVID CHILDRESS: In the ancient Sumerian texts,

they were described as bringing knowledge and science.

They were often depicted as bird-type people.

So we have to ask ourselves, are these birdmen

actually representatives of the Anunnaki

who are extraterrestrials

who appeared all over the world in prehistory?

For ancient astronaut theorists like me,

many of the mysterious images created by our ancestors

provide compelling clues

that suggest extraterrestrials visited Earth

thousands of years ago.

However, at one site in Northern California,

the carvings aren't just records of the distant past

but depict UFOs that are still seen today.

Number seven on our countdown:

The Petroglyphs at Lava Beds National Monument.

NARRATOR: 60 miles northeast of Mount Shasta,

at Lava Beds National Monument,

are thousands of petroglyphs.

These large geometric carvings

were created as much as 6,000 years ago

by ancestors of the Modoc tribe.

Lava Beds has probably over 5,000

different petroglyphs.

And a lot of these were done down in caves.

A lot of the rock art you find in Lava Beds

is very different and unusual

from rock art you find in other places of America.

One of the most striking images you find in Lava Beds

is an image of Mount Shasta carved into a cliffside,

and inside of it is a depiction of some kind of being.

NARRATOR: According to the Modoc,

this figure represents their creator, known as Skell.

The local people

believe that in ancient times,

the great Sky Chief Skell

came down from the sky

to live in Shasta

and has been there ever since and protects it.

NARRATOR: Is it possible this petroglyph

represents an otherworldly being

that the Modoc people encountered centuries ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest further evidence can be found

by examining the bizarre stories

that have been associated with Mount Shasta for centuries.

WALKING EAGLE: I was driving back from, uh, Klamath Falls.

It was, eh, around 7:00 in the evening in the summertime.

All of a sudden I seen the whole mountain

toward Yreka side open up.

And then this big ship came

and hovered for a minute and then went right in.

And the next thing you know, the mountain closed,

and I was like, "What is going on?"

Almost everyone who lives there

has-has seen something unusual.

One of the most remarkable UFO sightings I've heard of,

it took place in 2008.

Witnesses in the town of McCloud

saw a UFO that looked like a giant glowing jellyfish

move over the town and then fly off into the distance.

For many hundreds of years, Mount Shasta

has been known for mysterious lights.

They seem to just manifest out of the mountain.

So, what is it that might be responsible

for causing this activity?

I believe that places like Mount Shasta

are in many ways Earth portals.

They are places of connection

between this world and somewhere else altogether.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the mysterious winged figure

at Lava Beds National Monument

is connected to the UFO sightings

that continue to be reported around Mount Shasta?

WALKING EAGLE: The petroglyph that shows

something coming out of the mountain,

that's basically what, what I seen right here

when it happened to me.

That's what I seen.

And I-I guess maybe I had to see it, too,

before I could believe.

In 2014, a mysterious cave painting

was found in India that I believe

contains some of the best evidence yet

that our ancestors encountered extraterrestrial beings.

Number six on our countdown:

Charama Rock.

NARRATOR: Central India, July 2014.

While exploring caves in the region of Charama,

Indian archaeologist J.R. Bhagat

makes a stunning discovery.

He finds an incredibly well-preserved

10,000-year-old cave painting

that depicts several large humanoid figures.

Very recently, in the Charama region of India,

there was a cave that was discovered with

paintings that appear to show creatures

with kind of distorted-looking faces,

no noses, no mouths.

They seem to be holding weapons.

Archaeologists said that some of them

appeared to be wearing space suits.

The Times of India actually proposed the idea,

what if what we have depicted here

are some type of extraterrestrials

or at least some type of flying craft?

Because it's the basis

for much of the Hindu pantheon of gods.

NARRATOR: Ancient Hindu texts feature stories

about intelligent beings existing on other planets,

like the Mahabharata,

which tells of the gods coming to Earth in flying machines.

ERICH VON DANIKEN: In the Mahabharata,

there they write that one day,

gigantic cities surrounded the Earth.

They did not have a word for "spaceship" at that time.

They say "cities."

And they make clear difference

that these cities were in the firmament,

not in heaven.

And small vehicles came down

from these cities on the firmament.

The old Indians called these vehicles "vimanas."

And out of the vimanas, the teachers came out.

No doubt they were visited

by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Might the figures in the cave paintings

of Charama be depictions of extraterrestrials

witnessed by our ancestors

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps the answer can be found

in the local legends of a mysterious race of beings

known as the Rohela.

The locals told them stories of space beings,

Rohelas they called them.

Tiny beings that landed in craft

and would abduct one or two humans at a time

never to return.

What's incredible about this is

that this is not ancient astronaut theorists

looking at this art and saying, "Hey, this looks like

"it could be some sort of a space being

or extraterrestrial."

This is what the locals are saying.

In the early 20th century, archaeologists discovered

some very mysterious cave art in the Sahara Desert,

and the experts who studied it

found it to be out of this world.

Number five on our list:

The Tassili Astronauts.

NARRATOR: Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria.

Located on a vast plateau of the Saharan Desert

lies an incredible collection of prehistoric cave art.

The ancient paintings cover an area

of 28,000 square miles

and are believed to be 12,000 years old.

The scenes that you see at Tassili n'Ajjer

are totally bizarre.

They're showing a Sahara that was once fertile

with giraffes and antelope and other animals

we find only in Central Africa really.

And combined with them are these bizarre pictures

of what even the archaeologists have called

the Martians and the spacemen.

TSOUKALOS: The petroglyphs that we find there are incredible.

They look like modern-day astronauts

with suits, with helmets, with visors.

And even the ethnologists who found those rock paintings

actually called it "the astronaut."

It's called the Tassili astronaut.

NARRATOR: Might the figures

painted throughout Tassili n'Ajjer

be depictions of otherworldly beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Perhaps the answer can be found in the oral history

of a mysterious West African tribe

known as the Dogon.

TSOUKALOS: There's a really incredible story

of the Dogon that describe

an ancestor spirit called Nommo

that descended from the sky

in a loud, noisy whirlwind

that made the earth shake when it landed.

And their knowledge of everything

was given to them by that being

that descended from the sky.

CHILDRESS: In the 1930s, when French anthropologists

were first discussing the Nommo with these Dogon priests,

the Dogon priests said that the Nommo

were coming from the star system of Sirius.

Well, the French anthropologists were amazed at that

and were confused as well.

NARRATOR: According to the Dogon,

the Nommo didn't come from Sirius A--

a star that is clearly visible in the evening sky--

but from its tiny companion.

A dying star called Sirius B that can only be seen

with advanced, high-powered telescopes.

MICHIO KAKU: Here, we have this ancient tribe that says that,

well, no, Sirius is not a single star at all

but actually a double-starred system,

and how could they have known it,

given the fact that it requires telescopes

to see the double star?

Well, one theory is, maybe the aliens

gave them this knowledge.

It can't be ruled out.

That's one possibility

because they got it right on the dot.

PHILIP COPPENS: The Dogon have always been focused upon

in the sense that they have this story,

this information about their ancestors

who somehow had this contact

with this nonhuman intelligence.

Now, the question is, how did they attain this?

It really might come from the Sahara Desert,

from specifically culture pockets like Tassili n'Ajjer

and that the Dogon are descendants from these people.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the beings

described by the Dogon are the same figures

depicted in the cave paintings of Tassili n'Ajjer?

I think the power of observation of our ancestors

was as powerful and as accurate as it is today.

was as powerful and as accurate as it is today.

And to attribute that motif

simply to only coincidence,

in my opinion, does not hold water.

So one has to wonder, are these extraterrestrials?

When it comes to mysterious petroglyphs,

one of the most extraordinary examples

we've investigated can be found in the Italian Alps.

In 2019, William Henry got to study

this remarkable piece firsthand.

Number four on our countdown

Number four on our countdown

of the Top Ten Alien Petroglyphs:

The Spaceman of Val Camonica.

NARRATOR: Val Camonica, Italy.

June 13, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist William Henry

has traveled to this UNESCO World Heritage Site

to investigate the area's mysterious petroglyphs.

Hi, I'm William. Nice to meet you. Pleasure.

NARRATOR: Joining him is Luca Giarelli,

the head of the Val Camonica

Historical and Anthropological Society.

This place is massive.

I'm ready, let's go.

HENRY: I'm here at Val Camonica because it is a treasure trove

of images from the ancient world

that have been well documented and studied by scholars.

They don't agree on the meaning of the images,

but some of them are very open-minded

to the ancient astronaut theory.

NARRATOR: Luca leads William to an area

with a panel of ancient petroglyphs

that appear strikingly familiar to modern eyes.

Wow.

Oh, look at that.

-Spaceman, exactly. Look at the helmet. -GIARELLI: Astronaut.

Right.

It's like he's glowing.

The Camunian rose.

Wow.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists call this mysterious object

the Camunian rose because of its flowerlike shape.

While its exact meaning is lost to history,

some believe it to be a religious symbol

or a representation of the movement of the stars.

But ancient astronaut theorists suggest

it might also depict something else--

the vessel that brought these helmeted figures

to Val Camonica.

Luca, that-that looks like a spaceship.

It's like you look up in the sky,

and you would see this kind of twirling, spinning ship

in the sky.

It seems to me, just looking at it,

they are trying to talk about beings

coming from other worlds, maybe to this place.

Tell me about that five-pointed star.

Mm-hmm.

Sometimes the-the stars mean energy,

like energy from the stars would come to this place,

or star beings would come to this place.

Yeah...

Mm-hmm.

Okay, so this is like a newspaper then.

It says, this was in the sky

above us at some point, and this spaceman

came down and maybe met the Camunian people.

NARRATOR: According to ancient stories,

the nearby city of Turin

was founded by a character from Greek mythology

called Phaethon,

who came to Earth from the stars.

Legend states that Turin was founded by the god Phaethon,

who is a son of the sun god Helios,

and in the myth of Phaethon we learn the story

of how he descended to Earth in a fiery chariot...

...perhaps crashing into Mount Musinè.

This also led to something fortuitous

because he brought gifts to this place,

he had great skills, was a metallurgist,

and taught this to the local people.

CHILDRESS: When we look at myths such as the myth of Phaethon,

here is really the story of a UFO

landing on a mountain

and interacting with the locals.

HENRY: When we look behind this myth of Phaethon,

perhaps this is what we're also seeing at Val Camonica.

I think, given the connection with the spacemen

that are etched into the rock,

we have to be open to the possibility

that what the ancient artist is trying to portray

is something that he actually saw in the sky,

something coming out of the heavens.

For ancient astronaut theorists,

the Spaceman of Val Camonica

and the legends that surround it

are evidence that our ancestors

were visited by extraterrestrial beings.

But an even more compelling depiction

of these possible visitors

can be found on the opposite side of the world

in the rock art of Australia.

Number three on our countdown: The Wandjina.

NARRATOR: Northwestern Australia.

Here, in a rugged desert region known as Kimberley,

are dozens of caves that are covered

in paintings of mysterious figures called the Wandjina.

If you look at these Wandjina figures in the cave art,

they have big, white faces.

They have really no mouth to speak of.

They have very large, black eyes,

and there's a field around their heads.

NARRATOR: To the Aboriginal people

who have lived in Australia for thousands of years,

the Wandjina are important figures

in their creation myths.

The Aboriginals have all kinds of ancient stories

of Wandjina figures, of great heroes

and sky gods who manipulated the continent,

created the rivers and mountains,

and fought amongst each other and then they left.

GARY SIMON JAGAMARRA: We all have stories of people in crafts

coming from the stars, going to the stars, and so on.

In order to keep them, pass them down to next generation

we carved them, we painted them. We sung them.

We danced them in stories

to guarantee that they passed down.

So when the visitors left, we didn't forget about them.

And we never forget about

the things that they passed down to us

and the knowledge they passed down.

CHILDRESS: In many ways, these Wandjina figures

look exactly like Grey aliens.

And you have to wonder, then,

if the cave art is depicting extraterrestrials.

TSOUKALOS: The Wandjina petroglyphs

are actual physical representations

of what the First Nation people of Australia

of what the First Nation people of Australia

actually witnessed.

So this to me is an incredible treasure trove

for the ancient astronaut theory.

Of all the mysterious petroglyphs

we've examined on Ancient Aliens,

some of the most astounding can be found

in the American Southwest.

The region is chock-full of carvings

that show strange humanoid figures

who came down from the sky.

At number two on our countdown:

The Rock Art of Utah.

The Rock Art of Utah.

NARRATOR: Nine Mile Canyon, Eastern Utah.

Often described as "the world's longest art gallery,"

the red sandstone cliffs that border this 46-mile-long canyon

are covered with more than 10,000 petroglyphs.

Many depict hunting scenes

and contain images of animals found in the region.

But one mysterious panel

seems oddly out of place.

HENRY: One of the most important galleries

is referred to as the Family Panel.

What's interesting about this one

is that it shows these apparently luminous

humanoid-type beings

that appear to have space suits on,

a helmet, even antennae.

CHILDRESS: The Navajos themselves claim

that these petroglyphs were from

people who were before the flood,

before this cataclysm had come to the Earth.

And they maintain that these images

were many thousands of years old.

NARRATOR: Just 70 miles south of Nine Mile Canyon,

in Sego Canyon, another panel of petroglyphs

shows nearly identical figures.

TSOUKALOS: They look like spacemen.

You have these strange creatures

that for all intents and purposes

seem to be floating up in the sky.

They appear to wear helmets.

Very strange.

So you have to ask, what was it

that inspired these unusual images?

Is it possible that they depict sky beings

who came down from the stars

to help the people, which is what

the Native legends say?

NARRATOR: According to the traditions of the Navajo,

Fremont and Ute peoples

who have lived in this area for centuries,

these figures represent visitors

who descended from the sky.

DOVER: In talking about star people,

all Native American tribes

have these, uh, traditional oral histories

that people came from the stars to visit them.

And it's universal, all across the United States

that these gods, as we call them today,

came to Earth and visited to provide knowledge.

ROBLES: The creation story,

if you understand it correctly, we are all from the cosmos.

Our ancestors were extraterrestrial.

The story is told to Indigenous people

for thousands of years through oral histories

and through the petroglyphs

and pictographs and the sacred sites

that continue to be part of

our Native cultural traditions.

DOVER: The Native Americans

traditionally use a oral tradition.

Everything is spoken.

The oral traditions actually go back thousands of years.

It's just the way it was.

And we've maintained that tradition even to this day.

HENRY: If in fact what we're seeing

are portraying visitors from the stars,

it would make sense why they're wearing these space suits.

Because they would conceivably need protection

from Earth's atmosphere and Earth's environment.

NARRATOR: Do the petroglyphs at Nine Mile Canyon

and Sego Canyon

point to Utah being a place

of ancient alien visitation?

TSOUKALOS: Native American people have been very clear

when they speak of celestial beings that imparted knowledge.

when they speak of celestial beings that imparted knowledge.

And so, if you compare that to the ancient astronaut theory,

that's exactly what it talks about,

that the knowledge was imparted

by beings who visited us.

While Utah has thousands of petroglyphs

that feature mysterious beings,

one stands apart.

It depicts a group of figures

meeting with what appears to be

an extraterrestrial.

Number one on our list:

The Holy Ghost Panel.

The Holy Ghost Panel.

NARRATOR: Horseshoe Canyon, Utah.

Located within Canyonlands National Park,

the sandstone walls of this five-mile-long ravine

feature some of the most remarkable petroglyphs

in the United States.

The intricate designs depict Native American shamans

and the otherworldly creatures

they claimed to communicate with.

DAVID SUCEC: Well, here we have a classic shaman,

with the hourglass figure,

feet pointed outward,

arms which have bird's feet at the end,

which signifies spirituality.

And it's got the horns with the fringes coming out.

NARRATOR: But one section is of particular interest

to ancient astronaut theorists.

It's called the Ghost Panel.

When you see the Ghost Panel, you see

what are seven or eight

very tall figures in unusual garments.

They look like space suits.

They're wearing some long robes,

and it looks like they have helmets and things on.

They're quite large and very strange looking.

And certainly they look like some kind of spacemen

or extraterrestrials who have come down.

NARRATOR: For researchers,

the most perplexing part of the painting

is a curious detail on the large central figure.

SUCEC: The central ghost-like figure, which is called the Holy Ghost.

If you look at the head of the Holy Ghost,

you'll see his two eyes in the front of his face.

But if you look to the left,

you'll see the side of his head.

This is a device which you do not see

in any prehistoric art,

and this motif is one of the reasons why I-I feel

that this represents a-an event.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists suggest

the Ghost Panel was created 10,000 years ago.

Just who made these images remains a mystery.

But ancient astronaut theorists believe

clues can be found within ancient traditions.

The Navajo, they tell us that this rock art

was actually created by their ancestors

who lived there long, long ago

and in fact were the survivors of a flood.

The Navajo referred to themselves

as descendants of the Holy People.

And that these Holy People in fact helped them

emerge after a cataclysm.

NARRATOR: The story of mysterious, humanoid beings

assisting Native peoples has been recounted

for centuries in the American Southwest.

Many researchers believe

these encounters were so significant

that they were carved in stone.

For hundreds of years,

the Native Americans who lived in that area

called the Ghost Panel

the Panel of the Star People.

Clearly, they are strangers

of some kind to these people.

And if that's what it was,

then we might assume that they

are depicting extraterrestrials.

The moment you lay eyes on the Holy Ghost Panel,

you know you're looking at something extraordinary.

And it's much more than a mere coincidence

that all around the world

our ancestors made carvings and paintings

of mysterious beings that they believe

came from the sky.

Could it be that these illustrations

are all telling the same story?

That we were visited in the distant past

by extraterrestrials.

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