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NARRATOR: Sacred idols unearthed
in the most unlikely places.

PRAVEEN MOHAN:
This is classic Hindu iconography

in South America.
How is that possible?

NARRATOR:
Architecture found

in unexpected parts
of the planet.

Wow, look at that.

This monument resembles,
almost exactly,

the stone dolmens of Europe.

NARRATOR:
And strange connections that challenge

everything we know
about our past.

He has got a beard
and a mustache.

This person was not a native,

but clearly came
from another land.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that out-of-place artifacts

reveal a history

of alien intervention on Earth?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
These connections, to me, illustrate

the worldwide planet was visited

by the same extraterrestrials

over long periods of time,

perhaps hundreds,
if not thousands, of years.

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.

San Agustín, Colombia.

March 27th, 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress

has come to this
remote mountain town

to explore and study
a site that has baffled

the scientific community
for decades.

Joining him is Hindu
historian Praveen Mohan.

- Hello, Praveen.
- Hi, David.

Welcome to Colombia.

- Jump on in, here.
- Sure.

CHILDRESS:
You know Praveen, I was here a number of years ago.

- Mm-hmm.
- And I thought, "All right,

there’s a lot of
Hindu influence here."

- Uh-huh.
- And so that’s when

I thought that
I need some expert

on Hinduism, like you,

to come here to San Agustín

and-and see it for themselves.

Yeah, when I got the call

about a place
like this in Colombia,

I was surprised.

A Hindu site in South America?

My heart is actually
pounding to see the site.

(chuckles)

NARRATOR:
Located deep within the Andean foothills of southern Colombia,

the San Agustín
Archaeological Park

is home to more than 500
megalithic stone statues

of unknown origin.

First discovered
by a Spanish monk

in the mid-18th century,

they appear to be the work

of the region’s
earliest civilizations,

and are thought to date back
as many as 2,000 years.

CHILDRESS:
So, this is the main gate here.

We’ve got a bit of
a walk through the jungle.

And this is a very
remote spot, even today.

It’s so high in the mountains,

and you wonder how people

got to this site,

and why they would
have even chosen this.

- Here it is.
- Wow.

- Check it out.
- Yeah, let’s see.

David Childress
has been researching this area

for many years.

He is convinced
that many of the statues

show strong connections

to the Olmec statues

that were first
discovered in Mexico

more than 1,600 miles
to the north

in the 1800s.

CHILDRESS:
We know that the Olmecs were in Mexico

and also in Central America,

but evidence of the Olmecs

in South America
has been elusive until now.

Here at San Agustín,
we have that evidence.

This would be one of
the earliest Olmec sites

because it’s thought

that San Agustín
started as early 3,000 B.C.,

and other Olmec sites
in Mexico

are only dated
to around 1,000 B.C.

So this is an extremely
important site.

What I really want to show you

is what I think is Hindu things,

- which are right over here.
- Okay.

Wow.

NARRATOR:
It is David Childress’ belief

that the stone sculptures

of the San Agustín
Archaeological Park

not only show
strong similarities

to the Olmec carvings
found in Mexico

but also show even more
profound connections

to Hindu carvings and artwork

found in India
and Southeast Asia.

CHILDRESS:
I think you’ll be interested in this.

MOHAN:
Oh, a figure holding a skull

flanked by two other figures.

That is so Hindu.

And these two door keepers,

see how they’re holding
weapons to protect

the main deity?

We can see a central deity
holding a skull.

And two guardian doorkeepers
holding tools.

This is typical
South Indian architecture.

This is exactly what’s
portrayed in these temples.

This is amazing
because I’ve never seen

anything like this
in South America.

What’s really interesting to me

is that the main deity
is shown with fangs.

That’s typical of South India,

in Tamil Nadu,

Shiva is shown with fangs.

CHILDRESS:
You think that’s maybe Shiva, right there in the middle?

MOHAN:
Yes.

NARRATOR:
Shiva? Also known as the destroyer?

Is it possible that evidence
of this uniquely Hindu deity

has been found in South America

and on ancient
megalithic stone carvings

dating back some 2,000 years?

CHILDRESS:
So, how about these right here, huh?

MOHAN:
Wow, yeah, these are, uh, lingams.

These are symbols of Shiva.

And we can see these lingams

have more and more
details on them.

And look here,
it even has a face.

- CHILDRESS: Yeah,
how about that. - MOHAN: You see this,

is a classic mukhalingam.

It is a lingam
with a face on top.

- A mukhalingam?
- Yeah.

The word "muka" means face

and the "lingam" means
a cylindrical structure.

And this is classic
Hindu iconography,

and you can see this
in many ancient temples.

So here, have a look here
at this one here.

I think you’ll find
this pretty interesting.

Wow.

An eagle holding
a snake in its beaks,

and then it’s also

holding the snake

on its talons. I mean, this is

classic Hindu iconography.

This is Garuda holding the Naga.

CHILDRESS:
So, Garuda is always depicted as a giant bird

and then typically
he’s holding a snake

- MOHAN: Yeah,
- in his beak and his talon.

I’ve seen something
very similar to this

in Vietnam
in a place called Champa.

I can show you
a picture of this.

CHILDRESS:
So, the snake that he’s holding

in his beak and talons

- is a Naga snake, is that right?
- MOHAN: Yes, yes.

In Hindu text,
we don’t see the Garuda

as an animal
or the snake as an animal.

There are two different races.

One is the Garuda,

which actually comes from
a planet up above the sky.

The Naga is a reptilian,
snake-like

shape-shifting beings,

which live underground.

CHILDRESS:
Now, that’s an interesting story

because that’s on
the flag of Mexico today.

- MOHAN: Oh, really?
- CHILDRESS: Yeah, how about that?

MOHAN:
Oh, wow. Wow.

CHILDRESS:
So, the Garuda is, in some ways,

- a symbol of the air ships,
the space ships... - MOHAN: Absolutely.

- and the flight
that they would use. - Yes.

Historians, they will say
that these are all completely

disconnected civilizations,
but here we are,

in the middle of South America,

in a remote site

that looks exactly like
Hindu carvings.

I mean, without any connection,

how is that possible?

Well, do you think, then,

that these Hindu demigods

are-are flying in-in spaceships,

even scouting,

they’re creating
a place like this?

It’s all so strange,

but it’s-it’s so obvious
that some kind of

high technical
civilization was here.

They can work granite,
make these

- megalithic statues...
- Mm-hmm.

and they have... some of them
are holding strange tools.

Yes. Mm-hmm.

It’s-it’s amazing.

NARRATOR:
Ancient Hindus?

Traveling across
the Pacific Ocean

in flying aircraft?

But even if such an
incredible feat was possible,

where is the evidence?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the evidence not only exists,

but has been tested,

and it confirms the likelihood

that extraterrestrial visitors

came here to Earth

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR:
At the San Agustín Archeological Park

in Colombia, South America,

ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress

and Hindu expert Praveen Mohan

are investigating
what they believe

to be compelling evidence of
a Hindu influence in this area

more than 2,000 years ago.

So, here, have a look
at this dolmen here.

CHILDRESS:
What do you see?

MOHAN:
Wow, there’s a, uh, central deity

flanked by two doorkeepers,

but these doorkeepers
are not human

or even humanoid.

They look like Nagas,

the serpentine,
reptilian shape-shifters.

CHILDRESS:
They have the serpentine head there.

MOHAN:
These are definitely snakes.

You can see
the scales on the body.

You know, I see the lines.

And what’s even
more interesting,

I mean, it seems almost
like they have a hood

on top of them,

which is characteristic
of cobras,

and cobras don’t
exist in Americas.

How did this motif get here?

And, believe it or not,

we still have
this same depiction

in many Southeast
Asian countries.

In fact, I have pictures of it.

- CHILDRESS: Right.
- MOHAN: Yeah, this is a temple.

This is in Thailand.

You can see that this
is being guarded by two Nagas.

CHILDRESS:
I see that, and they have the ribs, uh,

- MOHAN: Yeah.
- on the stomach just like this.

MOHAN:
The scales on the body.

CHILDRESS:
Yeah, that’s fascinating.

MOHAN:
And, you know, there’s yet

another characteristic feature

that you would really love.

These are feathered serpents,
like Kukulkan.

CHILDRESS: The feathered
serpent of Kukulkan.

MOHAN: Yes, and flanking
on the pyramid.

So, perhaps the origin
of the legend

of Kukulkan is coming
from the Nagas, then,

- you’re saying.
- Yes, yes.

NARRATOR:
Kukulkan-- the Mayan god

that is most famously
depicted on the temple

of El Castillo in Chichen Itza?

The one described
as a feathered serpent

that descended to Earth
from the sky?

But as far as many
ancient astronaut theorists

are concerned, depictions
of the god Kukulkan

are not merely depictions
of a flying serpent,

as many mainstream
archaeologists believe,

but of a spaceman.

And they cite the presence
of a humanoid face

often seen emerging from
the mouth of the serpent,

as really a depiction
of a helmeted astronaut

piloting a large
flying spacecraft,

similar to what
is known as a vimana

in the Hindu tradition.

In the Mahabharata,

we can see very advanced

flying machines,
which are called vimanas.

It is clearly established

that the gods
come down from the sky

using vimanas.

It is also talked about
in Mayan culture.

There are several types
of vimanas

that you yourself
have published.

- Uh-huh.
- And there is a type of vimana

which has tail fins, correct?

Yeah, the Shakuna Vimana
has wings.

- MOHAN: Yeah, yeah.
- While other vimanas were discoid,

and other vimanas
were, like, tubular,

- cigar-shaped ships.
- MOHAN: Yes. Yes.

And what’s really
fascinating is that,

in the Gold Museum in Bogotá,

we have the same vimanas
made of gold, correct?

We have the gold
airplanes there.

NARRATOR:
In 1890, tomb robbers came upon a grave site

along Colombia’s
Magdalena River,

dating back
an estimated 1,500 years.

Inside, they discovered hundreds
of small gold figurines.

TSOUKALOS:
Hundreds of these small gold objects have been found,

many of which are
rooted in the animal kingdom.

17, eerily,

look like modern-day airplanes.

The wings are attached
at the bottom.

Birds, they have
their wings attached

where we have
our shoulders, like this.

So, no formation in
the animal kingdom exists

in the form of these
Quimbaya artifacts.

And in 1996, two engineers

took a couple
of these ancient artifacts,

blew them up to this size,

put a propeller inside,

threw it up in the air,
and it flew.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that among

the Quimbaya figurines
found in Colombia

are representations
of what the Hindu people

on the other side of
the world described as vimanas?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest the answer can be found

by examining a character
from the ancient Hindu texts.

A character who bears
the name Maya.

The word "maya" itself
is a Hindu word.

It means illusion
or god of illusion,

and this was the name
given to the king of Asuras,

and he’s known as Maya

because he’s able to create
these magical illusions.

DEEPAK SHIMKHADA:
Maya, he was born of divine god Brahma.

He was a great architect,
he was a great magician,

and he invented
the flying machine.

He was not of the Earth

because he was not
born on Earth,

so he was obviously
an extraterrestrial.

MOHAN:
Maya actually traveled out of India,

and he might have
gone to Mexico.

Now, interestingly,

Mayans have a book
called Popol Vuh.

In that book, they talk about

how a specific god
came from the East,

and I think this is the same god

that both these cultures
are talking about.

NARRATOR:
If the divine King Maya was a real being,

as millions of Hindus believe,

is it possible that the Mayan
civilization of Central America

adopted his name?

According to ancient astronaut
theorist David Childress,

the answer
is a resounding yes,

and he believes
that at San Agustín,

there is a sculpture that
doesn’t only support his theory

but may also be a depiction

of an actual alien visitor.

Would you like to see,
perhaps, a spaceman?

A spaceman?

- Yes, there’s one more site.
- Yeah, absolutely.

(indistinct conversation)

NARRATOR:
San Agustín Archaeological Park in Colombia

is located along the west bank

of the Magdalena River,
near a place

where it converges
with two other rivers.

It is a location that ancient
astronaut theorists believe

has a startling, and not
accidental, significance.

MOHAN:
They could have set up this site anywhere,

but why did they choose
San Agustín in Colombia?

In India, we have this place
called Triveni Sangam

where three great rivers meet,

and that site is chosen
as a sacred site.

We have a lot of temples
in this place.

Whoever came from India
to here

chose this place,

because this is where
all these three rivers meet.

And to find a place like this,

you needed to have
aerial survey.

They were using the vimanas,

which is why they set up
this ancient Shiva temple here.

NARRATOR:
Vimanas?

The extraterrestrial
flying machines

that are described
in the Mahabharata,

the ancient Hindu text?

Is it possible
that Hindu explorers

made the journey from
India to South America

and then settled in this region
centuries ago?

And could they have
made that journey--

a distance of
some 12,000 miles--

by means of a vimana?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they believe that the answer

to what compelled them
to come there

can be found by examining

one of the ancient stone statues

located in San Agustín
Archaeological Park.

This was the final statue
that I wanted you to look at.

- Pretty curious, huh?
- Yeah.

I don’t know what to
call this except a spaceman.

You can see that he’s wearing

some kind of a helmet.

It looks like he has a visor,
he’s got two rectangular eyes

and a rectangular mouth.
He has no nose.

He’s holding this,

what they call a power staff.

MOHAN:
But what’s really fascinating about that

is he’s holding
that long cylinder,

and, if you look carefully,
it’s going even below his feet.

He’s using that cylinder

to go into the ground.

Now, this is very interesting
because, in Hindu culture,

there’s a god called
Swarna Kala Bhairava,

and he’s the god of gold,

And he uses a tool called keyla,

and he uses it
to go into the ground

and mine gold.

It could be a special probe
that you can

put in the ground
and detect gold and minerals.

So perhaps he is

the extraterrestrial
that is guiding them.

He’s a spaceman in a spacesuit

with his gold mining tools.

NARRATOR:
A spaceman mining gold?

In 1976, author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin

published a book
called The 12th Planet

in which he translated
and interpreted

the writings of humanity’s
earliest known civilization:

the Sumerians.

According to Sitchin,

the beings described
in the texts-- the Anunnaki--

were, in fact, visitors
from another planet.

They created humankind as slaves

that could be forced
to mine the gold

the Anunnaki needed
to power their spacecraft.

CHILDRESS:
San Agustín is still

a remote mountain area today,

and coming here in ancient times

would have been
extremely difficult.

But this was
a gold-bearing area,

and if you’re looking for gold,
this is the place to come.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that the strange carvings found in the area

can be proof that Sitchin’s
incredible theory is true?

And that an ancient
race of people

traveled from Asia
to South America

in pursuit of a metal
they had been taught

to consider not just
essential but sacred?

When you talk about
how this place

was used for gold, you know,

how they were mining gold
as offerings to gods,

that’s exactly what
Hindus do, even today.

And Colombia, and right here,

in this remote spot,
is land of gold.

So much of the gold
in South America

- came from right here.
- Mm-hmm.

So, this is what they
were looking for-- gold.

And they came here
and they found it.

They’re flying here, they’re
creating a place like this,

they’re also sending ships
across the Pacific Ocean.

- They’re bringing power tools.
- Mm-hmm.

And when they’re not mining,

they’re creating
these amazing statues,

and there are hundreds
of them all over here.

MOHAN:
Your theory about people

and Maya’s moving
from South India

and coming here all the way
to South America,

this is all tying together.

We have an extraterrestrial god

who comes down
and he mines for gold,

and he builds
an entire civilization.

Think that makes a lot of sense.

CHILDRESS:
When it comes to San Agustín,

the Spanish did not know
about this ancient site,

and if they had known about it,

they probably
would have destroyed it.

So, throughout Colombia
and Mesoamerica,

we have ruins
of ancient civilizations

still undiscovered,

and with the discoveries
at San Agustín

in the last hundred years,
we now have a chance

to rewrite
South American history.

NARRATOR:
Do the stone statues at San Agustín

provide compelling evidence

not only that there
was interaction

between the peoples of Asia

and those of South America
centuries ago

but also that there was

a common extraterrestrial
connection?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they suggest
further proof can be found

by examining a curious
pre-Incan artifact

featuring Sumerian writing.

NARRATOR:
While searching for the capital of the Inca Empire,

Spanish conquistadors
led by Pedro Cieza de León

cross into Bolivia

and discover the ruins
of Tiahuanaco.

Mainstream scientists
believe Tiahuanaco

was once the center
of a civilization

with more than
40,000 inhabitants.

PAUL GOLDSTEIN:
Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest Native American

civilization that many
people haven’t heard of.

It was one of the most important
antecedents of the Inca.

It was long gone by the time
the Spaniards came on the scene.

Yet its level of achievement
in architecture,

in political development,

in agriculture,

in many craft industries,

are on a very high level.

NARRATOR:
Most scholars agree that Tiahuanaco

was mysteriously
abandoned around 1100 A.D.

But why?

Local legends suggest
that Tiahuanaco

was built as a site
of religious pilgrimage

to celebrate
the arrival of sky gods

at nearby Puma Punku.

Located a quarter-mile southwest
of the ceremonial complex,

and spread across
a desert plateau,

the megalithic stones
found at Puma Punku

are among the largest
on the planet,

measuring up to 26 feet long

and weighing more than
100 tons each.

The 150 blocks found at the site

include a series
of H-shaped carvings

that were cut and replicated

with machined-quality precision.

Mainstream scientists believe

the site was
originally constructed

by the Tiahuanaco Empire
around 500 A.D.

But in 1945,

archaeologist Arthur Posnansky

proposed that Puma Punku
was much, much older.

By examining the structures
and what he believed

were their original
alignment with the stars,

he dated the ruins
to 15,000 B.C.

According to ancient
astronaut theorists,

the two sites were not only
built at different times

but also by beings
from different worlds.

PHILIP COPPENS:
Puma Punku, I think, is very of the gods,

and I think mankind did
very little with that site.

And then nearby,
our ancestors built

Tiahuanaco as a place
where people could come

to explore these places,

but also, I think,
as a tribute site

where a god had once
been physically present

on planet Earth.

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN:
You have to differentiate

two different styles
of construction:

The old style, which I call
the extraterrestrial style,

and then the later style,
which was made by the humans.

Tiahuanaco is nothing else
but a place of pilgrimage

for people to congregate

and remember the time

when something significant
happened at Puma Punku.

And the thing that was
significant about it

was an extraterrestrial visit

by ancient aliens
in the remote past.

NARRATOR:
But if Tiahuanaco was built to honor extraterrestrial contact,

as ancient astronaut
theorists contend,

might there be
tangible evidence?

In the 1960s,
the Bolivian government

excavated and unearthed

the subterranean
temple at Tiahuanaco.

Within the walls of
the square sunken courtyard

are hundreds of stone heads

with a diverse
range of features.

CHILDRESS:
Here at the famous sunken temple at Tiahuanaco,

we have all
of the different heads

that have been
inserted into the walls.

It’s sometimes said
that there are

all the races of mankind

represented here,

even elongated skulls,

people wearing turbans,

people with broad noses,

people with thin noses,

people with thick lips,
people with thin lips,

and some of the statues

are particularly unusual.

BRIEN FOERSTER:
They don’t seem to represent the local people.

They seem to
represent every type

and shape of human head
existing on the planet.

Two of them,
which are very intriguing,

are white in color,
and they look very much like

Grey alien heads.

COPPENS:
When we’re looking at the carved heads

of the Tiahuanaco complex,

you really see that
it’s almost as if

this is a U.N. headquarters,

whereby everybody
was able to come there

because all cultures
on planet Earth

accepted that Tiahuanaco
was so special

because this was a place

where contact with
the divine had been made.

NARRATOR:
Some researchers believe a large statue

at the center of
the sunken temple

depicts the creator god
known as Viracocha.

But why would
the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco

have depicted their
most prominent god

with features unlike their own?

CHILDRESS:
He has got a beard and a mustache,

and that is an unusual thing
because American Indians

do not have beards
and mustaches.

FOERSTER:
Exactly. The fact, also, that the beard

and the mustache
are so pronounced.

They’re not little wispy ones,
they’re major,

so 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 B.C.

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.

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 B.C.

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 proof

of extraterrestrial
intervention at Puma Punku.

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.

NARRATOR:
Might the Sumerian writing found in Tiahuanaco

and the bearded figure

at the site resembling
an Anunnaki god

suggest a global
extraterrestrial presence

in the remote past?

And could it be that the faces
on the courtyard walls

not only feature humans

from different
parts of the world,

but also alien beings?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining curious accounts
of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs

discovered not in Egypt
but in North America.

NARRATOR:
Western Nevada, 2013.

On the west side of
the dried-up Winnemucca Lake,

researchers take samples
from a layer of white carbonate

covering petroglyphs
carved into limestone boulders.

Radiocarbon tests performed

by the University
of Colorado Boulder

reveal that the petroglyphs

were etched between 10,500

and 14,800 years ago,

making them
the oldest petroglyphs

ever found in North America.

Winnemucca Lake
in Nevada is the site

of petroglyphs that date
all the way back to 8,000 B.C.

That is amazing because,
right here in America,

we now have absolute proof
of a civilization

that pre-dates the Fertile
Crescent of Mesopotamia

by over 3,000 years, minimum,

and there’s
nothing else like it.

Looking at some
of these petroglyphs,

you’ve got to wonder
if these aren’t

being drawn by early Americans

who are interacting
with extraterrestrials

and then drawing
what they think they see.

WILCOCK:
When we look at the petroglyphs themselves,

the actual designs, we also find

very unusual formations,
including spirals.

This is something that
we see very consistently

in many ancient cultures,

which is often associated
with the shape of the galaxies.

They may be aware that
they were a part of a galaxy.

Who gave them this information?

How did they obtain this?

Why would they make
these illustrations?

This has given rise
to the theory

that could there
have been civilizations

not dissimilar to ours,

but thousands of years ago

or tens of thousands
of years ago,

that have now become
lost to the fog of time?

This inevitably, sort of
raises the question,

does the human race
go in cycles, you know?

We’re a warlike species.

Will we, one day,
be somebody’s memory

and somebody’s folklore,
and they think they’re first?

NARRATOR:
Could these petroglyphs,

that pre-date even
the earliest known

Native American tribes,

be evidence of an ancient
lost civilization?

And if so, might other,
even more profound secrets,

lie hidden in North America,
waiting to be discovered?

The Grand Canyon.

Located in
the American Southwest.

This enormous gorge
is 277 miles long,

and a mile deep.

Much of it is remote
and rarely traveled.

In 1909, an explorer
named G.E. Kinkaid

was boating through the canyon
on the Colorado River

when he noticed
stains in the sediment

on the east wall
of a canyon gorge.

According to his account,

when he stopped
to get a closer look,

he found the entrance to what
appeared to be a man-made cave.

CHILDRESS:
Kinkaid saw what he thought was an ancient gold mine.

As he climbed up onto
the walls of the canyon

to investigate it,
what he really discovered

was not an ancient mine

but a labyrinth
of rooms and tunnels

cut into the side of the canyon

that went back hundreds,
even thousands of feet.

DAVID:
There were passageways radiating from this main chamber.

He found stone tablets

with Egyptian-style
hieroglyphics.

He also came to another chamber,

and it contained

a marble, carved statue
of Buddha

sitting in a lotus posture,

holding a lotus in each hand.

There was all kinds of statues

made of bronze,
and mummies as well.

He described them
as Egyptian and Tibetan

kind of things.

So therefore, he believed
he had discovered

some vast secret city
and treasure

inside the Grand Canyon.

NARRATOR:
Anxious to spread the news of his extraordinary find,

Kinkaid reportedly
made his way to Phoenix,

where he told his story
to a reporter

for the local newspaper.

He then contacted his employer,

the Smithsonian Institution.

CHILDRESS:
They sent an archaeologist named Jordan,

and Jordan then
examined the caves.

The Smithsonian allegedly
began excavating

and removing the artifacts
out of the secret caves.

And, supposedly, they were
all sent back to Washington D.C.

NARRATOR:
But mysteriously, there was no follow-up to the story

and G.E. Kinkaid was
never heard from again.

CHILDRESS:
The caves were apparently sealed up,

metal doors
and gates put over them.

The national park
now denies any knowledge

or existence of these
caves or cave entrances.

And if you talk
to the Smithsonian today,

they will deny any knowledge

of the secret city
in the Grand Canyon

or that an archaeologist
named Jordan

worked for the Smithsonian.

And in fact,
essentially, the knowledge

of the secret city
in the Grand Canyon

has completely disappeared
from history.

NARRATOR:
How is it that such an incredible story that

The Arizona Gazette reported
in two separate articles

dated a month apart
was suddenly dropped?

Was Kinkaid the victim
of a cover-up?

And if so, what was it
that the American government

didn’t want the public to know?

According to
his own description,

Kinkaid’s cave lies
in one of the most remote

and inaccessible
parts of the Grand Canyon.

And since a government permit
is required to enter

this treacherous terrain,

few people have ever
been able to explore the area

where this cave
was allegedly found.

If, in fact, there are
artifacts that exist

from Egypt or from the Orient
in the United States,

and they pre-date
history as we know it,

it would completely
change everything

we know about our own history.

We’d have to rewrite
our history books.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that G.E. Kinkaid

really did find
Egyptian and Oriental artifacts

in a cave in the Grand Canyon?

And if so,
how did they get here?

Some ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found
by examining the stories

of the Native American tribes
of the southwest,

who say there is a connection
between the Grand Canyon

and star beings.

According to the Hopi,

just before a catastrophic event

struck the area
where their ancestors lived,

these star beings
led them to safety.

The Native Americans
followed an object in the sky,

night and day,
to the Grand Canyon,

where they found refuge.

HAWKES:
The Hopi believe that they were

taken to an underground
or subterranean city

where they were nurtured,

and progressed through levels

to emerge, eventually,
on the surface of the Earth.

They emerged through
a hole called a sipapu.

It’s a very holy place
to the Hopi nation.

The sipapu in the Grand Canyon,
we know there is such a place.

This is our Garden of Eden,

where we had an...

the beginning
of the present world.

We hold the Grand Canyon
as a very reverent place

that came out after
the last catastrophe

into the present-day systems
that we have.

NARRATOR:
The Hopi elders only recently revealed

the Grand Canyon as
the site of their sipapu,

causing some to question

whether this might
be the same cave dwelling

G.E. Kinkaid claimed
to have found in 1909.

But the exact location
remains a mystery.

Supposedly, the entrance
into this underground city

of the Grand Canyon
is on this eastern part,

on these slopes right over here.

We were able to get to
the edge of the canyon

to look down,

but it’s hundreds of feet
straight down

on cliffs into this area
of the Grand Canyon.

It’s just almost impossible
to get a good look

or see what is in this park.

NARRATOR:
Could it really be that there’s an ancient relationship

between civilizations in Egypt,

South Asia,
and the United States?

And if so, might
the connection be traced back

to extraterrestrial beings?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe

indisputable proof of this
global alien influence

can be found by examining
the incredible Druid structures

in the American northeast.

NARRATOR:
Salem, New Hampshire.

July 9th, 1975.

At one of New England’s most
popular archaeological sites,

Mystery Hill, also known
as America’s Stonehenge...

...Harvard Professor Barry Fell
discovers a stone tablet

with a mysterious script
carved into it.

He identifies it as
belonging to a writing system

called ogham, which was
used by the Irish Celts

who lived 2,000 years ago

and 3,000 miles away

in their traditional
homeland of Ireland.

He translates the script
as meaning...

...the Celtic sun god.

Shortly after his discovery
of the strange writing,

Fell researches
the connection further

and publishes America B.C.

In it, he argues that long
before Christopher Columbus

reached the shores
of the new world in 1492,

America was visited
by the Druids,

a high-ranking priest class
of the Celtic people

who first arose
in northern Europe

around 800 B.C.

As evidence,
Fell points to the prevalence

of strange stone chambers
scattered over large areas

of the Hudson Valley
and New England.

HUGH NEWMAN:
All over New England and New York State,

there are hundreds of these
unusual stone chambers.

Many of them are thought
to be colonial root cellars,

where local colonialists

would place their vegetables
in for storage.

If they’re root cellars,

if they’re just for
where the colonialists

would place their vegetables,

then why are they so far out
in the middle of nowhere?

And why were some of them being
reported by colonial people

as they moved into this area,
even as far back as the 1600s?

WHITLEY STRIEBER:
There were stone structures all over the place.

But they weren’t things
made by settlers

because there’d never been
any agriculture in those woods.

You can’t grow anything there.

SALVATORE TRENTO:
Many of them have stone flooring,

and stone is not the best
material for keeping crops.

The cold seeps through
and destroys the crops.

But there was something else.
We’ve dated charcoal

that we found within
many of these structures,

and they date back
to about 3,000 years ago.

I think that the stone chambers,

which are dismissed
so often as root cellars,

are not root cellars.

I’ve been in a couple
of those chambers,

and that is no root cellar,
believe you me.

NARRATOR:
Professor Fell also noted that the chambers

accurately line up
with astronomical events

like the solstice
and the equinox,

just like ancient Celtic
megaliths in Europe.

NARRATOR:
Could Professor Fell have been right?

Were these chambers
built by the ancient Druids

of northern Europe?

There’s been a lot of discussion
over the last century

about if these chambers

are actually part
of an ancient Celtic

or Druid tradition
that came over from Europe.

WILLIAM HENRY:
They’re virtually identical to the Neolithic structures

we find throughout Europe

that were created by the Druids

for the purpose of meditation,

as observatories
of stellar phenomena,

and perhaps even other
more mysterious purposes.

PHILIP IMBROGNO:
There were all types of legends

that people from Europe
came here a long time ago

and explored the east coast
of the United States,

from New York, Connecticut,

all the way up to Vermont
and Massachusetts,

and they actually
built these structures

with a Druid priest,

and they were used
for ceremonial purposes.

NARRATOR:
Did Druids visit America centuries before Columbus

and build these structures?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by more closely examining
just who the Druids were

and who they worshipped.

Wiltshire, England.

Summer solstice, 500 B.C.

As ancient Celts converge
on the megalithic stone circle

known as Stonehenge,

the sun’s first rays
shine directly

into the center of the monument.

Like the stone chambers

found scattered throughout
the American northeast,

Stonehenge is aligned
to this celestial event.

The Celts are led
by their Druid priests,

who are believed to communicate
with a higher realm.

RABBI ARIEL BAR TZADOK:
The Druids, history shows us,

the ancient inhabitants

in both the British Isles
and in Ireland.

They were allegedly
an ancient priesthood,

masters of magic, science,

they were political leaders,
they were judges.

They were essentially the elite.

Who exactly were they?
Where did they come from?

NARRATOR:
According to Irish Legend, the Druid priests

were instructed by
a race of godlike beings

who descended from the heavens:

the Shining Ones,
or Tuatha Dé Danann.

TOK THOMPSON:
The Tuatha Dé Danann are probably

the most important tribe
in Irish mythology.

All the representations we have

that the Tuatha Dé Danann
were special.

So the "Tuatha" means tribe.

"Dé" means gods or divine,

so, "divine tribes."

"Gods of the divine."

According to these ancient Irish
books, the Tuatha Dé Danann

had red hair
and blue or green eyes.

They had magical powers.

And they arrived in airships

with dark clouds.

They had all kinds
of magical devices

and weapons that they used.

The Shining Ones
had access to strange

pieces of weaponry.
For example,

one of them is called
the light sword,

this sword made out of fire...

with which you could
end any battle like this.

It is my opinion that those
were the extraterrestrials

who imparted the first
type of knowledge

to the local population
of that area.

NARRATOR:
Are the Celtic stories of the Tuatha Dé Danann

actual historical accounts of
an alien visitation in Ireland?

And if so, were these teachers
perhaps also present

in the American northeast
thousands of years ago?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they suggest
physical evidence

may have been unearthed
on a quiet New England beach.

NARRATOR:
Milford, Connecticut.

August 19th, 1922.

The dean of American archeology,
Warren Morehead,

makes a shocking discovery
on the Connecticut shore.

His excavations
uncover the remains

of two massive giants.

Their discovery
sparked a media sensation.

Warren Morehead
uncovered two skeletons

of some strange beings,
which were over seven feet tall.

They had flat heads
and extra rows of teeth.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

an intriguing clue
about the giants’ origins

can be found in the Native
American oral tradition,

which says that
the giants had red hair.

COLLINS:
Red hair is something that is traditionally

associated with
the Celtic peoples of Britain.

So, is it possible
that there’s a relationship

between the ancient
British peoples

and these giants?

NARRATOR:
If Druids came to the New World

and built the stone chambers

scattered throughout
New England,

did they do so with the help
of extraterrestrial visitors?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by more closely examining

these potentially
ancient structures,

and the mysterious
properties they exhibit.

North Salem, New York.

April, 2019.

Seeking a link
between the Celts, Druids

and the New World,

ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress

and British megalith
expert Hugh Newman

set out to visit
one of the most mysterious

stone structures in America:

Balanced Rock.

CHILDRESS:
I’m excited about seeing this Balanced Rock,

and you-you think it’s a dolmen.
Is that what you’re saying?

I’m convinced it’s a dolmen.

It looks like something

you would find in Britain.

Thousands of ancient dolmens

have been found
throughout Europe.

Most are known to be
at least 5,000 years old,

and since rock cannot be
carbon-dated,

could be far older.

The dolmens were
sometimes open tombs,

under which a body
would be ceremonially placed.

This monument that
is known as Balanced Rock

resembles almost exactly

the stone dolmens of Europe.

It’s a massive top stone.

60 to 90 tons are the estimates,

and it’s just
a remarkable place.

And so geologists are saying

that it’s a glacial erratic

and a glacier just brought it.
It’s totally natural.

As the glacier pulled out,
it just, sort of,

dropped them down
on these stones.

That’s what they say,
but it just doesn’t make sense

because it looks
like it’s constructed.

You can see the shaping
on the stones underneath it.

NARRATOR:
Located just 30 miles from the site

where strange giant
skeletons were discovered,

David and Hugh arrive
at the mysterious formation.

Wow, look at that.

Oh, man. That is huge.

NEWMAN:
That is pretty impressive, isn’t it?

CHILDRESS:
That is a giant dolmen, isn’t it?

- NEWMAN: I know, it’s amazing.
- CHILDRESS: Cool. Wow.

It looks like a European
dolmen, doesn’t it?

NEWMAN:
It does, it’s identical

’cause you have...
we have these uprights.

I mean, there were
originally seven there.

There seems to be
five or six there.

It’s hard to tell
because some split.

And the fact that it’s granite
is quite intriguing,

combined with
the gneiss rock underneath,

so there is a potential
piezoelectric effect.

And this site is renowned

for having, kind of,
energies associated with it.

NARRATOR:
In the so-called piezoelectric effect,

electrical energy
accumulates in solids,

rocks and otherwise
lifeless matter.

Some claim that objects
infused with piezoelectricity

can produce strange
and anomalous results.

Because this is granite,
it’s infused with tiny

- quartz crystals.
- Yeah.

So yeah, there should be
some energy coming out of it.

I believe there is, and also,
the landscape it’s in,

it sits right on top
of a negative magnetic anomaly,

directly under the main
part of the stone.

So, you think that this
is some kind of vortex area,

and there’s a magnetic anomaly,

and that, perhaps, they used
that magnetic anomaly

to move this giant boulder

- and place it here?
- It’s quite possible.

And I think, if you placed
them in the right spot,

when there’s magnetic anomalies
or telluric currents underneath,

which is both here, and you
have the piezoelectric effect,

so when you place
seeds or grains there,

it’ll charge them up,

and you’ll get a higher yield

and a better-quality crop.

CHILDRESS:
Seeds that are charged

under here for one or two days,

and then other seeds
that aren’t charged,

they grow them together,
and the ones from here

grow, like, twice as fast.

NEWMAN:
This has been tested scientifically.

CHILDRESS:
So if there’s some kind of energy vortex here

you can measure that, right?

Yeah, so we got this.

This is a TriField magnetometer.

This is a classic device
where you measure

different readings
from magnetic fluctuations,

also electric charge,

and even radiation.

Well, should we do some tests?
Should see what we can find?

- Yeah, let’s do it.
- Okay, let’s turn this on. So what we’ll do is

we’ll get down a bit closer in.

- Uh-huh.
- Let’s put this down here,

right in the center.

And look, immediately, we’ve
got it on the magnetic setting,

so we’re getting
fluctuations already.

CHILDRESS:
So, that means that there’s an anomalous energy here,

some magnetic field
that’s stronger than outside.

So this energy field is pulsing.

NEWMAN:
This is a proper energy site.

So, let’s just
keep walking around,

see if we can pick up
any other fluctuations

or readings here.

And, yeah, this spot
here seems to be the hot spot.

- CHILDRESS: It’s stronger now,
the field. - It’s much stronger.

- It’s almost double.
- Uh-huh.

NEWMAN:
We certainly have an anomaly here.

NARRATOR:
While many rocks naturally carry a magnetic charge,

the magnetic energy under
and around Balanced Rock

is unusually high,

from 10 to 50 times normal.

STRIEBER:
The great structures of the past,

like Balanced Rock,

were about experiencing

the great energy of the Earth.

And in fact,
if you go to Balanced Rock,

you can feel the power
of the Earth there still,

just as it was then.

NARRATOR:
But is the rock generating all of this energy on its own

or could it have been
purposely placed here

because it is a location

that amplifies its
magnetic properties?

So, you’re also thinking, then,

that Druids
or the Tuatha Dé Danann,

they’ve come here from
Ireland and England and Wales,

and then they chose this area

because it’s a vortex spot,

and then they chose
this spot particularly

to put this giant dolmen here.

NEWMAN:
I think that’s the case,

and I think this
is really the center

of the whole complex around
this part of the country.

CHILDRESS:
So, back in the ’80s there was this big UFO flap

here in the Hudson Valley,

and some UFO researchers claim

that the UFOs were
coming up the valley,

towards this rock.

NARRATOR:
Six years after Harvard University professor

Barry Fell published
his controversial theory

that the Druids had visited
North America,

the Hudson Valley UFO sightings
began right over

the mysterious stone
chambers and Balanced Rock.

HENRY:
As investigators began tracking

these many thousands of
sightings in the Hudson Valley,

they began to notice that
there was a focal point.

A central point.

Balanced Rock.

Appears to be a sort of
a vortex that was either

used as a portal by these craft

or as a guidance mechanism
for these craft

as they’re travelling
through this vortex.

It’s no accident that
these masses of sightings

took place in the Hudson Valley.

NEWMAN:
Some of the research that was carried out,

they found that some of
the balls of light,

which seemed intelligent,
were moving towards

these kind of sites
like the dolmens,

the chambers of
the Hudson Valley here.

NARRATOR:
Does the magnetic testing at Balanced Rock

reveal that this area
of the Earth

generates an energy vortex?

And if so, could this anomaly
be connected to both

the high number of UFO sightings
in the Hudson Valley

and also the mysterious
stone structures

found throughout the region?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining an infamous site

where some say
time stands still.

NARRATOR:
Upstate New York.

April, 2019.

In search of further evidence

that the ancient Druids
came to America,

David Childress and Hugh Newman

head to a site just 20 miles
north of Balanced Rock,

one of the mysterious
stone chambers of Putnam County.

There’s huge boulders here
and some walls. Wow.

Yeah, there’s just
so many of them, really.

I mean, some of them
are probably still buried,

to be discovered.

All right, I see a chamber
right there, yeah.

NEWMAN:
Really looking forward to seeing this one.

(car doors close)

Yeah, this is one of
the-the more famous ones.

When we get inside,
it gets bigger,

so let’s get these on.
Let’s go in and take a look,

see what we can see.

CHILDRESS:
Yeah, this will be lit or, yeah.

NEWMAN:
Yeah, look at this. This is incredible.

CHILDRESS:
Wow.

NEWMAN:
It’s well-constructed.

This is one of the chambers
where the strange lights

would kind of congregate on

during the whole
Hudson Valley UFO flap

- that lasted for ten years.
- Is that right?

NEWMAN:
And also we got massive megalithic blocks,

especially this stone back here.
Look at this.

This is the classic sort
of British megalithic design,

and it proves, I believe,

a connection with
the ancient sites of Britain.

This entrance-- what direction
do you think that’s pointing?

NEWMAN:
Uh, check that, actually, while we’re here.

If we’re standing over
this side,

in that direction,
it’s going east.

But if we go over here,
for instance,

and we look in that direction,
that’s like northeast,

so we’ve got a summer solstice
alignment going that way

and if we’re
standing over there,

we’ve got an eastern
equinox alignment.

So, that’s kind of
intriguing in itself.

NARRATOR:
Based on Hugh Newman’s research,

the chamber lines up
with the solstice and equinox,

like ancient sites all over

the former Celtic territory
of Northern Europe,

such as Stonehenge in England,

the Ring of Brodgar in Scotland,

Newgrange in Ireland

and the Carnac stones in France.

Were the Hudson Valley chambers

constructed by
the same ancient builders?

And if so, how are
the chambers connected

to the spectacular UFO sightings

that electrified the Hudson
Valley 30 years ago?

In the whole Hudson Valley
UFO flap in the ’80s,

we did have accounts
of these balls of light,

these orbs coming down,

and they would
sort of almost orientate

and kind of land,
go inside the chambers.

And so, why would they do that?

Then it was realized they may
have been designed to trap

magnetic and electric charge,

and it would attract and move

these natural
balls of light around.

NARRATOR:
If Druids, armed with alien technology,

visited the American northeast,

could there be other signs

of their passage
through New England?

Hartford, Connecticut.

November 20th, 1654.

A settler named John Pynchon
writes Governor John Winthrop

about a newly-discovered
stone site known as Gungywamp

from which he says he is hearing
"many strange reports."

Gungywamp is a series
of stone chambers,

alignments of standing stones,

on a 24-acre hilltop
in southern Connecticut,

and people have been looking
at this since the early 1600s.

Gungywamp is a place of mystery.

It’s a place that has
a lot of anomalies with it.

COLLINS:
It’s known for its magnetic anomalies.

It’s known
for the strange lights,

the UFOs that appear
in this area.

People have very strange
experiences when they go there.

They burst into tears,
becoming very emotional.

People have reported
nosebleeds out of nowhere,

Bleeding from the eyes.

People have reported
passing out, feeling nauseous.

I was there
with a friend of mine,

and we had to sit down

because we got
so nauseous and dizzy.

Some have claimed
extraordinary experiences

where time and space
actually are freezing.

NARRATOR:
Interestingly, Governor John Winthrop,

who recorded the first
reference to Gungywamp,

also recorded the first report

of a UFO sighting
in the New World.

It occurred in 1639,

100 miles east of Gungywamp

on Boston’s Muddy River.

He described an incident
that fishermen had

where an object flew up
out of the water,

hovered in the sky,
then all of a sudden,

these fishermen were back
at the head waters of this river

with no sense of passing time.

NARRATOR:
Strange magnetic anomalies.

Unexplainable physical ailments.

Missing time.

UFO sightings.

Could Balanced Rock, Gungywamp,

and the stone chambers be
part of a larger energy grid

that overlies vast swaths

of the Hudson Valley
and New England?

One that contributes
to the creation of a vortex?

For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer is a resounding yes,

and they suggest
a connection to the Druids

and their otherworldly mentors,

the Tuatha Dé Danann,

can be found by examining
their darkest practice:

human sacrifice.

Mystery Hill, New Hampshire.

At this remarkable
megalithic stone site

known as America’s Stonehenge,

where Barry Fell first
discovered evidence

of Druid writing in 1975,

can be found numerous
celestial alignments.

NEWMAN:
It’s an area that covers 12 acres.

It has multiple stone chambers.

It has megalithic construction,

such as standing stones,

which have now been found
to be astronomically aligned

from the center of the site.

NARRATOR:
The most famous artifact at Mystery Hill

is a curious stone slab.

COLLINS:
Among the many stone structures

at America’s Stonehenge
is a huge, flat slab

that is the size
of a human body.

And around its edges
is a channel

that leads into a hole
that, very clearly,

would have been used
to catch liquid

that was running down the stone,

and that would eventually

go through the channel,
down into the ground.

NARRATOR:
A stone slab the size of a human body,

with a channel
for catching liquid?

Could this slab have been
used for blood rituals?

The stone has, in fact, been
dubbed the sacrificial table.

And some researchers believe
it was used by the Druids.

Throughout northern England,
so-called "bog bodies"

have been found,

disturbingly
well-preserved corpses

of 2,000-year-old
human sacrifice victims.

COLLINS:
Bog bodies, as they’re described,

are human cadavers

that have been repeatedly found

in boggy environments,

and the manner
of their discovery

seems to suggest
that they could have been

cast into the waters
as a sacrifice.

There is powerful evidence
that those responsible

for these ritual murders
were the Druids,

and if the Druids
did reach North America,

that they carried
sacrifice with them.

IMBROGNO:
The Druids did sacrifice a certain way.

They would put a noose around
the neck so that the pressure

builds up in the carotid artery,

then they would slit the throat

so the blood
had pressure to form

a stream in
the grooves of the rock.

NARRATOR:
Could the table of sacrifice be physical evidence

that the Druids came
to America centuries ago,

and brought with them
not only their dark customs,

but perhaps also left
an indelible mark

on New England
and the Hudson Valley?

Is this just one of many
unexpected relationships

between ancient
cultures worldwide?

If so, did mankind’s prehistory

look vastly different from
what we are led to believe?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they suggest
this global connection

nearly always traces back
to the extraterrestrial gods.

And for further proof,

they point to a mysterious
hieroglyphic message

carved into rock walls

on the east coast of Australia.

NARRATOR:
Central Coast, New South Wales, Australia.

Deep in the Brisbane Water
National Park

is a mysterious site
known as the Gosford Glyphs.

The site consists of two
massive, eight-foot-high walls

engraved with over
300 ancient carvings,

carvings that experts say
do not resemble

indigenous artwork,
but Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Absolutely beautiful out here.

STRONG:
I know.

NARRATOR:
In 2016, Giorgio Tsoukalos

met with local ancient
astronaut theorist Evan Strong

to get a first-hand look

at the enigmatic carvings
at the Gosford Glyphs.

Wow.

That’s incredible.

I had no idea.
I mean, this looks

totally different
than on pictures.

So what do
these hieroglyphs say?

Well, at least one panel
talks about two brothers,

two princes,
coming here from Egypt.

They were shipwrecked.

One of them ended up
getting bitten by a snake.

He then died. The theory is,

then he was interred here,

and that’s why you’ve
got hieroglyphs here,

because he died here.

But there’s these other walls
with a mixture of symbols.

This one over here,

it’s more of a philosophical,
astrophysics-style thing,

with symbols meaning all
sorts of esoteric stuff, so...

Now, have these symbols, at all,

been interpreted
by Egyptologists?

There’ve been a few, actually.

Um, a few different, um,
people have done that.

And what was their reaction?

Well, Raymond Johnson
was one of the first people

to come here and translate.

He actually sent some
of his translations off

to the Cairo library
and Dr. Abu Dhia Ghazi

ended up saying, "Yep,
you’re on the right track."

It’s something
called proto-Egyptian.

And how old do you
reckon these are?

STRONG:
We’re thinking because of the prevalence,

at least in one panel
of proto-Egyptian,

that it’s about 4,600 years old.

TSOUKALOS:
Wow.

Are there any hieroglyphs
that stand out to you?

Yeah, definitely.
Follow me down here,

and I’ll show you
this other one.

So, this one here, um,
we call the UFO glyph,

and people have called it that
since they’ve been coming here

because it kind of
looks like a UFO.

TSOUKALOS:
It definitely has the classic UFO shape.

It’s got the... the rays

or whatever you want to call it.

What would you suggest
if anyone says,

"Well, this is not a UFO,

"it’s-it’s some
other symbol that...

But certainly not that"?

STRONG:
I think someone suggested that it’s jewelry,

but it’s a completely different
symbol that’s upside down,

and it really doesn’t
quite fit in.

It’s one of those symbols here

that-that doesn’t
fit into the canon.

TSOUKALOS:
In your opinion,

why do you think the Egyptians

made it all the way
to Australia?

I think they were looking
for esoteric wisdom, definitely.

- From the Aboriginals?
- Yes.

DUNCAN:
The ancient Egyptians, we have stories,

and Aboriginal stories,
about their arrival,

and about their visits

long before Europeans
had arrived here.

Naturally, we would have
shared ceremony

with these people
because they have

the same similar beliefs
as our people.

Egyptians have that same

spiritual connection
to the sky world.

Many stories from
all over this continent,

not just from here,
but all over this continent,

talk about
those who came by the sea

and came to these continents,

and some of our knowledge
and wisdom and technology

went back with them.

And if you do
some of the research,

in the last pyramids
that they found,

they found boomerangs

made from iron bark from here.

And they have hieroglyphs
of blackfellows

throwing the boomerangs
to take out

the ducks and the geese.

Now, the question would be
why would they paint us

and carve us on their walls
if they didn’t come here?

And if that meeting
and relationship

was not significant,
they wouldn’t have carved it.

It must have been significant
in order to carve.

NARRATOR:
Aboriginal artifacts found in Egypt?

Hieroglyphs found in Australia?

Might the continent
have actually served

as a pilgrimage site
for visitors seeking

a direct connection
to the so-called gods?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest further evidence
of this otherworldly link

can be found in
a megalithic structure

lost to time.

Mullumbimby, New South Wales.

1939.

Frederic Slater, the President

of the Australian
Archaeology Society,

was dispatched to
investigate the discovery

of a complex
Aboriginal arrangement

consisting of 188
standing stones.

Slater dubbed the formation
the Stonehenge of Australia,

and became convinced
that it was one of the oldest

temple complexes in the world,

predating those found
in Europe and the Middle East.

Frederic Slater found that
the site he was investigating

was part of a larger,
much larger site.

And fitted in very closely

with Aboriginal sacred law,
myths and legends.

After a time,
Frederic Slater began to posit

and suggest that
instead of "out of Africa,"

that maybe we should
re-examine the evolution of man

as "out of Australia."

He took a massive leap
and started declaring

that in ancient times
in Australia

the Aborigines
were more advanced

than any culture that
he could recount on the planet.

He was declared almost insane

by the rest of
the academic community.

The landowners were so terrified

of the controversy
that it implied

that it was pretty much
destroyed by bulldozers.

CHILDRESS:
There are many stone circles,

uh, throughout
the British Isles and Europe.

Stonehenge is one
of the most well-known.

They all have some relationship

to astronomical observatories.

This Aboriginal Stonehenge

would really alter the way
we think of the Aboriginals

and the sophistication
of their society,

where they had astronomical

and archaeoastronomical
structures

that helped them
monitor the heavens,

much as standing stones
in Europe would have done.

DUNCAN:
For our people, it went beyond the paintings and the carvings

into stone arrangements.

We would arrange
in certain patterns,

which relate to
the constellation of the stars

in regards to our connectedness
with the sky world

and where we originate from.

NARRATOR:
Could the so-called Aboriginal Stonehenge

provide insight into
the other stone arrangements

found scattered
across the continents?

If so, might they
serve to provide

a permanent record
of a significant connection

to another world?

Perhaps the best
evidence of this

extraterrestrial relationship
is found

with one stone depiction

that exists
all across the globe.

NARRATOR: 2017.

To date, 69 massive
stone pillars

have been unearthed
at the ancient site

after more than
two decades of excavation.

More than one-third
of the statues

contain elaborate
carvings of animals

including various mammals,

reptiles,

insects and birds.

But also included
are depictions of species

not indigenous to the area,

like geese, armadillos

and wild boar.

There are such an incredible
range of animals

and birds and insects
depicted at Göbekli Tepe,

the like of which
we have never seen

at that period
anywhere else in the world.

And to have a whole bunch
of them together is interesting.

You can speculate
till the cows come home

as to what it might represent.

We have not the faintest idea.

NARRATOR:
At the center of each of the five megalithic ring structures

that occupy
the archaeological site

stand two oversized
monolithic pillars.

Weighing up to 20 tons,

and reaching heights
of over two stories,

they visually stand apart
from the T-shaped stonework

that surrounds them.

These pillars
are anthropomorphic,

they are humanlike
in appearance.

They have low relief arms
that come round

to the front, and end in
these long, spindly fingers.

They wear garments.

They have belts
with strange symbols.

There are no faces
on these stones.

Their heads are represented
by T-shaped terminations

that look almost like
hammerheads, basically.

PAUL BAHN:
They could be gods, they could be ancestors,

or they could be very specific
people who are being venerated.

We really have no idea.

HENRY:
The archaeologist Schmidt himself referred to them

as the celestial ones
or the celestial ancestors.

And we have to ask
if these are depictions

of the extraterrestrial gods
at Göbekli Tepe.

NARRATOR:
Yet as mysterious as these statues are,

strikingly similar depictions
can be found

in other parts of the globe.

An interesting feature about
some of these T-shaped pillars

is the fact that
these arms culminate

in the front,
around the navel area.

And what I find so cool
is that this type of motif

can be found elsewhere
around the world.

For example, in Easter Island,

with those giant statues,
the Moai.

There too, the arms
go around the belly

and they culminate
in front of the navel.

And then, at Tiahuanaco,
Bolivia, for example,

there’s a statue that has
the exact same hand position

in front of the navel.

EDWIN BARNHART: At the city
of Tiahuanaco,

in its central complex
called the Kalasasaya,

is a massive monolithic statue.

The statue is said,
by the Inca, to be a giant.

In the previous creation,
before men,

giants roamed the earth,

and they inhabited
the city of Tiahuanaco.

And this is actually
very similar to the mythology

of Easter Island in the stories
we hear about the Moai.

CHILDRESS:
One of the strange things that appears on the belts

of some of these figures
is the "H" symbol,

which is almost identical to
the H-blocks that are found

at Puma Punku in South America,

and those H-blocks are
perfectly fitted together,

like Lego blocks,
to create huge walls.

So is that some kind of symbol

of the extraterrestrial
engineers

and their ability
to go anywhere in the world

and construct giant walls?
It would seem so.

Also seen on the giant
T-shaped megaliths

at Göbekli Tepe are animals

carved in relief on the stones.

When you go to South America,
to Peru and Bolivia,

you have towers and walls

that also have similar animals

carved in relief.

Foxes and birds,

condors and lions and pumas

are carved in relief

onto these walls.

It’s identical
to what’s at Göbekli Tepe.

And we find that
at the Yazidi Temples

in northern Iraq,

those temples also have serpents

carved in relief on them.

We get very similar
type of carved pillars

as Göbekli Tepe
in other parts of the world.

There is a very strong
similarity in style

which tells us that
there is almost certainly

some kind of relationship,

that Göbekli Tepe
is not in isolation.

It’s part of some
kind of global culture,

the remnants
of a lost civilization

that once existed
in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR:
If the figures found at Göbekli Tepe

are a representation
not of local deities

but of extraterrestrial beings

that visited different
areas of the Earth,

could it bring us closer
to solving a puzzle

whose pieces are scattered
all over the world?

TSOUKALOS:
If these connections only existed in one or two

ancient cultures, one could say,

"Okay, it’s just coincidence."

But the fact that
they exist worldwide--

that, to me, illustrates,

there is a bigger
picture behind it.

The idea is that
perhaps the worldwide planet

was visited, essentially,
by the same extraterrestrials

over long periods of time.

Perhaps hundreds,
if not thousands of years.

NARRATOR:
Ancient depictions of the gods of India

discovered in Colombia.

Architecture of the Druids
unearthed in North America.

Egyptian hieroglyphs
carved into stone walls

in Australia.

Could these and countless
other out-of-place artifacts

be evidence of alien
intervention on Earth

thousands of years ago?

Perhaps the most profound
discovery of all

is still to come.

The discovery
of an ancient connection

that reaches not across oceans

but off-planet.

The discovery of mankind’s
origins in the stars.

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