All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens SP s02e06 Mysteries Beneath the Ice.eng

NARRATOR: At the extreme ends
of the planet

lie vast, frozen landscapes

that remain largely unexplored.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
You have huge areas that are uninhabited.

All kinds of things
can be happening there.

NARRATOR:
These harsh environments play host

to an array
of puzzling anomalies.

There've been
a number of reports

of pyramids being found
on Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
And many who have braved the arctic regions

have reported extraordinary
encounters with UFOs.

THEO CHESLEY:
I've seen a lot of things.

And what I saw was just not
anything ordinary at all.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that the coldest places on Earth are hotspots

for extraterrestrial visitation?

BILL BIRNES:
There is more about the Poles

that is being covered up
than we think.

There are entire bases
down there,

entire civilizations.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it
is the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR:
Stretching over five million square miles

across the southernmost
reaches of the Earth

lies the coldest
and most isolated continent

in the world--

Antarctica.

Because of its hostile climate,

including average
daily temperatures

of -49 degrees Fahrenheit

and wind speeds
of over 200 miles per hour,

Antarctica remains
largely untouched by mankind.

According to historical records,

modern man did not even
set foot on the continent

until 1853,

when ship captain
Mercator Cooper landed

on what is now known

as the Oates Coast
of Victoria Land.

Today, anywhere from
1,000 to 5,000 people reside

at the research stations

scattered across the continent,

braving the extreme
conditions in hopes

of learning more about
this mysterious landscape.

ANDREW COLLINS:
The thing about Antarctica

is that as much as 98% of it
is covered in ice.

And just occasionally there
are little areas that stick out.

Mountaintops, ridges, peaks.

JONATHAN YOUNG:
Antarctica is the least explored of the continents.

Even the North Pole,

which is just ice,
has been explored more.

It is a mystery.

And it's right here
on the Earth.

It's perhaps the last, big,

unexplored part
of our home planet.

CHILDRESS:
Antarctica is a vast frozen world

and we know
very little about it.

And, in fact,
the ice in Antarctica

is up to three miles thick
in certain places.

And what's beneath the ice

is still largely
a mystery to scientists.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS:
You just have to imagine this--

the Sears tower is a little less

under a third of a mile tall.

So you have to imagine
that you can stack

nine Sears towers
on top of each other

and they would still not
peek out from that ice sheet.

NARRATOR:
Most geologists believe

Antarctica has been
completely frozen

and uninhabited
for over 12 million years.

But in 2012,
new photographs revealed

formations in the landscape
that challenge this notion.

Mysterious pyramid
structures emerging

from the now melting ice.

Recently, there have been
a number of reports

of pyramids being found
on Antarctica.

There are various photographs
that show what appear to be

perfect four-sided pyramids,

very similar
in design to those at Giza,

Egypt and perhaps
other places around the world.

NARRATOR:
While the photos were explained away

by mainstream scientists

as nothing more
than natural land formations,

satellite imagery analysts
like Joseph White

are not entirely convinced.

In March of 2013,

he uncovered what he believes

is evidence
of yet another pyramid

located just south
of Antarctica's remote

Shackleton Mountain Range.

JOSEPH WHITE:
I initially found the structure

whilst looking on Google Earth.
I was in fact looking at some

of the very strange blank spots
you get in Antarctica

when I stumbled upon
this very large square structure

which seems to be
some kind of building

or perhaps even a pyramid

but certainly very large
and very square.

It actually lines up perfectly
with the coordinates

of the compass--
north, south, east and west,

and this dictates to me
that it's probably

an intelligent structure,
because uh...

random structures,
like mountains,

are not aligned to the compass.

And another way we know
that a structure is not

naturally occurring is
generally to look for symmetry.

Things like right angles
and equilateral triangles

and shapes that you would not
normally find in nature.

This structure is exactly
two kilometers square.

This corner to this corner
is two kilometers

and this corner to this corner
is also exactly two kilometers,

which would make this
more than double the size

of any pyramid
thus far found on Earth.

NARRATOR:
While it may seem unthinkable

that pyramids could exist
in Antarctica,

in recent years,
archaeologists have found

pyramids all over the world

that had been lost
for centuries,

mistaken as natural formations

or hidden
in the most unlikely places.

They have been discovered
in the plains of northern Peru,

buried beneath dirt
and rubble in Indonesia,

and one may even exist

in Los Angeles, California.

All the way round the world

we find evidence
of pyramid structures.

We should start
looking at the possibility

that there was habitation
on Antarctica.

Was it a lost civilization?

Could it be ancient astronauts?

And just maybe,

the earliest monuments
of our own civilization

came originally from Antarctica.

If this gigantic pyramid
in Antarctica

is an artificial structure,

it would probably be the oldest
pyramid on our planet

and, in fact,
it might be the master pyramid

that all the other pyramids
on planet Earth were designed

to look like.

MICHAEL SALLA:
There has been extensive research done

on pyramids throughout the world

in terms of their structure

and what it is
that they really are.

And one of the theories is

that pyramids are
power generators.

And so, if you have these
pyramids strategically placed

around the world
generating this charge

it's possible to create

a general standing wave
around the world

that is basically a wireless
transmission of energy.

CHILDRESS:
It's been theorized that ancient ships,

extraterrestrials,
and those with high technology

could use this interconnected
wireless energy system

to navigate around the planet.

And it makes sense
that if there was some kind

of worldwide pyramid
power grid like this,

that Antarctica would
have pyramids as well.

TSOUKALOS:
The whole idea of these pyramidal structures,

where did it come from?

Because it's not
an arbitrary thing.

And these structures,
they exist worldwide,

so you know,
what was the impetus,

what's the origin?

And even more fascinating,

did they originate
on the Antarctic continent?

NARRATOR:
Might the pyramid Joseph White claims to have discovered

near the
Shackleton Mountain Range

and other
pyramid-shaped formations

recently photographed
in Antarctica,

provide evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation

to our planet
in the remote past?

And if they are actually
man-made structures,

how is such a thing
even possible

in a place that has been
buried beneath the ice

for over 12 million years?

According to
ancient astronaut theorists,

Antarctica may not have been
a frozen continent

for as long as mainstream
scientists suggest.

And they say proof can be found

by examining a 500-year-old map

depicting the continent
without any ice.

NARRATOR:
Siberia. 2013.

A wooly mammoth is discovered

flash-frozen in the glacial ice,

engulfed so quickly

that its blood and muscle tissue
are perfectly preserved.

It is just one of dozens
that have been found

within the Siberian ice

since the turn
of the 20th century.

Many seemingly caught
in suspended animation,

some with food in their mouths

and vegetation in their stomachs

that would only grow
in a much warmer climate.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
The discovery of a wooly mammoth that was

flash-frozen raises

some interesting
scientific questions.

Did something happen
very locally

to the wooly mammoth
that it froze very fast?

But it does also
raise the question

of how quickly can
climate really change.

And does it take some sort
of cataclysm?

One that's sudden
and unexpected?

NARRATOR:
In 1958,

Charles Hapgood,
a Harvard-educated scientist,

published the book
Earth's Shifting Crust.

In it, he proposed that portions
of the Earth's crust

experienced violent
and sudden shifts

during Earth's
geological history.

His theory, known as
Crustal Displacement, posited

that both Siberia
and the continent of Antarctica

were located in slightly
more temperate climates

prior to the end
of the last ice age,

approximately 12,000 years ago.

But then, some unknown
catastrophe plunged them

into their current positions.

COLLINS:
Professor Hapgood came up with the idea

that the previous
North Pole position had been

in the area of the Hudson Bay,

and then it shifted
to where the pole is today.

And at the southern pole,

he believes
that the area of Antarctica

had previously also experienced
the temperate climate

and that this was suddenly
now thrust

into this deep ice

and this harsh,
freezing climate.

He believed the last time

that this had actually
taken place

was approximately
12,000 years ago.

When we think about
earth crust displacement theory

and plate tectonics,

you want to think of the crust

basically floating on the magma

and being able to shift
and move around on top of it.

The Earth's crust
is not one solid piece.

We know it's made
of individual pieces.

So you could look and see

how the continents probably
used to fit together

and where they moved,
and how they move apart

over a long period of time.

But the question is, you know,

would something the size
of Antarctica shift suddenly,

or is that too big?

MICHAEL SALLA:
These crustal shifts,

according to Hapgood,
actually could happen

over a period of even days.

And so, if you had
a thriving civilization,

this crustal displacement could
have hit it very, very quickly

and so, it could have
actually been frozen

over a very short period
of time.

NARRATOR:
Although Hapgood's theory

of sudden, large-scale shifts

of the Earth's crust
was not widely accepted,

renowned physicist
Albert Einstein

was electrified by it

and even wrote the foreword
of Hapgood's book.

Hapgood would also find
additional support

for his theory when, in 1960,

while combing through the
Library of Congress archives,

he unearthed an unusual map
published in 1531.

The map,
credited to mathematician

and cartographer
Orontius Finaeus,

appears to depict an ice-free
continent remarkably similar

to today's maps of Antarctica.

COLLINS:
It was not until as late as 1820

that we had any real idea
of what Antarctica looked like.

Yet here,

on the Orontius Finaeus map
from 1531,

here was Antarctica.

How the hell is it possible

that it could appear
on this map?

NARRATOR:
Researchers are baffled as to how the Orontius Finaeus map

could include a continent
that was not discovered

until over 300 years later

and are even more perplexed
by the fact

that it depicts
Antarctica free of ice.

If explorers somehow discovered
Antarctica in the 1500s,

it would have been
completely frozen over.

Remarkably, the Finaeus map

shows not only
a detailed coastline free of ice

but the entire continent,

including interior features
such as rivers,

valleys and mountains.

The map shows mountain ranges

that have rivers coming out
of the mountain ranges.

How could that be?

It's frozen. It's ice.

There's a NASA image

of the continent of Antarctica
using radar

so that mountain ranges
come through and can be seen.

And you can see a mountain range
on one photograph,

and on the Orontius Finaeus map,
it's right there, too.

It's the same mountain range.

NARRATOR:
According to climatologists,

the estimates
of when this feature

would have been free
from ice cover

was at least 6,000 years ago.

So how is it possible
that this map exists?

Did Finaeus have access
to an older map,

one dating back
thousands of years?

Perhaps more confounding,

U.S. Air Force cartographers

that were sent the maps
in the 1960s concluded

that they were drawn using
advanced spherical trigonometry

with remarkable precision,

especially when considering

the maps were made
hundreds of years ago.

TSOUKALOS:
The fact that we find something

that's a reference
to modern-day technology

on a map that dates back
to the 16th century

makes me think is it possible

that some type of advanced
radar technology was used.

Because in order
to produce a map

that would outline
the areas we see,

you would have to be
at an altitude of 80 miles.

So, how was that possible?

Could it be
that the basis for these maps

was gleaned from maps
that were cartographed

by extraterrestrial
land surveyors?

The implications of all this--

and if you now are able to add
things like pyramids--

this would really indicate
that there was

some kind of ancient
civilization in Antarctica

and that it would have been
over 12,000 years ago.

And you've got to wonder what
kind of civilization this was.

Is it possible
that it was extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR:
Could Antarctica have been inhabited by extraterrestrials

in the distant past?

Did they study this continent

and leave behind detailed
information about its landscape?

If so, just what happened
to these otherworldly visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe

that strange encounters reported
by the U.S. military may prove

that this frozen landscape
is still an alien outpost.

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NARRATOR:
Lake Vostok, Antarctica.

Buried under two miles of ice

is a 4,800-square-mile
body of water.

It is by far the largest

of the continent's
nearly 400 lakes

that are entirely covered
by ice.

In 2001,

pilots collecting data here
recorded

unusual
and extreme irregularities

in the magnetic field at the
southeastern corner of the lake.

Spanning
a remarkable 65 by 46 miles,

the anomalous area is producing

an unusually high level
of magnetic energy.

SALLA:
This anomaly was roughly 50 miles in diameter

and was something
that would be commensurate

with the magnetic field
being generated by a city.

CHRISTOPHER CHACON:
I have been to Lake Vostok several times

as part of expedition research.

And when we were in the area,

we did pick up
this magnetic anomaly,

but we also found
other magnetic anomalies

which are actually transitioning
from one place to another.

They were moving.

Highly rare
and extremely unusual.

We weren't able to determine

what was causing
these anomalies.

COLLINS:
It's totally inexplicable.

And, of course,
this has given rise to theories

that perhaps there is
something else here.

Perhaps it's a UFO.

Perhaps it's some kind
of alien base.

Perhaps even the remnants
of a lost civilization.

And now the NSA themself

have almost put a blanket
over any further research,

and it's almost become
a no-go area.

NARRATOR:
Vostok is not the only site

with limited outside access.

Seven different countries

have claimed territories
in Antarctica,

yet it remains one
of the most restricted locations

in the world.

Currently, there are
68 international bases here,

many of which require permits
or special permissions to visit.

They are manned
not just with scientists

but also military personnel.

But why is it so restricted?

Located on a southern peninsula
of Ross Island,

this is the largest research
station on the continent.

It was opened
by the U.S. government in 1956

and houses up to as many
as 1,200 residents at a time.

In January of 2015,

a U.S. Navy flight engineer

who served with the Antarctic
Development Squadron

at McMurdo for 14 years

came forward to investigative
reporter Linda Moulton Howe

with bizarre accounts
of his time in Antarctica.

HOWE:
In January 2015,

I got an email from a retired

naval flight engineer.

He's asked me to call him only
"Brian" in the world public.

And this is what he told me.

From about 1983

to when he retired
from the Navy in 1997,

he was in all kinds

of what they call Antarctic
squadron expedition missions

that included rescuing people
in and out of various places.

In all these trips,

nothing of a high strangeness
had occurred.

And then, all of a sudden,
it was one thing after another.

During a squadron mission
in the Transantarctic Mountains,

the whole crew saw a whole bunch
of silver darting objects.

And they are round.

And he says they're doing
the strangest thing--

they're going, like,
to this peak in a group,

to this peak in a group,
to this peak in a group.

And then they'd all take off.

And not only did this
happen once,

it happened over and over.

NARRATOR:
According to the informant,

this was just one

of many strange mysteries
on the continent

that he witnessed
during his time there.

HOWE:
They get an assignment not long after.

There's a medical emergency.

They are now under the gun,
the clock is ticking

and a decision was made--

they're going through
the no-fly zone

because it's
a medical emergency.

And what do they see?

In the ice,

like, a huge entrance to a cave

but slanted, going down.

And he said, "I think
it was at least, Linda,

200 feet in diameter--
a big hole in the ice."

And he said, "Our instruments
are not operating.

"We were losing electricity.

"We had magnetic anomalies.

"And we concluded there's
something about this hole

that is now causing
these problems."

They do their medical recovery.

And the next thing they know,

they're all being chewed out

by men in suits

that are not from McMurdo.

They appear to be
from Washington, D.C.

And as he said,

"They told us
that we are never, ever

"to fly over that hole

and we are never
to discuss it again."

What is that about?

And does that have
anything to do

with all these other pieces
that keep emerging

that there might be something
archaeological in Antarctica?

NARRATOR:
According to ancient astronaut theorists,

this was not the first time

a massive hole has been spotted
in the ice of Antarctica.

Famous polar explorer Admiral
Richard Byrd allegedly reported

seeing a massive entrance
to an underground world

during his 1947 expedition
to the South Pole.

CHILDRESS:
Admiral Byrd made a lot of unusual statements,

allegedly talking about a large
opening at the South Pole

that went deep inside the Earth,
ice-free,

and was inhabited
by various sorts of aliens.

And when Byrd got back
to the United States,

he was brought back
to Washington

where he was questioned very
heavily about his statements.

And, allegedly, he was told
to stop talking about this.

You have to wonder, is
the South Pole some kind of...

extraterrestrial entry zone,

some kind of portal
that's so important

that it has to be controlled
by the military?

NARRATOR:
Is the United States government covering up

an extraterrestrial presence
in Antarctica?

And if so, could they be
the same otherworldly beings

that once occupied the continent
thousands of years ago?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

in whistleblower testimony

of military personnel
stationed at the South Pole.

NARRATOR: Although it was
discovered over 200 years ago,

scientists have more
questions than answers

when it comes to understanding
the continent of Antarctica.

Due to the sheer
depth of the ice

covering its landmass,
the surface of Antarctica

is unable to be seen
with the naked eye.

And ancient astronaut
theorists propose that it is

not just the geology
that is hidden from us.

They suggest there is
far more human, and perhaps

non-human activity happening

in Antarctica
than we've been told.

Something seems to be going on
on this mysterious continent

at the South Pole.

And it has been theorized
by a number of people

that Antarctica is
some kind of alien base.

NARRATOR: Rumors of
extraterrestrial activity

in Antarctica
have circulated for years.

And now, at long last,
military personnel

who have been stationed
on the frozen continent

are willing to speak
to these claims.

Scottsdale, Arizona,
February, 2019.

Investigative journalist Linda
Moulton Howe arrives to conduct

an interview with
a former Navy flight engineer

who has come forward
with information

about strange events
he witnessed

during his time in Antarctica.

This is where one of the most

important whistleblowers
in my career lives.

And he has decided that he is
willing to work with me

to tell the truth about what
happened with him in Antarctica.

This is the kind of
breakthrough I have been hoping

that people with real,
solid military information

would start coming forward
and we would start

learning the facts and the truth

in spite of government
policies of denial.

(distorted): I knew things
that I felt

needed to be
put out in the mainstream.

NARRATOR: "Brian," as he prefers
to be called, requested that

his face and voice be obscured
to protect his identity.

His unit was based
on the southern tip

of Ross Island
at the U.S. McMurdo Station,

the main logistics hub
that services

nearly all of the scientific
outposts on the continent.

Brian, when did you
get into the Navy

and how did you get
to Antarctica?

I enlisted in July of 1976.

In order to go to Antarctica,
you have to volunteer.

It's not a duty station
where you are ordered to go.

I was able to get orders

to Antarctica Development
Squadron Six,

which is referred to as VXE-6.

And its mission would be
described as what, generally?

The mission, basically,
was supplying

to out-camps, science parties
from McMurdo Station

to South Pole, back and forth.

Talk about sort of the route

and what you guys began
to see on a repeated basis.

During our '95-'96 season,

my crew was doing a lot
of back and forth to Pole.

Mainly, it was cargo resupply,
personnel exchanges.

That season,
prior to us doing missions,

we were told
by some of our officers

that if we saw something flying

that we weren't
supposed to say anything.

Oh, so you knew that

people had--
Were already warning about it,

- but you had not seen it.
- Yeah. Right.

so, somewhere around December

we were flying
a mission from McMurdo,

and my loadmaster in the back,
he gets on the intercom,

the ICS, and he says,
"Hey there's something

off to the left here
kind of shimmering."

So I walk up to the flight deck.

I'm looking out the big
windows, and I see these little

disc-shaped objects.

There was probably four
or five of 'em,

and they were, at first,
when I first saw them,

they were just stationary
over one mountain peak.

And then, all of a sudden,
I'm looking at 'em,

and one of 'em takes off
by itself and flies

at incredible speed to
the next mountaintop, and stops.

And then another one
in the group takes off

and heads toward
where the first one went.

What did the pilot say?

(chuckles) That was kinda funny.
My pilot gets on the intercom,

and he kind of jokingly goes,
"Well, all I can tell you is

they're not ours."

Not ours?
What are you talking about?

And it kept happening?

Yes. It happened at least
two other times.

HOWE: Brian feels that it is
really important that the world

know that there is something
that is going on in Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

Antarctica is not only
hiding secrets

about current
extraterrestrial activities.

They believe there is much more
to be learned by examining

incredible new discoveries
deep underground.

In the 21st century, satellite
photography has allowed anyone

with an Internet connection
to access images of Antarctica.

In 2016, a striking image
was discovered of a seemingly

man-made entrance carved into
an Antarctic mountain range.

This is a legitimate
satellite image

of a very large, proportionate

hole in the ground,
or the mountain range.

This looks
intelligently designed to suit

a specific craft that flies
through this particular opening.

NARRATOR: Similarly,
in 2018, Internet researchers

released the coordinates
for what they describe as a UFO

crash-landed on the Antarctic
island of South Georgia.

The photographs are really
compelling, because this is not

somebody making believe
something is there,

you can actually
see the skid marks.

It actually
looks as though an object

is moving along that ice.

But the thing that so
intrigued people looking at

those images were that the skid
marks were straight.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut
theorists have noted

that the shape of the alleged
craft is very similar to

a mysterious celestial
object that was detected

entering our solar system
in October, 2017.

Called Oumuamua,
the object was initially

identified as an asteroid,
but its shape,

trajectory and acceleration
were so unexpected

that the chair of Harvard's
astronomy department, Avi Loeb,

suggested that Oumuamua
might be an alien probe.

It's a very curious image
of this

large, oblong, tubular-shaped
craft that seems

to have crashed into
the ice and then skidded along.

And it really looks like
this interstellar asteroid,

Oumuamua, that could
easily be a spacecraft...

The actual craft itself
is right around

50 yards in length.

This is the wider view of this
object that quite possibly

came in at an angle,

ricocheted off of the base
of this mountain,

and that's what gave
it the momentum to skid

several thousands of feet.

You can definitely see
the mountain.

There's some
disturbance here where

this track leads back to,
from this unidentified object.

This very well could be a crash
landing based off of what we're

seeing at the bottom
of the mountain, yeah.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that online researchers

using satellite technology

actually located the crashed
remnants

of an extraterrestrial vehicle

and the opening
to an underground alien base?

There's been a lot of talk about
underground bases in Antarctica.

And certain satellite photos
show mountain areas

that have unusual caverns
in them.

Literal windows that are
the shape of a flying saucer.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that secret,

perhaps extraterrestrial bases

are hidden beneath the ice
on Antarctica?

Curiously, the idea of
habitable space beneath the ice

has been recently backed up
by mainstream science.

NARRATOR: Mt. Erebus,
Ross Island, Antarctica.

2017.

Researchers from the
Australian National University

discover the existence
of vast ice caverns

directly adjacent
to this active volcano.

Due to their location,
these glacial caves

under the ice offer
something incredibly unique

on the otherwise
frigid continent:

large, heated spaces

with temperatures warm enough
to sustain life.

SALLA:
Australian scientists were able to find enormous caverns

that were hollowed out,
that were

places where you could
actually have life flourish.

That they were able to determine
that some of these caverns

were thermally heated
to a balmy 70, 72 degrees.

NARRATOR: Seventy-two degrees?
In Antarctica?

Mt. Erebus is just one of more
than 90 volcanoes on Antarctica.

Modern technology has enabled
scientists to discover

additional caverns
near these features, and some

are reportedly as large as
the entire island of Manhattan.

CHILDRESS:
Here we have a huge, apparently underground world

beneath Antarctica.

And this could be used
by extraterrestrials

as these ready-made bases

that are underground
and are hidden.

NARRATOR:
Could these naturally-heated caverns and tunnels

really be inhabited
by extraterrestrials?

The ideas of both
passageways deep under

the Antarctic ice sheets
and also an alien presence

on the icy continent
are not new.

Some say they trace back
to the beginning

of World War II
and a secret Nazi expedition.

NARRATOR:
On the brink of World War II,

Adolf Hitler is secretly
searching for ancient relics

that he believes
could hold incredible powers.

As part of this effort,
on December 17,

he sends the German freighter
M.S. Schwabenland

on a top secret mission

to establish a permanent base
on Antarctica.

But why is Hitler
sacrificing crucial resources

and personnel for
a mission to Antarctica

when he is simultaneously
preparing to go to war?

The Thule Society was
very important in understanding

what happened in Nazi Germany.

They actually believed
that they were mystics

who could communicate
with beings

who claimed to be
extraterrestrial in origin.

Hitler's Nazi Party
got information

through these psychic mediums
who told them that

in Antarctica there is this
ancient civilization,

or bases where they could find
advanced technologies.

The Nazis found some of these
caverns beneath the ice.

And some of them can be reached
by submarines, apparently.

SALLA:
The story goes the German navy

were able to find passages
under the Antarctic ice sheets

to these enormous caverns.

And so they were then
able to establish

these bases
under the Antarctic ice sheet.

NARRATOR:
Does the recent discovery

of interconnected caverns
beneath the ice of Antarctica

validate rumors about the Nazis

that many mainstream historians
had deemed a complete fantasy?

And if so, might the Nazis
have discovered something

truly incredible
on the frozen continent?

BIRNES:
One theory is that

the Germans discovered,

when they were exploring
the South Pole,

that there was actually
another presence

at the South Pole
that was not human.

And together with that presence,

the Germans established
a base on Antarctica.

NARRATOR:
After the Nazis were defeated in 1945,

the United States
and the Soviet Union recruited

the top Nazi scientists,
many who later embarked

on their own secret missions
to Antarctica.

Is it possible that these
two emerging world powers

had knowledge that
the Nazis did, in fact,

come into contact
with extraterrestrials

at the South Pole?

A U.S. scientific expedition
called Operation High Jump

departs for the South Pole.

It is led by esteemed
Naval officer and explorer

Admiral Richard Byrd.

BIRNES:
Admiral Richard Byrd

was a very important admiral
in the United States Navy.

He graduated the United States
Naval Academy at Annapolis,

he fought in World War I,
and after the War,

he became an explorer.

NARRATOR:
In 1926, Byrd made worldwide headlines

when he and Navy Chief
Aviation Pilot Floyd Bennett

became the first people
to ever fly over the North Pole.

For their efforts,
both men received

the Congressional
Medal of Honor.

Later, when Byrd--
at the age of 41--

made the first solo flight
over the South Pole,

he became the youngest person
ever promoted to the rank

of admiral in the history
of the United States Navy.

In 1946,

Byrd oversaw
Operation High Jump,

the largest Antarctic
expedition to date.

The massive military convoy
included 13 ships,

33 aircraft and 4,700 troops.

The U.S. Navy sent down
a flotilla of ships

under command of Admiral Byrd.

And they came back after
about nine months in Antarctica.

Apparently, they actually
fought a battle in Antarctica,

probably between
remnants of the Third Reich

and perhaps extraterrestrials,
as well.

There were stories of craft
coming up out of the water

and attacking them.

Flying saucers dealt
a very heavy defeat

to Byrd's Operation High Jump.

He gave a report
in March of 1947 that said

a new enemy had been discovered
that could fly

from Pole to Pole in an instant.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that this incredible story

of a Naval battle
with extraterrestrials

and encounters with craft
capable of flying

from the South to the North Pole
in an instant

could actually be true?

In 2018, more than 70 years
after Byrd's astounding claim,

a satellite image captured
what appeared to be

a condensed water trail
from an aircraft, or contrail,

that could only have been
produced by something traveling

at incredibly high speeds.

BRADBURY:
It extended

the entire length of the Earth,

longitudinally,
from the North Pole

to the South Pole,
which is 12,000 miles.

NARRATOR:
The maximum length of time

that a contrail can maintain
its shape is 30 minutes,

but most dissipate
in less than 15.

Only a craft capable
of traveling faster

than 50,000 miles per hour,
or ten times the speed

of the fastest aircraft
in existence today,

could leave a contrail
that would stretch

the entire length of the Earth
without breaking up.

It's a seeming impossibility,
'cause it meant

that some object was able
to traverse the entire planet

from Pole to Pole
in a matter of minutes

before the contrail disappeared.

BRADBURY:
Whatever created that

was going beyond Mach ten.

Mach ten is over
78,000 miles per hour.

This was probably going
much, much faster than that.

So whatever it was
was something that,

more than likely,
we've never seen before.

NARRATOR:
After sharing the image online,

Michael Bradbury received
replies of confirmed sightings

and even
photographic corroboration

looking up at
what appeared to be

the same incredible contrail
from below.

People had seen from below,

on the ground, looking up,
the same thing.

When I saw this, I thought of
Admiral Byrd and what he said.

Admiral Byrd did tell us
that we had a very good chance

of being invaded by
a very fast-moving object

that would be able
to travel from Pole to Pole

at a very incredible speed.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Admiral Byrd

and the U.S. Navy
really did encounter

alien technology in Antarctica?

Technology that today
appears to be able to travel

across the planet,
from Pole to Pole,

at a remarkably high speed?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and point to strange sightings
and anomalies

found halfway around the globe

in the remote arctic region
of Alaska.

NARRATOR: Alaska,
the largest of all U.S. states.

It's home to the nation's
highest peak,

its biggest national park

and more coastline
than all other states combined.

With dense,
uninhabited wilderness

and countless mountains,

Alaska presents a landscape
that can be beautiful,

forbidding
and often treacherous.

MIKE RICKSECKER:
The entirety of the Alaska wilderness

is over 600,000 square miles.

People don't realize this,
but it's actually

two and a half times
the size of Texas.

It's absolutely massive.

It's an area of the world
that's extremely desolate,

very cold, very remote,

in which there are no roads
that go to many of these places.

KEN GERHARD:
Having worked extensively in Alaska,

one cannot overstate
the immensity

and vastness of the region.

There are some
17 mountain ranges,

66,000 miles of coastland

and an estimated 3,000 rivers
and over three million lakes.

So, it is really one of
the last frontiers in the world.

And one of the most challenging,
brutal habitats

that I've ever investigated.

We're talking about
harsh winters,

craggy peaks, dangerous animals.

It really encompasses
all of that.

NARRATOR:
Literally hundreds of planes

have disappeared
while in flight over Alaska,

never to be recovered.

And while many have blamed

the state's extreme weather
and terrain,

Alaska has long been known
as a hot spot

for all kinds
of strange phenomena.

As recently
as February 10, 2023,

a U.S. F-22 fighter jet

shot down an unidentified
flying object

hovering ten miles
off the north coast of Alaska,

making headlines
around the world.

The anomalous activity
in Alaska has been noted

for well over 100 years,

like the Bermuda Triangle

and the Devil's triangle
out in Japan.

COLLINS:
Within this area, incredible amount

of weird things take place.

We have paranormal activity,

the appearance
of strange cryptids

and other monsters
of time and space,

as well as the manifestation
of UFOs

and mysterious lights.

NARRATOR:
Commercial pilot Theo Chesley

has been flying in Alaska
for nearly four decades,

and had heard countless stories
of bizarre aerial encounters.

But Chelsey remained
a skeptic until 2019,

when he had his own
astonishing experience

flying by Mt. Shishaldin,

an active volcano on
Unimak Island in the Aleutians.

THEO CHESLEY:
The morning in late October,

2019, we had
a normal charter flight

from Sand Point
direct to Dutch Harbor,

with three passengers aboard.

About halfway
through the flight,

we're approaching
the volcano from the north.

The weather that day
was fairly good.

Good visibility.

And we saw something in the sky

about 15 miles south
of the volcano.

A horizontal disc-shaped object
that was very symmetrical,

just almost perfect symmetry.

As we continued
on our flight path,

the disc became
more prevalent...

...and turned into
a vertical fashion.

We knew something extraordinary
was happening in front of us.

Almost around that same time,
a green spirit

exhibited itself on the side
of the mountain.

NARRATOR: The incident
caught the attention

of author and researcher
David Childress,

who traveled to Anchorage
to meet with Chesley

and examine the evidence
of his harrowing encounter.

CHILDRESS:
Hi, Theo.

Hi, David.
Nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

I understand you have

a very interesting story
to tell.

Well, I do.

It happened right here
in this aircraft.

CHILDRESS:
You've been flying here for quite a few years, right?

CHESLEY:
Yeah, about 35 years.

So, when was
this first occurrence?

Well, we had a flight

back in October of 2019.

We were
northeast of the mountain.

We were probably 30 miles
from the mountain.

We spotted something in the sky.

And this is what we saw.

CHILDRESS:
Did it seem to have a cloud around it, or no?

CHESLEY:
It had like a tail on it,

a little bit of a wisp
coming out of the back.

So I'm looking at it, going,
"Okay, what is that?"

As we started to come towards
the mountain and fly by it,

this horizontal disk
turned vertical

and came over

and sort of parked
by the mountain

and held its shape.

So, it had been moving
and then it stopped?

CHESLEY:
It stopped by the volcano.

So I'm, like,
looking at it, going,

"Okay, if this is a smoke ring,

it's not gonna hold its shape,
it's not gonna stop.

It's gonna dissipate."

It held its shape
the whole time.

And have you ever seen
anything like this before?

I've been flying,
you know, 35 years

and 15,000 hours of flight time,
most of them in Alaska,

and I had never seen
anything like this.

Then we had something
fly out of the mountain.

- Now, the mountain...
- A-A second object?

CHESLEY:
A second object.

So, this object flies
out of the mountain.

And at the same time,
we're still watching

the sphere
that's vertically parked.

- And it's, like, up here?
- It's right over here.

Matter of fact, I'll show you
another picture here

that just kind of just
puts it all together.

Okay, so then this appeared

on the side of the mountain.

This green orb shows up
on the side of the mountain

in a lower spot.

The next picture we take...

...this is what happened to
the vertical sphere in the sky.

Something flew inside of it
and pulled it out of shape.

You see these two little,
I don't know,

there's, like,
two little wings out there.

And we, like,
looked at that and I said,

"No, we're done here.

We're, we are leaving
the scene here."

And to be honest, you know,

my concern level was going about
through the roof at that point.

CHILDRESS:
Did it seem like a very large object, then?

CHESLEY:
This is a big mountain,

and this was something
that caught our eye

40 to 50 miles away.

Okay, that's, yeah, it's, like

- 40, 50 miles away, okay.
- Yeah, so this had to be almost,

I want to guess
a half a mile wide.

CHILDRESS:
Wow, that's fascinating.

I mean, it,
it definitely makes you wonder,

"Okay, what's in this volcano?
What is the attraction here?"

And the crazy thing is this was
just the first occurrence.

We had a second occurrence.

- Okay.
- Six months later.

I'm by myself
in a different aircraft

and I looked out
of my left window,

and all of a sudden,
there is a huge cloud formation

that came out of nowhere.

And that's right,
kind of above the volcano.

Above and east of the mountain.

I've never seen
anything like this in my life.

It was a clear sky
without anything

and suddenly you saw this?

Well, you saw the picture.

That picture that I took--

clear sky-- was a minute
before this decided to show up.

So the crazy part is

this cloud morphed into
several different shapes.

There looks like
something black inside there,

an object underneath this thing.

CHILDRESS:
Yeah.

During the occurrence,
I had the aircraft on autopilot,

and the aircraft was
flying straight and true.

My route of flight took me back
by the mountain again.

As I'm coming back,

I have the aircraft
on autopilot.

And I look down

and I notice
I'm 35 degrees off course

heading towards the mountain.

I shut the autopilot off,

reset the heading,

set the airplane
back up on course.

And "Okay, yeah, we're fine."

And I'm looking around again,

trying to see
if there's anything.

And I look down,

and we're heading back
towards the mountain again,

It happened two times.

So at that point, I go,

"Oh, no, this,
something's not right here.

I'm gonna hand fly the aircraft.

And we're fine
hand flying the airplane."

But I've never had that happen
to me on an autopilot,

Just pull the aircraft,

you know,
start pulling the aircraft

somewhere where it's not
supposed to be.

So the autopilot then

was somehow sensing
some weird magnetic thing

- and pulling you, then.
- Exactly.

- Out of...
- Something internally in the aircraft

was feeling a magnetic pull.

To me, this is
a very important story.

I'm so glad
that you've been able

to get these good photographs.

you've got other witnesses.

And for seven years, there
have been planes vanishing,

even military planes.

This all fits so squarely
into the mystery,

which is Alaska.

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NARRATOR:
As an experienced pilot,

Theo Chesley cannot explain

what he saw on those two
separate occasions

nor explain the magnetic anomaly

that interfered with his
autopilot instrumentation.

And to ancient astronaut
theorist David Childress,

the photographic evidence
is astounding.

CHILDRESS:
Theo's a great observer.

You know that you're really
getting good information

and reliable information.

This is all compelling evidence

that something's happening
here in Alaska.

In the 37 years
I've been flying,

I've seen a lot of things.

I've been through
a lot of storms,

some great flights,

some not-so-great flights.

I'll be the first to tell you,

when you're saying
you're seeing something,

you're seeing something.

I'm one of those kind of guys
that have to see something

that's extraordinary
to believe it.

And what I saw was just

not anything ordinary at all.

NARRATOR:
Could an extraterrestrial presence be responsible

for the strange sightings

and aircraft malfunction
that Theo Chesley experienced,

as well as other
anomalous events

and the disappearances
that plague the area?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes

and suggest that recently
declassified CIA documents

could hold clues
to an alien presence

under the mountains of Alaska.

NARRATOR:
Alaska's Aleutian Islands--

where pilot
Theo Chesley encountered

no less than four
unidentified flying objects--

is an area that has been known

for strange sightings

dating back to 1945,

when a U.S. Army transport
reported seeing a large UFO

emerge from the waters
near the island of Adak.

CHILDRESS:
Historically, there has been

a lot of UFO sightings
around the Aleutian Islands.

And there are 57 volcanoes
throughout the Aleutian Islands.

And it seems
that some of these volcanoes

have some very
peculiar activity around them.

NARRATOR:
But east of the Aleutian Islands is a large area that has become

even more notorious
for strange phenomena.

It is called
The Alaska Triangle.

The Alaska Triangle is an area

roughly between Anchorage,
Juneau and Barrow, Alaska,

more or less
running along the border

of the Canadian Territories
and the State of Alaska.

TSOUKALOS:
The Alaska Triangle can be likened to the Bermuda Triangle,

where really
strange things happen

seemingly without explanation.

NARRATOR:
Within this region of anomalous activity

stands Mt. Hayes,
one of Alaska's tallest peaks

and a place where
UFO sightings are reported

with great frequency.

Many people have seen UFOs,

flying saucers, strange lights,

flying in
and around Mt. Hayes.

Now, there's no road
that can go up there.

The only way
to get to Mt. Hayes

is to actually fly there,
which most people don't do.

So, what are these craft that
are flying around Mt. Hayes?

NARRATOR:
For decades,

eyewitness testimony
was the only evidence

to support the notion
that Mt. Hayes was

a UFO hotspot.

But in 1995,

declassified documents revealed
that Mt. Hayes featured

prominently in a top secret
government project

called Stargate.

NEWMAN:
Researchers were looking through CIA documents

and they found evidence
of a project

underneath Mt. Hayes.

And they say they saw,
written in these records,

that it was actually an alien
underground base in this area.

NARRATOR:
Researchers were astounded to find a reference

to an extraterrestrial base
in official CIA documents.

And just as intriguing is how
this information was obtained.

According to
the declassified documents,

the existence of an alien base
beneath Mt. Hayes was gleaned

from a top secret experimental
investigation technique

used by Project Stargate--

a technique called
"remote viewing."

NEWMAN:
Remote viewing was used by the CIA

all during the Cold War.

And this is really a psychic
projection technique where,

from one location,
the remote viewer can look

into a different place
on the Earth's surface

and he's able to project
his vision there

and able to see
what is going on.

Project Stargate
had a specific purpose

of using remote viewers--

quite literally psychic spies--

to find information

on what the Soviets were up to.

NARRATOR:
The most famous remote viewer

to come out
of the Stargate project

was a man named Pat Price.

Price was the first to report
what he believed to be

an alien base under Mt. Hayes.

He would sit down
and draw what he sees,

and he was deadly accurate
on his predictions.

One time, Pat Price
remote viewed Mt. Hayes

and saw
that there was structures

that were under the mountain--

tubes, tunnels--

and he was intrigued by that,

so he went deeper.

RICKSECKER:
Pat Price saw within Mt. Hayes what he described

as geographical instrumentation.

He saw computers.

He also described these
strange, humanoid creatures

that were within the mountain.

And they were working
alongside human personnel,

which he believed
were military personnel.

NARRATOR:
In its race to become a major military power,

China sets off
the largest underground

nuclear bomb test
in the history of the nation.

The one megaton blast--
70 times the explosive power

of the atomic bomb
dropped on Hiroshima--

sends shockwaves across
the planet.

Thousands of miles away,
scientists in the United States

begin to study how
these shockwaves travel

through the Earth's crust,
hoping to learn about

underground faults and other
hidden geological structures.

As the shockwaves reach Alaska,

scientists notice highly
unusual readings around

Mt. Denali, North America's
tallest peak.

When these ripples of
the shockwaves crossed over

into Alaska, there was
this pyramidal shape

that came across
their instrumentation,

indicating this massive
pyramidal structure

located under Mt. Denali

within the area
of the Alaska Triangle.

This is really when the dark
pyramid was first discovered.

NARRATOR:
Seismic instruments revealed that the top

of the 550-foot-tall
pyramid shape

lies 150 feet below ground

and just 130 miles southwest
of Mt. Hayes,

where remote viewer Pat Price

claimed to have detected
an underground alien base.

Intrigued by
the mysterious discovery,

investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

began researching
the curious findings

and what might have
compelled scientists

to be prepared to record
activity underneath Mt. Denali.

Why would geophysicists be
interested in monitoring to see

whether or not there was
something underground in Alaska

has always been
a question in my mind.

Was there already
some information

that our government had

and this was
a perfect opportunity

to take advantage of what
the Chinese were going to do?

NARRATOR:
Over the years, Linda has interviewed

a number of people claiming
to have information about

a mysterious underground
structure near Mt. Denali.

One account came from
a man who claimed his father

has actually been
inside the dark pyramid.

He said that his father was
working for Western Electric

and ended up as a very skilled

electronic engineer
being asked to go

to a location west
of what was Mt. Denali.

His father told him there was
a big freight elevator

that was sticking up
out of the ground

and when you got to the bottom,

opened up into full bore

room, work, offices.

The father is introduced
to the fact

that they are at
the bottom of a pyramid.

And that at each
of the three corners,

they had these offices that were
actually monitoring energy.

And the father tells the son,
who got in touch with me,

"We are measuring energy

"coming out of this pyramid
that is enough

to power the entire
country of Canada."

NARRATOR:
Could a secret energy source be hidden

under the Mt. Denali
mountain range?

Perhaps clues can be found

by examining
electromagnetic anomalies

that have in fact been detected

throughout a vast region
surrounding the area

where the dark pyramid
is said to exist.

TRAVIS TAYLOR:
This very strange localized magnetic anomaly

seems to occur
randomly, transiently,

and at different locations
throughout this vast wilderness.

So much so that the north will
be off as much as 30 degrees.

So, what's causing
these magnetic anomalies?

There are a lot of people who
believe that there could be

unusual phenomenon
originating from technology

inside this so-called
dark pyramid.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that there is an ancient pyramid

hidden deep under Mt. Denali
that is generating

massive amounts of energy?

And if so, could this structure,

along with a secret base alleged
to exist beneath the ground

at nearby Mt. Hayes,
point to an alien presence

in Alaska that dates back
thousands of years?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest that clues to
who or what this presence may be

can be found
in the Inuit stories

of contact with sky gods

and otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR:
Alaska is home to dozens of indigenous

Native American cultures.

who have inhabited the area
for hundreds

and in some cases
thousands of years.

There are,
of course, a number

of different Native American
cultures in Alaska.

You have the Innuit people
of the northern coastal regions.

You have the Athabaskans
of the central Alaskan region,

the Yupik people.

And then in southeast Alaska,
you have

the Tlingit
and the Haida tribes.

NARRATOR:
Each of the Native Alaskan tribes

has its own unique traditions,

but these separate cultures all
tell stories of the sky people

encountered by their
earliest ancestors.

I was stationed in Alaska
from 1992 to 1995

as part of
the United States Air Force

at Elmendorf Air Force Base.

And I heard
the local legends and lore

from the Natives up there.

And local legends
dating back centuries

talk about strange lights
in the sky

and strange beings
visiting the people.

These cultures had rich

stories about contact
with beings from

beyond this planet.
The so-called star people.

NARRATOR:
Ancient Alaskan stories

of strange entities
in the sky and visitors

from the stars are
perfectly aligned with the kind

of phenomena that have
been reported in modern times,

as are accounts of bizarre,
otherworldly creatures.

There is a common thread that
runs through the Alaska story,

and it has to do with
these supernatural creatures.

They have eyewitness
accounts of these bizarre,

terrifying creatures that appear
in all their tribal stories.

By far, the most
frightening creature is

the Inuit story of the Kushtaka.

This is a being
that shapeshifts.

And people have been seeing
them for thousands of years.

NARRATOR:
When considering the high number of UFO sightings

that have been
reported in Alaska,

is it possible that
the stories of strange creatures

have an otherworldly
explanation?

As further support
for this notion,

ancient astronaut theorists
point out that some

Native Alaskan legends sound
suspiciously similar

to modern tales
of small, grey aliens

who sometimes abduct humans.

No creature is more frightening
to them than the little people,

which go by a number
of different Native names.

The Anukins, Urchin Rock,
Jinksioc.

Perhaps what's most terrifying
is that they are said

to abduct humans
and that they will take them

to another realm where
they can actually control time.

And these little beings
are actually imbued

with other magical powers.

HENRY:
The common thread that runs through those stories

is the idea of abduction.

That is a direct crossover
into the UFO phenomena,

where people are terrified
of UFOs because they've heard

that these alien beings
are abducting people.

NARRATOR:
According to some researchers,

the many accounts
of strange beings in Alaska

could also point
to the existence

of a portal or wormhole
leading to other

points in the universe
or even alternate dimensions.

NICK POPE:
There's a theory that extraterrestrials

would use wormholes,
scientifically known as

Einstein-Rosen bridges,
a shortcut through space-time.

And UFOs would then apparently

arrive out of nowhere,
seemingly, and disappear

into nowhere,
which is very often

what you get in some
of the sighting reports.

NARRATOR:
Could the legends of the Native Alaskan people

reveal that strange and perhaps
otherworldly phenomena

have been happening
in this part of the world

for thousands of years?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

the answer
is a resounding yes.

And they suggest that
Alaska's remote location

makes it a prime destination

for extraterrestrial visitors.

RICKSECKER:
Alaska is in a very remote area.

You don't have
a lot of people around.

And so this could absolutely

make it an attractive location
to extraterrestrials.

CHILDRESS:
You have all of these volcanoes.

You have huge areas
that are uninhabited.

And it's such a huge
frontier region

that, you know, all kinds of
things could be happening there.

THEO CHESLEY: There's a lot
of crazy things going on

around the whole state.

And a lot of
these occurrences happen

in very remote
parts of the state.

So, that adds
even more intrigue.

And I wouldn't discount
any stories at this point.

There's just too much
out there that you can't

discount some of this.

Having worked in Alaska,
I can certainly attest

to the fact that it is
a very dangerous place.

However, there is a real mystery
in terms of the state of Alaska.

There have been
many UFO reports.

And, of course, inferences
to possible UFO abduction.

And many of these are supported
by Native American traditions

that go back
hundreds of years.

So we could be
dealing with forces

beyond our current
understanding.

BRUCE PEARSON:
In Alaska, when you bring in evidence

that's gathered from
a nuts-and-bolts standpoint,

from the physics standpoint,

from the dark pyramid,
the fact of magnetic anomalies

or any of the other factors
that may be involved here,

it is not reasonable
that an educated person

taking as objective as possible
a view at these incidents

could dismiss the possibility

that these incidents, in some
cases, may be UFO-related,

and that is something
that should

take anyone's breath away,
or make them pause

and think seriously about
the earth that we live on.

NARRATOR:
Could Alaska's isolated, arctic location

make it an ideal setting
for covert UFO activity?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and they suggest
that the full scope

of otherworldly activities

happening at
Earth's arctic extremes

is just beginning to be revealed

by military whistleblowers
stationed

at the South Pole.

NARRATOR:
During her conversation

with former Navy
flight engineer "Brian,"

investigative journalist
Linda Moulton Howe

learned of a strange
incident that occurred

in November 1995

after he had dropped off
a team of scientists

at a new research site
in Marie Byrd Land.

BRIAN (distorted):
Three, maybe four weeks into them

being out there,
McMurdo lost communication.

They had missed a couple
of their communication windows

that they were supposed
to make a call every day.

Our crew was told to go out

and find out if everything
was okay at the camp.

So, we went out
and we orbited the camp

and there was no sign
of anybody.

Right.

So, we landed

and our navigator got out

and he went out to try
and find the camp manager.

He comes back and says,
"There's nobody here."

So, we got orders
to fly back to McMurdo,

so we closed up the airplane,
took off,

came back to McMurdo.

NARRATOR:
The scientists remained missing for more than a week,

an impossible amount of time

to survive out in the harsh
Antarctic conditions

without shelter or food.

Yet one week later,

McMurdo dispatch was stunned

when they received radio
communication from the team.

Somehow, they had all returned
to their camp unharmed.

Brian's squadron was once again
given orders to pick them up.

We landed, opened the back end
of the aircraft up,

and the people-- they didn't
even grab their gear,

they just ran up to the back
of the airplane and jumped in.

And basically, we had to go
out and get their gear

and put it in the airplane
for them

because they weren't gonna
get out of the aircraft.

What were you seeing
on their faces

of these scientists
running into the C-130?

They looked scared.

I mean, I can't say it
any plainer than that.

They look scared.

These people aren't
talking to us,

they're not saying anything.

And I even asked
one of the guys,

"Hey, where were you guys,
you know, for a whole week?"

And he just looked at me
and he had this blank stare

on his face and he looked
right at my face

and didn't say a word,
not anything.

Would you say, based on
your military life and work,

were these people in shock?

Yes.
That's a very good explanation,

that they were in shock.

Somebody that had just
experienced something

that terrified them,
from what I can visualize,

the look they had--
yes, they were in shock.

NARRATOR:
Curiously, as the aircraft

taxied into the runway
at McMurdo Station,

they were met with
a special transport vehicle.

The scientists
were immediately flown

on a private flight back
to Christchurch, New Zealand.

Brian and his team were
never given any explanation

for why the scientists
had gone missing

or why they were flown out
of Antarctica in such a hurry.

What was the scuttlebutt,
where you guys ate,

around this whole operation

of the scientists, the hole,

the silver discs--
what was the scuttlebutt?

In town, people
were talking about

maybe they were abducted by
aliens or something like that.

Kind of started off as a joke.

There were scientists
that were saying

that they had run into some
entities at Marie Byrd Land

and that's why
they went missing.

Right. Right.

NARRATOR:
If Brian's accounts are true

and there is in fact

an extraterrestrial presence
in Antarctica today,

could it have been there
for hundreds

or even thousands of years?

In July 2018, Linda Moulton Howe

interviewed
another whistleblower

who offered to provide her
with classified information

regarding Antarctica

on the condition that she
not reveal his identity.

Her source, a retired Navy SEAL

who she identifies
as "Spartan 1,"

provided her with details
of an ancient structure

he claims to have visited during
his time at the South Pole.

(distorted):
At that time, my rank

was first lieutenant commander,
naval special operations.

We were inbound the southeast
coast of Antarctica.

We were dispatched for,
unofficially, it was

a research/reconnaissance
mission.

Officially, it was to find
a certain individual,

obtain any information
and bring it back.

HOWE:
What was the date?

August 2003.

NARRATOR:
According to Spartan 1,

when he and his team
reached their destination,

they encountered
a large octagonal structure

protruding from the ice.

Cautiously,
they proceeded to enter it.

SPARTAN 1: The very top of
the first structure we entered,

there was almost 18 feet
poking from the ice.

The rest of it was hidden
under the ice.

Each door was the same.

Anywhere from 18 feet thick

to around 30 feet thick.

And even though these doors
were that thick and that heavy,

you could take one finger and
push them and they would open.

There was no resistance
whatsoever.

The outside temperature was
at least 40 degrees below zero.

Once you stepped inside
these structures,

the temperature was
an ambient 68 to 72 degrees.

SPARTAN 1:
It was lighted from the inside,

but we could not find
the source of light.

It was a lime green in color.

The walls were lined
with what I call hieroglyphics.

But nothing of hieroglyphics
that I've ever seen in my life.

NARRATOR:
Could there really be mysterious structures

buried at the South Pole?

Structures built by an advanced
extraterrestrial civilization

in our remote past?

With all of the recently
reported UFO activity

on the continent,
is it possible that whoever--

or whatever-- was behind
the construction

is still around today?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

hidden in plain sight
in the Holy Bible.

NARRATOR:
The Bible's Book of Genesis.

In chapter 6, verse 9,

begins the story of Noah
and the Flood,

in which God
sends a great deluge

to rid the Earth
of sinners and start anew.

Different versions
of this same story

exist in nearly every ancient
tradition around the world.

Going back 5,000 years,

we have sacred texts
that tell us

there was an antediluvian
civilization.

There was a great flood
and that there were survivors.

The Mesopotamians speak of
this in the Epic of Gilgamesh,

the Egyptians speak of
this in the Edfu creation text.

Plato learned
from the Egyptians

that there was once
a civilization called Atlantis

that existed 9,000 years
before his time.

NARRATOR:
Plato wrote about the Lost Continent of Atlantis

in two of his dialogues,

Timaeus and Critias,
around 360 BC.

Historians and researchers
have long debated

whether this
pre-flood civilization

was purely mythological
or actually existed.

Arguments have been made

suggesting remnants of Plato's
destroyed civilization

could be found
at the South Pole.

SALLA:
I think what happened in Antarctica was that

approximately 13,000 years ago

that flourishing civilization

that originally came from space

and establishing its presence
in Antarctica was flash-frozen.

We actually have
ancient evidence of this

in the form of Plato's dialogues

where he talks about
the last days of Atlantis.

That, basically, is informing us

that Atlantis was
an extraterrestrial colony

that had established itself
on Earth

and that after a pole shift,

Atlantis was moved under the ice

where the South Pole
currently is.

NARRATOR:
Scientific anomalies.

Radar and satellite images.

Eyewitness accounts.

As more and more
pieces of the puzzle

start to come together,

might we soon be able
to solve the mystery

of the Antarctic continent?

And if so, just what
might we discover?

Modern whistleblowers
still argue

that there is more
about Antarctica

that is being covered up
than we think.

There are entire bases down
there, entire civilizations,

that the world's governments
are working with aliens.

SALLA:
They know about the buried artifacts,

they know about the ancient
civilizations down there

and they know about the
extraterrestrial civilizations

that continue
to operate in Antarctica

at the very moment.

CHILDRESS:
It's totally possible that Antarctica contains

an extraterrestrial
home base on Earth.

It's a totally isolated
part of the planet.

It's completely un-habited,
or was until recently.

It's ideal.

Buried underneath the ice
in Antarctica could well be

stone temple constructions,

there could be
biological material,

remains of beings
that lived there

and could still be there.

It could be the greatest reveal

in all of human history.

HOWE:
There have been many different stories

coming through CIA
and sources

that they have sent
expeditions into the Arctic.

So, it has been both
North and South Pole.

Our government has proof

extraterrestrial
civilizations were here.

NARRATOR:
Are we getting glimpses

of Earth's true history

buried deep under the ice sheets
of the Arctic and Antarctica?

From unusual magnetic anomalies

to evidence
of subterranean structures,

bewildering disappearances

and sensational UFO sightings,

is there overwhelming evidence
that the Earth's Poles

have played host
to extraterrestrial visitors

for thousands of years?

Perhaps as we learn more

about the outermost
reaches of our planet,

we will find
that an alien presence

has been with us all along.

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