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NARRATOR: Ancient pyramids, found across the globe.

Evidence of a connection to a long-lost technology.

And theories that these structures

hold the key to our extraterrestrial past.

For nearly two decades,

Ancient Aliens has traveled the globe

exploring towering megalithic structures, mysterious artifacts

and stories of otherworldly beings

in a quest for evidence that might reveal

the truth of our extraterrestrial origins.

Not only are pyramids

some of the largest ancient structures on Earth,

but when you look at them from above

it's quite striking.

NARRATOR: Now, we take a look back through

the Ancient Aliens archives

to the show's very origins

to examine the evidence that we are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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Pyramids are fundamental to the ancient astronaut theory.

I mean, they're these monumental structures

that are towering over landscapes.

And it's also fascinating that,

with so many of them, archaeologists have a hard time

telling when they were made.

And, you know, there are theories, of course,

but a lot of the pyramids have no writing on them,

and stranger still, the local populations

can't tell you who built them.

Or they just say the gods built them.

And another big question is: What was their purpose?

Almost everything about the pyramids

is a complete mystery.

In fact, back in 2012,

we dedicated a whole episode to the secrets of the pyramids.

NARRATOR: Gebel Barkal, Northern Sudan.

Tamil Nadu, Western India.

The Temple of Ur, Southeast Iraq.

From the ziggurats of ancient Babylon

to the temples of the Kush Kingdom,

pyramids dating as far back as 3000 BC

exist throughout the world.

HUGH NEWMAN: Pyramids come in many different shapes and sizes.

In Mexico, for instance,

you get circular pyramids and step pyramids.

And even in Uxmal in the Yucatan Peninsula,

the corners of it are curved.

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN: In India the pyramids are so very, very high,

straight up.

The same thing happen with the pyramids

in Central America. They are like this.

While the pyramid in Egypt have this shape.

They are different.

MICHAEL DENNIN: A pyramid is pretty straightforward.

Typically, you have a square base,

and you have four sides that are each a triangle

and meet at the top.

If you want to make anything that's gonna be tall,

the first thing you would always build

would be some type of pyramid because it's the most

stable structure you could imagine making.

SAM OSMANAGICH: You have 250 pyramids

in central Chinese province of Shaanxi.

You have dozens of pyramids

in the middle of Indian Ocean,

on the Island of Mauritius, Canary Islands,

Northern Sudan.

Egypt, of course, 155 of them.

But also, 300 pyramids in Peru,

pyramids in Bolivia,

and, of course, over 10,000 pyramids

in Central America.

So they're a worldwide phenomenon.

NARRATOR: How is it possible that civilizations

spread out over five continents

all built similar pyramidal structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe most pyramids

were constructed by builders who possessed

the same advanced knowledge of mathematics, astronomy

and the Earth's geophysical properties.

JASON MARTELL: In Montevecchia, Milan, Italy,

the pyramids at that location seem to show

a very clear resemblance to the pyramids

at the Giza plateau.

But, without any type of transoceanic contact,

how is it possible that all of these ancient cultures

had a similar building style?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The Candi Sukuh temple in Indonesia has several

identical design elements as the pyramids at Chichen Itza.

Another Hindu temple in Cambodia mysteriously

resembles a Mayan temple at Tikal.

A possible explanation for all of this

is that all of these cultures learned

how to build these pyramids from the same teachers.

It seems to be, way back in prehistory,

this whole thing where everyone was building pyramids.

And it seems like it came from a much earlier culture

and it resonated all around the world.

That really is one of the big mysteries

of the pyramids themselves

is that they seem to be everywhere

and they seem to have similar design,

they have similar geometry,

they even have the same measurement systems, often.

So, it really does seem like the same group of people

or beings were building these pyramids.

We see a lot of similarities

in terms of composition and cultures

far back in time between Peru and Egypt

and the Olmecs of southern Mexico.

It is quite possible that the ancient Egyptians

and the ancient Peruvians were indeed connected,

that they actually, traveled back and forth

visiting each other

and influencing each other's cultures.

NARRATOR: The Giza Plateau, Egypt.

Here, in the desert just outside Cairo,

stands the Great Pyramid of Khufu.

4,500 years ago, it was the tallest

and most impressive man-made structure on Earth.

But exactly how, and why,

the pyramid was constructed remains a mystery.

WILLIAM HENRY: The Great Pyramid,

it is the most wondrous place on Earth.

And when you're standing in front of it,

you are confronted with the greatest mystery of all time.

Who built this place?

How could it have been constructed?

Why is it still standing?

And then, when you go inside it,

you have the feeling like you are

in the hands of an extraordinary intelligence.

You've got a structure that is 480 feet high,

it covers 13 acres,

there's two and a half million blocks of stone.

The heaviest stone weighs 70 tons.

They quarried thousands of tons of granite 500 miles away.

It's an amazing structure.

To me, the most intriguing thing

is the scale of the project.

You know, if you want to build a tomb,

fair enough, but why go 146 meters high,

why use two and a half million blocks of stones

with a mass of six million tons?

NARRATOR: Mainstream archaeologists theorize that the Great Pyramid

was built sometime around 2500 BC

as the burial tomb of the Pharaoh Khufu.

But this claim has yet to be proven,

and the debate among various researchers

over for who, or for what purpose,

the structure was built continues.

We're told that the Great Pyramid

was a tomb for the pharaoh,

But there's never been a body found inside the Great Pyramid.

We have found pyramids in the 1950s

by respected Egyptologists whereby the tomb was sealed

whereby the sarcophagus was intact,

and inside there was no body.

There was no corpse. There wasn't even a coffin.

And so, this notion that we really think

that grave robbers somehow were responsible

for everything can no longer be maintained.

CHRIS DUNN: There has to be a reason for them to be there,

and they are a tremendous expenditure of resources.

And, if not for a revered leader,

they had to have had some benefit for the civilization

that built them.

So, it's a whole controversy.

Nobody knows why our ancestor constructed pyramids.

NARRATOR: But if the pyramids at Giza

were not intended to house the remains of dead pharaohs,

then why were these towering monuments built?

Could there be a connection between the pyramid of Khufu

and other pyramids around the world,

one that has been lost to time?

Or is it possible that the builders

of these engineering marvels

had an otherworldly inspiration,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

Both the Mayans and the Egyptians

have legends that the gods came down

and gave them instructions to build pyramids.

For instance, with the Egyptians,

the famous god Thoth is known as

the architect of the universe,

and it was he who allegedly designed

the entire pyramid complex at Giza.

Imhotep, the person who was responsible

for the first pyramid, actually said

that he received this information from the gods.

Not so much that God appeared to him and told him,

but that he was able to access this information

from a different realm,

and from there began the pyramid-building process.

The fact that different cultures throughout this planet

would have similar structures, I think, is mind-boggling.

What made mankind decide,

"Let's do these pyramid-shaped objects,"

unless they were told,

unless they were given blueprints.

The structures are just unbelievably perfect.

You have to come up with the conclusion

that, you know, it's very possible

that extraterrestrials saw this civilization,

gave them knowledge and took off.

NARRATOR: Might the thousands of pyramids

found throughout the world

have a common extraterrestrial connection,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Perhaps more proof can be found

upon closer examination

of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

about pyramids has to startsn

with the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau in Egypt.

I mean, these are probably the most impressive structures

anywhere on the face of the planet.

And even more impressive

is when you go inside the pyramids

and see the precision

of the giant granite chambers and shafts,

which are truly astounding.

They are. And what's also fascinating or interesting

is this is one of the first things that we talked about

on Ancient Aliens with Erich von Däniken:

the Great Pyramids.

In fact, the next act was the first thing we shot

for Ancient Aliens way back on December 21, 2008.

At a time when Ancient Aliens was not a series,

but just a one-off two-hour special

called Ancient Aliens.

NARRATOR: When it comes to searching for evidence

of ancient aliens...

Erich von Däniken literally leaves no stones unturned.

VON DÄNIKEN: I have collected for more than 40 years information

and there are two sorts of evidences

to support my hypotheses.

The one source is literature.

This might be archaeological or mythological literature.

And the other source are practical objects.

For example, the pyramids are linked to the gods,

the gods who once descended

from the sky to us earthlings.

NARRATOR: Perhaps the most familiar,

and most mysterious megalithic structure

in all the world is the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The oldest and largest of Egypt's three great pyramids,

this miracle of engineering

is believed to have been constructed

during a 20-year period,

ending around 2560 BC.

But to ancient alien theorists,

those numbers just don't add up.

The Great Pyramid was not built in only 22 years,

because logistically speaking,

you would have to cut, transport and put into place

one stone every nine seconds.

(tools clanking)

And there are modern engineers

who have come forward and said

we couldn't do this in 22 years either.

NOORY: There are all kinds of theories on how

the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.

So many theories, you just sit back and shake your head.

And that includes ET visitations,

uh, levitating t-the blocks

with some kind of sound system,

anti-gravity...

...thousands of workers pulling long ropes

on a ramp that had to be almost two miles long

to get it up to where it is.

All I know is that they are so finely aligned

and that the architecture is so precise

that even modern people today with great technology

would have a difficult time being that good.

How, for example, in the inside of the pyramids,

in the tombs, could they build granite and marble areas

that were just so perfect and so clean?

You mean to tell me that people of that time period

did this by hand? I don't think so.

NARRATOR: The enormous size and weight of the stones,

multiplied by the sheer number of them,

makes one thing certain:

The construction of the Great Pyramid

remains one of the greatest marvels,

and mysteries, of architectural engineering.

MARTELL: I don't want to discount human ingenuity,

because I do believe that we do have the ability

to do these things over a longer period of time.

But the knowledge to build some of these monuments,

there had to have been some type of intervention

or some type of knowledge given to ancient man

to carry out those instructions.

They couldn't have just come up with it on their own.

VON DÄNIKEN: In Egypt, there are old traditions

saying the Great Pyramid was constructed

by a pharaoh with the name of Saurid,

and then they say Saurid is the same,

which the-the Hebrew community calls Enoch.

Enoch is a prophet in the Old Testament.

There are books of Enoch called the apocryphal texts.

You make a connection with Enoch to these extraterrestrials.

He clearly says he met these extraterrestrials.

Now we have writings in the Book of Enoch

and he give the order to construct a building

which cannot be destroyed

by the thousands of years of the future.

TSOUKALOS: And the ancient Egyptian texts

speak that the pyramids were built by human beings

with the assistance

of "the guardians of the sky,"

meaning the gods.

And so we have proposed

that the pyramids were built by human hands,

but with the assistance of extraterrestrial technology.

NARRATOR: As one of the Seven Wonders of the World,

the Great Pyramid remains

not only an archaeological mystery,

but a geographical marvel.

In 1877, author and theologian Joseph Seiss

demonstrated that the Great Pyramid

resides at the intersection of the longest line of latitude

and the longest line of longitude,

the exact center of all the landmass in the world.

Also, each of its four sides aligns almost precisely

with the four points of the compass,

though such an instrument wasn't even designed

until thousands of years later.

But is it just mere coincidence that pyramid construction,

very similar to that practiced in ancient Egypt,

was also evolving halfway around the world?

CHILDRESS: There are pyramids on remote Pacific islands,

and in India, and in Mexico.

So this is something that's all over the world.

Archaeologists haven't really been able to explain why

dissimilar cultures, separated by huge oceans,

are building the same structures,

and in many ways, the same way.

NARRATOR: Here in Central Mexico, stands an ancient city

that dates back more than 2,000 years.

Its name, Teotihuacán,

literally means "City of the Gods."

And located at its center is the Pyramid of the Sun.

Incredibly, this pyramid's perimeter

is virtually the same as that of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

A structural coincidence?

Or, could it be that both were inspired

by the same designers?

NOORY: A couple theories for that.

Okay, one, maybe they were all taught

the same thing by an extraterrestrial race.

Two, there were ancient travelers

from within this planet, who went from one area

to another over the thousands of past years.

And then as some skeptics will say,

hey, that's the greatest archaeological way

to make it, so they just knew it.

I don't think that's the case.

CHILDRESS: At Teotihuacán, here you have

a giant Pyramid of the Sun and a giant Pyramid of the Moon.

According to the legends, these things were built

by gods, who were giants,

at the end of one of the destructions of the world.

Civilizations such as the Aztecs and the Mayans

and the Hopi Indians of northern Arizona,

they believe that the world has been destroyed

four times in the past.

One time by ice, once by fire, once by water.

And each time, mankind rebuilds again.

And Teotihuacán supposedly was built

just at the beginning of one of these four worlds.

NOORY: You may ask the question,

why build these huge, huge structures?

For what purpose?

NARRATOR: The Giza Necropolis, Egypt. 1993.

A team of engineers uses a remotely operated camera

in an attempt to discover the true function

of what is believed to be an airshaft

leading from the supposed "Queen's Chamber"

of the Great Pyramid.

First discovered in 1872,

archaeologists long considered these narrow tunnels

to be ventilation ducts.

This robot traveled up this small shaft,

which was too small for a human

or any type of device to go through...

...and all of a sudden, it finds a closed door

hinged by two little metal clamps.

NARRATOR: According to mainstream archaeologists,

the door and metal handles were intentionally built

as a symbolic passageway that the queen

would travel through to the afterlife.

But some researchers have questioned

why this passageway would have been designed

with a deliberate blockage.

And why, on a plateau filled with monumental pyramids

believed to serve as royal tombs,

is the Great Pyramid the only one with such a door?

Egyptologists are very much fond

of saying that pyramids are tombs

and that they have been robbed at some point in the past.

But the fact is that we have found,

in the 20th century, a number of pyramids

whose central King's Chamber, so to speak, is intact.

And when they opened the sarcophagus,

they found that sarcophagus to be empty as well.

NARRATOR: If the Great Pyramid was not a tomb,

what may have been its true purpose?

In May 2011,

another team of researchers set out to further explore

the blocked air shaft in the Queen's Chamber.

This time, the crew used a robot equipped

with a micro-snake camera to slip through a hole

and reveal what was beyond the door.

When they actually penetrated this small door,

they found a hidden room within the pyramid.

DUNN: What they found was copper fittings, or the metal fittings.

Another feature of the back of these metal fittings

was that on one side,

the loop looked like it was corroded.

The camera also looked down, and scanned the floor,

and what we saw was red markings.

My interpretation of those were they were electrical symbols.

But why were they there?

NARRATOR: Could these artifacts be actual evidence

that electricity once coursed through the structure?

And if so, could the Great Pyramid of Giza

have been built to serve as not a royal tomb

but a power plant, as some researchers contend?

DUNN: If we dismiss

the tomb theory and we look at the pyramid itself,

we see something that modern engineers

can really tune into and understand.

What we have is a very, very precise building

that has the precision of a fraction of an inch

is something that is very noteworthy

and not indicative of a simple agrarian culture.

So, what we have is something that is almost like a machine.

NARRATOR: If the Great Pyramid was a sophisticated machine,

potentially capable of creating energy,

how could it have worked?

Some researchers believe clues can be found

by exploring underneath the structure.

In 2000, maritime engineer John Cadman

proposed a theory that the Egyptians pumped water

from the nearby Nile River...

...into a small chamber underneath the Great Pyramid.

The pump could then create intense hydraulic pressure

that would cause the entire pyramid to vibrate.

JOHN CADMAN: In the subterranean chamber, there is some evidence

that shows that there had been water present in it.

And that there's water erosion

on the floor,

and then up in the thin area.

And then, also, because it was a hydraulic pulse generator,

so you have a rarefaction wave-- an extremely low-pressure wave--

which would have struck the ceiling,

and the ceiling is actually chipped.

And that would have been from the actual

compression waves hitting the ceiling.

That's very evident.

NARRATOR: If Cadman's theory proves true,

what would have been the purpose of the hydraulic pulse?

Engineer Chris Dunn believes the answer can be found

by further examination of the shafts

in what some call the Queen's Chamber...

...where traces of zinc

and hydrochloric acid have been discovered.

DUNN: I believe the chemical coming in

through the northern shaft was hydrated zinc,

and the other chemical coming through the southern shaft

and into the chamber was dilute hydrochloric acid.

These are actually seen on the chamber walls.

NARRATOR: Dunn suggests that the two chemicals

were poured down through the shafts

and then mixed together inside the Queen's Chamber,

triggering combustion.

DUNN: This vessel represents

the Queen's Chamber.

Into the tubes we're going to pour

hydrated zinc...

...and then hydrochloric acid.

When you bring these two liquids together,

a chemical reaction occurs.

And a product of that chemical reaction is hydrogen,

and you can see the vapor,

the hydrogen escaping

through the chimney.

And there you have the reaction.

NARRATOR: Dunn speculates that the hydrogen gas

traveled from the Queen's Chamber

into the King's Chamber.

Then, the vibrations from the subterranean pool

energized the hydrogen atoms into a microwave energy beam.

The evidence that indicates the use of hydrogen

can be found in the King's Chamber.

There's a shaft in the King's Chamber,

has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8,

which would be suitable for a wave guide

for a maser, or a "microwave amplification

through stimulated emission radiation."

And from there, we can actually propose

many different ideas of what they did with it.

NARRATOR: Might the Great Pyramid of Giza

actually have created power in the remote past?

And is it possible that energy ran the advanced tools

of early builders and devices like the Dendera bulb?

DUNN: We can use our imaginations and, uh,

come up with all kinds of devices,

uh, to power with that kind of energy.

Uh, from simple domestic appliances

to, uh, highly advanced spacecraft.

I mean, all things are possible.

The ancient Egyptians demonstrated

an exceptional level of skill

in everything that they created during the Old Kingdom,

but the question remains: did they do it on their own

or did they have some access

to information or technology that was not of this Earth?

NARRATOR: If Giza was, in fact, a power plant,

could the energy have been used for some otherworldly purpose,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if the power coming from Giza was that strong,

could it have traveled beyond Egypt?

For me, the Great Pyramid of Giza

is the greatest pyramid ever built.

But right here in North America, there is a pyramid site

that is just as mysterious as any place on Earth.

And that's Teotihuacán in Mexico.

Absolutely. And what's also crazy

is that, just like in Giza,

three of the pyramids aligned directly

with the belt stars of Orion.

And there are building materials there

that suggest it also could have served a technological function.

I mean, it's mind-blowing, and in my opinion,

it's not a coincidence.

NARRATOR: Central Mexico,

35 miles northeast of Mexico City.

Here, in a highlands plateau,

lies the enormous archaeological site

of the ancient city of Teotihuacán.

Established around 100 BC and lasting until its fall

between the seventh and eighth centuries,

Teotihuacán was one of the largest cities

in the ancient world,

with over 150,000 inhabitants at its peak.

When you enter this city, you're immediately struck by

sort of that "modern" layout of the city.

You have a Street of the Dead that goes for miles,

along which you have all of the major

ceremonial architecture,

including some of the largest buildings

ever erected in the New World.

NARRATOR: According to scholars,

the advanced design of Teotihuacán

suggests that ancient builders had knowledge

not only of architecture

but of complex mathematical and astronomical sciences.

From the air, the city's layout strangely resembles

a computer circuit board with two large processor chips:

the Sun Pyramid and the Moon Pyramid.

Researchers have also found

numerous and remarkable similarities

to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

COPPENS: When we look at these buildings,

we find the same mathematics incorporated into them

than what we find in the Great Pyramid

and the surrounding pyramids of the Giza Plateau.

ARLAN ANDREWS: The Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza

and the Sun Pyramid at Teotihuacán

apparently have about the same base,

almost 750 feet square.

TSOUKALOS: The base perimeter

of the Pyramid of the Sun is

four pi times its height.

In Giza, it's two times pi its height.

Essentially, the Pyramid of the Sun is

exactly half as tall as the Pyramid of Giza.

Teotihuacán is created according to a specific layout.

The Temple of the Sun,

the Temple of the Moon

and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl

are in the same layout as Orion's Belt,

which is basically the formation

which the three pyramids of the Giza Plateau

have been laid out into as well.

NARRATOR: Might the design and layout of Teotihuacán

be comparable to that of Giza

because of similar influence by extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

When you have similar pyramid complexes

like the ones at Teotihuacán, and the ones at Giza,

you have to kind of think that, yeah, the same builders,

the same designers are behind these giant complexes.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the most intriguing aspect of Teotihuacán

is the finding by archaeologists

of the extensive use of mica embedded in numerous structures.

A mineral only found 3,000 miles away

in Brazil.

JOEL PALKA: It's found in all buildings,

housing complexes, temples and along the roads.

It's found everywhere.

These mica sheets were probably transported

from thousands of miles away from, uh, Brazil.

That's the nearest source.

Now, why would you want to do that?

They were obviously not there for decoration

because you couldn't see them.

Mica has some electrical properties

that make it very good for being an insulator.

It resists the transmission of electricity.

It's also very good at being able to be stable

at high temperatures so that it can be used

in furnace windows and oven windows.

It is clear so you can see through it

and at the same time, it stands up

to the temperature and electrical, uh, discharges.

COPPENS: So we know that they must have had a very specific

and good reason to incorporate it.

And the only possible reasons really why they would be

doing this is because somehow it was part of some technology.

NARRATOR: Recently archaeologists have also discovered

large quantities of mica crystals

in a subterranean chamber...

...as well as in several shafts

that run beneath the Avenue of the Dead.

TSOUKALOS: There is an underground shaft that goes

from the mica chamber

in direction of the Pyramid of the Sun.

So is it possible that this mica chamber

contained some type of an energy-producing device,

a power plant that fed some of the other pyramids?

It is possible.

CHILDRESS: There's many similarities between, uh...

the pyramids at Teotihuacán and the pyramids at Giza.

Both have inner chambers.

It's thought by some that the Great Pyramid

itself was a massive microwave generator

literally sending a beam up

to a satellite or-or powering

some other kind of spacecraft or installation.

We could have had the same thing happening here at Teotihuacán.

NARRATOR: If the Pyramid of the Sun were really designed

to generate power, as ancient astronaut theorists believe,

could its mica-lined chambers and shafts have served

as an interconnecting power grid for the entire city?

Or could the use of mica have served another,

perhaps more protective purpose?

NASA uses mica to deflect the heat

on many of their craft such as the Space Shuttle.

On re-entry the bottom part of the Space Shuttle

is all lined with mica and is a perfect deflector

of large amounts of heat.

CHILDRESS: Could the mica at Teotihuacán also have been used

to shield and protect the ancient people

perhaps from the blast

of an extraterrestrial rocket taking off?

Or even the radiation maybe from some kind of spacecraft?

NARRATOR: But if the ancient builders of Teotihuacán

used mica for the purposes of power generation

and radiation protection,

then where did their advanced engineering

and construction knowledge come from?

TSOUKALOUS: The earliest descriptions of Teotihuacán talk about gods

descending from the sky in ships or winged serpents,

and that something extraordinary happened there.

Teotihuacán, like the ancient Egyptian pyramids,

is believed to have been built by the gods.

And the gods ascended into the heavens

in craft that we today think could be rocket ships.

The builders certainly must have learned

the secrets from the gods themselves.

MARTELL: An interesting similarity with many of these ancient sites

were reports of the gods ascending

and descending from the heavens.

It's very possible that these were

actually being used as landing sites.

So it's very possible that the knowledge

to build Teotihuacán was given to us

by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do the ancient legends of flying alien beings

and other strange creatures provide proof

that ancient aliens did, in fact, influence

the incredible architectural achievements of Teotihuacán?

And if so, might the same connection

be found at other pyramid sites around the world?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes...

and suggest further evidence can be found

by looking at pyramids not from the ground,

but from above.

Not only are pyramids some of the largest ancient structures

on Earth, but when you look at them from above

in an aerial image, it's quite striking.

Yeah, and then when you combine that

with the fact that many of them

are aligned to the stars,

you just have to wonder, could they have served

as, like, beacons?

Yeah, I mean, could they be some kind of landmarks

for extraterrestrials to come to Earth?

NARRATOR: Egypt, 1940.

While flying above the Giza Plateau,

a British Air Force pilot photographs

one of the most amazing features of the Great Pyramid.

The structure actually has eight sides instead of four.

This baffling phenomenon is only detectable from the air

at dawn and sunset on the spring and autumn equinoxes,

when the sun casts shadows on the pyramid

that reveal the eight-sided, slightly concaved construction.

This is a light show whereby the ancestors

who built this knew that something visually

spectacular would be seen on these important calendar days.

We realize that whoever built this

was aware of the solar cycle...

and we also know that the person who built it

had extraordinary understanding of mathematics.

All of these things make it clear that of all pyramids,

the Great Pyramid really is in a league of its own.

NARRATOR: Why is the Great Pyramid's true shape only visible

from above at the equinox?

And how did ancient man create such an intricate design

that is exposed just twice a year...

...and can only be seen from the sky?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues can be found

by examining the unique geographical and architectural

characteristics of the towering structure.

According to scholars, the Great Pyramid was built

on what is considered to be the center

of all the landmasses of Earth.

The massive structure is almost perfectly

aligned to magnetic north.

Inside the pyramid, the designers added

small shafts aligned towards two specific constellations:

Orion and Sirius.

NARRATOR: The four shafts are not only aligned perfectly

on a north-south axis, but one shaft

also points directly toward Orion's Belt.

Mainstream scientists believe shafts like these

were simply used as ventilation during construction.

But might there be another reason

why they align with the stars?

THOMAS BROPHY: They used to call it an air shaft of the Great Pyramid.

It's now known to be a star shaft.

It's known to have been oriented

to the passage of Orion's Belt.

And, uh, it's thought to have represented the release

of the soul back to its origin.

BAUVAL: There is much to suggest

that this correlation is not a coincidence.

We know that the ancient Egyptian pyramid builders

believed that the king was going to become a star in Orion.

The whole concept that the three pyramids at Giza

are in a special alignment

of Orion's Belt is very interesting.

The Mayans constructed hundreds of thousands of pyramids

throughout Central America.

Many of these pyramids may be designed to reflect

certain constellations in the sky,

like the Orion constellations or others.

The old saying, "As above, so below."

NARRATOR: But why would the pyramid builders

design their pyramids to reflect star constellations?

Might the reason for specific placement of the pyramids

on Earth be something that only the ancients understood?

Pyramids in general tend to be very large in scale

and can only be truly seen from above.

So, it's quite possible that the earliest pyramids

were made as beacons as a way for those

not of this world to connect with those of this world.

BAUVAL: Maybe they were moving around the Earth

and using these places, not just as sacred places,

but in order to know where they were.

These pyramids were like geodetic markers

marking power spots around the planet.

They really can be seen from the air.

They're almost designed, uh, from above.

I believe that there's a deep mystery with them,

and we really have to look at it from a different perspective

to try and find the answer to that mystery.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the thousands of pyramids

scattered across the globe

were once part of a cohesive network?

One that could only be understood from the sky?

And who, or what, could have coordinated

such a precise design?

Magelang, Indonesia.

The Borobudur Temple on the island of Java

is the world's largest Buddhist monument.

Built during the eighth and ninth centuries AD,

this religious structure, with its wide base

and tiered mound, is another example of a pyramid.

Consisting of six rectangular terraces

topped by three concentric circular terraces,

this intricate pyramid design has intrigued scholars,

especially when viewed from the air.

Borobudur is definitely not an obvious pyramid, but it is.

It is a stepped pyramid, on top of which

have been built structures.

NARRATOR: From overhead, the temple takes the form

of a giant Buddhist mandala,

a unique circular diagram representing both the cosmos

and a spiritual place for prayer and meditation.

The design indicates that this pyramid

was once a place where man connected with the gods.

Researchers question why and how

the builders would create such an intricate religious symbol

that can only be viewed from the air.

But according to ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer can be found on top of the pyramid,

where there are 72 bell-shaped structures known as stupas,

each housing a seated statue of Buddha.

They are considered to be world eggs or wombs of transformation.

The ancient Indians were telling us that these are, in fact,

ladders or cosmic stairways into the heavens.

TSOUKALOS: The journey didn't happen in their heads.

It wasn't something ethereal.

It wasn't something spiritual. It happened.

Extraterrestrial contact took place in Indonesia

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Were these stupas really built as a metaphor

for spiritual enlightenment,

as mainstream archaeologists believe?

Or might they have been constructed to serve

another even more profound purpose?

One thing is for certain,

the mystery of these global pyramids deepens,

as more hidden structures come to light.

We now know that there are literally

hundreds of ancient pyramids around the world.

And just imagine how many we still haven't discovered.

Yeah, I mean, thanks to modern technology,

we now know that there are pyramids beneath the sands

of Egypt and beneath the jungles of Central and South America.

Right, and some are even underwater.

In fact, we did an episode about this

back in 2015 on Ancient Aliens.

NARRATOR: Western China.

May 21, 1992.

An underground nuclear explosion on the Lop Nor test range

sends shock waves through the Earth.

The event is recorded by U.S. government seismometers,

which reveal unexpected geological anomalies

under the earth just north of Anchorage, Alaska.

Six months later, a U.S. Army Counterintelligence officer

stationed at nearby Fort Richardson,

Douglas Mutschler, sees a local news report

that claims these underground scans had detected

a colossal pyramid structure 50 miles southwest

of Mount McKinley.

Mutschler contacts the station to find out more,

but mysteriously,

they tell him no further information is available.

NOORY: There has been talk that there's a pyramid up in Alaska.

But nobody seems to be investigating that,

maybe because it's so remote,

or maybe they have investigated it,

and they just don't want to tell us about it.

NARRATOR: Frustrated by the lack of information,

Sergeant Mutschler contacts journalist Linda Moulton Howe,

who reaches out across her network searching for anyone

that could shed light on the Alaska pyramid story.

Soon after, she receives a response

from a man who requests to remain anonymous.

He claims his father was an engineer

who got a firsthand look at the secret pyramid.

His father had had a Navy career

and then was asked to continue to work in Alaska...

...on a very special project that involved

something underground that put out a lot of energy.

There were mining shaft elevators on the surface.

He would go down to the base

of a huge underground pyramid.

His work was to try to understand

how this was giving off what they estimated

was a gigantic amount of energy.

But he never would talk

because this was a government secret.

There is no doubt in my mind that there is a cover-up

going on and that something was found there in Alaska.

I think the reason why it's been covered up is that

we would have to completely rewrite

the science of human origins.

The concept that, at one point,

there was a global industrialized civilization

that had reached a technology that is, in fact,

superior to our own

because we cannot easily build pyramids like this today.

NARRATOR: Could it be, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that the United States government

is hiding the Alaskan pyramid

until they can fully comprehend and harness its power?

Perhaps the answer can be found 4,400 miles away.

Central China. 1945.

While transporting supplies from India,

U.S. Army Air Corps Pilot James Gaussman

spots a mysterious structure

that becomes known as the Great White Pyramid.

One of the most unusual stories

of pyramids came out of World War II.

The story is of an American pilot who was

flying the Burma Hump over to Chongqing in Central China.

And what he claimed he saw was a huge pyramid in the valley

with a gigantic crystal capstone on the top of it.

NARRATOR: Two years later, The New York Times reported

that Colonel Maurice Sheahan,

another American aviator flying over Central China,

spotted a 1,000-foot-high pyramid in the same area.

Since then, many more pyramidal structures

have been discovered throughout the region,

some of them covered in vegetation,

seemingly camouflaged to look like natural formations.

But the Chinese government denies

that there are any pyramids in China at all,

claiming that any structures resembling pyramids

are actually burial mounds from the Han dynasty.

There are a number of large pyramids

in Central China.

But the Chinese government has gone out of their way

to try to dismiss the idea

that these mounds are pyramids.

Still to this day,

the subject of the Chinese pyramids

is very rarely discussed.

However, you can go on Google Earth and you can see

the pyramids of the Xi'an Province for yourself

by just zooming in on this area,

but the Chinese government does not want you to go in this area,

it is declared off-limits to everyone

except for the local peasant farmers in that region.

What are they hiding?

NARRATOR: Could these pyramids reveal a different version of history

than what the Chinese government wants us to know?

Curiously, other modern discoveries of pyramids

have been met with similar denials.

In 2005, Dr. Sam Osmanagich,

a professor of anthropology and amateur archaeologist,

announced that he had found

five ancient pyramids hidden in Bosnia,

a claim that the Bosnian government

initially supported, but then later denied.

When I first saw the pyramids in Bosnia,

they looked like hills,

but you could see the regular geometry,

four triangular faces, obvious corners,

and, uh, when I took compass,

compass shows me that those sides

match cardinal points.

I knew immediately that these were artificial structures

below the layers of soil and vegetation.

They tell us that the pyramids were built

only in Egypt and Mexico, wrong.

They are built on all six continents,

from Asia, Africa, Europe,

Central, North and South America.

So they're a worldwide phenomena.

In 21st century, we will need to establish

a new science which will finally answer

the question to who, when, how and why

build the oldest and the most superior pyramids.

NARRATOR: But why would governments around the world

want to try and discredit these new discoveries of pyramids?

MARTELL: World governments might not want

to be forthcoming with this information.

Just like we've seen with the Chinese government,

places like Alaska and others

might also hold hidden wealths of archaeological finds

that we still have yet to uncover.

NARRATOR: Are there ancient pyramids

that are deliberately being kept secret from the public?

Might the discovery of these,

and an untold number of other hidden pyramids,

expose the truth about our origins?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining pyramids discovered... underwater.

NARRATOR: Yonaguni Island, Japan.

September 1997.

Multiple teams of researchers,

geologists and professional divers

launch an underwater expedition

near the southernmost of the remote Ryukyu Islands.

They are there to investigate a mysterious stone configuration

known as the "Yonaguni Pyramid."

Less than 100 feet below the surface,

the divers come across rock formations

including pillars...

wedges...

platforms...

and giant steps

that appear to be carved out of the bedrock.

MOTT: The Yonaguni Monument has been altered by carving.

And it has been very carefully carved

into, uh, megaliths, platforms, stairways.

The only problem is that it's built for giants.

The stairs are immense.

So, who built this monument?

And what cataclysmic event

sent it to the bottom of the sea?

TSOUKALOS: There are all these different cuts

that seem to be of artificial origin

and not of a natural origin

because it's too... precise.

Was Yonaguni artificially altered at a time

when the water levels of the oceans were lower?

We know that this happened at some point

during the last ice age, which was 14,000 years ago.

ROBERT SCHOCH: Now we have to remember that at the end of the last ice age,

sea levels were as much as 300-plus feet

lower than they are today.

So at that time, this structure would've been above sea level.

It would've been, at that time, dry land.

NARRATOR: Could the massive underwater structure known as Yonaguni

really be the remnants of an advanced civilization

that existed here on Earth more than 10,000 years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and claim that further evidence can be found

in Polynesian stories of a long-lost continent called Mu.

The Yonaguni Monument may represent

the remains of a transpacific civilization

that the Polynesians call Mu.

There is evidence throughout Polynesia

for an ancient megalithic civilization.

There are similar ruins off the coast of Pohnpei.

The ruins are partially submerged.

CHILDRESS: This lost continent of Mu

was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

And it encompassed Hawaii and Tahiti,

Tonga and Samoa and even Easter Island

were all part of this lost continent of Mu.

And the central pyramid complex in Tonga

is called Mu'a.

NARRATOR: While most conventional scholars dismiss

the story of Mu as being mythology,

ancient astronaut theorists suggest

an enormous new discovery in Southeast Asia

could provide irrefutable evidence

that this lost civilization did, in fact, exist.

West Java, Indonesia.

Located in Karyamukti Village is a mysterious site

called Gunung Padang, or "Mountain of Enlightenment."

For thousands of years,

the local population revered Gunung Padang as a sacred site,

and many came here to meditate among the giant stone blocks.

But in 1914, Dutch explorers discovered

that the basalt columns scattered across the hilltop

are not natural features at all.

They are, in fact, fragments of an ancient megalithic site.

A century later, in 2013,

the Indonesian government sponsored an excavation

to see if anything was hidden

beneath the layers of dirt and rubble.

What they found was evidence that suggests

Gunung Padang is the world's oldest step pyramid.

COLLINS: Gunung Padang is probably the most remarkable

megalithic structure in the whole of Southeast Asia.

And what it consists of is a-a hillside

on the top of which are a series of terraces,

um, on which are structures

made from basaltic pillars,

and other types of structure.

SCHOCH: But what is really important is the age of it.

It has been analyzed by Indonesian geologists,

and he seemed to have very good data from boreholes,

from radiocarbon analysis, from seismic sections,

as I've done around the great Sphinx,

that this site goes back

an incredible 20,000 or so years,

maybe slightly more than that.

NARRATOR: According to geologists, 20,000 years ago,

Java, where Gunung Padang is located,

was not an isolated island,

but the southernmost part of a subcontinent

known as Sundaland.

This has led some researchers to speculate that Gunung Padang,

with its high elevation, could have been at the pinnacle

of a civilization that disappeared

sometime around 10,000 BC...

when melting ice caps flooded the region

and turned it into the series of islands it is today.

WILCOCK: The compelling suggestion is

that there was some sort of civilization here

before this flood took place,

that they built this with advanced technology

and therefore, they were

extraterrestrial visitors to the Earth,

and that's why archaeologists are not finding the evidence

that we would normally expect to see

showing a geometric progression of technology

leading up to the ability to build

a gigantic pyramid well over 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists believe Sundaland

is only one piece of an enormous underwater puzzle,

that when put together, will reveal

that there was an advanced culture here on Earth

tens of thousands of years ago.

But why did they build pyramids?

Is it possible pyramids played a powerful,

central role in the colonization of the planet?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

the answers may lie not only underwater,

but buried beneath the ice

of Antarctica.

You know, the last place you would expect to find pyramids

is at the South Pole,

but recently, people are talking about evidence

that there are pyramids beneath the ice in Antarctica.

Yeah, and if this is true, then that means

that these pyramids were built at a time

when the Earth's climate was different,

and it also means

that pyramid building is much older

than what we're being told.

HENRY: It's a fascinating topic,

and there's a surprising amount of evidence.

We featured it in a 2016 episode:

"Pyramids of Antarctica."

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 minus 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.

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.

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.

WHITE: I initially found the structure

whilst looking on Google Earth. I was, in fact,

looking at some of the rather strange blank spots

that 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, uh, 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, uh, 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 around 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.

CHILDRESS: 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, uh, to-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?

'Cause it's not an arbitrary thing.

And these structures, they exist worldwide,

so, you know, what was the impetus?

And even more fascinating,

what's the origin?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

we really think that the pyramids are

much older than what archaeology currently suggests.

Yeah, and that makes it even harder to explain

how they could have built these pyramids

without the help of a more advanced civilization.

Right, and the more we learn, the more questions arise.

Right.

NARRATOR: The Giza Plateau, Egypt. 2008.

Researchers from the University of the Aegean

and the University of Athens

perform a study on the stones

used for many of the region's ancient monuments.

What they discover is that most of these structures,

including the Giza Pyramids,

contain hundreds of thousands of marine fossils.

The find intensifies the debate

between archaeologists who suggest

that the blocks used to build the pyramids

were cast like concrete,

versus those who say they were carved out of natural stone.

But for ancient astronaut theorists,

it raises another question:

Is it possible that the pyramids

were not built with stone that had at one time

been submerged beneath the ocean,

but that the pyramids themselves were underwater?

WILCOCK: Right in the middle of the desert

seemingly out of nowhere, we have fossils

from the ocean, different genres of marine organisms.

Where did they come from,

and why are they here?

Some say that a great flood did in fact happen,

that it was real.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: The flood is clearly presented as being sent

with intent as an attack upon the Earth.

The powers that be, they had an intent

and a purpose for Experiment Earth,

which they believed had become corrupted,

and therefore, the flood was sent as an attack,

an assault upon humanity.

CHILDRESS: These gods were going to artificially create

this flood and cataclysm with their super technology.

And who could do that except for extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: According to the Bible, God sent the great flood

to cleanse the Earth because of the sinful state of mankind.

But if the flood really was sent by extraterrestrials,

as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

might it also have been an attempt to eliminate

any trace of the advanced civilization

that existed here on Earth in the distant past?

Is it possible that the secrets of the pyramids

were initially covered up, not by humans,

but by an alien race that lived among us thousands of years ago?

One has to ask the question, well, what was wiped out?

Could it be that it was an incredibly advanced society

that existed before recorded history?

MOTT: Many new pyramid structures have been found.

You have, uh, pyramids off the coast of Cuba

in 2,000 feet of water.

So who built those structures? How did they get there?

Researcher Frank Joseph has actually found remnants

of at least ten pyramid-shaped structures

beneath the surface of the water in Rock Lake, Wisconsin.

Two of these pyramids have actually been explored

by scuba divers and mapped out through the use of sonar,

which is how we figure out

where things are in a deep body of water.

NARRATOR: The presence of man-made pyramids

at the bottom of Rock Lake, Wisconsin--

much like the structures that have been found in China,

Alaska, Bosnia, and off the coasts of Japan and Cuba--

is something that government officials continue to deny.

But the government has gone out of their way

to try to dismiss the idea that these are pyramids.

And they won't even give you a good answer,

but the answer really is that they don't want people

to make this connection

that we have pyramids in our country,

and that they're connected to pyramids all over the world.

NARRATOR: How many other lost pyramids might be out there?

Will the truth about who built these pyramids,

and why, reveal our connection

to an advanced extraterrestrial race that was here

long before even the earliest known civilizations?

And if so, might the pyramids themselves

serve as a conduit for reestablishing contact?

NARRATOR: Giza, Egypt.

In 1977 and then again in 1987,

electronics engineer and inventor Joe Parr

conducted experiments on the top of the Great Pyramid.

Using equipment of his own design,

Parr measured the pyramid's electrical,

magnetic, and radioactive properties.

DESALVO: Joe Parr, who was my very close friend and research colleague,

discovered what I believe is the most incredible discovery

about the Great Pyramid and pyramids in general.

Joe believed that the pyramids had an energy field around them.

All pyramids had it.

The problem is the pyramid energy field

was usually not strong enough.

So, he developed, in his laboratory,

a method for generating this pyramid energy,

so then he could actually do scientific studies on it.

COPPENS: Over the last few decades,

people have been experimenting with pyramids.

What has come to the forefront of this

is the fact that pyramids are an enigma.

They really have powers which are very hard to explain.

And so, people like Joe Parr have been looking into this.

When somebody goes to the top of the Great Pyramid

and experiences this weird electromagnetic vibration,

this is not just a coincidence, but this has to do with the fact

that the Great Pyramid is causing this.

DESALVO: Joe Parr found out that, if he put a model pyramid

and spun it in a centrifuge

through an alternating magnetic current,

an energy field-- or he calls it an orb or bubble--

would form around the model pyramid.

Joe found that this bubble or energy orb

would block all known types of electromagnetic radiation,

even gamma rays.

Now, this was interesting.

We don't know of any types of energy forces

that could do this.

This is the most incredible thing

about Joe Parr's discovery.

NARRATOR: In later laboratory experiments,

Parr claimed to have discovered

yet another strange physical phenomenon.

The model pyramid became weightless in the energy field

and began to move in a specific direction.

DESALVO: He calculated the direction of this energy field

where the pyramid would shoot out from, and guess what?

It aligns exactly where we would see the constellation Orion.

So, Joe speculated that it went into hyperspace.

This is speculation, but it makes a lot of sense.

In string theory in physics, it postulates the existence

of six additional spatial dimensions.

So how do we know the way these energy fields

were set up, it allows this pyramid

to go into another dimension and travel?

Joe never proved this.

But before he died, he believed that the pyramid act

as a time machine, if you could unlock its key.

I believe that that is a gateway or portal

into multiple dimensions

that would, uh, enable transmission of people, objects,

or consciousness from other dimensions into our dimension.

NARRATOR: Is it possible-- like Joe Parr believed--

that the Great Pyramid could facilitate travel

through inter-dimensional space?

And if so, were there other pyramids

with the same capabilities?

Might the Earth's pyramids be connected,

not simply by shape, but by purpose?

Perhaps as part of some otherworldly plan?

CHILDRESS: The ancient people were all building

these same pyramids because

it was a way for them to-to tap

into the natural energy of the Earth.

And you have to think that whoever is guiding

such a precise network of pyramids

must've been a very advanced culture,

probably extraterrestrials.

TSOUKALOS: In all of this, I have one single question:

Where are the blueprints?

If all of this was so incredibly important,

then wouldn't you think that we would have at least

one record of some type of a blueprint?

And the reality is, there is not a single piece.

Why? Could it be because the blueprints have disappeared?

NARRATOR: Pyramids interconnected by design

transforming the Earth's electromagnetic power

and serving as gateways for otherworldly travelers.

Is it really possible that the ancient pyramids

are part of an advanced, perhaps alien, technology?

One which we have not yet discovered?

If so, what will happen when their secrets are unlocked?

Is mankind finally ready for the truth?

So, it's interesting to think that the pyramids

might have been, you know, energy generators

putting out power,

or maybe they were, uh, repositories

for ancient knowledge.

HENRY: Right. Or was it something else?

I mean, the ancient Egyptians thought of the Great Pyramid

as an ascension instrument, so perhaps it was a-a stargate

or a conduit to other star systems.

Right, and what I find so fascinating

is that we've just seen

that many of these ancient pyramid sites

are built in constellation forms,

-like the belt stars of Orion. -Right.

The idea is that that is where the extraterrestrials came from.

Right.

And can you just imagine, if we are able to fire up

this grid again and actually use it

and call beings down from those star systems.

I mean, it'd be incredible.

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