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and space shuttles sending
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humans to the stars.
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>> NARRATOR: But are these
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examples of modern technology,
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or is there evidence that these
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incredible achievements existed
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on earth thousands of years ago?
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>> You begin to have to ask
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yourself, are we missing part of
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the story?
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>> NARRATOR: Could ancient man
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have possessed knowledge far
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beyond that of our own century?
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>> I think that people in
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ancient times were visited by
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earth, and they gave us
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scientific technologies.
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>> It becomes all the more
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apparent that the possible
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answer of "Have aliens visited
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in the past?" could be a
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potential yes.
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>> NARRATOR: Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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clues left behind, sometimes
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hiding in plain sight?
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evidence?
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>> NARRATOR: Saqqara, Egypt.
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Located roughly 20 miles south
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of Cairo, it is home to the
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world-famous step pyramid of
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King Djoser.
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Dating back more than 4,000
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years, it is the oldest of
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Egypt's 97 pyramids.
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Saqqara is also famous for being
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one of Egypt's oldest burial
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grounds, earning it the
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nickname "City of the Dead."
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It was here, in 1891, that
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French archeologists unearthed
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an ancient tomb containing the
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burial remains of Pa-di-Imen, an
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official from the third century
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BC.
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Among the various items
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discovered was a small wooden
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model of what appeared to be a
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bird, lying beside a papyrus
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bearing the inscription:
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"I want to fly."
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The artifact was later sent to
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the Cairo Museum, where
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authorities placed it alongside
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several other bird figurines.
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The model sat largely
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unnoticed, until 1969, when
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Egyptologist Dr. Kahlil Messiha
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was examining the bird
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collection and noticed that
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there was something very
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different about the Saqqara
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bird.
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>> DR. UWE APEL: It's
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interesting because on one hand,
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clearly, it should look like a
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bird because it has eyes and has
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a typical nose of a bird.
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On the other hand, the wings are
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clearly not bird wings.
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>> DR. ALGUND EENBOOM: To the
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middle of the rim, you see this
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wing a bit thicker.
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the highest.
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to the, um, end of the wings.
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aerodynamic design.
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>> APEL: Then the other point
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is, birds have no rudders.
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rudder because of its
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aerodynamic architecture.
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are not representing birds, but
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flying machines, or aircraft.
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>> NARRATOR: Could the ancient
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Egyptians have possessed the
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power of flight?
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In 2006, aviation and
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aerodynamics expert Simon
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Sanderson built a scale model of
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the Saqqara bird five times
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larger than the original to test
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that possibility.
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>> SIMON SANDERSON: We're
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running at a constant speed,
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slowly increasing the angle of
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attack, and then measuring the
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forces which it's producing.
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flight characteristics.
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four times weight and lift.
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>> EENBOOM: Test shows the
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Saqqara bird is a highly
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developed glider.
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today.
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>> NARRATOR: During the
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Sanderson test, it was
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discovered that the only thing
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preventing the Saqqara bird from
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achieving flight was the lack of
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a rear stabilizing rudder, or
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elevator, needed to maintain
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balance.
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Is it possible that the Saqqara
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bird ever possessed this
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critical component?
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>> APEL: What is missing is
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something like an elevator,
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but if you look at this feature
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here, then we may interpret that
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something like an elevator was
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connected here, but was lost
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during history.
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>> NARRATOR: Computer models
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seem to confirm that the Saqqara
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bird is certainly airworthy.
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But there is another problem to
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consider: launching a glider.
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of a towplane that pulls the
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glider into the air, then
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releases it when a proper
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altitude is reached.
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Egyptians have launched the
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Saqqara bird?
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>> EENBOOM: The scientifics of
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Egyptology told us that such
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a bird could be powered off by
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catapults to fly.
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by Egyptian scientists.
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>> NARRATOR: The idea of using
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a catapult does have a
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contemporary parallel.
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enthusiasts employ a bungee cord
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system to launch their
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sail craft into the air.
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capable of flight, where would
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ancient Egyptians have acquired
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such technology?
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>> EENBOOM: I think that people
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in ancient times were visited by
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beings coming not from this
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earth, and they gave us
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culture and scientific
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technologies to improve
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our life on earth coming
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from the primitive to a higher
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developed culture.
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>> ABEL: If ancient cultures
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would be able to produce any
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really flyable machine, they
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would be far more advanced than
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we believe today.
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ancient societies.
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>> PHILIP COPPENS: It's a fact
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that our ancestors were more
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intelligent and had more
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technological superiority
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capabilities than our history
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books give them credit for.
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>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: You begin to
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have to ask yourself, "Are we
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missing part of the story?"
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a forgotten episode in human
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history.
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amnesia.
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what we are.
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>> ROBERT BAUVAL: I haven't been
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convinced that there is evence
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that support an ancient
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visitation, but there is
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no reason why not, and I think
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to shut oneself to that
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possibility is a mistake,
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mainly because there is so many
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anomalies that we can't explain.
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>> NARRATOR: 7,000 miles from
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Egypt, the dense jungles and
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rugged mountains of Colombia
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contain a vast number of
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archaeological signs.
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Many treasure hunters believed
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the legendary City of Gold,
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El Dorado, lies hidden here
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somewhere under a thick canopy
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of trees.
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While the mythical metropolis
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has never been found, early in
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the 20th century, tomb-robbers
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searching along the Magdalena
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River stumbled upon a gravesite
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dating back 1,500 years to a
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pre-Colombian civilization known
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as the Tolima.
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there were hundreds of small
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two- to three-inch gold
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figurines.
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>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Many of
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those looked like insects and
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fish.
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that they found, they also
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found about a dozen that are
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eerily reminiscent of modern-day
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fighter jets.
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stabilizers...
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and a fuselage.
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with anything similar in nature.
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>> NARRATOR: Could these gold
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objects really be proof that
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earth has been visited by
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ancient aliens?
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>> APEL: One of the objects
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shows a typical swept wings like
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like a space shuttle.
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shape is very similar to wing
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shapes for high-speed
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aerodynamic bodies like a space
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>> COPPENS: There is not a
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single insect in the world which
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has got its wings at the bottom.
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possibility that it's an insect,
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actually, yes, what it looks
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like: a plane.
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>> NARRATOR: In 1997, German
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aviation experts including
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Algund Eenboom and Peter
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Belting, set out to prove the
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speculation by building a
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scale-model replica of the gold
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flyer, fully equipped with
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landing gear and a working
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engine.
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>> EENBOOM: It was rather simple
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because we don't need to put
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much parts to this shape because
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this shape is perfect.
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Everything was already done by
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the native people 2,000 years
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>> TSOUKALOS: They did not add
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an inch or remove an inch.
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They just essentially blew the
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little thing into a larger
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size.
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I mean, this is sensational that
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pre-Colombian culture knew about
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aerodynamics.
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>> NARRATOR: Once completed, the
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remote controlled flyer took off
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down a makeshift runway and
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flew.
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>> COPPENS: When you see this
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thing taking off, you really
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feel that this is the real deal.
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>> EENBOOM: It was a very
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successful test and showed us
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how perfect ancient people were
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working out aerodynamic design.
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What it show you that there must
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be something happened.
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We are not quite sure how it
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did, but that it did.
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>> COPPENS: This is applied
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science.
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This isn't just thinking
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somewhere.
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This is people going out there
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and making sure and proving,
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what I still see, anybody can
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see this, that this is real.
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This is genuine.
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This little thing, which sits in
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a museum, could fly.
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>> TSOUKALOS: So we have two
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examples from opposite sides of
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the planet, and both examples
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are aerodynamically sound and
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they fly.
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So, to suggest that all of this
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is coincidence...
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I mean, after a while, even
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coincidence no longer makes
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sense.
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>> BILL BIRNES: Could the
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ancients have seen actual
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entities, like ancient gods,
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ancient astronauts actually
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flying around in what amounted
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to modern aircraft?
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>> NARRATOR: The answer to these
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questions may be found in
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ancient documents that describe
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flight patterns, aircraft specs,
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and even aerial battles in
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remarkable detail.
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>> NARRATOR: Over the past 50
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years, NASA has sent astronauts
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into space inside large rockets.
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This method has been described
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by some as simply "putting a man
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on a large firecracker and
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lighting the fuse."
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Man's ability to travel farther
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into space would require more
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advanced propulsion systems.
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Several are being researched by
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NASA.
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>> ROBERT FRISBEE: There are a
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wide variety of advanced
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propulsion technologies that are
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being actively developed and
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studied by NASA and other
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researchers.
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A really exotic version of
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that is to use a launch-assist
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catapult, use technology
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derived from the magnetic
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levitation trains to build a
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maglev sled.
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It carries your rocket, gets it
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up to about Mach 1, and then
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launches the rocket from it.
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>> NARRATOR: While these
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futuristic propulsion systems
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seem like something out of
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science fiction, ancient alien
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theorists believe past
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civilizations possess these same
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advanced technologies.
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They point to a number of
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cultural myths that describe sky
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people coming to Earth in
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fire-breathing dragons, or
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metallic-looking machines as
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proof of extraterrestrial
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visitation.
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>> DAVID CHILDRESS: In my mind,
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legends and myths are based on
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something real.
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And while they've been
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"mythified" and exaggerated in
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many cases, in my mind, some
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core of truth here in that
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people really were flying in
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airships in ancient times just
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like we do today.
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>> NARRATOR: But might these
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ancient airships have reached
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Earth using the same type of
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propulsion systems we use today?
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The answer may be found deep in
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the Indian subcontinent.
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India-- over 1.1 billion people
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crowd its modern cities and
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rural townships, speaking
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hundreds of languages, and
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practicing a number of different
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religions.
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India is considered one of the
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oldest civilizations with
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settlements dating back over
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11,000 years.
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It is also home to several of
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the oldest records of ancient
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technologies.
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Ancient Sanskrit text dating
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back as far as 6000 BC,
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describing varying but vivid
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detail flying machines called
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"vimanas."
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>> EENBOOM: Vimanas are
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airplanes, and they are powered
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by some jet engines.
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This seems to be true because
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all the description of the
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flight behavior: "elephants ran
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away in panic."
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Grass was thrown out because
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there was a lot of pressure from
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behind those vimanas.
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So that we can say this is a
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description of the spaceship.
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>> NARRATOR: Although mainstream
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historians believe the vimana
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texts are myths, many of the
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documents contain passages that
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seem to describe modern
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machinery and technology.
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>> CHILDRESS: The
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Vymaanika-Shaastra goes into
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metals that are used in these
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craft.
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It talks about electricity
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and power sources.
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It talks about the pilots and
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the clothing they have to wear.
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It talks about the food that
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they eat.
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It talks even about the weapons
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that are kept on these airships.
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>> EENBOOM: The flight menus of
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the vimanas are quite similar to
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the flight menus you find in the
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modern passenger flight
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business.
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Or when you go to the military
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jet engines, of course, they
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have also flight menus because
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it's necessary for a pilot to
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get knowledge about his plane he
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wanted to fly with.
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>> MICHAEL CREMO: We also
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learned that these vimanas could
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be controlled mentally.
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And this is a technology that
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modern militaries are beginning
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to develop.
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>> DR. STEVEN GREER: Even today,
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with as advanced as we think we
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are, almost every manifestation
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of an actual extraterrestrial
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civilization today would look
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almost like magic to us where
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it has to do with technological
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electromagnetic systems that
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interface with coherent thought
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and organized thought.
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And this gets into people go,
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"Now, you're losing me here."
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But I tell people, I say, "Yeah,
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well, you gotta push your
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boundaries a little bit if
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you're talking about a true
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interstellar civilization."
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>> NARRATOR: The
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Vymaanika-Shaastra, or Science
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of Aeronautics, indicates
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vimanas used a propulsion system
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based on a combination of
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gyroscopes, electricity, and
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mercury.
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Is this possible?
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>> CHILDRESS: Mercury is an
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unusual element.
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Mercury is metal.
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It's also a liquid, and, uh,
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is a conductor of electricity.
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You know, there's unusual things
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you can do with mercury.
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You can put it into a closed
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gyroscopic device with mercury
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spinning around, and then you
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get electrified.
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Studies have been done on this
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by NASA and by other scientists,
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and they find that you have
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levitation effects, antigravity
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kind of effects, and a spinning
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bright light is part of it, too.
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>> NARRATOR: The
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Vymaanika-Shaastra suggests
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vimanas were powered by several
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gyroscopes placed inside a
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sealed liquid mercury vortex.
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>> FRISBEE: Here's an example of
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a little kid's gyroscope.
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You spin it with a heavy wheel
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around a central axis.
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Well, a gyroscope seems to do a
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lot of strange things, even defy
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gravity.
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And it does this because it uses
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what's called rotational, or
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angular, momentum.
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And it wants to keep a
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particular orientation on its
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spin axis, the center rod.
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If you push on that rod, it will
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want to "righten" itself up to
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its original orientation.
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It wants to keep that same
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angular momentum.
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Gyroscopes are used all over the
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place: in airplanes, in
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spacecraft, in submarines.
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This allows them to determine
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their position based on where
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they started.
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They can also use it for finding
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their velocity or even just the
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orientation of the vehicle in
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space.
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One of the texts talks about
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mercury rotating and driving
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some sort of a powerful wind, or
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a windmill effect.
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That might be some sort of what
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we call a "flywheel energy
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storage" where you have a
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spinning disc, and then you
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extract energy from it slowly.
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That would be the mercury.
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And then that could be used to
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drive some sort of a propeller
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or what we'd call a ducted fan
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sort of system like you have in
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a hovercraft.
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Mercury would be quite good for
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that because it's a high
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density, so you'd have a small
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package for your power plant,
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and that's always good when
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you're building an aircraft.
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>> NARRATOR: Flywheel energy
578
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storage systems, however, tend
579
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to lose power quickly.
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00:21:32,386 --> 00:21:34,254
To navigate across space, its
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size would have to be enormous.
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>> FRISBEE: They're fine for use
583
00:21:39,360 --> 00:21:41,061
by power companies for
584
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load-leveling.
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00:21:42,396 --> 00:21:43,597
You put energy in when you
586
00:21:43,631 --> 00:21:44,531
don't need it.
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You get energy out when you need
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it.
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But they're setting on the
590
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ground.
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To have something light enough
592
00:21:51,072 --> 00:21:52,606
to actually fly, it's not at all
593
00:21:52,673 --> 00:21:55,175
clear that this will be a
594
00:21:55,243 --> 00:21:56,710
practical device.
595
00:21:56,811 --> 00:21:59,079
Now, maybe the people are trying
596
00:21:59,147 --> 00:22:01,615
to describe something that kind
597
00:22:01,682 --> 00:22:03,817
of looked like this to them.
598
00:22:03,851 --> 00:22:05,051
It might not have actually been
599
00:22:05,086 --> 00:22:05,886
mercury.
600
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,254
It might have been some other
601
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liquid metal.
602
00:22:08,623 --> 00:22:10,423
>> EENBOOM: The mercury vortex
603
00:22:10,458 --> 00:22:13,894
engine is perhaps a failure in
604
00:22:13,995 --> 00:22:16,696
the translation because the
605
00:22:16,731 --> 00:22:20,867
vortex is not material quite
606
00:22:20,902 --> 00:22:25,372
suitable to a jet engine.
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>> GREER: The issue of how are
608
00:22:27,375 --> 00:22:30,043
these civilizations traveling
609
00:22:30,144 --> 00:22:31,845
faster than the speed of light
610
00:22:31,879 --> 00:22:33,914
is a fundamental question.
611
00:22:33,915 --> 00:22:36,049
It's a scientific application of
612
00:22:36,150 --> 00:22:37,584
things that have been studied
613
00:22:37,618 --> 00:22:38,585
for thousands of years and
614
00:22:38,619 --> 00:22:40,153
they're within the Vadas, the
615
00:22:40,221 --> 00:22:42,155
ancient Vedic teachings or
616
00:22:42,223 --> 00:22:44,057
other ancient teachings--
617
00:22:44,091 --> 00:22:46,927
and it is there.
618
00:22:46,928 --> 00:22:48,061
>> NARRATOR: But if vimanas
619
00:22:48,162 --> 00:22:50,864
existed, could this prove there
620
00:22:50,898 --> 00:22:51,998
was a worldwide transportation
621
00:22:52,033 --> 00:22:54,367
network thousands of years
622
00:22:54,402 --> 00:22:56,369
before Columbus?
623
00:22:56,404 --> 00:22:59,306
The answer might be found on a
624
00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:04,578
mountaintop outside Mexico City.
625
00:23:06,469 --> 00:23:07,269
>> NARRATOR: In the 21st
626
00:23:07,290 --> 00:23:08,991
century, modern transportation
627
00:23:09,058 --> 00:23:11,260
and communication methods have
628
00:23:11,361 --> 00:23:12,794
connected the world like never
629
00:23:12,862 --> 00:23:13,896
before.
630
00:23:15,231 --> 00:23:17,666
Products or ideas, no matter
631
00:23:17,733 --> 00:23:19,301
where in the world they may have
632
00:23:19,368 --> 00:23:20,569
originated, can spread to even
633
00:23:20,603 --> 00:23:23,538
the most remote countries.
634
00:23:23,573 --> 00:23:25,373
A hip-hop hit in Brooklyn might
635
00:23:25,408 --> 00:23:27,542
make it big in Tokyo before it's
636
00:23:27,577 --> 00:23:29,477
even heard in Manhattan.
637
00:23:29,545 --> 00:23:31,313
This cultural interconnection
638
00:23:31,380 --> 00:23:33,748
has transformed the globe, but
639
00:23:33,783 --> 00:23:37,953
is it new?
640
00:23:38,020 --> 00:23:39,554
Mainstream archaeologists
641
00:23:39,589 --> 00:23:41,856
believe ancient civilizations
642
00:23:41,891 --> 00:23:43,592
such as those found in the
643
00:23:43,659 --> 00:23:45,126
remote Pacific Islands, Asia,
644
00:23:45,194 --> 00:23:47,128
and South America developed
645
00:23:47,196 --> 00:23:50,565
independently from each other.
646
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,567
But ancient astronaut theorists
647
00:23:52,602 --> 00:23:54,936
contend that similarities in
648
00:23:55,037 --> 00:23:56,638
building styles and beliefs
649
00:23:56,672 --> 00:23:58,406
found in these cultures suggest
650
00:23:58,474 --> 00:24:00,475
that a worldwide trade route may
651
00:24:00,509 --> 00:24:02,410
have connected them to each
652
00:24:02,445 --> 00:24:06,848
other.
653
00:24:09,852 --> 00:24:10,852
>> CHILDRESS: But just like we
654
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:13,154
have airports today around the
655
00:24:13,222 --> 00:24:16,324
world, in ancient times with the
656
00:24:16,392 --> 00:24:18,660
vimanas, there would have been
657
00:24:18,694 --> 00:24:21,963
hangars for the craft, airports
658
00:24:21,998 --> 00:24:23,665
for them to land.
659
00:24:23,666 --> 00:24:25,233
And those airports would have
660
00:24:25,268 --> 00:24:26,768
been situated in strategic
661
00:24:26,802 --> 00:24:28,136
places around the world.
662
00:24:28,237 --> 00:24:29,437
And that's exactly what we see
663
00:24:29,472 --> 00:24:34,142
in remote places.
664
00:24:34,243 --> 00:24:35,977
>> NARRATOR: Could the complex
665
00:24:36,078 --> 00:24:37,312
set of lines covering Peru's
666
00:24:37,346 --> 00:24:39,781
Nazca plain or the mysterious
667
00:24:39,849 --> 00:24:41,316
plateau above Mexico's Oaxaca
668
00:24:41,350 --> 00:24:43,585
valley be evidence of runways
669
00:24:43,619 --> 00:24:46,421
for worldwide air transportation
670
00:24:46,489 --> 00:24:47,622
system.
671
00:24:47,690 --> 00:24:48,690
>> CHILDRESS: One of the unusual
672
00:24:48,758 --> 00:24:50,258
archaeological sites in Mexico
673
00:24:50,326 --> 00:24:53,161
is a place called Monte Albán.
674
00:24:53,262 --> 00:24:56,164
That is also a mountain where
675
00:24:56,265 --> 00:24:58,500
the top of the mountain was
676
00:24:58,534 --> 00:25:00,802
completely cut off and leveled
677
00:25:00,870 --> 00:25:04,039
to make a very flat tabletop
678
00:25:04,073 --> 00:25:05,907
mountain.
679
00:25:05,975 --> 00:25:08,176
And there's a megalithic city
680
00:25:08,277 --> 00:25:10,045
there, too, that's extremely
681
00:25:10,079 --> 00:25:14,883
old.
682
00:25:14,917 --> 00:25:18,987
This was probably some kind of
683
00:25:19,021 --> 00:25:23,825
vimana airport.
684
00:25:25,861 --> 00:25:28,196
>> EENBOOM: The vimanas could be
685
00:25:28,264 --> 00:25:30,965
kind of missing link between the
686
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,001
single cultures in the world
687
00:25:33,035 --> 00:25:35,236
because they had just a very
688
00:25:35,237 --> 00:25:37,505
short time to flow from one part
689
00:25:37,540 --> 00:25:42,344
of the world to the other.
690
00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:45,213
>> NARRATOR: Legends of air
691
00:25:45,247 --> 00:25:47,215
travel are also found in ancient
692
00:25:47,249 --> 00:25:49,517
Africa and the Middle East.
693
00:25:49,552 --> 00:25:51,986
According to The Kebra Nagast,
694
00:25:52,054 --> 00:25:53,521
a holy book of the Ethiopians
695
00:25:53,556 --> 00:25:55,890
written sometime between the
696
00:25:55,958 --> 00:25:58,259
fifth and second century BC,
697
00:25:58,327 --> 00:25:59,694
the queen of Sheba was once
698
00:25:59,795 --> 00:26:01,963
given a gift of a flying carpet
699
00:26:01,997 --> 00:26:04,332
by King Solomon of Israel.
700
00:26:04,333 --> 00:26:05,533
>> TSOUKALOS: The Kebra Nagast
701
00:26:05,568 --> 00:26:07,502
is one of the most important
702
00:26:07,536 --> 00:26:09,971
texts you've never heard of.
703
00:26:09,972 --> 00:26:12,240
The Kebra Nagast means
704
00:26:12,274 --> 00:26:14,609
The Book of Kings and it is
705
00:26:14,643 --> 00:26:17,812
the most sacred book of the
706
00:26:17,847 --> 00:26:20,548
Ethiopians.
707
00:26:20,616 --> 00:26:23,418
In it, King Solomon is
708
00:26:23,452 --> 00:26:26,354
described-- he had access to
709
00:26:26,389 --> 00:26:30,258
some type of a flying machine.
710
00:26:30,326 --> 00:26:32,560
And in that part of the world
711
00:26:32,628 --> 00:26:34,896
the term "flying carpet" was
712
00:26:34,930 --> 00:26:39,267
always used very liberally.
713
00:26:39,335 --> 00:26:42,370
My question is, did they really
714
00:26:42,405 --> 00:26:45,373
mean actual flying carpets or
715
00:26:45,408 --> 00:26:47,642
was it another term with which
716
00:26:47,676 --> 00:26:50,478
to describe some type of a
717
00:26:50,546 --> 00:26:52,747
flying machine?
718
00:26:52,815 --> 00:26:54,249
>> CHILDRESS: This w the
719
00:26:54,316 --> 00:26:57,252
original Chariots of the Gods
720
00:26:57,319 --> 00:26:58,987
that Erich von Daniken talked
721
00:26:59,054 --> 00:27:02,323
about-- the flying magic carpets
722
00:27:02,358 --> 00:27:05,493
of the Arabian Nights stories.
723
00:27:05,528 --> 00:27:08,530
There are traditions in the
724
00:27:08,597 --> 00:27:10,064
Middle East of King Solomon
725
00:27:10,166 --> 00:27:11,533
having this airship and flying
726
00:27:11,567 --> 00:27:13,701
to different places in the
727
00:27:13,769 --> 00:27:14,803
Middle East, certain mountains
728
00:27:14,870 --> 00:27:16,438
which are known as the Mountains
729
00:27:16,505 --> 00:27:19,641
of Solomon.
730
00:27:19,708 --> 00:27:21,342
These may have been certain
731
00:27:21,410 --> 00:27:25,046
airports or landing areas for
732
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:27,882
these vimanas.
733
00:27:27,950 --> 00:27:29,584
Nicholas Rourke, famous
734
00:27:29,618 --> 00:27:32,220
Russian-American explorer who
735
00:27:32,321 --> 00:27:34,289
traveled all through central
736
00:27:34,290 --> 00:27:38,460
Asia and Tibet in the 1920s, he
737
00:27:38,494 --> 00:27:40,462
too claimed that Tibetans had
738
00:27:40,496 --> 00:27:42,030
traditions of King Solomon
739
00:27:42,064 --> 00:27:43,832
flying to Tibet in this
740
00:27:43,899 --> 00:27:45,834
aircraft.
741
00:27:45,901 --> 00:27:47,635
>> NARRATOR: The Kebra Nagast
742
00:27:47,670 --> 00:27:49,671
also describes how King Solomon
743
00:27:49,705 --> 00:27:51,372
used his flying airship to make
744
00:27:51,407 --> 00:27:53,374
maps of the world.
745
00:27:53,409 --> 00:27:55,043
>> NARRATOR: But could these
746
00:27:55,077 --> 00:27:56,211
have any relation to other
747
00:27:56,312 --> 00:27:57,846
ancient maps some believe may
748
00:27:57,913 --> 00:27:59,214
have been made by
749
00:27:59,315 --> 00:28:02,116
extraterrestrials?
750
00:28:02,117 --> 00:28:03,585
>> HANCOCK: Some of these maps
751
00:28:03,652 --> 00:28:05,220
show the world not as it looks
752
00:28:05,321 --> 00:28:06,921
today, but as it looked during
753
00:28:06,956 --> 00:28:08,389
the last ice age.
754
00:28:08,424 --> 00:28:10,225
And this is really hard to
755
00:28:10,326 --> 00:28:11,025
explai
756
00:28:11,093 --> 00:28:12,460
Everybody's heard of the Piri
757
00:28:12,495 --> 00:28:13,661
Reis map, but they've perhaps
758
00:28:13,696 --> 00:28:15,296
not heard of the Orontius
759
00:28:15,331 --> 00:28:16,998
Finnaeus map or-or theercator
760
00:28:17,032 --> 00:28:19,801
maps that show Antarctica in
761
00:28:19,869 --> 00:28:21,503
great detail hundreds of years
762
00:28:21,570 --> 00:28:22,937
before Antarctica was even
763
00:28:23,005 --> 00:28:25,206
discovered.
764
00:28:25,241 --> 00:28:26,140
>> NARRATOR: One of the most
765
00:28:26,208 --> 00:28:27,842
referenced stories of ancient
766
00:28:27,877 --> 00:28:29,410
aircraft is found in a
767
00:28:29,445 --> 00:28:32,780
surprising place: the Bible.
768
00:28:32,848 --> 00:28:34,849
In the Book of Ezekiel, the
769
00:28:34,884 --> 00:28:36,417
prophet describes a flying
770
00:28:36,452 --> 00:28:38,286
chariot containing wheels
771
00:28:38,320 --> 00:28:40,421
within wheels and powered by
772
00:28:40,456 --> 00:28:43,024
angels.
773
00:28:43,058 --> 00:28:44,659
Although Bible historians
774
00:28:44,693 --> 00:28:46,594
suggest Ezekiel was speaking
775
00:28:46,662 --> 00:28:48,196
symbolically about the
776
00:28:48,230 --> 00:28:49,430
terrifying enemies facing
777
00:28:49,498 --> 00:28:51,966
Israel, could this be another
778
00:28:52,001 --> 00:28:54,235
example of an alien visitation
779
00:28:54,270 --> 00:28:55,970
and proof that prehistoric
780
00:28:56,038 --> 00:28:57,972
aircraft existed?
781
00:28:58,040 --> 00:28:59,407
>> YOUNG: In the story of
782
00:28:59,441 --> 00:29:01,676
Ezekiel's throne chariot, this
783
00:29:01,710 --> 00:29:03,411
flying vehicle that doesn't
784
00:29:03,445 --> 00:29:04,779
seem to have any means of
785
00:29:04,847 --> 00:29:06,347
propulsion, if we thought of
786
00:29:06,415 --> 00:29:08,783
the word "angel" as representing
787
00:29:08,817 --> 00:29:10,885
something like celestial energy,
788
00:29:10,953 --> 00:29:13,421
it sounds much more like a
789
00:29:13,489 --> 00:29:14,789
spacecraft then because some of
790
00:29:14,823 --> 00:29:16,357
the angels are going back and
791
00:29:16,425 --> 00:29:17,258
forth.
792
00:29:17,259 --> 00:29:18,526
Well, that sounds like flames.
793
00:29:18,627 --> 00:29:21,229
That sounds like propulsion.
794
00:29:21,263 --> 00:29:22,330
Some of them are wheel-like.
795
00:29:22,364 --> 00:29:23,398
Well, those sound like flying
796
00:29:23,465 --> 00:29:27,602
saucers.
797
00:29:27,670 --> 00:29:29,370
>> TSOUKALOS: Our ancestors
798
00:29:29,405 --> 00:29:31,306
weren't idiots.
799
00:29:31,373 --> 00:29:33,775
Ezekiel saw something that was
800
00:29:33,842 --> 00:29:35,777
so frightening to him that he
801
00:29:35,811 --> 00:29:37,779
fell to his knees.
802
00:29:37,813 --> 00:29:40,014
Then, out of the glory of God,
803
00:29:40,049 --> 00:29:43,051
came this being in these
804
00:29:43,118 --> 00:29:45,219
bright clothes that looked like
805
00:29:45,287 --> 00:29:48,957
metal, and told Ezekiel, "All
806
00:29:48,991 --> 00:29:51,025
right, man, we brought you here.
807
00:29:51,060 --> 00:29:53,227
We want you to measure this
808
00:29:53,295 --> 00:29:55,330
monument, this building."
809
00:29:55,364 --> 00:29:57,498
And Ezekiel asks, "Well, why
810
00:29:57,566 --> 00:29:58,800
should I do this?"
811
00:29:58,867 --> 00:30:01,703
And the being says, "That's why
812
00:30:01,737 --> 00:30:03,705
we brought you here."
813
00:30:03,772 --> 00:30:06,341
And then you have 40 pages, in
814
00:30:06,408 --> 00:30:07,709
the second part of the Book of
815
00:30:07,743 --> 00:30:10,011
Ezekiel, with measurement
816
00:30:10,045 --> 00:30:11,212
after measurement after
817
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,214
measurement of this gigantic
818
00:30:13,282 --> 00:30:15,583
building, in which, by the way,
819
00:30:15,651 --> 00:30:18,219
the glory of the Lord landed.
820
00:30:23,592 --> 00:30:24,492
>> NARRATOR: In the early
821
00:30:24,526 --> 00:30:27,729
1970s, NASA scientist Joseph
822
00:30:27,763 --> 00:30:29,664
Blumrich set out to disprove
823
00:30:29,732 --> 00:30:31,232
the theory that what Ezekiel
824
00:30:31,300 --> 00:30:34,235
witnessed was a spaceship.
825
00:30:34,303 --> 00:30:35,370
>> TSOUKALOS: Joseph Blumrich
826
00:30:35,404 --> 00:30:37,372
is your proverbial rocket
827
00:30:37,406 --> 00:30:38,940
scientist.
828
00:30:39,008 --> 00:30:40,875
He worked on the moon project
829
00:30:40,943 --> 00:30:44,779
for NASA and, from the mind of a
830
00:30:44,847 --> 00:30:47,582
rocket engineer, started to
831
00:30:47,650 --> 00:30:49,784
look at what was written in the
832
00:30:49,852 --> 00:30:51,486
first part of the Book of
833
00:30:51,520 --> 00:30:52,387
Ezekiel.
834
00:30:52,421 --> 00:30:54,322
And after many months of
835
00:30:54,390 --> 00:30:57,225
research, Joseph Blumrich
836
00:30:57,326 --> 00:30:59,761
came to the conclusion that
837
00:30:59,795 --> 00:31:04,699
what Ezekiel described in his
838
00:31:04,767 --> 00:31:07,235
eyewitness report, it was
839
00:31:07,336 --> 00:31:09,704
indeed a type of spacecraft.
840
00:31:12,775 --> 00:31:14,042
>> NARRATOR: Joseph Blumrich
841
00:31:14,076 --> 00:31:15,410
would go on to write The
842
00:31:15,444 --> 00:31:17,712
Spaceships of Ezekiel.
843
00:31:17,780 --> 00:31:20,048
Several years later, a German
844
00:31:20,082 --> 00:31:22,250
structural engineer named Hans
845
00:31:22,351 --> 00:31:24,252
Herbert Beier sketched out a
846
00:31:24,353 --> 00:31:25,720
blueprint of the second section
847
00:31:25,788 --> 00:31:27,722
of the Book of Ezekiel, where
848
00:31:27,756 --> 00:31:29,590
Ezekiel is told to construct an
849
00:31:29,625 --> 00:31:31,259
open-topped building to house
850
00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:33,361
the flying chariot.
851
00:31:33,395 --> 00:31:34,262
>> TSOUKALOS: Ezekiel's
852
00:31:34,363 --> 00:31:37,532
spaceship fit exactly into the
853
00:31:37,599 --> 00:31:39,967
temple that Hans Herbert Beier
854
00:31:40,002 --> 00:31:42,437
recreated.
855
00:31:42,471 --> 00:31:44,772
So what we have here is a proof
856
00:31:44,807 --> 00:31:46,407
by indication.
857
00:31:46,442 --> 00:31:49,077
Here we have a NASA engineer
858
00:31:49,111 --> 00:31:51,979
and a structural engineer-- they
859
00:31:52,047 --> 00:31:53,081
didn't know of each other's
860
00:31:53,148 --> 00:31:55,917
work-- and both pieces fit
861
00:31:55,984 --> 00:31:57,885
together like a puzzle.
862
00:31:57,920 --> 00:32:00,555
In any court of law, that's
863
00:32:00,622 --> 00:32:04,492
evidence that would hold up.
864
00:32:04,493 --> 00:32:05,326
>> HANCOCK: I think that
865
00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,328
scientists feel uncomfortable
866
00:32:07,362 --> 00:32:08,896
with the notion of the lost
867
00:32:08,964 --> 00:32:10,898
civilization precisely because
868
00:32:10,966 --> 00:32:12,433
the evidence for it is so
869
00:32:12,468 --> 00:32:13,901
ambiguous.
870
00:32:13,936 --> 00:32:15,169
It's not so in your face that
871
00:32:15,204 --> 00:32:16,537
it's immediately obvious.
872
00:32:16,605 --> 00:32:18,806
Uh, and, you know, the result is
873
00:32:18,841 --> 00:32:20,074
that science has not welcomed
874
00:32:20,109 --> 00:32:22,110
this idea.
875
00:32:22,144 --> 00:32:23,644
It'll take much more evidence
876
00:32:23,746 --> 00:32:27,014
before it's widely accepted.
877
00:32:27,082 --> 00:32:28,116
>> TSOUKALOS: The god that I
878
00:32:28,183 --> 00:32:30,184
believe in doesn't need a
879
00:32:30,252 --> 00:32:32,186
vehicle in which to move around
880
00:32:32,254 --> 00:32:35,356
from point A to point B.
881
00:32:35,390 --> 00:32:37,558
Whatever was described in the
882
00:32:37,626 --> 00:32:40,528
Old Testament wasn't God, it
883
00:32:40,596 --> 00:32:43,331
was a misunderstood flesh-and-
884
00:32:43,365 --> 00:32:45,600
blood extraterrestrial whom
885
00:32:45,634 --> 00:32:48,903
our ancestor misinterpreted as
886
00:32:48,937 --> 00:32:52,006
being divine and supernatural.
887
00:32:52,074 --> 00:32:53,074
And why?
888
00:32:53,142 --> 00:32:54,909
Because of misunderstood
889
00:32:54,977 --> 00:32:56,144
technology.
890
00:32:56,178 --> 00:32:58,346
And that is the underlying
891
00:32:58,413 --> 00:33:01,415
thread that applies to all of
892
00:33:01,483 --> 00:33:04,952
the ancient astronaut theory.
893
00:33:05,053 --> 00:33:06,154
>> NARRATOR: But while ancient
894
00:33:06,221 --> 00:33:08,322
texts provide tantalizing clues
895
00:33:08,390 --> 00:33:10,591
to our past, physical evidence
896
00:33:10,659 --> 00:33:13,060
paints an even clearer picture.
897
00:33:13,095 --> 00:33:15,329
But will modern science finally
898
00:33:15,397 --> 00:33:17,331
prove the ancient astronaut
899
00:33:17,399 --> 00:33:18,432
theory?
900
00:33:18,467 --> 00:33:19,700
>> FRISBEE: Did the ancient
901
00:33:19,768 --> 00:33:21,702
civilizations of Earth have
902
00:33:21,770 --> 00:33:24,705
access to advanced technology?
903
00:33:24,706 --> 00:33:26,674
Well, it seems like they had
904
00:33:26,708 --> 00:33:29,610
something going on.
905
00:33:35,318 --> 00:33:36,351
>> NARRATOR: In today's largest
906
00:33:36,385 --> 00:33:37,586
construction sites and
907
00:33:37,620 --> 00:33:39,788
quarries, huge mega-machines
908
00:33:39,855 --> 00:33:42,691
are used to dig, cut, and lift
909
00:33:42,725 --> 00:33:44,059
stone.
910
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,261
These man-made creatures dwarf
911
00:33:46,329 --> 00:33:48,330
their creators and perform the
912
00:33:48,397 --> 00:33:50,432
work of thousands of men using
913
00:33:50,499 --> 00:33:53,802
modern hydraulic technologies.
914
00:33:53,869 --> 00:33:55,604
Without such equipment,
915
00:33:55,638 --> 00:33:57,272
builders could never construct
916
00:33:57,340 --> 00:34:00,709
modern skyscrapers.
917
00:34:00,743 --> 00:34:03,044
Yet, thousands of years ago,
918
00:34:03,079 --> 00:34:04,412
ancient civilizations were
919
00:34:04,447 --> 00:34:05,914
accomplishing the same work
920
00:34:05,982 --> 00:34:07,082
while constructing their
921
00:34:07,116 --> 00:34:08,683
monuments and temples using
922
00:34:08,718 --> 00:34:12,254
massive stones.
923
00:34:12,355 --> 00:34:14,256
These enormous blocks-- many
924
00:34:14,357 --> 00:34:15,824
weighing in excess of 100
925
00:34:15,891 --> 00:34:17,626
tons-- would be a challenge
926
00:34:17,693 --> 00:34:20,695
even for today's engineers.
927
00:34:20,730 --> 00:34:22,731
Yet thousands of years ago,
928
00:34:22,765 --> 00:34:24,366
people cut them out of solid
929
00:34:24,433 --> 00:34:26,468
rock, transported them for
930
00:34:26,535 --> 00:34:28,270
miles and then lifted them
931
00:34:28,371 --> 00:34:30,472
precisely into place.
932
00:34:30,539 --> 00:34:34,276
But how?
933
00:34:34,377 --> 00:34:35,977
Did they cut these massive
934
00:34:36,012 --> 00:34:37,646
stone blocks with hammers,
935
00:34:37,713 --> 00:34:40,015
chisels, and copper wire,
936
00:34:40,082 --> 00:34:41,549
as mainstream archeologists
937
00:34:41,584 --> 00:34:42,751
suggest?
938
00:34:42,785 --> 00:34:43,918
Could they have lifted and
939
00:34:43,953 --> 00:34:45,387
transported them without a
940
00:34:45,454 --> 00:34:48,023
pulley system or the wheel?
941
00:34:48,090 --> 00:34:49,724
Or did ancient civilizations
942
00:34:49,759 --> 00:34:52,093
possess advanced technologies
943
00:34:52,128 --> 00:34:53,561
that have since been lost to
944
00:34:53,596 --> 00:34:55,530
sciee?
945
00:35:01,170 --> 00:35:02,270
>> BAUVAL: At Giza, you just
946
00:35:02,338 --> 00:35:04,072
don't have the pyramids.
947
00:35:04,140 --> 00:35:05,707
Linked to the pyramids are what
948
00:35:05,741 --> 00:35:06,875
Egyptologists call valley
949
00:35:06,909 --> 00:35:07,909
temples.
950
00:35:07,910 --> 00:35:09,544
It doesn't take a rocket
951
00:35:09,612 --> 00:35:10,712
engineer that when you go
952
00:35:10,746 --> 00:35:12,047
there, there's something not
953
00:35:12,081 --> 00:35:14,616
quite right here.
954
00:35:14,717 --> 00:35:16,451
Whereas the pyramids are built
955
00:35:16,485 --> 00:35:18,720
with blocks of two to three
956
00:35:18,754 --> 00:35:21,323
tons, these temples, which are
957
00:35:21,357 --> 00:35:22,357
minute compared to the
958
00:35:22,425 --> 00:35:24,326
pyramids, are built with blocks
959
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,161
of 100 tons and some of them
960
00:35:26,195 --> 00:35:28,363
200 tons.
961
00:35:28,431 --> 00:35:29,798
Let me tell you what a 100-ton
962
00:35:29,832 --> 00:35:30,732
block is.
963
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:32,167
If you take a 100 family cars
964
00:35:32,201 --> 00:35:33,335
and you squeeze them together
965
00:35:33,369 --> 00:35:35,103
you get one of these blocks.
966
00:35:35,137 --> 00:35:37,005
First of all, let alone how
967
00:35:37,073 --> 00:35:38,473
they move these blocks is why
968
00:35:38,541 --> 00:35:40,475
would they want to use 100-ton
969
00:35:40,509 --> 00:35:41,376
blocks?
970
00:35:41,444 --> 00:35:44,913
It simply doesn't make sense.
971
00:35:44,980 --> 00:35:45,814
>> CHILDRESS: There's no
972
00:35:45,848 --> 00:35:47,749
reason for them to want to
973
00:35:47,817 --> 00:35:50,752
build out of granite blocks
974
00:35:50,786 --> 00:35:52,821
the size of a semi truck.
975
00:35:52,922 --> 00:35:54,923
It's like, "Okay, let's do
976
00:35:54,990 --> 00:35:55,990
something, but let's do it as
977
00:35:56,025 --> 00:35:57,926
difficult as we could possibly
978
00:35:57,993 --> 00:35:58,927
do it."
979
00:35:58,961 --> 00:36:00,362
>> TSOUKALOS: The reason why I
980
00:36:00,396 --> 00:36:03,398
am convinced that sophisticated
981
00:36:03,466 --> 00:36:05,800
technology was utilized in
982
00:36:05,835 --> 00:36:08,570
these ancient rocks is because,
983
00:36:08,637 --> 00:36:10,939
if we go to a stone quarry
984
00:36:10,973 --> 00:36:14,175
today d look at the scope of
985
00:36:14,243 --> 00:36:16,611
machinery required to
986
00:36:16,645 --> 00:36:19,347
accomplish similar things,
987
00:36:19,415 --> 00:36:21,783
those machines are huge.
988
00:36:25,421 --> 00:36:26,354
>> NARRATOR: Subscribers to
989
00:36:26,422 --> 00:36:28,189
ancient alien theory do not
990
00:36:28,257 --> 00:36:29,991
believe extraterrestrials built
991
00:36:30,092 --> 00:36:32,093
these amazing monuments, but
992
00:36:32,161 --> 00:36:33,995
instead provided some type of
993
00:36:34,096 --> 00:36:36,164
technological know-how or tools
994
00:36:36,198 --> 00:36:39,367
to our ancestors.
995
00:36:39,435 --> 00:36:41,469
Engineering expert Chris Dunn
996
00:36:41,537 --> 00:36:43,004
has spent several decades
997
00:36:43,105 --> 00:36:44,372
researching the construction
998
00:36:44,440 --> 00:36:46,007
tools used by the ancient
999
00:36:46,041 --> 00:36:47,375
Egyptians.
1000
00:36:47,443 --> 00:36:49,544
>> DUNN: We're normally taught
1001
00:36:49,612 --> 00:36:51,379
by Egyptologists, that the
1002
00:36:51,447 --> 00:36:53,615
ancient Egyptians had simple
1003
00:36:53,649 --> 00:36:54,649
tools.
1004
00:36:54,650 --> 00:36:56,818
They went to work every day
1005
00:36:56,886 --> 00:36:58,887
using stone balls, copper
1006
00:36:58,921 --> 00:37:00,922
chisels or copper tube and sand
1007
00:37:00,990 --> 00:37:04,659
to grind holes in diorite and
1008
00:37:04,727 --> 00:37:06,761
granite, extremely hard rock.
1009
00:37:06,829 --> 00:37:08,563
And what I have actually
1010
00:37:08,631 --> 00:37:10,532
gathered over the years is
1011
00:37:10,566 --> 00:37:12,467
information that seems to
1012
00:37:12,501 --> 00:37:14,102
actually argue against that
1013
00:37:14,170 --> 00:37:16,838
notion that they had simple
1014
00:37:16,906 --> 00:37:19,374
tools.
1015
00:37:19,475 --> 00:37:21,176
>> NARRATOR: In Egypt, Dunn
1016
00:37:21,210 --> 00:37:23,111
was able to examine ancient
1017
00:37:23,179 --> 00:37:26,381
sites firsthand.
1018
00:37:26,482 --> 00:37:27,849
What he found has proved to be
1019
00:37:27,883 --> 00:37:29,484
both revolutionary and
1020
00:37:29,552 --> 00:37:31,920
controversial.
1021
00:37:31,954 --> 00:37:33,922
>> DUNN: If you look at the Giza
1022
00:37:33,956 --> 00:37:35,590
Plateau and all the stones that
1023
00:37:35,658 --> 00:37:38,393
they actually placed in the
1024
00:37:38,494 --> 00:37:40,028
Great Pyramid and the Khafre
1025
00:37:40,062 --> 00:37:42,096
Pyramid and Menkaura's Pyramid,
1026
00:37:42,131 --> 00:37:43,665
two and a half million blocks of
1027
00:37:43,732 --> 00:37:44,866
stone in the Great Pyramid
1028
00:37:44,934 --> 00:37:46,201
alone.
1029
00:37:46,235 --> 00:37:47,502
They had to have had some
1030
00:37:47,536 --> 00:37:49,103
efficient means of cutting them
1031
00:37:49,138 --> 00:37:50,238
to size and putting them into
1032
00:37:50,272 --> 00:37:51,406
place.
1033
00:37:51,507 --> 00:37:52,674
They had to have had somebody on
1034
00:37:52,741 --> 00:37:54,209
site who is saying, "Okay, I
1035
00:37:54,243 --> 00:37:56,678
need a block this size," and
1036
00:37:56,712 --> 00:37:58,680
then getting a block to them
1037
00:37:58,747 --> 00:38:01,683
that size stat, like
1038
00:38:01,717 --> 00:38:04,052
immediately.
1039
00:38:05,120 --> 00:38:06,287
>> NARRATOR: While searching
1040
00:38:06,322 --> 00:38:08,289
several miles north of Giza, at
1041
00:38:08,324 --> 00:38:10,925
Abu Rawash, Dunn stumbled upon a
1042
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:12,760
clue when he spotted a granite
1043
00:38:12,795 --> 00:38:16,764
block containing a deep cut.
1044
00:38:16,866 --> 00:38:18,766
>> DUNN: When I first saw it, I
1045
00:38:18,868 --> 00:38:20,435
just didn't know what to make of
1046
00:38:20,503 --> 00:38:21,569
it.
1047
00:38:21,604 --> 00:38:22,871
And it was only after puzzling
1048
00:38:22,905 --> 00:38:25,240
over it for days, and sometimes
1049
00:38:25,307 --> 00:38:27,442
waking up at 3:00 in the
1050
00:38:27,510 --> 00:38:29,077
morning scratching my head and
1051
00:38:29,111 --> 00:38:30,211
thinming, well, how did they
1052
00:38:30,246 --> 00:38:32,046
make this cut?
1053
00:38:32,081 --> 00:38:34,048
And finally, to realize that the
1054
00:38:34,083 --> 00:38:35,984
only way that they could have
1055
00:38:36,051 --> 00:38:38,319
actually cut that thing was with
1056
00:38:38,354 --> 00:38:39,787
a saw that was 35 feet in
1057
00:38:39,822 --> 00:38:42,223
diameter.
1058
00:38:44,159 --> 00:38:45,793
>> NARRATOR: The idea that
1059
00:38:45,828 --> 00:38:47,228
ancient Egyptians used giant
1060
00:38:47,263 --> 00:38:48,630
saws provoked much resistance
1061
00:38:48,664 --> 00:38:51,499
from mainstream archeologists.
1062
00:38:51,534 --> 00:38:53,968
Dunn however, was convinced.
1063
00:38:54,069 --> 00:38:55,503
>> DUNN: As an ex-machinist I
1064
00:38:55,538 --> 00:38:57,238
look for tool marks.
1065
00:38:57,273 --> 00:38:59,073
I look for them everywhere I go.
1066
00:38:59,141 --> 00:39:01,075
And I could be accused of, well,
1067
00:39:01,143 --> 00:39:02,076
you know, if you're going to
1068
00:39:02,111 --> 00:39:03,077
look for something, you're
1069
00:39:03,145 --> 00:39:04,178
probably going to find it
1070
00:39:04,246 --> 00:39:05,480
because you'reooking at it
1071
00:39:05,514 --> 00:39:06,748
through a certain filter.
1072
00:39:06,782 --> 00:39:08,650
Accepted, I agree.
1073
00:39:08,684 --> 00:39:10,518
But the question is, why is it
1074
00:39:10,586 --> 00:39:13,788
there?
1075
00:39:13,856 --> 00:39:15,156
Clearly, to me, that is a
1076
00:39:15,224 --> 00:39:16,224
machine mark.
1077
00:39:16,292 --> 00:39:17,292
But there were no machines back
1078
00:39:17,326 --> 00:39:18,459
then.
1079
00:39:18,527 --> 00:39:20,228
So what do I do?
1080
00:39:20,296 --> 00:39:21,296
I just go looking for more
1081
00:39:21,330 --> 00:39:22,497
machine marks.
1082
00:39:22,565 --> 00:39:25,600
And they're all over the place.
1083
00:39:25,634 --> 00:39:27,569
You find them on statues.
1084
00:39:27,603 --> 00:39:28,970
You find them particularly in
1085
00:39:29,004 --> 00:39:30,805
the Luxor Museum.
1086
00:39:30,873 --> 00:39:32,941
There's seems to be an
1087
00:39:32,975 --> 00:39:36,244
impression on the side of Amon's
1088
00:39:36,312 --> 00:39:37,612
buttock where it meets the
1089
00:39:37,646 --> 00:39:39,514
bench, where there is an
1090
00:39:39,582 --> 00:39:40,982
undercut.
1091
00:39:41,016 --> 00:39:42,617
It was the slip of a tool.
1092
00:39:42,651 --> 00:39:44,152
And therefore, it must have been
1093
00:39:44,253 --> 00:39:47,522
a tool that was quite efficient.
1094
00:39:47,590 --> 00:39:49,257
>> NARRATOR: Dunn also believes
1095
00:39:49,325 --> 00:39:50,992
that the large depressions in
1096
00:39:51,026 --> 00:39:52,860
the ground at Giza are not boat
1097
00:39:52,895 --> 00:39:54,762
pits as is claimed by mainstream
1098
00:39:54,797 --> 00:39:57,532
archeologists, but were actually
1099
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,535
used to hold the 35-foot saws.
1100
00:40:00,603 --> 00:40:01,869
>> DUNN: I speculate that they
1101
00:40:01,904 --> 00:40:04,339
were actually saw pits.
1102
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:05,773
The saws were mounted in these
1103
00:40:05,808 --> 00:40:08,710
pits, and that they ran the
1104
00:40:08,777 --> 00:40:10,278
blocks through the saw before
1105
00:40:10,346 --> 00:40:11,346
they put them in the Great
1106
00:40:11,447 --> 00:40:12,814
Pyramid.
1107
00:40:12,848 --> 00:40:14,816
>> NARRATOR: Another mystery
1108
00:40:14,850 --> 00:40:16,551
involves how mega-stones were
1109
00:40:16,619 --> 00:40:18,052
lifted up and placed into a
1110
00:40:18,087 --> 00:40:20,388
precise position.
1111
00:40:20,389 --> 00:40:22,557
>> COPPENS: What you find in
1112
00:40:22,625 --> 00:40:23,925
modern construction is that to
1113
00:40:23,993 --> 00:40:25,326
build big buildings, you need to
1114
00:40:25,361 --> 00:40:26,828
build big instruments which help
1115
00:40:26,895 --> 00:40:29,263
build these big buildings.
1116
00:40:29,264 --> 00:40:30,832
And that is something which
1117
00:40:30,899 --> 00:40:33,001
archeology has never addressed.
1118
00:40:33,035 --> 00:40:34,168
>> NARRATOR: The three largest
1119
00:40:34,203 --> 00:40:36,004
man-made stones in the world are
1120
00:40:36,038 --> 00:40:37,839
found at the Temple of Jupiter
1121
00:40:37,873 --> 00:40:40,174
at Baalbek in Lebanon.
1122
00:40:40,209 --> 00:40:42,243
Each weighs an estimated 1,000
1123
00:40:42,277 --> 00:40:45,647
tons-- or two million pounds.
1124
00:40:45,681 --> 00:40:48,182
A nearby quarry contains an even
1125
00:40:48,250 --> 00:40:50,184
bigger stone, known as the Stone
1126
00:40:50,219 --> 00:40:52,754
of the Pregnant Woman.
1127
00:40:52,821 --> 00:40:55,023
This giant rectangular block
1128
00:40:55,057 --> 00:40:58,559
weighs an incredible 1,200 tons.
1129
00:40:58,661 --> 00:41:01,562
To move it today would take the
1130
00:41:01,664 --> 00:41:03,164
strength of 21 heavy-lift
1131
00:41:03,198 --> 00:41:05,566
cranes.
1132
00:41:07,703 --> 00:41:09,037
>> PETER PALUTIKOF: Being in
1133
00:41:09,071 --> 00:41:10,905
the construction industry, if a
1134
00:41:10,939 --> 00:41:12,740
certain project is being
1135
00:41:12,841 --> 00:41:14,442
constructed somewhere,
1136
00:41:14,476 --> 00:41:16,277
particularly in mountainous
1137
00:41:16,311 --> 00:41:19,681
areas, how would we carry this
1138
00:41:19,748 --> 00:41:22,750
machinery, these cranes, and all
1139
00:41:22,851 --> 00:41:24,085
that?
1140
00:41:24,119 --> 00:41:25,586
They are so heavy that it's
1141
00:41:25,654 --> 00:41:27,021
virtually impossible to take
1142
00:41:27,056 --> 00:41:29,023
them to the site.
1143
00:41:29,058 --> 00:41:31,592
>> ROGER HOPKINS: This stone
1144
00:41:31,660 --> 00:41:34,362
came off a project in Palm
1145
00:41:34,396 --> 00:41:36,764
Springs, where they had one of
1146
00:41:36,865 --> 00:41:38,933
the largest excavators they
1147
00:41:39,034 --> 00:41:40,635
could rent.
1148
00:41:40,669 --> 00:41:42,236
They had trouble loading it into
1149
00:41:42,304 --> 00:41:43,871
the truck.
1150
00:41:43,906 --> 00:41:45,306
It's well in excess of five
1151
00:41:45,374 --> 00:41:48,743
tons-- 10,000 pounds--
1152
00:41:48,777 --> 00:41:51,946
small in megalithic terms, but
1153
00:41:51,980 --> 00:41:54,415
basically what we can handle
1154
00:41:54,450 --> 00:41:56,918
with modern machinery.
1155
00:41:56,952 --> 00:41:58,486
>> BAUVAL: We're supposed to
1156
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,788
accept that the people who built
1157
00:42:00,823 --> 00:42:03,124
the pyramids did not have the
1158
00:42:03,158 --> 00:42:06,127
wheel, did not have the pulley,
1159
00:42:06,228 --> 00:42:07,662
did not have iron.
1160
00:42:07,696 --> 00:42:10,965
In fact, they had nothing but
1161
00:42:11,066 --> 00:42:12,500
brutal manpower and pieces
1162
00:42:12,568 --> 00:42:14,235
of strings.
1163
00:42:14,303 --> 00:42:16,070
The complex does not fit the
1164
00:42:16,105 --> 00:42:18,072
evidence.
1165
00:42:18,107 --> 00:42:19,874
>> HOPKINS: I've done pulling
1166
00:42:19,942 --> 00:42:22,243
operations in upper Egypt.
1167
00:42:22,277 --> 00:42:24,245
Thousands of people involved in
1168
00:42:24,313 --> 00:42:25,847
the various stages of the
1169
00:42:25,881 --> 00:42:28,883
project, moving very fragile
1170
00:42:28,951 --> 00:42:30,685
pieces of stone that weigh
1171
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:32,987
hundreds, if not thousands, of
1172
00:42:33,021 --> 00:42:34,255
tons.
1173
00:42:34,289 --> 00:42:36,324
Yes, you can use ropes, but
1174
00:42:36,358 --> 00:42:38,693
you're going to have to use
1175
00:42:38,761 --> 00:42:43,431
other mechanical advantages.
1176
00:42:43,465 --> 00:42:44,966
>> NARRATOR: But if ancient
1177
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:46,701
civilizations did not possess
1178
00:42:46,769 --> 00:42:48,703
modern mechanical equipment, how
1179
00:42:48,771 --> 00:42:51,139
did they move and lift mega-ton
1180
00:42:51,173 --> 00:42:52,874
stones?
1181
00:42:52,908 --> 00:42:54,442
Some believe they were given a
1182
00:42:54,510 --> 00:42:55,977
technical advantage from
1183
00:42:56,044 --> 00:42:58,279
extraterrestrial visitors.
1184
00:42:58,347 --> 00:42:59,447
>> CHILDRESS: You've got to ask
1185
00:42:59,481 --> 00:43:01,716
yourself, why would they try and
1186
00:43:01,784 --> 00:43:03,151
do something that seems so
1187
00:43:03,185 --> 00:43:05,920
incredibly difficult?
1188
00:43:05,988 --> 00:43:08,189
The answer to why they would do
1189
00:43:08,223 --> 00:43:11,726
that has to be that it somehow
1190
00:43:11,794 --> 00:43:14,195
wasn't so difficult for them.
1191
00:43:14,263 --> 00:43:17,265
It was easy.
1192
00:43:17,332 --> 00:43:20,535
>> TSOUKALOS: There exists one
1193
00:43:20,636 --> 00:43:24,071
very concise description of how
1194
00:43:24,106 --> 00:43:27,008
these massive stones were
1195
00:43:27,042 --> 00:43:29,911
transported from the quarry to
1196
00:43:29,978 --> 00:43:31,879
the building site.
1197
00:43:31,914 --> 00:43:33,548
The master builders had the
1198
00:43:33,649 --> 00:43:36,517
capability of putting some type
1199
00:43:36,552 --> 00:43:38,519
of a white substance--
1200
00:43:38,554 --> 00:43:40,721
paper-like substance onto the
1201
00:43:40,823 --> 00:43:43,724
stones and they rode on it, and
1202
00:43:43,826 --> 00:43:46,194
then they basically gave the
1203
00:43:46,228 --> 00:43:48,529
stone block a push and it moved
1204
00:43:48,564 --> 00:43:52,366
by six feet as if by magic.
1205
00:43:52,401 --> 00:43:55,002
Now did that thing really move
1206
00:43:55,037 --> 00:43:56,571
by magic?
1207
00:43:56,605 --> 00:44:00,942
No, some technology was used.
1208
00:44:01,009 --> 00:44:02,743
>> CHILDRESS: That is part of
1209
00:44:02,845 --> 00:44:04,111
the solution.
1210
00:44:04,179 --> 00:44:05,947
In order to really move massive
1211
00:44:06,014 --> 00:44:07,915
amounts of stone like that, they
1212
00:44:07,950 --> 00:44:09,550
would have had to have been
1213
00:44:09,585 --> 00:44:12,587
levitated-- somehow made
1214
00:44:12,654 --> 00:44:14,188
weightless-- and then just moved
1215
00:44:14,223 --> 00:44:15,756
through the air by some kind of
1216
00:44:15,858 --> 00:44:19,026
device, perhaps even a handheld
1217
00:44:19,061 --> 00:44:21,095
kind of device, like some beam
1218
00:44:21,129 --> 00:44:23,397
weapon.
1219
00:44:26,869 --> 00:44:28,202
>> NARRATOR: Ancient man's
1220
00:44:28,237 --> 00:44:30,137
method of moving large blocks
1221
00:44:30,205 --> 00:44:32,039
is only one mystery.
1222
00:44:32,074 --> 00:44:34,275
Another surrounds the techniques
1223
00:44:34,309 --> 00:44:36,210
of their stonemasons.
1224
00:44:36,245 --> 00:44:37,378
How did prehistoric
1225
00:44:37,412 --> 00:44:39,046
civilizations cut such
1226
00:44:39,114 --> 00:44:41,282
intricately designed patterns in
1227
00:44:41,316 --> 00:44:43,784
solid granite?
1228
00:44:53,981 --> 00:44:54,982
>> NARRATOR: Palm Springs,
1229
00:44:55,049 --> 00:44:56,416
California.
1230
00:44:57,184 --> 00:44:59,185
Master stonemason and sculptor
1231
00:44:59,219 --> 00:45:01,821
Roger Hopkins uses a variety of
1232
00:45:01,855 --> 00:45:03,623
advanced tools to cut and shape
1233
00:45:03,657 --> 00:45:07,293
hard stones.
1234
00:45:07,361 --> 00:45:09,829
Powered implements such as
1235
00:45:09,863 --> 00:45:11,464
diamon$-tipped wires and
1236
00:45:11,532 --> 00:45:13,633
polishers enable him to fashion
1237
00:45:13,667 --> 00:45:15,802
works of art out of huge granite
1238
00:45:15,836 --> 00:45:17,270
blocks obtained from nearby
1239
00:45:17,338 --> 00:45:19,706
quarries.
1240
00:45:22,109 --> 00:45:23,910
Yet even with these high-tech
1241
00:45:23,978 --> 00:45:26,212
tools, Hopkins cannot replicate
1242
00:45:26,246 --> 00:45:28,081
what ancient civilizations
1243
00:45:28,115 --> 00:45:29,816
accomplished thousands of years
1244
00:45:29,850 --> 00:45:34,087
ago.
1245
00:45:34,121 --> 00:45:35,655
Could these advanced engineering
1246
00:45:35,723 --> 00:45:37,757
methods be the smoking gun that
1247
00:45:37,825 --> 00:45:39,659
proves humans had help from
1248
00:45:39,727 --> 00:45:42,395
alien beings?
1249
00:45:42,429 --> 00:45:45,198
>> HOPKINS: The precision on
1250
00:45:45,232 --> 00:45:46,833
some of the work that I've seen
1251
00:45:46,867 --> 00:45:49,402
is just incredible.
1252
00:45:49,403 --> 00:45:52,105
It's possible to do by hand, but
1253
00:45:52,139 --> 00:45:53,740
it would take an incredible
1254
00:45:53,841 --> 00:45:56,109
amount of time.
1255
00:45:56,176 --> 00:45:58,578
Plus, you have to have years of
1256
00:45:58,612 --> 00:46:00,279
experience to be able to pull it
1257
00:46:00,314 --> 00:46:02,115
off.
1258
00:46:02,182 --> 00:46:03,383
>> TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, the
1259
00:46:03,417 --> 00:46:04,851
most tangible pieces of evidence
1260
00:46:04,918 --> 00:46:07,453
that we have regarding possible
1261
00:46:07,488 --> 00:46:09,756
extraterrestrial technology is
1262
00:46:09,857 --> 00:46:12,291
when we look at the ancient
1263
00:46:12,326 --> 00:46:16,195
stone-cutting techniques.
1264
00:46:16,196 --> 00:46:18,598
Because in some instances, we
1265
00:46:18,632 --> 00:46:21,501
ourselves today could not
1266
00:46:21,568 --> 00:46:23,936
replicate what our ancestors
1267
00:46:23,971 --> 00:46:26,139
allegedly accomplished with
1268
00:46:26,206 --> 00:46:28,574
stonemasonry.
1269
00:46:35,049 --> 00:46:36,883
>> NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a
1270
00:46:36,950 --> 00:46:39,152
large temple complex located on
1271
00:46:39,219 --> 00:46:41,521
a high plateau in Bolivia.
1272
00:46:46,226 --> 00:46:48,661
Mainstream archeologists date
1273
00:46:48,696 --> 00:46:50,229
the site from approximately
1274
00:46:50,264 --> 00:46:53,232
200 BC.
1275
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:54,801
The people who lived here had
1276
00:46:54,868 --> 00:46:56,436
neither a written language nor
1277
00:46:56,470 --> 00:46:58,438
the wheel, yet somehow they
1278
00:46:58,472 --> 00:47:00,139
built one of the world's most
1279
00:47:00,240 --> 00:47:02,442
complex structures.
1280
00:47:05,813 --> 00:47:07,346
Ancient alien theorists view
1281
00:47:07,414 --> 00:47:09,582
Puma Punku as clear proof of
1282
00:47:09,616 --> 00:47:12,251
extraterrestrial influence.
1283
00:47:12,286 --> 00:47:15,788
>> TSOUKALOS: The ruins we find
1284
00:47:15,856 --> 00:47:18,257
at Puma Punku are simply
1285
00:47:18,325 --> 00:47:20,626
extraordinary.
1286
00:47:20,694 --> 00:47:23,529
Puma Punku defies logic.
1287
00:47:28,268 --> 00:47:30,269
>> COPPENS: The interest of Puma
1288
00:47:30,337 --> 00:47:32,004
Punku is not so much that the
1289
00:47:32,039 --> 00:47:33,639
individual stones sorted
1290
00:47:33,674 --> 00:47:34,974
together perfectly, but the fact
1291
00:47:35,008 --> 00:47:36,909
that the stones, as such, are of
1292
00:47:36,977 --> 00:47:39,011
such tremendous design that it
1293
00:47:39,079 --> 00:47:41,013
requires concepts of mathematics
1294
00:47:41,081 --> 00:47:42,915
which are far beyond anything we
1295
00:47:42,983 --> 00:47:45,451
are actually using right now.
1296
00:47:45,452 --> 00:47:46,819
Yet somehow in the past,
1297
00:47:46,854 --> 00:47:48,187
somebody has made that for a
1298
00:47:48,288 --> 00:47:50,189
specific purpose, and in a way
1299
00:47:50,257 --> 00:47:52,191
which even computer programs
1300
00:47:52,259 --> 00:47:53,626
today would kind of go, how is
1301
00:47:53,694 --> 00:47:56,062
this possible?
1302
00:48:02,970 --> 00:48:05,204
>> TSOUKALOS: In the highlands
1303
00:48:05,272 --> 00:48:07,340
of Bolivia, Puma Punku-- some of
1304
00:48:07,374 --> 00:48:10,743
these blocks are over 40 to 50
1305
00:48:10,811 --> 00:48:12,645
tons each.
1306
00:48:12,713 --> 00:48:14,747
What can you tell us about this?
1307
00:48:14,815 --> 00:48:17,016
>> HOPKINS: Boy, they had their
1308
00:48:17,050 --> 00:48:20,253
stone-cutting abilities pretty
1309
00:48:20,287 --> 00:48:22,388
well fine-tuned for 5,000 years
1310
00:48:22,456 --> 00:48:23,723
old.
1311
00:48:23,757 --> 00:48:25,258
I mean, it's almost
1312
00:48:25,292 --> 00:48:27,293
unbelievable.
1313
00:48:27,361 --> 00:48:29,462
But the cutting planes that they
1314
00:48:29,530 --> 00:48:30,563
have on here are very
1315
00:48:30,664 --> 00:48:32,398
impressive.
1316
00:48:32,466 --> 00:48:36,102
And some of the inside cuts--
1317
00:48:36,170 --> 00:48:38,471
see, like in here, all these
1318
00:48:38,539 --> 00:48:41,374
interior cuts-- very hard to do.
1319
00:48:41,408 --> 00:48:42,909
I mean, it would be difficult
1320
00:48:42,943 --> 00:48:44,477
for us with our equipment to get
1321
00:48:44,545 --> 00:48:46,913
that kind of precision.
1322
00:48:50,384 --> 00:48:52,318
>> TSOUKALOS: Let's talk a
1323
00:48:52,386 --> 00:48:53,853
little bit about inside boxes.
1324
00:48:53,921 --> 00:48:55,321
>> HOPKINS: Ew, I was afraid you
1325
00:48:55,389 --> 00:48:56,689
were going to pull something
1326
00:48:56,757 --> 00:48:57,924
like this on me.
1327
00:48:57,958 --> 00:48:59,292
That is a hell of a piece of
1328
00:48:59,326 --> 00:49:01,727
work.
1329
00:49:01,762 --> 00:49:03,462
I mean, if we were to do
1330
00:49:03,497 --> 00:49:05,298
something like that today, we'd
1331
00:49:05,332 --> 00:49:06,732
use-- what they have, these
1332
00:49:06,767 --> 00:49:10,036
computer-driven CNC machines
1333
00:49:10,070 --> 00:49:12,872
which have diamond tips.
1334
00:49:12,906 --> 00:49:14,740
And you have a template that,
1335
00:49:14,775 --> 00:49:16,943
you know, the computer follows.
1336
00:49:16,977 --> 00:49:18,411
Even then, it may not come out
1337
00:49:18,445 --> 00:49:21,113
as perfect.
1338
00:49:21,148 --> 00:49:22,415
>> TSOUKALOS: Because even
1339
00:49:22,449 --> 00:49:23,482
though you can tell that
1340
00:49:23,517 --> 00:49:24,584
obviously this piece broke
1341
00:49:24,651 --> 00:49:25,418
off...
1342
00:49:25,485 --> 00:49:26,319
>> HOPKINS: Mm-hmm.
1343
00:49:26,386 --> 00:49:27,320
>> TSOUKALOS: Nowhere in here
1344
00:49:27,387 --> 00:49:28,888
can you see any imperfection.
1345
00:49:28,956 --> 00:49:30,389
It's like... And by the way,
1346
00:49:30,424 --> 00:49:32,158
when you're there, if you go
1347
00:49:32,226 --> 00:49:33,726
with your finger over these
1348
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:35,695
edges, and you put a little
1349
00:49:35,762 --> 00:49:37,330
pressure on your fingertip, you
1350
00:49:37,397 --> 00:49:38,798
can cut yourself.
1351
00:49:38,866 --> 00:49:41,334
This is how sharp the edges are.
1352
00:49:45,873 --> 00:49:47,340
>> NARRATOR: But where could the
1353
00:49:47,407 --> 00:49:48,808
ancient peoples have developed
1354
00:49:48,876 --> 00:49:51,077
such technology?
1355
00:49:51,144 --> 00:49:52,712
Is it really possible that
1356
00:49:52,779 --> 00:49:54,447
extraterrestrial visitors
1357
00:49:54,514 --> 00:49:56,015
provided different construction
1358
00:49:56,083 --> 00:49:58,451
methods and tools?
1359
00:49:58,452 --> 00:49:59,518
>> MICHAEL DUNN: When I saw
1360
00:49:59,586 --> 00:50:01,621
these blocks, I didn't really
1361
00:50:01,655 --> 00:50:05,024
think that they were cut.
1362
00:50:05,025 --> 00:50:06,726
The first thing really that I
1363
00:50:06,793 --> 00:50:08,961
thought of was this appears very
1364
00:50:08,996 --> 00:50:11,330
similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's
1365
00:50:11,431 --> 00:50:12,965
textile block system of
1366
00:50:13,000 --> 00:50:15,134
construction, which he used in
1367
00:50:15,168 --> 00:50:17,169
his California houses in the
1368
00:50:17,271 --> 00:50:19,972
early 1920s.
1369
00:50:20,007 --> 00:50:22,808
Now what he did was-- he took
1370
00:50:22,876 --> 00:50:27,179
concrete, poured it into molds.
1371
00:50:27,214 --> 00:50:28,814
>> TSOUKALOS: There actually are
1372
00:50:28,882 --> 00:50:32,351
ancient Incan legends that
1373
00:50:32,452 --> 00:50:34,820
suggest that they had the
1374
00:50:34,888 --> 00:50:37,189
capability of softening the
1375
00:50:37,224 --> 00:50:39,558
stone.
1376
00:50:39,626 --> 00:50:42,161
At Sacsayhuaman, for example,
1377
00:50:42,195 --> 00:50:44,196
we find these gigantic stone
1378
00:50:44,231 --> 00:50:45,631
blocks, gigantic stone walls,
1379
00:50:45,699 --> 00:50:48,634
where it looks as if those
1380
00:50:48,669 --> 00:50:51,704
stones were molten, put into
1381
00:50:51,738 --> 00:50:54,373
place, and then the stone
1382
00:50:54,474 --> 00:50:56,709
hardened again.
1383
00:51:01,715 --> 00:51:03,082
>> NARRATOR: Several hundred
1384
00:51:03,116 --> 00:51:05,184
miles north of Puma Punku,
1385
00:51:05,252 --> 00:51:07,186
Machu Picchu sits high atop the
1386
00:51:07,220 --> 00:51:10,022
Peruvian Andes.
1387
00:51:10,057 --> 00:51:12,024
Built by the Incas in the 15th
1388
00:51:12,092 --> 00:51:14,393
century, this stone citadel was
1389
00:51:14,461 --> 00:51:16,529
suddenly abandoned about 100
1390
00:51:16,563 --> 00:51:19,265
years later.
1391
00:51:19,299 --> 00:51:21,734
Like Puma Punku, Machu Picchu
1392
00:51:21,768 --> 00:51:23,402
also has signs of advanced
1393
00:51:23,470 --> 00:51:26,472
engineering and possibly,
1394
00:51:26,540 --> 00:51:30,176
molded stones.
1395
00:51:30,210 --> 00:51:31,911
>> DUNN: I can't help but
1396
00:51:31,945 --> 00:51:33,446
think that whoever was behind
1397
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,448
this thought the process through
1398
00:51:35,482 --> 00:51:36,582
from beginning to end.
1399
00:51:36,616 --> 00:51:38,117
They didn't quarry the rock, and
1400
00:51:38,185 --> 00:51:39,685
then decide, "How the heck are
1401
00:51:39,753 --> 00:51:40,853
we gonna transport this?"
1402
00:51:40,921 --> 00:51:43,756
They knew from beginning to end
1403
00:51:43,857 --> 00:51:45,458
what needed to be done with
1404
00:51:45,492 --> 00:51:47,460
whatever techniques and
1405
00:51:47,494 --> 00:51:48,928
technology they were going to
1406
00:51:48,962 --> 00:51:50,930
use, so that this was no
1407
00:51:51,031 --> 00:51:53,232
big deal.
1408
00:51:53,266 --> 00:51:54,934
In industry today, there's a
1409
00:51:55,035 --> 00:51:57,937
kind of an adage: "Keep it
1410
00:51:58,038 --> 00:51:59,939
simple, stupid."
1411
00:51:59,973 --> 00:52:00,773
>> NARRATOR: Based on his
1412
00:52:00,807 --> 00:52:02,575
experience, Mike Dunn believes
1413
00:52:02,609 --> 00:52:04,143
the simplest way to build the
1414
00:52:04,211 --> 00:52:06,212
great walls of Machu Picchu
1415
00:52:06,279 --> 00:52:07,580
would have been to transport
1416
00:52:07,647 --> 00:52:09,582
small rocks to the site, then
1417
00:52:09,649 --> 00:52:11,484
melt them, and use molds to
1418
00:52:11,518 --> 00:52:13,119
fashion exact size and shape
1419
00:52:13,153 --> 00:52:15,221
needed.
1420
00:52:15,255 --> 00:52:18,157
>> DUNN: That would solve a lot
1421
00:52:18,225 --> 00:52:20,493
of difficulties of constructing
1422
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:21,494
this wall.
1423
00:52:21,561 --> 00:52:24,597
First, you have your shapes, all
1424
00:52:24,631 --> 00:52:26,932
the same size, each shape.
1425
00:52:26,967 --> 00:52:30,136
So you're guaranteed that they
1426
00:52:30,170 --> 00:52:32,505
would fit together as opposed to
1427
00:52:32,572 --> 00:52:36,142
being cut by different artisans.
1428
00:52:36,243 --> 00:52:37,710
>> HOPKINS: Melting the rocks,
1429
00:52:37,778 --> 00:52:39,712
and then pouring them into place
1430
00:52:39,780 --> 00:52:41,781
would take and incredible amount
1431
00:52:41,848 --> 00:52:45,351
of heat just to spool off pieces
1432
00:52:45,419 --> 00:52:47,053
of stone.
1433
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,056
I have a stone torch which I use
1434
00:52:50,123 --> 00:52:53,059
for sometimes shaping granite.
1435
00:52:53,126 --> 00:52:54,860
And, I mean, it generates a
1436
00:52:54,895 --> 00:52:57,797
temperature of in excess of
1437
00:52:57,864 --> 00:53:00,166
3,000 degrees.
1438
00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:05,704
3,000 degrees... that's a lot.
1439
00:53:05,772 --> 00:53:07,540
>> DUNN: When we look back at
1440
00:53:07,607 --> 00:53:09,341
the ancients, and we see a
1441
00:53:09,376 --> 00:53:11,544
technology that they couldn't
1442
00:53:11,611 --> 00:53:14,680
possibly know, there's only
1443
00:53:14,714 --> 00:53:16,549
two possibilities then: either
1444
00:53:16,616 --> 00:53:18,617
God did it-- which we really
1445
00:53:18,652 --> 00:53:21,554
don't think happened-- or some
1446
00:53:21,621 --> 00:53:24,824
high-tech civilization from
1447
00:53:24,858 --> 00:53:26,725
another planet came and showed
1448
00:53:26,793 --> 00:53:28,727
them how to do it, then took
1449
00:53:28,795 --> 00:53:30,062
their materials and tools and
1450
00:53:30,097 --> 00:53:33,899
went back home.
1451
00:53:33,967 --> 00:53:34,967
>> TSOUKALOS: The idea behind
1452
00:53:35,001 --> 00:53:36,535
that is that none of these
1453
00:53:36,636 --> 00:53:37,536
ancient monuments were
1454
00:53:37,637 --> 00:53:39,271
constructed or manufactured by
1455
00:53:39,339 --> 00:53:40,906
extraterrestrials.
1456
00:53:40,974 --> 00:53:43,542
It was us humans who built it
1457
00:53:43,643 --> 00:53:45,644
with extraterrestrial
1458
00:53:45,712 --> 00:53:47,179
technology.
1459
00:53:47,247 --> 00:53:49,248
>> HOPKINS: It's entirely
1460
00:53:49,282 --> 00:53:50,282
possible that there were
1461
00:53:50,350 --> 00:53:52,251
visitations, that they pointed
1462
00:53:52,285 --> 00:53:54,186
out ways to do things, and that
1463
00:53:54,221 --> 00:53:55,988
they wanted to leave some kind
1464
00:53:56,022 --> 00:53:57,022
of a record.
1465
00:53:57,090 --> 00:53:58,657
I mean, if you're gonna leave a
1466
00:53:58,692 --> 00:54:00,559
permanent record, the only way
1467
00:54:00,660 --> 00:54:04,363
you can do that is in stone.
1468
00:54:04,397 --> 00:54:05,564
>> NARRATOR: But if advanced
1469
00:54:05,665 --> 00:54:06,732
beings from another planet
1470
00:54:06,833 --> 00:54:08,267
really did bring their
1471
00:54:08,301 --> 00:54:09,902
technology to Earth, might the
1472
00:54:09,936 --> 00:54:12,004
ancient astronauts have left one
1473
00:54:12,038 --> 00:54:14,640
of their tools behind?
1474
00:54:21,476 --> 00:54:22,342
>> NARRATOR: The methods used
1475
00:54:22,610 --> 00:54:24,044
to build huge megalithic
1476
00:54:24,078 --> 00:54:26,213
structures such as Puma Punku
1477
00:54:26,314 --> 00:54:28,215
and the pyramids of Egypt remain
1478
00:54:28,316 --> 00:54:30,650
a mystery.
1479
00:54:33,521 --> 00:54:35,355
But what about the tools used to
1480
00:54:35,390 --> 00:54:36,623
build them?
1481
00:54:36,657 --> 00:54:38,492
Where are they?
1482
00:54:38,559 --> 00:54:40,560
And might they provide a clue as
1483
00:54:40,628 --> 00:54:41,828
to how these enormous stone
1484
00:54:41,896 --> 00:54:44,031
structures were created?
1485
00:54:47,301 --> 00:54:48,635
>> HOPKINS: A lot of the real
1486
00:54:48,669 --> 00:54:50,937
ancient mysterious work was done
1487
00:54:51,005 --> 00:54:52,939
at a time when there was no
1488
00:54:53,007 --> 00:54:55,842
steel, and the copper they had
1489
00:54:55,910 --> 00:54:58,478
was, yeah, they could harden it
1490
00:54:58,513 --> 00:55:01,214
by cold-hammering it, but still,
1491
00:55:01,315 --> 00:55:03,216
it wouldn't make a dent in rocks
1492
00:55:03,284 --> 00:55:06,553
like basalt and granite.
1493
00:55:07,655 --> 00:55:09,656
So they would have had to use,
1494
00:55:09,690 --> 00:55:11,224
you know, much more laborious
1495
00:55:11,325 --> 00:55:14,194
techniques or they had some sort
1496
00:55:14,295 --> 00:55:16,196
of advanced technology which
1497
00:55:16,297 --> 00:55:18,999
escapes me, and I've been in the
1498
00:55:19,067 --> 00:55:21,935
business 40 years.
1499
00:55:26,074 --> 00:55:27,207
>> DUNN: The tools and machines
1500
00:55:27,275 --> 00:55:29,209
must have been equal to the task
1501
00:55:29,277 --> 00:55:30,844
of actually building the
1502
00:55:30,878 --> 00:55:33,980
pyramids, crafting those statues
1503
00:55:34,015 --> 00:55:35,382
to such a high order of
1504
00:55:35,483 --> 00:55:37,217
precision...
1505
00:55:37,285 --> 00:55:39,219
crafting those boxes to a
1506
00:55:39,287 --> 00:55:41,755
modern-day precision that you
1507
00:55:41,823 --> 00:55:45,559
find in our inspection lab.
1508
00:55:45,593 --> 00:55:47,394
And the big question: Where are
1509
00:55:47,428 --> 00:55:49,396
the tools?
1510
00:55:59,607 --> 00:56:01,241
>> NARRATOR: In the late 19th
1511
00:56:01,275 --> 00:56:03,543
century, British archaeologist
1512
00:56:03,578 --> 00:56:05,912
Sir Flinders Petrie scoured
1513
00:56:05,980 --> 00:56:07,514
Egypt, looking not for the
1514
00:56:07,548 --> 00:56:12,385
biggest items, but the smallest.
1515
00:56:13,921 --> 00:56:15,222
>> CHALLIS: Petrie was
1516
00:56:15,289 --> 00:56:17,257
absolutely fascinated by the
1517
00:56:17,291 --> 00:56:18,358
technical achievements of the
1518
00:56:18,392 --> 00:56:20,260
Egyptians, particularly the
1519
00:56:20,294 --> 00:56:22,262
early Egtians.
1520
00:56:22,263 --> 00:56:24,231
He constantly was looking for
1521
00:56:24,265 --> 00:56:26,066
how they made things, how they
1522
00:56:26,134 --> 00:56:27,534
developed things, how they
1523
00:56:27,568 --> 00:56:29,870
continued to sort of basically
1524
00:56:29,904 --> 00:56:31,905
perfect their tools.
1525
00:56:31,973 --> 00:56:32,973
>> DUNN: We're normally taught
1526
00:56:33,007 --> 00:56:35,041
that the ancient Egyptians had
1527
00:56:35,076 --> 00:56:38,345
simple tools, and what Petrie
1528
00:56:38,412 --> 00:56:40,680
brought out is information that
1529
00:56:40,715 --> 00:56:42,883
seems to actually argue against
1530
00:56:42,917 --> 00:56:45,986
that notion.
1531
00:56:50,758 --> 00:56:52,425
>> CHALLIS: This is an example
1532
00:56:52,460 --> 00:56:53,727
of a drill hole.
1533
00:56:53,761 --> 00:56:55,428
You can see the very fine lines
1534
00:56:55,463 --> 00:56:55,896
on it.
1535
00:56:55,997 --> 00:56:57,531
You can see the technology
1536
00:56:57,598 --> 00:56:59,099
that's made to use it.
1537
00:56:59,167 --> 00:57:00,800
You can see how it's a
1538
00:57:00,868 --> 00:57:02,369
perfect hole almost all the way
1539
00:57:02,436 --> 00:57:03,803
through, but it tapers at
1540
00:57:03,871 --> 00:57:04,538
one end.
1541
00:57:04,572 --> 00:57:06,106
This is a fragment of a
1542
00:57:06,174 --> 00:57:06,740
diorite bowl.
1543
00:57:06,774 --> 00:57:08,275
It's one of the hardest
1544
00:57:08,342 --> 00:57:10,010
substances, and you can see on
1545
00:57:10,044 --> 00:57:12,379
this, on this fragment that
1546
00:57:12,446 --> 00:57:13,747
there's a, a lathe mark, which
1547
00:57:13,814 --> 00:57:15,015
is really interesting that they
1548
00:57:15,082 --> 00:57:16,917
managed to make such a mark in
1549
00:57:17,018 --> 00:57:20,353
such a hard material.
1550
00:57:20,388 --> 00:57:22,289
>> NARRATOR: Among all the tools
1551
00:57:22,356 --> 00:57:23,790
discovered by Petrie, however,
1552
00:57:23,824 --> 00:57:26,927
one stood out from all the rest.
1553
00:57:26,994 --> 00:57:29,095
While working inside the Great
1554
00:57:29,197 --> 00:57:31,731
Pyramid, Petrie stumbled across
1555
00:57:31,799 --> 00:57:37,270
a tubular drill made of granite.
1556
00:57:37,338 --> 00:57:38,271
>> CHALLIS: Tubular drills
1557
00:57:38,339 --> 00:57:39,539
amongst the ancient Egyptians
1558
00:57:39,574 --> 00:57:40,907
were actually fairly common.
1559
00:57:40,975 --> 00:57:42,909
I mean, Petrie found quite a few
1560
00:57:42,944 --> 00:57:43,677
of them.
1561
00:57:43,711 --> 00:57:45,078
The interesting thing about the
1562
00:57:45,179 --> 00:57:46,613
one that he found in Giza is
1563
00:57:46,681 --> 00:57:48,715
that it's such hard stone that
1564
00:57:48,783 --> 00:57:50,784
was so carefully carved,
1565
00:57:50,818 --> 00:57:52,886
precisely grooved.
1566
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:54,888
As you can see, it's got very,
1567
00:57:54,956 --> 00:57:57,257
very fine markings on it,
1568
00:57:57,358 --> 00:57:58,992
basically lines, literally a
1569
00:57:59,060 --> 00:58:01,261
couple of millimeters apart.
1570
00:58:01,362 --> 00:58:03,730
You can see it goes all the way
1571
00:58:03,764 --> 00:58:06,533
round very, very accurately,
1572
00:58:06,601 --> 00:58:08,635
hardly any waves at all.
1573
00:58:08,703 --> 00:58:10,537
He was absolutely amazed by
1574
00:58:10,571 --> 00:58:11,371
this.
1575
00:58:11,405 --> 00:58:13,106
He kept returning to it
1576
00:58:13,174 --> 00:58:14,908
throughout his life.
1577
00:58:14,976 --> 00:58:17,277
His theory was that the
1578
00:58:17,378 --> 00:58:19,112
Egyptians must have had access
1579
00:58:19,180 --> 00:58:20,747
to diamonds or some kind of
1580
00:58:20,815 --> 00:58:22,749
jewel that would have cut it.
1581
00:58:22,817 --> 00:58:24,551
The interesting thing about
1582
00:58:24,619 --> 00:58:27,654
Petrie's theory about how these
1583
00:58:27,722 --> 00:58:29,389
drill lines are made was that he
1584
00:58:29,457 --> 00:58:30,290
never discovered any diamonds
1585
00:58:30,358 --> 00:58:32,559
in ancient Egypt.
1586
00:58:34,195 --> 00:58:35,662
So where were they?
1587
00:58:35,730 --> 00:58:36,730
Where did they go?
1588
00:58:36,764 --> 00:58:39,666
We don't know.
1589
00:58:39,734 --> 00:58:41,067
>> NARRATOR: If the ancient
1590
00:58:41,102 --> 00:58:42,068
Egyptians didn't possess
1591
00:58:42,136 --> 00:58:43,870
diamonds, how were the
1592
00:58:43,904 --> 00:58:46,273
precision grooves cut onto the
1593
00:58:46,340 --> 00:58:47,440
granite drill?
1594
00:58:47,475 --> 00:58:49,609
Did Petrie accidentally discover
1595
00:58:49,644 --> 00:58:51,144
a tool made by
1596
00:58:51,178 --> 00:58:53,280
extraterrestrials?
1597
00:58:53,347 --> 00:58:55,715
Machinist expert Chris Dunn
1598
00:58:55,783 --> 00:58:57,317
attempted to answer this
1599
00:58:57,351 --> 00:58:58,718
question by creating his own
1600
00:58:58,753 --> 00:59:01,154
granite drill using the known
1601
00:59:01,188 --> 00:59:02,522
tools and techniques of the
1602
00:59:02,556 --> 00:59:06,960
ancient Egyptians.
1603
00:59:06,961 --> 00:59:09,095
>> DUNN: In order to test the
1604
00:59:09,163 --> 00:59:11,064
Egyptologist theory about how
1605
00:59:11,098 --> 00:59:12,465
the ancient Egyptians drilled
1606
00:59:12,500 --> 00:59:14,834
into granite, I took a tube and
1607
00:59:14,902 --> 00:59:19,072
I fixed a crank on it, and
1608
00:59:19,106 --> 00:59:21,641
actually used sand and silicon
1609
00:59:21,676 --> 00:59:23,376
carbide, and after many hours of
1610
00:59:23,444 --> 00:59:26,179
turning and drilling into this
1611
00:59:26,247 --> 00:59:28,648
piece of granite, finally got
1612
00:59:28,683 --> 00:59:30,383
deep enough that I could
1613
00:59:30,451 --> 00:59:31,918
actually pop a core out.
1614
00:59:31,952 --> 00:59:34,354
And the reason for that was to
1615
00:59:34,388 --> 00:59:35,722
actually look at the surface,
1616
00:59:35,756 --> 00:59:37,557
not just of the whole, but of
1617
00:59:37,625 --> 00:59:39,659
the core.
1618
00:59:39,660 --> 00:59:41,528
>> NARRATOR: The next step was
1619
00:59:41,562 --> 00:59:43,029
to use a high-tech industrial
1620
00:59:43,097 --> 00:59:45,098
microscope to compare his drill
1621
00:59:45,132 --> 00:59:47,200
core to a latex copy of the one
1622
00:59:47,268 --> 00:59:49,102
at the Petrie Museum.
1623
00:59:49,170 --> 00:59:50,837
>> DUNN: We have under the
1624
00:59:50,871 --> 00:59:52,572
microscope the core that we
1625
00:59:52,640 --> 00:59:54,474
drilled with the copper tube
1626
00:59:54,542 --> 00:59:55,675
and sand.
1627
00:59:55,743 --> 00:59:57,210
And as you can see, the surface
1628
00:59:57,278 --> 01:00:00,847
of the core, the striations are
1629
01:00:00,881 --> 01:00:03,950
not very clear.
1630
01:00:03,984 --> 01:00:06,353
There's nothinreally
1631
01:00:06,420 --> 01:00:08,988
distinctive in terms of the feed
1632
01:00:09,023 --> 01:00:11,791
of the tool marks using
1633
01:00:11,826 --> 01:00:15,562
sand and, and copper.
1634
01:00:15,629 --> 01:00:17,163
Now bringing the latex that they
1635
01:00:17,198 --> 01:00:19,733
took of the core in the Petrie
1636
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:23,169
Museum, and we see something
1637
01:00:23,270 --> 01:00:24,537
totally different.
1638
01:00:24,605 --> 01:00:27,741
The striations are very clear
1639
01:00:27,808 --> 01:00:30,110
and they're quite deep.
1640
01:00:30,144 --> 01:00:31,911
The devil is actually in the
1641
01:00:31,979 --> 01:00:34,013
details, and the details of this
1642
01:00:34,115 --> 01:00:36,649
particular artifact are what I
1643
01:00:36,684 --> 01:00:39,119
consider to be a smoking gun
1644
01:00:39,186 --> 01:00:42,455
in terms of what level of
1645
01:00:42,490 --> 01:00:44,190
technology we give the ancient
1646
01:00:44,225 --> 01:00:46,926
Egyptians credit for.
1647
01:00:49,463 --> 01:00:50,930
>> NARRATOR: Intrigued by his
1648
01:00:50,998 --> 01:00:53,099
discovery, Chris Dunn performed
1649
01:00:53,167 --> 01:00:55,168
other experiments using his
1650
01:00:55,202 --> 01:00:58,037
precision instruments.
1651
01:00:58,072 --> 01:01:00,473
>> DUNN: As you can see, this
1652
01:01:00,541 --> 01:01:03,109
is a... an inspection surface
1653
01:01:03,144 --> 01:01:07,213
plate, uh, probably ground to
1654
01:01:07,314 --> 01:01:09,916
within 2/10,000 of an inch.
1655
01:01:09,950 --> 01:01:12,218
That is one-tenth the thickness
1656
01:01:12,253 --> 01:01:15,221
of a human hair.
1657
01:01:15,256 --> 01:01:18,091
Now, I was really amazed when I
1658
01:01:18,125 --> 01:01:20,660
went inside the serapeum and put
1659
01:01:20,728 --> 01:01:22,762
these gauges up against the
1660
01:01:22,830 --> 01:01:26,232
surface, and found them to be
1661
01:01:26,267 --> 01:01:28,868
within what I consider to be the
1662
01:01:28,903 --> 01:01:30,837
tolerance of these particular
1663
01:01:30,871 --> 01:01:33,206
gauges.
1664
01:01:33,240 --> 01:01:35,408
If you would put a piece of
1665
01:01:35,509 --> 01:01:37,877
paper under one edge of that
1666
01:01:37,945 --> 01:01:41,414
blade-- just a piece of paper--
1667
01:01:41,515 --> 01:01:44,017
you begin to see that there
1668
01:01:44,051 --> 01:01:45,585
was... would be light leaking
1669
01:01:45,686 --> 01:01:47,420
through.
1670
01:01:47,488 --> 01:01:50,423
And so, the precision on the
1671
01:01:50,491 --> 01:01:52,692
inside of the granite boxes in
1672
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:56,863
the serapeum are, I would say,
1673
01:01:56,897 --> 01:02:01,701
within 2/1,000 of an inch,
1674
01:02:01,735 --> 01:02:03,603
which is incredible because
1675
01:02:03,637 --> 01:02:05,305
those tolerances can't just
1676
01:02:05,339 --> 01:02:09,242
appear by accident.
1677
01:02:09,310 --> 01:02:11,511
It was very shocking.
1678
01:02:11,579 --> 01:02:13,713
It was astounding to me to go to
1679
01:02:13,781 --> 01:02:15,982
Egypt and, uh, go into a
1680
01:02:16,050 --> 01:02:18,251
facility that was supposedly
1681
01:02:18,285 --> 01:02:21,120
3,000 years old and find the
1682
01:02:21,155 --> 01:02:23,756
same kind of precision.
1683
01:02:23,791 --> 01:02:27,994
I was amazed.
1684
01:02:30,130 --> 01:02:31,698
>> HOPKINS: I've seen evidence
1685
01:02:31,765 --> 01:02:34,267
of the carvings on granite done
1686
01:02:34,301 --> 01:02:36,703
in Egypt, and they did... they
1687
01:02:36,770 --> 01:02:38,505
did it with little shards of,
1688
01:02:38,539 --> 01:02:40,507
uh... of quartz.
1689
01:02:40,541 --> 01:02:41,808
I believe they would have just
1690
01:02:41,909 --> 01:02:43,576
scratched away the stone with
1691
01:02:43,611 --> 01:02:44,777
that.
1692
01:02:44,812 --> 01:02:46,479
That... that's one possibility,
1693
01:02:46,514 --> 01:02:48,481
but I mean, that's... that...
1694
01:02:48,516 --> 01:02:49,949
that's a heck of a lot of work
1695
01:02:49,984 --> 01:02:51,217
to do that.
1696
01:02:51,285 --> 01:02:52,485
I mean, we're talking, somebody
1697
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:53,887
would devote years to doing
1698
01:02:53,954 --> 01:02:55,688
something like that.
1699
01:02:55,756 --> 01:02:57,156
>> TSOUKALOS: But here is my
1700
01:02:57,224 --> 01:02:58,691
point.
1701
01:02:58,726 --> 01:03:00,560
Here we have a real-life
1702
01:03:00,628 --> 01:03:01,828
stonecutter-- you.
1703
01:03:01,896 --> 01:03:02,829
>> HOPKINS: Yeah.
1704
01:03:02,897 --> 01:03:04,163
>> TSOUKALOS: You see this, and
1705
01:03:04,265 --> 01:03:05,698
there's, like, smoke coming out
1706
01:03:05,733 --> 01:03:07,166
of your head.
1707
01:03:07,201 --> 01:03:08,268
>> HOPKINS: Let's put it this
1708
01:03:08,302 --> 01:03:09,969
way-- I had a client come in and
1709
01:03:10,004 --> 01:03:11,538
ask me to do that, I wouldn't do
1710
01:03:11,605 --> 01:03:12,972
it for any amount of money
1711
01:03:13,007 --> 01:03:14,274
because I'm not going to waste
1712
01:03:14,308 --> 01:03:15,375
my life trying to replicate
1713
01:03:15,442 --> 01:03:17,610
that.
1714
01:03:17,645 --> 01:03:19,612
>> NARRATOR: But precision-cut
1715
01:03:19,647 --> 01:03:21,748
stone monuments are not the only
1716
01:03:21,815 --> 01:03:23,283
enduring Middle Eastern
1717
01:03:23,350 --> 01:03:24,817
mysteries.
1718
01:03:24,852 --> 01:03:27,287
Engineering experts have also
1719
01:03:27,354 --> 01:03:29,188
examined the Bible story of the
1720
01:03:29,290 --> 01:03:32,025
Israelites' exodus from Egypt.
1721
01:03:32,059 --> 01:03:34,627
Just how did they survive for 40
1722
01:03:34,662 --> 01:03:36,563
years in the desert?
1723
01:03:36,630 --> 01:03:38,197
Could they have possessed
1724
01:03:38,232 --> 01:03:39,632
intricate machines with
1725
01:03:39,667 --> 01:03:41,568
extraordinary abilities, used
1726
01:03:41,635 --> 01:03:43,169
not for building, but for man's
1727
01:03:43,203 --> 01:03:45,838
own survival?
1728
01:03:51,199 --> 01:03:52,032
>> NARRATOR: In the Hebrew
1729
01:03:52,066 --> 01:03:53,967
Bible, the Book of Exodus
1730
01:03:54,035 --> 01:03:55,536
describes how the Jewish people
1731
01:03:55,603 --> 01:03:57,237
suffered as slaves living in
1732
01:03:57,305 --> 01:04:01,108
Egypt.
1733
01:04:01,142 --> 01:04:02,676
Then sometime in the 14th
1734
01:04:02,777 --> 01:04:05,579
century BC, the ruling pharaoh
1735
01:04:05,647 --> 01:04:07,181
feared their growing numbers
1736
01:04:07,215 --> 01:04:08,682
and ordered the killing of all
1737
01:04:08,716 --> 01:04:10,684
first-born Jews living in Egypt.
1738
01:04:13,154 --> 01:04:15,322
In an effort to save her son,
1739
01:04:15,356 --> 01:04:16,957
one mother put her child in a
1740
01:04:17,025 --> 01:04:19,560
small basket and set him adrift
1741
01:04:19,594 --> 01:04:22,229
on the Nile River.
1742
01:04:24,132 --> 01:04:25,566
That child was found by the
1743
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,568
pharaoh's family, who named him
1744
01:04:27,602 --> 01:04:29,570
Moses and raised him as their
1745
01:04:29,604 --> 01:04:31,138
own.
1746
01:04:31,206 --> 01:04:33,340
As an adult, Moses discovered
1747
01:04:33,408 --> 01:04:35,742
his true identity and demanded
1748
01:04:35,777 --> 01:04:38,212
that the pharaoh free the Jews.
1749
01:04:38,246 --> 01:04:40,047
When the pharaoh rejected him,
1750
01:04:40,148 --> 01:04:41,882
Moses helped the Jews escape
1751
01:04:41,950 --> 01:04:42,683
from Egypt.
1752
01:04:42,717 --> 01:04:44,585
(thunder cracks)
1753
01:04:44,619 --> 01:04:46,687
Historians believe that Moses
1754
01:04:46,721 --> 01:04:48,589
and his people crossed the Red
1755
01:04:48,623 --> 01:04:50,424
Sea and made their way into the
1756
01:04:50,491 --> 01:04:52,593
Sinai Desert.
1757
01:04:52,660 --> 01:04:54,595
According to the ancient text,
1758
01:04:54,662 --> 01:04:56,597
God grew angry at the Jews for
1759
01:04:56,664 --> 01:04:58,899
idol-worshipping and forced them
1760
01:04:58,967 --> 01:05:00,701
to wander the desert aimlessly
1761
01:05:00,768 --> 01:05:02,703
for 40 years before allowing
1762
01:05:02,770 --> 01:05:05,038
them to enter Israel.
1763
01:05:05,073 --> 01:05:07,241
During this time, the Bible says
1764
01:05:07,342 --> 01:05:08,609
the Israelites survived by
1765
01:05:08,676 --> 01:05:10,711
eating a single food source:
1766
01:05:10,745 --> 01:05:11,712
manna.
1767
01:05:11,779 --> 01:05:13,814
But what is manna?
1768
01:05:13,882 --> 01:05:15,249
A naturally abundant food
1769
01:05:15,350 --> 01:05:17,784
provided by God or, as some
1770
01:05:17,819 --> 01:05:19,319
believe, an advanced
1771
01:05:19,354 --> 01:05:21,622
food-dispensing machine?
1772
01:05:21,623 --> 01:05:22,856
>> PARFITT: In the Bible, it
1773
01:05:22,891 --> 01:05:25,325
explains how the Israelites
1774
01:05:25,393 --> 01:05:26,760
got from Egypt, where they'd
1775
01:05:26,828 --> 01:05:28,595
been slaves, to the Promised
1776
01:05:28,663 --> 01:05:29,863
Land.
1777
01:05:29,898 --> 01:05:32,032
They had to cross the Sinai
1778
01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:34,768
Desert.
1779
01:05:34,769 --> 01:05:37,004
And inevitably, given that there
1780
01:05:37,038 --> 01:05:40,107
was a lot of Israelites and very
1781
01:05:40,174 --> 01:05:41,208
little growing, as it was a
1782
01:05:41,309 --> 01:05:42,943
desert, they ran short on
1783
01:05:43,011 --> 01:05:43,911
supplies.
1784
01:05:43,945 --> 01:05:46,113
God stepped in at this point and
1785
01:05:46,180 --> 01:05:48,582
sent manna from heaven.
1786
01:05:48,650 --> 01:05:50,284
This took the form of some kind
1787
01:05:50,351 --> 01:05:52,920
of seeds that rained down upon
1788
01:05:52,954 --> 01:05:53,854
the desert.
1789
01:05:53,888 --> 01:05:55,389
And then they were collected the
1790
01:05:55,423 --> 01:05:56,189
next day.
1791
01:05:56,224 --> 01:05:57,991
And they provided food for the
1792
01:05:58,026 --> 01:06:00,027
Israelites, except Friday, when
1793
01:06:00,061 --> 01:06:01,862
there was a double portion,
1794
01:06:01,930 --> 01:06:03,397
because on Saturday, being
1795
01:06:03,498 --> 01:06:07,834
the Sabbath, it didn't fall.
1796
01:06:07,869 --> 01:06:08,769
>> NARRATOR: While the Hebrew
1797
01:06:08,836 --> 01:06:10,304
Bible fails to give a clear
1798
01:06:10,371 --> 01:06:12,839
description of manna, another
1799
01:06:12,874 --> 01:06:14,841
ancient Jewish text provides
1800
01:06:14,876 --> 01:06:17,411
an alternative clue.
1801
01:06:17,478 --> 01:06:19,379
The Zohar is a collection
1802
01:06:19,414 --> 01:06:21,281
of spiritual commentaries and
1803
01:06:21,316 --> 01:06:23,583
interpretations of the Torah,
1804
01:06:23,685 --> 01:06:25,419
and is central to the mystical
1805
01:06:25,486 --> 01:06:27,054
Kabbalah belief written in the
1806
01:06:27,088 --> 01:06:28,689
13th century.
1807
01:06:28,756 --> 01:06:30,424
The Zohar describes what is
1808
01:06:30,458 --> 01:06:32,225
called the Ancient of Days
1809
01:06:32,260 --> 01:06:34,328
as providing the manna,
1810
01:06:34,395 --> 01:06:36,063
but what was this Ancient of
1811
01:06:36,097 --> 01:06:37,230
Days?
1812
01:06:37,298 --> 01:06:41,268
A man, a god or something else?
1813
01:06:41,269 --> 01:06:43,470
>> TSOUKALOS: The text speaks of
1814
01:06:43,504 --> 01:06:46,139
different-sized brains,
1815
01:06:46,207 --> 01:06:48,608
different-sized faces that were
1816
01:06:48,710 --> 01:06:52,112
connected with different tubes
1817
01:06:52,146 --> 01:06:54,681
and different light sources.
1818
01:06:54,716 --> 01:06:56,350
Theologians have suggested that
1819
01:06:56,417 --> 01:06:59,219
this is a description of God.
1820
01:06:59,253 --> 01:07:01,788
However, when looked at from a
1821
01:07:01,889 --> 01:07:04,491
modern perspective, what is
1822
01:07:04,525 --> 01:07:07,060
described in the Zohar isn't
1823
01:07:07,095 --> 01:07:10,630
necessarily a god figure,
1824
01:07:10,698 --> 01:07:14,067
but rather a type of machine.
1825
01:07:14,102 --> 01:07:15,235
>> NARRATOR: Intrigued by this
1826
01:07:15,269 --> 01:07:17,270
information, two electrical
1827
01:07:17,338 --> 01:07:19,706
engineers, George Sassoon and
1828
01:07:19,741 --> 01:07:22,242
Rodney Dale, used the anatomical
1829
01:07:22,276 --> 01:07:23,677
descriptions of the Ancient of
1830
01:07:23,711 --> 01:07:25,779
Days to design what they called
1831
01:07:25,813 --> 01:07:29,716
a manna machine.
1832
01:07:29,784 --> 01:07:31,685
>> DALE: This really is-is the
1833
01:07:31,719 --> 01:07:33,253
key diagram of the manna
1834
01:07:33,321 --> 01:07:35,455
machine, as we built it up from
1835
01:07:35,523 --> 01:07:36,790
the text.
1836
01:07:36,824 --> 01:07:39,693
For instance, one here is the
1837
01:07:39,727 --> 01:07:41,461
mouth, but it's actually
1838
01:07:41,529 --> 01:07:43,163
the air intake, which carries
1839
01:07:43,264 --> 01:07:46,266
what is described as the breath
1840
01:07:46,334 --> 01:07:47,267
of life.
1841
01:07:47,335 --> 01:07:50,170
The air goes up this tube here,
1842
01:07:50,204 --> 01:07:51,972
which is described as
1843
01:07:52,006 --> 01:07:53,807
the-the brain of the Ancient
1844
01:07:53,875 --> 01:07:56,176
One, but is actually a dew
1845
01:07:56,210 --> 01:07:57,110
still.
1846
01:07:57,178 --> 01:07:58,278
So that although we're talking
1847
01:07:58,312 --> 01:08:00,380
about the great sea and the
1848
01:08:00,448 --> 01:08:01,815
hairs of the beard and so on,
1849
01:08:01,849 --> 01:08:03,383
at the same time, we were able
1850
01:08:03,451 --> 01:08:05,452
to work out their relative
1851
01:08:05,486 --> 01:08:07,988
positions and build out the
1852
01:08:08,022 --> 01:08:09,723
specification of the machine,
1853
01:08:09,791 --> 01:08:11,358
and find that we had something
1854
01:08:11,392 --> 01:08:14,294
that was biochemically viable.
1855
01:08:18,800 --> 01:08:21,735
(speaking German)
1856
01:08:21,803 --> 01:08:22,569
>> TRANSLATOR: The machine
1857
01:08:22,637 --> 01:08:24,371
sucked in moist morning air and
1858
01:08:24,472 --> 01:08:25,572
condensed in the upper part
1859
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:27,074
of the machine that looked like
1860
01:08:27,108 --> 01:08:30,577
a Plexiglas dome.
1861
01:08:30,578 --> 01:08:31,945
From there, it was led down to
1862
01:08:32,013 --> 01:08:34,381
an algae culture.
1863
01:08:34,482 --> 01:08:35,816
The algae culture was treated
1864
01:08:35,850 --> 01:08:37,350
with energy, such as a strong
1865
01:08:37,385 --> 01:08:39,186
laser light, in order to speed
1866
01:08:39,220 --> 01:08:41,354
the growth.
1867
01:08:43,825 --> 01:08:44,858
>> DALE: Of course, it needed
1868
01:08:44,926 --> 01:08:46,293
energy for cultivating the
1869
01:08:46,360 --> 01:08:47,360
algae.
1870
01:08:47,395 --> 01:08:49,763
And this was produced, we
1871
01:08:49,831 --> 01:08:51,398
postulate, in a small nuclear
1872
01:08:51,499 --> 01:08:52,866
reactor, which would produce
1873
01:08:52,934 --> 01:08:55,569
both heat and light as required.
1874
01:08:57,939 --> 01:09:00,307
(Fiebag speaking German)
1875
01:09:00,374 --> 01:09:01,374
>> TRANSLATOR: The manna machine
1876
01:09:01,409 --> 01:09:03,477
is a very dangerous device.
1877
01:09:03,511 --> 01:09:05,045
We suspect that the reactor that
1878
01:09:05,113 --> 01:09:06,279
powered the machine was
1879
01:09:06,314 --> 01:09:07,948
transported in the Ark of the
1880
01:09:08,015 --> 01:09:10,283
Covenant.
1881
01:09:13,688 --> 01:09:14,921
>> TSOUKALOS: We have multiple
1882
01:09:14,956 --> 01:09:17,057
references in the Bible that
1883
01:09:17,125 --> 01:09:19,392
whoever came close to the Ark of
1884
01:09:19,427 --> 01:09:22,395
the Covenant and didn't know how
1885
01:09:22,430 --> 01:09:24,397
to operate it was smitten to
1886
01:09:24,432 --> 01:09:25,031
death.
1887
01:09:25,066 --> 01:09:27,234
(thunder cracks)
1888
01:09:27,268 --> 01:09:30,403
And sometimes people, after they
1889
01:09:30,471 --> 01:09:32,772
encountered the Ark, started to
1890
01:09:32,874 --> 01:09:35,041
lose their nails and started to
1891
01:09:35,076 --> 01:09:36,243
lose their hair.
1892
01:09:36,310 --> 01:09:39,779
So we have evidence of some type
1893
01:09:39,881 --> 01:09:41,615
of radiation poisoning which
1894
01:09:41,682 --> 01:09:43,884
was in direct correlation with
1895
01:09:43,951 --> 01:09:45,252
the Ark of the Covenant.
1896
01:09:45,319 --> 01:09:47,621
And so, the Ark of the Covenant
1897
01:09:47,688 --> 01:09:50,056
housed an extraterrestrial
1898
01:09:50,124 --> 01:09:52,058
device which was given to the
1899
01:09:52,126 --> 01:09:54,761
Israelites during their 40-year
1900
01:09:54,862 --> 01:09:58,031
wandering through the desert.
1901
01:09:58,099 --> 01:09:59,633
>> NARRATOR: The manna machine
1902
01:09:59,667 --> 01:10:01,234
is believed to have supplied a
1903
01:10:01,302 --> 01:10:02,769
highly nutritious form of green
1904
01:10:02,837 --> 01:10:05,038
algae, or chlorella, as its food
1905
01:10:05,072 --> 01:10:06,373
source.
1906
01:10:06,407 --> 01:10:07,574
It's yet another theory
1907
01:10:07,608 --> 01:10:10,777
supported by modern science.
1908
01:10:10,845 --> 01:10:12,512
>> DALE: We found that work in
1909
01:10:12,580 --> 01:10:14,581
the field of space travel had
1910
01:10:14,649 --> 01:10:16,583
already been done, where the
1911
01:10:16,651 --> 01:10:18,785
green algae-- chlorella-- was
1912
01:10:18,853 --> 01:10:22,789
bred in tanks and fed to people
1913
01:10:22,857 --> 01:10:26,059
living in a closed environment
1914
01:10:26,093 --> 01:10:28,495
and kept them alive.
1915
01:10:28,563 --> 01:10:29,496
>> NARRATOR: Research studies
1916
01:10:29,564 --> 01:10:31,965
done by NASA in the 1960s and
1917
01:10:31,999 --> 01:10:34,568
1970s established that human
1918
01:10:34,602 --> 01:10:35,869
life could be sustained for
1919
01:10:35,937 --> 01:10:37,837
extended periods of time by
1920
01:10:37,905 --> 01:10:40,006
consuming chlorella algae and
1921
01:10:40,041 --> 01:10:41,374
nothing else.
1922
01:10:41,409 --> 01:10:43,376
If it's possible for astronauts
1923
01:10:43,411 --> 01:10:45,445
to survive on algae, could the
1924
01:10:45,479 --> 01:10:49,382
Israelites have done the same?
1925
01:10:49,450 --> 01:10:51,585
(Fiebag speaking German)
1926
01:10:51,652 --> 01:10:52,552
>> TRANSLATOR: The manna machine
1927
01:10:52,587 --> 01:10:55,655
was a sensitive device.
1928
01:10:55,723 --> 01:10:57,824
It had to be cleaned.
1929
01:10:57,858 --> 01:10:59,593
Once a week was cleaning day,
1930
01:10:59,660 --> 01:11:00,594
where the machine wouldn't
1931
01:11:00,661 --> 01:11:02,495
produce food and the tribe would
1932
01:11:02,563 --> 01:11:05,932
not move.
1933
01:11:05,967 --> 01:11:07,867
So the Sabbath, the Saturday,
1934
01:11:07,935 --> 01:11:09,035
could derive from that
1935
01:11:09,103 --> 01:11:11,638
necessity.
1936
01:11:14,875 --> 01:11:16,209
>> DALE: One theory that one
1937
01:11:16,277 --> 01:11:18,111
could put forward of course is
1938
01:11:18,145 --> 01:11:20,647
that the machine, although they
1939
01:11:20,681 --> 01:11:23,950
knew how to maintain it and make
1940
01:11:24,018 --> 01:11:26,820
it produce the manna, that it
1941
01:11:26,887 --> 01:11:28,989
did after a time pack up, not
1942
01:11:29,023 --> 01:11:29,923
work anymore.
1943
01:11:29,991 --> 01:11:31,291
And that was why they came out
1944
01:11:31,325 --> 01:11:32,292
of the desert.
1945
01:11:32,393 --> 01:11:33,093
>> NARRATOR: But if the
1946
01:11:33,127 --> 01:11:34,828
Israelites' survival depended
1947
01:11:34,895 --> 01:11:36,663
upon the manna machine, where
1948
01:11:36,731 --> 01:11:38,098
did they get it?
1949
01:11:38,165 --> 01:11:39,666
Some believe they had stolen it
1950
01:11:39,734 --> 01:11:41,268
from the Egyptians prior to
1951
01:11:41,302 --> 01:11:42,636
their exodus.
1952
01:11:42,670 --> 01:11:45,038
Others suspect extraterrestrials
1953
01:11:45,106 --> 01:11:46,306
gave it to them as a
1954
01:11:46,374 --> 01:11:48,308
humanitarian gesture, to prevent
1955
01:11:48,342 --> 01:11:50,310
their starvation in the desert.
1956
01:11:50,378 --> 01:11:53,013
Either way, the answer, like the
1957
01:11:53,047 --> 01:11:54,581
Ark of the Covenant, seems lost
1958
01:11:54,615 --> 01:11:57,217
to history.
1959
01:11:59,920 --> 01:12:01,655
Today, scientists have
1960
01:12:01,689 --> 01:12:03,857
successfully pioneered a process
1961
01:12:03,924 --> 01:12:05,592
that produces a substance high
1962
01:12:05,626 --> 01:12:07,494
in protein by means of solar
1963
01:12:07,528 --> 01:12:09,496
energy, water vapor, and
1964
01:12:09,530 --> 01:12:11,298
chlorella algae.
1965
01:12:11,365 --> 01:12:13,133
Could this be a duplication of
1966
01:12:13,167 --> 01:12:15,235
alien technology from thousands
1967
01:12:15,303 --> 01:12:17,137
of years ago?
1968
01:12:17,171 --> 01:12:18,004
>> TSOUKALOS: They actually
1969
01:12:18,039 --> 01:12:21,241
built a machine, a machine based
1970
01:12:21,309 --> 01:12:24,678
on algae culture producing some
1971
01:12:24,779 --> 01:12:26,279
type of super food.
1972
01:12:26,314 --> 01:12:29,316
And we can find a similar type
1973
01:12:29,383 --> 01:12:32,152
of technology described in the
1974
01:12:32,219 --> 01:12:33,486
Zohar.
1975
01:12:33,521 --> 01:12:36,489
Is history repeating itself?
1976
01:12:36,524 --> 01:12:37,324
>> DALE: One of the big
1977
01:12:37,391 --> 01:12:40,293
questions is: Where did the
1978
01:12:40,328 --> 01:12:41,394
machine come from?
1979
01:12:41,429 --> 01:12:43,063
And I suppose there are two
1980
01:12:43,130 --> 01:12:43,863
answers to that.
1981
01:12:43,964 --> 01:12:46,132
Either it was built on Earth,
1982
01:12:46,167 --> 01:12:48,401
which is a theory I can't really
1983
01:12:48,436 --> 01:12:49,502
subscribe to.
1984
01:12:49,537 --> 01:12:50,870
The other question of course is
1985
01:12:50,971 --> 01:12:52,505
that it might have come from
1986
01:12:52,540 --> 01:12:53,873
outer space somewhere.
1987
01:12:53,974 --> 01:12:56,042
Now, that's quite a big leap of
1988
01:12:56,077 --> 01:12:59,045
imagination, but of course the
1989
01:12:59,146 --> 01:13:00,880
interesting part is that it
1990
01:13:00,981 --> 01:13:03,983
actually produces food as is
1991
01:13:04,018 --> 01:13:05,719
used by spacecraft.
1992
01:13:05,786 --> 01:13:06,686
>> NARRATOR: If the ancient
1993
01:13:06,721 --> 01:13:08,722
world contained manna machines,
1994
01:13:08,789 --> 01:13:10,690
giant mega-saws, and
1995
01:13:10,725 --> 01:13:13,226
sophisticated aircraft, what was
1996
01:13:13,260 --> 01:13:14,994
the energy source for all of
1997
01:13:15,029 --> 01:13:16,529
this technology?
1998
01:13:16,597 --> 01:13:17,897
The answer may be hiding in
1999
01:13:17,965 --> 01:13:20,066
plain sight.
2000
01:13:23,869 --> 01:13:24,902
>> NARRATOR: Of all the ancient
2001
01:13:24,936 --> 01:13:26,404
structures located around the
2002
01:13:26,438 --> 01:13:28,539
world, perhaps none is more
2003
01:13:28,607 --> 01:13:30,708
mysterious or as enduring as
2004
01:13:30,742 --> 01:13:35,413
the Great Pyramid at Giza.
2005
01:13:35,447 --> 01:13:38,716
At a height of 471 feet, the
2006
01:13:38,750 --> 01:13:40,084
Great Pyramid stood as the
2007
01:13:40,152 --> 01:13:41,719
tallest structure in the world
2008
01:13:41,820 --> 01:13:43,187
until the completion of the
2009
01:13:43,221 --> 01:13:46,557
Eiffel Tower in 1889.
2010
01:13:46,625 --> 01:13:48,059
But while other pyramids and
2011
01:13:48,093 --> 01:13:49,894
temples contain walls filled
2012
01:13:49,928 --> 01:13:51,429
with hieroglyphics describing
2013
01:13:51,463 --> 01:13:52,997
their purpose, the Great
2014
01:13:53,031 --> 01:13:54,632
Pyramid lacks even a single
2015
01:13:54,733 --> 01:13:55,833
marking.
2016
01:13:55,901 --> 01:13:57,735
What was its function?
2017
01:13:57,769 --> 01:13:59,270
Why was it built?
2018
01:13:59,338 --> 01:14:01,072
And what secrets remain hidden
2019
01:14:01,106 --> 01:14:03,007
inside?
2020
01:14:03,008 --> 01:14:04,108
>> BAUVAL: Nobody has been able
2021
01:14:04,176 --> 01:14:05,609
to explain the interior design
2022
01:14:05,644 --> 01:14:06,410
of this pyramid.
2023
01:14:06,478 --> 01:14:07,645
It simply doesn't make sense,
2024
01:14:07,713 --> 01:14:09,013
according to our logic.
2025
01:14:09,047 --> 01:14:11,015
You have narrow tunnels that
2026
01:14:11,083 --> 01:14:12,083
you have to crouch.
2027
01:14:12,184 --> 01:14:13,617
You emerge in grand galleries
2028
01:14:13,652 --> 01:14:17,621
that are nine meters high.
2029
01:14:17,656 --> 01:14:19,390
You have chanbers that made of
2030
01:14:19,424 --> 01:14:20,624
granite, where granite doesn't
2031
01:14:20,659 --> 01:14:22,393
come from in the area.
2032
01:14:22,427 --> 01:14:23,661
You have to ship the granite
2033
01:14:23,729 --> 01:14:26,764
by barges 600 miles away.
2034
01:14:26,798 --> 01:14:28,632
>> TSOUKALOS: It's an anonymous
2035
01:14:28,667 --> 01:14:29,900
site.
2036
01:14:29,935 --> 01:14:32,002
Not a single inscription.
2037
01:14:32,037 --> 01:14:34,004
Not a single hieroglyph.
2038
01:14:34,039 --> 01:14:36,374
Not a single anything.
2039
01:14:36,441 --> 01:14:38,642
It's just there.
2040
01:14:41,813 --> 01:14:43,080
>> DUNN: Some people speculated
2041
01:14:43,115 --> 01:14:45,116
that it was a temple and an
2042
01:14:45,217 --> 01:14:46,650
initiation chamber, where
2043
01:14:46,718 --> 01:14:47,918
people would go to the king's
2044
01:14:47,953 --> 01:14:50,388
chamber and become enlightened.
2045
01:14:50,422 --> 01:14:52,723
There are anecdotal reports
2046
01:14:52,758 --> 01:14:53,991
about people who have been
2047
01:14:54,025 --> 01:14:55,126
inside the pyramid and have
2048
01:14:55,227 --> 01:14:56,827
come out absolutely shaken and--
2049
01:14:56,862 --> 01:15:00,398
because it was haunted.
2050
01:15:04,736 --> 01:15:05,669
>> COPPENS: Egyptologists
2051
01:15:05,737 --> 01:15:06,937
believe that the pyramids were
2052
01:15:07,005 --> 01:15:09,974
built to bury the dead pharaoh.
2053
01:15:09,975 --> 01:15:11,308
The problem with the accepted
2054
01:15:11,410 --> 01:15:13,411
view is the fact that not a
2055
01:15:13,478 --> 01:15:14,879
single dead pharaoh's body has
2056
01:15:14,946 --> 01:15:16,514
been found inside a pyramid,
2057
01:15:16,581 --> 01:15:18,416
even when the pyramid was
2058
01:15:18,450 --> 01:15:19,950
completely sealed, i.e. not a
2059
01:15:20,018 --> 01:15:21,152
single grave robber could have
2060
01:15:21,219 --> 01:15:23,487
entered it.
2061
01:15:23,588 --> 01:15:24,488
>> BAUVAL: The Egyptologists
2062
01:15:24,589 --> 01:15:26,957
say it's to conceal the body.
2063
01:15:26,992 --> 01:15:29,026
Well, why advertise it?
2064
01:15:29,060 --> 01:15:30,027
I mean, there's nothing more
2065
01:15:30,061 --> 01:15:31,128
visible than a pyramid for
2066
01:15:31,196 --> 01:15:33,130
miles.
2067
01:15:35,734 --> 01:15:36,967
And to this day, you would have
2068
01:15:37,035 --> 01:15:38,969
thought, in this modern age,
2069
01:15:39,004 --> 01:15:40,237
with all the knowledge we have,
2070
01:15:40,305 --> 01:15:41,405
we should be able to explain
2071
01:15:41,440 --> 01:15:42,339
this pyramid.
2072
01:15:42,374 --> 01:15:46,243
We cannot explain this pyramid.
2073
01:15:46,311 --> 01:15:47,144
>> NARRATOR: Engineering
2074
01:15:47,179 --> 01:15:48,779
expert Christopher Dunn has
2075
01:15:48,847 --> 01:15:50,681
been on a personal quest to
2076
01:15:50,782 --> 01:15:52,116
unlock the secrets of the Great
2077
01:15:52,150 --> 01:15:55,686
Pyramid since the late 1970s.
2078
01:15:55,787 --> 01:15:57,154
According to him, there are
2079
01:15:57,189 --> 01:15:58,689
specific clues in the design
2080
01:15:58,790 --> 01:16:00,224
and construction of this
2081
01:16:00,258 --> 01:16:01,992
mega-monument that can help
2082
01:16:02,060 --> 01:16:05,863
answer exactly why it was built.
2083
01:16:05,897 --> 01:16:07,131
>> DUNN: When you look at the
2084
01:16:07,165 --> 01:16:09,133
Great Pyramid, and look at the
2085
01:16:09,167 --> 01:16:10,167
culture that built it,
2086
01:16:10,235 --> 01:16:11,335
they're brilliant, brilliant
2087
01:16:11,403 --> 01:16:12,336
engineers.
2088
01:16:12,404 --> 01:16:13,537
In fact, a lot of engineers say
2089
01:16:13,605 --> 01:16:14,538
we couldn't build the Great
2090
01:16:14,606 --> 01:16:15,406
Pyramid today.
2091
01:16:15,440 --> 01:16:17,041
And it was built, supposedly,
2092
01:16:17,108 --> 01:16:18,676
4,500 years ago.
2093
01:16:18,777 --> 01:16:20,511
And it was built to the
2094
01:16:20,545 --> 01:16:23,380
precision of a machine.
2095
01:16:23,415 --> 01:16:25,516
When I started to do the
2096
01:16:25,550 --> 01:16:27,485
research and I examined the
2097
01:16:27,519 --> 01:16:29,687
Great Pyramid with the eye of
2098
01:16:29,788 --> 01:16:33,157
functionality, um, it was built
2099
01:16:33,225 --> 01:16:34,158
like a machine.
2100
01:16:34,226 --> 01:16:35,493
Perhaps it functioned like a
2101
01:16:35,527 --> 01:16:37,862
machine.
2102
01:16:37,896 --> 01:16:38,796
>> NARRATOR: The interior
2103
01:16:38,830 --> 01:16:40,331
design of the Great Pyramid
2104
01:16:40,365 --> 01:16:42,333
features four inclined air
2105
01:16:42,367 --> 01:16:43,968
shafts emanating from the
2106
01:16:44,035 --> 01:16:45,569
king's chamber and the lower
2107
01:16:45,604 --> 01:16:47,438
queen's chamber.
2108
01:16:47,506 --> 01:16:49,507
Like the Great Pyramid itself,
2109
01:16:49,541 --> 01:16:51,208
their presence and purpose
2110
01:16:51,243 --> 01:16:53,511
cannot be easily explained.
2111
01:16:53,578 --> 01:16:54,578
>> BAUVAL: The difficulty of
2112
01:16:54,613 --> 01:16:55,980
building those shafts is
2113
01:16:56,014 --> 01:16:56,714
incredible.
2114
01:16:56,781 --> 01:16:57,781
It's a bit like building a
2115
01:16:57,849 --> 01:16:59,850
chimney at an incline across a
2116
01:16:59,885 --> 01:17:00,518
house.
2117
01:17:00,552 --> 01:17:01,352
I mean, as a construction
2118
01:17:01,419 --> 01:17:03,587
engineer, it's a nightmare.
2119
01:17:03,688 --> 01:17:05,990
>> NARRATOR: In 2002, a team of
2120
01:17:06,024 --> 01:17:08,259
engineers and Egyptologists
2121
01:17:08,326 --> 01:17:10,261
sent a small robot into one of
2122
01:17:10,328 --> 01:17:11,762
the airshafts connected to the
2123
01:17:11,796 --> 01:17:13,230
queen's chamber.
2124
01:17:13,265 --> 01:17:16,066
After 65 meters, a stone door
2125
01:17:16,167 --> 01:17:17,868
blocked its path.
2126
01:17:17,903 --> 01:17:19,770
A hole was then drilled through
2127
01:17:19,804 --> 01:17:20,771
it.
2128
01:17:20,805 --> 01:17:22,273
On the other side was a small
2129
01:17:22,340 --> 01:17:23,774
room with yet another door
2130
01:17:23,808 --> 01:17:26,076
leading further up the shaft.
2131
01:17:27,812 --> 01:17:29,246
>> BAUVAL: Since the discovery
2132
01:17:29,347 --> 01:17:30,915
of the door, we've had every
2133
01:17:30,949 --> 01:17:33,083
university, archeologist,
2134
01:17:33,118 --> 01:17:34,785
anthropologist, every engineer
2135
01:17:34,819 --> 01:17:36,253
you can think of-- nobody has
2136
01:17:36,288 --> 01:17:37,888
been able to explain the purpose
2137
01:17:37,923 --> 01:17:39,823
of the shafts.
2138
01:17:39,891 --> 01:17:40,891
>> NARRATOR: But were these
2139
01:17:40,959 --> 01:17:42,626
shafts ever open?
2140
01:17:42,694 --> 01:17:44,194
And if they were, what might
2141
01:17:44,229 --> 01:17:46,530
they have been used for?
2142
01:17:46,598 --> 01:17:47,798
>> CHRIS DUNN: The early
2143
01:17:47,832 --> 01:17:48,899
explorers that went into the
2144
01:17:48,934 --> 01:17:50,801
queen's chamber found that the
2145
01:17:50,835 --> 01:17:52,836
walls were covered with a layer
2146
01:17:52,904 --> 01:17:54,104
of salt.
2147
01:17:54,172 --> 01:17:56,807
That kind of gelled with a
2148
01:17:56,841 --> 01:18:00,010
theory that I had developed.
2149
01:18:00,078 --> 01:18:02,446
You had a dilute hydrochloric
2150
01:18:02,480 --> 01:18:04,448
acid solution coming down one
2151
01:18:04,482 --> 01:18:07,284
shaft and hydrated zinc coming
2152
01:18:07,385 --> 01:18:09,920
down the other shaft and when
2153
01:18:09,988 --> 01:18:11,822
they combined in the queen's
2154
01:18:11,890 --> 01:18:14,625
chamber, they created hydrogen.
2155
01:18:14,659 --> 01:18:16,093
>> NARRATOR: Hydrogen.
2156
01:18:16,161 --> 01:18:17,361
It is one of the most powerful
2157
01:18:17,395 --> 01:18:19,830
energy sources in the universe.
2158
01:18:19,898 --> 01:18:22,299
In the mid-19th century,
2159
01:18:22,334 --> 01:18:24,301
it was hydrogen gas that helped
2160
01:18:24,369 --> 01:18:25,936
lift some of mankind's first
2161
01:18:26,004 --> 01:18:27,638
airships, called zeppelins,
2162
01:18:27,672 --> 01:18:30,207
into the sky.
2163
01:18:30,275 --> 01:18:32,109
Today, it is used as a fuel to
2164
01:18:32,143 --> 01:18:34,845
launch rockets into space.
2165
01:18:34,913 --> 01:18:38,048
And if, thousands of years ago,
2166
01:18:38,083 --> 01:18:39,883
the Great Pyramid was actually
2167
01:18:39,918 --> 01:18:41,552
producing hydrogen, that would
2168
01:18:41,620 --> 01:18:43,253
make it one of the earliest
2169
01:18:43,288 --> 01:18:45,823
power plants known to man.
2170
01:18:45,890 --> 01:18:47,458
>> CHRIS DUNN: The Giza power
2171
01:18:47,559 --> 01:18:49,360
plant theory is essentially the
2172
01:18:49,427 --> 01:18:52,896
drawing of energy from the
2173
01:18:52,964 --> 01:18:54,264
Earth through the Great
2174
01:18:54,332 --> 01:18:56,266
Pyramid, and converting that
2175
01:18:56,334 --> 01:19:00,204
energy into microwave energy.
2176
01:19:00,271 --> 01:19:03,073
So the chemicals actually come
2177
01:19:03,108 --> 01:19:04,808
in through the shafts into the
2178
01:19:04,909 --> 01:19:06,110
queen's chamber, and then they
2179
01:19:06,144 --> 01:19:07,978
combine and mix and
2180
01:19:08,013 --> 01:19:09,813
hydrogen boils off.
2181
01:19:09,914 --> 01:19:11,448
The hydrogen is then lighter
2182
01:19:11,483 --> 01:19:13,083
than air and it will flow into
2183
01:19:13,118 --> 01:19:14,985
all the upper chambers.
2184
01:19:15,020 --> 01:19:17,921
The energy from the earth is
2185
01:19:17,989 --> 01:19:19,657
then vibrating the whole
2186
01:19:19,691 --> 01:19:21,458
pyramid.
2187
01:19:21,493 --> 01:19:22,926
The vibrations are picked up in
2188
01:19:22,961 --> 01:19:25,462
the Grand Gallery.
2189
01:19:25,497 --> 01:19:27,931
So I proposed the Grand Gallery
2190
01:19:27,999 --> 01:19:29,833
was a resonator hall and there
2191
01:19:29,934 --> 01:19:32,269
are 27 pair of slots that
2192
01:19:32,303 --> 01:19:34,371
actually go up the length of
2193
01:19:34,406 --> 01:19:35,939
the gallery and then the
2194
01:19:35,974 --> 01:19:37,007
resonators were mounted in
2195
01:19:37,108 --> 01:19:39,510
there vertically.
2196
01:19:39,511 --> 01:19:40,477
>> CHILDRESS: Christopher
2197
01:19:40,512 --> 01:19:42,946
Dunn is theorizing that with
2198
01:19:42,981 --> 01:19:45,282
resonating galleries, the
2199
01:19:45,316 --> 01:19:47,317
pyramid shot a microwave out of
2200
01:19:47,352 --> 01:19:49,486
one of the shafts, and once you
2201
01:19:49,521 --> 01:19:52,856
started up this power plant, it
2202
01:19:52,957 --> 01:19:54,925
would have gone on for years,
2203
01:19:54,959 --> 01:19:56,927
decades, even hundreds of years
2204
01:19:56,961 --> 01:19:58,495
without stopping and creating
2205
01:19:58,530 --> 01:20:00,931
the microwave.
2206
01:20:00,932 --> 01:20:02,466
And that was a usable energy
2207
01:20:02,500 --> 01:20:04,234
that could be captured.
2208
01:20:04,302 --> 01:20:05,602
>> DUNN: Now we can speculate
2209
01:20:05,670 --> 01:20:07,137
where it goes from there.
2210
01:20:07,205 --> 01:20:08,672
It could be collected in the
2211
01:20:08,707 --> 01:20:10,040
immediate vicinity or it could
2212
01:20:10,075 --> 01:20:12,376
keep traveling off into space.
2213
01:20:12,410 --> 01:20:13,944
We don't know.
2214
01:20:14,012 --> 01:20:16,480
That's the mystery.
2215
01:20:16,514 --> 01:20:18,215
>> NARRATOR: But if the Great
2216
01:20:18,249 --> 01:20:20,150
Pyramid was actually a power
2217
01:20:20,185 --> 01:20:22,319
plant producing energy, was it
2218
01:20:22,387 --> 01:20:24,221
doing it alone, or was it part
2219
01:20:24,255 --> 01:20:28,325
of a larger network?
2220
01:20:28,393 --> 01:20:29,927
And are there any clues that
2221
01:20:29,961 --> 01:20:31,695
could tell us what all of that
2222
01:20:31,730 --> 01:20:33,931
energy was being used for?
2223
01:20:41,207 --> 01:20:42,608
>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the 20th
2224
01:20:42,642 --> 01:20:44,076
century's most influential
2225
01:20:44,177 --> 01:20:46,178
inventor was a Serbian-American
2226
01:20:46,246 --> 01:20:50,182
named Nikola Tesla.
2227
01:20:50,216 --> 01:20:52,251
His patents on alternating
2228
01:20:52,352 --> 01:20:53,819
electrical currents and
2229
01:20:53,887 --> 01:20:55,621
distribution helped establish
2230
01:20:55,688 --> 01:20:57,189
the commercial electricity
2231
01:20:57,223 --> 01:20:58,991
industry.
2232
01:20:59,058 --> 01:21:00,726
He also made contributions to
2233
01:21:00,793 --> 01:21:04,630
robotics, radar, and computer
2234
01:21:04,697 --> 01:21:09,401
science.
2235
01:21:09,435 --> 01:21:11,103
But while Tesla can be credited
2236
01:21:11,170 --> 01:21:13,372
for many scientific advances,
2237
01:21:13,439 --> 01:21:15,274
one idea that fell short was
2238
01:21:15,375 --> 01:21:16,642
his attempt to create a
2239
01:21:16,709 --> 01:21:18,710
wireless electrical grid.
2240
01:21:18,711 --> 01:21:20,913
>> CHILDRESS: Tesla's project
2241
01:21:20,947 --> 01:21:23,382
was to have these towers around
2242
01:21:23,416 --> 01:21:24,917
the United States and around
2243
01:21:24,984 --> 01:21:26,652
the world.
2244
01:21:26,719 --> 01:21:29,121
And they would broadcast
2245
01:21:29,188 --> 01:21:31,023
electricity like a television
2246
01:21:31,090 --> 01:21:33,458
station.
2247
01:21:36,462 --> 01:21:37,729
>> FRISBEE: Instead of having
2248
01:21:37,764 --> 01:21:39,164
to string power lines all over
2249
01:21:39,198 --> 01:21:40,666
the place, you just transmit
2250
01:21:40,733 --> 01:21:42,401
the energy through the air
2251
01:21:42,468 --> 01:21:44,803
or through the ground.
2252
01:21:47,307 --> 01:21:48,640
There were a number of
2253
01:21:48,708 --> 01:21:50,909
demonstrations of this device
2254
01:21:50,944 --> 01:21:53,245
for wireless power transmission
2255
01:21:53,279 --> 01:21:55,147
during Tesla's lifetime.
2256
01:21:55,181 --> 01:21:57,416
So, we know the device worked.
2257
01:22:00,286 --> 01:22:01,620
It appears that he was using
2258
01:22:01,688 --> 01:22:04,690
the conductivity of the ground
2259
01:22:04,724 --> 01:22:06,591
or the air to carry the
2260
01:22:06,693 --> 01:22:08,593
electric current.
2261
01:22:08,695 --> 01:22:10,395
Basically in the air, if you
2262
01:22:10,430 --> 01:22:12,230
put enough voltage on it,
2263
01:22:12,298 --> 01:22:14,132
you'll get an arc across it.
2264
01:22:14,167 --> 01:22:15,968
I mean, you see that all the
2265
01:22:16,035 --> 01:22:17,402
time in a fluorescent
2266
01:22:17,437 --> 01:22:18,704
lightbulb.
2267
01:22:18,771 --> 01:22:20,405
In the ground you have water,
2268
01:22:20,440 --> 01:22:21,773
minerals, salts that can also
2269
01:22:21,808 --> 01:22:23,875
carry the ions along, and
2270
01:22:23,910 --> 01:22:25,444
therefore carry the electric
2271
01:22:25,478 --> 01:22:27,412
current.
2272
01:22:27,447 --> 01:22:29,414
>> NARRATOR: But while Tesla's
2273
01:22:29,449 --> 01:22:31,416
power towers proved popular in
2274
01:22:31,451 --> 01:22:33,618
theory, the project ended in
2275
01:22:33,720 --> 01:22:36,254
financial failure.
2276
01:22:36,289 --> 01:22:38,623
But could Tesla's idea of
2277
01:22:38,725 --> 01:22:40,359
wireless electricity have been
2278
01:22:40,393 --> 01:22:42,427
a rediscovery of an ancient
2279
01:22:42,462 --> 01:22:44,796
technology?
2280
01:22:50,336 --> 01:22:52,004
>> CHILDRESS: I believe that
2281
01:22:52,071 --> 01:22:53,872
what Tesla was doing was trying
2282
01:22:53,906 --> 01:22:57,409
to recreate what was an ancient
2283
01:22:57,443 --> 01:22:59,745
power system that was used
2284
01:22:59,779 --> 01:23:02,247
around the world, and the way
2285
01:23:02,281 --> 01:23:03,949
they did this was the use of
2286
01:23:03,983 --> 01:23:06,618
obelisks.
2287
01:23:12,325 --> 01:23:16,428
Obelisks as monolithic, granite
2288
01:23:16,496 --> 01:23:18,663
towers, which are one solid
2289
01:23:18,698 --> 01:23:20,665
piece of crystal, and the
2290
01:23:20,700 --> 01:23:22,234
obelisks themselves were cut
2291
01:23:22,301 --> 01:23:25,303
to special sizes and tuned
2292
01:23:25,338 --> 01:23:28,874
like a tuning fork.
2293
01:23:28,941 --> 01:23:30,142
>> NARRATOR: Could these ancient
2294
01:23:30,176 --> 01:23:31,676
broadcast towers really have
2295
01:23:31,711 --> 01:23:33,245
sent electricity up into the
2296
01:23:33,279 --> 01:23:35,447
atmosphere?
2297
01:23:35,481 --> 01:23:37,682
And if so, how was the
2298
01:23:37,717 --> 01:23:39,885
electricity generated?
2299
01:23:39,952 --> 01:23:40,986
>> CHILDRESS: Each of these
2300
01:23:41,020 --> 01:23:42,788
obelisks would have required
2301
01:23:42,822 --> 01:23:44,990
some kind of generating power
2302
01:23:45,091 --> 01:23:46,992
station similar to what we have
2303
01:23:47,026 --> 01:23:48,493
today.
2304
01:23:48,528 --> 01:23:49,961
Electricity is created by
2305
01:23:49,996 --> 01:23:52,697
rotating magnetic fields.
2306
01:23:52,732 --> 01:23:54,733
So rotating magnetic fields
2307
01:23:54,801 --> 01:23:56,735
generate AC power.
2308
01:23:56,803 --> 01:23:58,270
The very first power station
2309
01:23:58,337 --> 01:23:59,871
was built by Nikola Tesla at
2310
01:23:59,906 --> 01:24:02,140
Niagara Falls.
2311
01:24:02,175 --> 01:24:04,976
You've got to have some sort of
2312
01:24:05,011 --> 01:24:06,778
power that's spinning the
2313
01:24:06,813 --> 01:24:08,346
rotating fields, and in this
2314
01:24:08,381 --> 01:24:10,982
case would be water.
2315
01:24:11,017 --> 01:24:13,452
So every obelisk would have had
2316
01:24:13,486 --> 01:24:15,187
to have had a power station
2317
01:24:15,288 --> 01:24:16,721
similar to like the one at
2318
01:24:16,789 --> 01:24:17,823
Niagara Falls.
2319
01:24:17,857 --> 01:24:19,291
It's generating power, but the
2320
01:24:19,358 --> 01:24:21,059
obelisk itself is putting the
2321
01:24:21,094 --> 01:24:23,195
power into the atmosphere,
2322
01:24:23,229 --> 01:24:25,030
making it useable.
2323
01:24:25,064 --> 01:24:26,465
And this is similar to
2324
01:24:26,532 --> 01:24:28,467
Christopher Dunn's theory of
2325
01:24:28,534 --> 01:24:30,335
the Giza power plant because he
2326
01:24:30,369 --> 01:24:33,472
believes that the Great Pyramid
2327
01:24:33,539 --> 01:24:34,840
was actually sending a
2328
01:24:34,907 --> 01:24:37,109
microwave beam to a satellite
2329
01:24:37,176 --> 01:24:39,010
that was in orbit around the
2330
01:24:39,045 --> 01:24:41,012
planet.
2331
01:24:41,047 --> 01:24:43,381
That satellite then could have
2332
01:24:43,483 --> 01:24:46,751
been taking microwave power and
2333
01:24:46,819 --> 01:24:48,353
then it could transmit it
2334
01:24:48,387 --> 01:24:50,355
again, in theory, to some other
2335
01:24:50,389 --> 01:24:52,457
location on the earth,
2336
01:24:52,492 --> 01:24:54,192
such as, say a remote island
2337
01:24:54,260 --> 01:24:55,760
like Easter Island or something
2338
01:24:55,828 --> 01:24:57,262
like that.
2339
01:24:57,296 --> 01:24:58,463
>> FRISBEE: From some of the
2340
01:24:58,498 --> 01:25:00,398
descriptions of ancient flying
2341
01:25:00,466 --> 01:25:03,201
machines, it's possible that
2342
01:25:03,269 --> 01:25:05,203
some form of power beaming
2343
01:25:05,271 --> 01:25:06,838
might have been used.
2344
01:25:06,906 --> 01:25:09,474
And in fact, for a lot of the
2345
01:25:09,542 --> 01:25:12,043
schemes that you see, it
2346
01:25:12,111 --> 01:25:13,745
actually would make a lot of
2347
01:25:13,846 --> 01:25:15,280
sense because you could put the
2348
01:25:15,314 --> 01:25:18,016
power beaming station on a
2349
01:25:18,050 --> 01:25:20,218
mother ship in orbit.
2350
01:25:20,286 --> 01:25:22,921
You're just beaming energy to
2351
01:25:22,955 --> 01:25:24,222
the vehicle, where it's
2352
01:25:24,290 --> 01:25:25,757
absorbed and turned into
2353
01:25:25,858 --> 01:25:27,592
propulsion thrust.
2354
01:25:27,627 --> 01:25:28,927
It actually makes a lot of
2355
01:25:28,961 --> 01:25:31,129
sense because you're taking the
2356
01:25:31,197 --> 01:25:32,764
energy system, the power
2357
01:25:32,865 --> 01:25:35,233
system, off of the vehicle and
2358
01:25:35,301 --> 01:25:37,769
locating it remotely.
2359
01:25:41,207 --> 01:25:43,942
>> NARRATOR: Electricity...
2360
01:25:44,043 --> 01:25:46,778
power tools...
2361
01:25:46,879 --> 01:25:49,648
mega-machinery...
2362
01:25:49,682 --> 01:25:51,249
and the ability to explore the
2363
01:25:51,317 --> 01:25:54,252
heavens...
2364
01:25:54,320 --> 01:25:57,055
Have these technologies been
2365
01:25:57,123 --> 01:25:58,790
available for just the past few
2366
01:25:58,858 --> 01:26:00,392
centuries?
2367
01:26:00,426 --> 01:26:02,961
Or are they of ancient origin,
2368
01:26:02,995 --> 01:26:05,931
only recently rediscovered?
2369
01:26:05,965 --> 01:26:07,799
Were our ancestors capable of
2370
01:26:07,867 --> 01:26:09,801
these incredible achievements?
2371
01:26:09,869 --> 01:26:11,603
Or might they have come from
2372
01:26:11,637 --> 01:26:13,939
another source, one much more
2373
01:26:13,973 --> 01:26:17,142
out of this world?
2374
01:26:17,176 --> 01:26:19,344
>> CHILDRESS: Civilizations
2375
01:26:19,412 --> 01:26:21,079
were much more advanced that we
2376
01:26:21,147 --> 01:26:22,414
give them credit, and
2377
01:26:22,448 --> 01:26:24,216
literally, as vanced as we
2378
01:26:24,250 --> 01:26:26,585
are today.
2379
01:26:28,688 --> 01:26:30,288
>> BAUVAL: In my view, we
2380
01:26:30,323 --> 01:26:31,323
need to take this seriously
2381
01:26:31,390 --> 01:26:32,591
simply because of the scale of
2382
01:26:32,658 --> 01:26:33,592
the work.
2383
01:26:33,626 --> 01:26:34,659
We're looking at monuments that
2384
01:26:34,694 --> 01:26:35,594
took, perhaps, a century to
2385
01:26:35,628 --> 01:26:37,996
build.
2386
01:26:37,997 --> 01:26:39,965
Even today, we have difficulty
2387
01:26:39,999 --> 01:26:42,400
in considering such a project.
2388
01:26:42,435 --> 01:26:43,468
>> CHRIS DUNN: It just boggles
2389
01:26:43,502 --> 01:26:44,603
the mind.
2390
01:26:44,670 --> 01:26:46,137
And really, to look at those
2391
01:26:46,239 --> 01:26:47,839
artifacts and to go back in
2392
01:26:47,873 --> 01:26:49,608
time and say, how did they do
2393
01:26:49,675 --> 01:26:51,042
it?
2394
01:26:51,110 --> 01:26:52,611
We are kind of cracking the lid
2395
01:26:52,645 --> 01:26:53,678
open a little bit and looking
2396
01:26:53,746 --> 01:26:55,413
inside to try and see just what
2397
01:26:55,448 --> 01:26:57,082
happened in our history.
2398
01:26:57,149 --> 01:26:58,617
>> COPPENS: It's a question
2399
01:26:58,684 --> 01:27:00,118
which is a scientific question.
2400
01:27:00,152 --> 01:27:01,253
And you constantly have to ask
2401
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:02,587
it.
2402
01:27:02,622 --> 01:27:04,022
And the possible answer of have
2403
01:27:04,056 --> 01:27:05,590
aliens visited in the past
2404
01:27:05,658 --> 01:27:07,959
could be a potential yes.
2405
01:27:12,665 --> 01:27:13,865
>> TSOUKALOS: It's a very
2406
01:27:13,933 --> 01:27:15,867
specific reason why all of this
2407
01:27:15,935 --> 01:27:18,336
stuff was built in stone:
2408
01:27:18,404 --> 01:27:20,038
for posterity.
2409
01:27:20,072 --> 01:27:21,673
So it would last.
2410
01:27:21,707 --> 01:27:23,975
So that a future generation
2411
01:27:24,043 --> 01:27:27,512
would have to stumble across
2412
01:27:27,613 --> 01:27:30,215
these monuments.
2413
01:27:30,216 --> 01:27:32,150
We are that society who can
2414
01:27:32,218 --> 01:27:34,619
look at these ancient monuments
2415
01:27:34,687 --> 01:27:36,454
and finally recognize that all
2416
01:27:36,522 --> 01:27:38,890
of this stuff was built as a
2417
01:27:38,958 --> 01:27:41,326
message for us to see that our
2418
01:27:41,360 --> 01:27:45,163
past is way different than what
2419
01:27:45,197 --> 01:27:48,166
we're being taught in school.
2420
01:27:48,234 --> 01:27:52,000
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