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<i>Houston, you are go for landing, over.</i>

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<i>Roger, understand. Go for landing, 3000 ft.</i>

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<i>July 20th, 1969.</i>

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<i>Astronauts Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin,</i>

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<i>became the first men
to land on the moon.</i>

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<i>It's one small step for man...</i>

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<i>... one...</i>

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<i>... giant leap for mankind.</i>

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<i>Just like aliens,
visiting from another world.</i>

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<i>It have been the stuff of science fiction.</i>

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<i>Now...</i>

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<i>everything that could be imagined,</i>

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<i>seem possible.</i>

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<i>If mankind could travel the skies
and go to other planets,</i>

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<i>why couldn't beings
from other planets,</i>

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<i>visit the Earth?</i>

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<i>Amidst a wave of modern UFO sightings,</i>

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<i>a new theory emerged.</i>

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<i>That aliens...</i>

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<i>... visited Earth in antiquity,</i>

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<i>and were regarded as Gods.</i>

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<i>But if that were true,</i>

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<i>wouldn't there be proof?</i>

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<i>Perhaps... there was.</i>

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<i>All we needed to do,</i>

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<i>was open our eyes...</i>

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<i>... and, our imaginations.</i>

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<i>The proof perhaps,
was all around us.</i>

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WHO WERE THEY?

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WHY DID
THEY COME?

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WHAT DID THEY
LEAVE BEHIND?

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WHERE DID THEY GO?

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WILL THEY RETURN?

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<u>ANCIENT ALIENS
THE SERIES</u>

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CHARIOTS, GODS
AND BEYOND

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<i>In May 2008, a startling proclamation
was issued by the Vatican.</i>

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<i>For the first time in it's
two thousand year history,</i>

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<i>the Catholic Church
acknowledge the possibility,</i>

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<i>that intelligent life
could exist on other planets.</i>

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<i>And that a belief in extraterrestrials,</i>

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<i>did not contradict a belief in God.</i>

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<i>Which means of course, that
we are now entering an age,</i>

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<i>in which the universe is beginning
to be conceived in different ways</i>

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<i>from what it was before.</i>

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<i>And if it is reality a for us,
why could it not have been a reality</i>

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<i>for other... beings in the universe
who could have visited... our Earth,</i>

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<i>and perhaps guided
culture in ancient times.</i>

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<i>But just what sparked this sudden
turn around in religious thought?</i>

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<i>Could the Church have been influenced
by recent scientific discoveries?</i>

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<i>In 2002, the Mars
Odyssey spacecraft,</i>

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<i>detected enormous reservoirs of ice,
beneath the Martian surface.</i>

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<i>The presence of ice,
and the possibility of water,</i>

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<i>suggested that life could be sustained,
or even generated, on another planet.</i>

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<i>After decades of orbiting
space shuttles and robotic rovers,</i>

55
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<i>the idea of sending man back
into space, to Mars and beyond,</i>

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<i>ignited the imagination...</i>

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<i>and brought back the notion,
that mankind and alien beings,</i>

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<i>had cross paths before.</i>

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<i>In 1968, just one year before
Neil Armstrong's epic space flight,</i>

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<i>a book was published that forever
changed the way many in the scientific,</i>

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<i>religious and creative communities,
would view their home planet.</i>

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Written by Swiss author
Erik Von Däniken...

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<i>"Chariots of the Gods",
attempted to prove that alien explorers,</i>

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<i>have visited the Earth
thousands of years ago.</i>

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<i>When I was a young man, I was educated
as a strict catholic in a boarding school.</i>

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<i>And there, we had to make
translations of parts of the bible.</i>

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<i>Greek to Latin,
Latin to German.</i>

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<i>For example, the First
Book of Moses.</i>

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<i>"Before the Lord descends
on the Holy Mountain,</i>

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<i>Moses was ordered to construct
a gate around the mountain,</i>

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<i>otherwise the Israelites
will be damaged".</i>

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I was shocked. I said,
"This is impossible."

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My God, he would never use
first, a gate to protect himself,

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<i>or to protect the Israel".
What are they talking about?</i>

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And now the work... started.

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<i>I started to read thousands of pages,</i>

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<i>of the beginning of religions,
of every mythology.</i>

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<i>It's always the same story,</i>

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<i>of course with different names,
with different heroes.</i>

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<i>"Somebody descends,
from the sky, to the humans.</i>

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<i>Our forefathers
could not understand it.</i>

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<i>They believed that
these are some gods".</i>

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<i>I was shocked.
I asked the question,</i>

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<i>"Were primitive human influenced
by extraterrestrials, not gods?"</i>

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<i>And if, it all was like I suggested,
where's the proof?</i>

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<i>So you start trying
to find at least indications.</i>

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<i>That's what I have done now
for at least 45 years.</i>

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<i>You have pictorial evidence,
you have artifacts and archeology,</i>

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<i>and you have what
come out of old literature,</i>

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<i>hundreds of indications,
which you cannot deny anymore.</i>

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<i>What it means is that we need
new explanations for human origins.</i>

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<i>That perhaps we are
not alone in the universe,</i>

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<i>and that human-like beings
came to this planet</i>

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from some other planet,

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elsewhere in the cosmos.

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<i>I think that's a
very good idea myself.</i>

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<i>It really excited people. It was
a new way of looking at the past,</i>

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<i>looking at ancient civilizations.</i>

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<i>And it put this very modern
space age spin to the whole thing.</i>

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<i>"Chariots of the Gods"
caused a sensation,</i>

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<i>fuelled in no small part</i>

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<i>by the popular response to books
like Frank Herbert's "Dune",</i>

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<i>television shows like "Star Trek",</i>

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<i>and feature films like
"2001: A Space Odyssey".</i>

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<i>The time was right, because everybody
was talking of possible space travel,</i>

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<i>of possibility of extraterrestrials,</i>

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So it's all wonderful coming together,
but it was not planned.

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<i>After a Swiss newspaper printed
excerpts of it on a weekly basis,</i>

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<i>more than 10,000 copies of the book
were sold before ever hitting the market.</i>

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<i>So it was a running best-seller
starting in Switzerland first,</i>

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<i>then going over to Germany
and then the rest of the world.</i>

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<i>They had to print and print
and print and print.</i>

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<i>[Swiss German Speech]
Incredible!</i>

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<i>In 1970, a feature length documentary
was released to theaters.</i>

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<i>Followed by dozens of
best-selling books,</i>

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<i>and growing legions
of fans and supporters.</i>

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"Chariots of the Gods",
was tremendously influential.

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<i>It somehow spoke to people,
who want to believe.</i>

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<i>When I was a boy,</i>

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"Chariots of the Gods"
was one of books I first read.

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I mean I ripped apart, I digest it
I couldn't get enough of it.

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I just fell in love with that book,

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'cos it really open up
all kinds of new questions,

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<i>and Von Däniken was able to point
out many anomalies in history,</i>

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<i>that the mainstream archaeologists
can't answer very well.</i>

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He had what was a revolutionary new idea.

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That of "Gods" from outer space
coming to the planet,

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helping create civilization.

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When I first read
"Chariots of the Gods"

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<i>I couldn't put that book down,
because it answered...</i>

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<i>... a whole bunch of questions,
that I had.</i>

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<i>And it was a great combination
of archeology and adventure.</i>

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It's just a wonderful way to see the world
and pursue these ancient mysteries.

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And it truly was I think the catalyst
for what people like I do today,

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<i>and that is to talk about the mysteries,
and the unusual and the paranormal.</i>

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<i>He pave the way for a lot of us
to talk about these strange stories,</i>

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<i>and that continues to grow</i>

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<i>and it's gonna get bigger
and bigger and bigger.</i>

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<i>People want answers, to questions
that they can't answer themselves.</i>

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<i>But in spite of the book's enormous
popularity, or perhaps because of it,</i>

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<i>Von Däniken's theories were
scorned by scientists,</i>

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<i>and jeered at by theologians.</i>

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<i>Of course, it created
a storm of controversy.</i>

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<i>I was completely attacked, specially
by the scientific news papers.</i>

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They said "Come on,
he's just telling a story,

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he's a liar or
he's a fraud" or whatever.

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There is not a single piece of evidence
that Von Däniken puts forward,

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that cannot be attributed to human
ingenuity, technology and development.

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<i>Don't try to reduce the scriptures
to a science book.</i>

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Or don't try to
reduce the scriptures

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to an explanation of
our modern world today.

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I don't expect that the
scientific community now

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embraces and kisses me and say

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"Oh wonderful, great you did!"

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We have to live with critics,
this is normal.

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<i>"Chariots of the Gods"
was full of speculation.</i>

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<i>I had 238 question marks.</i>

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<i>Nobody read the question mark.</i>

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<i>They only said,
"Mr. Von Däniken is saying...".</i>

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<i>I did not say,
I asked the questions,</i>

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<i>"Would that be a possibility?"</i>

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In "Chariots of the Gods", I made
clear difference between speculations...

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... and facts.

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<i>But as controversial, as many
of Von Däniken theories are...</i>

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<i>... believers point,
to tangible evidence.</i>

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<i>How for example, could a
centuries-old map, chart a land mass,</i>

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<i>that has only
recently been discovered?</i>

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<i>Would tend to indicate that the map</i>

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<i>was made at a time</i>

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when Antartica was ice free.

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Which would be...

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many millions of years ago.

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<i>And how could a primitive civilization,</i>

174
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<i>know how to harness electricity?</i>

175
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<i>Or even build a computer?</i>

176
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<i>This was tantamount to finding
a jet airplane...</i>

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<i>... in the tomb of King Tut.</i>

178
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<i>And just who, with these
mysterious designs,</i>

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<i>only visible from high
altitude, intended for?</i>

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The signs are made
for somebody who flies,

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there's no way out of this.

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<i>Could Von Däniken's theory,</i>

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<i>that ancient gods were
really alien visitors,</i>

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<i>contain any serious scientific merit?</i>

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<i>The answer involves a search
around the world,</i>

186
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<i>and even, right before our eyes.</i>

187
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<i>If alien beings from other planets,</i>

188
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<i>had visited the Earth
thousands of years ago,</i>

189
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<i>how would our ancient ancestors have
tried to communicate with them?</i>

190
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<i>And wouldn't there be some physical
evidence of the time they spent here?</i>

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<i>One answer may lie
in the Nazca desert of Peru.</i>

192
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<i>There, atop an arid plateau</i>

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<i>that stretches for nearly 50 miles,</i>

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<i>countless geometric patterns and
figures decorate the landscape.</i>

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<i>You fly over this desert
and you see some lines.</i>

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The lines look like air stripes,
they start abruptly, they end abruptly.

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<i>The longest of it,
is 23 kilometers,</i>

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<i>right away, not one curve,
just incredible.</i>

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<i>And ending in one of this
so called air strips.</i>

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<i>In the mixture of large
lines and small lines</i>

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<i>you see gigantic figures
in the ground.</i>

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<i>Figures of  fishes,...</i>

203
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<i>... monkeys,...</i>

204
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<i>... spiders,...</i>

205
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<i>... apes.</i>

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<i>But of such over dimensional size,</i>

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that you can see them
only from the air.

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<i>People built them,
or somebody built them,</i>

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<i>hundreds and hundreds of years ago,</i>

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<i>perhaps maybe even
thousands of years ago.</i>

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That could be signs of
"Hello up there!",

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"Here we are!".
It's something.

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<i>Various disputed explanations suggest</i>

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<i>that the lines could have been
used for irrigation ditches,</i>

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<i>giant astronomical calendars,</i>

216
00:12:58,601 --> 00:13:02,469
<i>or pathways, perhaps used
for religious worship.</i>

217
00:13:02,667 --> 00:13:06,006
<i>Looking at Nazca
from the air,</i>

218
00:13:06,030 --> 00:13:09,352
it looks like an airport.

219
00:13:09,366 --> 00:13:10,939
And it really does!

220
00:13:10,982 --> 00:13:14,036
<i>Because you have
all these... bands,</i>

221
00:13:14,079 --> 00:13:17,604
<i>wide bands, that look like
air strips that are...</i>

222
00:13:17,662 --> 00:13:19,422
<i>... laid on top of each other,</i>

223
00:13:19,423 --> 00:13:23,287
<i>but you also have these
gigantic long straight lines,</i>

224
00:13:23,358 --> 00:13:25,526
<i>that go for miles and miles,</i>

225
00:13:25,555 --> 00:13:27,553
<i>over valleys,
over mountains.</i>

226
00:13:28,565 --> 00:13:31,181
So once again you...
you've got this idea like

227
00:13:31,181 --> 00:13:33,027
"Ok, people are creating this...

228
00:13:33,033 --> 00:13:34,874
but, what is the reason?

229
00:13:34,889 --> 00:13:36,735
Is it to show these...

230
00:13:36,621 --> 00:13:40,855
... gods and aerial vehicles land here?

231
00:13:40,905 --> 00:13:41,875
<i>kind of a thing.</i>

232
00:13:41,925 --> 00:13:46,332
Because we just don't have
a good idea of why...

233
00:13:46,411 --> 00:13:48,614
people would do this?

234
00:13:48,693 --> 00:13:52,624
And it really does seem that
they're trying to signal people...

235
00:13:53,131 --> 00:13:57,965
<i>... who are in the air, in space
or flying around our planet.</i>

236
00:14:00,953 --> 00:14:02,704
<i>During World War II,</i>

237
00:14:02,776 --> 00:14:07,181
<i>American troops created air bases
on remote Pacific islands.</i>

238
00:14:09,013 --> 00:14:11,981
<i>To natives who had never
witness advanced technology,</i>

239
00:14:12,410 --> 00:14:15,318
<i>the sight of giant metal birds
touching down,</i>

240
00:14:15,396 --> 00:14:17,785
<i>looked to them as
if the gods themselves</i>

241
00:14:17,786 --> 00:14:21,025
<i>has turned the earth
into a planetary pitstop.</i>

242
00:14:22,072 --> 00:14:26,123
<i>They would see these big planes land
and it was all technology that...</i>

243
00:14:26,363 --> 00:14:28,418
...that... just out of the sky.

244
00:14:28,339 --> 00:14:30,491
<i>They didn't know
how these things work,</i>

245
00:14:30,548 --> 00:14:32,008
<i>but they could see them land.</i>

246
00:14:32,129 --> 00:14:33,865
<i>And what they like about it?</i>

247
00:14:34,272 --> 00:14:38,075
<i>Was, they were getting free stuff,
they were getting cargo.</i>

248
00:14:39,471 --> 00:14:41,407
<i>Suddenly when the war was over,</i>

249
00:14:41,419 --> 00:14:44,305
<i>all these air strips were
abandoned and everyone left.</i>

250
00:14:44,355 --> 00:14:48,030
<i>And the islanders scratched their heads
and they all said to themselves,</i>

251
00:14:48,030 --> 00:14:52,087
<i>"Wow, wasn't it great when all
these planes came out the sky and</i>

252
00:14:52,171 --> 00:14:54,688
gave us free cans of
corned beef and stuff?

253
00:14:54,745 --> 00:14:56,546
We really like that cargo.

254
00:14:58,321 --> 00:15:01,375
<i>Entire religions...
sprung out from this.</i>

255
00:15:01,396 --> 00:15:06,097
<i>Where priests actually said, "Yes, you
know, that was our dead ancestors"</i>

256
00:15:06,123 --> 00:15:07,626
<i>sending us cargo.</i>

257
00:15:07,626 --> 00:15:09,130
<i>So what they did then...</i>

258
00:15:09,199 --> 00:15:11,948
<i>was they began going
to the old air strips,</i>

259
00:15:12,033 --> 00:15:15,127
<i>and they would build
mock wooden airplanes,</i>

260
00:15:15,230 --> 00:15:17,933
<i>to try and get those
planes to come back...</i>

261
00:15:18,130 --> 00:15:21,942
<i>... from the sky and deliver the
cans of corned beef to them again.</i>

262
00:15:22,393 --> 00:15:27,066
<i>And so you can see how that an
analogy with modern cargo calls</i>

263
00:15:27,205 --> 00:15:30,548
<i>plays exactly into the
ancient astronaut scenario.</i>

264
00:15:30,606 --> 00:15:33,498
<i>For something like this could have
easily happened in the past,</i>

265
00:15:33,638 --> 00:15:37,935
<i>and entire religions built
around ancient astronauts.</i>

266
00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:45,035
<i>But gigantic geoglyphs</i>

267
00:15:45,114 --> 00:15:48,398
<i>aren't the only mystery
surrounding Nazca.</i>

268
00:15:50,514 --> 00:15:52,753
<i>I was flying over Nazca for days,</i>

269
00:15:52,796 --> 00:15:55,055
<i>hanging out the aircraft
with the camera.</i>

270
00:15:55,198 --> 00:15:56,943
And shooting and shooting
and shooting.

271
00:15:56,950 --> 00:16:00,662
I have more or less about 4000
pictures of Nazca, this is really...

272
00:16:00,684 --> 00:16:01,770
... fascinating.

273
00:16:01,771 --> 00:16:05,331
You see, this is one of the picture
which prove that this mountain

274
00:16:05,332 --> 00:16:07,721
<i>was made flat artificially.</i>

275
00:16:07,778 --> 00:16:10,035
Because you compare it with
the mountains around there,

276
00:16:10,035 --> 00:16:12,948
there the mountains
caps run off from both sides.

277
00:16:12,998 --> 00:16:16,024
Here, it is flat, this is absolutely
incredible. This is...

278
00:16:16,667 --> 00:16:20,221
... one of the most craziest pictures
I made about Nazca.

279
00:16:20,929 --> 00:16:23,331
<i>The crazy thing is... the rubble,</i>

280
00:16:23,332 --> 00:16:26,141
<i>the remains, of that summit</i>

281
00:16:26,142 --> 00:16:27,995
<i>or a mountain top... gone!</i>

282
00:16:28,423 --> 00:16:31,492
<i>It's nowhere, it not in
the valley down below.</i>

283
00:16:31,592 --> 00:16:35,346
<i>It's nowhere in the region.
What happened to it?</i>

284
00:16:35,425 --> 00:16:41,461
Because all the mountains around it,
have their summits, it's there!

285
00:16:41,611 --> 00:16:46,710
<i>And then you have other mountains
that are as flat as a table,</i>

286
00:16:46,835 --> 00:16:51,214
<i>with bands on top that
look like runways.</i>

287
00:16:52,327 --> 00:16:53,849
<i>Another question.</i>

288
00:16:54,092 --> 00:16:56,131
<i>Why would visiting ETs...</i>

289
00:16:56,189 --> 00:16:59,413
<i>be drawn to the bone
dry deserts of Peru?</i>

290
00:17:00,573 --> 00:17:02,764
<i>Let's just say hypothetically,</i>

291
00:17:02,764 --> 00:17:06,544
<i>that a spaceship arrives,
here on Planet Earth,</i>

292
00:17:06,548 --> 00:17:11,529
<i>and you want to quickly find out
what this planet consist of.</i>

293
00:17:11,944 --> 00:17:17,385
<i>Nazca would be the perfect place
to go and visit for some sampling</i>

294
00:17:17,386 --> 00:17:19,066
<i>and for some experimentation.</i>

295
00:17:19,360 --> 00:17:25,424
<i>Because Nazca's still today is one of
the most abundant areas in the world</i>

296
00:17:25,438 --> 00:17:27,791
<i>regarding raw materials.</i>

297
00:17:27,870 --> 00:17:29,354
<i>There you find everything.</i>

298
00:17:29,355 --> 00:17:30,445
<i>You find gold,</i>

299
00:17:30,537 --> 00:17:33,591
<i>you find... uranium...</i>

300
00:17:33,684 --> 00:17:38,533
<i>What have you is basically
the cliffnotes of planet Earth.</i>

301
00:17:38,540 --> 00:17:42,784
<i>You go to Nazca and you
immediately know everything about</i>

302
00:17:42,793 --> 00:17:44,876
<i>what our planet consists of,</i>

303
00:17:44,926 --> 00:17:47,436
<i>because all the raw materials,</i>

304
00:17:47,665 --> 00:17:51,203
<i>converge there at high volumes.</i>

305
00:17:59,624 --> 00:18:01,772
<i>Why do we have to believe
that this simply cannot be</i>

306
00:18:01,773 --> 00:18:03,864
<i>an expression of an
artistic impulse, you know?</i>

307
00:18:03,950 --> 00:18:06,252
<i>Is it really that outlandish
to believe that...</i>

308
00:18:06,253 --> 00:18:07,697
<i>you know, that... that...</i>

309
00:18:07,698 --> 00:18:13,027
<i>these natives in Peru, might have wanted
to create some large scale work of art?.</i>

310
00:18:13,033 --> 00:18:17,517
<i>And to say that such a large scale work of
art could not have been created merely...</i>

311
00:18:17,667 --> 00:18:19,450
<i>for the possibility of
having created it,</i>

312
00:18:19,451 --> 00:18:23,137
<i>rather than the Nazca lines
are so inhumanly vast.</i>

313
00:18:23,209 --> 00:18:27,422
<i>That they can only be admired by
people who are capable of flight.</i>

314
00:18:27,766 --> 00:18:30,291
<i>Well you know you can say the same thing
about the Great Wall of China.</i>

315
00:18:30,720 --> 00:18:33,243
<i>And yet the Great Wall
of China has a purpose</i>

316
00:18:33,244 --> 00:18:35,940
<i>that is... that is political,
that is martial.</i>

317
00:18:37,278 --> 00:18:41,197
<i>Somebody might have walk the Nazca
lines as a spiritual labyrinth</i>

318
00:18:41,198 --> 00:18:43,843
<i>in the shape of a spiritual
totemic object</i>

319
00:18:43,850 --> 00:18:47,619
<i>and were in their own way suppose
to get a kind of epiphany from that.</i>

320
00:18:48,807 --> 00:18:51,467
<i>The fact that we don't understand
the purpose of a thing...</i>

321
00:18:51,468 --> 00:18:53,858
<i>opens it to tremendous speculations.</i>

322
00:19:00,650 --> 00:19:04,290
<i>Nazca and the Nazca figures make no sign</i>

323
00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:06,610
seen from the earth.

324
00:19:06,802 --> 00:19:09,253
<i>You have to fly over it.</i>

325
00:19:09,461 --> 00:19:12,700
<i>The signs are made for
somebody who flies.</i>

326
00:19:12,701 --> 00:19:14,412
There's no way out of this.

327
00:19:14,413 --> 00:19:18,228
I hope archeologists sooner or later
will come to a similar conclusion.

328
00:19:23,985 --> 00:19:28,082
<i>But if visitors from other
planets were thought to be Gods,</i>

329
00:19:28,140 --> 00:19:30,638
<i>wouldn't there be written
accounts of them?</i>

330
00:19:30,639 --> 00:19:34,196
<i>Perhaps the answer can be found,
right in front of us.</i>

331
00:19:34,404 --> 00:19:36,661
<i>In one of the most shocking places...</i>

332
00:19:36,704 --> 00:19:38,151
<i>... of all.</i>

333
00:19:44,437 --> 00:19:49,901
<i>Ironically, Erik Von Däniken's firm belief
that Earth has been visited in the past</i>

334
00:19:49,902 --> 00:19:51,759
<i>by beings from other planets,</i>

335
00:19:51,895 --> 00:19:56,178
<i>is entirely consistent with
his belief in God and the Bible.</i>

336
00:19:57,273 --> 00:20:00,677
<i>It is merely a question
of interpretation.</i>

337
00:20:02,101 --> 00:20:07,443
One has to understand, I was a very
very deep believer in God.

338
00:20:07,493 --> 00:20:12,071
<i>By the way I'm still a believer in God.
I never lost my God.</i>

339
00:20:12,143 --> 00:20:17,257
<i>But for a young man,
my God had to be all mighty.</i>

340
00:20:17,293 --> 00:20:20,478
<i>My God would never need a vehicle
in which to move around,</i>

341
00:20:20,479 --> 00:20:24,223
a vehicle to go from point A to point B.

342
00:20:26,032 --> 00:20:29,292
<i>In what Christians refer to
as the Old Testament,</i>

343
00:20:29,486 --> 00:20:34,549
<i>there are in fact several accounts of
God and his angels visiting the Earth.</i>

344
00:20:36,459 --> 00:20:40,605
<i>Sometimes these visitatons are
accompanied by tremendous noise,</i>

345
00:20:40,641 --> 00:20:43,065
<i>and clouds of billowing smoke.</i>

346
00:20:47,007 --> 00:20:49,338
<i>In the book of Ezekiel for example,</i>

347
00:20:49,538 --> 00:20:54,001
<i>the prophet claims that he witnessed
a visitation by heavenly beings,</i>

348
00:20:54,216 --> 00:20:58,513
<i>coming down from the skies,
aboard of a fantastic flying machine.</i>

349
00:20:59,515 --> 00:21:01,946
<i>As far as Von Däniken is concerned,</i>

350
00:21:02,175 --> 00:21:06,215
<i>it's a highly detail description,
of an alien sighting.</i>

351
00:21:06,738 --> 00:21:11,408
<i>This is incredible. Ezekiel
not only describes what he see.</i>

352
00:21:11,483 --> 00:21:14,096
<i>He also describes what he hears.</i>

353
00:21:14,912 --> 00:21:19,281
<i>He describes the whole thing
as been the splendour of God.</i>

354
00:21:19,689 --> 00:21:24,524
<i>The prophet also details several
four-face winged creatures,</i>

355
00:21:24,531 --> 00:21:26,846
<i>who appeared in a likeness of man,</i>

356
00:21:26,870 --> 00:21:30,102
<i>and who travelled upon
a gleaming wheeled device.</i>

357
00:21:30,402 --> 00:21:34,214
<i>Inside the splendors of God,
there's was something like a throne.</i>

358
00:21:34,281 --> 00:21:36,684
And on this throne was a being sitting

359
00:21:36,784 --> 00:21:40,953
<i>looking like a human
in glitterin' clothes.</i>

360
00:21:41,025 --> 00:21:46,459
<i>And beneath it, he saw some vehicles,
he saw some wings.</i>

361
00:21:46,545 --> 00:21:48,557
<i>He describes the noise of the wings.</i>

362
00:21:48,558 --> 00:21:52,215
<i>He describes the noise of the wings
with a thundering of a waterfall.</i>

363
00:21:57,107 --> 00:21:59,724
<i>Ezekiel saw a wheel within a wheel.</i>

364
00:21:59,853 --> 00:22:03,880
<i>This sounds more high-tech
than supernatural,... and...</i>

365
00:22:04,123 --> 00:22:08,685
<i>... we can suppose that
people 3000 years ago,</i>

366
00:22:08,742 --> 00:22:12,855
<i>would understand the difference
between supernatural and high-tech.</i>

367
00:22:13,927 --> 00:22:17,503
<i>But what if there is more
to Ezekiel's heavenly visions,</i>

368
00:22:17,568 --> 00:22:21,200
<i>than the imaginative
insights of a religious man?</i>

369
00:22:21,552 --> 00:22:24,633
<i>What if there was a scientific
foundation for them?</i>

370
00:22:26,084 --> 00:22:28,861
Yes, I once had the opportunity of meeting,

371
00:22:28,861 --> 00:22:31,439
and spending time and traveling with...

372
00:22:31,483 --> 00:22:34,656
a gentleman by the name
of Joseph Blumrich.

373
00:22:35,064 --> 00:22:38,248
<i>He was a senior chief
engineer at NASA.</i>

374
00:22:38,455 --> 00:22:42,063
<i>First hand involved in the
Mariner expedition to Mars.</i>

375
00:22:42,125 --> 00:22:47,309
<i>He was also in charge of the landing
gear for the Mariner spaceship.</i>

376
00:22:47,352 --> 00:22:49,340
<i>And he told me himself,</i>

377
00:22:49,483 --> 00:22:54,218
<i>that the idea of the design used
for the Mariner spaceship,</i>

378
00:22:54,604 --> 00:22:56,999
<i>that landed on Mars, came to him...</i>

379
00:22:57,064 --> 00:23:00,338
<i>from the reading of the
biblical text in which</i>

380
00:23:00,339 --> 00:23:02,998
<i>there is talk about wheels within wheels.</i>

381
00:23:02,999 --> 00:23:07,702
<i>So here you have another example of
the person of curiosity, who conceives...</i>

382
00:23:07,824 --> 00:23:09,356
<i>... of these ideas.</i>

383
00:23:12,750 --> 00:23:16,767
<i>Another biblical figure who continues
to fascinate Von Däniken...</i>

384
00:23:16,908 --> 00:23:19,138
<i>... is the character of Enoch.</i>

385
00:23:19,406 --> 00:23:21,852
<i>Enoch is not part of the Bible.</i>

386
00:23:22,003 --> 00:23:26,092
<i>In the Bible, in the Old Testament you
find maybe just one phrase about Enoch.</i>

387
00:23:26,093 --> 00:23:26,980
<i>That's all.</i>

388
00:23:26,966 --> 00:23:29,765
<i>But among the apocryphic texts,</i>

389
00:23:30,015 --> 00:23:33,173
<i>there are volumes and volumes
if you know them.</i>

390
00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:35,535
<i>You find the Book of Enoch.</i>

391
00:23:35,536 --> 00:23:38,307
Enoch is the first person in antiquity,

392
00:23:38,529 --> 00:23:43,035
who writes in the 1st person,
"I did, I hear, I was there".

393
00:23:43,601 --> 00:23:47,949
<i>In one of the ancient texts,
this great-grandfather of Noah,</i>

394
00:23:48,106 --> 00:23:52,098
<i>is said to have been taken away
by God for 300 years.</i>

395
00:23:52,898 --> 00:23:55,445
He was taken up to the sky.

396
00:23:55,580 --> 00:23:57,856
Up there he meets the highest,

397
00:23:57,857 --> 00:24:01,127
the so called highest,
in religion they called "God".

398
00:24:01,165 --> 00:24:06,471
<i>He meets the highest, and the
highest fess to his servants,</i>

399
00:24:06,621 --> 00:24:09,669
<i>"You teach this young
man in our language,</i>

400
00:24:09,726 --> 00:24:13,437
<i>and then you teach him writing,
so he writes books".</i>

401
00:24:13,480 --> 00:24:14,352
<i>Of course,...</i>

402
00:24:14,353 --> 00:24:17,735
<i>... he knows all these
foreigners by name,</i>

403
00:24:17,799 --> 00:24:19,551
<i>he quotes them by name.</i>

404
00:24:19,617 --> 00:24:21,288
<i>He knows their profession.</i>

405
00:24:21,296 --> 00:24:24,636
<i>He knows which of these extraterrestrials,
were the astronomers.</i>

406
00:24:24,730 --> 00:24:27,000
<i>So, Enoch is the only and first person,</i>

407
00:24:27,097 --> 00:24:28,315
<i>thousand of years ago,</i>

408
00:24:28,458 --> 00:24:31,165
<i>who give some of the names
of the extraterrestrials,</i>

409
00:24:31,207 --> 00:24:34,547
<i>and give some of their professions.
How is this possible?</i>

410
00:24:34,576 --> 00:24:38,016
We have an eyewitness,
and nobody speaks about it.

411
00:24:38,109 --> 00:24:40,376
So, I really was confused.

412
00:24:42,472 --> 00:24:44,107
<i>That... that would be the argument,</i>

413
00:24:44,157 --> 00:24:46,298
<i>that... that the followers
of Von Däniken would say.</i>

414
00:24:46,491 --> 00:24:50,259
Why is so absurd for aliens to come
when is completely acceptable for God...

415
00:24:50,345 --> 00:24:52,747
... to intervene in human history.

416
00:24:53,549 --> 00:24:54,907
<i>The difference is...</i>

417
00:24:55,115 --> 00:24:58,226
<i>Von Däniken's arguing
that aliens came and gave...</i>

418
00:24:58,312 --> 00:25:01,415
<i>technologies to people
to advance those cultures.</i>

419
00:25:02,045 --> 00:25:05,692
<i>So basically they gave objects, they
gave new ideas and new technologies,</i>

420
00:25:05,778 --> 00:25:08,130
<i>and that those cultures
advanced because of that.</i>

421
00:25:08,671 --> 00:25:13,209
<i>Whereas... at least in the Bible.
It's not like God gave...</i>

422
00:25:13,295 --> 00:25:17,514
a human kind, a magic watch,
you know, or a new missile,

423
00:25:17,607 --> 00:25:19,900
that they could use
to defeat their enemies.

424
00:25:20,289 --> 00:25:23,270
<i>Hum... God gives instructions,
at least the Bible records,</i>

425
00:25:23,318 --> 00:25:28,257
<i>God gives instructions on how to live,
but not on how to build new devices</i>

426
00:25:28,364 --> 00:25:31,847
<i>that further or advance
a specific culture.</i>

427
00:25:32,944 --> 00:25:36,262
<i>Can we liken Ezekiel's
chariot to a UFO?</i>

428
00:25:36,979 --> 00:25:39,859
The ancients used myth,

429
00:25:39,896 --> 00:25:45,416
and metaphore and images to
describe their experience of God.

430
00:25:45,459 --> 00:25:48,247
<i>I think what we don't
wanna fall to is...</i>

431
00:25:48,311 --> 00:25:50,687
a type of fundamental literalism.

432
00:25:50,726 --> 00:25:54,692
<i>The stories of the Old Testament
emerged out of the people of that time.</i>

433
00:25:54,741 --> 00:25:59,390
<i>Out of their own context to make
sense of their experience of God.</i>

434
00:25:59,391 --> 00:26:02,254
<i>We can gain insight by
reading the Old Testament,</i>

435
00:26:02,325 --> 00:26:04,897
and reading about Ezekiel's Chariot.

436
00:26:05,083 --> 00:26:09,596
<i>But it's not to draw strict analogy
between his chariot and a UFO.</i>

437
00:26:14,531 --> 00:26:17,719
<i>When all of these stories
were written down,</i>

438
00:26:17,812 --> 00:26:21,624
writing was a fairly new invention.

439
00:26:21,896 --> 00:26:24,198
<i>The very first thing they wrote down,</i>

440
00:26:24,298 --> 00:26:27,803
<i>is something that actually
happened to them.</i>

441
00:26:27,918 --> 00:26:32,509
<i>It was so important, so compelling,
so significant to them...</i>

442
00:26:32,624 --> 00:26:35,155
<i>that they had to put it in writing.</i>

443
00:26:35,498 --> 00:26:39,267
<i>Why can't modern society come to grips,</i>

444
00:26:39,484 --> 00:26:41,601
<i>that these stories...</i>

445
00:26:41,686 --> 00:26:44,890
<i>... might be true, after all?</i>

446
00:26:46,865 --> 00:26:48,628
<i>Von Däniken's research...</i>

447
00:26:48,678 --> 00:26:52,714
<i>turned up evidence of other
arguably extraterrestrial phenomena,</i>

448
00:26:52,894 --> 00:26:54,964
<i>... and not only in the Bible.</i>

449
00:26:55,211 --> 00:26:58,693
<i>Almost every religion has
similar stories about deities,</i>

450
00:26:58,786 --> 00:27:01,339
<i>with spectacular powers and abilities,</i>

451
00:27:01,532 --> 00:27:05,308
<i>who come to Earth and directly
influenced the lives of men.</i>

452
00:27:06,209 --> 00:27:08,629
Suddenly one day I said
to myself, "Now come on,"

453
00:27:09,041 --> 00:27:12,093
"This is similar to stories
in so many old religions,"

454
00:27:12,395 --> 00:27:14,783
"are they talking about
extraterrestrials?"

455
00:27:14,898 --> 00:27:18,624
<i>These so-called gods are here,
they give orders,</i>

456
00:27:18,674 --> 00:27:23,214
<i>they force the humans to do certain
things, and one day they disappear.</i>

457
00:27:23,214 --> 00:27:26,589
<i>But they always disappear
with the promise to return...</i>

458
00:27:26,675 --> 00:27:28,963
<i>... in a far away future.</i>

459
00:27:29,771 --> 00:27:34,412
<i>If, as I believe, people
in ancient civilizations,</i>

460
00:27:34,413 --> 00:27:36,672
<i>were familiar with space travel...</i>

461
00:27:37,373 --> 00:27:40,804
... people in ancient civilizations
were in communication

462
00:27:40,805 --> 00:27:43,608
with human-like beings
from other planets,

463
00:27:43,787 --> 00:27:46,745
then, I think we should
expect to find evidence,

464
00:27:46,746 --> 00:27:51,403
for this in their literatures,
which we do find.

465
00:27:51,875 --> 00:27:54,878
<i>Throughout the ancient
Sanskrit epics of India,</i>

466
00:27:54,921 --> 00:27:59,992
<i>there are numerous descriptions
of Vimanas or mythical flying machines.</i>

467
00:28:00,316 --> 00:28:04,661
<i>One of these accounts even
dates back over 5000 years.</i>

468
00:28:04,719 --> 00:28:09,274
<i>In the Bhagavata Purana, which is
an ancient Sanskrit history,</i>

469
00:28:09,396 --> 00:28:12,191
<i>there is a description of a spacecraft,</i>

470
00:28:12,406 --> 00:28:16,404
<i>that was piloted by
a King named Shol'va.</i>

471
00:28:16,661 --> 00:28:19,235
<i>It's described that was made of metal,</i>

472
00:28:19,528 --> 00:28:24,671
<i>it was described that it sometimes
appeared to be in two places at once,</i>

473
00:28:24,814 --> 00:28:29,162
<i>it was described as having a motion
similar to that of a butterfly,</i>

474
00:28:29,191 --> 00:28:31,644
and these descriptions are consistent,

475
00:28:31,545 --> 00:28:36,134
with what people who observe
UFOs today, report.

476
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,278
<i>In other Sanskrit texts,</i>

477
00:28:39,314 --> 00:28:43,443
<i>such as the Mahabharata,
the Rigveda and the Ramayana,</i>

478
00:28:43,495 --> 00:28:49,129
<i>there can be found descriptions of Vimana
measuring as wide as 100 ft.</i>

479
00:28:49,187 --> 00:28:53,262
<i>And often equipped with the
capabilities of modern aircraft.</i>

480
00:28:55,037 --> 00:28:57,997
<i>One Vimana produce a shaft of light,</i>

481
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,115
<i>which when focused on a target,
consumed it with it's power.</i>

482
00:29:02,702 --> 00:29:07,764
It's like a Buck Rogers or
Flash Gordon movie from the 30's.

483
00:29:08,223 --> 00:29:11,233
<i>They read like the wild of
science fiction.</i>

484
00:29:11,405 --> 00:29:15,459
<i>People are flying around
in airships called Vimanas.</i>

485
00:29:15,502 --> 00:29:21,494
<i>Blasting each other and having
aerial fights, destroying entire cities.</i>

486
00:29:22,438 --> 00:29:23,841
And the crazy thing is...

487
00:29:23,927 --> 00:29:30,740
... that all of those stories are totally
accepted in the modern society of India.

488
00:29:33,974 --> 00:29:39,561
<i>I don't think we can say that these
descriptions are simply imagination,</i>

489
00:29:39,567 --> 00:29:42,661
<i>because even though they were
written thousands of years ago,</i>

490
00:29:42,662 --> 00:29:45,347
they match what many
people today report,

491
00:29:45,584 --> 00:29:49,345
in terms of observing
the actions of UFOs.

492
00:29:49,346 --> 00:29:52,971
Were they just mythological tales
that they're making up, fantasy?

493
00:29:53,558 --> 00:29:55,474
<i>Or these physical real events,</i>

494
00:29:55,475 --> 00:29:57,892
<i>and they're trying to describe them
as the best as they could.</i>

495
00:29:57,913 --> 00:29:59,972
<i>That seems to make more sense to me.</i>

496
00:30:01,532 --> 00:30:04,429
<i>I can tell you this,
I would be out of a job in India,</i>

497
00:30:04,543 --> 00:30:08,404
because there if I were to talk
about ancient aliens and ancient gods,

498
00:30:08,962 --> 00:30:12,072
<i>they would say,
"Ok, so what else is new?"</i>

499
00:30:17,672 --> 00:30:21,211
<i>When backing up their claims
of extraterrestrial visitation,</i>

500
00:30:21,547 --> 00:30:25,616
<i>ancient aliens theorists, draw
upon two kinds of examples.</i>

501
00:30:26,517 --> 00:30:31,180
<i>There's the evidence you can read,
such at that found in ancient texts,</i>

502
00:30:31,666 --> 00:30:34,290
<i>and then there's the evidence
you can actually see.</i>

503
00:30:36,707 --> 00:30:39,553
<i>Among the earliest types
of physical specimens,</i>

504
00:30:39,625 --> 00:30:45,232
<i>numerous cave and rock drawings, and
stone sculptures found all over the globe.</i>

505
00:30:45,282 --> 00:30:47,487
You know, pictures are
worth a thousand words.

506
00:30:47,527 --> 00:30:48,722
Absolutely.

507
00:30:48,737 --> 00:30:52,626
<i>When you see pictures depicted
for example on a cave in Italy,</i>

508
00:30:52,662 --> 00:30:55,502
<i>that shows two astronauts
with helmets on,</i>

509
00:30:55,644 --> 00:30:57,449
I don't know what
the heck could it be?

510
00:30:57,490 --> 00:30:59,092
What could it be?

511
00:30:59,210 --> 00:31:02,328
<i>Each of these ancient
illustrations or statues,</i>

512
00:31:02,407 --> 00:31:06,133
<i>depict figures dressed in
strange attire for the times,</i>

513
00:31:06,305 --> 00:31:08,972
<i>and sporting unusual headgear.</i>

514
00:31:09,201 --> 00:31:12,984
<i>But could they really be
representations of alien astronauts,</i>

515
00:31:13,063 --> 00:31:18,592
<i>visitors from other worlds, who touch down
upon the Earth thousands of years ago.</i>

516
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,404
All over the world we have statues,
and sculptures and paintings

517
00:31:24,405 --> 00:31:28,710
<i>and depictions of these
extraterrestrial beings.</i>

518
00:31:28,804 --> 00:31:31,925
<i>Even in the United States,
at Sego Canyon, Utah,</i>

519
00:31:32,011 --> 00:31:33,739
<i>we have petroglyphs,</i>

520
00:31:33,782 --> 00:31:36,871
<i>of very weird looking creatures,</i>

521
00:31:36,872 --> 00:31:40,448
<i>that have antennas on
their heads, helmets.</i>

522
00:31:40,512 --> 00:31:44,240
And halfway around the world, in
Kimberley,  Australia, for example,

523
00:31:44,241 --> 00:31:49,000
<i>we have the exact same depictions
of these helmeted beings,</i>

524
00:31:49,007 --> 00:31:50,895
<i>with a halo around their heads.</i>

525
00:31:50,938 --> 00:31:52,797
And the question I have is,

526
00:31:52,798 --> 00:31:56,202
"What did our ancestors see,
that compelled them...

527
00:31:56,702 --> 00:31:59,133
<i>to put this on their cave walls?"</i>

528
00:32:00,392 --> 00:32:03,789
<i>On yet another continent,
in Guatemala City,</i>

529
00:32:03,911 --> 00:32:09,481
<i>we have a sculpture that looks eerily
reminescent of a modern day astronaut.</i>

530
00:32:09,568 --> 00:32:11,884
<i>I mean, that thing is wearing a helmet,</i>

531
00:32:11,956 --> 00:32:14,015
<i>there some type of a mouth-piece,</i>

532
00:32:14,015 --> 00:32:18,153
<i>and on his chest are
some type of controls,</i>

533
00:32:18,163 --> 00:32:19,905
or rebreathing apparatus.

534
00:32:19,962 --> 00:32:23,198
<i>How is this possible, 1500 years ago?</i>

535
00:32:25,019 --> 00:32:26,541
<i>And in Colombia,</i>

536
00:32:26,542 --> 00:32:32,889
<i>there were thousands of tomb artifacts
that look like modern day airplanes.</i>

537
00:32:32,982 --> 00:32:37,123
<i>It has fixed wings, it has a fuselage,</i>

538
00:32:37,326 --> 00:32:43,555
<i>and it has an upright tail fin,
which is not intrinsic to nature,</i>

539
00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:48,354
but it it's intrinsic to
modern day aerodynamics.

540
00:32:48,819 --> 00:32:54,591
<i>Did our ancestors see something similar
flying in the air? Absolutely.</i>

541
00:32:54,869 --> 00:32:59,525
<i>Another compelling artifact that was
found, was at the Istanbul museum,</i>

542
00:32:59,639 --> 00:33:05,946
<i>where you have this headless spaceman,
sitting inside some type of space vehicle.</i>

543
00:33:06,039 --> 00:33:09,581
<i>You can see his hands,
and you can see tubing,</i>

544
00:33:09,582 --> 00:33:11,996
<i>that go to some sort of devices.</i>

545
00:33:12,004 --> 00:33:14,993
<i>He's wearing a suit, his legs
are cramped in there.</i>

546
00:33:15,268 --> 00:33:20,496
<i>I mean, even to the untrained eye,
this looks very aerodynamic,</i>

547
00:33:20,563 --> 00:33:25,097
and it looks something, that,
you know, came from outer space.

548
00:33:26,106 --> 00:33:30,747
<i>These people witnessed something,
they were told something,</i>

549
00:33:30,819 --> 00:33:32,420
and they tried to depict it,

550
00:33:32,421 --> 00:33:36,626
the best way they could, with the kind
of technology they had at that time.

551
00:33:36,712 --> 00:33:39,329
<i>And that was simple tools
and simple artwork.</i>

552
00:33:39,637 --> 00:33:45,879
Many of these ancient civilizations
were widely separated, in space and time.

553
00:33:45,915 --> 00:33:48,669
They weren't in communication
with each other,

554
00:33:48,819 --> 00:33:53,129
<i>but still they had the
same kinds of accounts.</i>

555
00:33:53,136 --> 00:33:56,751
<i>I think it's because they
all experienced these things.</i>

556
00:33:56,798 --> 00:34:02,368
<i>And they all had the idea that we are
part of a cosmic hierarchy of beings.</i>

557
00:34:02,554 --> 00:34:07,309
So I think we can't explain
things away so easily.

558
00:34:09,455 --> 00:34:10,988
<i>But for Erik Von Däniken...</i>

559
00:34:11,048 --> 00:34:14,368
<i>and other proponents of these
ancient astronaut theories,</i>

560
00:34:14,533 --> 00:34:18,981
<i>perhaps the most significant
illustration, can be found in Mexico.</i>

561
00:34:20,503 --> 00:34:23,345
<i>The Mayan archaeological
site of Palenque,</i>

562
00:34:23,424 --> 00:34:25,331
<i>had been abandoned for centuries,</i>

563
00:34:25,372 --> 00:34:28,497
<i>before it was stumbled upon
by Spanish explorers.</i>

564
00:34:29,963 --> 00:34:33,439
So get to the top of this...
and suddenly...

565
00:34:34,211 --> 00:34:37,458
... here are the great
pyramids of Palenque.

566
00:34:38,888 --> 00:34:41,889
<i>Here, deep within a secret tomb,</i>

567
00:34:41,925 --> 00:34:44,173
<i>under one of the age old temples.</i>

568
00:34:44,388 --> 00:34:46,640
<i>lies the 7 tons sarcophagus,</i>

569
00:34:46,705 --> 00:34:50,544
<i>of Palenque 7th century ruler,
Pakal the Great.</i>

570
00:34:50,923 --> 00:34:55,393
<i>Lord Pakal apparently
died here at Palenque.</i>

571
00:34:55,462 --> 00:35:01,378
<i>He was barely a mysterious
Mayan leader, he was a giant.</i>

572
00:35:01,513 --> 00:35:03,775
<i>7-8 ft tall actually.</i>

573
00:35:04,218 --> 00:35:08,720
<i>And then they built this pyramid
around his tomb.</i>

574
00:35:08,745 --> 00:35:13,100
The Mayans literally worship him
as some kind of a god.

575
00:35:14,272 --> 00:35:16,184
<i>King Pakal sarcophagus,</i>

576
00:35:16,266 --> 00:35:18,453
<i>is adorned with a carving
that has become...</i>

577
00:35:18,454 --> 00:35:21,468
<i>a famous example
of classic Mayan art.</i>

578
00:35:22,117 --> 00:35:24,891
<i>Most believe the illustration shows Pakal</i>

579
00:35:24,892 --> 00:35:27,481
<i>descending into the Mayan underworld.</i>

580
00:35:27,918 --> 00:35:33,110
<i>But ancient astronaut theorists, interpret
the carving a vastly different way.</i>

581
00:35:33,166 --> 00:35:36,442
<i>On this slab an incredible enchiseling.</i>

582
00:35:36,914 --> 00:35:40,345
<i>You see a man, and he is sitting
on a sort of capsule,</i>

583
00:35:40,381 --> 00:35:42,770
<i>he has some sort of mask on his nose,</i>

584
00:35:42,777 --> 00:35:46,081
<i>and you see his upper hand,
he is manipulating some control.</i>

585
00:35:46,189 --> 00:35:48,717
<i>From the lower hand, he is
turning something on.</i>

586
00:35:48,899 --> 00:35:51,616
<i>The heel of his left foot
is on a kind of pedal,</i>

587
00:35:51,645 --> 00:35:54,791
<i>and outside of the capsule
you see a linking flange.</i>

588
00:35:55,363 --> 00:35:56,714
This is incredible.

589
00:35:56,779 --> 00:35:59,639
This is absolutely proof
of extraterrestrials.

590
00:36:00,877 --> 00:36:01,655
3...

591
00:36:01,714 --> 00:36:02,506
2...

592
00:36:02,736 --> 00:36:03,432
1...

593
00:36:03,717 --> 00:36:05,755
Zero.
Lift off.

594
00:36:06,484 --> 00:36:10,073
<i>If we look at the similarities of what
our astronauts look like when they are</i>

595
00:36:10,174 --> 00:36:13,405
<i>in a rocket ship or in a space shuttle
and have a gear attached to them,</i>

596
00:36:13,406 --> 00:36:15,731
<i>there are similarities been shown, so...</i>

597
00:36:15,774 --> 00:36:17,716
one just has to ask the question of

598
00:36:17,818 --> 00:36:19,749
you know, it's this just an artifact,

599
00:36:19,799 --> 00:36:22,887
symbolically showing something
or are they trying to depict

600
00:36:22,930 --> 00:36:25,143
with their own limited
understanding at the time,

601
00:36:25,143 --> 00:36:26,822
what was taking place?

602
00:36:27,358 --> 00:36:31,849
<i>Was Lord Pakal just some
Mayan King that everyone liked?</i>

603
00:36:32,028 --> 00:36:36,913
<i>Was he some important visitor
from some far off land?</i>

604
00:36:37,449 --> 00:36:39,018
Or was he even possibly,

605
00:36:39,019 --> 00:36:42,319
some extraterrestrial,
from another planet?

606
00:36:44,994 --> 00:36:47,832
<i>Although most scientists
and archaeologists,</i>

607
00:36:47,932 --> 00:36:51,915
discredit Von Däniken's interpretation
of the Palenque carvings,

608
00:36:52,475 --> 00:36:55,790
<i>visitors to the site are
often treated to stories,</i>

609
00:36:55,833 --> 00:36:58,736
<i>and offered souvenirs
that support his claim.</i>

610
00:36:59,068 --> 00:37:01,148
This is Erik Von Däniken's theory...

611
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:02,796
"The Chariots of the Gods".

612
00:37:03,642 --> 00:37:05,684
You see, Pakal supposed to be driving...

613
00:37:06,027 --> 00:37:07,207
the rocket,

614
00:37:07,286 --> 00:37:08,832
holding the controls,

615
00:37:09,354 --> 00:37:10,628
the pedals...

616
00:37:11,688 --> 00:37:12,999
the engine,

617
00:37:13,536 --> 00:37:15,152
and the fire of the rocket.

618
00:37:15,302 --> 00:37:16,861
This would be the cabin.

619
00:37:17,516 --> 00:37:19,096
And this is the oxygen.

620
00:37:20,141 --> 00:37:24,778
Mainstream archaeologists claim that
it's really a depiction of Lord Pakal,

621
00:37:25,032 --> 00:37:26,762
<i>and his journey to the underworld.</i>

622
00:37:26,983 --> 00:37:28,350
<i>He is doing under the ground,</i>

623
00:37:28,413 --> 00:37:30,512
<i>rather than out into space.</i>

624
00:37:31,706 --> 00:37:36,186
Both are interesting theories,
and either could be right in my mind.

625
00:37:37,795 --> 00:37:42,947
<i>In recent years, Pakal's Tomb has been
close to tourists and casual visitors.</i>

626
00:37:43,126 --> 00:37:47,610
Although the sarcophagus is off limits,
ancient astronaut theorists

627
00:37:47,611 --> 00:37:52,066
<i>can still find a wealth of evidence in
the carvings along the walls of Palenque.</i>

628
00:37:52,123 --> 00:37:57,344
<i>This is very similar to what's on...
the lid of Lord Pakal, of his tomb.</i>

629
00:37:57,458 --> 00:38:03,365
<i>The way he's got his left hand right here
in a, like an odd position, and his wrist.</i>

630
00:38:03,366 --> 00:38:08,149
Also some kind of rocket exhaust
or something is coming out of them.

631
00:38:10,276 --> 00:38:13,838
<i>But Lord Pakal may not
have been the only alien,</i>

632
00:38:13,839 --> 00:38:16,298
who once walked the Palenque ruins.

633
00:38:16,313 --> 00:38:21,111
<i>The Mayans had such a advanced
calendar and mathematical system.</i>

634
00:38:21,204 --> 00:38:24,086
<i>Why were they so
obsessed with the stars?</i>

635
00:38:24,229 --> 00:38:27,561
One of the most advanced
of any ancient cultures.

636
00:38:28,240 --> 00:38:33,411
And yet the Mayans just
vanished around 500 A.D.

637
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:37,154
<i>We do not know where they went.
And one explanation,</i>

638
00:38:37,155 --> 00:38:40,226
<i>is it the Mayans were some
kind of extraterrestrials,</i>

639
00:38:40,227 --> 00:38:42,721
and they literally left our planet.

640
00:38:44,774 --> 00:38:47,906
<i>But ancient cave drawings
and stone carvings,</i>

641
00:38:48,014 --> 00:38:53,355
<i>aren't the only type of illustrations
that fascinate ancient alien theorists.</i>

642
00:38:53,355 --> 00:38:57,138
<i>In 1929, historians discovered a map,</i>

643
00:38:57,202 --> 00:39:00,484
<i>which had been painted onto
a piece of gazelle hide.</i>

644
00:39:00,970 --> 00:39:05,046
<i>They traced the document back to a
sixteen century Turkish admiral...</i>

645
00:39:05,103 --> 00:39:06,890
... named Piri Reis.

646
00:39:07,034 --> 00:39:10,975
<i>But in stark contrast to other
maps dating back to that time,</i>

647
00:39:11,318 --> 00:39:15,823
the map depicts land masses that
were still, as yet unexplored.

648
00:39:15,894 --> 00:39:24,686
<i>It shows the coast of Antarctica
as it exists under the current ice cover.</i>

649
00:39:25,612 --> 00:39:29,531
<i>Now that's really pretty amazing, because
it would tend to indicate that the map,</i>

650
00:39:29,531 --> 00:39:35,423
<i>was made at a time when
Antarctica was ice free.</i>

651
00:39:35,617 --> 00:39:39,196
<i>Which would be many
millions of years ago.</i>

652
00:39:39,436 --> 00:39:44,127
<i>The map also accurately charts the
coasts of Europe and North Africa.</i>

653
00:39:44,449 --> 00:39:47,112
<i>But its the illustration
of northern Antarctica,</i>

654
00:39:47,113 --> 00:39:50,508
<i>that truly astonishes
ancient astronaut theorists.</i>

655
00:39:50,823 --> 00:39:56,043
<i>Because this region wouldn't even
be discovered for another 300 years.</i>

656
00:39:56,101 --> 00:40:00,477
If remembered that Antarctica is
covered by at least a mile thick ice.

657
00:40:00,556 --> 00:40:03,788
We did not have ground-penetrating
radar until 1958.

658
00:40:03,860 --> 00:40:08,226
<i>So for a map to exist in 1531
accurately showing this topography,</i>

659
00:40:08,262 --> 00:40:09,323
<i>it's pretty interesting.</i>

660
00:40:11,547 --> 00:40:14,822
<i>When cartographers superimpose
the Piri Reis map,</i>

661
00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:19,241
<i>over modern map of the world,
they were amaze to discover,</i>

662
00:40:19,392 --> 00:40:24,884
<i>that the ancient chart was fantastically
accurate in the most minute of details.</i>

663
00:40:25,120 --> 00:40:27,930
<i>But how could the creators
of centuries old map,</i>

664
00:40:28,045 --> 00:40:31,100
<i>have known of mountains or rivers
that have yet to be discovered?</i>

665
00:40:32,145 --> 00:40:36,607
In 1531 I really don't know of any one who
was flying above the surface of the Earth,

666
00:40:36,815 --> 00:40:39,003
high enough to map topography,

667
00:40:39,111 --> 00:40:41,092
<i>and how would they see
underneath the ice?</i>

668
00:40:41,628 --> 00:40:44,596
Their maps were so accurate...

669
00:40:44,596 --> 00:40:49,295
... I mean we know that they didn't
go to Antarctica and explore it,

670
00:40:49,302 --> 00:40:52,234
<i>but yet they were able
to draw these maps of it.</i>

671
00:40:55,527 --> 00:40:59,885
<i>But if ancient aliens possessed
the technology to travel the universe,</i>

672
00:41:00,085 --> 00:41:04,076
<i>with the only evidence of their journey
be in the form of a few carvings,</i>

673
00:41:04,147 --> 00:41:05,770
<i>or a mysterious map?</i>

674
00:41:06,304 --> 00:41:10,147
<i>Wouldn't there also be signs
of a highly advanced technology?</i>

675
00:41:10,591 --> 00:41:14,585
<i>Signs that might be
too large to overlook.</i>

676
00:41:14,697 --> 00:41:19,782
You mean to tell me that people of
that time period did this by hand?

677
00:41:19,789 --> 00:41:21,419
I don't think so.

678
00:41:26,891 --> 00:41:30,173
<i>When it comes to searching for
evidence of ancient aliens,</i>

679
00:41:31,339 --> 00:41:35,964
<i>Erik Von Däniken literally
leaves no stones unturned.</i>

680
00:41:36,695 --> 00:41:39,562
<i>I have collected for more
than 40 years information.</i>

681
00:41:39,640 --> 00:41:44,260
<i>And there are two sorts of evidences
to support my hypothesis.</i>

682
00:41:44,711 --> 00:41:46,934
<i>The one source is literature,</i>

683
00:41:46,935 --> 00:41:50,976
<i>this might be archaeological
or mythological... literature,</i>

684
00:41:51,048 --> 00:41:53,873
<i>and the other source
are practical objects.</i>

685
00:41:53,945 --> 00:41:57,513
For example, if the pyramids
are linked to the gods,

686
00:41:57,606 --> 00:42:03,243
the gods who once descended
from the sky to us earthlings.

687
00:42:04,616 --> 00:42:06,967
<i>Without a little interplanetary help,</i>

688
00:42:07,210 --> 00:42:10,644
<i>how else could early Egyptians
have learned to stack...</i>

689
00:42:10,673 --> 00:42:14,281
<i>the nearly two and a half million
limestone and granite blocks,</i>

690
00:42:14,282 --> 00:42:16,818
that create the Great Pyramid?

691
00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:22,843
<i>How could prehistoric man moved
the immense boulders at Stonehenge?</i>

692
00:42:25,192 --> 00:42:29,801
<i>And how could ancient builders at Cuzco,
fixed stones so closely together,</i>

693
00:42:29,817 --> 00:42:32,898
<i>that even a razor blade
can't fit between them?</i>

694
00:42:37,469 --> 00:42:41,088
<i>Whilst traveling around the world
trying to piece together this... this...</i>

695
00:42:41,109 --> 00:42:43,778
<i>... this puzzle of the ancient world,</i>

696
00:42:43,856 --> 00:42:48,839
<i>there's not that much to really get
a good grasp on. But what there is...</i>

697
00:42:49,497 --> 00:42:53,388
is... giant blocks of stone,

698
00:42:53,432 --> 00:42:55,970
huge articulated granite,

699
00:42:55,971 --> 00:42:58,937
or basalt blocks in many cases.

700
00:42:58,938 --> 00:43:01,652
Sometimes they weigh a thousand tons.

701
00:43:05,302 --> 00:43:08,348
<i>These things are the
size of railway cars,</i>

702
00:43:08,349 --> 00:43:12,555
<i>and you find them in Peru and Bolivia
and Mexico and ancient Egypt.</i>

703
00:43:12,835 --> 00:43:14,911
<i>You have to ask yourself,</i>

704
00:43:15,017 --> 00:43:16,390
<i>Why...</i>

705
00:43:16,456 --> 00:43:17,793
<i>and how...</i>

706
00:43:17,993 --> 00:43:24,078
<i>could ancient people have dragged
this railway car sized blocks of stone</i>

707
00:43:24,583 --> 00:43:28,946
<i>stack them up together
into these giant buildings?</i>

708
00:43:30,233 --> 00:43:32,030
<i>Perhaps the most familiar,</i>

709
00:43:32,144 --> 00:43:33,949
<i>and most mysterious,</i>

710
00:43:33,977 --> 00:43:36,465
<i>megalithic structure in all the world</i>

711
00:43:36,589 --> 00:43:38,848
<i>is the Great Pyramid of Giza.</i>

712
00:43:39,545 --> 00:43:43,493
<i>The oldest and largest of
Egypt's three great pyramids.</i>

713
00:43:43,584 --> 00:43:45,577
<i>This miracle of engineering,</i>

714
00:43:45,578 --> 00:43:49,274
<i>is believed to have been constructed
during a twenty year period</i>

715
00:43:49,363 --> 00:43:52,480
<i>ending around 2,560 B.C.</i>

716
00:43:53,448 --> 00:43:58,304
<i>But to ancient alien theorists
those numbers just don't add up.</i>

717
00:44:01,521 --> 00:44:06,139
The Great Pyramid was not
built in only 22 years,

718
00:44:06,297 --> 00:44:07,934
because logistically speaking,

719
00:44:08,092 --> 00:44:09,686
you would have to cut,

720
00:44:09,926 --> 00:44:13,752
transport and put into place, one stone...

721
00:44:14,127 --> 00:44:16,609
... every nine seconds.

722
00:44:18,376 --> 00:44:20,677
<i>And there are modern engineers,</i>

723
00:44:20,805 --> 00:44:22,837
<i>who have come forward and said,</i>

724
00:44:22,923 --> 00:44:26,250
<i>"We couldn't do this in
twenty two years either".</i>

725
00:44:27,326 --> 00:44:31,144
There are all kinds of theories on how
the Great Pyramid of Giza was built.

726
00:44:31,230 --> 00:44:34,212
So many theories, you just
sit back and shake your head.

727
00:44:34,277 --> 00:44:37,266
And that includes ET visitations,

728
00:44:37,386 --> 00:44:41,981
levitating the blocks with
some kind of sound system,

729
00:44:42,289 --> 00:44:43,827
antigravity.

730
00:44:45,711 --> 00:44:48,628
<i>Thousands of workers pulling long ropes,</i>

731
00:44:48,664 --> 00:44:51,544
<i>on a ramp that has to be
almost two miles long</i>

732
00:44:51,741 --> 00:44:53,571
to get it up to where it is.

733
00:44:55,938 --> 00:44:56,860
<i>All I know...</i>

734
00:44:57,069 --> 00:44:59,808
<i>is that they are so finely aligned,</i>

735
00:44:59,927 --> 00:45:03,093
<i>and that the architecture is so precise,</i>

736
00:45:03,198 --> 00:45:05,329
<i>that even modern people today,</i>

737
00:45:05,415 --> 00:45:08,820
<i>with great technology,
would have a difficult time,</i>

738
00:45:08,971 --> 00:45:10,987
<i>being that good.</i>

739
00:45:13,511 --> 00:45:17,465
<i>How for example in the inside
of the pyramids in the tombs</i>

740
00:45:17,466 --> 00:45:23,845
<i>could they build granite and marble areas
that were just so perfect and so clean?</i>

741
00:45:25,726 --> 00:45:29,134
You mean to tell me that
people of that time period

742
00:45:29,485 --> 00:45:31,099
did this by hand?

743
00:45:31,171 --> 00:45:32,893
I don't think so.

744
00:45:34,631 --> 00:45:37,739
<i>The enormous size and
weight of the stones</i>

745
00:45:37,804 --> 00:45:40,171
<i>multiplied by the sheer number of them</i>

746
00:45:40,509 --> 00:45:42,575
<i>makes one thing certain.</i>

747
00:45:42,868 --> 00:45:44,898
<i>The construction of the Great Pyramid</i>

748
00:45:45,006 --> 00:45:47,387
<i>remains one of the greatest marvels</i>

749
00:45:47,495 --> 00:45:48,589
<i>and mysteries</i>

750
00:45:48,746 --> 00:45:50,763
<i>of architectural engineering.</i>

751
00:45:52,417 --> 00:45:54,075
<i>I don't want to discount human ingenuity</i>

752
00:45:54,076 --> 00:45:56,710
<i>because I do believe that we do
have the ability to do these things</i>

753
00:45:56,711 --> 00:45:58,171
<i>over a longer period of time,</i>

754
00:45:58,378 --> 00:46:00,895
<i>but the knowledge to build
some of these monuments.</i>

755
00:46:00,896 --> 00:46:02,875
There had to have been
some type of intervention

756
00:46:02,876 --> 00:46:05,329
or some type of knowledge
given to ancient man,

757
00:46:05,683 --> 00:46:06,920
to carry out those instructions.

758
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,157
They couldn't have just come
up it with on their own.

759
00:46:10,128 --> 00:46:12,594
<i>In Egypt there are old traditions</i>

760
00:46:12,724 --> 00:46:15,336
<i>saying the Great Pyramid was constructed</i>

761
00:46:15,337 --> 00:46:17,955
<i>by a Pharaoh with the name of Saurit,</i>

762
00:46:18,161 --> 00:46:21,093
and they say Saurit is the same...

763
00:46:21,206 --> 00:46:24,049
... which the Hebrew community

764
00:46:24,221 --> 00:46:25,861
calls Enoch.

765
00:46:26,852 --> 00:46:29,648
<i>Enoch is a prophet in the Old Testament.</i>

766
00:46:29,763 --> 00:46:33,503
<i>There are books of Enoch
called the apocryphy texts.</i>

767
00:46:34,193 --> 00:46:37,447
<i>You make a connection with Enoch
to this extraterrestrials.</i>

768
00:46:37,605 --> 00:46:40,901
<i>He clearly says he met
these extraterrestrials.</i>

769
00:46:41,438 --> 00:46:44,554
<i>Now we have writings
in the book of Enoch,</i>

770
00:46:44,590 --> 00:46:49,663
and he gave the order to construct a
building which cannot be destroyed

771
00:46:49,713 --> 00:46:52,472
by the thousands of years of the future.

772
00:46:56,913 --> 00:47:00,240
<i>And the ancient Egyptian texts</i>

773
00:47:00,241 --> 00:47:05,816
<i>speak that the pyramids
were built by human beings</i>

774
00:47:05,874 --> 00:47:11,337
<i>with the assistance of
the guardians of the sky,</i>

775
00:47:11,609 --> 00:47:13,797
<i>meaning, The Gods.</i>

776
00:47:14,366 --> 00:47:16,747
<i>And so we have proposed</i>

777
00:47:16,822 --> 00:47:20,516
that the pyramids were
built by human hands,

778
00:47:20,631 --> 00:47:25,683
but with the assistance of
extraterrestrial technology.

779
00:47:28,194 --> 00:47:30,585
<i>As one of the Seven
Wonders of the World,</i>

780
00:47:30,657 --> 00:47:32,445
<i>the Great Pyramid remains...</i>

781
00:47:32,584 --> 00:47:37,189
<i>not only an archaeological mystery,
but a geographical marvel.</i>

782
00:47:37,855 --> 00:47:42,323
<i>In 1877, author and theologian,
Joseph Seiss,</i>

783
00:47:42,324 --> 00:47:45,364
<i>demonstrated, that the
great pyramid resides</i>

784
00:47:45,394 --> 00:47:48,705
<i>at the intersection of the
longest line of latitude</i>

785
00:47:48,763 --> 00:47:51,180
<i>and the longest line of longitude.</i>

786
00:47:51,505 --> 00:47:55,888
<i>The exact center of all
the land mass in the world.</i>

787
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:57,345
<i>Also...</i>

788
00:47:57,374 --> 00:47:59,069
<i>each of its four sides,</i>

789
00:47:59,232 --> 00:48:03,594
<i>aligns almost precisely,
with the four points of the compass,</i>

790
00:48:03,837 --> 00:48:09,451
<i>though such an instrument, wasn't even
designed until thousands of years later.</i>

791
00:48:11,954 --> 00:48:15,895
<i>But is it just mere coincidence,
that pyramid construction,</i>

792
00:48:15,964 --> 00:48:18,832
<i>very similar to that
practised in ancient Egypt,</i>

793
00:48:19,039 --> 00:48:22,702
<i>was also evolving half
way around the world.</i>

794
00:48:23,302 --> 00:48:26,675
<i>There are pyramids on
remote Pacific islands,</i>

795
00:48:27,105 --> 00:48:28,775
<i>and in India,</i>

796
00:48:29,497 --> 00:48:31,193
<i>and in Mexico.</i>

797
00:48:31,617 --> 00:48:35,315
<i>So this is something that's
all over the world.</i>

798
00:48:35,377 --> 00:48:38,544
<i>Archaeologists haven't really
been able to explain why</i>

799
00:48:38,545 --> 00:48:42,483
dissimilar cultures,
separated by huge oceans,

800
00:48:42,568 --> 00:48:46,892
are building the same structures
and in many ways the same way.

801
00:48:49,128 --> 00:48:51,402
<i>Here in central Mexico,</i>

802
00:48:51,438 --> 00:48:55,911
<i>stands an ancient city that
dates back more than 2000 years.</i>

803
00:48:56,257 --> 00:49:01,954
<i>It's name... "Teotihuacán",
literally means "City of the Gods".</i>

804
00:49:02,558 --> 00:49:06,675
<i>And located at it's center,
is the Pyramid of the Sun.</i>

805
00:49:07,583 --> 00:49:10,364
<i>Incredibly, this pyramid's perimeter,</i>

806
00:49:10,504 --> 00:49:14,501
<i>is virtually the same as that
of the Great Pyramid of Gizah.</i>

807
00:49:15,725 --> 00:49:19,220
<i>A structural coincidence,
or... could it be...</i>

808
00:49:19,221 --> 00:49:22,573
<i>... that both were inspired
by the same designers?</i>

809
00:49:23,467 --> 00:49:24,792
<i>Couple of theories for that.</i>

810
00:49:24,858 --> 00:49:25,974
<i>Ok, One...</i>

811
00:49:26,177 --> 00:49:31,098
<i>maybe they were all taught the same
thing by an extraterrestrial race.</i>

812
00:49:31,602 --> 00:49:32,509
Two...

813
00:49:32,666 --> 00:49:35,278
<i>there were ancient travelers
from within this planet,</i>

814
00:49:35,279 --> 00:49:37,634
<i>who... went from one area to another,</i>

815
00:49:37,756 --> 00:49:39,565
<i>over the thousands of past years.</i>

816
00:49:39,608 --> 00:49:41,742
And then there some skeptics will say,

817
00:49:42,350 --> 00:49:45,086
Hey, that's the greatest archaeological
way to make it,

818
00:49:45,087 --> 00:49:46,606
so they just knew it.

819
00:49:47,203 --> 00:49:49,662
I don't think that the case.

820
00:49:53,832 --> 00:49:56,791
<i>At Teotihuacan here you have... a...</i>

821
00:49:56,792 --> 00:49:59,568
<i>Giant Pyramid of the Sun and
the Giant Pyramid of the Moon.</i>

822
00:49:59,847 --> 00:50:05,074
<i>According to the legends, these things
were built by gods who were giants</i>

823
00:50:05,239 --> 00:50:08,608
<i>at the end of one of the
destructions of the world.</i>

824
00:50:11,183 --> 00:50:13,570
<i>Civilizations such as the Aztecs,</i>

825
00:50:13,671 --> 00:50:16,231
<i>and the Mayans and the Hopi
Indians of Northern Arizona,</i>

826
00:50:16,404 --> 00:50:20,637
<i>they believe that the world has
been destroyed four times in the past.</i>

827
00:50:20,823 --> 00:50:21,919
One time by ice,

828
00:50:21,920 --> 00:50:22,818
once by fire,

829
00:50:22,819 --> 00:50:23,933
once by water...

830
00:50:28,039 --> 00:50:30,642
<i>Each time mankind rebuild again.</i>

831
00:50:30,899 --> 00:50:34,480
<i>And Teotihuacan supposedly was built,</i>

832
00:50:34,556 --> 00:50:38,160
<i>just at the beginning of one
of these four worlds.</i>

833
00:50:41,027 --> 00:50:42,454
<i>You may ask the question,</i>

834
00:50:42,541 --> 00:50:46,052
<i>Why build these huge,
huge structures?</i>

835
00:50:46,090 --> 00:50:47,569
<i>For what purpose?</i>

836
00:50:48,365 --> 00:50:52,759
Well... in Egypt, for example,
either the Pharaohs had incredible egos,

837
00:50:53,153 --> 00:50:55,458
and they wanted out do
themselves, right?

838
00:50:55,573 --> 00:50:59,224
<i>So they build these huge
museums for themselves,</i>

839
00:50:59,446 --> 00:51:06,311
<i>or... its also possible that these ancients
wanted to leave behind something for us?</i>

840
00:51:07,842 --> 00:51:11,324
<i>It is written in ancient Egyptian texts,</i>

841
00:51:11,354 --> 00:51:14,637
<i>the purpose why the pyramids was built?</i>

842
00:51:14,722 --> 00:51:17,969
<i>Was to store knowledge?</i>

843
00:51:18,484 --> 00:51:25,442
300 books, which allegedly contain
the knowledge of the universe,

844
00:51:26,107 --> 00:51:30,512
<i>dictated by the guardians of the sky.</i>

845
00:51:33,308 --> 00:51:36,774
<i>Of course, the pyramids aren't
the only ancient monuments,</i>

846
00:51:36,776 --> 00:51:40,055
<i>that continue to baffle
scientists and archaeologists.</i>

847
00:51:41,922 --> 00:51:44,411
<i>There they literally hundreds of them,</i>

848
00:51:44,630 --> 00:51:48,951
<i>and they can be found in
every corner of our world.</i>

849
00:51:53,386 --> 00:51:56,096
<i>In a remote area of the Pacific Ocean,</i>

850
00:51:56,211 --> 00:52:00,437
<i>lies one of the most isolated yet
inhabited locations in the world.</i>

851
00:52:00,902 --> 00:52:02,418
<i>Easter Island.</i>

852
00:52:08,534 --> 00:52:15,027
<i>Here, over 800 stone guardians called Moai
stand watch over the islands coast line.</i>

853
00:52:17,479 --> 00:52:22,306
<i>But are they primitive native carvings
or eerie portrait's of alien visitors,</i>

854
00:52:22,307 --> 00:52:24,387
<i>from thousands of years ago?</i>

855
00:52:26,010 --> 00:52:29,631
Whatever they were for, they're made
to last for thousands of years,

856
00:52:29,831 --> 00:52:34,679
<i>they're built out of... block of stones
that weight many... many tons.</i>

857
00:52:34,785 --> 00:52:41,965
<i>Not only are people building structures
out of these huge megalithic blocks of stone,</i>

858
00:52:42,252 --> 00:52:44,761
<i>but this was going around the world.</i>

859
00:52:44,836 --> 00:52:49,061
<i>And yet supposely it's just
primitive people doing this</i>

860
00:52:49,211 --> 00:52:51,280
<i>for no really good reason it would seem.</i>

861
00:52:51,901 --> 00:52:54,705
<i>I think one of the things that
comes into our considerations</i>

862
00:52:54,706 --> 00:52:56,805
of what ancient cultures
could have accomplish,

863
00:52:57,141 --> 00:52:59,315
is whether they were able
to write it down or not.

864
00:52:59,401 --> 00:53:02,703
<i>We're very tied to if we have
evidence that they wrote down,</i>

865
00:53:02,753 --> 00:53:05,172
<i>how they did it, then we believe
we know how they did it.</i>

866
00:53:05,394 --> 00:53:08,148
<i>So, Egypt we have a lot more
writings and drawings,</i>

867
00:53:08,234 --> 00:53:10,014
<i>that show them building the pyramids,</i>

868
00:53:10,050 --> 00:53:11,879
<i>give us an idea of the technology.</i>

869
00:53:12,004 --> 00:53:13,754
<i>If you go somewhere like Easter Island</i>

870
00:53:13,911 --> 00:53:16,392
<i>we don't have any real written
evidence of what they did.</i>

871
00:53:16,428 --> 00:53:19,539
<i>And sometimes that leads us
to question their innovativeness.</i>

872
00:53:24,254 --> 00:53:26,191
<i>3000 miles away,</i>

873
00:53:26,334 --> 00:53:28,062
<i>in the Republic of Bolivia,</i>

874
00:53:28,555 --> 00:53:30,142
<i>stone work exists,</i>

875
00:53:30,143 --> 00:53:34,147
<i>which is amazingly similar
to the statues of Easter Island.</i>

876
00:53:37,874 --> 00:53:39,951
<i>Tiwanaku is in fact,</i>

877
00:53:39,979 --> 00:53:43,376
<i>so ancient, that it defies
modern dating techniques.</i>

878
00:53:44,690 --> 00:53:48,559
<i>It is estimated, to be
over 17000 years old.</i>

879
00:53:48,601 --> 00:53:51,440
<i>Perhaps the oldest city in the world.</i>

880
00:53:53,919 --> 00:53:57,054
<i>And somehow the sculptures at Tiwanaku,</i>

881
00:53:57,154 --> 00:53:59,472
<i>were constructed in the same style,</i>

882
00:53:59,801 --> 00:54:02,441
<i>and with the same enigmatic expressions,</i>

883
00:54:02,526 --> 00:54:05,501
<i>as their distant cousins
on Easter Island.</i>

884
00:54:07,249 --> 00:54:12,087
A lot of the stuff at Tiwanaku,
you can see in earlier civilizations.

885
00:54:12,241 --> 00:54:17,619
<i>All way back, you know, before into the...
into the centuries B.C. in Peru.</i>

886
00:54:18,024 --> 00:54:23,093
<i>You see some these same patterns,
some of the same iconography, imagery,</i>

887
00:54:23,430 --> 00:54:25,825
<i>and you can see the ancestry of this.</i>

888
00:54:30,409 --> 00:54:33,649
<i>But while tourists flocked
to the ruins of Tiwanaku,</i>

889
00:54:33,863 --> 00:54:37,052
<i>perhaps the most mystifying
of all ancient sites,</i>

890
00:54:37,095 --> 00:54:39,570
<i>lies just a few hundreds yards away.</i>

891
00:54:40,221 --> 00:54:43,038
<i>Of relatively little
interest to most visitors,</i>

892
00:54:43,310 --> 00:54:46,307
Puma Punku, is a field of stone ruins

893
00:54:46,308 --> 00:54:48,361
<i>that both thrills and stimulates,</i>

894
00:54:48,476 --> 00:54:51,563
<i>the imaginations of ancient
alien theorists.</i>

895
00:54:59,886 --> 00:55:01,330
In my opinion,

896
00:55:01,742 --> 00:55:05,281
the most significant piece
of evidence that we have,

897
00:55:05,374 --> 00:55:08,892
<i>in this entire ancient
astronaut puzzle,</i>

898
00:55:08,913 --> 00:55:13,318
<i>is Puma Punku, in the
highland of Bolivia.</i>

899
00:55:18,870 --> 00:55:21,723
<i>While the Pyramids at Giza,</i>

900
00:55:22,181 --> 00:55:24,769
<i>are incredible feat of achievement,</i>

901
00:55:25,273 --> 00:55:29,710
<i>compared to Puma Punku,
the Pyramids are childplay.</i>

902
00:55:35,861 --> 00:55:39,951
<i>Logic does not exists at Puma Punku,</i>

903
00:55:40,016 --> 00:55:44,263
<i>because there we have
megalithic structures,</i>

904
00:55:44,515 --> 00:55:47,575
<i>which just lie about this entire site,</i>

905
00:55:47,668 --> 00:55:51,894
<i>as if ripped apart by...
by some sort of a great force.</i>

906
00:55:54,225 --> 00:55:56,032
<i>The blocks of Puma Punku,</i>

907
00:55:56,332 --> 00:55:58,072
<i>were so finely cut,</i>

908
00:55:58,101 --> 00:56:00,525
<i>that they once perfectly interlocked,</i>

909
00:56:00,611 --> 00:56:03,244
<i>like the pieces of
an elaborate puzzle.</i>

910
00:56:03,726 --> 00:56:07,094
<i>But with the nearest quarry,
over ten miles away,</i>

911
00:56:07,163 --> 00:56:11,317
<i>how did these colossal stones,
some weighing hundreds of tons,</i>

912
00:56:11,464 --> 00:56:12,716
<i>... even get here.</i>

913
00:56:13,067 --> 00:56:16,885
We are talking about a place
4000 meters, over sea level.

914
00:56:17,067 --> 00:56:20,732
<i>That means there no trees up there,
which you could use for rollers.</i>

915
00:56:20,832 --> 00:56:24,471
<i>Nothing grows except
a few grasses and bushes.</i>

916
00:56:24,611 --> 00:56:28,909
<i>I have stood in front
of many monuments, however...</i>

917
00:56:28,984 --> 00:56:31,658
<i>Puma Punku takes the crown,</i>

918
00:56:31,894 --> 00:56:36,463
<i>because what we find there,
is so inexplicable,</i>

919
00:56:36,864 --> 00:56:39,203
<i>so inachievable,</i>

920
00:56:39,503 --> 00:56:45,038
that... the question remains,
how was it done and for what purposes?

921
00:56:51,083 --> 00:56:53,385
<i>Mainstream archaeologists say...</i>

922
00:56:53,386 --> 00:56:58,274
<i>... that Puma Punku was built
by the Aymara Indians.</i>

923
00:56:58,331 --> 00:57:03,401
<i>And we would all have to agree that in order
to built something like Puma Punku,</i>

924
00:57:03,437 --> 00:57:08,772
<i>you need writing, you need planning,
and you need some sort of the... idea,</i>

925
00:57:08,915 --> 00:57:13,455
<i>where... which piece goes and
how it ultimately all fits together.</i>

926
00:57:14,228 --> 00:57:18,554
<i>But there is one thing that all the
mainstream archaeologists agree upon,</i>

927
00:57:18,626 --> 00:57:20,084
that the Aymara...

928
00:57:20,127 --> 00:57:21,972
... didn't have any writing.

929
00:57:22,058 --> 00:57:25,377
<i>So how is it possible that
they built all of this...</i>

930
00:57:25,377 --> 00:57:27,231
<i>... without plans?</i>

931
00:57:27,303 --> 00:57:29,138
<i>What's really amazing...</i>

932
00:57:29,181 --> 00:57:35,059
<i>and why the ancient astronaut theorists
are so drawn to Puma Punku and Tiwanaku,</i>

933
00:57:35,138 --> 00:57:41,167
<i>is that the quality of the stone work
and the inmense size of these blocks</i>

934
00:57:41,517 --> 00:57:43,737
<i>is so incredible...</i>

935
00:57:43,799 --> 00:57:47,888
<i>... and perfect, that there's actually
evidence of machining.</i>

936
00:57:48,206 --> 00:57:50,709
<i>and that they were using machines tools,</i>

937
00:57:50,852 --> 00:57:53,212
<i>to cut these blocks.</i>

938
00:57:56,770 --> 00:57:59,509
One of the platforms is 800 tons.

939
00:57:59,868 --> 00:58:02,728
<i>And they are so smoothly polished.</i>

940
00:58:02,921 --> 00:58:05,274
<i>You have some stone, megalithic stones,</i>

941
00:58:05,338 --> 00:58:08,621
<i>with grooves which are a just
few millimeters inside.</i>

942
00:58:08,657 --> 00:58:13,126
<i>Which definitely cannot be made
with stone age chisels.</i>

943
00:58:13,194 --> 00:58:15,375
<i>It doesn't work with
stone age chisels so...</i>

944
00:58:15,458 --> 00:58:17,232
<i>there is another technology behind it.</i>

945
00:58:17,721 --> 00:58:21,054
<i>The lines carved into these rocks
are exactly straight,</i>

946
00:58:21,072 --> 00:58:25,063
<i>and precisely the same depth
from one end to the other.</i>

947
00:58:28,796 --> 00:58:32,829
It's as if only master builders...

948
00:58:32,872 --> 00:58:35,775
<i>were allowed to work there.</i>

949
00:58:35,843 --> 00:58:39,253
<i>Because everything is so precise,</i>

950
00:58:39,254 --> 00:58:41,261
<i>everything is so perfect.</i>

951
00:58:41,544 --> 00:58:45,355
<i>You wonder how any of
these was even possible?</i>

952
00:58:52,836 --> 00:58:54,629
<i>One of the most intriguing
things there is...</i>

953
00:58:54,630 --> 00:58:56,429
<i>that the stones that were used there...</i>

954
00:58:56,570 --> 00:58:57,942
<i>... aren't sand stone.</i>

955
00:58:58,214 --> 00:59:01,274
They're granite and diorite.

956
00:59:04,063 --> 00:59:07,452
<i>The only stone that's
harder than diorite...</i>

957
00:59:07,517 --> 00:59:08,983
<i>... is diamond.</i>

958
00:59:09,076 --> 00:59:11,492
<i>So the only way that this
could have been achieved...</i>

959
00:59:11,493 --> 00:59:15,297
<i>... is if the tools were
tipped with diamonds.</i>

960
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:19,140
<i>American professors who were up there with
their computer and modern measurements,</i>

961
00:59:19,207 --> 00:59:20,394
<i>they were really shocked.</i>

962
00:59:20,771 --> 00:59:23,967
<i>In their literature they say,
"It is impossible...</i>

963
00:59:24,124 --> 00:59:27,554
<i>to reconstruct Puma Punku,
it's absolutely impossible".</i>

964
00:59:28,241 --> 00:59:30,169
<i>But is it really difficult to believe</i>

965
00:59:30,170 --> 00:59:34,239
<i>that ancient peoples could have
so precisely carve these stones.</i>

966
00:59:34,239 --> 00:59:37,564
<i>Or could build such an incredibly
intricate structure from them.</i>

967
00:59:40,424 --> 00:59:43,927
If there was ancient astronauts
teaching them these building techniques

968
00:59:43,928 --> 00:59:49,771
<i>why don't we see just perfect almost
skyscraper like vertical edificies?</i>

969
00:59:49,923 --> 00:59:52,440
<i>Everything was all pyramid like?</i>

970
00:59:52,747 --> 00:59:56,134
<i>Stone cutting techniques have
been invented and re-invented</i>

971
00:59:56,135 --> 00:59:59,094
<i>and independently invented
all over the world.</i>

972
00:59:59,116 --> 01:00:03,678
<i>If you think of yourself as a god king
and you want to have a structure built</i>

973
01:00:03,679 --> 01:00:06,031
<i>that's going to last thousands of years,</i>

974
01:00:06,281 --> 01:00:11,302
<i>it's much better to built it out of perfectly
fitting stones without mortar,</i>

975
01:00:11,516 --> 01:00:15,370
<i>that degrades and decays
and has to be mantained.</i>

976
01:00:15,525 --> 01:00:18,793
<i>So we see mortarless structures,</i>

977
01:00:18,794 --> 01:00:21,804
<i>megalithics structures
all over the world.</i>

978
01:00:25,642 --> 01:00:27,200
<i>We have an anomaly here,</i>

979
01:00:27,261 --> 01:00:31,481
where on one hand these people are
suppose to be... very primitive.

980
01:00:31,671 --> 01:00:34,317
<i>They're just one step
out the stone age.</i>

981
01:00:34,318 --> 01:00:40,672
<i>Yet... what they doing are things
that we couldn't even do today,</i>

982
01:00:40,673 --> 01:00:43,825
<i>... apparently. We'll have
extreme difficulty.</i>

983
01:00:44,042 --> 01:00:47,288
<i>And that is building with
this giant block of stone...</i>

984
01:00:47,761 --> 01:00:51,344
<i>... perfectly fitting them
together with other blocks...</i>

985
01:00:51,424 --> 01:00:53,505
<i>... interlocking them.</i>

986
01:00:56,512 --> 01:00:59,494
The ancient people of
our time on this planet,

987
01:00:59,762 --> 01:01:04,574
truly saw strange things,
they witness bizarre events.

988
01:01:06,063 --> 01:01:08,975
<i>But those stories other
than in depictions,</i>

989
01:01:08,976 --> 01:01:11,046
<i>some artwork and
things like that...</i>

990
01:01:11,248 --> 01:01:14,445
<i>... they're gone, for some
reason they're just gone.</i>

991
01:01:14,483 --> 01:01:16,277
<i>But left behind...</i>

992
01:01:16,413 --> 01:01:18,365
<i>... are incredibly things
that we have,</i>

993
01:01:18,366 --> 01:01:19,665
<i>that make you wonder...</i>

994
01:01:19,666 --> 01:01:22,625
<i>how in the heck were
these things built?</i>

995
01:01:22,761 --> 01:01:24,860
<i>Those are great mysteries,
and I think...</i>

996
01:01:25,030 --> 01:01:27,217
<i>... one of the things
that keeps people...</i>

997
01:01:27,218 --> 01:01:29,820
<i>... just continuing to
push for the anwers...</i>

998
01:01:30,202 --> 01:01:32,757
<i>are the fact that these
things are so out there,</i>

999
01:01:32,929 --> 01:01:34,329
<i>that they can't figure it out.</i>

1000
01:01:35,218 --> 01:01:37,006
<i>But uncovering the mystery,</i>

1001
01:01:37,077 --> 01:01:40,159
<i>of just how these incredible
structures were built...</i>

1002
01:01:40,296 --> 01:01:42,806
<i>will only solve one
piece of the puzzle.</i>

1003
01:01:43,014 --> 01:01:47,441
<i>Finding out why they were built
and how they were used,</i>

1004
01:01:47,491 --> 01:01:50,480
<i>poses equally compelling questions...</i>

1005
01:01:50,623 --> 01:01:54,227
<i>questions that may not be
answerable, here on Earth.</i>

1006
01:02:00,593 --> 01:02:06,257
<i>Did aliens really inspire our ancestors
to build ancient temples and pyramids?</i>

1007
01:02:06,965 --> 01:02:08,596
<i>And if they came here,</i>

1008
01:02:08,652 --> 01:02:11,549
<i>did they leave behind any
advanced knowledge of physics,</i>

1009
01:02:11,706 --> 01:02:13,911
<i>... astronomy or mathematics?</i>

1010
01:02:15,103 --> 01:02:18,965
<i>If so, is there any evidence
that remains to this day?</i>

1011
01:02:19,873 --> 01:02:22,219
<i>One example might be this one.</i>

1012
01:02:22,476 --> 01:02:25,914
<i>Often described as the world's
first mechanical computer,</i>

1013
01:02:26,272 --> 01:02:29,133
<i>it dates back over 2000 years.</i>

1014
01:02:29,929 --> 01:02:36,036
<i>The Antikythera device was found
in 1900 by sponge divers,</i>

1015
01:02:36,128 --> 01:02:40,133
diving off a small island in the
Aegean called Antikythera.

1016
01:02:41,012 --> 01:02:43,343
<i>There was a ship wreck there, and...</i>

1017
01:02:43,493 --> 01:02:47,476
<i>in it was a coral incrusted box.</i>

1018
01:02:47,759 --> 01:02:50,640
<i>And it was made of metal alloys,</i>

1019
01:02:51,126 --> 01:02:53,311
<i>and it then went to the Athens museum,</i>

1020
01:02:53,401 --> 01:02:59,270
<i>where a good 50 years later,
they were able to X-Ray this box,</i>

1021
01:02:59,491 --> 01:03:01,944
and they were able to discern,

1022
01:03:02,252 --> 01:03:05,386
<i>cog wheels that were interconnected,</i>

1023
01:03:05,665 --> 01:03:10,113
<i>and give us a very good depiction
of what this thing was.</i>

1024
01:03:10,114 --> 01:03:15,170
<i>And it is a computer.
It is a really sophisticated machine.</i>

1025
01:03:19,967 --> 01:03:23,235
<i>It's a very interesting piece of
technology because it serves two purposes.</i>

1026
01:03:23,406 --> 01:03:26,853
One, was there was an astronomical
device, where you could...

1027
01:03:27,260 --> 01:03:29,453
... by using it, chart
the position of the stars

1028
01:03:29,454 --> 01:03:31,175
and navigate your way
through the seas.

1029
01:03:31,483 --> 01:03:33,898
<i>It was also an astrological device,</i>

1030
01:03:33,899 --> 01:03:35,330
<i>so that some could tell you,</i>

1031
01:03:35,508 --> 01:03:39,005
<i>ah, if you are born on this day
and your planet sign is this,</i>

1032
01:03:39,176 --> 01:03:41,147
<i>then certain things are
going to happen to you</i>

1033
01:03:41,148 --> 01:03:42,795
<i>when the planets are
in this alignment.</i>

1034
01:03:43,052 --> 01:03:45,605
<i>So it was a very interesting
piece of technology,</i>

1035
01:03:45,710 --> 01:03:47,584
<i>that literally had...</i>

1036
01:03:48,206 --> 01:03:50,115
<i>more complicated gears in...</i>

1037
01:03:50,116 --> 01:03:52,642
<i>inner workings than a
modern day Swiss watch.</i>

1038
01:03:52,849 --> 01:03:55,843
<i>And it's found to be dated
I think like 200 B.C.</i>

1039
01:03:55,943 --> 01:03:58,163
<i>So it's really an anomaly as to...</i>

1040
01:03:58,185 --> 01:04:00,973
<i>Who could have created that
and what it was being used for?</i>

1041
01:04:04,655 --> 01:04:09,354
When archaeologists first start
examining this thing at the 1950s...

1042
01:04:09,597 --> 01:04:11,796
<i>... they said that they
never could conceived</i>

1043
01:04:11,910 --> 01:04:16,097
<i>of the ancient Greeks having
such complicated machinery.</i>

1044
01:04:16,147 --> 01:04:17,088
<i>And in fact they said...</i>

1045
01:04:17,273 --> 01:04:20,105
<i>this was tantamount out to finding
a jet airplane...</i>

1046
01:04:20,221 --> 01:04:21,689
<i>... in the tomb of King Tut.</i>

1047
01:04:32,937 --> 01:04:35,777
<i>Even older than the
Antikythera mechanism...</i>

1048
01:04:36,092 --> 01:04:37,865
<i>are these carvings on a wall...</i>

1049
01:04:37,866 --> 01:04:40,511
<i>at the Dendera temple
complex in Egypt.</i>

1050
01:04:41,569 --> 01:04:42,728
<i>To some...</i>

1051
01:04:42,835 --> 01:04:48,321
<i>the strange designs look eerily similar
to objects very much in use today.</i>

1052
01:04:49,020 --> 01:04:53,355
In Egypt, there it's this
underground crypt, at Dendera,

1053
01:04:53,356 --> 01:04:57,483
that was always secret
and only the high priests,

1054
01:04:57,649 --> 01:04:59,997
had access to that crypt.

1055
01:05:00,571 --> 01:05:02,101
<i>It's very hot in there,</i>

1056
01:05:02,102 --> 01:05:04,190
<i>very narrow low ceiling,</i>

1057
01:05:04,337 --> 01:05:07,308
<i>and on the walls,
you have this reliefs...</i>

1058
01:05:07,624 --> 01:05:10,233
<i>of what looks like...</i>

1059
01:05:10,348 --> 01:05:12,621
<i>... ancient light bulbs.</i>

1060
01:05:12,849 --> 01:05:16,332
<i>Because we have to question one thing.</i>

1061
01:05:16,572 --> 01:05:18,645
How did the ancient Egyptians...

1062
01:05:18,730 --> 01:05:21,457
light the inside of their tombs?

1063
01:05:24,851 --> 01:05:27,635
<i>According to most
mainstream archaeologists...</i>

1064
01:05:27,775 --> 01:05:30,245
<i>torches were used by
the ancient Egyptians</i>

1065
01:05:30,378 --> 01:05:33,745
<i>to light the pitch black chambers
of tombs and temples.</i>

1066
01:05:34,305 --> 01:05:36,114
<i>Yet nowhere on the ceilings</i>

1067
01:05:36,114 --> 01:05:39,922
<i>is there even slightest evidence
of soot or smoke residue.</i>

1068
01:05:41,696 --> 01:05:43,734
<i>But if torches weren't used,</i>

1069
01:05:43,770 --> 01:05:47,804
<i>how else could this ancient rooms
and hallways have been illuminated?</i>

1070
01:05:53,045 --> 01:05:55,175
Another theory that was proposed,

1071
01:05:55,236 --> 01:05:59,523
<i>is that the light was directed
from outside by copper mirrors.</i>

1072
01:05:59,351 --> 01:06:02,798
"And then there was... light".

1073
01:06:04,191 --> 01:06:06,343
"Hey, that is a neat trick".

1074
01:06:06,437 --> 01:06:08,680
And they've actually tried
to recreate that theory,

1075
01:06:08,681 --> 01:06:14,085
<i>but unfortunately they failed
because only after a few corners,</i>

1076
01:06:14,189 --> 01:06:16,248
<i>the sunlight disappeared because...</i>

1077
01:06:16,560 --> 01:06:19,287
<i>the copper mirrors were too weak.</i>

1078
01:06:22,174 --> 01:06:28,389
Also, there isn't enough oxygen
inside those tombs,

1079
01:06:28,390 --> 01:06:32,890
with which to support or
feed a flame of a torch.

1080
01:06:33,376 --> 01:06:38,684
<i>I was once inside the King's Chamber,
inside the Pyramid at Giza,</i>

1081
01:06:39,082 --> 01:06:42,131
<i>and somebody turn off
the lights and immediately,</i>

1082
01:06:42,423 --> 01:06:44,304
<i>we were in pitch darkness.</i>

1083
01:06:44,368 --> 01:06:45,633
And I said, "No problem,

1084
01:06:45,770 --> 01:06:47,951
I'll just take out my
lighter from my satchel...

1085
01:06:48,116 --> 01:06:49,572
and I turned on the lighter...

1086
01:06:49,937 --> 01:06:51,786
... and it didn't worked.

1087
01:06:52,297 --> 01:06:55,086
<i>So, how were the insides
of the temples lit?</i>

1088
01:06:55,190 --> 01:07:01,820
<i>I mean, the only remaining solution is
by some sort of an artificial light source.</i>

1089
01:07:02,206 --> 01:07:06,661
<i>And that is, for example a light bulb.</i>

1090
01:07:06,704 --> 01:07:10,334
<i>So, at an underground crypt at Dendera,</i>

1091
01:07:10,685 --> 01:07:14,110
<i>we find reliefs of such light bulbs.</i>

1092
01:07:16,698 --> 01:07:19,823
<i>Egyptologists explanation of this...</i>

1093
01:07:20,052 --> 01:07:22,874
<i>and they have to have some explanation,
there's got to be one.</i>

1094
01:07:23,253 --> 01:07:26,664
And has to be pretty mundane, it
can't be that it is an electrical device.

1095
01:07:26,728 --> 01:07:28,853
Their explanation is that...

1096
01:07:28,875 --> 01:07:30,119
it is...

1097
01:07:30,269 --> 01:07:32,006
... a lotus flower.

1098
01:07:32,568 --> 01:07:34,691
... And what appears to be...

1099
01:07:35,056 --> 01:07:37,756
... a bulb around is the aroma...

1100
01:07:38,087 --> 01:07:39,681
<i>... of the lotus flower.</i>

1101
01:07:39,817 --> 01:07:43,314
<i>And so it's just a very
odd depiction of... a flower.</i>

1102
01:07:43,335 --> 01:07:45,530
<i>But another explanation
of course would be...</i>

1103
01:07:45,595 --> 01:07:47,626
they actually had electrical lights.

1104
01:07:49,906 --> 01:07:53,660
<i>But if the ancient Egyptians
had use some kind of electric light,</i>

1105
01:07:53,675 --> 01:07:55,466
<i>to illuminate their passage ways,</i>

1106
01:07:55,467 --> 01:07:57,749
<i>why is the visual evidence exists</i>

1107
01:07:57,750 --> 01:07:59,947
<i>only in the temple at Dendera?</i>

1108
01:08:00,090 --> 01:08:02,757
In Egypt you have different areas...

1109
01:08:03,022 --> 01:08:04,538
... of specialty.

1110
01:08:04,701 --> 01:08:08,673
And Dendera... was the... area...

1111
01:08:08,716 --> 01:08:13,229
... where the knowledge
of the light giving source...

1112
01:08:13,336 --> 01:08:14,448
... was kept.

1113
01:08:14,684 --> 01:08:19,442
<i>And this secret knowledge,
was kept by the high priests.</i>

1114
01:08:19,582 --> 01:08:24,864
<i>They're the only ones who are
privy to this type of information.</i>

1115
01:08:25,085 --> 01:08:29,429
<i>Because Dendera was
"The Special Place",</i>

1116
01:08:29,801 --> 01:08:34,847
<i>where this specific knowledge
was guarded and kept.</i>

1117
01:08:35,744 --> 01:08:37,323
The scientific community is not saying,

1118
01:08:37,324 --> 01:08:40,222
"Oh, there aren't extraterrestrials,
or they never did it."

1119
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:43,453
They are judging whether or not
this is a valid scientific theory,

1120
01:08:43,454 --> 01:08:44,574
and would do I mean by that.

1121
01:08:44,846 --> 01:08:46,961
<i>For something to be a scientific theory</i>

1122
01:08:46,975 --> 01:08:48,920
<i>it really needs to be
something you can test</i>

1123
01:08:48,921 --> 01:08:50,724
<i>with the obvious experiment.</i>

1124
01:08:50,879 --> 01:08:52,757
<i>But how could the ancient Egyptians</i>

1125
01:08:52,836 --> 01:08:55,892
<i>have use anything resembling
a modern day light bulb</i>

1126
01:08:55,971 --> 01:08:58,119
<i>without access to electricity?</i>

1127
01:08:58,324 --> 01:08:59,263
<i>After all,</i>

1128
01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:00,231
<i>electricity...</i>

1129
01:09:00,303 --> 01:09:02,937
<i>wouldn't be discovered
for thousands of years.</i>

1130
01:09:03,209 --> 01:09:04,499
<i>That is of course...</i>

1131
01:09:04,642 --> 01:09:06,909
<i>... with the exception
of what scientists call...</i>

1132
01:09:06,949 --> 01:09:08,529
<i>... the Baghdad battery.</i>

1133
01:09:08,951 --> 01:09:12,112
<i>The Baghdad battery was
discovered in Ancient Iraq.</i>

1134
01:09:12,162 --> 01:09:14,356
Scholars today say
"There's no way that...

1135
01:09:14,357 --> 01:09:17,282
... ancient man was using
electricity or light bulbs".

1136
01:09:17,612 --> 01:09:19,306
So they look at this Baghdad battery

1137
01:09:19,307 --> 01:09:20,643
<i>there's about a dozen of them that</i>

1138
01:09:20,644 --> 01:09:21,853
<i>have been found in Iraq.</i>

1139
01:09:22,046 --> 01:09:23,618
<i>And the only mainstream theory</i>

1140
01:09:23,619 --> 01:09:26,129
<i>is that they were using it
for electroplating jewelry.</i>

1141
01:09:26,923 --> 01:09:30,119
<i>Two major proponents
of ancient aliens theory,</i>

1142
01:09:30,444 --> 01:09:33,600
<i>Jason Martel and Giorgio Tsoukalos,</i>

1143
01:09:33,837 --> 01:09:38,228
<i>demonstrate just how the Baghdad
battery could generate electricity,</i>

1144
01:09:38,600 --> 01:09:41,260
<i>using a modern mock up of the device.</i>

1145
01:09:41,353 --> 01:09:43,884
Well basically this is
made of a clay pod,

1146
01:09:43,885 --> 01:09:46,660
<i>clay just found naturally in
that region in southern Iraq.</i>

1147
01:09:46,717 --> 01:09:49,534
<i>And then they would use a small copper lining,</i>

1148
01:09:49,777 --> 01:09:54,341
<i>and something along lines of an asphalt
stopper wrapped around an iron rod.</i>

1149
01:09:54,448 --> 01:09:56,530
And these all apply together.

1150
01:09:56,702 --> 01:09:59,008
And the combination of
some weak acidic acid

1151
01:09:59,151 --> 01:10:02,247
vinegar, grape juice, orange
juice in this case, wine...

1152
01:10:02,476 --> 01:10:04,230
would be able to generate a charge,

1153
01:10:04,231 --> 01:10:05,918
by combining these
elements with the rod

1154
01:10:05,919 --> 01:10:07,541
and the iron rod and the copper

1155
01:10:07,713 --> 01:10:10,998
and the combination of that
creates an abundance of electricity.

1156
01:10:11,138 --> 01:10:15,131
<i>So, what we gonna do is
basically just fill the clay pot</i>

1157
01:10:15,132 --> 01:10:17,275
with some orange juice here.
I'll try not to spill it too much.

1158
01:10:17,304 --> 01:10:17,798
Right...

1159
01:10:18,420 --> 01:10:22,046
And we go ahead and put the rod back
in there, the copper and iron rod.

1160
01:10:22,244 --> 01:10:25,266
<i>Will give it a moment to kind
of fill that... copper area there.</i>

1161
01:10:25,523 --> 01:10:27,299
And then by turning on the voltmeter...

1162
01:10:27,807 --> 01:10:30,528
... and applying this to each side,

1163
01:10:30,743 --> 01:10:32,748
we should be able to generate a charge.

1164
01:10:34,871 --> 01:10:37,070
And there it goes, into the positives.

1165
01:10:39,769 --> 01:10:42,820
<i>And if we give it some time
to get the electrolytes</i>

1166
01:10:42,992 --> 01:10:46,053
really buzzing in there, you'll see that
this volt will actually continue to rise.

1167
01:10:46,806 --> 01:10:49,237
<i>But while some see the Baghdad battery</i>

1168
01:10:49,423 --> 01:10:53,471
<i>as evidence that man was spark on
by extraterrestrial wisdom,</i>

1169
01:10:53,800 --> 01:10:57,036
<i>others look at it and simply say,
"So what?"</i>

1170
01:10:57,386 --> 01:11:01,466
You can take some ancient technology
like the Baghdad battery

1171
01:11:01,698 --> 01:11:04,687
which probably was used for
something like metal plating

1172
01:11:04,961 --> 01:11:08,108
in which you just mix chemicals
and enhance certain chemical reactions

1173
01:11:08,109 --> 01:11:10,447
to it that they're using for this reason,

1174
01:11:10,959 --> 01:11:12,603
and we can take and put a voltmeter

1175
01:11:12,604 --> 01:11:14,524
and go "Oh look, we're able
to get a reading out of it!"

1176
01:11:14,560 --> 01:11:16,108
Well... so what?

1177
01:11:17,049 --> 01:11:18,758
That's just a chemical reaction.

1178
01:11:18,770 --> 01:11:23,618
If they were using it, say... these
battery to operate other machines

1179
01:11:23,704 --> 01:11:25,299
<i>where are the other machines?</i>

1180
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,052
<i>If they were sending
the electricity down wires,</i>

1181
01:11:28,053 --> 01:11:31,273
<i>where are all the wires that would
have been all over the culture.</i>

1182
01:11:31,644 --> 01:11:34,639
<i>In other words, its not like the...
a one of a invention like that</i>

1183
01:11:34,640 --> 01:11:35,967
<i>is going to survive...</i>

1184
01:11:35,968 --> 01:11:39,984
<i>without all the other inventions that
would have been there at the same time?</i>

1185
01:11:40,764 --> 01:11:43,345
It is a battery, everybody
agrees with that,

1186
01:11:43,388 --> 01:11:45,484
but nobody knows why they made it.

1187
01:11:45,506 --> 01:11:48,673
And how they made it,
what mind would think of that.

1188
01:11:49,010 --> 01:11:53,071
<i>You know, electrical current
that several thousand years ago.</i>

1189
01:11:53,486 --> 01:11:55,760
<i>It's very strange,
but its clearly a battery.</i>

1190
01:11:56,697 --> 01:11:59,260
<i>The whole idea that
ancients civilizations</i>

1191
01:11:59,261 --> 01:12:02,983
<i>actually had knowledge of
electricity and used electricity</i>

1192
01:12:03,126 --> 01:12:06,115
is an accepted archaeological fact today.

1193
01:12:06,215 --> 01:12:11,157
<i>Just like in our... own civilization
where about 200 years ago,</i>

1194
01:12:11,286 --> 01:12:14,690
<i>Benjamin Franklin and other
scientists began experimenting with</i>

1195
01:12:14,919 --> 01:12:16,870
<i>simple electrical devices,</i>

1196
01:12:17,239 --> 01:12:18,493
<i>We now have evidence...</i>

1197
01:12:18,633 --> 01:12:19,490
<i>... that...</i>

1198
01:12:19,726 --> 01:12:21,424
<i>... over 3000 years ago,</i>

1199
01:12:21,482 --> 01:12:25,009
<i>people were also experimenting
with electrical devices.</i>

1200
01:12:25,081 --> 01:12:26,899
<i>Where might they have left them?</i>

1201
01:12:26,907 --> 01:12:30,282
<i>What other electrical devices would
they have been able to create?</i>

1202
01:12:32,940 --> 01:12:36,680
I believe they probably created
all kinds of electrical devices.

1203
01:12:38,251 --> 01:12:39,301
<i>Tombs,</i>

1204
01:12:39,466 --> 01:12:40,467
<i>temples,</i>

1205
01:12:40,646 --> 01:12:42,162
<i>ancient light bulbs,</i>

1206
01:12:42,233 --> 01:12:44,014
<i>even electricity.</i>

1207
01:12:44,455 --> 01:12:46,461
<i>Here on Earth exists evidence</i>

1208
01:12:46,462 --> 01:12:49,314
<i>of architectural and
technological wonders,</i>

1209
01:12:49,447 --> 01:12:52,429
<i>centuries before we ever
believe them possible.</i>

1210
01:12:53,152 --> 01:12:56,949
<i>But if evidence of ancient astronauts
exists here on Earth,</i>

1211
01:12:57,371 --> 01:12:59,130
<i>what about elsewhere?</i>

1212
01:12:59,645 --> 01:13:01,841
<i>Might we find what we are looking for...</i>

1213
01:13:01,963 --> 01:13:02,926
<i>... by looking...</i>

1214
01:13:03,012 --> 01:13:04,443
<i>... in the sky.</i>

1215
01:13:10,535 --> 01:13:14,518
<i>Here at the ancient city
of Teotihuacan in Mexico,</i>

1216
01:13:14,712 --> 01:13:16,066
<i>evidence suggests...</i>

1217
01:13:16,067 --> 01:13:19,891
<i>that ancient cultures possesed
an incredibly accurate knowledge,</i>

1218
01:13:19,892 --> 01:13:21,399
<i>of our neighboring planets.</i>

1219
01:13:23,308 --> 01:13:26,332
<i>Some scholars have even
interpreted the number</i>

1220
01:13:26,333 --> 01:13:28,343
<i>and orientation of its pyramids,</i>

1221
01:13:28,486 --> 01:13:30,373
<i>to perfectly reflect a model...</i>

1222
01:13:30,459 --> 01:13:32,204
<i>... of our own solar system.</i>

1223
01:13:34,568 --> 01:13:38,616
<i>Along the "Avenida de los muertos",
the "Avenue of the Dead".</i>

1224
01:13:39,216 --> 01:13:43,725
The pyramids there
align in perfect distance...

1225
01:13:43,982 --> 01:13:46,152
<i>of each of the orbit's...</i>

1226
01:13:46,153 --> 01:13:50,054
<i>of our planets in our solar system.</i>

1227
01:13:55,138 --> 01:13:59,371
<i>Perhaps significant is the fact
that the large Pyramid of the Sun...</i>

1228
01:13:59,443 --> 01:14:02,597
<i>is positioned at the center
of the other structures.</i>

1229
01:14:02,976 --> 01:14:04,276
<i>Reflecting the fact...</i>

1230
01:14:04,327 --> 01:14:07,524
<i>... that the Sun is at the center
of our solar system,</i>

1231
01:14:07,625 --> 01:14:10,006
<i>... and that the planets,
revolve around it.</i>

1232
01:14:11,458 --> 01:14:13,666
It was a known fact back then already,

1233
01:14:13,823 --> 01:14:17,291
that the Sun was at the center
of our solar system,

1234
01:14:17,548 --> 01:14:23,970
which "Western science" didn't
find out until much, much later.

1235
01:14:26,726 --> 01:14:32,001
<i>But just how could Teotihuacan's
designers had known so early on...</i>

1236
01:14:32,099 --> 01:14:36,143
<i>... that the planets in our solar system,
revolve around the sun?</i>

1237
01:14:37,713 --> 01:14:38,819
Didn't that take...

1238
01:14:38,926 --> 01:14:41,738
<i>many more centuries
of scientific progress...</i>

1239
01:14:41,838 --> 01:14:44,085
<i>... and investigation to figure out?</i>

1240
01:14:45,329 --> 01:14:46,994
Interestingly enough...

1241
01:14:47,588 --> 01:14:49,047
... debunkers will say,

1242
01:14:49,169 --> 01:14:51,175
"Oh, this is just coincidence".

1243
01:14:51,443 --> 01:14:54,332
That these pyramids are aligned...

1244
01:14:54,582 --> 01:14:57,168
with the planets of our solar system.

1245
01:14:57,447 --> 01:15:00,682
<i>But, if we go on the other
side of the planet,</i>

1246
01:15:00,877 --> 01:15:04,753
<i>to Stonehenge, we have
another ancient site</i>

1247
01:15:04,860 --> 01:15:07,763
<i>which is way older by the way
than Teotihuacan.</i>

1248
01:15:08,835 --> 01:15:13,505
<i>Where if you look at Stonehenge
from a bird's eye view,</i>

1249
01:15:13,862 --> 01:15:17,617
<i>you see that these are all
concentric circles,</i>

1250
01:15:18,068 --> 01:15:22,179
<i>and each of these circles
corresponds exactly...</i>

1251
01:15:22,580 --> 01:15:26,473
<i>... with the orbit
of all of our planets...</i>

1252
01:15:26,659 --> 01:15:28,579
<i>...in our solar system.</i>

1253
01:15:28,974 --> 01:15:33,817
So we have two places on Earth
where we have the same thing.

1254
01:15:37,655 --> 01:15:42,747
<i>In recent years, Stonehenge has also
been interpreted by some archaeologists</i>

1255
01:15:42,905 --> 01:15:45,472
<i>to be a kind of astronomical calendar,</i>

1256
01:15:45,994 --> 01:15:50,109
<i>one which could be used to calculate
events, such as solar eclipses.</i>

1257
01:15:50,295 --> 01:15:52,297
<i>But if that were true,</i>

1258
01:15:52,583 --> 01:15:56,531
<i>whoever aligned these massive stones
on the barren English landscape,</i>

1259
01:15:57,039 --> 01:16:01,729
<i>would have to have had precise astronomical
knowledge of the path of the sun.</i>

1260
01:16:11,047 --> 01:16:13,707
<i>Built between the seventh
and ninth centuries,</i>

1261
01:16:13,958 --> 01:16:15,942
<i>the stone temples of Tikal,</i>

1262
01:16:16,156 --> 01:16:19,851
<i>tower more than 200 ft above
the Guatemalan rain forest.</i>

1263
01:16:21,574 --> 01:16:26,165
<i>Tikal is home to one of the largest
excavation sites in the world,</i>

1264
01:16:26,315 --> 01:16:30,520
<i>one where thousands of structures,
still remain buried beneath the jungle.</i>

1265
01:16:30,777 --> 01:16:35,425
<i>According to most scientists, Tikal's
Pyramids played an essential part...</i>

1266
01:16:35,554 --> 01:16:37,996
<i>in helping the Mayans
device their calendar.</i>

1267
01:16:40,728 --> 01:16:44,426
<i>By aligning the side lines between
the highest points of the structures</i>

1268
01:16:44,848 --> 01:16:48,795
<i>ancient astronomers could pinpoint
the most important dates of the year.</i>

1269
01:16:49,239 --> 01:16:51,172
<i>Such as an upcoming equinox...</i>

1270
01:16:51,173 --> 01:16:52,536
<i>... or solstice.</i>

1271
01:16:55,025 --> 01:16:58,872
<i>But, what also excites
ancient astronaut theorists...</i>

1272
01:16:59,232 --> 01:17:02,536
<i>is how prefectly the layout
of Tikal's pyramids...</i>

1273
01:17:02,655 --> 01:17:07,138
<i>correlate to the star map of the
Pleiades Orion region of the sky.</i>

1274
01:17:07,979 --> 01:17:10,109
<i>An overhead view of the structures,</i>

1275
01:17:10,173 --> 01:17:13,811
<i>almost exactly mirrors
the alignment of the constellation.</i>

1276
01:17:14,963 --> 01:17:18,427
<i>This same outline has
been spotted in an area...</i>

1277
01:17:18,620 --> 01:17:20,064
<i>far from Tikal...</i>

1278
01:17:20,065 --> 01:17:21,087
much...

1279
01:17:21,088 --> 01:17:22,536
... much further.

1280
01:17:23,160 --> 01:17:25,298
<i>Recently discovered on the Mars...</i>

1281
01:17:25,541 --> 01:17:29,904
<i>is a cluster of land forms that
offers a near perfect replication,</i>

1282
01:17:30,069 --> 01:17:32,270
<i>of the pyramid pattern of Tikal.</i>

1283
01:17:32,828 --> 01:17:35,255
<i>Three distinct locations,</i>

1284
01:17:35,256 --> 01:17:37,440
<i>one unique pattern.</i>

1285
01:17:38,834 --> 01:17:39,985
<i>Coincidence...</i>

1286
01:17:40,220 --> 01:17:41,297
<i>... or design?</i>

1287
01:17:44,515 --> 01:17:49,166
<i>At Tikal, the legends and
the mythologies that we have,</i>

1288
01:17:49,410 --> 01:17:51,914
<i>all speak of a time...</i>

1289
01:17:52,379 --> 01:17:58,850
<i>when the gods intermingle and
interconnected with our ancestors.</i>

1290
01:17:59,032 --> 01:18:02,164
<i>So Tikal also was built...</i>

1291
01:18:02,951 --> 01:18:06,993
<i>... as a message for future
generations to see...</i>

1292
01:18:07,096 --> 01:18:09,081
<i>... that a long, long time ago,</i>

1293
01:18:09,260 --> 01:18:12,652
<i>we were visited by extraterrestrials.</i>

1294
01:18:12,752 --> 01:18:16,629
Someone who have seen this had to have
actually relay the information to them

1295
01:18:16,630 --> 01:18:18,637
because they couldn't just guess, so...

1296
01:18:18,923 --> 01:18:20,889
it really start to raise
the question of saying,

1297
01:18:21,060 --> 01:18:25,402
<i>this ancient astronaut theory really
needs to have more light shed on the topic.</i>

1298
01:18:29,979 --> 01:18:33,241
It's certanly possible that the
ancient people not only measured

1299
01:18:33,891 --> 01:18:36,052
all of this... astronomy events

1300
01:18:36,056 --> 01:18:38,438
<i>but were able to come up
with a mathematical theory,</i>

1301
01:18:38,690 --> 01:18:39,892
<i>to put them together,</i>

1302
01:18:40,112 --> 01:18:42,414
<i>and then to predict new things.</i>

1303
01:18:42,843 --> 01:18:45,782
<i>We shouldn't think that the
ancient people were dummies.</i>

1304
01:18:46,791 --> 01:18:52,304
Early man, people in ancient times
didn't have dashboard mounted GPS unit's.

1305
01:18:53,699 --> 01:18:54,998
<i>They had those...</i>

1306
01:18:55,005 --> 01:18:57,458
"Path of the sun through the sky",

1307
01:18:57,580 --> 01:19:00,128
<i>"The path of the moon through the sky".</i>

1308
01:19:00,250 --> 01:19:02,682
<i>They could see the stars at night.</i>

1309
01:19:02,713 --> 01:19:06,568
<i>These were permanent fixtures
that they could navigate from.</i>

1310
01:19:06,712 --> 01:19:09,146
<i>So, it's not surprising at all,</i>

1311
01:19:09,211 --> 01:19:11,589
<i>that almost every culture,</i>

1312
01:19:11,805 --> 01:19:14,901
<i>recorded astronomical phenomenon.</i>

1313
01:19:15,410 --> 01:19:17,947
<i>We never look up at the sky
and enjoy the beauty of it.</i>

1314
01:19:18,289 --> 01:19:19,919
Ancient people didn't have electricity,

1315
01:19:19,991 --> 01:19:23,241
the sky would be so dark and
the stars would be so bright.

1316
01:19:23,885 --> 01:19:25,772
<i>Not only that, but they relied on the sky</i>

1317
01:19:25,835 --> 01:19:27,243
<i>for directions...</i>

1318
01:19:27,393 --> 01:19:29,879
<i>for seasons in which to plant,</i>

1319
01:19:30,480 --> 01:19:32,076
<i>and for variety of things.</i>

1320
01:19:32,540 --> 01:19:36,939
<i>Today, with our GPS units,
and navigation systems...</i>

1321
01:19:37,438 --> 01:19:39,838
<i>... and computers,
we don't need to look at the sky.</i>

1322
01:19:41,643 --> 01:19:44,480
<i>I want to be very clear about one thing.</i>

1323
01:19:44,481 --> 01:19:49,368
<i>That our ancestors were
as smart as we are today.</i>

1324
01:19:49,697 --> 01:19:50,787
<i>However, ...</i>

1325
01:19:50,788 --> 01:19:54,840
<i>I don't believe that ancient astronauts
visited the Earth in the remote past.</i>

1326
01:19:55,017 --> 01:19:56,579
<i>I am convinced of it,</i>

1327
01:19:56,997 --> 01:20:00,400
<i>because of all the countless indications,</i>

1328
01:20:00,478 --> 01:20:05,020
<i>and pieces of evidence that
we can find from all around the world,</i>

1329
01:20:05,105 --> 01:20:07,179
<i>in different ancient cultures,</i>

1330
01:20:07,251 --> 01:20:09,647
<i>in different mythologies and legends.</i>

1331
01:20:09,926 --> 01:20:15,526
<i>I know it happened, because
if you look at all the pieces,</i>

1332
01:20:15,983 --> 01:20:19,465
it's the only conclusion
that you can draw.

1333
01:20:21,039 --> 01:20:22,286
<i>But just why...</i>

1334
01:20:22,368 --> 01:20:24,948
<i>... were ancient people
so focused on the sky...</i>

1335
01:20:24,949 --> 01:20:27,411
<i>... and the stars,
in the first place?</i>

1336
01:20:28,261 --> 01:20:30,335
<i>Were they waiting for
something to happened?</i>

1337
01:20:30,835 --> 01:20:31,910
<i>Or perhaps...</i>

1338
01:20:32,132 --> 01:20:33,136
<i>... for something,</i>

1339
01:20:33,401 --> 01:20:34,638
<i>... or someone,</i>

1340
01:20:34,703 --> 01:20:36,115
<i>... to return?</i>

1341
01:20:44,665 --> 01:20:46,810
<i>Four decades may be passed,</i>

1342
01:20:47,025 --> 01:20:50,118
<i>but the ideas put forth,
by Erik Von Däniken,</i>

1343
01:20:50,225 --> 01:20:52,460
<i>are still captivating his followers,</i>

1344
01:20:52,602 --> 01:20:54,410
<i>and frustrating his skeptics...</i>

1345
01:20:54,411 --> 01:20:55,692
<i>... to this day.</i>

1346
01:20:56,250 --> 01:20:59,611
<i>Like an Old Testament prophet,
or an ancient shaman,</i>

1347
01:20:59,763 --> 01:21:04,134
<i>the author is still out here,
spreading his firmly held message,</i>

1348
01:21:04,295 --> 01:21:06,103
<i>that "We are not alone."</i>

1349
01:21:20,608 --> 01:21:24,506
<i>But while the proof of Von Däniken's
theories may be debatable,</i>

1350
01:21:24,899 --> 01:21:26,765
<i>their influence on movies,</i>

1351
01:21:28,017 --> 01:21:29,490
<i>TV series,</i>

1352
01:21:30,584 --> 01:21:32,571
<i>and even radio programs...</i>

1353
01:21:32,622 --> 01:21:34,102
<i>... is undeniable.</i>

1354
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,985
<i>It's a tremendous lightning rod for
fiction and for fictional story-telling.</i>

1355
01:21:39,830 --> 01:21:43,395
<i>The classic "Battlestar Galactica" series
starts with a narration that said,</i>

1356
01:21:43,520 --> 01:21:45,977
<i>"There are those who believe
that life here began out there</i>

1357
01:21:45,978 --> 01:21:48,417
<i>with tribes of humans
far across the universe,</i>

1358
01:21:48,418 --> 01:21:49,538
<i>who may have been
the forefathers</i>

1359
01:21:49,539 --> 01:21:50,271
<i>of the Egyptians,</i>

1360
01:21:50,272 --> 01:21:50,962
<i>and the Toltecs,</i>

1361
01:21:50,963 --> 01:21:51,533
<i>and the Mayans.</i>

1362
01:21:51,534 --> 01:21:55,227
<i>You know that's, straight out of Von Däniken
as in that kind of belief, you know.</i>

1363
01:21:55,895 --> 01:21:58,927
<i>Puts us in contact with an idea
of mythological intelligence,</i>

1364
01:21:58,928 --> 01:22:02,695
<i>and that is one of the things as we
as humans beings crave desperately.</i>

1365
01:22:02,696 --> 01:22:04,654
Is to know that we are
not alone in the world,

1366
01:22:04,655 --> 01:22:07,201
and that somebody else out there
is either they looking after us

1367
01:22:07,281 --> 01:22:10,422
<i>or coming to fight for us in that
we unite against a common enemy.</i>

1368
01:22:15,764 --> 01:22:19,020
<i>I was reading lot of books
from Erik Von Däniken,</i>

1369
01:22:19,285 --> 01:22:20,129
<i>and...</i>

1370
01:22:20,400 --> 01:22:25,463
<i>I can't imagine that's the true what he
wrote in his books and so...</i>

1371
01:22:25,550 --> 01:22:27,809
<i>I can imagine this, that we had</i>

1372
01:22:28,048 --> 01:22:29,754
<i>help of aliens,</i>

1373
01:22:29,893 --> 01:22:30,465
<i>but...</i>

1374
01:22:30,792 --> 01:22:32,875
I don't know, I'm not sure.

1375
01:22:34,111 --> 01:22:36,177
<i>We only know so much in this world</i>

1376
01:22:36,439 --> 01:22:37,905
<i>and what we do now is so limited,</i>

1377
01:22:37,906 --> 01:22:39,452
<i>and everyday we finding more.</i>

1378
01:22:39,453 --> 01:22:43,158
It... requires us to ask more questions
and bigger questions and think bigger.

1379
01:22:44,048 --> 01:22:46,824
<i>It's possible that something
from  another planet</i>

1380
01:22:46,825 --> 01:22:50,362
<i>came to another lifeform,
intelligent lifeform came in</i>

1381
01:22:50,484 --> 01:22:51,256
<i>... to this.</i>

1382
01:22:53,523 --> 01:22:55,385
<i>I mean, who knows, it could be,</i>

1383
01:22:55,386 --> 01:22:59,337
<i>because the origins of many
things are lost in antiquity,</i>

1384
01:22:59,452 --> 01:23:02,190
all we have are roundups
and shreds of evidence

1385
01:23:02,191 --> 01:23:04,028
to suggest what might have happened.

1386
01:23:05,262 --> 01:23:07,692
<i>Someone told me that
it was proven that aliens...</i>

1387
01:23:07,755 --> 01:23:10,551
... had part in this,
I wouldn't be that surprised.

1388
01:23:11,388 --> 01:23:12,603
Why not?

1389
01:23:14,317 --> 01:23:20,123
<i>To be honest, ancient astronaut theory
has never crop up in a discussion...</i>

1390
01:23:20,124 --> 01:23:21,572
... with my colleagues.

1391
01:23:21,733 --> 01:23:25,058
I don't care how many
pints into it we've been,

1392
01:23:25,059 --> 01:23:28,274
we have never discussed
ancient astronaut theory,

1393
01:23:28,379 --> 01:23:30,818
<i>in any credible way whatsoever.</i>

1394
01:23:31,629 --> 01:23:34,433
<i>One of the good things about
the ancient astronaut theory,</i>

1395
01:23:34,912 --> 01:23:36,278
is that it make us think.

1396
01:23:36,528 --> 01:23:37,428
It... it...

1397
01:23:37,479 --> 01:23:38,980
brings out... the...

1398
01:23:39,044 --> 01:23:41,230
What about this?,
What about that?.

1399
01:23:41,337 --> 01:23:43,751
<i>We need explanations
for all of these things.</i>

1400
01:23:43,776 --> 01:23:46,162
<i>And I think that one of the main reasons,</i>

1401
01:23:46,262 --> 01:23:48,468
<i>why mainstream archaeologists,</i>

1402
01:23:48,554 --> 01:23:53,038
<i>get a real knee-jerk reaction
to the ancient astronaut theory,</i>

1403
01:23:53,172 --> 01:23:54,820
<i>is that, it's very disturbing to them,</i>

1404
01:23:54,821 --> 01:23:58,040
<i>because they don't have all the answers.</i>

1405
01:23:58,544 --> 01:24:02,023
<i>Now some of them may believe that
life could exist in the universe.</i>

1406
01:24:02,245 --> 01:24:03,865
But their bottom line is...

1407
01:24:03,950 --> 01:24:07,576
"Show me the proof,
show it to me... for real".

1408
01:24:07,705 --> 01:24:11,344
"I want to see the spaceship,
I want to see something concrete".

1409
01:24:11,359 --> 01:24:15,169
<i>Not just a few pictures that everybody
can interprete, as being...</i>

1410
01:24:15,312 --> 01:24:17,004
... this... or that.

1411
01:24:21,131 --> 01:24:22,214
<i>Farfetched,</i>

1412
01:24:22,522 --> 01:24:23,637
<i>ridiculous,</i>

1413
01:24:23,859 --> 01:24:24,907
<i>insane.</i>

1414
01:24:25,522 --> 01:24:28,776
<i>Ancient aliens visiting Earth
centuries ago,</i>

1415
01:24:28,955 --> 01:24:30,288
<i>building monuments,</i>

1416
01:24:31,096 --> 01:24:32,952
<i>influencing scripture.</i>

1417
01:24:34,106 --> 01:24:36,792
<i>But what if all turned out to be true?</i>

1418
01:24:38,305 --> 01:24:41,834
<i>What would happened if just
one piece of evidence turn up,</i>

1419
01:24:42,105 --> 01:24:43,165
one stone,

1420
01:24:43,327 --> 01:24:44,428
<i>one key,</i>

1421
01:24:44,657 --> 01:24:48,152
<i>that prove that Von Däniken
had been right all along?</i>

1422
01:24:49,053 --> 01:24:50,662
<i>And if he is right,</i>

1423
01:24:50,663 --> 01:24:53,194
<i>what does that suggest
about our future?</i>

1424
01:24:53,926 --> 01:24:56,629
<i>If alien visitors
had come here before,</i>

1425
01:24:57,506 --> 01:24:59,293
<i>would they come... again?</i>

1426
01:25:04,005 --> 01:25:07,294
<i>Even I think the idea
of aliens are visiting us,</i>

1427
01:25:07,437 --> 01:25:10,941
<i>it's very exciting, interesting,
and it be really cool if that happen.</i>

1428
01:25:11,048 --> 01:25:13,385
So get people excited about the question,

1429
01:25:13,386 --> 01:25:15,067
maybe they start thinking about it,

1430
01:25:15,172 --> 01:25:16,748
<i>and like many thing they might ultimately</i>

1431
01:25:16,749 --> 01:25:18,074
<i>come to thinking of the Physics</i>

1432
01:25:18,075 --> 01:25:19,158
<i>or the Archaeology,</i>

1433
01:25:19,273 --> 01:25:21,324
<i>and get involved in the scientific process.</i>

1434
01:25:21,325 --> 01:25:23,101
<i>So that could be a positive side effect,</i>

1435
01:25:23,337 --> 01:25:25,501
<i>of these theories and their popularization.</i>

1436
01:25:26,152 --> 01:25:27,756
<i>If it turns out,</i>

1437
01:25:28,036 --> 01:25:30,915
<i>that ancient astronaut theory, is wrong,</i>

1438
01:25:31,246 --> 01:25:34,027
<i>I will be the first one to say,</i>

1439
01:25:34,550 --> 01:25:36,740
"Ok, no problem"

1440
01:25:36,964 --> 01:25:38,587
But so far...

1441
01:25:38,795 --> 01:25:42,492
<i>... certain pieces of evidence,
have not been debunked.</i>

1442
01:25:51,245 --> 01:25:53,792
<i>If the ancient alien astronaut theory,</i>

1443
01:25:54,021 --> 01:25:55,785
<i>is somehow proven to be true,</i>

1444
01:25:55,935 --> 01:25:57,968
this would be a huge boom...

1445
01:25:58,462 --> 01:25:59,630
to my work,

1446
01:25:59,696 --> 01:26:02,642
and to the search for other planets
like Earth with life on them.

1447
01:26:02,847 --> 01:26:06,674
<i>Because, if aliens astronauts have
visited Earth in the distant past...</i>

1448
01:26:06,924 --> 01:26:08,487
<i>it means they pretty near by,</i>

1449
01:26:08,516 --> 01:26:10,687
<i>and it means that we don't
have to look very far,</i>

1450
01:26:10,688 --> 01:26:13,480
<i>to find planets like Earth,
with signs of life on them.</i>

1451
01:26:14,753 --> 01:26:18,865
But evidence has to be treated
with a great deal of caution,

1452
01:26:19,177 --> 01:26:21,522
because it has different meanings.

1453
01:26:22,502 --> 01:26:27,115
<i>I'm not sure what the reaction
of the population will be.</i>

1454
01:26:28,789 --> 01:26:34,710
<i>It will strike them, the general concept
that our history of religions in the world,</i>

1455
01:26:34,769 --> 01:26:37,182
<i>needs be looked at
again with more respect,</i>

1456
01:26:37,413 --> 01:26:39,482
and also with more wonder, meaning

1457
01:26:39,568 --> 01:26:43,549
What are we suppose to make of this now, and
what are we suppose be doing of this now.

1458
01:26:44,286 --> 01:26:47,752
<i>If science detects life on Mars,</i>

1459
01:26:48,093 --> 01:26:51,051
<i>if science detects a UFO,</i>

1460
01:26:51,244 --> 01:26:54,119
<i>then we need to take with
what science is saying to us,</i>

1461
01:26:54,327 --> 01:26:56,847
<i>and begin to re-think about ourselves...</i>

1462
01:26:56,864 --> 01:26:57,709
<i>... on Earth,</i>

1463
01:26:57,710 --> 01:27:00,844
in light of the possibility of new life.

1464
01:27:01,137 --> 01:27:03,786
Does that change our
understanding of God?

1465
01:27:04,069 --> 01:27:05,999
It should if anything broaden it.

1466
01:27:06,566 --> 01:27:10,115
<i>If we do find alien life,
we should rejoice.</i>

1467
01:27:12,527 --> 01:27:15,460
And honestly the way things are
going on this planet right now,

1468
01:27:15,615 --> 01:27:19,990
I would welcomed a visitation
every once in a while, a little help.

1469
01:27:21,574 --> 01:27:24,188
<i>There is no doubt that my hypothesis</i>

1470
01:27:24,224 --> 01:27:27,055
<i>will be accepted by the mainstream.</i>

1471
01:27:27,192 --> 01:27:30,822
<i>It maybe a question
of just 5 or 10 years.</i>

1472
01:27:32,251 --> 01:27:35,995
Sooner or later we will have
contact with someone out there,

1473
01:27:36,200 --> 01:27:37,941
<i>and then, the thinking...</i>

1474
01:27:38,020 --> 01:27:39,035
<i>... they will return.</i>

1475
01:27:39,125 --> 01:27:41,792
<i>And if you don't listen
to Erik Von Däniken,</i>

1476
01:27:41,864 --> 01:27:45,023
<i>you will have the...
"Shock of the Gods".</i>