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A summit in Sri Lanka said to be a portal for the Gods.

A volcano in Washington, surrounded by disc-shaped objects, and a mountain in New

Mexico, where otherworldly beings are believed to reside.

Over the years, Ancient Aliens have investigated numerous peaks across the

globe that are rumored to hold a secret extraterrestrial presence.

Now, we're going to explore the most extraordinary locations.

These are the Top Ten Mysterious Mountains that just might

provide undeniable proof of our extraterrestrial past.

Mountains are some of the most mysterious locations on Earth.

Since the dawn of time, they have been the center of

myths and legends that describe otherworldly visitations.

But what if I told you that mysterious lights, strange craft, and

extraterrestrial contact are reported even today around many of these majestic peaks?

Like the first location on our list, which was central

to one of the most famous UFO sightings of all time?

At number 10 on our countdown of the Top 10 Mysterious Mountains, Mount Adams.

Towering above southern Washington is Mount Adams.

This snow-capped peak stands over 12,000 feet tall and has an 18-mile-wide

diameter, making it the largest volcano in the state.

Today, Mount Adams is well-known for its

abundant hiking trails and crystal-clear lakes.

But for Ancient Astronaut Theorists, Mount Adams is famous for being the

location of the first UFO sighting to ever make national headlines.

On June 24th, 1947, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing

nine mysterious objects flying toward the mountain.

He suddenly caught sight of a squadron of strange-looking objects.

He could not figure out what they were.

They were flying at incredible speeds and performing maneuvers that essentially

would kill any regular pilots in a normal aircraft.

He described them as skipping like a saucer.

And this is really where the term of flying saucer arrives

in English language, is from Kenneth Arnold's description.

According to Arnold's report, the strange craft sped past him at 1,200 miles per

hour and then flew directly into Mount Adams and vanished.

He follows them as they disappear into Mount Adams,

which has the sight of many modern UFO sightings.

If these craft did enter into Mount Adams, it would not seem unusual to UFO experts.

It's now common for UFO sightings to take place at mountains and for people to see

what they describe as UFOs entering into mountains.

You've got to wonder if this mountain isn't some kind of extraterrestrial base.

The idea that extraterrestrials are using mountains

as hidden bases might sound like science fiction.

But according to one government whistleblower, such a secret compound may

be located deep inside a mountain in New Mexico.

At number nine on our countdown, Mount Archuleta.

New Mexico.

Rising to an elevation of 8,136 feet, Mount Archuleta, in the northern part of

the state, stands at an intriguing crossroads of folklore and the paranormal.

On the slopes of this imposing peak lies the town of Dulce, New Mexico,

a place where both UFO sightings and strange

animal mutilations are frequently reported.

Dulce, New Mexico is a very interesting place.

It was seen in the 1970s of massive numbers of cattle mutilations.

And he talked to the residents there, which I did at one point, and large

numbers of people have experienced what anyone would call UFO sightings.

But once even more intriguing to Ancient Astronaut Theorists are rumors that

Mount Archuleta is the location of a secret subterranean

military compound known as the Dulce Air Force Base.

One man who allegedly had first-hand knowledge of this was geologist

Phil Schneider, who claimed to have worked on the

construction of this underground base for the U.S. Government.

Phil Schneider was a very interesting geologist used by the U.S. Government

to do excavations of large areas under military contract where they

were essentially going to be building large

caverns and connecting underground passageways.

Part of what I'm going to tell you is going to be very shocking.

On May 8, 1995, Schneider gave a presentation in Post Falls, Idaho,

and claimed he was attacked by extraterrestrials deep underground.

I was involved in 1979 in a horrendous firefight with Alien-human type,

whatever you want to call them.

And I was one of the survivors.

Basically, what had occurred was that we surprised

a whole undermount base of existing Aliens.

Is it possible that an extraterrestrial base

can be found hidden within Mount Archuleta?

Perhaps further clues can be found within the oral traditions of the Hikariya Apache

tribe who have lived in the shadow of this peak for more than six centuries.

Archuleta Peak is an important part of the Hikariya Apache reservation.

And the Apaches themselves have had legends for hundreds

of years of UFO activity and star people coming down.

Could it be that the oral traditions of the Hikariya Apache

are describing ancient contact with other worldly visitors?

And if so, does an extraterrestrial presence still reside in the area to this day?

Part of the Navajo Nation resides right near that Archuleta Mesa, and we as a

department officially investigated these craft going into volcanic vents,

cinder hills, basalt rock, and disappearing in there.

We don't have an explanation for it.

In northern Arizona stands one of the most sacred mountains to native Hopi people.

According to their mythology, this peak was the site where

a group of mysterious humanoid beings descended from the sky.

At number eight, the Black Mesa.

High above the desert in northern Arizona stands the Black Mesa.

The mountain encompasses more than two and a half million acres, and has been home to

the Hopi tribe for more than a thousand years.

The Black Mesa is an elevated, bowl-shaped structure that

is about 4,000 square miles, so it's really quite large.

And the Black Mesa is considered the most sacred place to the Hopi.

According to the Hopi, the Black Mesa is a landing

site for sky beings they call the Kachinas.

The Kachinas in Hopi tradition are related to the star people.

All Native American tribes have these traditional oral

histories that people came from the stars to visit them.

It's universal all across the United States that these Gods, as we call them

today, came to Earth and visited to provide knowledge.

The Hopi themselves speak that the Kachinas descended

from the sky in physical form and imparted knowledge.

This happened at the Black Mesa, so you have to ask yourself the question,

could it be that physical extraterrestrials descended from the sky?

Is it possible that otherworldly visitors landed on Black Mesa in the distant past?

Curiously, nearly identical stories are found in the

mythologies of other Native American people from the region.

Black Mesa is not only holy to the Hopi people, it's holy to the Navajos.

Both tribes have said that star people have come to them in the past.

It just can't be discounted as myth.

The story of strange humanoid beings descending from the stars at Black Mesa is

not only a central part of Hopi and Navajo oral traditions, but

these encounters were so significant they were carved in stone.

I believe that these visitations have been documented in pictographs and petroglyphs.

They're not art, actually, for art's sake.

The petroglyphs have been done this way for basically thousands of years.

The Navajos and Hopis are constantly talking

about UFOs hovering over northern Arizona.

So you have to ask yourself, is the Black Mesa a place

where the star people are ascending and descending to Earth?

It seems to be the case.

In southern France there is a peak that is so

unusual it is known as the Upside Down Mountain.

But what Ancient Astronaut Theorists like me find most

interesting is that its unique geology is said to attract UFOs.

At number seven on our countdown of the Top 10 Mysterious Mountains, Mount Bugarach.

Southwestern France, in the foothills of the Pyrenees, looms one of the most

unusual geological formations on the planet.

Mount Bugarach lies into an elevation of just over 4,000 feet.

Its jagged facade continues to fascinate geologists.

Bugarach has some very unusual geology.

The strata at the top of the mountain is actually millions

of years older than the strata at the bottom of the mountain.

It's as if the mountain was somehow picked up and flipped over on its head.

It's sometimes referred to as an Upside Down Mountain.

What does that mean?

Literally at the top of the mountain you have

older rocks than the base of the mountain.

So this is a very interesting thing, and it's

brought on for some people mystical connotations.

One unusual phenomenon that continues to attract visitors to Mount Bugarach is the

regular appearance of mysterious lights and strange orbs.

Bugarach is the site of many modern UFO sightings.

People maintain they see mysterious lights, orbs of light that are also

intelligently directed and have the sense that they're coming from somewhere else.

In addition to its peculiar geology, the mountain is

honeycombed with a network of underground tunnels.

All throughout the mountain is a vast labyrinth of limestone caves.

These limestone caves have led a number of people to believe that this is actually

some kind of Alien base that extraterrestrials are living inside the mountain.

And in fact, they've been living there for thousands of years.

Over the centuries, the mysterious phenomena at Mount Bugarach

have led many to consider the mountain sacred.

Bugarach has been known as a holy mountain

since time immemorial in this part of France.

There is something truly magnetic about this mountain

that is bringing people to come and watch it.

Is it possible that extraterrestrials are living inside a mountain in France?

And if so, might there be other similar mountains

secretly housing other worldly civilizations?

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, it's a distinct possibility.

Throughout the world, we find myths and legends of sacred mountains that are not

only landing places where the Gods were star beings descended, but also places

that became known as the heavenly sanctuary on Earth.

And humans have been attracted, almost magnetically attracted,

to these places since the beginning of recorded history.

And it seems that there's a direct connection between sacred

mountains and extraterrestrial beings coming to Earth.

One of the most mysterious mountains on Earth can be found in Northern California.

It's said to have been inhabited by otherworldly beings for thousands of years.

And today, it is one of the busiest UFO hotspots on the planet.

At number six on our countdown, Mount Shasta.

Northern California, towering over the landscape at

an elevation of over 14,000 feet, stands Mount Shasta.

This dormant volcano has stood at the heart

of mysterious legends for thousands of years.

The local Native Americans have always felt

there was something special about Mount Shasta.

It was thought that humankind actually originated from within Mount Shasta.

The local people believe that in ancient times, the great sky chief scale came down

from the sky to live in Shasta and has been there ever since and protects it.

Not only do the Native people say that Mount Shasta was a place of otherworldly

visitation in the distant past, but sightings of strange lights and UFOs

continued to be reported there to this very day.

Over the years have been a number of very significant UFO sightings around

Mount Shasta, and you have to wonder why is that the case.

I don't think we can rule out the idea of some sort of

permanent presence buried deep within Mount Shasta itself.

I was driving back from Klamath Falls at around 637 in the evening and in summertime.

All of a sudden I looked up on the mountain and I seen the whole mountain.

toward Wairika side open up.

And then this big ship came and sat there and hovered

for a minute and invited the mountain clothes.

And I was like, what is going on?

I never let things like that bother me, you know,

but I've seen things like that all the time.

Some of the legends around Mount Shasta details these beings that are believed to

live underground in tunnels and entry points situated around Mount Shasta that

are portals that these beings are going to come through.

It's down this path here.

In November 2020, author and researcher William Henry, along with local historian

Dustin Neff, that is just spectacular, set out to explore

one of the many tunnels on the slopes of Mount Shasta.

Check it out, man.

This cave is known as a spot where mysterious beings

are frequently seen emerging from inside the mountain.

Look at that, Dustin.

That's awesome.

Absolutely incredible.

There's a really big subculture here in Mount Shasta that is always believed that

these caves and tunnels contain a civilization full of people just like you and I.

And they come back and forth through portals hidden in these caves.

If you look on the USGS charts, there's an immense

negative magnetic anomaly that surrounds Mount Shasta.

That's the Ley Line they describe here, right?

Yeah, a lot of psychic and paranormal phenomena

actually occurs in places that have magnetic anomalies.

And used as a portal between the inner Earth realm and the stars.

Yeah, anything capable of generating, you know,

energy like that could be conceptualized as a portal.

I've had people actually contact me and tell me they've seen

people in this very cave walk right into a wall and vanish.

Wow.

At Mount Shasta, UFOs seem to manifest out of the mountain.

They appear, they travel, and then they disappear.

And this would seem to have led to the belief that there might be some kind of

secret Alien base actually deep within that mountain.

We're coming up on the halfway point on our

countdown of the Top 10 Mysterious Mountains.

Our next location can be found in my ancestral homeland of Greece.

It's a cloud covered peak that for thousands

of years has been called the home of the Gods.

At number five, Mount Olympus.

North Eastern Greece.

Towering above the surrounding landscape stands Mount Olympus.

This imposing rock massive rises to an elevation

of 9,570 feet and is the highest summit in Greece.

Frequently shrouded in clouds, its peak has mystified people since antiquity.

According to it, it was the chosen home of immortal deities known as the Olympians.

Mount Olympus hides a particularly mysterious abode where the Gods live in

perfect immortal repose for all of their existence.

Because it is so high, it's ringed in clouds.

And so that's where the Gods live that you are not allowed to see.

The Gods in the Greek mythology are all very, very human in their attributes.

The Greek Gods are jealous, they're angry, they're

passionate, they hate each other, they love each other.

There's nothing entirely divine about them other than they have specific powers.

In the Greek myths, the powers of the Gods often come in

the forms of magical devices, weapons, and flying machines.

Many of these are associated with Mount Olympus.

Mount Olympus is fascinating.

It was a technology center.

You had Hypaestos there, the Greek God of smithcraft, alchemy, and technology.

He was developing the thunderbolt of Zeus, the chains of Prometheus,

the breastplate of Athena, and all these magical weapons.

It sounds very much like some kind of a military compound.

The Olympian Gods warred amongst each other, they warred against humans,

they lusted after humans.

That opens up the possibility that they were in fact flesh and blood beings.

The basic premise of the Ancient Astronaut Theory is that the Greek Pantheon of Gods

existed in real life made of physical beings.

But they were not Gods as we think of them today.

Our ancestors thought they were Gods.

They misinterpreted that they were Gods.

Why?

Because they descended from the sky.

Could the myths of ancient Greece be true?

Was Mount Olympus an advanced technological

outpost that was home to otherworldly beings?

Mount Olympus is pretty curious.

The Gods live there.

Their airships and superpowers and super weapons are also in this mountain.

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, the descriptions of Mount Olympus bring to

mind military bases that have been built inside mountains in modern times.

We have Cheyenne Mountain outside of Colorado Springs.

This is a military base.

It too is a mountain.

It's hollowed out.

There's a city inside it.

There's elevators and trains and banks of computers and people are living there.

So how about Mount Olympus as something very similar?

An extraterrestrial ancient mountain base that

they were using in Greece and other areas.

1,000 miles southeast of Mount Olympus is another

peak that was said to be home to a powerful being.

And according to the Bible, it's the location of

a profound encounter that changed human history.

At number four on our countdown, Mount Sinai.

North Eastern Egypt.

Here, overlooking the desert stands the rugged peak of

Mount Sinai, one of the most significant mountains in history.

According to the Bible's book of Exodus, God led Moses and

the Israelites here after they were released by Pharaoh.

Their route to the mountain was marked by a mysterious light in the sky.

In Exodus chapter 13 verses 21 and 22 it says, the Lord went before them by day in

a pillar of cloud and by night in a pillar of fire.

The pillar did not depart from before the people, meaning that it was always there.

They were met by what I would call a biblical UFO.

Moses receives a message from God that he is going to land on Mount Sinai.

So he gathers the nation of Israel around the mountain.

This huge, bright, glowing cloud lands on Mount Sinai.

And the Jewish people are told to stay at the bottom of Mount Sinai.

But Moses is authorized, and you might even say, protected by the pillar of cloud

and fire so that he can go up there and everybody else can't.

According to the biblical texts, Moses ascends

the mountain and enters the glowing cloud.

There he communes with Almighty God.

After 40 days, he returns, carrying the Ten Commandments.

According to ancient rabbinical texts, these tablets had a very unusual appearance.

According to our ancient legend, we know that when Moses brought down the

original Ten Commandments, they were not like what we think.

It states that the letters actually hovered upon the stones and that they were

alive, energetic, and that indicates to us some type of an actual technological

transmission, the likes of which we do not know.

Could Mount Sinai have been the site of a biblical extraterrestrial encounter?

Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes and point to rabbinical texts that shed more

light on what Moses experienced on the summit of Mount Sinai.

There's a very ancient legend which speaks that

the cloud came down from heaven to take Moses up.

That a door opened in the cloud.

Moses walked in the door and he physically ascended to some place off this Earth.

In light of our modern understandings, it sounds like

the cloud was some type of a transportation device.

When it comes to mysterious mountains, one of the most

extraordinary can be found on the islands of Japan.

According to local legends, there is a snow-capped peak inhabited by powerful

creatures that are half bird and half human.

And some people still report seeing them even today.

At number three on our countdown of the Top 10 Mysterious Mountains, Mount Ishizuchi.

Shikoku, Japan.

Here, towering over this ancient island is

Mount Ishizuchi, one of the nation's most revered mountains.

Mount Ishizuchi in Japan is about 6,500 feet.

It's one of the sacred mountains of Japan.

It's sacred to the Shinto and also Buddhist religions.

The summit actually looks like a hammer and it's called Tengu Daki.

And Tengu apparently is referring to the supernatural demons living there.

In Japan, there is a belief that the mountains there hold a kind of strange

being called a Tengu, who's a half man, a half bird

type being with a bright visage and he has wings.

Many Japanese hikers are afraid of these Tengu.

These are fierce bird-like creatures.

They are frightening to look at.

They've got sharp teeth, feathers, of course, and shimmering wings.

They've got claws and beaks, and yet they are persons.

They are somewhere between a bird and a person, but in a very frightening form.

Later portrayals, the beak becomes a long nose.

So modern Tengu masks are bright red with a long nose,

demon-like eyes, and then a Shugendo hat on the forehead.

The Karasu Tengu, which translates as Crow Tengu, are born out of these giant eggs.

And these creatures are typically very

mischievous and even malevolent towards humans.

They like to play tricks on them.

They like to make them lose their way in the mountain.

They often kidnap people as well.

One story about Tengu concerns Mount Ishii Uzuchi.

A six-year-old boy went missing at the top of the mountain, Tengu Peak.

And there was an exhaustive search for him.

Nothing turned up, so the search team was forced just to return home.

And when they arrived home, of course, the six-year-old boy was there.

Now, they asked him what had happened.

He said that he had left the trail and that an all-black human-like figure from

behind said, if you are lost, I will help you close your eyes.

And the next thing he knew, he was back home, safe and sound.

Japanese belief in the Tengu dates back at least 1300 years.

And while they are strongly associated with Mount Ishizuchi, the Tengu are

thought to inhabit other mountains throughout Japan as well.

But what's most interesting to Ancient Astronaut Theorists is that nearly

identical stories of winged Birdmen, like the Tengu,

can be found in historical accounts across the globe.

All over the world, we have stories of what we call Birdmen, like the Tengu.

And these are men that are often depicted with wings on their backs.

They're able to fly.

And you have to wonder if really these aren't some kind of extraterrestrials,

and that the wings are purely symbolic.

But they're called Birdmen and have wings because they can fly.

They can fly in their spaceships.

It makes perfect sense to me that if extraterrestrials were to visit Earth,

they would set up their camps somewhere out of sight, like high mountains in

Japan, to remain undetected by local populations, so that they could make only

contact with those people in that population that they have chosen.

One of the strangest mountains on Earth can be found in Sri Lanka.

Rising above the jungle is a summit that is almost a perfect circle.

And according to ancient Sanskrit texts, this peak is a portal for the Gods.

At number two on our countdown, Danigala Mountain.

Central Sri Lanka.

Overlooking the small town of Arolaganwila stands the lush Danigala Mountain Range.

Its undulating peaks reach heights of just under a thousand feet.

But despite its low elevation, one mysterious summit has

captured the imaginations of locals and visitors alike.

It's a strange outcropping that is almost entirely round.

This is a very remarkable geological formation, circular

in shape with a completely flat platform on the top of it.

For locals, the mountain is famous not only for its unique shape, but for the

number of reports of unidentified aerial phenomena at the site.

Everybody calls it Alien mountain because this is a UFO hot spot.

At least two dozen UFO sightings have been reported in 2023 alone.

The recent sightings are just the latest in a string of mysterious events at the

mountain that date back thousands of years.

The mountain is associated with various different legends in Vedic tradition.

It's actually said to be the landing place of the God Ravana.

It was said that he could actually fly this device and land on the top of it.

Danigala Mountain is also connected with the Buddha.

In fact, there's a cave in the side of this mountain which has a statue of the

Buddha, and it's said that he originally used this area

as a kind of way to explore the different astral planes.

The Buddha is believed to have lived during the sixth or fifth century BC,

and according to ancient Buddha stories, he demonstrated the

ability to teleport instantly from one location to another.

And as far as Ancient Astronaut Theorists are concerned, early accounts of the

Buddha sound very much like descriptions of an extraterrestrial.

According to some of the earliest Sanskrit texts, the first Buddha that ever walked

the Earth was nine feet tall, had light blue skin,

and his arms reached all the way down to his knees.

So that to me is eternally fascinating because it would

support the idea that Buddha was an extraterrestrial.

Is it possible that the Buddha was an otherworldly being who landed near

Danigala mountain as told in local legends?

Perhaps clues can be found in a mysterious petroglyph found less than 100 miles away

in northern Sri Lanka called the Sarguala Chakraya.

The Sarguala Chakraya carving in Sri Lanka is carved onto this rock face,

and there's actually carved stone seats on the

opposite side for people to sit there and gaze into it.

Now traditionally it's like a cosmological map that the ancient people there would

talk about, but could it be something else?

Because the symbols on it are very unusual.

The name Sarguala Chakraya means the wheel of the universe.

Locals believe that this is a star gate that Buddha

used those three times to go to other planets.

Could the mysterious carving found in Sri Lanka indicate

the presence of an ancient star gate, as legend suggests?

And if so, might there be a connection with Danigala mountain?

For Ancient Astronaut Theorists, the answer is a resounding yes.

It's entirely possible that the extraterrestrials

set up space bases and mountains all over the world.

That way they could watch humanity, help guide us, and if necessary intervene

again in human affairs as they had done in the past.

There's only one entry left on our countdown, and you don't want to miss it,

because this one is the busiest UFO hotspot in the world.

We've reached number one on our countdown of the Top 10 Mysterious Mountains,

and the final location isn't a solitary summit, but an entire mountain range.

For centuries, strange lights have been seen flying along these rugged peaks,

which are also marked with mysterious Geoglyphs.

Coming in at number one, the Andes.

Stretching across more than 4,300 miles of South America, from Colombia in the north

to the southernmost tip of Argentina, is the

largest mountain range in the world, the Andes.

Located among these peaks are some of the most mysterious ancient sites on Earth.

Such as Puma Punku in Bolivia, and Sacsayhuamán in Peru.

The Andes also make up much of Chile, a country that boasts

the highest number of reported UFO sightings in the world.

Chile itself is a long, narrow country along

the western, you know, strip of the Andes.

The highest mountain in South America is in Chile.

There have been some significant UFO sightings that

the Chilean government has actually admitted to.

One of the most extraordinary UFO sightings ever captured on video occurred

just west of the Chilean capital of Santiago on November 11th, 2014.

Infrared footage taken by the crew of a Chilean Navy helicopter shows a strange

object flying alongside them at an altitude of 4,500 feet.

The Chilean helicopter video is really intriguing and fascinating because you

have this hot vehicle that looks like the shape of a peanut.

It's traveling across the screen and then for some reason

it starts releasing some type of material behind it.

Now, this is material you do not see in the visible video imagery.

You only see it in the infrared, which means it's hot.

All of that added together says, well, this isn't a normal plane that we know of.

What is it?

The helicopter UFO case is excellent in terms of hard evidence.

Here we have two experienced Navy aviators seeing a UFO with a naked eye and then

capturing it on the forward-looking infrared camera.

Now, this is very important because skeptics sometimes say that with these

infrared cameras you get glitches and artifacts.

But when you have something seen with the naked

eye as well, that gives you your corroboration.

Is it possible that the object that Chilean Navy

officers caught on camera was in fact an Alien aircraft?

Ancient Astronaut Theorists say yes.

And they suggest this sighting is particularly significant because it

occurred along a part of the Andes mountain range where

strange activity has been documented for centuries.

A route marked by mysterious Geoglyphs found north of Santiago in the Atacama desert.

Atacama desert is an extremely strange area and largely devoid of life.

We have figures that have been carved into the desert.

They're huge giant figures to be seen from the sky.

This arid region boasts more than 5,000 Geoglyphs, the most

prominent of which is known simply as the Atacama giant.

The Atacama giant is looking up at the stars, seems to be a signal to the sky

Gods and those who are flying above the desert.

So when you look at all of these glyphs and all of the UFO activity there,

is it possible that the Andes is this flight path for extraterrestrials,

an Alien alley?

Why is it that mountains are so often associated

with stories of extraterrestrial contact?

Could they be the hub of hidden Alien bases right here on Earth?

As far as I'm concerned, each location on our list deserves a closer look because

whether they're in northern California, the Egyptian desert, or even running the

entire length of South America, these immense majestic mountains might

provide the perfect hiding spots for extraterrestrials who came to Earth

thousands of years ago and are still with us today.