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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: I first heard about

the ancient astronaut theory from my grandmother

when I was only six years old.

Ever since then, I've been fascinated by the idea

that extraterrestrials visited our planet in the distant past.

But whenever someone challenges me to prove it,

I think the ultimate evidence can be found by examining

the world's great monoliths.

From Baalbek in Lebanon

and Stonehenge in England

to Easter Island in the South Pacific,

some of these massive stones weigh hundreds

of thousands of pounds.

To move even the smallest of them would require today's

ultra-sophisticated technology.

And we are told by conventional scholars

that our ancestors erected them with nothing more

than a few logs, some rope and sheer manpower.

To that, I say nonsense.

And I challenge anyone to watch this next hour

and not come away convinced that we are definitely...

not alone.

TSOUKALOS: On a recent trip to the Mediterranean islands

of Malta, I came across

an ancient standing stone at the temple

of Hagar Qim that weighs in excess of 40,000 pounds.

Check this out-- this is huge!

-Yes, uh... -Wow.

...three meters high by six meters, 50 wide

and about another meter thick.

That makes about 20... odd tons.

-Minimum? -Minimum, yes.

TSOUKALOS: According to mainstream scholars,

it was rolled here on spherical stones

that have been found nearby.

But these stones are made of the same limestone as the monolith,

and would almost certainly have been crushed under its weight.

And how did they erect it

even if they were able to get it here?

It is a feat that defies explanation.

Yet there are dozens just like it or even bigger

found all over the world.

NARRATOR: The Washington Monument.

Built in the 19th century

to commemorate the first president of the United States,

it towers more than 555 feet

above America's capital city.

Its pinnacle fashioned into a distinctive pyramid shape,

the monument is considered to be

the tallest stone obelisk in the world.

MICHAEL DENNIN: Obelisk is a generic phrase used for

the rectangular pillars that are a little pointy at the top

that you find in ancient Egypt, ancient Rome.

They would have writing on them.

They were used often to record battles, special events,

record the entire reign of a particular king or ruler.

CHILDRESS: And so now, here in the United States,

we've done a similar thing.

The Washington Monument,

a symbol of the United States

and of... and of the power in Washington D.C.

The Washington Monument is built out of blocks of stone,

but then it looks identical to an Egyptian obelisk,

but those obelisks are different.

They are one solid stone.

NARRATOR: Single standing massive stones

are known as monoliths,

and millions of them were used to construct monuments

all across the ancient world,

including locations such as Turkey,

Peru

and Ethiopia.

But why did ancient man begin to create

these massive, monolithic structures?

Could there be something inherent in the quality of stone

that might hold some sort of influence or power over mankind?

Perhaps the answer can be found

at a location 90 miles west of London

in the English countryside.

Stonehenge, England.

Here, on the Salisbury plain

in the county of Wiltshire,

stands the most sophisticated

prehistoric stone circle in the world.

According to radiocarbon dating,

this striking arrangement of monoliths was placed

on this wide plain in Southern England

more than 4,000 years ago.

Consisting of more than 100 stone blocks,

the monoliths create a larger structure

known as a megalith.

There is a period in time, several thousand years ago,

which is known as the megalithic time.

And it is defined by the fact that our ancestors,

pretty much in every part of civilization,

began to build with gigantic stones.

ALAN BUTLER: These cultures, which were known

as megalithic cultures, are something of a mystery to us.

We have to ask ourselves why, all of a sudden, virtually,

human beings across a-a broad stretch of Europe and Asia

suddenly started to prize large pieces of rock free,

drag them around the landscape,

and then piling them up in very exotic and unusual ways.

NARRATOR: Stonehenge, the world's most famous

megalithic structure, derives its name from the material

used to construct it, and also from the term "henge,"

which refers to a circular

or oval-shaped bank that surrounds a central flat area.

SAM OSMANAGICH: Stonehenge--

it's just 25% of the original monument.

75% has been destroyed forever.

Originally they had 60 huge blocks

that formed a perfect circle.

The question is: Who was able to move them,

and what was the purpose?

HUGH NEWMAN: It's now believed

the very first part of Stonehenge

is three great wooden postholes,

which are now in the car park

and there's blobs of paint on them.

These are dated to at least 10,000 years old.

The next phase of construction at Stonehenge was

around 3200 to 3400 B.C.,

where they built a great earthen henge

and there was just a couple of stones there.

Then a few hundred years later, they brought in the blue stones.

And these are the ones that were brought

over 100 miles away from the Preseli Mountains in Wales.

The major monoliths there, the great Sarsen stones,

they were brought from much closer, about 20 miles away.

But then some of them weigh up to 50 tons.

NARRATOR: Multiton stones being carved from the landscape

and transported distances of up to 100 miles.

Is it really possible that a prehistoric people

could accomplish such an enormous

and seemingly impossible task?

NEWMAN: The theories really range

from they either used rollers and tree trunks,

which is kind of unlikely when you look at some

of the terrain they would have had to go through.

There have been teams of Brits who have tried

to recapitulate these things.

How did they get them across the rivers

between Wales and Stonehenge?

How did they go up and down through valleys and over hills?

BUTLER: One explanation associated with Stonehenge

dates back to the Arthurian legend,

and the legend says that, um, the stones at Stonehenge

were brought from Ireland by Merlin,

who was King Arthur's magician.

NEWMAN: Merlin was said to transport the stones

by levitating them and pushing them along,

just with his bare hands,

all the way across the landscape from Wales to Stonehenge.

The great 20th century French philosopher

and historian, Jean Marcel, wrote over 40 books

on the life of Merlin and Arthur and the Celtic traditions.

And Marcel was adamant that Merlin was a real person.

He was also adamant that Merlin was an incredibly powerful

otherworldly being who was here to teach us

to move beyond the human restrictions and boundaries.

NARRATOR: Could the legend of Merlin really be proof

of contact with extraterrestrial entities

in the ancient past?

And that they provided advanced technology

to help transport and place the monoliths?

If so, why would stone be the ideal material

needed to construct the site?

The properties of those stones had been found to have

effects on the human body,

to impart vibration and beneficial effects

to the holder of those stones,

to have healing properties.

CHILDRESS: And, in fact, it's often been said Stonehenge was

some healing place where people came,

and, uh, with their ailments to be cured.

NARRATOR: For some researchers, further clues

to Stonehenge's extraterrestrial connection

can be found in one of the site's most striking features:

the precise position and alignment

of each stone that makes up the megalith.

TSOUKALOS: Seen from the air, Stonehenge is actually

a replica of our solar system.

All those concentric circles, they all represent

one planet in our solar system.

How did they know this?

And according to the ancient texts

and the ancient traditions,

this knowledge was given to our ancestors

by none other than extraterrestrials,

by the gods.

MIKE BARA: Some people think Stonehenge was some sort

of calendar marker so that ancient cultures could know

when was the right time to plant.

Other people think that it actually was, uh,

a celestial calendar that was designed to show

when we would pass through certain

very, very intense meteor streams.

OSMANAGICH: We know that, through the position

of different monoliths, they were able to watch

the summer solstice, the winter solstice,

even the movement of some star systems.

CHILDRESS: So, who was it, then,

who needed these astronomical calculations?

Would it be the extraterrestrials?

Or rather the priestly groups

that the extraterrestrials were cultivating here on Earth,

and training them to monitor the stars

and the heavens and the moon and the eclipses?

NARRATOR: Is it really possible

that otherworldly beings

designed Stonehenge so ancient man could gather

data about the stars?

If so, why?

And what was the ultimate purpose behind obtaining

this celestial knowledge?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

further clues can be found

by traveling deeper into the English countryside

to another monolithic site

that is 16 times larger than Stonehenge

and even more... mysterious.

TSOUKALOS: Hagar Qim is just one of seven megalithic sites

on the islands of Malta,

and on my recent trip, I also visited

the equally impressive temples of Mnajdra.

In 1992, Maltese investigator Paul Micallef

came to the shocking conclusion

that the structures here were built

around 10,200 B.C.

He determined that, based on the tilt of the Earth

at this date and time on the morning of the summer solstice,

a beam of light would have come through the main entrance

of the temple and been cast directly

on the center of an altar stone.

This could only be achieved if the monolith was placed

precisely with the end effect in mind.

And, incredibly, there are many other megalithic sites

around the world made to align with the stars.

NARRATOR: Southwest England.

Here, just 17 miles north of Stonehenge,

is Avebury...

the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.

Originally constructed with hundreds of monoliths,

some experts believe this immense site

was once a major center

of religious ritual in Great Britain.

BUTLER: Avebury is probably the most

significant, uh, and most interesting

megalithic site in Great Britain,

partly because it's the largest.

NEWMAN: And just imagine the magnitude

of what we're dealing with here.

There's now been a whole village built inside it

because it's so large.

The stones are huge-- they're probably

between 20 and 50 tons each.

They're rough-hewn stones in a great circle.

And there were even two stone circles within Avebury itself.

And these were roughly the same size of Stonehenge each.

BUTLER: Old antiquarians once said that Stonehenge was

like a parish church compared to Avebury,

which was like a-a great cathedral.

NARRATOR: Encompassing more than 28 acres,

mainstream historians believe Avebury was constructed

from 2850 B.C. to 2200 B.C. by Neolithic Britons,

and like Stonehenge, was used during sacred rituals.

COLLINS: They were celebrating the different cycles

of the years, the changing of the seasons.

It seems as if this was necessary within their society

to show that there was some kind

of rhythm and cycle within nature

that was not only understood,

but could be controlled in some manner.

By creating something like this,

there is stability in the world.

Chaos and disorder cannot reign.

BUTLER: Avebury was considered to be a meeting point.

It's significant to the solstices

at the midsummer and the midwinter.

But exactly what took place there

and exactly what the people who built it believe,

we don't know.

NARRATOR: According to some researchers,

there may be a profound purpose

for this circular alignment of stones at Avebury,

one perhaps connecting the monoliths

to celestial beings that visited

the site thousands of years ago.

The mythologies in conjunction with Avebury

always point to the sky, to some celestial beings--

the "shining ones," as they were called,

descending from the sky and educating people

in various disciplines:

agriculture, mathematics, geometry, engineering.

CHILDRESS: In many cases with Avebury

and other giant megaliths, it's as if they are set up

by some ancient people.

It is pretty clear that in Avebury you have

this fenced-off environment

whereby probably only certain people were able to come

because the stones somehow embodied the deities.

Maybe they thought that they could communicate

with the deities through these monolithic stones.

And we're once again to this time frame of a civilization

who said that at one point in time,

the deities were physically present.

NARRATOR: Could Avebury's location and building materials

really have been chosen in order to enable communication

with extraterrestrials?

And if so, might this explain why man has been drawn

to stone structures throughout the world since ancient times?

Perhaps the answers can be found

at another mysterious city,

one that was built on top of a giant rock.

NARRATOR: Sigiriya, Sri Lanka.

Known as Lion's Rock,

this natural monolith towers 600 feet

over the surrounding landscape.

CHILDRESS: It was discovered

in 1831 by a British Army officer named Jonathan Forbes.

What he found there was a natural monolith,

a giant cliff rock,

and stairs had been cut into it,

and then a palace had been built on top.

And it's extremely remote area

and high up vertical cliffs.

Sigiriya was certainly a Buddhist monastery, um,

from the first millennium B.C.

And then, around 500 A.D.,

it actually became a fortress and a palace for a local king.

There are gardens, palaces

on the very top of the rock.

Then there's various caves,

and within these caves are different murals.

NARRATOR: These fresco paintings feature portraits of women

that some researchers believe represent

ladies of the king's court,

while others suggest the women are religious figures.

But according to ancient astronaut theorists,

the images reveal more evidence

of extraterrestrial contact in the distant past.

We find some of the most amazing paintings

of people emerging out of the clouds.

And they're actually floating in midair.

And you have to wonder, what did our ancestors

try to depict here?

According to the local myths and legends,

Sigiriya was created with the help of the gods

who descended from the sky.

What a beautiful, poetic way to depict something

that they might have witnessed.

It was a complete misunderstanding of a visitation

by technologically advanced space travelers.

NARRATOR: Is it possible these paintings depict

actual sky beings descending to Earth,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might there be another,

more profound reason why ancient man

built a city on top of this massive monolith?

The very concept of a monolith

can be very important, very sacred to a people.

Also, the concept of the mountain reaching to Heaven.

It makes me think of the celestial

or the cosmic Mount Meru.

RICHARD LEVITON: Mount Meru is a name used in Buddhist cultures

to describe a cosmic mountain.

It's actually described in ancient literature as a mass

of golden light, like a golden blazing fire

in the shape of a mountain.

It's at the center of the universe,

and it exists at many levels from there,

not in a physical sense, but in an energy sense.

The gods live on the slopes of it.

They all have palaces and cities.

COPPENS: Sigiriya is basically

the small-scale replica of Mount Meru.

Our ancestors took to this rock

and began to build on top of that.

It is saying, "This is the rock we have in this specific place.

"So we're going to use it in order to establish

an uplink and a downlink to the gods in the sky."

NARRATOR: Is it possible that Sigiriya was built

in order to honor and connect with extraterrestrials,

as ancient astronaut theorists believe?

If so, might other monoliths

reveal more evidence

of these ancient space visitations?

Perhaps the ultimate proof can be found carved in stones

buried half a world away.

NARRATOR: Easter Island.

Isolated in the Pacific Ocean more than 2,000 miles

west of Chile, this tiny landmass is home

to nearly 900 monolithic stone statues.

On Easter Island, we have these huge heads and torsos

that are carved out of the volcanic rock.

They are called the moai.

Some of them that have been erected are 30 feet or so tall,

weighing up to 75 tons.

You don't realize that they're really buried

right up to their chest...

...and that these statues are two or three times

as large as we can see,

because most of them is belowground.

Many of the statues are oftentimes sort of sideways,

looking up.

They look inward toward the center of the island.

They also seem to look up toward the skies.

So I think there's a deeper significance,

and it has to do with the heavens.

It has to do with things that were happening in the sky

that were very important to the people

and that they are recording in these moai

and pointing to look upward.

There is something going on there.

NARRATOR: According to archaeologists,

the native Polynesian inhabitants of Easter Island--

known as the Rapa Nui people--

constructed the moai between the 12th

and 18th centuries A.D. to honor their ancestors.

But recent archaeological excavations have revealed

that the figures were naturally buried over thousands of years,

making them much older than originally believed.

SCHOCH: From a geological perspective,

to bury the moai in 20 feet or more of sediment suggests

that they are potentially thousands of years old,

much older than traditional archaeologists have suggested.

SMANAGICH: The idea that they were built 1,000 or 1,500

or 700 years ago, not realistic.

They were built much, much before that.

It seemed that certain guests came, built them.

And probably those heads do represent

their original builders.

NARRATOR: If the moai are older

than previously recognized,

who really built them and why?

Considering the Rapa Nui are thought to have arrived

on Easter Island no earlier than 300 A.D.,

is it possible that celestial beings visited here

thousands of years before?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

these monolithic figures provide clues

that the Rapa Nui ancestors may have actually been

space travelers.

VON DANIKEN: You cannot exclude

that they are representation

of celestial ancestors.

We have all these statues, and the faces

of the statues do not look like the Easter Islanders.

The statues they created, they look like robots...

...with long, narrow noses, with narrow lips.

They have nothing which compares

the Easter Island people.

So what do they represent?

CHILDRESS: They are elongated heads.

They are also these cone heads

that we see at Nazca and Egypt and other areas of the world.

Who are these people?

LEVITON: One possible explanation for why these heads

of the Easter Island stone figures face the heavens.

It's as if they were pointing a finger to their place of origin,

but not to... not because they forgot where they came from,

but so the humans could remember.

NARRATOR: Is it possible the moai heads represent

extraterrestrial beings,

nodding toward their otherworldly origin?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and point to similar stone figures

thousands of miles away in Southeast Asia as proof.

TSOUKALOS: I've seen the monolithic statues

at Easter Island up close,

and they are truly mind-blowing.

But just as incredible is the fact

that we find similar elongated faces

in other parts of the world.

-Clifford. -Hey, Giorgio.

TSOUKALOS: So great to see you. How are you?

-Welcome to Zuni. -Pleasure.

-Welcome to my home. -Absolutely.

TSOUKALOS: When I recently visited

Zuni elder Clifford Mahooty in New Mexico,

he showed me black-and-white photos from 1904,

taken in a part of the Zuni territory

that outsiders are not allowed to access.

These are the twin gods.

Wow.

And I was shocked to see totems with faces

that are strikingly similar to the moai of Easter Island.

To me, this is not a coincidence.

These could be the depictions

of possibly real extraterrestrial beings

that these people encountered.

And they are not the only ones.

NARRATOR: Bada Valley, Indonesia.

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Hidden in the isolated mountains

of the island of Sulawesi...

...more than 20 monoliths are scattered

in the fields of this farming region.

Mainstream historians date the statues

to the first millennium B.C.,

although the actual date of their creation

has not been determined.

CHILDRESS: Much of the valley has rice terraces,

which are familiar throughout Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

But then in the middle of these rice paddies

are these statues, and they're just sitting there.

And when you look at it, uh, you're baffled.

The stones are coming from these deep river valleys

that are some miles away

where there are giant boulders weighing 100 tons.

But then to haul those giant boulders up into the valley

and then erect it,

then carve it into this giant 15-foot statue.

And you don't know why they would do it or how.

The Bada Valley in Indonesia features

some of the most magnificent megalithic structures

that we-we can find.

Giant statues that are very reminiscent

to the statues that we can find, for example, on Easter Island.

NARRATOR: But how is it

that monoliths halfway around the world

can bear such a close resemblance to each other?

Some researchers believe the inspiration came

from the same celestial visitors.

You get similar-style carvings

of these very strange sort of alien-looking faces,

which are very symmetrical, very beautifully carved,

that have intricate kind of craftsmanship built into them.

They wanted to make them resemble

what, in my opinion, was a depiction

of the ancestors, the gods...

...which somehow these stones were allowing to commemorate

or communicate with these entities.

They're basically telling us-- this is a memorial to our gods,

the deities who were once present

and who have left since.

NARRATOR: Is it possible,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that these monoliths were created by mankind

to pay homage to actual otherworldly beings

who visited Earth in the distant past?

And if so, might monoliths throughout the world

have an even more profound connection to each other?

Some researchers believe

the answers can be found by taking a closer look

at sphere-shaped stones hidden

in the jungles of Costa Rica.

One of the strangest monolithic rocks I've ever seen

is in the city of Mahabalipuram in India,

and it's this giant 250-ton boulder,

perched precariously on a hill.

Today, it is known as Krishna's Butter Ball,

but its original name is "Stone of the Sky God,"

and some archaeologists say it is unlikely

that it is a natural formation,

as there are no other large rocks like it in the area

and the shape does not appear to be the result of erosion.

But how could ancient people have moved

a 250-ton rock uphill?

Incredibly, there are similar stone spheres

that have been found on the opposite side of the globe.

NARRATOR: Palmar Sur, Costa Rica.

While clearing the jungles in the 1930s,

crews discover hundreds of monolithic stone spheres.

CHILDRESS: Many of them are huge.

I mean, they're... they're ten feet in diameter.

They're gigantically huge.

Others are much smaller,

the size of a basketball

or of a car tire or something like that.

NARRATOR: To date, over 300 stone spheres have been found

at archaeological sites across the region.

And Las Bolas, as they are called, are some

of the most precise stone carvings in the ancient world.

Some experts believe

these mysterious stone balls could be

96% completely spherical.

SCHOCH: We can only imagine

how they may have been able to make such perfect spheres.

These spheres are carved out of granites and granodiorites.

These are very hard igneous rocks, difficult to work.

OSMANAGICH: Granodiorite is one of

the hardest natural materials.

It never comes free in nature in the shape of the sphere.

So obviously somebody shaped them.

Today, we would need to use diamond tools and laser

to shape the spheres.

TSOUKALOS: According to the legends of Costa Rica,

those stone spheres were used as cannonballs

by the god of thunder to drive away

the god of wind and hurricanes.

Now, these are all wonderful ideas of a story,

but as we all know, every story has a core of truth,

and the question is: What is that core?

NARRATOR: Are the legends of gods battling storms

really a description of ancient astronaut machinery at work,

as some researchers suggest?

And if so, might the discovery of stone spheres

reveal the ultimate purpose for monoliths?

Bosnia-Herzegovina.

2004.

A team of archaeologists discovers stone spheres

in forests and creek beds near the town of Banja Luka.

CHILDRESS: If you go into that area, it's a ravine

in a mountainside that's been cut by a stream,

and in it are all of these stone balls.

Very similar to the ones in Costa Rica.

They're half buried in this mountainside,

and some are exposed.

It is a tourist area, and, in fact, Bosnia has

four or five areas where these stone balls can be seen.

The tree... the tree was standing there,

but in the last storm, the tree fell

and, you know, all this, you know, dirt,

all this material covered the stone sphere which is here.

Right here.

The biggest source of Bosnian stone spheres

is the central Bosnian town of Zavidovici.

We took samples from four different stone spheres

and samples of natural stone that we found nearby,

and then we did chemical analysis,

and the conclusion was:

those stone spheres were made.

From the liquid state, they would melt them.

They were adding certain additives

to get the better properties of material,

and then when they got dry in certain molds...

...they were getting a perfect shape of the sphere.

NARRATOR: Like most other monoliths,

researchers believe the spheres were likely used

for ceremonial rituals,

but is it possible that these monoliths,

like the stone spheres in Costa Rica,

helped create a connection to celestial beings,

as ancient astronaut theorists contend?

Another theory of the stone balls is that

they were somehow used as star maps,

and that they were rolled around,

and they would show where stars were

and their relationship to other areas,

very much like some extraterrestrial map.

COPPENS: It's also said that these stone balls

were there to concentrate thought,

that they were somehow physical devices,

that somehow by touching or working with these stones,

we were able to establish a bridge to another dimension.

And so we might actually be looking

at a civilization who realized

that the places where these stone spheres were located

were somehow power spots,

that somehow there was some form of energy,

whereby if we were able to concentrate,

we would indeed be transported to a world

where we could communicate with the gods.

And that might be why these stone spheres

are located in the places they are.

NARRATOR: Could it really be

that these round monoliths were placed throughout the world

to create a greater cosmic energy grid,

as some researchers believe?

If so,

might stone spheres and other monoliths

be celestial travel tools placed in power spots...

...portals for star travelers visiting Earth?

And is it possible these advanced beings

have left behind more evidence,

perhaps not on Earth

but approximately 140 million miles away?

NARRATOR: 1998.

The Mars Global Surveyor snaps photos

of what appears to be a monolith on Phobos,

one of the two moons that orbit the planet Mars.

On the moon of Mars, Phobos,

there's a very, very interesting obelisk or monolith there.

They call it the Phobos Monolith.

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon,

made a really big deal out of this

and basically claimed that it was artificial,

and when we got there and studied it,

it would change everything

in terms of how we looked at our history.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible there is

an obelisk on a moon of Mars,

one that is not a natural occurrence

but was, in fact, put there by otherworldly beings?

If so, might they have created similar structures

on other planets and celestial bodies,

perhaps even Earth, as some researchers suggest?

Egypt has a number of obelisks in it,

and those obelisks are 4,000 or 5,000 years old.

And the obelisks in Ethiopia may be that old, too.

Obelisks, they're a piece of crystalline granite,

and within the granite is quartz crystal.

So obelisks themselves are, in a sense,

a crystal tower with all of the properties

that quartz crystal brings to technology.

It's an antenna,

and any antenna can receive a broadcast

and it can give a broadcast.

And then we have these ancient obelisks

that were at one point, apparently,

all around the world.

It would seem that there was a worldwide system,

similar to a wireless broadcasting system.

These obelisks would broadcast power into the atmosphere...

...and remote locations around the world could pick up

that power, much like a radio today, or a television set,

a satellite phone or a computer.

This seems to be the system that was set up

by extraterrestrials thousands of years ago on this planet,

and incredibly, they didn't just do it on planet Earth.

So we may well find that when we go to Mars,

we'll find obelisks there.

NARRATOR: Is it really possible, as some researchers believe,

that monoliths on Earth have a cosmic connection

to the obelisk on Phobos,

and that, at one time,

many of the monolithic sites seen around the world

were part of an advanced system

that would help to receive and distribute energy?

You have to realize

that there is more than just the stones involved.

There's a kind of energy field around them,

and it works through the stones by way of their placement.

When put in a circle, or in rows,

or standing singly, they would ground celestial energy,

transmit it and download it into the local landscape.

It was meant to be a kind of passive, continuous input

to the Earth from the celestial and galactic realms.

OSMANAGICH: For example, Stonehenge, we now know

that those stones were positioned

above the underground water flows.

The water moves, generates energy,

the stones receive the energy and slowly release it.

The ancient people, they would be around those monoliths,

keeping their hands on the stones,

receiving the energy.

COPPENS: Throughout the world,

whether they are stone spheres in Bosnia

or megalithic monuments in Avebury,

what we're seeing is that our ancestors are saying

that these stones are able to hold energy,

a soul, a spirit, of our ancestors, of the gods.

And so what we see throughout the world is these monoliths,

because throughout the world we are trying to establish

this link between us, mankind and the world of the gods.

In December of 2014,

an ancient monolithic stone block was discovered

at Baalbek in Lebanon

that was of unprecedented proportions,

even by Baalbek standards.

The granite block is over 64 feet long

and weighs an astonishing 1,650 tons,

making it the largest man-made monolith ever discovered.

It lies in a quarry alongside two similar monoliths

that also weigh over 1,000 tons each.

How old these monoliths are

and who or what carved them remains a mystery.

But it begs the question:

Could they truly provide important clues

to understanding our extraterrestrial ancestors?

And to that,

the answer is a resounding yes.