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NARRATOR: A mysterious formation...

carved out of the Earth...

gone unnoticed for thousands of years.

HUGH NEWMAN: It's really, really striking

when you first see it.

It looks so much like a human face.

NARRATOR: Is it an ancient megalithic structure

made to be seen from the sky?

TRAVIS TAYLOR: The Badlands Guardian looks artificial.

It doesn't look like a trick of nature.

NARRATOR: And could it be

not only a link to mankind's extraterrestrial ancestors...

MARCIA MOORE: So you have to ask yourself,

who were they emulating?

NARRATOR: ...but one that holds the key

to their return?

GEORGE HAAS: We learned their codes

and their secret symbolism,

and what we're seeing probably holds...

a key to our legacy.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.

2005.

53-year-old grandmother Lynn Hickox

is scanning GPS driving directions

to a local museum on satellite view

when something catches her eye:

a geographical feature that bears a striking resemblance

to a human face.

It looks so much like a man-made structure

that she posts the image on a message board.

Almost overnight, the image goes viral

and becomes known far and wide

as the "Badlands Guardian."

It is quite striking. It is clearly a face.

The brow, the nose, the lips, the chin are well formed.

The headdress a little less so,

but clearly could be seen as feathers.

The Badlands Guardian appears to be a huge geoglyph

near Alberta, Canada.

And to see it from Google Earth or from satellite imagery,

you would think it was created by people many, many years ago.

"Geo" means Earth, and glyphs are symbols,

so "geoglyph" means symbols on the Earth.

They can be geometric designs, they can be...

animals, they can be faces.

Some of them are carved

into the ground, like we find in Nazca.

And in some places they're built up,

mounds built up on the Earth.

The Badlands Guardian

is a bust, or a head and shoulders presentation,

of a male indigenous person.

It is so striking,

because that is the indigenous people of the area.

It doesn't look like a Scotsman wearing a kilt.

It doesn't look like an African warrior.

It looks like an indigenous, uh, native to the area.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the likeness of a human face

naturally formed in the Earth?

Many who have examined the Badlands Guardian

suggest that, based on the amount of detail it displays,

this is highly unlikely.

When the mainstream scientific community

looks at the Badlands Guardian,

their first explanation is that it was created by weathering,

uh, rain and water runoff.

But there's just so much detail

that we're seeing in this formation

that it goes way beyond anything nature could make.

It not only has basic facial features,

it has secondary facial features, such as the eyelid.

The only thing missing from the Badlands Guardian

is an ear feature.

Now, the interesting thing about that is,

the local government in Canada,

they had found a gas deposit there,

right where the ear should be.

There might have been an ear there at one time,

but now, because they put an access road there

and they built this gas feature, that was all erased.

Archaeologists are often mistaken about ancient sites.

And what is actually a pyramid that's now, say,

covered in soil and has a forest on it

can be mistaken for just a natural hill.

This has happened in... in South America, in China,

Archaeologists are continually finding

that things they think are natural

are actually artificial.

NARRATOR: Some of the geoglyphs found around the world

were formed simply by removing the top layer of soil

to expose the lighter colored dirt underneath.

But if the Badlands Guardian is also a geoglyph,

creating it would have been an enormous undertaking.

The massive concave formation is almost half a mile long

and it is over 1,100 feet wide.

For comparison,

the Mount Rushmore National Monument in South Dakota,

which was completed in 1941,

is approximately 80 feet tall

and 200 feet wide.

And while it is only a fraction of the size

of the Badlands Guardian,

constructing it required an enormous amount of work,

even with modern technology.

The carving officially started in 1927,

and it was considered complete in 1941.

My grandfather was on the mountain

approximately from 1933 to 1941.

He was chief carver on Mount Rushmore.

It took about 400 workers.

It took 14 years.

And when I think about the amount of time and effort

that it took for people in the '30s

to create Mount Rushmore,

I can't even begin to imagine

what the person or persons had to do,

working on something the size of the Badlands Guardian.

I-I can't even wrap my head around it.

How was it possible that the people that carved this

thousands of years ago

were able to see what they were doing

or know what they were doing?

They must have had assistance by extraterrestrial beings.

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: The Badlands Guardian can only be

fully appreciated from the sky.

So you have to wonder why.

Well, then the answer is:

people on the ground wanted

to signal someone up in the sky.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

the Badlands Guardian could offer

some of the most compelling new evidence

that extraterrestrial intervention occurred on Earth

in the distant past...

that is, if it really is an artificial structure.

Boston, Massachusetts.

February 2019.

Aerospace engineer

and satellite imaging expert Mark Carlotto

has spent countless hours examining

the Badlands Guardian to see if he can determine for certain

whether it is something other than a natural formation.

CARLOTTO: The image of the Badlands Guardian

is very striking as this Native American figure,

and there are some properties that are unusual.

So I did some analysis,

uh, using some imaging software

and the height map of the feature.

We'll start with an overview

of the Badlands Guardian image here.

We see the figure in the middle of the image here,

and notice the surrounding landform's

very similar in morphology.

So, now what we'll do is we'll zoom up on the figure.

You can see it a little bit more clearly,

the, um, this iconic face, so...

what can we do to bring out, you know, some information?

Well, we ran a program that extracts the height,

or elevation, uh, from the figure.

And the way it's depicted here is... is: dark is low

and bright is high.

So now, after we've taken the image and texture-mapped it

onto the elevation surface, we can view it in 3D.

And, um, now I'm moving around it

and viewing it like we might see it in a drone.

And as you can see, when you're looking straight down

on the Badlands Guardian,

it's, uh, this uncanny resemblance

to a Native American.

But as we look off angle,

and as we look at it from ground level,

simulated ground level, you see the illusion disappears.

So clearly this feature, if it was created,

was meant to be viewed from above.

NARRATOR: One important factor for Mark

is how information looks when the lighting changes.

If the Badlands Guardian still appears as a face

under different conditions, it could strengthen the argument

that it's an artificial structure.

And as you can see, what we've simulated here in these views

are noontime views, so the Sun is at noon,

in the summer...

the spring or fall and the winter.

Notice in the winter the shadows are longer.

The Sun is lower in the sky.

And in all three, you definitely get this impression of a face.

It implies it's very interesting,

and if it's not, uh, artificially created,

nature is having a great joke on us.

TAYLOR: To me, the Badlands Guardian looks artificial.

It doesn't look like a trick of nature

and that I'm suffering from apophenia.

All humans do have apophenia,

meaning they see patterns where patterns are not.

That's why we see Mickey Mouse in the clouds and so on.

But this looks too specifically like

some type of native person with a headdress on.

Looking at this picture,

you can see the natural patterns of erosion.

So it's clear to me from this picture

that this is an artificial structure.

NARRATOR: Did a grandmother in Saskatchewan

accidentally discover physical evidence

of extraterrestrial intervention on Earth?

But if so, how long has it been there?

Who built it?

And what does it mean?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining other geoglyphs that have been discovered

all over the world,

and the strange figures they depict.

NARRATOR: In 1820,

the prominent German mathematician and physicist

Carl Friedrich Gauss

began to explore the possibility

that there are other intelligent beings in our solar system.

He hypothesized that alien life-forms

might be able to view the surface of our planet

through the use of superior technology,

and proposed that we could attempt

to communicate with them

by creating large-scale shapes

and figures in the Earth...

what are known today as geoglyphs.

CARLOTTO: Gauss' idea was simple,

that tracks of forests be planted

in the shape of right triangles

so that at great distances,

patterns of triangles would be visible from space.

He tried to come up with an idea of how we could signal

our existence here down on Earth,

and not just signal,

but to tell 'em that we were intelligent.

So what he devised was to create

this huge geoglyph in Siberia

showing the Pythagorean triangle.

This is something that you can only work out

if you have mathematical knowledge.

So he wanted to convey this knowledge

to these intelligences outside of our own planet.

NARRATOR: More than a century

after Gauss proposed creating figures in the Earth

to communicate with extraterrestrials,

pilots flying over southern Peru in the 1930s discovered

hundreds of giant geoglyphs etched into the desert soil:

the Nazca Lines.

As there is no record of when

or why the Nazca Lines were formed...

or even who made them...

scholars can only guess as to what purpose they served.

But is it possible that these geoglyphs

were created by ancient people

who were doing exactly what Carl Gauss proposed:

attempting to communicate

with beings looking down on Earth from above?

This is a huge area

where these straight lines stretch for many, many miles.

And then effigies such as spiders

and birds and other animals also carved into the landscape.

NARRATOR: It wasn't until the invention of the airplane

that we were able to observe the Nazca Lines

from the vantage point they were designed for.

With the ability to see the Earth from new heights,

more and more geoglyphs were discovered.

And now, with satellite imagery,

it has been revealed that our ancestors

created similar formations all over the world.

SAUNDERS: They've been finding geoglyphs

in Asia, the Middle East, Africa,

North America, South America, Australia,

all over the world they're finding geoglyphs.

NEWMAN: We have earthen geoglyphs

such as Serpent Mound in Ohio.

In England, at Glastonbury, we have the Glastonbury Zodiac,

constellations carved into the landscape.

We also have the Blythe Intaglios

in the western part of America.

So all the geoglyphs all over the world

do suggest that the ancients were using the Earth

as, like, a canvas, but why would they do this?

Were they sending messages up

into the sky for other beings to see?

POPE: It might be a test of some sort,

uh, a code, a puzzle.

Something that we would only recognize

when we had developed powered flight and satellites.

Does it lead to a next step?

HENRY: These massive geoglyphs,

they're not art for art's sake.

They did it for a very specific purpose,

for a purpose of communicating with

and interacting with extraterrestrial beings.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that an extraterrestrial civilization

is monitoring us much like Carl Gauss predicted?

One part of Gauss's hypothesis

that now seems very plausible is the idea

that extraterrestrials may have the technology

to view details on the Earth's surface from great distances.

Could it be they are waiting for the day

when we humans demonstrate the ability to do the same?

That day may be closer than we think,

as scientists are learning

how to view the surfaces of faraway planets

through a process called gravitational lensing.

A regular lens happens 'cause you have a change

in index of refraction, which changes the speed of light.

A gravitational lens literally is curving space itself,

and light now travels that curved path.

What it allows us to do in exploring space

is it will allow us to observe

or look at things we wouldn't otherwise be able to see.

(beeping quietly)

NARRATOR: In 2019,

the Hubble Space Telescope used

a naturally occurring gravitational lens,

a bend in space-time,

in order to capture the light

of a large galaxy cluster in the Leo constellation

that was previously too far away and dim to see.

While Hubble utilized a gravitational lens

that already existed in space,

it is possible that one day we may be able to create our own.

If there was an extraterrestrial civilization

that had that technology and was far enough along

to make a gravitational lens that magnified,

that might allow them to view things, for instance,

on Earth, that you couldn't with just a standard lens.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that extraterrestrials created markers on Earth

that they were capable of seeing

from the far reaches of space?

And did our ancestors then construct their own geoglyphs

in the hopes that the alien visitors would return?

Perhaps a piece of the puzzle can be revealed

by examining geoglyphs of strange humanoid-type beings.

HENRY; At Nazca, we see what appears

to be a humanoid figure wearing a space suit.

At the Blythe Intaglio, we see a very strange, tall,

spindly human being.

Then you have the Atacama Giant

who has these lines coming out on the top of his head.

The Badlands Guardian is unique among all

the geoglyphs we've found around the world.

It's the only one that has a face.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Most of the humanoid geoglyphs

are of a full figure who is looking directly at the sky.

But the Badlands Guardian is different.

He's in profile; it's just his head.

TSOUKALOS: It's a Native American face

and Native Americans lived in that area.

And Native American history is filled

with stories of sky people descending from above.

It's maybe a signal, "Hey",

this is us down here. Come and say hello."

NARRATOR: Is it possible that the geoglyphs of humanoid figures,

and also the Badlands Guardian,

illustrate actual extraterrestrial visitors?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

a nearby site that boasts the greatest concentration

of rock art on the North American Great Plains,

dating back at least 9,000 years.

NARRATOR: Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park, Canada.

Here, less than a hundred miles away

from the Badlands Guardian, is an incredible record

of local Native American traditions.

Thousands of ancient petroglyphs,

images carved into stone,

depict every aspect of life

for the people who lived here centuries ago.

There are ancient calendars,

depictions of animals, humans,

entire battle scenes, and the Blackfoot gods,

who they also refer to as "sky beings."

In various Native American traditions,

we have different spiritual beings located

on these sort of different planes of existence.

And there's a wonderful range

of stories in many, many Native American groups that talk

about some of the adventures and interactions

with these sky people with the humans on Earth.

NARRATOR: For the Blackfoot,

the most prominent of these sky beings

is the one they credit with their creation, Napi.

TSOUKALOS: The creator god of the Blackfoot is called Napi,

and in this petroglyph he can be seen,

what appears to be inside of a disc.

And he's very strange-looking 'cause he's got four fingers,

he's got sort of an elongated skull.

(indistinct chanting)

HENRY: The Blackfoot tell

a really interesting creation myth about Napi.

They tell how he came to Earth and created various animals

and-and other creatures.

And then one day he decided to form

a living human being out of clay.

And then he goes and leaves the Blackfoot alone...

...but he promises that he's going to return.

(horse snorting)

NARRATOR: The Blackfoot regard Napi

not as mythological, but as a real being

who descended from the heavens.

So the Star People in Native American traditions

are beings who came from the cosmos

and taught the arts of civilization,

agriculture, medicine, healing,

and they brought maps of the cosmos to Earth.

Throughout especially the western part of America,

we find petroglyph or rock art

that portrays what appear to be star beings.

People can look at this art and say,

"That's a depiction of an extraterrestrial."

And this is one way that the First Nations people

recorded their interactions with the Star People.

NARRATOR: Could this petroglyph of Napi

be a depiction of a being

that the ancient Blackfoot encountered

coming down from the sky?

And might this provide further evidence

that the local indigenous populations

were visited by extraterrestrials?

Ancient Astronaut theorists say, yes,

and believe the Badlands Guardian may reveal

how the ancients communicated

with these otherworldly visitors.

HAAS: Now, the headdress that he wears

is called a medicine hat, uh, which...

it's not a chief's regalia that you would see

with all the feathers going down that a chief would wear.

What a medicine hat entails

is it incorporates the tail feathers of an eagle.

And these are normally worn by, uh, the medicine man.

YOUNG: The medicine man... this is a wisdom figure,

a combination of professor, doctor and priest

all in one person.

The hat is what we tend to call a headdress.

The shamanic, ceremonial leader uses that

to make contact with invisible dimensions,

often thought of as upper worlds,

in which contact is made with spirits, gods,

energy that is beyond our understanding.

The fact that he's wearing a medicine hat

that acts as a antenna tells us that this is a figure who was

in communication with otherworldly beings,

maybe even the Star People.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials communicated

with the ancient Blackfoot Indians,

is it possible that they imparted the knowledge

and technology to construct the Badlands Guardian?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that not only did extraterrestrials

visit people living in the Alberta Badlands

in the distant past,

but that they continue to visit the region to this very day.

Certain areas of the world are hotbeds of UFO activity.

And, in fact, Alberta, Canada, is one of these hotbeds.

There's constantly UFO sightings in the day and night,

and there's quite a few photos and films that can be seen.

In 2009 alone, there were over 150 reported sightings

of UFOs in Alberta.

One of the most famous UFO sightings in that area

happened in 1967

when a person named Warren Smith and two of his friends

were out walking in this area,

and in broad daylight, they then saw

a silvery, disc-shaped UFO hovering around the trees.

The witnesses took their photos,

and then, finally, the UFO vanished.

HENRY: Warren Smith's photos

of this craft as it was lifting into the sky

were analyzed by the Photo Interpretation Center.

The experts there determined that the photos were real

and that it matched the description

of what he said he saw,

suggesting that this was a genuine experience

and that these were, in fact, genuine photos of a craft.

The area where Warren Smith took the photos isn't far

from where the Badlands Guardian is located.

Does this suggest that aliens

have a continuing interest in this area?

CHILDRESS: With all of this UFO activity in Alberta,

and it's in the vicinity of the Badlands Guardian,

you have to wonder if this area isn't some portal

or inter-dimensional spot

where UFOs are coming and going.

And you have to wonder if it's something to do

with the Badlands Guardian.

NARRATOR: Does the Badlands Guardian

represent a medicine man

who communicated with the Star People?

Or could it be depicting a star being,

one who taught the indigenous people of the region

a means of communicating with extraterrestrials?

Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found

only by forensically examining the Badlands Guardian

and taking a closer look

at the shape of the figure's head.

NARRATOR: Los Angeles, California.

February 2019.

Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos is meeting up

with forensic 3-D artist Marcia Moore.

- Marcia. Pleasure to meet you. - Nice to meet you.

- How are you? Okay. - Come on in.

Wow, look at this space.

NARRATOR: Since learning about the Badlands Guardian,

Marcia has been working

to reconstruct it digitally

to see what it would look like as a three-dimensional head

and perhaps provide further clues

as to who or what it was modeled after.

- Pull up a chair. - Great.

- And we'll discuss this guardian. - Uh-huh.

So, you've taken this,

and clearly you've seen the face

and decided to recreate the face.

-Absolutely. -Okay.

And what did you come up with?

Well, the first step for me

is to just take a look at the terrain.

I think, honestly, the whole aerial view when you look at it,

there's a whole storyboard of information going on here.

But we're focusing on this face because this is very prominent.

So, you can tell

we've got a neck area that's rather extended.

Some feathers,

and then, also, this elongation

that's forming around this headdress.

TSOUKALOS: Mm-hmm.

- All right, go on. - From there, I created

a 3-D sculpture.

I'm starting with just a normal-sized head.

So, I will overlay the aerial view,

and I'm going to create layers.

And I'm actually just following the terrain.

I'm creating this long neck,

and I'm creating this elongated head.

And here we have it. This is the sculpture.

Everything in 3-D is mirrored on the other side,

- so as we turn this around... - Right.

And this is what he would like if that thing on the ground

- were a person. - Absolutely.

TSOUKALOS: Yeah, that's pretty awesome.

MOORE: You know, after the buildup of the 3-D sculpture,

I made a digital piece of artwork

that will flesh this entity out.

Mm-hmm.

TSOUKALOS: That looks great.

You know, I think it's really cool

that you've kind of pointed out the elongation of the skull.

This whole phenomenon

of elongated skulls exists worldwide.

Not only do we have these shapes in this geographic area,

but also, for example, in South America,

in Peru, but also in Europe,

in the Hittite region, present-day Turkey,

all with these long skulls.

NARRATOR: Around the world,

ancient skulls have been found that are thin,

long and misshapen.

In addition to the skulls,

there are many ancient depictions of historical figures

with extra large, elongated heads.

HENRY: What's controversial about the elongated skulls

is that their cranial capacity is greater than a normal human.

So these may not be cases of cranial deformation.

These could be examples

of a whole subspecies of humanity.

TSOUKALOS: Worldwide, we have these people

in depictions wearing these long headdresses,

and sometimes you even see pictures,

especially in ancient Egypt,

where you see the same figures without the headdress,

and guess what? They have elongated skulls.

So, you have to ask yourself,

why is there a, uh...

a figure coming out of the terrain that has, to me,

seems like an elongated shaped head.

TSOUKALOS: The idea is

that Earth was visited by extraterrestrials

a long time ago.

And one of my opinions is

that the elongated skull people were the actual visitors,

and the skeletons that are found today are some

of the few remnants

of the people that were here a long time ago,

clearly people that looked like us

except for that they had an elongated skull.

So, that, to me, is fascinating.

Marcia, thank you so much for sharing your work with me.

You've given me a lot to think about, so thank you.

- Thank you. - Appreciate it. All right, take care. Bye-bye.

NARRATOR: Does the three-dimensional reconstruction

of the Badlands Guardian point to the possibility

that it was not only built to be seen by visitors from the sky,

but that it may even be a representation

of an extraterrestrial?

Could this be the face of the being

the Blackfoot people identify as their creator god, Napi?

Perhaps the answers can be found

by examining yet another geoglyph

that resembles a human face...

on Mars.

NARRATOR: July 19, 1976.

A NASA spacecraft named Viking 1 enters

into orbit above Mars.

Just six days later,

it takes a photograph of the Red Planet

that is so extraordinary

it immediately seizes the public imagination.

In the summer of 1976,

NASA announced that they had found a face on Mars.

Now, NASA was the original group of scientists

to label the face on Mars a head...

it was actually in their file...

and they said that they had found this formation on Mars

that looked like a face.

However, just a few days later,

they had a second press conference,

and they said that they had taken

a second image, days later, and it...

they found that it was just a trick of light and shadow

and there was nothing there.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the image

of a giant face on the Martian surface

is actually an artificial structure,

a physical record that someone,

or something, has been there?

Perhaps a clue can be found by comparing the Face on Mars

with the Badlands Guardian.

CARLOTTO: So, the face is about a mile wide

and about a mile and two-thirds long.

The Face on Mars is larger than the Badlands Guardian,

but the Badlands Guardian is large enough

that you can still see it in satellite imagery.

NARRATOR: To determine if the face

was created by natural means,

imaging expert Mark Carlotto conducted a scientific analysis

of the Martian structure.

All right, so, in this overview,

we see the Face on Mars in the middle.

One of the tests that was done

on the Face of Mars was to assess

whether it was an artificial or a natural object.

We applied a technique called fractal, uh, analysis

to model the background terrain locally.

We have a filter that basically computes a little fractal model

as it moves over the image.

And we see, if we go back and forth here

to the original image

and now the output of the fractal model,

fractal filter, the face has a very high response.

And this was a very, uh,

unexpected result, uh, at the time.

And the fractal technique found

that it doesn't just look like a face

but it actually is, statistically,

in terms of the structure,

different from the surrounding landforms.

One criticism of this formation is

that, in more recent images,

the impression of a face is much less evident.

The structure appears much more highly eroded.

But if it is an ancient feature,

you would expect erosion would have taken its toll

over the course of time.

If we flip it back and forth,

there's a very high degree of correspondence

between the left and the right side, making it

a highly bisymmetrical object.

Bisymmetry would imply an artificial, uh, construction,

'cause nature would have to conspire quite a bit

to create something that's not only face-like but bisymmetrical

and possessing all the detail that the Face on Mars possesses.

The other interesting thing about the Face on Mars

is that NASA has taken, over the last 25, 30 years,

over 40 images of the Face on Mars,

a formation that they say they have no interest in.

NARRATOR: If the Face on Mars is, in fact,

a fabricated structure, who built it?

Does it have a connection to the giant face

recently discovered in Canada

and perhaps other structures around the globe

that were made to be seen from the sky?

Curiously,

many who have examined the Face on Mars have observed

that the area surrounding it seems to point

to a connection to one specific place on Earth,

Egypt.

HENRY: Something extraordinary happened

when we started taking pictures of the surface of Mars.

We saw what appeared to be pyramids on the surface of Mars.

It's mind-blowing,

because these match the pyramids of ancient Egypt.

Is there a connection between Mars and Egypt?

Well, indeed, there is.

The city of Cairo

was originally called al-Qahirah, which meant

"City of Mars" or "the Victorious."

The Egyptians referred to the Sphinx

as Ra-Horakhty,

which means "Place of the Horizon,"

which is the very same name that they gave to Mars.

So there seems to be a-a deep-embedded memory

in ancient Egypt of a correspondence or a connection

between Egyptian civilization

and one that might have been on Mars.

POPE: If we are dealing with something

extraterrestrial in origin,

then the-the Egyptian connection

is very telling,

because many, many speculations

about the extraterrestrial links with ancient Egypt.

NARRATOR: But if there is a connection

between the Cydonia region of Mars and ancient Egypt,

what is the significance?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

further clues can be found

by taking a closer look at the Badlands Guardian

and the famous ruler it's thought to depict.

CHILDRESS: The Badlands Guardian

is very similar

to the statues of Akhenaten,

the renegade Egyptian pharaoh.

He and Nefertiti and their children

all had elongated heads,

as we see all around the world

and is often associated with extraterrestrials.

When you put an image of the Egyptian pharaoh, Akhenaten,

beside the image of the Badlands Guardian,

they're virtually identical.

When you do the "A" to "B" comparison,

they both have this long neck, this very elongated face.

And Akhenaten, of course,

is the great mystic pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

Ancient astronaut theorists believe

that he might have extraterrestrial connections.

Akhenaten claimed that he was in contact

with a celestial disk he referred to as the Aten.

In fact, he taught the Egyptians to no longer worship

the whole pantheon of over 360 deities

and to only worship the Aten.

And given the fact that his mummy has disappeared

only adds to the mystery.

Is this, in fact, a human being we're looking at

or could this possibly be a representation

of some other type of a being,

maybe an extraterrestrial, even?

NARRATOR: If the Badlands Guardian

is a representation not of a Native American

but of an extraterrestrial known in Egypt as Akhenaten,

could it bring us closer to solving a puzzle

whose pieces are scattered all over the world

and even on other planets?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest

that a much more recent discovery on Mars

provides yet another piece

that may finally complete the puzzle.

NARRATOR: Waterford, Virginia.

2017.

Cydonia Institute researcher George Haas

is combing through satellite images of Mars

when he spies a discernible shape.

It appears to be the image of another face.

Unlike the original so-called Face on Mars

discovered in 1976,

this face appears in profile,

similar to that of the Badlands Guardian.

HAAS: So, in this area

called Utopia,

in a huge impact crater,

is the profile face

that has a beard, a mustache,

and he's wearing a helmet that has an avian headdress.

When the bearded profile on Mars

is compared to the Badlands Guardian,

we see the same type of profile.

Both incorporate avian iconography.

One has a headdress of feathers.

The other one is wearing a headdress

that incorporates an entire bird.

I think the culture that produced these formations

on Mars had a direct relationship to the human race.

NARRATOR: Is an ancient story

being told through geoglyphs that exist both on Earth

and on our closest neighboring planet?

And, if so,

what happened to those responsible for writing it?

CHILDRESS: Perhaps civilization on Mars was destroyed.

Or, perhaps,

civilization began on Mars

and then moved to Earth.

Earth was, in a sense, seeded by a Martian civilization,

and that is why we have

similar structures on Mars and on planet Earth.

COLLINS: So, with the discovery of the Face on Mars,

is it possible

that it's acting as a clue,

it's telling us

that, somewhere here, is evidence

of a lost civilization

that existed on the Red Planet

perhaps millions of years ago?

That's a very tantalizing possibility,

and it's one that I know

that every scientist going to Mars

wants to answer.

HAAS: Maybe these geoglyphs

were all part of some global memorial

that was built by some unknown extraterrestrial culture

that, uh, has to do with, uh, human origins

and is telling the story of where we came from

and possibly where we may be going.

HENRY: You have to ask, is there something in common

between the people that were making these geoglyphs,

and the answer is, is that they all have similar stories

in these earthly civilizations.

They're in contact with star beings,

celestial beings that came to Earth

and are assisting humanity.

They lived with us, they interacted with us.

Then they left.

NARRATOR: But is it possible

that not all of the communications we're receiving

from these otherworldly beings are in the form of geoglyphs?

Could crop circles, for instance,

be more recent examples

of a type of extraterrestrial dialogue?

CARLOTTO: If you bring crop circles into the mix,

there are some very sophisticated crop circles

that also indicate, uh, knowledge of fractal geometry.

There could be a message.

They might be communicating with us,

and we might, perhaps, want to communicate with them.

CHILDRESS: It's possible that many of these geoglyphs,

much like crop circles that appear every summer,

might give us clues to our past

and to our destiny.

TSOUKALOS: The fact of the matter is

that we have geoglyphs worldwide.

And with the improvement of our technology,

who knows what else we'll discover

in the next five to ten years?

We are entering a new era of discovery,

and I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings.

NARRATOR: As we send more spacecrafts to Mars,

will we continue to uncover evidence

of an alien civilization

that could have lived there centuries ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and believe that the human race is getting

very close to the day when it will unlock

what they believe to be an alien code

and find a means of direct communication,

a living link between mankind's past

and its extraterrestrial future.