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NARRATOR:
Hidden portals

to alternate realms
and timelines,

rare glimpses of rifts
in the fabric of space-time,

and extraordinary encounters

with time travelers
from the future.

For nearly two decades,

Ancient Aliens
has traveled the globe,

exploring towering
megalithic structures,

mysterious artifacts,

and stories
of otherworldly beings

in a quest for evidence
that might reveal the truth

of our extraterrestrial origins.

It's fascinating
to contemplate that

we're destined not just
to become space travelers

but time travelers, too.

NARRATOR:
Now we take a look back

through the Ancient Aliens
archives

to the show's very origins

to examine the evidence
that we are not alone.

We have never been alone.

♪ ♪

In most of the Western world,
we conceive of time

as a straight line
of past, present and future,

but in many cultures
they think of time as a plane

in which you can move
backwards and forwards.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Yeah, we have this in many

Eastern traditions,

and the Mayans
believed in this, too.

And they described
otherworldly beings

coming from different points
in the universe

and from different points
in time.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Well, Albert Einstein

proved theoretically
that time travel is possible.

We talked about this

in a 2012 episode
of Ancient Aliens

called "The Time Travelers."

NARRATOR: Bern, Switzerland,
September 26, 1905.

Albert Einstein publishes

his special theory
on relativity.

According to his astonishing
scientific breakthrough,

space and time are one.

RONALD L. MALLETT:
In the old theory of Newton,

space was a rigid container

and time was an absolute flow.

In Einstein's theory,
this was revolutionized.

Space now became
a flexible medium,

and time now could be altered.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
Einstein realized
that if you move faster,

the ticks on your clock
actually change.

Prior to Einstein,
no one understood that

or would even have expected that

because it only happens

when you get very, very close
to the speed of light.

SARA SEAGER:
There is a way
within the laws of physics

to travel long distances
and still be alive.

And that actually is related
to special relativity

and the idea that

if you can travel very,
very close

to the speed of light,
time will slow down for you.

And in this sense,
if you could travel

very near the speed of light,
only a day or two would pass

instead of the whole four years.

NARRATOR:
January 30, 1933,

Berlin, Germany.

Adolf Hitler
and his Nazi Party take power,

and Albert Einstein flees
to the United States.

Fearing Hitler's rise to power,
he warns the U.S. and the world

of terrible dangers
posed to humanity,

especially if Nazis were
to acquire advanced technology.

But by revealing to the world
his breakthrough theories,

might Einstein have
accidentally helped the Nazis

build a time machine?

Southwest Poland,
the Owl Mountains.

Here, concealed
under rolling hills,

were seven underground complexes

built for a top secret
Nazi program

called Die Glocke.

Some researchers believe

it was in these
covert facilities,

between 1943 and 1945,

that Third Reich scientists

carried out
clandestine experiments

in an effort to win
World War II.

JIM MARRS:
They were developing
lots of exotic things.

They were in charge of the V-1,
the V-2 rocket programs.

But then I think the culmination
of their experimentation

was with Die Glocke,
or "The Bell,"

and they called it that
because it was bell-shaped.

MIKE BARA:
And what this appeared to be
was some sort of device

that had very, very powerful,

rapidly rotating,
energetic magnetic fields.

And there are thoughts that this
basically was a time machine.

That the idea was
that you would be able

to move back and forth in time,

change history,

change certain events,
and create a new timeline

and a new reality.

NARRATOR:
The existence of the mysterious
bell-shaped device,

measuring nine feet wide
and 12 feet tall,

was first exposed
by the high-ranking Nazi general

Jakob Sporrenberg
while being interrogated

by Polish authorities
after the war.

But when the Allies
eventually captured

the German research center,
neither the Nazi Bell

nor its project commander
Hans Kammler

could be found.

BARA:
Hans Kammler was in charge

of all the super-secret
Nazi technology,

and this guy
just disappears after the war.

In fact, there are four
official versions of his death.

So nobody really knows
how he died, when he died,

if he died, where he went,
or what happened.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that the German military

was experimenting
with time travel technology?

And if so, might the Nazi Bell

have actually traveled
to the future?

December 9, 1965.

Thousands witness
a brilliant fireball

flash across the sky

before crashing
in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania,

30 miles southeast
of Pittsburgh.

MARRS:
The military was immediately
on the scene,

grabbed everything up,
and then said nothing happened.

The thing that intrigues me
about the Kecksburg crash

is the description
of the object.

Unlike most
of the flying saucers

you hear about,
this one was bulbous.

It has been described
like an acorn,

or what I could see
is kind of something

that resembled the Nazi Bell.

NARRATOR:
Might the object
that crashed at Kecksburg

have been
the long-lost Nazi Bell

that disappeared
20 years earlier?

And is it possible
that German scientists

had discovered a way
to transport humans

from one time and place
to another,

as some researchers believe?

If so, did they use
Einstein's theories

to create
their own time machine?

Or might their inspiration
have been perhaps more divine?

Tibet, May 1938.

While on an expedition
through the northeast region

of the Himalayan mountains,

Nazi officials
searching for the origins

of the Aryan, or master race,

instead discover
the Buddhist teachings

known as the Kalachakra.

In the Buddhist tradition,
there is the notion of samsara,

or the wheel of time.

In the Kalachakra initiation,

the teaching
is to understand time,

particularly biological time...

...calendar time,
and astrological time,

and how those things
actually influence you.

(monks chanting)

PHILIP COPPENS:
And so, what the discipline

of Kalachakra is telling us
is that whereas

we seem to see time as linear,
this is not the case,

that time is somehow cyclical

and that we can somehow
master this and control time.

Throughout the Buddhist world,

the Buddhists build, uh,
what they call stupas.

And they look very much
like the Nazi Bell.

COPPENS:
The stupas-- it is sensed
that we can use this shape

to somehow connect
with the gods.

Now, when we put the practice
of Kalachakra on this,

what we are talking about
is somehow a practice

of transcending time.

BARHAM:
The Kalachakra teaching

gives individuals
actual practices and techniques

to be able to step
outside of time

and to be able to move in time.

So it's entirely possible

that the Nazis
were looking for secrets

on how to travel in time.

NARRATOR:
Is it really possible
that the Nazis unlocked

the secrets of time travel

during their expedition
in Tibet?

And if so, might the early
teachings of the Kalachakra

be evidence that
ancient Tibetan Buddhist monks

had knowledge of time travel
thousands of years ago,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

Perhaps the answer can be found
in the legends and rituals

of an ancient civilization
in New Mexico.

One place that's
always fascinated me

is Chaco Canyon

in the desert of New Mexico.

And it is built with
very precise geometry

and was built by the Anasazi

-over a thousand years ago.
-HENRY: Right.

And according to
Native American tradition,

this is the place where
the Anasazi went to contact

star people who could traverse
space and time.

Yeah, I mean,
I visited Chaco Canyon in 2012,

and I saw some of the most
amazing petroglyphs

featuring these very strange
humanoid figures.

And many Native Americans
today claim

that these carvings
are representations

of the so-called "star people."

(hawk screeches)

NARRATOR:
Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.

In a remote desert region

150 miles northwest
of Albuquerque

lie the mysterious ruins
of an ancient Pueblo people.

Called the Anasazi,

they thrived
from 900 to 1100 AD.

TSOUKALOS:
This is the plaza
of Pueblo Bonito.

This is a representation
of our place in the universe.

You've got the worlds above,
the worlds below,

and this right here
is our plane of our world.

This is the exact place
where time and space began

for the ancestral Puebloans
who inhabited this place

hundreds and hundreds
of years ago.

NARRATOR:
Scholars believe the Anasazi,
or "ancient ones,"

built their civilization
with advanced knowledge

of engineering,
mathematics and astronomy.

SEAN-DAVID MORTON:
Somehow, someway,
they built a city

that is perfectly circular,

that goes out
in perfectly straight lines,

that the structures of the city
themselves actually predict

the 5,200-year cycle of the Moon
and cycles of the Sun,

all in the geometry.

All in the stone, if you will.

MARSHALL KLARFIELD:
These are very
elaborate constructions

which required
engineering skills beyond

what the local folks had.

And it had to be done
by an advanced civilization.

RED STAR:
The Anasazi built Chaco Canyon.

And they built it as part
of a promise of a way of living.

That they were to uphold
the wishes of the Creator.

And so, Chaco Canyon is
the delivery of the teachings.

The teachings came
from the star people.

NARRATOR:
But how did these ancient people

engineer such
elaborate structures

without modern machinery?

And just who were
the star people

who brought knowledge
to the Anasazi?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answers can be found

by looking
at the ancient rituals

and myths of Chaco Canyon.

According to local legends,

the Anasazi believed
in a multidimensional existence

and practiced sacred rituals
called crystal stargazing,

ceremonies believed by some
to enable time travel.

RED STAR:
If you go up into the cliff
dwellings of the Anasazi,

there are elaborate star maps
up in those caves.

And that's where the crystal
stargazing ceremonies

took place,

where they had the ability
to traverse space and time.

COPPENS:
What we're seeing
within this area

are people who basically say
that they somehow emerged

out of a different dimension
onto this place.

And they say that this for them
is a place of emergence.

They say that they interacted

with mysterious creatures.

NARRATOR:
Did the Anasazi really believe

in interdimensional time travel,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

If so, might they have
left behind

tangible evidence
of otherworldly contact?

I'm standing in front
of the petroglyphs at Una Vida.

And they're very amazing
as you can tell.

With animal life,

but there's also some very
weird creatures standing there--

humanoid figures--
and one guy is holding

what, to me,
looks like a representation

of a spiral galaxy.

Native Americans were very aware
of our place in the universe,

that we were part
of a giant spiral galaxy.

RED STAR:
The spiral symbol,

the one that you see
on the walls,

is a connection
between the Anasazi

and the extraterrestrials.

They had contact.

And they either came with them
or they either left with them.

We just don't know.

But it's a bridge that existed

between the Anasazi
and the star people.

TSOUKALOS:
Four very interesting

humanoid petroglyphs
have been found,

one of which hovers above
the other three humanoids

with antennae
sprouting out of its head.

Some have suggested
that this is a depiction

of the ancient Ant People

that emerged to essentially
jump-start human civilization.

NARRATOR:
According to the legends
of the Hopi,

a Native American tribe

believed to be the descendants
of the Anasazi,

the Ant People saved them

from the first destruction
of the universe.

HENRY:
The Ant People are described

as very special cosmic visitors,

maybe even star beings,
extraterrestrials

who rescued them
from this cataclysm

by taking them underground.

What's interesting about this
is that in ancient Sumeria,

they tell of beings
called the Anunnaki

who also came from the stars.

The Hopi word "anu" means "ant,"

and the word "naki"
means "friend."

Is it possible that the Anunnaki

are the ant friends
or Ant People

that the Hopi were describing?

NARRATOR:
Did the Anunnaki
of ancient Sumeria

also appear here in Chaco Canyon
thousands of years ago,

as many ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

Perhaps the answer can be found

in the local legend
of the Wingmakers.

1972.

A group of hikers
exploring a system

of hidden caverns
in Chaco Canyon

discovered wall paintings
and even cuneiform writing

similar to those found
on Sumerian artifacts.

After careful analysis,

ancient astronaut theorists
suggest that the caverns

were originally
inhabited by beings

visiting from the future
called the Wingmakers.

CHILDRESS:
The Wingmakers were,
they claimed,

humans-- and in a sense,

extraterrestrials--
from 300 years in the future.

And they were using Chaco Canyon

as their base for this time zone

where they were coming
from the future

into our present time.

RED STAR:
My belief is that yes,

the Wingmakers
were the culture bearers

bringing us a look
at what our future was,

which was mathematics,

it was science, it was art,
it was cultivation.

NARRATOR:
Might there be truth
to the story

of the time-traveling Wingmakers
at Chaco Canyon?

And if so, is it possible

the Wingmakers
were actually alien visitors?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest the evidence
still lies in Chaco Canyon.

TSOUKALOS:
This is a kiva.

A kiva was known to be
the most sacred of places

where ceremonies took place
with the ancestral Puebloans

when they talked
about the cosmos--

the universe--
and our place in the universe.

NARRATOR:
Mainstream archaeologists
believe the kivas

were once covered
with timber to make a roof.

But strangely, some Hopi legends

refer to this circular structure
as a "cloud house."

What if these cloud houses
were nothing else

but biodomes, or biospheres,
made of nuts and bolts?

It is interesting
that biospheres today

look as if people are living
sort of sunk into the ground

with a giant dome over it,

and here we have
something very similar.

So the question is,
why would anybody do this?

And according
to the ancient myths,

they were witness
to an incredible event

that had something to do
with ancient aliens...

...and to them,
it was a divine encounter.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that alien beings inhabited

biospheres in Chaco Canyon,

like those
our own scientists envision

for future use on other planets?

And might they have traveled
here not in spacecraft

but through an interdimensional
space-time portal?

But if so,
where did they come from?

Perhaps answers can be found
halfway around the world

in the ancient Indian text
of the Mahabharata.

NARRATOR:
The Mahabharata.

In this sacred Indian text

written
in the eighth century BC,

King Raivata
is described as traveling

to the heavens to meet
with the creator god Brahma.

Only to return to Earth
hundreds of years in the future.

Some researchers believe
this Hindu tale

may be one of the oldest records

of successful time travel
in the ancient past.

CHILDRESS:
There's the story
of, uh, a king called Raivata,

and he is taken into space
to see the gods.

And when he returns
to the Earth,

he finds that
many ages have gone by

and it's been hundreds of years.

And this is the kind of thing
that would happen

to space travelers
and in time travel as well.

You think you're gone
for only a few days,

but when you return to Earth,
you find out

that you've been gone
for hundreds of years.

NARRATOR:
Like the legend of Chaco Canyon,

similar tales of time travel
can be found

all around the ancient world.

In Japan,
the legend of Urashima Taro

details a fisherman's visit
to the protector god of the sea,

Ryujin, in an underwater palace

for what seemed
like only three days.

When he returns
to his fishing village,

he finds that it's been
300 years that he's been gone.

And his house is in ruins,
everybody he knows is long dead,

no one remembers him
or his family.

NARRATOR:
And in the Hebrew Bible,

descriptions of the prophet
Jeremiah in Jerusalem

are eerily similar to both of
these accounts of time travel.

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN:
Even in the Bible,
the prophet Jeremiah

was sitting together
with a few of his friends,

and there was a young boy.
His name was Abimelech.

And Jeremiah said to Abimelech,

"Go out of Jerusalem,
there is a hill,

and collect some figs for us."

The boy went out
and collected the fresh figs.

All of a sudden, Abimelech hears
some noise and wind in the airs,

and he'd become unconscious,
he had a blackout.

After a time, he wakes up again,

and he saw
it was nearly the evening.

So he runs back to the society,

and the city was full
of strange soldiers.

And he said,
"What's going on here?

Where is Jeremiah
and all the others?"

And an old man said,
"That was 62 years ago."

It's a time travel story
written in the Bible.

NARRATOR:
Southern Egypt. Agilkia Island.

Here, just six miles
upstream from Aswan

in the Nile River Valley,
lies the Temple of Isis.

Built in the fourth century BC,

the temple was a center of
worship for the Egyptian goddess

of fertility and nature
until the sixth century AD.

Isis became
the most important deity

which ancient Egypt ever had.

She was married
to her brother Osiris,

and together they really became
the popular husband and wife

which everybody wanted
to be like.

She is seen as a symbol of life,
whereas Osiris is seen

as the deity
who rules over the dead.

And so, whether you are alive
or whether you're dead,

you can always identify
with Isis and Osiris.

NARRATOR:
According to ancient
Egyptian religious belief,

the goddess Isis was known
as the divine mother

and believed to be the soul of
the brightest star in the sky,

Sirius.

BARA:
To the ancient Egyptians,
Osiris was Orion.

That constellation actually
was a literal living embodiment

of the great god Osiris.

Sirius was the representation

of his wife, sister
and consort Isis.

Together,
those two essentially ruled

the skies and the life of
the Egyptian people themselves.

CHILDRESS:
Many ancient cultures,
including the Egyptians,

Chinese, the Greeks,
the Japanese,

all had beliefs and legends that

our gods who created us
have come from Sirius.

And this star--
extremely important star

to almost all ancient cultures.

This knowledge
originally emerged

in ancient Egypt and in Africa
with the Dogon tribe...

...who taught that beings
of light came from Sirius

and created humankind.

COPPENS:
It is clear that
so many cultures

possessed information
about Sirius,

and they single out Sirius
apart from everything else,

and it's got nothing to do
with its brightness.

It has to do with the fact
that somehow

Sirius is responsible

for sending us emissaries
who educate us.

NARRATOR:
Could the Sirius star system
really be the point of origin

for the gods of ancient man?

Or was it, in fact,
the place of origin

for extraterrestrial
time travelers,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

According to astronomers,

Sirius is approximately
8.5 light-years away from Earth,

an incredibly vast distance.

SETH SHOSTAK:
A light-year is about,
hmm, six trillion miles,

so it's quite a ways to Sirius.

Our best rockets go
about seven miles a second.

So that's pretty fast,
but even at that speed,

to get to Sirius would take
about 200,000 years.

SEAGER:
So far, the farthest humans
have traveled is the Moon,

at about 250,000 miles away.

Our next step
will be Mars someday.

But even that is a huge,
huge stretch for humans.

Six-month trip to Mars

and just being able to survive
there without oxygen

and the things we usually have
around us is a huge challenge.

The distances are too vast,
and our technology is just

nowhere at the level
of being able to do that.

We got to the Moon,
and that's as far as we got.

That's not to say
that another civilization

couldn't have done that.
It's just, on Earth,

we just don't have
the technology to do that.

NARRATOR:
What if interstellar distances
were too great,

even for advanced
extraterrestrial beings?

Or might their level
of technical sophistication

be beyond our wildest dreams?

Simply because
it is impossible to us

doesn't mean it's impossible
for everybody.

And definitely, when
it comes to beings out there

who are able to transcend
this boundary of time,

it is clear that
they are not subject to time

in the way we are subject to it.

NARRATOR:
Do some of the ancient myths
and legends provide proof

of successful
intergalactic time travel,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

If so, might time travel have
allowed passage for alien beings

as well as humans
to and from our world?

Perhaps the answers
can be found in a laboratory

deep underground
in Geneva, Switzerland.

As far as we know, time travel
only exists in science fiction,

but we also know that there are
physicists working today

on creating a time machine.

Right, and you have to imagine
that, if we're working on this

right now, an advanced ET race

could have already developed
time travel technology.

Yeah, I suppose
time travel is possible,

but on my way here
in my DeLorean,

I got it up to 88 miles an hour,

-and here I am,
still in the present.
-(laughs)

NARRATOR:
Storrs, Connecticut.

January 2012.

In a lab at the
University of Connecticut,

theoretical physicist
Ronald Mallett

demonstrates his large-scale
model of a time machine.

Using a device
called a ring laser

that produces
a circulating beam of light,

the professor hopes to prove
that the twisting light

actually bends space,
forming a loop in time.

MALLETT:
Now, what's happening here

is that these lasers,
even though you can't see it,

they're actually creating
a circulating pattern of light.

And that circulating
pattern of light

is actually twisting
the empty space in here.

The twisting of space
will eventually lead

to a twisting of time.

In Einstein's theory,
the two are connected.

And that twisting of time will
be where time travel's occurring

because if you think of time
as being a straight line,

then if we twist space,
then what will happen eventually

is that the space
will twist time into a loop.

So, breakthrough
of my work was to use light

to manipulate time.

And that should allow
for the possibility

of going back in time
using light.

NARRATOR:
Although this is only
a prototype,

Mallett believes
he may be able to create

a working time machine
in as little as ten years.

He believes
the energy of the light beams

will produce
a gravitational field

strong enough to drag
a spinning neutron through time.

Let's say I'll call
the spin-up a one.

And I'll call spin-down a zero.

So, imagine
I send a stream of neutrons

with spin-up, spin-up,
spin-down.

Spin-up. What do you call that?
That's binary code.

So, by using
the spin of neutrons,

I can send a binary code,

which could be translated
into a message.

NARRATOR:
But could this technology
ultimately be able to send

larger objects through time,
like a person or a spacecraft?

Einstein's theory of relativity
allowed for something

called the
Einstein-Rosen bridge,

which is what we today
call a wormhole.

It opened up the possibility
that we can travel

from point A on Earth to point B
somewhere else in the universe

as if there were nothing
in between.

NARRATOR:
If the possibility exists
to travel instantly from one end

of the universe to another
through wormholes,

might there be evidence
that such technology

was used in the ancient past?

The ancient Egyptians knew about
stargate and wormhole travel.

The evidence
that I discovered is

at the Temple of Hathor
at Dendera.

When you enter into this temple,
you look up on the ceiling,

which is called
the astronomical ceiling,

and you see the gods
as ascended light beings

traveling on their ships
of eternity.

And it suggests to me
that the ancients didn't use

the term "wormhole"
for these time travel portals

but were clearly talking
about the same thing.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

that advanced celestial beings

traveled in time through
wormholes on their way to Earth?

Or might they have possessed

an even more advanced
time travel technology,

perhaps based on the complex
science of quantum physics?

Geneva, Switzerland.

300 feet underground,

in a tunnel more than 16 miles
in circumference,

lies the world's greatest
particle accelerator,

the Large Hadron Collider.

Completed in 2008

by the European Organization
for Nuclear Research,

also known as CERN,

the massive
international project

may allow scientists to solve
outstanding scientific mysteries

concerning the creation
of the universe.

DENNIN:
The Large Hadron Collider
is a machine we use in science

to study how particles
smaller than an atom behave.

The Large Hadron Collider
is based on the principle

of accelerating protons,
which are

one of the key elements
of the nucleus of an atom.

And you want to accelerate them
up to very, very high speeds,

basically in a circular motion,

and collide two beams that are
moving in opposite directions.

When you make this collision
of the particles,

you get a large number
of product particles out,

just like when you collide
any two objects,

they smash
and break into pieces,

the protons break into pieces.

And it allows us to study

the fundamental particles
that make up all of matter.

NARRATOR:
On December 13, 2011,

scientists working with
the Large Hadron Collider

announced their findings
of possible evidence

for the existence
of the Higgs boson,

or what some refer to
as the "God particle."

MALLETT:
A number of physicists have
discovered that there is a link

between the four forces
of nature that we believe exist.

And you might say the glue
that holds these together,

we believe,
is this Higgs particle.

It gives particles their mass,

and it also is the thing
that helps to bind the forces,

so discovering this God particle

is a way of understanding

the possible unification
of the forces of nature.

NARRATOR:
Some scientists believe
the discovery

of the so-called God particle

may lead to the creation
of the Higgs singlet...

...a particle believed
to possess the ability

to jump into another dimension,

move forward
or backward in time,

and appear
in the future or past.

In other words, it would
make time travel possible.

SEAGER: We live in
a three-dimensional world,

and sometimes people consider
time a fourth dimension.

But some theories in physics--
string theory--

predict that there are
many, many more dimensions.

Ten or 11 dimensions altogether.

Only these dimensions
are not accessible to us.

We don't see them.

Now, these dimensions are tiny,

subatomic, smaller than
particles inside of an atom.

And if you could somehow travel
along these other dimensions,

it would take you
somewhere else entirely.

NARRATOR:
Could other dimensions
really exist

that we are not yet able
to perceive?

If so, might advanced beings

from a distant galaxy have
already mastered and utilized

the God particle to visit Earth,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

TSOUKALOS:
If you place
a picture side by side

of the Hadron Collider
and the Aztec calendar,

there's an eerie similarity
between the two.

The Aztec calendar
was known to be

a gateway to the universe.

And the Hadron Collider
is similar to that

because we are trying to unlock

the secrets of the universe
with this machine.

And I find it fascinating
that we have a carving

from a long time ago,

and when compared to
the modern-day Hadron Collider,

there is an eerie similarity.

Is it coincidence? I think not.

NARRATOR:
Did ancient man
really make contact

with early time travelers?

And are humans on the verge

of discovering
that same incredible ability?

Perhaps further evidence
can be found by examining

a 20th century account
of accidental time travel.

I find it fascinating that two
of the most prominent scientists

of the 20th century-- Nikola
Tesla and Albert Einstein--

both considered time travel
to be possible.

Right, and allegedly,
the two of them worked together

on a secret Navy experiment
that proved it was possible

-to break through
the space-time continuum.
-Yeah,

the so-called
Philadelphia Experiment.

And the government, of course,
claims that it never happened,

but if it did, it could be
a breakthrough in time travel.

We talked about this
in a 2014 episode

of Ancient Aliens called
"The Tesla Experiment."

NARRATOR:
New York City. July 1934.

On his 78th birthday,
Nikola Tesla makes headlines

on the front page
of The New York Times

for his alleged "death beam."

According to the article,

the weapon could generate enough
energy to bring down a fleet

of 10,000 enemy airplanes
as far as 250 miles away.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
Tesla apparently discovered
that he could direct

a stream of plasma
plus solid particles

for long distances
through the air

and kind of direct
a lightning bolt.

And he called this a death ray.

GEORGE NOORY:
Tesla wanted to invent
a machine that would knock out

enemy aircraft in the air.

You would point it
to the skies, turn it on,

and all of a sudden
those planes would just

fall like that.

SEIFER: Tesla felt that,
if every country

had a particle beam weapon,

then no country
would ever be invaded

because planes would be shot
down and ships would be sunk.

So he was trying to sell
this particle beam weapon

to the U.S. government
during World War II.

And I think Franklin Roosevelt

was basically looking
at two possibilities.

Einstein was discussing
the possibility of an atom bomb.

Tesla was discussing
the possibility

of a particle beam weapon.

And it turned out the atom bomb
was able to be invented.

And that's the way they went.

NARRATOR:
Although the death ray
announcement

failed to ignite interest
by the U.S. War Department,

some say other
innovative work by Tesla

did catch their attention.

Earlier in his career,
while conducting research

with one of his
transformer coils,

Nikola Tesla had
a near-death experience

when he came in contact
with a resonating

electromagnetic charge of
three and a half million volts.

Tesla was working
with 60-foot lightning bolts,

and he made a mistake
and he almost got electrocuted.

And he couldn't get out, and
he had to get one of his workers

to stop the lightning
from happening.

And he barely escaped
with his life.

And because of the shock
that he had,

he had a revelation.

CHILDRESS:
Tesla said that he entered
a-a state of timelessness,

and he could see the past
and the future and the present

all at one
in this mystic vision,

but he was paralyzed and he
couldn't do anything about it.

Tesla was being
essentially electrocuted,

and right then his assistant
cut the power to him.

But what Tesla said it had done

was moved him
through time and space.

NARRATOR:
But is it really possible

Tesla had found a way
to break through

the space-time continuum?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer
might be found by looking

at what has become known
as the Philadelphia Experiment.

According to reports,
right before Tesla's death,

he was working
with Albert Einstein

and the United States Navy

at the Philadelphia Naval Yard

to create
an electromagnetically charged

invisibility cloak
for the USS Eldridge.

BRANDENBURG:
They were attempting
to do a stealth technology,

and apparently they mounted
a bunch of Tesla coils

to make a bunch of plasma
around a ship,

and this is well-known
to help hide things from radar.

But something
very unexpected happened.

The ship didn't
just disappear from radar.

It disappeared completely...

and then reappeared
with some of the crew

actually embedded
in the metal of the ship.

NARRATOR:
Although mainstream
scientists believe

the so-called Philadelphia
Experiment is a hoax,

some insist
the account is authentic.

We have leaked testimony
from classified levels

of secrecy
in the U.S. government

that the Philadelphia Experiment
was real,

that the soldiers on that ship
got disoriented

and they ended up
walking into the hull.

And when the ship, then,
rematerialized in our reality,

their bodies melded
with the metal in the hull.

NARRATOR:
Could Tesla have discovered
the ability to time travel?

If so, might the secrets
behind this technology,

along with the blueprints
for Tesla's death beam,

have been obtained from a future
point in time and space?

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

evidence of this might be found

with the modern world's most
sophisticated new weaponry.

NARRATOR:
The Singapore Airshow,

February 2014.

An Israeli arms company

known as Rafael
Advanced Defense Systems

reveals details
of a laser defense system

capable of shooting missiles
from the sky

with a pulse of energy.

The futuristic military hardware
is called Iron Beam.

REDFERN:
The concept of Iron Beam

is that it's essentially
a high-energy laser

that is designed
to rapidly heat up the target

that it's aimed at.

We're talking about aircraft,

drones, missiles.

Anything that could launch
an attack on a city

could be literally destroyed
in the sky by Iron Beam.

This sounds very much
like Tesla's death ray.

CHILDRESS:
This is exactly
the kind of technology

that Tesla was talking about
in the 1920s and '30s,

of using these beam weapons
to shoot down missiles

and projectiles.

WILCOCK:
The War Department
sided with Einstein

and Oppenheimer's atomic bomb,
not with Tesla.

But now what we're seeing
is that Israel

is developing
this Iron Beam technology

because they realized

that atomic weapons
were far too destructive.

Is it possible
that Tesla developed

a time-viewing
or time travel technology

and that he became aware
of these developments?

NARRATOR:
Tesla was once quoted as saying,

"The present is theirs,

but the future for which
I have really worked is mine."

Did Tesla, in fact,
see into the future?

Might Iron Beam be proof

that plans for the death ray
not only existed

but also may have
even been confiscated

and carried out
by the United States government?

There are those
who believe that Nikola Tesla

was not only in contact
with extraterrestrials

but was sent here to Earth
by them to fulfill a mission

and usher in a new age
for mankind.

SEIFER:
One of the big questions is,
who is Tesla?

Is he, in a sense, an avatar,

an enlightened being that comes
to the Earth to help humans?

No one really knows
exactly what's going on,

but I think all great artists--

and Tesla saw himself
as an artist--

feel that they're instruments
of a higher purpose,

and Tesla certainly felt

that he was working
along those lines.

There is an agenda for humanity.

There is a plan.

And in every generation,

whatever power it is
that's behind the plan

sends to Earth
certain specific souls

who are, by birth, more inclined

and able to be receptors
to the higher knowledge.

CHILDRESS:
You have to wonder if Tesla

was transplanted to Earth
by extraterrestrials

in order to envision and invent

all of these amazing devices.

WILCOCK:
If extraterrestrials
put Tesla in place

for a specific purpose,

did they accomplish
what they hoped to achieve?

The answer may be no,

because if Tesla's technologies

had been openly acknowledged
here on Earth,

we could have greened
the deserts,

we could be desalinating
ocean water

with tabletop energy levels.

We could have a totally new
and different world

in which we don't have
to pay for energy,

in which we have
antigravity craft,

in which we have
teleportation technology,

and in which
we truly have become

a golden age here on Earth.

That has not happened.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that Nikola Tesla

was able to access
advanced technology

by seeing or even traveling
into the future?

While mainstream science

tends to dismiss such claims
as mere speculation,

Tesla was not alone
in encountering a reality

beyond the normal bounds
of time.

And even today,
there are those who say

they have experienced strange
distortions in time and space.

In 2018,
I met pilot Bruce Gernon,

who claims that he had
a bizarre experience

while flying over
the Bermuda Triangle.

And he told me that he entered

some kind of time tunnel vortex

and traveled 100 miles
in just three minutes.

Right, there seems to be
multiple locations

all around the world
where inexplicable events

such as that one seem to be
happening all the time.

Yeah, and scientists
have speculated,

there could be
some exotic physics at play

in these locations
and that maybe people really are

getting caught up
in these space-time portals.

NARRATOR:
Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

December 5, 1945.

Five Navy Avenger
torpedo bombers,

collectively known as Flight 19,

set out on a training mission
over the Bermuda Triangle.

Without warning,
all five bombers

experience malfunctions
with their onboard instruments.

They contact air control

and report
their mysterious difficulties.

And all five of their compasses
were not working correctly,

and they had two navigational
instruments that they could use,

and they were not
working properly either.

It caused total confusion.

They didn't know their position.

So they did
what a lot of other pilots

had done in the past--
they made a series of turns.

And that's what causes pilots
to become confused.

NARRATOR:
The planes
disappeared from radar,

and their last communication

consisted of nothing
but eerie static.

The Navy immediately
launched two seaplanes

to search
for the missing bombers.

Just 20 minutes after takeoff,
they, too, vanished.

GERNON:
The unusual thing is,

they didn't find any parts.

No life jackets or life rafts.

ANDREW COLLINS:
Despite some claims

in more modern times
that the Grumman Avengers

have been discovered

that might have been Flight 19,

the actuality of the case
is that it is a mystery

of exactly what happened.

NARRATOR:
The disappearance of Flight 19

is one of many bizarre
and unexplainable events

that have taken place
in the area that is now known

as the Bermuda Triangle.

The Bermuda Triangle
is really located

off of, uh, Florida.

The northern point of it
is the island of Bermuda.

It then goes down to,
essentially, Southern Florida

and then out into the Bahamas.

And this is an area
that has historically

had strange phenomena.

NARRATOR:
For decades,
scientists and researchers

have struggled to find a cause

for the mysterious
disappearances.

They are equally puzzled
by the numerous reports

of everything
from instrument failure

to compasses that strangely
point to true north

instead of magnetic north.

Electromagnetic phenomenon
associated with thunderstorms

that can perhaps
open up portals in space-time

and that we never would have
thought possible.

An analogy is that lightning...

...is still poorly understood.

Lightning typically carries
several million volts.

This is not sufficient voltage
to jump from a cloud,

miles above the ground,
to the ground or between clouds.

Yet nature does it.

Combine that
with the strange location

of the Bermuda Triangle,

where the collision point of
these cold and warm currents,

you can have a playground
for exotic physics, I believe.

NARRATOR:
Might storm clouds,
lightning flashes,

and powerful ocean currents

located within
the Bermuda Triangle

have unexpected
and otherworldly effects?

Ancient astronaut
theorists believe

such an audacious theory
is possible

and point to the story
of pilot Bruce Gernon

as the best evidence
that such incredible phenomena

can and do exist.

On December the 4th, 1970,

almost 25 years to the day

after the disappearance
of Flight 19...

...a pilot
by the name of Bruce Gernon

was in an aircraft flying
between Andros Island

and the island of Bimini,

when he had an absolute
incredible experience.

The controls on his plane
also went crazy.

He felt, in the end,
that somehow he had been

in the Bermuda Triangle
when it was activated.

Since that time, researchers
have been trying to find out

exactly what happened
during that flight.

NARRATOR:
In March 2018,

ancient astronaut theorist
and author David Childress

traveled to an airfield
in West Palm Beach, Florida...

-Hi.
-...to meet face-to-face

with one of the very few men

who experienced
the strange power

of the Bermuda Triangle
and survived.

So, what is our plan today?

Well, we're gonna
recreate our flight

that I had in, uh, 1970.

And I can show you
on the chart here,

we're gonna go direct
from Palm Beach

right to this curved area
of Andros Island

on the western shore.

And we're gonna go down
to 1,000 feet at this point.

And that's where my experience
in 1970 began.

I am the only living person
that has flown

through the heart of it
and then exited what I call

a time tunnel vortex
and survived.

So, have you ever
retraced your flight?

I've never been
on the exact flight path

that I was
when I had this event.

And that's what I'd like
to take you through today,

the exact flight path.

Into the Bermuda Triangle,
and, uh--

this isn't a one-way flight,
is it?

ADAM NORWITCH:
No, sir, we'll be back.

CHILDRESS:
Okay. I'm ready.

So, Bruce, uh, it was,

it was 1970, and you were
flying out of Andros.

Who-who was with you
on this flight?

Uh, my dad and our
business partner was with us,

and it was a routine flight.

But, uh, this is the area

where I, uh, took off
and started my ascent.

I was at 1,000 feet
just like we are right now.

And I started climbing

straight out
over that bank right there.

-There it is.
-CHILDRESS: Is that it? Okay.

I don't know,
it looks kind of eerie here.

There's nothing much around,
is there?

Very remote area
of the Bahama Bank.

Whoa, what was that?

Did you feel that?

-Uh...
-There it is.

-That-that was a weird...
-Can you catch that?

CHILDRESS:
Something we should maybe...

Okay. It's out of control?

NORWITCH:
It's okay, guys,
we just hit a rough spot.

We've just got
a little turbulence here.

-Turbulence.
-CHILDRESS: How about that?

Yeah. Wow.

I'm-- I have to admit,
I'm actually glad

w-we didn't vanish.

That's right
in this exact area here...

...where it did that.

Wow, uh, a premonition, maybe.

-Kind of, yeah.
-All right, so you--

did you think
that anything strange

was gonna happen to you
that day?

No, no, I had no premonitions,

but this strange cloud, uh,
formed right in front of us,

and it was like
a lenticular-shaped cloud.

But it was just
sort of hovering there.

And it did look
a little strange.

A-As soon as I got over it,
it started expanding.

And then, before you know it,
I, I'm inside the cloud.

And I-- so now
I can't see anything.

Visibility was near zero.

There was lightning in there.

It was flashes of lightning.

These flashes got
more and more intense

the deeper we went in it.

It got darker, too. It was
almost like night and day.

My copilot-- my dad-- he said,

"Uh, maybe
we ought to turn around

and go back to Andros."

I didn't want to turn around

and go back through this cloud

that was freaking me out,
you know?

That would've been worse.

There was no turning back,
you felt.

I said to my dad,
"Well, hold on. Not yet."

NARRATOR:
Rather than
turning back for land,

Bruce decided
to pull out of the cloud

that the plane
had become immersed in

and continued
on his flight path.

But when he came out
of the cloud, he realized

that the situation
was even more incredible

than he first thought.

His plane was surrounded
on all sides by a giant storm,

and there appeared
to be no way out.

I felt like we were trapped
inside this strange storm.

And then I notice a big tunnel,

about a mile wide
and ten miles long.

So I said, "All right,
we'll go through that,"

and, uh, my dad agreed.

When we entered the tunnel,
an incredible thing happened.

A series of clouds
formed a swirling line

that was slowly rotating
counterclockwise.

It felt like
we were hydroplaning.

Somehow we were at zero gravity,

we were floating
and going forward somehow.

When I came out of the tunnel,

I looked back behind and
I watched the tunnel collapse.

The radar controller
comes back on the microphone

and he's-he's yelling really
loud and he's all excited.

He says, "I got an airplane
directly over Miami Beach."

So I look at my watch.

"No, I got another
30 minutes to go here.

"Uh, I'm, uh,

at least 80 miles east
of you guys," I tell him.

But then I looked down,
and, yeah, there's Miami Beach

right below me.

I traveled 100 miles

in only three minutes.

NARRATOR:
One hundred miles

in three minutes?

Bruce's plane would have
to have been traveling

2,000 miles per hour

to cross that distance
in such a short amount of time,

a speed that his small plane was
not even remotely capable of.

But the people on the plane,
there-- except for a little bit

of mist and fog around them,

they're-- they don't really
notice anything strange

-is happening.
-No, they didn't notice
anything strange.

But, uh, all their watches
were set back 20 minutes.

I believe now
that what was happening

was, I-I was seeing
the fabric of time.

And I believe that is
what creates the mystery

of the Bermuda Triangle.

NARRATOR:
Could it be
that the so-called tunnel

that Bruce describes

was actually some type
of electromagnetic vortex?

One that, like a black hole,
could alter both time and space?

For ancient astronaut theorists,
the answer

is a resounding yes,
and they argue

that even more evidence
can be found

by studying
ancient disappearances

not only of individuals

but of an entire civilization.

NARRATOR:
Easter Island.

Located in the Pacific Ocean,

over 2,000 miles
off the coast of Chile,

this remote island was once home
to the Rapa Nui people,

who, after flourishing
for hundreds of years,

seemed to mysteriously disappear
sometime in the 18th century.

It seems, at some point,
it may be as much

as 10,000 people
lived there at its peak.

But about 100 years later,

when more Europeans started
showing up on a regular basis,

it seemed to be
down to about 1,500.

So something happened
at Easter Island

to seriously decrease
their population.

NARRATOR:
While mainstream historians
have long debated the cause

of the mass disappearance
of the Rapa Nui,

ancient astronaut
theorists believe

it may have something to do
with Easter Island being located

in one of the 12 areas
that were identified

by cryptozoologist
Ivan T. Sanderson

as "vile vortices,"

places on Earth where strange,
electromagnetic activity

is more likely to occur.

We know there are places
around the world

that have an unknown energy.

Easter Island,

Mexico, Egypt,

Indus Valley.

Also in Asia. In Tibet.

All around the world,
in these areas,

also there were built
megalithic structures.

How we can explain that?

The only possible explanation
is an ancient contact

with sophisticated alien
civilizations around the world.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible
that because Easter Island,

like the Bermuda Triangle,
is located

at a place of increased
electromagnetic activity,

that the area serves as a kind
of extraterrestrial portal?

A gateway which, when opened,

could allow alien beings
to come to Earth

and humans
to travel back with them?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes

and suggest this phenomenon
might also happen

in every country on Earth.

Holland, Michigan,
February 18, 1978.

Steven Kubacki,
a student at Hope College,

tells his roommates he is
going out cross-country skiing.

When Steven doesn't return
by nightfall,

his roommates
contact the police,

and a massive search and rescue
operation is launched.

PAULIDES:
Two days later,
they find Steven's backpack

and his skis sitting

on the beach to the Great Lakes.

And they walk out
and they search the area

and they find tracks in the snow

leading out onto the ice
towards the lake.

The tracks appeared to stop
in the middle of the lake.

There was no hole,
there was nothing.

That was just
where they stopped.

He completely disappeared.

NARRATOR:
A little over a year later,

Steven Kubacki
awakens in a field

some 700 miles
from where he disappeared.

Certain it was the same day
as the one when he went missing,

he had no memory
of where he had been

or how he had traveled
across the country.

PAULIDES:
Where he was for that one year
and two months

is a complete black hole.

NARRATOR:
After months of investigation,

there was no credible evidence
that Steven Kubacki

had staged or faked
his disappearance.

So, how was it
that a 23-year-old skier

suddenly vanished
without a trace,

only to return
just over a year later

and with no memory of where
he had gone or for how long?

These are the questions
currently being answered

by former police detective

turned missing persons
investigator

-Dave Paulides.
-(phone rings)

-This is Dave.
-NARRATOR: For the past
nine years,

he has been investigating
the world's most baffling

missing persons cases
and has concluded

that there are
certain places on Earth

where unexplained
disappearances occur

in astonishingly high numbers.

I know a lot of people
throughout the world have heard

of the Bermuda Triangle,

missing ships and planes
over water.

I don't think many people
have heard about

the disappearances
of people on land

that fit this exact profile
that we've established.

Certain profile points
replicate themselves

time after time after time.

When they bring in
search dogs, bloodhounds,

they can't pick up a scent.

They bring in
professional trackers.

They can't track point to point.

Many, many times,
there's a weather event

in relationship
to the disappearance.

Other times,
the person disappears

near a body of water

or is found
near a body of water.

Other instances,
if the person is found,

they're found in a location

that has been
previously searched

not just once,
maybe dozens of times.

They leave the searchers
scratching their head.

NARRATOR:
After examining thousands
of missing persons incidents,

Dave Paulides has identified
59 so-called hot spots

in the United States alone.

Places where more people
appear to vanish--

and without any signs
of foul play--

than anywhere else
in the country.

PAULIDES:
In the work we do,
it's-it's a rare event

that you find somebody
who's alive.

But in those instances,

the vast, vast majority
of times,

the victim doesn't remember
what happened.

They don't know
why they got lost,

they don't know where they went,

they don't know
where they've been.

I've been very fortunate to meet
some of the smartest people

in the world
of theoretical physicists,

and during those conversations,

many times
it's gone towards portals.

And the response coming back
from the physicists was,

"These portals
can be directed and targeted."

Is it possible
that when people go through

these time tunnel portals

and they have no memory
of what went on,

it's because
there's nothing for them

to have a memory of

because for them it was just
an instantaneous thing?

PAULIDES:
So, I'm one of these people,
as an investigator,

that lives in the world
of facts.

I don't hypothesize,
I don't theorize,

and I'm very careful
about where I tread

and wh-- who I talk to
about these things.

And when you hear from
a scientist who's credible,

saying these things
could be occurring,

it makes you uncomfortable.

And it makes you wonder,
really, what might be going on.

NARRATOR:
Could mankind be on the verge
of an incredible breakthrough?

Might we soon learn
that traveling backwards

and forwards in time
is, in fact, possible?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining a famous UFO event

reported by military personnel

that involved profound
revelations about the future.

When talking about time travel,
we have to talk about

that extraordinary event
witnessed by dozens of people

at the U.S. Air Force base
at Bentwater, in England,

the Rendlesham Forest incident,
where two military personnel

who were involved
had truly profound experiences.

Yeah, and both
claimed to have seen

strange lights in the forest,

and then one of them
later claimed

to have had
a missing-time event,

and the other one
claimed to have seen

some kind of a craft
as it was sitting in the field.

CHILDRESS:
Yeah, and he said that he got

a message that the craft
was being piloted

by humans from the future.

We talked about this
in a 2022 episode

of Ancient Aliens called
"The Time Benders."

NARRATOR:
In Suffolk County, England,

there is a remote forest
in the village of Rendlesham

that has become famous
for being the site

of one of the most extraordinary
UFO encounters ever reported.

And some of those
who experienced it

believe this incident
also involved time travel.

The event occurred
on December 26, 1980.

Airman John Burroughs
was performing

a routine security check
at a U.S. Air Force base

when he received orders

to investigate
a possible downed aircraft.

JOHN BURROUGHS:
My supervisor called me
on the radio and asked me

to meet up with him
so we could check the east gate.

We're driving down the road
leading to the east gate

to check on it
when all of a sudden he saw

some strange lights
in the forest.

So I decided we'll call it in
and let them know

something strange was going on.

They decided to send
one of the security units down,

which was Sergeant Penniston.

He got down there and he saw
the same strange lights

that we were seeing.

SERGEANT JAMES PENNISTON:
I could see all these multiple

color lights
and things like that.

And the air felt different.

I don't know how
to really explain that.

But it did feel like
there was electricity

on our skin and hair and stuff.

But that progressively got worse

the closer we got
to the tree line.

And it got more intense.

BURROUGHS:
There seemed to be, like,

an electricity-charged
atmosphere,

and then, also,
there were points where there--

it seemed like everything
was going in slow motion.

NARRATOR:
As the servicemen approached
the strange lights,

Sergeant Penniston
reportedly saw a large craft

just beyond the tree line.

PENNISTON:
The craft was triangular
in shape,

measuring about
six to seven feet high,

black in color.

I had come around
to the far side of the craft,

and that's when I noticed
that there was,

you know,
inscription on the side.

You know, it was about
three feet long,

maybe six inches high, um,

and, uh, so I'm expecting
to find, I don't know,

some kind of prototype stuff,
uh, USAF.

I'm-I'm looking
for something very familiar.

Instead of something familiar,

I see these
pictorial-type glyphs.

And got running my hand
over the side of the craft.

I don't know
how to explain this.

It's like someone
was holding a picture up, okay?

I could see it in my mind's eye.

Zeros and ones.

So I recorded those,
one after another.

HESELTINE:
When Penniston touched

the craft, he then said

that he felt a strange download
of information,

uh, to his mind.

And he felt compelled
the next day to write down

a series of zeros and ones,

which we now regard
as binary code.

POPE:
Years later,

a computer programmer
took this information,

ran it through
a translation program

and a message emerged.

The message read:
"Exploration of humanity

"continuous for
planetary advance,

"eyes of your eyes,

origin year 8100."

When one sees
"origin year 8100,"

one is forced to speculate,
might we be looking

not just at extraterrestrials

but time travelers
from the future?

NARRATOR:
After the incident,
the U.S. military

conducted a brief investigation

but allegedly tried
to keep the eyewitnesses

away from the press.

But for Airman Burroughs
and Officer Penniston,

the event wasn't easy
to leave behind.

Both men had lasting physical
effects from the encounter

and even reported
strange dreams.

After the incident, I started
having throat and eye problems.

At one point,
my gums turned white.

I also had vision problems,

and when I went
and saw the doctor,

one of his first questions was,

had I been ever exposed
to radiation?

I've definitely
had dreams about it,

and I still have feelings
about what happened

and what could happen
in the future.

I got out of the service
in 1993.

Then I was out about
maybe three months,

and then I started
getting these dreams

and, uh, nightmares.

During the dreams,

I could see that these
were time travelers,

40,000 to 50,000 years
in the future.

I see that their purpose
to come back

was to correct things,
was to fix things.

Something horrible has happened.

Something they have to correct.

But it requires time travel.

It requires going back
into the past.

I never had a feeling
of it being extraterrestrial.

It's always been

that they were
simply us in the future.

NARRATOR:
Could it be

that the craft
reportedly witnessed

by James Penniston
and John Burroughs

came not from a distant star

but from
a distant point in time?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining trends in evolution

and what humans may look like

in the future.

The great majority
of modern-day contactees

describe beings known
as the Greys, you know,

large heads,
little bodies, gray skin.

To me,

these are clearly
extraterrestrials,

but some people have proposed
that the Greys potentially

could be future humans.

Right. And some scientists say

that the more time
we spend in space,

we might evolve to look
just exactly like the Greys.

Yeah, and it's fascinating
to contemplate

that we're destined not
just to become space travelers

but time travelers, too.

NARRATOR: Ever since
the infamous UFO incident

of 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico,

there have been
thousands of reports

of extraterrestrial sightings

and even firsthand accounts
of alien abductions.

Described as humanoids with
large heads and small bodies,

researchers believe
these beings might, in fact,

be an alien species
that some call the Greys.

BARA:
These aliens look not
too dissimilar from us.

They have heads,
they have hands,

they have two arms,
two legs, two eyes,

a nose, a rudimentary mouth.

They certainly,
in their descriptions,

appear to be pretty close to us.

Or what they kind of look like

is very, very early
science fiction concepts

of how the human race would
eventually evolve over the eons.

If you look at
the, uh, extraterrestrials

that are described-- the Greys--

that are related
to the Roswell incident,

you'll see that, uh,

their forms, in many ways,

resemble what we might
project or predict

that we could look like
in the future,

uh, if we became
a spacefaring race.

CHILDRESS:
The Roswell crash in New Mexico,

in fact, happened,
coincidentally, close

to the birthday
of the Egyptian goddess Isis.

So you have to wonder, too,
if these so-called alien bodies

that were allegedly found
at the Roswell crash,

with thin bodies and big heads,

if they weren't some kind of

time-traveling
extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible the beings

believed to have
been recovered at Roswell

traveled here
from the star Sirius,

just like
the Egyptian goddess Isis,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

And might they be coming here
using advanced expertise

in space-time technology?

EDGAR MITCHELL:
I would think
that it's quite possible

that the alien visitors,

if they're proved to be
the way we think they are,

that they're using certain forms
of teleportation perhaps,

or certainly they have
propulsion devices

that can approach
the speed of light.

LINDA MOULTON HOWE:
What we do know is that

the physics of our planet--

quantum physics
and string theory--

have moved the ball

so much further
than it was in the last century

to saying there are
no mathematical restrictions

on time travel
to the future or to the past.

And that once you know
that the physics community

is saying
there are no restrictions,

it's just us finding out,
"How do we do this?"

CHILDRESS:
Time travel is basically
the same as teleportation.

We could go
from place to place on Earth

in a matter of milliseconds.

This would revolutionize
all kinds of travel,

at the same time,
our connections between us

and any other civilization,

and including civilizations
on other planets as well.

NARRATOR:
But just who really are

these otherworldly creatures
called the Greys?

Is it possible
they came to Earth

not from outer space
but from the future...

...or the past?

Or might they actually be
human time travelers?

COPPENS:
There are various theories
as to what the Greys are.

There are stories that they are

beings which have been around
since time immemorial

and are still around.

But there are also encounters
which people have had,

and in giving these encounters,
it has been said

that, really, the Greys are us
from the future...

...and that they really have
traveled back in time

because somehow
we have genetically created

this situation

whereby the Greys are
no longer able to procreate...

...and that they have to
therefore come back to our times

to sort of remedy the situation.

BARA:
People back in the '60s and '70s
kind of speculated,

"What would human beings
look like

in 1,000 years or 2,000 years?"

And the idea was
that we would expand

our intellectual knowledge,

so our brains
would get bigger...

...and we'd have machinery
that would basically do

all the physical tasks for us
that we do with our hands now.

We really would become
almost physically inert beings.

And if you look
at those early concepts

of the future of the human race,
they kind of look like

the standard traditional
Grey alien, the Roswell alien.

VON DÄNIKEN:
I rather am a believer
in time travel.

I say nothing will be impossible
for us in the future.

Even if you think
it's completely crazy,

it will happen.

Whatever humans
are able to think, to calculate,

even to fantasize,
will one day become a reality.

Sometimes I ask myself if these
UFOs are not time travelers.

It's our own people
of the future.

NARRATOR:
Considering
the scientific advancements

from the last century alone,

might it be possible
future humans have discovered

the ability to travel in time,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

Are they, in fact,
the so-called visitors

that have been recorded
throughout the centuries?

Or are they otherworldly aliens

who have mastered travel
through both time and space?

Perhaps the answers can be found
not in the here and now

but in another place and time.

If we actually do develop
real time travel,

being able to, you know,
go through a time tunnel

or a wormhole,

I would like to go back to see

how the pyramids
were built in Egypt.

I've always wondered

just how they built
those pyramids.

And if you could go back
in time, you could maybe see

-how they really did it.
-TSOUKALOS: Go ahead.

You go and visit the pyramids.

I would want to go
to see Puma Punku,

how Puma Punku was being built,
as it was happening.

You know,
what type of machines--

and I mean machines--
were used at the time.

I think it'd be fun to be
a greeter for the Anunnaki,

you know,
when they first arrived...

...to be a part
of the welcoming crew

and just see what that might
have been actually like.

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