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NARRATOR: Around the world,

volcanoes have long been known

to be UFO hot spots.

We're seeing UFOs at volcanoes all over the world,

in South America, in Mexico, North America and in Iceland.

NARRATOR: The ancient people believed volcanoes were home to the gods.

Mount Merapi is the realm of otherworldly beings.

NARRATOR: And some volcanoes have even been described

as portals to other worlds.

The Muisca people literally believe

that a volcano is a stargate.

NARRATOR: Do these powerful forces of nature have a connection

to extraterrestrials?

GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Volcanoes were first-contact places

where our ancestors made physical contact

with whomever descended from the sky.

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NARRATOR: Residents of this thriving metropolis

live in the shadow of a smoking volcano called Popocatépetl.

Known as El Popo by the locals, it has been erupting since 1994.

Webcams installed around the mountain

live stream images of its peak

so scientists can monitor volcanic activity.

But early in the evening of June 19, 2016,

the cameras capture something completely unexpected.

These webcams run 24/7. They never stop.

But the volcano itself is obscured by clouds.

But you can see the ash and the smoke

billowing out from a distance.

Suddenly, a dozen glowing orbs appear

and fly straight towards the volcano.

And everyone was wondering, "What was that?"

NARRATOR: Days later, another webcam captures

more mysterious lights flying around the volcano.

But perhaps the strangest event was captured

on January 24, 2017.

CHILDRESS: In the video, you will see a small light emerge

from the top of El Popo.

It almost looks like a tiny craft of some kind.

And moments later, suddenly, there's a flash,

and then the small light transforms into a glowing orb

and then shoots straight up into the atmosphere.

It's one of the most remarkable videos of an orb

that I've ever seen.

NARRATOR: Curiously, El Popo is not the only volcano

where strange, glowing orbs have been seen.

Similar objects have been recorded

at numerous other volcanoes around the world.

And many scientists who work on volcanoes claim

to have seen these strange lights with their own eyes.

I certainly have seen things

when I've been working on Volcán de Colima,

which is another very dangerous volcano in Mexico,

that I've not been able to explain.

I've seen lights, basically, above the volcano.

There's one time when I was seeing

a hell of a lot of lightning at Colima,

but I also saw two stationary lights

above the crater.

Uh, they were there for a while.

They weren't stars, uh, and then, suddenly, they vanished.

I don't know what caused them,

but there's obviously a phenomenon there.

NARRATOR: Some residents of Mexico City believe

the mysterious lights around El Popo are

related to an otherworldly being known as Gregorio.

It is said that Gregorio often appears

in local towns before vanishing without a trace.

ED BARNHART: Gregorio is the spirit of the volcano,

but he's oftentimes seen as an old man

walking in robes around the base.

And when people see him, they revere him.

NARRATOR: Might the mysterious lights seen around El Popo

and other volcanoes have an otherworldly connection?

To ufologists, it's a distinct possibility,

and they point to the first UFO sighting

that made national headlines.

June 24, 1947.

Private pilot Kenneth Arnold is

on a solo flight near this active volcano

when he suddenly spots something strange in the sky.

CHILDRESS: Kenneth Arnold saw what he described

as nine craft flying together

like a military formation,

flying at a very fast speed.

NARRATOR: According to Arnold's report,

the strange craft sped past him at 1,200 miles per hour,

and then did something truly remarkable.

Kenneth Arnold witnessed these mysterious craft

dart in between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams,

and then even witnessed them fly into Mount Adams.

So, is it possible that these UFOs

actually entered the volcano?

CHILDRESS: There have been so many reports of UFOs.

going inside volcanoes all over the world.

When we look at this UFO activity,

that you have to wonder,

are volcanoes some kind of UFO base?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that otherworldly beings

are attracted to volcanoes?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

recent reports of flying craft

and mysterious beings around volcanoes

are simply the latest in a phenomenon

that dates back thousands of years.

In the mythologies of many ancient cultures,

volcanoes were closely connected to the gods.

You have Vulcan, of course, in the Roman pantheon,

who was the... the god of smithcraft,

who they said his forge was in Mount Etna.

PAMELA JAYE SMITH: Vulcan was the armorer of the gods,

made the swords, made the shields,

made the helmets,

and was the god

of a lot of other crafts.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that while

some mythological stories about volcanoes are clearly

imaginative ways to portray a powerful force of nature,

others, like the Roman accounts of the god Vulcan,

read like historical events.

TSOUKALOS: The Romans themselves say

that they adopted the legends from the Greeks,

who stated the earliest metalsmith workers descended

from the sky and taught them how to make swords

and, essentially, how to work metal.

It is my opinion that both

Greek and the Roman Pantheon of gods were

misinterpreted space travelers

who descended from the sky a long time ago.

NARRATOR: Another legend that ancient astronaut theorists associate

with an extraterrestrial event can be found in Japan.

According to ancient Japanese folklore,

a mysterious child was discovered

at the base of Mount Fuji, an active volcano.

We have a very fascinating story

around Mount Fuji, where, long ago,

Princess Kaguya was found,

at first, inside a glowing bamboo stalk.

DOMINIC STEAVU: The story goes that a bamboo cutter found

a tiny little shining child.

Intrigued, he took the child home

and took care of it,

and within a space of three months, only,

she had grown into a beautiful young woman.

And her beauty was such that she attracted many suitors.

But she rebuffed all of their advances

until the emperor fell in love with her.

They developed a close relationship,

but eventually she had to reveal that she was not of this world.

And she told him, in fact, that she came from the Moon.

TSOUKALOS: She was not of this Earth.

So then the story goes that a fleet

of celestial beings descended from the sky,

put a cloak of feathers on her,

and together they ascended into the heavens.

Well, I mean, who were they and where did they come from?

This is, in my opinion,

one of those legends that perfectly fits

into the ancient astronaut theory,

because it involves misunderstood technology,

and you have stories

of people descending from the sky

and rescuing one of their own.

To me, it's all about the celestial visitor.

NARRATOR: Could ancient stories like those of Princess Kaguya

and the Roman god Vulcan, along with modern UFO sightings,

reveal that extraterrestrials are drawn to volcanoes?

And if so, why?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining mysterious artifacts

discovered deep in the jungles of Colombia.

An Airbus A320 is cruising at 30,000 feet

on a routine flight en route to Bogotá.

As it approaches a prominent volcano called

Nevado del Tolima,

the pilot notices something strange in the clouds.

The plane is on autopilot.

When the pilot sees what's out his cockpit window,

he picks up his phone,

and what he filmed was extraordinary.

It's an object zipping along towards his plane.

So the pilot is able to use the close-up on his camera

and sees that the object is actually a flying cube

that is coming towards him and flying right past him.

NARRATOR: Two years later, in May 2022,

a private pilot, also flying near the same Tolima volcano,

captures footage of a metallic diamond-shaped object

speeding past his aircraft.

And the next year,

a passenger on board a flight from Bogotá to Salento

films a metallic, orb-like object in the same location.

Three incredible UFO videos in just four years,

all shot near Nevado del Tolima.

These are three extraordinary videos of UFOs.

In fact, one has been called the best UFO video of all time.

All three were taken in broad daylight.

All three show what could only be described

as a metallic craft.

And all three were filmed near the Tolima volcano.

You have to ask yourself, what is going on here?

NARRATOR: Could these three remarkable sightings

around the Tolima volcano be

evidence of extraterrestrial activity?

Ancient astronaut theorists suggest clues may be found

by examining the volcano's mysterious history.

SMITH: The Tolima people of Colombia hold

their volcanic mountain of the same name

in great reverence

because, in their telling, it is the place

where the life of Earth meets

the sky deities, the life of the above land.

TSOUKALOS: The legends tell us

that this was a place

where humankind could meet and mingle

with the so-called gods.

And what's interesting to me is

that very curious ancient artifacts were found

at Tolima.

NARRATOR: In the late 19th century,

tomb robbers exploring the base of Nevado del Tolima

stumbled upon a gravesite that dated back 1,500 years.

Among the funerary objects found there were hundreds

of small two-to-three-inch-long gold figurines.

TSOUKALOS: According to archaeologists,

in the ancient culture of the Tolima,

they specialized in creating thousands of little gold objects

that they would put

in the tombs of the deceased,

essentially to pay off the journey

from the land of the living to the land of the dead.

They were all in the shape of fish, birds,

frogs, anything you can imagine.

But 17 look like modern-day planes.

We can clearly see that the wings are attached

at the bottom of the fuselage,

and in the back of the fuselage you actually have stabilizers.

This is not anything that exists in nature.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the ancient gold artifacts found

at the base of Nevado del Tolima

are really depictions of flying vehicles?

CHILDRESS: The idea that people could actually envision

modern airplanes at that time,

just as a-a speculation, seems pretty, uh, fantastic, really.

And you would think that they are really

making these gold airplanes

after something they had genuinely seen.

TSOUKALOS: The ancient astronaut theory suggests

the reason why they were commemorating these things is

because they witnessed craft flying in

and flying out of these volcanoes.

And you have to wonder if maybe our ancestors were

seeing the same things we're seeing today.

NARRATOR: Is it possible

that the so-called gold flyers are depictions

of extraterrestrial aircraft?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest further evidence of a connection

between volcanoes and otherworldly beings

can be found 250 miles south of Tolima

at the mysterious archaeological site of San Agustín.

These ruins, located between two massive volcanoes, are home

to over 500 enormous stone statues

that have been carved from volcanic rock

and are believed to date back

at least 1,500 years.

ROBERT SCHOCH: The people who carved these sculptures

and lived there,

we really do not know very much about them...

...because the whole area seems to have been

abandoned by 1350 or so AD.

NARRATOR: While no one knows for certain who created

the strange statues at San Agustín

or what they were meant to depict,

many researchers believe

they were inspired by the stories

of the Indigenous people.

Colombia has many ancient legends of gods

who appeared as hybrids

with part human and part animal features.

Some are depicted as having vampire-like fangs.

And often these gods can shape-shift

into different forms.

CAROLINE WHITEHILL: In the case of Colombia,

wherever we see volcanic systems,

the Native cultures associate them with the gods.

One of the very curious things

about the carvings, about the sculptures...

...is that they depict figures that resemble animals,

but they're very obviously humanoid forms,

which is very much

like depictions of god beings in Colombia.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that,

considering the high number of UFO sightings in Colombia

and the curious artifacts

that resemble modern-day aircraft,

these godlike beings were likely extraterrestrial visitors.

TSOUKALOS: In the ancient astronaut opinion,

the reason why that place was created there is because

that was one of the so-called first contact places

where our ancestors made physical contact

with whomever descended from the sky.

NARRATOR: Could the bizarre statues at San Agustín

and the reports of UFO activity near Nevado del Tolima be

further evidence that there is a long history

of extraterrestrial activity around volcanoes?

And if so, what could be the reason?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining yet another peak in Colombia

that is said to contain

a gateway to the realm of the gods.

NARRATOR: Tabio, Colombia.

This small town is the home

of one of the country's most sacred peaks,

called La Peña de Juaica.

The mountain stands over 10,000 feet tall,

and while it is not a volcano,

it is located

right between two hot spots of volcanic activity.

The Paipa-Iza volcanic complex to the east

and three major volcanoes to the west.

Peña de Juaica is not a volcano.

It's a very high peak.

But it is located in an area of Colombia

that is highly concentrated with volcanoes.

And the Muisca people, the Indigenous tribe there,

have a very sophisticated cosmology concerning this peak.

They literally believe that it is a dwelling place

of the divine beings.

They even refer to this peak as the gateway to the gods.

For centuries, people have been reporting

seeing mysterious lights and even humanoid figures

coming and going from the summit.

NARRATOR: Among the many mysterious sightings reported

at La Peña de Juaica is

a phenomenon known as the dancing lights.

What happens is a strange orb will appear at night

near Peña de Juaica,

and it will sometimes dance around.

And other times there'll be a couple of orbs.

According to the Muisca,

they've been seeing these dancing lights

for hundreds of years.

BIRNES: What's interesting is that the Muisca people say

that these dancing lights occur when the gods

are traveling between the Earth and the sky.

NARRATOR: In February 2022,

researcher and ufologist Dan Zetterström traveled

to Colombia to investigate the mysterious spectacle.

We set up cameras to watch the mountain

to see if we could capture this phenomena.

Turns out we did.

What you're seeing here are

the dancing lights of La Peña de Juaica.

Light is splitting into multiple orbs and forms a triangle.

And red and blue flashes either side,

which are known as redshift.

It's what astronomers see when light passes by something

with a huge gravitational pull.

This is light on a mountain.

It shouldn't have a huge gravitational pull.

As far as we could conclude,

there was no explanation for these things.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the footage Dan Zetterström recorded

over La Peña de Juaica not only captured UFOs

but also reveals a gravitational anomaly?

If so, what could be causing it?

HENRY: What's fascinating about this is

the Muisca people literally believe

that Peña de Juaica is a gateway to the gods.

It seems that what they're actually

talking about is a stargate.

NARRATOR: A stargate?

Could this location

that the local Muisca people call "gateway of the gods"

contain a real portal through space and time?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest further support for this notion can be found

on the opposite side of the world.

The island of Java, Indonesia.

On the southern coast lies the city of Yogyakarta.

This sprawling metropolis of more than four million people

extends up the slopes of Mount Merapi,

one of the world's most active volcanoes.

Mount Merapi has erupted regularly since 1548,

often causing explosive lava flows

and killing hundreds of people.

But while the volcano has completely

destroyed communities that have existed

at its base again and again,

the site is considered so sacred to the Buddhist people

that they continue to rebuild in this highly volatile area.

STEAVU: Mount Merapi

has a deep, uh, mystical and religious meaning

to the people of-of Java.

It is believed that under the mountain is

a very vast sacred kingdom

and an imperial city from which

the entire spiritual realm of Java was governed.

NARRATOR: According to legend,

Mount Merapi is home to powerful otherworldly beings.

The volcano served as a kind of portal or a gate

between the human realm and the realm of the divine.

Two legendary blacksmiths created sacred weapons

at the site.

And those two blacksmiths became the rulers

of a vast city under the mountain.

NARRATOR: The Javanese legends are believed to date back

more than 2,000 years.

But what could have inspired the idea that Mount Merapi

is hiding a portal or a vast underground city?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

clues can be found just 15 miles south of the volcano

at the temple of Borobudur.

Borobudur is exquisitely designed.

It has a series of galleries built concentrically

around a central stupa.

Each of the concentric rings represent a different realm

of existence in the Buddhist cosmos.

And just in the central stupa area,

there are over 70 Buddhist statues

housed in smaller stupas.

Stupa actually means "celestial chariot,"

a way with which to reach the celestial realm.

So, were these so-called gods really extraterrestrials

who had some kind of base at Mount Merapi?

I think that our ancestors witnessed

flying craft at this location

and they immortalized it in stone

because stone lasts forever.

HENRY: If this peak is literally a portal

or a gateway that the gods are using

to come and go from,

that fulfills the definition of a stargate,

a portal or gateway that leads

to other places on Earth or perhaps

even other locations in the stars.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the Temple of Borobudur

memorializes extraterrestrial visitors

who are accessing a hidden alien base

or perhaps even a stargate within Mount Merapi?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining modern encounters

in North America.

NARRATOR: In Northern California stands Mount Shasta,

an active volcano that towers above the landscape

at an elevation of more than 14,000 feet.

This majestic peak attracts hikers,

skiers, and spiritual gatherings.

But it's also a destination for people hoping to see

mysterious lights, strange orbs, and UFOs.

BIRNES: Mount Shasta

is unquestionably a UFO hot spot.

People are seeing UFOs flying

in and out of the mountain at all times.

SWARTZ: The UFO activity that's been

reported around Mount Shasta

consists of solid,

metallic-looking craft in the daytime,

sometimes referred to as flying saucers

or metallic balls.

At night, you see what are called orbs

that display all kinds of different colors.

CHILDRESS: So, for decades, people have been traveling

and exploring and climbing Mount Shasta

because they think that it attracts UFOs.

NARRATOR: In addition to the modern UFO activity,

Native American tribes in the area of Mount Shasta say

that stories of strange phenomena

occurring around the volcano have been told

by their ancestors going back centuries.

For hundreds of years,

the Native population

have described UFO sightings,

strange lights that either shoot out of Mount Shasta

or they go straight in.

And these cultures did speak of physical beings

descending from the stars and imparting knowledge.

SWARTZ: The Klamath people,

when they first came to the area of Mount Shasta,

they said that they weren't the first ones there,

that there was another race of people living there

who welcomed them with open arms

and actually taught them agriculture,

astronomy, things like that.

And after a certain time, these mystical people decided

that it was time for them to leave.

But they promised that someday that they would return

in great sky crafts, as they referred to them.

And the Klamath people have felt

that modern UFO sightings is this promise

that they have finally returned.

NARRATOR: Similar stories are shared

by other local Native American tribes,

such as the Shasta, Modoc and Karuk.

JACK "WALKING EAGLE" THOM: Down where I come from,

we have a place called Doctor Rock,

and that's where a lot of the Indians go

and-and do their ten-day fasting and pray.

And there was an elder there

that told me about the petroglyphs there,

and told me about the Star Nation people coming down.

That we have been visited by other planets,

other nations and stuff like that.

TSOUKALOS: What we have here is called

living mythology.

We know that First Nations people have

retained their oral traditions perfectly to a T.

The original stories of somebody descending from the sky

and imparting knowledge was not invented,

it was not fantasy.

It happened in reality

by flesh and blood extraterrestrials

whom our ancestors

misinterpreted as gods.

NARRATOR: Do the oral traditions

of the local Native American peoples reveal

that their ancestors encountered

extraterrestrial beings at Mount Shasta.

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining accounts

that an entire civilization is hidden

within the volcano.

Mount Shasta itself has a tremendous amount of lore,

of tunnels and secret rooms

and even some kind of ET base.

A number of books have been written on this theme.

NARRATOR: In 1894,

a man named Frederick Spencer Oliver proposed

that Mount Shasta was home to a mysterious civilization

in his book A Dweller on Two Planets.

SWARTZ: Spencer Oliver wrote

that Mount Shasta was the home of an ancient race,

of a remnant civilization known today as Lemuria.

Lemuria was a continent that supposedly existed

in the Pacific Ocean

and at some time in the past had disappeared.

Those people who survived this disaster

immigrated to California

and created a city within Mount Shasta.

Now, this ancient civilization,

the Lemurians, are supposedly

high technology with flying machines

akin to the UFOs that we see today.

CHILDRESS: Is there a connection between what Oliver wrote

and UFO sightings at Mount Shasta today?

Is it possible that there's a UFO base in Mount Shasta

and it's been there for hundreds if not thousands of years?

NARRATOR: Could the presence

of an alien base within Mount Shasta

be an explanation for the strange lights

that have been seen at this volcano for thousands of years?

And if so, might similar bases be located

in volcanoes around the world?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes

and suggest another reason

that extraterrestrials might be attracted

to these highly volatile locations

is because, while they are agents of destruction,

they also produce massive amounts of energy.

NARRATOR: A series of volcanic eruptions

on the south side of the island launch a plume of ash and debris

26,000 feet into the atmosphere.

In a matter of hours, the cloud blankets

Western Europe and brings air traffic to a halt.

The eruptions spark a media frenzy,

and the event is thoroughly documented by news outlets.

The eruption wreaked havoc in Europe,

but there was a lot of video taken around this volcano.

And what's interesting, really interesting,

is that cameras captured

a strange, anomalous object flying above the volcano.

The footage clearly shows

a V-shaped UFO flying slowly through the volcanic ash.

It lingers there for several seconds,

almost like it's collecting something from the cloud.

So you have to wonder, why would it be there?

Why is it doing this?

Was it perhaps an extraterrestrial craft?

NARRATOR: Is it merely a coincidence

that a UFO was sighted over a volcano in Iceland

during a massive eruption?

Or does this sighting serve

as further evidence that there may be

otherworldly visitors on Earth

who seek out volcanoes?

But if so, what could be the purpose?

HENRY: Why would ETs or UFOs be so interested in volcanoes?

One answer has to be

the tremendous power that is generated

by the volcanic activity.

SCHOCH: The Earth is constantly

releasing energy from its interior.

We have radioactivity

in the deep Earth, and this radioactivity

gives off energy, and so this energy escapes

from the surface of the Earth in places like volcanoes.

NARRATOR: Could it be that UFOs are somehow

drawing power from volcanoes?

While it may sound like science fiction,

since the 1970s,

the people of Iceland have tapped

into the geothermal energy of volcanoes.

VARLEY: Geothermal energy is when we're actually

using the heat that is associated with the volcano.

We can harness that energy

and convert it to energy that we can use.

The Icelanders have been very successful

at using geothermal energy.

That involves drilling into areas

where you have hot water and steam...

...to drive up turbines and engines.

That is a very clean form of energy.

TSOUKALOS: In Iceland, 25% of their energy

comes from geothermal sources, meaning volcanoes.

Imagine if the rest of the world can figure this out as well.

Volcanoes, if harnessed the right way,

could translate into an infinite energy resource.

Is it possible that UFOs are so often seen above volcanoes

because they are using them as a type of energy?

According to theoretical physicists,

it is likely that a more advanced

extraterrestrial civilization would know how to harness

the natural energy of planets

like that produced by volcanoes.

And there is even a ranking system

for theoretical ET civilizations called the Kardashev scale.

TRAVIS TAYLOR: The Kardashev scale was named after Kardashev,

the scientist who came up with it back in the '60s.

It was an idea of a way to categorize

any civilization based on the amount of energy

that they consume and can manipulate.

MICHIO KAKU: A Type I civilization is planetary.

They mine the ocean,

they control the weather,

they control volcanoes.

Anything planetary, they control.

A Type II civilization is stellar.

They mine the sun.

For example, they could create a sphere around the sun

that would absorb all the energy emitted from the sun.

Then there's Type III, which is galactic.

They roam the galactic space lanes.

They mine the energy of entire star systems.

TAYLOR: We have volcanoes all around the planet

that we have no idea how to manipulate.

A Kardashev level one culture-- just a level one--

would know how to use that

and turn that into energy that could power

everything that culture and civilization needs.

TSOUKALOS: What ancient astronaut theorists are suggesting is

that extraterrestrials who are traveling to Earth

have already become at least a Type I civilization,

and that's why they're attracted to our volcanoes.

We have to consider the possibility

that they have mastered how to harness volcanic energy

in a way that we can't even imagine yet.

NARRATOR: Could tapping into the power of volcanoes

unlock an unlimited supply of energy?

One that will enable humanity

to not only travel to other planets

but other stars?

It's an intriguing thought.

However, some scientists believe there might be another reason

why extraterrestrials would be attracted to volcanoes.

One that involves rare elements hidden

beneath the earth.

NARRATOR: Mysterious flying objects seen

disappearing into volcanoes around the world.

Strange glowing orbs that suddenly appear

over volcanic vents.

And V-shaped craft observed in the sky during eruptions.

Could these UFOs be extraterrestrial visitors

drawing energy from volcanoes?

According to some scientists,

there may be another possibility.

Why would an advanced civilization from outer space

use volcanoes as one of their bases?

I personally think that they would not come

to the Earth just to harness

the power of heat from volcanoes.

I think they'd do it for another reason,

and that is rare earth elements.

We, too, need rare earth elements

for our supercomputers,

for high-tech instruments,

for the space program.

And I think that's the reason why they would be attracted,

because volcanoes connect you to the center of the Earth.

A lot of these rare earth elements

are not found in abundance on the surface of the Earth.

They're found underground. And that's what volcanoes do.

They allow you to extract these rare earth elements.

So I think that's the reason why

they would be attracted to volcanoes.

TAYLOR: Volcanoes would be an ideal forge

for creating new materials.

It's already at the level of molten everything.

If you had the ability

to manipulate the molten processes

with other materials to steer it in a direction you want,

you might create

new metamaterials and new material science

in that type of environment.

NARRATOR: Could it be that otherworldly visitors

are mining volcanoes for valuable resources?

Or are they an energy source for alien spacecraft?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

while further investigations are required,

one thing is certain.

Evidence of a connection between volcanoes

and extraterrestrials is undeniable.

CHILDRESS: Wherever we have volcanoes,

there seem to be stories of these volcanoes

being connected to the gods.

And today, in modern times,

we're seeing a lot of UFO or UAP activity

around volcanoes all over the world.

In South America,

in North America, like Mount Shasta.

In Iceland.

We've only just touched the surface

of these UFOs and volcanoes.

I mean, this demands more investigation.

HENRY: When you look at the large number

of sightings of UFOs at volcanoes,

it's very clear that extraterrestrials have

an advanced way of harvesting this energy

as a true power source.

While we might not be able

to perceive it or to fully understand it,

an advanced civilization

likely would be able to.

Whether for space travel, whether for opening up a portal.

I mean, what kind of science are we talking about, exactly?

TSOUKALOS: When it comes to volcanoes,

there is so much that is still a mystery to us.

And maybe, as we start

to understand more about them

and how to harness their energy,

we'll get closer to becoming

alien explorers ourselves.

NARRATOR: Since the dawn of recorded history,

there have been legends

connecting volcanoes with otherworldly beings.

Are recent videos of UFOs around volcanoes

evidence that these stories

are not just the product of our ancestors' imaginations?

And if so, might volcanoes also provide a way to connect us

to other parts of the universe?

Perhaps when we learn to harness the power

of volcanoes ourselves, we will finally be able

to leave Earth

and take our place

among the stars.

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