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ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
A doorway to other dimensions--

DAVID WILCOCK: They were
traveling through some sort

of energetic portal.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: --an unexplained

disappearance--

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The
idea that all of a sudden

they would just
disappear into thin air,

there's something
going on there.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: --and a cave

said to be the gateway to Hell.

ANDREW COLLINS: Even today,
any birds going near it

fall down dead.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Is it possible

that portals to other
points in the universe

truly exist right here on Earth?

And might these
so-called stargates

actually provide a connection
to alien civilizations?

WILLIAM HENRY: It's possible
that we were created

by these ancient gods who
came here in stargates

and they intended for us to
one day join them in the stars.

Perhaps today is that day.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Millions

of people around
the world believe

we have been visited in the
past by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really
help to shape our history?

And if so, might they have
arrived here through stargates?

[music playing]

Pamukkale, Turkey.

Here, 200 miles
south of Istanbul,

lay the ruins of Hierapolis,
an ancient city that

served as a sacred
site to the Phrygians

in the third century BC.

In March, 2013,
Italian archaeologists

announced that they
had unearthed something

the ancient Greeks described
as a gateway to Hell.

The ancients in Greece
and Roman civilizations

had a fascination
with the underworld,

the realm of Hades and Pluto.

There were many
stories of travelers

who were able to transit
into these unseen realms.

To go to the land of
the dead and survive

was a great miracle
showing great heroism.

[screams]

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
According to the accounts

of Greek geographer Strabo, this
cave, now partially bricked up,

was known as Plutonium,
or Pluto's Gate,

for the god of the underworld.

It was considered so
sacred that only cult

priests were allowed near it.

These priests worshipped
a powerful goddess

known as Sibylle.

Sibylle started
out as a goddess that

was important in Asia
Minor and then spread

west into Greece and Rome.

She is known as the
guardian of the gateways.

You would have to get
Sibylle's permission

to move through time and space.

SABINA MAGLIOCCO:
Iconographically, she's often

portrayed as standing
next to the gate

to the other world I think
the realm of the gods

has always fascinated
humans because it

is imagined as being very
different from our own realm.

And so humans have
always sought a way

to enter the realm
of the gods to have

those ecstatic experiences
that happen when you are

in communication with a deity.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Legends from around the world

describe secret entryways
similar to Pluto's Gate that

led to the land of the gods.

In many cases,
these gates not only

provided instant passage
outside the confines of Earth,

but even beyond space and time.

And according to some
myths, they were traversed

by otherworldly beings.

Throughout the
ancient world, we're

presented with stories
of advanced beings

who came from the stars--

star beings.

In many of these instances,
they are described as passing

through portals or star doors.

The term we use
today is stargate.

TIM SWARTZ: A
stargate is a place

that allows transportation
to another planet

or somewhere out in the stars.

There have been a number of
locations across the planet

where it's been felt that
the ancients built stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Are

such passages or
stargates just the product

of our ancestors' imaginations?

Or, might this kind
of interstellar travel

have actually existed
in the ancient world?

If so, who or what created
such advanced technology

thousands of years ago?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe more clues can be found

in the descriptions of the
elaborate rituals that took

place at the Turkish Plutonium.

JONATHAN YOUNG: It
was a great spectacle

when the priests
of Sibylle would

do their ceremonial sacrifice.

They'd lead a bull into
the cave and the bull would

die of the gases in this cave.

And the people were gathered
watching this whole thing.

Then, the priests would bring
out this sacrificed animal

and everyone would notice
the priests were alive,

showing they had some great
power or direct connection

to the divine source
to be able to survive

the rituals themselves.

This would prove, then, that
this was the gate to Hell,

and all the people
would be afraid

and have great respect for it.

The fact that these
rituals existed,

the fact that Sibylle was known
as the guardian of the gateway,

tells us that the
ancients were doing

something really important
with this idea of time travel,

of portals.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Excavations

have revealed that, in fact,
there are vapors rising

from the ground at the
site that contain poisonous

levels of carbon
dioxide and other gases

capable of killing anyone or
anything that breathes them in.

The ancient stories said
that animals that came anywhere

near this would drop
down dead, and the same

still occurs today.

Any birds going near
it fall down dead.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
If the toxins within the cave

were potent enough
to kill a bull,

how did the priests
survive this ritual?

Is it possible, as some ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

that the priests had received
secret knowledge and perhaps

even access to a stargate from
an otherworldly being known

as Sibylle?

In Pamukkale,
Turkey, this does

appear to be a preserved
record of a possible stargate

technology that is being used.

As these special priests were
able to go into this area,

they may have been
traveling through some sort

of energetic portal that
gave them the ability

to reach some other
location that was completely

different from where
people normally were going

if they walked into this area.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to
wonder if there was something

secret in this cave that
they were hiding, perhaps

some kind of interdimensional
stargate technology,

and that they would
put on this show

to basically frighten
them, make sure

that they realized this cave was
a forbidden place to go into,

and in fact was some kind of
repository for alien technology

and possibly stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Could the Plutonium really

be an extraterrestrial
stargate, one

that was protected
by priests in order

to dissuade others
from approaching it?

And if so, why?

Perhaps the answer can be
found at another ancient site

more than 7,000 miles away.

Machu Picchu, Peru,
approximately 50

miles northwest
of Cusco, nestled

high up in the Andes mountains.

These ancient Inca
ruins, believed

to have been a palace complex,
date back to the 15th century.

Located in the southwestern
corner of what archaeologists

contend was the
site's main plaza

is the Temple of Three Windows,
a stone hall 35 feet long

and 14 feet wide containing
three trapezoidal windows

along one wall.

Textbooks say that the windows
of the Temple of the Three

Windows are aligned perfectly to
let June solstice sunrise come

right in at a perfect angle,
that the entire building is

oriented to receive the
first light as it comes

over the mountains
through those three

windows at summer solstice.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Some scholars

believe the three
windows symbolized

the Incan creation myth.

According to legend, the
children of the sun god

Viracocha stepped into
the world through three

mysterious openings
in a mountain

and gave rise to the
Incan civilization.

In the creation story
of the Incan people,

the children of the
sun-- the Ayar brothers--

came down through three
portals, three windows

to begin the Incan people.

The temple at Machu
Picchu with three windows

is said to represent
this miraculous event.

ANDREW COLLINS: These brothers
were the offspring of the god

Viracocha that seemed to have
brought the first wisdom,

and knowledge, and
rudiments of civilization

to the peoples of South America.

And by simply looking
through these three windows,

the Mayan could
reach out and connect

once more with these gods
and communicate with them.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Some ancient astronaut

theorists believe the
Incan creation story may

be more than simply mythology.

They believe it could
be a description

of stargate travel taking
place thousands of years ago.

You read this story, you're
instantly thinking that this is

some kind of a stargate
they're describing,

and that these
children of the sun,

these advanced
solar beings possess

some kind of stargate
technology that enabled

them to open these gateways.

And maybe the Inca
story is a recollection

of their utilization of
this stargate technology.

DAVID WILCOCK: The Ayar brothers
could be very real beings who

came in, visited the
Incans, gave them

the basis of their
science, their technology,

their spoken language, all of
the aspects of civilization,

and used a stargate portal
technology on the side

of a mountain to get there.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Was the great Inca empire

actually created by
extraterrestrials

that traveled to Earth
through a so-called stargate?

And might that explain
why ancient sites

like the Plutonium
were so highly guarded?

Perhaps the answer
has already been

discovered not in the ancient
world, but by modern science.

Princeton, New
Jersey, July, 1935.

While collaborating at the
Institute for Advanced Study,

physicists Albert
Einstein and Nathan Rosen

publish a groundbreaking idea.

They come to the conclusion
that the theory of relativity

actually allows for
shortcuts across

the space-time continuum.

These paths, called
Einstein-Rosen bridges--

more commonly known
as wormholes--

connect two distant
locations, making

travel to the most remote stars
in the universe a possibility.

What you're talking about
is a structure in space

that involves very,
very strong bending

of space and the connecting of
two different parts of space.

So if you think of a piece of
paper curved around and then

punched out and connected
from one place to the other,

that's your basic wormhole.

NICK REDFERN: If we look at
the distance from our planet

to the nearest star system,
it's 4.2 light years away.

That means you would have
to travel for 4.2 years

at the speed of light,
which is 186,000 miles

a second, just to get there.

The only way, really,
to do that would be

by something like a wormhole.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: While the idea

of wormhole travel offers
incredible possibilities,

realizing this technology
poses immense challenges.

Scientists estimate that
creating a traversable wormhole

would require a far
greater amount of energy

than anything we
can produce today.

But there is a theory that
so-called exotic matter

may provide the key to
unlocking wormhole travel.

What you need is matter
with negative mass.

And we're only aware of
matter with positive mass

so we call this exotic matter.

Not that it couldn't exist,
we're just not aware of it yet.

The bottom line is, it
takes huge amounts of energy

to create these.

Imagine taking all of
Jupiter now, its entire mass,

and converting that to energy.

[explosion]

You know, you're
talking of millions

and millions of
times more energy

than you have in a nuclear bomb.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Although most scientists say

that we're a long way from
developing the technology

to create wormholes--

if such a thing is
even possible at all--

there are those who believe
these celestial shortcuts

already exist.

In 1991, scientists at
Vanderbilt University

proposed that the
chaos of the Big Bang

not only created the
universe, but also may

have caused the formation
of many wormholes

billions of years ago.

During the Big Bang space
time itself was being mashed

together, expanded, contracted.

And one theory says that if
you had something like the size

of the Himalayan mountains,
the space time around it

could have been
so badly stressed

that it would mash this matter
inside its own event horizon.

In the same way, you
can imagine space time

being mashed together and
forming a mini wormhole.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
The possible result,

according to researchers,
would be a wormhole

about the size of an atom.

Once located, these
many wormholes

could possibly be stretched to
create a traversable wormhole.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
One of the things

we know is that
since the Big Bang,

the universe has been expanding,
which means space time

overall has been stretching.

So when the universe
is quite small,

you make a teeny
little wormhole.

As that hole
structure stretches,

that whole wormhole stretches
and grows big as well.

So you could end up with
a very large wormhole now.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
If wormholes were created

in the earliest stages
of the universe,

is it possible, as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that celestial beings have
already used them to travel

to Earth in the distant past?

It's very possible
that wormholes

are stargates opening.

And beings coming
through them are

a way to explain how
man was interacting

with the ancient gods.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Chihuahua, Mexico, just 125

miles from the Texas border.

This vast archeological
site situated near the base

of the Sierra Madre
Occidental mountain range

dates back to 1,200 AD.

Known as both Paquimé
and Casas Grandes, only

part of the extensive remains--

estimated to contain more
than 2,000 clay rooms--

have been excavated, revealing
a well planned city containing

plazas, stores,
workshops, and multistory

residential buildings,
with an advanced

water and sewage system.

Paquimé, or Casas
Grandes, is larger

than any other site for hundreds
of miles in any direction.

And there's an interesting
melding of different cultures.

In some aspects, it's a very
Mesoamerican or Aztec city.

In other regards, it's a very
Pueblo or Southwest culture

city.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: At its height,

Paquimé is believed to
have had a population

of more than 10,000.

But this thriving
pre-Colombian civilization

declined, and
mysteriously disappeared

by the 16th century.

While no one knows exactly
who the inhabitants of Paquimé

were, it is believed that
their descendants may

be the indigenous
people of the region,

known as the Tarahumara.

The Tarahumara now live high
up in the canyons of the Sierra

Madre, and much of what is
known about the ancient city

of Paquimé comes from
the stories passed down

to them from their ancestors.

According to their
legends, Paquimé

is a sacred place
where star people

have appeared for centuries.

Described as light,
tall, and blond,

the Tarahumara say these
mysterious beings emerged

from doorways in the ruins.

LOGAN HAWKES: The
Tarahumara truly

believe that the star
people exist still

today in the Chihuahua desert.

They believe that these tall,
blond people represent--

may be the heirs
of the star people

that first brought
them to this world.

They believe that
there is a portal

and that these star people
use this portal today

to transport to various places
on the Earth and off world

as well.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Throughout

the architecture of
Paquimé are hundreds

of uniquely T shaped openings--

openings that closely
resemble an ancient doorway

more than 4,000 miles
away in southern Peru.

[music playing]

Here, perched high in the
Andes mountains, this shallow T

shaped opening called the
Doorway of Aramu Muru,

is surrounded by many
legends describing it

as an active portal that
transports beings both into

and out of this world.

This could be a coincidence
if it weren't for the fact that

at Paquimé, there are strange
stories of the appearance

of these Caucasian-like beings.

And there are very similar
stories to do with this gate

of the gods in Peru.

It's possible that this does
represent a stargate location

in which extraterrestrial humans
are seen as coming and going

during certain opportune
points in the year

when the stargate
becomes active.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Considering the similar

doorways and legends of
otherworldly beings at Paquimé

and Aramu Muru, is
it possible that

extraterrestrials once
accessed these ancient

sites through stargates?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists say that not only were

stargates present at places
like Paquimé and Aramu Muru

in the distant
past, but that there

may be functioning stargates
here on Earth even today.

The Sargasso Sea.

Stretching 700 miles wide
and 2,000 miles long,

this strange body of
water is completely

isolated in the middle of
the North Atlantic Ocean.

It is a sea without
shores surrounded

by some of the strongest
currents in the world.

And due to a number of
unexplained incidents

that have occurred
here, it has earned

the nicknames Sea of Lost
Ships, The Calms of Death,

and The Sea of Fear.

And curiously, although the
waters around it are violent,

the Sargasso Sea itself is calm.

The water is unusually blue,
mysterious, as if the currents

don't affect this one area.

As if the winds stop, or
as if time stands still.

Back in the time
of sailing ships,

if sailing ships
went into this area

they could not
necessarily get out,

and they were seen
as sort of being

trapped by the Sargasso Sea.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Boats
would be found perfectly

intact there, but
the crew will have

disappeared without a trace.

Now, why would that be?

Because it's strange
since the Sargasso Sea

is known for its calm waters.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Perhaps

the oldest known and most
famous disappearance reported

from the Sargasso Sea
occurred in August,

1840, when a merchant ship
called the Rosalie was

traveling from Germany to Cuba.

According to "The London Times,"
when it was discovered drifting

aimlessly, the
vessel was completely

abandoned, although
perfectly intact,

with the sails still set.

What happened to the
Rosalie remains a mystery.

But similar occurrences
have continued to plague

the Sargasso Sea for centuries.

MICHAEL BARA: In 1881, a ship
by the name of the Ellen Austin

found a derelict schooner
in the Sargasso Sea.

They put a crew
aboard it and sailed

in tandem back towards
London for several days.

About two days later,
the schooner was found

to be sailing erratically.

And when it was boarded again,
that crew had also disappeared

absolutely into thin air.

It was as if the people were
simply beamed out of it.

It is also interesting
to note that the Sargasso

Sea is directly in
contact with the area

we call the Bermuda Triangle.

There may be some type
of stargate or portal

activation in this area.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Could the reports

of strange disappearances
occurring in the Sargasso Sea,

and also in the Bermuda
Triangle that overlaps

this body of water, be explained
by the presence of a stargate?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe further evidence can

be found deep within one of
North America's largest lakes,

Lake Michigan.

Stretching across this 22,300
square mile body of water

from Manitowoc, Wisconsin to
Ludington and Benton Harbor,

Michigan, is another
mysterious area

known as the Michigan Triangle.

Like the Sargasso
Sea, this portion

of the massive
freshwater lake has

been associated with bizarre
and puzzling disappearances.

MICHAEL DENNIN:
In 1937, there was

a freighter named the
McFarland which passed

through the Michigan Triangle.

The captain of the
ship went to his cabin

to get some sleep, told his
second mate to come and awaken

him at a specific time.

When the second mate knocked on
the door, there was no answer.

The door was locked
from the inside.

They broke in, and the captain
had simply disappeared.

None of the portholes were open.

None of the windows were open.

There was no way for the captain
to have gotten out of the ship.

GEORGE NOORY: They never
could find the guy.

Did he jump off the ship?

Who knows.

But the ship was exactly in
this triangle in Lake Michigan.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: But ships

aren't the only crafts affected
by this area of Lake Michigan.

There are accounts of
as many as 40 planes

that have disappeared in
the Michigan Triangle.

In 1950, 13 years after the
captain of the McFarland

went missing, Northwest Airlines
Flight 2501, carrying 55

passengers and three crew,
disappeared as it passed

over the Michigan Triangle.

The wreckage has
never been discovered,

and investigations
continue to this day.

MICHAEL DENNIN: No
wreckage was ever found.

The families have been
despondent over it.

They continue to look
for the wreckage.

There's a monument to them on
the shores of Lake Michigan.

But not a trace, not
a belt buckle, not

a wallet, not a chair,
nothing from the aircraft

has ever been found.

And the area was searched
for six days afterwards.

It's been searched extensively
by salvagers in the decades

since.

And no one has
ever found a thing.

Ships have been there,
they've disappeared.

Airplanes have flown into the
region, they've disappeared.

NICK REDFERN: These aircraft
and ships are just gone.

Now, for me, the very fact
that they are totally vanished,

that makes me think that
possibly they've been sucked

into some form of
wormhole and unfortunately

get trapped on the other side.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Could the murky waters

of Lake Michigan
actually be hiding

the entrance to a wormhole,
as some researchers suggest?

Might that explain why there has
been such peculiar phenomenon

here, including
countless sightings

of strange unidentified flying
objects both overhead and

coming from below the surface?

MICHAEL DENNIN: There
have been witnesses

that have actually seen
green glowing disks

fly up out of the lake.

They've seen blue spherical
objects fly into the lake.

DAVID WILCOCK: Gateways
through space and time

will have a luminous quality.

They will appear as spherical
formations of plasma.

It seems that certain
areas of water

are often where these portals
are naturally forming.

It's possible that
extraterrestrials may

have been accessing that area.

And in fact, it may
still be active today,

thus accounting for these
UFO sightings and all

the bizarre disappearances.

DAVID CHILDRESS: These
areas are very inaccessible.

The whole concept of
some of these stargates

and portals being
actually underwater

makes a lot of sense.

WILLIAM HENRY: It's
possible that there's

a network of underwater portals
spread throughout the world.

These portals could be accessed
by extraterrestrial beings

who use them to come
and go from the stars.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: Could there

be stargates hidden deep
within our lakes and oceans

that extraterrestrials
might still

be using even to this day?

And if so, might humans
one day be able to access

these stargates as well?

Some scientists believe
that not only will we

travel through stargates
which already exist,

but that we may even be close
to creating them ourselves.

Cal State Fullerton, 2013.

Here, in a small lab at
this public university,

physicist Jim Woodward
conducts experiments

that he believes will
one day change the way

we travel through space.

JAMES WOODWARD: I was primarily
interested in trying to figure

out how to make stuff go fast.

And to do that,
you need to master

the problem of propulsion.

To master the
problem of propulsion

to achieve speeds that
are a significant fraction

of the speed of
light, you have to be

able to manipulate inertia.

And so that's how
I got interested

in gravity and inertia.

What I found is that it may
indeed be possible to get

around space time quickly.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Dr. Woodward's work

seeks to prove a
controversial theory known

as Mach's principle,
which says that there is

a direct relationship
between the motion of mass

here on Earth, and
that of distant matter

that exists throughout
the universe.

Woodward theorizes that
if this proves true,

it could be the key to
unlocking stargate travel.

The idea was first introduced
in 1883 by Austrian physicist

Ernst Mach.

JAMES WOODWARD: Mach's
principle, at the simplest

level, is the assertion that
when you push on an object,

the reason why it
pushes back on you

is because of the
gravitational action

of the most distant
matter of the universe

acting through the object.

And so the matter out
there, far, far away,

is this stuff that determines
the inertial properties

of objects locally.

ROBERT H FRISBEE: Mach's
principle basically

says that all the
stars, all the planets,

all the galaxies out there do,
in fact, have an effect on us

here.

And the reason they do
is because of the way

they warp space time.

So even though you may not
see it, the world around you

is determined by what's going
on potentially light years

away from you.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Dr. Woodward's initial interest

in Mach's principle was
not to create wormholes,

but to revolutionize
space travel

by creating propulsion
without expelling

matter from the craft.

Our standard way of
thinking of propulsion

is, we send stuff out
the back of something.

So you have a rocket, it
sends hot gases out the back.

You have a jet engine, it
sucks air in through the front

and shoots it out the back.

So almost all of our
propulsion systems

are that basic principle--
throw something out the back,

you move forward.

The Mach principle, I
almost think about it

maybe as a surf wave, right?

You're riding along on the wave
and that's moving you forward.

You don't actually have
to send anything out back.

In this sort of
effect, the idea is,

essentially, to create a wave in
space that you move forward on.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY
[VOICEOVER]: But Dr. Woodward

discovered that Mach's principle
could have implications

beyond just propulsion.

He believes it holds the
key to actually creating

traversable wormholes,
giving us the ability

to travel to the most remote
corners of the universe.

The experiments suggest that
if scientists could somehow

separate or decouple ordinary
mass from the influence

of this distant matter, huge
amounts of negative energy

could potentially be exposed.

In principle, you should be
able to engineer devices that

will enable you to screen matter
from the influence of gravity

of distant matter
in the universe.

And if you can do that,
you can make stargates.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
While the existence of Mach's

principle is still debated
in the scientific community,

Dr. Woodward believes his
experiments prove its validity.

By running electricity through
a stack of lead zirconium

titanite crystals
known as PZTs, Woodward

accelerates and
temporarily changes

the rest mass of the device he
calls the Mach effect thruster.

If Mach's principle holds
true, when the mass of the Mach

thruster fluctuates,
it will interact

with the distant
matter in the universe,

resulting in a small amount
of measurable thrust.

All of this is
happening through

a gravitational connection
between this local device

and the rest of the
matter in the universe.

We have the Mach effect
thruster here mounted

in the Faraday cage, and it's
located on the end of the beam

like so.

The reason why you put the
thrust balance in a vacuum

chamber is because
you're trying to detect

exceedingly small thrusts on
the order of a micronewton.

This display is of data taken
over a period of one day.

The red trace is thrust.

The dark blue traces the power
being delivered to the device.

This is the clearest evidence
for the Mach effect--

this large thrust transient
when the center frequency

is turned on, followed by a
thrust transient point that

is turned off.

None of that thrust
should be there if there

aren't any Mach effects.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Could Dr. Woodward's

experiments really be proof
that Mach's principle is true

and wormhole travel is a
real scientific possibility?

If so, might we be able
to create actual stargates

in the near future?

JAMES WOODWARD: If
you're willing to devote

significant resources
to trying to do this,

I would think that you
should be able to build

prototype very crude stargates
within a decade or two.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Once we have
this concept and, in theory,

could develop the technology
to move through wormholes,

it's only natural
that we would think

that ancient
extraterrestrials and alien

societies would
have also thought

of this thousands of years ago.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Does modern research

into wormholes really
suggest that stargates have

a basis in scientific reality?

And might more
advanced alien beings

have used this
knowledge to travel

to Earth in the distant past?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
say the strongest proof

that extraterrestrials
arrived here through stargates

may lie in a 3,200 year
old Egyptian temple

and a mysterious hieroglyph
carved on its wall.

Abydos, Egypt, 300
miles South of Cairo.

This 5,000 year old
archeological site

near the Nile River
was a burial place

for the first kings of Egypt.

The ancient city was a major
center of religious pilgrimage

where Osiris, the god of
the underworld, was revered.

ANDREW COLLINS:
Osiris was the god

that was said to
have brought wisdom

and knowledge to
those who preceded

the dynastic Egyptians.

Abydos was a place
that people came

to communicate with Osiris.

ROBERT BAUVAL: It was
considered the place where

the god Osiris had been buried.

Osiris had been the originator
of the pharaonic civilization.

He was the first
pharaoh, if you like.

The myth is that Osiris
was cut in several pieces

by his evil brother.

And the head was found
and kept at Abydos.

GRAHAM PHILLIPS: Abydos
was said to have been

the burial place of Osiris.

But this is where
he was supposed

to physically stand
guard between this world

and the next.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Construction on the largest

of the temples at Abydos was
started in the 13th century BC

by the pharaoh Seti, and
is dedicated to Osiris.

Depicted on the wall of
the temple's Osiris chapel

is a mysterious hieroglyph
that some researchers

believe represents
the vessel that held

the head of the powerful god.

ROBERT BAUVAL: The
relic of Abydos,

it is this sort of
bell shaped object,

and on top of it is
usually two plumes.

WILLIAM HENRY: When we look
at the hieroglyphs of the head

of Osiris, what we
see is something

that appears to be very
technological or mechanical.

It looks like some kind
of an ancient antenna

type of a device.

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ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Might this depiction of Osiris

really represent an ancient
technological device, one

so important that the
Egyptians memorialized it here

on the walls of
this sacred temple?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Some ancient astronaut theorists
believe more clues can be found

on the opposite wall of the
chapel, where Pharaoh Seti is

shown transforming
into this Osiris device

while traveling
on a solar barge.

The solar barge
was a vehicle that

was able to make that journey
from this world to the next.

So in other words,
in many ways it was

actually a boat of the stars.

DAVID WILCOCK: But the
shape of the solar barge

bears a curious similarity
to the Einstein-Rosen bridge.

So the solar barge could be a
primitive depiction of people

watching a luminous
stargate appearing,

and then it being used as
a teleportation device.

VINCENZO MACRINO: On the
depiction of the solar barge,

the head of Pharaoh
Seti appears to be

emerging from that portal.

Perhaps Seti was a
time traveler utilizing

just such technology given
to him by the ancient gods.

WILLIAM HENRY: It suggests
that Seti utilized

this ancient technology to
turn himself into a star being

so that he could
travel the stargates

and wormholes for eternity.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Maybe gods like Osiris

were actually
extraterrestrials using

this stargate technology to
come to Earth and teach mankind.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Could these hieroglyphs really

be depicting a device that
allowed Pharaoh Seti to travel

across time and space?

Is it possible
that the Egyptians

and other ancient
cultures around the world

really encountered
extraterrestrials who came

to Earth through stargates?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Just
because our scientists of today

haven't quite figured
it out yet doesn't

mean that some other
civilization thousands, maybe

even hundreds of
thousands of years

older hasn't figured
it out, either.

Remember, the
universe is infinite,

which means that there are
infinite possibilities.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
We may have known

in the past what was going
on and about these portals

and wormholes.

And that is why stories like
astral travel, and stargates,

and interdimensional
voyages are something

that we've been hearing
about for thousands of years.

And we're just now
rediscovering it

for ourselves, this
knowledge given

to us by the extraterrestrials.

It's possible that this is the
next step in human evolution.

It will represent a new
beginning for humankind.

And perhaps this was always
the plan from ancient times.

We were created by these ancient
gods who came here in stargates

and wormholes, and they
intended for us to one day

join them in the stars.

ROBERT CLOTWORTHY [VOICEOVER]:
Could Earth really

be home to stargates
that link us

to distant points throughout
the universe, pathways

that extraterrestrials have
used for thousands of years

and that we are only
beginning to rediscover?

And if we ever do unlock
the key to stargate travel,

will we discover that
we've been connected to

alien civilizations all along?

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