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NARRATOR: He is the
man who harnessed lightning.

MARC SEIFER: He really
is the harnessed lightning.

NARRATOR: He envisioned new
technologies far before their time.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: These
images would burst into his mind.

NARRATOR: He also claimed to have
contact with otherworldly beings.

DAVID CHILDRESS: You have to wonder

if extraterrestrials themselves
weren't feeding him information.

NARRATOR: Nikola Tesla is considered

one of the most innovative
and mysterious men

who ever lived,
but was he simply a mad genius,

or might his brilliance
have had extraterrestrial origins?

DAVID WILCOCK: He was actually
being communicated with

by extraterrestrials,
and publicly proclaimed this.

NARRATOR: 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, is there a connection
to the genius of Nikola Tesla?

New York City,

January 7, 1943.

Famed inventor Nikola
Tesla dies of a heart attack

on the thirty-third floor
of the Hotel New Yorker.

Within hours of his
body being discovered,

his nephew arrives at room 3327,
and discovers Tesla's remains,

as well as his technical
papers and notebooks,

have already been removed.

Speculation spreads that
the Federal Bureau of Investigation

had seized the items

and quickly designated
them "top secret."

WILCOCK: Nikola Tesla
was completely paranoid

about someone trying to kill him,
and as soon as he died, U.S.

government agents swooped in and

confiscated all of his
scientific papers.

In a very short time, everything
that he had been guarding with

this life was gone.

NICK REDFERN: The official story
is that nothing of any great

significance was found.
It was just a lot of scientific

papers and documents.

However, there have been a lot
of rumors over the years that

the materials recovered was
profoundly significant in terms

of a lot of highly-advanced
scientific concepts.

NARRATOR: Just who was this
mysterious figure known as "Tesla",

and why would his notebooks
elicit so much interest

from the United States government?

(thunder rumbling)
The life of Nikola Tesla

was a dramatic one
from the very beginning.

(thunder rumbling)
(clock bell chimes)

He was born at the stroke
of midnight on July 10, 1856,

during a violent lightning
storm in what is now Croatia.

electrical storm, and the
midwife saw this as a bad omen.

But there was a flash of
lightning, and Tesla's mother

said, "No,
this will be a child of light."

TIM SWARTZ: At an early age, Nikola
Tesla showed a superior mind.

He was already inventing things.

He invented toys that used
insects to power them.

But he was fascinated by
thunderstorms.

And, but he would see the
lightning.

He became fascinated with
electricity.

And he was determined that he
was going to harness the power

of the earth and the universe
for the benefit of mankind.

NARRATOR: In 1881,
after eight years studying physics,

math and engineering at universities
in Graz, Austria and Prague,

Tesla became an electrical engineer
for a telephone company in Budapest.

Three years later, the 28-year-old
moved to the United States,

and took a job in New York City,

working for Thomas Edison.

But very quickly,
the two would become rivals

in what became known
as "the war of the currents.

SEIFER: In a sense,
you have dueling wizards.

Edison was performing
with direct current,

Tesla came along with
alternating current,

competing to win the right
to harness Niagara Falls.

That was the big prize.

If you harness Niagara Falls,

you control all the power
for the entire Northeast.

NARRATOR: In Edison's direct
current distribution system,

the steady stream of electricity
would lose potency as it

traveled down the line.

This required power
plants every half mile,

and could only supply enough
power to lightbulbs. (hissing)

Tesla designed a far
more sophisticated system,

utilizing alternating current, which
could easily be manipulated along

the way, allowing for not
only lightbulbs to be powered,

but also other electric devices.

Using Niagara Falls as
a hydroelectric power source,

Tesla's system could illuminate
the entire Northeast.

SEIFER: It would be like comparing
a horse and buggy to a jet plane.

Tesla had the jet plane.
Edison had the horse and buggy.

There is no comparison at all.
Tesla had a quantum leap ahead.

NARRATOR: Edison criticized
Tesla's model as highly

dangerous in an effort to
ensure that his system won out.

He even went so far as
holding public demonstrations

using alternating current
to electrocute cats and dogs...

(electrical buzzing)

...and even a rogue elephant.

But Nikola Tesla's
superior A/C power system

ultimately prevailed, and today,

it still remains the foundation
of the world's power grid.

JOHN BRANDENBURG: Tesla
allowed the world to be

electrified, and not only that,
he brought electricity from

being kind of a useful thing to
being a universal thing that

could be used all throughout
society.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: Nikola
Tesla is one of the most amazing

geniuses mankind has ever known.
His ideas went far and beyond

what was accepted at the time.
If it hadn't been for Tesla, we

would be living in very
different times.

NARRATOR: But Nikola Tesla

not only officially
electrified the world.

(train horn toots) His legacy
includes groundbreaking work

on electric railroads,
fluorescent and neon lights,

wireless radio communications,
X-ray...

remote control... turbine engines...

speedometers... helicopters...

and even torpedoes.
By the time of his death, Tesla

Tesla held nearly
700 worldwide patents.

GEORGE NOORY: Nikola Tesla
was one of the world's greatest

inventors.
Tesla was like Leonardo da

Vinci. He had the
mind of a futurist,

and he was able to
do incredible things.

NARRATOR: During Nikola
Tesla's time, the Industrial

Revolution was firmly taking
hold.

Factories, using steam and coal
power, replaced manual labor.

Hundreds of thousands of miles
of railway and roads were built,

dramatically changing the
landscape of society.

But this extraordinary
innovation came at a price-- a

complete disregard for the
environment.

SWARTZ: Nikola Tesla said
that there was a difference

between progress and technology.
Progress benefits mankind.

Technology does not necessarily
do that.

If you have a technology that is
polluting the planet, that's not

progress.

NARRATOR: But just
how is it that Nikola Tesla

was so far ahead of his time?

For decades,
the forward-thinking inventor--

a man shrouded in mystery-- has
fascinated scholars and researchers.

SEIFER: Tesla came
from a very strange area--

actually wasn't too
far from Transylvania.

He was tall and thin. He
spoke 11 or 12 different languages.

And he does these
fantastic inventions

and fantastic performances,

so he had this mystique about him.

TZADOK: Nikola Tesla is born
at a time which, coincidentally,

coincides with an ancient
Zoharic prophecy that speaks

about the opening of the gates
of wisdom upon the earth.

And who's born at this time?
Nikola Tesla.

Albert Einstein. This is
the beginning of so many things.

NARRATOR: But could there

really be something more to the
prophecies, rumors and wild

speculations surrounding Nikola
Tesla?

Something, perhaps, even
otherworldly?

JASON MARTELL: Throughout
history, there have been various

prophets and scientists that
have really affected the human

evolution.
Like Einstein, Galileo,

Copernicus, and Tesla's
definitely one of these type of

people. We have to wonder if these

people aren't somehow involved
in some larger plan of influence

on humanity as a whole.
CHILDRESS: Some researchers

into Tesla think that he was
some kind of special human

receiver, and if that's the
case, then we have someone who

the ETs were helping to move
along and develop the amazing

inventions that light the world
today.

WILCOCK: Is it possible that
Tesla knew he was on a mission?

Was he attempting
to uplevel our technology

to the point at which
we would be capable of having

all of the abilities of those who,
in ancient times,

were called the gods?

NARRATOR: Is it possible,
as some ancient astronaut theorists

suggest, that Nikola
Tesla was being influenced by

extraterrestrials?
Extraterrestrials on a mission

to advance mankind?

Perhaps answers can be
found by further examining

inspiration behind one
of Tesla's greatest achievements.

NARRATOR: Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology

is home to some of
the world's greatest minds.

M.I.T. researchers are
on the forefront of innovation,

including the development
of wireless transmission of power.

Efficient wireless
transmission of electricity

has eluded scientists for years.

Radio waves, microwaves
and even laser-beam transmission

of power have fallen short.

But in 2007, M.I.T. researchers
were able to safely transmit

power wirelessly seven
feet across a room...

a feat heralded as a first
step to cutting the power cord.

Incredibly, a word in which
all electrical devices would be

would be automatically powered at
all times, requiring no charging or

or wires, was envisioned
more than a century earlier

by inventor Nikola Tesla.

And by some accounts, he was close
to actually achieving that goal.

THOMAS VALONE: The ideas of
Tesla for wireless power have

only been, um, briefly
investigated by various

scientists.
And the tests that were done

by Tesla in 1899 to 1900
in Colorado Springs verify

the fact that the use of
wireless was actually possible.

SEIFER: Tesla went out
to Colorado Springs to see if he

could send electricity several
miles, which is a tremendous

achievement,
but he had a huge tower.

It was 200 feet to the top.
His assistant was located at the

laboratory and Tesla said, "When
I give you the signal, I want

you to throw the switch and
fire up the wireless system.

And Tesla probably walked four
miles away.

NARRATOR: Tesla inserted
lightbulbs into the earth

to see if his tower was in fact
creating a wireless circuit with

the ground.

If so, the bulbs would light up.

SEIFER: These
lightbulbs were being lit,

so he was able to establish that
he could transmit electrical power

over great distances.
But he did keep it a secret.

He even kept the mechanics
a secret from his assistant,

who didn't totally know all
the details of what he was doing.

NARRATOR: Shoreham,
New York. 1901.

Tesla convinces banker J.P.
Morgan to give him $150,000

for the construction of
a radio station. But instead,

he uses the money to build
a giant wireless transmitter

he calls Wardenclyffe Tower.

SEIFER: Wardenclyffe
was 187 feet to the top,

but it also went 120
feet down into the ground.

And Tesla had envisioned
receiving stations,

which would look just
like the Wardenclyffe Tower

at different nodal
points around the Earth.

He would jump energy by means
of wireless from station to station.

He even thought that he could
eventually use the same system

to jump power to different planets.

NARRATOR: But Tesla's dream
of creating a highly efficient

broadcast of wireless
electricity was cut short when

1904, its funder J.P.
Morgan discovered Tesla's true

intentions to provide free
power to everyone on the planet.

With lack of additional funding,
by 1908, the project was

completely abandoned.

And in 1917,
the tower was demolished.

REDFERN: No company,
no corporation

wants to give away
its technology freely.

So Tesla was shut down, so that
the world wouldn't have free energy.

NARRATOR: But just how was Tesla

able to transmit
electricity wirelessly for

for several miles when modern
scientists can only manage seven

can only manage seven feet?

Tesla credited his many
inventions to the ability

to realize them
entirely in his mind.

He also described experiencing
intense flashes of light,

which were followed by moments
of intense creativity and clarity.

SCHWARTZ: He would see
an invention appear before his eyes

in almost holographic detail.

He said that he could rotate
these visions, take them apart

piece by piece, and he knew
exactly how he was going to

build these inventions based on
his visionary experiences.

SEIFER: One of his greatest
creations is the rotating magnetic

and that came in
a flash of intuition.

He felt that we were receivers,

that all impulses
came from the outside,

and that we worked
on these impulses.

So, he doesn't believe that they

come from dreams or inner visions.

He really felt that we were,
in a sense, self-propelled robots.

NARRATOR: Some ancient
astronaut theorists

believe there may
be another explanation

for Tesla's uncanny abilities

and mysterious visions.

They suggest these spontaneous
episodes are proof that Tesla

was receiving information from

an otherworldly source.

TZADOK: These images would
literally burst into his mind.

Somehow, somewhere, some
connection was made.

And it's the same way the
biblical prophets received their

prophecy.
Nikola Tesla was clearly in

touch with something.

CHILDRESS: You have to wonder

if extraterrestrials themselves
weren't feeding him images of

inventions that only he could
understand.

SWARTZ: Nikola Tesla
felt there was a knowledge base,

located somewhere in the universe,
that all of humanity

could tap into if they just
knew how to properly tune their mind

to this knowledge base.

NARRATOR: Is it
possible Nikola Tesla

was actually being fed images
to assist him in furthering mankind?

And if so, could Tesla have tapped
into an ancient source of knowledge,

perhaps even
rediscovering technology

that may have been used before.

TSOUKALOS: We have these
stories of towers that might

have relayed energy-- like the
obelisks that we can find all

around the world-- that they, at
some point, were all connected

and that they were feeding off
the Earth's magnetic grid.

SWARTZ: It's been discovered, in
ancient Egyptian temples and tombs,

carvings that look suspiciously
like modern-day lightbulbs

and Tesla coils.

CHILDRESS: Was there
a certain technology,

certain technology,
an energy system of ancient times

that we still have
remnants of today?

Giant pyramids, obelisks,
huge standing stones and towers...

Perhaps they were all
part of some extraterrestrial,

huge energy system.

NARRATOR: Was Tesla's
Wardenclyffe Tower meant to

connect to an ancient energy
grid powered not only by the Earth,

but eventually by other planets,
as well?

And if so, is it possible
Nikola Tesla was communicating with

advanced celestial
beings that visited Earth

thousands of years ago?

Perhaps the answer can be found
by examining the mysterious

radio transmissions Tesla
claimed he received

from outer space.

(thunder crashes)
NARRATOR: Colorado Springs.

July, 1899.

While testing a
magnifying transmitter

he built to track storms,

Nikola Tesla claims he received

some sort of transmission from
an unknown source. (thunder crashes)

SEIFER: One night,
he was tracking thunderstorms

600 miles away.

But all of a sudden, he heard
these beeps. (three chiming sounds)

And it was three beats in sequence.

And so it was mathematical and
it didn't make any sense to him.

And the more he thought about
it, he thought that they came

from outer space, perhaps from
the Martians.

(three chiming sounds)
BRANDENBURG: Mars' orbit

brings it close to the Earth
periodically, about once every

1.8 years.
And at one of those close

encounters, uh, he believed he was
picking up signals from Mars.

VALONE: He most likely had

made a receiver that was
sensitive enough to receive

radio waves, as we now know come
from galaxies and-and lots of

different extraterrestrial
sources.

So he interpreted them as
signals from ETs.

But perhaps he had an open
channel that we really still

don't understand today.

SEIFER: Tesla believed it's absurd
to think we're the only intelligent

beings in the universe.

If that's the case,
where are they in the intelligence

hierarchy and why wouldn't
they want to communicate with an

intelligent force on the Earth?

NARRATOR: Tesla reported
this otherworldly communication

and proclaimed his
belief in extraterrestrials

in February of 1901,

in an article for Collier's Weekly
titled "Talking with the Planets."

SWARTZ: Tesla became obsessed
ith trying to receive, uh,

further, uh, radio

communications, uh, from other
planets.

Based on these transmissions
that Tesla was receiving,

he eloped a theory that
this extraterrestrial presence

had been on Earth for a millennia.

That these extraterrestrials
had been

controlling mankind from
the very beginning.

WILCOCK: How far did
these communications go?

Did it lead to the point where
he was actually able to receive

useful information that was
helping him build his inventions?

Many believe that this is
what happened and that Tesla had

direct contact, through
the things he'd invented,

with extraterrestrial intelligence.

NARRATOR: But the shocking
revelation was shunned

by Tesla's scientific peers

and led many to deem
him "a mad scientist."

BRANDENBURG: So you have
Nikola Tesla electrifying the

world, literally.
Then, about the time that

he had a falling-out with, uh,

J.P. Morgan, a very powerful
man-- he'd also had a legendary

falling-out with Edison,
another legendary, powerful man.

Then it came out that he
was trying to, perhaps, signal the

planet Mars.
And his enemies exploited this,

uh, I think,
to try and discredit him.

NARRATOR: In the early 1900s,
it was rumored that Tesla was

being considered to
receive the Nobel Prize.

But, mysteriously, he never did.

SEIFER: Even today, scientists
don't take him into account

the way they should.

Tesla talked about atoms
working like solar systems,

and that light could
work as a wave and a particle.

Einstein got a Nobel Prize
for saying light worked like a

particle, and Bohr and
Rutherford got a Nobel Prize for

saying that atoms were
like little solar systems.

So why is he removed from
the history of quantum physics when

he really belongs
at the heart of it?

So I think he's been unfairly
treated by the physicists,

and part of the reason is
his attachment to extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Was Nikola Tesla
simply letting his imagination

get the better of him?

Or is it possible
he really was in contact

with extraterrestrial beings?

Belgrade, Serbia.

Housing more than
160,000 documents,

the Nikola Tesla Museum
offers rare insight

into some of Tesla's future plans...

including what some believe
are drawings of spaceships.

According to historians,

Tesla began work on
his flying machine in 1910,

focusing on the use of field
propulsion, or anti-gravity.

It is believed Tesla had
discovered that high amounts of

electricity could actually
create lift in an object.

CHILDRESS: Throughout
the 1920s and '30s,

Tesla continually talked about
anti-gravity ships that could

derive power from his
Wardenclyffe Towers that were

gonna be broadcasting power.
He claimed these ships did not

have wings or fuel.
They were completely electric.

NARRATOR: But were Tesla's designs
truly the first of their kind?

Or is it possible, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest,

that similar vehicles
had already visited the planet

in the remote past?

TSOUKALOS: In the ancient
Indian epics, the Vedas, we find

references of "vimanas," those
flying chariots that were used

by the gods in order to travel
from point "A" to point "B."

Some of these vimanas were able to

alter direction
at the drop of a hat,

without any effort.

So, now, reading this
from a modern-day perspective

would suggest that some type
of anti-gravity device was used.

You can link this from the
ancient to the modern world with

the modern UFO phenomenon.

And so the idea that Tesla
might have worked on an anti-gravity

device is very plausible to me.

NARRATOR: Are the depictions
of flying machines

in ancient Hindu texts

like the Mahabharata really proof

that Tesla had received
otherworldly knowledge

in order to design
anti-gravity spaceships?

And if the so-called "mad
scientist" actually did make

contact with extraterrestrials,
is it possible he continued to

carry out their wishes in secret?

NARRATOR: Palo Alto, California;
2013. A Silicon Valley start-up's

A Silicon Valley start-up's
all-electric sports car

wins Motor Trend's Car of the Year.

It's one of the most fuel-efficient
vehicles on the planet,

produces no emissions and can
go from zero to 60 miles per hour

in four seconds.

The Model S energizes
the electric car industry and

reintroduces its namesake
to the world stage... Tesla.

CHILDRESS: It's interesting
to think in 1931, Tesla told

reporters that he had converted
a Pierce-Arrow car into a

completely electric car.

Tesla showed them the car.
He drove it around.

It went as fast
as 90 miles per hour.

When you look at it, many of the
inventions that Tesla talked about,

and even patented,
were eventually developed.

NARRATOR: The list of
technologies that can be traced

back to the drawing board
of Nikola Tesla is endless.

Modern humanoid robotics,
solar and wind power,

weather manipulation,

drones and even planetary
exploration vehicles.

Getting as little as just
two hours of sleep per day,

the inventor's sole purpose on Earth

appeared to be geared toward
one end: advancing technology for

the future of the human race.

SEIFER: He always
had his eye on the future.

And further, he was trying
to shape the future

through his
inventions.

TZADOK: Mr. Tesla was not
unique in this.

Many of the founders, leaders,
of religion

also were compelled
by inner experiences,

which pushed them
to materialize these

things in the world.
So, in a religious context,

we would say that a religious
leader is in touch with

something divine.
In a scientific context,

we wouldn't necessarily use the
word "divine," but yet, somehow,

somewhere, people are being
contacted, receiving

communications which are leading
to the clear introduction

of new things in humanity.

MARTELL: Tesla seemed
to have this drive

that put everything
else by the wayside.

When he was working on an invention,
food, sleep, relationships,

human interaction...
none of that mattered.

It's almost as if he
was on some type of a mission.

A mission,
possibly, with a greater plan,

under the influence
of extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Was Nikola
Tesla really inspired

to invent by an
extraterrestrial source,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

And if so,
might further clues be found

in what some believe to
be the rantings of a "mad man"?

By the time Nikola Tesla
moved into his final home--

the Hotel New Yorker--
in January 1934,

he had become better known for his
eccentricities than his inventions.

He reportedly was
an extreme germaphobe,

preferred to work in
almost complete darkness

and was also obsessed
with the number three.

SEIFER: Tesla was definitely
interested in numerology.

And he was very superstitious.

He had to circle a building
three times before he entered.

He had calculated nodal points
around the planet and they were

were probably linked to
the numbers three, six and nine.

And he said that the
numbers were very important.

WILCOCK: Nikola Tesla was
quoted as saying, "If you knew

the magnificence of the three,
six and nine,

you would have a key
to the universe."

If we go to the Great
Pyramid of Giza,

not only are there the
three larger pyramids at Giza,

all side by side, mirroring
the positions of the stars in

Orion's Belt, but we also see
a group of three smaller pyramids

immediately away from
the three larger pyramids.

Three and three.
Similarly, we find lots of

evidence that nature uses
threefold and sixfold symmetry,

including the hexagonal
tile shape of the common honeycomb.

These shapes are in nature,
and the ancients emulated these

shapes in the building
of their sacred architecture.

So Tesla's quote is neatly
mirrored in the actual

archaeological evidence
that we find in many ancient

architectural sites
around the world.

NARRATOR: Could the numbers three,
six and nine really offer

clues to the inner
workings of the universe?

If so, is it possible that
Tesla uncovered this profound secret

and used this knowledge
to push the boundaries of science

and technology?
Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining Tesla's
most controversial invention.

NARRATOR: New York City.
July 1934. On his 78th birthday,

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.

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.

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 the 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.

SEIFER: Tesla was working
with 60-foot lightning bolts,

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 a 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 once
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

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.

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 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.

WILCOCK: We have leaked
testimony from classified

levels of secrecy in the U.S.
government

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: Had Tesla
really discovered a way

to travel through time and space?

If so, might the secrets
behind this technology,

along with the blueprints
for Tesla's death beam,

have been included
in the scientific documents

that the FBI allegedly
confiscated upon his death?

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've 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.

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.

TZADOK: 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 be desalinating
ocean water with table top

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 anti-gravity 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: Is it
possible that Nikola Tesla

really was influenced
by otherworldly beings?

Might he have been inspired
to carry out an extraterrestrial

experiment, as some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?

And could it be that
mankind was not ready to

receive this advanced knowledge?

Perhaps, but if such
an audacious notion is true,

then is it possible that we are now
on the threshold of completing

his experiment, and in doing so,

might we reconnect not
only with Tesla's genius,

but with an alien intelligence that
stretches throughout the galaxy?