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- [Tony] Tonight on

"The Proof Is Out
There: Alien Edition."

Are these Mayan stones

proof of extraterrestrial
contact on Earth?

- If this is a real
carving, it would be one

of the most significant
archeological finds in history.

- [Tony] Does this
manuscript suggest

that aliens visited Earth?

- It really looks like it
should be a readable text,

but there's not a single word

that we've been
able to translate.

- [Tony] And is this
rock found in Africa

evidence of an
alien civilization?

- Once this meteorite
was discovered,

it opened up a whole
new conversation

about the possibility of
extraterrestrial life.

- [Tony] With UFO reports
at an all-time high,

we're examining the
most compelling evidence

caught on camera.

Tonight's focus:
ancient visitors.

Our experts will
analyze the evidence.

- So far, no one has been able

to figure out what it even is.

- [Tony] And then
we'll pass a verdict.

- I think it's very possible

that it could be
hiding information.

- The proof starts now.

[intense inquisitive music]

Good evening everyone,

and welcome to "The
Proof Is Out There."

In the past we have
examined paintings,

hieroglyphs, and cave art

to search for signs of
extra-terrestrial visitation.

But do these next images
actually show ancient people

interacting with
alien life forms?

[subdued music]

It's March, 2017 in the
rainforest of Huatusco

in the Mexican
state of Veracruz.

Explorer Jose Aguayo
and his colleagues

are checking out some caves

when they come across something

that needs to be
seen to be believed.

[Jose speaking Spanish]

[camera shutter clicks]

- [Tony] Jose begins documenting

the cave walls and floor,

which are covered in
intricate carvings,

and in a nearby river,

they stumble upon something
even more compelling:

this triangular piece of jade.

On the left is a
typical Mayan leader

wearing a traditional headdress,

but on the right is what
looks like an alien being.

The two appear to
be exchanging gifts.

And above the figures

is a craft that looks
shockingly like a UFO.

Jose says the people
who led them to the spot

did so for a very
specific reason.

[Jose speaking Spanish]

- [Tony] Jason Martell says

the artifacts Jose's
group found at this site

had been nicknamed the Stones
of the First Encounter.

- Some of the people that
discovered these artifacts

went on to theorize
that there was some type

of an interaction and
exchange happening

between the Mayans and
the extraterrestrials,

and maybe there's
still in existence

in part of these caves
extraterrestrial technology.

- [Tony] But Martell says
this isn't the first time

people have claimed aliens
visited Mesoamerica.

- [Jason] There was
1,000-year-old Mexican cemetery

unearthed while some locals

were trying to create
an irrigation channel,

and the discovery
was of over a dozen

of these very elongated skulls,

very similar to
these jade aliens.

- [Tony] Martell notes
that many people see

a resemblance between this image

and multiple accounts
of gray aliens

known for their gray skin,
bulbous heads, small bodies,

and black almond-shaped eyes.

And he says there may
be other references

to alien encounters in
ancient Mayan texts.

- [Jason] The former minister of
tourism

for the Mexican State of
Campeche went on record

confirming the discovery
of extraterrestrial life.

He also mentioned that there are

perhaps 3,000-year-old landing
pads hidden in the jungle

and that there are
ancient Mayan codices

that have been hidden
from the public

which clearly discuss
extraterrestrial contact.

- Even one of the most
well-known Mayan codices,

the nearly 1,000-year-old
Dresden Codex

includes advanced knowledge

of astronomy and
celestial bodies.

So could these Mayan jade
stones have been carved

to commemorate an
interplanetary visit?

Let's see what our
experts can dig up.

[inquisitive music]

- These bodies
that we have found

that have elongated
skulls do look very alien.

But of course,
once we do the DNA

and we know the culture,

we know for certain that
these people are human.

It is just a cultural
practice known as head binding

where the distortion
of the cranium

is important to that culture.

Generally only those with
power in that culture do this.

- [Tony] So the elongated skulls
aren't from alien visitors,

but our question is,

do these artifacts
truly document Mayans

interacting with
extraterrestrials?

- The location where it's found

is in what we call Mesoamerica,

a very large area of a
patchwork of civilizations,

but it is not in the Maya area.

The Maya area kind of radiates
out from where Guatemala is

into Belize, Honduras,
Yucatan, Chiapas,

but Veracruz is far
outside of the Maya area.

- [Tony] Strain adds
that the piece has yet

to be put under a microscope
to be accurately dated.

- [Kathy] The National Institute

of Anthropology and
History of Mexico

have not authenticated
these artifacts,

and so until they do so,
I do not put any stock

that these are real
artifacts from the Mayans.

I would like to believe
that these are artifacts,

but I believe they're
more arti-fictions.

[inquisitive music]

- Our verdict: these are
likely fake artifacts.

The stones are inconsistent
with Mayan traditions

and nothing else like them

has been found
elsewhere in Mexico.

So their age and
authenticity remain in doubt,

at least for now.

[unsettling music]

Decoding the Rosetta
Stone in the 1800s

opened the door for the
understanding

of Ancient Egyptian.

But there's one old
manuscript that is so bizarre,

no one has been able to
figure out what it says.

It's even been called the
world's most mysterious book.

Take a look.

[subdued music]

- [Tony] It's 1912 outside Rome,
Italy.

A Polish-American book
dealer named Wilfrid Voynich

buys a text from
a Jesuit college.

This late-Medieval manuscript

is made up of roughly 240 pages

bound in vellum
made from calf skin.

Many pages feature colorful
drawings of unusual plant life.

But then we come to this.

- This, some believe,

seems to show the
heliocentric theory,

which is the Sun is at the
center of the solar system

and the planets and celestial
bodies are orbiting around it.

- [Tony] This wouldn't be so
odd if it weren't for the fact

that this codex was
apparently created

a century before astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus

first modeled his theory

that planets revolve
around the Sun.

And what's stranger still

is this manuscript is written

in a language no one
has ever heard of.

- [Erin] So far no one has
been able to figure out

what the Voynich Manuscript
says or what it even is.

It has six sections: botany,
astronomy and astrology,

cosmology, biology,
pharmacological,

and then a text section
that appears to be recipes.

- [Tony] Elonka Dunin says
who wrote this manuscript

is entirely unclear,

but we do know it passed
through many hands.

- The general sense
is that it came

from somewhere around
the north of Italy

because if we zoom in
to the tiny pictures,

there's a castle with
a swallowtail merlon

and really the only place
those kind of castles existed

was in northern Italy.

- [Tony] But that still
leaves the question

of its unknown language

open to interpretation
and speculation.

- [Erin] Some people believe
that the Voynich may be

a previously undiscovered
language dialect

of a civilization
that no longer exists.

We've found cities under sand

and wiped off the face
of the Earth by flood.

So maybe this comes from
a civilization like that.

- [Tony] Yet, even
that wouldn't explain

why this text seems to
depict earth orbiting the Sun

long before that
theory was modeled.

- [Erin] Some people think
that the person

who created the Voynich had
this extra-cosmic knowledge

that people on
Earth didn't have.

In other words, an
extraterrestrial.

[curious music]

- [Tony] The greatest
cryptanalysts in history,

including the first chief
of cryptology at the NSA

have tried to crack this
code over the years.

Yet thus far, linguists,
computer scientists,

and even computers
themselves have failed.

So let's see if our
experts can help further

our understanding of this
centuries-old mystery.

[inquisitive music]

Over the years,
some have wondered

if Voynich actually wrote
this cryptic book himself

just to make a quick buck.

- This book was
radiocarbon dated

to be between 1404 and 1438
so that we know it's very old.

It's made of vellum,

and vellum was a more
expensive kind of paper.

For someone 600 years ago
to think to themselves,

"Well, I'm gonna
spend all this money

and invest the time to
make it look like language

just to pull off a hoax."

That seems like an
awful lot of work

for something that
person would never live

to see the benefit of.

- [Tony] Despite
its peculiarities

archeologist, Dr. Ed
Barnhart says the book fits

with the style of the time.

- [Ed] Visually and structurally

it looks like an
alphabetic text.

It's got short words
and long words.

There are words that repeat,
there are complete sentences,

it's organized in paragraphs.

But there's not a single pattern

that they can actually start
to translate what it says.

- [Tony] So could
this actually be

the work of intelligent
beings from out of this world?

- [Kathy] It really doesn't
evoke somebody

who is advanced in technology.

I doubt aliens even use
cursive or pen to paper.

- [Tony] If it's not aliens,

then could this actually be
from a lost civilization?

- [Ed] Archeology's
all about patterns

so the fact that the
best minds in the world

have tried to find things
associated with it and failed,

there's no way that a book,
which is a fragile artifact,

remained and none of
the other materials

of this ancient civilization
remained whatsoever.

- [Tony] So then who did write
this mysterious manuscript?

One key clue may be that,

at the time,
cutting-edge scientists

proposing controversial
theories of the universe

were subject to
punishment from the church

for radical views.

- [Elonka] I think it's very
possible

that it could be
hiding information.

There were many things
that scientists of the time

wouldn't want the
church to know,

especially with alchemy and
that would involve plants.

- [Tony] So were these
scientists communicating in code

to avoid punishment?

- [Ed] We think that maybe it
was some kind of brilliant

cipher that these
scientists were using

where they could share
information in books like this,

but if the church
got ahold of it,

they would have no idea what
they were talking about.

[inquisitive music]

- [Tony] Our verdict: the
person or persons

who wrote this manuscript,

what it says, and why
are still unknown.

It's possible scientists of the
early Renaissance created it

to share controversial
new theories

like the idea that the
Earth orbits the Sun,

but unless we crack the code,
we'll never know for sure.

- [Tony] All around the world,
iconic ancient ruins stand

as hallmarks of
human achievement,

the Great Pyramids in Egypt,
Stonehenge in England.

But in our next story,

we visit an ancient
site so impressive

some say it couldn't have
been built by human hands.

[subdued music]

On a desert plateau

in the Andes Mountains
of Western Bolivia

lies a place known as Puma Punku

which roughly translates
to "door of the puma."

At a distance,

it looks a little bit
like a construction site,

but a closer look reveals this.

We see dozens of
amazing smooth stones

and structures featuring
clean right angles

along with expertly
fitted and spaced joints

and drill holes.

Perfectly cut
H-patterns and designs

are seen carved into the stones,

some with small doorways.

These megaliths are among
the biggest on earth

with the largest
weighing about 131 tons.

Estimates on Puma
Punku's age vary,

but many say it's more
than 1,500 years old.

But author and
filmmaker Brian Foerster

has studied the site for
decades and he isn't so sure.

- Standard story is
that it was constructed

by a culture called
the Tiwanaku people

who were barely Bronze Age.

But when my first
visit to Puma Punku

convinced me that it
had to have been done

with very advanced technology.

The surfaces are so flat

that I had brought,
at different times,

a three-foot level and put
it up against the stones,

and they're perfectly straight.

There's no wobble
of the level at all.

- [Tony] And this
isn't the only mystery

at this ancient site.

- [Brien] There are very
strange magnetic anomalies

with the gray andesite stone.

It makes compasses
literally go crazy,

which is hard to explain.

- [Tony] The mysterious
nature of this site

has even inspired
otherworldly theories.

- [Brien] So the first time I
went there, I entertained the

idea that it could have
been done by aliens

that left nothing behind
except the ruins themselves.

- There certainly
are some people

who believe that these blocks

were so meticulously
and precisely made

that they could only have been
made by ancient astronauts.

Part of the mystery
that exists here

is indeed, Puma Punku means
"doorway of the puma."

So perhaps these are small
doorways to go through

and enter a different
world entirely.

[curious music]

- [Tony] The first modern power
tool was invented in 1895.

It was a hand drill with
a small electric motor

and it led to today's DIY
darlings like this baby.

[drill whirs]
[Tony chuckles]

But these inventions didn't
exist thousands of years ago.

So how did Puma
Punku come to be?

Let's drill down
with our experts.

[inquisitive music]

A 2018 geologic study

unlocked a secret about
these amazing structures.

- [Ed] A geologist determined

that perhaps these are,
in fact, cement molds,

very ancient ones, ones made
mostly of andesite dust,

and it would explain a lot
of these perfect angles.

It just seems hard to believe

that people 2,000 years ago

had the technology
to make cement.

- [Tony] Amazing,
but not impossible.

After all, the ancient
Egyptians are said

to have invented a mortar-like
crude form of concrete,

and were using it in 3,000 BCE

before the commonly believed
construction of Puma Punku.

And even if these were
card from stone blocks,

the ancient Tiwanaku

had surprisingly
effective tools for that.

- [Ed] The tools needed could
have been fashioned

out of the local stone,

especially flint or
what we call chert.

That is a very hard stone.

And if you use it in
the hands of a master,

it can carve into granite.

- [Tony] What about
those who suggest

these structures were
created by aliens?

- [Ed] There are many
fantastic works of man,

some much older than Puma Punku.

Has anyone ever suggested

that the Greek Parthenon
was made by aliens?

No.

Well, to me it's evidence

that humans had the same
capacity all over the planet.

- [Tony] Then what explains
Brien Foerster's claim

that the stones wield
strange magnetic properties?

- [Ed] There are a few stones
that are magnetized,

but stones can be
naturally magnetized.

If a large
iron-infiltrated stone

gets hit by a bolt of lightning,

that is enough to magnetize it.

- [Tony] But these explanations
remain speculative,

at least in part.

Many questions remain
about Puma Punku,

especially because
no sculpting tools

have ever been found here.

- [Ed] The lack of tools
points in favor

of not being able to
explain the architecture.

The huge size of
the blocks as well.

How could they move
such big things?

And frankly, that's still an
unanswered part of the mystery.

[curious music]

- Our verdict: this mystery
remains partially unexplained.

We believe Puma Punku
is a manmade structure,

but the specific tools used

and how the rocks were
moved remain unknown.

Researchers continue
to study the site,

and as the saying goes,
nothing's written in stone.

- If aliens have visited Earth,
when did they first arrive?

Well, some claim the
earliest recorded accounts

of alien encounters
date back to 1440 BC.

But one strange
object discovered near

some ancient fossils might be
archeological evidence

that dates back much farther.

It's the 1970s,
near Aiud, Romania.

construction workers are digging

on the banks of the Mures River

when they uncover some
seemingly ancient objects.

One, this large
hammerhead-like piece

looks manmade and very
old with a thick patina

or layer of film
produced by oxidation.

Known as the Wedge of Aiud,

it weighs nearly five pounds.

It's close to eight inches long,

five inches wide and
three inches thick.

And what's really weird,

it appears to be connected
to some very old bones.

- The fossil remains

that were located
alongside this wedge

were mastodon fossils.

So the Wedge of Aiud

kind of became this
odd mystery object

found next to an extinct animal.

- [Tony] Romanian
authorities examine the items

and estimate that the mastodon

or prehistoric elephant fossils

are 2.5 million years old,

suggesting the wedge
is from the same era.

That's strange,
since modern humans

have only been around
for about 200,000 years.

So it was sent to
Romanian archeologists

and a Swiss lab
for further study.

- [MJ] They figured out that it
was artificially created

because the holes and the
shape were machine made.

- [Tony] What's more, the
Wedge of Aiud is 90% aluminum

and has the properties
of 11 other metals.

The fact that the wedge is
aluminum is especially peculiar

because while aluminum is a
naturally occurring element,

it has to be extracted from
ore in a complicated process

that wasn't discovered
until the 19th century.

So given all that,

is it possible this object
wasn't made by early humans,

but by some other
intelligent being?

- [MJ] Ufologists have
come to the conclusion

that perhaps the Wedge of Aiud

is part of a UFO in landing gear

that ran over the mastodon
and killed it on purpose.

Cattle mutilations that
have occurred in the past

indicate at least to them

that aliens will
purposefully kill mammals

for scientific study.

- [Tony] So could
this wedge be proof

that aliens have been
studying life on Earth

since even before there
were modern humans?

- [MJ] It's a strange
historical anachronism

that should not exist.

- [Tony] There's a name in
archeology for these kinds of

finds or rather an acronym.

They're called OOPArts for
out-of-place artifacts.

So could the OOPArt known
as the Wedge of Aiud

be proof of an
extraterrestrial exploration?

Or something we
haven't considered yet?

Let's turn to our experts
to hammer this one out.

[inquisitive music]

Kathy Strain explains

that if the wedge was
made by modern humans,

it being found near
prehistoric fossils

would seem to defy

the archeological
concept of superposition.

- [Kathy] Superposition means
that when you find two items

at the same level,
the same depth,

they're likely associated
with each other.

However, aluminum wasn't
capable of being smelted

and created into an
object until 1825.

- [Tony] So the superposition
theory would suggest

the wedge and the mastodon
existed at the same time

deepening the mystery.

But hold on, there's one
important missing clue

we need to consider.

- [Ed] It's on a river.

Rivers bring things
from far upstream

and deposit them in
banks in flood episodes.

This is disturbed context

and you cannot equate
things time-wise

in a disturbed context.

- [Tony] So if the location
can't confirm anything,

how can we date this wedge?

Barnhart says the patina can
be a good indicator of its age,

but maybe not in this case.

- [Ed] Metal very quickly
becomes oxidized

and then processes like
being buried in sand

can turn that
oxidation into patina.

But that kind of patina can
grow in just a few years.

It doesn't take
thousands of years

for the kind of patina that
grows on aluminum to form.

- [Tony] So maybe it's not
as old as originally thought,

but that still leaves
us asking, who made it?

Is it possible it's
from an alien spaceship?

Aluminum is often used
on aircraft instead

of steel or iron 'cause even
though it's weaker than those

two metals, it's also
more lightweight.

But one Romanian historian
believes the wedge

is from an earth-bound craft,

specifically the landing gear

of a World War II
German Messerschmitt

ME 262 fighter jet.

Remember, it was found in the
former Axis power of Romania.

- [Kathy] We were using aluminum
and aerodynamics at that time.

We know that aircraft
flew across the area

many times during the war

and I think it's just a piece
that happened to fall off

and then over time worked
itself down into the sand.

[curious music]

- [Tony] Our verdict: Based on
the material and the design,

this is likely a
piece of landing gear

though from a German military
plane rather than a UFO.

It probably ended up
next to the fossil bones

when the high waters
from the Mures River

disturbed the surrounding soil.

But since we can't
accurately date the aluminum,

the Wedge of Aiud
could be much older

and more mysterious than
we can even imagine.

- [Tony] For at least five
generations,

a mysterious landmark

has baffled and inspired people
in one East African nation.

Now it's finally been
analyzed scientifically

and researchers have
discovered something

that is literally
out of this world.

It's September, 2019 near the
village of El Ali in Somalia.

Prospectors searching for
opals in a lush valley

stumble upon a
completely different

type of valuable stone.

[prospectors chatter
in foreign language]

- [Tony] Video of the scene
shows a group of locals

examining the unusual rock.

[videographer speaking
foreign language]

- [Tony] One man
attaches a magnet

to this reddish-brown
boulder and it sticks.

All told, this object is about
six and a half feet long,

just over three feet wide,
and more than four feet tall.

It weighs in at over
16 and a half tons.

And as the locals demonstrate,

when struck by a small rock

it resonates with
metallic tones.

Tests show it's a meteorite
and experts suspect that,

like this similar meteorite

encountered by the Inuit
people in Greenland,

the boulder in
Somalia was useful

for making important tools.

As such, it acquired both a
practical and a spiritual value.

Science writer Amy Teitel
says this treasured rock

is known as Nightfall
by the locals

since, according to legend,

it came from the skies

hundreds if not
thousands of years ago.

- Nightfall became an object

of deep significance
for locals in Somalia,

and it's thought to be a link

between the Earth
and the heavens.

It kind of brings to mind

the mysticism
surrounding the monolith

in the early scenes of
"2001: A Space Odyssey"

where that monolith
had the power

to change human evolution and
change the course of events.

- [Tony] But here's
the weird thing.

The tests show some of
the metal in this rock

doesn't seem natural.

- [Amy] The meteorite is
90% iron and nickel,

but there are also
two new minerals

that scientists have
discovered in this meteorite

that we don't see naturally
occurring on earth.

One is called elaliite
for the town of El Ali.

The other is elkinstantonite

named for planetary scientist,
Lindy Elkins-Tanton.

- [Tony] Elaliite
and elkinstantonite

don't exist naturally on Earth,

but we've created them
artificially in a lab.

That quirky fact has
led some to believe

there may be more to this
meteorite than meets the eye.

- [Amy] Because the meteorite
came from space

and has high metallic content

some wonder if they
see technosignatures

or proof of some
alien technology.

- [Tony] A technosignature
is a property

that provides evidence
of past or present tech.

The thinking is if this
material only exists on Earth

when we create it with
our sophisticated methods,

can it only exist elsewhere
because, likewise,

other beings are creating
a there with their tech?

According to a
recent Cornell study,

new minerals found
in other meteorites

appear to be promising
candidates for superconductors,

meaning they may be of real use

for a technologically
advanced alien civilization.

So could this mystical
meteorite be proof

of extraterrestrial life?

Let's see what our experts say.

[inquisitive music]

- Both of these are
iron phosphorus minerals

that we do not find on Earth

because of the
presence of water.

In the presence of water,
these minerals would dissolve

and form into other minerals.

What we have on earth

are not even 1% of
the number of minerals

that you could form

under different
environmental conditions.

- [Tony] So they may be
alien to us here on earth,

but could minerals like these

be found naturally
on other planets?

- [Dr. Bob] From our recent
studies of Mars and the Moon,

we found several minerals

that are found under different
environmental conditions.

We have higher pressure here

than we do on Mars
or on the Moon,

and so those pressures affect
how these atoms form together

into what we call a crystal
lattice or a crystal cage.

- [Tony] Anderson
says these minerals

were probably made not
by alien mineralogist,

but by a high-speed collision

which turned the solid
surface of the meteor molten,

and the minerals then
crystallized into a new form

when that molten metal cooled.

- In this particular case,

we see no evidence
of a structured craft

or pieces of a structured craft.

We also see no writing
or inscriptions.

We are just looking at a rock

that happens to have
a couple new minerals

that can be
synthesized naturally.

[curious music]

- [Tony] Our verdict: This
is an exotic rock

from our own solar system
that, by coincidence,

contains special minerals

we artificially
developed decades ago.

A potential third new mineral
found in the meteorite

is still being analyzed.

No wonder the locals treat
Nightfall with such reverence.

- [Tony] We have respect

for the world's great
religions on this show

so we want to tread carefully
with this next piece.

It's about Christianity

and some ideas that are
truly out of this world.

[subdued music]

May, 2023, about
12 miles northwest

of the capital of
Tbilisi, Georgia,

the majestic Svetitskhoveli
Cathedral sits on a hill.

Inside, is a painting that's
hundreds of years old,

but just now taking
the internet by storm.

It's a depiction of
Jesus's crucifixion

with what looks like two flying
saucers in the background,

one blue, one red.

Their classic dome shapes

have three sharp triangles
sprouting from their undersides.

It's an image that
appears so unusual,

it caught the attention
of Bret Nicholson

lead pastor of One Life
Church in Kentucky.

- My first reaction was,

"Wow, those look
like flying saucers,"

Typically with scenes
of the crucifixion

you'll see Jesus
between two thieves.

You'll see the people at
the base of the cross.

What you don't see
in most portrayals

of the crucifixion is UFOs.

- [Tony] That may be true,

but according to
author Jason Martell,

people have been
exploring the connection

between Christianity
and UFOs for centuries.

- In 1584, a Christian monk
named Giordano Bruno from Naples

theorized that there were an
infinite number of planets

all with intelligent life,

each one having its own Jesus
Christ visiting that planet.

In more recent
times, my colleague

and good friend Eric von
Danikin has theorized

that many of these depictions

of some type of
a religious event

are actually depicting some type

of an extraterrestrial
interaction,

possibly aliens
visiting ancient man.

- [Tony] We know that
ancient pagan religions

often explain things by saying
the gods were responsible.

For instance, ancient Greeks
believed the goddess Demeter

was responsible for
the changing seasons.

Could the authors of the Bible
have done the same thing?

If ancient astronauts
visited Earth,

did previous civilizations
chalk this up

to visitations by angels
or communication from God?

Was Jesus himself an
extraterrestrial visitor?

- [Jason] Some people have
pointed out the fact Jesus

Christ today could be classified
as some type of higher

intelligence, possibly
even extraterrestrial.

This would explain some of
the miraculous abilities

that he was able to perform.

- [Tony] Pope Francis commented

that if Martians
were to land on Earth

and wanted to be baptized,

he would welcome
them with open arms.

It seems the lines between
religion and ufology

have never been blurrier.

Perhaps this painting

can finally prove a
distinct connection.

[inquisitive music]

- When we see Jesus walking
the Earth in the Bible,

he does so as a human.

We also know Jesus, of
course, is born on Earth.

Mary of Nazareth is
his biological mother,

so therefore Jesus
is not an alien.

- [Tony] So if you read
the Bible literally

Jesus himself was human.

But could other biblical figures

have had close
encounters with aliens

that they interpreted
as messages from God?

Based on modern-day
alien abduction reports,

O'Neill doesn't
see the connection.

- [Michael] Some people who
claim alien abduction say

they've gone through surgical
experimentation or procedures.

They've had loss of memory

or loss of time
during that period.

This is not similar in any way
to what we see in the Bible.

Because these are
such drastically

different experiences, there's
no reason at all

to think they share
a common source.

- [Tony] So if ufology
and Christianity

truly don't
intersect in any way,

how do we explain what
looks like flying saucers

in the painting in Georgia?

- [Ed] The principles of art
history

say we look to similar examples

to try to understand
what these symbols are.

There are hundreds
of these paintings

of Jesus at crucifixion

and each one of them have
things floating above his face

on the left and right,

but instead of these two alien
spaceships, they show angels.

- [Tony] But Barnhart
believes that

as this painting is in an
Eastern Orthodox church

instead of angels, the
artist chose another symbol.

- [Ed] We know that the
Eastern Orthodox Church

focuses on the statement that
just as he was crucified,

the sky went dark.
[thunder crashes]

So in standard depictions in
Eastern Orthodox crucifixion,

we often times see the Sun
and the Moon half covered.

It's denoting that
eclipse moment.

So these are really very similar

to other standard
depictions of the same time

in which we see a half
moon and a half sun.

[inquisitive music]

- [Tony] Let there be light.

Our verdict: These
are just depictions

of the Sun and the Moon.

But scholars estimate there are

about 4,000 different religions

practiced throughout the world.

So who's to say?

Maybe one of them

has been inspired by
extraterrestrial interaction.

- [Tony] Brain surgery is
famously complicated, right?

Something only modern
science could pull off.

But as you're about to see,

it looks like some
ancient societies

may have something to teach us
about how to operate in here.

[subdued music]

It's February, 2022 in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

the Museum of Osteology, also
known as The Bones Museum,

makes a post about one
of its newest artifacts

and the photo of it has the
comment section going wild.

The image shows
an elongated skull

with a strange metal
implant embedded inside it.

The skull found in Peru
appears to be human,

but the odd stretched-out shape

of the bulbous cranial bones
could suggest otherwise.

The implant itself
is coarse and bumpy

and is clearly not an
organic part of the skeleton.

It appears to be
composed of two parts,

an eye-like shape on top
and a circle at the bottom.

Forensic anthropologist,
Dr. John Verano,

who studies prehistoric
skulls like this for a living

was stumped when he
first saw this image.

- I've never seen
anything like this.

I looked at it and I said,

"Well, doesn't look
genuine to me."

- [Tony] Though this implant
is rare, perhaps unique,

author Heidi Hollis says

there's a long history of
elongated skulls in Peru.

- For us to be able to
find elongated skulls,

that's not the
rare element here.

Finding an elongated skull
with a metal plate in it,

now that takes a cake.

- [Tony] Peruvian archeologist
Julio Tello

discovered hundreds of
elongated cone-shaped skulls

buried in the Paracas
region in the late 1920s.

And Hollis notes that
their surprising appearance

makes some wonder

if they could have
extraterrestrial origins.

- [Heidi] In pop culture we
often do see aliens

as being portrayed as
having an elongated skull.

From the popular "Aliens" movies

to the gray aliens
witnessed by people

said to be abducted
by alien beings.

- [Tony] Recent genetic
testing of the Peruvian skulls

apparently found they
had mitochondrial DNA

with mutations unknown to
any human or animal on Earth,

and the metal in the skull
adds another bizarre dimension.

- [Heidi] It's highly unusual
to see such perfection

done on something so ancient.

How?
And who did this?

- [Tony] We often associate
metallic objects

with electronics.

So maybe the skull implant
is some sort of microchip

or, in this case, macrochip,

for aliens to communicate
with their home planet.

We know people
microchip their pets

to help locate them
when they go missing.

In the case of dogs and cats,

a device the size
of a grain of rice

is implanted just under the skin

over the shoulder blades.

Could this cranial implant
actually track aliens?

Does it reveal other
ancient secrets?

Or is this just one big hoax
taking us all for a wild ride?

Let's ask the experts.

[inquisitive music]

- There have been a lot of
known hoaxes in archeology

in particular with
Peruvian skulls.

Crystal skulls that were
found all over the world

that were said to have been
made by alien technology.

Those were fakes.

We know that they were cut
by a jeweler's equipment,

and so it's always possible
that something can be hoax.

- [Tony] But Strain
says there's reason

to believe the
skull is authentic.

- [Kathy] We can see every
element

of what a human
skull looks like.

That is not easy to hoax
'cause bone is bone.

We can also date this
using radiocarbon,

and so that would
tell us for certain

that it is 2,000 years old.

- [Tony] So since this skull
seems to be real,

could it actually belong
to an ancient alien

who visited Earth
from another planet?

- This shows what we
call cranial deformation,

and that means that probably

when this individual
was very young,

boards were strapped
to the skull

so that it would elongate and
change the shape of the skull.

It was very prevalent
in South America

where this skull is
believed to have come from.

- [Tony] Barnhart says
it was generally people

of elite status from Andean
cultures like the Paracas

who underwent this practice.

Yet we know some people

who claim they've been
abducted by aliens

who say they had metal devices
implanted into their bodies.

So maybe these are
actually alien implants

into human abductees who've
undergone skull elongation.

Or is it possible
the South Americans

were able to also carry out

other complex skull
modifications like this?

- [Kathy] We have found other
skulls

that have what we call
trepanation and repairs to them.

Trepanation is the practice
of drilling or removing bone

from a head that has
undergone trauma.

- [Tony] Strain says a
recent amazing discovery

in Peru in late 2021
may solve the riddle.

These are obsidian
surgical tools

found in what's believed
to be a doctor's grave.

Strain says this proves
ancient South Americans

actually had the know-how
to perform this procedure.

Yet, even though trepanation

is a recognized
ancient practice,

John Verano still
isn't convinced

this implant is authentic

since he's never seen metal
like this from that time.

- [John] If this skull with its
metal implant is genuine

and if it really reflects
surgery and implant,

of course it would be a
significant historic discovery.

But given that it doesn't
look like anything

I've ever seen in
metallurgy in the Andes,

that's why I have my doubts.

- [Tony] So while John leans
toward this being a hoax,

there's plenty of other evidence

to suggest this is the
2,000-year-old skull

of a human who survived a
life-threatening surgery.

[curious music]

Our verdict: This
skull is most likely

an example of
ancient trepanation.

But until the skull
is radiocarbon dated

to confirm its age, concluding
with absolute certainty

that this artifact is authentic

would be getting
ahead of ourselves.

[serious music]

From ancient carvings
and paintings

to structures that
defy explanation,

clues from humanity's
distant past

suggest we may not
have been alone.

If visitors from another
world once walked among us,

their traces remain

and we'll continue
searching for the truth.

Thank you so much for watching

this special edition of
"The Proof Is Out There."

Please send us
any video, images,

or sound that you think
we should investigate

and remember to keep
those cameras rolling.