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NARRATOR:
The Dome of the Rock.

The Temple of Jupiter.

Puma Punku.

They are sites sacred
to millions of people,

and they are all built
atop the ruins of structures

that are far more ancient.

WILLIAM HENRY: Some of the most
iconic temples sites around the world

are built on the exact
same location as former temples.

And the question is, why?

NARRATOR: What compelled
early humans to build and rebuild

in the same place,
again and again?

HUGH NEWMAN:
It seems they were not only

doing it for practical purposes

but also for religious
and spiritual reasons.

NARRATOR:
Are there locations on Earth

that hold special power?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The local population say,

"It was not us who built this.
It was the gods."

NARRATOR: And might we find
that they were once occupied

by extraterrestrials?

GEORGE NOORY:
There is no question in my mind

that these are much older sites
than we think,

and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication

a long, long time ago.

NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.
*ANCIENT ALIENS*

We have never been alone.
Season 18 Episode 03

Episode Title:
"Beneath the Sacred Temples"

Aired on:
January 21, 2022.

NARRATOR:
Cuzco, Peru.

Nestled in a high river valley
of the Andes Mountains,

among peaks towering
over 20,000 feet,

this once great city served
as the capital

of the Inca Empire

from the 13th
to 16th centuries AD.

In 1533, Spanish conquistadors
arrived in Cuzco

and were astonished
by the incredible stonework

found at a site just north
of the city called Sacsayhuamán.

BRIEN FOERSTER:
Above the city of Cuzco

we find the megalithic site

and huge ceremonial Inca complex
called Sacsayhuamán.

Its most prominent feature is
a zigzag wall of three levels.

Some of the stones there weigh
as much as 125 tons

and were moved from the quarry
at least three miles away.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Sacsayhuamán

is one of the most
beautiful ancient structures

you will ever see in your life.

There are massive,
gigantic megalithic blocks,

and you find the most amazing
of masonry style

where you can't even fit
a dollar bill

in between the fittings
of any of the blocks.

NARRATOR: Sacsayhuamán
served both as a fortress

and a ceremonial center.

A circular structure that lies
within the megalithic walls,

called Muyuq Marka,
was the base of a tower

where the Inca worshipped
the sun god Inti.

However, many experts suggest
that while the Inca

certainly utilized
this megalithic structure,

they were not the ones
to build it.

BRIEN FOERSTER:
Standard belief is that the Inca

constructed Sacsayhuamán

less than a thousand years ago.

But in some of the earliest
Spanish chronicles

it is said that the Spanish
were completely astounded

by seeing this site,
and they asked the local Inca,

"Did you build this?"
And the Inca replied,

"No. This was here
when we arrived 500 years ago."

NARRATOR: Many experts believe
Sacsayhuamán predates the Inca

by thousands of years,

and that the Inca built on top
of what came before.

BRIEN FOERSTER:
The Inca were a Bronze Age civilization,

and the stones at Sacsayhuamán
are metamorphosed limestone,

which is much harder than bronze

and could not be cut or shaped
using bronze tools.

Inca built on top 'cause
you can tell a major difference

between megalithic construction,

where the stones fit
perfectly together,

and the Inca, which is stones
piled on top of stones

with mortar as filler.

NARRATOR: But if Sacsayhuamán
really does predate the Inca...

As the Inca themselves claimed...

How could an even earlier
civilization have possessed

far superior technology?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The ancient Inca talk

about celestial beings

who descended from the sky
a long time ago

and imparted
the first knowledge of anything

toward people of Earth.

The ancient astronaut theory
suggests

it was human beings
who built Sacsayhuamán

but under the tutelage
of the extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
the astonishing megalithic stonework

at Sacsayhuamán was achieved
with the help of

alien technology, as ancient
astronaut theorists suggest?

And if so, might the Inca
have built on top of it...

and established it
as a place of worship...

Because they were somehow
aware of this?

Sacsayhuamán is only
one of many places

where ancient civilizations
have felt compelled

to repeatedly build
their most sacred sites.

In fact, there are locations
all around the world

where successive cultures have
rebuilt over and over again.

ANDREW COLLINS:
This has been going on

since the end of the last ice age

with places like Gobekli Tepe
in Southeast Turkey,

where the oldest
and most sophisticated monuments

were built first on the bedrock.

And then, eventually,
they would be covered over,

and a new structure, new
enclosure built on top of them.

WILLIAM HENRY:
Some of the most iconic temple sites

around the world,
from Baalbek in Lebanon

to the Temple of Horus
at Edfu in Egypt,

are built on
the exact same location

as former temples
that were reputed to be there.

And the question is, why?

NARRATOR: It is not uncommon for
people to repurpose an old structure

or rebuild on its foundation
for practical purposes.

But what ancient astronaut
theorists find intriguing

is how the most sacred sites

tend to remain sacred
over thousands of years.

And of all the places
in the world

where this phenomenon is found,

perhaps there is none
more universally revered

than the 35-acre platform in
Jerusalem known as Temple Mount.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
The Temple Mount is arguably

the most important
spiritual site in the world.

All three of the primary
monotheistic religions have

a connection to the events
of history that occurred

- on top of the Temple Mount.
- (praying in Arabic)

AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D.
It's believed that, "Is this the stone

from which the world
originates?"

It's a crucial element
in the Jewish tradition.

When Isaac is offered up
for sacrifice by Abraham,

this happens on the exposed
surface of Mount Moriah.

That's the Temple Mount.

For Muslims, this is where
the Prophet Muhammad

ascends up to heaven.

That stone is now covered over
by the Dome of the Rock,

this very important
Islamic monument.

NARRATOR:
The Dome of the Rock

has stood at Temple Mount
for more than 1,300 years,

but the very first temple
to occupy this sacred space

was the legendary
Solomon's Temple,

constructed upon order
of the Israelite king

in the tenth century BC.

According to the Hebrew Bible,
King Solomon received a message

from the heavens to build
his temple on this spot.

Its primary purpose was to house
the Ark of the Covenant,

the golden box which carried
the two stone tablets

inscribed with
the Ten Commandments,

and which was said
to be God's earthly throne.

AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D.
Solomon has a communication

with the angel Michael,

who comes and helps Solomon
to build this.

And so, not only is this the
presence of God on this spot,

it's God who's helping
in the building of this.

And so that's part of what makes
that place so special.

So literally divine.

NARRATOR: Solomon's Temple was
destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 BC.

But 70 years later, Jewish
exiles returning to Jerusalem

built a new temple
on the exact same location.

AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D. That's what
we call the Second Temple.

And that temple survives
until the year 70 AD,

when it's destroyed
by the Romans.

Then, in the seventh century,
Muslims conquered Jerusalem.

They build
the Dome of the Rock there.

And, so, there's been
a long history

of different people coming in,

taking control, building,
rebuilding, uh, places there.

McGOWAN: Solomon was
instructed to build the temple

on this incredibly
important space.

So why is this space important?

Is it an energetic space?
Is it a portal?

What we see over and over again

with these profound religious
sites all over the world

is, we see this reverence
for power places endures.

From the earliest
human history to today,

we're constantly building
on top of these places.

NARRATOR: If a higher power
instructed King Solomon

to build on Temple Mount,
could there be something special

about this particular
location on Earth?

And could the same be true

for other places
around the world

where successive cultures
built again and again?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

one of the most astonishing
megalithic sites in the world,

and stories about
its connection to the stars.

NARRATOR:
Baalbek, Lebanon.

Here, in the fertile
Bekaa Valley,

stands what many consider

to be the greatest ruin
of Roman antiquity...

the colossal
Temple of Jupiter.

But the imposing remains
that tower over the site today

are only the latest
in a long line of structures

erected on this spot.

Archaeologists say the area
has been continually inhabited

for at least 10,000 years,

and no one knows who built
the first place of worship here.

But according to legend,

both Egyptian
and Assyrian conquerors

erected sanctuaries on the site,

followed by the Canaanites
and Phoenicians,

who built a great temple here to
their god Baal around 2500 BC.

AMIR HUSSAIN PH.D.
Baalbek is one of those places

where you have different people
over millennia

building their shrines,
their temples,

to their particular,
you know, gods or goddesses.

You've got this temple
that's built by the Phoenicians

for one of their deities Baal.

Then Alexander the Great
conquers this area

and... surprise, surprise...

Builds a temple
to the Greek gods.

NARRATOR:
In the first century BC,

roughly 300 years
after Alexander the Great,

the Romans conquer Lebanon and
decide to erect a temple here

to their chief god Jupiter.

The main Roman temple
once boasted 54 columns,

each a staggering 65 feet
in height.

But while visitors to the ruins
may first notice

the towering Roman columns,

the most impressive feature
at Baalbek

is its massive foundation.

TSOUKALOS:
To this day,

Baalbek, Lebanon has remained

one of the most enduring
mysteries on planet Earth,

because the masonry
that we find there

is unparalleled compared
to the rest of the world.

In fact, there are three stone
blocks called the trilithons,

each weighing approximately
800 metric tons,

which is 1.6 million pounds.

ANDREW COLLINS: Each of these blocks
is approximately 62 feet in length

by about 14 feet in depth
and 12 feet in breadth.

And they're not even
on the ground.

So whoever placed them there
in ancient times

would have had
to have raised them

up to a height of about 20 feet.

WILLIAM HENRY: Each of the stones
were quarried two miles away

and put perfectly into place

with such precision that you
can't even put a credit card

or a needle in between
those massive blocks.

NARRATOR: How ancient
people carved and moved

such massive stones
is a question

that baffles archaeologists
to this day.

And equally as mysterious
is who placed them there.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
The giant blocks in the foundation

are clearly of a different
building style

than the temples that sit above.

And in my opinion, that platform
is not just ancient,

it is prehistoric.

NARRATOR: But if the platform
at Baalbek was constructed

thousands of years
before the Romans arrived

in the Bekaa Valley,

why did they choose this
as the site

to build their most
magnificent temple?

One pioneering Russian scholar
has proposed

that humans may have
been drawn to this location

because it was the site
of one of Earth's

earliest
extraterrestrial events.

NARRATOR:
Leningrad

USSR
1961

Scientist and mathematician
Dr. Matest Agrest

sends shockwaves
through the world of academia

with an article in which
he poses a new theory

called "paleocontact,"
a precursor

to what is known today
as the ancient astronaut theory,

suggesting that certain
biblical texts

could be interpreted as evidence
of alien visitation.

And according to Agrest,

one place where such visitations
occurred was Baalbek.

WILLIAM HENRY:
Dr. Matest Agrest

went into the ancient record,
the Book of Enoch

and other Hebrew texts, and
noticed that there were beings

coming from the sky or the stars
that came to Earth,

and he came up
with a theory that they

were extraterrestrial beings
who came to Earth

to assist humanity in developing
advanced technology

to build stone constructions

such as what we see
at Baalbek in Lebanon.

NARRATOR:
Agrest wrote about the watchers,

a group of fallen angels

who, according
to the biblical account,

descended to Earth
at Mount Hermon,

very near the site of Baalbek.

Agrest suggested
that the watchers were, in fact,

visitors from another planet,

who built the megalithic
platform at Baalbek

as a launchpad.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
He thought it was a giant stone platform

that spaceships could land on
and take off from.

And this makes a lot of sense,

because it's
so incredibly solid,

with these huge stone
blocks in it,

that even huge vehicles,
such as rockets,

could land and take off
from this huge platform.

NARRATOR:
Two decades after the publication

of Agrest's
controversial article,

author and researcher
Zecharia Sitchin

came to the same conclusion
about Baalbek

based on a 5,000-year-old
Sumerian text.

The Epic of Gilgamesh tells
of a hero of superhuman strength

who embarks
on an impossible quest.

In the course of his journeys,
Gilgamesh arrives at a site

where he encounters
otherworldly gods,

a site that sounds suspiciously
like Baalbek.

KATHLEEN McGOWAN:
In the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh,

which is one of the great
and important legends,

um, of human history,
we have the hero arriving

in a place known
as the Landing Place.

A space which allows the ascent
and the descent of beings

from the heavens to the Earth.

WILLIAM HENRY: Zecharia Sitchin
in the 1970s proposed,

based on his reading
of the Epic of Gilgamesh,

that Gilgamesh himself had seen
some sort of a spacecraft

take off from a landing site and
pinpointed that site as Baalbek.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that Baalbek

was a landing pad
for alien visitors?

And that it remained so
for thousands of years?

Could that be why
so many ancient peoples,

such as the Egyptians,
Assyrians, Canaanites,

Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans,
all chose to build and rebuild

some of their greatest temples
on this spot?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining new discoveries

made at a mysterious
ancient site

on the other side
of the world.

NARRATOR:
BOLIVIA 1549

NARRATOR: While searching
for the southern capital

of the Inca Empire, Spanish
conquistador Pedro Cieza de León

comes upon something
far stranger...

A vast, abandoned city
near the shore of Lake Titicaca

that the locals call Tiahuanaco.

The ruined city
contains temples,

huge megalithic structures,
and vast ceremonial buildings.

ED BARNHART:
Tiahuanaco was huge.

It spanned for miles and miles,

and had a population of perhaps
as many as 20,000 people.

NARRATOR: Among
Tiahuanaco's most impressive ruins

is a carved monolith called
the Gateway to the Sun

and a terraced mound
called Puma Punku,

containing stone blocks cut
with extraordinary precision.

According to archaeologists,
the Tiahuanaco complex

once served as the capital
of a sprawling empire

that rose and fell
centuries before the Inca.

TSOUKALOS: This is why we
have the term called the pre-Inca.

But who were the pre-Inca?

And this is where
it gets interesting,

because pre-Inca construction

is more sophisticated
than Inca construction.

NARRATOR: While some mainstream
historians say the site dates back

only to the Bronze Age,
others maintain it is far older.

TSOUKALOS: Arthur Posnanski
spent an exorbitant amount of time

at Tiahuanaco, and he calculated

an actual origin date
of Tiahuanaco,

which he based
to be around 12,500 BC,

which is an incredible time,
because at that time,

according to mainstream
archaeology,

we were munching on bananas.

HENRY: So, it opens up
the possibility that this site

is vastly more ancient
than we're led to believe.

And we're only just now
beginning to discover

the complete history
of that site.

NARRATOR: Some experts
believe that the builders of Tiahuanaco

were the ancestors
of the local Aymara people

who still live
in the area today.

But many of the Aymara
themselves disagree.

TSOUKALOS: The local population,
the ancient Aymara culture, say,

"It was not us who built this.

It was the gods. Los dioses."

NARRATOR: Recently, the
mystery of who built Tiahuanaco

only deepened
with a staggering discovery

not within the city
but beneath it.

NARRATOR:
2017.

Researchers from UNESCO,

working with local
archaeologists at Tiahuanaco,

announce findings
that send shockwaves

through the world
of archaeology.

While analyzing
satellite imagery

and ground-penetrating radar
of the Tiahuanaco site,

they find dozens
of previously unknown structures

buried virtually everywhere
they look.

ANDREW GOUGH:
What this aerial technology has found

is 34 acres of terraced mounds,

underground platforms,

and elements
of a pyramid complex.

Undated constructions
reveal that temples

may have taken the form of
industrial-strength platforms,

and this begs the question,
why are the bases,

these platforms,
so industrial-strength?

It's as though they were built
to support extreme weight.

HUGH NEWMAN:
So, originally, there could have

been one large mega-platform,

similar to what we find
at Baalbek.

This could have belonged
to a much earlier civilization.

NARRATOR: If Tiahuanaco
is yet another sacred site

where successive cultures
built temples atop the ruins

of far earlier structures,

is it possible
that there is a connection

to extraterrestrial visitation?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

Tiahuanaco's most
mysterious ruins,

at Puma Punku,
provide the best evidence

that the site was
not only significant

to the native people

but also
to otherworldly visitors.

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Puma Punku is, to me,

the most important
place on Earth

as far as an extraterrestrial
visitation would be concerned.

The construction style
at Puma Punku

does not exist
anywhere else on Earth.

WILLIAM HENRY: These stones, some
of them weighing a hundred tons,

are made of andesite
and other hard materials

that today we would use
a diamond-tip drill

in order to shape or mold
such stones.

How did they do it
with hammers and chisels?

NARRATOR: Like the
foundation stones beneath Baalbek

and the megalithic blocks
of Sacsayhuamán,

the buried platforms
beneath Puma Punku

raise a provocative question:

Why were the largest, heaviest

and most sophisticated parts
of these sites

those that date back
farthest in time?

According to ancient astronaut
theorists,

more than 12,000 years ago,

human civilizations
existed on Earth

that possessed
incredible technology

given to them
by extraterrestrial beings.

WILLIAM HENRY:
The ancient Egyptians referred to

a-a time called
the "First Time,"

when the gods, extraterrestrial
beings, walked among men.

Pre-10,000 BC.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
We have authentic legends

about these lost lands
and lost worlds.

And that extraterrestrials
were here at the same time.

We have these
all over the world.

We have the stories
of Atlantis and Lemuria.

Many cultures around the world
have, also, these same legends

and lores and myths
of cataclysms.

The Scandinavians have this.

Also, we have the flood of Noah.

We have... the Greeks
also have tales of a flood.

ANDREW COLLINS:
What we now know

from incredible amount
of evidence

coming from every part
of the world,

is around 10,800 BC,

the Earth suffered a terrible,
uh, catastrophe

in the form of a comet impact

known as
the Younger Dryas event.

And this devastated every
continent of the world

with fires and floods.

DAVID CHILDRESS: So, now it looks like
we're looking at a-a secret history

of planet Earth,

one where there's
extraterrestrial intervention.

And there were civilizations
and activities going on then,

and they were destroyed
in a cataclysmic flood.

WILLIAM HENRY: From Baalbek in Lebanon
to the Temple Mount to Puma Punku,

some of these sites
are thought to be the locations

where pre-flood temples
once existed.

So, after the cataclysm, people
are regaining civilization,

and they go back
to the exact same location

as previous temples and-and
rebuild the temple there.

NARRATOR: Could it be
that the most ancient structures

found at sacred sites
all over the world

belonged to civilizations
that have been lost to history?

Civilizations
where extraterrestrials

once lived among humans

before falling victim
to a cataclysmic event?

Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining

a site in Peru where the Inca
claimed to have had

a direct line of communication
with the gods.

NARRATOR:
Cuzco, Peru.

In the heart
of the ancient Incan capital

stands the Convent
of Santo Domingo,

a Spanish church constructed
roughly 400 years ago.

But still visible beneath
the church are the remnants

of an older and far more
impressive structure:

The Incan temple of Coricancha.

TOK THOMPSON: Coricancha
is probably the premier site

for the ancient
Incan civilization.

This was the crowning jewel
of their empire.

Um, it, uh, reflected
the Incan, uh, political power.

As well as the religious power.

BARNHART: It had gold plating
all along its walls, inside and out.

So it glowed in the Sun.

And it was a very
imposing structure.

It had a base that was
a curved wall

with a big garden at the bottom.

And inside,
it had a number of temples.

(men yelling, swords clanging)

NARRATOR:
After the Spanish conquistadors

sacked Cuzco
in November of 1533,

they demolished the Coricancha
and built a convent and church

on its monumental foundation.

All that's left
of the original structure

is the impressive stonework
of the base

and some underground rooms.

But some experts believe
the surviving stonework

of the Coricancha is too
monumental and sophisticated

to have been achieved with the
Bronze Age tools of the Inca,

and was built instead by an
earlier, unknown civilization.

NEWMAN:
So, with the Coricancha, we have

good evidence that when the Inca
arrived in this area,

there was already an earlier
megalithic temple there.

They were actually
building on something

that was already there,

like, possibly
an ancient platform,

possibly an underground temple,

because there's evidence
of tunnels in this area.

NARRATOR:
For ancient astronaut theorists,

this raises the same question
posed by Baalbek and Tiahuanaco:

Why did ancient people
repeatedly build

temple after temple
on the same sacred spot?

And some believe that
in the case of the Coricancha,

Inca legends may provide
a pivotal clue.

Because tradition states
that a special spot

within the Coricancha
allowed communication

directly with the heavens,

but only when it was activated
by the most sacred relic

in the Inca world,
a mysterious golden disc

called the Inti Punchaco.

ANDREW GOUGH:
The most legendary relic

of any Peruvian era

was said to have been kept
in the original Coricancha.

This was the Inti Punchaco.

This sun disc,
this golden artifact,

allowed whoever possessed it

to commune directly
with the gods.

NARRATOR: According to
the Inca, within the Coricancha,

the Inti Punchaco disc
allowed direct contact

with their creator god
Viracocha.

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that the specific placement
of it

was important because it
may have been receiving a signal

from beyond Earth.

And they believe the exact spot
where it was activated

still exists in a chamber
of the Coricancha

that was spared destruction
by the Spanish.

DAVID CHILDRESS:
In the Coricancha

is this special niche,

and today they've covered it
with a Plexiglas sheet,

but it has blocks
that are perfectly cut

and articulated in unusual ways,
little notches and things,

plus drilled holes that go
through it,

which seem to be for
electric cables or something.

So it would appear
that some device

was placed into this niche
in the wall

that was like a monitor
of some kind.

And they've chosen this spot.

And all for reasons
that we do not understand.

NEWMAN: So, could it
be that at the Coricancha,

there was a sacred kind of
part of the site there

where they were connecting
with the gods?

Actually something in the land,
like a-a magnetic hot spot

or a vortex that the Inca

and then later the Spanish
became aware of.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
ancient Peruvians possessed a device

that allowed them to communicate
with beings from beyond Earth?

And that the location
of the Coricancha

was essential to activating
this technology?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and suggest that clues
as to just how such a technology

might have worked can be found
by examining

mysterious magnetic
anomalies detected

at one of the most remote
ancient sites in the world.

NARRATOR: In the middle
of the Pacific Ocean,

roughly 2,500 miles
northeast of Australia,

lie the ruins of a once
great ancient city Nan Madol.

Consisting of hundreds
of man-made islets

off the eastern coast
of Micronesia,

it has been dubbed the
"Eighth Wonder of the World."

WILLIAM HENRY:
The site of Nan Madol

on the island of
Pohnpei in Micronesia

is one of the strangest places
on the planet.

It's an 11-square-mile complex

composed of over 250 million
tons of basalt logs...

floating on a submerged
coral reef.

They are 18 feet long,
four feet in diameter,

and are stacked
40 feet up in the air.

Why did they do this?
And how did they do this?

NARRATOR: Today, the site
lies abandoned and shunned

by the local Micronesians,
who consider it haunted.

TOK THOMPSON: Nan Madol is one
of these disappeared civilizations.

It's fascinatingly interesting.

This seemed to have been
the center of power

of a, uh, major civilization.

And yet it also seems
that it might have been built

on earlier civilizations
that are lost in time.

NARRATOR: Since stone
is difficult to accurately date,

no one knows for certain
when it was constructed

or how it was built.

TSOUKALOS: When you
ask the local population,

"Where were
these blocks quarried?"

In unison, they will tell you,
from across the island

and that they were flown
across the island.

ANDREW GOUGH:
According to legend,

twin sorcerers
of giant proportions

came down from the sky
and floated above the site

and positioned the basalt
columns as they desired,

a legend that's very similar
to the same story at Puma Punku.

TSOUKALOS: But when
I hear stories like that,

I wonder, well,
perhaps we have another example

of what I refer to
as misunderstood technology.

NARRATOR: As with
other sites like Puma Punku,

Baalbek and the Coricancha,
legend says

that these structures were not
the first to exist here,

but instead were built
above a much older city.

GOUGH:
The mystery of Nan Madol

is even more intriguing when
we factor in the local legend

that states that it was built
on an earlier civilization

called the Kanamwayso,

which is submerged below water

but still has those
same basalt megaliths.

NARRATOR: Objects that
appear to be basalt columns

have in fact been found
beneath the ocean at Nan Madol,

and those who have studied
the columns

both above and below the water

have discovered a curious
electromagnetic anomaly.

CHILDRESS: There's a strong
magnetic field in every single one

of the 250 million tons
of basalt there.

You can take a compass and run
it along these basalt blocks,

and your compass will just spin
as you move it along the blocks.

Also, it's thought that the site
itself is a special power spot

and an energy vortex, and that's
why Nan Madol is built there.

And this legendary sunken city
called Kanamwayso as well.

TSOUKALOS: The local population
also reports many, many sightings

of orbs and lights

that have been seen
hovering around Nan Madol.

Is it because of the magnetic
spectrum of Earth?

And you have to wonder
if, through magnetism,

the stones were transported
in the first place,

'cause they were transported
through the air.

NARRATOR: Some ancient
astronaut theorists suggest

that elevated electromagnetic
energy present at Nan Madol

was not only a powerful tool

used to move
the giant basalt columns,

but that it may also
have been the reason

that extraterrestrials
helped the locals

to build here
in the first place.

NEWMAN:
Could it be that there was

a sacred kind of part
of the site there,

where they were
connecting with the gods?

You know, not just through
visionary experiences,

but actually something
in the land,

like a-a magnetic hot spot
or a vortex?

TRAVIS TAYLOR: We hear the word
"vortex" in science fiction,

popular culture all the time.

And a vortex is just
a mathematical thing

that describes
a swirling motion.

An electromagnetic field
can be formed in a vortex.

You could create a vortex
that would enable

transporting information
from somewhere else to here

at the speed of light or faster
than the speed of light.

And if there are places
on the Earth

where these types of vortexes
may be stronger than others,

you could see people going there
to build structures

that maybe altered

the electromagnetic field
of the local environment.

NEWMAN: Was there even
some kind of portal or vortex present

in some of these sacred places?

If that's the case,
we have to question

these principles of oracle
sites, megalithic temples.

Were they built to harness this,

to be these
communication portals

between these different places?

GEORGE NOORY:
There is no question in my mind

that these are much older sites
than we think,

and that they were spots for
extraterrestrial communication

a long, long time ago.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that
certain locations around the world

act as vortexes
of electromagnetic energy?

And that ancient people built
their most sacred sites

in these very spots

in order to communicate
with otherworldly beings?

Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

that although this notion
may sound far-fetched,

scientists at NASA recently
found evidence

that such portals
really do exist.

NARRATOR:
Huntsville, ALBAMA

October 30, 2008.

NARRATOR: NASA makes
a groundbreaking announcement,

that there is indisputable
evidence of magnetic portals

connecting the Earth
and the Sun.

These portals open
every eight minutes

and allow the transfer
of high-energy particles

between the two
celestial bodies.

TAYLOR: So, you have these
two really powerful magnets,

the Earth and the Sun,

and their field lines
are crossing each other.

But every now and then,
for whatever reason,

we have these flux transfer
events where the field lines

will actually connect
to each other

and they create a pathway for
the magnetic field of the Sun

to literally be connected to
the magnetic field of the Earth.

And it's even been referred to
in the scientific literature

as magnetic portals.

We actually have a connection
that could be a transit

to or a pathway for information
to travel from the Sun

to the Earth or vice versa.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have long been intrigued

by the concept
of electromagnetic portals,

since in theory
they could provide

a means of communicating,
or even traveling rapidly,

across the vast distances
of space.

The NASA discovery poses
an intriguing question:

Could sites around the world,
where successive cultures

built their most sacred temples,
be locations that facilitate

the creation
of magnetic portals?

TAYLOR: Could a civilization
with a more advanced knowledge

of physics
than we have currently

make use of this flux transfer,
of these magnetic field lines

connecting between their star
and other planets?

Could it create a means
of traveling quickly

from one point to the other
between them?

Or maybe even something else

that we just haven't
discovered yet.

NEWMAN:
Maybe these sites

were kind of manipulating
the energies

of the cosmos and the Earth
to open these portals up

for this kind of purpose.

And what or who were they
really communicating with?

Was it really the gods?
Was it the ancestors?

Or was it otherworldly beings?

NARRATOR:
Could Baalbek, Temple Mount,

Puma Punku, the Coricancha,

and other sites around the world
where sacred structures

have been built again and again

have electromagnetic properties
similar to Nan Madol?

Properties that could be
harnessed to create gateways

to connect
with otherworldly beings?

McGOWAN:
Over and over, around the world,

from the beginning of time
to now,

we see that sacred sites
and power points

have been marked by humankind.

Temples have been built
to communicate

from Earth to heaven.

ANDREW COLLINS:
Quite clearly,

these places are somewhere

that we keep coming back to.

We call them portals,
we call them vortexes.

They are gateways
onto another world,

and they are
very, very important

not just for human experience
but for evolution itself.

NARRATOR: Are humans
drawn to certain locations on Earth

by a magnetic force?

Do we build
our most sacred temples

on the same sites
again and again

because these locations
connect us to the cosmos?

Perhaps, as we continue to
unearth even more ancient ruins,

we will come
to better understand

our connection to the universe

and the truth about
our extraterrestrial past.

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