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NARRATOR: A mysterious
metal object that defies explonation.
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GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS:
Very strange.
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So what does the museum
have to say about this?
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It is a strange piece
for us as well.
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NARRATOR:
An ancient stone carving
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that may possess
advanced technology.
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DAVID SEDAT: Inside the
crystalline structure were great
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memory chip banks.
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NARRATOR:
An extraordinary crystal skull
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with strange properties.
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So, what are we looking at here?
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JAMIE JONES:
It seems to be a very strong,
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protective energy.
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NARRATOR: On Ancient Aliens,
we've investigated
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the world's oldest
and most incredible
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relics up close and in person.
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Now, we take a look back at some
of the most mysterious artifacts
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we've examined
all over the globe.
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Artifacts that, according to
ancient astronaut theorists,
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provide undeniable proof
of extraterrestrial contact.
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On Ancient Aliens,
we have examined
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some of the most mysterious
artifacts on Earth.
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Artifacts that, I believe,
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offer compelling evidence
that our ancestors
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were visited by
extraterrestrials.
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And that is exactly
what I found when I traveled
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to a museum in Romania with
Erich von D�niken to examine
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one of the most extraordinary
relics ever discovered.
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NARRATOR:
Workers digging a trench
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along the banks
of the Mures River
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unearth two giant bones.
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And with them,
a mysterious metal object,
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buried 35 feet
beneath the surface.
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The discovery brings
the project to a halt
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as the crew takes their
findings to a nearby museum.
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This strange object, known
today as the Wedge of Aiud,
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continues to baffle
archaeologists
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because it is an aluminum alloy
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that appears to have been
made thousands of years
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before humans were able
to smelt or fabricate metal.
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It was 10 meters in depth
associated with some bones,
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which they later identified
as woolly mammoth bones.
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If they were contemporary,
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all of them, then they were
in use sometime in the period
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when Neanderthals
roamed the Earth.
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So they were extinct
40,000 years ago,
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so they must be older than that.
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The Wedge was analyzed
three times to my knowledge.
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The main metal in its
composition is aluminum.
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MICHAEL DENNIN: Humans
didn't really start working
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with aluminum until well
into the 1800s.
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So when you look at
this wedge and you analyze it,
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it really has most
of the modern properties
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we would associate
with aluminum.
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NARRATOR:
In January of 2017,
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ancient astronaut theorists
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Giorgio Tsoukalos
and Erich von D�niken
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were offered a rare opportunity
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to get a firsthand look
at the Wedge of Aiud.
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Museum curator Ana Gruia
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has taken it out of
a storage locker
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where it has been
deliberately hidden
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from the public
since the early 1970s.
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Okay.
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This is exciting.
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Okay, I'm just gonna put
my gloves on.
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TSOUKALOS:
This is great.
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GRUIA:
So this is it.
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- VON D�NIKEN: Oh, wow.
- TSOUKALOS: Okay.
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VON D�NIKEN:
This is strange.
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It's very heavy.
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- Giorgio, take it, it's heavy.
- This is crazy.
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TSOUKALOS:
Wow.
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And this was found at a depth
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of 10 meters,
which is about 30 feet,
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- in the ground.
- GRUIA: Yes.
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TSOUKALOS:
Yes, and here, this is
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where they took the sample out,
and here, to make the analysis.
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And here you see two pieces
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that are broken off, sort of.
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So maybe it was attached
or something.
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But very strange.
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So what does the museum
have to say about this?
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This is a very strange piece.
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It is, it is a strange piece
for us as well.
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As historians,
we do not consider it
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a historical object
that we're used to.
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We don't know
what it was used for,
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and we acknowledge these
uncertainties about its dating,
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and its composition as well.
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VON D�NIKEN:
So, for what can you use this?
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It looks like a hammer
or a shovel, but, Giorgio,
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what is the word of, in English?
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(speaking in foreign language)
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- Oh, an excavator tooth.
- VON D�NIKEN: Well,
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it looks like this.
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- It could have been something like it.
- Yeah.
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VON D�NIKEN:
But these excavator tooths
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- are never made out of aluminum.
- TSOUKALOS: No, it's too weak.
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- VON D�NIKEN: Aluminum is too soft.
- TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
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VON D�NIKEN:
They are made out of steel.
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Especially hard steel,
so it could not be that.
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So we have a real mystery here.
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But you see this patina
over this whole object?
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And this creates
another problem.
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TSOUKALOS: Yes, because
you cannot fake a patina.
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It's impossible
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to artificially create a patina.
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NARRATOR: The patina is a thin
coating of various metal compounds
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that forms
on the surface of the metal
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during exposure
to atmospheric elements.
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The older the object,
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the thicker
the patina layer will be.
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It takes hundreds,
if not thousands of years
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for a thick layer of patina,
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as this apparently is,
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for it to develop.
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Yes, we agree there are
two basic problems.
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One, that aluminum
was not invented
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at the age when we presume
this was in use.
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And second, it's the patina,
as you noted.
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VON D�NIKEN:
Which speaks for the date.
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- TSOUKALOS: Yes.
- VON D�NIKEN: For the age of it.
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So we-we still
have a mystery here.
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TSOUKALOS:
Thank you very much for
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showing us this object because
I know that there was a time
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when nobody knew where it was,
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somewhere in a box in the back.
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Which means present-day
archaeology has a problem.
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And they're doing
magnificent work.
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But when something
like this comes along,
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you know, we should
investigate this
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and not put it in
a box in the back.
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- Definitely.
- GRUIA: It did depend on mentalities
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- in official position.
- Yes. (Chuckling)
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It isn't currently exhibited
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because we have to admit,
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as historians,
that we do not know
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more details about it.
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For us it's just baffling
at this point.
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But taking the-the logic
further, this conflicting
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information could have
just two solutions so far:
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One, that it is really
not so old and the context
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is irrelevant, and the patina
was somehow produced
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in special circumstances.
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So it's a new object
strangely preserved, let's say.
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And the second option is,
of course,
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that it's not
of terrestrial origin.
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In all of your adventures,
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how does this compare
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to some of the other things
that are inexplicable?
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I am helpless. I have no idea.
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- That says it all right there.
- (chuckling)
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Very bizarre. Bizarre.
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I've known about this thing
since the early 1990s,
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and I have to tell you
that looking at it
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in person was a dream come true.
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And it's a very strange thing.
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I mean, how do you explain this?
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It certainly looks
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as if it was part
of a larger object.
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The question is, was it
a component of a device?
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Was it a component
of something larger?
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NARRATOR: If the Wedge of
Aiud really is over 40,000 years old,
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then who made it,
and what was it used for?
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Some ancient astronaut theorists
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believe they may have
the answer.
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An aeronautical engineer
who saw the Aiud Wedge
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looked at it and said,
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"That's a piece of
a landing gear
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for a vertical takeoff
and landing aircraft."
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Ancient astronaut theorists
have also looked at this wedge
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and surmised that it's possible
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that it's part of a crashed
extraterrestrial craft.
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NARRATOR:
Could the Wedge of Aiud
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really be a remnant
of an extraterrestrial craft?
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Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes.
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And they suggest that the truth
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about these
otherworldly visitors
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can be found half a world away,
encoded in stone.
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Some of the most
mysterious artifacts
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we've investigated on
Ancient Aliens
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have come in the form of
ancient stone statues
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known as stelae.
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On a recent trip
to Cop�n, Honduras,
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I met with an archaeologist
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who showed me some
intriguing examples
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of these Mayan artifacts
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that he suggests
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may have served
a technological purpose.
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NARRATOR: Ancient Astronaut
theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos travels
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to Cop�n, Honduras, to meet up
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with renowned Mayan
archaeologist David Sedat
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who's been involved
in the excavation
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of the site for more
than three decades.
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TSOUKALOS: David,
great pleasure to meet you.
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SEDAT: Well, I've been
looking forward to this.
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I'm sure you have a lot
of things you want to see.
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TSOUKALOS:
This is... Yes, I do.
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So, David, what are we
looking at here?
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SEDAT:
Well,
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this is the Great Plaza.
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It's over 100 meters, uh,
larger than a football field.
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And it's the southern portion
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of the Great Plaza
with the majority of the great
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standing stone giants that
you've come to see are located.
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NARRATOR:
On the grounds at Cop�n
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are dozens of stone
statues called stelae.
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The most well-known of these
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were built during
the 43-year reign of the ruler
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Uaxaclajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,
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better known by
the nickname "18 Rabbit."
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TSOUKALOS:
This is the first time
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I'm standing next
to one of these.
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Absolutely incredible.
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What do the glyphs say
about this particular statue
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or stela here?
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SEDAT: This is all
a representation of
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the 13th ruler, whom we
have nicknamed 18 Rabbit.
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And they show him
taking on the persona
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of the high god of Cop�n,
Ju'n Ajaw, who was a sky god.
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The supreme being.
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The motifs on his headdress
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and other attributes
show that he is a sky deity.
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This is amazing to me
because here we have not only
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a statue depicting something,
which is a picture,
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a carved picture,
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but on the sides,
we have writing,
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glyphs carved
that speak of a sky deity.
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Now, when I look at
something like this,
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I'm immediately reminded
of misunderstood technology.
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Because imagine,
if a people who are
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intelligent yet their
technological frame of reference
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from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago
we have to admit was primitive,
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not their intelligence,
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their technological
frame of reference.
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Of course,
let me just add to that
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that everything
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shows his connectedness
of the cosmos
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and this living space
of mankind in all of its senses.
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And by the way,
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I have seen that
headdress right there
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elsewhere on planet Earth.
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And that is in Mesopotamia.
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So the fact that we have
these examples worldwide
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leads me to think that it was
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a flesh and blood
extraterrestrial
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whom our ancestors
misinterpreted as being God.
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Why? Because
they came from the sky.
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Arthur C. Clarke
said it best when he said,
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"Any sufficiently
advanced technology
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is indistinguishable
from magic."
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Imagine showing
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your great-great-grandfather
your smart phone.
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Right. That's right.
(laughing) -All of a sudden,
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you've become
a magician, a wizard.
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When we talk about technology,
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I imagine someday in the future
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that the technology will be such
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that we'll be able to scan
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this stela here...
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...and receive the resonances
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that are inside the crystalline
structure of the stone.
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In other words,
that these were great
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memory chip banks.
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Wow, okay.
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And in the appropriate algorithm
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we could peel back into time
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by hearing the sights and sounds
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and everything
that happened in this
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sacred space and maybe
answer some of the questions
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that you were posing.
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NARRATOR: Is it possible
that these Mayan stone giants
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were designed in such a way
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as to be able to digitally
store valuable data?
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NOVA SPIVACK: We've learned
a lot about how ancient civilizations
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understood our solar system
and their world.
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These civilizations
had advanced technologies
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for working with
stone and metal,
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and in some cases crystals.
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We still don't know
how they did what they did.
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It's reasonable that,
given these monuments exist,
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that we should analyze them
to see if there's
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other layers of information
encoded in them.
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DAVID CHILDRESS:
If these statues were
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in fact devices that had
recorded information,
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you wonder if we have also
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some evidence here
from the statues of Cop�n
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that extraterrestrials
are coming to this planet.
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NARRATOR: Could the
ancient stone giants of Cop�n
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really be encoded with
precious information
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about the ancient world?
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And if so, might they
also hold evidence
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of extraterrestrial contact?
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As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,
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the answer is a profound yes.
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And to prove their point,
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they believe
that one of the keys
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can be found by examining
the elaborate carvings
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located on what is
referred to as Stela C...
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the same one that David Sedat
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considers the most incredible.
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The inscription on this side
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starts a 20-year period
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equivalent to
December 5 of 711.
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And midnight on that night,
the Milky Way was standing
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precisely straight up
in the tropical sky here.
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The text goes on to say
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that this also happened
4,600 years before.
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And there is strong implication
that he was as well,
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like on that night,
witnessing this celestial event.
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NARRATOR:
Witnessing the event?
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Is it possible that the ruler
depicted on the stelae
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known as 18 Rabbit
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was able to observe
an astronomical event
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that occurred more than
4,000 years before his time?
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Let me show you
how the narrative
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picks up on the other side.
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All right, let's check it out.
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So now here,
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- this guy has a beard.
- Well, yes.
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This is still 18 Rabbit,
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but he's achieved
great age, great wisdom.
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Telling us that he is
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witnessing this astronomical
conjunction of the Milky Way
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two million years ago.
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Two million years ago?
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- Two million years ago.
- So
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- this guy here...
- And he witnessed it.
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Now, he witnesses
this astronomical
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conjunction of the Milky Way
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two million years in the future.
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- As well?
- As well.
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TSOUKALOS:
That's extraordinary.
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SEDAT:
So these stones have to be seen
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as the supernatural
personas that can travel
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in time simultaneously
backwards and forwards.
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You've just blown my mind.
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NARRATOR: Supernatural
personas that can travel through time?
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If the statues of Cop�n
were really created
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as a means of storing
valuable ancient knowledge,
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as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
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then how and why did that
knowledge come to be lost...
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...along with the keys needed
to unlock their secrets?
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Perhaps the answers
can be found by examining
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another group
of mysterious stones
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that may have
extraterrestrial origins.
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Many of the mystererious
artifacts
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we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens are,
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in my opinion,
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objects that our ancestors
created to document
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encounters with
otherworldly beings.
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But every now and then
we have come across an artifact
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that may itself be
of extraterrestrial origin.
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In 2019, David Childress
got the rare opportunity
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to scientifically test
strange stones that are unlike
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anything we've ever
found on planet Earth.
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NARRATOR:
Sierra Leone, Africa.
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The early 1990s.
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As civil war rages
across the country...
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...rebels begin forcing
villagers to mine
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so-called "blood diamonds."
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But from deep within the earth
emerges a vast treasure
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they weren't expecting.
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They discover mysterious figures
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ranging from five
to ten inches tall...
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...often with reptilian
or amphibian features
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known as Nomoli.
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CHILDRESS:
They're very strange statues.
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Some are clay, some are of
granite or limestone.
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They are humans and human
figures with lizard heads.
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There are hundreds of them.
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NARRATOR: According to legend,
the Nomoli represent sky gods.
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When they fell from the heaven,
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part of the sky turned to stone
and rained down with them.
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Curiously, strange blue stones
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can be found buried with many
of the Nomoli figurines.
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These strange blue stones
called sky stones
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have been found with
the statues and at first,
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archaeologists thought,
okay, it's just blue stones.
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But when they analyzed it,
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they couldn't figure out
how these had been made, too.
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Although the people
in Sierra Leone felt
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that they were actually
pieces of the blue sky
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that fell with the Nomoli.
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NARRATOR: If these mysterious
blue stones are really connected
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to the legend of the sky
turning to stone
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and raining down on the Earth
with the arrival of the Nomoli,
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what could they be?
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Seattle, Washington.
March 6, 2019.
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In search of further evidence
that the Nomoli statues may have
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an extraterrestrial connection,
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ancient astronaut theorist
David Childress
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has arranged to meet up
with sky stone collector
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and researcher Jared Collins.
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Wow.
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NARRATOR:
Jared has in his possession
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a number of
the mysterious blue stones
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that were found
near the statues.
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So how was it that these stones
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were actually discovered
in modern time?
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This was actually
discovered in 1991
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by a man named David Leadbetter.
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He was in Sierra Leone
on a mining concession
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looking for gold and diamonds.
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And when he was
having his crew dig,
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occasionally,
these stones would appear.
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What do other
geologists say about
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stones like this?
Are they able to identify them?
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COLLINS: We've sent
these now to 12 different labs.
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There is not one piece
of consensus in here.
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Everybody has
a different opinion.
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We still don't know,
actually, if these are
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- natural or man-made.
- So maybe it's from another planet.
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I don't know.
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I really wish I did,
and I would love a chance
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to actually be able to get this
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in front of somebody else
who could look at it again.
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I've got some friends at
the University of Washington
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and I think we can set this up
and have another test done.
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That would be fantastic.
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I would love to get
some consensus on this
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to understand
what this actually is.
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NARRATOR: While tests
conducted on the stones found
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with the Nomoli statues
have so far produced
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conflicting and sometimes
even confounding results,
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David is eager to have them
tested for himself.
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At the University of Washington,
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David and Jared meet
with renowned geologist
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Professor Peter Ward.
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Hi, I'm David Childress.
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- I talked to you on the phone.
- David.
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It's good to meet you.
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And this is Jared Collins.
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Thank you so much
for seeing us today.
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Jared, both of you guys,
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welcome to the University
of Washington IsoLab.
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So, what do we have
in this beautiful box?
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Well, we're sort of hoping
that you can tell us.
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Well, well, well,
what are these beauties?
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We have been through
many tests on these,
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and no one can identify them.
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They cannot tell us whether
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these are natural or artificial,
what's causing the blue color,
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if this is ancient or modern.
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So, they've been checked for
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the common blue minerals,
I take it?
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One thing that we know for sure
is that this is not turquoise.
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This is not lap is.
This is not erinite.
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WARD: The fact that
it's so unbelievably light
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really suggests that there's
an organic component to it.
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Anything that goes blue
generally is much heavier,
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So this is,
this is really a mystery.
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COLLINS:
I should mention also
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that this only comes from
one very specific part,
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from one very specific village.
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It has never been found
anywhere else in the world.
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Well, let's do a test
that removes any doubt
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about them being partly organic.
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So Erin is gonna take this rock
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and she's gonna
scrape it into these
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tiny little tin cups.
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The tin cups themselves will
load into our mass spectrograph.
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They will then be heated to
a thousand degrees centigrade.
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Everything inside will com bust
and turn to gas.
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And those individual
gas molecules will then
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be sampled and we can examine
if there are any truly organic
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molecules in this rock.
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Was there some life process that
was involved in its formation?
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NARRATOR: David and Jared
return home to wait for the results.
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When Dr. Ward receives them
two weeks later,
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he sends an email to David
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remarking that what
the scientists found
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was so strange, they ran
the tests three times,
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thinking it was
a machine error and added:
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"This gives me the creeps."
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To learn more, David contacted
Dr. Ward through video chat.
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Hi, Doctor Ward.
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So I wanted to learn
about the results?
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Yeah, it was pretty cool.
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I mean, it was much
stranger than we thought.
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There really seems to be
some sort of organic
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aspect to this.
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It's got element nitrogen in it
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in really high concentrations.
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Having this high
amount of nitrogen
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puts it into a, "Wow, that's
a very peculiar rock" category.
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We were looking for a possible
extraterrestrial origin.
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Is it possibly
a meteorite or even
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part of a spaceship
that exploded?
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(laughing)
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Let's just say that there's
a possibility that it came
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from off the Earth.
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As we scientists say,
"It's worth more study."
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NARRATOR: Although the
sky stones are still a mystery,
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David and Jared have confirmed
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that they are unlike any
other stone ever examined.
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Could they have arrived
on Earth with the strange beings
501
00:24:50,620 --> 00:24:53,500
that are depicted
in the Nomoli statues?
502
00:24:53,600 --> 00:24:56,540
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
503
00:24:56,740 --> 00:25:00,100
and they claim that further
evidence of extraterrestrial
504
00:25:00,230 --> 00:25:02,420
visitation in the distant past
505
00:25:02,530 --> 00:25:06,660
can be found in one of the most
remote places in the world.
506
00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:13,650
On Ancient Aliens we have
traveled around the world
507
00:25:13,740 --> 00:25:16,610
to get a closer look
at mysterious artifacts.
508
00:25:16,700 --> 00:25:20,080
And sometimes, we find
evidence of alien contact
509
00:25:20,230 --> 00:25:21,620
hiding in plain sight.
510
00:25:22,530 --> 00:25:24,250
This is exactly what happened
511
00:25:24,340 --> 00:25:25,560
when David Childress
and I traveled
512
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,690
to the remote Marquesas Islands
and were shown
513
00:25:28,780 --> 00:25:32,320
an ancient statue that,
as far as we were concerned,
514
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,390
clearly represents something
515
00:25:34,480 --> 00:25:38,300
very different from what
mainstream scholars suggest.
516
00:25:39,620 --> 00:25:41,490
The South Pacific Ocean
517
00:25:41,580 --> 00:25:43,580
June, 2018
518
00:25:44,560 --> 00:25:46,770
NARRATOR:
Ancient astronaut theorists
519
00:25:46,890 --> 00:25:49,390
Giorgio Tsoukalos
and David Childress
520
00:25:49,470 --> 00:25:53,590
are in the Marquesas Islands,
investigating potential evidence
521
00:25:53,670 --> 00:25:55,590
that this remote
part of the world
522
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,550
was once inhabited by
extraterrestrial visitors.
523
00:26:02,030 --> 00:26:03,030
Hello.
524
00:26:05,140 --> 00:26:06,220
CHILDRESS:
It's good to see you.
525
00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,580
- TSOUKALOS: Yeah.
- CHILDRESS: Okay.
526
00:26:07,660 --> 00:26:09,100
NARRATOR:
As their local guide,
527
00:26:09,180 --> 00:26:11,020
they've enlisted
Hiva Oa resident
528
00:26:11,180 --> 00:26:13,640
Heimata Bonno who will show them
529
00:26:13,780 --> 00:26:15,600
some of the mysterious
sculptures
530
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,470
found on the island,
known as tikis.
531
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:22,750
These statuaries represent
the ancestral gods and goddesses
532
00:26:22,830 --> 00:26:25,730
that came to the islands
in ancient times.
533
00:26:26,610 --> 00:26:28,990
- TSOUKALOS: This is incredible.
- CHILDRESS: Yeah.
534
00:26:29,230 --> 00:26:31,640
TSOUKALOS: So what are we
looking at here? What is this?
535
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:49,100
Oh, it totally looks
like a llama.
536
00:26:51,270 --> 00:26:53,270
TSOUKALOS: I totally think
this looks like a llama.
537
00:26:53,350 --> 00:26:55,350
I mean, there is
no question in my mind.
538
00:26:56,480 --> 00:26:59,640
And I also don't think
that this was altered.
539
00:26:59,730 --> 00:27:01,190
This is original.
540
00:27:01,270 --> 00:27:03,350
And I don't see any changes.
541
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,850
CHILDRESS: So either
this is not authentic,
542
00:27:06,980 --> 00:27:09,310
or if it is authentic
it's a llama,
543
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,690
and it proves connection
to-to South America.
544
00:27:14,230 --> 00:27:16,020
NARRATOR:
South America?
545
00:27:16,190 --> 00:27:18,440
Is it possible that the llama,
546
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:20,940
believed to be native
to South America,
547
00:27:21,030 --> 00:27:24,270
was known to people living
on this remote island chain
548
00:27:24,360 --> 00:27:27,010
some 3,500 miles away?
549
00:27:27,250 --> 00:27:28,610
But how?
550
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:32,070
CHILDRESS:
Some people say that
551
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:33,490
it's a woman giving birth.
552
00:27:34,310 --> 00:27:35,830
Do the women here
553
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:37,500
in the Marquesas islands,
do they do this?
554
00:27:37,580 --> 00:27:39,580
They lie on their stomach
and give birth?
555
00:27:39,670 --> 00:27:41,460
- No.
- No.
556
00:27:42,850 --> 00:27:45,100
TSOUKALOS:
This is crazy. Huh.
557
00:27:45,310 --> 00:27:49,550
To me, it looks like
something from the sky.
558
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:52,800
It's like... (groans)
Maybe some flying vehicle.
559
00:27:52,890 --> 00:27:56,000
- It's a great question.
- Yeah.
560
00:27:57,430 --> 00:27:59,270
TSOUKALOS: Perhaps
what we're looking at here
561
00:27:59,350 --> 00:28:00,780
is some type of a craft.
562
00:28:00,860 --> 00:28:03,650
Because you have
the windows in the front,
563
00:28:03,730 --> 00:28:05,480
which are these giant goggles
564
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,690
and then you have
the mouth in the front
565
00:28:07,780 --> 00:28:10,990
which to me it looks like
some type of an air intake.
566
00:28:11,770 --> 00:28:14,480
Underneath you have
a lifting body
567
00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:16,970
that goes underneath
the entire body.
568
00:28:17,390 --> 00:28:22,590
And if you combine that
with the story of this object
569
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:24,390
or this woman giving birth,
570
00:28:24,730 --> 00:28:27,400
if someone has never seen
571
00:28:27,490 --> 00:28:30,660
passengers disembarking
from an actual airplane...
572
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:34,640
...if they have no idea
what is happening,
573
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:36,850
well, all of a sudden...
574
00:28:37,810 --> 00:28:41,140
...a flying vehicle
is giving birth to people.
575
00:28:41,640 --> 00:28:44,510
NARRATOR: Is it possible
that this ancient statue
576
00:28:44,640 --> 00:28:46,980
that has been interpreted
in modern times
577
00:28:47,060 --> 00:28:48,820
as a fertility goddess
578
00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:53,560
is actually depicting
an extraterrestrial spacecraft?
579
00:28:54,110 --> 00:28:56,780
I think that tikis
are nothing else
580
00:28:57,230 --> 00:28:59,480
but misunderstood technology
581
00:28:59,600 --> 00:29:04,230
that over time
turned into divine objects
582
00:29:04,350 --> 00:29:07,140
of magic and sorcery.
583
00:29:15,390 --> 00:29:16,640
Can we go look at it?
584
00:29:16,730 --> 00:29:17,730
Great.
585
00:29:21,390 --> 00:29:22,440
TSOUKALOS:
Oh, wow.
586
00:29:25,390 --> 00:29:27,440
Clearly this tiki,
the head is missing.
587
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:31,310
But I see that it has
six fingers.
588
00:29:40,730 --> 00:29:45,600
It's very feasible to me that
they actually tried to imitate
589
00:29:45,730 --> 00:29:49,850
whoever visited or whoever came
here to impart this knowledge.
590
00:29:51,230 --> 00:29:55,690
Why would they carve six fingers
if they did not see six fingers?
591
00:29:55,850 --> 00:29:59,060
So we should not say,
"Oh, this is just fantasy."
592
00:29:59,190 --> 00:30:02,850
I think they saw
someone with six fingers.
593
00:30:02,940 --> 00:30:04,690
Is that possible?
594
00:30:04,770 --> 00:30:05,770
Yeah.
595
00:30:05,890 --> 00:30:07,480
Yes.
596
00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,640
TSOUKALOS:
So these are protectors.
597
00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:28,940
NARRATOR: Could it be
that the mysterious statues
598
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:32,250
and carvings found
throughout the Marquesas Islands
599
00:30:32,390 --> 00:30:36,390
were made to commemorate
extraterrestrial visitation?
600
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,930
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
601
00:30:41,060 --> 00:30:45,770
and suggest further evidence
of alien contact can be found
602
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:49,970
by examining strange
skulls made of crystal.
603
00:30:54,060 --> 00:30:57,600
Of the many mysterious
artifacts
604
00:30:57,730 --> 00:30:59,890
we've investigated
on Ancient Aliens,
605
00:31:00,020 --> 00:31:03,350
some of the most jaw-dropping
are the crystal skulls.
606
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:05,890
Crystal skulls have been
found all around the world
607
00:31:06,060 --> 00:31:07,350
and some of them have been
608
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,730
carved with such
extraordinary precision that,
609
00:31:09,890 --> 00:31:13,020
in my opinion,
they must have been created
610
00:31:13,190 --> 00:31:15,640
with some type
of advanced technology.
611
00:31:15,770 --> 00:31:19,060
In 2013, David Childress
got to examine
612
00:31:19,190 --> 00:31:22,550
the largest crystal skull
ever discovered.
613
00:31:26,310 --> 00:31:28,230
NARRATOR:
This is Einstein,
614
00:31:28,530 --> 00:31:31,630
believed to be the largest
ancient crystal skull
615
00:31:31,710 --> 00:31:33,130
as yet discovered.
616
00:31:34,130 --> 00:31:37,040
Its owner, Carolyn Ford,
says she obtained
617
00:31:37,130 --> 00:31:40,640
the 33-pound crystal object
more than 20 years ago
618
00:31:40,810 --> 00:31:45,560
from an explorer who discovered
it in Mexico in the early 1900s.
619
00:31:46,890 --> 00:31:50,560
She was unaware that it
possessed any strange abilities
620
00:31:50,730 --> 00:31:52,710
until the day when, she claims,
621
00:31:52,800 --> 00:31:55,550
it actually
communicated with her.
622
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:58,090
CAROLYN FORD: It was
revealed to me by Einstein
623
00:31:58,310 --> 00:31:59,690
at the moment that I got him
624
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,020
when I knew nothing about
crystal skulls, he said,
625
00:32:02,100 --> 00:32:06,350
"I'm an ancient computer.
In fact, I'm a master computer.
626
00:32:09,020 --> 00:32:11,860
And we record everything,
627
00:32:11,950 --> 00:32:14,330
like a live feed, 24/7.
628
00:32:14,740 --> 00:32:16,680
And that's our purpose."
629
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,450
He's been recording
history on this planet
630
00:32:20,530 --> 00:32:24,900
since the beginning of time,
so indeed he was in Atlantis.
631
00:32:26,340 --> 00:32:29,200
A lot of the ancient
crystal skulls have been
632
00:32:29,290 --> 00:32:33,110
in Atlantis, and even
before that time.
633
00:32:33,820 --> 00:32:36,310
NARRATOR: Could the
so-called Einstein skull
634
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,060
really be an artifact
635
00:32:38,150 --> 00:32:42,640
from the lost civilization
of Atlantis as its owner claims?
636
00:32:46,750 --> 00:32:48,930
Sedona, Arizona.
637
00:32:49,830 --> 00:32:51,830
2013.
638
00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:56,330
CHILDRESS: It's very clear
down here, and then it gets cloudy.
639
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,330
NARRATOR: Ancient
astronaut theorist David Childress
640
00:32:59,520 --> 00:33:01,850
enlists the help
of aura photography
641
00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:03,640
expert Jamie Jones
642
00:33:03,730 --> 00:33:06,280
in an effort to test
the Einstein skull
643
00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,280
for unusual
energy pulses or auras.
644
00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,890
These auras are
believed to appear as colors
645
00:33:14,060 --> 00:33:17,410
that correspond to various
physical, emotional,
646
00:33:17,490 --> 00:33:20,070
mental and spiritual states.
647
00:33:20,770 --> 00:33:23,450
JONES: With aura
technology, we're able to use
648
00:33:23,530 --> 00:33:25,900
biofeedback imaging
to pick up electromagnetic
649
00:33:25,980 --> 00:33:28,560
energy field
around the human body.
650
00:33:28,650 --> 00:33:30,270
I'm not expecting any energy
651
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,030
to be coming out of
the inanimate object.
652
00:33:32,110 --> 00:33:33,360
So I'm a little skeptical
653
00:33:33,440 --> 00:33:36,350
in that I'm not sure
what to expect
654
00:33:36,440 --> 00:33:37,890
when I photograph the skull.
655
00:33:37,970 --> 00:33:40,260
And I've been told
a lot of things about skulls,
656
00:33:40,340 --> 00:33:42,680
as far as information
that they're holding,
657
00:33:42,850 --> 00:33:44,520
what civilizations they're from,
658
00:33:44,600 --> 00:33:46,520
or if they're actually
from the extraterrestrials.
659
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,480
So I'm kind of excited to see
660
00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:50,440
this particular skull
and what it emits.
661
00:33:50,890 --> 00:33:52,830
- Hi, Jamie.
- Hi.
662
00:33:52,910 --> 00:33:53,850
Hey.
663
00:33:53,940 --> 00:33:55,310
And this is Carolyn, and wow,
664
00:33:55,390 --> 00:33:56,520
here is the skull.
665
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:58,020
JONES:
Wow, this is fabulous.
666
00:33:58,190 --> 00:33:59,980
- So what do we do?
- These are biofeedback censors
667
00:34:00,060 --> 00:34:01,560
and they're gonna be
reading the energy,
668
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:02,850
if there's energy
around the skull.
669
00:34:02,940 --> 00:34:05,100
So you're gonna
place it on here for me.
670
00:34:05,230 --> 00:34:06,810
Perfect.
671
00:34:06,890 --> 00:34:08,350
CHILDRESS:
So it has to go on both
672
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:09,850
of the two sensors?
673
00:34:09,980 --> 00:34:11,600
Yes, because both sensors
are picking up energy,
674
00:34:11,690 --> 00:34:13,480
so we want as much
coverage as possible.
675
00:34:13,980 --> 00:34:15,720
- Okay, that's perfect.
- All right.
676
00:34:15,810 --> 00:34:18,350
And now, uh, you just
take a photo of it, huh?
677
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:19,890
We're gonna take a picture.
678
00:34:20,220 --> 00:34:21,760
All right.
679
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:29,470
All right.
680
00:34:29,710 --> 00:34:31,920
- And here is the aura of the skull.
- FORD: Oh, wow.
681
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,250
- CHILDRESS: Okay, wow.
- FORD: Whoa, look at those colors.
682
00:34:34,340 --> 00:34:35,840
JONES: That is amazing.
683
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:37,300
- It's amazing.
- Really?
684
00:34:37,380 --> 00:34:38,950
- Oh.
- So, what are we looking at here?
685
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:40,830
I mean, here
we can see the skull.
686
00:34:41,020 --> 00:34:43,440
It seems to be very strong,
warrior type protective energy.
687
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:44,600
And if you look closely,
688
00:34:44,690 --> 00:34:46,770
that energy is arced over.
689
00:34:46,860 --> 00:34:49,480
- Right.
- Literal arc of protection over the skull.
690
00:34:49,570 --> 00:34:52,700
Now, the blue that we see
throughout the entire picture
691
00:34:52,790 --> 00:34:54,660
is wisdom and knowledge
692
00:34:54,750 --> 00:34:57,690
from traveling many lifetimes
and many dimensions.
693
00:34:59,170 --> 00:35:01,420
CHILDRES: I was surprised,
really, that the aura camera
694
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:02,850
would pick up so much energy
695
00:35:02,980 --> 00:35:05,140
from the skull
and the different colors.
696
00:35:05,570 --> 00:35:06,990
Some people believe
697
00:35:07,490 --> 00:35:12,240
that crystal skulls have
electro radio wave type
698
00:35:12,330 --> 00:35:15,210
energy that emits from them.
699
00:35:15,290 --> 00:35:17,630
And that the skull
can actually communicate
700
00:35:17,710 --> 00:35:20,960
to people through this energy.
701
00:35:21,390 --> 00:35:24,730
And it seems that
aura photography
702
00:35:24,850 --> 00:35:27,890
can actually pick up
and we can see
703
00:35:28,060 --> 00:35:31,690
these waves that are being
emitted from the skull.
704
00:35:31,770 --> 00:35:35,520
I feel, more than ever,
there is something
705
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,940
to crystal skulls
and the energy behind them.
706
00:35:39,690 --> 00:35:43,060
NARRATOR: Does the photographed
energy field surrounding Einstein
707
00:35:43,190 --> 00:35:45,620
help to prove that
the crystal skull could,
708
00:35:45,710 --> 00:35:49,460
in fact, be some sort
of recording device?
709
00:35:49,710 --> 00:35:52,620
An extraterrestrial object
used to harness
710
00:35:52,710 --> 00:35:54,960
both energy and information?
711
00:35:55,950 --> 00:35:59,020
Although there have been
hundreds of other crystal skulls
712
00:35:59,150 --> 00:36:00,890
found throughout the world,
713
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,600
the Einstein Skull
is believed to be
714
00:36:03,730 --> 00:36:07,020
one of only 13 authentic
ancient artifacts.
715
00:36:07,150 --> 00:36:08,660
And according to legend,
716
00:36:08,750 --> 00:36:11,290
when all 13
are finally unearthed,
717
00:36:11,370 --> 00:36:14,500
humankind's true past
will be revealed.
718
00:36:15,010 --> 00:36:19,220
CHILDRESS: Part of this legend
is that yes, these 13 crystal skulls
719
00:36:19,310 --> 00:36:20,600
are extraterrestrial skulls.
720
00:36:20,730 --> 00:36:23,730
And when the 13 skulls
are together,
721
00:36:23,850 --> 00:36:27,140
it'll create a new epoch
for planet Earth.
722
00:36:28,230 --> 00:36:29,600
CHRIS MORTON:
There is certainly a belief
723
00:36:29,690 --> 00:36:31,520
amongst certain
Native American tribes,
724
00:36:31,640 --> 00:36:34,270
when humanity is
at its most desperate,
725
00:36:34,390 --> 00:36:35,850
all of these original
726
00:36:35,980 --> 00:36:40,390
ancient crystal skulls
will come back together
727
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,850
and that they will divulge
their knowledge, their wisdom
728
00:36:44,980 --> 00:36:48,140
that can help
the human race survive.
729
00:36:49,760 --> 00:36:52,510
NARRATOR: Could these
mysterious crystal artifacts
730
00:36:52,590 --> 00:36:54,880
not only be of alien origin,
731
00:36:55,010 --> 00:36:59,130
but serve a purpose
that has yet to be revealed?
732
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:03,140
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
733
00:37:03,230 --> 00:37:06,520
and suggest further proof
that extraterrestrials
734
00:37:06,690 --> 00:37:09,480
visited ancient cultures
all over the world
735
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,390
can be found by examining
736
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,940
a mysterious
Middle Eastern artifact
737
00:37:14,020 --> 00:37:17,000
discovered in South America.
738
00:37:21,190 --> 00:37:23,350
Any list of mysterious artifacts
739
00:37:23,430 --> 00:37:25,610
would be incomplete
without featuring
740
00:37:25,690 --> 00:37:26,640
the amazing relics
741
00:37:26,770 --> 00:37:28,520
of Tiahuanaco, Bolivia.
742
00:37:29,020 --> 00:37:30,850
Of all the astounding objects
743
00:37:30,980 --> 00:37:33,360
we've examined from there
on Ancient Aliens,
744
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:34,980
one of the most baffling
745
00:37:35,100 --> 00:37:36,910
is the Fuente Magna Bowl.
746
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,950
This beautiful piece
of pottery is covered
747
00:37:39,040 --> 00:37:42,750
in an ancient script that
is native not to Bolivia
748
00:37:42,830 --> 00:37:47,770
but to a culture that existed
on the other side of the world.
749
00:37:49,380 --> 00:37:51,420
Tiahumaco, Bolivia.
750
00:37:52,110 --> 00:37:55,570
Situated at an elevation
of over 12,000 feet
751
00:37:55,660 --> 00:37:58,110
on the Altiplano, lay the ruins
752
00:37:58,190 --> 00:38:01,040
of an ancient temple complex
thought to predate
753
00:38:01,130 --> 00:38:02,710
the In can Empire.
754
00:38:03,970 --> 00:38:07,430
Standing at the center
of the site is a large statue
755
00:38:07,520 --> 00:38:11,480
believed by many to represent
the creator god Viracocha.
756
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:13,940
But curiously,
757
00:38:14,030 --> 00:38:17,370
the inhabitants of Tiahuanaco
chose to depict this god
758
00:38:17,460 --> 00:38:20,150
with features unlike their own.
759
00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:24,970
CHILDRESS: He has got
a beard and a moustache.
760
00:38:25,060 --> 00:38:26,940
And that is an unusual thing
761
00:38:27,060 --> 00:38:30,730
because American Indians do not
have beards and moustaches.
762
00:38:30,850 --> 00:38:32,060
BRIEN FOERSTER:
Exactly.
763
00:38:32,190 --> 00:38:34,350
That indicates that this person
764
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,190
was not a South American native
765
00:38:36,310 --> 00:38:37,940
but clearly came
from another land.
766
00:38:38,060 --> 00:38:40,690
CHILDRESS:
And an important person too,
767
00:38:40,770 --> 00:38:43,560
who's somehow
one of the founders
768
00:38:43,730 --> 00:38:46,520
here of Tiahuanaco.
769
00:38:46,690 --> 00:38:51,980
Maybe even somebody who's come
from Sumeria to South America.
770
00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:56,140
NARRATOR: Is it
possible that the Sumerians,
771
00:38:56,230 --> 00:38:59,810
a civilization
established in 4,000 BC
772
00:38:59,940 --> 00:39:03,190
and located nearly
8,000 miles away
773
00:39:03,270 --> 00:39:07,020
could be connected to the early
inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?
774
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,840
If so, how?
775
00:39:10,870 --> 00:39:12,770
Ancient astronaut theorists
776
00:39:12,850 --> 00:39:16,480
believe the answer can be found
at the Precious Metals Museum
777
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,560
in La Paz, Bolivia.
778
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:20,850
CHILDRESS: This is perhaps
779
00:39:20,940 --> 00:39:22,900
one of the most important
archaeological artifacts
780
00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:26,270
ever discovered in
Tiahuanaco or Puma Punku.
781
00:39:27,900 --> 00:39:31,350
This is the famous
Fuente Magna Bowl
782
00:39:31,440 --> 00:39:33,770
discovered near Tiahuanaco.
783
00:39:34,930 --> 00:39:38,680
It's a ceramic bowl
and it has written on it
784
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:40,970
Sumerian cuneiform
785
00:39:41,060 --> 00:39:46,180
plus pro to-Sumerian
hieroglyphic script.
786
00:39:46,260 --> 00:39:51,180
This script is
coming from circa 3,000 BC.
787
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:56,140
It draws a direct connection
788
00:39:56,220 --> 00:40:01,300
between the ancient Sumerians
and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.
789
00:40:02,330 --> 00:40:06,870
NARRATOR: Discovered near Lake
Titicaca by a local farmer in the 1950s,
790
00:40:07,220 --> 00:40:10,220
researchers believe
the vessel provides the proof
791
00:40:10,350 --> 00:40:14,140
of extraterrestrial
intervention at Puma Punku.
792
00:40:16,020 --> 00:40:17,390
CHILDRESS:
The idea of Sumerian
793
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:22,100
writing being here
at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco...
794
00:40:23,310 --> 00:40:26,220
...would seem
to relate to the late
795
00:40:26,310 --> 00:40:30,440
Zecharia Sit chin and his ideas
796
00:40:30,530 --> 00:40:34,070
that the Sumerians
were also interacting
797
00:40:34,150 --> 00:40:36,030
with these space beings
798
00:40:36,130 --> 00:40:38,090
called the Anunnaki.
799
00:40:38,350 --> 00:40:42,520
So in that case the Anunnaki
were there in Sumeria,
800
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:48,470
but also here at Puma Punku
and Tiahuanaco in South America.
801
00:40:50,790 --> 00:40:54,810
To me, when you consider
the many mysterious artifacts
802
00:40:54,890 --> 00:40:56,980
we've examined
on Ancient Aliens,
803
00:40:57,060 --> 00:41:00,020
from bizarre metal alloys
804
00:41:00,100 --> 00:41:01,850
to strange statues
805
00:41:01,980 --> 00:41:03,850
and even crystal skulls,
806
00:41:03,940 --> 00:41:07,100
it all adds up to one thing:
807
00:41:07,230 --> 00:41:10,560
Undeniable evidence of
extraterrestrial visitation.
808
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:13,600
As we continue to dig deeper
809
00:41:13,730 --> 00:41:17,100
and unearth more extraordinary
relics of the past,
810
00:41:17,230 --> 00:41:19,590
perhaps we will finally discover
811
00:41:19,670 --> 00:41:23,730
the key to reuniting
with our alien ancestors.
812
00:41:23,810 --> 00:41:25,890
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