All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens [1x00] - Chariots, Gods and Beyond [eng]

Houston, you go for landing. Over.

Rodger at Tango for landing 3000 ft.

July 20th, 1969.

Astronauts Neil Armstrong
and Buzz Aldrin,

became the first man
to land on the moon.

It's one small step for man...

... One...

... giant leap for mankind.

Just like aliens,
visiting from another world.

It have been stuff of science fiction.

Now...

everything that could be imagined,

seem possible.

If mankind could travel the skies
and go to other planets,

Why couldn't beings
from other planets,

visit the Earth?

A myths away of modern UFO sightings,

a new theory emerge.

That aliens...

... visited Earth in antiquety,

and were regarded as Gods.

But if that were true,

Wouldn't there be proof?

Perhaps... there was.

All we needed to do,

was open our eyes...

... and, our imaginations.

The proof perhaps,
was all around us.

WHO WERE THEY?

WHY DID
THEY COME?

WHAT DID THEY
LEAVE BEHIND?

WHERE DID THEY GO?

WILL THEY RETURN?

In May 2008, a startling proclamation
was issued by the Vatican.

For the first time in
It's two thousand years history,

the Catholic Church
acknowledge the possibility,

that intelligent life,
could exist on other planets.

and that a belief in extraterrestrials,

did not contradict a belief in God.

Which means of course that
we are now entering an age...

... in which the universe is beginning
to be conceived in diferent ways

from what it was before.

And if it's reality for us,
why could not have been a reality

for other... beings in the universe
who could have visited... our Earth,

and perhaps guided
culture in ancient times.

But just was part, the sudden
turn around in religious thought,

Could the Church have been influenced
by recent scientific discoveries?

In 2002, the Mars
oddissey spacecraft,

detected enormous reservours of ice,
beneath the martian surface,

The presence of ice,
and the posibility of water,

suggested that life can be sustained,
or even generated, on another planet.

After decades of orbiting
space shuttles and robotic rovers,

the idea of sending man back
into space, to Mars and beyond,

ignited the imagination...

and brought that the notion,
that mankind and alien beings,

had cross paths before.

In 1968, just one year before
Neil Armstrong's epic space flight,

a book was published that forever
changed the way many in the scientific,

religious and creative communities,
would view their home planet.

Written by Swiss author
Erik Von Daniken...

"Chariots of the Gods",
attempted to prove that alien explorers,

have visited the Earth
thousands of years ago.

When I was a young man, I was educated
as a strict catholic in a boring school.

and then there, we have to make
translations of parts of the bible.

Greek to Latin,
Latin to German.

For example, the First
Book of Moses:

"Before the Lord descends
of the Holy Mountain,

Moses was ordered to construct
a gate around the mountain,

otherwise the Israelites
will be dammaged".

I was shocked. I said:
"This is impossible,

My God, he will never use first
a gate to protect himself,

or to protect the Israel".
What are they talking about?

In other word... started.

I've started to read thousands of pages,

of the beginning of religions,
of every mythology...

It's always the same story,

of course with different names,
with different heroes,

"Somebody descends,
from the sky, to the humans,

[Swiss German speach]
Could not understand it.

they believed that
these are some gods".

I was shocked,
I asked the question:

"Were primitive human influenced
by extraterrestrials, not gods?"

And if, it always like I suggested,
Where's the proof?

So you start trying
to find at least indications,

thats what I have done now
for at least 45 years.

Yet pictorial evidence,
yet artifacts and archeology,

and you have what
come all through all literature,

hundreds of indications,
which you cannot deny anymore.

What it means is that we need
new explanations for human origins.

that perhaps we are
not alone in the universe,

and that human-like beings
came to this planet

from some other planet,

elsewhere in the cosmos.

I think thats a
very good idea of myself.

A really excited people was at
a new way of looking at the past,

looking at ancient civilizations.

And it put this very modern
space age spin to the whole thing.

"Chariots of the Gods"
caused a sensation,

fuelled in a small part

by the popular response to books
like Frank Herbert's "Dune"

Television shows like "Star Trek",

and fictious films like
"2001: A Space Odyssey"

The time was right, because everybody
was talking of posible space travel,

of posibility of extraterrestrials,

So it's all wonderful coming together,
but it was not planned.

After a Swiss newspaper printed
excerpts on a weekly basis,

More than 10,000 copies of the book
was sold before ever hit in the market,

So it was a running best-seller
stat in Switzerland first,

Then going over to Germany
and then the rest of the world.

They have to print and print
and print and print.

[Swiss German Speech]
"Incredible"

In 1970, a feature length documentary
was released to theathers.

Followed by dozens of
best-selling books,

and growing legions
of fans and supporters.

"Chariots of the Gods",
was tremendously influental,

It somehow spoke to people,
who want to believe.

When I was a boy,

"Chariots of the Gods"
was one of books I first read,

I mean I ripped apart, I digest it
I couldnt get enough of it.

I just fell in love with that book,

'cos it really open up
all tons of new questions,

and Von Daniken was able to point
at many anomalies in history,

that the mainstream archaeologists
can't answer very well.

He had... was a revolutionary new idea.

That of "Gods" from outer space
coming to the planet,

helping create civilization.

When I first read
"Chariots of the Gods"

I couldn't put that book down,
because it answer...

... a whole bunch of questions,
that I had.

And it was a great combination
of archeology and adventure.

It's just a wonderful way to see the world
and pursue this ancient mysteries.

And it trully was I think the catalyst
for what people like I do today,

and that is to talk about the mysteries,
and the unusual and the paranormal.

He path a way for all about us
to talk about these strange stories,

and that continues to grow

and it's gonna get bigger
and bigger and bigger.

People want answers, to questions
that they can't answer themselves.

But in despite of the book's enormeous
popularity, of perhaps because of it,

Von Daniken's theories were
scorn by scientists,

and * by the theologians.

Of course, it created
a storm of controversy,

I was completely attacked, specially
by the scientific news papers.

They said "Come on,
he's just telling a story,

hes a liar or
he's a fraud" or whatever.

There is no single piece of evidence
that Von Daniken puts forward,

that cannot be attibuted to human
ingenuity, technology and development.

Don't try to reduce the scriptures
to a science book.

Or don't try to
reduce the scriptures

to an explanation of
a modern world of today.

I don't expect that the
scientific community now

embraces and kisses me

"Oh wonderful, great you did!"

We have to live with critics,
this is normal.

"Chariots of the Gods"
was full of speculation,

I had 238 question marks.

Nobody wraith the question mark.

They only said:
Mr. Von Daniken is saying...

I did not say,
I asked the questions,

Would that be a posibility?

At in "Chariots of the Gods", I made
clear difference between expeculations...

... and facts.

But as cotroversial, as many
of Von Daniken theories are...

... believers point,
to tangible evidence.

How for example, could a
centuries-old map, chart a land-mass,

which has only
recently been discovered?

With it indicate that the map

was made in a time

when Antartica was ice free.

which would be...

many millions of years ago.

And how could a primitive civilization,

know how to harness electricity?

or even build a computer?

this was * out to finding
a jet airplane...

... in the tomb of King Tut.

And just who, with this
mysterious designs,

only visible from high
altitude, intended for?

Designs are made
for somebody who flies,

Theres no way out of this.

Could Von Daniken's theory,

that ancient gods were
really alien visitors,

contain any serious scientific merit?

The answer involves a search
around the world.

and even, right before our eyes.

If alien beings from other planets,

have visited the Earth
thousands of years ago.

how our ancient ancestors have
tried to communicate with them?

And wouldnt there be some physical
evidence of the time they spent here?

One answer may lie
in the NAZCA desert of Peru.

There, at top an area plateau

thats stretches for nearly 50 miles.

Countless geometric patterns and
figures decorates the landscape.

You fly over this desert
and you see some lines.

The lines look like air stripes,
they start abrut and end abruptly.

The longest of it,
it's 33 kilometers,

right away, not one curve,
just incredible.

and end, in one of this
so called air stripes.

In the mixture of large
lines and small lines

you see gigantic figures
in the ground.

Figures of fishes,...

... monkeys,...

... spiders,...

... apes.

But at such over dimensional size,

that you can see them
only from the air.

People built them,
or somebody built them,

hundreds and hundreds of years ago.

perhaps maybe even
thousands of years ago.

That could be science of
"Hello up there!",

"Here we are!".
It's something.

Various disputed exponention suggest.

that the lines could it been used
for irrigation diggest,

giant astronomical calendars,

or pathways, perhaps used
for religious workship.

Looking at NAZCA
from the air,

it looks like...

... an airport,

It really does!

Because you have
all this... bands,

wide bands, that look like
air stripes that...

... lay on top of each other,

but you also have this
gigantic long strip lines,

that go for miles and miles,

over valleys,
over mountains.

So once again you... you got this idea
like: "Ok, people are creating this...

but, What is the reason?

Is it to show these...

... gods and aerial vehicles land here?

kind of that thing,

because we just dont have
a good idea of: Why...

people would do this?

And it really does seem at
to trying to signal people...

... who are in the air, in space
or flying around our planet.

During World War II,

American troops created air bases
on remote Pacific islands.

To natives who had never
witness advanced technology,

the sight of giant metal birds
touching down,

looked to them as
if the gods themselves

has turned the earth
into a planetary pitstop.

They will see this big planes land
and it was all technology that...

...that...just out of the sky.

They didn't know
how these things work,

but they could see them land.

And what they like about it?

Was, they were getting free stuff,
they were getting cargo.

Suddenly when the war was over,

all this air stripes were
abandon and everyone left.

And the islanders scratched their heads
and they all said to themselves:

"Wow, wasn't it great when all
these planes came out the sky and

gave us free cancer corn,
beef and stuff?

We really like that cargo.

Entire religions...
sprung out from this.

were priests actually said: "Yes, you
know, those were our dead ancestors"

sending us cargo,
so what they did them...

was they begin to going
to the old airstripes,

and then will build
mock wooden airplanes,

to try and get those
planes to come back...

... from the sky and delivering
the cancer corn, beef to them again.

As you can see how an analogy
with modern cargo calls.

plays exactly into the
ancient astronaut scenario.

for something like this could
easily happened in the past,

and entired religions built
around the ancient astronaut.

But gigantic geroglyphs

aren't the only mystery
surrounding NAZCA.

I was flying over NAZCA for days,

hanging out the aircraft
with the camera.

at shooting and shoting
and shoting,

I have more or less about 4000
pictures of NAZCA, this is really...

... fascinating.

You see, this is one of the picture
which proof that this mountain

was made flat artificially.

because you compare it
with the mountains out there,

there the mountains
* from both side.

* flat, this is absolutely
incredible. This is...

... one of the most craziest pictures
I made about NAZCA.

The crazy thing is... the ruble,

the remains, of that summit

or a mountain top... gone!

It's nowhere, it not in
the valley down below.

It's nowhere in the region,
What happend to it?

Because all the mountains around it,
have their summits, it's there!

And then you have other mountains
but are as flat as a table,

with bands on top that
look like runaways.

Another question:

Why would visiting ETs...

be drawn to the bone
dry desert of Peru?

Let's just say hypothetically,
that spaceship arrives,

here on Planet Earth,

and you want to quickly find out
what this planet consist of...

NAZCA will be the perfect place
to go and visit for some sampling

and for some experimentation.

because NAZCA's still today is one of
the most abandoned areas in the world

regarding raw materials.

There you find everything,

You find gold,

you find... uranium...

What have you is basically
the cliffnotes of planet Earth.

You go to NAZCA and you
immediatly know everything about

what our planet consist of,

because all the raw materials,

converge there at high volumes.

Why do we have to believe
that this is simple cannot be

an expression of
an artistic impulse, you know?

Is it really that outlandish
to believe that...

you know, that... that...

these made ups in Peru, made it one
who created some large scale work of art?.

And to say that such a large scale
work of art couldn't be created merely...

for the posibility of
having created it,

rather than the NAZCA lines
are so inhumanly vast,

That can only be admired by people
who are capable of flight.

Well you know you can say the same thing
about the Great Wall of China.

and yet the Great Wall
of China has a purpose

that is... that is political,
that is martial.

Somebody maybe walk the NAZCA lines
as a spiritual labyrinth

in the shape of a spiritual
totemic object

and where on the one way supose
to get a kind of epiphany from that.

The fact that we do not understand
the purpose of a thing...

opens into tremendous speculations.

NAZCA and the NAZCA figures make no sign

seen from the earth.

You have to flight over it.

The signs are made for
somebody who flight.

Theres is no way out of this.

I hope archeology sooner or later
will come to a similar conclusion.

But if visitors from other
planets were thought to be Gods,

Wouldn't there be written
accounts of them?

Perhaps the answer can be found,
right in front of us.

In one of the most shockin places...

... of all.

Ironically, Erik Von Daniken's firm believe
that Earth has been visited in the past

by beings from other planets,

It's entirly consistent with
his belief in God and the Bible.

It is merely a question
of interpretation.

We must understand, I was a very
very deep believer in God,

By the way I'm still a believer in God.
I never lost my God.

But for a young man,
my God had to be almighty,

My God will never need a vehicle
in which to move around,

a vehicle to go from point A to point B.

In where Christians refer to
as the Old Testament,

There are in fact several accounts
of God and his angels visiting the Earth.

Sometimes these visitatons are
accompanied by tremendous noise,

and clouds of * smoke.

In the book of Ezekiel for example,

the profet claims that he witness
a visitation by heavenly beings.

coming down from the skies,
aboard of a fantastic flying machine.

As far as Von Daniken is concerned,

It's a highly detail description,
of an alien sighting.

This is incredible, Ezekiel
not only describes what he see,

He also describes what he hears.

He describes the whole thing
as been splendid as in God.

The prophet also details several
four-face winged creatures,

appeared in a likeness of man,

and they travel upon
a glimming wheel device.

Insight the splendors of God,
theres was something like a throne.

and on this throne was a being sitting

looking like a human
in glitterin' clothes.

And beneath it, he saw some vehicles,
he saw some wings,

He describes the noise of the wings,

He describes the noise of the wings
like a thundering of a waterfall,

Ezekiel saw a wheel within a wheel

this sounds more high-tech
than supernatural,... and...

... we can't supose that
people 3000 years ago,

would understand the difference
between supernatural and high-tech.

But what if there is more
to Ezekiel's heavenly visions,

than the imaginated tip
insights of a religious man?

What if there was a scientific
foundation for them?

Once I had the opportunity of meeting,
and spending time and traveling with...

a gentleman by the name
of Joseph Blumrich.

He was a senior chief
engineer at NASA,

First involved in the
Mariner expedition to Mars.

He was also in charge of the landing
gear for the Mariner spaceship.

And he told me himself,

the idea of the design used
for the Mariner spaceship,

that landed on Mars, came to him...

from the reading of the
biblical text in which

they talk about wheels within wheels,

So here you have another example of
the person of curiosity, who conceives...

... of this ideas.

Another biblical figure who continues
to fascinating Von Daniken...

... is the character of Enoch.

Enoch is not part of the Bible,

In the Bible, in the Old Testament you
find maybe just one phrase about Enoch.

Thats all.

But among the apocryphy texts,

there are volumes and volumes
if you know them.

You find the Book of Enoch.

Enoch is the first person in antiquiety,

Who writes in the 1st person:
"I did, I hear, I was there".

In one of the ancient texts,
this grand-grandfather of Noah,

He said of being taken away
by God for 300 years.

He was taken up to the sky,

up there he meets the highest,

the so called highest,
in religion they called "God"

He meets the highest, and the
highest feast to his servants,

"You teach this young
man in our language,

and then you teaching writing,
so he writes books",

Of course,...

... he knows all these
foreigners by name,

he quotes them by name.

He knows their profession,

he knows wich of these extraterrestrials,
were the astronomers.

So, Enoch is the only and first person,

thousand of years ago,

who give some of the names
of the extraterrestrials,

and give some of their professions.
How is this possible?

We have an eyewitness,
and nobody speaks about it.

So, I really was confused.

That... that would be the argument,

that... that the followers
of Von Daniken would say.

Why is so * for aliens to come when
is completly acceptable for God...

... to intervene in human history.

The difference is...

Von Daniken's arguing
that aliens came and gave...

technologies to people
to advance those cultures.

So basically they gave objects, they
gave new ideas and new technologies,

and then those cultures
advanced because of them.

Or is... at least in the Bible.
It's not like God gave...

a human kind, a magic watch,
you know, or a new missile.

that they can use
to defeat their enemies.

Hum... God gives instructions,
at least in Bible records.

God gives instructions on how to live,
but not on how to build new devices

that further or advance
of an specific culture.

Can we like an Ezekiel's
Chariot to a UFO?

The ancients used myth,

and metaphore and images to
describe their experience of God.

I think what we don't
wanna fault to is...

a type of fundamental literalism.

The stories of the Old Testament
emerge out of the people of that time.

Out of there on context to make
sense of their experience of God.

We can gain insight by
reading the Old Testament,

and reading about Ezekiel's Chariot.

But it's not to draw strict acknowledge
between Ezekiel's Chariot and a UFO.

When all of these stories
were written down,

Writing was a fairly new invention.

A very first thing they wrote down,

is something that actually
happend to them,

It was so important, so compelled,
so significant to them...

that they have to put it in writing.

Why can't modern society come to grips,

that these stories...

... might be true, afterall?

Von Daniken's research...

turn that evidence of other
arguibly extraterrestrial phenomena,

... and not only in the Bible.

Almost every religion has
similar stories about deities.

with spectacular powers and abilities,

who come to Earth and directly
influenced the lives of men.

Suddenly one day I said
to myself not *

This is similar the stories
in so many all religions,

Are they talking about
extraterrestrials?

These so-called gods are here,
they give orders,

they force the humans to certain things
and one day they dissapear.

But they always dissapear
with the promise to return...

... in a far away future.

If, as I believe, people
on ancient civilizations,

were familiar with space travel...

... people in ancient civilizations
with comunication

with human-like beings
from other planets,

Then, I think we should
expect to find evidence,

for this in their literatures,
which we do find.

Throughout the Indian
Sanskrit epics of India,

there are numerous descriptions
of Vimanas or mythical flying machines.

One of these accounts even
dates back over 5000 years.

In the Bhagavata Purana, which is
an ancient Sanskrit history,

theres a description of a spacecraft,

that was piloted by
a King named Shol'va.

It's described that was made of metal,

It was described that in sometimes
appeared to be in two places at once,

it was described this having a motion
similar to the one of a butterfly,

and these descriptions are consistent,

with what people who observe
UFOs today, report.

In other Sanskrit texts,

such as the Mahabharata,
the Rigveda and the Ramayana,

there can be found descriptions of Vimana
measurement as wide as 100 ft.

and often equipped with the
capabilities of modern aircraft.

One Vimana produce a shaft of light,

which when focused on a target,
consumed with it's power.

It's like a Buck Rogers
or Flash Gordon movie from the 30's.

They read like the wild of
the science fiction,

People are flying around
in airships called Vimanas.

Blasting each other and having
aerial fights, destoying entire cities.

And the craziest thing is...

... that all those stories are totally
accepted in the modern society of India.

I don't think we can say that these
descriptions are simple imagination,

because even though they were
written thousands of years ago,

they match with many
people today report,

in terms of observing
the actions of UFOs.

Where just mythological tales,
are there making up fantasy,

or these physically really advanced,

and they try to describe them
as the best as they could.

It seems to be more sense to me.

I can tell you this,
I would be out of the job in India,

because there if I were to talk
about ancient aliens and ancient gods,

they would say:
Ok, so what else is new?

When backing at their claims
of extraterrestrial visitation,

ancient aliens theorists,
drop on two kinds of examples:

Theres the evidence you can read,
such at that found in ancient texts,

and then theres the evidence
that you can actually see.

Among the earliest types
of physical specimens,

numerous cave and rock drawings, and
stone sculptures found all over the globe.

You know, a picture
is worth a thousand words.

Absolutely.

When you see pictures depicted
for example on a cave in Italy,

that shows two astronauts
with helmets on,

Oh, what the heck could it be?

What could it be?

Each of these antique
illustrations or statues,

depict figures dressed in
strange attire from the times,

and spotting an inusual headgear.

But could they really be
representations of alien astronauts,

Visitors from other worlds who touch down
upon the Earth thousands of years ago.

All over the world we have statues,
and sculptures and paintings

and depictions of these
extraterrestrial beings.

Even in the United States,
at Sego Canyon, Utah,

we have pictoglyphs,

of very weird looking creatures,

that have antennas on
their heads, helmets...

And half around the world, in
Kimberley, Australia, for example,

we have the exact same depictions
of these helmeted beings,

with a halo around their heads,

and the question I have is:

What our ancestors see,
that compelled them...

to put this on that cave walls?

On yet another continent,
in Guatemala City,

we have a sculpture that looks eerie
reminescent of a modern day astronaut.

I mean, that thing is wearing a helmet,

there some tubes of mouth-piece,

and on his chest are
some type of controls,

or rebreathing apparatus.

How is this possible, 1500 years ago?

And in Colombia,

there were thousands of tomb artifacts
that look like modern day airplanes.

It has fixed wings, it has a fuselage,

and it has an upright tail fan,
which is not intrinsec to nature,

but it it's intrinsec to
modern day aerodynamics.

Did our ancestors see something similar
flying in the air?, Absolutely.

Another compelling artifact that
was found was at the Istanbul museum,

where you have this headless spaceman,
sitting inside some type of space vehicle.

You can see his hands,
and you can see tubing,

that go to some sort of devices,

He wearing a suit, his legs
are cramp in there.

I mean, even to the untrained eye
This looks very aerodynamic,

and it looks something, that,
you know, came from outer space.

These people witnessed something,
they were told something,

And they tried to depicted,

the best way they could, with the kind
of technology they had at that time.

And that was simple tools
and simple artwork.

Many of these ancient civilizations
were widely separated, in space and time.

They weren't in communication
with each other,

but still they had the
same kinds of accounts.

I think it's because they
all experienced these things.

and they all had the idea that we are
part of a cosmic hierarchy beings.

So I think we can explain
things away so easily.

But for Erik Von Daniken...

and other proponents of these
ancient astronaut theories.

perhaps the most significant
illustration, can be found in Mexico.

The Mayan archaeological
site of Palenque,

have been abandoned for centuries,

before were stumbled upon
by Spanish explorers.

* get to the top of this...
and suddenly...

... here are the great
pyramids of Palenque.

Here, deep within a secret tomb,

under one of the age old temples.

lies the 7 tons sarcophagus,

of Palenque 7th century ruler:
Pakal the Great.

Lord Pakal apparently
died here at Palenque.

He was barely as mysterious
Mayan leader, he was a giant.

7-8 ft tall actually.

And then they built this pyramid
around his tomb.

The Mayans literally worship him
as some kind of a god.

King Pakal sarcophagus,

It's adorned with the carving
at these become...

a famous example
of classic mayan art.

Most believe the illustration shows Pakal

descending into the Mayan underworld.

but ancient astronaut theorists, interpret
the carving a vastly different way...

On this lap an incredible enchiseling.

You see a man, and hes sitting
on a sort of capsule,

has has some sort of mask on his nose,

and in his upper hand
hes manipulating some control.

from the lower hand, his
turning some * arm.

the heel of his left foot
is on a kind of pedal,

and outside of the capsule
you see a linking flame.

This is incredible.

This is absolutely proof
of extraterrestrials.

3...

2...

1...

Zero.
Lift off.

If you look at the similarities of
what astronauts look like when they are

in a rocket ship or in a space shuttle
and have a gear attached to them,

there are similarities been shown, so...

Once you has to ask the question of

you know, it's this just an artifact,

symbolicly showing something
or are they trying to depict

what their own limit
understandig of the time,

what was taken place?

Was Lord Pakal just some
Mayan King that everyone liked?

was he some important visitor
from some far off land?

or was he even possibly,

some extraterrestrial,
from another planet?

Although most scientists
and archaeologists,

descredit Von Daniken's interpretation
of the Palenque carvings,

visitors to the site
are often trade to stories,

and offer souvenirs
that support his claim.

This is Erik Von Daniken's theory...

"The Chariots of the Gods"

You see, Pakal suppose to be driving...

the rocket,

holding the controls,

the pedals...

the engine,

and the fire of the rocket,

this would be the cabin.

And this is oxygen.

mainstream archaeologists claim that
It's really a depiction of Lord Pakal,

in his journey to the underworld,

he is doing under the ground,

rather than out into space.

Both are interesting theories,
and either could be right on my mind.

In recent years, Pakal's Tomb it's been
close to tourist and casual visitors.

Althought the sarcohagous it's off limit's,
ancient astronaut theorists

can still find a wealth of evidence in
the carvings along the walls of Palenque.

This is very similar to as... on
the lead of Lord Pakal at his tomb.

* his left hand right here
in like an odd position on his wrist.

althought some kind of rocket exhaust
there some lines are coming out of them,

But Lord Pakal may
not had been the only alien,

that once walked the Palenque ruins.

The Mayans has such advanced calendar
and mathematical system.

Why were they so
obsessed with the stars?

One of the most advanced
of any ancient cultures,

And yet the Mayans just
vanished around 500 A.D.

We do not know where they went.
And one explanation,

Was it the Mayans some
kind of extraterrestrials,

and they literally left our planet.

But ancient cave drawings
and stone carvings,

are the only type of illustrations
that fascinate ancient alien theorists?

in 1929, historians discovered a map,

which it been painted onto
a piece of gazelle *

They traced the document back to a
sixteen century turkish almirant...

... named Piri Reis.

But in * contrast to other maps
dating back of that time,

the map depicts land masses that
would still, as yet unexplored.

It shows the coast of Antarctica
as it exists under the current ice cover.

That actually pretty amazing, because
it would tent indicate that the map,

was made in a time when
Antarctica was ice free.

which would be many
millions of years ago.

The map also accuratly charts
the coasts of Europe and North Africa,

But is the illustration
of northern Antarctica,

that trully astonishes
ancient astronauts theorists,

because this region wouldn't even
been discovered for another 300 years,

If remember that Antarctica is
covered by at least a mile thick ice.

We did not have ground-penetration
radar until to 1958.

so for a map to exist in 1531
accurratly showing this topography,

It's pretty interesting.

When Cartographers super
impose the Piri Reis map,

over modern map of the world,
they were amaze to discover,

that the ancient chart was fantasticly
accurate in the most minute of details.

But how the creators of
a centuries old map,

have known the mountains or rivers
that yet to be discovered?

In 1531 I really dont know of any one who
was flying about the surface of the Earth,

high enough to map topography,

and how do they see
underneath the ice?

Their maps were so accurate...

... I mean we know that they didn't
go to Antarctica and explore it,

but yet they were able
to draw this maps of there.

But if ancient aliens possessed
the technology to travel the universe,

with the only evidence of their journey
be in the form of a few carvings,

or a mysterious map?

Wouldn't there also be signs
of a highly advanced technology?

Signs that might be
too large to overlook.

You mean to tell me that people of
that time period did this by hand?

I don't think so.

When it comes to search for
evidence of ancient aliens,

Erik Von Daniken literally
leaves no stones unturned.

I have collected for more
than 40 years information.

and there are two sorts of evidences
to support my hypothesis.

The one source is literature,

this might be archaeological
or mythological... literature,

and the other source
are practical objects.

For example, the pyramids
are linked to the gods.

the gods who once descended
from the sky to us earthlings.

Without a little interplanetary help,

how else could early Egyptians
have learned to stack...

the nearly two and a half million
limestone and granite blocks,

that create the Great Pyramid?

How could prehistoric man moved
the inmense boulders at Stonehenge?

And how could ancient builders at Cuzco,
fixed stones so closely together,

that even a razor blade
can't fit between them?

While was traveling around the world
trying to piece together this... this...

... this puzzle of the ancient world,

is no that much to really get
a good grasp on what there is...

is... giant blocks of stone,

huge articulated granite,

or basalt blocks in many cases

sometimes at weight of thousands tons.

At these things at the
sizes of railway cars,

and you find them in Peru and Bolivia
and Mexico and ancient Egypt.

You have to ask yourself:

Why...

and how...

could ancient people have dragged
this railway cars sized block of stone

stack them up together
into this giant buildings?

Perhaps the most familiar,

and most mysterious,

megalithic structure in all the world

is the Great Pyramid of Gizah.

The oldest and largest of
Egypt's three great pyramids.

This miracle of engeniering,

it's belive to have been constructed
dued in a twenty years period.

and in around 2,560 B.C.

But to ancient alien theorists
those numbers just dont adapt.

The Great Pyramid was not
built in only 22 years,

because logisticly speaking,

we would have to cut,

transport and put into place, one stone...

... every nine seconds.

And there are modern engineers,

who have come forward and said:

"We couldnt do this in
twenty two years either".

There are countless theories on how
the Great Pyramid of Gizah was built.

So many theories, you just
sit back and shake your head.

And that includes ET visitations,

levitating the blocks with
some kind of sound system,

Antigravity.

Thousands of workers pulling long ropes,

and a ramp that has to be
almost two miles long.

to get it up to where it is.

All I know...

is that they are so finely aligned,

and that the architecture is so precise,

that even modern people today,

with great technology,
would have a difficult time,

being that good.

How for example in the inside
of the pyramids in the tombs

could they build granite and marble areas
that were just so perfect and so clean?

You mean to tell me that
people of that time period

did this by hand?

I don't think so.

The enormous size and
weight of the stones

multiplied by their * number them

makes one thing certain:

The construction of Great Pyramid

remain as one of the greatest marvels

and mysteries.

of architectural engeniering.

I don't want to discount human ingenuity

because I do believe that we have
the ability to do these things

over a long period of time,

but the knowledge to build
some of these monuments

There have to been
some type of intervention

or some type of knowledge
give them to ancient man,

to carry others instructions that
couldnt just come up on their own.

In Egypt there are old traditions

saying the Great Pyramid was contructed

by a Pharaoh with the name of Saurit,

and they say Saurit is the same...

... which the Hebrew communitiy

calls Enoch.

Enoch is a prophet in the Old Testament,

There are books of Enoch
called the apocryphy texts.

You make a connection with Enoch
to this extraterrestrials.

He clearly says: I met
these extraterrestrials.

Now we have writings
in the book of Enoch,

and he gave the order to construct a
building which cannot be destroyed

by the thousands of years at the future.

In the ancient Egyptian texts

speak that the pyramids
were built by human beings

with the assistance of
the guardians of the sky,

meaning, The Gods.

And so we have propose

that the pyramids were
built by human hands.

but with the assistance of
extraterrestrial technology.

As one of the Seven
Wonders of the World,

The Great Pyramid remains...

not only archaeological mystery,
but a geographical marvel.

In 1877, author and theologian,
Joseph Seiss,

demonstrated, that the
great pyramid resides

at the intersection of the
longest line of latitude

and the longest line of longitud.

The exact center of all
the land mass in the world.

Also...

each of the four sides,

aligns almost precisely,
with the four points of the compas,

those such an instrument, wasnt even
designed until thousands of years later.

But it as just mere coincidence,
the pyramid contruction,

very similar to that
practice in ancient Egypt,

was also evolving half
way round the world.

There are pyramids on
remote Pacific islands,

and in India,

and in Mexico.

So this is something thats
all over the world.

Archaeologists haven't really
been able to explain why

disimilar cultures,
separated by huge oceans,

are building the same structures
and in many ways the same way.

Here in central Mexico,

stands an ancient city that
dates back more than 2000 years.

It's name... "Teotihuacán",
literally means "City of the Gods".

And located at it's center,
It's the Pyramid of the Sun

Incredibly, this pyramid's perimeter,

is virtually the same as that
of the Great Pyramid of Gizah.

Structural coincidence?,
or... could it be...

... that both were inspired
by te same designers?

Couple of theories for that.

Ok, One...

maybe they were all taught the same
thing by an extraterrestrial race.

Two...

There were ancient travelers
from within in this planet,

who... went from one area to another.

over the thousands of past years.

And then some skeptics will say:

Hey, thats the greatest archaeological
way to make it!,

so they just knew it.

I do not think that the case.

At Teotihuacan here we have... a...

Giant Pyramid of the Sun and
the Giant Pyramid of the Moon.

According to the legends, these things
were built by gods who were giants.

at the end of one of the
destructions of the world.

Civilizations such as the Aztecs,

and the Mayans and the Hopi
Indians of Northern Arizona,

they believe that the world has
been destroyed four times in the past.

One time by ice,

once by fire,

once by water...

Each time mankind rebuild again.

And Teotihuacan supposedly was built,

just at the beginning of one
of these four worlds.

You may ask the question:

Why build these huge,
huge structures?

For what purpose?

Well... in Egypt, for example:
Either the Pharaoh had incredible egos,

and they wanted out do
themselves, right?

so they build these huge
museums for themselves,

or... is also possible that these ancients
wanted to leave behind something for us?

It is written in ancient Egyptian texts,

the purpose why the pyramids was build?

Was to store knowledge?

300 books, which allegedly contain
the knowledge of the universe,

dictated by the guardians of the sky.

Of course, the pyramids are
the only ancient monuments,

that continue to bafle
scientists and archaeologists.

There they literally hundreds of them,

and they can be found in
every corner of our world.

In a remote area of the Pacific Ocean,

lies one of the most isolated
yet unhabited locations in the world.

Easter Island.

Here, over 800 stone guardians called Moai
stand watch over the islands coast line.

But are they primitive native carvings
or eerie portraIt's of alien visitors,

from thousands of years ago?

Whatever they were for, there made
to last for thousands of years,

there built out of... block stones
that weight many... many tons.

Not only are people building structures
are these huge megalithic blocks stone.

but this was going all around the world.

And yet supposely it's just
primitive people doing this

for no really good reason as with in.

I mean one of the things that
comes into our considerations

of what ancient cultures could acomplish.

It's whether they were able
to write it down or not.

Were very tight to what we have
evidence they wrote down,

how they did it,
then we belive in how they did it.

So, Egypt we have a lot more
writings and drawings,

that show them building the pyramids,

give us an idea of the technology.

You view some like Easter Island

we dont have any writing
evidence in what they did.

and sometimes that lead us
to the question of intervendness.

3500 miles away,

in the Republic of Bolivia,

stone work exists,

which is amazingly similar
to the statues of Easter Island.

Tiwanaku is in fact,

so ancient, but it defies
modern day in techniques.

It is estimated, to be
over 17000 years old.

Perhaps the oldest city in the world.

And somehow the sculptures at Tiwanaku,

were constructed in the same style,

and with the same enigmatic expressions,

as their distant cousins
on Easter Island.

A lot of stuff at Tiwanaku,
you can see in earlier civilizations.

All way back * into the...
into the centuries B.C. in Peru.

you see some the same patterns,
some of the same iconography, imagery,

and you can see the ancestry of it.

but while tourists flew
to the ruins at Tiwanaku,

perhaps the most mystifing
of all ancient sites,

lies just a few hundreds yards away.

At relatively little
interest of most visitors.

Puma Punku, is a field of stone ruins

that both thrills and stimulates,

the imaginations of ancient
alien theorists.

In my opinion,

the most significant piece
of evidence that we have,

in this entire ancient
astronaut puzzle,

is Puma Punku, in the
highland of Bolivia,

While the Pyramids at Gizah,

are incredible * of achievment.

compared to Puma Punku,
the Pyramids are childplay.

Logic does not exists at Puma Punku,

because there we have
megalithic structures,

which just lie about this entire site,

as if ripped apart by...
by some sort of great force.

The blocks at Puma Punku,

were so finely cut,

that they once perfectly interlocked,

like the pieces of
an elaborated puzzle.

But with the nearest quarry,
over ten miles away.

How are these colossal stones,
some weighting hundreds of tons.

... even get here.

We are talking about a place
4500 meters, over sea level.

that means that there no trees up there,
wich you could use for rollers.

Nothing grows except
a few grasses and bushes.

I have stood in front
of many monuments, however...

Puma Punku takes the crown,

because what we find there,
is so inexplicable,

so inachievable,

that... the question remains:
How is it done and for what purposes?

mainstream archaeologists say...

... that Puma Punku was built
by the Aymara Indians.

and we all have to agree that in order
to built something like Puma Punku,

you need writing, you need planning,
and you need some sort of the... idea,

where... which piece goes
and how ultimately all fit's together.

There is one thing that all the
mainstream archaeologists agree upon,

that the Aymara...

... didn't have any writing.

So how is it possible that
they built all this...

... without plans?

Which is really amazing...

and why the ancient astronauts theorists
are so drawn to Puma Punku and Tiwanaku?

Is the... the quality of the stone work
and the inmense size of these blocks.

Is so incredible...

... and perfect, that is actually
evidence of machining.

and they were using machines tools,

to cut these blocks.

One of the platforms is 800 tons.

and they are so smoothly polished,

Here are some stone, megalithic stones,

with grubs which are a just
few millimeters inside.

Which definitely cannot be made
with stone age chisels.

It doesn't work with
stone age chisels so...

There is another technology guiding.

The lines carved into these rocks
are exactly straight,

and precisely the same depth
from one end to the other.

It's as if only master builders...

were allowed to work there.

because everything is so precise,

everything is so perfect.

You wonder how any of
these was even posible?

One of the most intriguing
things there is...

that the stones that were used there...

... are sand stone.

There are granite and diorite.

The only stone that's
harder than diorite...

... is diamond.

So the only way at this
is gonna been achieve...

... is if the tools
were tipped with diamonds.

American professors who were up there
with their computer modern measurements,

they were really shocked.

In their literature they say:
"It is impossible...

to reconstruct Puma Punku,
it's absolutely impossible".

But what is it really difficult to believe

that ancient peoples could it
so precisely carve the stones.

or could build such an incredible
interstructure from them.

If there was ancient astronauts
teaching them this building techniques

why dont we see just perfect almost
skyscraper like vertical edificies?

Everything was all pyramid like?

Stone cutting techniques have
been invented and re-invented

and independently invented
all over the world.

If you think of yourself as a god king
and you want to have a structure built

thats going to last thousands of years...

It's much better to built it out of prefectly
fittin stones without moulder,

that degrades and decays
and has to be mantained,

So we see moulderless structures,

megalithics structures
all over the world.

We have an anomaly here.

Where on one hand this people are
supose to be... very primitive,

are they just one step
out the stone age,

yet... what they doing are things
that we couldn't even do today.

... apparently, or we have
extreme difficulty.

And that is building with
this giant block stone...

... perfectly fiting and
together with other blocks...

... interlocking them.

The ancient people of
our time on this planet,

truly saw extrange things,
they witness bizarre events.

But those stories other
than in depictions,

and some artwork
and things like that...

... they're gone, for some
reason they're just gone.

But left behind...

... are incredibly things
that we have,

that make you wonder...

How in the heck were
these things built?

Those are great mysteries,
and I think...

... one of the things
that keeps people...

... just continue into
push for the anwers...

are that fact that these
things are so out there,

that they cant figure it out.

But uncovering the mystery,

of just how these incredible
structures were built...

will only solve one
piece of the puzzle.

Finding out why they were built
and how they were used,

poses equally compelling questions...

questions that might not been
answerable, here on Earth.

Did aliens really inspired our ancestors
to build ancient temples and pyramids?

and if they came here,

did they left behind any
advance knowledge of physics,

... astronomy or mathematics?

If so, is there any evidence
that remins to this days?

One example might be this one.

Often described as the world's
first mechanical computer,

it dates back over 2000 years.

The Antikythera device was found
in 1900 by sponge divers.

diving off a small island in the Aegean
called the Antikythera.

There was a ship wreck there, and...

in it was a coral incrusted box.

And it was made of metal alloys,

and it then went to the Athens museum.

where a good 50 years later,
they were able to X-Ray this box.

and they were able to discern,

cog wheels that were interconnected,

and gave us a very good depiction
of what this thing was.

and it is a computer,
It's a really sofisticated machine,

It is a very interesting piece of
technology because it has two purposes.

One, was an astronomical device,
where you could...

... by using it chart
the position of the stars

and navigate your way to the seas.

it was also an astrological device,

so that some could tell you,

oh, if you are born at this date
and your planet side is this,

then certain things are
going to happend to you

when the planets were
on this alignement.

So it's a very interesting
piece of technology,

that literally had...

more complicated gears in...

inner workings than a
modern day Swiss watch.

And it's found to be dated
I think like 200 B.C.

So it's really an anomaly as to...

Who could create that
and what it's been used for?

When archaeologists first start
examining this thing at the 1950s...

... they said that they
never could conceived

of the ancient greeks having
such complicated machinery.

And in fact they said...

this was * out to finding
a jet airplane...

... in the tomb of King Tut.

Even older than the
Antikythera mechanism...

are these carvings on a wall...

at the Dendera temple
complex in Egypt...

to some...

the strange designs look early similar
to objects very much in use today.

In Egypt, there it's this
underground crypt, at Dendera,

that was always secret
and only the higher priests,

had access to that crypt.

It's very hot in there,

very narrow low ceiling,

and on the walls,
you have this relieves...

of what looks like...

... ancient light bulbs.

Because we have to question one thing...

How did the ancient Egyptians...

light the inside of their tombs?

According to most
mainstream archaeologists...

torches were used by
the ancient Egyptians.

to light the pitch black chambers
of tombs and temples.

Yet nowhere on the ceilings

is there even slightest evidence
of * or smoke residue.

But if torches weren't used,

How else could this ancient rooms
and hallways have been illuminated?

Another theory that was proposed,

It's that the light was directed
from outside by copper mirrors.

"And then there was... light".

"Hey, that it's a neat trick".

And then I tryied to
recreate that theory,

but unfortunately I failed
because only after a few corners,

the sunlight dissapeared because...

the copper mirrors were too weak.

Also, there isn't enough oxygen
inside those tombs,

with which to support or
feed a flame of the torch.

I was once inside the King's Chamber,
inside the Pyramid at Gizah.

and somebody turn off
the lights and immediatly,

we were in pitch darkness.

And I said: No problem,

I'll just take out
my lighter from my satchel...

and I turned on the lighter...

... and it didn't worked.

So, how were the inside
of these temples lit?

I mean, the only remaining solution is
by some sort of artificial light source.

And that is, for example a light bulb.

So, at the underground crypt at Dendera,

we find relieves of such light bulbs.

Egyptologists explanation of this...

and they have to have some explanation,
theres got to be one...

Has to be pretty mundane, it cant
be that an electrical device.

Their explanation is that...

it is...

... a lotus flower.

... and what appears to be...

... a bulb ballon is the aroma...

... of the lotus flower.

And so it's just a very
odd depiction of... a flower.

But another explanation
of course would be...

they actually had electrical lights.

But if the ancient Egyptians
had use some kind of electric light,

to illuminate their passage ways,

why is the visual evidence exists

only at the temple of Dendera?

In Egypt you have different areas...

... of specialty,

And Dendera... was the... area...

... where the knowledge
of the light giving source...

... was kept.

And this secret knowledge,
was kept by the high priests.

and they're the only ones who
* to this type of information.

Because Dendera was
"The Special Place",

where this specific knowledge
was guarded and kept.

Scientific community is not saying,

"Oh, there are not extraterrestrials,
or they never did it."

They are judging whether or not
this is a valid scientific theory,

and would that mean by that.

For something to be a scientific theory

it really needs to be
something you can test

with the obvious experiment.

How did could ancient Egyptians

have use anything resembling
a modern day light bulb?

without access to electricity?

After all,

electricity...

wouldn't be discovered
for thousands of years.

That is of course...

... with the exception
of what scientists call...

... the Baghdad battery.

The Baghdad battery was
discovered in Ancient Iraq.

scholars todays say: "Theres no way...

... that ancient man was using
electricity or light bulbs",

So they look at this Baghdad battery

and those * dozen of them that

and found in Iraq.

And the only mainstream theory

is that they were using it
for electroplating jewelry.

Two mayor proponents
of ancient aliens theory,

Jason Martel and Giorgio Tsoukalos,

demonstrated just how the Baghdad
battery could generate electricity.

using a modern mock up of the device.

Well basically this is
made of a clay pod,

clays just found naturally
in origin in southern Iraq.

And then we use a small copper lining,

and something along lines at the
asfalt stopper rather at the iron rod.

and this all apply together.

An a combination of
some weak acid *

vinegar, grape juice, orange
juice in this case, wine...

would be able to generate a charge,

by combining these
elements with the rod

and the iron rod and the copper

and the combination of that
creates an abundance of electricity.

So, what we gonna do is
basically just fill the clay pot

with some orange juice
just dont try to * too much

Right...

and then go to cover the rod back
in there, the copper and iron rod

Will give it a moment to kind
of fill that... copper area there.

And then by turning on the voltmeter...

... and applying this to each side,

and should read the generated charge.

And here it goes, into the positives.

If you give it some time
to get the electrolytes

really buzzing in there you sit at
this volt watch it'll continue to rise

But while some see the Baghdad battery

as evidence that man was spark on
by extraterrestrial wisdom,

others look at it and simply say:
"So what?"

You can take some ancient technology
like the Baghdad battery

which probably was used for
something like metal plating

and wich you just mix chemicals
and enhance the chemical reactions

to they were using for this reason,

and we can take and put a voltmeter

and go "Oh look, we're able
to get a reading out of it!"

Well... so what?

Thats just a chemical reaction.

If they were using, let say... these
battery to operate other machines

Where are the other machines?

If they were sending
the electricity down wires,

where are all the wires that would
it been all over the culture.

In other words, that why the...
a one of a invention like that

is going to survive...

without all the other inventions
what have been there at the same time?

It is a battery, everybody
agrees with that,

but nobody knows why they made it.

And how they made it,
what mind would think of that.

You know, electrical current
that 7000 years ago.

It's very strange,
but is clearly a battery.

The whole idea that
ancients civilizations

actually had knowledge of
electricity and used electricity

It's an accepted archaeological fact today.

Just like in our... own civilization
where about 200 years ago,

Benjamin Franklin and others
scientists began experimenting with

simple electrical devices,

We know have evidence...

... that...

... over 3000 years ago,

people were also experimenting
with electrical devices.

Where may they have left them?

What other electrical devices
were they been enable to create?

I believe that probably created
all kinds of electrical devices.

Tombs,

temples,

ancient light bulbs,

even electricity.

Here on Earth exists evidence

of architectural and
technological wonders,

centuries before we ever
believe them posible.

but if evidence of ancient astronauts
exists here on Earth,

What about elsewhere?

Might we find what we are looking for...

... by looking...

... in the sky.

Here at the ancient city
of Teotihuacan in Mexico,

evidence suggests...

that ancient cultures possesed
an incredibly accurate knowledge,

about neighboring planets.

Some scholars have even
interpreted the number

and orientation of these pyramids,

to perfectly reflect a model...

... of our solar system.

Along the "Avenida de los muertos",
The "Avenue of the Dead".

The pyramids there
align in perfect distance...

of each of the orbit's...

of our planets in our solar system.

Perhaps significat is the fact
that the large Pyramid of the Sun...

It's positioned at the center
of the other structures.

Reflecting the fact...

... that the Sun is at the center
of our solar system,

... and that the planets,
revolve around it.

It was a known fact back then already,

that the Sun was at the center
of our solar system,

wich "Western science" didn't find out
until much, much later.

But just how could Teotihuacan's
designers had known so early on...

... that the planets of our solar system,
revolve around the sun?

Didn't that take...

many more centuries
of scientific progress...

... and investigacion to figure out?

Interestingly enough...

... debunkers will say:

"Oh, this is just coincidence".

That this pyramids are aligned...

with the planets of our solar system.

But, if we go on the other
side of the planet,

to Stonehenge, we have
another ancient site

which is way older by the way
than Teotihuacan.

Where if you look at Stonehenge
from a bird's eye view,

You see that these are all
concentric circles,

and each of these circles
corresponds exactly...

... with the orbit
of all of our planets...

...in our solar system.

So we have two places on Earth
where we have the same thing.

In recent years, Stonehenge has also
been interpreted by some archaeologists

to be a kind of astronomical calendar,

one which could be used to calculate
advance, such as solar eclipses.

But if that were true,

whoever aligned these massive stones
on the bare english landscape,

would have to effect precise astronomical
knowledge of the path of the sun.

Built between the seventh
and ninth centuries,

the stone temples of Tikal,

toward more than 2500 ft
of Guatemala rain forest.

Tikal is home to one of the largest
excavation sites in the world,

when with thousands of structures,
still remains buried beneath the jungle.

According to most scientists, Tikal's
Pyramids played an essential part...

in helping the Mayans
advice their calendar.

by aligning the side lines between
the highest points of the structures

ancient astronomers could pinpoint
the most important days of the year.

such as an upcoming equinox...

... or solstice.

But, what also excites
ancient astronaut theorists...

is how prefectly the layout
of Tikal's pyramids...

correlate to the star map of the
Pleyiades Orion region of the sky.

An overhead view of the structures,

almost exactly mirrors
the alignement of the constellation.

This same outline has
been spotted in an area...

far from Tikal...

much...

... much further.

Recently discovered on the Mars...

It's a cluster of land forms that
offers a near perfect replication,

of the pyramid pattern of Tikal.

Three distinct locations,

one unique pattern.

Coincidence...

... or design?

At Tikal, the legends and
the mythologies that we have,

all speak of the time...

when the gods inter* and
interconnected with our ancestors.

So Tikal also was built...

... as a message for future
generations to see...

... that a long, long time ago,

we were visited by extraterrestrials.

Someone who have seen this have to
actually relay the information to them

because they couldn't just guess, so...

I really start to rise
a question the same,

This ancient astronaut theory really
needs to have more life shed on the topic.

It's certanly possible that
the ancient people not only measure

all of this... astronomy events

but we able to come up with
a math mathematical theory.

To put in together,

and then to predict new things.

They shouldn't think that
the ancient people were dummies.

Early man, people on ancient times
didn't have dashboard mounted GPS unit's.

They had those...

"Path of the sun thru the sky",

"The path of the moon thru the sky",

They could see the stars at night,

these were prominent fictures
that they could navigate from,

so, it's not surprising at all,

that almost every culture,

recorded astronomical phenomena,

We never look up at the sky
and enjoy the beauty of it.

Ancient people didn't have electricity,

the sky would be so dark
and the stars would be so bright.

Not only that, but they relied on the sky.

for directions...

for seasons on which to plant,

and for variety of things.

Today, with our GPS unit's,
and navigation systems...

... and computers,
we don't need to look at the sky.

I want to be very clear about one thing...

That our ancestors were
as smart as we are today.

However, ...

I don't believe that ancient astronauts
visited the Earth on the remote past.

I am convinced of this,

because of all the countless indications,

and pieces of evidence that
we can find from all around the world,

in different ancient cultures,

in different mythologies and legends...

I know it happened, because
if you look at all the pieces,

It's the only conclusion
that you can draw.

But just why...

... were ancient people
so focused on the sky...

... and the stars,
in the first place?

Were they waiting
for something to happened?

Or perhaps...

... for something,

... or someone,

... to return?

Four decades may be passed,

but ideas put for,
by Erik Von Daniken,

are still captivating his followers.

and frustrating the skeptics...

... to this day.

Like an Old Testament prophet,
or ancient shaman,

the author is still out here,
spreading his firmly health message.

that "We are not alone."

The stone age people
couldn't have drawn a straight line

through the mountains ranges
for thousands of lines.

And our Stone Age
friends did not arrange

thousands of stones
in geometrical shapes.

Someone had to
have directed this.

But while the proof of Von Daniken's
theories maybe debatable,

their influence on movies,

TV series,

and even radio programs...

... is undeniable.

It's a tremendous lightning rod for
fiction and for fictional story-telling.

The classic "Battlestar Galactica" serie
start with a narration that said:

"There are those who believe
that life here began out there

with tribes of humans
far across the universe,

who may have been
the forefathers

of the Egyptians,

and the Toltecs,

and the Mayans.

You know thats, straight out of Von Daniken
as in that kind of believe, you know.

Puts us in contact with an idea
of mythological intelligence,

and that is one of the things as we
as humans beings crave desperately.

is that we are not
alone in the world,

and that somebody else out there
are they looking after us.

or coming to fight for us in that
we unite against a common enemy.

I was reading lot of books
from Erik Von Daniken,

and...

I can't imagine thats the true what he
wrote in his books and so...

I can imagine this that we had

help of aliens,

but...

I don't know, I'm not sure.

We know so much in this world

and what we do now is so limited,

and everyday we finding more.

It... requires ask more questions
and bigger questions and think bigger,

Its fast* something
found on other planet

came to another lifeform,
intelligent lifeform came in

... to this.

I mean, who knows, it could be,

because the origins of many
things are lost in antiquety,

all we have are roundups
and shreds of evidence

to suggest what might it happened.

Someone told me that
it was proven that aliens...

... had part in this,
I wouldnt be that surprised.

Why not?

To be honest, ancient astronauts theory
has never crop of an discussion...

... with my collegues.

I don't care how many paints
in too it with been,

we have never discussed
ancient astronaut theory.

in any credible way whatsoever.

One of the good things about
the ancient astronaut theory,

It's that it make us think.

brings out... the...

What about this?,
What about that?.

We need explanations
for all of these things.

And I think that one of the main reasons,

why mainstream archaeologists,

* a real nature reaction
to the ancient astronaut theory,

is that, it's very disturbing to them,

because they don't have all the answers.

Some of them may believe that
life could exist in the universe.

but the bottom line is...

"Show me the proof,
show it to me... for real".

"I want to see the spaceship,
I want to see something concrete".

not just a few pictures that everybody
can interprete, as being...

... this... or that.

Forefetch*,

ridiculous,

insane,

Ancient aliens visiting Earth
centuries ago,

building monuments,

influencing scripture,

But what if all turned out to be true?

What would happend if just
one piece of evidence turn up,

one stone,

one key,

that prove that Von Daniken
had been right all along?

And if he is right,

What does that suggest
about our future?

If alien visitors
had come here before,

Would they come... again?

Even I think the idea
of aliens are visiting us,

it's very exciting, interesting,
and it be really cool if that happen.

So yet's people excited about the question,

maybe they start thinking about it,

and like many thing they may ultimately

come to thinking of the Physics

or the Archaeology.

and yet involved in the scientific process.

So that could be a positive side efect,

of these theories and the popularization.

If it turns out,

that ancient astronaut theory, is wrong,

I will be the first one to say:

"Ok, no problem"

But so far...

... certain pieces of evidence,
have not been debunk.

If the ancient alien astronaut theory,

is somehow proven to be true,

this could be a huge boom...

to my work,

into the search for other planets
like Earth with life on them.

because, if aliens astronauts have
visited Earth on the distant past...

it means they pretty near by,

and it means we don't
have to look very far,

to find planets like Earth,
with signs of life on them.

But evidence has to be treated
with a grade of caution,

because it has different meanings.

I'm not sure what the reaction
of the population will be.

It would strike them, the general concept
of our history religions in the world,

means be looked at
again with more respect.

and also in more wonder, meaning

What are we supose to make of this now,
What are we supose be doing of this now.

If science detects life on Mars,

if science detectes a UFO,

then we need to * with
science as same to us,

and begin to re-think about ourselves...

... on Earth,

in light of the possibility of new life.

Does that change our
understanding of God?

It shouldn't if anything broke there*.

If we do find alien life,
we should rejoice.

And honestly the way things are
going on this planet right now,

I would welcomed a visitation
every once in a life, a little help.

There is no doubt that my hypothesis

will be accepted by the mainstream.

Its maybe a question
of just 5 or 10 years.

Sooner or later we will have
contact with somene out there,

and then, the thinking...

... they will return.

and if you do not listen
to Erik Von Daniken,

You will have
the... "Shock of the Gods".