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NARRATOR: Invading armies of almost invincible power.

Incredible weaponry, designed to both intimidate and annihilate

Secret experiments of an otherworldly nature.

HENRY STEVENS: A lot of the information that we've

been told about the Second World War is wrong.

NARRATOR: Did, as some believe, Adolph Hitler

base his plans for world domination

on secret extraterrestrial knowledge?

GEORGE NOORY: The Nazis were looking

for some kind of technology that the ancients processed.

NARRATOR: And did the German military

develop an arsenal of so-called wonder weapons,

based on advanced alien technologies?

JIM MARRS: Not only were they able to cancel out gravity,

they could be manipulating time.

NARRATOR: Millions of people around the world

believe we've been visited in the past

by extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history?

And if so, just what was their connection

to Hitler's Nazis and World War II?

NARRATOR: During the Second World War,

Germany possessed the most technologically

advanced military in the world.

Weapons, such as the jet aircraft,

precision bombers, and guided missiles,

all designed with one purpose in mind--

to help the Nazis and their leader, Adolf Hitler,

blitzkrieg their way across Europe,

and create a Third Reich, or empire

that would eventually rule the world.

-And they developed two amazing weapons.

One was the V-1 buzz bomber, literally

the first cruise missile.

And the other was the V-2, the first ballistic missile.

JIM MARRS: The German rocket program

was years ahead of any of the Allied nations.

By the end of the war, they were developing

the A10, which was also known as the New York rocket.

So that would give you an idea of what they were thinking.

They also had one in the works that they

were calls-- calling the Mars rocket.

So I think they had some pretty grandiose plans.

NARRATOR: Even to their enemies, German scientists

were the envy of the world.

But what was the source of their incredible achievements?

Were they simply smarter than their counterparts

in other countries?

Did they receive more funding and resources

for their research?

Or were they, as some ancient astronaut theorists believe,

guided by other, possibly extraterrestrial forces.

-Hitler was always saying that he had access

to the most advanced technology, that the Nazis would

prevail in World War II.

And I suppose it is a very important question to ask.

What was giving Adolf Hitler the confidence

to assert to masses of people that he

was going to essentially take over the world?

NARRATOR: In his 1993 book, "Secret Societies

and their Power in the 20th Century,"

author Ian van Helsing told the story

of a strange crash in Germany's Black Forest

that occurred in 1936, three years

before the start of World War II.

According to van Helsing, residents

living near the small town of Freiburg

woke up to what sounded like a massive plane crash.

But when investigators examined the crash,

they found a strange disc-shaped object,

and inside were the remains of what

appeared to be extraterrestrial beings.

Van Helsing also claims that within hours of the crash,

Hitler's SS troops took possession

of the downed aircraft and its deceased crew

and carried it away to their top secret headquarters

at Wewelsburg Castle.

There, it was believed, Nazi scientists

began the task of reverse engineering

the technology found aboard the damaged craft.

But is there any evidence that this extraterrestrial spaceship

even existed?

And would it have been possible to reverse engineer it?

BILL BIRNES: What exists are the reports of scientists

who claim to have read reports of analysis

done on that craft and the propulsion system.

MICHAEL DENNIN: The challenges in reverse engineering

it would depend a little bit on the nature of the power source

it used, and how it worked.

Right now, because we are such an electronically based

society-- and it's almost all based on silicon electronics--

if it wasn't that, it might be very, very hard.

But if it was close to what we did,

then it would probably be pretty easy.

NARRATOR: According to reports discovered after the war,

German scientists began experimenting

with anti-gravity technologies shortly after the alleged

discovery of the alien craft.

One of these scientists was an Austrian inventor

named Viktor Schauberger.

MICHAEL DENNIN: He was very instrumental in talking

about creative ways of using fluid motion to generate

propulsions.

And a lot of it has to do with studying the way

animals actually move through water or air.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER: He looked especially

on the trout standing still in a raging torrent,

and he thought of how can this fish stand still in this river.

And then they thought about how nature works and he stated,

it's not the animal itself.

It's air or water that moves this animal.

A fish does not swim.

It is swum.

And a bird does not fly.

It is flown.

So why can't we do this with machines?

Move the air in a special way so that the vehicle is pulled, not

pushed.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Viktor Schauberger, he

developed a type of vortex engine.

Artificial tornado, as it were, where

vortex activity and gyroscopic activity

could be harnessed with liquids, such as water or mercury.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER:

Viktor Schauberger, made some big inventions.

Inventions that lead, um, maybe back to ancient times.

This is the so-called Repulsin, or Repulsine in German.

It was meant to be some kind of propulsion system mounted

in a submarine or an aircraft vertically

to create a field Viktor Schauberger called,

biological vacuum.

And the aircraft or the submarine

should be sucked into this field.

The special shape of this device led to the story

that Viktor Schauberger is the inventor of flying saucers.

NARRATOR: At the time of its development,

the Repulsin's inverse propulsion system

seemed revolutionary, but Viktor Schauberger

believed he had rediscovered an ancient technology.

JOERG SCHAUBERGER: Viktor also refers

to old Indian texts, where he reads out of these texts

that these old peoples, uh, they'd

used some kind of flowing magnetism

that allows them to overcome gravity.

NARRATOR: According to early Sanskrit text discovered

in India, aircraft called vimanas

used a similar propulsion system thousands of years ago.

Is it possible that German scientists

viewed ancient texts like the Bhagavad Gita,

not as legendary myth, but as a source

of historical and scientific fact.

-The Germans were the best oriental scholars in the world.

So they translated the, uh, the ancient texts,

uh, Sanskrit and later, into German.

DAVID CHILDRESS: And the Germans studied

these ancient Indian epics and were familiar

with the ideas of vimanas.

And so by combining that with this vortex technology,

and allegedly this crashed disc from 1936 in the Black Forest,

they then came up with their designs

for these flying saucers.

NARRATOR: In 1939, three years after the reported crash

at Freiburg, German scientists developed their own flying

saucer-shaped aircraft and called it the Haunebu.

Early prototypes had a diameter of 25 meters

and were manned by a crew of eight.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The Haunebu was a classic flying saucer

design with a dome and windows on the top,

with one large dome underneath.

HENRY STEVENS: It was sort of containable lightning,

is what it was.

These two balls, they would produce

electrons and positrons.

And the positrons would migrate to the top

of the sphere and levitate.

JIM MARRS: Almost all my life I've heard stories

that the Nazis had obtained a flying saucer.

And I do believe the Nazis were in touch

with non-human intelligences that gave them

the advanced technology that they developed

right up till the end of the war.

NARRATOR: But how many in Hitler's regime

actually believed in the existence

of extraterrestrial beings?

How close were they to the Fuhrer?

And how far did they go to make contact?

NARRATOR: The swastika.

This simple four-sided figure is the ultimate symbol

of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime.

But its origins reveal a much different message,

one that dates back over 3,000 years.

MICHAEL CREMO: Swastika is a Sanskrit

word from ancient India.

It means "mark of good fortune."

And the same symbol is found not only in ancient India,

but all over the world in many different ancient cultures,

ranging from Egypt to Iran, to the cultures of the Americas.

NARRATOR: During the 1930's, Adolph Hitler

and the Nazi party used the swastika

to symbolize the Aryan race and its struggle for victory.

But were the German leaders aware of the swastika's

extraterrestrial connection?

MICHAEL CREMO: In the ancient Sanskrit text,

it's stated that the symbol of the swastika

is connected with extraterrestrial beings,

such as the Hindu god Brahma.

It's often used in worship in temples

dedicated to extraterrestrial beings.

BILL BIRNES: The swastika turns up

in the legends of indigenous peoples all around the world.

And the theory was that it was a magical power, a magical symbol

given to these indigenous peoples by extraterrestrials.

And that by using this symbol, it

could ward off enemies, ward off evil, give them the power

to not only survive, but become supreme.

NARRATOR: Did Hitler choose the swastika

as the symbol of the Nazi party because

of its extraterrestrial connections?

Did he believe in aliens from other worlds?

It is known that Hitler surrounded himself

with those who believed in extraterrestrial beings

and ancient advanced civilizations.

-Hitler was obsessed with ancient mythology.

He was obsessed with the occult, and more importantly he

was obsessed with trying to gain knowledge

that he believed he could muster before anybody else could.

So he spent an inordinate amount of time, energy, and money

all over the planet to try to get information about things

that would give Germany an upper hand.

NARRATOR: One of the main groups advising the Nazi leadership

was a secret society known as the Vril.

Members are said to have included

the commander of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, Air Force

commander, Hermann Goering, and the head

of the Nazi party, Martin Bormann.

The Vril society took their name from the 19th century book

written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton called "The Coming Race."

In it, Bulwer-Lytton describes a powerful master race

and an ancient mystical energy form

known as vril, that could be tapped and controlled.

-The Vril Society in Germany took their name

from this force, this universal force,

which in Sanskrit is known as prana.

MICHAEL CREMO: Just like an engineer

can use electricity to either heat a room or cool a room,

or make sound or do so many other things, it's one energy,

but it can be manifested in different ways.

DAVID CHILDRESS: The Vril Society, they

believed that this vril power could

power machines and devices.

And they'd wanted to use it for aircraft, discoid flying

saucers.

NARRATOR: According to their beliefs,

the Vril could tap into this energy

because they were the direct descendant of extraterrestrials

from the Aldebaran solar system that

had come to earth in the distant past.

Members of this pure master race were known as Aryans.

BILL BIRNES: They believed that Aryans descended

from a race of ETs, and these ETs imbued this Aryan race

with tremendous power and meant for them

to be the master race on earth.

And that was, in part, the justification

for the Nazi political party to establish the Aryan supremacy

on the planet Earth.

NARRATOR: When the Nazi party swept into power in 1933,

the Vril encouraged Hitler and his henchmen

to fund a worldwide search for ancient alternative

technologies.

German scientists and researchers

scoured the planet for ancient texts and relics,

such as the Holy Grail, and the Ark of the Covenant.

According to legend, these biblical artifacts

contained powerful energies that could

be harnessed and used as weapons.

ROBERT CARGILL: The Ark of the Covenant

was said to be a wooden box that was overlaid in gold.

And the Israelites were said to revere

this box because it represented God.

The Ark of the Covenant is said to possess tremendous power,

that whoever touched it dies.

Any army that marches with the Ark of the Covenant

can defeat any other army.

And this is part of the lore and the legend

of the Ark of the Covenant.

NARRATOR: But did Hitler really believe these tales to be true?

Did he view the Bible as a history book?

DAVID CHILDRESS: When you see, like, the Indiana Jones

movies which tend to focus on these secret Nazi occult

expeditions around the world to find the Ark of the Covenant,

or the Spear of Destiny, or some secret libraries and aliens,

while those movies are fiction, they're

very much based on truth.

GEORGE NOORY: Hitler was obsessed

with trying to find the Ark of the Covenant.

It was far more important, I think,

than just some religious belief.

I think the Ark of the Covenant had

a function, whatever it might have been.

-The Book of Exodus, there's a very detailed description

of the Ark of the Covenant.

Supposedly, it was the box that was constructed

to contain the two tablets of the Ten Commandments, which

were irradiated with divine power

because they had been touched by the finger of God.

As soon as the tablets are placed inside the box,

if you look at the biblical accounts,

that box becomes dangerous.

It starts striking people dead.

Strange voices emerge from it.

They went far off in the Indiana Jones movie

when it was described as a radio for talking to God.

NARRATOR: At his headquarters in Wewelsburg Castle,

SS commander, Heinrich Himmler, brought in psychics and mediums

who claimed they could contact extraterrestrial beings.

One of these was an influential member of the Vril society,

named Maria Orsic.

JIM MARRS: Marie Orsic headed a group

of women known as the Vrillican, or the female Vril members.

And they were beautiful women.

And they grew their very long because they

felt like their long hair could act as an antenna

to the universal vril energy.

-They believed that extraterrestrials,

non-human force, was right here on planet Earth.

And they were the ones who inspired the early technology

to develop circular-shaped craft based on images

that they'd seen of flying saucers.

They inspired Schauberger.

They inspired other developers to look into the possibility

that these disc-shaped craft could

fly through some sort of anti-gravity,

some sort of levitation.

The Germans were able to develop a technology so far in advance

of the Allied technology, that people

said they were helped by extraterrestrials.

In fact, the one quote we have was from Hermann Oberth.

And Dr. Oberth was in the German rocketry program.

Hermann Oberth said, quote, "We were

helped by people from other worlds."

NARRATOR: Was it possible that the Nazis made contact

with extraterrestrial beings?

If so, might the Germans have received

other advanced alien technologies?

And just how close did Hitler come

to building the deadliest weapon in the history of the world?

NARRATOR: Berlin, 1938.

The world took its first step towards the atomic age

when German chemists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann,

split uranium atoms and inadvertently discovered

fission, the basis of nuclear energy.

MICHAEL DENNIN: When you have atoms either break apart

or come together, you lose a small amount of mass.

It turns out, the amount of energy in mass

is related to the mass times the speed of light squared.

And the speed of light is such a huge number.

That's what converts this small amount of mass

into a huge amount of energy.

NARRATOR: News of the discovery quickly spread

through the world's scientific community.

In the United States, Albert Einstein

warned President Franklin Roosevelt,

in an August 2, 1939 letter, that Germany's progress

could lead to the creation of a powerful new bomb.

NARRATOR: How were the German scientists

in Berlin able to make this discovery before anyone else?

Was this really a new breakthrough?

Or might these scientists have rediscovered

an ancient source of unimaginable power?

Deformed skeletons, and vitrified stone

at Mohenjo Daro, Pakistan.

Radioactive ash covering the ancient city of Harappa, India.

And the biblical cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.

According to the ancient astronaut theory,

the first atomic blasts may not have

occurred during the 1940s but thousands of years earlier.

-What they found in these cities-- Mohenjo Daro, Harappa,

Kot Diji, others of these Harappan cities--

they found people just lying dead in the streets.

It was like some doom had just taken over these cities.

Some theorists have proposed that what

happened to Sodom and Gomorrah, two cities right

at the end of the Dead Sea, was some kind of nuclear explosion

that wiped this area out.

Lot's wife was allegedly turned into a pillar of salt.

The idea there would be that, when

there is a nuclear explosion, people are suddenly

vaporized, incinerated, mineralized.

MICHAEL CREMO: When an atomic bomb explodes,

the heat is so intense that it melts the silicon in the sand

into glass.

There are some reports that such fields of fused sand, of glass

have been found in places including India.

But if they do exist, this would confirm the descriptions

given in the ancient Sanskrit writings,

that the people of those times had weapons

resembling our modern nuclear weapons.

They were called Brahmastras.

NARRATOR: According to the Hindu text,

the Brahmastras came from gods.

But who were these supernatural beings?

DAVID CHILDRESS: Many of these Hindu gods

did look different than humans.

Generally they're often depicted as having blue skin.

And that may well be describing extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Could Hitler have been aware

of these same ancient accounts?

Might that have been the reason behind Nazi Germany's

archaeological and scientific trips to India and Africa?

-The Nazis were looking for something.

They were looking for some kind of technology

that the ancients possessed that we had lost.

And they wanted to find it.

And they wanted to find it fast.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Throughout the Middle East and also

in ancient India, there are stories of gin.

These genies, they've got magic powers, magic lamps,

flying carpets and things like that.

So in my mind, it's quite possible

that this ancient gin are really the ancient aliens with all

their technology and aircraft.

NARRATOR: Did Hitler and the Nazis

uncover any ancient atomic secrets?

Just how close did they come to developing the ultimate weapon?

And how much of their quest was guided by an outside hand?

In a secret lecture in February, 1942, German physicist,

Werner Heisenberg, spoke of building a nuclear reactor

designed to control fission and enable uranium

to be converted into plutonium.

-In layman terms, how the atomic bomb works,

it's basically two stages.

The key element is, you have to get uranium to split.

So you need a trigger for this reaction to happen.

And then you need it to have what they call a critical mass,

enough of it together, that once you get it to happen in one

place, it can cause the next reaction,

and the next reaction, and the next reaction.

So it's actually a series of explosions.

NARRATOR: Hitler was now on the brink of having an atomic bomb.

But then the Germans suddenly stopped trying to build one.

But why did the Germans give up on their atomic program?

Most mainstream historians believe

it was due to its high cost and commitment,

amid a losing war effort.

Others suggest that the German scientists lacked

the knowledge, or possibly, even sabotaged the project

in fear of Hitler would do with his new weapon.

GEORGE NOORY: The Germans came very

close to developing a weapon that

would've allowed them to win the war.

All I can say is, thank God we beat them to the punch.

Because if they had gotten that technology perfected,

we'd all be speaking German right now.

NARRATOR: But might the Nazi scientists, as some suggest,

have turned their attention to an even more advanced weapon,

one that would allow Hitler's army

to travel through both space and time?

NARRATOR: In a remote valley just outside Ludwikowice,

Poland, stands a strange circular structure

known as the Henge, or Fly Trap.

-We are in the middle of a valley which

was taken over by the SS, and transformed

into a secret research development

and industrial facility.

It was closely guarded.

Inside of this valley, we have three security rings,

closing specific areas from each other.

Inside of the innermost circle, this structure stands.

And it's quite mysterious.

NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars believe

the structure served as the concrete support base

to a cooling tower used by a coal mine.

But according to Witkowski and others,

the German high command would not

have devoted so many military resources here

if the valley contained only an energy plant.

They say the Henge was used to test

a new highly advanced machine known as Die Glocke,

or, the Bell.

-The Bell, Die Glocke, was probably

one of the top secret projects of the Third Reich.

It was so secret, that it was even

unclear on how much Hitler was told.

-There's a great deal of evidence

to suggest that the scientists, including

Hermann Oberth and Wernher von Braun and others,

were working on a bell-shaped craft that

was electromagnetic in it's propulsion system.

-This, some say, was the Wunderwaffe, the wonder weapon.

A weapon so powerful, so exotic, that even in the last minutes

of the war, as the Soviet army closed in on Poland,

could've changed the whole course of the war.

NARRATOR: Surviving sketches depict the Bell

as having a ceramic covering, and dimensions

measuring 10 feet high, and five feet in diameter.

It's design appears contrary to modern aerodynamic principles.

-If you're starting to think about a bell shape for flight,

the challenge you're facing, I think,

is making it aerodynamic when you move around

side-to-side, and forward and backward.

Because you're presenting a very large cross-sectional area

to the air, and you're going to generate a lot of drag.

So you might be very good if you wanted just

like a hovercraft that went up and down.

But once you start moving, I think

you're going to run into trouble.

NARRATOR: But if the Bell was not a new type of aircraft,

then what was it?

According to some ancient astronaut theorists,

the Bell may have been a time machine.

IGOR WITKOWSKI: There is a kind of, uh, voltage

that's named solitons, which a voltage is isolated

electromagnetically from the outside world.

Recent research and experiments show

that the link between gravity and electromagnetic physics

is much stronger than the scientists thought

for some time.

-The laws of the universe being universal,

if you take the right electromagnetic field and very

high voltage, pulse it, or phase it in a certain way,

you can get some very strange phenomena.

You can make things disappear and reappear.

Therefore, it follows to reason that this would be studied

and that the Nazi Bell was probably

an attempt by that regime to develop some type of flying

machine that would use these sort

of advanced electromagnetic concepts.

NARRATOR: But was time travel even a possibility?

According to German-born physicist, Albert Einstein,

humans were theoretically capable of it.

-His theory of special relativity

actually showed for the first time,

that time can slow down when you go very fast.

And so that has an impact on going into the future.

It allows you to travel really fast somewhere,

and your time goes slower than somebody else.

And you end up in the future, relative to what

you thought you were doing.

The harder one to think about is general relativity,

where Einstein talks about gravity,

and how to describe gravity.

And there, you can start thinking about space-time,

and bending it, and actually by warping space and time

in the right way, you end up going backwards in time.

NARRATOR: While no records exist indicating the Bell was ever

used during the war, as the Allied military forces

pushed into Germany, the entire project,

and its commander, SS general, Hans Kammler,

suddenly disappeared.

-SS general, Hans Kammler, who was

going to defect in exchange for immunity, but then,

by the end of the war, he disappeared.

So where did Hans Kammler go?

And what did he take?

I think he took the Bell.

Did he create a wormhole?

Did he create a Stargate?

And this is what the Nazis were working on.

NARRATOR: Did Kammler and other Nazis really

use the Bell to escape justice by disappearing

across time or possibly to another planet?

Reportedly, the rest of the project team

met a more sinister fate.

-The engineers that worked on the Bell

were put to death by the SS.

They didn't want this technology falling

into the hands of the East or the West.

-I mean, you have, like all these people

are being murdered.

OK.

I mean, I mean top scientists.

You know, [BOOM] there, they blow themselves up

in their own labs.

NARRATOR: It was also rumored that Maria Orsic, the psychic

and member of the secret society known as the Vril,

sent out a coded message to the remaining members,

hoping to escape with the help of extraterrestrial beings.

-What I have been given to understand was,

that the agreed-to code to gather at a certain location,

I believe it was somewhere near what was left of Hamburg.

At that time, a UFO was seen over Hamburg.

She disappeared.

Several other key members of the Vril society disappeared.

And some say, uh, Martin Bormann,

a major-league occultist also disappeared.

There have been rumors for many, many years

that they went to another planet.

-The ironic thing about all of this

is years later, in Kechburg, Pennsylvania,

a similar object was witnessed by a number

of people that looked like the Bell.

Is it possible that the Nazis perfected these things?

Or is it possible that the aliens

looked like Nazis in uniforms?

How bizarre would that be?

NARRATOR: In the spring of 1945, Germany's war effort collapsed.

As the Allied armies advanced towards Berlin,

German scientists and engineers abandoned their laboratories.

Hitler's search for a wonder weapon failed.

But as the war neared its end, what

happened to the German scientists?

While it's known, many ended up in the US,

just what secrets did they bring with them?

NARRATOR: On April 30, 1945 as the Allied armies closed

in Berlin, Adolf Hitler committed suicide.

Two days later, the city fell.

On May 7, the German army unconditionally surrendered.

After the war in Europe, many leading Nazi party members

disappeared, some never to be found.

Two months after the defeat of Germany,

a group of American Scientists, led by Dr. Robert Oppenheimer,

gathered in a remote area of New Mexico known as Jornada del

Muerto, or, Journey of Death.

There, at 5:29 AM, on July 16, 1945,

the US military detonated the first ever atomic bomb.

But how had the Americans discovered the key

to the world's first successful nuclear device?

Did they do it themselves?

Or might they have had access to the same ancient texts

the Germans did, that described powerful weapons

and extraterrestrial aircraft?

-It's something that's never denied

by people that research this thing.

There is a geophysicist in Germany, Dr. Axel Stoll,

and he's done a technical translation

of some of the ancient Indian text

with an eye towards the idea that it may have had something

to do with the German flying disc, built

during the Second World War.

So this idea is a possibility.

NARRATOR: Perhaps the most amazing

technological advancement in the history of mankind

was placing a man on the moon.

On July 20, 1969, less than 25 years

after the end of World War II, astronauts Neil Armstrong

and Buzz Aldrin stood on the surface

of an actual alien world.

But how did such a technological leap forward happen so quickly?

And could it possibly have been tied

to ancient technologies discovered by Germany?

HENRY STEVENS: If you think about all the technology

we have today, there isn't anything

that either wasn't invented during this period of time,

or greatly enhanced by the Germans during the Reich years.

The Germans pretty much invented our modern world.

NARRATOR: Following the end of World War II,

many of Germany's top scientists, engineers,

and technicians were captured and brought to America

as part of a secret project known as Operation Paperclip.

HENRY STEVENS: Operation Paperclip was a US government

project to bring German scientists to the United States

to work either for the military or for industry.

-They were taken into custody.

They were granted asylum.

They were brought to the United States.

Their horrific war crimes with concentration camp victims

were expunged.

NARRATOR: The most important and influential

of these former German scientists

was Dr. Wernher von Braun, the commander

of Germany's Peenemunde space research center.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Von Braun was really

the developer of the V-1 and the V-2 rocket.

He was a member of the Nazi party.

His commanders were SS generals.

He was privy to some of the most secret projects

that Nazi Germany was developing during the war.

NARRATOR: Once in America, von Braun quickly

established himself as the leader of the US military's

burgeoning rocket program.

He would eventually become one of the key architects of NASA.

-In fact, the first rockets that the United States

was launching out in New Mexico were essentially

the V-2 rockets.

I think the only real difference was

that we'd taken the swastikas and iron crosses off.

-The whole space race almost seems like a joke

as I look back on it, because the fact is,

there wasn't an American rocket program versus a Russian rocket

program.

We had a German rocket program.

We didn't have an American rocket program.

There's no question, as you look at NASA.

There's no getting to the moon without von Braun

and the other German rocket scientists.

DAVID CHILDRESS: In many ways, the American government

has just carried on what the Third Reich was doing--

building underground basins and factories,

developing secret technology.

And this technology was also in ancient times, too.

And is the same technology that was used in the vimanas.

NARRATOR: In 1970, UFO researcher,

Allen Greenfield claims to have met rocket expert, Wernher von

Braun, while examining declassified files

at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

-And I said to him, how did you develop

that much technology so fast?

And he looked down the rows of UFO files, and he said,

we had help from [NODS HEAD TOWARD FILES] them.

And I said, you mean, them, meaning the aliens.

He said, yeah, we had help.

We all got help from them.

And that was like, the eye-opening moment.

JIM MARRS: The evidence that the Nazis were

aware of non-human technology is simply

the fact of the existence of this incredible technology

that they had by the end of the war.

NARRATOR: In the end, Adolph Hitler's quest

for a powerful new wonder weapon failed.

But the technological advancements

created by German scientists did succeed in changing our world,

and even threatening our very existence.

But could today's space-age technology really

be the result of ancient alien research?

And, if extraterrestrials once possessed deadly weapons

capable of mass destruction, what happened to them?

Did they become victims of their own super intelligence?

If so, will we?

Perhaps, only time, and space will tell.