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ancient aliens is an American television

series which premiered on April 20th

2010 on the History Channel

the program presents the so called

ancient astronaut theory which is the

idea that extraterrestrials visited the

earth in the ancient past and the

historical text archeological records

and various legends contain evidence of

this contact I used to believe that the

ancient astronaut theory was true I

spent years learning about it from the

popular authors from video presentations

and radio shows I was an enthusiastic

promoter of this idea to my friends and

family although I no longer feel that

way I want you to know that I have no

personal reasons to reject this theory

my current worldview could easily

accommodate the existence of

extraterrestrials I hope you will come

away from this film even if you disagree

with it saying that i fairly reviewed

the claims of ancient aliens without

bias and with respect i hope to show you

that this is not a matter of ancient

aliens giving a few details wrong here

and there and their main premise

remaining true that is not an option in

my opinion I hope to demonstrate to you

that they are wrong not on some but on

every single point where they assert in

ancient astronaut theory to explain

evidence and that often they are using

deceptive means to do this and sometimes

even fabricating evidence to make their

points as we will see I would also like

the viewer to know that unlike many

skeptics of the ancient astronaut theory

I actually can see that something out of

the ordinary could have occurred in the

ancient past and that there are certain

consistent themes in ancient mythologies

and the like that required good

explanations but I think you will

quickly see that the ancient astronaut

theory do not explain this evidence you

will notice a number that appears

periodically on the bottom right hand

corner of the screen throughout this

film this number will appear when I am

making a claim that requires a reference

in order to back it up and it will

correspond to a number on the companion

website ancient aliens debunked calm

this film is divided into three main

sections and each topic can be viewed

independently at the website if you

choose

I will occasionally be joined by

commentary from dr. Michael Heizer one

of the few actual scholars who has been

willing to interact with the ancient

astronaut theory

dr. Heiser has been one of the most

articulate proponents of the skeptical

viewpoint of this theory and has written

papers and books as well as almost a

dozen websites on the issues we will be

covering in this film we are happy to

have him as a part of this film and

we're happy to have you the viewer here

as well I encourage you to have an open

mind and enjoy the film Pumapunku is so

unique in the way that it was

constructed and shaped and positioned

that it is the most intriguing ancient

site on the planet while the Pyramids at

Giza are incredible feat of achievement

compared to puma punku the pyramids are

child play 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

well if puma punku is considered such

good evidence for the ancient astronaut

theory we should probably start off by

looking at it after all it's the one

that they say was built directly by

extraterrestrials is the only site on

planet earth that in my opinion

was built directly by extraterrestrials

ancient alien starts off with a false

dilemma by making people think that it

was absolutely impossible for ancient

people to construct puma punku even to

the point of making outright false

claims one of the most intriguing things

there is that the stones that were used

there are in sandstone their granite and

diorite the only stone that's harder

than diorite is diamond so the only way

that this could have been achieved is if

the tools were tipped with diamonds this

is funny because it's totally wrong the

stones are not granite or diorite at

puma punku they are red sandstone and

Endocyte but this is also funny because

of the way that he says it the stones

that were used their orange sandstone

their granite and diorite well yeah

actually it is sandstone you can't blame

him though it becomes obvious that

throughout the series he often just

repeats things he's heard in Erich von

Daniken's books

von daniken's books are what the ancient

alien series is based on later we see

erich von Daniken himself make the exact

same totally wrong claim of course made

out of stones found on earth because you

don't transport van Daniken continues

building up this false dilemma one of

these platforms is 800 tons this is very

incorrect the heaviest block at puma

punku is 130 tons and most of the stones

are much smaller than that so he's off

by a whopping 670 tons

unfortunately we will come to expect

this kind of thing from von Daniken as

we progress ancient alien spends quite a

lot of time pointing out the various

features in the stone masonry at puma

punku and then declaring it impossible

to do without power tools each of these

small drill holes are basically

evenly spaced along this routered groove

to me it's clearly power tools have been

used on this unusual block of stone here

well exactly this surface is as smooth

as the table top like in your kitchen

there's no wave to it or anything this

was machined the sandstone and andesite

stones at puma punku would have been

easily worked with the most basic stone

working tools the idea that diamond

tipped power saws were needed is

ridiculous the red sandstone was

relatively soft and easy to work with

and even though andesite is pretty hard

because of the way it cooled it could

easily be flaked off using stones as

soft is 5.5 on the Mohs scale such

pounding stones were found all over the

andesite quarries in the area contrary

to ancient aliens claims that

archaeologists are baffled by puma punku

archaeologists know the basics about how

puma punku stones were cut and shaped

this is partly because there's evidence

for this all over the site itself they

actually used a method that almost all

ancient stone workers used they used

hard pounding stones to pound out trough

like depressions later on they used flat

stones and sand to grind the stone to

make a polished surface we will see

later on that this is also how the

Egyptians thousands of years before this

made their flat surface granite

monuments like obelisks sand as we will

see later when we look at Egypt has

extremely hard particles in it and if

placed between a flat surface in Iraq

can polish even the hardest stones known

to man in fact the harder the stone is

the better it can be polished using sand

we will also see how sand can turn a

piece of copper into a very efficient

granite saw or granite drill a method

which the Egyptians utilized quite well

some stones at puma punku that ancient

aliens would never show the cameras are

the ones that are in the middle of this

process they showed that at the same

time a stone was being pounded by stone

hammers which created these trough like

depressions the grinding and polishing

was taking place on the other end of the

stone unfinished stones like this one

clearly show how they were

shaped and it wasn't with lasers there's

also unmistakable evidence of stone

hammers having been used in places that

were never meant to be visible like

where certain stones would be connected

with one another and because of that

it's hard for me to believe erich von

daniken in this next clip because it

would mean that the alien toolbox had a

laser gun right next to a stone hammer

extraterrestrials arrived the spaceship

stands in orbit only a smaller space

vehicle comes down like a space shuttle

so just to protect their instruments

they make overnight with their

technology what we call a base camp of

course made out of stones found on earth

because you don't transport granite or

diorite from another solar system and

then they disappear but the wall of

their base camp is still there it is

true that stone tools would not be

enough to construct puma punku

especially for some of the finer points

for that they would need metal chisels

and the equivalent of a carpenter's

square entire studies have been done

detailing how these cuts were made and

nothing spectacular is required except

some metal tools like chisels the

arguments against this are usually

either that a particular culture did not

yet know how to cast metals or that

copper chisels would have been too weak

on the first point we know that the pre

incan Andean culture was very skilled at

fashioning metals and creating metal

alloys in fact the people who built puma

punku were even pouring copper alloys

into molds right on site showing that

they had more than enough capability to

form all kinds of metal tools but the

question is what about the tools

strengths well even if they were pouring

pure copper into a mold it would still

work but it would need sharpening often

but because archaeologists actually

found a few of these metal cramps used

by them on site we now know that they

were using a very strong copper arsenic

nickel alloy which made a much stronger

final product

arsenic acts as the oxidant preventing

the metal from becoming too brittle and

nickel was used in copper alloys

specifically to make strong chisels

once you understand that they had the

ability to make strong metal tools in a

huge variety of shapes there is no part

of puma punku stone work that would have

been too difficult for them well what

about these 90-degree right angles that

ancient aliens make so much about one of

the amazing things here at puma punku is

the precision of the blocks you can see

with this block of granite that it's

really been cut at very accurate right

angles to make flat surfaces with right

angles

you don't need alien technology you only

need a square or a simple equivalent

it's important to keep in mind that puma

punku would have been built thousands of

years after the egyptians who had all

kinds of squares and plumb Bob's and

levels and so on it's a pretty basic

stone working tool that being said

despite what ancient alien says puma

punku is not all perfect right angles

you can even see this ironically enough

as the ancient alien screw goes around

with carpenter's squares you can see

that some of them are simply not square

also they make claims like all the

h-blocks are the same dimensions which

they say suggests that they were made by

a big machine but not only would that

not be the only conclusion if it were

true it's not even true the dimensions

of the h-blocks are not all the same

though they are close it's probably the

case that they were made using the same

plans speaking of plans mainstream

archaeologists say that puma punku was

built by the Aymara Indians and we would

all have to agree that in order to build

something like puma punku you need

writing you need planning and you need

some sort of a idea where which piece

goes and how it ultimately all fits

together

but there is one thing that all the

mainstream archeologists agree upon that

the Aymara didn't have any writing so

how is it possible that they built all

of this without plans the builders of

puma punku may not have had an alphabet

but they did use the common iconography

or artwork of their culture called Yaya

mama all the icons on the site are Yaya

mama not secret alien code and this is

but one of the many indications of the

culture and time that it was built but

my point is that like many cultures they

used pictures instead of an alphabet and

most building plans are done through

pictures like blueprints for example so

saying that no alphabet means no

planning is pretty ridiculous in my

opinion well what about moving the

stones and lifting them into place

surely that would have required

levitation how these massive blocks of

granite were moved from their quarries

and brought here to puma punku would

have required some kind of super

technology

levitation and antigravity huge lifting

vehicles something that ancient aliens

would have had if they did know how to

levitate these stones then they put far

too much effort into creating places in

the stones to attach ropes too many

stones at puma punku have grooves

several centimeters in width and depth

on two adjacent faces for holding ropes

they even had special places cut into

the stones that puma punku-- scholars

call hoisting grips all very strange

things to do if they could simply

levitate these blocks and to make

matters worse for the ancient astronaut

theory here according to archaeologist

jean-pierre proxxon who is an expert on

puma punku-- there is almost no stone at

the puma punku site that does not have

what he calls drag marks on one of its

phases where it has been well dragged to

the site ancient aliens throws up

another false dilemma here what nobody

talks about is the irrefutable fact that

we are at an altitude of 12,000 800 feet

which means we are above the natural

tree line no trees ever grew in that

area meaning no trees were cut down

in order to use wooden rollers the

wooden roller Theory falls by the

wayside this is like saying that there's

no way that the Egyptians used wood

because trees didn't grow in Egypt which

is true the difference is is that while

the Egyptians had to import wood from

places like Lebanon it would have been

far easier for those at puma punku to

solve this problem all they would have

had to do is simply walk down the hill a

little bit okay well what about this

claim logic does not exist at puma punku

because there we have megalithic

structures which just lie about this

entire site as if ripped apart by some

sort of a great force

I propose that logic still exists at

puma punku and that the scattered state

of the complex can easily be explained

quoting from archaeologists alexey Vrana

CH quote the high quality of the stones

made it attractive building material for

houses churches plazas bridges even

railways in other words the stones were

pulled down and hauled off by locals for

building material in fact we have the

400 year old writings of a visitor to

puma punku

who said that the looting was in full

swing even back then he wrote that if

the site was closer to town he didn't

think there would have been any stones

left at all ancient alien says that puma

punku is 17,000 years old this is what

Vantage said of this claim quote the

idea that Tiahuanaco is fourteen

thousand years old is based on a rather

faulty study done in 1926 since then

there has been a huge quantity of work

both on the archeology and the geology

of the area and all data indicates that

Tiahuanaco existed from around ad 300 to

500 for more information on the faulty

study he's referring to here I will

quote at length from Jason Colavito who

has been debunking ancient astronaut

theorists for years in his books and

blogs he said the following about this

claim quote Tiahuanaco is not 17,000

years old this state derives from the

work of Arthur posnansky who tried to

apply archaeo-astronomer to the site but

did so in ways that modern scholars do

not recognize as legitimate posnansky

proposed a date of 15,000 BP before

present ie 13,000 BCE which the geniuses

on ancient aliens misread as 15,000 BCE

adding an extra 2,000 years onto

posnansky 'he's already flawed dates

here's what he did wrong posnansky

assumed that the Calla societ temple at

Tiahuanaco was laid out with perfect

accuracy to align to the equinoxes and

solstices that he felt but could not

prove were important to the tihuanaco

people thus on a certain day the Sun was

supposed to rise above one rock at the

temple and set behind another ah but

which rock should we choose since the

current

do not align with these celestial events

accurately he concluded that the ruins

must have been built at a time when they

would have aligned with that event since

the Sun and sky changed positions at a

predictable rate due to the gradual

changes in the angle of the Earth's axis

he concluded that the callous society

temple was built in 13,000 BCE as a

solar observatory despite no other

evidence of solar astronomy at the site

the long and the short of it is that

posnansky assumed celestial alignments

and assumed flawless construction and

then used his assumptions to prove that

his assumptions were correct Colavito

also has this picture of the site with

the caption pick a rock any rock one of

them must align with something this site

has been dated using a huge variety of

methods things like carbon dating the

type of metals they used the debris

found in certain places the type of

iconography they used literally every

kind of dating method applied comes to

the same conclusion it was constructed

in the early Middle Ages before we

conclude this section on puma punku

there are two other claims I wanted to

address the spanish conqueror asked the

inca the people living there including

the king of the inca what is this puma

punku

and they all said it's not us it's not

our forefather who make this this were

made by the gods in one single night

usually a king is proud about what his

people did about the precision and so on

in that case the chief and the people

said no it was not us it was the gods

who made it

if you understand a little about the

Incan Imperial system and religion you

will understand why the Incans didn't

claim the site and even why they claim

that it had a supernatural origin part

of the Incan state religion was that the

Incan Empire was the first civilization

and it was created by God himself it was

a very convenient idea for bolstering

the Incan case for the right to rule

everyone else when the Incans arrived at

puma punku the site had already been

abandoned for at least a hundred years

admitting that there was a pre incan

culture at all let alone one with more

skill than them would have been

detrimental to the whole scheme so they

slightly modified their already existing

mythology to include puma punku so

instead of Viracocha creating the Incan

capital he also created puma punku and

just like that the Incans were still the

oldest and greatest civilization even

though everyone probably knew it wasn't

true and finally ancient alien says the

following about what the ancient local

people believed regarding who

constructed puma punku local legends

suggest that tiahuanaco was built as a

site of religious pilgrimage to

celebrate the arrival of sky gods but

this is a total lie veera kocha came

from the sea not from the sky this is

the very sneaky move by ancient aliens

in my opinion so in conclusion the

stones are not made of granite and

diorite the stones were easily workable

with the tools available to the Andean

culture tools which we know included

high quality metal alloys chisels these

tools would have been more than

sufficient to make the angles seen at

puma punku the faces of the rocks have

been finished using a polishing

technique after being rough cut using

stone hammers evidenced by the

unfinished stones and hidden areas of

the finished stones the moving of the

stones was not as difficult as ancient

aliens makes it seem especially when you

take into account that they are telling

people that the stones weigh 600 tons

more than they actually do the stones

have telltale drag marks and hoisting

holes for ropes all showing that they

were not levitated as ancient aliens

would have us believe we know the

culture which built this monument and

all the iconography and sculptures are

consistent with that culture

and the various methods of dating that

scientists use all point to the same

time period the idea that puma punku was

from Atlantean times we now know is

based on a very transparently flawed

presupposition

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perhaps the most familiar and most

mysterious megalithic structure in all

the world is the Great Pyramid of Giza

the enormous size and weight of the

stones multiplied by the sheer number of

them makes one thing certain the

construction of the Great Pyramid

remains one of the greatest marvels and

mysteries of architectural engineering

the Pyramids at Giza are marvels of

engineering and there are many theories

about how they were constructed from the

mundane to the fantastic there are all

kinds of theories on how the Great

Pyramid of Giza 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 one place we

can learn a lot about Egyptian stone

cutting methods is from the so called

unfinished obelisk here we have a 1,000

ton obelisk made of granite which was

abandoned midway through the project

because of a crack that developed this

stone because it is unfinished gives us

direct insight into how they cut and

shaped granite as well as other stones

on the sides we can see how these stones

were separated from the quarry a team of

workers would line up side by side and

pound their sections with a diary

pounding stone such pounding stones can

be found all over this and other queries

in Egypt this pounding only broke off

millimeters of granite at a time but

eventually these trough like sections

emerged at each workers station after

that they would do the same thing on the

bottom of the block until it was

supported only by a thin spine in the

middle then it would be snapped off

using levers the people who created the

moai statues at Easter Island used very

similar methods for quarried stone as

did many other groups around the world

as we will see after the stones had been

roughly shaped using pounding stones

they would then begin to polish them

with grinders there have been many types

of stone grinders or polishers found in

ancient Egypt the

usually had a handle with a flat surface

which they would use to rub against the

stone with sand as the abrasive they

were well sanding the stone the various

mineral particles found in sand are hard

enough not only to polish hard stones

like granite but also to do what ancient

aliens tries to make people think is

utterly impossible that is to cut

granite the Egyptians had a variety of

ways to cut granite mostly involving

copper and sand there are plenty of saw

marks on granite stones in Egypt at the

granite quarries of course as well as

certain notable ones like the famous

granite sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid

the person who is doing the sign on the

sarcophagus sawed for a while at the

wrong angle before realizing his mistake

in going in the right direction which

left a pretty big mark for us to study

these copper saws came in three basic

styles one was a two-person saw like an

old-time lumber saw another type was a

small handheld saw with a wooden handle

and finally there was a tubular saw for

making holes in granite and other stones

these saws are depicted in several

Egyptian reliefs interestingly they

didn't require saw teeth to work they

only required sand to be placed between

the saw and the stones the sand was what

did the cutting

this particular method of stone cutting

has been tested by ancient Egyptian tool

experts and not only was it done but it

was apparently quite easy to do

however sawing granite with copper was

expensive because the copper would wear

out somewhat quickly therefore you

mostly see granite in ancient Egypt

being worked with pounding stones

finished with grinders and chisels the

saw work was reserved primarily for

royal projects like that of the

sarcophagus all of this really makes

ancient aliens lose credibility because

all throughout the series they make it

sound like working with granite was only

possible using diamond tipped alien

power tools but as all this relates to

the great pyramids construction it's

important to remember that

none of the pyramid is made from granite

except for a few things like the roof

supports for the King's Chamber

most of the stone was sandstone and

limestone about 85% of the stone used in

the construction of the pyramids was

relatively soft sandstone which was

quarried right on site that's right the

Great Pyramid was built right in the

middle of a massive sandstone quarry

which was no doubt at least one factor

in choosing the location to build it the

other 15 percent of the stones like that

of limestone and granite would have to

be brought in from a slightly further

away location so this raises another

question what about moving these stones

surely the only way is by levitation as

ancient aliens claims in order to really

move massive amounts of stone like that

they would have had to have been

levitated somehow made weightless and

then just move through the air by some

kind of device perhaps even a handheld

kind of device like some beam weapon if

levitation was the way that the ancient

Egyptians moved stones they had a funny

way of showing it because there are

plenty of depictions of them using

wooden sleds to move everything from

blocks the size and shape of the ones

used for the pyramid to massive 1000 ton

monuments and obelisks all using wooden

sleds they even had a hieroglyph for the

word sled which they used often in fact

three such sleds have been found intact

by archeologists and they have all kinds

of places to attach ropes to speaking of

ropes ropes made out of papyrus and

other materials have been found in Egypt

some of them with a massive

circumference suggesting that they were

used for extremely heavy objects boats

were used for stones that needed to be

imported in fact a channel was dug from

the Nile to the construction site

so no stone had to be dragged very far

anyway so what about the construction of

the pyramids how exactly was it done

part of the reason that the ancient

aliens perspective is attractive

because some of the other popular

theories concerning the pyramids

construction have serious problems such

as the single ramp theory which would

have had to extend out more than a mile

and would have had to have more stones

in it than the pyramid itself another

one is the spiral ramp theory this one

is problematic because some of the

ledges only had about two feet or less

to work with certainly not enough to

hold a Ledge that would carry workers

and stones the size of the ones used

also a structure like the pyramid would

have had to have been constantly

monitored for geometric accuracy as it

progressed upwards because being even a

few inches off on a lower level could

cause the top to be off by huge amount

and a spiral ramp would have made it

impossible to survey the geometric

accuracy of the pyramid as it progressed

add to this that there's no actual

evidence for either of those theories

and you can see why people are looking

for alternatives while doing research

for this documentary I came across a new

theory about the pyramids construction

that I had not heard before at first I

plan to mention it only briefly but the

more I heard of this theory the more

convinced I became of its validity it

was proposed not by an Egyptologist but

by an eccentric French architect named

jean-pierre Houdin and if Jean Pierre is

correct knowing how the blocks were

raised in the pyramid also happens to

explain some of the other mysteries like

the purpose for the odd-shaped Grand

Gallery as well as the purpose of the

granite blocks above the King's Chamber

and why there were three burial chambers

cut at different levels in the pyramid

two of which were unused I will very

briefly explain this theory but I highly

encourage you to visit the links at the

website on your screen because the

specifics of this theory are something

that any pyramid enthusiast should be

very familiar with in my opinion the

basic idea is that there was an internal

ramp in the Great Pyramid and workers

dragged the blocks through it until they

reached the corners at which point the

block was repositioned for another team

to pull it up the next ramp also the

exterior limestone blocks with the

polished finish would have been

positioned and aligned first to ensure

geometric accuracy and

then the sandstone blocks would have

been positioned behind them as filler

this would mean that all the internal

chambers like the Queen in King's

Chamber were built as the pyramid

progressed upwards in the light of day

this internal ramp Theory unlike some of

the others is actually supported by

quite a lot of physical evidence for

example in the 1980s a French team

looking for hidden chambers conducted a

full-scale gravimetric survey of the

Great Pyramid kind of like a giant x-ray

map of the entire pyramid they actually

found evidence of this internal ramp

through their study but they had no idea

what to think of the spiral pattern they

saw at the time so they simply filed it

away until they heard about Jean

Pierre's internal ramp theory 14 years

later in addition there is this knotch

high up on the Great Pyramid which

according to Jean Pierre rests exactly

on the 7% grade where you would expect

to find the internal ramp and would be

at the exact place where the workers

would have lifted the blocks and changed

the direction for the pullers Bob Bryar

an Egyptologist who was working with

jean-pierre was only allowed a few

minutes to survey this notch and take a

few pictures and measurements they found

that there was indeed a large space

behind these stones and they made

extensive computer models with the

pictures that were taken as of 2012 the

team is still waiting for clearance from

the Egyptian authorities to conduct a

full-scale survey of this notch but

perhaps even more interesting than this

is the purpose for the Grand Gallery and

the granite stones above the King's

Chamber I mentioned them together

because according to Jean Pierre they

are intimately connected first it's

important to know the main difference

between the Great Pyramid and the other

two Pyramids at Giza is that the Great

Pyramids burial chamber was inside the

pyramid the other two were underground

cut directly into the bedrock which

meant that in those two pyramids they

did not have to worry about the hundreds

of thousands of tons of stone above it

collapsing onto the tomb the Great

Pyramid was different its chambers were

in the middle of the pyramid and because

of this the designer had to get creative

to prevent the stones from

scene in on the chambers in earlier

pyramids in the area this had been

accomplished using a stone roof that

came together at an apex which

distributed the weight of the blocks

away from the chamber but for the Great

Pyramid the designer wanted to be more

ornate opting for a flat roof in the

King's Chamber which would have easily

collapsed if he didn't find a way to

distribute the weight of the stones

above it away from the roof he

ingeniously added a series of large

granite blocks spaced out evenly above

the chamber capping those stones with

the same apex roof idea from the earlier

pyramids which distributed the weight

safely away from the king's chamber

ceiling this did indeed solve the

problem of the weight of the stones

collapsing the chamber but it caused

another problem how could you get those

granite stones up there for placement

they would have been too big for the

internal ramp and too heavy even at a 7%

incline for the solution we look to the

Grand Gallery the Grand Gallery has

puzzled Egyptologists ever since it was

discovered it's such an odd shape and it

doesn't seem to make sense to construct

it the way it's constructed if it's

simply a path to get from point A to

point B this has led to much speculation

about its purpose

jean-pierre has proposed that the Grand

Gallery was used as a massive

counterweight system where a wooden

trolley was loaded with stones and

rigged with ropes and was used to

provide the force to lift the heaviest

objects basically it was the equivalent

of a freight elevator there's actually a

lot of physical evidence for this too

and it explains all kinds of peculiar

details about the Grand Gallery for

example the odd holes and the so-called

benches of the Grand Gallery were used

to connect a wooden guide system for the

trolley it also explains why there are

remnants of grease as well as scratches

along the bottom of the chamber where

the trolley would have rubbed against

the stone it was apparently lubricated

to make it run smoother it explains the

odd way the stones were worn at the top

of the so called step of the Grand

Gallery exactly where the ropes would

have had to be this area has now been

cemented over to make a step but you can

see in the old pictures what it looked

like when the first explorers arrived

this freight elevator would have

required a small external ramp which

there is some evidence for and even

those who opposed the long single ramp

theory agree that there probably was a

small ramp at the beginning of the

construction this ramp would have been

dismantled after the completion of the

King's Chamber and the stones would have

been dragged up the internal ramp to

finish the rest of the pyramid

jean-pierre and his team have made a lot

of converts to this idea including a

number of well respected Egyptologists

and pyramid experts but as of 2012 they

are still in the final stages of being

approved by the Egyptian government for

more work on the site who dad's idea of

an internal ramp I think is coherent I

think there's good circumstantial

evidence for it if you have watched the

National Geographic special on his view

I think you would agree that there is

good circumstantial evidence for it has

it there's a lot of explanatory power

for a lot of the fundamental questions

and I think it's important because who

dance theory depends on a very simple

idea in engineering both in the ancient

world and in today's world and that is

the use of weight and counterweight

using the weight of one object to lift

an object of greater weight whether or

not this theory proves to be perfectly

true in every respect will hopefully

soon be seen but I at least hope that by

now most of us concede that these

construction techniques are well within

the capability of mankind to conceive of

and to do without the intervention of

aliens

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Eastern Lebanon

the Bekaa Valley here at this

archaeological site stand the ruins of

Heliopolis built in the fourth century

BC by Alexander the Great to honor Zeus

but beneath the Corinthian columns and

remnants of both Greek and Roman

architecture lie the ruins of a site

that is much much older according to

archaeologists it dates back nearly

9,000 years

the ancient city of Baalbek named after

the early Canaanite deity Baal and so

because it was already sacred to the god

Bale then later the Greeks and the

Romans then would build temples on this

very same spot archaeological surveys

have revealed that the enormous stone

foundation that lies at the base of the

site dates back tens of thousands of

years but even more significant to

ancient astronaut theorists is their

belief that the colossal stone platform

may once have served as a landing pad

for space travelers

the idea that ancient aliens will try to

convey is that underneath the Roman

ruins lies a very old platform that was

once used to launch spacecraft as we

watch the next clip listen for the first

thing they cite as evidence for this

claim but what was originally there

before the Roman temple was this

spaceport platform that was apparently

used for extraterrestrials coming and

going on planet Earth as evidence

researchers point to the gigantic

megalithic stones incorporated into the

foundation each weighing between 800 to

1,200 tons and perfectly fitted together

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these three stones they're referring to

are called the trilithon x' and the

heaviest of the three is 800 tonnes not

1,200 tons as they say there are two

other stones that are heavier than this

around the area but they are unused

still connected to the bedrock in the

quarries and thus are obviously not part

of the trilithon x' the way the

information is presented about these

three stones leaves the viewer to

believe that they are part of the

foundation or platform of the baile

backsight what they want the viewer to

think is that spacecraft lifted off and

landed on the stones of this platform

they also claim that these three stones

cannot be of Roman construction as the

mainstream archeologists believe but

they say that they were part of the

earliest structure at the Bale Beck site

and that the Greeks and Romans only

built on top of this ancient foundation

and it is true that there was a very old

pre Roman temple at this site but we

will learn more about that later our

focus at the moment is the trilithon

stones ancient alien says that these

three stones are the real mystery of

Baalbek this is the real mystery of

Baalbek how these stones came to be

there why they were placed there and

specifically how they were transported

into place because some of the stones

are of such magnitude that modern

machinery is incapable of putting them

there but somehow our ancestors were

able to do this to solve this mystery we

need to first understand that these

three stones do not form the foundation

of bail back as is so often suggested

the trilithon stones lay end to end or

long ways and are part of the narrow

wall on the western end of a complex

they are most certainly not the

foundation nor do they constitute a

platform and it would be very awkward

for a spaceship to land on top of them

considering the space on top is so

narrow ancient aliens tries to make it

seem like no one knows the purpose for

these stones or why they had to be so

heavy

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but if the moving hoisting and setting

of such massive stones was so incredibly

difficult then who or what place them

there and perhaps more importantly why

the truth is that the purpose for this

wall is very well known by

archaeologists

it was a retaining wall retaining wall

technology really improved with the

Greeks because of the importance of the

amphitheater in their culture because

most amphitheaters were sunken into the

ground and surrounded by earth they

needed to construct retaining walls to

hold back the soil then the Romans came

along and basically perfected the

practice the rule of thumb in retaining

walls even today is the bigger and

heavier the stones the better the

retaining wall also the stones needed to

be in as big of sections as possible in

other words huge sections of uncut stone

it's no coincidence that some of the

biggest single stones in the ancient

world besides Bale BEC are also used in

retaining walls and by the Romans as

well as we will see retaining walls were

especially important if there was a lot

of soil erosion at the site or if the

platform you were trying to build was on

a steep incline at Bale back the

platform was built right on the side of

a huge hill so for that reason alone it

would require a retaining wall if they

intended to make a large level platform

but if you added to that a soil erosion

problem you would have two very good

reasons for a huge retaining wall at

Baalbek so does the area around Bale

back have a problem with soil erosion

the answer is yes probably one of the

biggest in the world you can see

evidence of soil erosion all around the

Bale back site the soil from the top of

the hill has been sliding down the hill

into the valley below for hundreds of

years one of the leading causes of soil

erosion is deforestation if an area that

once had trees has been completely

cleared of those trees the rain no

longer will have anything to slow down

its velocity normally the rain hits tree

branches and the thick foliage that

accumulates on the forest floor over

time also the soil is kept in check by

the root systems of the trees which hold

the soil in place Lebanon has a picture

of a cedar tree on its flag their trees

have been a symbol of pride for

literally

millennia the so-called Cedars of

Lebanon but the forests have disappeared

long ago as they were one of the only

sites for timber in the ancient Near

East and it was massively deforested in

ancient times

in fact the soil shifting is just as bad

today in the Bekaa Valley the UN in 2006

proposed a series of solutions to deal

with this now

full-scale environmental disaster in the

Bale back region homes in the region are

being abandoned as their foundations

shift and they become inhabitable but

although these proposed solutions by the

UN may be new this problem is an ancient

one one the Romans would have been well

aware of the massive trilithon stones

provided the weight needed to press down

and secure the stones in the wall below

this is why you only see these huge

stones on one side of belbek the side

where the steep slope is the idea that

these stones were part of a platform and

were used as a landing pad is something

that requires ignorant of the layout of

the site in order to believe well what

about the age of this wall is it from

the Roman period of construction or is

it from the pre-roman Canaanite era

there's a lot of confusion about this

point because there was indeed a very

old pre Roman temple on this site the

pre-roman Canaanite temple was a pretty

standard platform and altar much like

other sites built by the Canaanites

which were referred to in the Old

Testament as high places the original

site was probably chosen by the

Canaanites because it was indeed on a

hill as any good high place should be

but also because it was less than half a

mile from the perfect stone quarry the

early versions of this temple however

did not have a retaining wall as the

different groups added to the site over

the years the site changed drastically

the Romans alone spent 200 years doing

construction at the site think of that

that would be like starting a

construction project in 1812 that only

just now came to completion that's a

long time to be working on a project so

yes Baalbek is built on a very old

Canaanite altar to bail but the

trilithon stones were not part of that

site nor are they part of the foundation

as is often claimed they are part of a

very necessary retaining wall the

question still remains

however about the methods for moving and

lifting these stones some have suggested

that this stone alone weighs in excess

of 1,200 tons how was it moved there

because obviously it's situated on top

of these stone rows that we can find

down here which means that this stone

had to be lifted and then set on top of

these stones down here so did the Romans

have the technology to move and lift

such stones well all you have to do is

look one country over to find out about

the same time the Romans were beginning

their 200 year project at bale back

another project of similar magnitude was

beginning by the Roman client King Herod

the Great in 19 BC Herod using Roman

techniques renovated the Temple Mount to

earn favor with the Jews who viewed him

as a Roman proxy not a Jew the expanded

version of the temple was double the

size of the original but in order to

make this expansion he had to

incorporate part of the hill to the

northeast which meant that he had to

construct a massive retaining wall in

order to hold back the force of the

earth in order to build the massive

platform there is a portion of this

retaining wall still standing today and

it contains the second largest set of

single stones next to bail back just

like bail Beck there are several of

these stones lined up to form the wall

and to provide the weight and size

needed to hold back the earth they call

the four largest stones the master

course the weight of the heaviest one is

six hundred and thirty tons only a

little over 100 tons less than bail

Beck's biggest stone and no one denies

that these stones were cut moved and

lifted to perfection using Roman and

local techniques as a side note it's

tempting to think that the holes visible

in these stones were used for lifting

but these holes were cut after the

stones were placed they were used to

hold plaster in place for certain water

projects and only go a few inches deep

anyway is it really logical to believe

that the Romans could cut move and lift

six hundred and thirty ton blocks four

retaining walls just fine

but if you added another 100 tons it

would require alien technology we know

that the Romans about this same time had

taken a liking to Egyptian obelisks they

started dragging these obelisk back to

Rome in large numbers and Rome was

hundreds of miles by land and sea from

Egypt

whereas Baalbek was less than a mile

from the quarry some of these obelisks

were almost 500 tons so the Romans had a

lot of opportunities to get good at

moving stones about the same size and

shape of the trilithon stones there are

even roman descriptions of the process

of moving obelisks by Marcellinus Comus

as well as release such as the one on

the bottom of the Theodosius obelisk in

Istanbul the ancient Roman writings of

Marcus Vitruvius Polio described in

detail many of the Roman technological

advantages like pulleys which would

reduce the force needed by half for each

pulley used he even described their

ingenious way of moving stones by

constructing huge oak wheels on either

end of the block whether they were round

like pillars or huge rectangular stones

like the trilithon

they would then be pulled by oxen to the

site so what about the lifting of the

trilithon stones at bale back some make

the point that the trilithon stones do

not have Lewis holes in them like many

of the other Roman stones that Bale back

Lewis holes is the name for the holes

that the Romans would drill in the

stones for lifting with their cranes yes

the Romans had cranes and although their

cranes only had a 5 ton capacity often

they would combine many of them together

which would obviously give them a

greater capacity so why don't these

three stones contain these holes like

all the rest of the stones that Bale

back well first of all I wouldn't be so

sure that they don't no one has ever

seen what is on the ends of these stones

it may very well be that they decided

against a straight up or dead lift of

the trilithon stones because of their

weight and instead decided to lift up

only one side of the stone you would

really only need to lift it high enough

and long enough to get even the smallest

brace underneath it because at that

point you would have a number of

mechanical advantages and therefore

options for example watch as this man

makes a stone hinge in his backyard all

by himself

using a simple counterweight method I've

tried to

without any mechanical machinery at all

I've used mostly sticks and stones for

my equipment

no pulleys no voice no metal levers just

try to use gravity to I believe is my

favorite tool well the first goal is

getting this block three feet off the

ground in order to move it up at this

point I just rock the block back and

forth adding weight to that end and that

opens a gap on this side and I just

slide a board in then I add the weight

to that and there she goes and slide the

board in on this end this shoring box

acts like a jack slowly raising the

block but it's not really even necessary

for them to have been lifted a French

paper written by Jean Pierre Adam

meticulously details how the stones

could have been moved using the

specifications provided by Marcus

Vitruvius polio by constructing roads

underneath the stones on rollers and the

roads were raised to lead to the exact

place of their placement which was easy

at bale back because of the terrain so

it wouldn't require any lifting and then

using manpower drums and a system of cap

stands to pull the stones along the road

this method would have only required 144

workers to accomplish it's also helpful

for people to remember that the largest

stone ever moved in the world is a

so-called thunder stone in Russia moved

in the 1700s using no modern equipment

this stone is 1.5 tons larger than the

largest trilithon stone and we know that

moving it didn't require any alien

technology well what about this claim

what's really interesting about Baalbek

is it's always been known as the landing

place there's an actual text from

Sumerian Times called the Epic of

Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh actually claims to have seen

Rockets descend and ascend from Baalbek

the landing place these claims come

directly from the writings of zecharia

sitchin and they are totally untrue

Baalbek was not called the landing place

and the Epic of Gilgamesh never speaks

of rockets ascending and descending

anywhere in it if you're going to make

these assertions yeah I would want the

passage I want to see the passage in

Gilgamesh that names bail Beck

specifically I'm naturally skeptical

that there is such a passage but if

you're going to make this claim you have

to be able to establish with certainty

not even just a general region you have

to establish with certainty that these

are the stones or that these stones are

what is being referred to in any given

text

Sitchin when making this claim in his

book never tells the reader where they

can find this in the Epic of Gilgamesh

this is probably because it makes it

harder for the reader to check his facts

yeah I have personally found the

writings of such and very frustrating

from the perspective of a scholar and an

academic which is what I am it's sort of

reflexively what I look for it's very

hard to follow his trail because he just

doesn't cite sources even if he cites a

source for instance in ancient texts he

doesn't give you sort of the chapter and

verse he doesn't give you the tablet

numbers the line numbers and I have to

look at it and say it's either really

lazy or he doesn't want you to be able

to check up on him it's one of the other

I will link the actual section of the

epic as well as a link to the online

resources to check the Sumerian texts

for yourselves at the website ancient

aliens debunked comm nowadays all the

Sumerian tablets including their own

dictionaries are searchable online yes

the Sumerians wrote their own extensive

and detailed dictionaries so we don't

have to trust Sitchin or anyone else we

can basically just ask the Sumerians

what they thought a word meant and it

becomes painfully obvious to anyone that

cares enough to look that Sitchin was at

best totally incompetent as a translator

and at worst a scam artist see Sitchin

is wrong

to begin your journey in losing any

confidence in the so called translations

of zecharia sitchin in conclusion the

trilithon stones are part of a necessary

retaining wall not a foundation and such

walls were common to the Greeks and

Romans the retaining wall was not part

of the simple original much smaller

temple at bale back and we know from

other retaining walls of similar size

built by the Romans at the same time and

in the same area that they were more

than capable of moving and placing

stones of that size and shape also

evidenced by their ability to move

obelisks this is especially true if you

gave them over 200 years in which to do

it

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we will look at Incan megalithic sites

like Machu Picchu all in one segment

because Incan stone masonry was all done

more or less the same way in regard to

Incan building ancient aliens focuses

most of its attention on the curved or

beveled edges of the stones they say

that it looks like the edges of these

stones were melted notice as we listen

to them build the case for this that the

reason they believe this is true is

based entirely on the way the stones

look there are science in many of these

stones that show very large amounts of

thermal Heat have been applied to mold

the stones in such a way that they fit

perfectly and so it really does raise a

lot of questions if you look at the

style the sacsayhuamán wall was built

the blocks look as if they've been

molded like putty if you can mold stone

into place then all of a sudden as crazy

as the sounds it makes more sense now

melting granite or any other stone and

reshaping it would leave unmistakable

evidence in and on the stones themselves

in other words if the rocks were melted

it would be easily provable it would not

be a matter of what the stones look like

it would be a simple yes or no question

ancient alien skips this step of proving

or disproving their theory instead they

assume that the rocks were melted based

on the look of the stones and move on to

the step of trying to figure out who

would have the technology to melt stones

I have a stone torch which I use for

sometimes shaping granite and I mean it

generates a temperature of in excess of

3,000 degrees

three thousand two grace that's a lot

when we look back at the ancients and we

see a technology that they couldn't

possibly know

there's only two possibilities of that

either God did it which we really don't

think happened or some high tech

civilization from another planet came

and showed them how to do it then took

their materials and tools I went back

home I think there's at least one more

possibility that mr. Dunn may have

missed every shaped stone at any ink

inside has what archaeologists call pit

marks or pit scars they occur when stone

hammers are used to quarry and shape the

stone

in addition archeologists have found a

huge number of Incan stone hammers at

the quarries and almost uniquely to the

Incans they are found at the building

sites too because the Incans only rough

cut the stones at the quarries they did

the finish work on site so the stones

would perfectly fit the stones around

them

well how did the Incans accomplish these

beveled edges they used a smaller gauge

stone hammer for the outer section the

evidence for this can be seen on every

single stone that has these edges you

can see that the pit scars are much more

numerous and smaller on the edges

showing that more blows with a smaller

stone was used to achieve the detail

work another reason that this is no

mystery to archaeologists is because

there are a large number of stones in

various stages of construction in the

ancient Incan quarries these stones

reveal that indeed the Incan stone

masons were using some of the most basic

tools even for their time if you would

like to learn more about the details of

this I'll link you to some peer-reviewed

papers that can tell you more than you'd

ever want to know including details of

experiments done for example a single

scientist in 90 minutes accomplished

similar cuts with similar tools and all

of this makes what Dunn says here one of

the most off-the-wall things ever said

in the ancient alien series I can't help

but think that whoever

was behind this thought the process

through from beginning to end

they didn't quarry the rock and then

decide how the heck are we going to

transport this they knew for me getting

to end what needed to be done with

whatever techniques and technology they

were going to use in industry today

there's a kind of an adage keep it

simple stupid based on his experience

Mike Dunn believes the simplest way to

build the great walls of Machu Picchu

would have been to transport small rocks

to the site then melt them and use molds

to fashion the exact size and shape

needed so he says it's more simple to

melt the granite something so

complicated that we don't really even

know how to do it today is that really

the most simple solution he could come

up with and then to say that they poured

the melted rocks into a mold I mean look

at these walls can anyone look at this

and say yeah that looks like they were

made from the same mold these are not

exactly bricks of the same size and

shape unless he wants to say that they

made a new mold for every block in which

case we would go well out of the range

of this being the most simple solution

as far as how the Incans moved the

stones into place they left us a lot of

evidence behind in the form of ramps

there are ink and ramps all over the

place still in existence today in the

quarries and at the building sites the

Incans had one of the most massive

workforces in all the ancient world they

were like the Roman Empire of the West

and they had an absolutely huge labor

force at the ready for these types of

projects so we know these rocks were not

melted and put into molds as ancient

aliens tells us we actually know exactly

how they made these rounded edges

because of the pit marks left behind as

well as the huge number of stone hammers

found in the quarries there are no

mysteries that require alien input with

incan stonework

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many people are familiar with these

images of stone heads called moai by the

locals ancient aliens tells us that

nothing is really known about them how

in the heck did they make these where

did they come from and how did they move

them nobody has the answer this isn't

true at all for instance we know exactly

how they were cut and shaped because the

construction of the moai was abandoned

abruptly so there are plenty of examples

of moai in various stages of development

also the stone tools that they use to

pound out the relatively soft volcanic

rock were found all over the quarries

here's a clip of one of the locals

explaining to his grandson how the moai

were built

he thinks that 20 people carved this my

over a period of time of five to six

years to this stage being a medical man

this is our sections of people who were

you know given as your assignment this

is your section you can come and you can

see different you know ways of doing it

and you can clearly see the talking

marks and and how the people were

carving and going in and make this deep

cuts in the rock like this the channels

reached around and eventually formed a

boat like keel until the statue could be

snapped off and fully extracted

ancient alien spends most of its time

here discussing the moving of the moai

and it's interesting the angle that they

take because it seems that they are

aware that there have been many

successful experiments moving moai with

wooden sleds and minimal workers so

ancient aliens has to do what they do

best create a false dilemma but there is

a unique problem with the idea of moving

moai with sleds or rollers

when you go to Easter Island you don't

get the impression they had enough wood

to have rollers and in fact in the 1700s

the first four expeditions to Easter

Island never really saw a tree and so

that's the real mystery of Easter Island

how can you move a multi-ton statue if

you have no trees for rollers so they

say there are currently no trees on

Easter Island

therefore they assume there were never

any trees on Easter Island and therefore

well aliens the problem with this is

that there used to be a lot of trees on

Easter Island which we now know because

of extensive pollen samples taken from

the crater lakes as well as other

methods in fact the very reason there

are no trees on Easter Island now is

probably because they used all of them

while moving and lifting over a thousand

mo lies over hundreds of years in other

words they used all the trees one

interesting thing about Easter Island is

regarding soil erosion if you take a

land that once had a lot of trees and

cut them all down then you will have a

massive soil erosion problem this is

because there would be no more root

systems to hold the soil in place also

the rains no longer have anything to

stop their velocity the soil erosion at

Easter Island is so notorious that if

you type soil erosion into a search

engine you will see that the Wikipedia

page has a picture of Easter Island some

of the moai actually have full bodies

they're not just heads but because of

soil erosion even in a very short time

they have been covered up to their necks

and soil this is a direct result of the

land being completely deforested so we

know for sure how these moai were cut

and shaped that is with simple tools

which are found all over the quarries

and we know that if they had trees on

Easter Island then there are no problems

with moving them and prying them into

place and Easter Island used to have a

lot of trees before their fascination

with creating moai exhausted their

supply

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arguably the most remarkable Mayan

artifact ever found the stone

sarcophagus lid of King Pakal has

produced considerable controversy

mainstream scholars believe the

depiction is of King Pakal on a journey

to the underworld but ancient astronaut

theorists believe the king is portrayed

seated at the controls of a spacecraft

and have dubbed him the Palenque

astronaut he appears to be going into

space he's the original Rocket Man

they're manipulating his spacecraft

going into space

we have maintained for a very long time

that the depiction here is of King Pakal

sitting in some type of a spacecraft

because he is an angle like modern-day

astronauts upon liftoff he's

manipulating some controls right here he

has some type of breathing apparatus or

some type of a telescope in front of his

face his feet are on some type of a

pedal and down here you have something

that looks like an exhaust with flames

the sarcophagus lid of pickle has been a

centerpiece for the ancient astronaut

theory since the beginning erich von

Daniken believes this to be one of his

best pieces of evidence and you see his

upper hand he's manipulating some

controls from the lower hand he's

turning something on the heel of his

left foot is on a kind of pedal and

outside of the camp you see a linking

flam this is incredible this is

absolutely a proof for extraterrestrials

the theory rests on the idea that the

Mayans were not depicting their usual

symbols here but we're trying to

realistically depict a rocket with Pacal

as its pilot I think the best thing I

can do for you here is to clearly

explain what the Mayan estándar

scientists who specialized in Mayan

culture and artwork believe this scene

is depicting as ancient alien said

archaeologists believe this scene is

depicting the moment of picasa 'the and

his descent into the underworld let me

show you why they believe that the most

famous symbol in this picture is that of

the world tree which if you believe

ancient aliens would make up the entire

whole of the rocket it's hard to

overemphasize the importance of the

world tree in Mayan mythology the idea

was that the world tree extended into

the heavens with its branches and its

roots extended into the underworld so it

was a symbol of the bridge between the

underworld heaven and earth when it is

depicted it almost always has the

double-headed Vision serpent on its

branches just like it is depicted here

of the cause lid the vision serpent was

believed to live at the center of the

world

thus it is depicted just above

the underworld and just below the

heavens in its top branches is the

celestial bird which is seen a little

more clearly in other world tree

depictions like this one but on the

calls lid you can see it's clearly

depicting the same bird

the celestial bird represented the

heavens and thus was pictured on top of

the world tree what ancient alien says

is the exhaust or fire from the Rockets

takeoff is the roots of the world tree

extending into the underworld which is

not just typical for the depictions of

the world tree it's pretty much a

requirement in the underworld we see a

picture of the Mayan Sun monster which

Pacal is riding into the underworld the

idea was that every time the Sun set it

was actually traveling into the

underworld where it would die like

everything else in the underworld you

can even see the bottom half of the

Sun's face was a skeleton while the top

half still had flesh and had not yet

died this too is a common theme showing

the moment of transition so Pacal is

hitching a ride on the Sun into the

underworld even the so called smoke is

easily explained when you understand

Mayan symbols in Mayan art whenever you

see a so-called traveler which is a

person in transition from one world to

the next there must be something that is

making that travel possible sometimes

it's a twisted umbilical cord but almost

always it's a serpent often a

double-headed serpent in other words

beam and the mouths of double-headed

serpents was a symbol of transition from

one world to the next you can see that

the so called smoke is actually the

traditional Serpent's beard which

appears on almost every depiction of a

serpent in Mayan art now that you have

an idea about what the scholars believe

about this let's look at some of ancient

aliens specific claims he's manipulating

some controls right here they say his

hands are manipulating some controls but

if you look closely his right hand isn't

touching anything at all and the thing -

it's right is not connected to the tree

any more than any of the other floating

design elements in the picture his left

hand could be said to be manipulating

controls more than his right but you

would have to say that all these marks

on the tree are controls - which in

reality is probably the bark of the

world tree which was modeled after the

ceiba tree which had a very

Niq bark and thus was usually depicted

in some way or another in world tree art

the odd position of pickles hands in

this image is really what all the fuss

is about

in the 1970s video refutation of the

ancient astronaut theory the Mayan

expert in that film made the point that

the hands in Mayan art are often

depicted in delicate positions such

gestures are common in Mayan art there

are similar examples on the side of the

slab as far as the claim about his foot

being on a type of pedal I would have to

say that if that is how aliens design

pedals then we are far more advanced in

pedal technology than they are because

that may be the worst angle to put any

kind of foot pedal plus there are other

reliefs of Mayans in the underworld on

similar slabs with their feet in similar

positions but without the rocket well

what about this so-called breathing tube

for his nose well it doesn't connect

anything and if you look closely the

thing it could potentially connect to is

also represented on the other side of

the lid and is clearly a stylistic

element of the vision serpent

what it actually is is a nose piercing

particularly a bone finally consider the

context that we find this image it's on

a coffin lid so the mainstream view is

perfectly in line with that and the

whole concept was common in Mayan

burials it would have been a strange

thing for them to all of a sudden

abandon their usual symbolic artwork to

depict a rocket on a coffin lid the fact

is that the symbols on the sarcophagus

lid are really consistently used often

the symbols are even explained in the

extensive Mayan writings these symbols

fit perfectly with what we know about

their beliefs about the world and the

afterlife

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the Nazca lines of Peru have been an

important part of the ancient astronaut

theory since its beginning originally

von Daniken claimed that the lines were

kind of UFO runway or a type of alien

airport where the alien craft landed and

took off when challenged by Carl Sagan

and others on this point in an early

documentary von Daniken kind of

backtracked on this and said that he

meant that the lines were created as a

result of the spacecraft landing I never

said the needed runways with concrete or

something like this my idea which I

developed in my second book and also in

the book the book was that some bacon is

coming down not an interstellar

spaceship simply a small vehicle and

landing with an effect maybe even of the

air-cushion system so they don't need

landing tracts but simply by the landing

itself some sand stones are blown away

and you have a simple tract on the

ground and after maybe a few hours or a

few days they start again maybe in

another direction you have a second

cracked it takes abstract in other words

he's saying that the spacecraft dragged

on the surface of the ground as they

landed and that the lines are there for

the unintentional result of spacecraft

landing for the ancient alien series

however it seems that they are back to

claiming it was an airport the lines

look like air strips they start abruptly

they end abruptly looking at Nazca from

the air it looks like an airport it

really does because you have all these

bands white bands that look like air

strips that are laid on top of each

other but you also have these gigantic

long straight lines that go for miles

and miles over valleys or the mountains

either explanation seems to fall short

of explaining why these lines are

sometimes several miles long one of them

being almost 15 miles long it would be a

pretty inefficient spacecraft if it took

15 miles for it to take off

or in the alternate explanation if it

needed to drag on the ground for 15

miles before it stopped we will look

more into this later in the meantime I

want to look at what I think may be the

most ridiculous claim of the entire

ancient alien series at Nazca entire

mountaintops have been removed I mean

this all requires machining and I'm not

talking you know a little wheelbarrow

and and and in a pic I'm talking

sophisticated machinery because we today

would also need sophisticated machinery

in order to achieve such feats they are

claiming that this mountain in the Nazca

region has been artificially sheared off

but what they're referring to is a

plateau plateaus and mesas are naturally

flat on top they occur all over the

world and geologists know exactly how

they form in light of that it makes them

spending so much time on this point kind

of funny

they're the mountains tap drums up from

both sides he goes flat this is

absolutely incredible is this one of the

most craziest pictures I made about

Nazca the crazy thing is the rubble the

remains of that summit or that

mountaintop gone it's nowhere it's not

in the valley down below it's nowhere in

the region what happened to it okay

moving on to the lines Nazca doesn't

just have straight lines there are also

several images of animals such as

monkeys spiders fish Jaguars llamas

lizards and dogs

contrary to what ancient alien says the

way that they were made is very

well-known in fact it's ridiculously

simple they simply moved the

reddish-brown iron oxide covered pebbles

that cover the surface of the Nazca

desert out of the way when the gravel is

moved the layer underneath is exposed

which is much lighter and the contrast

of the two colors creates the Nazca line

if you were in the Nazca desert you

could create a Nazca line by running

your finger over the surface of the

ground it would probably stay there for

hundreds of years too because the Nazca

desert is one of the

biased places in the world and it almost

never receives rain if it did the lines

would have been washed away long ago

because they are so superficial well if

these lines aren't an alien airport what

are they what is known are the basic

beliefs about religion in the ancient

Nazca culture likely related to the arid

and extreme nature of their environment

Nazca religious beliefs were centered

around agriculture and fertility much of

the Nazca art depicts powerful nature

gods such as the mythical killer whale

the harvesters and the mythical spotted

cat etc essentially they worshipped gods

represented by animals which they

thought controlled things like water and

crops I might add that they were super

serious about this - so serious that

they decapitated lots and lots of humans

in order to appease these nature gods I

think it's fair to say that the Nazca

people were obsessed with beheadings on

their pottery it depicts crops growing

from severed heads and there are other

things too that showed the connections

that they believed severed heads had two

good crops all that to say that these

people were dead serious about farming

and if you're serious about farming you

must also be serious about water and if

you are farming in the desert then it's

off the charts how serious about water

you would be I mentioned this because it

helps to explain what the Nazca lines

likely are first let's take the

depictions of animals for the most part

all of these animals can also be found

depicted in Nazca pottery they were the

Nazca gods of water and fertility if you

asked an ancient Nazca and what they

believed about the world and how it

worked they would likely say something

like we take hallucinogenic drugs we cut

off a lot of heads all in hopes that the

monkey spirit will help us have some

good crops this year that just isn't

what you would expect to hear if these

people were smack dab in the middle of a

massive mining operation conducted by

UFO flying spacemen there should be some

hint of that in their mythology if it

were true but if it is true they

apparently couldn't have cared less

based on their lack of any indication in

their belief system moving on to the

actual

in order to understand these we need to

know a few more facts one aspect of the

Nazca and religion was huge pilgrimages

massive amounts of nazcans would walk to

certain holy sites throughout their year

there they would participate in big

religious events the main place that

they walked to was a place called

kihachi very near the Nazca lines for a

long time archaeologists thought that it

was the biggest nazcans city ever found

but slowly they realized that it was

never a place of permanent residence but

was only a place for all the pilgrims to

converge and what they did after they

all walked there was well do some more

walking these walks are called

processions when they are in a religious

context in the Nazca culture everyone

got together and walked on these

specific paths the idea was that by

getting everyone together and doing

these rituals they could appease these

water gods and even when the straight

lines were not directly above

underground water reservoirs they were

leading to mountains and other sites

which were associated with the water

gods where the people would then worship

those gods so in conclusion the

mountains weren't shaved off the idea

that it was an airport makes no logical

sense and the symbols and rituals which

were a huge part of the Nazca culture

more than explained the so-called Nazca

lines

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early in the 20th century tomb robbers

searching along the Magdalena River

stumbled upon a gravesite dating back

1500 years to a pre-columbian

civilization known as the toe Lima among

the funerary objects found there were

hundreds of small two to three-inch gold

figurines many of those looked like

insects and fish however out of those

hundreds that they found they also found

about a dozen that are eerily

reminiscent of modern-day fighter jets

okay so he admits that when these things

were found there were hundreds of them

that were clearly representing insects

and animals and only about ten of them

that looked like jet airplanes now

before we get into the specifics I would

like to appeal to your sense of logic

almost all of these little figurines are

depicting fish birds insects lizards and

frogs and we can see when we look at the

figurines where we know what they're

trying to depict like these frogs for

instance we can see a huge amount of

variation and clearly stylistic elements

that are not found in nature so we know

that they weren't trying to be ultra

realistic here

which you can further see by looking at

their depictions of this man or this cat

or this alligator the tolima were

artists and like most artists they had a

certain style that they brought to the

subjects that they were depicting now

considering that all the other objects

they found her animals and considering

the objects in question like all the

others have eyes and teeth and so on

isn't it more logical to assume that

these objects are probably like all the

others that is that they are also

depicting some kind of animal in a

stylized way ah but wait ancient aliens

has a false dilemma for us and they have

nothing in common with any

similar in nature there is not a single

insect in the world which has got its

wings at the bottom now when you exclude

the possibility that it's an insect one

of the things which remain is the fact

that this is actually yes what it looks

like a plane okay let's see if we have

this logic straight since no insect has

these characteristics it leaves us with

only one other choice which is an

airplane but I thought there were fish

birds lizards bats and cats found to in

the other 100 figurines it would seem to

me that he's kind of skipping a few

options here on his way to the airplane

conclusion let's take the most famous

one for example this is the one that we

will see later that they made a model

airplane out of the tails of all these

figurines are vertical which would make

me think of fish which also have

vertical tails one fish that the Tolima

would have been familiar with is the

sucker mouth catfish this might explain

the round head and the big eyes and even

the small protrusions on the front of

the fins you can see that some varieties

of this species of catfish have small

protrusions on the front of its fins as

well when you look at the other gold

figurines you can see that not only were

fish a common subject but many different

species of fish were represented because

of the number and placement of the fins

fish are proposed for some of the other

figurines as well so when he says that

no insect has its wings on the bottom so

it must be an airplane I can only see

that as deceptive considering the

placement and angle of the fins are

perfectly accounted for in many fish

species that were available and

important to the Tolima culture in other

words airplanes don't have a monopoly on

being aerodynamic to prove one of these

figurines was aerodynamic which

according to ancient aliens proves it

was a plane they built a model of it

here is what they say about it

it was rather simple because we don't

need to put much parts to this shape

because this shape is perfect everything

was already done by the native people

2000 years ago they did not add an inch

or remove an inch they just essentially

blew the little thing into a larger size

I mean this is sensational no they

didn't add an inch or remove an inch

unless you count things like totally

removing the big curls on the front of

the wings which would have rendered the

model totally useless for flying they

also added curvature to the wings they

added flaps a landing gear and one more

little thing a propeller and an engine

finally I want to appeal to your sense

of logic on the following point consider

that all we know about this culture

reveals them to be simple farmers

fishermen and artisans people that lived

off the land and considering that there

is nothing in the extensive amount of

archaeological material from this

culture that would suggest knowledge

about planes landing and taking off all

the time is it logical to assume that

aliens landing and taking off in their

backyards made so little impression on

them that they only devote ten of the

hundreds of figurines to it and only in

one tomb or is it more logical to assume

that just like the other hundreds of

figurines with eyes and teeth and fins

that they are highly stylized animals

like fish that they knew about and

relied upon in their daily lives I think

even a die-hard ancient astronaut

theorist would have to admit that logic

is not on their side

on this one

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are these carvings on a wall at the

Dendera temple complex in Egypt to some

the strange designs look eerily similar

to objects very much in use today being

Egypt there is this underground crypt at

Dendera that was always secret and only

the high priests had access to that

crypt and it's very hot in there very

narrow low ceiling and on the walls you

have these reliefs of what looks like

ancient lightbulbs because we have to

question one thing how did the ancient

Egyptians light the inside of their

tombs the Egyptian lightbulb theory

let's see what we can figure out about

it let's start by listening to some of

the reasons that ancient astronaut

theorists believe it's true 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 the slightest evidence of

soot or smoke residue

it's hard to know why they're saying

this because there is black soot in

almost every Egyptian temple and tomb in

fact a recent ceiling cleaning conducted

at the temple of hathor which is the

same temple where the so called light

bulb relief is found they uncovered a

brightly colored ancient ceiling

painting that had never before been

noticed what was covering it up you

asked I will quote them directly they

said that the ceiling was covered with

quote hundreds of years of black soot

that's kind of funny you have to admit

also there isn't enough oxygen inside

those tombs with which to support or

feed a flame of a torch I was once

inside the King's Chamber inside the

Pyramid of Giza and somebody turned off

the lights and immediately we were in

pitch darkness and I said no problem

I'll just take out my lighter from my

satchel and I turn on the lighter and it

didn't work I don't know about his

specific Zippo but there are plenty of

documented explorations of the pyramid

and other tombs in the early part of the

20th century which use torches to light

the pyramids archaeologists and pyramid

expert Jon Romer was once asked a

similar question by someone on a

television show this was his response

quote as for the suit there is soot in

the Great Pyramid from the 19th century

travelers but most of it has been washed

off most of the pyramids of course were

built in sunlight so lighting the

interior would only have been a problem

after the roof went on they would have

used lamps with salt in the oil so the

flame burns very pure end quote

Romer isn't just guessing about the

olive oil lamps these lamps were

depicted in Egyptian reliefs and there

are even receipts for orders of their

wicks and other such evidence another

thing to consider is that as far as

tombs go they weren't expected to be lit

in fact if all went well robbers would

not be able to find a way in and the

tomb would never see the light of day

ever again that was the plan and if it

weren't for 19th century explorers and

dynamite that plan might have worked too

but when we're talking about

temples like at dandera the false

dilemma of not enough oxygen simply

doesn't work the temple is much more

open the oxygen levels are plentiful

they obviously used fire divided if for

no other reason than because of the

hundreds of years of black soot on the

ceiling okay so the false dilemmas have

been addressed but we're still left to

explain what this relief is depicting

let's first hear what ancient aliens has

to say about the mainstream

interpretations of this relief

Egyptologists explanation of this and

have to have some explanation there's

got to be one and has to be pretty

mundane it can't be that it's an

electrical device their explanation is

that it is a lotus flower and what

appears to be a bulb around is the aroma

of the lotus flower and so it's just a

very odd depiction of a flower that is a

terrible representation of the

mainstream view of this relief it's

ancient aliens using a straw man

argument to make their argument look

superior this relief is not so mystical

if you have a little understanding of

Egyptian art and religious symbols this

is a variant depiction of the creation

of the world in Egyptian mythology the

Egyptians believed that before anything

else existed there was a vast primordial

sea of nothingness they believed that

the first thing to emerge from the sea

was a lotus flower this is probably

because the Lotus closes at night and

sinks under water in the morning it

really again it was believed that the

lotus flower then gave birth to the

first God who was often associated with

the Sun this relief was done after the

God a tomb was merged with the Sun God

raw and thus became a tomb ray a tomb

the God who created everything else

after this point is actually represented

by a snake and yes it is a snake in

these reliefs not light bulb filaments

you can actually see the eyes and other

elements of a snake if you look closely

this is pretty standard Egyptian

mythology that the lotus flower came

forth first and then the first God a

tomb who is represented by a snake well

what about this bubble surrounding it I

will quote an expert directly on this

point

quote despite the variety of deities the

Egyptians conceived the origin of the

world as singular only one God a tomb

was responsible for the emergence of the

universe as a bubble of air in the vast

limitless inert ocean and everlasting

darkness of the undifferentiated

primordial waters none that existed

before creation in other words the

universe came forth from the Lotus in a

bubble of air the other elements of this

picture backed this interpretation up

the universal bubble is here being

supported or raised up by the goddess

nun nun is the primordial waters and

technically it is she that raises up the

Lotus a tomb and everything else this

pose of outstretched hands is one of the

more common motifs for nun and she

raises and supports the universe from

nothingness in some versions of the

story the Sun God represented in these

scenes is Caffrey who is represented as

a scarab beetle a tomb and Caffrey sort

of traded off being aspects of raw and

Egyptian mythology

so in essence in more common versions of

the scene you have none the primordial

waters lifting up the solar barge of raw

for its first journey across the sky and

this explains why the exact same poses

are seen in this creation scene at

dandera they are also depicting nun

raising up the universe out of her

waters this idea is very very common you

can see other images of raw emerging

from the primordial Lotus as well the

idea that the ancient Egyptians used

electricity is something that is not

even hinted at anywhere in the Egyptian

records and if you believe ancient

aliens they were not just using

electricity but vacuum tubes which

requires high amounts of electricity as

well as rarified gases like argon and if

this was the case we should expect to

find some mention of this somewhere ah

but ancient aliens has an answer for why

we do not but if the ancient Egyptians

had used some kind of electric light to

illuminate their passageways why does

the visual evidence exist only in the

temple at Dendera in Egypt you had

different areas of specialty and dandera

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 were privy to this type of

information because dandera

was the special place where this

specific knowledge was guarded and kept

right

of course there's nothing in any text or

on any wall that would back up anything

that he just said he even makes up this

phrase keepers of the light giving

source or whatever just to make it sound

official again it's interesting that the

temple where the knowledge of this light

was kept is the same one with the

hundreds of years of soot on the ceiling

maybe they were trying to save on their

electric bill in conclusion all the

reasons that ancient alien says

lightbulbs existed in ancient Egypt such

as no suit and the tombs and not enough

oxygen are easily dismissed as false

dilemmas and the so-called light bulb

pictures are easily explained using

standard Egyptian symbolism

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all throughout the Middle Ages there are

some magnificent paintings and in

certain areas of the painting there are

what looks like to be UFOs

they're always floating up in the sky

usually above the Virgin Mary or above

Jesus on the crucifix or somewhere we

have sceneries that depict what looks

like UFOs

almost all supposed UFO and art cases

come from medieval art and there's a

pretty good reason for that most people

are not aware of the symbolism rules of

Byzantine or medieval art and so they're

easy prey for ancient astronaut theory

is about it this theory concerning

Byzantine art could never work on

someone who studies this type of art

professionally let me show you why first

let's take one that ancient aliens

showed in the background a few times in

that last clip it's a very famous UFO

and art painting and it usually is

presented using a very poor quality

image so you can't see the details very

well if you look closely you can see

these objects have distinct faces they

are actually representing the Sun and

the moon and you would think that

someone being honest about this would

fill you in that they appear in almost

every painting of a crucifixion done in

the Byzantine style the Sun and the moon

were consistently depicted with human

characteristics sometimes they had just

faces other times they had full bodies

the concept of representing the Sun and

the moon with human characteristics was

a carryover from the pagan artwork of

Rome the Roman Catholic Church simply

continued the tradition of representing

the Sun and the moon with human

characteristics in the artwork that it

had commissioned the Sun and the moon

are usually facing the cross which is

supposed to represent them being

witnesses to the crucifixion the sheer

number of Byzantine crucifixion scenes

where these objects are depicted in such

a way that is obviously supposed to be

the Sun in the moon should be enough to

put this one to rest for good ancient

aliens goes on for a while about the

14th century fresco at the viscosity

decani monastery in Kosovo this one has

been a big favorite of the ancient

astronaut theorists since it first

appeared in a French magazine called

Sputnik in the 1960s this crucifixion

scene is just like all the others we

have seen except it has a more full-body

representation of the Sun and the moon

there are just as many examples of the

Sun and the moon being depicted in this

way with full bodies in other Byzantine

crucifixion scenes including in other

places in this same monastery ancient

aliens also shows this famous painting

well famous to ancient astronaut

theorists anyway this one is like all

the others in that once you know what

you're looking at you will see so many

other examples of it in medieval art

this one is called Madonna with child

with the infant Saint John and to start

out I want to draw your attention just

below to the right of the object where

you'll see a character holding his hand

to his eyes and looking toward the sky

with him as a dog that is also looking

towards the sky the painting was

supposed to be depicting this passage in

the Bible and there were in the same

country shepherds abiding in the field

keeping watch over their flock by night

and lo an angel of the Lord come upon

them and the glory of the Lord shone

round about them and they were sore

afraid and the angel said to them fear

ye not for behold I bring you good

tidings of great joy which shall be to

all people for unto you Is Born This Day

in the City of David a savior which is

Christ the Lord

so the shepherds and the glory of the

Lord shining round about them are all in

the context of the announcement of

Jesus's birth from the Gospel of Luke

what really demystifies this is to show

other paintings from the era depicting

the same scene slowly you will see what

the so called UFO is supposed to be

first of all you will notice that all of

these paintings have the same shepherd

usually with a dog and usually with

their hands to their eyes usually an

angel comes out of the cloud lined with

light in older pictures the cloud in the

scene would have had golden rays

sometimes an angel is coming out of a

big tear in the sky other times like

this one of a similar style only the

tear in the sky is visible not the angel

in almost an identical Tondo we see the

shepherd looking toward a red dressed

angel and in the center above the

Madonna's head there is the same light

raid cloud here's the same scene

painted by the artists brother-in-law

with a bright star appearing inside a

cloud on a hill to the right the angel

appears to the shepherds

here is another Shepherd scene we see

the angel and the luminous cloud

sometimes the angels would be depicted

in the cloud like this

so the madonna with child with the

infant Saint John can safely be

identified with the announcement seen in

the Gospel of Luke and all the elements

in the painting are well known by

students of medieval art the most famous

painting that result any doubt in my

mind depict a UFO with its laser beam

was made by Crivelli in 1486 the

Annunciation to Mary in medieval art in

the Annunciation when Mary is told that

she will have a child but she will still

be a virgin and the angels tell her this

over Mary's head is a space capsule but

what's a UFO or a space capsule doing

over Mary this isn't a space capsule if

you look closely you will see that it is

formed by a circle of clouds inside of

which there are two circles of small

angels this is a very common way of

representing God visible in a huge

number of paintings Gustave doré a in

the middle of the 1800s even resumed

this pattern of the circles of angels in

his illustration titled Dante's paradise

the so-called laser beam is present in a

lot of paintings of this scene and is

used to show the impregnation of Mary by

the Holy Spirit often represented by a

dove which is present in this painting

as well if you look closely

but this laser beam loses its value for

the ancient astronaut theorists the more

one sees of other paintings of this

biblical scene because it becomes

obvious that they weren't trying to

depict a space capsule at all but rather

the circle of angels motif the last one

ancient aliens mentions is this one one

very interesting painting is where Jesus

sits up in the clouds with quote unquote

God and they're holding on to the

antennae of what looks like Sputnik and

theologians say what is depicted here is

nothing else but the earth

but why would earth have two antennae is

sticking out of it and why would it be

round because the mainstream viewpoint

at the time was that the earth was flat

this is similar to all the others we

have looked at in that there are lots of

other pictures of this biblical scene

that help to give us context the scene

usually contains the Father the Son and

the Holy Spirit

usually symbolized as a dove and they're

holding what is sometimes called the

creation globe the idea that they're

trying to convey is the biblical concept

that the creation of the world is

attributed to the Father Son and Holy

Spirit this creation globe becomes a

very common symbol in medieval art and

the only reason ancient alien says it

can't represent a globe is that

according to them people at that time in

history thought the earth was flat

although this idea about people in the

Middle Ages believing that the earth was

flat is widely believed nowadays it's

little better than an urban legend if

you type in the myth of the Flat Earth

into a search engine you'll see that the

truth is that almost every scientist

since the ancient Greeks knew the earth

was spherical here are a few quotes

about this historian Jeffrey Burton

Russell says the Flat Earth error

flourished most between 1870 and 1920 he

said quote with extraordinarily few

exceptions no educated person in the

history of Western civilization from the

3rd century BC onward believed that the

earth was flat he continues quote the

myth that people in the Middle Ages

thought that the earth was flat appears

to date from the 17th century as part of

the campaign by Protestants against

Catholic teaching but it gained currency

in the 19th century thanks to inaccurate

histories such as John William Draper's

history of the conflict between religion

and science and Andrew Dixon White's

history of the warfare of science with

theology in Christendom atheist and

agnostics championed the conflict thesis

for their own purposes but historical

research gradually demonstrated that

Draper and white had propagated more

fantasy than fact in their efforts to

prove that science and religion are

locked in eternal conflict one funny

thing about this is that su Kalos in

another episode of ancient

millions in order to suit his purposes

there admits the idea of around Earth

was even in the Bible Moses actually

describes earth seen from outer space

the quote is thereupon I saw the whole

round of the earth at once the depths of

the earth and the vast altitudes of the

heavens I mean here he describes earth

as being around so there is no problem

whatsoever with the medieval artists

knowing that the earth was round and

therefore there's no reason to say that

these symbols aren't representing

exactly what the artists have always

said that they represent almost all UFO

and art theories come from the Middle

Ages and they all fail when they are

compared with other paintings of the

same scene because one can then see that

these were consistent motifs in that

style of art and were used to describe

certain theological concepts which when

explained in light of the concept that

it's obviously trying to convey it

totally demystifies the objects in

question

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Belize Central America in 1924 british

adventurer frederick mitchell-hedges

traveled here with his daughter anna to

explore the ruins of the ancient mayan

city of lubaantun

one afternoon Anna climbed to the top of

a crumbling pyramid hoping to see the

ocean it was high noon and she was at

the top and the way the Sun came in the

way the rocks had moved on that there

was just a small opening and the light

from the Sun went through and they could

hit the top of the skull and she ran

down she's all excited she said there's

someone in there with a flashlight

Anna's father and others in their party

were too large to fit inside the small

opening of the pyramid so they tied a

rope around Anna and lowered her into

the hole when she came back up Anna held

the top of a strange crystal skull a

second search uncovered a matching job

as you might have suspected nothing you

just heard is true the real story about

the mitchell-hedges skull is quite

different it's worth mentioning that the

reason that ancient aliens focuses in on

the mitchell-hedges skull is because all

of the other known crystal skulls have

now been proven to be fakes and even

ancient aliens admits this scientific

tests have determined that the two owned

by the British Museum and the Kate

Branly were not authentic pre-columbian

artifacts the mitchell-hedges skull was

the last hope for a real one and the

only reason it was the last hope was

because the daughter of mitchell-hedges

while she was still alive

refused to have an official study done

to see if it was fake or not rather than

that she toured around with it in New

Age conventions and the like until she

recently died her widower however in

2007 took it to the Smithsonian Museum

for Natural History where extensive

testing was done on it it was found to

be a fake just like the others I'm not

sure if ancient aliens produced this

episode before or after 2007 but I

suspect that they wouldn't have cared

much either way the real history of the

Mitchell

Hedges school starts with another

crystal skull that was in the British

Museum which the forger of the

mitchell-hedges skull copied it from the

British Museum acquired a crystal skull

in 1898 at a time right after tools were

first invented that made it possible to

carve crystal skulls like these we now

know it was also a time when a lot of

fake crystal artifacts were sold to

museums the British Museum skull which

has its own dubious history was later

found to be fake too but in the 1930s it

was still believed to be genuine and it

was proudly displayed in the museum

based on research done on the

mitchell-hedges skull by the Smithsonian

Museum it was concluded that the forger

of the mitchell-hedges skull copied the

one in the British Museum in order to

make his work seem more authentic the

mitchell-hedges skull was first owned by

a man named Sidney Burnie who we have

records of trying to sell it to various

people unsuccessfully for ten years

before this he finally sold it to a

member of the general public at a South

Beach Inn in London in 1943 that member

of the general public was Frederick

mitchell-hedges we actually have the

letter that mitchell-hedges wrote to his

brother directly after purchasing the

skull at the auction in which he

expresses his excitement about his new

purchase this will be important later

five years later though in a local paper

he was claiming that he found the skull

himself in a daring expedition to

Central America

mitchell-hedges was a renowned

storyteller and often sold his fanciful

stories to Hearst Newspapers for example

mitchell-hedges was a fisherman by trade

so he would have tales of him catching

previously undiscovered animals fighting

off sea monsters tales of man-eating

sharks as well as your average big fish

stories later though with his book

danger is my Ally he told tales of him

discovering previously unknown lands and

undiscovered people groups as well as

battling all kinds of jungle dangers

later on people would write editorials

that had been to the areas that he said

he went to and publicly debunked him

mitchell-hedges was also shown to hoax

an odd situation involving a supposed

robbed

in several shrunken heads he even lost a

very public liable suit concerning this

but all of this only scratches the

surface of the deceit that surrounds the

mitchell-hedges skull first of all none

of the stories about the discovery of

the mitchell-hedges skull match each

other and all of them contradict the

letter that he sent to his brother in

1943 which clearly says he bought it at

an auction

it says the collection grows and grows

and grows you possibly saw in the papers

that I acquired that amazing crystal

skull that was formerly in the Sidney

Bernie collection it is fashioned from a

single block of transparent rock crystal

exactly life-size scientists put the

date at pre 1800 BC and they estimate it

took five generations passing from

father to son to complete its

anthropologically perfect in every

detail a superb piece of craftsmanship

there is only one other in the world

known like it which is in the British

Museum and it is acknowledged to be not

so fine as this many years later when

this letter surfaced his adopted

daughter Anna tried to explain the

discrepancy between these stories this

way on her website quote in 1943

mitchell-hedges got embroiled in another

controversy that still rages in some

quarters to this day in times before

burglar alarms it was not unusual to

leave valuable items with friends if one

was going away for long periods of time

mitchell-hedges did this with a school

friend Sidney Burnie who had always

shown an interest in the Crystal Skull

however in 1943

Bernie inexplicably put the crystal

skull up for auction at South bees in

London mitchell-hedges learned of this

the day before and was so furious that

for a while he was unable to speak

unable to contact Bernie he aroused the

next day at 5:00 a.m. and travelled to

London to retrieve his property south

bees informed him that the vendor was

Sidney Bernie's son when they refused to

withdraw it from the sale

mitchell-hedges realized the easiest way

of regaining his property was to

purchase it back this he did for 400

pounds this doesn't make sense for a lot

of reasons let alone that according to

her story which we will get to in a

minute this would mean that he had the

skull for ten years

and didn't mention it to anyone until

after he writes this letter to his

brother

a decade later obviously implying that

it was something that he just acquired

for the first time after mitchell-hedges

died the skull was left to Anna Mitchell

hedges his adopted daughter and this is

when things get really sketchy Anna

spent her entire life trying to sell the

skull she hired a guy named Frank

Dorland an art dealer to promote the

skull so that she could get it sold

Derlin had worked with her father when

he was alive to sell another one of his

objects which also turned out to be a

fake she and Dorland signed an agreement

in July of 1964 that he would promote

the skull and that the price of its sale

must be no less than $50,000 Dorland

then got busy trying to make everything

look really official including coming up

with a totally different story for the

skulls discovery after this agreement

with Dorland in 1964 was the first time

that anna claimed that it was she not

her father who found the skull something

that no one else seemed to mention in

the last 30 years

by doing this it made Anna the sole

person who could establish provenience

for the skull something that a buyer

would want especially a museum and

because everyone else involved was dead

by this time there was no one left to

contradict this new story all of the

mystical claims about the skull were

born out of the two books that the

promoter Frank Dorland commissioned in

order to promote the skull here is a

letter from Dorland to Anna concerning

the writer who he wanted to write one of

the books quote I have convinced Dick

Garvin who does sell it is worth the

percentage to you and me and you to

furnish the information this makes it a

better book and makes more money all the

way around the skull is not sold it is

put to use in this manner and for public

appearances to boost sales and interest

these books make outlandish claims about

the crystal skulls origin and powers and

since the books were released at the

height of the New Age movement they

enjoyed an uncritical and enthusiastic

audience during all these years they

tried desperately to sell the skull the

problem was that because of all the

fakes museums were now asking to

validate the skull fir

one letter from the British Museum to

Anna shows that the negotiations were

stopped when the curator caught wind of

the actual history of the skull

none of this stops ancient aliens from

promoting all kinds of contradictory

stories about the skull yes they're

alien artifacts even some people think

they're made on another planet but there

were created specifically to hold

records from alien civilizations there's

a legend that there were 13 skulls and

that when the 13 skulls come together

then something significant will change

in the world

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legend suggests that there are 12

additional world's out there planets

which are inhabited by intelligent

species these 13 crystal skulls that

allegedly exist on planet earth were

each brought here from one of those 12

planets and the 13th skull is the one

that apparently contains all of the

information of all those 12 different

worlds and that's the legend of the

crystal skulls but as ancient astronaut

theorists maintain why would visiting

aliens have given the Crystal Skull to

the Maya the only problem is that no one

can seem to find a record of this Mayan

prophecy the idea seems to trace back to

one new-age author Mayan scholars have

never heard of this legend and certainly

not this one a lot of natives and a lot

of people working with crystal skulls

say that the high quartz content skulls

and especially the quartz skulls

themselves is the highest frequency or

energy or vibration possible on the

physical plane and so a lot of native

people kind of worshipped or took care

of these objects because they knew that

they had or felt that they had the

highest energy possible on the earth

plane this whole myth was birthed out of

a marketing campaign for a forged

artifact a myth which found a home in

the New Age in conclusion all of the

proposed crystal skulls have now been

conclusively proven to be hoaxes the

last holdout the mitchell-hedges skull

was only still a candidate because it

was not allowed to be examined until

recently its history is full of greed

and lies and it's genuineness could only

be accepted by the most dedicated

devotee a given the facts we now know

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in the Book of Ezekiel the Prophet

describes a flying chariot containing

wheels within wheels and powered by

angels

although Bible historians suggest

Ezekiel was speaking symbolically about

the terrifying enemies facing Israel

could this be another example of an

alien visitation and proof that

prehistoric aircraft existed Ezekiel's

vision is often used to try to support

the ancient astronaut theory let's take

a closer look and see if it does in fact

support this idea

first we need to disagree with the

narrator that biblical scholars think

this vision is referring to the enemies

of Israel I can't imagine any biblical

scholar saying that as it expressly says

in the book that the vision is of the

glory of God on his throne I've read

dozens of commentaries by Bible scholars

on Ezekiel and have never found one that

said this was referring to the enemies

of Israel I think this is the case of

ancient aliens propping up a straw man

argument in other words taking an

obviously weak argument and pretending

it is your opposition's majority view

the main premise of the ancient

astronaut theory is that ancient writers

couldn't understand or didn't have the

vocabulary to explain technology but

that idea doesn't really work for

Ezekiel for many reasons first of all

Ezekiel had a huge vocabulary Hebrew is

one of the richest languages in the

history of the world an Ezekiel showed

great skill in utilizing it when

describing complicated things in other

places in his writings he had the

vocabulary to say things like silver

discs or round or window or gray being

with big eyes if he wanted to but he

didn't as we will see what Ezekiel

describes simply cannot be compared to a

UFO more than any other Bible writer

Ezekiel was extremely detail-oriented he

makes sure to describe every detail not

just here but throughout his writings

for example a very accurate model of the

layout of an entire city as well as a

huge temple complex can be constructed

using his specifications he even starts

out every one of his visions by a

meticulous detailing of the time and

place it happened for example in Ezekiel

8:1 and it came to pass in the sixth

year in the sixth month in the fifth day

of the month as a

sat in my house and the elders of Judah

set before me that the hand of the Lord

God fell there upon me the vision that

Ezekiel saw that is in question here can

also be drawn out on paper using his

specifications and people that do this

all pretty much get the same thing it's

describing the throne of God

which rests on a platform that platform

is supported by four cherubim on each

corner cherubs are specific types of

angels in the Bible that have four faces

in several wings there are also four

wheels next to the angels everyone in

the field knows what this is in Ezekiel

1 it's a cherubim throne because we have

very clear examples of the actual

elements that you find in Ezekiel 1 it's

not that exciting but it's more or less

what everyone gets when they draw this

out well almost everyone

Joseph blue Muroc is your proverbial

rocket scientist he worked on the moon

project for NASA and from the mind of a

rocket engineer started to look at what

was written in the first part of the

Book of Ezekiel and after many months of

research Joseph's blue Merrik came to

the conclusion that what Ezekiel

described in his eyewitness report it

was indeed a type of spacecraft

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Joseph bloomer ik would go on to write

the spaceships of ezekiel okay so they

say that this guy who they say is super

smart really studied the book of ezekiel

and they say what he got was this

contraption with four propellers at the

bottom of each corner the biggest

problem with this theory is Ezekiel's

attention to detail there's just no way

to get this contraption from what

Ezekiel describes Bloom Rich's book and

other books other items penned by

ancient astronaut theorists again all

have the same weakness they tend to

ignore the vocabulary of Ezekiel chapter

1 for instance again the the throne upon

which yahweh seats it's never described

as round or silvery or some sort of disk

shaped that just has to be assumed and

brought into the text so they either do

that or they modernize the descriptions

that are there for instance the bovine

that the calf legs must surely be legs

of a UFO or some other aircraft you know

landing pod sorts of things let me read

a description of the four angels holding

up the throne and you can decide for

yourself if you think he is really

struggling with his ancient vocabulary

to describe four propellers also out of

the midst thereof came the likeness of

four living creatures and this was their

appearance they had the likeness of a

man and everyone had four faces and

everyone had four wings and they had the

hands of a man under their wings on

their four sides and they four had their

faces and their wings as for the

likeness of their faces they four had

the face of a man and the face of a lion

on the right side and they four had the

face of an ox on the left side and they

four also had the face of an eagle it's

hard to get a propeller when Ezekiel

says and this was their appearance they

had the likeness of a man

Ezekiel knew what a man looked like so

it's just not honest to say that Ezekiel

mistook a propeller for a man but

ancient aliens has a way around this one

if we thought of the word angel

as representing something like celestial

energy it sounds much more like a

spacecraft that so he says we just make

angel equal celestial energy and that's

much better for our UFO Theory talk

about forcing the evidence to fit the

hypothesis using this logic I could say

that the description of my car would

sound more like a UFO if instead of

wheels

I said anti-gravity devices the problem

is that Ezekiel doesn't just mention

angels in passing he devotes an entire

chapter to describing them he calls them

cherubim over 20 times in chapter 10 he

even says in chapter 10 verse 20 that he

knows that they are cherubim it's very

illogical to assume that our reading or

an ancient astronaut reading of the

modern mind is getting it right when the

ancient person has pretty much done all

they could do to tell you what they're

talking about and then you sort of just

depart from what they say so it's very

inconsistent to say that you're reading

an ancient text but then looking at what

the creators of that text thought and

just sort of pushing it to the side one

thing that helps to dispel the Ezekiel

UFO theories is by seeing how common

this throne idea is in other places in

the Bible no one seems to think these

other passages are talking about UFOs

but they're obviously talking about the

same thing as Ezekiel for example in the

book of Revelation when John was taken

up to heaven and specifically to God's

throne this is how he describes it and

immediately I was in the spirit and

behold a throne was set in heaven and

one sat on the throne and before the

throne there was a sea of glass like

unto crystal and in the midst of the

throne and round about the throne were

four beasts full of eyes before and

behind and the first beast was like a

lion and the second beast like a calf

and the third beast had the face as a

man and the fourth beast was like a

flying eagle and the four beasts had

each of them six wings about him and

they were full of eyes within and they

rest not day and night saying holy holy

holy Lord God Almighty which was and is

and is to come

Daniel the prophet even mentions that

the throne of God has wheels in Daniel

7:9 there other places in the Hebrew

Bible that described God's throne a lot

of them don't have a great deal of

detail Isaiah 6 is sort of a familiar

example where Isaiah appears before

God's throne with the Seraphim and and

other divine beings there I think the

best one for this particular issue

Ezekiel chapter one is found in Daniel 7

you have the Ancient of Days seated upon

a throne and it's called a throne the

word for throne actually appears in the

passage and the issue there is since we

know it's a throne because Daniel calls

it a throne it's really important to

observe how the throne is described it

has wheels it has fiery you know fire

about it fiery description the wheels

scholars have known for a long time that

the description of the throne in Daniel

7 has the same elements as that in

Ezekiel 1 so it's very clearly a throne

and some of these other passages help us

understand that we could go through

other passages but the point is that

according to the Bible God's throne is

supported by four angels with multiple

wings which are on wheels but now the

interesting part it seems that even the

other cultures from Sumer to Egypt and

everywhere in between also knew that the

thrones of kings and especially of God

were to be supported by cherubim and

that they have wheels as well as other

elements described by Ezekiel we know

this because of the artwork of the

ancient world there are thousands of

pieces of art from the ancient world

that show various elements that Ezekiel

described of God's throne we can see

angels some of them even have four faces

some of them have wheels they have the

platform and the throne in terms of

iconography again what I like to

describe is the Polaroids of the Old

Testament ancient world again pictures

they left us of the things they're

talking about the idea of a deity seated

on a throne that was in effect a chariot

that is carried around by supernatural

beings with wings in other words to

describe it as the chariot of

that's very common but when it's

depicted it's never depicted as what we

would think of as a UFO no triangles no

round discs nothing like that it's a

chair it's a throne under which again

has some sort of platform and he's

seated upon the deity is seated upon

these various heavenly creatures there

are also a ton of basic logical problems

with the ancient astronaut theorists

idea that Ezekiel is talking about a UFO

here is one of them well that sounds

like flames that sounds like propulsion

no physicists no matter how sympathetic

to this cause would say that using a

combustion engine for interstellar

travel is possible not to mention that

this particular fire comes from coal on

the altar so that would make this a coal

powered interstellar spaceship as simple

as it sounds the entire reason this

whole thing with Ezekiel started in the

70s was because of the line Ezekiel uses

wheels within wheels people basically

said wheels around and flying saucers

are supposed to be round - Ezekiel saw

his wheel within a wheel this sounds

more high-tech than supernatural but the

idea conveyed in Ezekiel's writings is

nothing more than a concentric circle

pretty much like any wheel with a rim

it's not exactly a hi-tech idea the only

reason it's mentioned is because Ezekiel

is such a detail-oriented writer Daniel

doesn't go into such detail when he

describes the throne of God he just says

wheels besides that there are four

wheels that make up one unit so if

you're going to say a wheel within a

wheel is a UFO then you have to say that

UFOs only come in sets of four because

that is unambiguously what Ezekiel is

describing and these wheels are not

horizontal as if they were flying around

they are vertical just like they should

be if they were really wheels so we see

that this idea is refuted by number one

the consistent biblical motifs using

these elements to describe the throne of

God number two the thousands of pieces

of art from the ancient world that

depict Thrones as having the same

elements that Ezekiel describes and

number three all the logical problems

with the theory such as it being a coal

powered combustion engine

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atomic warfare among ancient

civilizations may sound like something

out of a science fiction novel but

descriptions of similar deadly

occurrences can be found in the very

same text dr. Oppenheimer quoted after

the New Mexico atomic test so the

ancient astronaut theory claims that the

mahabharata speaks of nuclear warfare

let's see what specifically they say it

says one reference that we have for

example speaks of these explosions that

were brighter than a thousand suns and

when these blasts occurred the Suns were

twirling in the air trees went up in

flames and it was just as mass

destruction after those blasts people

who survive start to lose their hair and

nails start to fall out I mean right

there we have a concise reference to

radiation poisoning nuclear fallout and

those texts are thousands of years old

the Mahabharata actually doesn't say any

of that these exact claims about the

hair and nails falling off and an

explosion brighter than a thousand suns

has been repeated by ancient astronaut

theorists so many times that they think

it's true but the origin of this line

was from a French book called mourning

of the magicians no one that makes this

claim will actually cite where in the

Mahabharata this claim appears which

makes it very difficult for people to

call them out on this because the

Mahabharata contains over 1.8 million

words so if you just say it's in there

somewhere just trust me you can pretty

much get away with anything as you might

have guessed by now they have a really

good reason for covering their tracks by

not citing a reference for instance

let's consider the claim about the

people's hair and nails falling out

because of this weapon first of all

there was no weapon involved in that

story it was part of a bad omen and this

is what it actually says quote the

streets swarmed with rats and mice

earthen pots showed cracks were broken

from no apparent cause at night the rats

and mice ate away the hair and nails of

slumbering men so rats chewed them off

it wasn't a result of nuclear fallout

what about the bomb blast that was

brighter than a thousand suns here's

what the passage actually says gratified

with him the holy one then showed you

Tonka that eternal Vaishnava form which

Dian Jaya of great intelligence had seen

you Tonka beheld the high-souled

Vasudeva of universal form endued with

mighty arms the effulgence of that form

was like that of a blazing fire or a

thousand suns it stood before him

filling all space it had faces on every

side behold the high and wonderful

Vaishnava form of Vishnu in fact seeing

the Supreme Lord and that guy's the

brahmana you tanka became filled with

wonder jason Colavito says the following

about this quote this passage which

mentions the ten thousand suns refers to

an appearance of Vishnu it is

representative of many many passages in

which to standard poetic line ten

thousand suns is used to describe a

deity it does not refer to the specific

flash of

nuclear blast unless one imagines the

gods to be exploding if you would like

to know more about the deceitful

misquoting of ancient texts as it

relates to this idea of ancient nuclear

weapons see Jason Calvados excellent

book ancient atom bombs fact fraud and

the myth of prehistoric nuclear warfare

let's move on to ancient aliens next

line of evidence for this point which is

all centered around an ancient city now

archaeological site called mohenjo-daro

in Pakistan ancient aliens claims that

there was a nuclear bomb dropped there

in the ancient past they give several

reasons to believe this skeletons were

found lying face down in the street many

holding hands their faces and body

positioning suggested they suffered a

sudden violent death

you have a culture of people who

literally were lying that industry

archaeologists have found human remains

and something big has happened to these

people why is there evidence that wild

animals avoided scavenging their remains

and why even after thousands of years

had their bones not decayed in certain

areas of that site you find increased

levels of radiation british researcher

david davenport claimed to have found a

50 yard wide epicenter at mohenjo-daro

where everything appeared to have been

fused through a transformative process

known as vitrification vitrification is

a process in which regular-type stone

gets molten into a magma state

and then it hardens again but once the

stone is hardened again it feels like

glass at mohenjo-daro we find evidence

of vitrification which could have only

been achieved if the material was

exposed to extreme heat by some type of

a blast

okay so let's list these points number

one skeletons one set holding hands

which they say appear to have died at

the same instant number two no evidence

of scavengers number three remarkably

well-preserved bones number four the

presence of radiation at the site and

number five an epicenter where

vitrification is present that all sounds

like a pretty convincing case for

nuclear warfare at mohenjo-daro well

assuming any of that is true

and considering ancient aliens track

record we had better investigate these

claims one of the first problems with

this theory is the city itself its

buildings are still intact

some of which are 15 feet high and

they're made out of mud so you would

think that a nuclear weapon whose main

destructive power is in the force of its

blast wave would be able to topple a few

mud brick buildings but moving on what

about these skeletons ancient aliens

makes it sound like a lot of skeletons

were found when in fact only 37 were

found and not only do these 37 bodies

show no signs of dying suddenly the date

of their deaths varies sometimes as much

as 1,000 years from one another none of

the archaeologists involved thought

these skeletons suggested a sudden

catastrophe and to make matters worse

for ancient aliens all of the bodies

were buried the idea that these bodies

were laying around in the streets isn't

true in fact almost everything that

ancient aliens said about this is

completely untrue

the fact that they didn't die in the

same instant and the fact that they were

buried in the normal way explains why

there was no signs of scavengers well

what about the remarkably well-preserved

bones this can be chalked up to

mohenjo-daro being literally one of the

hottest places on earth with

temperatures reaching 128 degrees

because it's also really dry it's the

perfect climate for preservation in fact

this is also probably the reason why the

mud brick buildings are still standing

as well the problem with the claims

about there being radiation at

mohenjo-daro is that we don't know where

this claim came from it certainly wasn't

any of the scientists involved with the

mohenjo-daro digs that claimed it and

the ancient astronaut theorists don't

cite any references with which to check

this claim so until the presence of

radiation can be proven to exist at the

site there is no reason to address it

well what about this epicenter of

vitrification

well according to archaeologists it

wasn't exactly an epicenter of anything

it was a small amount of broken pottery

which because pottery is put in a fire

to harden it it contains a specific type

of vitrification called frit they threw

in the word epicenter to make it seem

more legitimate but there is no

epicenter of anything except pottery at

this site but this brings up an

important point mohenjo-daro is not the

only site that ancient astronaut

theorists claim

vitrification exists as a result of

ancient atom bombs so it would be

instructive for us to look at sand

vitrification and its different causes

in order to address those claims for

example there is fulgurite which is sand

fused by a lightning bolt

there is tektite which is sand fused by

the compressed force of a meteorite

there is frit which is partially fused

sand and other chemicals in the presence

of heated pottery that's what was found

at mohenjo-daro finally there is

Trinitite which is vitrified sand caused

by a nuclear explosion

so we first saw that the Mahabharata did

not claim anything like what ancient

aliens said it did we saw that the

bodies at mohenjo-daro were not killed

in a sudden disaster in fact they died a

thousand years apart in some cases and

were clearly buried the cases of

radiation are a non-factor the

vitrification was caused by pottery and

we noted that if it was a nuclear

explosion it didn't even knock down the

mud brick houses which are still

standing at the site

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ancient Sanskrit texts dating back as

far as 6000 BC Wow

6000 BC really in reality the oldest of

these texts would be the Vedas which

date to between 500 and 1500 BC ancient

aliens just adds another 5000 years as

if no one would notice

they're actually even contradicting

themselves with the state because in

another episode they correctly state

that the oldest writings in the world

are the Sumerian tablets the oldest of

which date to about 4000 BC so why are

they now saying that there are some

writings 2,000 years older than the

oldest writings I don't think anyone

knows describing varying but vivid

detail flying machines called Vimanas

Vimanas aeroplanes and they are powered

by some jet engines this seems to be

true because all the description of the

flight behavior elephants ran away in

panic

grass was thrown out because there was a

lot of pressure from behind those

Vimanas

so that we can say this is the

description of the spaceship

the word vimana literally means having

been measured out and it was related to

the King's palaces and was referring to

their intricate construction later on as

a result the word became synonymous with

palaces in general and because of that

it was used to refer to the palaces of

the gods as well and yes these palaces

of the gods were in the heavens and they

could fly but as we look into this it

will be clear that some of the Vimanas

of the gods really were huge palaces

with gardens and terraces and golden

staircases then because the palaces of

the Gods flew the word gradually became

used for anything that could fly either

in mythology or in reality so

understanding the palace concept in the

development of the word vimana is

helpful in understanding what we will be

looking at but before we look into the

real descriptions of Vimanas in the

Vedic text we must first examine a fake

text because almost everything that

ancient alien says about Vimanas comes

from a totally bogus text called the

vimana cache Astra although mainstream

historians believe the vimana texts are

myths many of the documents contain

passages that seem to describe modern

machinery and technology the venetie

Shastra goes into metals that are used

in these craft it talks about

electricity and power sources it talks

about the pilots and the clothing they

have to wear it talks about the food

that they eat it talks even about the

weapons that are kept on these airships

the flight menus of the Vimanas are

quite similar to the flight manuals you

find in the modern passenger flight

business or when you go to the military

jet engines of course they have also

flight menus because it's necessary for

a pilot to get knowledge about his plane

he wanted to fly was the vimana Koosh

Astra is not an actual ancient texts it

was channeled or dictated to the author

from the spirit world in 1918 the spirit

who suppose

dictated the text claimed to be an

ancient seer named bar Advaita who is

prominent in some ancient writings so I

guess that's what's supposed to give

this text credibility that is the idea

that the ghost of someone ancient

supposedly dictated it but they're not

even sure that version of the story is

true because the first mention of any of

this is in 1952 by the guy who

supposedly found and translated the text

from 1918 so as far as anyone knows he

could have made the whole channeled by a

famous ghost story up in 1952 the text

itself reads like a technical manual

describing the details of how Vimanas

operated it includes the description of

what must have sounded like a really

technical idea in 1918 war 1952 called a

mercury vortex engine ancient alien

spends a huge amount of time talking

about this idea the V Monica Shastra for

science of aeronautics indicates Vimanas

used a propulsion system based on a

combination of gyroscopes electricity

and mercury is this possible mercury is

an unusual element mercury is metal it's

also a liquid and is a conductor of

electricity the V Monica Shastra

suggests b---minus were powered by

several gyroscopes placed inside a

sealed liquid mercury vortex

one of the text talks about mercury

rotating and driving some sort of a

powerful wind or a windmill effect that

might be some sort of what we call a

flywheel energy storage where you have a

spinning disc and then you extract

energy from it slowly that would be the

mercury and then that could be used to

drive some sort of a propeller or what

call it ducted fan some of the other

things that this text describes are

equally scientific sounding it even

includes very technical drawings of the

things that it's talking about but when

you look closer at all this it becomes

obvious that it is physically impossible

for any of these craft to get off the

ground in fact 20 years later in 1974 a

study was done on the texts and the

drawings by the aeronautical and

mechanical institute of science in

bangla door India I will quote wilhunt

an American freelance writer based in

India for a description of how that

study came out quote as thoroughly as it

had been written the committee just as

thoroughly dismantled the study in an

essay called a critical study of the

work of a Monica Shastra they questioned

whether the author whoever that may have

been had any grasp of basic physics

chemistry and electricity not to mention

the quote disciplines of aeronautics

aerodynamics aeronautical structures

propulsive devices materials and

metallurgy their conclusion quote none

of the planes has properties or

capabilities of being flown the

geometries are unimaginably horrendous

from the point of view of flying and the

principles of propulsion make them

resist rather than assist flying another

writer

JB hare writing for the sacred text

archive said the following of the craft

in the vimana Shastra quote they are

absurdly non aerodynamic brutalist

wedding cakes with minarets huge

ornithopter wings and dinky propellers I

have a feeling that even though 90% of

the information that ancient aliens

presents on Vimanas comes from this text

they realize that it has been thoroughly

discredited and so in an odd twist after

spending five minutes on

how great the idea of a mercury vortex

engine would be they then let everyone

know that the idea wouldn't actually

work they stopped short however of

saying that there's anything wrong with

this text they just say that there may

have been a problem with the translation

of a word or two flywheel energy storage

systems however tend to lose power

quickly to navigate across space in size

would have to be enormous it's it's not

at all clear that this would be a

practical device now maybe the people

are trying to describe something that

kind of looked like this to them it

might not have actually been mercury it

might have been some other liquid metal

the mercury vortex engine is perhaps a

failure in the translation because the

vortex is not a material quite suitable

to jet engine so let's move on to the

mentions of Vimanas in the actual

ancient Vedic texts so as I've already

mentioned the word vimana came to mean

Pallas and when it was the palace of a

god it was usually capable of flying

around when we look at the development

of Vimanas chronologically the mystery

surrounding them vanishes first of all

they were not even mentioned in the

earlier texts and when they finally were

mentioned the next thousand years of

their being mentioned always included

them having wheels and being drawn by

horses

not exactly a mercury vortex engine then

around 500 BC the chariots lose their

horses and are depicted as flying on

their own

Jason Colavito says the following about

the first mentions of Vimanas without

horses quote the very first of these is

the flying chariot of the earthly king

ravana called pushpaka by the time of

the mahabharata circa 400 BCE these

flying chariots had grown in size one

was now described as twelve cubits in

circumference but they never lost their

large wheels that marked them as derived

from earthly horse-drawn chariots it's

also interesting to see that ancient

astronaut theorists

have to distort the actual descriptions

of Vimanas in the Vedic text in order to

make them sound like UFOs for example

the following is a quote from David

Childress's book where he's supposed to

be quoting a description of a vimana

from an ancient text we'll read what he

tells his readers what it says and then

we will read the actual ancient text and

note the differences first let's hear

Childress's version quote when morning

dawned Rama taking the celestial car

pushpaka had sent to him by the fish and

stood ready to depart self-propelled was

that car it was large and finely painted

it had two stories and many chambers

with windows and was draped with flags

and banners it gave forth a melodious

sound as it coursed along its airy way

and now here's what the actual Ramayana

says quote and the mighty monkey

ascended the splendid car pushpaka

containing figures of wolves made of

carts whare and here Anya graced with

ranges of goodly pillars as if blazing

and splendor throughout garnished with

narrow secret rooms in saloons piercing

the heavens and resembling Mero or

Mandara and like unto the flaming Sun

skillfully reared by Vic walk ARMA with

golden staircases and graceful and grand

Ray's seize rows of golden and crystal

windows and dais is composed of

sapphires emeralds and other superb gems

embellished with Noble vid room --is

costly stones and round pearls and also

with plastered terraces pasted with red

sandal like unto gold and furnished with

the sacred aroma and resembling the Sun

new risen Colavito says of this quote

elsewhere it is described as being

filled with fruit trees and sometimes is

drawn by geese do you know many UFOs

with plastered terraces and red paint in

summary most of what ancient aliens uses

on this point is from a bogus 20th

century channeled text which they

dishonestly present as an ancient text

and even the real descriptions of

Vimanas get some tweaking by them in

order to make it sound like a UFO the

development of the idea of Vimanas in

Hindu mythology can be traced easily

it loses all of its intrigue for the

ancient astronaut theorists when you do

that

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in the ancient texts of Sumeria we have

descriptions of these beings descending

from the sky called the Anunnaki

the term Anunnaki means those who from

the heavens came this is entirely wrong

the word Anunnaki means princely seed or

princely blood the idea is that the

Anunnaki were direct creations of Anu

who was regarded as the father and king

of the gods as we will see this is the

main idea associated with the Anunnaki

in the minds of the Sumerians that is

that the Anunnaki were directly created

by Anu and so it makes sense that even

their name reflects this idea that is

that they were the offspring of the

Prince the term itself means of royal

seed or princely seed because the

Anunnaki were considered the offspring

of Anu or on the great God of heaven and

also we have again Anunnaki they were

also the offspring of on and his consort

Keith heaven and earth these again this

divine coupling the way the

Mesopotamians conceived their pantheon

so if the term Anunnaki means princely

seed or offspring of the Prince how is

it that ancient aliens says that the

word Anunnaki means those who from

heaven to earth came the short answer is

that everything that ancient alien says

here about the Anunnaki comes from a man

named zecharia sitchin Sitchin wrote

many books claiming that the Anunnaki

were really aliens unfortunately at the

time that he wrote this in the 70s there

weren't many ways for ordinary people to

see if what he was saying was true or

not to put it simply citrons translation

of the word Anunnaki is wrong now you'll

often read especially in the writings of

zecharia sitchin that the Anunnaki means

something like you know they who from

heaven came or again some some other

sort of description that makes them

sound like aliens or extraterrestrials

there isn't a source on the planet by

any Sumerian scholar

that would agree with that definition

again it's not a difficult term I

personally don't think that such a new

sumerian at all because if you're going

to get even a term associated with a

very important group of deities if

you're not going to get that right then

I have to wonder what else you're gonna

get wrong Sitchin claimed to be an

expert on Sumerian writings yet we can

now see that he didn't seem to even

understand the basic grammar and

vocabulary rules of the Sumerian

language several real scholars

challenged him on his translations and

on his lack of any academic credentials

in the field pointing out that there is

no record of Sitchin having anything but

a journalism degree one such scholar is

dr. Michael Heizer to this day I haven't

been able to find nor have other people

whom I've asked help people who like

Sitchin I've never been able to find any

actual credentials of him knowing any of

the languages or being credentialed in

any way in ancient Near Eastern Studies

as we progress and look into some of the

specifics of Sitchin's views articulated

here by ancient aliens I think you will

see that determining the truth about

this difficult subject is not out of the

hands of the common person it says

word-for-word that these beings

descended in flying vehicles from the

sky this is a preposterous statement I

challenge anyone to produce this

word-for-word text you can do a search

online and literally see all the

references to the word Anunnaki in the

Sumerian texts the only time it refers

to anything even close to this is when

it talks about the Anunnaki being direct

creations of Anu in heaven a few

examples of this would be the UH nuna

the gods whom on conceived in the sky or

the a nuna whom on in the sky conceived

these texts emphasized the point that

the main Sumerian concept regarding the

Anunnaki was that they were directly

created by on that's what's being said

here the idea that the texts say that

they descended out of flying vehicles is

pure fiction and that's the nicest way

that I can think of to say that what

ancient aliens does here

they show pictures of the winged solar

disk as they talk about the Anunnaki and

I guess they expect the audience to

think that these texts speak of these

disks like spacecraft in the Sumerian

stories when in fact the solar disks

seen in the iconography are not

associated with the Anunnaki at all but

rather with the Sun and/or the Sun god

this is probably why su colos says the

following and they were always described

or depicted in floating above some quote

unquote

of regular people since the Anunnaki are

never depicted floating above people's

heads we can see that they want people

to believe that the solar disk icon

equals the Anunnaki spacecraft this is

wrong for several reasons number one the

solar disks in the Sumerian culture

really did represent the Sun or the Sun

God the Sun traveling across the sky

every day was seemed to have been

facilitated by wings on the Sun you need

to know that there is nothing in these

descriptions of the Sun in the Sumerian

texts that would suggest that they were

really talking about a UFO as boring as

it may be they were really talking about

the Sun one way to demonstrate this is

found in the Epic of Gilgamesh Gilgamesh

worships shamash the Sun God in order to

get favor for part of his journey and he

does this by facing east in the morning

that is in the direction of the Rising

Sun the idea that ancient aliens

proposes here that the Anunnaki actually

came out of the solar disks or that they

were pictured riding in them is just a

lie there's no way around it we can find

out only descriptions of the Anunnaki

but also depictions and we can seem in

statues in carvings so it's all very

interesting to see that those beings

look like modern-day space travelers

with weird suits some of them wore

wristwatches they had boots on and

helmets and above all wings all

throughout the ancient alien series they

show these pictures of Akkadian winged

genies and refer to them as Anunnaki but

funnily enough winged genies aren't

Anunnaki in fact these relief

aren't even Sumerian they're Akkadian

but hey while we're here we might as

well explain what's going on in these

images even though they have absolutely

nothing to do with the Anunnaki the

belief was that certain aspects of

nature were controlled by these winged

genies most notably they were

responsible for the fertilization of the

crops they were often depicted with a

bucket of pollen or water in one hand

and a group of male flowers or a

pinecone in the other hand they often

are depicted as fertilizing a date tree

which was a symbol of fruitfulness

sometimes they would be depicted as

being pointed at the king which because

of the accompanying inscriptions we know

means that the king was seen to be a

type of intermediary between the gods

and responsible for the fruitfulness of

the land and the people one way to

demonstrate this is by explaining what

ancient aliens calls a wristwatch first

you should take note that if this is a

watch

then these genies were serious about

timekeeping because they wore one of

these on both wrists and often on a

headband as well

this watch is actually an Akkadian

symbol for Ishtar the goddess of

fertility you can see the same rosette

on the famous Ishtar Gate in Babylon the

fertility of the land was associated

with as you might expect the goddess of

fertility and these beans are depicted

as acting on behalf of Ishtar as they

fertilized this date tree this also

probably explains the wings considering

that the natural and visible way that a

flower is pollinated is through bees and

birds therefore it's not so hard to see

that they were depicting their spiritual

agents of pollination with wings as well

zecharia sitchin has essentially

suggested that the reason why we were

visited in the remote past is because

the ancient astronauts home planet

needed gold for their atmosphere and

that their gold content

the atmosphere was depleting so they

came to earth in order to mine gold and

bring it back to their home planet this

idea about aliens coming to mind gold

for their atmosphere in the ancient past

is widely repeated by ancient astronaut

theorists in fact it's become something

of a foundational idea in the movement

this idea traces directly back to

zecharia sitchin and has absolutely

nothing to do with Sumerian texts it's

interesting to note that Sitchin doesn't

even give a place in the Sumerian texts

to justify this notion that they needed

gold for their atmosphere he says the

following in his book the wars of gods

and men the metal with its unique

properties was needed back home for a

vital need as best as we can make out

this vital need could have been for

suspending the gold particles in Nibiru

'he's waning atmosphere and thus

shielded from critical dissipation so he

says as best as we can make out well who

is we and what text would even hint at

that idea

Sitchin never says he simply creates

this idea of gold particles being needed

in a planet's atmosphere out of nowhere

nowadays you can do a word search for

the uses of the word gold in the

Sumerian texts we can read every mention

of this word not only are the mentions

of the word gold relatively few in the

Sumerian text there is nothing to

indicate anything but the most ordinary

uses for gold in fact it's a

surprisingly boring study thanks to the

meticulous cataloguing of the Sumerian

texts over the last few decades and the

advent of the internet we no longer have

to take people like Sitchin's word for

it there are some databases online that

allow you to search through Sumerian

texts and I have a video on my website

WWE is wrong calm if you go there and

you click on the anunnaki tab I will

show you how to search through something

called the electronic texts corpus of

Sumerian literature I'll show you how

you can search for all the occurrences

of the word Anunnaki and then click

through to English translations of all

those occurrences you

can find this material and I would

encourage you to do so because you can

check up on zecharia sitchin can check

up on me when i claim that there are no

texts there are no tablets that have for

instance the Anunnaki on Nibiru or

associated with Nibiru that Nibiru isn't

a planet beyond Pluto when I say those

things how easy would it be to prove me

wrong if you knew how to search for

those terms it'd be real easy and I

encourage you to check up on me check up

on everybody else and do the work you

can access this material and know who's

telling you the truth

we can finally see for ourselves why the

Sumerian scholars have been so critical

of Sitchin not because they're too

close-minded or anything like that but

rather because Sitchin really doesn't

seem to know what he's talking about let

me give you an example of how stitching

comes up with his quote amazing

translations let's take this idea that

the Sumerian texts speak of mining gold

now since the Sumerian texts do not

speak of mining gold in any way Sitchin

has to construct this idea out of thin

air this is how he did it I'll read from

his first book the 12th planet quote

some Mesopotamian hymns to EA exalt him

as Bell nimac II translated Lord of

wisdom but the correct translation

should undoubtedly be Lord of mining in

classic Sitchin style he never gives any

reason that the quote correct

translation should undoubtedly be Lord

of mining he just says it should be and

leaves it at that again we have Sumerian

dictionaries written by the Sumerian

scribes themselves and the Sumerians

don't agree with Sitchin here so why

should we I think one way to demonstrate

how bad of a translation this is is to

read a little about EA or inky's wisdom

in context and let you see if it makes

sense to you as meaning wisdom or if it

really means mining this is an example

from a Sumerian text called an uma Elish

it says he who understands all the wise

one the great one EA who knows all that

is perceived the plot he countered it

with a powerful spell not only does it

describe

his wisdom further here by saying quote

he who understands all but it also says

that because of this wisdom he was able

to perceive the plot before it happened

encounter it none of what we just read

make sense if wisdom really means mining

here's another one from the same epic ei

who knows all things knew he could not

defeat King GU and the host of T Amon

here again we see a contextual

definition of EA's knowledge he knows

all again we see that his knowledge

helped him understand that he could not

defeat King gu these are not isolated

descriptions of this knowledge EA is the

god of wisdom for a reason nothing said

about him makes sense if his knowledge

means mining or even knowledge about

mining all the stories about him

highlight his great understanding and

conversely there isn't even a hint that

he cares a lick about digging for gold

or anything else it's just not there it

requires an ignorant of the Sumerian

texts in order to be believed let's move

on to another claim about the Anunnaki

virtually every story that's in Genesis

of the flood story of Adam and Eve story

they all have precedence with the

ancient Sumerians the story that came

down to the Sumerians is that the

anunnaki were mining gold on the earth

and the run of the mill workers

complains that this is really hard work

and we're tired we don't want to do this

anymore and so they had a big councilmen

side them create a primitive worker

called on a dam oh the Anunnaki created

humans as a slave species the first

thing to be aware of here is that in the

epoch of creation that they're referring

to here the gods weren't mining gold the

work that the gods were doing is

creating the world kind of what you

would expect from a creation epic it

even specifically states that they were

making mountains and rivers such as the

tigress and your freight ease the gods

here were tired of creating the earth

not gold-mining the epic goes on to

describe the following events the gods

decide to mix up themselves with clay

and make man as the version of men that

they made increased in number the noise

that they made angered the gods so they

decide to

kill them off with the flood one man is

instructed to build a boat

he puts animals on it it rains for seven

days and seven nights and the man and

his family are saved there are many

similarities between these Sumerian

writings and to the biblical accounts of

the creation of man and Noah's Flood

some people think that this is due to

the writers of the Bible copying the

earlier Sumerian writings this is

problematic because even the critics who

specialize in this style of ancient

literature say there is no evidence of

literary borrowing in fact just the

opposite they propose that they must be

referring to a common source for the

information

one paper by haidle milord and dam Roche

concludes this way quote literary

dependence cannot be demonstrated here

as in most of the parallels in primeval

history it is considered more likely

that the Mesopotamian and biblical

traditions are based on a common source

some understand this common source to be

a piece of more ancient literature while

others consider it the actual event add

to this that it's not just the Sumerian

text and the Bible that are talking

about the same basic story but obvious

elements of the story can be found in

almost every early culture regardless of

its location take for example the story

of Viracocha in South America Veera

kochiya created the heavens and the

earth he then took large stones and

breathed life into them but they became

giants so he sent a flood to wipe them

out after the flood he breathed into

smaller stones than the first time

thereby creating smaller people which

were then scattered all over the world

and in the Bible in Genesis 6 we see

something similar the sons of God

disobeyed God they came to earth had sex

with human women producing giants called

Nephilim the Nephilim over time almost

eliminated the original human population

and this is one of the reasons that God

sent the flood these stories are found

in some form in cultures as

geographically separated as you can get

there in China Europe the Middle East

there found a Native American traditions

in South America and many others these

similarities are too obvious to simply

dismiss things like eight people being

on the boat are mentioned in a good

percentage of these stories I personally

think that all these cultures are

drawing from the same original story

a story that was told only one way and

that as migrations happened from the

original group they started adding in

details that were more locally important

to them but that each of these cultures

sincerely believed that they were

passing on the true account of the

origin of humanity to their descendants

as this story was told ironically if you

take it at face value if there really

was a flood and all people except for

the ones on the boat were destroyed and

if most modern cultures were descended

from them the fact that the entire world

seems to have inherited the same story

would make sense because they

essentially have the same eight

ancestors who experienced such a

dramatic event and made it a point to

pass the story to each generation I

propose that something like this really

did happen in ancient history I don't

personally see any logical way around it

the question I have is which if any of

these accounts is closest to the truth

ancient aliens tells us that the

Sumerian version is closest to the truth

because they were recorded earlier that

makes sense to a point but we have to

remember that the events described in

the Sumerian text were still ancient

history to the Sumerians so the question

is not so much about the date of the

writing but rather their ability to

preserve the story I'll give you a few

very good reasons to seriously doubt

that the Sumerian accounts should be

given more weight where they differ from

the others the first is that Sumerian

stories are not logically consistent

take for example that in both the

Sumerian and biblical accounts

dimensions for the boat are given the

mere fact that an important part of this

story is the dimensions of the boat is

interesting but when you draw out the

dimensions you have on the one hand the

Sumerian boat being a big cube and the

biblical one being described by naval

engineers as nearly perfect for

maintaining stability without hull

damage in incredibly rough seas another

reason not to trust the Sumerian text

where they differ from the others is

that as every Sumerian scholar knows the

Sumerians constantly changed the details

of their stories to suit the different

situations for example texts of the same

story found in the temple of Enki will

differ from the ones

in the temple oven Jana even if they are

from the same time period but especially

if they're from a different time period

to quote one Sumerian scholar quote

inconsistencies are a regular feature of

Sumerian poetry in quote he goes on to

say that integration of different texts

by the Sumerian scribes often appears

somewhat careless compare that with the

ancient Hebrew scribes who were

notorious for taking their job ultra

seriously they had many rules that

governed their copying of their sacred

texts for example it is said that they

would have to speak every letter out

loud before committing it to paper one

example of a vindication of this

meticulous attention to detail is with

the Isaiah scroll found in the Dead Sea

Scrolls the earliest copies of the

Hebrew Old Testament before the Dead Sea

Scrolls were the Masoretic texts which

were copied between the years 600 and

1,000 ad so the Isaiah scroll one of the

best-preserved Scrolls would be a way to

prove or disprove if their scriptures

had been faithfully copied by the

scribes during the previous 800 years as

it turned out they did a flawless job

and the Hebrew scribes were vindicated

so when deciding which texts are more

accurate as it relates to their accounts

of ancient events it is far more logical

to assume that the group with a

tradition of accurate preservation and

transmission of their text should be

given more weight than a culture like

the Sumerians who seemed to have very

little interest in the accurate

transmission of the details of their

stories to sum up almost everything that

ancient alien says about the Anunnaki is

untrue which is not surprising

considering they copy and pasted almost

everything in this section from the

books of Zecharia Sitchin for more

information about Sitchin's errors in

his translations of the Sumerian and

Akkadian texts I would direct you to the

excellent website of dr. Michael Heizer

Sitchin is wrong com

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ancient myths are full of stories of

gods

descending to earth to mate with humans

according to many sources including

Norse mythology Greek mythology and even

the Bible we have the stories of the

sons of God or actual gods from Mount

Olympus or Valhalla and their coming to

earth they find the daughters of man

attractive according to ancient texts

the fallen angels not only physically

made it with the women of Earth they

produced offspring than the filum a race

of giants similar to those portrayed in

the story of David and Goliath I pretty

much agree with how they start off here

there are many texts from all around the

world that do seem to be speaking of the

same thing I also think that because of

the eerily similar themes in these

accounts it's not wise to dismiss them

altogether as a common idea that you

would expect independent cultures to

invent I think this topic is worth

looking into in depth ancient alien

seems to hold two contradictory opinions

about this issue on the one hand they

seem to be clear that they believe that

extraterrestrials came to Earth in the

ancient past and had sexual

relationships with human women because

they found them attractive ancient texts

talk about the fact that whoever visited

the earth in the remote past these God's

thought that earth women were quite

beautiful so in many occasions we find

stories where those visitors essentially

mated with earth women it was

misinterpreted misunderstood as

something divine that came here they

were flesh-and-blood extraterrestrials

when you look at Greek mythology and

many of the mythologies around the world

they have these stories of gods coming

down from the sky and have sexual

intercourse with these humans and in a

sense create a new breed of human when

all these encounters happened and when

women slept with those gods which can be

found in multiple texts all around the

planet

that those women actually had sex with

extraterrestrials not with gods because

gods do not exist but the view that this

event involved lust and sex doesn't fit

too well with the ancient astronaut

theory they would prefer the view that

what happened was artificial

insemination today artificial

insemination that's what happens today

you no longer have to have sex in order

to have babies we have the exact same

description thousands of years ago where

women without sleeping with anyone all

of a sudden became pregnant the problem

is that these texts are so clear that a

physical desire for women on the part of

the Angels was involved so in order to

make artificial insemination appear in

the text ancient aliens Stoops to a new

low one of the Dead Sea Scrolls is

called the Lamech scroll what Islamic

Lamech was a shepherd and one day Lamech

these women was pregnant and he said to

her this is impossible I was not here

for months but he's woman with the name

bathenosh swears no one touched me but

Lamech doesn't believe his wife

bathenosh and he goes to his father

which was Methuselah me and Methuselah

says to Lamech I can't help you I don't

understand this I believe you're women

but they must have nobody touched her

and I believe you what should i do so

Methuselah goes to his father the

grandfather now of Lamech his name is

Enoch now enoch tells to methuselah that

the guardians of the sky have made an

artificial insemination into the womb of

bathenosh the wife and he should accept

this child because this child would be

the father of a new human generation and

in the Bible this is Noah

they literally lie here I suppose that

von Daniken is banking on the fact that

not many people know about the text that

he is quoting from and so they probably

won't check his facts so I guess he

feels like he can just straight up lie

to people about what it says let me

break down some of the deceptions in

this clip and one day Lamech

that women was pregnant and he said to

her this is impossible I was not here

for months

the first big lie here is the idea that

the reason Lamech doubted that Noah was

his son was because he wasn't there for

months when the text clearly explains

that the reason he doubted whether Noah

was his son was because of the way Noah

looked von daniken just inserts I was

not here for months I guess to make it

seem like it couldn't possibly be Lamech

son which is very deceptive especially

considering that in the text bathenosh

his wife actually reminds Lamech of the

day they conceived the child and if you

think that's deceptive on the part of

von Daniken you haven't seen anything

yet

now enoch tells to methuselah that the

guardians of the sky have made an

artificial insemination into the womb of

bathenosh the wife this is unbelievable

in the text

Enoch actually says the opposite Enoch

clearly confirms that Noah is the

genuine son of Lamech so not only is von

Daniken bald-faced lying here about what

Enoch says about Noah in the text he is

inserting the idea of artificial

insemination out of nowhere on top of

this lie so you can see that one of the

main founders of the ancient astronaut

theory has absolutely no problem lying

in order to make the crucial link that

they need between the Nephilim and

artificial insemination in ancient texts

although I sympathize with the ancient

astronaut theorists and that I think

that the consistent details in the

ancient text about the Nephilim lead us

to the conclusion that something weird

really did happen in the ancient past I

don't think that the evidence points to

it being extraterrestrials from another

planet well the whole Nephilim passage

Genesis 6 verses 1 through 4 is

admittedly weird it's one of those go to

weird passages in the Bible that seems

to come up especially among people who

would really resist or not have a

supernatural worldview but as weird as

it is the the key there is a

supernatural worldview if we believe

that there are intelligent being

outside our own created world our own

material world if we believe in this

thing we call the supernatural and if

you have a supernatural entity why would

you limit a supernatural entity from

doing that again on what basis would you

have for limiting that property if

you're going to allow for that then this

idea of being able to mingle with human

flesh on some level or in some way

proceeds from from those assumptions I

think that we've already seen that they

are being deceptive with the evidence

that they present but I also think that

they are being deceptive with the

evidence they are not presenting for

example in many ancient texts from the

ancient Near East to the ancient

Americas this hybrid or Nephilim event

is spoken of in conjunction with a great

flood these stories with slight

variations describe the flood coming

because the hybridization was against

the creator's will

hey there's flood stories and all these

other ancient cultures and look at that

so it must be against some collective

memory and whatnot and that's legitimate

but the problem is is a lot of those

same sources the same apologists will

conveniently for one reason or the other

forget to include a lot of the other

details that come along with those

comparative flood stories and one of

those would be things like cohabitation

or some sort of interaction between the

divine world in the human world that

results in or produces you know kind of

strange offspring like the Nephilim it's

complex and pretty strange but it's

consistent and it is a story that many

diverse cultures have passed down to

their descendants they really believed

that this unnatural union produced

Giants but again because the consistent

stories of the ancient cultures conflict

with the ancient astronaut theory they

literally just throw out the evidence

were they giants

or is that the wrong word and the

correct word should be extraterrestrial

but the word Nephilim really does mean

Giants and the context of the various

stories clearly reinforce this idea

their height is often described or the

dimensions of their weapons are given

things like that

the term Nephilim really most accurately

means Giants this is the way ancient

translators themselves understood it

translators of the Septuagint and

Aramaic translations of the Hebrew Bible

it gets pretty complicated to explain

why that's the case on my web site

Sitchin is wrong com if you click on the

tab for Nephilim you'll find an

explanation they're part of the main

problem in my opinion here is the

differences in the definition of the

word angel according to the ancient text

versus the definition according to

modern pop culture if you wanted to

determine what an angel was using the

Bible or other near-east text alone you

would conclude that they have fully

functional bodies that they can have

meals with people they grab hold of

people they are often mistaken as humans

in the story of sodom and gomorrah the

people wanted to rape the angels we find

in the bible that the angels that

decided to rebel and have sex with human

women had to leave a certain type of

body and exchange it for another one

before they could do this the type of

body that they were said to have left is

described in this verse as a habitation

and the angels which kept not their

first estate but left their own

habitation he hath reserved in

everlasting chains under darkness unto

the judgment of the great day the word

habitation there is a rare Greek word

called oka terian which is used only one

other time in the New Testament to

describe the type of bodies followers of

Christ will attain at the resurrection

of the Dead so basically the Angels were

said to have left one type of body for

another type and the second type clearly

was capable of sex and reproduction

according to the Bible there is biblical

precedent for the idea that their flesh

can

things our flesh does in other words if

you're going to assume flesh then it

brings with it the capacities and in

some senses the limitations as well in

other words the Bible in detail explains

what angels are and what their

capabilities with their bodies are which

makes the following line from von

Daniken even more deceptive how can

Angels have sex this is impossible

you know a point in all of you angels

know something spiritual not something

as a body and has a feeling of sex but

they had sex

von Daniken's idea of an angel is

defined more by Hallmark cards than

ancient texts obviously ancient cultures

including the writers of the Bible

believed that angels could and did have

sex with human women the various

elements of this story are too common in

ancient cultures to be chalked up to

coincidence in my opinion but the

details of these consistent reports do

not benefit the ancient astronaut theory

in fact if anything it supports the idea

that the narrative of the Bible is true

or at the very least that the specific

details of that narrative was believed

by cultures as geographically diverse as

the Americas the Middle East Asia Europe

and Africa the idea of the Nephilim is a

strange idea but the idea that the texts

which describe them are referring to

ancient extraterrestrials does not fit

the evidence which is probably why

ancient aliens has to misrepresent the

evidence in order to make their points

there are many more topics that we could

have covered in this film like the claim

that this Egyptian relief is depicting a

gray alien which in more high-resolution

pictures can be seen to be a plant and a

vase which is depicted in many other

places in Egyptian art or this supposed

ancient rocket-ship sculpture which

according to this Turkish article

written in 2003 is a fake the article

quotes the curator of the Turkish museum

saying it's about 25 years old and made

of plaster ancient aliens goes on to

make many more claims throughout their

series but I believe we have covered the

best that they had to offer in this film

I could go on to debunk all the other

claims that they make and to a certain

extent I

on the ancient aliens debunked website

which I hope to make a hub for this type

of information but the main thing I want

to stress is that this is not about

ancient aliens getting a few claims

wrong here and there but their main

theory still being true that's not a

tenable belief in light of this

information you have seen the

unmistakable symptoms of the entire

theory being wrong I would also ask you

to take a long hard look at the authors

and speakers and charismatic

personalities that led you to believe

some of the things that I hope you can

now see are wrong I hope that this film

helps you to realize that they are not

as smart as they have led us to believe

and to consider what else they may have

taught you that isn't true we shouldn't

allow ourselves to be taken in by this

kind of thing we must be people with

higher standards when it comes to

verifying what is true do not become

enslaved to an authority figure they

should always be willing to direct you

to information so that you can do the

work and you can check on them if they

don't you should be suspicious again

this is just something that as a

professor as a scholar I try to get my

students to to consider and think about

because let's face it how many of us are

really into this kind of stuff ancient

languages how many people do that you

get somebody who comes along like

zechariah stitch and starts spouting

things about sumerian and akkadian and

hebrew and whatnot how many people

really have the ability to check up on

them well the answer is not many and it

just sounds like a horrible amount of

work to gain that knowledge so that you

could evaluate what they say and I

understand that but you should not let

that allow you to check your brain and

at the door you should ask that source

that person hey where can I look what

can I do what can I access to try to

test what you're saying please visit the

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