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>> NARRATOR: Ancient megalithic

stones cut with astonishing

precision.

>> What some people suggest is

is that they were using

electricity and power tools.

>> NARRATOR: Mysterious

sculptures depicting beings from

around the world and beyond.

>> There are all theaces here.

Even the grey aliens.

>> NARRATOR: And legends of

otherworldly giants creating an

entire civilization in a single

night.

>> If there's one place that

shows evidence of ancient

aliens, it's Puma Punku.

>> NARRATO Are the ancient

ruins of Puma Punku the result

of primitive man's incredible

ingenuity?

Or are they they product of a

much higher power?

>> Puma Punku is the only site

on planet Earth that, in my

opinion, was built directly

by extraterrestrials.

>> NARRATOR: Millions of people

around the world believe we have

been visited in the past by

extraterrestrial beings.

What if it were true?

Did ancient aliens really help

to shape our history?

And if so, might there be

evidence here on Earth of a lost

alien city?

>> NARRATOR: Bolivia, South

America.

Here, 45 miles west of

La Paz, isolated high in the

Andes mountains, lie the

mysterious ancient ruins of Puma

Punku.

Spread across a desert plateau,

plateau, at an altitude over

12,000 feet, the megalithic

stones found here are among the

largest on the planet, measuring

up to 26 feet long and weighing

more than 100 tons each.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: These are

the mysterious ruins of Puma

Punku, nearly 13,000 feet in the

altiplano of Bolivia.

What you have here are massive

blocks of granite scattered like

some kid's toy blocks around the

site.

It's like some giant cataclysm

just wiped out this entire area.

Archeologists are baffled by

what Puma Punku was, how it

looked, and what the purpose of

this enormous structure would

have been.

>> NARRATOR: Mainstream

scientists believe the site was

originally constructed about

2,000 years ago.

But in 1945, archeologist

Arthur Posnansky proposed that

Puma Punku was much, much older.

By examining the structures and

what he believed were their

original alignment with the

stars, he dated the ruins to

15,000 BC.

>> HUGH NEWMAN: Arthur Posnansky

was a researcher who was part

Bolivian, and he worked at the

site for many decades, and he

concluded that the site must

have been built about 17,000

years ago by studying the

archeoastronomy of that

particular site.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: We don't know

how old Puma Punku is.

We have had some circumstantial

dating, but we have been unable

to date the stones of Puma Punku

themselves.

They could be thousands, if not

hundreds of thousands of years

old, we don't know.

>> GEORGE NOORY: I think the

fascinating thing about Puma

Punku is how did these

structures get built?

We're talking about stone that

is 25 feet high.

Stone that is hundreds of tons.

>> BRIEN FOERSTER: Puma Punku 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.

Of all the places I've ever

visited, Puma Punku is the one

that I go back to time and again

because no one can solve the

mystery.

>> NARRATOR: Mainstream scholars

believe the andesite blocks

found at Puma Punku were formed

by hand with primitive stone

tools.

But some researchers point to

the intricate stonework as

evidence of the use of advanced

precision technology.

>> CHILDRESS: 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.

Not only do these granite blocks

have precision corners, but they

also have these difficult drill

holes that are going right

through the rock.

>> NARRATOR: But how could such

primitive people, living perhaps

tens of thousands of years ago,

have produced such flawless

stonework?

Might the ancient builders of

Puma Punku have fabricated the

megalithic stones with advanced

technology?

Technology of an otherworldly

origin, as ancient astronaut

theorists believe?

>> NEWMAN: If you look at the

stones carefully, and you get a

magnifying glass on some of

them, you can see some intricate

stonework, as though they used

machine tools or even lasers.

It's absolutely incredible.

I've seen nothing like it

anywhere on the planet.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: When an

architect or an engineer looks

at Puma Punku, one thing jumps

out immediately, that whoever

built this place had knowledge

of planning, of logistics and

had access to advanced

technology.

>> CHILDRESS: You know, Brien,

this is one of the most

interesting and unusual stones

here at Puma Punku.

It's got these perfect right

angles, and each of these small

drill holes are basically evenly

spaced along this routered

groove.

To me, it's clear that power

tools have been used on this

unusual block of stone here.

>> FOERSTER: Well, exactly, and

this surface is as smooth as a

table top, like in your kitchen.

There's no wave to it or

anything.

This was machined.

But who machined it?

It's an astonishing piece of

work, and how anyone could think

that primitive human beings

could have done this...

You know, it's just crazy.

If anything looks like ancient

aliens, it's this stone.

>> NARRATOR: But if

otherworldly technology was

used at Puma Punku, where is the

proof?

In Danville, Illinois, machinist

and toolmaker Chris Dunn has

put the Puma Punku stone to the

ultimate cutting test, using

both laser technology and a

modern diamond saw.

>> DUNN: We've got a

sample of the laser cut.

This is the diamond wheel cut.

And the top surface is the

original cut surface from Puma

Punku.

So, now we can compare the

difference between all three

cuts.

>> NARRATOR: Looking at the

stone under a microscope, Dunn

compares the two modern cutting

techniques with the part of the

stone cut thousands of years

ago.

Though age has worn the surface

of the ancient example, the

comparison reveals distinct

differences.

>> DUNN: You've got

vitrification on the laser‐cut

side, and then, of course,

you've got circular tool marks

on the side cut with the diamond

saw.

And then, whatever tool they

used to cut the ancient surface

must have been a different

method.

>> TSOUKALOS: Now, do you think

it's possible that some type of

a diamond precision tool was

used on the old surface, but

because it was such a long time

ago, that over time, the surface

became a bit more rough, and

we're talking ten or even 15,000

years ago?

>> DUNN: That is a reasonable

speculation.

I think we have to start

examining, um, a little more

sophisticated tools that no

longer exist.

>> NARRATOR: What did the

ancients use to cut the andesite

stone so precisely?

Might evidence of advanced

technology be found by further

study of the construction of the

Puma Punku stones?

Ancient astronaut theorists say

yes, and point to what they call

H blocks.

>> FOERSTER: It seems like

every one of these H blocks is

exactly the same, so it's like a

prefabrication process where

they needed X‐hundred of these,

and whatever machinery it is

that they had was able, with

amazing accuracy, to replicate

one after another after another.

That's very sophisticated.

>> CHILDRESS: Yeah, it's

an ingenious way of building a

huge granite wall.

And again, the whole thing is

just so incredibly precise.

Doing these kind of inside

corners like this‐‐ this just

can't be done, really, with

copper chisels and stone

hammers.

The whole thing is‐is just

so incredibly high‐tech,

even beyond what we would

do today.

>> NARRATOR: But how could

the ancients have managed

to move the incredibly heavy

andesite stones to the site?

After years of research,

mainstream archaeologists have

said the massive stones were

hewn at quarries over 60 miles

away and then rolled to Puma

Punku on logs.

>> TSOUKALOS: What nobody talks

about is the irrefutable fact

that we are at an altitude of

12,800 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.

>> NARRATOR: Could there have

been another more profound

method of moving these

megalithic stones into place?

And if so, how could such an

advanced engineering feat have

been accomplished without the

help of modern machinery?

>> CHILDRESS: 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.

>> NARRATOR: Might the ancient

city of Puma Punku really have

been built by alien beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists

contend?

Some researchers believe the

ultimate proof can be found

nearby, and also, carved in

stone.

>> NARRATOR: Southern Peru.

1549.

While searching for the capital

of the Inca Empire, Spanish

conquistadors, led by Pedro

Cieza de León, cross into

Bolivia and discover the ruins

of Tiahuanaco.

Less than a quarter mile

northeast of Puma Punku,

mainstream scientists believe

Tiahuanaco was once the center

of a civilization with more than

40,000 inhabitants.

>> PAUL GOLDSTEIN, Ph. D:

Tiahuanaco is probably the

greatest Native American

civilization that many people

haven't heard of.

It was one of the most important

antecedents of the Inca.

It was long gone by the time the

Spaniards came on the scene.

Yet, its level of achievement in

architecture, in political

development, in agriculture, in

many craft industries are on a

very high level.

>> NARRATOR: Most scholars agree

that Tiahuanaco was mysteriously

abandoned around 1100 AD.

But why?

Local legends suggest that

Tiahuanaco was built as a site

of religious pilgrimage to

celebrate the arrival of sky

gods at nearby Puma Punku.

According to ancient astronaut

theorists, the two sites were

not only built at different

times, but also by beings from

different worlds.

>> COPPENS: Puma Punku, I

think, is very of‐the‐gods.

And I think mankind did very

little with that site.

And then, nearby, our ancestors

built Tiahuanaco as a place

where people could come to

explore these places, but also,

I think, as a tribute site

where a god had once been

physically present on planet

Earth.

>> ERICH VON DANIKEN: You have

to differentiate two different

styles of construction: the old

style, which I call the

extraterrestrial style, and

then, the later style, which was

made by the humans.

>> TSOUKALOS: Tiahuanaco is

nothing else but a place of

pilgrimage for people to

congregate and remember the

time when something significant

happened at Puma Punku.

And the thing that was

significant about it was an

extraterrestrial visit by

ancient aliens in the remote

past.

>> NARRATOR: But if Tiahuanaco

was built to honor

extraterrestrial contact, as

ancient astronaut theorists

contend, might there be tangible

evidence?

In the 1960s, the Bolivian

government excavated and

unearthed the Subterranean

Temple at Tiahuanaco.

Within the walls of the square

sunken courtyard are hundreds of

stone heads with a diverse range

of features.

>> CHILDRESS: Here at the famous

Sunken Temple at Tiahuanaco, we

have all of the different heads

that have been inserted into the

walls.

It's sometimes said that there

are all the races of mankind

represented here, even elongated

skulls, people wearing turbans,

people with broad noses, people

with thin noses, people with

thick lips, people with thin

lips, and some of the statues

are particularly unusual.

>> FOERSTER: They don't seem to

represent the local people.

They seem to represent every

type and shape of human head

existing on the planet.

Two of them, which are very

intriguing, are white in color,

and they look very much like

grey alien heads.

>> COPPENS: When we're looking

at the carved heads of the

Tiahuanaco complex, you really

see that it's almost as if this

is a UN headquarters, whereby

everybody was able to come there

because all cultures on planet

Earth accepted that Tiahuanaco

was so special because this was

a place where contact with the

divine had been made.

>> NARRATOR: Some researchers

believe a large statue at the

center of the sunken temple

depicts the creator god, known

as Viracocha.

But why would the inhabitants of

Tiahuanaco have depicted their

most prominent god with features

unlike their own?

>> CHILDRESS: He has got a beard

and a moustache.

And that is an unusual thing,

because American Indians do not

have beards and moustaches.

>> FOERSTER: Exactly.

The fact, also, that the beard

and the moustache are so

pronounced.

They're not little wispy ones.

They're major, so, that

indicates that this person was

not a South American native, but

clearly came from another land.

>> CHILDRESS: And an important

person, too, who's somehow one

of the founders, here, of

Tiahuanaco.

Maybe even somebody who's come

from Sumeria to South America.

>> NARRATOR: Is it possible that

the Sumerians‐‐ a civilization

established in 4,000 BC and

located nearly 8,000 miles

away‐‐ could be connected to the

early inhabitants of Tiahuanaco?

If so, how?

Ancient astronaut theorists

believe the answer can be found

at the Precious Metals Museum in

La Paz, Bolivia.

>> CHILDRESS: This is perhaps

one of the most important

archaeological artifacts ever

discovered in Tiahuanaco or

Puma Punku.

This is the famous Fuente Magna

Bowl discovered near Tiahuanaco.

It's a ceramic bowl, and it has

written on it Sumerian

cuneiform, plus Proto‐Sumerian

hieroglyphic script.

This script is coming from circa

3,000 BC.

It draws a direct connection

between the ancient Sumerians

and Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku.

>> NARRATOR: Discovered near

Lake Titicaca by a local farmer

in the 1950s, researchers

believe the vessel provides

proof of extraterrestrial

intervention at Puma Punku.

>> CHILDRESS: The idea of

Sumerian writing being here

at Puma Punku and Tiahuanaco

would seem to relate to the

late Zecharia Sitchin, and his

ideas that the Sumerians were

also interacting with these

space beings called the

Annunaki.

So, in that case, the Annunaki

were there in Sumeria, but also

here at Puma Punku and

Tiahuanaco in South America.

>> NARRATOR: Could the stone

sculptures found at Tiahuanaco

really be evidence of

interaction with

extraterrestrial beings, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

Perhaps the answer can be found

by examining the legends of the

creator god, Viracocha, and his

mysterious origins.

>> NARRATOR: The Andes

Mountains, Peru.

Here, 12 miles north of Puma

Punku, lie the murky waters

of Lake Titicaca, the largest

lake in South America.

According to local legends, the

god Viracocha rose up from the

depths of this lake to create

the sun, the stars and mankind.

>> NEWMAN: Legend states that

Viracocha, the great creator god

of the Inca and the prehistoric

civilization of the area,

emerged from Lake Titicaca, and

he went to Tiahuanaco and

brought civilization to that

part of the world.

He then went to Puma Punku, and

this is where he said he made

men and women from stone and

took them to the four corners of

the Earth to spread their seed.

>> VON DANIKEN: 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.

"These 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."

>> NEWMAN: One of the legends of

Puma Punku states that it was

built by a race of giants in one

night after a great cataclysm

and flood had destroyed the

whole area.

But what's really interesting is

that, who were these giants?

Where did they come from?

Was it Viracocha and his band of

followers?

Was it some other beings from

some other place?

>> TSOUKALOS: One of the

earliest chronicles that we have

in regards to Puma Punku talks

about that these giant platforms

were moved through the air by

the sound of a trumpet.

They basically floated into

place.

So, do we have some type of

sound technology here?

And the answer is a potential

yes.

>> NARRATOR: Might the legends

of giants‐‐ and stones floating

through the air‐‐ have been

inspired by some sort of

mysterious events in the distant

past?

Or were they the result of alien

beings visiting Earth in

prehistoric times, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe?

>> VON DANIKEN: Now, I come with

the speculation.

Extraterrestrials arrive.

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.

Now the natives come.

They see these ruins.

They touch it with their

fingers.

They say, "Look at this.

It's so smooth, it's so sharp.

The gods did it."

The place becomes a holy place.

And now, the natives start to

construct temples, altars in

honor of the gods.

So you have two technologies.

One was an extraterrestrial

technology, and the other was

the humans with their altars and

their temples.

>> NARRATOR: In the center of

the temples at Tiahuanaco lie

the ruins of a stone arch called

the Gateway of the Sun.

Cut and shaped from a single

andesite stone weighing more

than ten tons, archaeologists

believe the ten‐foot tall,

13‐foot wide megalith was once

the gateway leading to Puma

Punku.

>> GOLDSTEIN: The Gateway of the

Sun is probably the entrance, or

one of the entrances, to the

Puma Punku temple.

And as such, it's very

important, because this is how

the people of Tiahuanaco

conducted their ritual, by

funneling people through

increasingly smaller gateways

and stairways to more and more

sacred precincts.

>> NARRATOR: On the upper

portion of the arch, intricate

carvings can be found of nearly

50 winged beings on either side

of what is believed to be the

great creator god, Viracocha.

Interpretations of the

engravings suggest they refer to

a calendar describing a time as

far back as 27,000 BC.

>> CHILDRESS: So, here we are at

the famous Gate of the Sun, with

Viracocha right in the middle,

holding two scepters, surrounded

by bird men.

>> FOERSTER: That's a common

depiction in ancient societies,

is a man who's able to fly.

That would have probably been an

interpretation by the native

people of someone coming from

the sky or from the heavens.

>> CHILDRESS: It's part of our

idea, too, that some giant

airship that was a factory with

power tools and power saws and

routers and drills just landed

here and began processing these

giant blocks of stone, and then

ultimately, created Puma Punku.

>> NEWMAN: It seems like the

whole complex was some kind of

technological kind of factory.

And if my research is correct,

it looks like they were using it

to create energy of some sort.

So, what some people suggest is

is that they were using

electricity and power tools,

which sounds incredible when we

think about it because they were

modern inventions.

But actually, if you look at the

quality of the stone work, you

have to admit something like

that was going on there.

>> CHILDRESS: When you look at

the complexity of Puma Punku,

the huge platforms, the

interlocking blocks that was

made into what they thought were

indestructible walls,

what you could have is the kind

of perfectly made granite space

port that extraterrestrials

would want.

>> NARRATOR: Might Puma Punku be

the remains of an intergalactic

outpost built by otherworldly

beings tens of thousands of

years ago, as ancient astronaut

theorists contend?

Perhaps the answer can be found

using modern technology to

examine the purpose for which

the site was built in the first

place.

>> NARRATOR: January, 2011.

Researchers survey and measure

the monolithic stones and

H‐blocks scattered around the

archeological site of Puma

Punku, hoping to solve the

mystery of what these structures

were used for and why.

>> TSOUKALOS: The evidence that

something extraordinary happened

at Puma Punku is in front of our

very eyes.

Because at Puma Punku, we find

evidence of stone cuts that we

today could only replicate if we

used the most sophisticated of

technologies.

>> FOERSTER: That is part of the

great mystery of Puma Punku.

It seems as though some kind of

factory was set up there to make

these almost exactly the same.

It's almost like a Lego system

of interconnecting blocks, and

that is unique on this Earth.

>> VON DANIKEN: Many of the

blocks were prefabricated

blocks.

Prefabricated blocks means

planning.

You have to make a design.

Planning means writing.

Now the archaeologists say that

Puma Punku are the ruins of

temples made by the Aymara.

Aymara are the highland Indians

up there.

But the Aymara were Stone Age

people.

They had not even writing.

So not planning, it's absolutely

impossible.

Prefabricated blocks in Stone

Age doesn't fit with Stone Age.

And the precision of the blocks

is absolutely baffling.

>> NARRATOR: In Danville,

Illinois, toolmaker Chris Dunn

uses measurements taken at Puma

Punku to create a

one‐eighth‐scale model of an

H‐block to better understand

how they may have originally fit

together.

>> TSOUKALOS: So you actually

went to Puma Punku to measure

the H‐blocks.

What was your conclusion?

What did you find?

>> DUNN: For me, it was

important to find out what the

measurements were.

What I found was that the

internal cavities were not

parallel to each other.

>> TSOUKALOS: And by internal

cavities, you're referring to

these two parts right here,

right?

>> DUNN: Exactly.

>> TSOUKALOS: Mm‐hmm.

>> DUNN: These two surfaces

right here, both top and bottom,

uh, they are smaller at the

front than they are at the back.

>> TSOUKALOS: Essentially

suggesting a dovetail.

>> DUNN: Creating a dovetail.

>> TSOUKALOS: Mm‐hmm.

Why do you think a dovetail

shape was carved or used?

>> DUNN: Really, if we look at

the way we have used dovetails,

we use them for mechanical

purposes‐‐ to hold things

together.

So, essentially, what I'm saying

is that they were using these

H‐blocks for a mechanical

purpose.

Probably to hold, uh, hinges for

a door.

>> NARRATOR: To test his theory,

Dunn created a door hinge that

would connect to a small‐scale

model H‐block.

>> DUNN: So if we put this

together, we put the one in

the bottom.

Like so.

One in the top part.

Like so.

And then this piece fits in

there.

Put a hinge pin in it.

And now you have your hinge.

>> TSOUKALOS: Yeah, it's

absolutely spectacular.

And of course, the most

fascinating question is, what

tools were used 5,000 years ago?

Because something very

sophisticated was used and not

chicken bones.

>> DUNN: Not chicken bones, not

copper chisels, not stone

chisels.

The tools that were used to

create these blocks at Puma

Punku do not exist in the

archaeological record.

>> NARRATOR: According to Dunn,

the H‐blocks may have been used

to mount hinges for a massive

door, perhaps for one of the

largest temple complexes in the

ancient world.

>> TSOUKALOS: It's a spectacular

discovery that Chris Dunn made.

This lends a whole new meaning

to the H‐blockat Puma Punku

because, possibly, they held

something in place.

The question is: What?

>> NARRATOR: But Dunn's theory

on the purpose of the H‐blocks

is only one of several recent

hypotheses concerning the

complex engineering found at

Puma Punku.

>> PAUL FRANCIS: These had a

purpose.

NARRATOR: Model maker Paul

Francis from Dandridge,

Tennessee, offers another

theory.

>> TSOUKALOS: So you've

recreated these H‐blocks that we

can find at Puma Punku, and you

came up with a very interesting

idea where you put these blocks

together, creating what looks

like to be some type of a track.

So tell me more about what went

on in your mind.

>> FRANCIS: When I saw these

laid out on the table, I thought

it basically looks like some of

the World War II launch ramps

that the Germans used in testing

rocket‐propelled airplanes.

When I saw this, the lightbulb

went off in my head and I said,

yeah, with some wooden skids,

this would make a perfect

launching platform for an

ancient spacecraft.

So the skid would travel down

the H‐blocks, and eventually at

the end this would fall off, and

of course the airplane would

continue to go on.

And this is what I envision an

airplane looking like.

And this plane‐‐ it has an

intake.

It has your control panels, your

control surfaces, and basically,

I mean, this thing is ready to

go into outer space.

>> TSOUKALOS: I mean, this just

looks bad‐ass.

I mean, it looks really

unbelievable 'cause you've

basically taken an object that

was created by an ancient

artisan and turned it into

something from a modern‐day

perspective as it relates to

space travel, or at least

aviation.

>> NARRATOR: The concept for the

ancient spacecraft is based on

gold jewelry found in tombs near

Bogotá, Colombia.

After careful analysis and

modern testing of

reproductions of the gold

object, ancient astronaut

theorists suggest such

artifacts‐‐ nearly 1,500 years

old‐‐ are proof of modern

aerodynamic capabilities in the

ancient past.

>> FRANCIS: You know, when

these original sculptures

were produced, they're doing

a literal interpretation

of what they saw.

I have to take that

interpretation and I have to

make it into something that

would actually work as a

machine, so, in doing so, we've

added a cockpit, which the

original model does not have.

Also there are two small bumps

on the back of the original

sculpture, which to me indicate

rocket thrusters.

You have this cone‐shaped piece,

which could have been an intake

that this person saw.

>> TSOUKALOS: And we know that

these objects truly fly.

We know that 'cause these

experiments have been done

before, and they were

experiments that were

repeatable, meaning they satisfy

the scientific method, and so

your idea of using the H‐blocks

as a type of a launching ramp,

to me, is ingenious.

I've never heard it before, and

it's always great to explore new

ideas in this field.

>> NARRATOR: Might the H‐blocks

at Puma Punku really have been

used as launch ramps for alien

spacecraft?

If so, what happened to these

massive, seemingly

indestructible structures?

>> NARRATOR: Puma Punku.

For centuries, researchers have

been unable to explain what may

have caused the total

destruction of this ancient

site.

Some believe a massive

earthquake in prehistoric times

may have scattered its megaton

stones like toy blocks.

>> TSOUKALOS: Puma Punku looks

like some type of a junkyard.

It's as if the whole place, at

some point, got destroyed and

ripped apart in some type of an

upheaval.

>> FOERSTER: Puma Punku seems to

have become a victim of a

massive flood of some kind,

several thousand years ago.

There is evidence that a meteor

or a comet struck south of Lake

Titicaca, creating a wall of mud

at least six or ten feet tall

that covered the entire area,

and we can see evidence of that

today.

>> NARRATOR: At recent

excavations of Puma Punku,

researchers have discovered that

bits of andesite stone from the

structural blocks are thoroughly

mixed in with the soil.

Might such findings of this

unusual soil composition be the

result of a large‐scale

explosion in the remote past, as

ancient astronaut theorists

believe?

>> CHILDRESS: One possibility is

that Puma Punku was destroyed in

some artificial blast that

literally blew these buildings

apart, and then later, some

cataclysmic tidal wave also just

covered it with mud and muck.

>> FOERSTER: Some of these

stones are so smashed to pieces,

you can find them anywhere in

the area.

You'll find pieces of diorite

with the angles on it, so that

was part of Puma Punku.

So much of it is not simply

broken.

It's shattered to the point

where you can find little tiny

pieces of diorite anywhere you

look, and that looks to me like

an explosion happened.

>> CHILDRESS: When you look at

the construction techniques, it

would seem indestructible and

yet it was destroyed.

>> NARRATOR: But if the

structures at Puma Punku were

constructed with such precision

and with the heaviest, most

durable materials available, how

did it end up in ruins?

Is it possible, as ancient

astronaut theorists believe,

that Puma Punku may have been

struck by a devastating meteor?

Or could there be an even more

incredible explanation for its

demise?

>> NOORY: There could have been

an alien battle out there where

they were using technology,

perhaps nuclear...

...that blew up everything in

the region.

That's very possible.

Something could have happened

with our Earth's shield where

the sun's rays came through at a

certain time and just burned

everything and obliterated it.

The only thing we know for sure

is, those people at Puma Punku

are gone.

We just don't know how or where

they went.

>> TSOUKALOS: I think that Puma

Punku was deliberately destroyed

by its builders‐‐

extraterrestrials‐‐ right before

they decided to leave planet

Earth and go on to their next

mission.

>> CHILDRESS: It's hard to

imagine the devastating

destruction that occurred here.

It would seem like

extraterrestrials had some

cosmic battle on planet Earth

before they left.

>> COPPENS: There are various

sites across the planet where it

is said that there was contact

with nonhuman intelligences.

But when it comes to Puma Punku,

what you have is also the

archaeological remains, which

tells you something out of the

ordinary was happening here, and

when you lay upon the layer of

mythology, which says that the

gods were here, I think it is an

absolutely convincing case right

now, to conclude that Puma Punku

stands out as one of the

preeminent sites where ET will

have been in residence on this

planet.

And so the question then is,

Puma Punku being a base camp for

an ET civilization here on

planet Earth, if they left, does

that potentially mean that, when

they left, that somehow they

destroyed Puma Punku as well?

>> FOERSTER: If they made this

to be a factory or something, at

the end of its use they may have

simply blown it up... because

they didn't want anyone to use

the technology that they had

left behind.

>> CHILDRESS: The ancient Indian

epics‐‐ the Ramayana, the

Mahabharata‐‐ they're talking

about these horrific wars that

happened in the past with

airships, these vimanas,

spacecraft, huge destructive

weapons like atomic weapons, so

maybe Puma Punku was destroyed

in this ancient planetary war.

>> FOERSTER: Since it is unique

to the area, it may have been an

outstation or something for

another civilization, possibly

from India, possibly from

Atlantis, possibly from...

>> CHILDRESS: Outer space.

>> FOERSTER: Exactly.

>> NARRATOR: Precision

stonework... unparalleled

engineering... and

incomprehensible destruction.

Was Puma Punku really built by

extraterrestrial travelers?

And if so, what was its purpose?

Was it an outpost...

a battleground... or could it

have been a final destination?

Perhaps, one day, we will solve

the riddle and find out, once

and for all, just who we are and

why we're here.

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