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NARRATOR: Mysterious stone figures

found across the globe.

ANDREW COLLINS: The similarity tells us

that there is some kind of global culture

that existed in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR: Sacred idols imbued with an otherworldly energy.

DAVID CHILDRESS: Those statues were considered alive.

They had a consciousness.

NARRATOR: And massive figures sculpted from material

possessing extraordinary properties.

HUGH NEWMAN: With these stone giants, were they specifically choosing

certain types of rock for technological reasons?

NARRATOR: Could there be ancient statues

all over the world that depict extraterrestrial visitors?

And if so, might there be more

to these alien effigies than meets the eye?

WILLIAM HENRY: Maybe the stone giants

are gateways into other star systems

where humans can connect with extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is the promise of truth.

It demands we question everything

we have ever been taught.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We have never been alone.

NARRATOR: Sanliurfa, Turkey, October 1994.

While ploughing his field,

shepherd Savak Yildiz spots a strangely shaped stone

protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt,

he realizes that it may be part of a much larger object.

Shortly after contacting the local museum with his find,

he is visited by Klaus Schmidt

from the German Archaeological Institute.

It wasn't until German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt

visited the site

and began digging,

they realized what was really at this site.

What he discovered was mind-blowing.

After discovering the first T-shaped pillar

buried at the site,

he soon found more of these massive structures.

NARRATOR: Intrigued by evidence

that the structure might go back to a Neolithic period,

Klaus Schmidt has the sediment layers

of the site radiocarbon-dated.

The results indicated that the stone structures

could be as much as 12,000 years old,

more than 5,000 years older

than mankind's first known civilization,

in Mesopotamia.

More than that, it would place the construction

of G �bekli Tepe to a time when mainstream scholars suggest

humans were roaming the Earth as hunter-gatherers.

PAUL BAHN: Well, the site of G �bekli Tepe

really did send shock waves through the whole world

of early prehistory, because we'd never before known

or imagined, even, that simple hunter-gatherers

could produce such spectacular monumental structures.

NARRATOR: To date, 69 massive stone pillars

have been unearthed at the ancient site

after more than two decades of excavation.

More than one third of the statues

contain elaborate carvings of animals,

including various mammals,

reptiles,

insects and birds.

But also included are depictions of species

not indigenous to the area like geese,

armadillos and wild boar.

There are such an incredible range of animals

and birds and insects depicted at G �bekli Tepe,

the like of which we have never seen at that period

or anywhere else in the world.

And to have a whole bunch of them together is interesting.

You can speculate till the cows come home

as to what it might represent.

We have not the faintest idea.

HENRY: In the story of Noah's Ark,

we're told that after the deluge,

Noah's Ark lands at Mount Ararat in Eastern Turkey--

not far from G �bekli Tepe--

and we see some very strange animals

portrayed on the pillars at G �bekli Tepe,

almost as if it's a record of Noah's Ark itself.

Perhaps G �bekli Tepe is the place

where Noah and his descendants disembarked

and recreated civilization after the flood.

NARRATOR: If there really is a connection between G �bekli Tepe

and the biblical story of a great flood,

could the carvings found at the site

be an inventory of the animals that were rescued?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, but also suggest

other carvings depict a species not of this Earth.

At the center of each of the five megalithic ring structures

that occupy the archaeological site

stand two oversized monolithic pillars.

Weighing up to 20 tons

and reaching heights of over two stories,

they visually stand apart from the T-shaped stonework

that surrounds them.

These pillars are anthropomorphic,

they are humanlike in appearance.

They have low-relief arms

that come round to the front

and end in these long, spindly fingers.

They wear garments.

They have belts with strange symbols.

There are no faces on these stones.

The heads are represented by T-shaped terminations

that look almost like hammerheads, basically.

BAHN: They could be gods, they could be ancestors

or they could be very specific people who are being venerated.

We really have no idea.

HENRY: The archaeologist, Schmidt himself,

referred to them as the "celestial ones,"

or the "celestial ancestors."

And we have to ask if these are depictions

of the extraterrestrial gods at G �bekli Tepe.

NARRATOR: Yet, as mysterious as these statues are,

strikingly similar depictions can be found

in other parts of the globe.

An interesting feature about some of these T-shaped pillars

is the fact that these arms

culminate in the front around the navel area.

And what I find so cool is that this type of motif

can be found elsewhere around the world.

For example, in Easter Island,

with those giant statues, the moai.

There, too, the arms go around the belly

and they culminate in front of the navel.

And then, at Tiahuanaco, Bolivia, for example,

there is a statue that has the exact same hand position

in front of the navel.

ED BARNHART: At the city of Tiahuanaco,

in its central complex called the Kalasasaya,

is a massive monolithic statue.

The statue is said by the Inca to be a giant.

In the previous creation before men, giants roamed the Earth,

and they inhabited the city of Tiahuanaco.

And this is actually very similar

to the mythology of Easter Island

and the stories we hear about the moai.

We get very similar type of carved pillars

as G �bekli Tepe in other parts of the world.

There is a very strong similarity in style

which tells us that there is almost certainly

some kind of relationship,

that G �bekli Tepe is not in isolation,

it's part of some kind of global culture,

the remnants of a lost civilization

that once existed in the prehistoric world.

NARRATOR: Could the figures found at G �bekli Tepe

and other parts of the globe

really be a record carved in stone

of an alien race that existed in Earth's prehistory?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest further clues can be found

by examining the stories

associated with the massive effigies

found scattered across Easter Island.

NARRATOR: Easter Sunday, April 5, 1722.

Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen

is 2,300 miles off the coast of Chile

leading a fleet of three ships on an expedition

to establish a western trade route to the Spice Islands.

In the early afternoon, he is alerted by his crew

that they have spotted a small island

and that there is smoke rising from it in several places,

suggesting that it is inhabited.

When they reach the shore, they are surprised

by the appearance of some of the natives.

When Roggeveen and his crew

discovered Easter Island in 1722,

accounts were written down

that not only did they stumble across

normal Polynesian-looking people,

but as well, people of giant proportions

who were light-skinned, had red hair and even blonde hair.

NARRATOR: As recorded in the ship's log,

they also made another even more unexpected discovery.

JACOB ROGGEVEEN: We noticed certain remarkably tall

stone figures.

These stone figures caused us to be filled with wonder,

for we could not understand how it was possible to erect them.

Some of these statues were a good 30 feet in height

and broad in proportion.

NARRATOR: Roggeveen named this remote land "Easter Island,"

after the day on which it was discovered.

But today, nearly 300 years later,

Roggeveen's questions concerning

the strange appearance of the natives

as well as the origins and purpose

of the gigantic stone statues known as moai

have yet to be answered.

One can imagine that the moai

being set up all around the island with their backs

to the outside world, looking inwards...

...were a kind of protective barrier,

that the ancestors would look after them

and protect their little world.

HENRY: The thing about these moai is that they have

these very strange faces, very elongated.

They don't look quite human.

They're humanoid, but they're somehow different

than ordinary humans.

They look almost alien in appearance.

And you have to wonder: what do they ultimately represent?

NARRATOR: Carved from volcanic rock,

the nearly 900 moai each weigh up to 90 tons

and the tallest of them tower above the landscape

at heights of more than 30 feet.

There have been many theories over the years

as to how they were moved.

The first theories thought

that they must have been dragged horizontally

on sledges or rollers or something of that kind.

It was tried again recently for a TV film,

and again, they moved it a few meters,

but it really doesn't prove anything.

The idea that the trees were cut down at some point

and they were all used for rollers, wooden logs,

falls by the wayside because wooden rollers

would not be able to support the weight

of some of these statues.

BAHN: You're talking about several hundred statues,

and it would depend on the size and weight of the statue,

the number of people you had available to help,

the distance you were going to go, the kind of terrain.

So, basically, we don't really know.

NARRATOR: For ancient astronaut theorists,

the answers to just how the moai were transported

and positioned in the island can be found in the legends

told by the native people.

Legends that suggested a type of energy known as "mana"

was used to literally levitate the giant sculptures into place.

According with, uh, oral tradition and the legends...

The king was given the gift of mana

from the great creator god Makemake.

Legend holds that the king commanded

that these great stone statues walk.

TSOUKALOS: And one has to wonder, well,

either they all were off their rockers,

uh, describing these things or they witnessed something.

And I'm leaning more in the direction

that they witnessed something

because there had to have been a spark of inspiration.

And so, in my opinion,

mana was some type of extraterrestrial technology

that allowed these stones to be levitated into place.

YOUNG: When the statues had pupils,

they came to life

imbued with mana to have supernatural powers.

CHILDRESS: According to the Easter Island myth,

this power came out of the eyes of the statues,

and was this mystical power.

It's like it was creating some kind of force field

of energy that surrounded the island and protected it.

So you have to wonder if there's something real here,

and was it some kind of extraterrestrial technology?

NARRATOR: Of all the many mysteries of Easter Island,

perhaps the most puzzling

involves not only the construction of the moai

but their positioning on the island.

880 of the 887 moai face inland.

But on the west edge of the island,

seven of the moai are positioned on a platform

known as Ahu Akivi

and face outwardly, towards the sea.

Moais face in, it's believed,

because they're protecting the village that they oversee.

Ahu Akivi is the one exception.

The moais there look out to sea.

Not only that, they're identical.

NARRATOR: But why would these seven identical moai face out to sea

when all of the other moai on the island face inland?

Could it be that they were meant to point

to a specific location somewhere farther out?

Perhaps the answer can be found by drawing a straight line

from the line of sight of the seven moai.

Following it on a northwesterly route,

the first landmass in its path is the Marquesas Islands,

roughly 2,300 miles from Easter Island.

NASON: The Marquesas are extremely remote island group,

which is part of French Polynesia.

It's a three-and-a-half-hour flight northeast of Tahiti,

and it's a part of what's known as the Polynesian Triangle,

which is bound by Hawai'i in the north,

Easter Island in the east and New Zealand in the west.

It was the last place on Earth that was discovered.

And there's probably more mystery shrouded in the Pacific

than any other place in the world.

NARRATOR: To follow up on the incredible theory

that Easter Island's origins might be found

on one of the remote Marquesas Islands,

in June 2018, ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

set out to explore the islands for themselves.

This is gonna be a great exploration

to see what connection there is

between Easter Island and right here.

Should be quite the adventure.

TSOUKALOS: Hello.

- ANIATA: Hello. - I'm Giorgio. Pleasure to meet you.

- I'm Aniata. - Hi, I'm David.

NARRATOR: Arriving on one of the Marquesa Islands,

ancient astronaut theorists Giorgio Tsoukalos

and David Childress meet with local guide Aniata Kimitete.

- Let's go explore. - Great.

All right.

NARRATOR: She has brought them to an area

known as Kamuihei,

a sacred place believed to be rich

in what the natives call mana, or spiritual power.

Here they hope to find the answer as to why seven

of the nearly 900 giant statues on Easter Island

are all facing in the direction of this remote island chain

in the South Pacific.

ANIATA: So, we are arriving

at this spot where I really wanted

- to show you about this site. - TSOUKALOS: Oh, look at this.

ANIATA: What we see here is what we call petroglyphs.

- Yeah. - So you have three turtles.

ANIATA: So, one,

two, three, here.

And also, on the rock, you can see a canoe.

- Okay. - So you have the head of the canoe here

that looks a little bit like a bird.

CHILDRESS: Their canoes had a bird head

- at the front? - Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: You see the beak?

CHILDRESS: Yeah, that looks like a bird head.

- ANIATA: Yeah. - TSOUKALOS: And what is the significance

of the turtles?

TSOUKALOS: The turtle is actually

the messenger from the gods.

He was a very sacred animal.

People were not allowed to eat them.

TSOUKALOS: You know, I think this is really interesting,

what you said that the turtle is regarded here as a messenger

of the gods, because this is not something new.

It's not something native to this area.

There are other parts of the world where

the turtle is described by having descended from the sky.

And the idea that this is here, too, considered

a messenger of the gods, that, to me, is a connection

to potential extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Throughout the world,

numerous ancient cultures have origin stories

that involve some sort of a divine or cosmic turtle.

Followers of Japanese Shinto venerate the Kameishi,

a stone turtle that portends the end of the world.

In Guatemala, there are legends of giant flying turtles,

and even artifacts that feature the image of a man

wearing what appears to be a helmet

lying inside a turtle shell.

In North America, the Iroquois Indians tell tales

of a sky goddess who falls to Earth from the sky,

whereupon a giant turtle rises up from the ocean to catch her.

I think it's interesting here, this canoe,

which would have been very large, has the bird head on it.

and you have the Birdman of Easter Island

that are so famous.

NARRATOR: One of Easter Island's ancient traditions

involves Tangata manu, or the Birdman cult.

According to legend, the creator god Makemake

was looking in a mirror

and saw a bird land on his shoulder.

Seeing his image combined with the bird,

he decided to make a son who was half-man, half-bird.

In turn, the Rapa Nui people of Easter Island

worshiped the birdman as the predecessor of all humans.

One of the central focuses of the rituals,

the annual rituals at Easter Island...

...was that of Tangata manu, the birdman.

And the birdman is a universal symbol

that we find in many parts of the globe

that relates to ancestry associated with figures,

characters in feather coats who were seen to be able

to go between this world and the next.

And here we have the same ideas on Easter Island.

Is there more to see on the island?

- We have a lot more to see on the island. - Okay.

- So let's go. - CHILDRESS: Okay.

NARRATOR: After showing Giorgio and David the ancient petroglyphs,

Aniata takes them to a site that has some of the most

striking statuary in the Marquesas.

Right now we are at the Tohua of Temehea.

So the Tohua is the gathering place.

And so this sculpture here is a modern sculpture.

But is this based on something old?

Yes. Because the site that we are on was rebuilt.

Even though it's modern,

it's really based on the original statue.

TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow. Okay.

Is this considered a tiki?

Yes, this tikis represent the population.

So, to the Marquesan people, what is a tiki?

A tiki, at first, was the representation

of our god of magic and sorcery.

He was one of the only god in French Polynesia

that has the face of a man.

He became our protector,

because when you have a tiki by your side,

then you are protected from your enemy.

NARRATOR: In the Marquesas, the word "tiki" can be used to refer

both to an ancestral figure that came to the islands

in ancient times, as well as the statues that represent him.

They are variously carved in both wood and stone,

and often depict a being with large, goggle-like eyes.

The lore has it that Tiki was the primary ancestor,

and was created in the image of the sky god.

The local people made statues in honor of their creator god,

Tiki, and used them in worship.

And this is what Tiki looks like... as a god?

Yes, because they say in the legend that when Tiki

left the Earth, they made the sculpture

of how he looked like,

just to have something to remember from Tiki.

So that's how he looked like, actually.

It looks very strange to me.

This is a representation of what your ancestors thought

this figure looked like.

It doesn't look like a man, it looks weird.

Yeah. I mean, he sort of looks like a man,

but with these big goggle eyes

and the elongated head and everything...

he looks like an extraterrestrial.

From what you know, do you think that the people

of the Marquesas went as far as Easter Island?

Are there any legends or stories behind that?

So there is one story where...

when they said that one chief of the island

sent his seven sons to Easter Island because

they were fighting a lot over here.

So he sent them away.

Told them, uh, if they wanted to come back,

they had to make peace with one another.

NARRATOR: Seven brothers?

Princes who left the Marquesas Islands

for Easter Island hundreds of years ago?

I think it's really fascinating that in the Marquesas

there's a story of seven brothers that were exiled

by their father in order to go to Easter Island.

You combine that with the fact that there is this platform

on Easter Island with seven moais standing on there...

That would indicate to me that the Marquesas

and Easter Island are, in fact, connected.

NARRATOR: But if the stone carvings and ancient legends

prove that the origins of Easter Island

can be found some 2,000 miles away

in the Marquesas,

could there have been another, perhaps extraterrestrial, reason

for the exile of the seven royal brothers from their homeland?

Ancient astronaut theorists say yes,

and suggest the evidence points to everything

from the strange faces of the tiki gods

to bloody stories of human sacrifice.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress are

in the remote Marquesas Islands.

They are searching for clues that may help them solve

some of the most compelling mysteries concerning an island

located some 2,000 miles to their east... Easter Island.

I think it's really fascinating

that of all the standing heads in Easter Island,

seven of them actually point in the direction of the Marquesas.

And so now the question is why?

I think it's quite possible

that the Marquesas and Easter Island

are, in fact, connected.

NARRATOR: But perhaps equally compelling,

if not slightly disturbing,

are numerous carvings found throughout the islands

which depict strange, big-eyed gods known as tikis.

KIMITET: So right now we are at the Tohua of Hikokua.

The tiki placed on site like this,

like really a sacred site...

...they were made to scare the people away.

Because they were telling, hey,

this is a very sacred site, so be careful.

If you step on the site, if you do something wrong,

then something bad is going to happen to you.

So I think, if we are talking about extraterrestrials

in ancient times visiting,

and you follow the ancient stories,

when they came down with fire, smoke and noise,

that that is the reason why they were afraid.

There are multiple other versions of

the exact same motif worldwide,

with people with elongated skulls

and giant goggle eyes.

Like, uh, what comes to mind immediately is in Peru.

- CHILDRESS: Yeah, at Tiahuanaco... - Yes.

...uh, and Puma Punku you have

- the same goggle-headed... eyed, uh, you know... - Exactly.

...people, uh-- You have it in Mexico, too,

- with the Olmec statues. - Yes.

These may be depictions of actual extraterrestrials

who visited the Earth thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Eerily similar to the tiki of the Marquesas,

figures with oversized skulls and enormous eyes have surfaced

at archaeological sites throughout the world.

Among these are the dogu figures of Japan...

the aboriginal Wandjina petroglyphs of Australia...

...the terracotta figurines

recently unearthed in Northern Ghana...

...the trickster god Eshu of the Yoruba people of Nigeria...

...and the stunning petroglyphs of Karahunj,

otherwise known as Armenia's Stonehenge.

So it does seem that Tiki,

he's walking, he's living and breathing.

He's not just a spirit, is he?

No. He's not a spirit.

So, um, they say that Tiki is not really a god,

but he's not really a man, also.

Aniata, thank you so much for showing us everything here.

- It's truly tremendous. - You're welcome.

- Thank you so much. - Have a nice travel.

Thank you.

NARRATOR: One day after their informative visit

to the island of Nuku Hiva,

Giorgio and David travel next

to the nearby island of Hiva Oa

to see firsthand the most unusual

of all the island tikis.

Hello.

Good to see you.

Okay.

NARRATOR: As their local guide, they have enlisted

Hiva Oa resident Heimata Bono.

This is incredible.

So what are we looking at here?

What is this?

Oh, it totally looks like a llama.

TSOUKALOS: I totally think this looks like a llama.

I mean, there is no question in my mind.

And I also don't think that this was altered.

This is original. And I don't see any changes.

So either this is not authentic,

or if it is authentic, it's a llama,

and it proves connection to South America.

NARRATOR: South America?

Is it possible that the llama,

believed to be native to South America,

was known to people living on this remote island chain

some 3,500 miles away?

But how?

Some people say that it's a woman giving birth.

Do the women here in the Marquesas islands,

do they do this?

They lie on their stomach and give birth?

No.

TSOUKALOS: This is crazy.

CHILDRESS: Huh.

To me, it looks like something from the sky.

It's like, maybe, some flying vehicle.

- It's a great question. - Yeah.

Perhaps what we're looking at here is

some type of a craft.

Because you have the windows in the front,

which are these giant goggles, and then you have the mouth

in the front, which to me looks like some type of an air intake.

Underneath, you have a lifting body

that goes underneath the entire body.

And if you combine that with the story of this object,

or this woman giving birth, if someone has never seen

passengers disembarking from an actual airplane...

...if they have no idea what is happening,

well, all of a sudden,

a flying vehicle is giving birth to people.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that this ancient statue,

that has been interpreted in modern times

as a fertility goddess,

is actually depicting an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

I think that tikis are nothing else

but misunderstood technology that, over time,

turned into divine objects of magic and sorcery.

Can we go look at it?

TSOUKALOS: Oh, wow.

Clearly, this tiki, the head is missing.

But I see that it has six fingers.

It's very feasible to me that they actually tried to

imitate whoever visited, or whoever came here

to impart this knowledge.

Why would they carve six fingers if they did not see six fingers?

So we should not say, oh, this is just fantasy.

I think they saw someone with six fingers.

Is that possible?

- Yes. - Yeah.

TSOUKALOS: So these are protectors.

And all the tikis here, and the moai on Easter Island

are protectors as well.

So, on Easter Island you-you have seven moai,

and they're looking towards Marquesas.

Is this some ancestors, or a connection?

NARRATOR: All of the ancient tikis in the Marquesas

are positioned to look in the direction of Easter Island.

But why?

And if both the moai and the tikis are depictions

of extraterrestrial visitors, why do they appear so different,

both in height and appearance?

Is it possible that the seven brothers of legend

left the Marquesas for Easter Island

because they were fighting with each other?

Or could they have been fleeing for their lives?

For Giorgio and David, these questions

form the pieces of a confounding puzzle,

one they are both determined to solve before they return home.

NARRATOR: While visiting the ancient site known as I'ipona,

located in the Marquesas Islands,

local guide Heimata Bono

has just shown ancient astronaut theorists

Giorgio Tsoukalos and David Childress

a number of sacred tiki statues

which have six fingers on each hand.

That is very interesting to me.

NARRATOR: He has also just informed them

that the tiki gods were believed

by the natives to possess an extraordinary amount

of what they called "mana,"

a spiritual power which, if consumed,

would make the natives strong and virtually invincible.

So how-how does this tiki have mana?

How does it get the mana?

I see.

Here there are very large boulders of basalt.

It's very heavy.

I know in some places in Polynesia and Micronesia

they have legends that the stones are...

are flying through the air.

So they are giants, and very strong,

and they can lift these big stones?

Oh.

NARRATOR: Giant bones found in caves

on the Marquesas Islands?

Could this be the evidence

Giorgio and David have been searching for

that suggests the early inhabitants of Easter Island

were, in fact, giant alien-hybrid beings?

Beings who forged a colony of giants,

much like themselves,

and who commemorated their time on the island

by fashioning giant stone sentinels?

We have these stories of giants worldwide.

In Malta, we have some of the biggest megalithic sites

in all of Europe that allegedly were built by the giants.

The giants were offspring of the gods

after they mated with human women.

Then you have stories of the giants on Sardinia,

many of whom have been suggested were originated

by extraterrestrials.

And the origin story of the giants in the Bible

is that angels mated with human women.

The offspring were the giants.

CHILDRESS: So we have to wonder, are the seven sentinels

actually giants?

Part alien and part human?

Perhaps they were escaping the Marquesas Islands

because they were the ruling elite,

and essentially, they were overthrown

because they had this power.

And they went to Easter Island.

Heimata, it's been so interesting here.

You have such good information. I really appreciate it.

- Yeah, thank you for sharing. - No problem. You're welcome.

NARRATOR: Could it be that the so-called

seven princes of the Marquesas

were giant alien-human hybrids?

Hybrids who may have had access

to extraterrestrial technologies

that caused them to be thought of by the natives

as kings or gods?

Ancient astronaut theorists say the answer

is a profound yes.

And they suggest the moai statues,

representing these otherworldly beings,

continue to reveal new secrets to this day.

Of all the mysteries involving the island,

otherwise known as Rapa Nui, the most persistent involve

the nearly 900 megalithic statues known as moai

and why they were put there in the first place.

The moai are considered to be no more

than perhaps a thousand years old.

However, it has been established that some of them penetrate

down into the ground by a great amount of feet to reveal

the rest of the body, not just the oversized head.

And the amount of patternation

suggests that they are infinitely older

than a thousand years

and could go back many, many, many millennia.

When you visit Easter Island and you look at

the sites there, the statues,

the megalithic walls, you realize they're much

older than what, you know, history tells us.

NARRATOR: Further clouding the issue is a discovery

that was made in 2017.

With the help of photography and 3D modeling programs,

archaeologists discovered that the 13-ton stone hats,

known as pukao, on the Easter Island moai

contain a wide diversity of petroglyphs,

made by what appear to be different groups of people.

The hats that are on top of the Easter Island

moai are a little bit of a mystery.

But recently they've been analyzed, and carvings

have been found on them, which has, like, questioned,

you know, the idea of what they really represent.

Perhaps there is something else going on here.

It could well be that a number of

different cultures lived on Easter Island.

One of the most fascinating monuments on Easter Island

is the stone platform, or ahu, known as Vinapu.

And this is a huge megalithic construction

that is essentially a wall made of cyclopean

megalithic blocks that all interlock with each other.

When you look at this, you cannot help

but think of Cuzco in Peru.

And there has to be a relationship

between the two cultures.

All of these part of a much bigger transmission

of knowledge, where the belief,

common belief was an origin amongst the stars.

NARRATOR: If, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

the seven moai that face out to sea

really do represent a race of giant

alien-hybrid beings that fled the Marquesas Islands

hundreds and perhaps thousands of years ago,

do the hundreds of other moai represent their offspring?

And, if so, could they have had contact

with other parts of the world, making Easter Island

a virtual hub of extraterrestrial activity?

CHILDRESS: Easter Island has also got the strong legend

that it is the center of the world,

or the navel of the world.

And there are various places around our planet

that are said to be the navel of the world.

They're in Cuzco, at Delphi in Greece,

at Sardinia, and in Egypt.

In many cases, there's a stone ball

that is marking this center of the world spot.

And we have that at Easter Island.

So these navels of the world are apparently power places,

places of vortex energy.

It would seem that they're all connected

to this worldwide energy grid.

Why did this huge megalithic culture emerge here?

And perhaps this tells us

that there is some special quality with Easter Island,

one that was recognized by the ancestors

of the Rapa Nui culture.

NARRATOR: Were the moai statues on Easter Island

meant to serve as a commemoration

not only of Easter Island's extraterrestrial origins

but of the history of alien activity on our planet?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

these and other massive stone figures found worldwide

are not just effigies of the so-called gods

but may also possess

a significant technological function.

NARRATOR: March 1813.

Swiss explorer Johann Burckhardt is traveling north

along the Nile River when he comes across

three massive stone heads protruding from the sand.

Four years later,

a thorough excavation reveals a 3,200-year-old temple complex.

The Abu Simbel Temple, as it is now known,

contains some of the largest stone statues

ever constructed in the ancient world.

HENRY: In 1244 BC, the Egyptians built

in a mountain an incredible temple complex

devoted to Ramses the Great.

These statues are colossal.

They're 64 feet tall,

and the Egyptians would visit Abu Simbel

and they would see their king,

their pharaoh, as this great godlike being in his perfection.

And people would understand that their king,

their pharaoh was, in fact, a god incarnate.

NARRATOR: In the 1960s,

the temple was carefully dismantled

and moved to higher ground

to make way for the Aswan Dam.

Engineers overseeing the relocation efforts

paid particular attention

to assure that both the geographical

and astronomical alignments of the original site

remained intact.

Twice a year on February 22

and October 22, the dawning rays of the Sun

pass through the temple entry.

The light travels 185 feet

through a great hall of stone giants

and for 20 minutes shines directly

upon the carved statues of the Egyptian gods Amun,

Ra-Heractates, and the Pharaoh Ramses II

located at the end of the temple.

HENRY: These colossal stone statues

serve more than just an artistic purpose,

more than a political purpose.

That purpose, we're told, centers around the idea

that these colossal statues are transmitters.

They're utilized as a mechanism

of drawing down cosmic energies, cosmic forces

that then can be emitted into the surrounding area.

The question arises,

are these cosmic vibrations used in just a religious sense,

or is this more of a technological purpose?

While the Egyptians' notion of stone statues

possessing energy is regarded by mainstream scholars

as purely symbolic,

ancient astronaut theorists believe

that it was meant to be taken literally.

And they suggest evidence can be found

by examining similar ideas held

by other civilizations throughout the ancient world.

CHILDRESS: In a number of ancient societies,

people associated these statues as having an energy

and those statues were alive.

They had even a consciousness.

They had power in them.

HENRY: Some of the best-known giant statues in the world

are the moai heads that we find on Easter Island,

that were actually utilized by the Easter Islanders

as a conductive mechanism

for drawing down mana, spiritual power.

We found that in Cop�n.

Probably G �bekli Tepe is the same idea.

That these colossal stone statues

are more than just statues.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that ancient stone statues found

throughout the world were built to serve

a technological purpose?

While the idea may sound far-fetched,

geologists point out

that stone is not as lifeless as it might appear.

Rocks and us are made of the same exact thing, matter.

And all matter vibrates, it all has a frequency.

It-it all has energy.

When you look at a rock,

it's not just a plain, inanimate object,

it actually has tons and tons

of different types of minerals in it.

And these minerals are-are like a recipe and a cake mix.

They can be all different types of things.

Mother Nature has her own cookbook, so to speak.

ROGER HOPKINS: Stones give you a different feeling.

I mean, some stones will feel warm.

Some will feel cold.

Others will have a drama about them.

Stonework has a very primordial feeling.

I mean, the ancients were drawn to it.

WILLIAMS: All this radiation that we're getting from cell phones...

It's almost ironic, if you look at it,

that the one thing that we're trying to get away from--

the-the technology and the EMFs

that we're bombarded with every day--

we actually get those from rocks.

Most stones have a weak magnetic field to them.

And some rocks have

a more pronounced magnetic field to them.

And certain stones act as conductors of energy,

and I think the ancients knew it.

NARRATOR: Of all the minerals capable of conducting

and even generating electromagnetic forms of energy,

the most efficient and, at times,

most powerful are found in granite.

NEWMAN: Red granite is used a lot in ancient Egypt.

But why is this?

It's believed it's because it was

very, very powerful energetically,

and this is partly to do

with the piezoelectric effect of the quartz...

...because granite has about 55% quartz in its makeup.

And so when you put weight on it,

you actually get this effect

of like an electric charge coming off the rock.

NARRATOR: Abundant in nearly all

the ancient stone giants found throughout the world--

including the sandstone figures at Abu Simbel in Egypt--

quartz is known to possess piezoelectric properties.

Today, quartz is being used

for the most powerful data storage device ever created--

the 5D Superman Memory Crystal.

One of the new ways scientists are working

on data storage is the 5D quartz crystal.

And this is a way of keeping

a huge density of data in a relatively small object.

This is an incredibly secure

and lasting way of encoding data

because the data is actually

physically encoded into the crystal.

It's in there forever, until that quartz is destroyed,

and it's very hard to destroy that quartz.

NARRATOR: In 2018, tech entrepreneur Nova Spivack used

a 5D quartz crystal to create a permanent space library

and sent it into orbit aboard the SpaceX Heavy Falcon rocket.

Quartz is very stable, it's a crystal,

it doesn't change even for billions of years.

So if you put data in quartz,

it's gonna last basically forever.

NARRATOR: At the University of Southampton in England,

Dr. Peter Kazansky demonstrates

to author and ancient astronaut theorist

Andrew Collins just how this new

5D quartz technology works.

How much information could you put

into this small piece of crystal glass?

- 800 Blu-ray discs? - 800-- yes.

NARRATOR: This tiny piece of quartz glass

is able to store the same amount of information

as 600 standard smartphones.

And the amount of 5D quartz drives it would take

to store the entire British Library

could fit in a shoebox.

So, potentially, all of the information in the world

can now be stored indefinitely.

NARRATOR: To demonstrate how the technology works,

Dr. Kazansky transfers a copy of the Bible onto a quartz drive.

What we're looking at here, then,

is the very first stage of converting the Bible,

in this instance, into data which can be stored

within one of these memory crystals.

NARRATOR: The laser sends pulses into the quartz glass,

producing a grid of nano-sized dots or voxels.

A traditional storage device, like a CD, stores information

in pixels, and each pixel can hold one bit of information.

In a quartz drive,

each voxel can hold eight bits of information.

So, stored within here now is the entire Bible

within this tiny memory crystal.

So, potentially, this could now be preserved forever.

It's incredible.

NARRATOR: The technology that Dr. Peter Kazansky

and others are developing is still in its infancy,

but is it possible that some form

of quartz memory drives

could have existed in the ancient world?

Ancient civilizations clearly had

very advanced technologies for working with stone.

They had advanced technologies for working with crystal

and with metal.

It's a reasonable question to ask,

if a previous civilization was so advanced

it could build a pyramid,

could it have encoded data as well

in a form that we haven't figured out yet?

NARRATOR: Could it be that embedded within the stone giants

of the ancient world are massive amounts of data?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining colossal stone heads,

unearthed in Central America, that are magnetically charged.

A team of researchers from MIT, Harvard and Yale announce

that they have discovered unusual magnetic anomalies

within the colossal stone heads attributed to the Monte Alto--

a Mesoamerican civilization that emerged around 1800 BC.

CHILDRESS: Some of these statues have very strong magnetic fields.

The creators of these statues were

totally aware of these magnetic fields.

And that is something that shocked modern archaeologists,

that this rather primitive culture, they thought,

was aware of magnetism and that they actually chose

certain rocks because of the magnetic field.

NARRATOR: In Mexico, similar statues created

by the Olmec civilization

were also found to emit magnetic anomalies.

These intricately carved heads

vary in height from nearly five feet

to over 11 feet tall,

the largest weighing approximately 50 tons.

Like the Monte Alto sculptures,

most of these heads were made from basalt.

Basalt has large quantities of,

of iron and magnesium in 'em.

The Olmec were so precise

with knowing where the magnetic fields were

that they actually carved the structure

around these anomalies.

So, when scientists use a magnetometer

around the stone statue,

they notice the nose or the cheeks, around the chin,

the magnetic fields are strongest there.

COLLINS: The great heads of the Olmec are made of basalt.

Basalt is a volcanic substance.

And this closest source to many of these heads

is anything up to a hundred miles away.

Now, this is interesting because I don't think

it's simply the case

that the basalt was easy to sculpt

into the forms of heads.

WILLIAMS: Basalt is dense, it's very, very heavy, thick rock

and it's very difficult to work with,

let alone carve

with rudimentary tools like flint.

Because they range higher on Mohs test as far as density.

And flint is a much softer material than basalt.

So it's difficult to understand how they carved these things,

and the intricate detail on some of them

is just incredible.

NEWMAN: With these stone giants it really is a question

as to why they chose these specific types of rock,

like granite-- we find it's very crystalline,

it's also electrically conductive.

We find basalt,

which is volcanic, again, this is very magnetic.

And so, again, it can be conductive

for various different purposes.

And so what's going on here?

Were they specifically choosing certain types of rock

for technological reasons?

CHILDRESS: When we look at how the ancients were selecting certain stones

that were magnetic or had certain energies,

we wonder how they could know about all of the,

the properties of these stones.

Are they getting this information

from extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: Extraterrestrials?

Is it possible

that the ancient people of Mesoamerica

were given instructions

to sculpt these giant basalt heads by alien visitors?

But if so, why?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is simple.

They were intended to be used for data storage.

In 2017, IBM made a huge breakthrough in data storage.

They figured out how to store 201 gigabytes of data

on a square inch of tape.

That means a magnetic tape reel

the size of the palm of your hand

can hold as much data as you would have in 330 laptops.

WILLIAMS: Mag tape, mag stripe tape is made out of basically

very, very tiny magnetic particles.

And what they do is they,

they adhere them to the back of a thin strip.

And the way it works is, the little metal filings,

which are very microscopic,

they would all align in a certain pattern,

kind of like the grooves on a record player.

And it would take another piece of equipment

similar to the one that actually aligned them

to interpret how those particles are lined up.

And we still use it to this day for backup data storage.

CHILDRESS: And so, once again, we have to ask ourselves

if these statues were, in fact,

devices that had recorded information.

And information could be extracted from them.

Like a computer hard drive or something like that.

And so there's this energy associated with them.

WILLIAMS: Most people don't even realize

when they're looking at some of the artwork

or some of the sculptures

or carvings that the ancients did,

they can't figure out,

how did they know about magnetic fields?

How did they understand?

Well, maybe there's a technology there

that we don't understand today.

SPIVACK: We've been looking at these objects primarily

at the macroscopic level-- what do they look like?

But maybe there's information inside them,

encoded using nanotechnology.

Why is that likely?

Because we ourselves are doing the same thing.

By trying to store information

for thousands or millions of years,

you end up going to the same physical materials

and solutions that the hypothetical

ancient aliens may have also

figured out how to use.

NARRATOR: If extraterrestrials taught early civilizations

how to encode data in stone,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

what information were they trying to preserve?

Perhaps further clues can be found by examining

a number of megalithic sculptures

that stand in the jungles of Honduras.

Mysterious stone giants depicting a divine ruler

who could see into both the past

and the future.

NARRATOR: This ancient site, located

deep in the jungles of the Yucat�n Peninsula,

served as one of the most important city centers

of the Mayan empire.

The Maya thrived between 2000 BC and 900 AD

and are celebrated for having a vast knowledge of astronomy,

mathematics, writing and architecture.

The Maya were one of the longest lasting

and most expansive civilizations

that our planet has ever known.

Geographically, they covered an area from the top

of the Yucat�n Peninsula in the Caribbean

all the way down to the Pacific Coast of Guatemala.

It bled into what's now today Mexico and Honduras.

It was thought that the great city of Cop�n

at one time covered an area of, like,

ten square miles, something like 20,000 people.

But sometime in the ninth century,

this incredible Mayan city was abandoned,

its people vanished,

and it was swallowed by the jungle overgrowth.

NARRATOR: The ruins of Cop�n include

dozens of elaborately carved stone statues--

or stelae--

depicting Cop�n's semi-divine rulers.

These larger-than-life figures

covered with hieroglyphic writings

provide an intriguing account

of how ancient cultures revered the heavens.

TSOUKALOS: Cop�n is a place where even the archaeologists agree

that the celestial realm

was built on Earth

in order to show as above, so below.

And in Cop�n, we have that in-between level right there

laid out in this amazing archaeological structure.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

travels to Cop�n to meet up

with renowned Mayan archaeologist David Sedat,

who has been involved in the excavation of the site

for more than three decades.

David, great pleasure to meet you.

Well, I've been looking forward to this.

I'm sure you have a lot of things you want to see.

Yes, I do.

So, David, what are we looking at here?

Well, this is the Great Plaza,

it's over 100 meters. Larger than a football field.

And, uh, it's the southern, uh, portion

of the Great Plaza where the majority

of the great standing stone giants

that you've come to see are located.

NARRATOR: Before examining Cop�n's stone giants up close,

Giorgio has been invited to explore

the underground tunnels beneath Temple 16.

SEDAT: Watch your step and watch your head, it's low.

- Oh, wow, yeah. - Yeah.

Okay, well, look at this corbelled ceiling.

That's unbelievable.

NARRATOR: It was here that archaeologists discovered that the structure,

believed to have been built in 776 AD,

completely encased an older temple called Rosalila.

Giorgio will find Rosalila Temple especially interesting

because he'll be able to see

some of these stucco figures right close up.

And those images, are going to, I believe,

absolutely astound him.

Look at that.

This is extraordinary.

I mean, that to me, it looks like a helmet

and a guy with a regulator

or a microphone in front of his mouth.

Incredible.

It's interpreted as an ancestor figure.

TSOUKALOS: I see an astronaut in a helmet.

You know, rendered by someone who has

no concept what an astronaut is.

No, this is truly extraordinary.

The Rosalila Temple is one of countless examples

where archaeologists themselves are saying

this temple was dedicated in honor

of the so-called celestial gods.

The celestial beings.

Well, the archaeologists are already speaking my language.

The only thing they have to change is

change "celestial being" to "extraterrestrials."

NARRATOR: On the grounds at Cop�n

are 15 of what are called "stelae."

The most well-known of these

were built during the 36-year reign

of the ruler Waxaklajuun Ub'aah K'awiil,

better known by the nickname "18 Rabbit."

This is the first time I'm standing next to one of these.

Absolutely incredible.

What do the glyphs say about this

particular statue or stela here?

SEDAT: This is all a representation

of the 13th ruler who we have nicknamed "18 Rabbit."

And they show him taking on the persona

of the high god of Cop�n, Ju'n Ajaw,

uh, who was a sky god, the supreme being.

The motifs on his headdress and other attributes

show that he is a sky deity.

This is amazing to me

because here we have not only

a statue depicting something,

which is a picture, a carved picture,

but on the sides, we have writing, glyphs carved

that speak of a sky deity.

Now, when I look at something like this,

I'm immediately reminded of misunderstood technology.

Because imagine if a people who are intelligent,

yet their technological frame of reference

from 1,000 or 2,000 years ago,

we have to admit was primitive--

not their intelligence,

their technological frame of reference.

Of course, let me just add to that

that everything shows his connectedness of the cosmos

and this living space of mankind in all of its senses.

And by the way, I have seen that headdress right there

elsewhere on planet Earth.

And that is in Mesopotamia,

where you have Enki, and the goddess Ishtar,

with the exact or similar type headdress.

And by the way, Enki and Ishtar, too, were sky gods.

So, you have these references of sky gods,

not just here, not just in Mesopotamia,

but in each and every ancient culture

regardless of continent.

So, the fact that we have these examples worldwide

leads me to think that it was

a flesh and blood extraterrestrial

whom our ancestors misinterpreted as being God.

Why? Because they came from the sky.

Arthur C. Clarke said it best when he said,

"Any sufficiently advanced technology

is indistinguishable from magic."

Imagine showing your great-great grandfather your smart phone.

Right. That's right.

All of a sudden, you've become a magician, a wizard.

When we, uh, talk about technology,

I imagine some day in the future

that the technology will be such

that we'll be able to scan this stela here...

...and we see the resonances that are inside

the crystalline structure of the stone.

In other words, that these were great memory chip banks.

NARRATOR: Great memory chip banks?

For Giorgio, the fact that David Sedat,

a renowned archaeologist

and one of the foremost authorities on Cop�n,

is of the opinion that these stone giants

could be storing information about the ancient world

is an astounding revelation.

But perhaps even more extraordinary

is the next figure David Sedat plans to show him.

NARRATOR: While exploring the ruins of Cop�n

with renowned Mayan archaeologist David Sedat,

ancient astronaut theorist Giorgio Tsoukalos

has just been treated to an astounding theory

concerning the megalithic stone giants

that dot the landscape.

These were great memory chip banks.

- Wow. Okay. - And in the appropriate algorithm,

we could peel back into time

by hearing the sights and sounds

and everything that happened in this sacred space

and maybe answer some of the questions that you were posing.

Thank you for that, uh, I appreciate that very much.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that these Mayan stone giants

were designed in such a way

as to be able to digitally store valuable data,

much like today's so-called "Superman" crystals?

Every single thing we do using a phone,

using a laptop, that all creates little data.

We're even creating data passively.

We have microphones and multiple cameras in all our devices.

We don't know when something might be picked up

and stored to a server.

Or when you air-drop something to somebody.

Using Bluetooth and cloud-based storage,

we're transferring data to each other

and something could be picking up

this massive wealth of information

and storing that data somewhere.

SPIVACK: We've learned a lot about how ancient civilizations

understood our solar system and their world.

These civilizations had advanced technologies

for working with stone and metal,

and, in some cases, crystals.

We still don't know how they did what they did.

It's reasonable that, given these monuments exist,

that we should analyze them to see if there's

other layers of information encoded in them.

CHILDRESS: If these statues were in fact devices

that had recorded information,

you wonder if we have, also,

some evidence here from the statues of Cop�n

that extraterrestrials are coming to this planet.

NARRATOR: Could the ancient stone giants of Cop�n,

like hundreds of other stone monoliths

found all across the globe,

really be encoded with precious information

about the ancient world?

And, if so, might they also hold evidence

of extraterrestrial contact?

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned,

the answer is a profound yes.

And to prove their point,

they believe that one of the keys can be found

by examining the elaborate carvings

located on what is referred to as "Stela C,"

the same one that David Sedat considers the most incredible.

The inscription on this side starts a 20-year period.

Equivalent to December 5 is 711.

And midnight on that night,

the Milky Way was standing precisely straight up

in the tropical sky here.

The text goes on to say

that this also happened 4,600 years before.

And there is strong implication

that he was, as well-- like on that night--

witnessing this celestial event.

NARRATOR: Witnessing the event?

Is it possible that the ruler depicted on the stela,

known as 18 Rabbit,

was able to observe an astronomical event

that occurred more than 4,000 years before his time?

Let me show you how the narrative

picks up on the other side.

All right, let's check it out.

So, now here, this guy has a beard.

Well, yes, this is, uh, still 18 Rabbit,

but he's achieved great age, great wisdom,

telling us that he is witnessing

this astronomical conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years ago.

- Two million years ago? - Two million years ago.

- So, this stela here? - And he witnessed it.

Now, he witnesses this

astronomical conjunction of the Milky Way

two million years in the future.

- As well? - As well.

- That's extraordinary. - So, these stones have to be

seen as the supernatural personas

that can travel in time

simultaneously backwards and forwards.

You've just blown my mind.

NARRATOR: Supernatural personas that can travel through time?

If the statues of Cop�n

were really created as a means

of storing valuable ancient knowledge,

as ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

then how-- and why--

did that knowledge come to be lost,

along with the keys needed to unlock their secrets?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining a number of other stone giants

that were mysteriously buried

deep underground.

NARRATOR: 45 miles from Mexico City.

Standing guard atop a 30-foot-tall pyramid

dedicated to the feathered serpent god Quetzalcoatl

are four imposing warrior figures,

each over 13 feet tall.

The city's main temple

is called "The Temple of Quetzalcoatl."

On top of it stand four very large columns

in the form of warriors.

NARRATOR: Archaeologists have attributed the figures

to the Toltec civilization that preceded the Aztec

and occupied the region around 750 AD.

Like the Olmec heads of Mexico

and the Monte Alto statues of Guatemala,

they are carved out of basalt

and weigh eight and a half tons each.

These giant statues at Tula, they have a range

of odd features, but particularly notable

are the fact that some have three fingers.

It's as if these guys are standing inside

some pressurized suits...

...they have these packs on their chest,

they have helmets on,

and they have what seem to be headsets.

NARRATOR: While mainstream archaeologists

identify the statues as Toltec warriors,

their actual identity is unknown.

There is, in fact, no way of identifying

exactly who sculpted them, when they were sculpted

or for what purpose.

Also curious is the fact

that they were not found where they stand now.

They were found deep beneath the earth,

as if deliberately buried.

At Tula, they purposefully buried these statues.

And that would be to remove the power

that was also associated with them.

VIEIRA: You find many statues around the world

where there's purposeful vandalism,

because the belief is you disempower the statue.

It seems like superstition,

but it seems like the ancients,

uh, really understood a lot of concepts

that we really don't get.

CHILDRESS: The famous statues on Easter Island

were said to be alive and to have a power in them.

But eventually there was a revolution on Easter Island.

And they had to kill the statues.

They would snap the neck of the statue.

What archaeologists have done today

is re-erected them on platforms,

put the heads back on.

Did these statues actually have some energy or power

that the people were aware of and influenced people as well?

NARRATOR: Is it possible that information

stored within the world's ancient stone giants,

or the energy they contained,

was considered so powerful and so dangerous

that they had to be buried or deliberately destroyed?

Perhaps further clues can be found

by examining exactly where

many of these quartz-filled monoliths are located.

One thing that we consistently see

all around the world is that

ancient sites are built

on even more ancient sites.

And why are these spots special?

They have power in them.

They're part of this grid network.

And they placed giant statues

at these nodal places

and people associated these statues

as having an energy that came out of them.

NARRATOR: In 1972, Ivan T. Sanderson,

a World Mysteries author,

noted a distinct pattern

that emerged when he plotted locations

known for strange magnetic disturbances on a map.

His list, which included the Bermuda Triangle,

the Devil's Sea, south of Japan

and Easter Island

fell in a distinct formation that circled the globe.

Other investigators have since elaborated on his work

and mapped their own intricate worldwide grids

based on sacred structures

and electromagnetically charged regions of the Earth.

HENRY: Places like Machu Picchu,

the Great Pyramid, Kailasa Temple in India

are all considered to be nodal points

on the world grid.

And what happened in the ancient world is that they would build

stone giants where they could

tune into this cosmic energy.

The world grid is actually seen as an interdimensional doorway.

That these places are seen as portals or gateways

into other star systems.

NARRATOR: Is it possible that some highly advanced civilization

was responsible for teaching early man

not only how to manufacture megalithic stone giants,

but what type of material to use

and where to place them?

And, if so, were they positioned

to draw energy from the Earth

simply to power memory drives?

or could they have served another,

even more profound purpose?

43,000 miles above the Earth,

four magnetospheric multiscale spacecraft

fly in formation through the Earth's magnetic boundaries.

Their mission is to record data related to "x-points"

where the magnetic field of the Earth

and that of the Sun briefly merge,

forming an uninterrupted portal from the Earth to the Sun.

There are studies that are underway right now

to determine where and why these portals open.

One could easily connect this to the ancient belief that

there are portals that bring cosmic energy to the Earth,

and that the stone statues

become vessels of this cosmic energy.

Maybe the stone giants are the X-portals themselves

where humans can connect with extraterrestrials

in an energetic way,

and possibly even travel there physically

to other civilizations through these portals.

NARRATOR: Portals? Is it possible that the stone giants

served as interdimensional gateways,

allowing not only data to be transmitted and received,

but also extraterrestrial lifeforms?

The idea that these statues were buried

raises the question as to should they have been left buried?

If they were conveying extraterrestrials,

have we potentially reactivated them

by unburying them and putting them

at their original locations?

HENRY: The stone giants that we see scattered around the planet

represent a profound cosmic truth,

and that is that we once were connected

with the divine beings or the celestial beings,

and we've lost that connection.

So, by replacing those stone giants or recovering them,

we're actually reconnecting ourselves

with these divine beings, with celestial beings,

through these stone statues.

CHILDRESS: If we were able to completely understand this system,

a system which is apparently

not completely functioning right now,

and by rebuilding some of the giant statues

at certain places on this world grid,

we might be able to reconstruct

that worldwide system that was in place.

And quite possibly put by extraterrestrials.

In some ways, I think we're doing that right now,

slowly, bit by bit.

NARRATOR: Might the proof of humanity's extraterrestrial past

lie concealed within the effigies commemorating

the so-called "gods" found in G �bekli Tepe,

Easter Island,

Egypt

and other corners of the globe?

Could there be more to these enigmatic figures?

Perhaps someday soon,

we'll discover that they not only contain

a storehouse of encoded knowledge

waiting for us to uncover,

but also serve as a gateway,

allowing us to come face-to-face

with the alien visitors

our ancestors so meticulously immortalized in stone.

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