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>> NARRATOR: Mega‐machines
cutting through solid rock...

the transportation of multi‐ton
stone blocks...

modern aircraft carrying
millions of people each day

around the world...
and space shuttles sending

humans to the stars.

>> (over radio): And liftoff of
Endeavor...

>> NARRATOR: But are these
examples of modern technology,

or is there evidence that these
incredible achievements existed

on earth thousands of years ago?

>> You begin to have to ask
yourself, are we missing part of

the story?

>> NARRATOR: Could ancient man
have possessed knowledge far

beyond that of our own century?
And if so, where did it come

from?

>> I think that people in
ancient times were visited by

beings coming not from this
earth, and they gave us

scientific technologies.

>> It becomes all the more
apparent that the possible

answer of "Have aliens visited
in the past?" could be a

potential yes.

>> 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, what if there were

clues left behind, sometimes
hiding in plain sight?

What if we could find the
evidence?

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>> NARRATOR: Saqqara, Egypt.
Located roughly 20 miles south

of Cairo, it is home to the
world‐famous step pyramid of

King Djoser.
Dating back more than 4,000

years, it is the oldest of
Egypt's 97 pyramids.

Saqqara is also famous for being
one of Egypt's oldest burial

grounds, earning it the
nickname "City of the Dead."

It was here, in 1891, that
French archeologists unearthed

an ancient tomb containing the
burial remains of Pa‐di‐Imen, an

official from the third century
BC. Among the various items

discovered was a small wooden
model of what appeared to be a

bird, lying beside a papyrus
bearing the inscription:

"I want to fly."
The artifact was later sent to

the Cairo Museum, where
authorities placed it alongside

several other bird figurines.
The model sat largely

unnoticed, until 1969, when
Egyptologist Dr. Kahlil Messiha

was examining the bird
collection and noticed that

there was something very
different about the Saqqara bird.

>> DR. UWE APEL: It's
interesting because on one hand,

clearly, it should look like a
bird because it has eyes and has

a typical nose of a bird.
On the other hand, the wings are

clearly not bird wings.

>> DR. ALGUND EENBOOM: To the
middle of the rim, you see this

wing a bit thicker.
In this region, the lift‐up is

the highest.
The whole thing becomes thinner

to the, um, end of the wings.

And those wings, uh, model down.
And this is a very modern

aerodynamic design.

>> APEL: Then the other point
is, birds have no rudders.

Because a bird does not need a
rudder because of its

aerodynamic architecture.
And so, there is the idea they

are not representing birds, but
flying machines, or aircraft.

>> NARRATOR: Could the ancient
Egyptians have possessed the

power of flight?
In 2006, aviation and

aerodynamics expert Simon
Sanderson built a scale model of

the Saqqara bird five times
larger than the original to test

that possibility.

>> SIMON SANDERSON: We're
running at a constant speed,

slowly increasing the angle of
attack, and then measuring the

forces which it's producing.
That way, we can learn about its

flight characteristics.
At ten degrees, we're producing

four times weight and lift.
So, it actually would be flying

now. That's good.

>> EENBOOM: Test shows the
Saqqara bird is a highly

developed glider.
And this is the design we used

today.

>> NARRATOR: During the
Sanderson test, it was

discovered that the only thing
preventing the Saqqara bird from

achieving flight was the lack of
a rear stabilizing rudder, or

elevator, needed to maintain
balance.

Is it possible that the Saqqara
bird ever possessed this

critical component?

>> APEL: What is missing is
something like an elevator,

but if you look at this feature
here, then we may interpret that

something like an elevator was
connected here, but was lost

during history.

>> NARRATOR: Computer models
seem to confirm that the Saqqara

bird is certainly airworthy.
But there is another problem to

consider: launching a glider.
Modern methods require the use

of a towplane that pulls the
glider into the air, then

releases it when a proper
altitude is reached.

So, how might the ancient
Egyptians have launched the

Saqqara bird?

>> EENBOOM: The scientifics of
Egyptology told us that such

a bird could be powered off by
catapults to fly.

And, uh, we had high acceptance
by Egyptian scientists.

>> NARRATOR: The idea of using
a catapult does have a

contemporary parallel.
Many of today's glider

enthusiasts employ a bungee cord
system to launch their

sail craft into the air.
But if the Saqqara bird is

capable of flight, where would
ancient Egyptians have acquired

such technology?

>> EENBOOM: I think that people
in ancient times were visited by

beings coming not from this
earth, and they gave us

culture and scientific
technologies to improve

our life on earth coming
from the primitive to a higher

developed culture.

>> ABEL: If ancient cultures
would be able to produce any

really flyable machine, they
would be far more advanced than

we believe today.

It changes our viewpoint of
ancient societies.

>> PHILIP COPPENS: It's a fact
that our ancestors were more

intelligent and had more
technological superiority

capabilities than our history
books give them credit for.

>> GRAHAM HANCOCK: You begin to
have to ask yourself, "Are we

missing part of the story?"
And honestly, I think we are.

I think there has been
a forgotten episode in human

history.
And, uh, we're a species with

amnesia.
We don't really remember who or

what we are.

>> ROBERT BAUVAL: I haven't been
convinced that there is evidence

that support an ancient
visitation, but there is

no reason why not, and I think
to shut oneself to that

possibility is a mistake,
mainly because there is so many

anomalies that we can't explain.

>> NARRATOR: 7,000 miles from
Egypt, the dense jungles and

rugged mountains of Colombia
contain a vast number of

archaeological signs.
Many treasure hunters believed

the legendary City of Gold,
El Dorado, lies hidden here

somewhere under a thick canopy
of trees.

While the mythical metropolis
has never been found, early in

the 20th century, tomb‐robbers
searching along the Magdalena

River stumbled upon a gravesite
dating back 1,500 years to a

pre‐Colombian civilization known
as the Tolima.

Among the funerary objects found
there were hundreds of small

two‐ to three‐inch gold
figurines.

>> GIORGIO TSOUKALOS: Many of
those looked like insects and

fish.
However, out of those hundreds

that they found, they also
found about a dozen that are

eerily reminiscent of modern‐day
fighter jets.

They have a triangular shape.

They have an upright tailfin,
stabilizers...

and a fuselage.
And they have nothing in common

with anything similar in nature.

>> NARRATOR: Could these gold
objects really be proof that

earth has been visited by
ancient aliens?

>> APEL: One of the objects
shows a typical swept wings like

with a modern aircraft.
And you compare it to something

like a space shuttle.
You see that the basic wing

shape is very similar to wing
shapes for high‐speed

aerodynamic bodies like a space
shuttle is.

>> COPPENS: There is not a
single insect in the world which

has got its wings at the bottom.
Now, when you exclude the

possibility that it's an insect,
one of the things which remain

is the fact that this is
actually, yes, what it looks

like: a plane.

>> NARRATOR: In 1997, German
aviation experts including

Algund Eenboom and Peter
Belting, set out to prove the

speculation by building a
scale‐model replica of the gold

flyer, fully equipped with
landing gear and a working

engine.

>> EENBOOM: It was rather simple
because we don't need to put

much parts to this shape because
this shape is perfect.

Everything was already done by
the native people 2,000 years

ago.

>> TSOUKALOS: They did not add
an inch or remove an inch.

They just essentially blew the
little thing into a larger size.

I mean, this is sensational that
pre‐Colombian culture knew about

aerodynamics.

>> NARRATOR: Once completed, the
remote controlled flyer took off

down a makeshift runway and flew.

>> COPPENS: When you see this
thing taking off, you really

feel that this is the real deal.

>> EENBOOM: It was a very
successful test and showed us

how perfect ancient people were
working out aerodynamic design.

What it show you that there must
be something happened.

We are not quite sure how it
did, but that it did.

>> COPPENS: This is applied
science. This isn't just thinking

somewhere.
This is people going out there

and making sure and proving,
what I still see, anybody can

see this, that this is real.
This is genuine.

This little thing, which sits in
a museum, could fly.

>> TSOUKALOS: So we have two
examples from opposite sides of

the planet, and both examples
are aerodynamically sound and

they fly.
So, to suggest that all of this

is coincidence...
I mean, after a while, even

coincidence no longer makes
sense.

>> BILL BIRNES: Could the
ancients have seen actual

entities, like ancient gods,
ancient astronauts actually

flying around in what amounted
to modern aircraft?

>> NARRATOR: The answer to these
questions may be found in

ancient documents that describe
flight patterns, aircraft specs,

and even aerial battles in
remarkable detail.

>> NARRATOR: Over the past 50
years, NASA has sent astronauts

into space inside large rockets.
This method has been described

by some as simply "putting a man
on a large firecracker and

lighting the fuse."

Man's ability to travel farther
into space would require more

advanced propulsion systems.
Several are being researched by

NASA.

>> ROBERT FRISBEE: There are a
wide variety of advanced

propulsion technologies that are
being actively developed and

studied by NASA and other
researchers.

A really exotic version of
that is to use a launch‐assist

catapult, use technology
derived from the magnetic

levitation trains to build a
maglev sled.

It carries your rocket, gets it
up to about Mach 1, and then

launches the rocket from it.

>> NARRATOR: While these
futuristic propulsion systems

seem like something out of
science fiction, ancient alien

theorists believe past
civilizations possess these same

advanced technologies.
They point to a number of

cultural myths that describe sky
people coming to Earth in

fire‐breathing dragons, or
metallic‐looking machines as

proof of extraterrestrial
visitation.

>> DAVID CHILDRESS: In my mind,
legends and myths are based on

something real.
And while they've been

"mythified" and exaggerated in
many cases, in my mind, some

core of truth here in that
people really were flying in

airships in ancient times just
like we do today.

>> NARRATOR: But might these
ancient airships have reached

Earth using the same type of
propulsion systems we use today?

The answer may be found deep in
the Indian subcontinent.

India‐‐ over 1.1 billion people
crowd its modern cities and

rural townships, speaking
hundreds of languages, and

practicing a number of different
religions.

India is considered one of the
oldest civilizations with

settlements dating back over
11,000 years.

It is also home to several of
the oldest records of ancient

technologies.
Ancient Sanskrit text dating

back as far as 6000 BC,
describing varying but vivid

detail flying machines called
"vimanas."

>> EENBOOM: Vimanas are
airplanes, and they are powered

by some jet engines.
This seems to be true because

all the description of the
flight behavior: "elephants ran

away in panic."
Grass was thrown out because

there was a lot of pressure from
behind those vimanas.

So that we can say this is a
description of the spaceship.

>> NARRATOR: Although mainstream
historians believe the vimana

texts are myths, many of the
documents contain passages that

seem to describe modern
machinery and technology.

>> CHILDRESS: The
Vymaanika‐Shaastra goes into

metals that are used in these
craft. It talks about electricity

and power sources.
It talks about the pilots and

the clothing they have to wear.
It talks about the food that

they eat.
It talks even about the weapons

that are kept on these airships.

>> EENBOOM: The flight menus of
the vimanas are quite similar to

the flight menus you find in the
modern passenger flight

business.
Or when you go to the military

jet engines, of course, they
have also flight menus because

it's necessary for a pilot to
get knowledge about his plane he

wanted to fly with.

>> MICHAEL CREMO: We also
learned that these vimanas could

be controlled mentally.
And this is a technology that

modern militaries are beginning
to develop.

>> DR. STEVEN GREER: Even today,
with as advanced as we think we

are, almost every manifestation
of an actual extraterrestrial

civilization today would look
almost like magic to us where

it has to do with technological
electromagnetic systems that

interface with coherent thought
and organized thought.

And this gets into people go,
"Now, you're losing me here."

But I tell people, I say, "Yeah,
well, you gotta push your

boundaries a little bit if
you're talking about a true

interstellar civilization."

>> NARRATOR: The
Vymaanika‐Shaastra, or Science

of Aeronautics, indicates
vimanas used a propulsion system

based on a combination of
gyroscopes, electricity, and

mercury. Is this possible?

>> CHILDRESS: Mercury is an
unusual element.

Mercury is metal.
It's also a liquid, and, uh,

is a conductor of electricity.
You know, there's unusual things

you can do with mercury.
You can put it into a closed

gyroscopic device with mercury
spinning around, and then you

get electrified.
Studies have been done on this

by NASA and by other scientists,
and they find that you have

levitation effects, antigravity
kind of effects, and a spinning

bright light is part of it, too.

>> NARRATOR: The
Vymaanika‐Shaastra suggests

vimanas were powered by several
gyroscopes placed inside a

sealed liquid mercury vortex.

>> FRISBEE: Here's an example of
a little kid's gyroscope.

You spin it with a heavy wheel
around a central axis.

Well, a gyroscope seems to do a
lot of strange things, even defy

gravity.
And it does this because it uses

what's called rotational, or
angular, momentum.

And it wants to keep a
particular orientation on its

spin axis, the center rod.
If you push on that rod, it will

want to "righten" itself up to
its original orientation.

It wants to keep that same
angular momentum.

Gyroscopes are used all over the
place: in airplanes, in

spacecraft, in submarines.
This allows them to determine

their position based on where
they started.

They can also use it for finding
their velocity or even just the

orientation of the vehicle in
space.

One of the texts talks about
mercury rotating and driving

some sort of a powerful wind, or
a windmill effect.

That might be some sort of what
we call a "flywheel energy

storage" where you have a
spinning disc, and then you

extract energy from it slowly.
That would be the mercury.

And then that could be used to
drive some sort of a propeller

or what we'd call a ducted fan
sort of system like you have in

a hovercraft.
Mercury would be quite good for

that because it's a high
density, so you'd have a small

package for your power plant,
and that's always good when

you're building an aircraft.

>> NARRATOR: Flywheel energy
storage systems, however, tend

to lose power quickly.
To navigate across space, its

size would have to be enormous.

>> FRISBEE: They're fine for use
by power companies for

load‐leveling.
You put energy in when you

don't need it.
You get energy out when you need

it. But they're setting on the
ground.

To have something light enough
to actually fly, it's not at all

clear that this will be a
practical device.

Now, maybe the people are trying
to describe something that kind

of looked like this to them.
It might not have actually been

mercury.
It might have been some other

liquid metal.

>> EENBOOM: The mercury vortex
engine is perhaps a failure in

the translation because the
vortex is not a material quite

suitable to a jet engine.

>> GREER: The issue of how are
these civilizations traveling

faster than the speed of light
is a fundamental question.

It's a scientific application of
things that have been studied

for thousands of years and
they're within the Vadas, the

ancient Vedic teachings or
other ancient teachings‐‐

and it is there.

>> NARRATOR: But if vimanas
existed, could this prove there

was a worldwide transportation
network thousands of years

before Columbus?
The answer might be found on a

mountaintop outside Mexico City.

>> NARRATOR: In the 21st
century, modern transportation

and communication methods have
connected the world like never

before.
Products or ideas, no matter

where in the world they may have
originated, can spread to even

the most remote countries.
A hip‐hop hit in Brooklyn might

make it big in Tokyo before it's
even heard in Manhattan.

This cultural interconnection
has transformed the globe, but

is it new?
Mainstream archaeologists

believe ancient civilizations
such as those found in the

remote Pacific Islands, Asia,
and South America developed

independently from each other.
But ancient astronaut theorists

contend that similarities in
building styles and beliefs

found in these cultures suggest
that a worldwide trade route may

have connected them to each
other.

>> CHILDRESS: But just like we
have airports today around the

world, in ancient times with the
vimanas, there would have been

hangars for the craft, airports
for them to land.

And those airports would have
been situated in strategic

places around the world.
And that's exactly what we see

in remote places.

>> NARRATOR: Could the complex
set of lines covering Peru's

Nazca plain or the mysterious
plateau above Mexico's Oaxaca

valley be evidence of runways
for worldwide air transportation

system.

>> CHILDRESS: One of the unusual
archaeological sites in Mexico

is a place called Monte Albán.
That is also a mountain where

the top of the mountain was
completely cut off and leveled

to make a very flat tabletop
mountain.

And there's a megalithic city
there, too, that's extremely

old.

This was probably some kind of

vimana airport.

>> EENBOOM: The vimanas could be
kind of missing link between the

single cultures in the world
because they had just a very

short time to flow from one part
of the world to the other.

>> NARRATOR: Legends of air
travel are also found in ancient

Africa and the Middle East.
According to The Kebra Nagast,

a holy book of the Ethiopians
written sometime between the

fifth and second century BC,
the queen of Sheba was once

given a gift of a flying carpet
by King Solomon of Israel.

>> TSOUKALOS: The Kebra Nagast
is one of the most important

texts you've never heard of.
The Kebra Nagast means

The Book of Kings and it is
the most sacred book of the

Ethiopians.
In it, King Solomon is

described‐‐ he had access to
some type of a flying machine.

And in that part of the world
the term "flying carpet" was

always used very liberally.
My question is, did they really

mean actual flying carpets or
was it another term with which

to describe some type of a
flying machine?

>> CHILDRESS: This was the
original Chariots of the Gods

that Erich von Daniken talked
about‐‐ the flying magic carpets

of the Arabian Nights stories.
There are traditions in the

Middle East of King Solomon
having this airship and flying

to different places in the
Middle East, certain mountains

which are known as the Mountains
of Solomon.

These may have been certain
airports or landing areas for

these vimanas.
Nicholas Rourke, famous

Russian‐American explorer who
traveled all through central

Asia and Tibet in the 1920s, he
too claimed that Tibetans had

traditions of King Solomon
flying to Tibet in this aircraft.

>> NARRATOR: The Kebra Nagast
also describes how King Solomon

used his flying airship to make
maps of the world.

>> NARRATOR: But could these
have any relation to other

ancient maps some believe may
have been made by

extraterrestrials?

>> HANCOCK: Some of these maps
show the world not as it looks

today, but as it looked during
the last ice age.

And this is really hard to
explain.

Everybody's heard of the Piri
Reis map, but they've perhaps

not heard of the Orontius
Finnaeus map or‐or the Mercator

maps that show Antarctica in
great detail hundreds of years

before Antarctica was even
discovered.

>> NARRATOR: One of the most
referenced stories of ancient

aircraft is found in a
surprising place: the Bible.

In the Book of Ezekiel, the
prophet describes a flying

chariot containing wheels
within wheels and powered by

angels. Although Bible historians
suggest Ezekiel was speaking

symbolically about the
terrifying enemies facing

Israel, could this be another
example of an alien visitation

and proof that prehistoric
aircraft existed?

>> YOUNG: In the story of
Ezekiel's throne chariot, this

flying vehicle that doesn't
seem to have any means of

propulsion, if we thought of
the word "angel" as representing

something like celestial energy,
it sounds much more like a

spacecraft then because some of
the angels are going back and

forth.
Well, that sounds like flames.

That sounds like propulsion.
Some of them are wheel‐like.

Well, those sound like flying
saucers.

>> TSOUKALOS: Our ancestors
weren't idiots.

Ezekiel saw something that was
so frightening to him that he

fell to his knees.
Then, out of the glory of God,

came this being in these
bright clothes that looked like

metal, and told Ezekiel, "All
right, man, we brought you here.

We want you to measure this
monument, this building."

And Ezekiel asks, "Well, why
should I do this?"

And the being says, "That's why
we brought you here."

And then you have 40 pages, in
the second part of the Book of

Ezekiel, with measurement
after measurement after

measurement of this gigantic
building, in which, by the way,

the glory of the Lord landed.

>> NARRATOR: In the early
1970s, NASA scientist Joseph

Blumrich set out to disprove
the theory that what Ezekiel

witnessed was a spaceship.

>> TSOUKALOS: Joseph Blumrich
is your proverbial rocket

scientist.
He worked on the moon project

for NASA and, from the mind of a
rocket engineer, started to

look at what was written in the
first part of the Book of

Ezekiel. And after many months of
research, Joseph Blumrich

came to the conclusion that
what Ezekiel described in his

eyewitness report, it was
indeed a type of spacecraft.

>> NARRATOR: Joseph Blumrich
would go on to write The

Spaceships of Ezekiel.
Several years later, a German

structural engineer named Hans
Herbert Beier sketched out a

blueprint of the second section
of the Book of Ezekiel, where

Ezekiel is told to construct an
open‐topped building to house

the flying chariot.

>> TSOUKALOS: Ezekiel's
spaceship fit exactly into the

temple that Hans Herbert Beier
recreated.

So what we have here is a proof
by indication.

Here we have a NASA engineer
and a structural engineer‐‐ they

didn't know of each other's
work‐‐ and both pieces fit

together like a puzzle.
In any court of law, that's

evidence that would hold up.

>> HANCOCK: I think that
scientists feel uncomfortable

with the notion of the lost
civilization precisely because

the evidence for it is so
ambiguous.

It's not so in your face that
it's immediately obvious.

Uh, and, you know, the result is
that science has not welcomed

this idea.
It'll take much more evidence

before it's widely accepted.

>> TSOUKALOS: The god that I
believe in doesn't need a

vehicle in which to move around
from point A to point B.

Whatever was described in the
Old Testament wasn't God, it

was a misunderstood flesh‐and‐
blood extraterrestrial whom

our ancestor misinterpreted as
being divine and supernatural.

And why? Because of misunderstood
technology.

And that is the underlying
thread that applies to all of

the ancient astronaut theory.

>> NARRATOR: But while ancient
texts provide tantalizing clues

to our past, physical evidence
paints an even clearer picture.

But will modern science finally
prove the ancient astronaut

theory?

>> FRISBEE: Did the ancient
civilizations of Earth have

access to advanced technology?
Well, it seems like they had

something going on.

>> NARRATOR: In today's largest
construction sites and

quarries, huge mega‐machines
are used to dig, cut, and lift

stone.
These man‐made creatures dwarf

their creators and perform the
work of thousands of men using

modern hydraulic technologies.
Without such equipment,

builders could never construct
modern skyscrapers.

Yet, thousands of years ago,
ancient civilizations were

accomplishing the same work
while constructing their

monuments and temples using
massive stones.

These enormous blocks‐‐ many
weighing in excess of 100

tons‐‐ would be a challenge
even for today's engineers.

Yet thousands of years ago,
people cut them out of solid

rock, transported them for
miles and then lifted them

precisely into place. But how?
Did they cut these massive

stone blocks with hammers,
chisels, and copper wire,

as mainstream archeologists
suggest?

Could they have lifted and
transported them without a

pulley system or the wheel?
Or did ancient civilizations

possess advanced technologies
that have since been lost to

science?

>> BAUVAL: At Giza, you just
don't have the pyramids.

Linked to the pyramids are what
Egyptologists call valley

temples. It doesn't take a rocket
engineer that when you go

there, there's something not
quite right here.

Whereas the pyramids are built
with blocks of two to three

tons, these temples, which are
minute compared to the

pyramids, are built with blocks
of 100 tons and some of them

200 tons.
Let me tell you what a 100‐ton

block is.
If you take a 100 family cars

and you squeeze them together
you get one of these blocks.

First of all, let alone how
they move these blocks is why

would they want to use 100‐ton
blocks?

It simply doesn't make sense.

>> CHILDRESS: There's no
reason for them to want to

build out of granite blocks
the size of a semi truck.

It's like, "Okay, let's do
something, but let's do it as

difficult as we could possibly
do it."

>> TSOUKALOS: The reason why I
am convinced that sophisticated

technology was utilized in
these ancient rocks is because,

if we go to a stone quarry
today and look at the scope of

machinery required to
accomplish similar things,

those machines are huge.

>> NARRATOR: Subscribers to
ancient alien theory do not

believe extraterrestrials built
these amazing monuments, but

instead provided some type of
technological know‐how or tools

to our ancestors.
Engineering expert Chris Dunn

has spent several decades
researching the construction

tools used by the ancient
Egyptians.

>> DUNN: We're normally taught
by Egyptologists, that the

ancient Egyptians had simple
tools.

They went to work every day
using stone balls, copper

chisels or copper tube and sand
to grind holes in diorite and

granite, extremely hard rock.
And what I have actually

gathered over the years is
information that seems to

actually argue against that
notion that they had simple

tools.

>> NARRATOR: In Egypt, Dunn
was able to examine ancient

sites firsthand.
What he found has proved to be

both revolutionary and
controversial.

>> DUNN: If you look at the Giza
Plateau and all the stones that

they actually placed in the
Great Pyramid and the Khafre

Pyramid and Menkaura's Pyramid,
two and a half million blocks of

stone in the Great Pyramid alone.
They had to have had some

efficient means of cutting them
to size and putting them into

place.
They had to have had somebody on

site who is saying, "Okay, I
need a block this size," and

then getting a block to them
that size stat, like immediately.

>> NARRATOR: While searching
several miles north of Giza, at

Abu Rawash, Dunn stumbled upon a
clue when he spotted a granite

block containing a deep cut.

>> DUNN: When I first saw it, I
just didn't know what to make of

it.
And it was only after puzzling

over it for days, and sometimes
waking up at 3:00 in the

morning scratching my head and
thinking, well, how did they

make this cut?
And finally, to realize that the

only way that they could have
actually cut that thing was with

a saw that was 35 feet in
diameter.

>> NARRATOR: The idea that
ancient Egyptians used giant

saws provoked much resistance
from mainstream archeologists.

Dunn however, was convinced.

>> DUNN: As an ex‐machinist I
look for tool marks.

I look for them everywhere I go.
And I could be accused of, well,

you know, if you're going to
look for something, you're

probably going to find it
because you're looking at it

through a certain filter.
Accepted, I agree.

But the question is, why is it
there? Clearly, to me, that is a

machine mark.
But there were no machines back

then. So what do I do?
I just go looking for more

machine marks.
And they're all over the place.

You find them on statues.
You find them particularly in

the Luxor Museum.
There's seems to be an

impression on the side of Amon's
buttock where it meets the

bench, where there is an
undercut.

It was the slip of a tool.
And therefore, it must have been

a tool that was quite efficient.

>> NARRATOR: Dunn also believes
that the large depressions in

the ground at Giza are not boat
pits as is claimed by mainstream

archeologists, but were actually
used to hold the 35‐foot saws.

>> DUNN: I speculate that they
were actually saw pits.

The saws were mounted in these
pits, and that they ran the

blocks through the saw before
they put them in the Great

Pyramid.

>> NARRATOR: Another mystery
involves how mega‐stones were

lifted up and placed into a
precise position.

>> COPPENS: What you find in
modern construction is that to

build big buildings, you need to
build big instruments which help

build these big buildings.
And that is something which

archeology has never addressed.

>> NARRATOR: The three largest
man‐made stones in the world are

found at the Temple of Jupiter
at Baalbek in Lebanon.

Each weighs an estimated 1,000
tons‐‐ or two million pounds.

A nearby quarry contains an even
bigger stone, known as the Stone

of the Pregnant Woman.
This giant rectangular block

weighs an incredible 1,200 tons.
To move it today would take the

strength of 21 heavy‐lift cranes.

>> PETER PALUTIKOF: Being in
the construction industry, if a

certain project is being
constructed somewhere,

particularly in mountainous
areas, how would we carry this

machinery, these cranes, and all
that?

They are so heavy that it's
virtually impossible to take

them to the site.

>> ROGER HOPKINS: This stone
came off a project in Palm

Springs, where they had one of
the largest excavators they

could rent.
They had trouble loading it into

the truck.
It's well in excess of five

tons‐‐ 10,000 pounds‐‐
small in megalithic terms, but

basically what we can handle
with modern machinery.

>> BAUVAL: We're supposed to
accept that the people who built

the pyramids did not have the
wheel, did not have the pulley,

did not have iron.
In fact, they had nothing but

brutal manpower and pieces
of strings.

The complex does not fit the
evidence.

>> HOPKINS: I've done pulling
operations in upper Egypt.

Thousands of people involved in
the various stages of the

project, moving very fragile
pieces of stone that weigh

hundreds, if not thousands, of
tons. Yes, you can use ropes, but

you're going to have to use
other mechanical advantages.

>> NARRATOR: But if ancient
civilizations did not possess

modern mechanical equipment, how
did they move and lift mega‐ton

stones?
Some believe they were given a

technical advantage from
extraterrestrial visitors.

>> CHILDRESS: You've got to ask
yourself, why would they try and

do something that seems so
incredibly difficult?

The answer to why they would do
that has to be that it somehow

wasn't so difficult for them.
It was easy.

>> TSOUKALOS: There exists one
very concise description of how

these massive stones were
transported from the quarry to

the building site.
The master builders had the

capability of putting some type
of a white substance‐‐

paper‐like substance onto the
stones and they rode on it, and

then they basically gave the
stone block a push and it moved

by six feet as if by magic.
Now did that thing really move

by magic?
No, some technology was used.

>> CHILDRESS: That is part of
the solution.

In order to really move massive
amounts of stone like that, they

would have had to have been
levitated‐‐ somehow made

weightless‐‐ and then just moved
through the air by some kind of

device, perhaps even a handheld
kind of device, like some beam

weapon.

>> NARRATOR: Ancient man's
method of moving large blocks

is only one mystery.
Another surrounds the techniques

of their stonemasons.
How did prehistoric

civilizations cut such
intricately designed patterns in

solid granite?

>> NARRATOR: Palm Springs,
California.

Master stonemason and sculptor
Roger Hopkins uses a variety of

advanced tools to cut and shape
hard stones.

Powered implements such as
diamond‐tipped wires and

polishers enable him to fashion
works of art out of huge granite

blocks obtained from nearby
quarries.

Yet even with these high‐tech
tools, Hopkins cannot replicate

what ancient civilizations
accomplished thousands of years

ago.
Could these advanced engineering

methods be the smoking gun that
proves humans had help from

alien beings?

>> HOPKINS: The precision on
some of the work that I've seen

is just incredible.
It's possible to do by hand, but

it would take an incredible
amount of time.

Plus, you have to have years of
experience to be able to pull it

off.

>> TSOUKALOS: In my opinion, the
most tangible pieces of evidence

that we have regarding possible
extraterrestrial technology is

when we look at the ancient
stone‐cutting techniques.

Because in some instances, we
ourselves today could not

replicate what our ancestors
allegedly accomplished with

stonemasonry.

>> NARRATOR: Puma Punku is a
large temple complex located on

a high plateau in Bolivia.

Mainstream archeologists date
the site from approximately

200 BC.
The people who lived here had

neither a written language nor
the wheel, yet somehow they

built one of the world's most
complex structures.

Ancient alien theorists view
Puma Punku as clear proof of

extraterrestrial influence.

>> TSOUKALOS: The ruins we find
at Puma Punku are simply

extraordinary.
Puma Punku defies logic.

>> COPPENS: The interest of Puma
Punku is not so much that the

individual stones sorted
together perfectly, but the fact

that the stones, as such, are of
such tremendous design that it

requires concepts of mathematics
which are far beyond anything we

are actually using right now.
Yet somehow in the past,

somebody has made that for a
specific purpose, and in a way

which even computer programs
today would kind of go, how is

this possible?

>> TSOUKALOS: In the highlands
of Bolivia, Puma Punku‐‐ some of

these blocks are over 40 to 50
tons each.

What can you tell us about this?

>> HOPKINS: Boy, they had their
stone‐cutting abilities pretty

well fine‐tuned for 5,000 years
old. I mean, it's almost

unbelievable.
But the cutting planes that they

have on here are very impressive.
And some of the inside cuts‐‐

see, like in here, all these
interior cuts‐‐ very hard to do.

I mean, it would be difficult
for us with our equipment to get

that kind of precision.

>> TSOUKALOS: Let's talk a
little bit about inside boxes.

>> HOPKINS: Ew, I was afraid you
were going to pull something

like this on me.
That is a hell of a piece of

work. I mean, if we were to do
something like that today, we'd

use‐‐ what they have, these
computer‐driven CNC machines

which have diamond tips.
And you have a template that,

you know, the computer follows.
Even then, it may not come out

as perfect.

>> TSOUKALOS: Because even
though you can tell that

obviously this piece broke off...

>> HOPKINS: Mm‐hmm.

>> TSOUKALOS: Nowhere in here
can you see any imperfection.

It's like... And by the way,
when you're there, if you go

with your finger over these
edges, and you put a little

pressure on your fingertip, you
can cut yourself.

This is how sharp the edges are.

>> NARRATOR: But where could the
ancient peoples have developed

such technology?
Is it really possible that

extraterrestrial visitors
provided different construction

methods and tools?

>> MICHAEL DUNN: When I saw
these blocks, I didn't really

think that they were cut.
The first thing really that I

thought of was this appears very
similar to Frank Lloyd Wright's

textile block system of
construction, which he used in

his California houses in the
early 1920s.

Now what he did was‐‐ he took
concrete, poured it into molds.

>> TSOUKALOS: There actually are
ancient Incan legends that

suggest that they had the
capability of softening the

stone.
At Sacsayhuaman, for example,

we find these gigantic stone
blocks, gigantic stone walls,

where it looks as if those
stones were molten, put into

place, and then the stone
hardened again.

>> NARRATOR: Several hundred
miles north of Puma Punku,

Machu Picchu sits high atop the
Peruvian Andes.

Built by the Incas in the 15th
century, this stone citadel was

suddenly abandoned about 100
years later.

Like Puma Punku, Machu Picchu
also has signs of advanced

engineering and possibly,
molded stones.

>> DUNN: I can't help but
think that whoever was behind

this thought the process through
from beginning to end.

They didn't quarry the rock, and
then decide, "How the heck are

we gonna transport this?"
They knew from beginning to end

what needed to be done with
whatever techniques and

technology they were going to
use, so that this was no

big deal.
In industry today, there's a

kind of an adage: "Keep it
simple, stupid."

>> NARRATOR: Based on his
experience, Mike Dunn believes

the simplest way to build the
great walls of Machu Picchu

would have been to transport
small rocks to the site, then

melt them, and use molds to
fashion exact size and shape

needed.

>> DUNN: That would solve a lot
of difficulties of constructing

this wall.
First, you have your shapes, all

the same size, each shape.
So you're guaranteed that they

would fit together as opposed to
being cut by different artisans.

>> HOPKINS: Melting the rocks,
and then pouring them into place

would take and incredible amount
of heat just to spool off pieces

of stone.
I have a stone torch which I use

for sometimes shaping granite.
And, I mean, it generates a

temperature of in excess of
3,000 degrees.

3,000 degrees... that's a lot.

>> DUNN: When we look back at
the ancients, and we see a

technology that they couldn't
possibly know, there's only

two possibilities then: either
God did it‐‐ which we really

don't think happened‐‐ or some
high‐tech civilization from

another planet came and showed
them how to do it, then took

their materials and tools and
went back home.

>> TSOUKALOS: The idea behind
that is that none of these

ancient monuments were
constructed or manufactured by

extraterrestrials.
It was us humans who built it

with extraterrestrial technology.

>> HOPKINS: It's entirely
possible that there were

visitations, that they pointed
out ways to do things, and that

they wanted to leave some kind
of a record.

I mean, if you're gonna leave a
permanent record, the only way

you can do that is in stone.

>> NARRATOR: But if advanced
beings from another planet

really did bring their
technology to Earth, might the

ancient astronauts have left one
of their tools behind?

>> NARRATOR: The methods used
to build huge megalithic

structures such as Puma Punku
and the pyramids of Egypt remain

a mystery.
But what about the tools used to

build them? Where are they?
And might they provide a clue as

to how these enormous stone
structures were created?

>> HOPKINS: A lot of the real
ancient mysterious work was done

at a time when there was no
steel, and the copper they had

was, yeah, they could harden it
by cold‐hammering it, but still,

it wouldn't make a dent in rocks
like basalt and granite.

So they would have had to use,
you know, much more laborious

techniques or they had some sort
of advanced technology which

escapes me, and I've been in the
business 40 years.

>> DUNN: The tools and machines
must have been equal to the task

of actually building the
pyramids, crafting those statues

to such a high order of
precision...

crafting those boxes to a
modern‐day precision that you

find in our inspection lab.
And the big question: Where are

the tools?

>> NARRATOR: In the late 19th
century, British archaeologist

Sir Flinders Petrie scoured
Egypt, looking not for the

biggest items, but the smallest.

>> CHALLIS: Petrie was
absolutely fascinated by the

technical achievements of the
Egyptians, particularly the

early Egyptians.
He constantly was looking for

how they made things, how they
developed things, how they

continued to sort of basically
perfect their tools.

>> DUNN: We're normally taught
that the ancient Egyptians had

simple tools, and what Petrie
brought out is information that

seems to actually argue against
that notion.

>> CHALLIS: This is an example
of a drill hole.

You can see the very fine lines
on it. You can see the technology

that's made to use it.
You can see how it's a

perfect hole almost all the way
through, but it tapers at

one end. This is a fragment of a
diorite bowl.

It's one of the hardest
substances, and you can see on

this, on this fragment that
there's a, a lathe mark, which

is really interesting that they
managed to make such a mark in

such a hard material.

>> NARRATOR: Among all the tools
discovered by Petrie, however,

one stood out from all the rest.
While working inside the Great

Pyramid, Petrie stumbled across

a tubular drill made of granite.

>> CHALLIS: Tubular drills
amongst the ancient Egyptians

were actually fairly common.
I mean, Petrie found quite a few

of them.
The interesting thing about the

one that he found in Giza is
that it's such hard stone that

was so carefully carved,
precisely grooved.

As you can see, it's got very,
very fine markings on it,

basically lines, literally a
couple of millimeters apart.

You can see it goes all the way
round very, very accurately,

hardly any waves at all.
He was absolutely amazed by this.

He kept returning to it
throughout his life.

His theory was that the
Egyptians must have had access

to diamonds or some kind of
jewel that would have cut it.

The interesting thing about
Petrie's theory about how these

drill lines are made was that he
never discovered any diamonds

in ancient Egypt.
So where were they?

Where did they go? We don't know.

>> NARRATOR: If the ancient
Egyptians didn't possess

diamonds, how were the
precision grooves cut onto the

granite drill?
Did Petrie accidentally discover

a tool made by extraterrestrials?
Machinist expert Chris Dunn

attempted to answer this
question by creating his own

granite drill using the known
tools and techniques of the

ancient Egyptians.

>> DUNN: In order to test the
Egyptologist theory about how

the ancient Egyptians drilled
into granite, I took a tube and

I fixed a crank on it, and
actually used sand and silicon

carbide, and after many hours of
turning and drilling into this

piece of granite, finally got
deep enough that I could

actually pop a core out.
And the reason for that was to

actually look at the surface,
not just of the whole, but of

the core.

>> NARRATOR: The next step was
to use a high‐tech industrial

microscope to compare his drill
core to a latex copy of the one

at the Petrie Museum.

>> DUNN: We have under the
microscope the core that we

drilled with the copper tube
and sand.

And as you can see, the surface
of the core, the striations are

not very clear.
There's nothing really

distinctive in terms of the feed
of the tool marks using

sand and, and copper.
Now bringing the latex that they

took of the core in the Petrie
Museum, and we see something

totally different.
The striations are very clear

and they're quite deep.
The devil is actually in the

details, and the details of this
particular artifact are what I

consider to be a smoking gun
in terms of what level of

technology we give the ancient
Egyptians credit for.

>> NARRATOR: Intrigued by his
discovery, Chris Dunn performed

other experiments using his
precision instruments.

>> DUNN: As you can see, this
is a... an inspection surface

plate, uh, probably ground to
within 2/10,000 of an inch.

That is one‐tenth the thickness
of a human hair.

Now, I was really amazed when I
went inside the serapeum and put

these gauges up against the
surface, and found them to be

within what I consider to be the
tolerance of these particular

gauges.
If you would put a piece of

paper under one edge of that
blade‐‐ just a piece of paper‐‐

you begin to see that there
was... would be light leaking

through.
And so, the precision on the

inside of the granite boxes in
the serapeum are, I would say,

within 2/1,000 of an inch,
which is incredible because

those tolerances can't just
appear by accident.

It was very shocking.
It was astounding to me to go to

Egypt and, uh, go into a
facility that was supposedly

3,000 years old and find the
same kind of precision.

I was amazed.

>> HOPKINS: I've seen evidence
of the carvings on granite done

in Egypt, and they did... they
did it with little shards of,

uh... of quartz.
I believe they would have just

scratched away the stone with
that.

That... that's one possibility,
but I mean, that's... that...

that's a heck of a lot of work
to do that.

I mean, we're talking, somebody
would devote years to doing

something like that.

>> TSOUKALOS: But here is my
point. Here we have a real‐life

stonecutter‐‐ you.

>> HOPKINS: Yeah.

>> TSOUKALOS: You see this, and
there's, like, smoke coming out

of your head.

>> HOPKINS: Let's put it this
way‐‐ I had a client come in and

ask me to do that, I wouldn't do
it for any amount of money

because I'm not going to waste
my life trying to replicate that.

>> NARRATOR: But precision‐cut
stone monuments are not the only

enduring Middle Eastern
mysteries.

Engineering experts have also
examined the Bible story of the

Israelites' exodus from Egypt.
Just how did they survive for 40

years in the desert?
Could they have possessed

intricate machines with
extraordinary abilities, used

not for building, but for man's
own survival?

>> NARRATOR: In the Hebrew
Bible, the Book of Exodus

describes how the Jewish people
suffered as slaves living in

Egypt. Then sometime in the 14th

century BC, the ruling pharaoh
feared their growing numbers

and ordered the killing of all
first‐born Jews living in Egypt.

In an effort to save her son,
one mother put her child in a

small basket and set him adrift
on the Nile River.

That child was found by the
pharaoh's family, who named him

Moses and raised him as their
own.

As an adult, Moses discovered
his true identity and demanded

that the pharaoh free the Jews.
When the pharaoh rejected him,

Moses helped the Jews escape
from Egypt.

(thunder cracks)

Historians believe that Moses
and his people crossed the Red

Sea and made their way into the
Sinai Desert.

According to the ancient text,
God grew angry at the Jews for

idol‐worshipping and forced them
to wander the desert aimlessly

for 40 years before allowing
them to enter Israel.

During this time, the Bible says
the Israelites survived by

eating a single food source:
manna. But what is manna?

A naturally abundant food
provided by God or, as some

believe, an advanced
food‐dispensing machine?

>> PARFITT: In the Bible, it
explains how the Israelites

got from Egypt, where they'd
been slaves, to the Promised

Land. They had to cross the Sinai
Desert.

And inevitably, given that there
was a lot of Israelites and very

little growing, as it was a
desert, they ran short on

supplies.
God stepped in at this point and

sent manna from heaven.
This took the form of some kind

of seeds that rained down upon
the desert.

And then they were collected the
next day.

And they provided food for the
Israelites, except Friday, when

there was a double portion,
because on Saturday, being

the Sabbath, it didn't fall.

>> NARRATOR: While the Hebrew
Bible fails to give a clear

description of manna, another
ancient Jewish text provides

an alternative clue.
The Zohar is a collection

of spiritual commentaries and
interpretations of the Torah,

and is central to the mystical
Kabbalah belief written in the

13th century.
The Zohar describes what is

called the Ancient of Days
as providing the manna,

but what was this Ancient of
Days?

A man, a god or something else?

>> TSOUKALOS: The text speaks of
different‐sized brains,

different‐sized faces that were
connected with different tubes

and different light sources.
Theologians have suggested that

this is a description of God.
However, when looked at from a

modern perspective, what is
described in the Zohar isn't

necessarily a god figure,
but rather a type of machine.

>> NARRATOR: Intrigued by this
information, two electrical

engineers, George Sassoon and
Rodney Dale, used the anatomical

descriptions of the Ancient of
Days to design what they called

a manna machine.

>> DALE: This really is‐is the
key diagram of the manna

machine, as we built it up from
the text.

For instance, one here is the
mouth, but it's actually

the air intake, which carries
what is described as the breath

of life.
The air goes up this tube here,

which is described as
the‐the brain of the Ancient

One, but is actually a dew still.
So that although we're talking

about the great sea and the
hairs of the beard and so on,

at the same time, we were able
to work out their relative

positions and build out the
specification of the machine,

and find that we had something
that was biochemically viable.

(speaking German)

>> TRANSLATOR: The machine
sucked in moist morning air and

condensed in the upper part
of the machine that looked like

a Plexiglas dome.
From there, it was led down to

an algae culture.
The algae culture was treated

with energy, such as a strong
laser light, in order to speed

the growth.

>> DALE: Of course, it needed
energy for cultivating the algae.

And this was produced, we
postulate, in a small nuclear

reactor, which would produce
both heat and light as required.

(Fiebag speaking German)

>> TRANSLATOR: The manna machine
is a very dangerous device.

We suspect that the reactor that
powered the machine was

transported in the Ark of the
Covenant.

>> TSOUKALOS: We have multiple
references in the Bible that

whoever came close to the Ark of
the Covenant and didn't know how

to operate it was smitten to
death.

(thunder cracks)

And sometimes people, after they
encountered the Ark, started to

lose their nails and started to
lose their hair.

So we have evidence of some type
of radiation poisoning which

was in direct correlation with
the Ark of the Covenant.

And so, the Ark of the Covenant
housed an extraterrestrial

device which was given to the
Israelites during their 40‐year

wandering through the desert.

>> NARRATOR: The manna machine
is believed to have supplied a

highly nutritious form of green
algae, or chlorella, as its food

source. It's yet another theory
supported by modern science.

>> DALE: We found that work in
the field of space travel had

already been done, where the
green algae‐‐ chlorella‐‐ was

bred in tanks and fed to people
living in a closed environment

and kept them alive.

>> NARRATOR: Research studies
done by NASA in the 1960s and

1970s established that human
life could be sustained for

extended periods of time by
consuming chlorella algae and

nothing else.
If it's possible for astronauts

to survive on algae, could the
Israelites have done the same?

(Fiebag speaking German)

>> TRANSLATOR: The manna machine
was a sensitive device.

It had to be cleaned.
Once a week was cleaning day,

where the machine wouldn't
produce food and the tribe would

not move.
So the Sabbath, the Saturday,

could derive from that necessity.

>> DALE: One theory that one
could put forward of course is

that the machine, although they
knew how to maintain it and make

it produce the manna, that it
did after a time pack up, not

work anymore.
And that was why they came out

of the desert.

>> NARRATOR: But if the
Israelites' survival depended

upon the manna machine, where
did they get it?

Some believe they had stolen it
from the Egyptians prior to

their exodus.
Others suspect extraterrestrials

gave it to them as a
humanitarian gesture, to prevent

their starvation in the desert.
Either way, the answer, like the

Ark of the Covenant, seems lost
to history.

Today, scientists have
successfully pioneered a process

that produces a substance high
in protein by means of solar

energy, water vapor, and
chlorella algae.

Could this be a duplication of
alien technology from thousands

of years ago?

>> TSOUKALOS: They actually
built a machine, a machine based

on algae culture producing some
type of super food.

And we can find a similar type
of technology described in the

Zohar.
Is history repeating itself?

>> DALE: One of the big
questions is: Where did the

machine come from?
And I suppose there are two

answers to that.
Either it was built on Earth,

which is a theory I can't really
subscribe to.

The other question of course is
that it might have come from

outer space somewhere.
Now, that's quite a big leap of

imagination, but of course the
interesting part is that it

actually produces food as is
used by spacecraft.

>> NARRATOR: If the ancient
world contained manna machines,

giant mega‐saws, and
sophisticated aircraft, what was

the energy source for all of
this technology?

The answer may be hiding in
plain sight.

>> NARRATOR: Of all the ancient
structures located around the

world, perhaps none is more
mysterious or as enduring as

the Great Pyramid at Giza.

At a height of 471 feet, the
Great Pyramid stood as the

tallest structure in the world
until the completion of the

Eiffel Tower in 1889.
But while other pyramids and

temples contain walls filled
with hieroglyphics describing

their purpose, the Great
Pyramid lacks even a single

marking. What was its function?
Why was it built?

And what secrets remain hidden
inside?

>> BAUVAL: Nobody has been able
to explain the interior design

of this pyramid.
It simply doesn't make sense,

according to our logic.
You have narrow tunnels that

you have to crouch.
You emerge in grand galleries

that are nine meters high.
You have chambers that made of

granite, where granite doesn't
come from in the area.

You have to ship the granite
by barges 600 miles away.

>> TSOUKALOS: It's an anonymous
site. Not a single inscription.

Not a single hieroglyph.
Not a single anything.

It's just there.

>> DUNN: Some people speculated
that it was a temple and an

initiation chamber, where
people would go to the king's

chamber and become enlightened.
There are anecdotal reports

about people who have been
inside the pyramid and have

come out absolutely shaken and‐‐
because it was haunted.

>> COPPENS: Egyptologists
believe that the pyramids were

built to bury the dead pharaoh.
The problem with the accepted

view is the fact that not a
single dead pharaoh's body has

been found inside a pyramid,
even when the pyramid was

completely sealed, i.e. not a
single grave robber could have

entered it.

>> BAUVAL: The Egyptologists
say it's to conceal the body.

Well, why advertise it?
I mean, there's nothing more

visible than a pyramid for miles.
And to this day, you would have

thought, in this modern age,
with all the knowledge we have,

we should be able to explain
this pyramid.

We cannot explain this pyramid.

>> NARRATOR: Engineering
expert Christopher Dunn has

been on a personal quest to
unlock the secrets of the Great

Pyramid since the late 1970s.
According to him, there are

specific clues in the design
and construction of this

mega‐monument that can help
answer exactly why it was built.

>> DUNN: When you look at the
Great Pyramid, and look at the

culture that built it,
they're brilliant, brilliant

engineers.
In fact, a lot of engineers say

we couldn't build the Great
Pyramid today.

And it was built, supposedly,
4,500 years ago.

And it was built to the
precision of a machine.

When I started to do the
research and I examined the

Great Pyramid with the eye of
functionality, um, it was built

like a machine.
Perhaps it functioned like a

machine.

>> NARRATOR: The interior
design of the Great Pyramid

features four inclined air
shafts emanating from the

king's chamber and the lower
queen's chamber.

Like the Great Pyramid itself,
their presence and purpose

cannot be easily explained.

>> BAUVAL: The difficulty of
building those shafts is

incredible.
It's a bit like building a

chimney at an incline across a
house. I mean, as a construction

engineer, it's a nightmare.

>> NARRATOR: In 2002, a team of
engineers and Egyptologists

sent a small robot into one of
the airshafts connected to the

queen's chamber.
After 65 meters, a stone door

blocked its path.
A hole was then drilled through

it. On the other side was a small
room with yet another door

leading further up the shaft.

>> BAUVAL: Since the discovery
of the door, we've had every

university, archeologist,
anthropologist, every engineer

you can think of‐‐ nobody has
been able to explain the purpose

of the shafts.

>> NARRATOR: But were these
shafts ever open?

And if they were, what might
they have been used for?

>> CHRIS DUNN: The early
explorers that went into the

queen's chamber found that the
walls were covered with a layer

of salt.
That kind of gelled with a

theory that I had developed.
You had a dilute hydrochloric

acid solution coming down one
shaft and hydrated zinc coming

down the other shaft and when
they combined in the queen's

chamber, they created hydrogen.

>> NARRATOR: Hydrogen.
It is one of the most powerful

energy sources in the universe.
In the mid‐19th century,

it was hydrogen gas that helped
lift some of mankind's first

airships, called zeppelins,
into the sky.

Today, it is used as a fuel to
launch rockets into space.

And if, thousands of years ago,
the Great Pyramid was actually

producing hydrogen, that would
make it one of the earliest

power plants known to man.

>> CHRIS DUNN: The Giza power
plant theory is essentially the

drawing of energy from the
Earth through the Great

Pyramid, and converting that
energy into microwave energy.

So the chemicals actually come
in through the shafts into the

queen's chamber, and then they
combine and mix and

hydrogen boils off.
The hydrogen is then lighter

than air and it will flow into
all the upper chambers.

The energy from the earth is
then vibrating the whole pyramid.

The vibrations are picked up in
the Grand Gallery.

So I proposed the Grand Gallery
was a resonator hall and there

are 27 pair of slots that
actually go up the length of

the gallery and then the
resonators were mounted in

there vertically.

>> CHILDRESS: Christopher
Dunn is theorizing that with

resonating galleries, the
pyramid shot a microwave out of

one of the shafts, and once you
started up this power plant, it

would have gone on for years,
decades, even hundreds of years

without stopping and creating
the microwave.

And that was a usable energy
that could be captured.

>> DUNN: Now we can speculate
where it goes from there.

It could be collected in the
immediate vicinity or it could

keep traveling off into space.
We don't know.

That's the mystery.

>> NARRATOR: But if the Great
Pyramid was actually a power

plant producing energy, was it
doing it alone, or was it part

of a larger network?
And are there any clues that

could tell us what all of that
energy was being used for?

>> NARRATOR: Perhaps the 20th
century's most influential

inventor was a Serbian‐American
named Nikola Tesla.

His patents on alternating
electrical currents and

distribution helped establish
the commercial electricity

industry.
He also made contributions to

robotics, radar, and computer

science.
But while Tesla can be credited

for many scientific advances,
one idea that fell short was

his attempt to create a
wireless electrical grid.

>> CHILDRESS: Tesla's project
was to have these towers around

the United States and around
the world.

And they would broadcast
electricity like a television

station.

>> FRISBEE: Instead of having
to string power lines all over

the place, you just transmit
the energy through the air

or through the ground.
There were a number of

demonstrations of this device
for wireless power transmission

during Tesla's lifetime.
So, we know the device worked.

It appears that he was using
the conductivity of the ground

or the air to carry the
electric current.

Basically in the air, if you
put enough voltage on it,

you'll get an arc across it.
I mean, you see that all the

time in a fluorescent lightbulb.
In the ground you have water,

minerals, salts that can also
carry the ions along, and

therefore carry the electric
current.

>> NARRATOR: But while Tesla's
power towers proved popular in

theory, the project ended in
financial failure.

But could Tesla's idea of
wireless electricity have been

a rediscovery of an ancient
technology?

>> CHILDRESS: I believe that
what Tesla was doing was trying

to recreate what was an ancient
power system that was used

around the world, and the way
they did this was the use of

obelisks.

Obelisks as monolithic, granite
towers, which are one solid

piece of crystal, and the
obelisks themselves were cut

to special sizes and tuned
like a tuning fork.

>> NARRATOR: Could these ancient
broadcast towers really have

sent electricity up into the
atmosphere?

And if so, how was the
electricity generated?

>> CHILDRESS: Each of these
obelisks would have required

some kind of generating power
station similar to what we have

today. Electricity is created by
rotating magnetic fields.

So rotating magnetic fields
generate AC power.

The very first power station
was built by Nikola Tesla at

Niagara Falls.
You've got to have some sort of

power that's spinning the
rotating fields, and in this

case would be water.
So every obelisk would have had

to have had a power station
similar to like the one at

Niagara Falls.
It's generating power, but the

obelisk itself is putting the
power into the atmosphere,

making it useable.
And this is similar to

Christopher Dunn's theory of
the Giza power plant because he

believes that the Great Pyramid
was actually sending a

microwave beam to a satellite
that was in orbit around the

planet.
That satellite then could have

been taking microwave power and
then it could transmit it

again, in theory, to some other
location on the earth,

such as, say a remote island
like Easter Island or something

like that.

>> FRISBEE: From some of the
descriptions of ancient flying

machines, it's possible that
some form of power beaming

might have been used.
And in fact, for a lot of the

schemes that you see, it
actually would make a lot of

sense because you could put the
power beaming station on a

mother ship in orbit.
You're just beaming energy to

the vehicle, where it's
absorbed and turned into

propulsion thrust.
It actually makes a lot of

sense because you're taking the
energy system, the power

system, off of the vehicle and
locating it remotely.

>> NARRATOR: Electricity...
power tools...

mega‐machinery...
and the ability to explore the

heavens...
Have these technologies been

available for just the past few
centuries?

Or are they of ancient origin,
only recently rediscovered?

Were our ancestors capable of
these incredible achievements?

Or might they have come from
another source, one much more

out of this world?

>> CHILDRESS: Civilizations
were much more advanced that we

give them credit, and
literally, as advanced as we

are today.

>> BAUVAL: In my view, we
need to take this seriously

simply because of the scale of
the work.

We're looking at monuments that
took, perhaps, a century to

build.
Even today, we have difficulty

in considering such a project.

>> CHRIS DUNN: It just boggles
the mind.

And really, to look at those
artifacts and to go back in

time and say, how did they do it?
We are kind of cracking the lid

open a little bit and looking
inside to try and see just what

happened in our history.

>> COPPENS: It's a question
which is a scientific question.

And you constantly have to ask
it.

And the possible answer of have
aliens visited in the past

could be a potential yes.

>> TSOUKALOS: It's a very
specific reason why all of this

stuff was built in stone:
for posterity. So it would last.

So that a future generation
would have to stumble across

these monuments.
We are that society who can

look at these ancient monuments
and finally recognize that all

of this stuff was built as a
message for us to see that our

past is way different than what
we're being taught in school.

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