All language subtitles for Ancient Aliens Origins - S01E07 - Mystery of the Pyramids

NARRATOR: Ancient pyramids,
found across the globe.

Evidence of a connection
to a long-lost technology.

And theories
that these structures

hold the key
to our extraterrestrial past.

For nearly two decades,

Ancient Aliens has
traveled the globe

exploring towering megalithic
structures, mysterious artifacts

and stories
of otherworldly beings

in a quest for evidence
that might reveal

the truth of our
extraterrestrial origins.

Not only are pyramids

some of the largest
ancient structures on Earth,

but when you
look at them from above

it's quite striking.

NARRATOR:
Now, we take a look back through

the Ancient Aliens archives

to the show's very origins

to examine the evidence
that we are not alone.

We have never been alone.

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Pyramids are fundamental
to the ancient astronaut theory.

I mean, they're
these monumental structures

that are towering
over landscapes.

And it's also fascinating that,

with so many of them,
archaeologists have a hard time

telling when they were made.

And, you know, there are
theories, of course,

but a lot of the pyramids
have no writing on them,

and stranger still,
the local populations

can't tell you who built them.

Or they just say
the gods built them.

And another big question is:
What was their purpose?

Almost everything
about the pyramids

is a complete mystery.

In fact, back in 2012,

we dedicated a whole episode
to the secrets of the pyramids.

NARRATOR:
Gebel Barkal, Northern Sudan.

Tamil Nadu, Western India.

The Temple of Ur,
Southeast Iraq.

From the ziggurats
of ancient Babylon

to the temples of
the Kush Kingdom,

pyramids dating
as far back as 3000 BC

exist throughout the world.

HUGH NEWMAN: Pyramids come in
many different shapes and sizes.

In Mexico, for instance,

you get circular pyramids
and step pyramids.

And even in Uxmal
in the Yucatan Peninsula,

the corners of it are curved.

ERICH VON DÄNIKEN: In India the
pyramids are so very, very high,

straight up.

The same thing happen
with the pyramids

in Central America.
They are like this.

While the pyramid in
Egypt have this shape.

They are different.

MICHAEL DENNIN: A pyramid
is pretty straightforward.

Typically, you have
a square base,

and you have four sides
that are each a triangle

and meet at the top.

If you want to make
anything that's gonna be tall,

the first thing
you would always build

would be some type of pyramid
because it's the most

stable structure
you could imagine making.

SAM OSMANAGICH:
You have 250 pyramids

in central Chinese
province of Shaanxi.

You have dozens of pyramids

in the middle of
Indian Ocean,

on the Island of Mauritius,
Canary Islands,

Northern Sudan.

Egypt, of course, 155 of them.

But also, 300 pyramids in Peru,

pyramids in Bolivia,

and, of course,
over 10,000 pyramids

in Central America.

So they're
a worldwide phenomenon.

NARRATOR: How is it
possible that civilizations

spread out over five continents

all built similar
pyramidal structures?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe most pyramids

were constructed
by builders who possessed

the same advanced knowledge
of mathematics, astronomy

and the Earth's
geophysical properties.

JASON MARTELL: In
Montevecchia, Milan, Italy,

the pyramids at
that location seem to show

a very clear resemblance
to the pyramids

at the Giza plateau.

But, without any type
of transoceanic contact,

how is it possible that
all of these ancient cultures

had a similar building style?

GIORGIO A. TSOUKALOS: The Candi Sukuh
temple in Indonesia has several

identical design elements
as the pyramids at Chichen Itza.

Another Hindu temple
in Cambodia mysteriously

resembles a Mayan
temple at Tikal.

A possible explanation
for all of this

is that all of these
cultures learned

how to build these pyramids
from the same teachers.

It seems to be,
way back in prehistory,

this whole thing where
everyone was building pyramids.

And it seems like it came from
a much earlier culture

and it resonated
all around the world.

That really is
one of the big mysteries

of the pyramids themselves

is that they seem
to be everywhere

and they seem
to have similar design,

they have similar geometry,

they even have the same
measurement systems, often.

So, it really does seem
like the same group of people

or beings were building
these pyramids.

We see a lot of similarities

in terms of composition
and cultures

far back in time
between Peru and Egypt

and the Olmecs
of southern Mexico.

It is quite possible
that the ancient Egyptians

and the ancient Peruvians
were indeed connected,

that they actually,
traveled back and forth

visiting each other

and influencing
each other's cultures.

NARRATOR:
The Giza Plateau, Egypt.

Here, in the desert
just outside Cairo,

stands the Great Pyramid
of Khufu.

4,500 years ago,
it was the tallest

and most impressive
man-made structure on Earth.

But exactly how, and why,

the pyramid was constructed
remains a mystery.

WILLIAM HENRY:
The Great Pyramid,

it is the most wondrous
place on Earth.

And when you're standing
in front of it,

you are confronted with the
greatest mystery of all time.

Who built this place?

How could it
have been constructed?

Why is it still standing?

And then, when you go inside it,

you have
the feeling like you are

in the hands of
an extraordinary intelligence.

You've got a structure
that is 480 feet high,

it covers 13 acres,

there's two and a half
million blocks of stone.

The heaviest stone
weighs 70 tons.

They quarried thousands of tons
of granite 500 miles away.

It's an amazing structure.

To me, the most intriguing thing

is the scale of the project.

You know,
if you want to build a tomb,

fair enough, but why
go 146 meters high,

why use two and a half million
blocks of stones

with a mass of six million tons?

NARRATOR: Mainstream archaeologists
theorize that the Great Pyramid

was built sometime
around 2500 BC

as the burial tomb
of the Pharaoh Khufu.

But this claim
has yet to be proven,

and the debate
among various researchers

over for who,
or for what purpose,

the structure was built
continues.

We're told
that the Great Pyramid

was a tomb for the pharaoh,

But there's never been a body
found inside the Great Pyramid.

We have found pyramids
in the 1950s

by respected Egyptologists
whereby the tomb was sealed

whereby
the sarcophagus was intact,

and inside there was no body.

There was no corpse.
There wasn't even a coffin.

And so, this notion
that we really think

that grave robbers
somehow were responsible

for everything
can no longer be maintained.

CHRIS DUNN: There has to be a
reason for them to be there,

and they are a tremendous
expenditure of resources.

And, if not for
a revered leader,

they had to have had some
benefit for the civilization

that built them.

So, it's a whole controversy.

Nobody knows why our ancestor
constructed pyramids.

NARRATOR:
But if the pyramids at Giza

were not intended to house
the remains of dead pharaohs,

then why were these
towering monuments built?

Could there be a connection
between the pyramid of Khufu

and other pyramids
around the world,

one that has been lost to time?

Or is it possible
that the builders

of these engineering marvels

had an otherworldly inspiration,

as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

Both the Mayans
and the Egyptians

have legends
that the gods came down

and gave them instructions
to build pyramids.

For instance,
with the Egyptians,

the famous god Thoth is known as

the architect of the universe,

and it was he
who allegedly designed

the entire
pyramid complex at Giza.

Imhotep, the person
who was responsible

for the first pyramid,
actually said

that he received
this information from the gods.

Not so much that God appeared
to him and told him,

but that he was able
to access this information

from a different realm,

and from there began
the pyramid-building process.

The fact that different
cultures throughout this planet

would have similar structures,
I think, is mind-boggling.

What made mankind decide,

"Let's do these
pyramid-shaped objects,"

unless they were told,

unless they were
given blueprints.

The structures are
just unbelievably perfect.

You have to come up
with the conclusion

that, you know,
it's very possible

that extraterrestrials
saw this civilization,

gave them knowledge
and took off.

NARRATOR: Might the
thousands of pyramids

found throughout the world

have a common
extraterrestrial connection,

as ancient astronaut theorists
contend?

Perhaps more proof can be found

upon closer examination

of the Great Pyramid at Giza.

about pyramids has to startsn

with the three pyramids
on the Giza Plateau in Egypt.

I mean, these are probably
the most impressive structures

anywhere
on the face of the planet.

And even more impressive

is when you go inside
the pyramids

and see the precision

of the giant
granite chambers and shafts,

which are truly astounding.

They are. And what's also
fascinating or interesting

is this is one of the first
things that we talked about

on Ancient Aliens
with Erich von Däniken:

the Great Pyramids.

In fact, the next act
was the first thing we shot

for Ancient Aliens way back
on December 21, 2008.

At a time when Ancient Aliens
was not a series,

but just a one-off
two-hour special

called Ancient Aliens.

NARRATOR: When it comes
to searching for evidence

of ancient aliens...

Erich von Däniken literally
leaves no stones unturned.

VON DÄNIKEN: I have collected for
more than 40 years information

and there are
two sorts of evidences

to support my hypotheses.

The one source is literature.

This might be archaeological
or mythological literature.

And the other source
are practical objects.

For example, the pyramids
are linked to the gods,

the gods who once descended

from the sky to us earthlings.

NARRATOR:
Perhaps the most familiar,

and most mysterious
megalithic structure

in all the world
is the Great Pyramid of Giza.

The oldest and largest
of Egypt's three great pyramids,

this miracle of engineering

is believed
to have been constructed

during a 20-year period,

ending around 2560 BC.

But to ancient alien theorists,

those numbers just don't add up.

The Great Pyramid was not
built in only 22 years,

because logistically speaking,

you would have to cut,
transport and put into place

one stone every nine seconds.

(tools clanking)

And there are modern engineers

who have come forward and said

we couldn't do this
in 22 years either.

NOORY: There are all kinds
of theories on how

the Great Pyramid of Giza
was built.

So many theories, you just
sit back and shake your head.

And that includes
ET visitations,

uh, levitating t-the blocks

with some kind of sound system,

anti-gravity...

...thousands of workers
pulling long ropes

on a ramp that had to be
almost two miles long

to get it up to where it is.

All I know is that they
are so finely aligned

and that the architecture
is so precise

that even modern people today
with great technology

would have a difficult time
being that good.

How, for example,
in the inside of the pyramids,

in the tombs, could they build
granite and marble areas

that were just so perfect
and so clean?

You mean to tell me
that people of that time period

did this by hand?
I don't think so.

NARRATOR: The enormous size
and weight of the stones,

multiplied
by the sheer number of them,

makes one thing certain:

The construction
of the Great Pyramid

remains one
of the greatest marvels,

and mysteries,
of architectural engineering.

MARTELL: I don't want to
discount human ingenuity,

because I do believe
that we do have the ability

to do these things
over a longer period of time.

But the knowledge to build
some of these monuments,

there had to have been
some type of intervention

or some type of knowledge
given to ancient man

to carry out those instructions.

They couldn't have just
come up with it on their own.

VON DÄNIKEN: In Egypt,
there are old traditions

saying the Great Pyramid
was constructed

by a pharaoh
with the name of Saurid,

and then they say Saurid
is the same,

which the-the Hebrew community
calls Enoch.

Enoch is a prophet
in the Old Testament.

There are books of Enoch
called the apocryphal texts.

You make a connection with Enoch
to these extraterrestrials.

He clearly says he met
these extraterrestrials.

Now we have writings
in the Book of Enoch

and he give the order
to construct a building

which cannot be destroyed

by the thousands of years
of the future.

TSOUKALOS:
And the ancient Egyptian texts

speak that the pyramids
were built by human beings

with the assistance

of "the guardians of the sky,"

meaning the gods.

And so we have proposed

that the pyramids
were built by human hands,

but with the assistance
of extraterrestrial technology.

NARRATOR: As one of the
Seven Wonders of the World,

the Great Pyramid remains

not only
an archaeological mystery,

but a geographical marvel.

In 1877, author
and theologian Joseph Seiss

demonstrated
that the Great Pyramid

resides at the intersection
of the longest line of latitude

and the longest line
of longitude,

the exact center of all
the landmass in the world.

Also, each of its four sides
aligns almost precisely

with the four points
of the compass,

though such an instrument
wasn't even designed

until thousands of years later.

But is it just mere coincidence
that pyramid construction,

very similar to that
practiced in ancient Egypt,

was also evolving
halfway around the world?

CHILDRESS: There are pyramids
on remote Pacific islands,

and in India, and in Mexico.

So this is something
that's all over the world.

Archaeologists haven't
really been able to explain why

dissimilar cultures,
separated by huge oceans,

are building
the same structures,

and in many ways, the same way.

NARRATOR: Here in Central
Mexico, stands an ancient city

that dates back
more than 2,000 years.

Its name, Teotihuacán,

literally means
"City of the Gods."

And located at its center
is the Pyramid of the Sun.

Incredibly,
this pyramid's perimeter

is virtually the same as that
of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

A structural coincidence?

Or, could it be
that both were inspired

by the same designers?

NOORY:
A couple theories for that.

Okay, one,
maybe they were all taught

the same thing
by an extraterrestrial race.

Two,
there were ancient travelers

from within this planet,
who went from one area

to another over
the thousands of past years.

And then
as some skeptics will say,

hey, that's the greatest
archaeological way

to make it,
so they just knew it.

I don't think that's the case.

CHILDRESS: At Teotihuacán,
here you have

a giant Pyramid of the Sun
and a giant Pyramid of the Moon.

According to the legends,
these things were built

by gods, who were giants,

at the end of one of
the destructions of the world.

Civilizations such as
the Aztecs and the Mayans

and the Hopi Indians
of northern Arizona,

they believe that the world
has been destroyed

four times in the past.

One time by ice,
once by fire, once by water.

And each time,
mankind rebuilds again.

And Teotihuacán
supposedly was built

just at the beginning
of one of these four worlds.

NOORY:
You may ask the question,

why build these
huge, huge structures?

For what purpose?

NARRATOR: The Giza
Necropolis, Egypt. 1993.

A team of engineers uses
a remotely operated camera

in an attempt to discover
the true function

of what is believed
to be an airshaft

leading from
the supposed "Queen's Chamber"

of the Great Pyramid.

First discovered in 1872,

archaeologists long considered
these narrow tunnels

to be ventilation ducts.

This robot traveled up
this small shaft,

which was too small for a human

or any type of device
to go through...

...and all of a sudden,
it finds a closed door

hinged by
two little metal clamps.

NARRATOR: According to
mainstream archaeologists,

the door and metal handles
were intentionally built

as a symbolic passageway
that the queen

would travel through
to the afterlife.

But some researchers
have questioned

why this passageway
would have been designed

with a deliberate blockage.

And why, on a plateau
filled with monumental pyramids

believed to serve
as royal tombs,

is the Great Pyramid
the only one with such a door?

Egyptologists are very much fond

of saying
that pyramids are tombs

and that they have been robbed
at some point in the past.

But the fact is
that we have found,

in the 20th century,
a number of pyramids

whose central King's Chamber,
so to speak, is intact.

And when they opened
the sarcophagus,

they found that sarcophagus
to be empty as well.

NARRATOR: If the Great
Pyramid was not a tomb,

what may have been
its true purpose?

In May 2011,

another team of researchers
set out to further explore

the blocked air shaft
in the Queen's Chamber.

This time, the crew
used a robot equipped

with a micro-snake camera
to slip through a hole

and reveal what was
beyond the door.

When they actually penetrated
this small door,

they found a hidden room
within the pyramid.

DUNN: What they found was copper
fittings, or the metal fittings.

Another feature of the back
of these metal fittings

was that on one side,

the loop looked like
it was corroded.

The camera also looked down,
and scanned the floor,

and what we saw
was red markings.

My interpretation of those were
they were electrical symbols.

But why were they there?

NARRATOR: Could these
artifacts be actual evidence

that electricity once coursed
through the structure?

And if so,
could the Great Pyramid of Giza

have been built to serve
as not a royal tomb

but a power plant,
as some researchers contend?

DUNN:
If we dismiss

the tomb theory and we look
at the pyramid itself,

we see something
that modern engineers

can really tune into
and understand.

What we have is a very,
very precise building

that has the precision
of a fraction of an inch

is something
that is very noteworthy

and not indicative
of a simple agrarian culture.

So, what we have is something
that is almost like a machine.

NARRATOR: If the Great Pyramid
was a sophisticated machine,

potentially capable
of creating energy,

how could it have worked?

Some researchers believe
clues can be found

by exploring underneath
the structure.

In 2000,
maritime engineer John Cadman

proposed a theory
that the Egyptians pumped water

from the nearby Nile River...

...into a small chamber
underneath the Great Pyramid.

The pump could then create
intense hydraulic pressure

that would cause
the entire pyramid to vibrate.

JOHN CADMAN: In the subterranean
chamber, there is some evidence

that shows that there
had been water present in it.

And that there's water erosion

on the floor,

and then up in the thin area.

And then, also, because it was
a hydraulic pulse generator,

so you have a rarefaction wave--
an extremely low-pressure wave--

which would have
struck the ceiling,

and the ceiling
is actually chipped.

And that would have been
from the actual

compression waves
hitting the ceiling.

That's very evident.

NARRATOR:
If Cadman's theory proves true,

what would have been the purpose
of the hydraulic pulse?

Engineer Chris Dunn believes
the answer can be found

by further examination
of the shafts

in what some call
the Queen's Chamber...

...where traces of zinc

and hydrochloric acid
have been discovered.

DUNN:
I believe the chemical coming in

through the northern shaft
was hydrated zinc,

and the other chemical coming
through the southern shaft

and into the chamber
was dilute hydrochloric acid.

These are actually seen
on the chamber walls.

NARRATOR: Dunn suggests
that the two chemicals

were poured down
through the shafts

and then mixed together
inside the Queen's Chamber,

triggering combustion.

DUNN:
This vessel represents

the Queen's Chamber.

Into the tubes
we're going to pour

hydrated zinc...

...and then hydrochloric acid.

When you bring
these two liquids together,

a chemical reaction occurs.

And a product of that
chemical reaction is hydrogen,

and you can see the vapor,

the hydrogen escaping

through the chimney.

And there you have the reaction.

NARRATOR: Dunn speculates
that the hydrogen gas

traveled from
the Queen's Chamber

into the King's Chamber.

Then, the vibrations
from the subterranean pool

energized the hydrogen atoms
into a microwave energy beam.

The evidence that indicates
the use of hydrogen

can be found
in the King's Chamber.

There's a shaft
in the King's Chamber,

has dimensions of 8.4 by 4.8,

which would be suitable
for a wave guide

for a maser,
or a "microwave amplification

through stimulated
emission radiation."

And from there,
we can actually propose

many different ideas
of what they did with it.

NARRATOR:
Might the Great Pyramid of Giza

actually have created power
in the remote past?

And is it possible that energy
ran the advanced tools

of early builders and devices
like the Dendera bulb?

DUNN: We can use
our imaginations and, uh,

come up with
all kinds of devices,

uh, to power
with that kind of energy.

Uh, from simple
domestic appliances

to, uh, highly
advanced spacecraft.

I mean, all things are possible.

The ancient Egyptians
demonstrated

an exceptional level of skill

in everything that they created
during the Old Kingdom,

but the question remains:
did they do it on their own

or did they have some access

to information or technology
that was not of this Earth?

NARRATOR: If Giza was,
in fact, a power plant,

could the energy have been used
for some otherworldly purpose,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest?

And if the power coming
from Giza was that strong,

could it have traveled
beyond Egypt?

For me,
the Great Pyramid of Giza

is the greatest pyramid
ever built.

But right here in North America,
there is a pyramid site

that is just as mysterious
as any place on Earth.

And that's Teotihuacán
in Mexico.

Absolutely.
And what's also crazy

is that, just like in Giza,

three of the pyramids
aligned directly

with the belt stars of Orion.

And there are
building materials there

that suggest it also could have
served a technological function.

I mean, it's mind-blowing,
and in my opinion,

it's not a coincidence.

NARRATOR:
Central Mexico,

35 miles northeast
of Mexico City.

Here, in a highlands plateau,

lies the enormous
archaeological site

of the ancient city
of Teotihuacán.

Established around 100 BC
and lasting until its fall

between the seventh
and eighth centuries,

Teotihuacán was one
of the largest cities

in the ancient world,

with over 150,000 inhabitants
at its peak.

When you enter this city,
you're immediately struck by

sort of that "modern" layout
of the city.

You have a Street of the Dead
that goes for miles,

along which you have
all of the major

ceremonial architecture,

including some
of the largest buildings

ever erected in the New World.

NARRATOR:
According to scholars,

the advanced design
of Teotihuacán

suggests that ancient builders
had knowledge

not only of architecture

but of complex mathematical
and astronomical sciences.

From the air, the city's layout
strangely resembles

a computer circuit board
with two large processor chips:

the Sun Pyramid
and the Moon Pyramid.

Researchers have also found

numerous and remarkable
similarities

to the Great Pyramids of Egypt.

COPPENS:
When we look at these buildings,

we find the same mathematics
incorporated into them

than what we find
in the Great Pyramid

and the surrounding pyramids
of the Giza Plateau.

ARLAN ANDREWS: The Great Pyramid
of Khufu at Giza

and the Sun Pyramid
at Teotihuacán

apparently have
about the same base,

almost 750 feet square.

TSOUKALOS:
The base perimeter

of the Pyramid of the Sun is

four pi times its height.

In Giza,
it's two times pi its height.

Essentially,
the Pyramid of the Sun is

exactly half as tall
as the Pyramid of Giza.

Teotihuacán is created
according to a specific layout.

The Temple of the Sun,

the Temple of the Moon

and the Temple of Quetzalcoatl

are in the same layout
as Orion's Belt,

which is basically the formation

which the three pyramids
of the Giza Plateau

have been laid out into as well.

NARRATOR: Might the design
and layout of Teotihuacán

be comparable to that of Giza

because of similar influence
by extraterrestrial visitors,

as ancient astronaut
theorists believe?

When you have
similar pyramid complexes

like the ones at Teotihuacán,
and the ones at Giza,

you have to kind of think that,
yeah, the same builders,

the same designers are
behind these giant complexes.

NARRATOR: But perhaps the most
intriguing aspect of Teotihuacán

is the finding by archaeologists

of the extensive use of mica
embedded in numerous structures.

A mineral only found
3,000 miles away

in Brazil.

JOEL PALKA:
It's found in all buildings,

housing complexes,
temples and along the roads.

It's found everywhere.

These mica sheets were
probably transported

from thousands of miles away
from, uh, Brazil.

That's the nearest source.

Now, why would you
want to do that?

They were obviously
not there for decoration

because you couldn't see them.

Mica has
some electrical properties

that make it very good
for being an insulator.

It resists
the transmission of electricity.

It's also very good
at being able to be stable

at high temperatures
so that it can be used

in furnace windows
and oven windows.

It is clear
so you can see through it

and at the same time,
it stands up

to the temperature
and electrical, uh, discharges.

COPPENS: So we know that they
must have had a very specific

and good reason
to incorporate it.

And the only possible reasons
really why they would be

doing this is because somehow
it was part of some technology.

NARRATOR: Recently archaeologists
have also discovered

large quantities
of mica crystals

in a subterranean chamber...

...as well as in several shafts

that run beneath
the Avenue of the Dead.

TSOUKALOS: There is
an underground shaft that goes

from the mica chamber

in direction
of the Pyramid of the Sun.

So is it possible
that this mica chamber

contained some type
of an energy-producing device,

a power plant that fed
some of the other pyramids?

It is possible.

CHILDRESS: There's many
similarities between, uh...

the pyramids at Teotihuacán
and the pyramids at Giza.

Both have inner chambers.

It's thought by some
that the Great Pyramid

itself was
a massive microwave generator

literally sending a beam up

to a satellite or-or powering

some other kind
of spacecraft or installation.

We could have had the same thing
happening here at Teotihuacán.

NARRATOR: If the Pyramid of
the Sun were really designed

to generate power, as ancient
astronaut theorists believe,

could its mica-lined chambers
and shafts have served

as an interconnecting
power grid for the entire city?

Or could the use of mica
have served another,

perhaps more protective purpose?

NASA uses mica
to deflect the heat

on many of their craft
such as the Space Shuttle.

On re-entry the bottom part
of the Space Shuttle

is all lined with mica
and is a perfect deflector

of large amounts of heat.

CHILDRESS: Could the mica at
Teotihuacán also have been used

to shield
and protect the ancient people

perhaps from the blast

of an extraterrestrial
rocket taking off?

Or even the radiation maybe
from some kind of spacecraft?

NARRATOR: But if the ancient
builders of Teotihuacán

used mica for the purposes
of power generation

and radiation protection,

then where did
their advanced engineering

and construction knowledge
come from?

TSOUKALOUS: The earliest descriptions
of Teotihuacán talk about gods

descending from the sky
in ships or winged serpents,

and that something
extraordinary happened there.

Teotihuacán, like
the ancient Egyptian pyramids,

is believed to have
been built by the gods.

And the gods ascended
into the heavens

in craft that we today
think could be rocket ships.

The builders certainly
must have learned

the secrets
from the gods themselves.

MARTELL: An interesting similarity
with many of these ancient sites

were reports
of the gods ascending

and descending from the heavens.

It's very possible
that these were

actually being used
as landing sites.

So it's very possible
that the knowledge

to build Teotihuacán
was given to us

by extraterrestrials.

NARRATOR: Do the ancient
legends of flying alien beings

and other strange creatures
provide proof

that ancient aliens did,
in fact, influence

the incredible architectural
achievements of Teotihuacán?

And if so,
might the same connection

be found at other pyramid sites
around the world?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes...

and suggest further evidence
can be found

by looking at pyramids
not from the ground,

but from above.

Not only are pyramids some of
the largest ancient structures

on Earth, but when you look
at them from above

in an aerial image,
it's quite striking.

Yeah, and then
when you combine that

with the fact that many of them

are aligned to the stars,

you just have to wonder,
could they have served

as, like, beacons?

Yeah, I mean, could they be
some kind of landmarks

for extraterrestrials
to come to Earth?

NARRATOR:
Egypt, 1940.

While flying
above the Giza Plateau,

a British Air Force pilot
photographs

one of the most amazing
features of the Great Pyramid.

The structure actually has
eight sides instead of four.

This baffling phenomenon
is only detectable from the air

at dawn and sunset on
the spring and autumn equinoxes,

when the sun casts shadows
on the pyramid

that reveal the eight-sided,
slightly concaved construction.

This is a light show
whereby the ancestors

who built this knew
that something visually

spectacular would be seen on
these important calendar days.

We realize
that whoever built this

was aware of the solar cycle...

and we also know
that the person who built it

had extraordinary understanding
of mathematics.

All of these things make it
clear that of all pyramids,

the Great Pyramid really
is in a league of its own.

NARRATOR: Why is the Great
Pyramid's true shape only visible

from above at the equinox?

And how did ancient man
create such an intricate design

that is exposed
just twice a year...

...and can only be seen
from the sky?

Ancient astronaut theorists
believe clues can be found

by examining the unique
geographical and architectural

characteristics
of the towering structure.

According to scholars,
the Great Pyramid was built

on what is considered to be
the center

of all the landmasses of Earth.

The massive structure
is almost perfectly

aligned to magnetic north.

Inside the pyramid,
the designers added

small shafts aligned towards
two specific constellations:

Orion and Sirius.

NARRATOR: The four shafts are
not only aligned perfectly

on a north-south axis,
but one shaft

also points directly
toward Orion's Belt.

Mainstream scientists
believe shafts like these

were simply used as ventilation
during construction.

But might there be
another reason

why they align with the stars?

THOMAS BROPHY: They used to call it
an air shaft of the Great Pyramid.

It's now known to be
a star shaft.

It's known to have been oriented

to the passage of Orion's Belt.

And, uh, it's thought to have
represented the release

of the soul back to its origin.

BAUVAL:
There is much to suggest

that this correlation
is not a coincidence.

We know that the ancient
Egyptian pyramid builders

believed that the king was
going to become a star in Orion.

The whole concept
that the three pyramids at Giza

are in a special alignment

of Orion's Belt
is very interesting.

The Mayans constructed hundreds
of thousands of pyramids

throughout Central America.

Many of these pyramids
may be designed to reflect

certain constellations
in the sky,

like the Orion constellations
or others.

The old saying,
"As above, so below."

NARRATOR: But why would
the pyramid builders

design their pyramids
to reflect star constellations?

Might the reason for specific
placement of the pyramids

on Earth be something that only
the ancients understood?

Pyramids in general
tend to be very large in scale

and can only be truly seen
from above.

So, it's quite possible
that the earliest pyramids

were made as beacons
as a way for those

not of this world to connect
with those of this world.

BAUVAL: Maybe they were
moving around the Earth

and using these places,
not just as sacred places,

but in order to know
where they were.

These pyramids were
like geodetic markers

marking power spots
around the planet.

They really can be seen
from the air.

They're almost designed,
uh, from above.

I believe that there's a deep
mystery with them,

and we really have to look at it
from a different perspective

to try and find the answer
to that mystery.

NARRATOR: Is it possible
the thousands of pyramids

scattered across the globe

were once part
of a cohesive network?

One that could only be
understood from the sky?

And who, or what,
could have coordinated

such a precise design?

Magelang, Indonesia.

The Borobudur Temple
on the island of Java

is the world's largest
Buddhist monument.

Built during the eighth
and ninth centuries AD,

this religious structure,
with its wide base

and tiered mound,
is another example of a pyramid.

Consisting of six
rectangular terraces

topped by three
concentric circular terraces,

this intricate pyramid design
has intrigued scholars,

especially when viewed
from the air.

Borobudur is definitely not
an obvious pyramid, but it is.

It is a stepped pyramid,
on top of which

have been built structures.

NARRATOR: From overhead,
the temple takes the form

of a giant Buddhist mandala,

a unique circular diagram
representing both the cosmos

and a spiritual place
for prayer and meditation.

The design indicates
that this pyramid

was once a place where man
connected with the gods.

Researchers question why and how

the builders would create such
an intricate religious symbol

that can only be viewed
from the air.

But according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

the answer can be found
on top of the pyramid,

where there are 72 bell-shaped
structures known as stupas,

each housing
a seated statue of Buddha.

They are considered to be world
eggs or wombs of transformation.

The ancient Indians were telling
us that these are, in fact,

ladders or cosmic stairways
into the heavens.

TSOUKALOS: The journey didn't
happen in their heads.

It wasn't something ethereal.

It wasn't something spiritual.
It happened.

Extraterrestrial contact
took place in Indonesia

thousands of years ago.

NARRATOR: Were these stupas
really built as a metaphor

for spiritual enlightenment,

as mainstream
archaeologists believe?

Or might they have been
constructed to serve

another even more
profound purpose?

One thing is for certain,

the mystery of these
global pyramids deepens,

as more hidden structures
come to light.

We now know that
there are literally

hundreds of ancient pyramids
around the world.

And just imagine how many
we still haven't discovered.

Yeah, I mean,
thanks to modern technology,

we now know that there are
pyramids beneath the sands

of Egypt and beneath the jungles
of Central and South America.

Right, and some
are even underwater.

In fact, we did
an episode about this

back in 2015 on Ancient Aliens.

NARRATOR:
Western China.

May 21, 1992.

An underground nuclear explosion
on the Lop Nor test range

sends shock waves
through the Earth.

The event is recorded
by U.S. government seismometers,

which reveal unexpected
geological anomalies

under the earth
just north of Anchorage, Alaska.

Six months later, a U.S. Army
Counterintelligence officer

stationed at nearby
Fort Richardson,

Douglas Mutschler,
sees a local news report

that claims these
underground scans had detected

a colossal pyramid structure
50 miles southwest

of Mount McKinley.

Mutschler contacts the station
to find out more,

but mysteriously,

they tell him no further
information is available.

NOORY: There has been talk that
there's a pyramid up in Alaska.

But nobody seems to be
investigating that,

maybe because it's so remote,

or maybe they have
investigated it,

and they just don't want
to tell us about it.

NARRATOR: Frustrated by
the lack of information,

Sergeant Mutschler contacts
journalist Linda Moulton Howe,

who reaches out across
her network searching for anyone

that could shed light
on the Alaska pyramid story.

Soon after,
she receives a response

from a man who requests
to remain anonymous.

He claims his father
was an engineer

who got a firsthand look
at the secret pyramid.

His father had had a Navy career

and then was asked
to continue to work in Alaska...

...on a very special project
that involved

something underground
that put out a lot of energy.

There were mining shaft
elevators on the surface.

He would go down to the base

of a huge underground pyramid.

His work was
to try to understand

how this was giving off
what they estimated

was a gigantic amount of energy.

But he never would talk

because this was
a government secret.

There is no doubt in my mind
that there is a cover-up

going on and that something
was found there in Alaska.

I think the reason why
it's been covered up is that

we would have to
completely rewrite

the science of human origins.

The concept that, at one point,

there was a global
industrialized civilization

that had reached a technology
that is, in fact,

superior to our own

because we cannot easily
build pyramids like this today.

NARRATOR: Could it be, as some
ancient astronaut theorists suggest,

that the United States
government

is hiding the Alaskan pyramid

until they can fully comprehend
and harness its power?

Perhaps the answer can be found
4,400 miles away.

Central China. 1945.

While transporting supplies
from India,

U.S. Army Air Corps Pilot
James Gaussman

spots a mysterious structure

that becomes known
as the Great White Pyramid.

One of the most unusual stories

of pyramids came out
of World War II.

The story is of
an American pilot who was

flying the Burma Hump over to
Chongqing in Central China.

And what he claimed he saw
was a huge pyramid in the valley

with a gigantic crystal capstone
on the top of it.

NARRATOR: Two years later,
The New York Times reported

that Colonel Maurice Sheahan,

another American aviator
flying over Central China,

spotted a 1,000-foot-high
pyramid in the same area.

Since then,
many more pyramidal structures

have been discovered
throughout the region,

some of them
covered in vegetation,

seemingly camouflaged
to look like natural formations.

But the Chinese
government denies

that there are any pyramids
in China at all,

claiming that any structures
resembling pyramids

are actually burial mounds
from the Han dynasty.

There are a number
of large pyramids

in Central China.

But the Chinese government
has gone out of their way

to try to dismiss the idea

that these mounds are pyramids.

Still to this day,

the subject
of the Chinese pyramids

is very rarely discussed.

However, you can go
on Google Earth and you can see

the pyramids of the Xi'an
Province for yourself

by just zooming in on this area,

but the Chinese government does
not want you to go in this area,

it is declared off-limits
to everyone

except for the local
peasant farmers in that region.

What are they hiding?

NARRATOR: Could these pyramids reveal
a different version of history

than what the Chinese government
wants us to know?

Curiously, other modern
discoveries of pyramids

have been met
with similar denials.

In 2005, Dr. Sam Osmanagich,

a professor of anthropology
and amateur archaeologist,

announced that he had found

five ancient pyramids
hidden in Bosnia,

a claim that
the Bosnian government

initially supported,
but then later denied.

When I first saw
the pyramids in Bosnia,

they looked like hills,

but you could see
the regular geometry,

four triangular faces,
obvious corners,

and, uh, when I took compass,

compass shows me
that those sides

match cardinal points.

I knew immediately that these
were artificial structures

below the layers
of soil and vegetation.

They tell us
that the pyramids were built

only in Egypt and Mexico, wrong.

They are built
on all six continents,

from Asia, Africa, Europe,

Central, North
and South America.

So they're
a worldwide phenomena.

In 21st century,
we will need to establish

a new science
which will finally answer

the question
to who, when, how and why

build the oldest
and the most superior pyramids.

NARRATOR: But why would
governments around the world

want to try and discredit these
new discoveries of pyramids?

MARTELL:
World governments might not want

to be forthcoming
with this information.

Just like we've seen
with the Chinese government,

places like Alaska and others

might also hold hidden wealths
of archaeological finds

that we still have yet
to uncover.

NARRATOR:
Are there ancient pyramids

that are deliberately being
kept secret from the public?

Might the discovery of these,

and an untold number
of other hidden pyramids,

expose the truth
about our origins?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining pyramids
discovered... underwater.

NARRATOR: Yonaguni Island,
Japan.

September 1997.

Multiple teams of researchers,

geologists
and professional divers

launch an underwater expedition

near the southernmost
of the remote Ryukyu Islands.

They are there to investigate
a mysterious stone configuration

known as the "Yonaguni Pyramid."

Less than 100 feet
below the surface,

the divers
come across rock formations

including pillars...

wedges...

platforms...

and giant steps

that appear to be carved
out of the bedrock.

MOTT: The Yonaguni Monument
has been altered by carving.

And it has been
very carefully carved

into, uh, megaliths,
platforms, stairways.

The only problem is
that it's built for giants.

The stairs are immense.

So, who built this monument?

And what cataclysmic event

sent it
to the bottom of the sea?

TSOUKALOS: There are all
these different cuts

that seem to be
of artificial origin

and not of a natural origin

because it's too... precise.

Was Yonaguni
artificially altered at a time

when the water levels
of the oceans were lower?

We know that this
happened at some point

during the last ice age,
which was 14,000 years ago.

ROBERT SCHOCH: Now we have to remember
that at the end of the last ice age,

sea levels were as much
as 300-plus feet

lower than they are today.

So at that time, this structure
would've been above sea level.

It would've been,
at that time, dry land.

NARRATOR: Could the massive underwater
structure known as Yonaguni

really be the remnants
of an advanced civilization

that existed here on Earth
more than 10,000 years ago?

Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes,

and claim that
further evidence can be found

in Polynesian stories of
a long-lost continent called Mu.

The Yonaguni Monument
may represent

the remains
of a transpacific civilization

that the Polynesians call Mu.

There is evidence
throughout Polynesia

for an ancient
megalithic civilization.

There are similar ruins
off the coast of Pohnpei.

The ruins
are partially submerged.

CHILDRESS:
This lost continent of Mu

was in the middle
of the Pacific Ocean.

And it encompassed Hawaii
and Tahiti,

Tonga and Samoa
and even Easter Island

were all part
of this lost continent of Mu.

And the central pyramid complex
in Tonga

is called Mu'a.

NARRATOR: While most
conventional scholars dismiss

the story of Mu
as being mythology,

ancient astronaut theorists
suggest

an enormous new discovery
in Southeast Asia

could provide
irrefutable evidence

that this lost civilization did,
in fact, exist.

West Java, Indonesia.

Located in Karyamukti Village
is a mysterious site

called Gunung Padang,
or "Mountain of Enlightenment."

For thousands of years,

the local population revered
Gunung Padang as a sacred site,

and many came here to meditate
among the giant stone blocks.

But in 1914,
Dutch explorers discovered

that the basalt columns
scattered across the hilltop

are not natural features at all.

They are, in fact, fragments
of an ancient megalithic site.

A century later, in 2013,

the Indonesian government
sponsored an excavation

to see if anything was hidden

beneath the layers of dirt
and rubble.

What they found was evidence
that suggests

Gunung Padang is the world's
oldest step pyramid.

COLLINS: Gunung Padang is
probably the most remarkable

megalithic structure
in the whole of Southeast Asia.

And what it consists of
is a-a hillside

on the top of which
are a series of terraces,

um, on which are structures

made from basaltic pillars,

and other types of structure.

SCHOCH: But what is really
important is the age of it.

It has been analyzed by
Indonesian geologists,

and he seemed to have
very good data from boreholes,

from radiocarbon analysis,
from seismic sections,

as I've done around
the great Sphinx,

that this site goes back

an incredible 20,000
or so years,

maybe slightly more than that.

NARRATOR: According to
geologists, 20,000 years ago,

Java,
where Gunung Padang is located,

was not an isolated island,

but the southernmost part
of a subcontinent

known as Sundaland.

This has led some researchers
to speculate that Gunung Padang,

with its high elevation,
could have been at the pinnacle

of a civilization
that disappeared

sometime around 10,000 BC...

when melting ice caps
flooded the region

and turned it into the series
of islands it is today.

WILCOCK:
The compelling suggestion is

that there was some sort
of civilization here

before this flood took place,

that they built this
with advanced technology

and therefore, they were

extraterrestrial visitors
to the Earth,

and that's why archaeologists
are not finding the evidence

that we would
normally expect to see

showing a geometric
progression of technology

leading up
to the ability to build

a gigantic pyramid
well over 12,000 years ago.

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists believe Sundaland

is only one piece of
an enormous underwater puzzle,

that when put together,
will reveal

that there was an advanced
culture here on Earth

tens of thousands of years ago.

But why did they build pyramids?

Is it possible
pyramids played a powerful,

central role in
the colonization of the planet?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

the answers may lie
not only underwater,

but buried beneath the ice

of Antarctica.

You know, the last place you
would expect to find pyramids

is at the South Pole,

but recently, people
are talking about evidence

that there are pyramids
beneath the ice in Antarctica.

Yeah, and if this is true,
then that means

that these pyramids
were built at a time

when the Earth's climate
was different,

and it also means

that pyramid building
is much older

than what we're being told.

HENRY:
It's a fascinating topic,

and there's a surprising
amount of evidence.

We featured it
in a 2016 episode:

"Pyramids of Antarctica."

NARRATOR: Stretching over
five million square miles

across the southernmost
reaches of the Earth

lies the coldest and most
isolated continent in the world:

Antarctica.

Because of its hostile climate,

including average
daily temperatures

of minus 49 degrees Fahrenheit

and wind speeds of
over 200 miles per hour,

Antarctica remains
largely untouched

by mankind.

According to historical records,

modern man did not even
set foot on the continent

until 1853, when
ship captain Mercator Cooper

landed on what is now known
as the Oates Coast

of Victoria Land.

Today, anywhere
from 1,000 to 5,000 people

reside at the research stations

scattered across the continent,

braving the extreme
conditions in hopes

of learning more
about this mysterious landscape.

COLLINS:
The thing about Antarctica

is that as much as 98% of it

is covered in ice.

And just occasionally, there
are little areas that stick out.

Mountaintops, ridges, peaks.

JONATHAN YOUNG: Antarctica is the
least explored of the continents.

Even the North Pole,
which is just ice,

has been explored more.

It is a mystery, and it's
right here on the Earth.

It's perhaps the last big

unexplored part
of our home planet.

CHILDRESS: Antarctica
is a vast frozen world,

and we know
very little about it.

And, in fact,
the ice in Antarctica

is up to three miles thick
in certain places.

And what's beneath the ice

is still largely
a mystery to scientists.

TSOUKALOS:
You just have to imagine this,

the Sears Tower is a little less
under a third of a mile tall,

so you have to imagine
that you can stack

nine Sears Towers
on top of each other

and they would still not
peek out from that ice sheet.

NARRATOR:
Most geologists believe

Antarctica has been completely
frozen and uninhabited

for over 12 million years.

But in 2012,
new photographs revealed

formations in the landscape
that challenge this notion.

Mysterious pyramid
structures emerging

from the now melting ice.

Recently, there have
been a number of reports

of pyramids being found
on Antarctica.

There are various photographs

that show what appear to
be perfect four-sided pyramids,

very similar
in design to those at Giza,

Egypt and perhaps
other places around the world.

NARRATOR: While the photos
were explained away

by mainstream scientists
as nothing more than

natural land formations,

satellite imagery analysts,
like Joseph White,

are not entirely convinced.

In March of 2013,

he uncovered what
he believes is evidence

of yet another pyramid,
located just south

of Antarctica's remote
Shackleton Mountain Range.

WHITE:
I initially found the structure

whilst looking on Google Earth.
I was, in fact,

looking at some of
the rather strange blank spots

that you get in Antarctica,
when I stumbled upon this

very large square structure
which seems to be

some kind of building
or perhaps even a pyramid,

but certainly very large
and very square.

It actually lines up
perfectly with the coordinates

of the compass:
north, south, east and west.

And, uh, this dictates
to me that it's probably

an intelligent structure,
because, uh,

random structures,
like mountains,

are not aligned to the compass.

And another way we know
that a structure

is not naturally occurring is
generally to look for symmetry.

Things like right angles
and equilateral triangles

and shapes that you would
not normally find in nature.

This structure is exactly,
uh, two kilometers square.

This corner to this corner

is two kilometers,
and this corner to this corner

is also exactly two kilometers,

which would make this
more than double the size

of any pyramid
thus far found on Earth.

NARRATOR:
While it may seem unthinkable

that pyramids
could exist in Antarctica,

in recent years, archaeologists

have found pyramids
all over the world

that had been lost
for centuries,

mistaken as natural formations,

or hidden in
the most unlikely places.

They have been discovered

in the plains of northern Peru,

buried beneath dirt
and rubble in Indonesia,

and one may even exist

in Los Angeles, California.

All the way around the world,

we find evidence
of pyramid structures.

We should start looking
at the possibility

that there was habitation
on Antarctica.

Was it a lost civilization?

Could it be ancient astronauts?

And just maybe,

the earliest monuments
of our own civilization

came originally from Antarctica.

CHILDRESS:
If this gigantic pyramid

in Antarctica is
an artificial structure,

it would probably be the oldest
pyramid on our planet,

and, in fact, it might be

the master pyramid that all

the other pyramids
on planet Earth

were designed,
uh, to-to look like.

MICHAEL SALLA: There has
been extensive research

done on pyramids
throughout the world

in terms of their structure and
what it is that they really are,

and one of the theories
is that pyramids

are power generators.

And so, if you
have these pyramids

strategically placed
around the world,

generating this charge,
it's possible

to create a general
standing wave around the world

that is basically a wireless
transmission of energy.

CHILDRESS: It's been theorized
that ancient ships,

extraterrestrials and
those with high technology,

could use this interconnected
wireless energy system

to navigate around the planet,

and it makes sense

that if there was
some kind of worldwide

pyramid power grid like this,

that Antarctica
would have pyramids as well.

TSOUKALOS: The whole idea of
these pyramidal structures,

where did it come from?

'Cause it's not
an arbitrary thing.

And these structures,
they exist worldwide,

so, you know,
what was the impetus?

And even more fascinating,

what's the origin?

For ancient astronaut theorists,

we really think
that the pyramids are

much older than what
archaeology currently suggests.

Yeah, and that makes
it even harder to explain

how they could have
built these pyramids

without the help of
a more advanced civilization.

Right, and the more we learn,
the more questions arise.

Right.

NARRATOR:
The Giza Plateau, Egypt. 2008.

Researchers from
the University of the Aegean

and the University of Athens

perform a study on the stones

used for many of
the region's ancient monuments.

What they discover is that
most of these structures,

including the Giza Pyramids,

contain hundreds of
thousands of marine fossils.

The find intensifies the debate

between archaeologists
who suggest

that the blocks used
to build the pyramids

were cast like concrete,

versus those who say they were
carved out of natural stone.

But for ancient
astronaut theorists,

it raises another question:

Is it possible that the pyramids

were not built with stone
that had at one time

been submerged
beneath the ocean,

but that the pyramids
themselves were underwater?

WILCOCK: Right in the
middle of the desert

seemingly out of nowhere,
we have fossils

from the ocean, different
genres of marine organisms.

Where did they come from,

and why are they here?

Some say that a great flood
did in fact happen,

that it was real.

ARIEL BAR TZADOK: The flood is
clearly presented as being sent

with intent as an attack
upon the Earth.

The powers that be,
they had an intent

and a purpose
for Experiment Earth,

which they believed
had become corrupted,

and therefore,
the flood was sent as an attack,

an assault upon humanity.

CHILDRESS: These gods were
going to artificially create

this flood and cataclysm
with their super technology.

And who could do that
except for extraterrestrials?

NARRATOR: According to the
Bible, God sent the great flood

to cleanse the Earth because
of the sinful state of mankind.

But if the flood really was sent
by extraterrestrials,

as some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,

might it also have been
an attempt to eliminate

any trace of the
advanced civilization

that existed here on Earth
in the distant past?

Is it possible
that the secrets of the pyramids

were initially covered up,
not by humans,

but by an alien race that lived
among us thousands of years ago?

One has to ask the question,
well, what was wiped out?

Could it be that it was
an incredibly advanced society

that existed
before recorded history?

MOTT: Many new pyramid
structures have been found.

You have, uh, pyramids
off the coast of Cuba

in 2,000 feet of water.

So who built those structures?
How did they get there?

Researcher Frank Joseph
has actually found remnants

of at least ten
pyramid-shaped structures

beneath the surface of the water
in Rock Lake, Wisconsin.

Two of these pyramids
have actually been explored

by scuba divers and mapped out
through the use of sonar,

which is how we figure out

where things are
in a deep body of water.

NARRATOR: The presence
of man-made pyramids

at the bottom
of Rock Lake, Wisconsin--

much like the structures
that have been found in China,

Alaska, Bosnia, and off
the coasts of Japan and Cuba--

is something that government
officials continue to deny.

But the government
has gone out of their way

to try to dismiss the idea
that these are pyramids.

And they won't even
give you a good answer,

but the answer really is
that they don't want people

to make this connection

that we have pyramids
in our country,

and that they're connected
to pyramids all over the world.

NARRATOR: How many other lost
pyramids might be out there?

Will the truth about
who built these pyramids,

and why, reveal our connection

to an advanced extraterrestrial
race that was here

long before even the earliest
known civilizations?

And if so,
might the pyramids themselves

serve as a conduit
for reestablishing contact?

NARRATOR:
Giza, Egypt.

In 1977 and then again in 1987,

electronics engineer
and inventor Joe Parr

conducted experiments
on the top of the Great Pyramid.

Using equipment
of his own design,

Parr measured
the pyramid's electrical,

magnetic,
and radioactive properties.

DESALVO: Joe Parr, who was my very
close friend and research colleague,

discovered what I believe
is the most incredible discovery

about the Great Pyramid
and pyramids in general.

Joe believed that the pyramids
had an energy field around them.

All pyramids had it.

The problem
is the pyramid energy field

was usually not strong enough.

So, he developed,
in his laboratory,

a method for generating
this pyramid energy,

so then he could actually do
scientific studies on it.

COPPENS:
Over the last few decades,

people have been experimenting
with pyramids.

What has come
to the forefront of this

is the fact that pyramids
are an enigma.

They really have powers
which are very hard to explain.

And so, people like Joe Parr
have been looking into this.

When somebody goes to the top
of the Great Pyramid

and experiences this weird
electromagnetic vibration,

this is not just a coincidence,
but this has to do with the fact

that the Great Pyramid
is causing this.

DESALVO: Joe Parr found out
that, if he put a model pyramid

and spun it in a centrifuge

through an alternating
magnetic current,

an energy field-- or he calls it
an orb or bubble--

would form
around the model pyramid.

Joe found that this
bubble or energy orb

would block all known types
of electromagnetic radiation,

even gamma rays.

Now, this was interesting.

We don't know
of any types of energy forces

that could do this.

This is the most
incredible thing

about Joe Parr's discovery.

NARRATOR:
In later laboratory experiments,

Parr claimed to have discovered

yet another strange
physical phenomenon.

The model pyramid became
weightless in the energy field

and began to move
in a specific direction.

DESALVO: He calculated the
direction of this energy field

where the pyramid would
shoot out from, and guess what?

It aligns exactly where we would
see the constellation Orion.

So, Joe speculated that
it went into hyperspace.

This is speculation,
but it makes a lot of sense.

In string theory in physics,
it postulates the existence

of six additional
spatial dimensions.

So how do we know
the way these energy fields

were set up,
it allows this pyramid

to go into
another dimension and travel?

Joe never proved this.

But before he died,
he believed that the pyramid act

as a time machine,
if you could unlock its key.

I believe that that
is a gateway or portal

into multiple dimensions

that would, uh, enable
transmission of people, objects,

or consciousness from other
dimensions into our dimension.

NARRATOR: Is it possible--
like Joe Parr believed--

that the Great Pyramid
could facilitate travel

through inter-dimensional space?

And if so,
were there other pyramids

with the same capabilities?

Might the Earth's pyramids
be connected,

not simply by shape,
but by purpose?

Perhaps as part of some
otherworldly plan?

CHILDRESS: The ancient people
were all building

these same pyramids because

it was a way for them to-to tap

into the natural energy
of the Earth.

And you have to think
that whoever is guiding

such a precise network
of pyramids

must've been
a very advanced culture,

probably extraterrestrials.

TSOUKALOS: In all of this, I
have one single question:

Where are the blueprints?

If all of this
was so incredibly important,

then wouldn't you think
that we would have at least

one record of some type
of a blueprint?

And the reality is,
there is not a single piece.

Why? Could it be because
the blueprints have disappeared?

NARRATOR: Pyramids
interconnected by design

transforming the Earth's
electromagnetic power

and serving as gateways
for otherworldly travelers.

Is it really possible
that the ancient pyramids

are part of an advanced,
perhaps alien, technology?

One which we
have not yet discovered?

If so, what will happen
when their secrets are unlocked?

Is mankind finally ready
for the truth?

So, it's interesting to think
that the pyramids

might have been, you know,
energy generators

putting out power,

or maybe they were,
uh, repositories

for ancient knowledge.

HENRY:
Right. Or was it something else?

I mean, the ancient Egyptians
thought of the Great Pyramid

as an ascension instrument,
so perhaps it was a-a stargate

or a conduit
to other star systems.

Right, and what I find
so fascinating

is that we've just seen

that many of these
ancient pyramid sites

are built in
constellation forms,

-like the belt stars of Orion.
-Right.

The idea is that that is where
the extraterrestrials came from.

Right.

And can you just imagine,
if we are able to fire up

this grid again
and actually use it

and call beings down
from those star systems.

I mean, it'd be incredible.

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