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A lost city.

Hidden in the Andes.

Mysterious metal spheres of extraterrestrial origin.

And a sunken city that was said to be the home of the Gods.

Over the years, ancient Aliens has investigated some of the most astonishing

breakthroughs in archaeology, astronomy and physics

that challenge traditional beliefs about human history.

Now, we're counting down the 10 most extraordinary discoveries we've examined.

Discoveries that just might present undeniable proof of our extraterrestrial past.

For ancient astronaut theorists like me, there is nothing more exciting than when a

new discovery is made that points to evidence of

extraterrestrial visitations in the distant past.

And while it's not easy to narrow it down to just 10, our list covers discoveries in

everything from science to archaeology to

astronomy, like the first entry in our countdown.

It is a mysterious object that flew through our solar system.

And what makes it truly extraordinary is that some scientists

believe it might have been an extraterrestrial craft.

At number 10 on our countdown of the top 10 extraordinary discoveries, Oumuamua.

The Hawaiian island of Maui, October 19, 2017.

Astronomers at the Haleakala Observatory detect a mysterious

object traveling at high speed through our solar system.

The object has a strange oblong shape and is on a trajectory

that is unlike anything that has ever been seen before.

I was in charge of coordinating the observing to characterize the object.

There were four images taken that showed an

object moving rapidly with respect to the stars.

At that point, they started to compute an orbit

to try and understand what this object was.

Once more data came in, it was very clear that

this object was from outside the solar system.

This was really exciting.

By calculating the object's speed and trajectory, astronomers determined that it

originated in another star system, making it

the first interstellar object ever discovered.

They named the object Oumuamua, meaning Voyager from the distant past,

reaching out to us.

And incredibly, some astronomers suggested it

might be some type of extraterrestrial technology.

Oumuamua doesn't look like a typical asteroid.

It's elongated.

It's not round or chunky like you would think an asteroid is.

And there were a lot of astronomers and scientists who studied Oumuamua,

and it looks like it could possibly have been a probe

from some other civilization outside our solar system.

What I think is interesting is that Oumuamua is cigar-shaped, because there

are stories and eyewitness reports of cigar-shaped UFOs.

So is it possible that there is some type of a connection?

Is it possible that some asteroids are actually extraterrestrial spacecraft?

While it might sound like science fiction, in 2023, a team of scientists launched an

expedition to find fragments of a meteorite on the ocean floor, one that

they believed contains evidence of Alien technology.

At number nine on our countdown, the Belau Spheres.

The Bismarck Sea, June 2023, 100 miles north of Papua New Guinea.

Harvard astrophysicist Dr. Avi Loeb and a team of scientists are attempting to

retrieve the remnants of an exploded meteor from the

bottom of the Pacific Ocean using a large magnetic sled.

Two weeks into the project, the sled pulls up something unexpected.

Loeb did find a number of beads, little spherules, not

much bigger than a BB, that they were able to dredge up.

Upon first glance, they look kind of exotic.

They have little swirls in them.

They're almost perfectly round.

For Dr. Loeb, the discovery of these mysterious spheres is particularly

exciting because he believes that the exploded object they came from is unlike

any other meteor that's ever landed on Earth.

He first learned about this meteor in 2019, and based on its speed and

trajectory, he was able to surmise that it was interstellar.

I came across a meteor catalogue that the government

compiled using its missile warning system.

The meteor discovered in 2014 was actually from outside the solar system.

The meteor burned up 18.7 kilometers above the ocean surface, and it released a few

percent of the energy of the Hiroshima bomb when it exploded.

The government released the light curve of the fireball of the explosion,

and from that we infer that the object must have been made

of some alloy that is much tougher than iron meteorites.

And that raises the possibility that it may have been a spacecraft.

A spacecraft?

Could it be that the object that exploded over the ocean

north of Papua New Guinea was an extraterrestrial craft?

Dr. Loeb believes the small metallic spheres his

team discovered could confirm his radical theory.

Initial testing of the spherules showed that they had an unusually high

concentration of beryllium, lanthanum, and uranium,

making a never-before-seen compound known as bilao.

That bilao composition does not exist in any known mineral or rock that we know of,

and so this does speak to his hypothesis

that they're manufactured extraterrestrially.

Dr. Avi Loeb proposes that these spherules may be part of some type of E.T.

technology.

Could that really be a remnant of a far, far distant extraterrestrial civilization?

Dr. Avi Loeb's suggestion that the objects discovered in the Pacific Ocean may have

come from an extraterrestrial spacecraft is a thrilling prospect.

But there is another scientist who made a similar intriguing discovery, not in the

ocean, but in Earth's upper atmosphere, and he's convinced that it is of Alien origin.

Number eight on our countdown, the titanium microsphere.

The University of Sheffield, England, 2015.

Andrew, on you.

Countdown, please.

Astrobiologist Dr. Milton Wainwright and his research team released a hydrogen

balloon that travels 25 miles up into Earth's stratosphere.

Once the balloon reaches its target altitude, a capture

mechanism collects samples of whatever material is around it.

Then the balloon bursts and the capture mechanism descends by parachute back to

Earth so that its contents can be analyzed.

One of these balloons was hit at an incredible

rate by something that left behind a small crater.

And when they actually dug into this crater to see what it was, it was a tiny sphere.

And when they actually examined what the sphere was made of, it was found to be of

titanium and vanadium, and these are elements that

shouldn't be there naturally out in the lower atmosphere.

The microscopic sphere is just 200 microns in

diameter, roughly the thickness of a human hair.

There's no Earth material associated with them, and they're

too large to be carried from Earth to these altitudes.

They must be incoming from space.

Where are they coming from?

We just don't know.

This tiny sphere, when they studied it under an electron microscope, saw that it

was actually a shell that had now broken, and coming out of it

was this strange ooze that they felt was biological in nature.

A biological substance that originated not on Earth, but from somewhere in space?

Is it possible that this discovery is evidence of

a living organism from a world other than our own?

The characteristics of these organisms is very interesting.

They're made of carbon and oxygen, so we know they're life forms.

They don't contain silicon, so they're elements of cosmic dust.

They're very unusual.

When I see the shapes of these things, I'm amazed

because I've never seen anything like them on Earth.

There's no textbook version of the pictures we've been seeing.

Although it is still unknown just where these spheres come from,

Dr. Wainwright believes they are being used to introduce new life forms on Earth.

With Dr. Wainwright's small metal sphere, you have to wonder is this protein ooze

that's inside it something to jumpstart life on the planet?

Without a doubt, one of my favorite places to explore is Egypt.

And what I find truly exciting is when technology reveals

new secrets about its ancient monuments and temples.

Like an extraordinary discovery that was made in 2017 when researchers located a

hidden chamber inside the Great Pyramid that's

big enough to fit the Statue of Liberty.

At number seven on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary discoveries,

the Great Pyramid Void.

Egypt.

Just west of Cairo stands the most mysterious

and sophisticated wonder of the ancient world.

The Great Pyramid.

Built from more than two million limestone blocks, this

massive structure is engineered to near perfection.

Despite being studied for hundreds of years, much

about the Great Pyramid remains shrouded in mystery.

And in November 2017, media outlets around

the world announced an incredible discovery.

Archaeologists detected a chamber near the pyramid's north face that is approximately

one hundred feet long and more than six feet tall.

The discovery of that void is sensational because it opens

up the whole discussion to more questions and to new answers.

In April 2018, Giorgio Tsoukalos entered the Great Pyramid along with Egyptologist

Ramy Romany and Dr. Giulio Magli, a professor of archaeoastronomy

from the Polytechnic University in Milan, Italy.

So this is it, the Grand Gallery.

They are inside the Grand Gallery, which is

directly beneath the newly discovered void.

From here to the ceiling is about ten meters high and it goes about fifty meters

in, which is a hundred and fifty feet deep.

I mean, that just gives you an idea of how huge this place is.

And it's perfect.

So you think the void is right on top of our heads here?

I think it covers the Grand Gallery.

In your opinion, what do you think is inside that void that was just discovered?

Okay, there is one possibility.

The pyramid texts mention the destiny of the pharaoh.

The pharaoh will sit on an iron throne among the stars.

Can you elaborate on that iron throne?

Yes, of course.

There was no melted iron in Egypt.

Melted iron in Egypt will come at the end of

the Bronze Age, so about 1200 years later.

But they were using the small part of iron, which

is coming on the Earth due to meteoritic phenomena.

Precious objects of iron, meteoritic iron, were made for the pharaohs.

And so maybe also this throne.

A throne containing pieces of metal found in a meteorite?

Could such an object really be embedded inside a secret

chamber located within the Great Pyramid of Giza?

According to ancient Egyptian writings called the Pyramid Texts, the God Osiris

and his wife Isis came to Earth from stars in the constellation of Orion.

And it is from these two Gods that all human life originates.

According to the story, Osiris had an iron throne that possessed awesome powers.

Throughout ancient Egypt and the temples, we see depictions of the Gods,

extraterrestrial beings, on their thrones.

These thrones are feathered because they are ascension vehicles.

They are vehicles that take them to the stars and back.

What could be inside that void?

There are many theories out there.

To this day, we don't know what's inside.

And that's the most exciting part for Egyptologists.

Every day I'm looking forward to find what's

inside that new void that has been discovered.

Just what is inside the Great Pyramid's void remains to be seen.

But if it's anything like the amazing discovery that's next on our list,

it may leave us with more questions than answers.

I'm talking about the giant stone boxes that weigh nearly a hundred tons,

whose purpose is still unknown.

At number six on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary discoveries,

the Serapeum of Saqqara.

Saqqara, Egypt, 1850.

Here, twenty miles south of the Giza pyramids, French archaeologist Auguste

Mariette is surveying the area when he notices

a stone object protruding from the ground.

Upon closer inspection, it appears to be the head of a Sphinx.

He started to clear the area, and so his team dug

down and revealed Sphinx after Sphinx after Sphinx.

He soon lines up over a hundred sphinxes, follows the pathway, and is led to an

underground tunnel, an entrance that's blocked.

He dynamites the entrance.

He is now in a seven hundred foot long tunnel

that's been carved out of the limestone.

Inside the ancient structure, Mariette discovered inscriptions

that identify the underground complex as the Serapeum.

And within its chambers, he found gigantic stone boxes.

Inside that Serapeum are twenty-four niches that contain some

of the biggest stone sarcophagi ever discovered in Egypt.

The boxes themselves range in weight from seventy to seventy-five tons, and the lids

alone weigh between twenty and twenty-five tons.

What compelled the ancient Egyptians to place twenty-four enormous and precisely

crafted stone boxes deep beneath the Earth?

Archaeologists suggest they were built to be the burial place of sacred Apis bulls.

The Apis bull is related to the Egyptian God Pata, who was a major creator God.

He was the God of Memphis, the capital city.

He was the God of all craftsmen.

The Apis bull was one of the most sacred animals in all of ancient Egypt.

But when Auguste Mariette opened the sarcophagus, they were empty.

There was nothing in there.

The absence of the Apis bulls has led ancient astronaut theorists to suggest the

boxes might have served a more profound purpose, as a type of an advanced,

even extraterrestrial, technology.

One of the ideas, too, of the sarcophagi is

that they're super high-tech storage devices.

You know, they're hermetically sealed, they're, you

know, in spaces that would be difficult to get to.

Perhaps something dangerous and technical was kept in these boxes.

We're coming up on the halfway point in our countdown of the top ten extraordinary

discoveries, and this next one truly blows my mind.

In 2003, archaeologists began to excavate an ancient

lost city, hidden deep in the jungles of Guatemala.

In total, they found over a hundred thousand structures that remarkably

revealed a profound connection to the stars.

At number five, the lost city of El Mirador.

The El Mirador Basin, northern Guatemala, 2015.

Archaeologist Dr. Richard Hansen begins an aerial survey of the dense jungle using a

sophisticated remote sensing method called Lidar.

The results reveal an extraordinary Metropolis that had been lost to history.

What's amazing is we've found what seems to be an entire civilization that the

Mayans had built a long time ago we never knew were there.

There are pyramids there that rival the pyramids in Egypt.

Now, archaeologists realize that this area was at one time densely populated.

There were hundreds of thousands if not even millions of people living there.

And they built huge pyramid cities.

At the center of the ancient Metropolis are two

gigantic pyramids now known as El Tigre and La Danta.

La Danta, the bigger of the two, is larger in

volume than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

The Danta is not just a pyramid, it's a pyramid with pyramids on top of it.

This is a massive structure that's rivaling or even

bigger than any other known Maya temple complex.

For ancient astronaut theorists, perhaps the

greatest discovery is in the layout of the site.

Some archaeologists have suggested that El Mirador is aligned with the Pleiades and

that pyramids and other structures there are actually recreating the Pleiades star

system on the grounds in the El Mirador base.

The Maya themselves associate the celestial beings that had contact with

their own ancestors with the Pleiades constellation.

What we have discovered right there is a lost chapter of history human history that

could be a direct connection to the ancient astronaut theory.

Our next extraordinary discovery was made in a remote area of Peru and this one

really took archaeologists by surprise because here they found

a massive complex that is older than the pyramids of Egypt.

At number four on our countdown, Caral.

Peru, 1994.

While conducting research at the base of the Andes Mountains, Peruvian

archaeologist Dr. Ruth Shady Solis notices several hills in

the landscape that do not appear to have been formed naturally.

People had known it was there but most people

had assumed that these great mounds were natural.

But Ruth Shady decided to excavate and turned out she'd actually hit the jackpot

because she'd found one of the most important sites in South America.

Dr. Shady and her team discovered the ruins of an

extraordinary lost city that has come to be known as Keral.

When you visit Keral you find a huge archaeological complex.

There's a large sunken amphitheater to the south, there's a major pyramid to the

north, and then there are more minor pyramids that surround central areas.

There are also other buildings, residential buildings, so it's a really huge complex.

But the most extraordinary discovery was still to come.

Towards the bottom of the great mound they found remains of what seemed to be Reed

bags or baskets in which the Earth and stones would

have been carried to make this enormous mound.

And of course you can date reeds by the radiocarbon method and to everyone's

surprise the answer came far earlier than anybody had expected.

This site went back at least to 2600 BC or earlier.

So that was putting it back 4,600 or more years which made it one of the oldest

sites as far as civilization in the Americas.

Keral could be the mother culture of the whole of South America.

The dating of Keral has really put into question

the origins of civilization on the planet.

At the time the greater pyramid of Keral was created.

Ziggurats were being built in Mesopotamia

and the steppe pyramids were rising in Egypt.

This was the beginning of a world wide Pyramid Age.

You have pyramids all over the world start to spring

up and you have to wonder how did this happen?

Did they all have the same teacher that was assisting them

or instructing them on how to build these massive structures.

Scientific breakthroughs and archaeological finds are always compelling.

But for Ancient Astronaut Theorists like me, what's really exciting is when a story

once thought to be fiction is proven to be based on historical fact.

Like the discovery of a sunken city that according

to ancient Hindu texts was the home of the Gods.

Number three on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary discoveries, Dwarka.

Northwest India, April 1983.

Marine archaeologist Dr. S.R.

Rao begins a seven year underwater exploration

just off the coast of the modern city of Dwarka.

And what he discovers is stunning.

Submerged twenty feet beneath the surface of the ocean, he finds sandstone walls,

cobblestone streets, and further evidence of a prosperous ancient city.

At Dwarka what has been found so far under the ocean is incredibly tantalizing.

For instance there is this huge wall estimated

about five hundred and eighty meters long.

Pottery has been found.

Stone anchors have been found so this seems to be a maritime city.

The remains that have been discovered beneath the waters have been radiocarbon

dated to at least nine thousand five hundred years.

So this was many thousands of years older than that of Sumeria, Egypt, and China.

So what exactly was going on in India at this time?

Are these ruins evidence of a city that is over nine thousand years old?

And if so, who built it?

Dr. S.R.

Rao and other researchers believe that the ruins belonged

to a legendary ancient city that was also called Dwarka.

According to the sacred Hindu text, the Mahabharata,

ancient Dwarka was once the home of the God, Lord Krishna.

In the Mahabharata, Dwarka is described as Krishna's kingdom.

There are magnificent palaces all having wonderful

windows, wonderful balconies in high rise buildings.

So it is beautifully described in the Mahabharata as being a very important city.

The Mahabharata tells that the land came up out of the sea, the ocean released this

land, was a special place of great magic and beauty.

According to the story, Dwarka was destroyed after another Hindu God,

Lord Salva, attacked it from a flying chariot.

He had a celestial chariot, which is almost like a plane that he could fly.

And this plane was like a stealth fighter plane.

So he came to Dwarka and then he started bombarding the city.

Krishna is killed.

And the city, this magnificent city built on land that came out of the sea,

sank back into the ocean again.

It only existed during the time that Krishna lived there.

For centuries, the story of ancient Dwarka was believed to be merely a legend.

But is it possible that these underwater ruins are evidence

that the ancient Hindu texts are based in actual history?

If so, it wouldn't be the first time that a

supposedly mythological site was found to be real.

In the 1870s, archaeologists discovered the ruins of Troy, a legendary city from

Greek mythology that was assumed to be completely fictitious.

For hundreds of years, people thought that the story

of the Trojan War, the Trojan Horse, is all myth.

But then, archaeologists found the ruins of Troy.

And we know there was the Trojan War, just like the way the ancients called it.

Now we know that Troy did exist.

And similarly, Dwarka in the Mahabharata, it was not just a mythical city.

Once upon a time, it really did exist.

But if the underwater ruins of Dwarka really are the place described in the

Mahabharata, might the story of its demise also be true?

Was it destroyed in an aerial assault waged by an otherworldly visitor?

This would indicate to us that the legends are really correct about this place,

that this was a real event, one that perhaps included extraterrestrials.

Every so often, a discovery is made that sounds like it's

been ripped straight from the pages of a fantasy novel.

And that's exactly what happened when a family renovating their home in central

Turkey stumbled upon the entrance to an entirely hidden world.

At number two on our countdown of the top ten extraordinary discoveries,

the underground cities of Turkey.

Nevsehir Province, Turkey.

Here, in 1963, a simple home renovation in the town

of Derinkuyu led to an extraordinary discovery.

A cave wall was opened, revealing a passageway to an elaborate underground city.

Derinkuyu is this massive underground tunnel system going down three levels,

with many streets, with many shafts and corridors and

rooms and caverns that can hold massive amounts of people.

Archaeologists were astounded by this massive underground

city that extends as much as 280 feet beneath the Earth.

And they got an even bigger surprise more than 50 years later, in 2014, when another

even larger underground city was discovered beneath the nearby town of Nevsehir.

It is absolutely stupendous.

It covers about 5 million square feet.

It goes down over 370 feet into the ground.

And it's estimated that this could have held 20,000 people or more.

Archaeologists got inside and there were churches, there were vessels and jars,

there were wineries, there was living quarters,

there were places where they made linseed oil.

Further exploration revealed that the two underground cities were actually connected.

I was many times in the underground cities in

Turkey, and this is a fantastic experience.

These are linked together.

There are 7 kilometers long underground tunnels connecting the two cities.

According to many archaeologists, these cities

were most likely constructed around 800 B.C.

to provide shelter from an invading army.

But some researchers suggest they could be much older.

One Turkish archaeologist by the name of Omar Demir, who was actually the creator

of the Dankeu, found evidence of Stone Age talks going back to the Paleolithic era.

This is at the time of the last Ice Age.

This tells us that these underground cities are perhaps 11, 12, 13,000 years old.

If the underground cities of Turkey really are as much as 13,000 years old,

just who could have built them?

And why?

Ancient Astronaut Theorists suggest that these sprawling underground cities

may be shelters that are described in the sacred writings of

Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions.

In a text called the Vendhi Dad, a young ruler named Yima is instructed to

build an underground sanctuary by the God Ahura Mazda.

Ahura Mazda told the great early king Yima that there would be a terrible disaster.

A winter would come such as has never been known.

It would be so cold that at midday it would be dark like night.

Ahura Mazda instructs Yima to build a vara.

This is a huge structure, two miles long, two miles wide, an underground hall of

sorts where things can be protected from the terrible winter.

In the vara, Yima was to hide a remnant of the people and then extensive seed bank,

also a pair of each of the animal species.

Ahura Mazda was known to have descended from the sky.

In a vehicle with fixed wings, it looks like some type of flying device.

That would suggest that he was in fact an extraterrestrial.

As far as ancient astronaut theorists are concerned, the story of Yima is an account

of an Alien intervention in the distant past.

And they suggest it is very possible that the shelters Yima was said to have built

are, in fact, the underground cities that have been found in Turkey.

The vara is supposed to be a huge enclosure that not only houses a large

number of people, but it's to have big streets that go through it.

It's divided into certain areas.

The vara could be the underground cities in Turkey.

We've reached the top spot on our countdown, and this next extraordinary

discovery completely upended our understanding of human civilization.

It's an astonishing Megalithic complex of massive stone pillars and mysterious

carvings that predates the world's earliest

known civilization by more than 5,000 years.

At number one, Göbekli Tepe.

Sanliurfa, Turkey, October 1994.

While plowing his field, a shepherd spots a

strangely shaped stone protruding from the ground.

After brushing away the dirt, he realizes the stone may be part of an ancient ruin.

He reports his find to the local museum, and is visited

by Klaus Schmidt from the German Archaeological Institute.

It wasn't until German archaeologist Klaus Schmidt visited the site and began digging

that they realized what was really at the site.

What he discovered was mind-blowing.

After discovering the first T-shaped pillar buried at

the site, he soon found more of these massive structures.

The site becomes known as Göbekli Tepe, meaning Potbelly Hill.

The site of Göbekli Tepe is a series of circular enclosures, but then in the

center of each enclosure you have two particularly big

T-shaped pillars of limestone sort of facing each other.

Many of these pillars have remarkable carvings on them, wonderful carvings and

bas -reliefs of animals, birds, insects, all kinds of things.

So to fashion those and carve them and set them up

in these structures was just absolutely amazing.

Many of these were carved into human form.

They would have arms on the side of them, they would have hands that come round to

the front, they would have garments that drop down the front.

Twenty different enclosures were built and each one seemingly at the end of its

useful life was completely covered over with rubble and soil before the next.

Enclosure was built.

Intrigued by his discovery, Klaus Schmidt had the

sediment layers of the site radiocarbon dated.

The results were astonishing.

It is the first archaeological site in the world that proves

its age dating as far back as 12,000 years, around 10,000 BC.

The discovery and the official acceptance of Göbekli Tepe's dating has changed the

history of archaeology.

All of this suggests a understanding of technology, of masonry, of art,

of carving at the end of the last ice age.

We realize that there is some great culture and possibly even a high

civilization that existed here as much as 11,000 years ago.

Archaeologists believe the Sumerians were the world's first civilization,

emerging around 5,000 BC.

But the discovery of Göbekli Tepe put that into serious question.

And some researchers have noticed a curious

connection between the Sumerians and Göbekli Tepe.

At Göbekli Tepe, there's a carving of these three

handbags that appear above this bird-like creature.

And what's fascinating about this is that you can find carvings of similar handbags

about 400 miles to the south where the ancient Sumerians lived.

And there, the handbags are held by these winged figures called Anunnaki.

The Anunnaki, as told in the Sumerian stories, had these advanced powers,

they had connection with abbans, they're extraterrestrial beings,

and it makes you wonder if Göbekli Tepe was in

fact a place of connection with these beings.

It's exciting to think that Göbekli Tepe might hold clues

to extraterrestrial contact that occurred 12,000 years ago.

And as far as I'm concerned, with every extraordinary discovery, from lost

civilizations hidden from sight, to ancient structures and artwork that

suggests contact with otherworldly beings, to objects from space that defy

explanation, we get one step closer to understanding

the truth about humankind's extraterrestrial past.