Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 12, Episode 4 - The Alien Architects - full transcript
Many of the architectural marvels of the ancient world bear striking similarities to one another, even though they were built by civilizations that were separated by thousands of miles and are believed to have had no contact with one
This wall exists here,
at one of the most
inaccessible places.
These types of walls,
they exist all over the world.
The building style is not
similar, it is identical.
Were alien structures
built on Earth
as part of a master plan?
That these temples
actually act as batteries.
They store energy and they also
allow the energy to expand
at certain times during the day.
Could they reveal
an extraterrestrial connection?
Ancient
cultures around the world
connected their temples
to each other
almost like
a master circuit board.
And did they serve
a larger purpose,
one that reaches beyond Earth?
They're somehow
looking at the Earth from space
and seeing how these structures
would fit around the globe.
Who could be doing this,
except for extraterrestrials?
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Siem Reap, Northwest Cambodia.
Just outside the magnificent
ruins of Angkor Wat
stands an ancient pyramid temple
known as Baksei Chamkrong.
While it is
a solid rock structure,
and therefore
cannot be carbon dated,
mainstream archaeologists
suggest
that it was constructed
in the tenth century AD.
9,000 miles away,
in the Petén Basin of Guatemala,
lay the ruins
of the Mayan city of Tikal.
Amongst the long-abandoned
structures
is a Temple of the Great Jaguar,
which is believed to date
back to the eighth century AD.
When you see pictures
of these two pyramids
on two different continents,
they're virtually identical.
It's as if the same architect
had designed both of these.
Although the Cambodian pyramid
is much smaller
than the pyramid in Guatemala,
the similarities between
the specific design features
are uncanny.
Both have
an unusually steep slope angle
that we don't see
in other pyramids,
they both have
a stepped formation.
There's a stairwell
going up the middle,
there's a domed area on the top,
there's a little door
that goes in
and there's interior structure
that looks the same, as well.
You have the civilization
in Cambodia
and the civilization
in Mesoamerica.
There are so many parallels,
it's incredible.
It's unbelievable that scholars
haven't, until now,
recognized those parallels.
Is it possible that they were
working off the same blueprint?
And if so, where did
that blueprint come from?
Could it be that
these seemingly unrelated sites,
located thousands
of miles apart,
share a common architect?
Cambodian lore attributes
the building of Angkor
to Preah Pisnokar,
a being of half-human,
half-divine origin.
Preah Pisnokar is the son of
the moon goddess and a mortal.
One day, she takes him
up to Heaven,
where he meets
the great high god Indra,
who decides that the boy is
to be given special schooling.
At Indra's Heaven,
he was given instructions.
Instructions about mathematics,
engineering, architecture,
all these different
scientific disciplines.
One very provocative way
of looking at this story
is that Indra's Heaven is not
just a place in the stars,
that it's actually a spacecraft.
And that Preah Pisnokar
was instructed
by extraterrestrial beings
on this craft
in the art of temple making.
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
an interesting parallel exists
between the Mayan
and Cambodian stories.
In the Maya manuscripts,
the god Kukulkan is responsible
for their temple architecture.
He was also credited
with educating humans
on mathematics,
engineering and science,
the same teachings
attributed to Pisnokar.
Kukulkan
is supposed to have descended
from a star.
He's represented
as the feathered serpent,
but also he's represented,
he's a big being
with the helmet,
a helmet has rays on it,
and he's sitting
on a half-open sort of egg.
He was the teacher, according
to Central American mythology.
He definitely
is an extraterrestrial.
Could these
two otherworldly architects
be one and the same?
And if so, does further evidence
of a master builder exist
in other parts
of the world as well?
In Mesoamerica,
we have the gods associated
with the construction
of the pyramids over there.
This reflects
the same kind of entity
that the Mesopotamians reported,
that the Egyptians reported
as being the architect
that designed the cities,
that designed these structures.
So you have the same pattern
and the same claim
happening over and over again
over a span
of at least 7,000 years,
where it's the same type of god,
planning and directing
the construction
of these types
of similar buildings.
We seem to be talking
about the same architect
that seems to be crossing
different continents
at different times.
It's interesting
that when you start
looking at all
of these structures
covering many thousands
of years,
you begin to see
that there's a relationship.
Pyramids are found
by the hundreds
in nearly every region
of the world,
including Central America,
Mesopotamia, Egypt,
China and even Antarctica.
And many cultures'
most sacred structures
appear remarkably alike.
It is striking that you can
travel around the planet
and you can find structures
that are similar in nature.
For example, in China, the
Xi'an Altar of Heaven,
or the stone circle
above Saksaywaman in Peru.
All over the planet,
you see tall,
megalithic architecture.
You see cyclopean stone
structures, as well.
A bunch of primitive people
somehow get motivated
all over the world
to haul around
these gigantic blocks of stone
that could be 20 tons, 100 tons.
And everybody around the world
seemed to be doing
the same thing.
There is a kind
of a master blueprint
that we see in the architecture,
and it's not in just one or two
or three civilizations,
it's in all the civilizations.
China, India, South America,
it's there.
Archeologists tell us, "Well,
there was no connection
at those times."
There had to be something,
that's too much of
a coincidence.
So there we get the idea
that it's more of a network
than any single structure.
And they sort of feed of
ch other.
Are the curious
parallels between structures
seen throughout the world
truly random,
or could they be interconnected?
And if so, was it important
not just that the temples
were built,
but exactly
how they were constructed?
Cusco, Peru.
The remnants of the Coricancha,
or Temple of the Sun,
are considered a marvel
of Incan architecture.
Modern engineers say
the precision of the stonework
rivals that being produced today
with advanced machining.
But incredibly, the Inca
weren't the only ancient people
to achieve
such building proficiency.
6,500 miles away in Giza, Egypt,
we see the same signature
building techniques
at the Valley Temple
next to the Sphinx.
Let's say you stand in front
of the Sphinx temple in Egypt
and you look
at the stone masonry there.
And then you had the capability
of closing your eyes
and the next moment you're at
the Coricancha temple in Cusco.
Well, if you wouldn't know
where you are,
you couldn't tell the difference
between the two,
because the engineering styles
of those two temples
are very similar.
What you find is that the blocks
are fitted together
so tightly...
What makes these
structures so impressive
is not only their design,
but also the fact
that they were built
with megalithic stones.
Some of these massive blocks
are so large
that even engineers today
have no idea
how they were put in place.
The limestone blocks
at the Valley Temple
are estimated to weigh
upwards of 200 tons each.
And many of these stones
had to be lifted and placed
up to 40 feet aboveground,
or the height of
a four-story building.
However, this was not merely
accomplished at these two sites.
Across the globe,
ancient cultures chose,
time and time again,
to build with similar
awe-inspiring blocks
fitted together
with minimal clearance
between adjacent stones
and no use of mortar.
Even more confounding
is the fact that many of these
megalithic constructions
were built
in impractical locations,
often thousands of feet
above sea level.
Santorini, Greece.
Researcher and editor
Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to the ancient site
of Thera
on the island's highest peak.
The megalithic architecture
found here
dates back to at least
the ninth century BC.
This wall exists here,
at one of the most
inaccessible places.
In order to get here,
you take a car,
you go up these harrowing
switchback roads
and then, you're on foot
for at least 45 minutes.
And so the idea that is given
that this was just
built on a whim,
to me, seems insane.
There had to have been
a reason why this is here.
The blocks are huge.
There is one block right here
that's at least six feet long
and one here,
seven feet long,
and they're about
32 inches thick,
so we're talking
blocks of stone
that are as big as people,
weighing about a ton or more.
And we have 12 levels
of stone blocks.
Twelve!
This was placed
here deliberately.
Deliberately.
This is not coincidence.
Somebody at the quarry said,
"We need a stone of this
particular size,
that fits right here."
And walls like this
not only exist in Greece,
but in Italy, in Spain,
in South America,
and also in Egypt.
So, the building style
is not similar,
it is identical.
The use of such enormous blocks
is the main reason many
of these ancient structures,
like the walls at Thera,
have survived until today.
But why was it so important
that they remain standing
thousands of years
into the future?
There was an architect here
who had complete understanding
of stone,
of masonry, and that you can do
extraordinary things with it
that will last a lifetime
and forever.
Not only did they actually
build things
which were guaranteed to last,
often they were working
with unusual angles.
And they're so tightly fitted
that earthquakes find it very
difficult to break them apart.
In fact, they are
earthquake-proof.
Ancient astronaut
theorists point out that other
common design elements were
incorporated in structures
throughout the world
to ensure their longevity,
including the widespread use
of metal braces
inserted into keystone cuts
to reinforce
ancient constructions.
This unusual way of fitting
large stones together
is found in ancient Egypt,
it's found in ancient Ethiopia.
It is found in India
and Greece and in Italy.
It is found at Angkor Wat
in Cambodia.
It's found at the Champa sites
in Vietnam,
and we find it in Peru
at Ollantaytambo and at Cusco,
and we see it also at Tiwanaku
and Puma Punku in Bolivia.
The two stones essentially have
a channel dug in between them,
and there's a certain slot into
which is poured molten metal.
Now, this brings up all kinds
of questions because, one,
alloys were not supposed
to have been discovered
until about 2500 BC.
The fact that these stones
go back to at least 13,000 BC
creates a huge problem.
We have here, again,
shared technology
crossing a huge span of time
in order to make sure that the
stones never, ever fall apart.
People working on different
sides of the world
trying to build similar things
are not necessarily going
to think of the same way
to build it in certain respects.
The similarities in the way
some of the stones were cut,
the keystone,
other factors that people
wouldn't necessarily think of,
for them to show up,
and for them to be used
to give greater duration
to these structures
way beyond any
reasonable expectation
that the people living then were
gonna continue to use these,
tells us that there's somebody
maybe with a longer time span
was behind the design
of these things.
Whoever was be the design
wanted these things
to last a really long time.
Who were the teachers
of these engineering styles?
The only conclusion there is,
is that aliens had a hand
in these creations
a long time ago.
They're all human-made,
but with the assistance
or the technology
provided by extraterrestrials.
If ancient structures
found all over the world
were built to outlast the beings
that constructed them,
is it possible
that they were meant to serve
a greater purpose,
one not known to
the builders themselves,
but only to those who
instructed them?
Giza Plateau, Egypt.
The Great Pyramid is arguably
the most enigmatic structure
on the face of the Earth.
It is the only surviving
Wonder of the ancient world,
and has inspired
endless speculation
as to how it was built
and what purpose it served.
Ever since the first studies
of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
have been made,
researchers have been amazed
at the mathematical knowledge
that is encoded
into the Great Pyramid,
the measurements
that are used in it.
Even the placement
of the Great Pyramid
has aroused great interest
among Egyptologists.
The Great Pyramid is aligned
to within 3/60ths
of a degree of north,
a more accurate alignment than
any other structure on Earth.
When you look at the
Great Pyramid's alignment,
it's aligned very, very close
to true north.
Even more interesting
is to think about
tracking back in time,
because the Earth's axis
has been shifting slowly.
It's what we call "precessis."
And so, if there's been
a shift in that alignment,
it could be that it was even
more accurately aligned to north
in the past when they built it.
The Great Pyramid
is not only perfectly aligned
to the cardinal points,
its placement on the Earth is
seemingly intentional as well.
If you pass a great circle
from the Great Pyramid
through...
Since the first accurate survey
of the Great Pyramid in 1925,
mathematicians and researchers
have discovered
even more profound connections
relating to geodetic
information,
or information pertaining
to the measurement
and representation of the Earth,
encoded in its design.
The Great Pyramid
was built with a level
of technological sophistication
far in excess
of anything that we have today.
They don't use the inch
as we normally have it
in the English system;
it's the cubit.
And what's interesting
about the cubit
is that it is exactly
1/25 millionth
of the polar diameter
of the earth,
meaning the distance
from the North Pole
to the South Pole of the Earth.
Chop it up into
25 million pieces,
there's a royal cubit.
It's perfect.
If you actually take
the length of the Great Pyramid
at its mean Socket level,
which is the corners
of the actual building,
it translates into
365.24 pyramid cubits,
which just happens to be
the Earth year,
right down to a quarter day.
The measurements of the length
and width of the perimeter
of the Great Pyramid
correspond to an exact fraction
of the both the latitude
and longitude measurements
at the equator.
Scaled up, this means the Great
Pyramid directly corresponds
to the circumference
of the equator,
as well as the measurement
from the Equator to the Pole,
making it a scale model
of the Northern Hemisphere.
Recently, using
satellite technology,
researchers have realized
yet another
advanced formula encoded
in the design.
If you take the location
of the Great Pyramid
as a coordinate,
this number sequence
of this coordinate
matches exactly the speed of
light traveling through space,
measured in meters per second.
This is amazing stuff.
When you consider the vast
amount of information
about the Earth that's encoded
into the Great Pyramid,
you can't just dismiss all
of this as pure coincidence.
Although the Great
Pyramid at Giza offers
an astounding example
of encoded information,
other sites around the world,
such as the Mesoamerican
pyramids
and the ziggurats
of Mesopotamia,
have also been found
to be aligned
to exact cardinal points,
and embody mathematical
concepts.
These buildings were built
under divine guidance.
This is a mark of the gods.
They put certain things in these
buildings to let us know
they are not entirely
of human origin.
They represent something larger
than we are.
The builders wanted to make sure
that a future generation
would know that there's
a discrepancy in knowledge.
And what I'm suggesting is that
all these ancient structures
are calling cards left
by extraterrestrials.
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that evidence
of extraterrestrial intervention
in the construction
and placement of these
incredible structures
can also be found by examining
their alignments with the stars.
If I wanted to leave behind
a piece of evidence
that suggests
where I'm from,
one way, for example,
is by creating monuments
that are in the shape
of constellations.
In ancient Egypt,
the three pyramids are aligned
with the constellation
of Orion's belt.
The pyramids are not
the only monuments
that have this
particular configuration.
The ancient site
of Teotihuacan, in Mexico,
also contains three pyramids
that are oriented
to match up with the belt stars
of Orion.
And other sites throughout
the world have been found
to have similar
astronomical alignments.
Were ancient structures,
and even entire complexes,
purposely encoded
with advanced principles
so that future generations
would recognize
an otherworldly influence?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
but suggest an even more
profound purpose
might be revealed by examining
these structures
from an extraterrestrial
perspective.
Saint-Jean-de-Matha,
Quebec, Canada.
May, 2016.
After extensively studying
the manuscripts
of the ancient
Mayan civilization
that reached its peak
in 1000 AD,
15-year-old student
William Gadoury
stumbles across
something astonishing.
The star diagrams contained
in the documents
perfectly correlate with the
layout of existing Mayan cities.
Gadoury discovered
that there were
22 star maps in the texts
that lined up with the cities
very nicely...
117 different cities.
But there was a 23rd map,
in which one of the cities
did not exist on the map.
Now, he was really concerned
about this because
he felt, wait a minute,
this is like a treasure map,
and "X" marks the spot.
Gadoury found it odd
that only one star on the maps
did not match up
with a Mayan city,
and concluded that perhaps
it really did exist,
but had not yet been discovered.
With the assistance
of the Canadian Space Agency
and Dr. Armand Larocque,
a remote-sensing specialist
from the University
of New Brunswick,
Gadoury was able to use
satellite imagery
to pinpoint
the exact coordinates
where the city should be.
What they see is
absolutely mind-blowing.
There it is, a perfect
square object.
It's clearly angular,
it's clearly geometric.
It has symmetrical proportions
on both sides.
This square, according
to Dr. Armand Larocque himself,
could actually be the foundation
of a pyramid.
Although archaeologists have yet
to visit the site,
the lost city was given the name
K'aak Chi, or "Mouth of Fire."
Gadoury's discovery
would seem to confirm
that the Maya precisely
placed their cities
in a way that perfectly mirrored
the stars above...
An astonishing accomplishment
considering that the territory
they occupied spans
over 75,000 square miles.
We have the entirety
of all Mayan civilization,
every one of those cities,
perfectly gridded out,
mathematical precision
with star maps.
How could a primitive culture
have done this?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
the Maya were told
where to build their cities
by extraterrestrial visitors,
and suggest that this occurred
with other civilizations
throughout the world.
But it was not only the stars
that determined the placement
of important sites.
Many were also aligned with the
very energy of the Earth itself.
Herefordshire, England, 1921.
Alfred Watkins,
a landscape photographer,
makes a curious discovery.
Many of the prehistoric standing
stones, mounds, forts,
and earthworks in the area fall
directly in a straight line
extending for several miles.
He coins the term "ley lines"
to describe these alignments,
which he later finds
throughout England and France.
These so-called
ley lines actually cross over
all of the ancient
stone structures,
like Stonehenge or Avebury.
Something is going on here in
which this idea of these lines
has some relevance.
We see that the Templars
borrowed this same science
of grid lines
during the Crusades,
and then started to build
all of the cathedrals
throughout Europe
on these so-called ley lines.
Ancient cultures had
this understanding
that the world has
lines of power to it.
The ancient cultures understood
that these lines of power
were almost like
sources of energy,
and by building structures
along these sources of energy,
they could almost tap its power.
In 1992,
after 30 years of visiting
the megalithic standing stones
in the Carnac region of France
and hearing stories about
energetic ley lines,
thermodynamics engineer
Pierre Mereaux
sets out to discover if there is
any truth to the theory.
Mereaux actually went
to Carnac in France,
where there's at least
80,000 standing stones.
And, as a skeptic, he actually
measured the energy
of these stones and found that
these stones actually act
as batteries, as coils,
as alternators.
They store energy, and they also
allow the energy to expand
at certain times during the day,
demonstrating that
the stones are built
exactly where they need to be
to harness a specific energy.
If extraterrestrials
instructed our ancestors
on where to build their most
important structures,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
was it to exploit
the power of the site?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
what many consider
to be the holiest
and most contentious site
on the planet.
Chichen Itza, Mexico.
August, 2015.
A sinkhole is discovered
under the 1,000-year-old
El Castillo temple.
Scientists, worried about
the stability of the pyramid,
begin extensive examinations
of the site.
While investigating, they
discovered two nested structures
contained within the confines
of the pyramid.
The pyramid
at Chichen Itza is actually
not one pyramid, but three.
These are built
like Russian dolls.
They keep repeating
the same design feature,
the same construction method,
the same unit of measure
over time.
So obviously, something worked
thousands of years ago
and they kept repeating it
again, and again, and again
like a cookie cutter process.
It is a pyramid that's inside
of another pyramid.
We also see this
at the Great Pyramid of Cholula,
one of the largest pyramids
in the world,
just outside of Mexico City.
Also, we see this
at Djoser's Pyramid
in Saqqara in Egypt.
So ancient peoples were,
for some reason,
rebuilding over and over again
these ancient structures.
Because they apparently
were in a location
that was so important.
There's something special
about that place.
Throughout the world,
evidence of sacred sites
that have transcended
various cultures
and religious traditions
can be found.
The Temple Mount is considered
holy to all the world religions.
The Temple of Solomon was built.
Later, Christianity built
their own churches upon it.
This is where the prophet
of Islam, Muhammad,
had a vision wherein which
he ascended to heaven.
And it was upon this vision
that proclaimed the Temple Mount
to be sacred to Islam.
But it was considered sacred
before the ancient Israelites
even came into the land
of Israel.
We read in the Bible
about Abraham meeting
a very strange priest
by the name of Melchizedek,
who was to have had
his own temple there.
So there was
a very ancient connection
to this specific place.
In Lebanon,
there is the temple to Baalbek.
Later, under Greek control
they built a different structure
on the same foundation stone,
and called the area Heliopolis.
There are cathedrals
throughout the world
that had pre-Christian
foundations.
We have it all over the world,
which means that a sacred site
has a power of its own
that is larger or older
or longer lasting
than any particular tradition.
The thing is,
the location is what's sacred.
Could it be that,
much like the locations
of the Mayan cities
that are mapped out
based on a cosmic grid
and the ley lines in England,
these worldwide sacred sites
also connect
to a larger blueprint?
The origins of the idea
of a world grid
can be traced back
to ancient Greece.
Philosophers like Plato
were very adamant
that the ancient sacred places
were specially positioned
along the face of the Earth
in a very deliberate way,
and they conformed
to what was called a world grid.
The temples were not
placed haphazardly.
They actually had a structure
and purpose to them.
In the 1960s,
researcher
Ivan T. Sanderson plotted out
his own planetary grid
based on Plato's work.
Other world grid researchers
would later build
upon his model.
What they identified was that
there was a geometric pattern
that could be superimposed
on the Earth,
and that grid point
usually started
at the Great Pyramid itself.
And they would go out from there
in a geometric form.
Russian researchers
did a full survey
of all of the large
stone structures
that have ever been found
all over the Earth,
a total of 3,300
different stone structures.
And they found
that every single one of them
was built right
on one of the lines
of this geometric pattern.
On this grid, sites like
Stonehenge in England,
megaliths in West Africa,
the Bermuda Triangle,
pyramids in Mexico and in Peru,
islands like Easter Island.
The bizarre city of Nan Madol,
were also matching this grid.
The specific power spots
where we find pyramids
and obelisks
and other structures,
may have not been chosen
just by chance.
It could well be that they are
part of an integrated whole
and their location
is highly, highly important.
Some researchers speculate
that ancient cultures
around the world
connected all of their temples
to each other,
almost like
a master circuit board,
where one temple connected
to another temple,
connected to another, added
to the power of the structure,
added to the power
of the line itself.
When we think of the power grid,
we think of the energy being
transmitted along this grid.
What if there's
something else going on here?
What if there's something bigger
that we're not seeing?
What if this world power grid
is actually receiving energy
from the solar system
or from the universe itself?
You have to ask yourself,
who is it who's overseeing
this larger picture
of all of these structures
on the Earth?
They're somehow looking
at the Earth from space
and seeing
how these structures would fit
on a large scale
around the globe.
Who could be doing this,
except for extraterrestrials?
If the placement
of structures on Earth
were specifically plotted
to serve
an extraterrestrial function,
might parts of this system
still be online today?
And if so, does it serve
a purpose beyond Earth?
Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
Retired military and commercial
airline pilot Bruce Cathie
publishes his book
The Energy Grid.
In it, he details his experience
observing UFOs
during his time working
for the New Zealand military.
He noted that these crafts were
always following straight lines.
After mapping them,
he discovered that they followed
a distinctive grid pattern.
Additionally, while flying over
some of these zones,
he also noticed
that various structures
were actively being built
along the paths.
Bruce Cathie maintained
that the American military,
starting in World War II,
had also figured out
this special grid that surrounds
the entire planet,
and that the military was using
certain spots on the Earth
to build military bases
and other structures.
Cathie suggested
that the extraterrestrial craft
may have been drawing power
off the grid,
and that after World War II
and the Roswell incident,
military personnel
around the world
had become aware
of this UFO connection.
So here we have
an ancient grid structure,
probably built
by extraterrestrials,
possibly to power their craft,
that's now being
reconstructed today
by the military.
Could it be
that ancient structures
throughout the world were
designed to function together
as part of
a massive energy grid?
And did the architects
intentionally leave behind
information for us to find,
once we had
the technological knowledge
to recognize this system?
But why?
What were the alien architects
trying to tell us?
Extraterrestrials knew that
at some point in our evolution,
a technologically
advanced society
would stumble across
all of these ancient sites
and see their correlation,
thus forcing us to take
into consideration
that some type
of extraterrestrials
showed our ancestors where
to build these things,
not for them, but for us.
The grid itself may, in fact,
be a source
of unconventional energy
that we are not
necessarily utilizing
with our technology now.
An advanced, intelligent race
wanted to leave something behind
for us to discover
that would give us the clues
to a greater level of science
than we now understand.
It could be
that this master architect
sought not only to influence
the Earth,
but also to connect the Earth
to something greater
or beyond our imagination.
Perhaps this grid even extends
out into the stars,
and the world grid of the Earth
connects with the grid
of other planets as well,
and then integrates the Earth
into a huge colony, if you will,
or integrated circuit
throughout the cosmos.
This will be
profound for planet Earth,
when this grid network
is repowered,
and we don't know what effect
it will ultimately have
on our future.
Maybe this will be the time when
the extraterrestrials return.
There are those who believe
that the discovery
of an ancient energy grid
will offer a quantum leap
in human achievement.
Because by harnessing the energy
of the Earth,
we will not only advance
beyond our planet,
but far beyond the stars,
and anything
we could ever imagine.
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at one of the most
inaccessible places.
These types of walls,
they exist all over the world.
The building style is not
similar, it is identical.
Were alien structures
built on Earth
as part of a master plan?
That these temples
actually act as batteries.
They store energy and they also
allow the energy to expand
at certain times during the day.
Could they reveal
an extraterrestrial connection?
Ancient
cultures around the world
connected their temples
to each other
almost like
a master circuit board.
And did they serve
a larger purpose,
one that reaches beyond Earth?
They're somehow
looking at the Earth from space
and seeing how these structures
would fit around the globe.
Who could be doing this,
except for extraterrestrials?
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Siem Reap, Northwest Cambodia.
Just outside the magnificent
ruins of Angkor Wat
stands an ancient pyramid temple
known as Baksei Chamkrong.
While it is
a solid rock structure,
and therefore
cannot be carbon dated,
mainstream archaeologists
suggest
that it was constructed
in the tenth century AD.
9,000 miles away,
in the Petén Basin of Guatemala,
lay the ruins
of the Mayan city of Tikal.
Amongst the long-abandoned
structures
is a Temple of the Great Jaguar,
which is believed to date
back to the eighth century AD.
When you see pictures
of these two pyramids
on two different continents,
they're virtually identical.
It's as if the same architect
had designed both of these.
Although the Cambodian pyramid
is much smaller
than the pyramid in Guatemala,
the similarities between
the specific design features
are uncanny.
Both have
an unusually steep slope angle
that we don't see
in other pyramids,
they both have
a stepped formation.
There's a stairwell
going up the middle,
there's a domed area on the top,
there's a little door
that goes in
and there's interior structure
that looks the same, as well.
You have the civilization
in Cambodia
and the civilization
in Mesoamerica.
There are so many parallels,
it's incredible.
It's unbelievable that scholars
haven't, until now,
recognized those parallels.
Is it possible that they were
working off the same blueprint?
And if so, where did
that blueprint come from?
Could it be that
these seemingly unrelated sites,
located thousands
of miles apart,
share a common architect?
Cambodian lore attributes
the building of Angkor
to Preah Pisnokar,
a being of half-human,
half-divine origin.
Preah Pisnokar is the son of
the moon goddess and a mortal.
One day, she takes him
up to Heaven,
where he meets
the great high god Indra,
who decides that the boy is
to be given special schooling.
At Indra's Heaven,
he was given instructions.
Instructions about mathematics,
engineering, architecture,
all these different
scientific disciplines.
One very provocative way
of looking at this story
is that Indra's Heaven is not
just a place in the stars,
that it's actually a spacecraft.
And that Preah Pisnokar
was instructed
by extraterrestrial beings
on this craft
in the art of temple making.
According to ancient
astronaut theorists,
an interesting parallel exists
between the Mayan
and Cambodian stories.
In the Maya manuscripts,
the god Kukulkan is responsible
for their temple architecture.
He was also credited
with educating humans
on mathematics,
engineering and science,
the same teachings
attributed to Pisnokar.
Kukulkan
is supposed to have descended
from a star.
He's represented
as the feathered serpent,
but also he's represented,
he's a big being
with the helmet,
a helmet has rays on it,
and he's sitting
on a half-open sort of egg.
He was the teacher, according
to Central American mythology.
He definitely
is an extraterrestrial.
Could these
two otherworldly architects
be one and the same?
And if so, does further evidence
of a master builder exist
in other parts
of the world as well?
In Mesoamerica,
we have the gods associated
with the construction
of the pyramids over there.
This reflects
the same kind of entity
that the Mesopotamians reported,
that the Egyptians reported
as being the architect
that designed the cities,
that designed these structures.
So you have the same pattern
and the same claim
happening over and over again
over a span
of at least 7,000 years,
where it's the same type of god,
planning and directing
the construction
of these types
of similar buildings.
We seem to be talking
about the same architect
that seems to be crossing
different continents
at different times.
It's interesting
that when you start
looking at all
of these structures
covering many thousands
of years,
you begin to see
that there's a relationship.
Pyramids are found
by the hundreds
in nearly every region
of the world,
including Central America,
Mesopotamia, Egypt,
China and even Antarctica.
And many cultures'
most sacred structures
appear remarkably alike.
It is striking that you can
travel around the planet
and you can find structures
that are similar in nature.
For example, in China, the
Xi'an Altar of Heaven,
or the stone circle
above Saksaywaman in Peru.
All over the planet,
you see tall,
megalithic architecture.
You see cyclopean stone
structures, as well.
A bunch of primitive people
somehow get motivated
all over the world
to haul around
these gigantic blocks of stone
that could be 20 tons, 100 tons.
And everybody around the world
seemed to be doing
the same thing.
There is a kind
of a master blueprint
that we see in the architecture,
and it's not in just one or two
or three civilizations,
it's in all the civilizations.
China, India, South America,
it's there.
Archeologists tell us, "Well,
there was no connection
at those times."
There had to be something,
that's too much of
a coincidence.
So there we get the idea
that it's more of a network
than any single structure.
And they sort of feed of
ch other.
Are the curious
parallels between structures
seen throughout the world
truly random,
or could they be interconnected?
And if so, was it important
not just that the temples
were built,
but exactly
how they were constructed?
Cusco, Peru.
The remnants of the Coricancha,
or Temple of the Sun,
are considered a marvel
of Incan architecture.
Modern engineers say
the precision of the stonework
rivals that being produced today
with advanced machining.
But incredibly, the Inca
weren't the only ancient people
to achieve
such building proficiency.
6,500 miles away in Giza, Egypt,
we see the same signature
building techniques
at the Valley Temple
next to the Sphinx.
Let's say you stand in front
of the Sphinx temple in Egypt
and you look
at the stone masonry there.
And then you had the capability
of closing your eyes
and the next moment you're at
the Coricancha temple in Cusco.
Well, if you wouldn't know
where you are,
you couldn't tell the difference
between the two,
because the engineering styles
of those two temples
are very similar.
What you find is that the blocks
are fitted together
so tightly...
What makes these
structures so impressive
is not only their design,
but also the fact
that they were built
with megalithic stones.
Some of these massive blocks
are so large
that even engineers today
have no idea
how they were put in place.
The limestone blocks
at the Valley Temple
are estimated to weigh
upwards of 200 tons each.
And many of these stones
had to be lifted and placed
up to 40 feet aboveground,
or the height of
a four-story building.
However, this was not merely
accomplished at these two sites.
Across the globe,
ancient cultures chose,
time and time again,
to build with similar
awe-inspiring blocks
fitted together
with minimal clearance
between adjacent stones
and no use of mortar.
Even more confounding
is the fact that many of these
megalithic constructions
were built
in impractical locations,
often thousands of feet
above sea level.
Santorini, Greece.
Researcher and editor
Giorgio Tsoukalos
traveled to the ancient site
of Thera
on the island's highest peak.
The megalithic architecture
found here
dates back to at least
the ninth century BC.
This wall exists here,
at one of the most
inaccessible places.
In order to get here,
you take a car,
you go up these harrowing
switchback roads
and then, you're on foot
for at least 45 minutes.
And so the idea that is given
that this was just
built on a whim,
to me, seems insane.
There had to have been
a reason why this is here.
The blocks are huge.
There is one block right here
that's at least six feet long
and one here,
seven feet long,
and they're about
32 inches thick,
so we're talking
blocks of stone
that are as big as people,
weighing about a ton or more.
And we have 12 levels
of stone blocks.
Twelve!
This was placed
here deliberately.
Deliberately.
This is not coincidence.
Somebody at the quarry said,
"We need a stone of this
particular size,
that fits right here."
And walls like this
not only exist in Greece,
but in Italy, in Spain,
in South America,
and also in Egypt.
So, the building style
is not similar,
it is identical.
The use of such enormous blocks
is the main reason many
of these ancient structures,
like the walls at Thera,
have survived until today.
But why was it so important
that they remain standing
thousands of years
into the future?
There was an architect here
who had complete understanding
of stone,
of masonry, and that you can do
extraordinary things with it
that will last a lifetime
and forever.
Not only did they actually
build things
which were guaranteed to last,
often they were working
with unusual angles.
And they're so tightly fitted
that earthquakes find it very
difficult to break them apart.
In fact, they are
earthquake-proof.
Ancient astronaut
theorists point out that other
common design elements were
incorporated in structures
throughout the world
to ensure their longevity,
including the widespread use
of metal braces
inserted into keystone cuts
to reinforce
ancient constructions.
This unusual way of fitting
large stones together
is found in ancient Egypt,
it's found in ancient Ethiopia.
It is found in India
and Greece and in Italy.
It is found at Angkor Wat
in Cambodia.
It's found at the Champa sites
in Vietnam,
and we find it in Peru
at Ollantaytambo and at Cusco,
and we see it also at Tiwanaku
and Puma Punku in Bolivia.
The two stones essentially have
a channel dug in between them,
and there's a certain slot into
which is poured molten metal.
Now, this brings up all kinds
of questions because, one,
alloys were not supposed
to have been discovered
until about 2500 BC.
The fact that these stones
go back to at least 13,000 BC
creates a huge problem.
We have here, again,
shared technology
crossing a huge span of time
in order to make sure that the
stones never, ever fall apart.
People working on different
sides of the world
trying to build similar things
are not necessarily going
to think of the same way
to build it in certain respects.
The similarities in the way
some of the stones were cut,
the keystone,
other factors that people
wouldn't necessarily think of,
for them to show up,
and for them to be used
to give greater duration
to these structures
way beyond any
reasonable expectation
that the people living then were
gonna continue to use these,
tells us that there's somebody
maybe with a longer time span
was behind the design
of these things.
Whoever was be the design
wanted these things
to last a really long time.
Who were the teachers
of these engineering styles?
The only conclusion there is,
is that aliens had a hand
in these creations
a long time ago.
They're all human-made,
but with the assistance
or the technology
provided by extraterrestrials.
If ancient structures
found all over the world
were built to outlast the beings
that constructed them,
is it possible
that they were meant to serve
a greater purpose,
one not known to
the builders themselves,
but only to those who
instructed them?
Giza Plateau, Egypt.
The Great Pyramid is arguably
the most enigmatic structure
on the face of the Earth.
It is the only surviving
Wonder of the ancient world,
and has inspired
endless speculation
as to how it was built
and what purpose it served.
Ever since the first studies
of the Great Pyramid in Egypt
have been made,
researchers have been amazed
at the mathematical knowledge
that is encoded
into the Great Pyramid,
the measurements
that are used in it.
Even the placement
of the Great Pyramid
has aroused great interest
among Egyptologists.
The Great Pyramid is aligned
to within 3/60ths
of a degree of north,
a more accurate alignment than
any other structure on Earth.
When you look at the
Great Pyramid's alignment,
it's aligned very, very close
to true north.
Even more interesting
is to think about
tracking back in time,
because the Earth's axis
has been shifting slowly.
It's what we call "precessis."
And so, if there's been
a shift in that alignment,
it could be that it was even
more accurately aligned to north
in the past when they built it.
The Great Pyramid
is not only perfectly aligned
to the cardinal points,
its placement on the Earth is
seemingly intentional as well.
If you pass a great circle
from the Great Pyramid
through...
Since the first accurate survey
of the Great Pyramid in 1925,
mathematicians and researchers
have discovered
even more profound connections
relating to geodetic
information,
or information pertaining
to the measurement
and representation of the Earth,
encoded in its design.
The Great Pyramid
was built with a level
of technological sophistication
far in excess
of anything that we have today.
They don't use the inch
as we normally have it
in the English system;
it's the cubit.
And what's interesting
about the cubit
is that it is exactly
1/25 millionth
of the polar diameter
of the earth,
meaning the distance
from the North Pole
to the South Pole of the Earth.
Chop it up into
25 million pieces,
there's a royal cubit.
It's perfect.
If you actually take
the length of the Great Pyramid
at its mean Socket level,
which is the corners
of the actual building,
it translates into
365.24 pyramid cubits,
which just happens to be
the Earth year,
right down to a quarter day.
The measurements of the length
and width of the perimeter
of the Great Pyramid
correspond to an exact fraction
of the both the latitude
and longitude measurements
at the equator.
Scaled up, this means the Great
Pyramid directly corresponds
to the circumference
of the equator,
as well as the measurement
from the Equator to the Pole,
making it a scale model
of the Northern Hemisphere.
Recently, using
satellite technology,
researchers have realized
yet another
advanced formula encoded
in the design.
If you take the location
of the Great Pyramid
as a coordinate,
this number sequence
of this coordinate
matches exactly the speed of
light traveling through space,
measured in meters per second.
This is amazing stuff.
When you consider the vast
amount of information
about the Earth that's encoded
into the Great Pyramid,
you can't just dismiss all
of this as pure coincidence.
Although the Great
Pyramid at Giza offers
an astounding example
of encoded information,
other sites around the world,
such as the Mesoamerican
pyramids
and the ziggurats
of Mesopotamia,
have also been found
to be aligned
to exact cardinal points,
and embody mathematical
concepts.
These buildings were built
under divine guidance.
This is a mark of the gods.
They put certain things in these
buildings to let us know
they are not entirely
of human origin.
They represent something larger
than we are.
The builders wanted to make sure
that a future generation
would know that there's
a discrepancy in knowledge.
And what I'm suggesting is that
all these ancient structures
are calling cards left
by extraterrestrials.
Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that evidence
of extraterrestrial intervention
in the construction
and placement of these
incredible structures
can also be found by examining
their alignments with the stars.
If I wanted to leave behind
a piece of evidence
that suggests
where I'm from,
one way, for example,
is by creating monuments
that are in the shape
of constellations.
In ancient Egypt,
the three pyramids are aligned
with the constellation
of Orion's belt.
The pyramids are not
the only monuments
that have this
particular configuration.
The ancient site
of Teotihuacan, in Mexico,
also contains three pyramids
that are oriented
to match up with the belt stars
of Orion.
And other sites throughout
the world have been found
to have similar
astronomical alignments.
Were ancient structures,
and even entire complexes,
purposely encoded
with advanced principles
so that future generations
would recognize
an otherworldly influence?
Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,
but suggest an even more
profound purpose
might be revealed by examining
these structures
from an extraterrestrial
perspective.
Saint-Jean-de-Matha,
Quebec, Canada.
May, 2016.
After extensively studying
the manuscripts
of the ancient
Mayan civilization
that reached its peak
in 1000 AD,
15-year-old student
William Gadoury
stumbles across
something astonishing.
The star diagrams contained
in the documents
perfectly correlate with the
layout of existing Mayan cities.
Gadoury discovered
that there were
22 star maps in the texts
that lined up with the cities
very nicely...
117 different cities.
But there was a 23rd map,
in which one of the cities
did not exist on the map.
Now, he was really concerned
about this because
he felt, wait a minute,
this is like a treasure map,
and "X" marks the spot.
Gadoury found it odd
that only one star on the maps
did not match up
with a Mayan city,
and concluded that perhaps
it really did exist,
but had not yet been discovered.
With the assistance
of the Canadian Space Agency
and Dr. Armand Larocque,
a remote-sensing specialist
from the University
of New Brunswick,
Gadoury was able to use
satellite imagery
to pinpoint
the exact coordinates
where the city should be.
What they see is
absolutely mind-blowing.
There it is, a perfect
square object.
It's clearly angular,
it's clearly geometric.
It has symmetrical proportions
on both sides.
This square, according
to Dr. Armand Larocque himself,
could actually be the foundation
of a pyramid.
Although archaeologists have yet
to visit the site,
the lost city was given the name
K'aak Chi, or "Mouth of Fire."
Gadoury's discovery
would seem to confirm
that the Maya precisely
placed their cities
in a way that perfectly mirrored
the stars above...
An astonishing accomplishment
considering that the territory
they occupied spans
over 75,000 square miles.
We have the entirety
of all Mayan civilization,
every one of those cities,
perfectly gridded out,
mathematical precision
with star maps.
How could a primitive culture
have done this?
Ancient astronaut theorists say
the Maya were told
where to build their cities
by extraterrestrial visitors,
and suggest that this occurred
with other civilizations
throughout the world.
But it was not only the stars
that determined the placement
of important sites.
Many were also aligned with the
very energy of the Earth itself.
Herefordshire, England, 1921.
Alfred Watkins,
a landscape photographer,
makes a curious discovery.
Many of the prehistoric standing
stones, mounds, forts,
and earthworks in the area fall
directly in a straight line
extending for several miles.
He coins the term "ley lines"
to describe these alignments,
which he later finds
throughout England and France.
These so-called
ley lines actually cross over
all of the ancient
stone structures,
like Stonehenge or Avebury.
Something is going on here in
which this idea of these lines
has some relevance.
We see that the Templars
borrowed this same science
of grid lines
during the Crusades,
and then started to build
all of the cathedrals
throughout Europe
on these so-called ley lines.
Ancient cultures had
this understanding
that the world has
lines of power to it.
The ancient cultures understood
that these lines of power
were almost like
sources of energy,
and by building structures
along these sources of energy,
they could almost tap its power.
In 1992,
after 30 years of visiting
the megalithic standing stones
in the Carnac region of France
and hearing stories about
energetic ley lines,
thermodynamics engineer
Pierre Mereaux
sets out to discover if there is
any truth to the theory.
Mereaux actually went
to Carnac in France,
where there's at least
80,000 standing stones.
And, as a skeptic, he actually
measured the energy
of these stones and found that
these stones actually act
as batteries, as coils,
as alternators.
They store energy, and they also
allow the energy to expand
at certain times during the day,
demonstrating that
the stones are built
exactly where they need to be
to harness a specific energy.
If extraterrestrials
instructed our ancestors
on where to build their most
important structures,
as ancient astronaut
theorists suggest,
was it to exploit
the power of the site?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
what many consider
to be the holiest
and most contentious site
on the planet.
Chichen Itza, Mexico.
August, 2015.
A sinkhole is discovered
under the 1,000-year-old
El Castillo temple.
Scientists, worried about
the stability of the pyramid,
begin extensive examinations
of the site.
While investigating, they
discovered two nested structures
contained within the confines
of the pyramid.
The pyramid
at Chichen Itza is actually
not one pyramid, but three.
These are built
like Russian dolls.
They keep repeating
the same design feature,
the same construction method,
the same unit of measure
over time.
So obviously, something worked
thousands of years ago
and they kept repeating it
again, and again, and again
like a cookie cutter process.
It is a pyramid that's inside
of another pyramid.
We also see this
at the Great Pyramid of Cholula,
one of the largest pyramids
in the world,
just outside of Mexico City.
Also, we see this
at Djoser's Pyramid
in Saqqara in Egypt.
So ancient peoples were,
for some reason,
rebuilding over and over again
these ancient structures.
Because they apparently
were in a location
that was so important.
There's something special
about that place.
Throughout the world,
evidence of sacred sites
that have transcended
various cultures
and religious traditions
can be found.
The Temple Mount is considered
holy to all the world religions.
The Temple of Solomon was built.
Later, Christianity built
their own churches upon it.
This is where the prophet
of Islam, Muhammad,
had a vision wherein which
he ascended to heaven.
And it was upon this vision
that proclaimed the Temple Mount
to be sacred to Islam.
But it was considered sacred
before the ancient Israelites
even came into the land
of Israel.
We read in the Bible
about Abraham meeting
a very strange priest
by the name of Melchizedek,
who was to have had
his own temple there.
So there was
a very ancient connection
to this specific place.
In Lebanon,
there is the temple to Baalbek.
Later, under Greek control
they built a different structure
on the same foundation stone,
and called the area Heliopolis.
There are cathedrals
throughout the world
that had pre-Christian
foundations.
We have it all over the world,
which means that a sacred site
has a power of its own
that is larger or older
or longer lasting
than any particular tradition.
The thing is,
the location is what's sacred.
Could it be that,
much like the locations
of the Mayan cities
that are mapped out
based on a cosmic grid
and the ley lines in England,
these worldwide sacred sites
also connect
to a larger blueprint?
The origins of the idea
of a world grid
can be traced back
to ancient Greece.
Philosophers like Plato
were very adamant
that the ancient sacred places
were specially positioned
along the face of the Earth
in a very deliberate way,
and they conformed
to what was called a world grid.
The temples were not
placed haphazardly.
They actually had a structure
and purpose to them.
In the 1960s,
researcher
Ivan T. Sanderson plotted out
his own planetary grid
based on Plato's work.
Other world grid researchers
would later build
upon his model.
What they identified was that
there was a geometric pattern
that could be superimposed
on the Earth,
and that grid point
usually started
at the Great Pyramid itself.
And they would go out from there
in a geometric form.
Russian researchers
did a full survey
of all of the large
stone structures
that have ever been found
all over the Earth,
a total of 3,300
different stone structures.
And they found
that every single one of them
was built right
on one of the lines
of this geometric pattern.
On this grid, sites like
Stonehenge in England,
megaliths in West Africa,
the Bermuda Triangle,
pyramids in Mexico and in Peru,
islands like Easter Island.
The bizarre city of Nan Madol,
were also matching this grid.
The specific power spots
where we find pyramids
and obelisks
and other structures,
may have not been chosen
just by chance.
It could well be that they are
part of an integrated whole
and their location
is highly, highly important.
Some researchers speculate
that ancient cultures
around the world
connected all of their temples
to each other,
almost like
a master circuit board,
where one temple connected
to another temple,
connected to another, added
to the power of the structure,
added to the power
of the line itself.
When we think of the power grid,
we think of the energy being
transmitted along this grid.
What if there's
something else going on here?
What if there's something bigger
that we're not seeing?
What if this world power grid
is actually receiving energy
from the solar system
or from the universe itself?
You have to ask yourself,
who is it who's overseeing
this larger picture
of all of these structures
on the Earth?
They're somehow looking
at the Earth from space
and seeing
how these structures would fit
on a large scale
around the globe.
Who could be doing this,
except for extraterrestrials?
If the placement
of structures on Earth
were specifically plotted
to serve
an extraterrestrial function,
might parts of this system
still be online today?
And if so, does it serve
a purpose beyond Earth?
Auckland, New Zealand, 1997.
Retired military and commercial
airline pilot Bruce Cathie
publishes his book
The Energy Grid.
In it, he details his experience
observing UFOs
during his time working
for the New Zealand military.
He noted that these crafts were
always following straight lines.
After mapping them,
he discovered that they followed
a distinctive grid pattern.
Additionally, while flying over
some of these zones,
he also noticed
that various structures
were actively being built
along the paths.
Bruce Cathie maintained
that the American military,
starting in World War II,
had also figured out
this special grid that surrounds
the entire planet,
and that the military was using
certain spots on the Earth
to build military bases
and other structures.
Cathie suggested
that the extraterrestrial craft
may have been drawing power
off the grid,
and that after World War II
and the Roswell incident,
military personnel
around the world
had become aware
of this UFO connection.
So here we have
an ancient grid structure,
probably built
by extraterrestrials,
possibly to power their craft,
that's now being
reconstructed today
by the military.
Could it be
that ancient structures
throughout the world were
designed to function together
as part of
a massive energy grid?
And did the architects
intentionally leave behind
information for us to find,
once we had
the technological knowledge
to recognize this system?
But why?
What were the alien architects
trying to tell us?
Extraterrestrials knew that
at some point in our evolution,
a technologically
advanced society
would stumble across
all of these ancient sites
and see their correlation,
thus forcing us to take
into consideration
that some type
of extraterrestrials
showed our ancestors where
to build these things,
not for them, but for us.
The grid itself may, in fact,
be a source
of unconventional energy
that we are not
necessarily utilizing
with our technology now.
An advanced, intelligent race
wanted to leave something behind
for us to discover
that would give us the clues
to a greater level of science
than we now understand.
It could be
that this master architect
sought not only to influence
the Earth,
but also to connect the Earth
to something greater
or beyond our imagination.
Perhaps this grid even extends
out into the stars,
and the world grid of the Earth
connects with the grid
of other planets as well,
and then integrates the Earth
into a huge colony, if you will,
or integrated circuit
throughout the cosmos.
This will be
profound for planet Earth,
when this grid network
is repowered,
and we don't know what effect
it will ultimately have
on our future.
Maybe this will be the time when
the extraterrestrials return.
There are those who believe
that the discovery
of an ancient energy grid
will offer a quantum leap
in human achievement.
Because by harnessing the energy
of the Earth,
we will not only advance
beyond our planet,
but far beyond the stars,
and anything
we could ever imagine.
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