Ancient Aliens (2009–…): Season 14, Episode 2 - The Badlands Guardian - full transcript
Satellite images have revealed a giant face that appears to be carved into the Earth in Alberta, Canada, which has now become known far and wide as "The Badlands Guardian." Could it be part of a cosmic communication system? One th...
A mysterious formation...
carved out of the Earth...
gone unnoticed
for thousands of years.
It's really, really striking
when you first see it.
It looks so much
like a human face.
Is it an ancient
megalithic structure
made to be seen from the sky?
The Badlands
Guardian looks artificial.
It doesn't look like
a trick of nature.
And could it be
not only a link to mankind's
extraterrestrial ancestors...
So you have to ask yourself,
who were they emulating?
But one that holds the key
to their return?
We learned their codes
and their secret symbolism,
and what we're seeing
probably holds...
a key to our legacy.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
*ANCIENT ALIENS*
Season 14 Episode 02
Episode Title :"The Badlands Guardian"
Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.
2005.
53-year-old grandmother
Lynn Hickox
is scanning
GPS driving directions
to a local museum
on satellite view
when something catches her eye:
a geographical feature that
bears a striking resemblance
to a human face.
It looks so much
like a man-made structure
that she posts the image
on a message board.
Almost overnight,
the image goes viral
and becomes known far and wide
as the "Badlands Guardian."
It is quite striking.
It is clearly a face.
The brow, the nose, the lips,
the chin are well formed.
The headdress a little less so,
but clearly could be seen
as feathers.
The Badlands Guardian appears
to be a huge geoglyph
near Alberta, Canada.
And to see it from Google Earth
or from satellite imagery,
you would think it was created
by people many, many years ago.
"Geo" means Earth,
and glyphs are symbols,
so "geoglyph" means
symbols on the Earth.
They can be geometric designs,
they can be...
animals, they can be faces.
Some of them are carved
into the ground,
like we find in Nazca.
And in some places
they're built up,
mounds built up on the Earth.
The Badlands Guardian
is a bust, or a head
and shoulders presentation,
of a male indigenous person.
It is so striking,
because that is the indigenous
people of the area.
It doesn't look like a Scotsman
wearing a kilt.
It doesn't look like
an African warrior.
It looks like an indigenous,
uh, native to the area.
Is it possible that
the likeness of a human face
naturally formed in the Earth?
Many who have examined
the Badlands Guardian
suggest that, based on the
amount of detail it displays,
this is highly unlikely.
When the mainstream
scientific community
looks at the Badlands Guardian,
their first explanation is that
it was created by weathering,
uh, rain and water runoff.
But there's just so much detail
that we're seeing
in this formation
that it goes way beyond
anything nature could make.
It not only has
basic facial features,
it has secondary facial
features, such as the eyelid.
The only thing missing
from the Badlands Guardian
is an ear feature.
Now, the interesting thing
about that is,
the local government in Canada,
they had found
a gas deposit there,
right where the ear should be.
There might have been
an ear there at one time,
but now, because they put
an access road there
and they built this gas feature,
that was all erased.
Archaeologists are often
mistaken about ancient sites.
And what is actually a pyramid
that's now, say,
covered in soil
and has a forest on it
can be mistaken
for just a natural hill.
This has happened in...
in South America, in China,
Archaeologists
are continually finding
that things
they think are natural
are actually artificial.
Some of the geoglyphs
found around the world
were formed simply by removing
the top layer of soil
to expose the lighter colored
dirt underneath.
But if the Badlands Guardian
is also a geoglyph,
creating it would have been
an enormous undertaking.
The massive concave formation
is almost half a mile long
and it is over 1,100 feet wide.
For comparison,
the Mount Rushmore National
Monument in South Dakota,
which was completed in 1941,
is approximately 80 feet tall
and 200 feet wide.
And while it is only
a fraction of the size
of the Badlands Guardian,
constructing it required
an enormous amount of work,
even with modern technology.
The carving
officially started in 1927,
and it was
considered complete in 1941.
My grandfather was
on the mountain
approximately from 1933 to 1941.
He was chief carver
on Mount Rushmore.
It took about 400 workers.
It took 14 years.
And when I think about
the amount of time and effort
that it took
for people in the '30s
to create Mount Rushmore,
I can't even begin to imagine
what the person or persons
had to do,
working on something the size
of the Badlands Guardian.
I-I can't even wrap my head
around it.
How was it possible
that the people that carved this
thousands of years ago
were able to see
what they were doing
or know what they were doing?
They must have had assistance
by extraterrestrial beings.
The Badlands
Guardian can only be
fully appreciated from the sky.
So you have to wonder why.
Well, then the answer is:
people on the ground wanted
to signal someone up in the sky.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Badlands Guardian
could offer
some of the most compelling
new evidence
that extraterrestrial
intervention occurred on Earth
in the distant past...
that is, if it really is
an artificial structure.
♪ ♪
Boston, Massachusetts.
February 2019.
Aerospace engineer
and satellite imaging expert
Mark Carlotto
has spent countless hours
examining
the Badlands Guardian to see
if he can determine for certain
whether it is something
other than a natural formation.
The image
of the Badlands Guardian
is very striking
as this Native American figure,
and there are some properties
that are unusual.
So I did some analysis,
uh, using some imaging software
and the height map
of the feature.
We'll start with an overview
of the Badlands Guardian
image here.
We see the figure in the middle
of the image here,
and notice
the surrounding landform's
very similar in morphology.
So, now what we'll do is
we'll zoom up on the figure.
You can see it
a little bit more clearly,
the, um, this iconic face, so...
what can we do to bring out,
you know, some information?
Well, we ran a program
that extracts the height,
or elevation,
uh, from the figure.
And the way it's depicted here
is... is: dark is low
and bright is high.
So now, after we've taken
the image and texture-mapped it
onto the elevation surface,
we can view it in 3D.
And, um, now
I'm moving around it
and viewing it like
we might see it in a drone.
And as you can see, when
you're looking straight down
on the Badlands Guardian,
it's, uh,
this uncanny resemblance
to a Native American.
But as we look off angle,
and as we look at it
from ground level,
simulated ground level,
you see the illusion disappears.
So clearly this feature,
if it was created,
was meant to be viewed
from above.
One important factor for Mark
is how information looks
when the lighting changes.
If the Badlands Guardian
still appears as a face
under different conditions,
it could strengthen the argument
that it's
an artificial structure.
And as you can see, what we've
simulated here in these views
are noontime views,
so the Sun is at noon,
in the summer...
the spring or fall
and the winter.
Notice in the winter
the shadows are longer.
The Sun is lower in the sky.
And in all three, you definitely
get this impression of a face.
It implies
it's very interesting,
and if it's not,
uh, artificially created,
nature is having
a great joke on us.
To me,
the Badlands Guardian looks artificial.
It doesn't look like
a trick of nature
and that I'm suffering
from apophenia.
All humans do have apophenia,
meaning they see patterns
where patterns are not.
That's why we see Mickey Mouse
in the clouds and so on.
But this looks
too specifically like
some type of native person
with a headdress on.
Looking at this picture,
you can see the natural patterns
of erosion.
So it's clear to me
from this picture
that this is
an artificial structure.
Did a
grandmother in Saskatchewan
accidentally discover
physical evidence
of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
But if so,
how long has it been there?
Who built it?
And what does it mean?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining other geoglyphs
that have been discovered
all over the world,
and the strange figures
they depict.
In 1820,
the prominent German
mathematician and physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
began to explore the possibility
that there are other intelligent
beings in our solar system.
He hypothesized
that alien life-forms
might be able to view
the surface of our planet
through the use
of superior technology,
and proposed
that we could attempt
to communicate with them
by creating large-scale shapes
and figures in the Earth...
what are known today
as geoglyphs.
Gauss' idea was simple,
that tracks of forests
be planted
in the shape of right triangles
so that at great distances,
patterns of triangles
would be visible from space.
He tried to come up with an idea
of how we could signal
our existence here down
on Earth,
and not just signal,
but to tell 'em that we
were intelligent.
So what he devised
was to create
this huge geoglyph in Siberia
showing the Pythagorean
triangle.
This is something
that you can only work out
if you have mathematical
knowledge.
So he wanted to convey
this knowledge
to these intelligences
outside of our own planet.
More than a century
after Gauss proposed creating
figures in the Earth
to communicate with
extraterrestrials,
pilots flying over southern Peru
in the 1930s discovered
hundreds of giant geoglyphs
etched into the desert soil:
the Nazca Lines.
As there is no record of when
or why the Nazca Lines
were formed...
or even who made them...
scholars can only guess as
to what purpose they served.
But is it possible
that these geoglyphs
were created by ancient people
who were doing exactly
what Carl Gauss proposed:
attempting to communicate
with beings looking down
on Earth from above?
This is a huge area
where these straight lines
stretch for many, many miles.
And then effigies
such as spiders
and birds and other animals
also carved into the landscape.
It wasn't until
the invention of the airplane
that we were able to observe
the Nazca Lines
from the vantage point
they were designed for.
With the ability to see
the Earth from new heights,
more and more geoglyphs
were discovered.
And now,
with satellite imagery,
it has been revealed
that our ancestors
created similar formations
all over the world.
They've been finding geoglyphs
in Asia, the Middle East,
Africa,
North America, South America,
Australia,
all over the world
they're finding geoglyphs.
We have earthen geoglyphs
such as Serpent Mound in Ohio.
In England, at Glastonbury,
we have the Glastonbury Zodiac,
constellations carved
into the landscape.
We also have
the Blythe Intaglios
in the western part
of America.
So all the geoglyphs
all over the world
do suggest that the ancients
were using the Earth
as, like, a canvas,
but why would they do this?
Were they sending messages up
into the sky
for other beings to see?
It might be a test of some sort,
uh, a code, a puzzle.
Something that
we would only recognize
when we had developed
powered flight and satellites.
Does it lead to a next step?
These massive geoglyphs,
they're not art for art's sake.
They did it for
a very specific purpose,
for a purpose
of communicating with
and interacting with
extraterrestrial beings.
Is it possible that
an extraterrestrial civilization
is monitoring us much like
Carl Gauss predicted?
One part of Gauss's hypothesis
that now seems very plausible
is the idea
that extraterrestrials may have
the technology
to view details on the Earth's
surface from great distances.
Could it be they are waiting
for the day
when we humans demonstrate
the ability to do the same?
That day may be closer
than we think,
as scientists are learning
how to view the surfaces
of faraway planets
through a process called
gravitational lensing.
A regular lens happens 'cause
you have a change
in index of refraction, which
changes the speed of light.
A gravitational lens literally
is curving space itself,
and light now travels
that curved path.
What it allows us to do
in exploring space
is it will allow us to observe
or look at things we wouldn't
otherwise be able to see.
In 2019,
the Hubble Space Telescope used
a naturally occurring
gravitational lens,
a bend in space-time,
in order to capture the light
of a large galaxy cluster
in the Leo constellation
that was previously
too far away and dim to see.
While Hubble utilized
a gravitational lens
that already existed in space,
it is possible that one day we
may be able to create our own.
If there was an
extraterrestrial civilization
that had that technology
and was far enough along
to make a gravitational lens
that magnified,
that might allow them
to view things, for instance,
on Earth, that you couldn't
with just a standard lens.
Is it possible
that extraterrestrials created
markers on Earth
that they were capable of seeing
from the far reaches of space?
And did our ancestors then
construct their own geoglyphs
in the hopes that the alien
visitors would return?
Perhaps a piece of the puzzle
can be revealed
by examining geoglyphs of
strange humanoid-type beings.
At Nazca, we see what appears
to be a humanoid figure wearing
a space suit.
At the Blythe Intaglio,
we see a very strange, tall,
spindly human being.
Then you have the Atacama Giant
who has these lines coming out
on the top of his head.
The Badlands Guardian
is unique among all
the geoglyphs we've found
around the world.
It's the only one
that has a face.
Most of the humanoid geoglyphs
are of a full figure who is
looking directly at the sky.
But the Badlands Guardian
is different.
He's in profile;
it's just his head.
It's a Native American face
and Native Americans lived
in that area.
And Native American history
is filled
with stories of sky people
descending from above.
It's maybe a signal, "Hey",
this is us down here.
Come and say hello."
Is it possible that the
geoglyphs of humanoid figures,
and also the Badlands Guardian,
illustrate actual
extraterrestrial visitors?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
a nearby site that boasts
the greatest concentration
of rock art on the
North American Great Plains,
dating back
at least 9,000 years.
Writing-on-Stone
Provincial Park, Canada.
Here, less than
a hundred miles away
from the Badlands Guardian,
is an incredible record
of local Native American
traditions.
Thousands of ancient
petroglyphs,
images carved into stone,
depict every aspect of life
for the people who lived here
centuries ago.
There are ancient calendars,
depictions of animals, humans,
entire battle scenes,
and the Blackfoot gods,
who they also refer to
as "sky beings."
In various Native American
traditions,
we have different
spiritual beings located
on these sort of different
planes of existence.
And there's a wonderful range
of stories in many, many
Native American groups that talk
about some of the adventures
and interactions
with these sky people
with the humans on Earth.
For the Blackfoot,
the most prominent
of these sky beings
is the one they credit
with their creation, Napi.
The creator god of
the Blackfoot is called Napi,
and in this petroglyph
he can be seen,
what appears to be inside
of a disc.
And he's very strange-looking
'cause he's got four fingers,
he's got sort of
an elongated skull.
The Blackfoot tell
a really interesting
creation myth about Napi.
They tell how he came to Earth
and created various animals
and-and other creatures.
And then one day
he decided to form
a living human being
out of clay.
And then he goes and leaves
the Blackfoot alone...
but he promises
that he's going to return.
The Blackfoot regard Napi
not as mythological,
but as a real being
who descended from the heavens.
So the Star People
in Native American traditions
are beings who came
from the cosmos
and taught the arts
of civilization,
agriculture, medicine,
healing,
and they brought maps
of the cosmos to Earth.
Throughout especially
the western part of America,
we find,
petroglyph or rock art
that portrays what appear
to be star beings.
People can look
at this art and say,
"That's a depiction
of an extraterrestrial."
And this is one way that
the First Nations people
recorded their interactions
with the Star People.
Could this petroglyph of Napi
be a depiction of a being
that the ancient Blackfoot
encountered
coming down from the sky?
And might this provide
further evidence
that the local indigenous
populations
were visited by
extraterrestrials?
Ancient Astronaut theorists
say, yes,
and believe
the Badlands Guardian may reveal
how the ancients communicated
with these otherworldly
visitors.
Now, the headdress that he wears
is called a medicine hat, uh,
which...
it's not a chief's regalia
that you would see
with all the feathers going down
that a chief would wear.
What a medicine hat entails
is it incorporates
the tail feathers of an eagle.
And these are normally worn
by, uh, the medicine man.
The medicine man...
this is a wisdom figure,
a combination of professor,
doctor and priest
all in one person.
The hat is what we tend to call
a headdress.
The shamanic, ceremonial leader
uses that
to make contact
with invisible dimensions,
often thought of
as upper worlds,
in which contact is made
with spirits, gods,
energy that is beyond
our understanding.
The fact that he's wearing
a medicine hat
that acts as a antenna tells us
that this is a figure who was
in communication
with otherworldly beings,
maybe even the Star People.
If
Extraterrestrials communicated
with the ancient
Blackfoot Indians,
is it possible
that they imparted the knowledge
and technology to construct
the Badlands Guardian?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that not only
did extraterrestrials
visit people living
in the Alberta Badlands
in the distant past,
but that they continue to visit
the region to this very day.
Certain areas of the world
are hotbeds of UFO activity.
And, in fact, Alberta, Canada,
is one of these hotbeds.
There's constantly UFO sightings
in the day and night,
and there's quite a few photos
and films that can be seen.
In 2009 alone, there were
over 150 reported sightings
of UFOs in Alberta.
One of the most famous
UFO sightings in that area
happened in 1967
when a person named Warren Smith
and two of his friends
were out walking in this area,
and in broad daylight,
they then saw
a silvery, disc-shaped UFO
hovering around the trees.
The witnesses took their photos,
and then, finally,
the UFO vanished.
Warren Smith's photos
of this craft
as it was lifting into the sky
were analyzed by
the Photo Interpretation Center.
The experts there determined
that the photos were real
and that it matched
the description
of what he said he saw,
suggesting that this
was a genuine experience
and that these were, in fact,
genuine photos of a craft.
The area where Warren Smith
took the photos isn't far
from where the Badlands Guardian
is located.
Does this suggest that aliens
have a continuing interest
in this area?
With all of this
UFO activity in Alberta,
and it's in the vicinity
of the Badlands Guardian,
you have to wonder
if this area isn't some portal
or inter-dimensional spot
where UFOs are coming and going.
And you have to wonder
if it's something to do
with the Badlands Guardian.
Does the Badlands Guardian
represent a medicine man
who communicated
with the Star People?
Or could it be depicting
a star being,
one who taught the indigenous
people of the region
a means of communicating
with extraterrestrials?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
only by forensically examining
the Badlands Guardian
and taking a closer look
at the shape
of the figure's head.
Los Angeles, California.
February 2019.
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos is meeting up
with forensic 3-D artist
Marcia Moore.
- Marcia. Pleasure to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- How are you? Okay.
- Come on in.
Wow, look at this space.
Since learning
about the Badlands Guardian,
Marcia has been working
to reconstruct it digitally
to see what it would look like
as a three-dimensional head
and perhaps provide
further clues
as to who or what
it was modeled after.
- Pull up a chair.
- Great.
- And we'll discuss this guardian.
- Uh-huh.
So, you've taken this,
and clearly you've seen the face
and decided
to recreate the face.
- Absolutely.
- Okay.
And what did you come up with?
Well, the first step for me
is to just take a look
at the terrain.
I think, honestly, the whole
aerial view when you look at it,
there's a whole storyboard
of information going on here.
But we're focusing on this face
because this is very prominent.
So, you can tell
we've got a neck area
that's rather extended.
Some feathers,
and then, also, this elongation
that's forming
around this headdress.
Mm-hmm.
- All right, go on.
- From there, I created
a 3-D sculpture.
I'm starting
with just a normal-sized head.
So, I will overlay
the aerial view,
and I'm going to create layers.
And I'm actually just following
the terrain.
I'm creating this long neck,
and I'm creating
this elongated head.
And here we have it.
This is the sculpture.
Everything in 3-D is mirrored
on the other side,
- so as we turn this around...
- Right.
And this is what he would like
if that thing on the ground
- were a person.
- Absolutely.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
You know,
after the buildup of the 3-D sculpture,
I made a digital piece
of artwork
that will flesh this entity out.
Mm-hmm.
That looks great.
You know,
I think it's really cool
that you've kind of pointed out
the elongation of the skull.
This whole phenomenon
of elongated skulls
exists worldwide.
Not only do we have these shapes
in this geographic area,
but also, for example,
in South America,
in Peru, but also in Europe,
in the Hittite region,
present-day Turkey,
all with these long skulls.
Around the world,
ancient skulls have been found
that are thin,
long and misshapen.
In addition to the skulls,
there are many ancient
depictions of historical figures
with extra large,
elongated heads.
What's controversial
about the elongated skulls
is that their cranial capacity
is greater than a normal human.
So these may not be cases
of cranial deformation.
These could be examples
of a whole subspecies
of humanity.
Worldwide, we have these people
in depictions
wearing these long headdresses,
and sometimes
you even see pictures,
especially in ancient Egypt,
where you see the same figures
without the headdress,
and guess what?
They have elongated skulls.
So, you have to ask yourself,
why is there a, uh...
a figure coming out
of the terrain that has, to me,
seems like
an elongated shaped head.
The idea is
that Earth was visited
by extraterrestrials
a long time ago.
And one of my opinions is
that the elongated skull people
were the actual visitors,
and the skeletons
that are found today are some
of the few remnants
of the people that were here
a long time ago,
clearly people
that looked like us
except for that they had
an elongated skull.
- So, that, to me, is fascinating.
- Yeah.
Marcia, thank you so much
for sharing your work with me.
You've given me a lot
to think about, so thank you.
- Thank you.
- Appreciate it. All right, take care.
Bye-bye.
Does the
three-dimensional reconstruction
of the Badlands Guardian
point to the possibility
that it was not only built to be
seen by visitors from the sky,
but that it may even be
a representation
of an extraterrestrial?
Could this be the face
of the being
the Blackfoot people identify
as their creator god, Napi?
Perhaps the answers can be found
by examining
yet another geoglyph
that resembles a human face...
on Mars.
July 19, 1976.
A NASA spacecraft
named Viking 1 enters
into orbit above Mars.
Just six days later,
it takes a photograph
of the Red Planet
that is so extraordinary
it immediately seizes
the public imagination.
In the summer of 1976,
NASA announced that
they had found a face on Mars.
Now, NASA was the original group
of scientists
to label
the face on Mars a head...
it was actually in their file...
and they said that they had
found this formation on Mars
that looked like a face.
However, just a few days later,
they had
a second press conference,
and they said
that they had taken
a second image,
days later, and it...
they found that it was just
a trick of light and shadow
and there was nothing there.
Could it be that the image
of a giant face
on the Martian surface
is actually
an artificial structure,
a physical record that someone,
or something, has been there?
Perhaps a clue can be found
by comparing the Face on Mars
with the Badlands Guardian.
So,
the face is about a mile wide
and about a mile
and two-thirds long.
The Face on Mars is larger
than the Badlands Guardian,
but the Badlands Guardian
is large enough
that you can still see it
in satellite imagery.
To determine if the face
was created by natural means,
imaging expert Mark Carlotto
conducted a scientific analysis
of the Martian structure.
All right, so,
in this overview,
we see the Face on Mars
in the middle.
One of the tests that was done
on the Face of Mars
was to assess
whether it was an artificial
or a natural object.
We applied a technique called
fractal, uh, analysis
to model
the background terrain locally.
We have a filter that basically
computes a little fractal model
as it moves over the image.
And we see,
if we go back and forth here
to the original image
and now the output
of the fractal model,
fractal filter, the face
has a very high response.
And this was a very, uh,
unexpected result,
uh, at the time.
And the fractal technique found
that it doesn't
just look like a face
but it actually is,
statistically,
in terms of the structure,
different
from the surrounding landforms.
One criticism
of this formation is
that, in more recent images,
the impression of a face
is much less evident.
The structure appears
much more highly eroded.
But if it is an ancient feature,
you would expect erosion
would have taken its toll
over the course of time.
If we flip it back and forth,
there's a very high degree
of correspondence
between the left
and the right side, making it
a highly bisymmetrical object.
Bisymmetry would imply
an artificial, uh, construction,
'cause nature would have
to conspire quite a bit
to create something that's not
only face-like but bisymmetrical
and possessing all the detail
that the Face on Mars possesses.
The other interesting thing
about the Face on Mars
is that NASA has taken,
over the last 25, 30 years,
over 40 images
of the Face on Mars,
a formation that they say
they have no interest in.
If the Face on Mars is, in fact,
a fabricated structure,
who built it?
Does it have a connection
to the giant face
recently discovered in Canada
and perhaps other structures
around the globe
that were made to be seen
from the sky?
Curiously,
many who have examined
the Face on Mars have observed
that the area surrounding it
seems to point
to a connection
to one specific place on Earth,
Egypt.
Something extraordinary happened
when we started taking pictures
of the surface of Mars.
We saw what appeared to be
pyramids on the surface of Mars.
It's mind-blowing,
because these match
the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
Is there a connection
between Mars and Egypt?
Well, indeed, there is.
The city of Cairo
was originally called
al-Qahirah, which meant
"City of Mars"
or "the Victorious."
The Egyptians referred
to the Sphinx
as Ra-Horakhty,
which means
"Place of the Horizon,"
which is the very same name
that they gave to Mars.
So there seems to be
a-a deep-embedded memory
in ancient Egypt of
a correspondence or a connection
between Egyptian civilization
and one
that might have been on Mars.
If we are dealing with something
extraterrestrial in origin,
then the-the Egyptian connection
is very telling,
because many, many speculations
about the extraterrestrial links
with ancient Egypt.
But if there is a connection
between the Cydonia region
of Mars and ancient Egypt,
what is the significance?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
further clues can be found
by taking a closer look
at the Badlands Guardian
and the famous ruler
it's thought to depict.
The Badlands Guardian
is very similar
to the statues of Akhenaten,
the renegade Egyptian pharaoh.
He and Nefertiti
and their children
all had elongated heads,
as we see all around the world
and is often associated
with extraterrestrials.
When you put an image of
the Egyptian pharaoh, Akhenaten,
beside the image
of the Badlands Guardian,
they're virtually identical.
When you do the "A" to "B"
comparison,
they both have this long neck,
this very elongated face.
And Akhenaten, of course,
is the great mystic pharaoh
of ancient Egypt.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that he might have
extraterrestrial connections.
Akhenaten claimed
that he was in contact
with a celestial disk
he referred to as the Aten.
In fact, he taught the Egyptians
to no longer worship
the whole pantheon
of over 360 deities
and to only worship the Aten.
And given the fact
that his mummy has disappeared
only adds to the mystery.
Is this, in fact,
a human being we're looking at
or could this possibly be
a representation
of some other type of a being,
maybe an extraterrestrial, even?
If the Badlands Guardian
is a representation
not of a Native American
but of an extraterrestrial known
in Egypt as Akhenaten,
could it bring us closer
to solving a puzzle
whose pieces are scattered
all over the world
and even on other planets?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that a much more recent
discovery on Mars
provides yet another piece
that may finally complete
the puzzle.
Waterford, Virginia.
2017.
Cydonia Institute researcher
George Haas
is combing
through satellite images of Mars
when he spies
a discernible shape.
It appears to be
the image of another face.
Unlike the original
so-called Face on Mars
discovered in 1976,
this face appears in profile,
similar to that
of the Badlands Guardian.
So, in this area
called Utopia,
in a huge impact crater,
is the profile face
that has a beard, a mustache,
and he's wearing a helmet
that has an avian headdress.
When the bearded profile on Mars
is compared
to the Badlands Guardian,
we see the same type of profile.
Both incorporate
avian iconography.
One has a headdress of feathers.
The other one
is wearing a headdress
that incorporates
an entire bird.
I think the culture
that produced these formations
on Mars had a direct
relationship to the human race.
Is an ancient story
being told through geoglyphs
that exist both on Earth
and on our closest
neighboring planet?
And, if so,
what happened to those
responsible for writing it?
Perhaps civilization
on Mars was destroyed.
Or, perhaps,
civilization began on Mars
and then moved to Earth.
Earth was, in a sense, seeded
by a Martian civilization,
and that is why we have
similar structures on Mars
and on planet Earth.
So, with the discovery
of the Face on Mars,
is it possible
that it's acting as a clue,
it's telling us
that, somewhere here,
is evidence
of a lost civilization
that existed on the Red Planet
perhaps millions of years ago?
That's a very tantalizing
possibility,
and it's one that I know
that every scientist
going to Mars
wants to answer.
Maybe these geoglyphs
were all part
of some global memorial
that was built by some unknown
extraterrestrial culture
that, uh, has to do
with, uh, human origins
and is telling the story
of where we came from
and possibly where
we may be going.
You have to ask,
is there something in common
between the people that
were making these geoglyphs,
and the answer is, is that
they all have similar stories
in these earthly civilizations.
They're in contact
with star beings,
celestial beings
that came to Earth
and are assisting humanity.
They lived with us,
they interacted with us.
Then they left.
But is it possible
that not all of the
communications we're receiving
from these otherworldly beings
are in the form of geoglyphs?
Could crop circles,
for instance,
be more recent examples
of a type
of extraterrestrial dialogue?
If you bring
crop circles into the mix,
there are some
very sophisticated crop circles
that also indicate, uh,
knowledge of fractal geometry.
There could be a message.
They might be communicating
with us,
and we might, perhaps,
want to communicate with them.
It's possible
that many of these geoglyphs,
much like crop circles
that appear every summer,
might give us clues to our past
and to our destiny.
The fact of the matter is
that we have geoglyphs
worldwide.
And with the improvement
of our technology,
who knows what else
we'll discover
in the next five to ten years?
We are entering
a new era of discovery,
and I can't wait to see
what tomorrow brings.
As we send
more spacecrafts to Mars,
will we continue
to uncover evidence
of an alien civilization
that could have lived there
centuries ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and believe
that the human race is getting
very close to the day
when it will unlock
what they believe
to be an alien code
and find a means
of direct communication,
a living link
between mankind's past
and its extraterrestrial future.
carved out of the Earth...
gone unnoticed
for thousands of years.
It's really, really striking
when you first see it.
It looks so much
like a human face.
Is it an ancient
megalithic structure
made to be seen from the sky?
The Badlands
Guardian looks artificial.
It doesn't look like
a trick of nature.
And could it be
not only a link to mankind's
extraterrestrial ancestors...
So you have to ask yourself,
who were they emulating?
But one that holds the key
to their return?
We learned their codes
and their secret symbolism,
and what we're seeing
probably holds...
a key to our legacy.
There is a doorway
in the universe.
Beyond it is
the promise of truth.
It demands
we question everything
we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.
The future is
right before our eyes.
We are not alone.
We have never been alone.
*ANCIENT ALIENS*
Season 14 Episode 02
Episode Title :"The Badlands Guardian"
Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan.
2005.
53-year-old grandmother
Lynn Hickox
is scanning
GPS driving directions
to a local museum
on satellite view
when something catches her eye:
a geographical feature that
bears a striking resemblance
to a human face.
It looks so much
like a man-made structure
that she posts the image
on a message board.
Almost overnight,
the image goes viral
and becomes known far and wide
as the "Badlands Guardian."
It is quite striking.
It is clearly a face.
The brow, the nose, the lips,
the chin are well formed.
The headdress a little less so,
but clearly could be seen
as feathers.
The Badlands Guardian appears
to be a huge geoglyph
near Alberta, Canada.
And to see it from Google Earth
or from satellite imagery,
you would think it was created
by people many, many years ago.
"Geo" means Earth,
and glyphs are symbols,
so "geoglyph" means
symbols on the Earth.
They can be geometric designs,
they can be...
animals, they can be faces.
Some of them are carved
into the ground,
like we find in Nazca.
And in some places
they're built up,
mounds built up on the Earth.
The Badlands Guardian
is a bust, or a head
and shoulders presentation,
of a male indigenous person.
It is so striking,
because that is the indigenous
people of the area.
It doesn't look like a Scotsman
wearing a kilt.
It doesn't look like
an African warrior.
It looks like an indigenous,
uh, native to the area.
Is it possible that
the likeness of a human face
naturally formed in the Earth?
Many who have examined
the Badlands Guardian
suggest that, based on the
amount of detail it displays,
this is highly unlikely.
When the mainstream
scientific community
looks at the Badlands Guardian,
their first explanation is that
it was created by weathering,
uh, rain and water runoff.
But there's just so much detail
that we're seeing
in this formation
that it goes way beyond
anything nature could make.
It not only has
basic facial features,
it has secondary facial
features, such as the eyelid.
The only thing missing
from the Badlands Guardian
is an ear feature.
Now, the interesting thing
about that is,
the local government in Canada,
they had found
a gas deposit there,
right where the ear should be.
There might have been
an ear there at one time,
but now, because they put
an access road there
and they built this gas feature,
that was all erased.
Archaeologists are often
mistaken about ancient sites.
And what is actually a pyramid
that's now, say,
covered in soil
and has a forest on it
can be mistaken
for just a natural hill.
This has happened in...
in South America, in China,
Archaeologists
are continually finding
that things
they think are natural
are actually artificial.
Some of the geoglyphs
found around the world
were formed simply by removing
the top layer of soil
to expose the lighter colored
dirt underneath.
But if the Badlands Guardian
is also a geoglyph,
creating it would have been
an enormous undertaking.
The massive concave formation
is almost half a mile long
and it is over 1,100 feet wide.
For comparison,
the Mount Rushmore National
Monument in South Dakota,
which was completed in 1941,
is approximately 80 feet tall
and 200 feet wide.
And while it is only
a fraction of the size
of the Badlands Guardian,
constructing it required
an enormous amount of work,
even with modern technology.
The carving
officially started in 1927,
and it was
considered complete in 1941.
My grandfather was
on the mountain
approximately from 1933 to 1941.
He was chief carver
on Mount Rushmore.
It took about 400 workers.
It took 14 years.
And when I think about
the amount of time and effort
that it took
for people in the '30s
to create Mount Rushmore,
I can't even begin to imagine
what the person or persons
had to do,
working on something the size
of the Badlands Guardian.
I-I can't even wrap my head
around it.
How was it possible
that the people that carved this
thousands of years ago
were able to see
what they were doing
or know what they were doing?
They must have had assistance
by extraterrestrial beings.
The Badlands
Guardian can only be
fully appreciated from the sky.
So you have to wonder why.
Well, then the answer is:
people on the ground wanted
to signal someone up in the sky.
For ancient astronaut theorists,
the Badlands Guardian
could offer
some of the most compelling
new evidence
that extraterrestrial
intervention occurred on Earth
in the distant past...
that is, if it really is
an artificial structure.
♪ ♪
Boston, Massachusetts.
February 2019.
Aerospace engineer
and satellite imaging expert
Mark Carlotto
has spent countless hours
examining
the Badlands Guardian to see
if he can determine for certain
whether it is something
other than a natural formation.
The image
of the Badlands Guardian
is very striking
as this Native American figure,
and there are some properties
that are unusual.
So I did some analysis,
uh, using some imaging software
and the height map
of the feature.
We'll start with an overview
of the Badlands Guardian
image here.
We see the figure in the middle
of the image here,
and notice
the surrounding landform's
very similar in morphology.
So, now what we'll do is
we'll zoom up on the figure.
You can see it
a little bit more clearly,
the, um, this iconic face, so...
what can we do to bring out,
you know, some information?
Well, we ran a program
that extracts the height,
or elevation,
uh, from the figure.
And the way it's depicted here
is... is: dark is low
and bright is high.
So now, after we've taken
the image and texture-mapped it
onto the elevation surface,
we can view it in 3D.
And, um, now
I'm moving around it
and viewing it like
we might see it in a drone.
And as you can see, when
you're looking straight down
on the Badlands Guardian,
it's, uh,
this uncanny resemblance
to a Native American.
But as we look off angle,
and as we look at it
from ground level,
simulated ground level,
you see the illusion disappears.
So clearly this feature,
if it was created,
was meant to be viewed
from above.
One important factor for Mark
is how information looks
when the lighting changes.
If the Badlands Guardian
still appears as a face
under different conditions,
it could strengthen the argument
that it's
an artificial structure.
And as you can see, what we've
simulated here in these views
are noontime views,
so the Sun is at noon,
in the summer...
the spring or fall
and the winter.
Notice in the winter
the shadows are longer.
The Sun is lower in the sky.
And in all three, you definitely
get this impression of a face.
It implies
it's very interesting,
and if it's not,
uh, artificially created,
nature is having
a great joke on us.
To me,
the Badlands Guardian looks artificial.
It doesn't look like
a trick of nature
and that I'm suffering
from apophenia.
All humans do have apophenia,
meaning they see patterns
where patterns are not.
That's why we see Mickey Mouse
in the clouds and so on.
But this looks
too specifically like
some type of native person
with a headdress on.
Looking at this picture,
you can see the natural patterns
of erosion.
So it's clear to me
from this picture
that this is
an artificial structure.
Did a
grandmother in Saskatchewan
accidentally discover
physical evidence
of extraterrestrial
intervention on Earth?
But if so,
how long has it been there?
Who built it?
And what does it mean?
Perhaps further clues
can be found
by examining other geoglyphs
that have been discovered
all over the world,
and the strange figures
they depict.
In 1820,
the prominent German
mathematician and physicist
Carl Friedrich Gauss
began to explore the possibility
that there are other intelligent
beings in our solar system.
He hypothesized
that alien life-forms
might be able to view
the surface of our planet
through the use
of superior technology,
and proposed
that we could attempt
to communicate with them
by creating large-scale shapes
and figures in the Earth...
what are known today
as geoglyphs.
Gauss' idea was simple,
that tracks of forests
be planted
in the shape of right triangles
so that at great distances,
patterns of triangles
would be visible from space.
He tried to come up with an idea
of how we could signal
our existence here down
on Earth,
and not just signal,
but to tell 'em that we
were intelligent.
So what he devised
was to create
this huge geoglyph in Siberia
showing the Pythagorean
triangle.
This is something
that you can only work out
if you have mathematical
knowledge.
So he wanted to convey
this knowledge
to these intelligences
outside of our own planet.
More than a century
after Gauss proposed creating
figures in the Earth
to communicate with
extraterrestrials,
pilots flying over southern Peru
in the 1930s discovered
hundreds of giant geoglyphs
etched into the desert soil:
the Nazca Lines.
As there is no record of when
or why the Nazca Lines
were formed...
or even who made them...
scholars can only guess as
to what purpose they served.
But is it possible
that these geoglyphs
were created by ancient people
who were doing exactly
what Carl Gauss proposed:
attempting to communicate
with beings looking down
on Earth from above?
This is a huge area
where these straight lines
stretch for many, many miles.
And then effigies
such as spiders
and birds and other animals
also carved into the landscape.
It wasn't until
the invention of the airplane
that we were able to observe
the Nazca Lines
from the vantage point
they were designed for.
With the ability to see
the Earth from new heights,
more and more geoglyphs
were discovered.
And now,
with satellite imagery,
it has been revealed
that our ancestors
created similar formations
all over the world.
They've been finding geoglyphs
in Asia, the Middle East,
Africa,
North America, South America,
Australia,
all over the world
they're finding geoglyphs.
We have earthen geoglyphs
such as Serpent Mound in Ohio.
In England, at Glastonbury,
we have the Glastonbury Zodiac,
constellations carved
into the landscape.
We also have
the Blythe Intaglios
in the western part
of America.
So all the geoglyphs
all over the world
do suggest that the ancients
were using the Earth
as, like, a canvas,
but why would they do this?
Were they sending messages up
into the sky
for other beings to see?
It might be a test of some sort,
uh, a code, a puzzle.
Something that
we would only recognize
when we had developed
powered flight and satellites.
Does it lead to a next step?
These massive geoglyphs,
they're not art for art's sake.
They did it for
a very specific purpose,
for a purpose
of communicating with
and interacting with
extraterrestrial beings.
Is it possible that
an extraterrestrial civilization
is monitoring us much like
Carl Gauss predicted?
One part of Gauss's hypothesis
that now seems very plausible
is the idea
that extraterrestrials may have
the technology
to view details on the Earth's
surface from great distances.
Could it be they are waiting
for the day
when we humans demonstrate
the ability to do the same?
That day may be closer
than we think,
as scientists are learning
how to view the surfaces
of faraway planets
through a process called
gravitational lensing.
A regular lens happens 'cause
you have a change
in index of refraction, which
changes the speed of light.
A gravitational lens literally
is curving space itself,
and light now travels
that curved path.
What it allows us to do
in exploring space
is it will allow us to observe
or look at things we wouldn't
otherwise be able to see.
In 2019,
the Hubble Space Telescope used
a naturally occurring
gravitational lens,
a bend in space-time,
in order to capture the light
of a large galaxy cluster
in the Leo constellation
that was previously
too far away and dim to see.
While Hubble utilized
a gravitational lens
that already existed in space,
it is possible that one day we
may be able to create our own.
If there was an
extraterrestrial civilization
that had that technology
and was far enough along
to make a gravitational lens
that magnified,
that might allow them
to view things, for instance,
on Earth, that you couldn't
with just a standard lens.
Is it possible
that extraterrestrials created
markers on Earth
that they were capable of seeing
from the far reaches of space?
And did our ancestors then
construct their own geoglyphs
in the hopes that the alien
visitors would return?
Perhaps a piece of the puzzle
can be revealed
by examining geoglyphs of
strange humanoid-type beings.
At Nazca, we see what appears
to be a humanoid figure wearing
a space suit.
At the Blythe Intaglio,
we see a very strange, tall,
spindly human being.
Then you have the Atacama Giant
who has these lines coming out
on the top of his head.
The Badlands Guardian
is unique among all
the geoglyphs we've found
around the world.
It's the only one
that has a face.
Most of the humanoid geoglyphs
are of a full figure who is
looking directly at the sky.
But the Badlands Guardian
is different.
He's in profile;
it's just his head.
It's a Native American face
and Native Americans lived
in that area.
And Native American history
is filled
with stories of sky people
descending from above.
It's maybe a signal, "Hey",
this is us down here.
Come and say hello."
Is it possible that the
geoglyphs of humanoid figures,
and also the Badlands Guardian,
illustrate actual
extraterrestrial visitors?
Perhaps further clues
can be found by examining
a nearby site that boasts
the greatest concentration
of rock art on the
North American Great Plains,
dating back
at least 9,000 years.
Writing-on-Stone
Provincial Park, Canada.
Here, less than
a hundred miles away
from the Badlands Guardian,
is an incredible record
of local Native American
traditions.
Thousands of ancient
petroglyphs,
images carved into stone,
depict every aspect of life
for the people who lived here
centuries ago.
There are ancient calendars,
depictions of animals, humans,
entire battle scenes,
and the Blackfoot gods,
who they also refer to
as "sky beings."
In various Native American
traditions,
we have different
spiritual beings located
on these sort of different
planes of existence.
And there's a wonderful range
of stories in many, many
Native American groups that talk
about some of the adventures
and interactions
with these sky people
with the humans on Earth.
For the Blackfoot,
the most prominent
of these sky beings
is the one they credit
with their creation, Napi.
The creator god of
the Blackfoot is called Napi,
and in this petroglyph
he can be seen,
what appears to be inside
of a disc.
And he's very strange-looking
'cause he's got four fingers,
he's got sort of
an elongated skull.
The Blackfoot tell
a really interesting
creation myth about Napi.
They tell how he came to Earth
and created various animals
and-and other creatures.
And then one day
he decided to form
a living human being
out of clay.
And then he goes and leaves
the Blackfoot alone...
but he promises
that he's going to return.
The Blackfoot regard Napi
not as mythological,
but as a real being
who descended from the heavens.
So the Star People
in Native American traditions
are beings who came
from the cosmos
and taught the arts
of civilization,
agriculture, medicine,
healing,
and they brought maps
of the cosmos to Earth.
Throughout especially
the western part of America,
we find,
petroglyph or rock art
that portrays what appear
to be star beings.
People can look
at this art and say,
"That's a depiction
of an extraterrestrial."
And this is one way that
the First Nations people
recorded their interactions
with the Star People.
Could this petroglyph of Napi
be a depiction of a being
that the ancient Blackfoot
encountered
coming down from the sky?
And might this provide
further evidence
that the local indigenous
populations
were visited by
extraterrestrials?
Ancient Astronaut theorists
say, yes,
and believe
the Badlands Guardian may reveal
how the ancients communicated
with these otherworldly
visitors.
Now, the headdress that he wears
is called a medicine hat, uh,
which...
it's not a chief's regalia
that you would see
with all the feathers going down
that a chief would wear.
What a medicine hat entails
is it incorporates
the tail feathers of an eagle.
And these are normally worn
by, uh, the medicine man.
The medicine man...
this is a wisdom figure,
a combination of professor,
doctor and priest
all in one person.
The hat is what we tend to call
a headdress.
The shamanic, ceremonial leader
uses that
to make contact
with invisible dimensions,
often thought of
as upper worlds,
in which contact is made
with spirits, gods,
energy that is beyond
our understanding.
The fact that he's wearing
a medicine hat
that acts as a antenna tells us
that this is a figure who was
in communication
with otherworldly beings,
maybe even the Star People.
If
Extraterrestrials communicated
with the ancient
Blackfoot Indians,
is it possible
that they imparted the knowledge
and technology to construct
the Badlands Guardian?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that not only
did extraterrestrials
visit people living
in the Alberta Badlands
in the distant past,
but that they continue to visit
the region to this very day.
Certain areas of the world
are hotbeds of UFO activity.
And, in fact, Alberta, Canada,
is one of these hotbeds.
There's constantly UFO sightings
in the day and night,
and there's quite a few photos
and films that can be seen.
In 2009 alone, there were
over 150 reported sightings
of UFOs in Alberta.
One of the most famous
UFO sightings in that area
happened in 1967
when a person named Warren Smith
and two of his friends
were out walking in this area,
and in broad daylight,
they then saw
a silvery, disc-shaped UFO
hovering around the trees.
The witnesses took their photos,
and then, finally,
the UFO vanished.
Warren Smith's photos
of this craft
as it was lifting into the sky
were analyzed by
the Photo Interpretation Center.
The experts there determined
that the photos were real
and that it matched
the description
of what he said he saw,
suggesting that this
was a genuine experience
and that these were, in fact,
genuine photos of a craft.
The area where Warren Smith
took the photos isn't far
from where the Badlands Guardian
is located.
Does this suggest that aliens
have a continuing interest
in this area?
With all of this
UFO activity in Alberta,
and it's in the vicinity
of the Badlands Guardian,
you have to wonder
if this area isn't some portal
or inter-dimensional spot
where UFOs are coming and going.
And you have to wonder
if it's something to do
with the Badlands Guardian.
Does the Badlands Guardian
represent a medicine man
who communicated
with the Star People?
Or could it be depicting
a star being,
one who taught the indigenous
people of the region
a means of communicating
with extraterrestrials?
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe the answer can be found
only by forensically examining
the Badlands Guardian
and taking a closer look
at the shape
of the figure's head.
Los Angeles, California.
February 2019.
Ancient astronaut theorist
Giorgio Tsoukalos is meeting up
with forensic 3-D artist
Marcia Moore.
- Marcia. Pleasure to meet you.
- Nice to meet you.
- How are you? Okay.
- Come on in.
Wow, look at this space.
Since learning
about the Badlands Guardian,
Marcia has been working
to reconstruct it digitally
to see what it would look like
as a three-dimensional head
and perhaps provide
further clues
as to who or what
it was modeled after.
- Pull up a chair.
- Great.
- And we'll discuss this guardian.
- Uh-huh.
So, you've taken this,
and clearly you've seen the face
and decided
to recreate the face.
- Absolutely.
- Okay.
And what did you come up with?
Well, the first step for me
is to just take a look
at the terrain.
I think, honestly, the whole
aerial view when you look at it,
there's a whole storyboard
of information going on here.
But we're focusing on this face
because this is very prominent.
So, you can tell
we've got a neck area
that's rather extended.
Some feathers,
and then, also, this elongation
that's forming
around this headdress.
Mm-hmm.
- All right, go on.
- From there, I created
a 3-D sculpture.
I'm starting
with just a normal-sized head.
So, I will overlay
the aerial view,
and I'm going to create layers.
And I'm actually just following
the terrain.
I'm creating this long neck,
and I'm creating
this elongated head.
And here we have it.
This is the sculpture.
Everything in 3-D is mirrored
on the other side,
- so as we turn this around...
- Right.
And this is what he would like
if that thing on the ground
- were a person.
- Absolutely.
Yeah, that's pretty awesome.
You know,
after the buildup of the 3-D sculpture,
I made a digital piece
of artwork
that will flesh this entity out.
Mm-hmm.
That looks great.
You know,
I think it's really cool
that you've kind of pointed out
the elongation of the skull.
This whole phenomenon
of elongated skulls
exists worldwide.
Not only do we have these shapes
in this geographic area,
but also, for example,
in South America,
in Peru, but also in Europe,
in the Hittite region,
present-day Turkey,
all with these long skulls.
Around the world,
ancient skulls have been found
that are thin,
long and misshapen.
In addition to the skulls,
there are many ancient
depictions of historical figures
with extra large,
elongated heads.
What's controversial
about the elongated skulls
is that their cranial capacity
is greater than a normal human.
So these may not be cases
of cranial deformation.
These could be examples
of a whole subspecies
of humanity.
Worldwide, we have these people
in depictions
wearing these long headdresses,
and sometimes
you even see pictures,
especially in ancient Egypt,
where you see the same figures
without the headdress,
and guess what?
They have elongated skulls.
So, you have to ask yourself,
why is there a, uh...
a figure coming out
of the terrain that has, to me,
seems like
an elongated shaped head.
The idea is
that Earth was visited
by extraterrestrials
a long time ago.
And one of my opinions is
that the elongated skull people
were the actual visitors,
and the skeletons
that are found today are some
of the few remnants
of the people that were here
a long time ago,
clearly people
that looked like us
except for that they had
an elongated skull.
- So, that, to me, is fascinating.
- Yeah.
Marcia, thank you so much
for sharing your work with me.
You've given me a lot
to think about, so thank you.
- Thank you.
- Appreciate it. All right, take care.
Bye-bye.
Does the
three-dimensional reconstruction
of the Badlands Guardian
point to the possibility
that it was not only built to be
seen by visitors from the sky,
but that it may even be
a representation
of an extraterrestrial?
Could this be the face
of the being
the Blackfoot people identify
as their creator god, Napi?
Perhaps the answers can be found
by examining
yet another geoglyph
that resembles a human face...
on Mars.
July 19, 1976.
A NASA spacecraft
named Viking 1 enters
into orbit above Mars.
Just six days later,
it takes a photograph
of the Red Planet
that is so extraordinary
it immediately seizes
the public imagination.
In the summer of 1976,
NASA announced that
they had found a face on Mars.
Now, NASA was the original group
of scientists
to label
the face on Mars a head...
it was actually in their file...
and they said that they had
found this formation on Mars
that looked like a face.
However, just a few days later,
they had
a second press conference,
and they said
that they had taken
a second image,
days later, and it...
they found that it was just
a trick of light and shadow
and there was nothing there.
Could it be that the image
of a giant face
on the Martian surface
is actually
an artificial structure,
a physical record that someone,
or something, has been there?
Perhaps a clue can be found
by comparing the Face on Mars
with the Badlands Guardian.
So,
the face is about a mile wide
and about a mile
and two-thirds long.
The Face on Mars is larger
than the Badlands Guardian,
but the Badlands Guardian
is large enough
that you can still see it
in satellite imagery.
To determine if the face
was created by natural means,
imaging expert Mark Carlotto
conducted a scientific analysis
of the Martian structure.
All right, so,
in this overview,
we see the Face on Mars
in the middle.
One of the tests that was done
on the Face of Mars
was to assess
whether it was an artificial
or a natural object.
We applied a technique called
fractal, uh, analysis
to model
the background terrain locally.
We have a filter that basically
computes a little fractal model
as it moves over the image.
And we see,
if we go back and forth here
to the original image
and now the output
of the fractal model,
fractal filter, the face
has a very high response.
And this was a very, uh,
unexpected result,
uh, at the time.
And the fractal technique found
that it doesn't
just look like a face
but it actually is,
statistically,
in terms of the structure,
different
from the surrounding landforms.
One criticism
of this formation is
that, in more recent images,
the impression of a face
is much less evident.
The structure appears
much more highly eroded.
But if it is an ancient feature,
you would expect erosion
would have taken its toll
over the course of time.
If we flip it back and forth,
there's a very high degree
of correspondence
between the left
and the right side, making it
a highly bisymmetrical object.
Bisymmetry would imply
an artificial, uh, construction,
'cause nature would have
to conspire quite a bit
to create something that's not
only face-like but bisymmetrical
and possessing all the detail
that the Face on Mars possesses.
The other interesting thing
about the Face on Mars
is that NASA has taken,
over the last 25, 30 years,
over 40 images
of the Face on Mars,
a formation that they say
they have no interest in.
If the Face on Mars is, in fact,
a fabricated structure,
who built it?
Does it have a connection
to the giant face
recently discovered in Canada
and perhaps other structures
around the globe
that were made to be seen
from the sky?
Curiously,
many who have examined
the Face on Mars have observed
that the area surrounding it
seems to point
to a connection
to one specific place on Earth,
Egypt.
Something extraordinary happened
when we started taking pictures
of the surface of Mars.
We saw what appeared to be
pyramids on the surface of Mars.
It's mind-blowing,
because these match
the pyramids of ancient Egypt.
Is there a connection
between Mars and Egypt?
Well, indeed, there is.
The city of Cairo
was originally called
al-Qahirah, which meant
"City of Mars"
or "the Victorious."
The Egyptians referred
to the Sphinx
as Ra-Horakhty,
which means
"Place of the Horizon,"
which is the very same name
that they gave to Mars.
So there seems to be
a-a deep-embedded memory
in ancient Egypt of
a correspondence or a connection
between Egyptian civilization
and one
that might have been on Mars.
If we are dealing with something
extraterrestrial in origin,
then the-the Egyptian connection
is very telling,
because many, many speculations
about the extraterrestrial links
with ancient Egypt.
But if there is a connection
between the Cydonia region
of Mars and ancient Egypt,
what is the significance?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
further clues can be found
by taking a closer look
at the Badlands Guardian
and the famous ruler
it's thought to depict.
The Badlands Guardian
is very similar
to the statues of Akhenaten,
the renegade Egyptian pharaoh.
He and Nefertiti
and their children
all had elongated heads,
as we see all around the world
and is often associated
with extraterrestrials.
When you put an image of
the Egyptian pharaoh, Akhenaten,
beside the image
of the Badlands Guardian,
they're virtually identical.
When you do the "A" to "B"
comparison,
they both have this long neck,
this very elongated face.
And Akhenaten, of course,
is the great mystic pharaoh
of ancient Egypt.
Ancient astronaut theorists
believe
that he might have
extraterrestrial connections.
Akhenaten claimed
that he was in contact
with a celestial disk
he referred to as the Aten.
In fact, he taught the Egyptians
to no longer worship
the whole pantheon
of over 360 deities
and to only worship the Aten.
And given the fact
that his mummy has disappeared
only adds to the mystery.
Is this, in fact,
a human being we're looking at
or could this possibly be
a representation
of some other type of a being,
maybe an extraterrestrial, even?
If the Badlands Guardian
is a representation
not of a Native American
but of an extraterrestrial known
in Egypt as Akhenaten,
could it bring us closer
to solving a puzzle
whose pieces are scattered
all over the world
and even on other planets?
Ancient astronaut theorists
suggest
that a much more recent
discovery on Mars
provides yet another piece
that may finally complete
the puzzle.
Waterford, Virginia.
2017.
Cydonia Institute researcher
George Haas
is combing
through satellite images of Mars
when he spies
a discernible shape.
It appears to be
the image of another face.
Unlike the original
so-called Face on Mars
discovered in 1976,
this face appears in profile,
similar to that
of the Badlands Guardian.
So, in this area
called Utopia,
in a huge impact crater,
is the profile face
that has a beard, a mustache,
and he's wearing a helmet
that has an avian headdress.
When the bearded profile on Mars
is compared
to the Badlands Guardian,
we see the same type of profile.
Both incorporate
avian iconography.
One has a headdress of feathers.
The other one
is wearing a headdress
that incorporates
an entire bird.
I think the culture
that produced these formations
on Mars had a direct
relationship to the human race.
Is an ancient story
being told through geoglyphs
that exist both on Earth
and on our closest
neighboring planet?
And, if so,
what happened to those
responsible for writing it?
Perhaps civilization
on Mars was destroyed.
Or, perhaps,
civilization began on Mars
and then moved to Earth.
Earth was, in a sense, seeded
by a Martian civilization,
and that is why we have
similar structures on Mars
and on planet Earth.
So, with the discovery
of the Face on Mars,
is it possible
that it's acting as a clue,
it's telling us
that, somewhere here,
is evidence
of a lost civilization
that existed on the Red Planet
perhaps millions of years ago?
That's a very tantalizing
possibility,
and it's one that I know
that every scientist
going to Mars
wants to answer.
Maybe these geoglyphs
were all part
of some global memorial
that was built by some unknown
extraterrestrial culture
that, uh, has to do
with, uh, human origins
and is telling the story
of where we came from
and possibly where
we may be going.
You have to ask,
is there something in common
between the people that
were making these geoglyphs,
and the answer is, is that
they all have similar stories
in these earthly civilizations.
They're in contact
with star beings,
celestial beings
that came to Earth
and are assisting humanity.
They lived with us,
they interacted with us.
Then they left.
But is it possible
that not all of the
communications we're receiving
from these otherworldly beings
are in the form of geoglyphs?
Could crop circles,
for instance,
be more recent examples
of a type
of extraterrestrial dialogue?
If you bring
crop circles into the mix,
there are some
very sophisticated crop circles
that also indicate, uh,
knowledge of fractal geometry.
There could be a message.
They might be communicating
with us,
and we might, perhaps,
want to communicate with them.
It's possible
that many of these geoglyphs,
much like crop circles
that appear every summer,
might give us clues to our past
and to our destiny.
The fact of the matter is
that we have geoglyphs
worldwide.
And with the improvement
of our technology,
who knows what else
we'll discover
in the next five to ten years?
We are entering
a new era of discovery,
and I can't wait to see
what tomorrow brings.
As we send
more spacecrafts to Mars,
will we continue
to uncover evidence
of an alien civilization
that could have lived there
centuries ago?
Ancient astronaut theorists
say yes
and believe
that the human race is getting
very close to the day
when it will unlock
what they believe
to be an alien code
and find a means
of direct communication,
a living link
between mankind's past
and its extraterrestrial future.